Clerk shall present claims. Board shall andit all claims and true, and file the same with the clerk of the board of supervisors of said county. SECTION 2. The clerk of the board of supervisors, shall, on the first day of any meeting of said board of supervisors of his county lay before said board all demands or claims against the county which have been filed in his office, together with a schedule of the same, showing the amounts and the order in which they were filed; and no claim or demand shall be acted upon or allowed by said board unless the same shall have been so filed. SECTION 3. All demands or claims so filed with said clerk shall be acted upon by the board of supervisors, unless withdrawn by leave of the board, and shall be audited and allowed or disallowed in whole or in part, and the action or decision of the board upon any such claim shall be final and conclusive, unless an appeal shall have been duly taken therefrom, or such demand or claim shall have been withdrawn, as aforesaid. SECTION 4. In every case when the amounts on any such demand or claim so audited and allowed by the board shall have been accepted and received by the party or person making such claim or demand, no further sum shall thereafter be allowed or paid thereon by order of such board of supervisors. SECTION 5. It shall be lawful for any board of su pervisors to audit and allow any demand or claim against the county, and to issue orders therefor, and to make provisions for the payment of the same. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER 161. [Published March 13, 1868.] AN ACT to provide for holding special terms of the circuit court for Dodge county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: may be held. SECTION 1. A special term or terms in addition to Special terms those now provided by law of the circuit court for Dodge county in said state shall be held for the transaction of any and all business not requiring the intervention of a jury, whenever the judge of the third judicial circuit shall deem it necessary and proper, and notice of the time of holding such special term shall be given by publishing a copy of the order of such judge directing the holding of the same in any newspaper printed and published in said county, for two successive weeks prior to the time fixed by such judge for holding such special term. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 6, 1868. CHAPTER 162. [Published March 12, 1868.] AN ACT to amend section 19 of chapter 155 of the general laws of 1863, entitled "an act to codify the laws of this state relating to common schools." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 19 of chapter 155 of the gene- Amended. ral laws of 1863, entitled "an act to codify the laws of this state relating to common schools," is hereby amended by adding to the sixth subdivison thereof the following words: "and provided, further, that in case any 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 proceed. tax for school purposes, any district board shall willfully refuse or neglect to estimate and determine a sum sufficient to maintain a school for five months as aforesaid, 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 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 appoint visiting committee. When committee shall act. Shall make re ture. 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, annually, 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. 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 recommendations of the committee. Such bills may be num |