Chap 208 A. D. & J. La Chap 209 C. C. Clement any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated to J. A. Hadley the sum of twenty dollars, in full for, four hundred copies of the Watertown Chronicle furnished members of the pres ent, legislature. 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 appropriate to A. D. & J. LaDue the sum 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 A. D. & J. La Due the sum of seven dollars and fifty cents out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated in full for one hundred and fifty copies of the Sheboygan Democrat furnished the members of the present session of the legislature. 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 appropriate tɔ C. C. Clement the sum 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 be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to C. C. Cle ment the sum of four dollars and fifty cents, in full for ninety copies of the Southport Telegraph furnished the members of the present legislature. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate, Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Au act for apportionment of school moneys for 1850. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 210 Town super SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the town superintendent of, the several towns of this state, between the first Monday in April intendent to and the first Monday in May next, to apportion the school moneys apportion received from the town and county treasurers, to the several dis. school monies. tricts and parts of districts within their respective towns, in protion to the number of children residing in each, over the age of four and under the age of twenty years. SEC. 2. The number of children residing in the several school Clerk to report districts and parts of districts, between the ages of four and twenty dent. to unperintenyears, shall be ascertained by the clerks of the several school districts and parts of districts, and reported to the superintendents of the towns in which such districts or parts of districts are situated respectively, on or before the first day of April next. Monies when to be appor. SEC. 3. No moneys shall be apportioned to any district or part of district unless it shall appear by the certificate of the clerk tioned. of such district or part of district, that a school has been taught therein, by a qualified teacher, at least three months within the year ending on the first day of April next. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect on the second Monday of February eighteen hundred and fifty, and shall continue in force till the first Monday of May next thereafter, and no longer. 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 authorize the register of deeds of Marquette county to obtain from Chap 211 the office of the register of Brown county certain instruments therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The register of deeds of Marquette county is here- Register to by authorized to procure from the office of the register of deeds of procure cerBrown county, a copy of all deeds, mortgages, assignments, satis- tain records. factions, bonds, and other instruments that are recorded in said office, wherein the county of Marquette may be interested, the expense of which shall be paid by the county of Marquette. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senale. Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 212 An act to appropriate to the Rev. John Williams the sum therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate John Williams and Assembly do enact as follows: Chap 213 Wiran: Know! ton. Knowlton to execute receipt to treasurer. Provis SECTION, I. There is hereby appropriated to the Rev. John Williams the sum of fifty dollars for services as chaplain the present session of the legislature. 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 for the relief of Wiram Knowlton. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars is hereby appropriated to Wiram Knowlton out of the treasury of the state of Wisconsin. SEC. 2. The said Wiram Knowlton upon the payment of the said sum, shall execute a receipt to the treasurer of the state in full of all demands against the state for viewing, marking, surveying, and making a road from section thirty-six, in range four, (4,) west, township fifteen, (15,) north, in the county of Crawford, thence through the counties of Crawford, Chippewa, and St. Croix to Willow river on lake St. Croix,being a distance of one hundred and sixty three miles as by the survey thereof made; and said road is hereby declared to be a state road, the survey and location thereof lying through state lands, selected for and appropriated to school purposes: Provided, That E. R. Steves and H. Wedge the other commissioners of said road who have performed no service in surveying and locating the same, shall never be allowed any compensation from the state treasury as such commissioners. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 214 An act to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the construction of a dain across Rock river, approved February 21, 1848. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The proviso to section one of said act is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. The following proviso is hereby substituted for said Proviso. proviso, and declared a part of said section one: Provided, That in the event that such dam shall cause the water to flow back on any lands not owned by them, or either of them, then they shall pay to the owner or owners thereof such sum as such land may be reasonably worth, such value to be ascertained by the verdict of jury in an action of trespass to be brought in any court of record. 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 authorize the secretary of state to procure certain maps. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 215 SECTION 1. That the secretary of state is hereby authorized Secretary of to procure four large manuscript sectional maps of the state of State to proWisconsin, one each for the offices of the governor and secretary cure maps. of state, and one for each of the halls of the senate and assembly, to be made on good paper, attached to canvass, ready for hanging up, and on the same scale as the map now hanging in the secretary's office, said map to contain the latest reported government surveys up to the first of October next, containing the boundaries of judicial, congressional, senatorial, and assembly districts; also the boundaries of all towns organized, as well as geographical towns, and the location of county, towns, cities, villages, post offices, school, university, and state lands. When to be SEC. 2. Said maps to be completed by the first of January completed next, and for such price as the next legislature may see proper to pay for the same: Provided, The price shall not exceed one Proviso. hundred dollars for each map. 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 authorizing the town of Beloit, county of Reck, to raise a loan for the purpose of building a town house, and to occupy the public landing for the site of said house, THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 216 Authorized to erect a TGWIL SECTION 1. The town of Beloit, county of Rock, is hereby authorized to raise a loan sufficient in amount to erect a building house. for town purposes, and to levy a tax from year to year to pay the principal and interest. SEC. 2. Said town is hereby authorized to erect said building on the public landing north of the east end of the bridge across Rock river in said town. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved February 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 217 State 1.ot l'able for laying ⚫ Stato roads. Compensation. Damages to be paid by counties. This act not to apply to every roud. An act relating to the laying out and opening of state roads. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The state shall not be liable for any expenses incurred in or damages arising from the laying out of any state road heretofore authorized by law to be laid out, and which has not been laid out, or which may hereafter be authorized, unless the law providing for the laying out of such road shall expressly provide that the state shall pay such expenses and damages. SEC. 2. All commissioners appointed by any law of this state to lay out a state road shall receive such compensation for their services as may be allowed them by the boards of supervisors of the several counties in which such road may be located, the same to be paid out of the treasury of such county. SEC. 3. All damages occasioned by the laying out and opening any state road shall be paid by the several counties in which the same may be located. SEC. 4. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the roads authorized to be laid out by the present legislature, to wit: a state road from Green Bay in Brown county to Wausau in Portage county, and a road from Shaurette in Portage county to Green Bay in Brown county. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February, 9, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 218 An act to incorporate the Wisconsin Institute for the education of the blind. Trustees. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That A. Hyatt Smith, Hiram Foot, Ira Miltimore, Levi Alden, Jairus C. Fairchild, [and] William A. Barstow, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of |