When unlawful to kill grouse. Penalty for violation. Before whom and how prosecutions condueted. Not to apply. CHAPTER €9. [Published March 23, 1872.] AN ACT for the preservation of game in the counties of St. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to kill, destroy or take, or pursue with intent to kill, destroy or take, any grouse, prairie hen or chicken, quail, partridge or ruffed grouse, within the counties of St. Croix, Polk and Burnett, except between the first day of August and the succeeding fifteenth day of December in each year. SECTION 2. Any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of the preceding section, and every person or corporation, railroad company or express company, and every employe thereof who shall sell or expose for sale, or shall have in his or their possession or custody with intent to sell, dispose of or transport, or otherwise, during the time when the killing of the same is prohibited by this act, any grouse, prairie hen or chicken, quail, partridge or ruffed grouse, shall upon conviction suffer a fine of two dollars for each such grouse, prairie hen or chicken, quail, partridge or ruffed grouse, so killed, destroyed or taken, or pursued with intent to kill, destroy or take, or so sold or exposed for sale, or so had in possession, together with the costs of prosecution. SECTION 3. Justices of the peace shall have cognizance and jurisdiction of all offenses under this act, without regard to the aggregate amount of fines imposed in any one case. All prosecutions under this act shall be deemed criminal proceedings, and shall be conducted as provided by law for the prosecution of offenses cognizable before justices of the peace, and in all cases of conviction under this act, one-half of all fines and penalties collected shall be paid over by the justice or person collecting the same, to the person who shall make the complaint in the case. SECTION 4. The provisions of sections 1 and 2 of chapter 78 of the general laws of 1867 shall not apply to said counties of St. Croix, Polk and Burnett. SECTION 5. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 21, 1872. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the county judge of Oconto county Additional may receive in addition to the compensation now al- compensation. lowed by the county board of said county, the fees and compensations mentioned in section twelve, chapter one hundred and thirty-three, revised statutes of 1858, "relative to the fees of county judge," and that the same shall be collected in manner provided by said chapter one hundred and thirty-three. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1872. Amended. upon logs. CHAPTER 71. [Published March 23, 1872.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter two hundred and fifteen of the general laws of 1860, entitled an act providing for a lien for labor and services upon logs and lumber in certain counties. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. Section one (1) of chapter two hundred and fifteen (215) of the general laws of A. D. 1860, of the state of Wisconsin, entitled an act providing for a lien for labor and services upon logs and lumber in certain counties, is hereby amended to be and read as Shall have lien follows: Any person, company or corporation that may do or perform any labor or services in cutting, falling, hauling, driving, rafting, booming, cribbing or towing any logs or timber in the counties of Shawano, Waupaca, Outagamie, Winnebago, Fond du Lac, or upon the waters of Lake Winnebago, in this state, or in such portions of Oconto and Brown counties, in this state, wherein such logs and timber are got out upon the Wolf river, or any of its tributaries, or upon any stream running into any tributary of said Wolf river, or when and where such logs or timber are got out for the purpose (or are) run down the said Wolf river or any of its tributaries, or any stream running into any tributary of the said Wolf river, shall have a lien on such logs or timber, for the amount of such labor or services, and the same shall take precedence of all other claims Application of thereon. The provisions of this act shall apply to all such labor or services that may have been done or performed prior to the passage of this act, so far as the provisions of this act can be made applicable thereto, and the person, company or corporation that may have done and performed the same can comply with the provisions of this act. act. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 21, 1872. CHAPTER 72. [Published March 23, 1872.] AN ACT relating to the preservation of fish in Waushara county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter three hundred Amended. and eleven of the private and local laws of 1871, entitled แ an act to amend an act, entitled an act to amend chapter three hundred and ninety-nine of the private and local laws of 1868, entitled, an act for the preservation of fish in certain lakes in the county of Waushara," is hereby amended, by striking out the words, "spear," and "gun," wherever they may appear in said act. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.. Approved March 21, 1872. CHAPTER 73. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and seven of the private and local laws of 1855, entitled "an act to incorporate the Kenosha Female Seminary," and the acts amendatory of and supplementary thereto. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: amended. SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and seven of the Chapter 107 private and local laws of 1855 is amended by striking out from the first section thereof, the words, "together with the rector, wardens and vestrymen of St. Matthew's Church, Kenosha, ex-officio." SECTION 2. Chapter four hundred and forty-three chapter 443 of the private and local laws of 1866, entitled "an act amended. relative to the board of trustees of the Kenosha Female Seminary," is amended by striking out from the second section thereof, the words, "but from the action of this is excepted the ex-officio trustees;" also by striking out the words, "a majority of the trustees residing in Kenosha shall constitute a quorum.” SECTION 3. This act shall take effect immediately on its passage and approval. Approved March 21, 1872. CHAPTER 74. [Published March 23, 1872.] Legalized. Legalized. AN ACT to legalize the acts of John R. McDonald, a justice of the peace in and for the county of Kewaunee, also of Solomon Berry, a justice of the peace of Door county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. That all the official acts of John R. McDonald as a justice of the peace in the town of Ahnepee in the county of Kewaunee, in this state, are hereby legalized and declared to be valid for all pur poses. SECTION 2. The official acts of Solomon Berry, a justice of the peace of Door county, from the first Monday of May, 1870, to the first Monday of May, 1871, are hereby legalized and declared valid. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1872. |