Appropriation. CHAPTER 75. [Published March 22, 1870.] AN ACT to appropriate to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home a sum of money for the purchase of a library. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the board of trustees of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred dollars annually for the term of three years, for the purpose of purchasing and maintaining a library for the use of the pupils of the said home. The money hereby appropriated shall be expended under the direction of the board of trustees or the executive committee of said board, and an itemized report of all expenditures under this act shall be presented in the annual report of said board of trustees. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 76. [Published March 22, 1870.] Per diem of chief messenger AN ACT to provide for the payment of the chief messenger of the senate. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The per diem of the chief messenger of the senate. of the senate is hereby fixed at three dollars per day, and there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay the per diem of said messenger. SECTION 2. This act shall apply to the whole term of the present session of the legislature. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. AN ACT to provide for the payment of the account for publishing the memorial to congress, supplement and proceedings of the Prairie du Chien and Portage City canal conventions. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows : state to audit printing ac SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby author Secretary of ized to audit, and the state treasurer to the account pay for publishing five thousand copies of the memorial to counts. congress, supplement and proceedings of the Prairie du Chien and Portage City canal conventions, with maps: providing, the amount does not exceed eleven hundred dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 78. [Published March 21, 1870.] AN ACT to aid in the propagation and cultivation of brook or speckled trout. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any person or persons desirous of May erect dams, engaging, in the business of propagating, preserving etc. Shall have exclusive control. Penalty for injuring dam or and raising fish and fishes known as the brook or speckled trout upon his or their premises, shall have the right and are hereby authorized to erect and maintain upon their own premises, such dams, sluices, screens, wires, pens and other fixtures, buildings and obstructions as may by them be deemed necessary for such purpose: provided, such sluices, dams and other contrivances shall in no way obstruct the navigation of any navigable waters, or interfere with or injure any mill or other water privilege as now enjoyed, or in any way interfere with the rights previously acquired by other persons. SECTION 2. Such person or persons shall have the exclusive control and own all such fish as by him or them are propagated and raised, and may at any time catch and dispose of the same in any way, or in any of the markets of this state. SECTION 3. Any person or persons who shall, with destroying fish. out the authority of the owner of said premises, tear down or destroy, or cause to be destroyed, or shall injure or cause to be injured, any dam, sluice, pen, building or other contrivance erected pursuant to the provisions of this act, for the purposes aforesaid, or any person or persons who shall, without the permission of the owner or owners of the premises, catch or cause to be caught in any way or manner, brook or speckled trout from any of the waters appropriated by the owners to the purposes aforesaid, or any person or persons who shall place or cause to be placed in such waters any sun fish, pickerel or other fish, or poison destructive to trout, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be subject to a fine for each offense of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in default of payment thereof, to be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, and shall be liable to the owners of the premises in civil action in treble damages. Jurisdiction. SECTION 4. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all cases arising under this act, except when the damages claimed exceed two hundred dollars. SECTION 5. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 79. [Published March 19, 1870.] AN ACT to provide for the admission to the bar of the graduates of the law department of the Wisconsin University. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All graduates of the law department of Entitled to adthe Wisconsin University, shall be entitled to admis. mission. sion to the bar of all the courts of this state, upon presentation to the judge or judges thereof, certificate of such graduation. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 80. [Published March 23, 1870.] AN ACT to amend chapter 114 of the general lawg of 1866, en- The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section five (5) of chapter one hundred section 5 and fourteen (114) of the general laws of 1866, is here- amended. by amended so as to read as follows: The govern- Government of ment of the University shall vest in a board of regents university. to consist of thirteen (13) members, two (2) to be ap- 72 ch 5. pointed by the governor from each congressional district of the state, as the districts are now constituted; and the state superintendent of public instruction, who shall be an ex-officio member of the board: provided, that the present members appointed from the state at Section 13 amended. of different funde. large shall continue in office until the expiration of their respective terms." SECTION 2. Section thirteen (13) of said chapter 114 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Appropriation "For the support and endowment of the University there are hereby appropriated: First, the income of the university fund; second, the income of a fund derived from the sales of the two hundred and forty thousand acres of land granted by congress to the state of Wisconsin by virture of an act approved July 2, 1862, entitled "an act donating land to the several states and territories, which provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," which fund shall be designated "the agricultural college fund;" third, all such contributions to the endowment fund as may be derived from public or private bounty. The entire income of all said funds shall be placed at the disposal of the board of regents, by transfer to the treasurer of said board, thenceforth to be distinct and independent of the accounts of the state, and for the support of the aforesaid colleges or departments of arts, of letters, and such other colleges and departments as shall be established in the University or connected therewith: pro vided, that all means derivable from other public or private bounty shall be exclusively devoted to the specific object for which they shall have been designed by the grantor." SECTION 3. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after |