of change of

where a change of the place of trial has been or may tion of legality be granted on petition or affidavit of the agent of a venue. party or an attorney of a party, or by any person for cr on behalf of any party, and the cause has been once tried in the court to which the place of trial was changed, the same shall be deemed to have been properly removed to said court, and no objection that the cause was improperly or wrongfully removed shall be valid.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1870.

CHAPTER 107.

[Published March 23, 1870.]

AN ACT to provide for the publication of a new edition of the school code.

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

school code.

SECTION 1. The superintendent of public instruc- May publish tion is hereby authorized to procure the publication, in pamphlet form, of eight thousand copies of a school code containing all the school laws of this state, with necessary instructions and forms, and plans and designs for school houses; and when printed, he shall furnish a copy to each town and school district clerk in the state.

paper.

SECTION 2. In addition to the copies above pro- Three hundred vided for, three hundred copies shall be printed on copies on book good book paper and bound in muslin, to be used in making exchanges with other states, and to supply. county superintendents and the libraries of literary institutions in this state.

SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriation. any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay for printing the code as above set forth provided that not more than one hundred and fifty dollars shall be used to pay for plans and designs for school houses.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1870.

Amended.

CHAPTER 108.

[Published March 23, 1870.]

AN ACT to amend section 135, chapter 152 of the general laws of 1869, 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 hundred and thirty-five (135) of chapter one hundred and fifty-two of the general laws of 1869, entitled "of highways and bridges," is amended so as to read as follows: "Whenever the supervisors of any adjoining towns shall be unable to agree or fail to meet in the location or laying out of a highway extending into or through such towns, so as to make a continuous road from one town into or through the other, as may be required for the convenience of the public, or whenever the supervisors of any town of this state shall lay out a highway up to the line of an adjoining town, and the supervisors of said adjoining town shall refuse or neglect to lay out a highway so as to continue said highway into or through said adjoining town, as the convenience of the public may require, upon petition of thirty freeholders, fifteen of whom shall reside in each of such towns, setting forth such disagreement or failure to meet, or refusal or neglect to lay out such highway, as the case may be, and praying the laying out of a road extending into or through such town or towns, the said board of county supervisors shall proceed in the same manner as hereinbe fore provided, to view, lay out and establish such highway provided, that when a county line shall divide any such two towns, that said petition shall be presented to the board of county supervisors in which the town is situated, that through its supervisors refuses or neglects to lay out such highway.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1870.

CHAPTER 109.

[Published March 23, 187C.]

AN ACT to authorize the board of regents of normal schools to use an additional amount of the income of the normal school fund in finishing and furnishing the normal school building at Oshkosh.

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

for building.

SECTION 1. In addition to the money now provided May use income and limited by law, there may be used by the board of regents of normal schools out of the income of the normal school fund, for the purpose of completing and properly furnishing the normal school building at Oshkosh, a sum not to exceed ten thousand dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1870.

CHAPTER 110.

[Published March 25, 1870.]

AN ACT to relieve owners of and other persons having real estate in any of the cities of this state.

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

contractor.

SECTION 1. In all cases where any assessment has May settle for been or shall be made by the authorities of any city of work done by this state, for the purpose of raising money to pay for any work done or improvement made or to be made

Release shall be entitled to

record.

upon any street or highway in such city, and the cost of which work or improvement has been or is liable to be assessed against any lot or parcel of land bounded by such street or highway, it shall be lawful for the owner of or any person having an interest in any lot or parcel of land bounded by such street or highway, and any contractor or his assigns having any claim against such lot or parcel of land for any work done or to be done by him upon such street or highway under or by virtue of any contract with the authorities of such city, to agree and settle for such work and improvement.

SECTION 2. Any release duly executed and acknowledged by any contractor or his assigns under the provisions of the foregoing section shall be entitled to record in the office of the register of deeds of the county wherein such land is situated, and shall be a full payment and effectual release and discharge of all claim of such contractor or his assigns against any lot or parcel of land mentioned therein, but not of any claim of the city for printing, surveying, engineering and other incidental expenses, and also of all claims against the owner of the same, or the city which may be a contracting party for such work or improvement. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 17, 1870.

CHAPTER 111.

[Published March 22, 1870.]

Appropriation.

AN ACT to appropriate one thousand dollars for the purpose erecting a Turkish bath in the Lunatic Asylum.

of

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars, for the pur pose of erecting the Turkish bath in the State Lunatic

Asylum: provided, the superintendent of the said Lunatic Asylum shall deem the erection of such bath

necessary or advisable.

SECTION 2. The bathing rooms shall be fitted up who to superunder the superintendence of the superintendent of the intend. Insane Asylum.

SECTION 3. This act shall be in force from and

after its passage and publication. Approved March 17, 1870.

CHAPTER 112.

[Published March 25, 1870.]

AN ACT to provide for the relief of the families of citizens of Wisconsin who served in the regular army of the United States.

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

regular army.

SECTION 1. Every citizen of this state who enlisted Extra pay to and served as a non-commissioned officer or private in soldiers of the the regular army of the United States during the late civil war or any part thereof, and who during the time of such service, had a family dependent on him for support, who was credited to the state of Wisconsin upon its quota under any call of the president of the United States for men to serve in said civil war, and the families of those who died in said service, shall receive the same extra pay as was given to enlisted or drafted men under the provisions of chapter 117 of the general laws of 1864, and chapter 416 of the general laws of 1865, under the same conditions, restrictions and limitations as provided in said chapters, and all the provisions of said chapters shall apply to and be construed to include non-commissioned officers and privates in the regular service aforesaid, excepting sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of chapter 117 of the general laws of 1864, aforesaid: provided, that the families of those who died in said service, referred to in this act, shall receive no more extra pay than is provided in section 6 of chapter 117 of the general laws of