majority of the board present at any regular or special meeting of the chamber, when the same shall become void and of no effect. The rules and by-laws of said chamber at present in force may be continued in force until changed or others established under the provisions of this act; and the present officers of said chamber may continue to hold their offices until the expiration of the terms for which they were severally elected or appointed.

SECTION 3. The officers of said chamber of com- officers. merce shall consist of a president, two vice-presidents, a secretary and treasurer, and a board of directors, all of whom shall be elected by the members of the chamber. To elect a president, vice-president and secretary and treasurer, it shall require a majority of all the votes cast at any election for each of such officers respectively. For members of the board of directors, the nine (9) persons who shall have received respectively the highest number of votes cast for such office, shall be declared elected. Said corporation may also elect or appoint such other officers as may be provided for from time to time by the rules and by-laws.

SECTION 4. The said corporation is hereby author- Rules. ized to establish such rules and regulations for the management of its business and the mode in which it shall be transacted as it may seem proper.

SECTION 5. The time and manner of holding Elections. elections, and making appointment of such officers as

are not elective shall be established by the rules or by

laws of said corporation.

expulsion of

SECTION 6. The said corporation shall have power Admission and to admit and to suspend or expel members as it may members. see fit, in manner to be prescribed by the rules and by-laws.

ence and ap

SECTION 7. The said corporation may establish a May establish committee or board of reference or arbitration and a boards of referboard of appeals, to consist of five members each, to be peals. elected in the same manner as the board of directors, and to be governed in their proceedings by such rules and regulations as may be prescribed in the rules or by-laws; the province or objects of which boards shall be the settlement of such matters of difference as may be voluntarily submitted for arbitration by the members of the corporate body or by other persons not members thereof; the acting chairman of either of said

Of awards and judgments.

May elect directors.

Muy cite wit

nesses.

committees, when sitting as arbitrators, may adminis ter oaths to the parties and witnesses, and if any person, whether party or witness, shall swear or affirm falsely before said committee, he shall be deemed guilty of the crime of perjury, and punishable as such according to the laws of the state.

SECTION 8. When any submission shall have been made in writing, and an award made thereunder, such award shall have all the force and effect of an award at the common law. The parties thereto may, at their option, in the articles of submission, provide for the entry of judgment thereon. In case of the occurrence of difference between members of the chamber as to any matters of traffic usually transacted in the chamber, in case either party shall refuse to submit to arbitration before the committee of arbitrators, or in case, after submission or award, he shall neglect or refuse to perform the award, such neglect or refusal shall in either case be cause of suspension or expulsion, in the judgment of the board of directors.

SECTION 9. Said corporation shall elect, in the same manner and at the same time prescribed for the election of other officers, nine (9) directors, who, in addition to the performance of such other duties as may be assigned to them in the rules and by-laws, shall investigate complaints against members, and when sitting in such capacity shall have power to examine witnesses under oath, to be administered by the presiding member; and when, in their judgment any member has been proven guilty of conduct meriting suspension or expulsion, they shall report the same to the chamber for its action. The president, vice-presi dents and secretary shall be ex officio members of the board of directors, and together with the directors elected shall manage the business of the corporation. If any person shall depose, swear or affirm falsely as to any matters before said board, he shall be liable to the penalties of perjury herein before provided. Said board of directors, and the boards of arbitration and appeals, may each cite witnesses to appear before it; and in case any person residing in the city of Milwaukee shall, after reasonable citation and notice as to time, willfully neglect and refuse to appear and give evidence before either of said boards, he shall be liable in damages to the party aggrieved to the same extent

bonds.

and the same as if he had been guilty of like neglect and refusal to attend as a witness in a court of record. SECTION 10. It shall be lawful for said corpora- May require tion, when they shall think proper, to receive and require of and from their officers, whether elected or appointed, good and sufficient bonds for the faithful discharge of their duties and trusts, and the president or secretary is hereby authorized to administer such oaths of office as may be prescribed in the by-laws or rules of said corporation; said bonds shall be made payable and conditioned as prescribed by the rules or by-laws of said corporation, and may be sued and the moneys collected and held for the use of the party injured, or such other use as may be determined by said corporation.

inspector.

