ished by fine and imprisonment, or either, at the discretion of the court. Property sub ject to execution SEC. 18. The property of every individual invested in said corporation shall be liable to be taken in execution for the pay-for debt. ment of his or her debts, in such manner as is or may be provided by law: Provided, that all debts due said company shall be first paid. Rule of Evi dence. ful obstruction. SEC. 19. This act shall be favorably construed to effect the purpose thereby intended; and the same is hereby declared to be a public act, and copies thereof printed by authority of the State of Wisconsin, shall be received as evidence thereof. SEC. 20. Any person who shall wilfully and maliciously Penalty for wilplace any obstruction or thing upon the track of said road, or shall remove or damage any part thereof, in such a manner that the engines or cars may be impeded or thrown off the track, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, whether such accident shall take place or not, and shall be punished for every such offence by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than one, nor more than five years, at the discretion of the court; and in case any damage shall result from the placing such obstruction or injury to said road, said party shall be liable to pay all such damage to said company, and to any other person damaged thereby, and in case any accident shall happen in consequence of placing such obstruction, or in consequence of breaking or injuring said road whereby death may be produced, the party so offending shall be adjudged guilty of murder in the first degree, and shall be punished agreeably to the law in such cases made and provided. row money and issue securities therefor. SEC. 21. The said railroad company are hereby authorised Company to bo and fully empowered in their corporate name and capacity to borrow any sum or sums of money, from any person or persons, corporations or body politic of any kind, and for any rate of interest which may be agreed upon by and between said company and any person or party of whom such money may be obtained, and make and execute in their corporate name all necessary writings, notes, bonds or other papers, and make and execute and deliver such securities in amount and kind as may be deemed expedient by said corporation, any law on the subject of usury in this State or any other State where such transaction may be made to the contrary notwithstanding; and the powers of said corporation, for the purposes aforesaid, and for all purposes necessary to carrying out the object of said company, namely: The construction of a railroad from the city of Milwaukee to Watertown in the county of Jefferson, and the contracts and official acts of said company, declared binding in Contracts delaw and equity, upon said corporation, and upon all other parties to such contracts. clared binding. Reservation. SEC. 22. In case of a violation by the company of any of the provisions of this act, the legislature of the State of Wisconsin, may resume all and singular the rights and privileges hereby granted to said company. Company may SEC. 23. This act shall be in force from and after its pas purchase other Lands for cer- sage, and it shall be lawful for said company to purchase lands tain purposes. adjoining or adjacent to the said road, for the purpose of procuring earth, gravel or other materials, for embankments and structures necessary to the construction or repair of said road or buildings and fixtures connected therewith, and whenever such lands shall be no longer needed for the purposes aforesaid, the said company are hereby authorised to sell and convey the Road may be extended to a and capital stock increased. same. SEC. 24. The said company are hereby authorised and emcertain point, powered to lay out, extend and continue the railroad authorised to be constructed by this act from the village of Watertown in the county of Jefferson, to a point at or near Fort Winnebago in the county of Columbia, and whenever said company shall decide to extend said railroad as aforesaid, they may increase their capital stock to one million five hundred thousand dollars. which shall be subscribed in shares of like amount as the original stock of said company, and for that purpose may re-open their books of subscription, or open new books for the subscription of such additional stock, and may appoint such agent to attend to the same as may be deemed necessary for carrying out fully the provisions of this act. Privileges and liabilities the road. SEC. 25. The said company shall have the same powers in same as relate locating, constructing and continuing such extension of road, to the original as they have upon that portion of the road from Milwaukee to Watertown, and all powers, regulations and restrictions, and all authority granted to and liabilities of said company shall not in any manner be abridged, extended or altered by the increase of capital stock or extension of the road aforesaid, except as to such alterations, extension and increase as is authorised by the provision of this and the last preceding section. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act in relation to the insurance on property in the city of Kenosha, made by Chap. 177 individua s and associations authorised by law. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Agents to pay a Treasurer of fire SECTION 1. There shall be paid to the Treasurer of the Insurance Fire Department of the city of Kenosha, for the use and ben- certain sum to efit of said Department, on the first day of January in each department anyear, by every person who shall act in the city of Kenosha as nually. agent for or on behalf of any individual, or association of individuals, company or association which may be incorporated for that purpose by any other state or country, the sum of two dollars upon one hundred dollars, and at that rate upon the amount of all premiums which during the year, or part of a year, ending on the next preceding first day of January, shall have been received by such agent or person, or by any other person .