certain town meetings held in the several towns of St. Croix county," is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. All acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.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. Repealed. CHAPTER 120. AN ACT to repeal chapter 51 of the private and local laws of 1869, entitled" an act to incorporate the Northern Wisconsin Railway Company." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter fifty-one of the private and local laws of 1869, entitled "an act to incorporate the Northern Wisconsin Railway Company," is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts in any manner conflicting with or contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.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. Repealed. CHAPTER 121. AN ACT to repeal chapter 510 of the private and local laws of 1870, entitled "an act to perpetuate the charter of the Northern Wisconsin Railway Company." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 510 of the private and local laws of 1870, entitled "an act to perpetuate the char ter of the Northern Wisconsin Railway Company," is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with or in any manner contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.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 122. [Published April 3, 1872.] AN ACT to establish a cheap and safe plan of insurance against loss or damage by fire, [in Grant county.] The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: against loss by SECTION 1. The county board of supervisors of May insure Grant county may insure against loss by fire, any dwel-re. ling house, barn, ware or store house, mill, manufactory, shop, office or other buildings situate in said county, not within the corporate limits of any city, and the personal property and goods kept therein (exclusive of living animals); but such board may confine its insurance to certain descriptions of buildings, to the exclusion of others, or insure such buildings by enhancing the premium according to the risk, and may reject or accept such applications for insurance it thinks proper. But neither said board nor the county shall ever be responsible on any contract of insurance against loss by fire, beyond the amount of insurance premium actually paid into the county treasury, and legally applicable to the payment of such loss. SECTION 2. In carrying out the provisions of this May adopt byact, such board of supervisors may adopt all needful laws. by-laws, rules, regulations and conditions, and the same shall be regarded as part of all contracts of insurance entered into while they are in force; but they shall be of no validity until published in some weekly newspa per printed in such county, for at least three weeks successively. SECTION 3. The board of supervisors may employ May employ such agents and vest them with such powers, not incon- agents. Application made to chairman of town board. Shall endorse value of prop estimate of erty, etc. sistent with this act, as it deems expedient. But the services of such agents, and all expenses incurred under the same shall be paid out of the insurance fund in the county treasury, or by the persons insured, according to the regulations of the board. SECTION 4. In case the county board has appointed no agent for the purpose, applications for insurance may be made to the chairman of the town board of supervisors, who, together with the town assessors shall examine the building or buildings sought to be insured, situate in such town, and personal property kept therein. The party desiring insurance shall make out and sign a written statement, responsive to all inquiries which may be required of him, touching such insurance. Such statement shall set forth a description of the buildings insured, and the land, lots or farm on which they are situated, and which are used therewith, and who is the owner of said lots or land, and the incumbrances thereon, if any, and such other matters as may be required by the county board. The agent of the county board appointed for that purpose, or in default of such appointment, the said chairman of the town board and the assessor, if they accept such insurance, shall endorse on, or annex to said statement, the estimated value of said building or buildings, the amount insured on personal property or goods to be kept therein, the period of the insurance, the maximum premium beyond which the insured nor his property shall be liable, and the part or proportion thereof to be paid by the insured in advance, before the risk shall commence. And the agent or agents of the county board shall further endorse on or annex to said statement that the county board insures the buildings and personal property mentioned in such statement for the period therein mentioned, the risk to commence when the applicant shall have paid the advance portion of the premium to the county treasurer, and received duplicate receipts therefor, and delivered one of them to the county clerk to be filed in his office. The statement signed by the applicant, and endorsement thereon by the agent of the county, or town chairman and assessor, shall be made out in duplicates, one of which shall be retained by the applicant, and the other shall be delivered by the county agent to the clerk of the county, to be filed by him. But nothing herein contained shall preclude the county board from requiring and inserting in the statement and endorsement of acceptance aforesaid, any pertinent matter or stipulation not contrary to this act. And in case that new buildings are erected on the same premises, or addition made to buildings thereon, already insured, or in case of any alteration therein, the board or its duly authorized agent, if it consents to continue the insurance, may direct a new statement to be made out and signed by the applicant, or such alteration in the former statement and endorsement as will express the contract between the board and the insured. SECTION 5. The maximum insurance premium contracted to be paid for the insurance of any building, and the personal property if any, kept therein, shall be a lien, as well upon said building as the land or lots on which it is situated and described in the statements mentioned in the preceding section. And no personal property, to be kept in any building, shall be insured where the owner thereof is not also the owner of the building and the land or lots on which it is situate, unless the owner of the land or lots shall endorse his consent to the insurance on the statement mentioned in the preceding section, or annex his consent thereto, in which case the personal property kept or to be kept in such building may be insured, and the premium shall be a lien on the building and lots or land on which it is situate, and the lien mentioned in this section shall have preference over any homestead right, or any mechanics' lien or incumbrance not perfected before the insurance begins to run. Premium to be property. a lien upon How to enforce premium. SECTION 6. In case the county board may find it necessary to collect the insurance premiums, or any payment of part or per centage thereof, to discharge and pay off losses or expenses, it may proceed by action to enforce the sum assessed against the real estate liable thereto, in the same manner that mortgages or other liens upon lands are enforced. Otherwise the said board may proceed to collect such insurance assessment by ordering its clerk to insert in a separate column, in the assessment roll, such insurance assessment, opposite the lots or land subject to its lien; and where such land has not been assessed and valued separately, such assessment shall be a lien on the lots or land valued therewith, and belonging to the same owner. But where the lots or land described in the statement required by Insurance assessment to be ral tax. On failure to collect, land to linquent. section 4, are valued in common with other land not belonging to the same owner, the board shall direct the clerk to separate such other land from the premises, subject to the insurance lien, and he shall apportion the gross assessment between them according to their respective values, and the board may require this separation in all cases where the land subject to the insurance lien has been valued by the assessor in common with other land, whether belonging to the same owner or otherwise. And the insurance assessment declared added to gene- by this act to be a lien upon any lots or tracts of land, shall be added to the general tax assessed against the same, and the town treasurer shall collect said insurance assessment, with like charges, of any person liable to pay the same, and it shall be a lien on any personal property he may have in such town, and it may be seized and sold by the town treasurer to pay such assessment, as though it were a tax for town or county purposes. And in case of failure to collect such asbe returned de- sessment, the town treasurer shall return the land as delinquent, and thereafter it shall be regarded by the county treasurer as part of the delinquent tax, and if not paid, with like interest and charges, it shall be included in the amount for which the county treasurer shall sell the land; and no redemption shall be allowed from such sale till the whole amount set forth in the certificate of sale, and legal interest have been paid; and no tax deed issued upon such sale shall ever be declared void or title claimed thereunder defeated, unless it shall appear either that the land embraced in such deed was not liable to the lien of the insurance assessment, as declared in this act, or that the same, with interest and charges thereon, has been paid. A conveyaffect insurance ance or transfer of premises, subject to an insurance lien, shall not defeat the same, but the transferee shall be entitled to the benefit of the insurance and liable to pay all subsequent insurance assessments. No person liable to pay such assessment, and refusing or neglecting for thirty days to pay the same when lawfully required, shall be entitled to recover for any loss accruing from the end of such thirty days till such assessment shall be paid or realized from the enforcement of such lien by action or otherwise. Transfer of property not to lien. Contract may be canceled, on notice. SECTION 7. Any insurance contract made under the provisions of this act may be canceled by the coun |