in such suit or proceeding to the extent specified and provided in section 109, chapter 15, title five of the revised statutes.

of county jail.

SECTION 88. The use of the jail of Marathon county, City to have use until otherwise provided, shall be granted to said city for the confinement of offenders, and every such offender shall be delivered to the sheriff of said county, for whose custody, safe keeping and delivery the said sheriff shall be responsible as in other cases.

erty not to be

SECTION 89. No real or personal property of any Private prop inhabitant of said city, or any individual or corporation, sold for public shall be levied upon or sold by virtue of any execution debt. issued to satisfy or collect any debt, obligation or contract of said city. The same provisions of statute that apply to towns in regard to paupers shall apply to said city.

in county board

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SECTION 90. The city of Wausau shall be repre- Representation sented in the board of supervisors of the county of Marathon, by one supervisor from each ward, and the senior alderman in office shall be the supervisor from his respective ward. The alderman acting as supervisor shall have power to substitute any other alderman in his ward to act in his stead, in representing his ward in said board of supervisors. SECTION 91. Any justice of the peace or other offi- Term of juscer of the village or town of Wausau whose term of office shall not have expired at the time this act shall take effect, may hold and exercise the duties of his office for the residue of his term of office in the same manner as though this act had not been passed. SECTION 92. From and after the second day of Connection disApril, A. D. 1872, the connection between the town and village of Wausau and that part of said town, included within the city limits, for all town purposes, shall be dissolved. The duties now and hereafter imposed on supervisors and other town officers and village officers, so far as they relate to the city of Wausau, shall be performed by the aldermen of the several wards, and the other officers of said city. All that part of the town of Wausau not included within the city limits, shall constitute the town of Wausau, and the first town meeting shall be held at such place as the chairman of the board of supervisors of said town shall appoint.

solved,

Public act.

SECTION 93. This act shall be considered a public one, and shall be construed favorably in all courts and places.

SECTION 94. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 23, 1872.

Provisions extended.

CHAPTER 115.

AN ACT to extend the provisions of chapter 56 of the revised statutes, entitled " of mills and mill-dams," to certain dams kept up and maintained at or near the mouth of Willow river in St. Croix county.

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

SECTION 1. The provisions of chapter fifty-six of the revised statutes, entitled "of mills and mill-dams," are hereby extended to the dams kept up and maintained by Daniel A. Baldwin and A. H. Baldwin, at the mouth of Willow river, in St. Croix county, Wisconsin: provided, that this act shall not in any way af fect causes of action which shall have accrued prior to the passage and publication of the same; and provided further, that said dams shall not be raised more than five feet higher than they are now kept up and maintained.

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

Approved March 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 116.

[Published April 5, 1872.]

AN ACT to repeal a portion of chapter 307 of the general laws of 1864, entitled "an act to authorize certain counties therein named, to aid in the construction of a railroad from Tomah to Lake St. Croix, by the Tomah and Lake St. Croix Railroad Company."

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

SECTION 1. So much of chapter 307 of the general Repealed. laws of 1864, entitled "an act to authorize certain counties therein named to aid in the construction of a railroad from Tomah to Lake St. Croix by the Tomah and Lake St. Croix Railroad Company," as authorizes the issue by the county of Saint Croix and the county of Eau Claire of any bonds in aid of the construction of said railroad, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. All acts or 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 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 117.

AN ACT to authorize Orange Walker, Samuel Judd and William H. Veazie, to maintain a dam or dams on Eau Claire lake or river in Bayfield county.

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

dam.

SECTION 1. Orange Walker, Samuel Judd and Wil- May maintain liam H. Veazie, their heirs and assigns are hereby authorized to maintain and keep up a dam or dams across the Eau Claire lake or river, at a point or points on lot four (4), section sixteen (16), township forty-four (44), range nine (9) west: provided, that such dam or dams shall not raise the water to exceed ten feet, and

if the water so raised shall flow any land not owned by said parties, they shall be liable for all damages, to be recovered by suit in the circuit court.

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SECTION 2. The aforesaid persons, their heirs and assigns shall build suitable slides in said dam or dams for running logs, timber and lumber over the same, and shall keep the same in repair. They shall be kept open at all times when the river is in a driving stage and there are logs, timber or lumber to run over said dams, and when it is not necessary to hold the water back for the purpose of driving or flooding logs, timber or lumber below the dam, for which purpose flood gates shall be kept in repair, and built in such manner as to be shut or opened, as the case may reqiure, to flood said logs, timber and lumber.

SECTION 3. The aforesaid persons, their heirs and assigns, shall enjoy the privileges granted in this act for the term of fifteen years.

SECTION 4. When the aforesaid persons, their heirs or assigns shall have completed the said dam or dams, as aforesaid, they are hereby authorized and empowered to receive and collect from the owners of all lumber, timber and logs, passing over such slides or driven by the aid of such dams, as a compensation for keeping up and maintaining such dam or dams, the sum of fifteen cents per thousand feet, board measure, the amount to be ascertained by scale on the landings in the woods; and the aforesaid persons, their heirs and assigns shall have a lien upon all logs and timber and lumber run over said dam or dams above specified, until the charges aforesaid shall be paid: provided, that they shall at all times comply with the provisions of section two of this act.

SECTION 5. The control of said dam or dams, the slides and gates of the same, shall belong to the aforesaid persons, their heirs or assigns, but subject always to the provisions of section two of this act.

SECTION 6. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to give the parties aforesaid, their heirs and assigns, any right to shut down the gates of said dams during the months of July, August and September in each year, but the said dams and the gates thereof shall remain open during said months, and the waters of said Eau Claire river shall flow free and unobstructed

through said dam or dams, during the months aforesaid.

SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 118.

[Published April 6, 1872.]

AN ACT to repeal a portion of chapter 401 of the general laws of 1864, entitled "an act to authorize certain counties therein named to aid the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad Company in the construction of its road."

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

SECTION 1. So much of chapter 401 of the general Repealed. laws of 1864, entitled "an act to authorize certain counties therein named to aid the St. Croix and Lake Superior Railroad Company in the construction of its road," as authorizes the county of St. Croix to issue its bonds in any amount to said company to aid in the construction of its road, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. All acts or 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 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 119.

[Published April 5, 1872.]

AN ACT to repeal chapter 279 of the general laws of 1865, entitled "an act to legalize the proceedings of certain town meetings held in the several towns of St. Croix county."

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 279 of the general laws of Repealed. 1865, entitled "an act to legalize the proceedings of