SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1869. CHAPTER 169. Published March 23, 1869.] AN ACT to provide additional committee rooms about the capitol of the state. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ditional rooms. SECTION 1. The board of building commissioners May provide adof the state capitol are hereby authorized and empow ered to provide for the finishing, heating and lighting of ten additional committee rooms in the attic story of the south wing of the capitol, according to the plans submitted. to lowest bidder SECTION 2. The work provided for in section one Work to be let of this act shall, after due notice, be let to the lowest bidder, under such restrictions as the commissioners shall deem necessary to properly guard the interests of the state; and the whole shall be finished and completed on or before the first day of December of the present year; provided, no contract shall be made involving a greater expenditure than the sum appropriated in this act. to be made. SECTION 3. Payments shall be made upon the How payments monthly estimate of the architect as the work progresses, duly certified to the secretary of state by the said board of commissioners. SECTION 4. There is hereby appropriated out of the Appropriation. state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1869. 15-G. L. Amended. Common coun sale of goods. CHAPTER 170. [Published March 16, 1869.] AN ACT to amend chapter 54 cf the revised statutes, entitled of auctions and auctioneers. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eight of chapter fifty-four of the revised statutes, entitled "of auctions and auctioneers," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 8. The common or city council of any city cil may regulate and the board of trustees of any incorporated village in this state, are hereby authorized to regulate the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise or other property sold at auction within their respective cities or villages. Such regulation shall be made by ordinance passed in the same manner as other ordinances are by law authorized to be passed, and may prohibit by proper fines or penalties all persons from selling any goods, wares, merchandise or other property at auction, within any such city or village, without first having obtained a license therefor; and may also require any auctioneer so licensed to make quarterly or monthly reports, verified by his affidavit, to the clerk of any such city or village, showing the amount of all such sales made by him subsequent to the date of his license or last preceding report, and may also require any such auctioneer to pay to the treasurer of any such city or village as a license fee, in addition to those hereinafter required, any sum not exceeding two per centum upon the amount of such sales, and also may require such licensed auctioneer to execute official bonds for the faithful compliance by him with the terms of such ordinance. But it shall not be lawful to charge less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for any such license for one year, in addition to the per centum upon sales hereinbefore provided for: provided, that nothing in this section shall prohibit or affect in any manner sales at auction in the cases specified in the first section of this chapter as herein and heretofore amended; and provided, fur Amount of license. ther, that it shall be the duty of the common or city council of any city or trustees of any incorporated village, to license any person as an auctioneer who desires to do such business within their respective cities or villages, and who will comply with all the provisions of this section in relation to auctioneers." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1869. CHAPTER 171. [Published March 23, 1869.] AN ACT to regulate appeals taken from the award of arbitrators appointed to award the amount of compensation to be paid by the Rubicon hydraulic company, to the owners of lands overflowed by the operation of said company. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: docketed and tried. SECTION 1. In all cases of appeals taken from the Appeals to be awards of arbitrators appointed to award the amount of compensation to be paid by the Rubicon hydraulic company, to the owners of lands overflowed by reason of the erection, construction, raising or repairing of any dam, flume or aqueduct of said company, according to the provisions of chapter 71 of the private and local laws of 1866, entitled "an act to incorporate Rubicon hydraulic company," and of the several acts amendatory thereof; such appeals shall be docketed and tried by jury in the same manner and subject to the same rules of practice applicable to trials at law. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1869. Valuation reduced. CHAPTER 172. [Published March 23, 1869.] AN ACT to reduce the valuation of the county of Sauk. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The valuation adopted by the state board of assessors, April 17, 1868, and the apportionment of state tax for the years 1868 and 1869, is hereby amended so that the valuation and apportionment of the county of Sauk will be reduced to $4,000,000, instead of $5,799,650, the amount adopted by the state board of assessors on the 17th day of April, 1868. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1869. CHAPTER 173. [Published March 20, 1869.] AN ACT to repeal chapter 40 of the general laws of 1868, en- The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 40 of the general laws of 1868, entitled "an act to repeal chapter 104 cf the general laws of 1867, entitled' an act to attach the county of Burnett to the county of Polk for judicial purposes, and to repeal chapter 480 of the private and local laws of 1866, entitled 'an act to attach the county of Burnett to the county of Polk for judicial purposes, and to fix the time of holding the circuit court in said county of Burnett,'" is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Chapter 104 of the general laws of Re-enacted. 1867, entitled "an act to attach the county of Burnett to the county of Polk, for judicial purposes, and to repeal chapter 480, of the private and local laws of 1866, entitled an act to attach the county Burnett to the county of Polk, for judicial purposes,'" is hereby reinstated and re-enacted in all its provisions and parts. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1869. CHAPTER 174. [Published March 16, 1869.] AN ACT to amend chapter 49 of the general laws of 1866, entitled "" an act to amend sections 1 and 4 of chapter 183 of the revised statutes, entitled 'of costs and fees:" The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: " SECTION 1. The second subdivision of section one Amended. of chapter forty-nine of the general laws of 1866, entitled an act to amend sections one and four of chapter one hundred and thirty-three (133) of the revised statutes, entitled 'of costs and fees," "is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: Second. Traveling in making service of any summons, writ or other process, except criminal capias, to be computed in all cases from the court house of the county in which service is made, ten cents per mile going and returning provided, that in counties having a population of 15,000 inhabitants and upwards, for summoning grand and petit jurors, no traveling fees shall be received for more than |