Chap. 9. An Act to authorize Charles Quentin, and others, to construct a dam across The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION. 1. That Charles Quentin, Herman G. C. Kemper, Titus Fernow, their associates, and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct a dam across the Milwaukee river, on section thirty-one (31) in township No. ten (10) north of range No. twenty-two (22) east, in the county of Ozaukee, for hydraulic purposes: Provided, That land upon which said dam is built, shall be the property of the persons herein, named and that said dam shall not exceed four feet in height above high water mark. Approved, January 26, 1854. Chap. 10. Courts, where held. How vote legalized. An Act relating to the Courts and County Offices in Marquette county. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the several courts, in and for the county of Marquette, and the several county offices of said county, shall be held at such places in said county, as shall have been, or may hereafter be, designated by the county board of supervisors; and it shall be the duty of the judges of said courts, to hold their courts respectively in such places so designated, as aforesaid. SEO. 2. In order to test the legality of any vote that may have been, or may hereafter be, cast upon the removal of the county seat of said county, the said board of supervisors shall direct the district attorney, or the chairman of the board of supervisors of said county, to file with the clerk of the circuit court of said county, a petition, praying said court to inquire into the legality of such election, and stating at length any illegalities which such chairman or district attorney, aforesaid, may deem proper, as tending to vitiate such election, and the circuit court shall thereupon appoint some suitable person as a commissioner to take testimony upon the matters set forth in such petition, and the said commissioner shall immediately give notice to all whom it may concern, by publication in a newspaper, printed in said county, at least four successive weeks, of the time and place of taking such testimony, and may adjourn the same from time to time as he shall deem advisa ble; and any citizen of said county may appear and examine and cross-examine witnesses. SEC. 3. After such commissioner shall have finished the Commissioner taking of testimony as aforesaid, he shall seal the same up and shall send copy in an envelope, directed to the clerk of the circuit court, court. and shall transmit the same to such clerk without delay, and the said court shall thereupon proceed to examine such testimony, and shall make an order, either affirming said election, or declaring the same annulled as the right of the case may require, and upon the application of any citizen of said county, the said circuit court shall order the clerk thereof to certify and send up said cause to the supreme court of this state as an appeal on the same conditions and terms as prescribed by law in prosecuting appeals to said supreme court. costs. SEC. 4. The county shall pay the costs of the investiga- County to pay tion provided for in this act, and the county board of supervisors shall audit the accounts for the same. SEC. 5. The annual meetings of the county board of su- Annual meetpervisors of said county, shall be held in the buildings now where held. ings of board, provided for the transaction of county business, and they shall not be compelled to erect county buildings at any other place in said county, until a proper investigation shall be had under sections two and three of this act. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage. Approved, January 27, 1854. An Act to amend an act, entitled "an act to incorporate the Milwaukee Gas Chap. 11. Light Company." The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section second, of an act, entitled "an act to incorporate the Milwaukee gas light company," approved, March 27, 1852, is hereby amended, so as to read, "the capital stock of said company shall be two hundred thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage. Approved, January 28, 1854. Chap. 12. An Act to extend the time for collecting taxes in the town of Madison, County of Dane. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for collecting taxes in the town of Madison, Dane county, is hereby extended twenty days beyond the time now required by law; and the treasurer of said town shall have the same right to levy on property and sell the same, within said term so extended, as is now allowed by law for such purposes. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, January 28, 1854. Chap. 13. An Act to authorize the city of Milwaukee to convey lot three in block twenty-eight, in the Second Ward, to George Abert. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Milwaukee is hereby authorized to convey to George Abert lot number three in block number twenty-eight, in the Second Ward of said city. SEC. 2. The deed of conveyance of said lot shall be executed in the name of the city of Milwaukee, sealed with its corporate seal, and signed by the mayor and countersigned by the comptroller of said city. