district shall not at its annual meeting, or at a special meeting held subsequent to the annual meeting and prior to the third Monday of November, vote a tax sufficient to maintain a school in said district the ensuing year for the term of five months, then the district board shall have power, and it shall be their duty to estimate and determine the sum necessary to be raised to maintain such school; and the district clerk shall certify to the town clerk the amount thus determined upon, who shall assess the same as other district taxes are If district fail to assessed. If when a district shall have failed to vote a vote tax, how to tax for school purposes, any district board shall will

proceed.

fully refuse or neglect to estimate and determine a sum sufficient to maintain a school for five months as afore-. said, each member of the board thus refusing or neglecting shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than three months, and when any district board shall have estimated and determined the sum necessary to maintain a school for five months the ensuing year, any district clerk who shall willfully refuse or neglect to certify such sum to the town clerk in time to have the same embodied in the assessment roll for that year, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars.

Approved March 6, 1868.

CHAPTER 163.

[Published March 13, 1868.]

Amended.

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and twenty-three (123) of the revised statutes, entitled "of the place of trial of civil actions."

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

SECTION 1. Section nine of chapter one hundred and twenty-three (123) of the revised statutes is hereby

amended and shall read as follows: "Section 9. When the place of trial shall be changed as provided in this chapter, it shall be changed to some county where the causes complained of do not exist, and no more than one change of the place of trial shall be awarded, except upon the written stipulation of the parties or their attorneys, or until one or more trials shall have been had in said county."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 6, 1868.

CHAPTER 164.

[Published March 14, 1868.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty-eight (28) of chapter thirteen (13) of the revised statutes, entitled of "counties and county officers."

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

SECTION 1. Section twenty-eight (28) of chapter Amended. thirteen (13) of the revised statutes, entitled "of counties and county officers," is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section 28 the following words: "providing, that when any of the special powers and duties conferred by said section 28 upon the county boards of supervisors shall be exercised by the legislature, it shall be a restriction upon the boards of supervisors so far as the legislature shall exercise such power.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 6, 1868.

Governor shall

committee.

CHAPTER 165.

[Published March 16, 1868.]

AN ACT to provide for the visitation of the state prison, and the charitable, benevolent and reformatory institutions of the state.

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

SECTION 1. The governor of the state shall, annuappoint visiting ally, before the first of December of each year, appoint a committee consisting of three, from the members elect and members holding over of the senate, and six from the members elect of the assembly, one from each congressional district, whose duty it shall be to visit the state prison, the state asylum for the insane, and all other charitable, benevolent and reformatory institutions, which are or may hereafter be under the control of the legislature of the state. The committee thus appointed shall be known as "the visiting committee of the state," and the governor of the state shall be, ex officio, a member of such committee.

When committee shall act.

Shall make re

ture.

SECTION 2. The committee shall meet at the city of Madison at such time in the month of December, in each year, as the governor shall appoint, and shall proceed to visit the institutions designated in the first section of this act, for the purpose of ascertaining the general conduct of such institutions and of making estimates of the amounts required for their maintenance during the fiscal year.

SECTION. 3. Said committee shall, during the first port to legisla- week of the ensuing session of the legislature, after their appointment, make thereto a detailed report of the existing condition of all institutions thus examined, and of the amounts necessary to be apportioned for their maintenance for the coming fiscal year. Such report shall state in detail the estimated amount required for every specific purpose necessary to be provided for, whether for building, salaries of officers, provisions, or other purposes.

Shall draft appropriation; bills.

SECTION 4. Accompanying such reports shall be bills providing for carrying into effect the recommen. dations of the committee. Such bills may be numbered and printed, and introduced in either branch of

the legislature that the committee may direct, within the time mentioned in section three of this act. If, in the judgment of the legislature, the amount estimated by the committee for any institution, shall be deemed too high, it may be lowered, or if too low it may be raised.

SECTION 5. All laws or parts of laws that contravene the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1868.

CHAPTER 166.

[Published March 13, 1868.]

AN ACT relating to fees of jurors.

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

SECTION 1. Each grand and petit juror, except Fees and miletalesmen, shall be entitled to two dollars for each day's age of jurors. attendance upon any circuit court, and six cents for each mile traveled, in going and returning by the most usual route, to be paid out of the treasury of the county, by the treasurers thereof, on the certificate of the clerk of the court: provided, that the provisions of this act shall not apply to the county of Milwaukee.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 6, 1868.

Jxdgm'nts may be entered

ations.

CHAPTER 167.

[Published March 13, 1868.]

AN ACT to provide for judgments against corporations which have been indicted.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever any corporation which may against corpor- hereafter be indicted under the common law, or any statute of this state, shall fail to appear after notice of such indictment given and served by leaving a true copy of such indictment with the president, secretary, agent or attorney of such corporation, and twenty days shall have elapsed thereafter, its default shall be recorded and the charges in the indictment shall be taken to be true, and judgment shall be rendered accordingly.

Court may issue warrant.

SECTION 2. Whenever judgment shall be rendered on default as aforesaid, or upon verdict in case of an appearance, the court having jurisdiction of the case, may issue a warrant to enforce the execution of such judgment, and to collect any fine or penalty adjudged, together with all costs and lawful interest by distress and sale of the property of such corporation.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 6, 1868.