CHAPTER 10.

[Published February 18, 1869.]

AN ACT to change the time of holding the general terms of the circuit court in the county of Portage.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That hereafter the general terms of the Time changed. circuit court in and for the county of Portage, in the seventh judicial circuit of this state, shall be held on the first Monday in January, and the first Monday in July in each year.

SECTION 2. All process, recognizances and other proceedings, made returnable to the terms now fixed by law, shall be returnable to the terms herein provided. SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 17, 1869.

CHAPTER 11.

[Published February 18, 1869.]

AN ACT to repeal chapter 12 of the general laws of 1868, entitled

་་

an act to amend section 29 of chapter 117 of the revised

statutes, entitled of county courts." "

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

is

SECTION 1. Chapter 12 of the general laws of 1868, Repealed. entitled "an act to amend section 29 of chapter 177 of the revised statutes, entitled 'of county courts,' hereby repealed, and said section 29 is hereby amended by inserting therein, after the [words] "upon such terms," the words, " and within such time."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 17, 1869.

Extended.

CHAPTER 12.

[Published February 18, 1869.]

AN ACT to extend to Calumet county the time for the payment of a portion of its state tax.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The county of Calumet shall have time until the first Monday in February, 1870, for the payment to the state treasurer, of the sum of fifteen hundred dollars of the amount of the state tax, due and payable by said county in the month of February, 1869; and for the non-payment of the said sum of fif teen hundred dollars before the said first Monday of February, 1870, the said county shall incur none of the penalties provided by law for the non-payment of state taxes at the time required by law.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 17, 1869.

CHAPTER 13.

[Published February 25, 1869.]

AN ACT to amend section 10, chapter 114, general laws of 1866, entitled "an act to reorganize and enlarge the university of Wisconsin, and to authorize the county of Dane to issue bonds in aid thereof."

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section ten (10) of chapter one hundred Amended. and fourteen (114) of the general laws of the year 1866, entitled an act to reorganize and enlarge the univer sity of Wisconsin, and to authorize the county of Dane to issue bonds in aid thereof," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 10. The president of the university shall be president of the several faculties and the executive head of the institution, in all its departments. As such, he shall have authority, subject to the board of regents, to give general direction to the practical affairs and scientific investigations of the several colleges, and in the recess of the board of regents, to remove any employe or subordinate officer, not a member of the faculty, and to supply, for the time, any vacancy thus created; and so long as the interests of the institution require it, he shall be charged with the duties of one of the professorships. The secretary of the board of regents shall keep a faithful record of all the transactions of the board of regents, and perform such duties as they shall impose. The state treasurer shall be the treasurer of the board cf regents and perform all the duties of such office, subject to such regulations as the board of regents may adopt, not inconsistent with the official duties of the office of state treasurer.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 18, 1869.

2-G. L.

May appoint phonographic reporters.

Compensation.

Additional compensation.

Judge may remove reporter

CHAPTER 14.

[Published February 27, 1869.]

AN ACT to authorize the appointment of phonographic reporters for the circuit court of Fond du Lac county.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the judge of the circuit court of the county of Fond du Lac to appoint one or more phonographic reporters for said court, who shall be sworn officers of said court, and shall be skilled in the art of short hand reporting, one of whom shall attend upon the said court at each term thereof when required by such court or the judge thereof so to do, and shall discharge such duties as the judge may direct.

SECTION 2. The phonographic reporter shall be allowed such daily compensation as shall be fixed by the judge of the court, not exceeding seven dollars per day for each day's attendance upon such court when required by the judge thereof to attend, which shall be certified, audited and paid in like manner as is provided by law for the payment of the sheriff for attending upon the court: provided, but one such reporter shall be employed at the same time.

SECTION 3. In addition to the above compensation, the phonographic reporters may charge and collect as fees, ten cents per folio (of one hundred words) for making and furnishing transcripts of their short-hand notes of the testimony and other proceedings of the court in the trial of any action, to be paid by the party requiring such transcript to be made, except in the trials of criminal cases, when the court may in its discretion, order such transcript to be made, audited, certified and paid for in the same manner as the reporter's per diem compensation. In such case the reporter's notes shall be written out in full, and filed with the clerk of the court.

SECTION 4. The judge of said court may, in his acancy. discretion, remove such reporters, or either of them,

and may fill any vacancy caused by such removal, or from any other cause.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 18, 1869.

CHAPTER 15.

[Published February 25, 1869.]

AN ACT fixing the time of holding terms of courts of record when the same shall happen on a legal holiday.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

to adjourn court for holiday.

SECTION 1. Whenever it shall happen that the clerk or judge time fixed by law for the holding of any term of a court of record shall be upon a legal holiday, the clerk of said court or the judge thereof, shall open and adjourn the same until the next day.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 18, 1869.

CHAPTER 16.

[Published February 25, 1869.]

AN ACT to amend chapter 130 of the general laws of 1867, entitled "an act to amend the second sub-division of section 25 of chapter 19 of the revised statutes, entitled of highways and bridges."

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred Amended. and thirty of the general laws of 1867, is hereby