Statement to When County sue judgments obtained shall be binding on the sureties of such Justice, when they have been made parties to the suit. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of each town Treasurer, within fifteen days from the first Monday in each of the months mentioned in the first section of this act, to pay over and account for all moneys collected by him by virtue of this act, to the County Treasurer of his county; and also at the time of such accounting and payment to make out and transmit to such County Treasurer, and to the Clerk of the board of Supervis ors of his county a written statement, verified by affidavit, of each and all sums received and collected by him, setting forth therein the name of the Justice from whom he received the same, the date of such receipt and collection, the cause of complaint on which such sum was adjudged and the name of the defendant together with the date and time of such complaint and judgment. I SEC. 5. In case any Town Treasurer shall neglect or refuse to pay over and account for within the time hereinbefore mentioned, any and all sums of money received by him by virtue of this act, it shall be the duty of the County Treasurer of the county, immediately to commence suit on the official bond of such town Treasurer against him and his sureties, and to prosecute the same in any court having jurisdiction of the amount claimed as delinquent, and the said town Treasurer and his sureties shall be liable to any judgment that may be obtained for moneys received by such town Treasurer, and not paid over, according to the provisions of this act. SEC. 6. In case any Justice of the Peace shall hereafter of his own will release any person complained of or accused before him, unless by order of the district attorney, or shall after trial and conviction impose a less fine than is prescribed by law, or after fine imposed shall remit, release or forgive any part of said fine, he shall be held liable to pay the full amount of the lowest fine imposed by law, or the full amount of the fine actually imJustice person posed by him, as the case may be. And if he shall give any time or delay to any person upon whom he has imposed any fine, or shall take any bond or security for the future payment of any such fine, he shall be held personally liable for the prompt payment of the said fine according to the provisions of this act, and shall not be entitled to any delay or extension of time from such town Treasurer, in his accounting for and paying over such fine as hereinbefore provided. ally liable. SEC. 7. The refusal or neglect of any Justice of the Peace or town Treasurer to account for and pay over any moneys in his hands according to the provisions of this act, shall be deemmbezzlement. ed an embezzlement of the amount that remains in his hands, within the intent and meaning of sections twenty-six, twentyseven and twenty-eight of chapter one hundred and thirty-two of title thirty of part four of the Revised Statutes, and shall be punished in the manner in said sections provided. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 21st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the village of Sheboygan." The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All that part of section twenty-two of said act, which reads as follows: "And all property which is by law exempted from sale on execution," is hereby repealed. Chap. 97. SEC. 2. All personal property within the limits of the incorporation of said village, which is now exempt by law from Exemption. execution, not exceeding in value two hundred dollars, shall be exempt from taxation. ern assessment. SEC. 3. If any person whose real or personal estate is liable to taxation in said village, shall at any time before the tenth day of March in each year, make affidavit that the value of his personal estate liable to taxation, after deducting his property invested in the stock of any incorporated company liable to taxation on its capital, does not exceed a certain sum to be specified in the affidavit, or if he shall prove by the affidavit of Affidavit to govhimself, or that of a disinterested freeholder of said village, not of kin to him, that the value of his real estate does not exceed a certain sum to be specified in the affidavit, it shall be the duty of the Assessors of said village to value such real or personal estate at the sum specified in such affidavit, and the agent or attorney of any person whose property is assessed, may, in all cases, make affidavit as to its value, and such affidavit shall have the same force and effect as if made by his principal. SEC. 4. The Assessors shall, on the last day of February in each year, give notice in one or more of the public Journals printed in said village, and by placing up in three of the most public places in said village, notices that they, on some day previous to the tenth day of March, will meet for the purpose allowing all persons who may think themselves aggrieved by the assessment made by said Assessors, to make and bring in affidavits as to the actual amount of property on which by law they are bound to pay the taxes. of Assessors to give notice. Depositions. SEC. 5. The time in which said Assessors are to deposite their assessment roll with the Clerk of said village, is hereby extended to the tenth day of March in each year. SEC. 6. All oaths and affidavits to be administered in the assessment or valuation of property for taxation, may be ta ken before any one of the Assessors, or any person authorised to administer oaths; and the Assessors shall cause all such affidavits to be filed in the office of the Clerk of said village. SEC. 7. This Act shall take effect from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 21st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 98. An Act to alter the boundary lines of the towns of Centre, Fayette and Wiota, in the county of La Fayette. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That sections thirty-five and thirty-six, in town, number three, north of range number four east, now embraced within the limits of the town of Fayette, sections thirty-two, thirty-three and thirty-four in town number three north of range number four east, and sections three, four, ten, fifteen, twentytwo and twenty-seven, and that part of sections nine, sixteen, twenty-one and twenty-eight, lying on the north and east side of the Pekatonica river, all in town number two, north of range number four east, and now embraced within the limits of the town of Centre, shall be and is hereby attached to and made a part of the town of Wiota in the said county of La Fayette. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 21st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 99. An Act to provide for laying out a State Road from Token Creek to Fort Winnebago. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Sylvester Dutton, George Davis, and Henry Watterhouse, are hereby appointed Commissioners to lay out and establish a State road from Token Creek in Dane county, to Fort Winnebago in Colombia county, upon the most direct and practicable ground. Provided that no money shall be drawn from the State treasury for any part of the expense incurred thereby. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 21st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to Robert L. Ream 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 Robert L. Ream, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of four hundred dollars, in full pay and compensation for furnishing four large manuscript sectional maps of the State of Wisconsin, ordered by the Secretary of State, in accordance with the provisions of an act approved February ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 21st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to John F. Lessey, former Sheriff of Brown county, 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 John F. Lessey, former sheriff of the county of Brown, the sum of fiftythree dollars and fifty cents, to be paid out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for arresting, by request of the officers of the land office at Green Bay, and in accordance with the Governor's requisition, and conveying him to Milwaukee for examination, a German having in his posses sion a land warrant belonging to Adolph Briggs, a German who was murdered near Milwaukee. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated to John F. Lessey, former Sheriff of the county of Brown, the sum of one hundred Chap. 100 Chap. 101 and forty dollars, to be paid out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, for services and expenses in conveying Alexander McCarty from Green Bay to Madison and back, on a writ of habeas corpus returnable to the supreme court. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 21st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY.! Chap. 102 101 qst Chap. 103. Of Draw. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Ira B. BrunSheriff of Crawford county, out of any money in the treas ury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ninety dollars and twenty cents, in full for keeping Baptiste Robadean and Oshoga, two Chippeway indians, convicts of murder at a special term of circuit court of St. Croix county, in August, one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and confined in Crawford county jail, from the tenth of September to the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 21st, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to authorize the construction of a Toll bridge across Fox River at Little Chute The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Theodore Van Derbrouck, Ephriam St. Louis and M. P. Caulfield, their associates and assigns, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to build and maintain a bridge across Fox River, at some convenient point on the rapids at Little Chute, in the county of Brown. SEC. 2. That said bridge shall not be less than twelve feet wide, and shall contain a draw of sufficient width to pass and re-pass all boats and water crafts without charge or expense, or unnecessary delay. |