Tuesday of April, A. D. 1858; but if a majority of the legal votes cast at such election upon the question of division, be" against division," then the boundaries of Marquette county shall remain unchanged. SEC. 12. The votes cast at said election upon the Votes cast, question of division, shall be returned to the clerk of how returned the board of supervisors of Marquette county, within and canvassed. one week from the time of said election; on the Tuesday next succeeding the said election, the said clerk shall call to his assistance the county judge of said county, and the register of deeds of said county, or, in case of the absence or inability of those officers to attend, then any two justices of the peace of said county, who are hereby created and declared to be a county board of canvassers for the purpose of this act; and said board, when so organized, shall proceed to canvass and determine the result of said election, in the same manner as the county canvassers are by law required to canvass the votes cast for county officers, which said canvass shall be recorded by the said clerk in his office, and a certified copy thereof shall be immediately forwarded by the said clerk to the Secretary of State to be filed in his office. cial taxes, nor sale of lands SEC. 13. That this act shall not in any manner affect Not to affect the collection or return of general or special taxes in general or speany of the towns or wards in the county of Marquette; nor shall it effect the sale of lands for delinquent taxes for delinquent by the county treasurer of Marquette county, whether taxes. made before or after the second Tuesday of April, A. D. 1858, and any such sale by the county treasurer of said county shall be as valid for all purposes as if the said county were not divided, although the lands thus sold. for delinquent taxes may, at the time of sale, be situated in the county of Green Lake. SEC. 14. That portion of the town of Kingston and Incorporated Marquette, in Marquette county, which, by this act, is into a new made a part of Green Lake county, and the west tier of town--subjected to same sections of the town of Manchester, in said county, are liabilities as hereby incorporated into a new town under the name other new and title of Kingston, in the county of Green Lake, towns, &c. which town thus constituted shall have all the powers and be subject to all the liabilities as other towns of said county, and shall be entitled to one member in the county board of supervisors in said county of Green Lake, at their first meeting, in said county, on the third Tuesday of April, A. D. 1858. The first town meetnig of said town shall be held at the hotel in the village of Kingston, on the second Tuesday of April, A. D. 1858, at which election all the usual town officers shall be elected, and said election to be held, and conducted, and the votes canvassed as now provided by law for first elections in new towns. Repealed and SEC. 15. All acts or parts of acts contravening the proto be publish- visions of this act, are hereby repealed; and this act ed. shall be printed as soon as practicable, after its passage, in all of the papers published in the county of Marquette, and the costs of publishing the same shall be paid by the county of Marquette, according to the usual legal rates. SEC. 16. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 5th, 1858. Secretary of State authorized to pur chase Laws of Wisconsin concerning towns. Chapter 18. Published March 8th, 1858. AN AOT to provide for the publication and distribution of the Laws of The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby authorized and required to purchase of the compiler, as soon as the same may be ready for delivery, a sufficient number of copies of a work entitled "Laws of Wisconsin concerning the organization and government of towns, and the powers and duties of town officers and boards of supervisors, with numerous praetical forms; by Elijah M. Haines, counselor at law," to supply each organized town in this State with six copies thereof, at a cost at which the same shall be sold to individuals, not exceeding fifty cents a copy; Provided, Said work shall first be submitted to and approved by the Governor; and shall correspond to the provisions of the next revision of the statutes of the State of Wisconsin, and shall have full and proper mar ginal references to pages and sections of said statutes, and to the decisions of the supreme court made under them. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall distribute said To distribute books among the several counties of the State, allowing same. to each county a sufficient number to afford six copies to each town therein, in the manner now provided for the general distribution of the General Laws, and to be distributed among town officers, as the board of supervisors of each county may order. SEC. 3. The Secretary of State shall also, at the same To retain one time, purchase one thousand copies of said book to re- thousand copmain in his office for distribution among towns that may hereafter become organized. ies. be translated How distrib SEC. 4. The Governor of this State shall cause said Governor to laws of Wisconsin, concerning the organization and cause same to government of towns, to be translated into the German, and published Norwegian and Holland languages, and two thousand in Foreign lancopies of the same to be printed in the German lan- guages. guage, and one thousand copies of the same to be uted, printed in the Norwegian language, and six hundred copies of the same to be printed in the Holland language, of which copies the Superintendent of Public Property