Fire proof erected. SEC. 6. The sum of one thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to the building or erecting a good and substantial fire proof vault to be money vault or safe to be erected in the room now occupied by the supreme court in the capitol, the vault to be of good three inch oak plank, double inlaid with iron bars so as to prevent the same being broken into, with the outside stratum to be composed of a thick hollow stone wall so as to be fire proof, and to be built after a plan to be furnished by J. Kip Anderson, now assistant engineer on the Fox and Wisconsin river improvement, and for which he shall be allowed such sum as shall be agreed upon by him and the treasurer, the work to be constructed under the direction of the state treasurer, and to be erected during the present summer, MOSES M, STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL Lt. Governor, and Pres't of the Senate. Approved February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY, An act relative to towns that fail to organize. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 175 How taxes SECTION 1. Whenever the people of any township which has been or shall be hereafter set off, shall neglect or refuse to organ- collected when ize by the election and qualification of the officers required by town fails to law to be chosen by the several towns within this state, by reason organize. whereof the property within said township shall fail to be assessed and returned in the manner provided by law, the county board of supervisors shall issue their warrant to the assessor and to the treasurer of the town next adjoining, requiring them to assess and collect respectively the quota of taxes due from such township to the county and state until an election shall be had therein, and thereupon such assessor and such treasurer shall severally discharge all the duties in regard to the assessment and collection of said taxes within said township that would have devolved upon them had they been duly elected treasurer and assessor respectively for said township, and for any malfeasance in respect hereof, said treasurer shall be liable upon his official bond, or said board of supervisors may if they think necessary require him to execute a new bond to the county treasurer in such sum and in such surety as they shall direct. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 176 Minimum fix acre. An act to establish the minimum price of the University Lands. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: and SECTION 1. The minimum price of the University lands, shall ed $10 per be, and the same is hereby established at ten dollars per acre, none of said lands shall be sold for less than said minimum price. SEC. 2. The said minimum price of ten dollars per acre, is hereby established as the lowest appraised value of the University lands, and no further appraisement shall be necessary. To be lowest. Commission ers to offer lands for sale. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the commissioners for the sale of the school and university lands to offer said university lands for sale in connection with the school lands, subject to the provisions of the law, chapter twenty-four, title eight, Revised Statutes, authorizing the sale of the school and university lands, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this act. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 177 An act to authorize the laying out of a road from Washington county to Commission. ers. Fond du Lac. . THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. W. R. Longstreet, J. H. Haight and J. S. Farrar, are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a road from town thirteen, range nineteen, or that vicinity, to any point in the county of Fond du Lac. Compensation SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall not be entitled to any compensation from the state for services as said commissioners. Chap 178 Corporation. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act to incorporate the Swan Lake and Pardeeville Canal Company. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. J. C. Fairchild, Simeon Mills, J. S. Pardee, H. West, Jr., and Joseph Utley, together with such other persons as may hereafter become associated with them, their successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate, by the name of the Swan Lake and Pardeeville canal company, and by that name shall be and are hereby made capable in law to purchase, hold, and enjoy and retain to them and their succesors, lands, tenements said hereditaments, so far as may be necessary for the purpose of said canal, and the same to grant, sell, rent or in any manner dis pose of; to contract and be contracted with; to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, answered and be answered, defend and be defended, and also to make, have, and use a common seal, the May have a same to alte', renew or break at their pleasure; and if either of common seal. the persons named in this section shall die, refuse or neglect to execute the powers and discharge the duties hereby created, it shalll be the duty of the remaining persons hereinbefore named, or a majority of them, to appoint a suitable person or persons to fill such vacancy or vacancies so often as the same shall occur. SEC 2. The said corporation shall be, and they are hereby Right to coninvested with the right to construct such a canal from some con- struct canal. venient point on Swan Lake to Lake Roberts, and from Lake Roberts to Spring Lake, at or near Pardeeville, all in the county of Columbia. SEC. 3. The capital stock of said corporation shall be thirty Amount of thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars capital stock. each, and