SEC. 2. This act shall be in force and take effect

from and after its passage.

Approved May 17th, 1858.

Chapter 144.

Published June 3d, 1858.

AN ACT to authorize the Governor to annul Patents in certain cases.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Whenever the Governor of this State is Governor may satisfied that he has erroneously or improperly signed revoke and annul patents. any patent for school or university lands or for swamp lands, and that wrong or injustice may be done or may have been done in consequence of the issuing of such patent, he shall be and hereby is authorized and empowered, upon the request of a majority of the commissioners of school and university, lands, to revoke and annul the same.

SEC. 2. Such patent may be revoked and annulled How revoked by the certificate of the Govornor that such patent and annulled, has been erroneously or improperly executed and issued.

SEC. 3. The certificate mentioned in section two of Certificate to this act shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of be filed and State, and a certified copy thereof recorded in the office recorded. of the Register of Deeds of the county in which the patented land lies, and whenever the same is so recorded the said patent shall be absolutely revoked and annulled, and shall be held to be void and of no effect in all courts and places.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved May 17th, 1858.

Misdemeanor

Chapter 145.

Published June 3d, 1858.

AN ACT to protect the people against corrupt and secret influences in matters of Legislation

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That no person shall, directly or indiunder this sec- rectly, offer or agree to give any money or other valuation-penalty. ble thing, or security for any money or other valuable

Misdemeanor -penalty,

thing, to any person for the service of such person, or of any other person, in aiding or advocating or procuring the passage or defeat of any measure before either house of the Legislature, to be paid or delivered on the contingency of the passage or the defeat of any measure before either house of the Legislature; and that no person shall agree to accept or receive, or shall accept or receive any money or other valuable thing for aiding or advocating or procuring the passage or defeat of any measure before either house of the Legislature of this State; and that every bargain, contract, or security for any such compensation on any such contingency, and all shifts and contrivances to cover or conceal such bargain, are hereby declared null and void; and the parties to any such bargain, contract, agreement or understanding, as well the party [to] pay as the party to receive the money or other valuable thing, or security therefor, on any such contingency as is above indicated, are hereby declared guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any circuit court of this State, shall suffer imprisonment in the common jail in the county where such person is convicted, or in some other county in the State, as the judge shall direct, for not less than four months nor more than one year, and be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. That no person having any interest in the passage or defeat of any measure before either house of the Legislature, and no agent or person acting for or representing any other person as agent or attorney

in law or in fact, for procuring, aiding, or advocating the passage or defeat of any measure before either house of the Legislature, or before any committee of either house, shall approach, converse with, or explain to, or in any manner attempt to influence any member of the Legislature relative to such measure, without first distinctly disclosing to such member whether he is interested personally in his own right or as agent for any other person in the passage or defeat of such measure; and any person who shall violate the provisions of this section, is hereby declared guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any circuit court of this State, be punished by imprisonment not less than one month nor more than one year, and by fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication: Approved May 17th, 1858.

Chapter 146.

Published June Ed, 1858.

AN ACT to appropriate to the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, a certain sum of money therein named.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Wis- $18,000 apconsin State Hospital for the Insane, the sum of eigh- propriated. teen thousand dollars, out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying on the buildings already under contract, in accordance with the plans and specifications adopted by the board of commissioners and filed in the office of Secretary of State.

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

Approved May 17th, 1858.

County board to levy a tax of $1,510.

In case the

vided.

Chapter 147.

Published June 5th, 1858.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain State taxes in the county of Dodge.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the county board of supervisors of the county of Dodge, at their next annual session, to levy the amount of fifteen hundred and ten dollars on the said county, in the same manner as other State taxes are levied, and is to be in addition to the regular amount of State tax apportioned to said county, and be collected and returned in the same manner as other State taxes are levied, collected and returned; which said amount of fifteen hundred and ten dollars is the sum equitably due from said county of Dodge to the State of Wisconsin, in consequence of the apportionment of the same to Jefferson county with the towns of Portland, Shields, Emmet, Lebanon, Ashippun, and the fifth and sixth wards of the city of Watertown, being included in said apportionment as part of Jefferson county, and which are now, by the revision of the statute, included in the county of Dodge.

SEC. 2. In case the county of Dodge is divided, county is di- taking of [off] said towns of Portland, Shields, Emmet, Lebanon, Ashippun and the fifth and sixth wards of the city of Watertown, then only the equitable proportion of said fifteen hundred and ten dollars shall be levied on the remaining part of the county, and be collected and returned to the treasurer of the State in the same manner as other State taxes are levied, collected and returned. If so divided, the county in which said towns and wards shall be after such division, shall levy and return the balance to the State Treasurer, and the town clerk, or proper clerk of the towns of Portland, Shields, Emmett, Lebanon, Ashippun, and the fifth and sixth wards of the city of Watertown, which have not levied the proper taxes apportioned to them by the county board of Dodge county at its last session, shall

immediately after the passage of this act, levy the said sums so apportioned to the said towns; and the said town treasurers of the said towns and wards which have not collected the taxes so levied by said county board, shall immediately proceed to collect and return the same, in the same manner, with the same power, and in the time after he shall receive the same as though it had been delivered to him at the time as provided for by chapter fifteen of the Revised Statutes.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 17th, 1858.

Chapter 148.

Published June 3d, 1858.

AN ACT to exempt sixty days' earnings to Mechanics and Laborers.

E The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That the earnings of all persons for sixty Sixty days' days next preceding the issuing of any process from earnings exany court of record or justice of the peace against them empted. shall be exempt from levy, seizure or sale upon such process; and the same shall not be liable to be garnisheed, or seizure by attachment, or levied upon by execution or sale on any final process issued from any court of this State.

Approved May 17th, 1858.