CHAPTER 46. [Published March 14, 1870.] AN ACT to provide and appropriate compensation to the officers of the legislature. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriation. any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay the per diem of officers of the legislature as follows: to the chief clerks, each six dollars; to the assistant clerks, book keepers and sergeant-at-arms each, five dollars; to all other clerks, clerks of standing committees, assistant sergeant-atarms and postmasters each, four dollars; to the assistant postmasters, door keepers, firemen, porters, gallery attendants and night watchmen each, three dollars and fifty cents; to all messengers each, two dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall apply to the whole time Application of of the present session of the legislature. act. SECTION 3. Chapter 58 of the general laws of 1868 Repealed. is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1870. CHAPTER 47. [Published March 14, 1870.]; AN ACT relating to the incidental expenses of the county superintendent of schools of Winnebago county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: County board SECTION 1. The county board of supervisors of Winnebago county are hereby authorized and empow. counts. to allow ac ered to allow the accounts of the superintendent of schools of said county, for incidental expenses of his office, to an amount not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum, in addition to the allowance for stationery, postage and printing, provided for by law, and the same shall be paid as other accounts allowed against said county are paid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1870. . Amended. CHAPTER 48. [Published March 15, 1870.] AN ACT to amend section 1 of chapter 164 of the general laws of 1865, entitled an act to amend chapter 40 of the general laws of 1861, entitled an act requiring owners of certain machines to guard against accidents. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 164 of the general laws of 1865, entitled "an act to amend chapter 40 of the general laws of 1861, entitled 'an act requiring owners of certain machines to guard against accidents,"" is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section one of chapter 40 of the general laws of 1861, entitled "an act requiring owners of certain machines to guard against accidents," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The joints or knuckles and jacks of the tumbling rods of all threshing machines hereafter used in this state, except S. N. Taylor's knuckle or coupling, patented February 16, 1864, and except J. I. Case & Co.'s safety knuckle or coupling, known as the universal safety knuckle, and C. W. Yates' safety coupling or knuckle, patented December 11, 1866, and except A. J. Langworthy's patent safety knuckle or universal joint, and except Hiram Dodge's improved shaft, coupling, patented October 19, 1869, shall be securely enclosed in a box. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 11, 1870. CHAPTER 49. [Published March 14, 1870.] AN ACT to provide for a course of instruction in the state normal schools for certain pupils of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: normal schools. sch 121. SECTION 1. The board of trustees of the Soldiers' May select puOrphans' Home are hereby authorized and empowered pils to send to to select from the most proficient and best qualified pupils of said Home annually a number, not exceeding six, and to place such pupils in one of the state normal schools, and maintain them there at the expense of the state, while such pupils are pursuing a course of instruction for the purpose of qualifying them as teachers of common schools: provided, that the expenses of so maintaining them shall not exceed two hundred dollars in full for board, clothing and books, per annum for each pupil, and that no one pupil shall be so maintained for more than two years. lected. SECTION 2. Those to be placed in the normal How to be seschools for such course of instruction shall be selected from the pupils of the Home in the following manner, to wit: At the request of the board of trustees of said Home, the state superintendent of public instruction shall annually examine all pupils in the Home who are at the time of such examination fifteen years of age or more, in regard to their scholarship and other qualifications necessary for successful teachers of common schools, and shall designate by name all those so examined who, in his opinion, are qualified to enter upon the course of instruction herein provided for, and who will in his opinion, by such course of instruction, become successful teachers of common schools; and 'from the number so designated by such superintendent Shall make statement in annual report. Appropriation. the said board of trustees shall select those to be placed in normal schools; and in making such selection from year to year, they shall distribute the benefits of this act equally, as far as practicable, among the representatives in said Home, of the several congressional districts of the state. SECTION 3. The board of trustees of said Home shall include in their annual report for each year a detailed statement of their doings under authority of this act, and an itemized account of all expenses incurred, and shall also deposit vouchers with the state treasurer for all moneys expended in carrying out the provisions of this act. SECTION 4. There is hereby annually appropriated to the board of trustees of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home of Wisconsin, from any money in the state treasury belonging to the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to carry into effect the provisions of this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 11, 1870. May appoint agent in New York. CHAPTER 50. [Published March 14, 1870.] AN ACT to authorize the State Board of Immigration to appoint an agent in the city of New York. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The governor of this state, and ex-officio a member of the State Board of Immigration, is hereby authorized to appoint an agent for said board residing in the city of New York, whenever in his judgment, it may be necessary to aid the objects for which said board was organized by the laws of this state: provided, no compensation shall be paid by this state for the ser vices of such agent. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 11, 1870. CHAPTER 51. [Published March 19, 1870.] AN ACT to amend chapter 47 of the revised statutes, entitled" of recording town plats and of town sites on public land." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 4 of chapter 47 of the revised Amended. statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: the plat or map after having been completed shall be Plat to be accertified by the surveyor and the officers, and every and certified to. knowledged person or persons whose duty it may be to comply with the foregoing requisition shall at or before the time of offering such plat or map for record, acknowledge the same before any person authorized to take the acknowledgement of deeds. A certificate of such acknowledgement shall by the officer taking the same, be endorsed on the plat or map, which certificate of the survey and acknowledgement shall also be recorded and form a part of the record: provided, that all records of additions or subdivisions of out lots to any town, city or village in this state which shall be defective for the reason that the foregoing provisions have not been fully complied with, shall be entitled to evidence, and the same shall be prima facie: provided, said records were made prior to the year 1850, and the title to the lands shall have passed out, the person or persons laying out the same. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 12, 1870. |