each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote. tion to stock. Sec. 4. The above named persons, or a majority of them, are To open books authorized to open books for subscription to the capital stock of for subscripsaid company: Provided, That no subscription shall be made unless one-fourth part thereof shall be paid at the time of such subseription. SEC. 5 So soon as said stock, or two thousand dollars thereof Meeeting to shall be subscribed, the above named persons or a majority of elect officers. them, may call a meeting of the stockholders for the purpose of electing three directors, and said directors shall elect one of their number president; shall appoint a treasurer, secretary, and such engineers and other officers as they may find it necessary, and fix their compensation. SEC. 6. The directors of said company shall have power to Powers and du make all needful rules and regulations and by laws touching the ties of directors business of said company, and determine how said canal shall be made and the width thereof; shall regulate the amount of tolls and the manner of collecting the same; fix penalties for the breach of any such rules, regulations and by laws and penalties provided for in such by-laws may be sued for by any person authorized thereby in the name of said company, and recover in an action of debt before any court having competent jurisdiction The by-laws being at all times subject to the revision of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin as also the rates of tolls. SEC. 7. The sai! company shall have the right to enter upon Company may any lands, to survey and make said canal, not exceeding one hun- enter upon dred and fifty feet in width, and whenever any lands shall be re- lands quired, and the same shall not be given or granted, the aggrieved party may choose an arbitrator and the company an arbitrator, and the two shall choose a third, who shall proceed, under oath, to as Act, how to be construed. Chap 179 Shields and sess the damages, and when their award shall be paid or tendered by said company said company shall have the same right to retain, own, hold and possess said lands, as fully and absolutely as if the same had been granted and conveyed to said company by deed as long as the same shall be used for the purposes of said canal. SEC. 8. This act shall in no way effect any rights of individ uals on account of mill or other dams that has heretofore been erected, or may be erected, and shall in no way be construed to authorize said company to flow any land other than one hundred and fifty feet wide in said canal, neither shall it be construed so as to authorize the said company to build any dam, or set the water back upon the lands of individuals other than that owned by said company. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act to pay to Shields and Sneeden the amount therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Shields & Sneeden the sum of thirty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents, being in full of their account against the state for articles furnished for the use of the legislature, as per bill rendered by thein. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 180 An act to authorize Joseph Bailey and John Marshall to build and maintain a a bridge across the Wisconsin River. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: CommissionSECTION 1. That Joseph Bailey and John Marshall, their asers authorized sociates, successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to erect, to build bridge. build and maintain a bridge across the Wisconsin river, near the mouth of Dell creek, viz on the south-east quarter of the northwest quarter of section fifteen, town thirteen, range six, and thenc across to the opposite side of the Wisconsin river. Their powers. SEC. 2. The said Bailey and Marshall and their associates and their executors, administrators and assigns, shall have power fo the term of ten years after the completion of the bridge, to demand and collect toll for passing the same, as follows: For any Rates of toll. vehicle drawn by two horses or oxen, twenty five cents, for any vehicle drawn by one horse, fifteen cents, and for each additional horse or ox. five cents; for all animals in droves of less than fifty head, two cents each, and for all over fifty, one cent each; Provided. That hogs and sheep shall not be charged more than one cent per head. SEC. 3. They shall keep posted up in some conspicuous place on said bridge, a list of the rates of toll allowed by this act. Proviso. SEC. 4. Said bridge shall be constructed with a draw of fifty To construct feet, capable of letting steamboats and other water crafts, pass and a draw. re-pass through the same without delay, and shall in no manner in. terrupt the free navigation of said Wisconsin river. SEC. 5. This act may be altered, amended, or repealed by any future legislature of the state of Wisconsin MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act to repeal section three of chapter one hundred and thirty-one of the Chap 181 Revised Statutes and for other purposes. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one hundred and thirty- Statutes one of the Revised Statutes, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. The supreme court are [is] hereby authorized to fix such fees for the services of the clerk of said courts as to the court amended. An act to appropriate to David Holt, Jr., the sum therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 182 SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to David Holt, Jr., D. Holt, Jr. to be paid out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and nine cents, for postage on pamphlets and newspapers mailed to the several counties in the state, and for postage, stationery and furniture |