in the town of Green Bay, any law to the contrary notwithstand ing. Approved, January 13th, 1840. No. 38. AN ACT to amend an act of the Statutes of the Territory of Wisconsin en.itled "An act concerning costs and fees." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin, That sections six and nine of an act of the Statutes of the Territory of Wisconsin, entitled "An act concerning costs and fees" be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved, January 13th, 1840. Injunction by when to issue. No. 39. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to prescribe the mode of pros ceeding in chancery and for other purposes." SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Commissioner, Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin, That any Supreme Court Commissioner, of the degree of attorney and couns sellor at law, shall have power to grant writs of injunction, in vacation, under the same regulations and restrictions, as are now by law required, on application to the Judges of the District Court: provided that no injunction, issued by any Supreme Court Commissioner, shall have any effect out of the county in which it was issued, nor out of the county in which the commissioner, Issuing the same, shall reside. Where to have effect. When such writs returnable. SEC. 2. All writs of injunction, granted in vacation, shall be made returnable to the next term of the court to which the same is properly returnable, and the court shall proceed therein, according to the course of proceeding in courts of equity. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after the first day of February, A. D. 1840. Approved, January 18th, 1840. No. 40. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to amend an act to incorporate the Portage Canal Company." Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin. SECTION 1. That the Portage Canal Company are, hereby, granted an extension of one year for the completion of said Canal, from and after the time limited by an act entitled, an act to amend an act entitled an act to Incorporate the Portage Canal Company" approved June 20, 1838. Approved, January 13th, 1840. No. 41. AN ACT to authorize the county of Iowa to collect taxes due from the county of Dane for the year 1838. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin. of Dane certain SECTION 1. That the County Commissioners of Iowa county Iowa may claim shall, and are hereby authorized to make out a true and perfect taxes for 1838. transcript of the tax list of all the taxable property within the limits of the county of Dane, as at present organized, for the year 1838, certifying the amount collected and the amount yet due, and transmit the same to the County Commissioners of Dane county. County Commis SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the County Commissioners, Duty of Dane of Dane county, upon the receipt of said transcript, to cause the sioners. amount remaining due thereon, to be collected in the manner provided for collecting county revenues, and cause the same to be paid over to the county of Iowa; Provided the county of Iowa shall indemnify the county of Dane and all its officers from all liabilities they may incur in consequence thereof, should it here after appear that the said taxes were illegally assessed by the offi cers of the county of Iowa. SEC. 3. Should the County Commissioners of Dane county, in default thereof. Liability of Dane fail to comply with the requisitions of this act for the space of twelve months after receiving said tax roll, the county of Dane shall become responsible to the county of Iowa for the amount of County Gov ernment. No. 42. AN ACT to organize the county of Dodge, and for other purposes. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Council and House of For the purposes Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin, That, from and after the passage of this act the county of Dodge, for all purposes. of county government, shall be organized, but for judicial purposes shall be attached to the county of Jefferson, and the Trea, surer of the county of Dodge shall annually pay to the Treasurer of the county of Jefferson ten per centum of all the county taxes, levied in the county of Dodge, for the purpose of defraying their proportion of the expenses of holding the courts of the county of Jefferson. The first election of officers. SEC. 2. The first election of township and county officers shall be held on the first Monday of February next, at the places. where last elections were held, and the returns of said election shall be made to the clerk of the board of county commissioners of Jefferson county, who shall canvass the votes, and issue cer tificates of election to the several persons elected. SEC. 3. The first meeting of County Commissioners of the county of Dodge shall be held at the house of Hamilton Stevens on the first Monday of March next, when they shall decide, at what place, or places, their future meetings shall be held and also decide at what place or places, the several offices of said county shall be held, which shall be as valid in law, as if said offices were held at the seat of justice of said county, until the seat of justice shall be located and suitable buildings provided for the use of the county. SEC. 4. The County Commissioners are hereby prohibited from levying a tax upon the property or people of the said county for a greater sum than forty dollars, in any one year, for their services collectively and the services of their clerk included, and they shall not appropriate a greater sum than twenty-five dollars in any one year, for the purpose of laying out and estab lishing roads in said county, corded in Dodge. SEC. 5. The County Commissioners are authorized to pro- Copies ofrecer cure copies of all records, which they may think proper, from the County to be rerecords of Milwaukee county, and such copies, when recorded in the proper offices of the county of Dodge, shall be as good evidence, in all courts and places, as the original record, and a certified copy of said copies shall also be as good evidence as the original. tain expenses incurred by Mil SEC. 6. The board of County Commissioners of the county Liability of of Dodge are hereby required to include in their tax list for the Dodge for ceryear 1840, half the amount due Milwaukee county, and the re-ware only. maining half in the year 1841, for all liabilities incurred for expenses in laying out any Territorial roads, in said county of Dodge, while attached to the county of Milwaukee, and the said commissioners, when such amount is collected, shall pay the same over to the Treasurer of the county of Milwaukee. SEC. 7. The librarian of the Territory shall deliver, upon the Share of the order of the register of deeds of the county of Dodge, twenty- laws, maps, &c. five copies of all laws of the Territory, which have been or may hereafter be published, and also their share of other documents, maps, &c., for the purpose of being kept and distributed in the manner provided by law. ferson County SEC. 8. The proper officers of Jefferson county are hereby Officers of Jefcommanded to serve and execute any process issued by justices shall serve preof the peace of Dodge county, the same as if issued by justices cess, &c. of Jefferson county, and the county of Dodge, shall pay the county of Jefferson all expenses for the detention and inaintainance of persons committed for a charge of committing any offence, within the present boundaries of Dodge county. Approved, January 13, 1840. Discharge, how obtained. Insolvents peti. tion, to what of No. 43. AN ACT for the relief of Insolvent Debtors. Be e it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin. 1 SECTION 1, Every insolvent debtor may be discharge from his debts, as hereinafter provided, upon executing an assigment of all his property, real and personal, for the benefit of his creditors, and upon compliance with the several provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Such insolvent debtor shall petition a Judge of the ficer, schedule, Supreme Court, or Supreme Court Commissioner, praying to be discharged, in pursuance of the provisions of this act, and shall annex to, and deliver with his petition to the officer, to whom it shall be presented a schedule containing, Affidavit. 1st. A full and true account of all his creditors. 2d. The place of residence of each creditor, if known to such insolvent, and if not known the fact to be so stated. 3d. The sum owing to each creditor, and the nature of each demand, whether arising on written security, on account, or otherwise. 4th. The true cause and consideration of such indebtedness in each case, and the place where such indebtedness accrued. 5th. A statement of any existing judgment, mortgage, or collateral, or other security, for the payment of any such debt. 6th. A full and true inventory of all the estate, both real and personal, in law and equity of all choses in action, debts due and monies on hand, of such insolvent of the incumbrances existing thereon, and of all the books vouchers and securities. relating thereto. SEC. 3. An affidavit, in the following form shall be annexed to the said petition, account and inventory, and shall be sworn to, and subscribed by such insolvent, in the presence of the officer, to whom the same petition is addressed, who shall certify the same: "I do swear, (or affirm as the case may be) that the account of my creditors, and the inventory of my estate, which are annexed to my petition, and herewith delivered, are, in all respects, just and true, and that I have not, at any time, or in any manner, whatsoever, disposed of or made over any part of my estate for the future benefit of myself, or my family, or in order to defraud any of my creditors, and that I have, in no in |