SEC. 2. No compensation whatever shall be hereafter allowed to any person or persons doing printing by contract, for the State, unless the provisions of the first section of this act are complied with.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, to receive such copies at any time when presented at his office, and preserve the same subject to the inspection of the legisla

ture.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved February 6th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 48. An Act to amend Chapter 139, of Title thirty-three, of Part four of the Revised Statutes The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Penalty

Chap. 49.

SECTION 1. That section sixteen, of chapter one hundred and thirty-nine, title thirty-three of part four of the Revised Statutes, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Every person who shall, on the Lord's day, or at any other time, wilfully interrupt or molest any assembly of people met for the worship of God, or any member thereof, or any persons, when meeting or met together for the performance of any duties enjoined on or appertaining to them, as members of any religious society, or for the recitation or performance of, or instruction in vocal music, within the place of such meeting, or out of it, shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than five' dollars.

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 6th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to amend "An Act to provide a block of marble or granite, to be placed in the National Monument, at the city of Washington, approved February 9th, 1850.**

The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SEC. 1. That section two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: A block of native marble having been

procured in accordance with said act, which shall be dressed to the size required by those employed in the erection of said monument, the Governor shall cause to be engraved on said block of marble or granite, as a device, the name of this State and the date of her admission into the Union; and that the margin around said block be imitation of rope work.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 6th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to appropriate the several sums therein named.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SEC. 1. There is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the State treasury, the sum of seventy-five dollars to the Lieutenant Governor, and seventy-five dollars to each member of the Senate and Assembly, as part compensation for their services at the present session of the legislature.

Chap. 50.

SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the State treasury, to each of the Chief Clerks of the Senate and Assembly, the sum of three hundred and seventy five dollars; and to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and Assembly, each the sum of three hundred dollars, in part pay for their services and those employed under them; which Clerks to give said amounts, when so paid by the Treasurer to the persons above named, they shall execute to said Treasurer sufficient vouchers thereof.

SEC. 3. There is hereby appropriated to Frederick W. Horn seventy-five dollars, out of any money in the treasury, as part compensation for his services as Speaker of the present session of the legislature.

vouchers.

SEC. 4. There is hereby appropriated to the Chief Clerks of the Senate and Assembly, each the sum of one hundred dollars, as a contingent fund for extra engrossing and enrolling, Contingent to be accounted for by said Clerks at the close of the session, to the proper committee of their respective houses.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 7th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Fund

Chap. 51.

Chap. 52.

An Act to pay David T Dickson the sum therein named.

The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That the sum of seven thousand one hundred and twenty-four dollars and eighty-three cents ($7124,83,) be and hereby is appropriated to David T. Dickson, State Printer, out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full for printing done for the use of the State for the year 1850.

Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 8th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act for the apportionment of school moneys for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Town Superintendent of the several towns of this State, between the first Monday in April and the first Monday in May next, to apportion the Fuperintendents school moneys received by them from the Town and County

to apportion moneys

Treasurers, to the several dictricts within their respective towns, in proportion to the number of children residing in each over the age of four and under the age of twenty years.

SEC. 2. The number of children residing in the several school districts and parts of districts, between the ages of four Clerk's Report. and twenty years, shall be ascertained by the Clerks of the sev

eral districts and parts of districts, and reported to the Superintendent of the towns in which such districts or parts of districts are situated respectively, on or before the first day of April next.

SEC. 3. No moneys shall be apportioned to any districts or parts of districts, unless it shall appear by the certificate of the Clerk of such district or part of district, that a school has been taught therein by a qualified teacher, at least three months within the year ending on the first day of April next, provided, that the prior right of all districts or parts of districts, to receive their due proportion of such school moneys, shall in no wise be prejudiced or invalidated by the provisions of this section, where it shall appear that such districts or parts of districts have complied with the provisions of the general school law, by making their report on or before the fifteenth of Sep tember last.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on the first Monday of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and shall continue in force till the first Monday of May next, and no longer.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 8th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to regulate the distribution of the income of the school fund.

The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Chap. 53.

SECTION 1. The words "income of the State fund for the support of common schools," used in section one, chapter twenty of the Revised Statutes, shall be so construed as to mean such portion of the income as shall have been actually paid in to the State treasury up to the first day of February in each Explanation. year, and such portion shall be the "income" to be distributed under the provisions of said chapter twenty.

SEC. 2. Such portion of the income of the school fund as shall be due on or before the last day of January in any year, but which, owing to admissable causes, shall not have been paid into the State treasury until after said date, shall be added to the income for the succeeding year and apportioned with it in the next apportionment of the school moneys by the State Superintendent.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and Prendent of the Senate.

Approved February 8th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

¡An Act to incorporate the Potosi and Dodgeville Rail Road Company.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That Robert Templeton, Donald A. Mackenzie, Simon E. Lewis, Celestin Kætenbach, Julius Augustine, Henry L. Massey, Samuel Vance and William T. Ennor, of the county of Grant, and Elisha Smith Charles G. Rodolf, George Messersmith, Thomas Stephens. John II. Todd, M. M. Cothren, Cyrus Woodman and Jolin B. Terry, of the county of Iowa, be,

Chap. 54.

and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, under the direction of a majority of whom, subscriptions may be received to Commissioners the capital stock of the Potosi and Dodgeville Railroad Compato receive sub- ny, hereby incorporated; and they may cause books to be

scriptions.

ers.

opened at such times and places as they may direct, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of said Company, first giving thirty days notice of the times and places of taking such subscriptions, by publishing the same weekly in a public newspaper printed in the county of Iowa.

SEC. 2. The capital stock of said Company shall be four hundred thousand dollars in shares of one hundred dollars each, and as soon as one thousand shares of stock shall be subscribed, and five dollars on each share actually paid the subscribers of such stock with such other persons as shall associate with them for that purpose, their successors or assigns, shall be and they are hereby declared and created a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the "Potosi and Dodgeville Rail Road Corporate Pow. Company," with perpetual succession, and by their name shall have all the privileges, franchises and immunities, incident to a corporation; they shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding, selling, leasing and conveying estate, citlier real, personal or mixed, as far as the same may be necessasy for the purposes hereinafter mentiored and no further; and in their corporate name may sue and be sued, may have a common seal, which they may alter and renew at pleasure, and generally may do all and singular the matters and things which to them it shall lawfully appertain to do, for the well being of the said corporation. Sno. 3. The said Commissioners, or a majority of them, after the said one thousand shares of stock shall have been subscribed, as aforesaid, shall give thirty days notice in the newspapers hereinbefore mentioned, of the time and place by them appointed for the subscribers or stockholders to meet for the Commissioners purpose of electing nine directors, and annually thereafter the said stockholders shall meet on the second Wednesday in January for the purpose of electing directors as aforesaid, upon a like previous notice to be given as aforesaid: Provided, That previous to the first election, the Commissioners hereinbefore named shall elect one of their number President, and they shall perform all the duties and be invested with all the powers of directors: And provided, That if from any cause an election shall not be held at the regular time specified therefor, the same may be held at any other time, on notice as aforesaid; that until such election the directors of the proceeding year shall continue to act, and that this charter shall not be avoided by reason of the irregularity or want of such election.

Election.

Proviso.

SEC. 4. The affairs of the said corporation shall be managed