no matter where published, and all charges and expenses for transportation, communication and delivery incidental to such printing shall be borne by the official state paper. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved May 6, 1915. No. 112, A.] [Published May 11, 1915. CHAPTER 59. AN ACT to amend subsection 5 of section 925m-308 and subsection 2 of section 925m-309 of the statutes, relating to organization of city government operating under the commission form. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subsection 5 of section 925m-308 and subsection 2 of section 925m-309 of the statutes are amended to read: (Section 925m-308) 5. All boards and commissions created and existing under laws heretofore in force in any such city shall continue to exist, and all powers, authority, jurisdiction and duties conferred and imposed upon such boards and commissions shall remain unaffected by this act, except that the mayor shall not be ex officio a member of any such board or commission, and that in cities of the third and fourth classes the mayor and councilmen shall constitute the board of public works and the board of review. (Section 925m-309) 2. At its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as possible, the council shall select, by majority vote, a city clerk, a corporation counsel, a comptroller, a treasurer, a superintendent of streets, an assessor and such other officers and assistants as are necessary to the efficient conduct of the affairs of the city, and shall fix the terms of service and salaries of all such officers. Any member of the council in cities of the third and fourth classes may hold any office included within this subsection in addition to his office as a member of the council. The council in any such city may, by majority vote, appoint the mayor or any one of the councilmen to any of such offices. The mayor or councilman, serving under any such appointment, shall receive no compensation therefor and, as such appointee, shall be subject to all provisions of law applicable to any person holding such office. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved May 6, 1915. No. 126, A.] [Published May 11, 1915. CHAPTER 60. AN ACT to amend section 1284 of the statutes, relating to re moval of fences. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1284 of the statutes is amended to read: Section 1284. 1. Whenever the supervisors shall have laid out, widened or altered any public highway through any inclosed, cultivated or improved lands and their determination shall not have been appealed from they shall give the owner or occupant of such lands notice in writing to remove his fences within such time as they shall deem reasonable, not less than thirty days after giving such notice; and if such owner or occu pant shall not remove his fences within the time required in such notice the supervisors shall cause such fence to be removed and shall direct such road to be opened; but if the determination of the supervisors shall have been appealed from then such notice shall be given after the final decision of such apeal. 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed to authorize any town board to lay out or alter any highway or cause any fence to be removed between the 15th day of May and the 15th day of September, except in cases of emergency, which shall be determined by the town boards. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved May 6, 1915. No. 134, A.] [Published May 11, 1915. CHAPTER 61. AN ACT to create section 1797m-1020 of the statutes, relating to power of the railroad commission to require changes in electric construction and operation whenever required for public safety or to avoid service interference. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is added to the statutes a new section to read: Section 1797m-1020. Every public utility as defined in section 1797m-1 and every railroad as defined in section 1797-2, which may now or hereafter own, operate, manage or control along or across any public highway or private right of way any line or lines of wire over which electrical energy is transmitted or messages are transmitted or conveyed shall construct, operate and maintain such lines and the equipment used in connection therewith in a reasonably adequate and safe manner and so as not to unreasonably interfere with the service furnished by such other public utilities or railroad. The railroad commission shall have power to make and enforce reasonable rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this section. Whenever a petition is lodged with said commission by any interested party or public utility to the effect that public safety or good service requires changes in construction, location, er methods of operation, the commission shall give notice to the proper party or parties in interest of the filing of such petition, and shall proceed to investigate the same and shall order a hearing thereon in the manner provided for hearings in section 1797-12 of the statutes. After such hearing the commission shall determine what alteration in construction or location or change of methods of operation are required for public safety or to avoid service interference, and by whom the same shall be made. The comission shall fix the proportion of the cost and expense of such change or changes, which shall be paid by the party or parties in interest, and fix reasonable terms and conditions in connection therewith. Any party in interest being dissatisfied with such determination or order or any part thereof, may commence and prosecute an action in the circuit court to alter or amend the same in the manner provided in sections 1797m-83 to 1797m— 86, inclusive, of the statutes so far as the same may be applicable. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved May 6, 1915. No. 138, A.] [Published May 11, 1915. CHAPTER 62. AN ACT to amend subsection 1 of section 1347n of the statutes, relating to dragging of earth roads. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subsection 1 of section 1347n of the statutes is amended to read: (Section 1347n) 1. The town board of any town is authorized to have earth roads dragged with the split log-drag, or other drag of similar nature at all seasons of the year whenever they may deem it beneficial to have such work done; and may contract, a preference to be given adjoin ing landowners or tenants, to have a given piece of road dragged ... and to pay such compensation therefor as the town board of such town or the town board of such town and the town board of an adjoining town, as the case may be, may deem just and equitable; provided, that the width required by the highway commissioners to be dragged shall not be less than twenty feet, if the width of the roadway will permit; provided, also, that the dragging is done as nearly as practicable in accordance with the instructions of the town board. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved May 6, 1915. No. 98, S.] [Published May 12, 1915. CHAPTER 63. AN ACT to amend subsections 2, 6, 7, 11 and 16, of section 1665, of the statutes, and to repeal subsection 3 of section 1665, of the statutes, relating to weights and measures. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subsections 2, 6, 7, 11 and 16, of section 1665, of the statutes, are amended to read: (Section 1665) 2. Sixty pounds for a bushel of wheat, peas, potatoes, clover seel, beans, alfalfa, or alsike; * rye (Section 1665) 6. 6. Fifty pounds for a bushel of corn meal, rape seed, millet seed, beets, green cucumbers, meal, carrots, buckwheat, hickory nuts, onions, or fine salt; (Section 1665) 7. Forty-eight pounds for a bushel of barley, peaches, pears, or Hungarian grass seed; (Section 1665) 11. Forty-four pounds for a bushel of hemp seed, parsnips, apples, or sea island cotton seed; (Section 1665) 16. Thirty-two pounds for a bushel of oats or onion sets; SECTION 2. Subsection 3 of section 1665, of the statutes, is hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved May 7, 1915. No. 141, S.] [Published May 12, 1915. CHAPTER 64. AN ACT to appropriate to C. H. Rawlinson a specified sum of money for unpaid salary and expenses as clerk of the special legislative committee on forestry. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is appropriated to C. H. Rawlinson, out of any money in the general fund of the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred twenty-nine dollars and seventy-nine cents, a balance remaining unpaid for salary and expenses for services rendered during the month of January, 1915, as clerk for the special legislative committee on forestry. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved May 7, 1915. No. 175, S.J [Published May 12, 1915. CHAPTER 65. AN ACT to amend subsection 1, subdivision (b) of subsection 4 and subdivision (c) of subsection 5 of section 11-5 of the statutes, relating to nomination papers. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subsection 1, subdivision (b) of subsection 4 and subdivision (c) of subsection 5 of section 11-5 of the statutes are amended to read: (Section 11--5) 1. The name of no candidate shall be printed upon an official ballot used at any September primary unless at least thirty days prior to such primary a nomination paper shall have been filed in his behalf as provided in this act, in substantially the following form: I, the undersigned, a qualified elector of (the .... precinct of the town of ....) or (the .... ward of the city who resides (at of ....), county of .... and state of Wisconsin, and a member of the.... party, hereby nominate No. .... on ... street, city of .) or (in the town of ....), in the county of as a candidate for the office of (here specify the office)...., to be voted for at the primary to be held on the first Tuesday in September, 19.., as representing the prin |