Chap. 84. An Act to appropriate to Rev. Wesley Lattin the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1 That there is hereby appropriated to the Rev. Wesley Lattin the sum of fifty dollars, for his services as Chaplain during the session of eighteen hundred and fifty, in full, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, that no more than fifty dollars shall be paid the said Lattin for his services as Chaplain for the year eighteen hundred and fifty. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 85. Chap. 86. An Act to appropriate to George H. Slaughter the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to G. H. Slaughter the sum of thirteen dollars, in full for furnishing maps to T. Burns for locating State lands, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to Moritz Shofler the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Moritz Shofler, forty-five dollars, in full, for printing three hundred copies of the Governor's Message in the German language, for the use of the Senate in 1850, and for papers furnished the Legislature for the year aforesaid. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the enate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to Moritz Shofler the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Moritz Shoefler, forty dollars, in full, for four hundred copies of the Governor's Message in the German language, for the use of the Senate in the year 1851. FREDERICK W. HORN, DUNCAN C. REED, Speaker of the Assembly, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 87. An Act to amend an act entitled " An Act to authorise Eliphalet S. Miner and Henry, Chap. 88. Clinton to improve the navigation of the Grand Rapids in the Wisconsin river," approved January 29th, 1847. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. John Werner, junior, assignee of Eliphalet S. Miner and Henry Clinton, and his heirs and assigns, wherever he shall have so improved the navigation of the Grand Rapids of the Wisconsin river, for running lumber rafts, that four men can run over the said Grand Rapids a single raft of lumber containing not more than twenty thousand feet of lumber, in safety, by using ordinary care and diligence; shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights and privileges which are granted to the said Eliphalet S. Miner and Henry Clinton by the act of which this is amendatory. SEC. 2. The said John Werner, junior, shall be authorised Tos. and empowered to demand, receive, sue for and recover, six cents per thousand feet of sawed lumber instead of the sum of ten cents, as provided in the act of which this is amendatory. SEC. 3. To enable the said John Werner, junior, to enforce the remedy by attachment, given by the third section of the act of which this is amendatory, it is hereby provided that whenever the said John Werner, junior, his agent or attorney, or his heirs or assigns, or their agent or attorney, shall make and file with any justice of the peace an affidavit stating that any person is justly indebted to the said John Werner, junior, or his Remedy by atheirs or assigns, in any sum for tolls due to him for the running of any raft, flat-boat, scow, or other water craft, over the said Grand Rapids, which sums shall be stated in such affidavit, and stating that such person refuses or neglects to pay such tolls, such justice of the peace shall issue a writ of attachment commanding the tachment. sheriff or constable of the county in which such writ shall issue, to attach such raft, flat-boat, scow or other water craft, or other property of such persons, which property when so attached shall be subject to all provisions of law in relation to property attached in other cases; and the said justice of the peace shall proceed to hear, try, and determine such writ so commenced by attachment and issue execution therein, in the same manner as is provided by law for the hearing, trying, and determining of other suits commenced by attachment before justices of the peace and issuing execution thereon. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 18th, 1851. Defendant may traverse ments. Plaintiff to prove. An Act to amend chapter one hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes relative to proceedings in Attachment. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. In all actions at law now pending in any court or which shall be hereafter commenced by any person, in which a writ of attachment shall be issued in pursuance of said chapstate- ter one hundred and twelve (112) it shall be competent for the defendant in such writ of attachment, by plea or answer to deny the existence at the time of making the affidavit required to be annexed to the writ of any one or more of the material facts which shall be stated in the affidavit, whether such fact be stated upon the knowledge or belief of the deponent or otherwise. Decision and costs. SEC. 2. The affirmative of such issue raised by said plea or answer of defendant shall be upon the plaintiff in the attachment and it shall be incumbent upon the said plaintiff to prove the statements or facts so traversed, and the trial of such issue shall be by the court in all cases. SEC. 3. If the court shall find that the statements made by plaintiff in his affidavit are proven, the costs of such issue shall be paid by the defendant, and the suit shall thereafter proceed as if no issue had been made on the affidavit; but if the court shall find for the defendant on such issue, the property attached shall be released, and upon payment of costs of the issue by the plaintiff within twenty-four hours thereafter, he shall be permitted to proceed in his suit as in ordinary cases commenced by summons or declaration, and the said defendant shall appear and defend the said suit thereafter as in ordinary cases, or be liable to have his default entered for non-appearance. SEC. 4. If the court shall find for the defendant on such issue provided for by the first section of this act, the same proceedings shall thereupon be had as is provided by the 28th section of the act of which this act is amendatory, before the plaintiff shall be permitted further to proceed with said suit. SEC. 5. The traverse of such statements in plaintiff's affidavit may be made at any time before issue is joined in the suit upon the merits of plaintiff's claim or demand. SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts contraveneing the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 19th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act for the relief of the town of Depere in the County of Brown. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 90. SECTION 1. The Town Superintendent of schools of the town of Depere in the county of Brown is hereby authouised to divide said town into convenient School Districts at any time before the first Monday in April next by giving the necessary and proper notice for that purpose as is now required by law for subdividing a town into school districts in the first instance, vision. any law to the contrary notwithstanding. District Subdi SEC. 2. That the Town Superintendent of schools of the Town of Depere in the county of Brown be and hereby is authorised and empowered to receive and distribute to the several school districts in said town, the full amount of school money school Money which would have been due to them had the said several districts fully complied with the law regulating tha distribution of school moneys for the year ending on the first Monday of April next any law to the contrary, notwithstanding. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 19th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to legalize the official acts of the Town Officers of the Town of Ellington, in Brown County. Chap. 91. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate, and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Assessment roll of the Town of Elkington, in the County of Brown, certified to by the Assessors of said town, on the first day of September, 1850, and the warrant of the Town Clerk of said town, for the collection of the taxes, to be collected therein, dated the 14th day of December, 1850, are hereby declared valid in law, to all intents and purposes. SEC. 2. The official acts of John P. Rynders, the Town Treasurer of said town, in the collection of taxes therein by virActa confirmed. tue of the warrant mentioned in the first section of this act, are hereby declared valid in law to all intents and purposes as they would have been if the said treasurer had strictly complied with the law in executing and filling his oath of office and official bond, and as they would have been if the Assessors and Town Clerk of said town had strictly complied with the law in the discharge of their official duties. Chap. 92. SEC. 3. The time for the collection of taxes in said town is hereby extended to the 20th day of March, 1851, and the said treasurer is hereby authorized to levy and collect the taxes now due from delinquents, when the delinquents have personal property, as now provided by law. SEC. 4. sage. This act shall take effect from and after its pas- Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 20th, 1851., NELSON DEWEY. An Act to provide for the organization of Electric Telegraph Companies. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION. 1. Any three or more persons desirous of forming a corporation for the purpose of building and working lines of Electric Telegraph, may sign and acknowledge before some of ficer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds, a certifi Preliminaries cate in writing, in which shall be stated the name of such corporation, and the general route on which such Telegraph line is designed to be constructed, the capital stock of such corporation, the terms of its existence, which shall not exceed thirty years, the number of shares of which said stock shall consist, the number of directors, and their names, who shall manage the concerns of the corporation the first year. SEC. 2. Such certificate shall be filed in the office of the register of deeds in the county where the books of the corporation are kept. and a duplicate thereof shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. SEC. 3. When such certificate shall have been filed as aforesaid, the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged the |