Compensation of elected from their own number. The trustees shall re ceive the sum of two dollars per day, each, for their ser vices for every day actually employed in the discharge o their duty as such trustees, from the commencement o such service, to be paid out of the state treasury in each year, but nothing shall be paid out of the treasury for any services rendered previous to this date. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage Approved, April 3, 1854. Chap. 92. AN ACT to amend chapter 381 of the Session Lavs of 1852. Published May 2, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The second section of chapter three hundred and eighty one of the session laws of 1852, is hereby so amended as to read as follows: "Sec. 2. The state librarian shall deliver to said litera Distributing doc- ry institutions one copy each of the laws, journals, and aments to literary other documents hereafter printed by order of the legisla Sasitiutions. ture, within ninety days after publication; or in case a sufficient number of any of such books or documents be not authorized to be deposited in the state library, and be deposited with the secretary of state, then the said secre-) tary shall deliver to said literary institutions such volumes as are provided for in this act." § 2. This act shall take effect immediately after its pas sage. Approved, April 3, 1854. Chap. 93. ACT to amend chapter eighty-six of the Revised Published, April 11, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in ate and Assembly, do enact as follows: of county courts Proviso. 1. All the provisions of chapter eighty-six of the re- Civil jurisdiction d statutes, and all other provisions of law conferring repealed. n county courts jurisdiction to try and determine civil ons, appeals, or certioraris, are hereby repealed: Proed, That this act shall not affect the jurisdiction of court in respect to probate matters or proceedings, and Il not apply to or affect the county court of the county Milwaukee. court. Suits transferred 2. There shall be held in each county of this state or- Terms of circuit ized for judicial purposes, such number of jury terms I of law terms of the circuit court as the legislature y from time to time deem necessary, and provide for less than two terms in each year. At such law terms court may hear and determine all motions and quesas of law, all suits or proceedings in equity, or other siness not requiring a trial or inquest by a jury. 33. This act shall take effect on the first day of July to circuit court. xt, and all suits and proceedings then pending and untermined in any such county court, and which by the ovisions of this act such court is not authorized to try d determine, shall forthwith be transferred to the cirit court of the same county, and by virtue of this act all be deemed to be pending therein, and shall thereafbe proceeded with, tried, determined, and completed the same manner as if originally commenced in or apaled to said circuit court. Approved, April 3, 1854. laws. Chap. 94. AN ACT to amend chapter 504 of the Session In of 1852. Published, May 1, 1554 The people of the State of Wisconsin represented Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. Instead of printing the names of the president Rules for printing the senate and speaker of the assembly at the end of volume of laws, as provided in section fourteen, cha five hundred and four of the session laws of 1852, the shall be prefixed to each volume of laws hereafter p lished, the name and residence of the several state cers, the senators and members of assembly, and the siding officers and clerks of both branches of the legis ture, at the time of the passage of such laws. journals. §2. Six hundred copies of the journal of each house Distribution of the legislature shall hereafter be printed to be distribu as follows: one copy to each state officer and memberan officer of the legislature; one copy to the governor each state and territory for the library thereof; one co to the register of deeds of each county, to be preserve in his office, and thirty copies to the state library to preserved therein. Safe keeping of etc, §3. The revised statutes, session laws, journals, revised statutes, documents remaining after the distribution provided law, shall be safely kept by the secretary of state fort use of new counties and towns as they shall become en tled to receive the same. Provided, That thirty copies every publication of the state and territory of Wiscons shall remain in the state library. Provided also, That copy of each of said publications shall be distributed the bank comptroller, each justice of the supreme co the state prison commissioners, and the library state historical society. Approved, April 3, 1854. of t Chap. 95. AN ACT concerning Treasurers. Published, June 1, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: taxes, and pe paid. 1. It is hereby made the duty of every county treas- Treasurer to urer to keep a full, true, and correct account of all mon- keep account o eys by him received for taxes paid to him, and upon re- son for whom demption of lands from sales thereof for the non-payment of taxes in which amount shall be stated the name of the person or officer who and for whom the money is paid, the time when, and a description of the property whereon the taxes were to such treasurer paid. similar account § 2. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the county Clerk of count board of supervisors, who is hereby declared to be the board to keep county clerk, to keep an account in like manner as is provided in the preceding section, as to all moneys by him paid over to the county treasurer; and also as to all moneys by him received for the redemption of land from sales thereof, and also as to all moneys that he may receive in his official capacity for any purpose or in any amount whatsoever. 83. The accounts so as aforesaid kept shall be and are hereby declared to be public records. the § 4. This act shall take effect upon being printed after passage thereof. Approved, April 3, 1854. Appeals. he appeal. AN ACT to allow Chap. 96. appeals from the decisions of the Register of the State Land Office in certain cases. Published, May 1, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. In all cases where any person shall claim a pre-emption right to any land granted to this state to aid in the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, which have been decided by the register of the state land office, it shall be lawful for any person feeling himself aggrieved thereby, whether such claim was contested before such register or not, to appeal to the circuit court of the county, where such land lies, at any time before the patent is issued thereon by the governor, pursuant to law. § 2. The party bringing such appeal, shall serve a noMode of bringing tice upon the person who has proved up his pre-emption claim before such register or upon some person in the possession of the premises in dispute, or in case no person shall be in possession of said premises, then by publishing such notice for six successive weeks in a newspaper printed in the county in which said land shall be situated, that he appeals from such register to the circuit court of such county, which notice shall be served as aforesaid, at least thirty days before the term of the circuit court at which the same shall be tried; said notice shall also specify the term of the court, at which the same will be brought to trial; said appellant shall at or before the time of serving or publishing said notice as aforesaid, file a copy thereof with the clerk of said court. §3. The party bringing such appeal, shall execute and Bond to be given file with the clerk of the circuit court in which such land he opposite party lies, a bond to the opposite party, with sufficient surety, to be approved by the circuit judge, of said circuit, conditioned for the faithful prosecution of such appeal and the payment of all costs that shall be adjudged against the appellant. |