An Act to incorporate the Badger Mining Company.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. Azel P. Ladd, Caleb Potwine and L. P. Body corpoWigler, and their associates, successors and assigns, are rate. hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Badger Mining company, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and answer and be answered unto, in all courts of law and equity; may have a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and may enjoy all privileges incident to a corporation for the purpose of mining, smelting, or manufacturing lead or other metal, and ores thereof, in the state of Wisconsin.

SEC. 2. Said corporation shall have power to purchase, Can hold real hold and convey real estate; Provided, that the costs of estate. the real estate held by said company at any one time, shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars.

SEC. 3. The first meeting of said corporators may be First meeting, called by the persons named in this act, or by a majority of them, at such time and place as they shall designate; and at such meeting, and all other meetings duly notified, such corporation may make and alter such by-law, rules and regulation for the management of the business of said corporation as a majority may direct, not repugnant to the laws of this state nor of the United States.

SEC. 4. Said corporation may divide their stock into as Stock. many shares, and provide for the sale and transfer thereof, in such manner as said corporation shall from time to time deem expedient.

SEC. 5. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and the same shall be construed favorably in all courts and places whatever; and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 11, 1854.

An Act to change the name of Christina Barbara Zeijher, to that of Christina Chap. 39.

Barbara Bauer,

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in

Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That the lawful name of Christina Barbara By what name Zeijher, a daughter of John George Zeijher and Christina to be known. Raisser, born on the 19th day of July, 1848, shall here

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after be Christina Barbara Bauer, by which name she shall be known to all legal intents and purposes.

By whom to SEC. 2. The said Christina Barbara Bauer shall be the be maintained. child and heir at law of Joseph Bauer and Augusta Bauer, his wife; and it shall be the duty of said Joseph Bauer and Augusta, his wife, to maintain, provide for, and educate the said Christina Barbara Bauer in the same manner as if she was their natural child; Provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall preclude the court of chancery, or any other court of competent jurisdiction, from taking unto their custody the said Christina Barbara Bauer as a ward of said court, and from the disposing of her in such manner as shall seem meet to them, nor shall anything in this act contained prevent the natural father of Christina Barbara Bauer from having the custody and care of her, in case such court or courts may deem it for the best interest of said Christina Barbara Bauer, that her natural father should have the care of maintaining and educating her.

Act when to take effect.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage; Provided, that this act shall have no force until the said Joseph Bauer shall assent thereto by an instrument in writing, to be by him subscribed and acknowledged and recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the' said Bauer resides.

Approved, February 11, 1854.

Chap. 40. An Act to authorize the Towns therein named to subscribe for Plank Road

Supervisors may subscribe stock.

Stock.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of the towns of Grand Chute, Greenville, Hortonia, Mukwa, Centreville, Waupacca, Scandinavia, Plover and Stevens' Point, or any of said towns, are hereby authorized under the restrictions and conditions hereinafter mentioned, to subscribe in behalf of said towns, or of any of them, to the capital stock of the Wolf River branch of the Winnebago Lake and Fox River plank road company, such amounts not exceeding ten thousand dollars for any one town, as may be declared by the board of directors of said company necessary for the completion of said road at the time of such subscription, and to pay for the same in bonds of the town or towns so subscribing, payable in fifteen years from the

date thereof, with interest, at a rate not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, payable annually, at such place within or without the boundaries of this state as shall be therein named.

SEC. 2. The board of supervisors of any town so sub- May levy tax. scribing, and in which such bonds shall be issued, shall annually levy a tax upon the taxable property of such town sufficient to pay the interests upon such bonds, together with the expenses of collecting and paying over the same, after deducting any dividends that may be due to said towns upon said shares of stock so subscribed for by them, and the treasurer of every such town shall collect the said tax, and apply the proceeds thereof to the payment of the interest due on the bonds so issued by said town.

towns.

SEC. 3. The shares of stock in said company that shall Stock may be be issued to any town so subscribing, and all dividends issued to arising therefrom, shall be by the terms of said bonds irrevocably pledged for the payment of principal and interest upon said bonds. Provided, that the board of super- Proviso. visors of any town so subscribing may sell such shares of stock, and apply the proceeds to the payment of interest and principal on the bonds so issued by said town.

