Amended. CHAPTER 170. [Published March 14, 1868.] AN ACT to amend section 28 of chapter 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. First subdivision, section 28, of chapter 13 of the revised statutes, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "To set off, organize, vacate and change the boundaries of towns in their respective counties, designate and give names thereto, the time and place of holding the first election therein, and make all necessary orders for the disposition and preservation of the records and papers of any town which may be vacated by such board: provided, that no town shall be vacated unless a majority of the votes of all the members of the board shall so decide; and provided further, that no town in any county of this state shall be divided, or any part stricken therefrom, so as to make its area less than thirty-six sections, according to the United States survey, without first submitting the question to a vote of the legal voters of the town, not unless a majority of all residing in such town shall vote for the same.' SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1868. CHAPTER 171. [Published March 14, 1868.] AN ACT to amend chapter 126, general laws of 1867, entitled " act, authorizing the establishment of a board of immigration." an The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 126, general laws of 1867, en- Amended. titled "an act authorizing the establishment of a board of immigration," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: There shall be a board of immigration in this state, which shall be composed of eight (8) members. members of SECTION 2. The governor and secretary of state Who shall be shall be ex officio members of this board, and the other board. six (6) members shall be appointed by the governor, but not more than one shall be appointed from each congressional district. for each county. SECTION 3. The governor, with the approval of the A committee board, shall have authority to appoint in each county a committee, consisting of three members, to assist the board of immigration in the performance of their duties. SECTION 4. The governor shall have the power to remove any of the members of said committee, and to appoint others in their place. mittee. SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of the county Duty of comcommittee to make out duplicate lists of the names and postoffice address of such friends and relatives of the inhabitants of their respective localities as are living in the eastern states and in Europe, and to retain one list and send the other list to the secretary of the board of immigration. be forwarded to SECTION 6. The secretary of the board shall forward Pamphlets to to the county committees a sufficient amount of pam- committee. phlets to supply all the persons named in the foregoing list, with postage sufficient to carry them to their final destination, and the county committee shall forward the pamphlets by mail to the persons named in their lists, or use other means to distribute said pamphlets, if deemed best Board may adopt rules. May advertise for pamphlets ums. SECTION 7. The county committees shall act under the instruction of the board, and shall from time to time. make reports to the secretary of the board. SECTION 8. The board shall make reports to the legislature at their annual sessions. SECTION 9. The state board of immigration shall adopt such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with this act, as are best calculated to diffuse correct information of the advantages of this state to immigrants, and to effect the design of this act. SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of the board of and give premi- immigration, if they deem it advisable, to advertise from time to time for the composition of a pamphlet, calculated to give all useful information concerning this state, and explaining the advantages which this state offers to immigrants, offering a premium of not more than two hundred dollars for the best pamphlet, and not more than one hundred dollars for the second best pamphlet, as shall be determined by the board. Shall hold copy right. May publish articles in newspapers. Committee may publish information. No compensa tion to be allowed. SECTION 11. The copy-right of the best and second best pamphlets shall vest, after such determination, in the state, and the board shall cause to be printed the best pamphlet, and such portions of the second best pamphlet as they deem fit, in the form of one pamphlet, in the English, German, French, Welsh and Norwegian language respectively, by the lowest responsible bidder. SECTION 12. The board of immigration shall have power to disseminate information by the publication of suitable articles in newspapers and periodicals in the eastern states, Canada and Europe: provided, with such newspapers and periodicals as will print such communications free of charge. The board may allow reasonable compensation for the composition and transmission of such communications. SECTION 13. The county committee shall have the right, when so ordered by the board of supervisors of such county, to cause to be printed information setting forth the advantage of their county and localities therein, and to have such printed information attached to and forwarded by mail with the pamphlets sent to their county, which shall be chargeable against said county. SECTION 14. Neither the officers of the board nor the county committees named in this act, shall receive any compensation for their services. SECTION 15. There shall be annually appropriated Appropriation. out of the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, ($3,000,) to be drawn upon order of the governor, and to be applied exclusively to pay the expenses incurred under this act for composing and printing circulars, for advertising, for postage, and for forwarding printed matter, and for other incidental and necessary expenses. Copies of this act to be sent SECTION 16. Printed copies of this act, and of all rules and regulations of the board, shall be forwarded to county comby the board to the country [county] committee. SECTION 17. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1868. mittees. CHAPTER 172. [Published March 14, 1868.] AN ACT to amend section 41 of chapter 86 of revised statutes, concerning releases of mortgages. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section forty-one of chapter eighty-six Amended. of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding to the end of said section, "and whenever a mortgage shall have been foreclosed by an action in the circuit court, and the judgment and costs in such action shall have been paid and satisfaction shall have been entered on the docket of such judgment in the office of the clerk of the circuit court, it shall be lawful for the when register register of deeds, on production to him of the certifi- may enter satiscate of the clerk of such court, certifying the fact of gage. such judgment of foreclosure, the docketing thereof in his office, the payment of such judgment and costs, and entry of satisfaction upon the docket of such judgment, to note on the margin of the record of such mortgage in his office the following words: This mortgage foreclosed in circut court, judgment docketed therein, and faction of mort has been fully paid and satisfaction entered,' and such entry shall have the same effect as a deed of release duly acknowledged and recorded." SECTION 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1868. CHAPTER 173. [Published March 13, 1868.] Not to apply to AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and thirty-seven, of general laws of 1867, entitled "an act in relation to county superintendents of the poor." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and thirty-seven of the general laws of 1867, entitled "an act in relation to county superintendents of the poor," shall not apply to the county of Fond du Lac. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1868. May establish CHAPTER 174. [Published March 13, 1868.] AN ACT to provide for establishing town libraries in this state. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any town within this state is hereby town library. empowered to establish a town library, for the use of the (said) people of said town. The vote for said purpose shall be taken by ballot, and a majority of all the |