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SEC. 3. The persons herein named, their associates and assigns, shall have power after the completion of said bridge to demand and collect tolls for passing the same as follows: for every vehicle drawn by one horse or mule, ten cents; for Rates of Toll. every vehicle drawn by two horses, oxen or mules, twenty cents; for every additional horse, ox or mule, five cents; for every foot passenger, three cents, and for all animals in droves. two cents each: Provided, that hogs and sheep shall not be charged more than one cent per head,

SEC. 4. The said persons herein named, their associates and assigns, shall keep posted up in some conspicuous place on said bridge, a list of the rates of toll allowed by this act.

SEC. 5. This act may be amended, altered or repealed by any future legislature.

GEO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore.
SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 26th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to authorize the laying out of a State road in Columbia county

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

Chap. 104

SECTION 1. That Ebenezer Williams, Lemuel Berry and Charles Kingsbury, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a continuation of the Beaver Darn and Wrecena state road, from Wyocena through Pardeville on the Puck[a]way road, to the north-east corner of lot number pine, in section number four, of Town twelve, Range ten east; thence Location. on the most practicable route, to the Fort Winnebago and Fox Lake road, eighty rods west of the line between sections thirtytwo and thirty-three, in Town thirteen, Range ten east; thence on the best and most practicable route to Fort Winnebago.

SEC. 2. The said commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act, shall, upon the performance of the work, be entitled to such compensation for their services as the supervis- com; ensation. ors of the towns through which said road passes, shall allow to be paid by said towns: Provided, that no part of said expense shall be paid out of the State Treasury.

GEO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore.
SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 26th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY

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Chap. 105

Chap. 106

An Act to appropriate to R. W. Lansing a certain sum of money.

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

SECTION 1. That there be and is hereby appropriated to R. W. Lansing, the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full for services in arranging, paging, indexing and titlepaging, putting up and labelling for book-binder, the "Laws, Resolutions and Memorials of the Territory and State of Wisconsin," done by order of the Secretary of State, under the provisions of section fourteen, of chapter nine, of the Revised Statutes of the State of Wisconsin.

GEO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore."
SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 26th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

To appropriate to Knud Langland 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 Knud Langland, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-six dollars and fifteen cents, in full for printing by order of the legislature, four hundred copies of the Governors's second annual message, in the Norwegian language, and for translating the same.

GEO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore.
SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 26th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

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Chap. 107

An Act appropriating to James W. Seaton 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 James W.
Seaton, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of fifteen dollars, in full for advertising in the
Potosi Republican, by direction of the Secretary of State, "pro-

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An Act appropriating to Fratney & Herzberg the sum therein named.

Chap. 108 The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate the mat as follows: and Assembly, do enact as

SECTION. 1 There is hereby appropriated to Messrs. Fratney & Herzberg, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of twenty-one dollars and fifty cents, in full for publishing in the Milwaukee Volksfreund, the act in relation to the division of the county of Washington, published by authority contained in said act.

GEO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore.
SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved February 26th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act appropriating to S. M. Booth the sum therein named.1

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to S. M. Booth, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fourteen dollars in full for advertising in the Milwaukee Free Democrat, by direction of the Secretary of State, a notice for the payment of interest due on Canal lands in eighteen hundred and fifty.

GEO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore.
SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 26th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to appropriate to Barstow & Hatch the sum therein named.)

Chap. 109

Chap. 110 The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of any mon

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ey in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Barstow & Hatch, of Waukeshaw, the sum of six dollars and twenty-fire cents, in full for one dozen bottles of ink furnished the Secretary of State January twentieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. GEO. H. WALKER,

Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore. SAMUEL W. BEALL

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An Act to incorporate the Milwaukee and Humbolt Plank Road Company

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

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SECTION. 1. That John H. Hoorer, E. B., Walcott, Harrison Ludington, Byron Kilbourn, John H. Tweedy, Thomas L. Ogden, H. D. Heide, Charles E. Jenkins, C. M. Hunter, John L. Doran, D. A. J. Upham, Elisha Starr, Mathew Steine and William W. Brown, be, and they are hereby appointed commisCommissioners sioners under the direction of a majority of whom, subscriptions may be received to the capital stock of the "Milwaukee and Humbolt Plank Road Company" hereby incorporated, and they may cause books to be opened at such times and places as they shall 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 in one or more newspapers printed in the city of Milwaukee.

SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be thirty thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of twenty dollars each; and as soon as one thousand shares of the capital stock shall be subscribed, and one dollar of each share actually paid in, the subscribers of such stock, with such other persons as shall associate with them for that purpose, their successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby declared and created a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of "The Conditional cor Milwaukee and Humbolt Plank Road Company," with perpetual succession; and by that name shall have all the privileges, franchises and immunities incident to a corporation, to they shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding, leasing, and conveying estate, either real, personal or mixed; and in their corporate name may sue and be sued, may have a common seal which they may alter or renew at pleasure, and generally may do all and singular the matters and things which they are au thorised by law to do for the interest and well being of said com pany he too

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SEC. 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 at least twenty days notice in the newspapers frereinbefore mentioned, of the time and place of meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of electing seven directors, who shall elect one of their number President; and annually thereafter, the said stockholders shall meet on the first Monday in July, for the purpose of electing directors as aforesaid, upon a like previous notice, to be given by a majority of the directors for the time being in such newspapers as they may think proper: Provided, That previous to the first election, the Proviso. 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 pre- Vacancies, how ceding year shall continue to act, and this charter shall not be avoided by reason of the irregularity or want of such election, and in case of any vacancy in the board of directors, the same shall be filled by the other directors or a majority of them.

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SEC. 4. The affairs of said company shall be managed by a board of seven directors, who shall be stockholders, and be chosen annually by ballot by the stockholders of said company, the vote to be given in person or by proxy duly authorised; which directors shall appoint one of their number President; Directors, how and shall serve until others are elected in their stead. They shall make and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States and of the State of Wisconsin, as may be necessary for the well ordering of the affairs of said company; each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote, and in all cases of elections for directors, the seven stockholders having the greatest number of votes shall be declared duly elected.

SEC. 5. Five directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, who, in the absence of the President, may appoint a President pro tem. The said directors shall ap point a secretary, treasurer, such engineers and other officers as they may find necessaay, and fix their compensation, and may demand adequate security for the performance of their respective trusts: they shall have full power to decide the time and manner in which the said stockholders shall pay the money due on their respective shares. not exceeding twenty-five per cent in any one instalment, and to forfeit to the use of said company the share or shares of every person or persons failing to pay any instalment, at a reasonable period not less than thir

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