SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 16, 1872.

CHAPTER 54.

[Published March 20, 1872.]

AN ACT to legalize the official acts of the officers of joint school district number one, of the towns of Gilmanton and Modena, Buffalo county.

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

SECTION 1. All the official acts of the school district Legalized. officers of joint school district No. 1, of the towns of Modena and Gilmanton, Buffalo county, for the years 1870 and 1871, in letting contract for building school house in said district, and in the purchase of patent seats for said school house, and that the statements of the amount of the tax voted to be raised for the purpose of paying for the house so erected under said contract, and the desks so purchased, which were delivered by the clerk of said joint school district to the town clerks of said towns from which said joint school district is formed, and the assessment of the amounts so returned, and the entry of such amounts upon the tax rolls of each of said towns respectively, by the town clerks thereof, are hereby declared legal and valid.

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

Approved March 19, 1872.

CHAPTER 55.

[Published March 23, 1872.]

Shall be prima facie evidence.

AN ACT to declare a certain form of affidavit. of posting notices by the county treasurer of Waupaca county of the sale of lands fór unpaid taxes, prima facie evidence.

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

SECTION 1. All affidavits heretofore made by the county treasurer of Waupaca county, under section five of an act relative to the sale of lands for unpaid taxes, and the conveyance and redemption thereof, approved February 19, 1859, substantially in the following form: State of Wisconsin, Waupaca county, ss. Evan Coolidge, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he did, as by law required, post up four of the annexed notices, in four public places in said Waupaca county, four weeks previous to the second Tuesday of May, 18- Subscribed and sworn to before me, the day of, 18-, shall be prima facie evidence that the requirements of section three of said act in relation to posting notices therein required, has been fully complied with.

SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1872.

Exclusive right

to maintain ferry.

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT to establish and maintain a ferry across the Menomonee river in Oconto county.

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

SECTION 1. Robert O'Neill and his associates and assigns, his heirs and personal representatives,

shall have the exclusive right and privilege for the period of ten years, of keeping and maintaining a ferry across the Menomonee river in the county of Oconto, at or within two miles of the mouth of said river.

rates of ferriage.

SECTION 2. Such ferry shall be subject to such Regulations and regulations as other ferries are by law subject, and the proprietor thereof shall be entitled to receive for crossing any vehicle or conveyance, drawn by two horses or oxen, the sum of twenty-five cents; for any vehicle or conveyance drawn by one horse or other animal, the sum of twenty cents; for each additional horse or ox, the sum of ten cents; for a man and horse, the sum of fifteen cents; for cattle or horses in droves, the sum of eight cents each: provided, that hogs and sheep shall not be charged to exceed three cents each per head; for foot passengers, the sum of five cents each.

SECTION 3. No other ferry shall be licensed or No other ferry established on said Menomonee river within two miles

of the mouth of said river.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force

from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1872.

to be licensed.

CHAPTER 57.

[Published March 23, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend chapter 268 of the general laws of 1865, entitled "an act to codify, consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Appleton," 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 7 of chapter 6 of the act to Amended. which this is amendatory, is hereby amended by inserting between the words, "conclusive " and "provided," in the 19th line of said section, the words, "unless an

appeal is taken, as hereinafter provided."

SECTION 2. Said section 7 is further amended, by Amended. adding to the last line thereof, the following words:

"unless an appeal is taken, as hereinafter provided."

Amended.

May appeal from assessment.

SECTION 3. Said chapter 6 is hereby amended, by adding the following section thereto: "Section 15. Any person whose property is taken, or against whom an assessment is made may, within ten days from the return of the jurors to the common council, appeal from said assessments of damages or benefits, to the circuit court of Outagamie county, where such appeal shall be tried by the court and jury, as in ordinary cases. The common council shall have the same right of appeal."

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 21, 1872.

Repealed.

Re-enacted.

CHAPTER 58.

[Published March 23, 1872.]

AN ACT to repeal section two of chapter 214 of the private and local laws of 1871, entitled " an act to amend chapter 268 of the general laws of 1865, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Appleton, and the several acts amendatory thereof, and to revive and re-enact section eight of chapter seven of said chapter 268.”

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

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter 214 of the pri vate and local laws of 1871, is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. Section eight of chapter seven, subdivision of chapter 268 of the general laws of 1865, is hereby revived, re-enacted and of full force.

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

Approved March 21, 1872.

CHAPTER 59.

[Published March 23, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize the city of Appleton to issue bonds for the purposes herein named.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate

and assembly, do enact as follows:

bonds.

SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Ap- May issue pleton are hereby authorized to issue bonds, with coupons attached thereto, to the amount of ten thousand dollars, the proceeds of which shall be applied for the purpose of purchasing steam fire apparatus and building an engine house.

cipal due.

SECTION 2. The said bonds shall be drawing seven Rate of interest per cent. interest, to be paid on the first day of March and when prinof each year, in the city of New York, and the principal of the same shall become due in the following manner: One thousand dollars ten years from the issue of the bonds, and one thousand dollars annually thereafter, until all said bonds shall be paid and satisfied, and the common council of said city are hereby authorized, and it is made their duty, to levy, annually upon all the taxable property within said city, a sufficient tax to pay the interest on and the principal of said bonds.

SECTION 3. The said bonds shall be issued in the Denominations. denominations of not less than one hundred and not

more than one thousand dollars.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in fcree from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 21, 1872.