statement required, ten dollars; for each certificate of authority to agents of all companies doing business within this state, one dollar; for every copy of paper filed in his office, fifteen cents per folio, and for affixing the seal of said office and certifying to the same, fifty cents. In case two or more companies shall combine to effect insurance under a joint policy or policies, each and every company thus combining shall pay the fees provided herein, the same as if each and every one wrote separate policy or policies

state to estab

his office.

SECTION 32. It shall be the duty of the secretary Secretary of of state, for the purpose of carrying into effect a more lish department thorough supervision and examination of the affairs of of insurance in all insurance companies doing business in this state, and enabling the secretary of state to exercise control over the same, as may be required by law, to establish in bis office, a department to be called the department of insurance, and to employ such clerical and other assistance as he shall deem necessary, and at such expense as he shall determine, to maintain and keep such department, and to enable him to take charge of and conduct, or cause to be conducted, all examinations of the business and affairs of such insurance companies that are or may be required by law, and generelly to exercise such supervision and control over insurance companies doing business in this state as the law may require provided, that the whole amount of the expenses Limitation of of such department in any year shall not exceed the of. amount of fees paid by insurance companies during that year; and provided, that such expenses, in no one year shall exceed the sum of five thousand dollars; and provided, that the amount of all fees over and above five thousand dollars, paid by insurance companies under section 31 of this act, shall be paid over by the secretary of state to the state treasurer and go to the general fund; and for all such purposes, and to that extent, the secretary of state shall be called and held to be the commissioner of insurance.

expenses there

statement shall

SECTION 33. It shall be the duty of every company What annual transacting the business of insurance under this act, to include. include in its annual statement, a statement showing the amount received in this state, during the year for which such statement is made, in cash for premiums, in premium notes, in cash notes, and the amount received from other sources; and showing also the GEN. LAWS.-7.

amount paid in this state for salaries, commissions to Fees for license agents, and for losses during the same period. And each such company, before receiving a license to transact business for the current year, shall pay to the state treasurer a sum equal to two per centum of the gross cash receipts of such company in this state, including cash notes taken for premiums, during the year for which such statement is made: provided, all companies chartered or organized under the laws of this state may be allowed to deduct from such gross receipts, their office expenditures and officers' salaries; and provided, further, that when application for license is made by any company not organized under the laws of this state, and that shall not have transacted business within the state within one year prior to such application, the sum of five hundred dollars shall be paid by such company as a license for the first year; such sum to be computed by or under the direction of the secretary of state. And in order to ascertain the truth of such statements, the secretary of state may require such ad- · ditional evidence as he shall deem necessary. The amount paid by the several insurance companies, as provided above, shall be in lieu of all state, county and municipal taxes and licenses, excepting taxes on real estate owned by any insurance company and exempt as provided in this act: provided, that this act shall not be construed to prohibit cities and incorporated villages, having an organized fire department, from collecting the two per cent. now allowed by law on the receipts of each insurance company within their respective limits, to be applied to the support of the fire department of such cities and villages.

Two per cent. of premiums to

of fire depart

ment.

SECTION 34. There shall be paid to the treasurer be paid for use of the fire department of any incorporated city or village in this state, in which there may be a regularly organized fire department, for the use and benefit of said fire department, on the first day of February in each year by every person who shall act in said city or village as agent for or in behalf of any individual or association, or association of individuals, whether incorporated by the laws of this state or by the laws of any other state, territory or country, to effect insurance against losses or injury by fire, the sum of two dollars upon the hundred dollars, and at that rate upon the amount of all premiums, which, during the year or part of a year end

fire department.

