Notice to own

delayed in the construction of their road by any such appeal, but may proceed immediately with such construction, on paying into the office of the clerk of said court the amount of monies awarded to the owner or owners of said lands, and filing a bond with said clerk to said owner or owners, binding said company to pay such further sum as may be finally awarded against said ers to be in wri- company. The notice to be given by the commissioners to the owners of lands required for the railroad shall be in writing, and delivered to said owner or owners, or left at their usual place of Notice-how to residence, if residents of this State, or if non-residents, then said notice to be given in a newspaper published in the county in which said land is situated, at least four weeks before making such appraisement.

ting

be given

Connection with other roads

borrow money

SEC. 5. Said company is authorised and empowered to connect its road with the road of any railroad company or companies in the state of Illinois, or to become part owner or lessee of any railroad in said state, and any railroad company in said state of Illinois duly organised under the laws of said state of Illinois may connect its road with the road of said company, and may in like manner, with the consent of said company, become part owner or lessee of the road of said company, or of any of its branches, or any portion thereof situated in this

state.

Company may SEC. 6. Said company is hereby authorised to borrow monand issue bonds ey to be expended in the construction and equipment of their therefor said road and its appendages, and to issue bonds for the pay

Franchise to vest for a part

ment thereof in the usual form, said bonds not to exceed in the aggregate at the period of the completion of said road three fourths of the whole amount actually expended in said road and its appendages as aforesaid. And may make and execute in the corporate name of said company, all necessary writings, notes, bonds, or other papers for any liabilities that it may incur in the construction or equipment of said road.

SEC. 7. The said company is hereby authorised and emcompleted powered to construct their said railroad and its branches in sections as fast as they may obtain the means for so doing, and the franchise of the portions so completed and put in operation, shall vest in said company the same as though the whole were completed.

Amendment by

erasure

Sections repeal

ed

SEC. 8. Section second of the act to incorporate said company under the name of the Madison and Beloit Railroad Company, approved August the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, is hereby amended by striking from said section the words "for each mile separately."

SEC. 9. Section eight, ten, eleven and thirteen of the act incorporating said company, entitled "an act to incorporate

the Madison and Beloit Railroad Company," approved August the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, are hereby repealed.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Appoved, March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the Port Washington, Hori- Chap. 190

icon and Beaver Dam Turnpike Company," approved March 11, 1848.

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

maintain a toll

SECTION 1. That so much of section fourteen of an act in- Company may corporating the Port Washington, Horicon and Beaver Dam gate at a certain Bridge. turnpike company, approved March eleventh, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, is hereby amended so that said company shall have power to erect and maintain a toll-gate at the bridge crossing the Milwaukee river, in the town of Saukville, county of Washington.

FREDERICK W. HORN.

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to confer certain powers upon organised School Districts, and for other pur

poses

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

Chap. 191

School Districts

in certain cases.

SECTION 1. It shall be competent for any legally organised may sue Town school district in this State to commence suit on the official bond Superintendent of the town Superintendent of common schools of the town in which such district is situated, for the recovery of any monies. lawfully due and belonging to such district, in all cases where such town Superintendent shall neglect or refuse for the space of ten days from the time by law fixed therefor, to apportion and pay over to the proper officer of such district the school monies aforesaid.

or Town Super

SEC. 2. It shall also be competent for such school district, School Districts or the town Superintendent of common schools, in case of default intendents may of the town Treasurer or county Treasurer to pay over to the county Treas town Superintendent of the town in which such district is situ-urers in certain

sue town or

cases.

Suits may be commenced in

sons to whom

Jated, the school monies which by law should be paid over to such Superintendent, to commence suit on the official bond of such town or county Treasurer for the recovery of such monies. SEC. 3. For the purposes of this act the said school district the name of per- or the said Superintendent shall have full power aud right to Bond was given commence such suit in the name of the persons or officers to whom any bond as aforesaid shall be given, and to control and prosecute such suits without hindrance from the nominal plaintiffs to such suits: Provided, that such district or Superintendent, as the case may be, shall be responsible for any costs. that may be finally adjudged against the plaintiffs.

Proviso:

Rule of Evidence and Ju

SEC. 4. In the prosecution of suits under this act, a copy risdiction. of the official bond sued upon, duly certified by the officer in whose custody such bond is placed by law, shall be deemed sufficient for all purposes of proof required in law in said suits. And any suit under this act in which the sum claimed to be justly due shall not exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, may be commenced and prosecuted before any Justice of the Peace, in the same manner as other cases.

