the Wisconsin Institution for the Education of the Blind, and by Powers or corthat name they and their successors shall have successive and per- poration. petual existence, with power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to make and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, to take or receive by grant, deed, devise, bequest, or otherwise, property real, personal, and mixed, and have, hold, use, enjoy, and convey the same; to adopt by-laws not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the state; and to do all other acts necessary to the exercise of the powers herein conferred.

SEC. 2. The object and duty of the corporation shall be to Object of corcontinue and maintain the school for the education of the blind, es- poration. tablished in Janesville, and to qualify, as far as may be, that unfortunate class of persons for the enjoyment of the blessings of a free government, obtaining the means of subsistence, and the discharge of those duties, social, and political, devolving upon American citizens.

SEC. 3. The school shall be continued in or near Janesville, School, where and the corporation shall, as early as practicable, purchase a suita- to be he.d, &c. ble lot of ground containing not less than ten acres nor more than

twenty acres, and proceed to erect thereon suitable buildings and

make such improvements as are necessary for the school.

SEC. 4. The persons named in the first section of this act, Duties of trusand their successors, shall be the trustees of the school, to whom tees. power is given to employ a principal and all teachers, prescribe their duties, fix their compensation and the price of instruction, prescribe the course of study, fix the price of board, and all other expenses in the school, and to employ all persons necessary to the maintenence and to carry on the operations of the school.

ceived in said

SEC. 5. All blind persons residing in Wisconsin, of suitable Who to be reage and capacity to receive instructions, shall be received and school. taught in the said school, and no one of such persons shall be excluded from the privilege and benefits thereof by reason of the reception of persons from other states or territories.

SEC. 6. The trustees for the time being shall be severally lia- Trustees liable ble for the faithful application of all property,, funds, and effects rands, &c. which may be received for the use of the institution; and property, funds, and effects received by gift, grant, donation, devise, or bequest, shall be applied as directed by the person from whom received.

SEC. 7. The officers of the corporation shall be a president, secretary, and treasurer, who shall be appointed by the board of trustees, the president to be selected from their own number, the trustees to serve without compensation.

SEC. 8. The trustees in the first section of this act named, shall serve as follows, to wit: two shall serve for the term of one year, two for the term of two years, and two for the term of three years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified.The trustees shall meet within thirty days after the publication of this act, and organize and determine by lot the two that shall serve one year, the two that shall serve two years, and the two

Officers of cor

poration.

Term of trustees, &c.,

Officers of school.

Terms of tuition.

that shall serve three years. The governor shall appoint their successors, whose term of office shall commence on the first day of February, and continue for three years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified.

SEC. 9. The officers of the school shall be a principal, who shall have the general charge of the school, and such teachers as may from time to time be appointed. The academic and literary degress usually conferred by institutions for the education of the blind, shall be conferred by this institution, and diplomas granted. accordingly.

SEC. 10. Blind persons who may be placed in this school by or under the authority of the state, or any county, city, town, or other public corporation, shall be kept, taught, and permitted to enjoy, all the benefits and privileges of the school, be furnished with books, boarding, lodging, washing, fuel, and allowed the use of the library, at not exceeding one hundred dollars for the academic year of forty-two weeks. The provisions of this section shall apply only to scholars sent from other states or territories.

SEC. 11. The blind of this state, who are of suitable age and capacity, shall be received and taught in the school, and enjoy all the benefits and privileges of the same free of charge.

To levy tax to SEC. 12. To aid in the establishment of the school, there shall support school. be paid to the said trustees, for the use of the institution, a tax of one-fifteenth of one mill upon every dollar's worth of taxable property in this state, subject to taxation for state revenue, which tax shall be assessed and collected with the taxes assessed and collected for the ordinary purposes of the government for the present year.

Treasurer of corporation. Ilis duties.

SEC. 13. The treasurer of state shall receive the tax collected for the institution and keep the same as a separate fund, to be known as the fund for the blind, and pay out the same, from time to time, in such amounts as may be necessary in the judgment of the board of trustees, in conducting the business of the institution. The treasurer shall pay out the money on the allowance of the governor, who shall make such allowance, on the application of the board of trustecs.

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 amend an tct entitled "an act to incorporate the Madison and Be- Chap 219 loit Rail Road Company."

THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The said company may extend their road from Company may Janesville to lake Winnebago, by the way of Fort Atkinson, Jef. extend road. ferson, and Watertown.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of such extension the said company May increase may add ten thousand shares of one hundred dollars each to its capital stock. capital stock.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect so soon as said company by Act when to resolution adopted at a meeting of its board of directors shall as- take effect. sent thereto, and from and after such time, such company shall be known as the "Rock River Valley Union Rail Road Company."