ing on the next preceding first day of January, shall have been received by such agent or person, or received by any other person or persons for him, or shall have been agreed to be paid for any insurance effected or agreed to be effected, or promised by him as such agent or otherwise against loss or injury by fire, in any such city or village. No person shall in any such city Agents shall exor village, as agent or otherwise for any individual, in- ecute bonds to dividuals or association, effect or agree to effect any insurance upon which the duty above mentioned is required to be paid, or as agent or otherwise procure such insurance to be effected, until he shall have executed and delivered to the said treasurer a bond to the fire department of any such city or village, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, with such sureties as the said treasurer shall approve, with a condition that he will annually render to the said treasurer, on the first day of February in each year, a just and true account, verified by his oath that the same is just and true, of all premiums which, during the year ending on the first day of January preceding such report, shall have been received by him, or any other person for him, or agreed to be paid for any insurance against loss or injury by fire in any such city or village, which shall have been effected or promised by him, or agreed to be effected or promised by him to be effected, from any individual or individuals, or association, incorporated as provided in the first section of this act, and that he will annually, on the first day of February in each year, pay to the said treasurer two dollars upon every hundred, and at that rate upon the amount of such premiums. Every person who shall effect, agree Penalty for fail to effect, promise or procure any insurance specified, in the preceding sections of this chapter, without having executed and delivered the bond required by the preceding section, shall for cach offense forfeit one hunred dollars for the use of said fire department; such penalty of one hundred dollars shall be collected in the name of the fire department of any such city or vil lage.

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waukee shall re port change of

ness.

SECTION 35. Every person who,. at any time here. Agents in Milafter, as agent or otherwise for individual or any individuals or association, may, in the city of Mil- place of busiwaukee, effect or agree to effect any insurance specified in the preceding sections of this chapter, shall on the first day of February in each year, or within ten

days thereafter, and as often in each year as he shall alter or change his place of doing business in said city, report in writing under his proper signature, to the treasurer of the fire department in the city of Milwaukee, the street and number thereof in the said city, of his place of doing business as such agent or otherwise, designating in such report the individnal or individuals and association or associations for which he may be such agent or otherwise; and in case of default in any of these particulars, such person shall forfeit for every offense the sum of one hundred dollars, to be recovered and collected in the name of this state, for the use of the fire department in the city of Milwaukee.

SECTION 36. In case the fire department of any such city or village shall have no such officer as treasurer, the provisions of this act, so far they are applicable to him, shall apply to the treasurer of such city or village, and the treasurer of such city or village shall, under the direction of the proper authorities thereof, pay over all moneys received or recovered by him under the provisions of this act, to the fire department of such city or village.

SECTION 37. It shall be unlawful for any insurance company against which a final judgment has hereto fore been recovered or shall hereafter be recovered, in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, after sixty days from the rendition of such judgment, and while the same remains unpaid, to issue any new policy of insurance; and in case any insurance company, by its officers or agent or agents shall violate the provis ions of this section, such insurance company shall for feit the sum of one thousand dollars, which may be recovered in the name of the state of Wisconsin, in an action of debt, and when collected shall be paid over to the common school fund; and any agent of such company who shall knowingly violate the provisions of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars nor less than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of the proper county, for a term not more than three months nor less than thirty days.

SECTION 38. Chapters 65 and 72 of the revised statutes, chapter 105 of the general laws of 1859, chap.

ter 158 of the general laws of 1867, chapter 179 of the of the general laws of 1867, chapter 93 of the general laws of 1869, be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 39. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 14, 1870.

CHAPTER 57.

[Published March 19, 1870.]

AN ACT to perpetuate the memory of the late Governor Henry
Dodge, and to encourage art.

WHEREAS, It has ever been an honored custom of all Preamble.
civilized and enlightened governments to perpetuate
the memory of their eminent statesmen, generals and
philanthropists, by means of paintings and statuary,
as well as through the annals of history; and
WHEREAS, The state of Wisconsin has reason to be
proud of the great ability, the sterling integrity and
the eminent services of the late Governor Henry
Dodge, and is called upon to recognize these quali-
ties and services in some permanent and enduring
way, that shall be creditable and honorable to the
state; and

WHEREAS, We believe Mr. E. P. Knowles to pos-
sess genius and talent as a sculptor of the highest
order, and that he is capable of executing a statue
that shall reflect credit both upon himself as an
artist and upon the state of which he is a citizen;
therefore,

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

E. P. Knowles

of Gov. Dodge.

SECTION 1. That E. P. Knowles be employed to execute a marble bust of the late Governor Henry to execute bust Dodge, to be placed in some fit and conspicuous place within the state capitol, said bust to be executed of the finest marble, and not to exceed in cost the sum of two thousand dollars, one-fourth of which sum shall be