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SECTION 4. Section fourteen (14) of said chapter is Amended. hereby amended as follows, by inserting after the word and figures, "Section 14," and before the words, "no cause commenced," in the first line of said section, the following: No criminal action or proceeding com- Not to be remenced or brought before either of said judges, where- moved. in said judges have jurisdiction only to examine and admit to bail and commit for trial to the circuit court, shall be removed from the judge before whom the same is brought or commenced, on the ground of prejudice or other cause, or for any ground or reason, except as hereinafter provided.

shall confer

SECTION 5. All general laws of the legislature of General laws the state of Wisconsin, hereafter enacted and passed, "jurisdiction. giving and conferring jurisdiction, power or authority to justices of the peace to do any act, shall be considered and deemed to confer the same jurisdiction, power and authority upon the judges of said court, and they shall thereby be vested with the same jurisdiction, power and authority as shall by such act or acts be given to justices of the peace within the county of Fond du Lac; but said acts of a general nature shall in no way or manner affect the jurisdiction, power and authority of said judges, as specifically given and conferred in this act and the act to which this is amendatory.

SECTION 6. All acts and parts of acts which contravene the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 22, 1872.

CHAPTER 95.

[Published March 30, 1872.]

AN ACT to establish a board of review of assessments for the city of Stevens Point, and repealing all acts inconsistent therewith.

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

SECTION 1. The board of review of assessments for Board of review the city of Stevens Point shall hereafter consist of the

established.

Powers and duties.

mayor, city clerk, city assessor, city attorney and the senior alderman from each ward of said city, and whenever the said aldermen shall be unable to attend the meeting of the board, the junior aldermen from the wards of said city shall attend as members of such board upon notice from the mayor.

SECTION 2. The powers and duties of the board of review hereby created shall be such as are prescribed by the general laws of the state.

SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

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

Commissioners

Compensation.

CHAPTER 96.

AN ACT to provide for laying out and establishing a state road from Shiocton, in Outagamie county, to White Lake, in Shawano county.

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

SECTION 1. O. P. Worden, C. L. Rich and W. D. Jordan are hereby appointed to lay out and establish a state road, commencing at some point to be designated by said commissioners in the village of Shiocton, in the county of Outagamie, and running thence as near as may be, upon the most feasible route, in the judg ment of said commissioners, to White Lake, in section thirty-two, town twenty-six, range seventeen, Shawano county.

SECTION 2. Any two of said commissioners may proceed to lay out and establish said road, and upon the performance of said service, shall be entitled to receive a reasonable compensation therefor from the counties through which said road shall pass: provided, that no part of said expense shall be paid out of the state treasury.

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

Approved March 22, 1872.

CHAPTER 97.

[Published March 26, 1872.]

AN ACT to revise, consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Green Bay and the several acts amendatory thereto, approved March 16, 1870.

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

for railroad

SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, May subscribe it shall not be lawful for the city of Green Bay to sub- stock. scribe for the capital stock of any railroad, or to issue its bonds to aid in the construction of any railroad: provided, however, that this act shall not be construed to interfere with or invalidate any bonds already issued in aid of any railroad.

SECTION 2. No act or part of any act heretofore Not repealed by passed by the legislature of the state of Wisconsin shall previous acts. be construed as repealing this act or any part thereof, unless the same shall be passed as an amendment to the charter of the city of Green Bay, and specifically repeals this act,

SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent Repealed. or conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This act shall be void unless the legal To be submitvoters of the said city of Green Bay, at the annual ted to vote. charter election, to be held in the several wards of said city on the first Tuesday of April, A. D. 1872, shall determine to accept the same, and such vote shall be had, returned and canvassed, in the same manner as the vote at charter elections in said city. The tickets which shall be polled upon such question shall be deposited in a separate box provided for that purpose in each ward, and shall contain either the words, "in favor of Form of ballot. the law refusing aid to railroads," or "against the law refusing aid to railroads." If a majority of votes cast at such charter election shall be in favor of "the law refusing aid to railroads," the mayor of said city shall make proclamation of the fact, and thereupon this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of June 1872.

Approved March 23, 1872.

Declared to be successors.

Governor shall execute provis

CHAPTER 98.

[Published April 4, 1872.]

AN ACT to confirm the right of the Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company in the contract made with the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad Company, on the 10th day of March, 1857.

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

SECTION 1. The "Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company " is hereby declared to be the legal successor (as to the rights acquired and conferred in and to a portion of the lands granted by congress to the state of Wisconsin, by an act approved June 3, 1856,) of the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company, as fixed and reserved in and by the contract entered into by and between the La Crosse and Milwau kee Railroad Company, and the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad Company, which contract was executed by the said companies, on the 10th day of March, 1857, and was, as by law required, filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, on the 19th day of November, 1857.

SECTION 2. It is hereby made the duty of the gov ions of this act, ernor of this state, or his successor and successors in office, to carry out the provisions of the said contract, and convey to the said "Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company," out of the lands so granted to the state by the aforementioned act of congress, approved June 3, 1856, such quantity of said lands which have been or hereafter may be made applicable thereto as shall make, together with the lands heretofore conveyed to the said "Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage Land Company," the exact amount of six sections for each mile of the railroad constructed by the said La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company from Portage City to Tomah, being a distance of sixty-one miles.

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

Approved March 23, 1872.

CHAPTER 99.

AN ACT to authorize Aslag Anderson to build and maintain a dock and pier extending into Green Bay.

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

and pier.

SECTION 1. Aslag Anderson and his assigns are May build dock hereby authorized to build and maintain a dock and pier extending into the bay of Green Bay, at Eagle Harbor in Door county, from section thirteen, town thirty-one, range twenty-seven; and they are empowered to extend said dock and pier into said bay as far as may be necessary to secure good shipping facilities. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 23, 1872.

CHAPTER 100.

AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred and seventy-six of the private and local laws of 1868, entitled an act to authorize George A. Gore to maintain a dam across Apple river."

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

SECTION 1. George A. Gove, his heirs and assigns May keep dam. are hereby authorized to build, keep up and maintain a dam across Apple river, in the county of Polk, at or immediately above that part of said river known as Little Falls, on section twelve (12), in town thirty two north, of range seventeen (17) west. Section two [of Amended. said chapter 376] is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the following words: "and for Provisions of that purpose all the provisions of chapter fifty-six of revised statutes the revised statutes, entitled 'of mills and mill dams,'

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