SEC. 4. The said company, whenever it shall deem the same May divide expedient, may divide any portion of the capital stock of the com- capital stock. pany into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and every member of the said company shall be entitled to one vote therein, for every twenty-five dollars of stock which he may own.

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 amend an act entitled "an act to divide the county of Racine and Chap 220

to erect the county of Kenosha."

THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The supervisors of the county of Kenosha are Supervisors to hereby authorized and empowered to procure a copy of the procure rec. records of Racine county relating to the titles of all lands situate ords. within the limits of said county of Kenosha, as they now or may appear in the registers office in said county of Racine. The copy so entered in the registers office of Kenosha county shall be of the like force and effect as if originally entered of record in said county, and a duly authenticated copy thereof by the register of Kenosha county shall have like force and effect, and be admitted in all courts as evidence, the same as though the certificate were from the Racine county registers office.

land.

SEC. 2. All judgments entered up to and inclusive of the Judgment to next April term of the Racine county circuit court, in the records be a lien upen of said court, and all judgments entered up in the county court of said Racine county, to and inclusive of the next March term of said court, shall be and remain a lien upon any lands which may be owned by the person or persons against whom such judgments were rendered the same as though no division of said county had

ed.

taken place; and the clerk of said courts shall issue his execution to the sheriff of Kenosha county, directing said sheriff in default of goods and chattels to make the said sum with costs, &c., out of any land or tenements which the said debtor was possessed of at any time after the rendition of such judgment.

State treasurer SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the state of to give notice. Wisconsin to certify to the secretary of state the time of filing the bond as provided in the act to divide the county of Racine and the erection of the county of Kenosha, if filed by the time therein specified. The secretary of state shall upon the receipt of such certificate immediately give notice to the sheriff of the county of Ra cine, specifying what officers are to be elected at the April town elections for the county of Kenosha. Upon the receipt of such notice, the sheriff shall cause to be posted in three or more public places in each organized town in said county of Kenosha, a notice specifying the officers to be elected for said county, for which serElection, how vice he shall be paid by the county of Kenosha. The election to be conduct-shall be conducted in all respects at the polls as is provided by law for general elections, and the returns shall be made to the sheriff of Racine county, at Kenosha within six days after such election in the same manner that returns are directed to be made to the county board of canvassers. On the Tuesday next following the election Sheriff and two the sheriff of the county of Racine shall take to his assistance justices to be two justices of the peace, residents in the county of Kenosha, who shall be a board of canvassers, and shall proceed to canvass the votes cast at such election for county officers in the same manner as is provided for by law for other boards of canvassers. Said board of canvassers shall immediately publish in some newspaper in said county, the result of such election, and give a certificate of election to the persons elected, and shall as soon as the county board of supervisors shall be organized and a clerk elected, file with said clerk to be recorded, as by law directed, such statement of the result of such election.

canvassers.

SEC 4. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause this act to be published forthwith, and it shall go into effect from and after its passage.

MOSES M. STRONG,

Speaker of the Assembly,

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate,

Approved, February 9, 1850.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap 221 An act to lay out a state road from Green Bay in Brown county to Wausau

Commission

in Portage [county.]

THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That John Stackhouse, Edward A. Pearson, and ers appointed. Henry F. Lessey, be, and are hereby appointed cominissioners to

lay out and establish a state road, beginning at Wausau in Portage County, running on the nearest and best route to the town of Green Bay in Brown county.

MOSES M. STRONG,

Speaker of the Assembly,

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and Fresident of the Senate.

Approved, February 9, 1850.

NELSON DEWEY.

An act to authorize Jefferson school district No. 1, in the town of Grafton, Chap 222 county of Washington, to renew a tax warrant.

THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The clerk of Jefferson school district No. 1, in Clerk authoriz the town of Grafton, county of Washington, be and he is hereby ed to issue warauthorized and empowered to renew and re-issue to the treasurer rant. of said district, the warrant issued in the year 1848, by the trustees to the collector of said district for the purpose of collecting monies for school house and school purposes in said district with the tax list accompanying the warrant issued as aforesaid; and the said treasurer is hereby authorized and empowered to collect under such warrant when issued all sums of money specified in-such tax list, which are unpaid, together with interest on the same from the time the warrant heretofore issued expired in the same manner he might have done under the original warrant. 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 extend the time for collecting taxes in the town of Windsor, Dane Chap 223

county.

THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The time is hereby extended to the treasurer of the Time for coltown of [Windsor] to collect and return the taxes of said town, to lecting tax exthe fifteenth day of February. 1850.

MOSES M. STRONG,

Speaker of the Assembly,

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate.

Approved, February 9, 1850.

NELSON DEWEY.

tended.