Secretary of state to audit accounts of employees. CHAPTER 62. [Published March 6, 1868.] AN ACT to provide for the payment of the per diem of the employees of the senate and assembly. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to audit the accounts of such persons as have been employed by the senate or the assembly or by the chief clerk or sergeant-at-arms of the senate or assembly, in addition to those authorized by chapter 44 of the laws of 1866, during the present session: provided, that he shall require such certificates of service as are required by law in case of other employees of the legislature. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 3, 1868. Secretary of state to purchase digest. CHAPTER 63. [Published March 6, 1868.] AN ACT to authorize the secretary of state to purchase a digest of the laws of the state of Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follow: SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and required to purchase six thousand copies of the digest of the laws of the state of Wisconsin, passed since the revision of the statutes in 1858, which digest is now being prepared by E. A. Spencer, and which digest shall be stitched and bound_in_substantial paper covers and delivered as early as the laws of the present session of the legislature are ready for delivery, and shall contain a digest of the laws of the present session of the legislature: provided, that the price proviso. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury belonging to the general fund, a sum sufficient to defray the expenses authorized by this act. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 3, 1868. CHAPTER 64. [Published March 6, 1868.] AN ACT to dispense with the drawing and impanneling of jurors in the county of Burnett, in the 11th judicial circuit, at the January term of the court in said county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: uary term. SECTION 1. There shall be no grand or petit jury No jurors to be drawn, summoned or impanneled for the January term drawn for Janof the circuit court in the county of Burnett: provided, the judge of said circuit may, in his discretion, by an order in writing, to be filed in the circuit court clerk's office of the said county of Burnett, at least twenty days before the commencement of said term, direct the drawing and summoning of a grand and petit jury for such term, and thereupon a grand and petit jury shall be drawn, summoned and impannelled accordingly, as provided by law in other cases. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 3, 1868. 5 GEN. LAWS Secretary of state to settle with E. A. Calkins. How amount to CHAPTER 65. [Published March 5, 1868 ] AN ACT to provide for the settlement of the claim of E. A. Calkins The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to ascertain the number of assessment blanks accepted and used by the several counties in the state, which were furnished such counties from the of fice of the secretary of state in the year 1858, and to charge each county with the number so received and used, at the rate of one dollar per quire, and to add the amount so charged to each county to the amount of state tax apportioned to each of said counties for the year 1868. Should the secretary of state be unable to ascertain definitely from the records in his office the number of blanks received and used by each county, he shall take the list published on pages 59 and 60 of the assembly journal for the annual session of the year 1859, and charge the counties respectively with the number received by each as shown by said list. SECTION 2. The secretary of state shall ascertain be ascertained. the aggregate amount charged to the several counties of the state in pursuance of the preceding section, and after deducting from such aggregate amount the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars, he shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer, payable to E. A. Calkins or his assigns, for the balance of said aggregate amount: provided, said E. A. Calkins shall deliver to the secretary of state, properly executed, a good and sufficient release in full of all demands or claims either in law or equity, growing out of or arising from any printing, publishing or advertising done by said Calkins or by the late firm of Calkins and Webb, for the state of Wisconsin. May draw war SECTION 3. The secretary of state shall deliver to rant for amount E. A. Calkins or his assigns the warrant authorized to be drawn by the preceding section upon delivery to him of the release therein mentioned, and the state treasurer shall pay said warrant upon presentation. SECTION 4. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriation. any money in the state treasury belonging to the general fund not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to carry out the preceding sections of this act. Treasury warrant No. 688, dated November 15th, 1858, is hereby cancelled and declared to be void and of no effect. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 4, 1868. CHAPTER 66. [Published March 6, 1868.]' AN ACT to amend chapter 78 of the general laws of 1867, entitled an act for the preservation of game.' 63 The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 6 of chapter 78 of the general Amended. laws of 1867, entitled "an act for the preservation of game," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 6. This act, except the fourth section thereof, shall not affect uncivilized Indians on their own reservations." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 4, 1868. CHAPTER 67. [Published March 9, 1868.] Companies flow lands. AN ACT to protect the meadows adjacent to Apple river from overflow at certain times. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No company now empowered by charshall not over- ter to build and maintain a dam or drive logs in Apple river, and no company which may hereafter be chartered for each or either of such purposes in the said river, shall by venting, obstructing or in any way or manner interfering with the waters of the said river cause it to overflow its banks and the meadows adjacent thereto, or any part thereof, at any time between the fourth (4) day of July and the next ensuing fourth (4) day of September of each and every year. Penalty for overflowing lands.. SECTION 2. Any member of such dam or log driving company now chartered, or which shall be chartered hereafter, or any agent or servant thereof or any other person whatsoever, who by venting, obstructing or otherwise interfering with the waters of the said river during the time aforesaid shall cause it to overflow its banks and the adjacent meadows or any part thereof, contrary to the provisions of this act, besides the penalty already prescribed by law, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to indictment thereon, and on conviction under such indictment shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than thirty days or exceeding one year, or by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or exceeding one thousand dollars. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 4, 1868. |