Amended. Limitation of time for indict-] ments. CHAPTER 12. [Published February 28, 1870.] AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and nine of the general laws of 1868, entitled "an act to amend section two of chapter 177 of the revised statutes, entitled 'of indictments and proceedings before trial.'" The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one (1) of chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the general laws of 1868, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 1. Section two of chapter 177 of the revised statutes, entitled 'of indictments and proceedings before trial,' is hereby amended so as to read as follows: An indictment for crime, punishable by imprisonment for life may be found at any period. All other indictments for other crimes shall be found and filed within two years after the commission of the offense, when the offender shall be known: provided, that at least two regular terms of the grand jury of the county where the offense was committed, shall thereafter be held before the said limitation shall be deemed complete, but any period during which the party charged was not actually and publicly a resident within the state, or was unknown to the sheriff or prosecuting attorney of the county where the offense was committed shall not be reckoned as a part of the two years." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 25, 1870. CHAPTER 13, [Published March 1, 1870.] AN ACT to amend section three of chapter one of the general laws of 1870, entitled "an act in relation to the settlement of accounts in certain cases. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: the court may render judgment against surety. SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one of the Amended. general laws of 1870, entitled "an act in relation to the settlement of accounts in certain cases," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3.. In case any action has been heretofore commenced upon administration bond of any such deceased executor or administrator against the sureties or either of them in such bond, and in case such action shall be pending and undetermined at the time of the passage of this act, and in case such sureties or surety against whom such action has been commenced shall apply to the judge of the county court for a final settlement of the administration accounts of such deceased executor or administrator, as provided in this act, the court in which such action is pending shall render judgment against such surety or sureties for the amount which such judge of the county court shall upon such final settlement, find to be due and justly chargeable against such deceased executor or administrator upon his administration accounts, and in case such judge of the county court shall find upon such final settlement that nothing is due upon the administration accounts of such deceased executor or administrator, then the court in which such action is pending shall dismiss such action; but in case an appeal is taken upon the finding of such judge of the county court, the court in which such action upon the bond is pending shall stay judgment until the final determination of the subject matter of such appeal, and shall then render judgment in accordance with the finding of the appellate court. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 26, 1870. Amended. Amended. CHAPTER 6. [Published February 18, 1870.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter eleven of the revised statutes, entitled "of the salaries of state officers and others." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The clause of section one of chapter eleven of the revised statutes, which relates to the salary of the governor, is hereby so amended as to read as follows: "for the salary of the governor, the sum of five thousand dollars." SECTION 2. Said section is also amended by adding thereto, immediately after the clause relating to the salary of the governor, the following clause, to wit: "for the salary of the lieutenant-governor, the sum of one thousand dollars.' SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 17, 1870. Amended. CHAPTER 7. [Published February 18, 1870.] AN ACT to amend chapter seven of the revised statutes, entitled "of elections." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Sections twenty-six and twenty-seven of chapter seven of the revised statutes, entitled "of elections," are hereby amended by inserting the following proviso after said section twenty-seven: provided, that no such adjournment shall be had, or notice thereof given in any incorporated city or village. book over to the clerk of the board of supervisors to be by him filed and preserved in his office. SECTION 4. Upon application and upon the payment Clerk's fees for of twenty-five cents each, the said clerk of the board certified copy. of supervisors shall give a certified copy of said stubs, which shall be used as evidence in all cases, the same. as the original stub or the original receipt. SECTION 5. Chapter 118 of the general laws of Repealed. 1866 is hereby repealed. SECTION. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 26, 1870. CHAPTER 15. [Published March 1, 1870.] AN ACT to amend chapter 223 of the general laws of 1862, entitled ་་ an act to provide for the payment of court expenses when a change of venue is had." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: change of venue SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 223 of the gen- Amended. eral laws of 1862 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "In all cases when a change of venue in any Costs to be civil or criminal action shall be allowed by any circuit taxed in case of court or judge, pursuant to law, and the place of trial of such action shall be changed (except in cases where such change is made because the action was not brought in the proper county), the county in which such action was commenced shall pay to the county in which the same shall be tried, the following expenses, to-wit: 1st. The per diem fees allowed by law to the clerk in term. 2d. The per diem fees allowed by law to the sheriff, under sheriff and deputies actually in attendance upon said court. 3d. The per diem fees allowed by law to the petit jurors actually in attendance upon said court. Terms of county court. 72 Ch 2052 Costs. Salary of judge. Jury fee to be paid. 1 county court, subject to the above limitation as to jurisdiction, if the defendant fail to answer the complaint in the same manner, and in like cases wherein judgment may now be, or may be hereafter had and entered in the circuit court in vacation: provided however, that execution may be issued upon any such judgment at any time after the entry of the same. SECTION 3. Section fourteen (14) of said chapter is hereby amended to be and read as follows: there shall be held at the county seat of said county, three terms of said court in each year, viz: on the second Mondays of May, November and February in each year. The county judge may call and hold special terms of court upon giving three weeks' notice thereof in some newspaper published in the city of Oshkosh in said county, and if the said court shall desire a jury at such term, a jury shall be selected for such term in the same manner as a jury is selected for a regular term. There shall also be held a special term of said court on the first Monday of each month in each year, except the months of May, July, August, November and February: provided, however, that at such special terms, no cases shall be tried in which there is any issue of fact, nor shall be tried or heard any appeals from justices' courts, and no officer shall receive or be enabled to receive any compensation for attendance upon such terms. Such special terms may be held in the office of the county judge in the court house in said county. SECTION 4. Section nineteen (19) of said chapter is hereby amended to be and read as follows: costs shall be recovered in said court (to be taxed by the judge or clerk thereof), to the same amount as in circuit court, including jury fees and county tax, except as hereinotherwise provided or limited. SECTION 5. Section twenty (20) of said chapter is hereby amended to be and read as follows: the county judge of said Winnebago county for performing the duties required by this act and the act of which the same is amendatory, shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly out of the county treasury by the county treasurer. SECTION 6. Section twenty-two (22) of said chapter is hereby amended to be and read as follows: the demand for a jury shall be accompanied by the pay |