their indebtedness as certified to them by the serectary of state, upon all the taxable property therein as provided by law.

SECTION 5. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication, Approved March 6, 1868.

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CHAPTER 113.

[Published March 11, 1868.]

AN ACT to amend chapter 182 of the revised statutes of 1858, entitled "of pardons.'

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and eighty two of the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking out in said chapter all after the words "section one and inserting the following: "All pardons hereafter applied for on behalf of any person or persons convicted in any court in this state of any crime punishable under the laws thereof by imprisonment in the state prison of the same, and sentenced to such imprisonment, shall be made and conducted in the manner and under the restrictions hereinafter prescribed.

SECTION 2. Notice of the application for such partion for pardon don shall be given to the judge who presided at the trial, and to the district attorney of the county in which the indictment was found against such person or persons so convicted and sentenced, at least three weeks before such application shall be filed with the governor; copies of which notice acknowledged by such judge and district attorney, or certified under oath of a credible witness to be true copies thereof, shall accompany every such application to the governor; and a notice of such application, setting forth the name or names of the person or persons on whose behalf it is made, the crime of which he, she or they shall have been convicted, the time of

such conviction, and the term of sentence, shall also be published at least once each week for two succsssive weeks, in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where the offence for which pardon is sought was committed, or if there be no newspaper published therein, then such notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the door of the court house of such coun ty for three weeks prior to such application; and such notice shall also be published once each week for two consecutive weeks in some newspaper published in a county adjoining; a copy of which notices, duly authenticated by some credible witness under oath, shall also accompany such application.

SEC. 3. Each application for pardon shall also be ac- What papers to companied by the following papers:

1. A certified copy of the whole record, including docket entries, minutes of court, copy of indictment, pleas, and all other papers on file in court relating to the case.

2. A full statement of the reasons upon which the application is based, setting forth all the facts, such statement to be verified by affidavit, and also a letter from the district attorney, indicating his views upon the subject of the application and stating briefly any circumstances in aggravation or extenuation which he may have in his possession. All applications for the pardon of any person who shall have been convicted of the crime of murder shall in addition to the requirements herein before indicated be accompanied by the recommendation of the judge who presided at the trial in which said conviction was had, or of the judge in office when the application is made in the circuit where the trial was had.

accompany application.

SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of any judge pre- Judge to keep siding at the trial of any person indicted for an offense, full minutes of conviction of which would under the statutes of this testimony. state be followed by imprisonment in the state prison" for not less than one year, to keep full minutes of all testimony given upon such trial, and at the close of the trial such minutes shall be delivered to and shall be filed by the clerk of the court in which such trial is bad; and upon any application for pardon of the person convicted upon such trial, said minutes of testimony or a certified copy thereof shall accompany the application.

SECTION 5. In all cases in which the governor is

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Governor may authorized to grant pardons, he may upon the petition grant pardons of the person convicted grant a pardon upon such conditions and with such restrictions and under such limitations as he may think proper, and he may issue his warrant to all proper officers to carry into effect such conditional pardons, which warrant shall be obeyed and executed instead of the sentence, if any, which was originally awarded.

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SECTION 6. Whenever any convict is pardoned by retro of war the governor or his punishment commuted, the officer to whom the warrant for that purpose is issued, after executing the same, shall make return thereof under his hand with his doings therein to the governor as soon as may be, and he shall also file with the clerk of the court in which the offender was convicted an attested copy of the warrant and return, a brief abstract whereof the clerk shall subjoin to the record of his conviction and sentence.

Pardons dependent upon behavior of convict.

SECTION 7. No pardon shall be granted unless the warden or keeper of the prison where such applicant shall have been confined shall certify to the governor that the applicant has during his confinement conducted himself in a peaceful and obedient manner: provided, that this chapter shall not be so construed as to render it obligatory upon the executive to pardon any convict, although the application for such pardon shall be made in accordance with the provisions hereof.

SECTION 8. The governor may in his discretion make such additional rules and regulations governing applications for pardons as may from time to time seem to him best.

Approved March 6, 1868.

CHAPTER 114.

[Published March 11, 1868.]

AN ACT to relieve the county of Clark from the payment of state taxes illegally assessed upon lands not liable to taxation.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. That the state treasurer is hereby author State treasurer ized to adjust and settle with the county treasurer of the Clark county. county of Clark any and all claims which the said county of Clark has against the state for state taxes (so called) illegally assessed in the years of 1864 and 1865, upon any and all lands in said county not then liable to taxation, belonging to the "Fox and Wisconsin river improvement company:" provided, that the said treasurer shall not make any such settlement until the attorney general shall have certified to the state treasurer that in his opinion the lands aforesaid were not legally taxable for said years.

found due.

SECTION 2. That in case any sum is found due to May credit sum said county of Clark upon such settlement, the state treasurer is hereby authorized to credit the said county of Clark in the account with said county, with such sum, and the said county is hereby relieved from the payment of the same.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 5, 1868.

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CHAPTER 115.

[Published March 9, 1868.]

AN ACT to provide for the payment of rewards for wolves, wildcats and lynxes killed previous to January 25, 1868.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Any person who has killed any wolf, wildcat or lynx previous to and including January 25, A. D. 1868, shall be entitled to receive there for the same reward as though chapter 364 of the laws of (A. D.) 1865, and all acts amendatory thereof had not been repealed, and chapter 364 of the laws of 1865, entitled "an act for the encouragement and protection of the wool growing interests in this state," and all acts amendatory thereof, which were in force and effect on January 24th, A. D. 1868, are hereby revived and declared to be in full force and effect, so far as to apply to any wolf, wildcat or lynx killed previous to and including January 25, A. D. 1868.

SECTION 2. This act shall not be construed to authorize the payment of any bounty for any wolf, wildcat or lynx, killed on or prior to January 25, 1868, unless proof of the killing of such wolf, wildcat or lynx has been made within the time and in the manner provided by said chapter 364 of the general laws of 1865, and the acts amendatory thereof.

SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money sufficient to carry into effect the provisions of section one of this act.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1868.