Chap. 192

Street vacated.

Chap. 193

2

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to vacateja part of a street ia the Village of Omro.

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

SECTION 1. All that part of Division Street being north of Water Street in the western addition to the village of Omro in the county of Winnebago is hereby vacated.

SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

DUNCAN C. REED,

President pro tempore of the Senate.

Approved March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to authorise the laying out of certain State roads therein named.

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

SECTION 1. That A. B. Foster, Justus Showers and P. C.

Commisioners

Tremper be, and are hereby appointed Commissioners to lay to lay out road. out and establish a State road via Willow and Pine rivers, from the village of Eureka in Winnebago county, to Plover in the county of Portage.

may adopt parts

SEC. 2. Said Commissioners may adopt in the survey of Commissioners said road, such part or parts of any road now laid out or author- of other roads. ised to be laid out, as they may deem expedient.

sioners to lay

SEC. 3. The commissioners aforesaid shall also have power Same Commisto lay out a State road from said village of Eureka, to inter- out a certain sect the road now running from Strongsville to Pine river, at or near the head of the Cranberry Marsh so called.

other road.

visors shall de

pensation.

SEC. 4. The Commissioners named in this act shall receive County Supersuch compensation as shall be determined by the Supervisors of termine comthe counties through which the said roads may pass: Provided, That no part of the expense of laying out said roads shall be aid out of the State Treasury.

p

4

SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its pas

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to lay out and establish a State Road therein described.

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

Chap. 194

SECTION 1. That Alonzo Hawley, Archibald Nichols and George B. Worth are hereby authorised to lay out and establish a State road, from Waushara in Dodge county via Lak Maria to Kingston in Marquette county: Provided, That no Proviso. part of the expense of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

SAMUEL W.

to

Speaker of the Assembly.
BEALL,

Lt. Governor and Presi

of the Senate.

Approved, March 11th 1851.

JAn Act to incorporate the Rock River" Insurance Company, Chap. 195 The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows a foote bine only but SECTION. 1. That all such persons as shall become stock

porated.

Company incor holders in the capital stock hereinafter mentioned, their successors and assigns shall be and are hereby constituted and made a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Rock Office where to River Insurance Company: The office of said company shall be at (or in the immediate vicinity of) the village of Watertown in this State.

be held.

Capital stockhow divided.

Five per cent.

to be paid.

SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed three hundred thousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of fifty dollars each and there shall be paid into the treasury of said corporation by each subscriber to the capital at the time of subscription an instalment of five per cent. on the stock by him subscribed, the remainder to be paid or amply secured to If not paid, bal- be paid on real estate or other securities as the Commissioners hereinafter mentioned shall deem sufficient, and until two thouAmount to be sand shares of said stock is subscribed for and paid or secured to be paid as aforesaid, said company shall not commence business.

ance to be se

cured.

paid before

commencing business.

Directors to be

classes how di

SEC. 3. The stock, property, and affairs of said corporation appointed- shall be managed and conducted by fifteen directors, who shall vided, and when divide themselves into three classes. The term of the first to expire. class shall expire on the first Monday of February succeeding, their election or as soon thereafter as others are elected in their stead the term of the following classes shall expire successively on the first Monday of February in the following year or as soon thereafter as others are elected in their stead: The annuElection and al election for five directors shall be held on the first Monday of February in each year, at such time and place in Watertown as a majority of the directors shall appoint, of which notice Notice how to shall be given in some public newspaper published and circulating in the counties of Jefferson and Dodge at least ten days Election-how previous to said election: said election shall be under the di

term of office of

Directors.

be given.

held, &c.

Directorsto elect President

dent.

rection of three stockholders appointed by the directors, and directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the stockholders and their proxies, allowing one vote for every share

of stock.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the directors on organising and Vice Presi- the company, and annually thereafter, to choose out of their number a President, and they may also elect in the same manner, a Vice President, and the Vice President shall perform the duties of the President, in case of his death, absence, or inability to act.

Commissioners. appointed to re

tions meeting.

SEC. 5. Daniel Jones, Wm. M. Dennis, Peter V. Brown, ceive subscripJonathan A. Hadley and Hiram Barber, shall be commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock of said company, and when said stock shall be subscribed and paid or secured to be paid, as mentioned" in the second section of this act, the