1 and may fill any vacancy caused by such removal, or from any other cause. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 18, 1869. CHAPTER 15. [Published February 25, 1869.] AN ACT fixing the time of holding terms of courts of record when the same shall happen on a legal holiday. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: to adjourn court SECTION 1. Whenever it shall happen that the Clerk or judge time fixed by law for the holding of any term of a for holiday. court of record shall be upon a legal holiday, the clerk of said court or the judge thereof, shall open and adjourn the same until the next day. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 18, 1869. CHAPTER 16. [Published February 25, 1869.] AN ACT to amend chapter 130 of the general laws of 1867, en- The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred Amended. and thirty of the general laws of 1867, is hereby amended by striking out the word, "three," where it first occurs in said section, and inserting in the place thereof, the word, "one." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 18, 1869. Repealed. CHAPTER 17. [Published February 25, 1869.] AN ACT to repeal section 2, chapter 87 of the general laws of 1863. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2, chapter 87 of the general laws of 1863, (being an act, entitled "an act to repeal chapter 199 of the general laws of 1859, entitled an act to amend section 77 of chapter 19 of the revised statutes, entitled of highways and bridges, and chapter 192 of the general laws of 1862, entitled an act to amend section 77 of chapter 19 of the revised statutes, entitled of highways and bridges and of ferries, and to amend section 77 of chapter 19 of the revised statutes, entitled of highways and bridges,") is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 18, 1869. CHAPTER 18. [Published February 26, 1869.] AN ACT to fix and establish the times for holding the terms of the circuit court in the several counties comprised in the first judicial circuit, and to regulate certain proceedings therein. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. From and after the first day of July, Terms of first 1869, the terms of the circuit court for the several coun- circuit fixed. ties comprised in the first judicial circuit of this state shall be held in each year as follows: For the county of Green, on the Tuesday next after the first Mondays in September, February and June; for the county of Rock, on the fourth Mondays in November and April and the third Monday in August; for the county of Walworth, on the third Mondays in September and February, and the second Monday in June; for the county of Racine, on the second Mondays in October and March, and the third Monday in June; for the county of Kenosha, on the Wednesday next after the first Mondays in November and April, and on the second Monday in August. summoned for SECTION 2. No jury shall be summoned for either No jury to be of the terms of the circuit court herein appointed to be June and Augheld in the months of June and August, but said court ust terms. shall have power at such terms to transact any business or do any act which may be lawfully transacted or done at a general term of the circuit court without the intervention of a jury. SECTION 3. Until the first day of July, 1869, the No change till several terms of the circuit court for the aforesaid 1st of July, 1869. counties shall be held at the times now fixed therefor by law. venires for SECTION 4. The judge of said circuit court, by rule Judge may or order to be filed in the office of the clerk of said make order for court, in the county to be affected thereby, may direct juries. that any venires for a grand or petit jury to be issued in either of said counties be made returnable on any day later than the first day of the term of the court for which such jury is to be summoned, and such venires How conditions upon bond, re shall be made returnable by said clerk at the time specified therefor in such rule or order. SECTION 5. In any bond, recognizance, undertaking cognizance,etc. or other obligation taken, entered into or given in any to be construed. criminal, quasi-criminal or penal action or proceeding which [is] conditioned in form for the appearance of any person at the next term of the circuit court for either of said counties, such condition shall be taken and construed to mean the next term of the circuit court for such county at which a jury may be lawfully summoned, and shall have the like force and effect as though the specific time at which such jury term would be held were stated therein. SECTION 6. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, Approved February 18, 1869. Amended. ters. CHAPTER 19. [Published February 25, 1869.] AN ACT relating to the duties of registers of deeds and amendatory of section 2 of chapter 80 of the general laws of 1867, entitled 66 an act relating to the duties of registers of deeds." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 80 of the general laws of 1867, is hereby amended so as to read as folDuties of regis- lows: Section 2. Every such register of deeds shall provide for each volume in which such entries are made an alphabetical index, at the expense of the county, and shall p'ace in such indexes the names of the parties entered in such volumes in alphabetical order, and shall receive for such service such compensation as the county board shall deem just and prop r; and after the passage of this act such papers shall be indexed without additional expense to the county; but every such register of deeds shall be entitled to charge and receive from the person filing such certified copies of sheriffs' certificates of attachment of real estate, certificates of sale of real estate, and notices of pendency of actions, the sum of twenty-five cents for each instrument so filed. SECTION. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 19, 1869. CHAPTER 20. [Published February 25, 1869.] AN ACT to amend chapter 28 of the general laws of 1860, entitled an act to enable foreign executors and administrators to sue in the state of Wisconsin." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The first section of chapter 28 of the Amended. general laws of 1860, is hereby amended so as to read Foreign execu clase mortgage. as follows: "When an executor or administrator shall be appointed in any other state or foreign country, on tor may forethe estate of any person not a resident of this state at the time of his or her decease, and no executor or administrator thereon shall be appointed in this state, the foreign executor or administrator shall, upon filing an authenticated copy of his appointment in the probate court of any county in this state, be authorized to foreclose any mortgage by him held as such executor or administrator, upon real estate in said county, either by advertisement or action, and to purchase as such executor or administrator, and for the benefit of the estate, at the foreclosure sale, such real estate or any part thereof; and shall also be authorized to bring and prosecute in the proper courts in such county, civil actions to receive [recover] any property situate in this state, and all demands, debts and claims belonging to the estate of such deceased, from any person or persons, in possession of or claiming such property, or owing such demands, debts or claims: provided, that any court in which such actions may be commenced, may require such executors or administrators to give security for the costs therein. |