cal societies.

as are required to be buried at the public expense, to bodies to medideliver to any member or agent of a county or state medical society, on presentation of an order signed by the president or secretary of such society, each and every dead body of persons dying under his charge, unless within forty-eight hours after the death of such person or persons, the friends cr relatives shall claim the same for interment.

notified.

SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of each and every Friends of desuch officer having in charge the dead body of such ceased shall be person to notify the friends or relatives of the deceased of the death of such person, and in no event to deliver the same to the surgeon until they are so notified and express a willingness that the body shall be so disposed of.

livered to first

act.

SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of each and every Bodies to be desuch officer after complying with the provisions of sec- surgeon comtion two of this act to deliver each and every dead body plying with this under his charge to the surgeon first complying with the provisions of section one of this act, if such officer is personally satisfied that the dead body so delivered shall be used only for the advancement and promotion of anatomical science within this state.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 29, 1868.

CHAPTER 54.

[Published March 3, 1868.]

AN ACT to authorize the superintendent of public instruction to apportion school moneys to the town of Preston, Trempealeau county.

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

may apportion

SECTION 1. The state superintendent of public in- Superintendent struction is hereby authorized and directed to appor- money to town tion to the town of Preston in the county of Trempea- of Preston. leau for the year 1868, such an amount of the income

Duty of town clerk.

of the school fund as said town would have been enti. tled to if district number one thereof had maintained a school by a qualified teacher for five months during the year ending August 31st, 1867.

SECTION 2. The town clerk of said town of Preston in apportioning school moneys to the several districts of said town for the year 1868, shall apportion to school district number one the full amount which the number of children over four and under twenty years of age, as returned in the report of the district clerk for the year ending August 31st, 1867, would have drawn if said district had maintained a school by a qualified teacher five months during said year, as required by law.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 29, 1868.

County of Dallas organized.

Shall remain

one town.

Town officers to be elected.

[Published March, 6, 1868.]

AN ACT to organize the county of Dallas and locate the county seat thereof.

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

SECTION 1. From and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, the county of Dallas shall be organized for county and judicial purposes.

SECTION 2. The said county of Dallas shall remain one town, to be known as Dallas, until the board of supervisors of said county shall divide the same into other and more towns.

SECTION 3. There shall be elected in said county of Dallas on the first Tuesday of November, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight, by the qualified electors of said county at the general election, all the town officers now required by law to be elected

upon the duties of their several offices within ten days after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and hold their respective offices until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The said election shall be held on section number twenty six, in township number thirty-four north, of range number twelve west of the fourth principal meridian.

SECTION 4. Before the first day of January, one Governor shall thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, the governor appoint county shall appoint in and for said county all the county officers except a county judge, now required by law, who shall qualify and enter upon their duties within ten days after the first of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and continue in the same until their successors are chosen at the general election of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine and duly qualified. The governor shall, on or before the said first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, appoint a county judge in and for said county, who shall qualify and enter upon the duties of his said office at the same time the other county officers, to be appointed by the governor, enter upon the duties of their several offices; and the said county judge shall hold his office until his successor is elected at the annual town meeting in April, one thousand eight hundred and sixtynine.

circuit court.

SECTION 5. The terms of the circuit court in and Terms of the for said county shall be held on the last Monday of February and the last Monday in August in each and

every year.

cated.

town officers,

SECTION 6. The county seat of said county shall County seat lobe and hereby is located on section number twentysix, in township number thirty-four north, of range number twelve, west of the fourth principal meridian. SECTION 7. If from any cause the election of town In case of failofficers in said county does not take place at the times ure to elect herein named, such elections may be held at any time special election before the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, to be designated by a resolution of the town board of supervisors of the town to which the county of Dallas is now attached, to be posted in three separate public places in said county, at least ten days before such election.

may be called.

SECTION 8. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed so far as they apply to Dallas county. Approved March 2, 1868.

CHAPTER 56.

[Published March 3, 1868.]

Amended.

Proviso.!

AN ACT to amend section one of chapter one hundred and twelve of the general laws of 1867, entitled "an act for the limitation of tax certificates."

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

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and twelve of the general laws of 1867, entitled "an act for the limitation of tax certificates," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "From and after six years from the day of sale of any lands or lots heretofore sold or hereafter to be sold for the non-payment of taxes by any officer of any county, city or village, no deed shall be issued on the certificate or certificates of sale issued on such sale, and no action, either at law or in equity, shall be commenced on such certificate after the expiration of six years from the said day of sale: provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to certificates owned by counties or municipal corporations, or by their assignees, until the expiration of six years from the date of assignment of such certificate; and provided further, that when the issuing of a deed on a tax certificate or certificates, or the commencement of an action on such certificate shall be stayed by injunetions, the time of the continuance of such injunction shall not be part of the time limited for the issuing of such deed or for the commencement of such action.

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

CHAPTER 57.

[Published March 6, 1868.]

AN ACT to amthorize the Chicago and Northwestern railway company to execute a certain trust.

WHEREAS, In 1859 or thereabouts, the Chicago and Northwestern railway company issued to divers persons aiding in the construction of its railroad from Fond du Lac northerly, convertible land grant certificates, entitling the holders thereof to receive 240 sections or 153,600 acres of land, which the said company should receive on the completion of the first 20 miles of its railroad northerly from the city of Fond du Lac; and WHEREAS, Such certificates entitled the holder thereof to receive such a proportionate share of said lands as the amount of money for which the same was given and expressed therein bore to $1,840,000 appraised value thereof; and

WHEREAS, The said company has completed said 20 miles of road and received such lands; and

WHEREAS, The owners and holders of many of these certificates are unknown and cannot be ascertained, therefore, for the purpose of enabling said company to make an equitable disposition of such lands among the holders of such certificates respectively,

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

ecute actions in

SECTION 1. The said Chicago and Northwestern Railroad comrailway company may institute and prosecute an action pany may pros. or actions in the circuit court of any county of this state circuit courts. for a division and partition or sale of the lands for which such certificates were issued according to the re spective rights of the parties interested therein, and said court may order such partition or a sale of such lands as hereinafter provided, if it shall appear that a partition cannot be made without prejudice to such parties. SECTION 2. If the owners or holders of any certificates are unknown, such owners or holders be made party defendants under the style of "the unknown owners of certificates issued by the Chicago

such Unknown holdmay cates may be un- defendant.

ers of certifi

made parties