Duty of mayor and clerk. Duty of council. Duty of treas urer. ing and for no other purpose. Such bonds shall be payable in not less than one year, nor more than ten years from the date thereof, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, which bonds shall be payable at the office of the city treasurer of the city of Hudson. And the interest thereon shall be payable on the first day of February in each year after the issuing of said bonds; provided, that no portion of the bonds to be issued, in pursuance of this act, shall be issued, or delivered, except upon the terms and conditions and in the manner prescribed by this act. And provided, that they may be made payable to some certain persons, therein designated,'as payee or bearer, and, if so made payable, shall be negotiable by delivering without assignment or indorsement; provided, further, that said amount, including existing indebtedness of said city, shall not in the aggregate exceed five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes in said city previous to incurring such indebtedness. SECTION 2. Said bonds shall be signed by the mayor, and countersigned by the city clerk of said city, under the corporate seal thereof, and shall be in the hands of any bona fide holder of the same, full and complete evidence to establish the indebtedness of said city of Hudson, according to the tenor and effect of said bonds; provided, that no bonds shall be issued except by order of two-thirds of the common council of said city, and entered upon the record of their proceedings. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the common council of said city, to provide for the payment of the principal and interest on said bonds, and for that purpose, to levy an annual tax upon all the taxable property within the corporate limits of said city and not exceeding five mills on a dollar on the valuation of the taxable property to be collected in cash in the same manner that other taxes are collected; provided, that the overplus of said tax, after paying the principal and interest then due, shall be a sinking fund, to be kept for the purpose of paying the principal and interest of the said bonds that may hereafter become due. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the city of Hudson to pay the interest and principal which shall become due upon the bonds of said city, issued under the provisions of this act, at such a time and place as shall be specified in said bonds. SECTION 5. That hereafter the common council of Powers of council prescribed. said city, shall not have power in any one year to levy a tax for municipal purposes, except for school purposes, and as provided in section three of this act, greater than one-half of one per cent. on the assessed value of the property of said city, nor shall they contract debts or issue city orders to a greater amount each year than the tax allowed by law to be collected, except for the payment of bonds issued under this act, and then only a sufficient amount over one half of one per cent. to meet such bonds and interest becoming due. bonds to be SECTION 6. The common council of said city is Payment of authorized to provide for the payment of bonds issued, provided for. in pursuance of this act, previous to the maturity thereof. SECTION 7. All acts and parts of acts, in so far as they contravene the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 7, 1878. [No. 184, A.] [Published February 14, 1878.] CHAPTER 10. AN ACT to legalize the official acts of the school board of edu cation of school district number one of the city of Wausau. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the official acts of the board of Acts legalized, education of district number one in the city of Wausau, county of Marathon, from the first day of August, 1874, till the year 1877, inclusive, are hereby legalized and declared valid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1878. Sixth judicial circuit. Eighth Judicial circuit. [No. 324, A.] [Published February 15, 1878.] CHAPTER 11. AN ACT to reorganize the sixth and eighth judicial circuits. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The counties of Clark, Jackson, Monroe, La Crosse and Vernon, are hereby detached from the sixth judicial circuit, and are attached to and shall constitute and be a part of the thirteenth judicial circuit. The counties of Buffalo and Eau Claire are hereby detached from the thirteenth judicial circuit and attached to and shall constitute and be a part of the Thirteenth ju- eighth judicial circuit. The thirteenth judicial circuit shall hereafter be known as the sixth judicial circuit. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 13, 1878. dicial circuit. [No. 157, A.] [Published February 15, 1878.] Amended. CHAPTER 12. AN ACT relating to and amendatory of chapter sixteen of the private and local laws for the year 1872, entitled an act to incorporate the city of Eau Claire. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter four of said chapter sixteen of the private and local laws of the state of Wisconsin for the year 1872 is hereby amended by adding thereto a new subdivision, to be known as subdivision twenty-eighth, and to read as follows: "28th. The common council of said city shall have power to authorize the building, construction and operation of street railways upon the streets and bridges in said city, for the carriage of passengers and freight through said city, and upon and over the streets and bridges therein, upon such terms and conditions as they shall impose; provided, that such street railway or railways shall be operated by animal power only." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after it passage. Approved February 13, 1878. [No. 21, A.]. [Published February 15, 1878.] CHAPTER 13. AN ACT to authorize the judge of the third judicial circuit to appoint an additional court commissioner in the county of Winnebago. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: authorized to SECTION 1. The judge of the third judicial circuit Circuit judge is hereby authorized to appoint one court commissioner appoint comin the county of Winnebago, in addition to the three missioner. commissioners now authorized by law to be appointed therein; and hereafter, whenever vacancies may occur in such office, the said judge may fill the same by appointment in the manner now provided by law. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 13, 1878. [No. 148, A.] [Published February 15, 1878.] CHAPTER 14. AN ACT to provide for the purchase of additional copies of the legislative manual. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriation. any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money sufficient to pay for the additional copies of the legislative manual for 1878, ordered by joint resolution number eleven, senate. Pro- Proviso vided, that the cost of such manuals shall not exceed one dollar and seventy-five cents per copy, except those in extra binding, which shall be paid for at the regular trade rates for such work. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 14, 1878. 2-LAWS. [No. 125, S.] [Published February 18, 1878.] Compensation of clerk. CHAPTER 15. AN ACT to provide for the compensation of the clerk of committee on revision of the laws. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The clerk heretofore authorized to be employed by the joint committee on the revision of the laws, appointed at the session of 1878, shall be paid the sum of five dollars per diem from the date of the appointment of said committee. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated from the state treasury a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act. SECTION 3. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1878. [No. 8, 8.] Published February 18, 1878.] Acts of Sam. Act of H. A. CHAPTER 16. AN ACT to ratify, confirm and make valid the acts and contracts of the state timber agents therein named. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That that certain sale of logs made by Sam. Harriman, as state agent, on the 25th day of July, 1873, or at any other time, and especially that sale made by him to Torinus, Staples & Co., or to Louis E. Torinus, I. Edwin Staples, William A. Bronson and Martin Mower, or to any or either of them, and all and singular, the terms of such sale, whether upon credit or otherwise; also, all sales of grass on meadow lands, and all and singular, the terms of such sales, whether upon credit or otherwise, heretofore made by H. A. Taylor, as state agent, to D. F. and Eugene Smith, or to any other person or persons, are in all respects hereby ratified, made valid and confirmed from the date of such sale or sales; and all and every promis. sory note, bill, draft, chose in action, security and evidence of debt, of whatever character, heretofore taken by them or by the state of Wisconsin, or at any time |