&o., Chap. 61. AN ACT for the publication of the Documentary History of Wisconsin. Published, April 18, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The governor and secretary of state are hereby ap Style of printing, pointed commissioners to procure to be published so much of the Documentary History of this state as has been prepared for publication by Wm. R. Smith, in two volumes, on new and suitable type, and on good book paper, bound in the modern style of binding works of state history, with such notes, appendix, and index, as may be prescribed by the person appointed by said committee to superintend such publication. Provided, The cost of such publications does not exceed the sum of one dollar and thirty cents, ($1 30,) per volume. Copies of ap pointment filed. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. Approved March 31, 1854. Chap. 62. AN ACT providing for the appointment of a Bank Published, April 19, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 81. The appointment of bank register shall be made under the hand and seal of the bank comptroller, and a copy of such appointment shall be filed in the executive office and in the office of the secretary of state. a bond. § 2. The bank register to be appointed by the bank Must subscribe comptroller, in pursuance of this act, shall, before he en- oath and execute ters upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe the oath required by the constitution, and shall execute a bond to the state of Wisconsin in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, with not less than six sureties, who shall be resident freeholders of this state. Said bond shall be conditioned, approved, and preserved in the executive office in the same manner as is prescribed for the bank comptroller's bond. § 3. The said bank register shall perform the duties of Duties of bank book keeper and register, and such other duties as shall register. be required by the bank comptroller, and shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly (as other state officers are paid,) out of the tax paid into the treasury by the banks. ting the provis 84. If any bank register shall violate any of the pro- Penalty for viola visions of an act entitled an act to authorize the business ons of this act. of banking, approved April 19th, 1852, he shall on conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not less than five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not less than five years in the state prison, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved, March 31, 1854. Chap. 63. AN ACT to provide for procuring a Map of this State with the located lines of all Rail Roads in this State thereon. Published, April 27, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: procure a map. § 1. The chairman of the railroad committee of the Authorized to assembly is hereby authorized to procure to be made a map of this state, with all the new counties thereon, and the surveyed lines of all railroads chartered by this state, Appropriation. plainly designated in colors on said map, for the use of the legislature. § 2. There is hereby appropriated to William Hull the sum of two hundred dollars, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for causing to be made the map, as provided in the first section of this act. sage. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its pas Approved, March 31, 1854. to be paid. Chap. 64. AN ECT in relation to the duties of County Treasurers. Published April 20, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. It shall be the duty of each of the county treasu To whom money rers of this state to pay to the treasurers of the several towns in their respective counties, on demand, all moneys collected by them, whether by sale for taxes or otherwise upon the delinquent tax list of any town. Provided, They shall retain in the treasury the amount due from any to the county. Proviso. Approved, March 31, 1854. Chap. 65. AN ACT to provide for the appointment of an Assistant Secretary of State and Assistant State Treasurer, and to prescribe their duties. Published, March 31, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: ants. § 1. The secretary of state and state treasurer shall each Duties of assist have power, in their discretion, to appoint, each for his respective office, and under his hand and official seal, an assistant, who shall take the oath of office prescribed by the constitution, which shall be filed in the office of the governor, and who shall give such bond for the faithful performance of their duties to the officer appointing them, in such penal sum and with such conditions as their respective principals may prescribe; and such assistants may perform and execute all the duties of their respective principals, except as commissioner of the school and university lands, and as member of the board of regents; and for the faithful performance of all their official duties, the officer making such appointments and the sureties on his official bond shall be responsible; and the style of the said assistants shall be respectively, assistant secretary of state, and assistant state treasurer, and the office of deputy secretary of state is hereby declared to be merged in said office of assistant secretary. § 2. The said assistants shall each receive an annual sal- Salaries. ary of one thousand dollars, to be paid in the same manner as the salary of state officers, and the sum of two thousand dollars is hereby annually appropriated out of the state treasury to pay the same. § 3. All acts providing for the appointment of a deputy secretary of state, and fixing the salary of such deputy is hereby repealed; and this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, March 30, 1854. Holder of certificate may fore. close or file same with officer au cute deeds at his option. Chap. 66. AN ACT to amend the several laws of this State relating to the sale of Lands for taxes, and the manner of perfecting tax titles. Published April 3, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Section ten of an act entitled an act to amend Acts revived. chapter fifteen of the revised statutes, approved March 31, 1853, entitled, of the assessment and collection of taxes, is hereby repealed; and the sections of the revised statutes and parts thereof, and all acts and parts of acts repealed by said section ten, are hereby revived, re-enacted, and declared to be in full force and effect, and the provisions of the said act, approved March 31, 1853, not repealed by this act, are hereby also declared to be in full force thorized to exe, and a cumulative remedy in perfecting the title to lands sold for the non-payment of taxes, and the holder or holders of any certificate of sale of lands sold for the non-payment of any tax or taxes, may at their option foreclose the tax lien created under any such sale, by bill in chancery, as provided by the said act, approved March 31, 1853, or the holder or holders of any such certificate of sale, after the three years for the redemption thereof shall have expired, may perfect the title to the land described. in such certificate and sold for the non-payment of taxes. and unredeemed, by filing the same with the officer authorized by law to execute deeds of land sold for the nonpayment of taxes, who is hereby required to execute, acknowledge, and deliver such deed as provided by law, and when recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county, shall rest in the grantee therein, all right, title, interest, and estate of the former owner or owners in fee in and to the lands so conveyed, and also all the right, title, interest, and claim of the state and county thereto; and the same shall be received as evidence with, and have in all other respects the force and effect in all |