shall send in all cases, at a special request of some member of the legislature, from one to twenty copies, printed in the German language, to each member of the Senate; and from one to ten copies of the same to each member of the Assembly; and from one to ten copies, printed in the Norwegian language, to each member of the Senate; and from one to five copies. of the same to each member of the Assembly; said copies to be sent by express for distribution in the several towns of the State, and the balance of said copies shall be kept in his office for distribution among the towns that may hereafter become organized; Provided, Proviso, That said copies shall not cost more than fifty cents per copy, excluding those from the cost of translation, which shall in no case exceed twenty five dollars for translation in either language. SEC. 5. There is hereby appropriated out of any mo- Money approney in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum priated to pay of money, not exceeding fifty cents per volume and fifty for same. dollars for translation for the work above mentioned, when it shall have been delivered to the Secretary of State according to the provisions of this act. Tuesday of April, A. D. 1858. The first town meetnig of said town shall be held at the hotel in the village of Kingston, on the second Tuesday of April, A. D. 1858, at which election all the usual town officers shall be elected, and said election to be held, and conducted, and the votes canvassed as now provided by law for first elections in new towns. Repealed and SEC. 15. All acts or parts of acts contravening the proto be publish- visions of this act, are hereby repealed; and this act od. shall be printed as soon as practicable, after its passage, in all of the papers published in the county of Marquette, and the costs of publishing the same shall be paid by the county of Marquette, according to the usual legal rates. SEC. 16. That this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 5th, 1858. Secretary of State authorized to pur chase Laws of Wisconsin concerning towns. Chapter 18. Published March 8th, 1858. AN AOT to provide for the publication and distribution of the Laws of The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the Secretary of State be and he is hereby authorized and required to purchase of the compiler, as soon as the same may be ready for delivery, a sufficient number of copies of a work entitled "Laws of Wisconsin concerning the organization and government of towns, and the powers and duties of town officers and boards of supervisors, with numerous praetical forms; by Elijah M. Haines, counselor at law," to supply each organized town in this State with six copies thereof, at a cost at which the same shall be sold to individuals, not exceeding fifty cents a copy; Provided, Said work shall first be submitted to and approved by the Governor; and shall correspond to the provisions of the next revision of the statutes of the State of Wisconsin, and shall have full and proper mar erecting an Hospital for the Insane, and a House of Refuge, and to meet appropriations made, or to be made, for those purposes, a loan of fifty thousand dollars is hereby authorized and required to be made on the faith and credit of the State, in the form hereafter specified. SEC. 2. The Governor, as soon as practicable, after Bonds, how to the passage of this act, shall cause to be prepared, State be made,where bonds, with coupons attached, of the State of Wiscon- with what inpayable, and sin, for the sum of one thousand dollars each, to the terest. number of fifty, and shall execute the same as the Executive of the State, for and in behalf of the State, and cause the Great Seal of the State to be affixed thereto; said bonds to be made payable at the bank of North America, in the city of New York, five years from the first day of April, A. D. 1858, with interest at six per centum per annum; payable semi-annually at the said bank of North America, on the first day of April and October of each year, from the first day of April, 1858, to the first day of April, 1863. SEC. 3. The bonds and coupons, when so executed, Governor to shall be placed in the hands of the Governor, who shall advertise for immediately advertise in the State paper for twenty proposals, &c. days for proposals for the purchase of the same; and proposals shall be made under seal and on the day mentioned in the advertisement, said proposals shall be opened by the Governor and Secretary of State, and said bonds shall be awarded to the person or persons offering the highest rate therefor; Provided, It be not less than par, and to receive in payment for the same, coin or the old issue of bonds of this State maturing in 1858 at their par value as equivalent to coin. on bonds. SEC. 4. An annual tax of one-fifth of one mill on the Annual tax to dollar valuation, shall be, and is hereby levied upon pay interest the taxable property in the State for the years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, to be collected in addition to, and with the State tax levied annually, to provide for the current expenditures of the State, and a sufficient amount of the proceeds of the said tax is hereby appropriated annually to pay the said interest, to become due on the first days of April and October in the years 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861 and 1862. SEC. 5. A State tax shall be, and is hereby levied for In 1862 a tax the year 1862, which shall be collected in addition to to be levied to and with the other State taxes, for the same year, said pay principal taxes to be a sum of money sufficient to pay the amount of bonds, |