SECTION 11. Said corporation shall have power to "May appoint elect or appoint one or more persons, as it may see fit, to examine, measure, weigh, guage or inspect flour, grain, provisions, liquor, lumber or any other article of produce or traffic commonly dealt in by the members of said corporation, and the certificate of such person or inspector, as to the quality and quantity of any such article, or their brand or mark upon it, or upon any package containing such article, shall be evidence between buyer and seller of the quality, grade or quantity of the same, and shall be binding upon the members of said corporation or others interested, and requiring and assenting to the employment of such weighers, measurers, guagers or inspectors; nothing herein contained, however, shall compel the employment by any one of such appointee.

SECTION 12. All fines imposed by said corporation Fines. may be recoverable by action in any court having cognizance of the amount thereof.

corporation.

SECTION 13. Said corporation shall have no power Business of the or authority to transact any business save such as is usual in the management and action of boards of trade. and chambers of commerce; or as is provided for in the foregoing sections of this act. The property, real and personal, which the said corporation is at liberty to acquire and dispose of, shall be only such as is useful and necessary to carry out the objects of its creation. SECTION 14. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and that its objects cannot be attained under any general law.

SECTION 15. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 29, 1868.

CHAPTER 159.

[Published April 3, 1868.]

Amended.

AN ACT to amend chapter 199 of the private and local laws of 1859, entitled "an act to establish a municipal court in the city and county of Milwaukee."

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section twenty-five of chapter one hundred and ninety-nine of the private and local laws of 1859, entitled "an act to establish a municipal court in the city and county of Milwaukee," is hereby amended Salary of judge. so as to read as follows: "Section 25. The salary of the municipal judge shall not be less than two nor more than three thousand dollars per annum, to be fixed by the aldermen and common council at the commencement of his term of office, and shall be neither increased nor diminished during his official term, to be paid out of the city treasury. Provisions shall be made for the payment of the same quarterly. The salary of the clerk of the court shall be not less than eight hundred, nor more than two thousand dollars per annum, to be fixed and paid in the same manner, out of the city treasury, and which shall not be increased or diminished during his term of office.

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

Approved February 29, 1868.

CHAPTER 160.

AN ACT to incorporate the "Wisconsin seamen's friends society.”.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That J. A. Dutcher, J. B. Bradford, Corporators. J. B. Judson, H. R. Bond, Joshua Stark, T. T. Howard, D. A. Olin, U. Bachelor, W. S. Candee, G. B. Davidson and E. C. Kirtland and such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them shall be and are hereby incorporated a body politic, by the name of the Name and "Wisconsin seamen's friends society," and by that powers. name shall have perpetual succession and power and authority to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, and all the common law powers of a corporation necessary or convenient to the accomplishment of the objects of such corporation.

SECTION 2. The corporation hereby created may acquire by purchase, gift, devise, or otherwise, and may hold, transfer, mortgage and convey real estate and personal property, to be held and used for the purpose of furnishing aid and relief to sailors and the establishment of a sailors' home, with religious privileges, and all things appertaining thereto, and said property real and personal shall be exempt from taxation.

rectors.

SECTION 3. The affairs of the society shall be con- Board of diducted by a board of eleven directors, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, and their duties and manner of election, shall be prescribed by the by-laws of said society.

laws, etc.

SECTION 4. The said society shall have power to May make bymake from time to time such by-laws, rules and regulations as shall be judged expedient and proper, for the election of officers, prescribing the duties and functions of the same, for the appointing of the times and places of meetings, filling vacancies in office and for the proper management of the affairs of said society so as to best accomplish the general objects of the

same.

SECTION 5. This corporation shall always remain shall not be a benevolent and religious society, and no portion of changed. its property or funds shall ever be used for the benefit