tered on the tax roll in a separate column, under the
head of "water pipe assessments," and the same shall
be collected and the payment thereof shall be enforced
by sale, deed and other proceedings, in like manner as
is now provided by law in cases of assessments for
street improvements. No certificates shall be issued
by the comptroller for such assessments, but all such
assessments and the proceeds thereof, when collected,
shall belong to the fund for the construction of water
works under the control of said board of commission-
ers, and shall be credited to said fund on the book of
the comptroller and treasurer of said city.
Approved March 22, 1872.

Legalized.

CHAPTER 91.

[Published March 26, 1872.]

AN ACT to legalize the official acts of Elijah Powell as assessor and treasurer of the town of Viroqua.

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

SECTION 1. All acts of Elijah Powell as treasurer and assessor of the town of Viroqua, Vernon county, for the years 1869, 1870 and 1871, are hereby declared to be legal and valid.

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

Approved March 22, 1872.

CHAPTER 92.

[Published April 6, 1872.]

AN ACT to attach certain territory to the village of Shawano.

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

SECTION 1. Township number twenty-eight (28) Attached. north, range number thirteen (13) east, and township number twenty-eight (28) north, range number fourteen (14) east, in Shawano county, are hereby attached to the village of Shawano.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 22, 1872.

CHAPTER 93.

[Published April 4, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend section 1 of chapter 58 of the general laws of 1871, entitled an act to amend section 1 of chapter 105 of the general laws of 1870, entitled an act for the preservation of game in the counties of Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Waukesha, Walworth, Jefferson, Rock, Green, Dane, La Fayette and Grant.

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

SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 58 of the general Amended. laws of 1871, entitled an act for the preservation of game in the counties of Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Waukesha, Walworth, Jefferson, Rock, Green, La Fayette, Grant, Winnebago, Fond du Lac, Dane, Green Lake, Waupaca, Dodge or Waushara, is hereby amend

ed so as to read as follows: "No person shall catch, shall not kill kill, or otherwise destroy, or have in his possession, or grouse, etc. expose for sale, any woodcock in the counties of Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, Waukesha, Walworth, Jefferson, Rock, Green, La Fayette, Grant, Winnebago,

Shall not kill duck.

Shall not trap grouse, etc.

Fond du Lac, Dane, Dodge, Green Lake, Waupaca, Waushara or Richland, between the fifteenth day of November and the succeeding fourth day of July in each year, nor any grouse, prairie hen or chicken, partridge, ruffed grouse or quail, between the fifteenth day of November and the succeeding twentieth day of August in each year, under a penalty of ten dollars for each such game bird caught, killed, or otherwise destroyed, or had in possession or exposed for sale."

SECTION 2. No person shall catch, kill or otherwise destroy or have in his possession, or expose for sale, any "mallard or red neck" duck in any of the counties mentioned in section one af this act, between the first day of March and the first day of August, under the penalty in section one of this act mentioned.

SECTION 3. No person shall at any time or at any place within either of the counties named in the first section of this act, catch or take with any trap, snare or net, any grouse, prairie hen or chicken, partridge, ruffed grouse, quail or wild duck, under a penalty of ten dolJars, for each grouse, prairie hen or chicken, partridge, ruffed grouse, quail or wild duck so caught or taken, except when so trapped or snared upon his or her own premises.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1872.

Amended.

CHAPTER 94.

[Published March 30, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the private and local laws of the year 1871, entitled an act to provide for two municipal courts in the city of Fond du Lac.

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

SECTION 1. Section twelve (12) of chapter four hundred and seventy-four of the private and local laws of the state of Wisconsin of the year 1871, is hereby amended by adding to said section the follow

suit tax.

ing: The said judges shall also collect from the plain- Shall collect tiff in all civil cases commenced before them (except in prosecutions for violation of city ordinances,) a tax of fifty cents, which shall be taxed in the bill of costs against the losing party, and paid by said judges to the treasurer of said city, in the manner provided in the act to which this is amendatory, for the payment of fees of said judges in civil cases.

SECTION 2. Section twenty-one (21) of said chapter Amended. is hereby amended as follows: by striking out all after the words, "but they shall be deemed courts of inferior and limited jurisdiction," in the third and fourth lines of said section, and adding thereto as follows: And the judges of said courts shall have jurisdiction Jurisdiction of over and cognizance of the following actions:

the judges.

tracts.

First. Actions arising and growing out of contracts, Actions on conexpress or implied, wherein the debt or balance due or damages claimed shall not exceed three hundred dollars.

Second. Actions for injuries to persons or to real or For injuries. personal property, wherein the damages claimed shall not exceed three hundred dollars.

session.

Third. Actions to recover the possession of per- To recover possonal property, wherein the value of the property claimed shall not exceed three hundred dollars. Fourth. Actions for forcible entry and detainer.

Forcible entry.

Fifth. Actions for a penalty not exceeding three For penalties. hundred dollars given by any statute of this state.

Sixth. To take and enter a judgment on the confes- Judgment on sion of a defendant, where the amount confessed shall confession. not exceed five hundred dollars.

Seventh. Actions on a note, bill, bond or other in- on note. strument in writing given for the payment of money or other valuable articles, for any amount over three hundred dollars, which has been reduced by credits or payments endorsed thereon to an amount not exceeding three hundred dollars.

Eighth. Actions where payments are to be made by For instalinstalments on any bond, note or other instrument in ments. writing, as they shall become due, when such instalments shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars.

Ninth. Actions on any surety bond taken by them, On sureties. though the penalty or amount claimed shall exceed three hundred dollars.

On bonds.

On accounts.

For bastardy.

In all other ac tions.

Losing party

fees.

Tenth. All actions on any surety bonds given in favor of any town, though the penalty exceed three hundred dollars, and the damage claimed shall not exceed three hundred dollars.

Eleventh. All actions founded on any account where the amount proved to the satisfaction of the judge, shall not exceed five hundred dollars, and the same shall be reduced to an amount not exceeding three hundred dollars by credits given, or by the set off or demand of the opposite party.

Twelfth. The judges of said court shall also have jurisdiction over, and cognizance of all actions and proceedings upon complaint for bas ardy, under chapter thirty-eight of the revised statutes of the state of Wisconsin of the year 1858, entitled of the support of bastards, and of all the amendments thereto, in the same manner, and to the same extent as is now given by law to justices of the peace.

Thirteenth. In all other actions and proceedings, both civil and criminal, except as otherwise provided in this act, and the act to which this act is amendatory the jurisdiction, power and authority of the judges of said courts shall be the same as that of justices of the peace under the laws of this state.

SECTION 3. In all civil causes brought before the to pay attorney said courts, attorneys' fees shall be allowed and taxed against the losing party, and in favor of the prevailing party, when an attorney of a court of record has appeared therein for the party obtaining judgment, either for damages or costs, or both: provided, the defendant or defendants have appeared and put in an answer or demurrer, and the party against whom judgment shall be rendered shall have contested some question which shall be decided against him or them, and in all cases when the amount of the judgment shall be fifty dollais or less, the attorney's fees taxed in favor of the prevailing party shall be five dollars, and ten dollars in all cases when the judgment, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of fifty dollars. An attorney fee of ten dollars shall also be taxed and recovered in favor of the party recovering judgment, and against the party against whom judgment shall be rendered upon default, when the amount of such judgment, exclusive of costs, shall exceed the sum of two hundred dollars.