Appropriation Secretary of state to settle forfeited state lands. CHAPTER 119. [Published March 10, 1869.] AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money therein named, and to provide for the audit of a certain account, in order to carry into effect the stipulation named in chapter 65 of the general laws of 1868, entitled "an act to provide for the settlement of the claim of E. A. Calkins against the state." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to E. A. to B. A. Calkins. Calkins the sum of fourteen hundred and sixty-five dollars and twenty-five cents, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, being the balance due and in full for assessment blanks printed on the order of the secretary of state, in the year 1858. SECTION 2. The secretary of state is hereby direcfor advertising ted to audit the account of E. A. Calkins for publishing the advertisement of the sale of forfeited school, university, swamp and mortgaged lands in the year 1858, according to law. He shall audit the said account at the rates of legal advertising then existing, to wit: 40 cents a folio for the first insertion, and 20 cents a folio for each subsequent insertion of the said advertisement. The copy of said advertisement in the pain the case of the state ex rel. Calkins & Webb vs. Jones, secretary of state, shall be used and considered by the secretary of state in auditing the said account; and he shall draw his warrant on the treasury for the amount thereof, payable to the said E. A. Calkins, after deducting thereform the sum heretofore paid by stipulation with the attorney general, in part for the same service. There is hereby appropriated from the state treasury a sum of money sufficient to pay the said warrant. Stipulations of chap, renewed by E. of 1868, to be A. Calkins. pers SECTION 3. The stipulation named in chapter 65 of the general laws of 1868, shall be removed [renewed] by the said F. A. Calkins according to the terms of this act; and the sum by him so received shall be in full of all legal and equitable claims for printing, publishing, interest, discount on state scrip, and of any other nature growing out of the printing contract of said Calkins & Webb. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be, in force from and after its passage. Approved March 9, 1869. CHAPTER 120. [Published March 16, 1869.] AN ACT to amend section 250 of chapter 120, revised statutes, entitled "of courts held by justices of the peace.' The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 250 of chapter 120 of the re- Amended. vised statutes, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "and may issue certified trauscripts of such judgments as provided for in section 170 of said chapter.' SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 9, 1869. CHAPTER 121. [Published March 22, 1869.] AN ACT to increase the number of county supervisors in the county of Calumet, and to provide for their election. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: members. SECTION 1. The board of county supervisors in and Increased to five for the county of Calumet shall consist of five persons having the qualifications required by law for county supervisors, to be elected as now required by law, ex and terms of office of super "cept as hereinafter provided, and who shall, when so elected and qualified, have and possess all the powers and do and perform all the duties by law granted to and required of county supervisors. Apportionment SECTION 2. Three members of the said board of county supervisors shall be elected from the visors. visor districts in said county, as now established by law, one from each of said districts respectively, in the manner, at the time and for the terms now prescribed by law, and being at the expiration of the terms of office of the present incumbents, who shall hold until such expiration; and two of said supervisors shall be elected for the county at large by the qualified electors of said county, at the general election to be held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November, A. D. 1869. One of said supervisors for the coun ty at large shall be elected at that election for the term of one year, and one of the same for the term of two years, the term of office of each to be designated on the ballot cast at such election, and shall hold their office for the terms so respectively designated, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and at each succeeding general election, after that above mentioned, there shall be elected by the qualified electors of said county, one supervisor for the county at large, for the term of two years and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 9, 1869. Entitled to appropriation for 1867-8. CHAPTER 122. [Published March 11, 1869.] AN ACT for the relief of the Marathon county agricultural society. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Marathon county agricultural society is hereby declared to be entitled to the annual appropriations for the years 1867 and 1868, as provided in section four of chapter fifty-three of the general laws of 1858, the same and as fully as if the said society had fully complied with the provisions of the statute in making and publishing annual reports for said years; and the secretary of state is hereby authorized and Secretary to isdirected to issue an order on the state treasurer, directing him to pay to the said Marathon county agricultural society, the sum of two hundred dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 9, 1869. sue order. CHAPTER 123. [Published March 23, 1869.] AN ACT to authorize the use of a portion of the normal school fund income, for the purpose of paying indebtedness incurred in erecting the normal school buildings at Whitewater and Platteville, and for completing the same. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: May use portion fund income. SECTION 1. In addition to the money now provided and limited by law, there may be used by the board of of normal school regents of normal schools out of the income of the normal school fund, a sum not to exceed five thousand dollars for completing and furnishing the state normal school building at Whitewater, and a sum not to exceed four thousand dollars for making and completing the impovements and additions to the state normal school institution at Platteville, including the furnishing of the same in accordance with the plans adopted by the said board of regents of normal schools. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 9, 1869. Amended, CHAPTER 124. [Published March 16, 1869.] AN ACT to amend chapter 132 of the revised statutes, entitled "of issues, mode of trial and judgment in civil actious." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section thirty-one of chapter one hundred and thirty-two of the revised statutes, entitled "of issues, mode of trial and judgment in civil actions," is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section, as follows: "provided, that where the property has been delivered to the defendant under the provisions of sec tion 6 of chapter 128 of the revised statutes, and judg ment shall be for the plaintiff, it shall be optional with the plaintiff to take judgment for the possession or for the recovery of the possession, or the value thereof in case delivery can not be had, and of damages for the detention or in lieu thereof, judgment absolutely for the value thereof and damages for the detention.' SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 9, 1869. Amended. CHAPTER 125. [Published March 16, 1869.] AN ACT to amend section 20 of chapter 141 of the revised statutes, entitled "of actions relating to real estate." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section twenty of chapter one hundred and forty-one of the revised statutes, entitled "of ac tions relating to real estate," is hereby amended so as |