nexed to and shall hereafter form a part of Portage county for all purposes whatever. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 27th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to apportion to the counties of Marquette and St. Croix their proportion of Chap. 115 the income of the school fund. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The State Superintendent is hereby directed to apportion to the counties of Marquette and St. Croix, such proportions of the income of the school fund as they would be respectively entitled to according to the reported number of children in each, over the age of four and under the age of twenty years, whenever the Clerks of the Boards of Supervisors of said counties shall file in his office a certified statement statement. that the amounts required by law to be raised for school purposes, have been directed to be raised during the past year, by the Board of Supervisors of said counties: Provided, that Proviso. such certificates shall be so filed on or before the first day of May next. GEO. H. WALKER, P Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 27, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Clerks to file An Act to legalize the organization and acts of School District No. four in the Chap. 116. town of Plymouth, Roek county. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The act of the Superintendents of common Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore. Lt. Governer and President of the Senate. Chap. 117 Chap. 118 An Act to legalize the organization and acts of school district Number two, in the town of Newark, in Rock County. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The act of the superintendents of common schools of the towns of Newark and Plymouth, in the County of Rock, in forming and establishing school district Number two, in the said town of Newark, and the organization of the said school district, be, and the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid. SEC 2. This act shall take effect and shall be in force from and after its passage. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 27, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to amend[an act entitled an act to incorporato the Sheboygar and Mayville The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That section one of chapter two hundred and one of the session laws of one thousand eight hundred and fifty be so amended as to include the names of A. P. Lyman, J. Č. Shadbolt, James Preston, and Patrick Donaher, after the name of S. G. Picket in the list of Commissioners. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 27th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 119 An Act to lay out and establish a State road therein described. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Daniel K. Butler, Martin Read and John Collins are hereby authorised to lay out and establish a State road, commencing at the village of Madison, running near Farwell's mills by the most practicable route to the bridge across the Catfish on the south-east quarter of section twenty-two (22) in the town of Westport in the county of Dane, thence north through Lodi, Columbia county, to Matt's ferry on the Wiscon sin river: Provided, that no money be drawn from the treas-Proviso ury of the State to pay for laying out said road. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 27, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Aet to authorise J. & G. Tomlinson to construct a mill race in the village of Port The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Chap. 120 SECTION 1. J. & G. Tomlinson are hereby authorised to construct a mill race in the village of Port Washington, commencing on lot nine, (9,) of block twenty-two in said village, running along the north side of Canal street to a point opposite lot eight, (8,) of block twenty-three, (23,) thence across said street to lot five, (5,) of block thirty-three, (33:) Provided, That Proviso. said J. & G. Tomlinson, their heirs or assigns, shall construct good and substantial cover to said mill race, so as not to damage said street, or in any manner obstruct the free passage of teams or travel, and they are further authorised to continue said race across and in the alley that bounds the south side of block thirty three, (33,) upon the conditions above provided. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage SEC. 3. This act may be amended or repealed by any future Legislature. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 27, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to extend the time for collecting taxes in the town of Pleasant Spring, Dane county. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the time for collecting taxes in the town of Pleasant Spring, in the county of Dane, for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, be and the same is hereby extended to the tenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.". Approved, February 27th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 121 Chap. 122 Chap. 123 Chap. 124 Chap. 125 An Act to vacate part of a certain street in the village of Port Washington The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. So much of that part of Canal Street in the village of Port Washington which is east of the east line of Lake Street is hereby vacated. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 27th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to vacate a part of Lake street in the village of Port Washington. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That all that part of Lake street in the northeast addition to the village of Port Washington, lying between blocks eight, nine, ten and eleven, on the westerly shore of lake Michigan, be and the same is hereby vacated. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to Ole Torgesson a certain sum of money therein named. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Ole Togesson the sum of seventy dollars out of any money not otherwise appropriated, in full payment for seven hundred copies of the "Norskes Ven," containing the Governors Message in the Nor wegian language. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 27th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to Albert G. Ellis, the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, te Albert G. Ellis, the sum of ten dollars, for four days attendance as a witness in case of David E. Wood, contestant, versus William H. Dick. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 27th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to author ise Alvin B. Carpenter o construct and maintain a dam across Sugar River. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION. 1. That Alvin B. Carpenter, his associates, successors and assigns, are hereby authorised to construct and maintain a dam across Sugar River and use the same for hydraulic purposes, on section twenty (20) in township number one (1) north of range number ten (10) east in the county of Rock, said dam to be so constructed as to allow the passage of fish up or down said river. Chap. 126. SEC. 2. This act shall not be so construed as to release Al-Limitation. vin B. Carpenter, his heirs or assigns, from any damage, that any individual or individuals may sustain by the erection of such dam. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 28th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to declare certain roads in the town of Watertown, to be lawful highways. Chap. 127 The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All roads in the town of Watertown, in Jefferson County, that have been surveyed, and a description thereof recorded or filed in the Town Clerk's Office of said Town, are hereby declared to be lawful highways. SEC. 2. In case any person through whose lands any of said Highways may run, has never received compensation for the damages caused by such highway, it shall be lawful for such person, within sixty days from the passage of this act, to |