How property to be devoted. by-laws made by the same, and shall also enter in such record the names of all persons that are now or shall at any time hereafter become members of said corporation. SECTION 7. The estate, property and funds of the said corporation shall be devoted to the general purposes and objects specified in the first section of this act. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1868. Amended. Rights conferred upon assignees. Penalties. Shall put up signs. CHAPTER 69. AN ACT to amend chapter 512, private and local laws of 1866, entitled an act to incorporate the Grant and Richland county bridge company." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section seven, chapter 512, private and local laws of 1866 is so amended as to extend the time for the completion of the bridge therein named to the first day of January, A. D. 1870. SECTION 2. Said chapter 512 is hereby so amended as to authorize and empower Jonathan B. Moore, sole assignee and owner of said bridge company stock, his heirs and assigns, to build and own said bridge; to have and enjoy all the rights, powers, privileges and franchises given to said bridge company in said chapter 512; to do in his own person any and all acts or business which said company or the board of directors elected by the stockholders of said company might have done under said chapter. SECTION 3. Any person who shall drive any horse or cattle, whether attached to a vehicle or not, faster than in a walk, or shall drive more than ten head in any one drove, upon said bridge, shall be guilty of trespass, and for each offence shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars to and for the use of the said bridge owner, to be recovered with costs as in other actions in tort in any court having competent jurisdiction: provided, it shall be the duty of the said bridge owner to put up proper signs at each end of the bridge, warning all persons not to so drive, and of the penalty therefor. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1868. CHAPTER 70. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT to legalize the official acts of L. M. Strong, late county judge of Iowa county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the official acts of L. M. Strong, Legalized. late county judge of Iowa county in this state, are hereby legalized and declared to be as valid and binding for all purposes whatsoever as they would have been had the said L. M. Strong at the proper time duly affixed his official signature thereto. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1868. CHAPTER 71. AN ACT to incorporate the "Milwaukee gymnasium" The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. William H. Rice, Robert Hill, C. B. Corporators. Thurston, Jas. Leedom, C. L. Blanchard, J. G. Towne, Jas. McAlister, W. J. Faulkner, Sam. Fallows, W. 0. Green, D. P. Hess, E. C. Hopkins, Wm. James, J. J. Lalor, A. F. Merrill, A. McKenzie, Geo. M. Tibbetts, L. A. Wheeler, H. C. Payne, Alex. 11 P. & L. LAWS. McD. Young, C. P. Jones, W. A. Nowell, A. H. Bradish, A. B. Meyers, E. H. Baldwin, C. J. Cary and such persons as may hereafter become associated with them, are hereby created a body corporate and politic Name and ob- by the name of "the Milwaukee gymnasium" for the purpose of cultivating the powers of the body by gymnastic exercises and providing generally for the culture and well being of the human system by physical recrea jects. Powers. May hold real estate. tion. SECTION 2. The said corporation shall have power to contract and to be contracted with, to sue and to be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, to answer and to be answered unto, to defend and to be defended, in all courts of law and equity in this state, and be vested with all the powers and privileges necessary to carry out and fulfill the objects for which it is created. SECTION 3. The corporation hereby created may acquire by purchase, gift, devise or otherwise, and hold, transfer and convey real and personal estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars; and shall also have borrow money. power to effectuate loans, borrow money for the use of the corporation and to execute, sign, and deliver deeds, mortgages or other instruments in writing, as the case may require. Make loans and Make constitution and bylaws. Officers. How chosen. SECTION 4. The said corporation shall have power to keep a common seal and to alter the same at pleas ure, to establish a constitution, by-laws and regulations not inconsistent with the constitution or laws of this state, for the government of said corporation and for the due and orderly conduct of its affairs and the management of its property. SECTION 5. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and a board of seven directors who shall be elected to their respective offices by such members of the said corporation as are constitutionally entitled to a vote, and in whom shall be vested the direction and management of the affairs and concerns of the said corporation, subject to the provisions contained in its constitution, by-laws and regulations. SECTION 6. The officers of said corporation shall be chosen by ballot on the third Friday of April in each year, and shall hold their offices until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The several officers of the association known as the Excelsior gymnasium of Milwaukee and which is composed of the persons SECTION 7. The estate, property and funds of the How property said corporation shall be devoted solely to the general devoted. purposes and objects specified in the first section of this act SECTION 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1868. CHAPTER 72. [Published February 24, 1868 J AN ACT to incorporate the Dodge county agricultural and mechan ical association. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Silas H. Coleman, L. F. Fribert, Joel Corporators. Rich, George Clapp, Leonard L. Sprout, James Waden and James Traverse, and their associates are hereby created a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, by the name and style of "the Dodge county Name and agricultural and mechanical association," and by that privileges. name they and their successors shall have all the privileges, franchises and immunities incident to a corporation, and may have a corporate seal and alter the same at pleasure, and by their said name shall be capable of purchasing, holding, conveying, mortgaging and otherwise disposing of any estate, real or personal, for the use of said corporation : provided, that the capital stock Powers and objects. Capital stock. Board of di rectors. of said corporation shall in no case be more than five thousand dollars. SECTION 2. The corporation hereby created shall have full power and authority to lease, purchase, or contract for the purchase of a tract or tracts of land in the county of Dodge, suitable for fairs, stock exhibitions, trials of speed and like occasions appertaining to the promotion and improvement of the agricultural, manufacturing and stock-growing interests of the said county, and to fence, lay out, erect buildings on and improve such land in a suitable manner, and to sell, convey, lease or dispose of said property at such prices and on such terms as may be conducive to the interests of the corporation. SECTION 3. The capital stock of said company shall be twelve hundred dollars, to be divided into shares of ten dollars each, but said company may by a vote of its directors from time to time increase such sum to an amount not exceeding five thousand dollars, such share to be subscribed and paid for in such installments as shall be prescribed by the by-laws and rules regulating the concerns of said company. SECTION 4. The property and concerns of said corporation shall be managed and conducted by a board of seven directors, and the persons named in the first section of this act shall be the first directors of said corporation and shall continue in office until the first day of January, 1869, or until their successors shall have been duly elected. Such election and all subsequent elections of directors shall be held at such place in the county of Dodge and at such time and in such manner as the by-laws shall prescribe, and the directors after the first of January, 1869, and other officers of said corporation shall hold their office for such In case of fail- length of time as said by-laws shall provide; but if it shall at any time happen that an election of directors shall not be made on any day when pursuant to this act or the said by-laws it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but said company may by its by-laws provide for a subsequent election and all vacancies occurring in the board of directors may be filled by the remaining members of the board and directors shall hold their office until their successors are chosen and have accepted their trust. At every election of directors ure to elect. Vacancies. |