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 the city of Kenosha. Insurance Treasurer. SEC. 2. No person in the said city of Kenosha, shall as Agents to exeagent or otherwise, for any individual or individuals, company cute a bond to 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 Treasurer of the Fire Department of the city of Kenosha, a bond in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, with one or more sufficient sureties, such as the said Treasurer shall approve, conditioned that he will render annually to the said Treasurer, on the first Monday of January, in each year, a just and true account in writing, verified by his oath, that the same is a just and true account of all premiums which, during the year ending on the first day of January next preceding such report, shall have been received by him, or by any other person for him, or agreed to be paid for any insurance against loss or injury by fire in the city of Kenosha, or which shall have been effected, or promised by him to be effected, for or in behalf of any individual or individuals, association of individuals, company or association not incorporated by the laws of this State, and that he will semi-annually, on the first Monday of July and January in each year, pay to the said Treasurer the sum of two dollars upon every one hundred dollars, and at that rate upon the amount of all premiums received or agreed to be received by him, as such agent as aforesaid. SEC. 3. Every person who shall effect or agree to effect, Forfeiture conpromise or procure any insurance specified in the preceding violation of presections of this act, without having first executed the bond re sequent upon ceding section. Insurance Agents to report fire department certain facts. quired by the preceding section, shall for such offence forfeit the SuL of one hundred dollars, to and for the use of the Fire Department of said city, and the same may be sued for and collected in the name of the Fire Department of the city of Kenosha. SEC. 4. Every person in said city of Kenosha, who shall to Treasurer of hereafter as agent or otherwise, for any individual or individuals, association of individuals, company or association, not incorporated by the laws of this State, effect or agree to effect. any insurance specified in the preceding sections of this act, shall on the first day of January in each year, or within ten days thereafter, and as often in each year as he shall change his place of doing business in said city, report in writing under his proper signature, to the Treasurer of the Fire Department in said city, the name of the street, and number of the block at which he keeps his office, together with the name of the individual or individuals, association of individuals, company or association, for which he may act as such agent, and in case he Penalty for neg- shall neglect or refuse to render such report as required by this section, he shall for every such offence forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars, and the same may be sued for and collected in the name of the Fire Department of the city of Kenosha, for the use and benefit of said department. lect. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 178 An Act to vacate a part of the town plat of Wisconsin City in the County of Rock. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That so much of the town plat of Wisconsin City in Rock county as is laid off on the west half of the south west quarter, and the south half of the north west quarter of section three in township number two north of range num ber twelve east, be, and the same is hereby vacated. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act authorising the Governor to enter into a contract with Morgan L Martin for the improvement of Fox River between Lake Winnebago and Green Bay. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 179 SECTION 1. The Governor is hereby authorised to accept the proposition made to him on the thirty-first day of January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, by the Hon. Morgan L. Martin for the completion of the improvement of Fox river between Green Bay and Lake Winnebago, and to enter into contract with the said Morgan L. Martin according to terms and conditions thereof: Provided, That the said Morgan Proviso: L. Martin shall give security satisfactory to the Governor, to complete said work on or before the first day of June, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. for upon month fcripto be isdeficiency of sued in case of funds. SEC. 2. The said work shall be paid for upon monthly esti- Work to be paid mates made by the State Superintendent, or the engineer,in the ly estimates. same manner as the work under previous contracts has been estimated and paid for, if there shall be funds in the hands of the Treasurer applicable to that object, and in case there shall be a deficiency of funds to pay said estimate, the board of Public Works shall give to said contractor, Scrip, signed by the President of said board and attested by their Clerk for the amount due on such estimates, which Scrip shall constitute a debt against said improvement for the payment of which and interest thereon at twelve per cent, payable annually on the first day of January in each year, the said improvement shall stand pledged and the said board shall levy tolls upon ali tonnage passing through or along said improvement sufficient to pay the said interest as the same may accrue, and until the said liabilities shall be fully paid. SEC. 3. Whenever sufficient funds shall be realised to pay the debt so contracted or any part thereof, the Governor shall give public notice of the time and place, not exceeding ten weeks from the date of such notice, he will be prepared to pay the same, which notice shall be published for eight successive weeks in a newspaper printed at the seat of Goverment, and the interest on such portion of said liabilities as he may have advertised to pay shall cease from and after two months from the date of such notice. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY Governor to give notice when prepared ment of debt, to make pay |