CHAPTER 3. [Published January 25, 1867.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Elkhorn." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: sewers. SECTION 1. When one-third of all the resident Construction of owners of real estate or lots lying or bordering on any street or part thereof, in the village of Elkhorn, shall make application in writing, signed by such resident owners, requesting the supervisors of said village to cause a sewer to be constructed within and through the length of such street or part thereof, adjoining or contiguous to such real estate or lots of such owners, the supervisors shall have power to order the construction of such sewer, and to cause the same to be constructed; and they shall cause the expense incurred in the construction of such sewer to be assessed upon the real estate and lots lying and bordering upon that portion of such street through which such sewer shall have been constructed, and such expense shall be apportioned to the several such parcels of real estate and lots in such manner as said supervisors shall deem equitable, with due regard to benefits conferred by such sewer upon such real estate and lots; and the amount so apportioned shall be inserted in the assessment roll of said village next thereafter issued, and the same shall be collected in the same manner as the taxes embraced in such assessment roll. er" defined. SECTION 2. The term "resident owners," as used in "Resident own this act, and as used in the act entitled "an act to amend an act to incorporate the village of Elkhorn," approved March 31st, 1858, shall be construed to mean and to include such owners of real estate or lots upon such street or part thereof as at the time of such application under said act, respectively, are residents of said village of Elkhorn, and none other. of money. SECTION 3. The qualified electors of said village Appropriation shall have power at any legal meeting of such electors, whether annual or special, to appropriate any money belonging to any fund of said village, or any money Special meet. ings. before that time raised or ordered to be raised for any specific purpose, whether such money shall then have been collected or shall be in process of collection, or shall have been ordered to be collected, for any other purpose which such meeting may deem advisable; and any such appropriation heretofore made or which shall be hereafter made by such electors at any meeting heretofore or hereafter called for that purpose, shall be deemed legal. SECTION 4. Special meetings of the qualified electors of said village, may be called and held in the same manner as town meetings in the several towns in this state are now or may hereafter be authorized by law to be called and held. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 25, 1867. CHAPTER 4. [Published January 26, 1867.] Preamble. AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Green Lake county to provide temporarily places for holding courts and county offices in said county. WHEREAS, The legislature of the state of Wisconsin did, at the last annual session thereof, pass an act entitled "an att to authorize the voters of Green Lake county to vote for the removal of the county seat from Dartford, in said county, to Princeton," which act was approved March 21, A. D. 1866, and published March 23d, A. D. 1866; AND WHEREAS, A vote was taken in the several towns, villages and cities of said county, at the election held therein on the first Tuesday of April, A. D. 1866, upon the subject of such removal, pursuant to the provisions of said act; AND WHEREAS, According to the returns made by the inspectors of election of the several towns, villages and cities in said county, of the votes cast upon that subject, it appears that there was a majority of one hundred and five votes cast in favor of such removal; AND WHEREAS, A majority of the board of county canvassers appointed by the provisions of said act, in canvassing the votes cast in said county at said election upon the subject of such removal, rejected from their count and canvass all the votes cast upon that question in the city of Berlin, in the towns of Kingston, St. Marie, Seneca and Princeton, and in the villages of Markesan and Princeton, in said county, and certified that a majority of all the votes cast at said election upon that subject was against such removal, on the ground of alleged informalities in such returns; AND WHEREAS, Legal proceedings have been com. menced to determine the result of said election; AND WHEREAS, A part of the county officers are holding their offices at Princeton and a part at Dartford: now, therefore, The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Board of super offices and court-rooms. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the board of super- visors to provisors of Green Lake county to provide suitable offices vide county and rooms for the county officers of said county, and court rooms for the holding of courts of said county, either at Princeton or Dartford, in said county of Green Lake, as said board shall decide; and the register of deeds, clerk of the court, clerk of the board of supervisors, sheriff, district attorney, county judge and county treasurer of the county of Green Lake, shall hold their offices and transact official business at the respective places so provided by said county board, until it shall be judicially determined where the county seat of said county is legally established. may be held, &c. SECTION 2. It shall be lawful for the county and Where courts circuit courts of said county to be held at the place, either in Princeton or Dartford, so provided by said county board, until it shall be judicially determined where said county seat is legally established; and all proceedings, orders, judgments and decrees taken, made or rendered by either of said courts, and all official acts of any of said county officers, shall be as legal, valid and binding, to all intents and purpose, as if done at the county seat of said county. SECTION 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved January 25, 1867. Legalized. CHAPTER 5. [Published February 27, 1867.] AN ACT to legalize the acts of Samuel Hutchinson, as a justice of the peace of the town of Hampden, Columbia county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the official acts performed by Samuel Hutchinson, as a justice of the peace, in the town. of Hampden, Columbia county, prior to the passage of this act, so far as the same are consistent with the general laws of this state, are hereby legalized, and declared as valid as though the said Samuel Hutchinson had caused his official bond and oath to be filed in conformity with the statutes of this state. SECTION 2. its passage. This act shall take effect from and after Approved January 29, 1867. Extended to CHAPTER 6. [Published February 27, 1867.] AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the town of Little Wolf, Waupaca county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in the town of Little Wolf, Waupaca county, is hereby extended to the last Monday in March next, and the treasurer of said town shall have the same authority PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS. CHAPTER 1. [Published January 11, 1867.] AN ACT to declare the true intent and meaning of sections eleven The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tion 11. SECTION 1. It shall be taken to be, and was and is Meaning of secthe true intent and meaning of section 11 of chapter 161 of the private and local laws of (A. D.) 1858, that the marshal of said village of Delavan should execute all writs and processes to him directed by the president, or president and trustees, of said village of Delavan, including processes, summonses, notices, or orders to summon the freeholders, mentioned and provided for in section 28 of said chapter 161 afore. said, and in section two of chapter 144 of the private and local [general] laws of (A. D.) 1861, amending said section 28 of said chapter 161 aforesaid. tion 28. SECTION 2. It shall be taken to be, and was and is Meaning of secthe true intent and meaning of section 28 of chapter 161 of said private and local laws of (4. D.) 1858 aforesaid, and of section two of chapter 144 of the private and local [general] laws of (A. D.) 1861, that |