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, January 28, 1854. Chap. 14. Town clerk ment. An Act to authorize the collection of taxes in the Town of Watertown. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION. 1. The town clerk of the town of Watertown, in shall make out the county of Jefferson, is hereby authorized and required copy of asses immediately after this law shall take effect, to make out a fair copy of the equalized assessment roll of said town for the year 1853, and when so completed deliver the same to the town treasurer of said town, on or before the thirteenth day of February next, upon said treasurer executing the 1 bond and delivering the receipt as required in section 51 of chapter 15 of the revised statutes. The warrant of the clerk to the said treasurer to collect the taxes in said town upon said assessment roll, shall be made returnable in thirty days from the date thereof; and upon the receipt of said assessment roll, as aforesaid, the said treasurer is hereby authorized and required to collect said taxes within the life of said warrant, and make his returns thereof as directed in chapter 15 of the révised statutes. SEC. 2. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, January 28, 1854. An Act to provide for the removal of the County Seat of Brown County. Chap. 15. The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: moval. SECTION 1. That at the annual town meeting to be held Vote for reon the first Tuesday of April A. D., 1854, the legal voters of the county of Brown, shall be and are hereby authorized to vote for the removal of the county seat of said county, to the borough of Green Bay, in said county; and if a majority of all the votes cast on that subject at such town meeting be in favor of such removal of said county seat to the said borough of Green Bay, then the said borough of Green Bay shall be the permanent county seat of said county. SEC. 2. The votes cast on the subject of the removal of Ballots. the said county seat, as above provided, shall be by ballots; said ballots shall have written or printed on them, or partly written or partly printed, the words, "For removal to the Borough of Green Bay," or the words, "Against removal to the Borough of Green Bay ;" and no other form of ballot shall be counted or allowed in the canvass of said votes, under any pretence or pretext whatever, but shall be seemed to be, and are hereby declared to be, utterly void. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the supervisors of the sev- Separate box eral towns, in said county, to prepare a separate box, where- to be prepared. in the said ballots shall be deposited. SEC. 4. All laws now in force, relative to elections, or Laws relative town meetings, shall apply and extend to the subject mat- to elections. ter of this act, except so far as special provision is made herein, or so far as such laws may be repugnant to the provisions of this act. How votes to SEC. 5. At the close of the polls, the said votes shall be be canvassed. publicly canvassed by the inspectors of elections in the sev Statement delivered to town clerk. eral towns, who shall respectively draw up a statement in writing setting forth in words, at full length, the whole number of votes given "For the removal to the Borough of Green Bay," and the whole number of votes given "Against the removal to the Borough of Green Bay;" and shall cause a duplicate thereof to be made, which statement and duplicate they shall certify to be correct. SEC. 6. One of such statements shall be forthwith delivered to the town clerk, to be filed and preserved by him, and the other shall be enclosed, sealed up and directed to the clerk of the board of supervisors of said county, to whom such statement shall be delivered within fourteen days after the meeting aforesaid. Duty of regis SEC. 7. On the third Tuesday of April, 1854, the county ter and clerks. judge, register of deeds, and the said clerk of the board of supervisors, shall open said returns and make an estimate and statement of the votes given as aforesaid, and of the result whether for or against the said removal of the county seat; and shall append thereto a certificate that the same is true and correct, which certificate shall be signed by the said canvassers in triplicate, one of which shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, of the register of deeds and of the clerk of the board of supervisors of said county, respectively, and shall have the force and effect of a record for the purposes of evidence. Approved, January 28, 1854. Chap. 16. An Act to amend the charter of the Racine, Janesville and Mississippi Railroad Company." Act amendatory. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eleven of "an act entitled an act to incorporate the Racine, Janesville and Mississippi Railroad Company," approved April 17, 1852, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: It shall be lawful for said company, their officers, engineers and agents, to enter upon any land for the purpose of exploring, surveying and locating the route of said road, doing thereto no unnecessary damage; and when said route shall be determined by the said company, it shall be lawful for them, their agents, officers, engineers, contractors and servants, |