CHAPTER 52. contracts and agreements, with any person Stock. Powers of corporations. Right of way. or persons, copartnership or body politic, whatever, as the execution and management of the works or the convenience and interest of the company require. 5. The stock of said corporation shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable on the books of said corporation, in such manner as may be prescribed by the by-laws of said corporation and shall be assignable at the pleasure of the holder. § 6. The said corporation are hereby authorized to erect, dig or construct any race, canal or water course through any lands owned by them, or which they may hereafter acquire in sections fourteen, (14) fifteen, (15) twenty-three, (23) twenty-four, (24) and twenty-five (25) in township No. two (2) north of range No. nine, (9) east, in the county of Green for the purpose of leading the water of Sugar River into the village of Brodhead, to be used for hydraulic purposes, and to erect or ope rate on any such lands, such Mills and machinery and hydraulic buildings as may be necessary for the employment of such water, and they shall have power to lase, sell and convey any portion of such water, eiher separately or in connection with such real estate owned by said company, as they may deem advisable and necessary for the interest of said corporation. 87. Whenever the said hydraulic company shall desire to obtain any lands, or the right of way across the same, for said canal or race, or for purpose of flowing, or for other hydraulic purposes consistent with this charter, and shall be unable to agree with the owner or owners of the same, upon the compensation to be paid therefor; in such case it shall be lawful for the said hydraulic company to select one arbitrator, the said owner or owners of said land shall have the right also to select one arbirator, and the two arbitrators selected as aforesaid, shall select a third person to act as arbitrator. It shall be the duty of the three arbitrators selected as aforesaid, to examine the land or lands proproposed to be taken or used by said company, and appraise the damage thereto, and determine the amount of compensation which shall be paid by said company to the claimant. Their award shall be in writing and a copy thereof shall be delivered to said company and to said claimant, and shall be final and conclusive, and the amount theseof being paid or tendered to said claimant, said company shall have the right to enter CHAPTER 52 upon and use and possess the same, so long as said land shall be used for purposes consistent with this charter. Said arbitrators shall give to the said company and to the claimant, five days notice of the time and place of meeting to examine said lands and asssess damages. 8. The Directors of said company may choose Officers, &c. such offices as the by-laws of the corporation shall prescribe. They may also call in the subscriptions of the capital stock of the comppny by installments in such proportion and at such times and places as they shall think proper, by giving such notice as the by-laws shall prescribe; may provide by order to be entered on the books of the company for the sale and forfeiture of delinquent stock and may fill any vacancy which may happen in their board, for the current year. A majority of the Directors shall constitute a quorm for the transaction of business. § 9. If it shall so happen that an election of Direct- Failure to elect ors shall not take place at the annual meeting of said company in any year, the company shall not thereby be dissolved, but an election may be held at any time within one year, and the by-laws of said company shall contain ample provisions for the calling of meetings in case of failure to hold the regular annual meetings. § 10. The books of the company shall at all reas- Books, &c. onable times, be open for the inspection of the stockholders, and at each annual meeting, the directors shall make a full statement of the accounts and affairs of the company, and such statement shall also be made at any other regularly called meeting, when required by the stockholders. 11. In the opinion of the Legislature the objects of the said company cannet be attained under general laws. § 12. This act is declared a public act and shall be Public act. favorably construed in all courts, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, Approved February 26, 1850. CHAPTERS 58, 54. Election of Official acts declared valid. CHAPTER 53. AN ACT for the relief of the First Presbyterian Church of Palmyra, in the county of Jefferson. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the members and congregation of the First Presbyterian church of Palmyra, in the county of Jefferson to elect trustees of said church and society at any time within thirty days after the passage of this act in compliance with the provisions of chapter sixty six of the revised statutes, entitled "Of Religious Societies," Provided, That the provisions of sections four and five of said chapter sixty-six, in relation to the certificate of the names of the persons elected as trustees, and of the name by which said church and society shall be known, shall not apply to the election of said trustees, but the said church and society shall be fully organized as a corporation according to the meaning and intent of the law, the same as If the provisions of the said sections four and five had been com. plied with. 2. The official acts of those persons now known as trustees of said Presbyterian church and society are hereby declared legal and valid the same as if the said persons had been elected according to law. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28th, 1859. Amendment. CHAPTER 54. AN ACT to amend chapter 252 of ihe Local Laws of 1858, entitled "An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of La Crosse, Approved March 14, 1856. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Said chapter 252 of the local laws of 1858, entitled "an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of La Crosse," approved March 14, 1856, is hereby amended as follows: In all cases where the city treasurer may have omitted to adver tise and sell lands for taxes as required by law, he is CHAPTER 55. hereby authorized to sell the same at any future regular sale of lands after giving due notice according to law. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 1, 1859. CHAPTER 55. AN ACT to change the name of the South Presbyterian Society, connected with the South Presbyterian Church of the city of Milwaukee, to third Congregational Society of the city of Milwaukee. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name and style of the south Presby- Name changed. terian society, connected with the south Presbyterian church of the city of Milwaukee, is hereby changed to the Third Congregational Society of the city of Milwaukee, and shall, from and hereafter, be known by that name and style, and they are hereby declared a body politic and corporate with perpetual succession by that name and style, shall be competent to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to answer and be answered unto, in all courts of law and equity, to acquire, hold, possess and enjoy property both real and personal: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall authorize the corporation to deal in any property, except for purposes connected with the erection, completion, purchase, or repairing, of a house of public wor ship or parsonage, or for purposes connected therewith. 2. That said society shall have power to form a By-laws, &c. constitution and enact by-laws for its government, to prescribe the number and title of its officers and to define their powers and duties, and such other powers as are necessary for governing and promoting the welfare and interests of said society; and said society may adopt a common seal and alter the same at pleasure, and it is hereby declared that in the judgment of the legislature of this state, the objects of the corporation named in this act cannot be attained under or by general laws. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 1, 1859. CHAPTER 56. CHAPTER 56. Time extended taxes. AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in Winnebago 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 for collection of the several towns, cities, wards and villages in the county of Winnebago, due for the year 1859, is hereby extended until the third Wednesday of June next, until which time the treasurers in said towns, cities, wards and villages, by virtue of their warrant for the collec tion of taxes, shall have the same power and authority to receive and enforce the payment of taxes in their respective towns, cities, wards and villages, and proceed in the manner now prescribed by law. State taxes, &c. 82. The treasurers mentioned in section one of this act shall forthwith pay over to the county [treasurer] the state taxes to be raised in the several towns, cities, wards and villages in said county, and shall, on the third Wednesday of June next, return to the county treasurer of said county the lands, city and village lots upon which taxes have not been paid, as required by law; and said county treasurer shall proceed to sell said lands, city and village lots so returned unpaid, according to the provisions of law. § 3. All moneys collected in pursuance of law and which by law are to be paid into the county treasury of said county shall be so paid over by the treasurers in said towns, cities, wards. and villages, to the county treasurer of said county on or before the third Wednesday of June next. 84. This act shall be in force from and after its pas. sage. Approved March 1, 1859. |