be so much per volume, of one thousand pages, and so much for each additional hundred pages. SEC. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication, and the State Printer is hereby required to publish it immediately after its passage. Approved May 17th, 1858. Senate to con firm. Chapter 155. Published June 1st, 1858. AN ACT providing for the appointment of a Comptroller and prescribing his duties. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Comptroller-SECTION 1. The office of Comptroller is hereby creaGovernor to ted. The Governor shall nominate, and by and with nominate and the consent of the Senate, appoint some suitable person Comptroller, who shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor is appointed and qualified, unless sooner removed by the Governor. Whenever a vacancy shall occur it shall be filled by the Governor; Provided, That the first Comptroller, under this act, shall have power to act, though appointed by the Governor, after the adjournment of the present session of the Legislature; but the appointment thus made, shall be confirmed by the Senate during the next succeeding session of the Legislature. Proviso. Duty. SEC. 2. The Comptroller shall examine and pass upon all claims and accounts audited by the Secretary of State, and if he shall find the same properly verified, or proved and authorized by law to be audited, he shall certify that fact upon such claim or account. Secretary of SEC. 3. All claims and accounts against the State, State to audit authorized by law to be audited, shall be audited by accounts, &c. the Secretay of State, as required by law. The order of the Secretary State, auditing any claim or account, shall be endorsed on or annexed to such claim or account, and shall state particularly the acts or parts of acts which authorizes such claim, and confers the power to audit the same, and together with such claim and all evidence relating thoreto, shall be delivered to the Comptroller for his examination, and shall thereafter remain on file in his office. SEC. 4. When any item or items of any class shall Disallowed. be disallowed by the Secretary of State, in auditing the same, he shall write "Disallowed" upon or opposite such item. SEC. 5. The Comptroller shall countersign all war- To counterrants drawn by the Secretary of State upon the State sign warrants. Treasurer, which shall be authorized by law, and no warrant shall be paid by the State Treasurer unless the same shall be countersigned by the Comptroller, and the act or parts of act authorizing the payment of such warrant be particularly stated in such warrant. SEC. 6. The Comptroller shall keep a true and per- To keep acfect account of all warrants countersigned, particularly count. stating the amount of each warrant, the person in whose favor, and the sum for which the same was drawn. State and trea SEC. 7. The Comptroller shall keep an account be- To keep actween the State and the State Treasurer, and shall count between charge the Treasurer with the amount in the Treasury surer, &c. when he came into office, and all moneys received by him, and credit him with all warrants drawn on, and paid by him, and the Secretary of State and State Treasurer, shall, on or before the fifth day of each month, make and deliver to the Comptroller, a full and complete statement or balance sheet, showing the aggregate amount of receipts into the Treasury during the preceding month, and the amount remaining therein on the last day of such preceding month, and the aggregate amount of payment, stating particularly the receipts and disbursement of each particular fund, which monthly statement shall be entered by the Comptroller in books kept for that purpose. SEC. 8. The Comptroller shall receive an annual sal- Salary. ary or compensation of two thousand dollars, to be paid in equal quarterly installments upon the warrant of the Secretary of State, and a sum sufficient to pay such compensation is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. The Secretary of State of the State of Wisconsin, does hereby certify, that the laws published in this book, have been compared with the original enrolled acts deposited in this office, and that they appear to be correctly printed. [L. s] In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Great Seal of said State, at the Capitol, in Madison, this 19th day of June, 1858. D. W. JONES, JOINT RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN-SESSION OF 1858. Number 1. JOINT RESOLUTION Concerning the admission of Minnesota into the Union. of Minnesota WHEREAS, The people of the Territory of Minnesota Concerning were authorized by an act of Congress to form a Con- the admission stitution and State Government, preparatory to admis- into the Union sion into the Union as one of the United States of America; and WHEREAS, In conformity with the provisions of said act, a Constitution has been formed and ratified by the people of said Territory, and Senators and Representatives have been elected to represent said State in the Congress of the United States, who have been hitherto unreasonably denied admission to, and participation in, the deliberations of Congress; therefore Resolved, by the Senate and Assembly of the State of Wisconsin, That duty demands and justice requires, that Minnesota should immediately be admitted into the Union, as one of the United States of America. That the question of such admission ought not to be Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing preamble and Relating to Number 2. JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 34, relating to the location of the N. E. Land JOINT RESOLUTION requesting the passage of a resolution by Congress, relative to the route of the Railroad from Fond du Lac to Lake Superior. Resolved, by the Senate the Assembly concurring, the location of That the Congress of the United States be, and hereby the N.E. Land is requested to pass a joint resolution authorizing such a construction of the act entitled "An Act granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of Railroads in said State," approved June 3d, 1856, that the location of the line of Railroad from Fond du Lac to the northern boundary of this State may be made from Oshkosh northerly upon the most eligible route within the district of country embraced in ranges sixteen to twenty-three, inclusive, east of the fourth principal meridian, and that said route may be continued from its terminus on the said boundary line to Marquette and to Ontonagon in the State of Michigan. Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing resolution be forwarded to each of the Senators and Representatives from this State in Congress, to be presented to the respective branches of that honorable body. Approved March 29th, 1858.. |