ten shall not affect any rights existing or any suits pending at the time this act takes effect.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 6, 1872.

CHAPTER 25.

[Published March 8, 1872.]

AN ACT to provide for the application of the five per cent. collector's fees on delinquent taxes in the county of Polk.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1. The five per cent. collector's fees on Collector's fees taxes returned as delinquent in the county of Polk, belong to treaspursuant to section ninety-five of chapter eighteen of the revised statutes, for the years 1870 and 1871, and all such collection fees which may hereafter be returned as delinquent to the county treasurer of said county of Polk, pursuant to said section ninety-five, for any year or years subsequent to 1871, are hereby declared to belong to the town treasurers making return thereof; and the county treasurer of said county is hereby authorized and required to pay to each of the town treasurers of his county returning any of such collec. tion fees as aforesaid, the amount of such collection fees so returned by such town treasurer. The sums so paid, evidenced by the receipts of the town treasurers shall be allowed to said county treasurer on settlement of his accounts with the county.

SECTION 2. Section ninety-seven (97) of said chap- Not to apply. ter eighteen (18) of the revised statutes shall not apply

to the county of Polk.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 6, 1872.

Legalized.

CHAPTER 26.

[Published March 11, 1872.]

AN ACT to legalize the assessment and collection of taxes in the town of Peshtigo, Oconto county.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The assessment and collection of taxes in and for the town of Peshtigo, Oconto county, for the year 1871, is hereby legalized and declared valid.

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

Approved March 7, 1872.

CHAPTER 27.

[Published March 8, 1872.]

Legalized.

Deemed conclu

AN ACT to legalize, ratify and confirm acts of the city of Appleton. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. The action of the city of Appleton in voting on the 29th day of July, 1871, to subscribe for one hundred thousand dollars of stock of the Appleton and New London Railway Company, and to pay for the same at par, in the corporate bonds of said city, is hereby fully ratified and confirmed, and no law heretofore passed shall be so construed as to prevent said city from fully carrying out and discharging the aforesaid obligation to its full extent.

SECTION 2. Whenever any subscription on behalf sive evidence. of said city is made on the capital stock subscription book of said company, and bonds in payment thereof issued, such subscription and bonds shall in all courts and places and for all purposes be deemed and held conclusive evidence of the facts, matters and things

therein stated, and of the regularity, legality and validity of all proceedings and conditions precedent thereto. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 7, 1872.

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT to repeal chapter 481 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to incorporate the Appleton Lieder Kranz Society."

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Chapter 481 of the private and local Repealed. laws of 1867, entitled "an act to incorporate the Appleton Lieder Kranz Society," and the several acts amendatory thereof are hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after

its passage.

Approved March 8, 1872.

CHAPTER 29.

[Published March 12, 1872.]

AN ACT to provide for the application of tolls collected for crossing the Wisconsin river bridge, at the city of Portage.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows :

SECTION 1. The mayor and common council of the How to apply city of Portage are hereby authorized and empowered tolls. to apply to the improvement of roads leading from the Wisconsin river bridge in said city, to the Baraboo river in the town of Caledonia, all tolls collected for crossing said bridge in excess of the amount needed for repairs, or such portion thereof as may be deemed

How moneys to be expended.

proper and expedient, and for this purpose may anticipate the revenues to be derived from such tolls.

SECTION 2. The expenditure of moneys hereby authorized shall be made under such regulations as may be provided by ordinance or resolution of the common council of the city of Portage.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 8, 1872.

CHAPTER 30.

[Published March 12, 1872.]

AN ACT to repeal part of chapter one hundred and sixty-three (163) of the private and local laws of 1866, entitled an act to amend an act, entitled an act to consolidate and amend an act to incorporate the city of Watertown, and the several acts amendatory thereof.”

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section eight (8) and the latter clause of section four (4), commencing at the seventeenth line thereof, with the words, "section eight," to the end of said section four (4) of said chapter one hundred and sixty-three (163) of the private and local laws of 1866, are hereby repealed, and the provisions of law affected by said section and clause hereby repealed, are hereby re-enacted with the same force and effect, and no greater or other than as if the section and clause hereby repealed had never been enacted.

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

Approved March 8, 1872.

CHAPTER 31.

[Published March 12, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend and repeal certain sections of chapter 233 of the general laws of 1865, entitled "an act to consolidate and amend an act to incorporate the city of Watertown, and the several acts amendatory thereof."

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

penses.

SECTION 1. Section two (2) of chapter five (5) of Amended. said chapter two hundred and thirty-three (233) of the general laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The common shall levy tax council shall annually levy upon the property liable to for current extaxation in each ward, a tax not exceeding one-half of one per cent. per annum, to defray the current expenses of said ward; and the tax annually levied to defray the current annual expenses of said city for general purposes, to be paid out of the general fund, shall not exceed four-tenths of one per cent.

SECTION 2. Section twelve (12) of chapter nine (9) Repealed. of said chapter two hundred and thirty-three (233) of the general laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-five is hereby repealed, and the several sections repealed by said section twelve are hereby re-enacted with the same force and effect, and no other force and effect, than if said section twelve had never been enacted.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 8, 1872.