Chap. 198 An Act to amend Section sixteen, Chapter one hundred and thirty-four, Title thirty, Term of impris onment. Chap. 199 Commissioners appointed. Proviso Part four, of the Revised Statutes. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate › and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section sixteen, of chapter one hundred and thirty-four, of title thirty, part four, of the Revised Statutes, is so amended that the imprisonment in the county jail shall be for the term of six months or less, at the discretion of the justice having cognizance of the same. SEC. 2. All actions contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.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 authorise the laying out of a State road therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate und Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. L. A. Reed, W. G. Cooper and Randal Johnson be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State road, from Depere to Kewaunee in Brown county: Provided, that no part of the expense of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 200 When pre-emptors may prove rights. An Act to provide for proving pre-emption rights, and to amend Section forty, of The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any person or persons who by any law of this State are entitled to pre-emption rights, to any of the school or university lands of this State, may at any time previous to the actual offering of such lands at public auction, prove their right to such pre-emption before the commissioners of school and university lands, at the capital of the State, in the same manner as is now provided by law. recorded. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State, on receiving any reports, p plats or maps made by any appraisers of school and university lands, shall employ competent draftsmen to record the same in the manner provided in section forty of chapter twenty-four of the Revised Statutes, the expense of which record shall be paid out of the income of the fund to which said reports, plats or maps may belong. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Ar Act to lay out a State road from the village of Madison in the county of Dane, to the quarter stake on section number thirty six, township number nine, north of Chap. 201 range number two east, in the county of Richland. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: appointed to lay SECTION 1. That Orrin B. Hazzletine of Dane county, Gar- "Commissioners wood Greene of Richland county and John T. Jones of Iowa out a road. county, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State road, beginning at Madison in the county of Dane, and running westerly by the head of Fourth Lake, thence to Black Earth Valley, (the north side of John W. Thomas' house, where the county road now runs from,) thence down said valley to Arena, thence westerly crossing the Wisconsin river, thence on the nearest and best ground to the east line of Richland county, at the quarter-stake on section number thirty-six, township number nine north, of range number two east. Direction of Road. visors to make SEC. 2. The commissioners appointed under the provisions County Superof this act, shall upon the performance of the work be entitled compensation. to such compensation for their services as the Supervisors of the counties where such services are performed shall deem just and proper: Provided, that no part of the expense of laying Proviso. out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 202 An Act to authorise the laying out of a State road therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate. and Assembly, do enact as follows: Commissioners SECTION 1. That R. Walsh, William Wightman and George appointed to lay Ramsey are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and es Direction there-tablish a State road from the village of West Bend in the county of Washington, to the village of Sheboygan Falls in the county of Sheboygan. Supervisors to make compensation, Proviso: Chap. 203 Dam-who to construct-and height. Channel of riv ed. SEC. 2. The commissioners shall be entitled to such compensation for their services from the counties through which the road passes, as the board of Supervisors shall deem just. Provided, that no part of the expenses of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury. 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 authorise Ebenezer Dakin to build a dam across White river. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Ebenezer Dakin, his heirs and assigns, shall have to build and construct a dam, to the height of power twelve feet, across the White river, in the county of Marquette, on or near section seventeen, town seventeen, range eleven, for hydraulic purposes, SEC. 2. That said Ebenezer Dakin shall be further empower-how improv ered, at his own cost to alter, enlarge and improve the channel of said river, from the point selected for the location of said dam, to its junction with Fox river, for the purpose of the free navigation of said White river. Chap. 204 FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 11th, 1851. An act to authorise the laying out of a State Road therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That William Bach of Manitowoc, Solomon appointed to lay Lombard of Greenbush, and William R. Longstreet are hereby Commissioners appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State Road out road-route from the village of Manitowoc, through the villages of Greenbush and Mayville, to Madison. may employ Sur SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall be allowed to employ such Commissioners surveyors and other assistants for the survey of said road, as veyors, &c. they may deem necessary. ( visors to pro tion. SEC. 3. Said commissioners, surveyors and other assistants County Supershall be entitled to such compensation for their services, from vide compensathe counties through which said road passes, as the Supervisors of said counties shall deem just and reasonable: Provided, Proviso. That no part of the expenses of laying out said road, shall be paid out of the State Treasury. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. A p Act authorising the State Treasurer to pay to the Town Superintendents of Com men 2chool in the (cunty of Jeferson, monies to which they are entitled by law. Chap. 205 The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: to pay to the or SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the State is hereby author-state Treasurer ised and required to pay over, upon the orders of the town der of Town SuSuperintendents of the several towns in the county of Jeffer perintendents. son, the amount of school money apportioned by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to each such town respectively such order to be countersigned by the Town Clerk of the proper town, and directed to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. SEC. 2. Such orders so drawn as above, shall first be State Superin(tendent to enpresented to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, dorse orders pri and shall be by him endorsed, indicating thereon the amount of or to payment. money apportioned to such towns, and such order so drawn and countersigned shall be sufficient vouchers for the payment of the amount of money called for thereby in the hands of the Treasurer in his settlement with the Treasurer of the county of Jefferson for such fund, so far as the same shall be paid upon such orders. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and Duration of ast. after its passage, and shall be and continue in force only so long as shall be necessary to close up account of school money in the hands of the Treasurer belonging to said county of Jefferson. clause. Explanatory SEC. 4. This act shall not be so construed as to authorise the Treasurer of State to withhold from the county Treasurer of the connty of Jefferson any portion of the school money remaining in the state treasury, upon demand of such county Treasurer exhibiting to the State Treasurer the satisfactory evidence that he is the legally authorised Treasurer of said county of Jefferson. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 206. Act to authorise the construction of a Dam across the outlet of Long Pond, in Fond du Lac County The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Dam-who to SECTION 1. Harrison C. Hobart and Patrick Donahue, construct-and their associates, successors, heirs and assigns, are hereby au height. thorised to build and maintain a dam to the height of five feet, across the outlet of Long Pond, in sections twenty-five and six, in township fourteen north, range nineteen east, in the county of Fond du Lac; also to erect mills or other machinery, or in any other manner make use of the water for hydraulic purposes. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved March 11th, 1851. Chap. 207. appointed. An Act to authorise the laying out of a State Road therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Commissioners SECTION 1. Q. H. Barron, John Langdon and Abraham Morton, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a state road from Washara in the county of Dodge, to Pardeeville in the county of Columbia: Provided, That no part of the expense of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State Treasury. Proviso. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Appoved, March 11th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. |