668 this act, as legal registry lists under the provisions of this section. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1868. Drainage fund set apart. Commissioners How funds drawn. Compensation. CHAPTER 297. AN ACT to appropriate the drainage fund in the town of Caledonia, in Waupaca county, for highway purposes. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the drainage fund belonging to the town of Caledonia, in the county of Waupaca, and all of said fund that may be apportioned to said town for two years from the passage of this act, shall be set apart for and used in improving the road in said town, commencing at the foot of Ledge hill, and extending to the village of Fremont, in said county. SECTION 2. Delos Bradley and W. A. H. Garner are hereby appointed commissioners to take charge of and superintend said work, with the same powers and rights over said road that town supervisors and district overseers have in opening and improving roads in their respective towns and districts. SECTION 3. Said funds shall be drawn from the county treasury only upon an order signed by both commissioners. SECTION 4. Said commissioners shall be allowed and paid out of said fund two dollars per day for the time actually expended in said work, and shall at least once in each year make, under oath, to the clerk of said town, a statement of the amount expended and to whom paid. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1868. CHAPTER 298. [Published April 2, 1868.] AN ACT to authorize the supervisors of the town of Buchanan, The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate ditional high SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the supervisors of May assess adthe town of Buchanan, Outagamie county, at the time way taxes. provided for by law for the assessment of highway taxes, in addition to the poll tax as now provided for, to assess an amount in proportion as may be necessary, for each road district in said town, of not less than three or more than fifteen mills on the dollar, on the valuation of the real and personal property in each dis trict. SECTION 2. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1868. CHAPTER 299. [Published April 4, 1868.] AN ACT to provide for the expenditure of the proceeds of sales of certain swamp lands. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: sale set apart.] SECTION 1. For the purpose of draining the swamp Proceeds of lands in township number twenty-eight (28), range number twenty-seven (27) east, Door county, and for the purpose of building bridges and constructing roads and causeways through said swamp lands, the proceeds of sales of so much of said lands as may be necessary for said purpose, are hereby set apart and appropriated and shall be expended under the direction of three commissioners, appointed as hereinafter provided. Commissioners SECTION 2. James Gillespie, Josiah O. Curtis and to locate drains T. Reynolds, Jr., are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to appoint a competent engineer to locate and determine the depth and width of ditches to be cut on said land, and if deemed necessary, to drain said land properly, to direct the manner in which said creeks shall be widened and straightened. Said commissioners shall let the contract for the labor necessary to drain said land and for building such bridges, causeways and roads as are necessary in said swamps. SECTION 3. The proceeds from the sale of the land aforesaid shall be retained in the treasury of the county until the labor herein before provided for shall be com pleted, except that as the work progresses, the said money shall be paid out upon the bills of the persons employed to do the work contemplated by this act, which bills shall be certified by the commissioners appointed as herein before provided. Money to be retained in treaBury. Contracts let to SECTION 4. The contracts for the labor herein before lowest bidder. described, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, the said commissioners having first given notice of the letting of said contracts in the "Door County Advo cate," published at Sturgeon Bay. How balance disposed of. General lawS suspended. Not to apply. SECTION 5. If any balance of the proceeds of sales of said lands remain, after such labor has been performed and paid for, such balance shall remain in the county treasury, and become a part of the drainage fund, and be distributed as provided by chapter 537 of the general laws of 1865. SECTION 6. The provisions of chapter 537 of the general laws of 1865, so far as the same conflict with the provisions of this act, (be, and the same) are, for the purposes provided in this act, suspended. SECTION 7. The provisions of this act shall only apply to the town of Sevastipoll, in the county of Door. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1868. CHAPTER 300. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to amend chapter 68 of the private and local laws of the year 1860, entitled an act to incorporate the Milwaukee and Cedarburg plankroad company.' approved April 10th, 1867. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three (3), of the act to which Amended. this act is amendatory is hereby amended by striking out the words "November, A. D. 1867," in the third line of the printed act and insert in lieu thereof "October, A. D. 1868." SECTION 2. Section four (4) of said act is hereby amended by striking out the words "November, A. D. 1867," and insert in lieu thereof the words "October, A. D. 1868." structions. SECTION 3. The said Milwaukee and Cedarburg May remove obplank road company shall have power and it is hereby made their duty to cause all obstructions in said road to be removed, so that said road shall be four (4) rods wide as required by section one (1) of the act to which this act is amendatory, and for that purpose the centre of the present road bed shall be considered as the centre of the said four rods width, and all fences, telegraph. poles and other obstructions shall be removed two (2) rods from said centre: provided, that said company shall give pubshall give public notice that all owners and occupants lic notice. of the adjoining lands and lots shall remove their fences and other obstructions, until the first Monday of November next, by putting up said notices in five (5) of the most public places along said road, at least four months prior to the said first Monday of November, and also by giving written or printed notice to be served personally upon every owner or occupant of lands affected by the provisions of this act, if the same can be found on said lands; and said company shall have power to remove said fences, telegraph poles and other obstruc- moved at cost tions from said road at the proper cost and expense of of owners. the owners or occupants of said lands, and of the telegraph company or companies, after the first Monday of November, who have not complied with the requirements of this act; and provided, further, that said com Fences re Where tele graph poles pany may allow the telegraph company or companies to may be placed. put their poles in the ditches along said road or immediately outside of the same, so as not to interfere with the travel on said road; and provided, further, that said plank road company shall give a similar notice to all telegraph companies having their lines on said road, and that the leaving of a notice to that effect in the office or offices of said company, in Milwaukee or Port Washington, with the operator or operators of said telegraph company or companies shall be deemed a sufficient notice to said company or companies for all intents and pur poses. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1868. Corporators. Name.. Powers. CHAPTER 301. AN ACT To incorporate the Lamartine liberal institute. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Orlando Brown, Enoch Palmer, John R. Blackborn, C. F. Johnson, Samuel Wells, William R. Brown, V. E. Galloway, George Jackson, Andrew Smith, William Quirk, Harvey Morrill, Edwin A. Cook, and their associates, together with such persons as may hereafter be associated with them, are hereby created a body corporate and politic, with perpetual succession, under the name and style of the "Lamartine liberal institute." SECTION 2. Said corporation shall have power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended in all courts of law and equity. It shall have a common seal and may alter the same at pleasure. It shall have power to acquire, purchase, receive by gift, possess, hold and enjoy property, real and personal, and to mortgage, sell, rent or otherwise lawfully dispose of the same at pleasure. The said corporation |