SEC. 4. When the principal sum named in such bonds shall become due, the boards of supervisors of each town so having issued them, shall levy a tax upon the taxable property of such town sufficient for the payment of such principal sum, with the expenses of collecting and paying over the same, and such tax shall be collected and paid over in the same manner as the tax mentioned in section second of this act.

SEC. 5. The board of supervisors of each town so sub- How to be scribing shall annually appoint one road stock commis- paid. sioner for such town, who shall reside in such town, and shall attend all the annual or special meetings of the stockholders of said company, and shall be entitled to cast one vote for every share of stock which such town may hold in said company; and in case of the absence or inability to attend of any such commissioner, he may appoint in writing under his hand, some other person who shall have the same power.

SEC. 6. No bonds shall be issued by any town in pur- When bonds suance of this act, unless a majority of the votes cast in may be issued. said town at the election hereinafter mentioned shall be in

favor of the same.

SEC. 7. A special election shall be called and held in

Elections.

each of the towns before named, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect within six months after the passage of this act. At such election those voting in favor of the subscription of stock, and the issuing of bonds in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall put in ballots having inscribed on them the words "For the Road ;" and those voting against such subscription and issue of such bonds, shall put in ballots inscribed with the words "Against the Road ;" notice of such election shall be given for two weeks successively next preceding said election, in some newspaper printed in the county where the town so voting is situated, and such elections, and the canvass thereof, shall be held at the same place, and conducted by the same persons, and in the same manner in all respects as the annual town meetings of each town.

SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved, February 10, 1854.

Chap. 41. An Act for the relief of the Towns of Potosi and Clifton, in Grant County.

State treasurer to credit.

Ditto.

County treasurer to repay.

The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The state treasurer is hereby authorized to credit the treasurer of the county of Grant with the sum of one hundred and seventy six dollars sixty four cents and six mills, being the amount of state tax for the year 1853, overpaid by the town of Potosi, in said county.

SEC. 2. The state treasurer is also authorized to credit the said treasurer of Grant county, with a further sum of fifty three dollars seventy six cents, being the amount of state tax for the year 1853, overpaid by the town of Clifton, in said county.

SEC. 3. The treasurer of the said county of Grant is hereby required and authorized to repay to the treasurers of the said towns of Potosi and Clifton in said Grant county, the amounts overpaid by them.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, February 11, 1854.

An Act to authorize the County of Kenosha and the Towns therein, through Chap. 42. which the Kenosha and Beloit Railroad passes, to aid in its construction.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the county of Kenosha, County, city or or any town, incorporated city or village in said county, subscribe for village may through which the Kenosha and Beloit railroad shall run, stock. to issue and deliver to said railroad company its bonds payable to such person or persons, trustees or corporations, or to said company, at such time, for such sum or sums, at such rate of interest, transferable by general or special endorsement or by delivery, and in such manner as may be agreed upon by and between the directers of said railroad company and said county, town incorporated, city or village, as hereinafter provided; and to receive in exchange for such bonds the stock or bonds of said railroad company, in such manner as shall be agreed upon by and between the directors of said railroad company and such county, town, incorporated city or village as hereinafter provided, but no such bonds shall be issued or delivered to said company by the said county of Kenosha, or any town, incorporated city or village therein, unless a majority of the legal voters of said county town, incorporated city, or village, voting on the question shall first have voted in favor of such issue in manner hereinafter prescribed.

SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for the Kenosha and Beloit May issue bonds. railroad company to issue its bonds to the treasurer of said Kenosha county, or to the treasurer of any town, incorporated city or village therein, or to any trustee therein named, or as shall be agreed upon, in sums of one thousand dollars each, which shall not exceed in the aggregate eight thousand dollars per mile of the whole surveyed line of the said railroad, and bearing an interest not exceeding the rate of seven per cent per annum, payable at such place and at such time not exceeding twenty years from their date, as said company shall elect, with a provision making them transferrable by general or special endorsement or delivery, and all such bonds which shall be delivered to said county town, incorporated city or village, in exchange as aforesaid, shall contain a stipulation guaranteeing the payment of the principal and interest which shall become due and payable on the bonds of said county town, incorporated city or village, received in exchange therefor by said company, and to secure the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon, it shall also be lawful