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Capital stock.

Directors-first

board.

SECTION 3. The capital stock of the said corporation shall be five thousand dollars, with the power to increase the same from time to time as the directors may deem necessary.

SECTION 4. The property and concerns of the said corporation shall be managed and conducted by a board of five directors. Wm. E. Smith, George Jess, John W. Davis, Charles L. Robinson and Thomas G. Eggleston, shall be the first directors of the said corporation, Powers of board, and shall hold office until others are chosen. The directors of the said corporation shall have power to adopt such by-laws and regulations respecting the management of the property, concerns, business and stock of the said corporation as they may deem expedient and proper, and to prescribe the time and manner of opening and closing the books of subscription to the capital stock, the time and proportion in which the subscribers to the said stock shall make payment therefor, and the time, place and manner of holding elections.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1861.

Authority.

Not to obstruct passage of logs, &c.

CHAPTER 33.

AN ACT to authorize Burrage B. Downs to construct and maintain a boom across the Red Cedar river, in the county of Dunn.

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

SECTION 1. Burrage B. Downs, his executors, heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to construct and maintain a boom in and upon the Red Cedar river, on or in front of lots two, three, five, seven and eight, (2, 3, 5, 7, 8,) of section number thirty-four, (34,) in township number twenty-seven, (27,) range thirteen, (13,) west of the fourth principal meridian, in the county of Dunn.

SECTION 2. The said boom shall be so constructed as to admit the free passage of logs and lumber : provided, that the proprietors of said boom shall not

retain the logs of other persons longer than a reasonable time to sort out their own logs from the "drive." SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1861.

CHAPTER 34.

CHAPTER 34.

AN ACT to amend chap. [chapter] 279 of the session laws of 1857, entitled "an act to incorporate the Oshkosh and Wausau railroad company."

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

present route.

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SECTION 1. The Oshkosh and Wausau railroad com- May change its pany is hereby authorized and empowered to change its present line and route from the city of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago, to Wausau, in the county of Marathon, via Fremont, in the county of Waupacca; and in lieu of its present line and route between said points, may adopt a line extending from such eligible point in or near the village of Neenah, in the county of Winnebago, as the directors of said company shall determine, to any point on the Wisconsin river, via the village of Waupacca, in the county of Waupacca.

Release from lia

SECTION 2. The change by said railroad company bility of certain of the route and line of said railroad, as provided for stockholders. in section one of this act, shall be deemed and considered an agreement on the part of said company to release and discharge from all liability on their subscription to the capital stock of said company, all the stockholders who now reside in or who, at the time of taking such stock, did reside in the city of Oshkosh, or in the town of Oshkosh, or in the town of Algoma, in the county of Winnebago; and all such stockholders and subscribers who shall apply in writing for such discharge at any time after the change of said line and route, to the president or secretary or any one of the directors of said railroad company, shall be released and discharged from all such liability; and upon such application and change of line and route as aforesaid, the president and directors of said company are hereby

CHAPTER 35. authorized and directed to cancel and discharge such subscription on the books of said company.

SECTION. 3 This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1861.

Authority.

Operation of laws.

CHAPTER 35.

AN ACT to authorize the Chicago and Northwestern railway company to make running arrangements, or to lease, buy or consolidate with the Fort Howard and Appleton, Green Bay and Madison and other railroad companies.

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

SECTION 1. The Chicago and Northwestern railway company is authorized to enter into arrangements for running on joint account, with such divisions of earnings as may be agreed upon, with the Fort Howard and Appleton, and the Green Bay and Madison railroad companies, and other companies whose railroads connect with or intersect its railroad, at any point on the line of said road north of the line of the Milwaukee and Minnesota, or La Crosse and Milwaukee railroad company, and to lease or purchase such railroads, or consolidate with the companies owning the same; and all the said companies are hereby empowered to enter into all agreements and to do all acts and things necessary or proper for the purposes aforesaid. And all the provisions of the laws of this state conferring powers upon railroad companies for the aforesaid purposes, or any of them, shali operate to confer the same powers upon the said Chicago and Northwestern railway company and the said other companies.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 26, 1861.

CHAPTER 36.

AN ACT to authorize John H. Knapp and others to keep and maintain a dam across Red Cedar river, in the county of Dunn.

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

CHAPS 36-37.

Location

SECTION 1. John H. Knapp, Henry L. Stout, An- Authority. drew Taintor and Thomas B. Wilson, their executors, heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to build and maintain a dam across Red Cedar river, in the county of Dunn, on lots numbered two and three (2 and 3) of section twenty-six, (26,) in township twenty-eight, (28,) of range thirteen, west of the fourth (4) principal meridian, to erect mills or other machinery, or in any other manner to make use of the water for hydraulic purposes: provided, that said dam shall not be raised so high as to overflow any lands owned by any other person or persons on said river. SECTION 2. The owners of said dam shall construct How constructed a sufficient slide or chute, at least twenty feet wide, in said dam, in such manner as to allow the free and safe passage of rafts and boats descending said river, and to permit fish to ascend the same.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 26, 1861.

Not to overflow,

&c.

CHAPTER 37.

AN ACT to authorize Andrew Sheppard and John Valentine, their successors and assignees, to construct, keep and maintain a sheer-boom on Black river.

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

SECTION 1. Andrew Sheppard and John Valentine, Authority. their successors and assignees, are hereby authorized to construct, keep and maintain a sheer-boom on Black river, the upper end of which boom is to be fastened to a pier on an island in said river, opposite lot No. one (1) of section No. twenty-eight, (28) in township

Location.

CHAPTER 38. No. twenty-one, (21) of range four, (4) west of the fourth principal meridian, thence quarterly down Black river, and the lower end to be fastened to a pier in said river, opposite lot No. four (4) of the aforesaid section, township and range, the same being owned by the said Sheppard and Valentine.

How constructed

SECTION 2. The said sheer-boom shall not be so constructed and placed on or in said Black river as to obstruct the navigation of the same for boats, rafts, timber or lumber; and at all times, when the said river is in what is called a "running stage" for logs, the said Sheppard and Valentine, their successors and assignees, shall be prepared, at the head of their said boom so to be constructed and placed in said river, to turn into the main channel of the same, all logs not bearing the "mark" of the said Andrew Sheppard and John Valentine, their successors and assignees.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 28, 1861.

Funds to be distributed among

fire, hook and

companies.

CHAPTER 38.

AN ACT to provide for the distribution of the funds belonging to the fire department of the city of Milwaukee.

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

SECTION 1. All the funds belonging to the fire deladder and hose partment of the city of Milwaukee shall be divided and distributed to and among the eight engine companies, numbered respectfully from No. 1 to No. 8; the two hook and ladder companies, numbered respectively Nos. 1 and 2; and the two hose companies, numbered respectively Nos. 1 and 2, now organized and existing in the city of Milwaukee, and belonging to or connected with the said fire department, in the manner hereinafter prescribed.

Commissioners.

SECTION 2. For the purpose of making a division and distribution of the funds of the said fire department of the city of Milwaukee, J. Albert Helfenstein, Christian Preusser, Andrew J. Langworthy, are hereby ap