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An act to provide for the appraisal and sale of school lands, and for granting Chap 236

pre-emptions thereon.

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

SECTION 1. There shall be appointed by the legislature at its Legislature to present session, by joint resolution of the senate and assembly, appoint ap three persons in each county, in which any of the five hundred praisers. thousand acres of land granted by the United States to the state of Wisconsin, and appropriated to the school fund, have been loca ted, except that portion thereof included in the odd numbered sections remaining unsold, and being part of the grant of land to aid in the construction of a canal from Milwaukee to Rock river, who shall proceed to appraise such lands located in the county for which they were appointed as hereafter provided.

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SEC. 2. At any time hereafter, when any of such lands provi- When lands ded for in such grant shall be located and duly reported according located Govto law, it shall be the duty of the Governor of the state of Wis- point apprais consin to appoint three suitable persons in each county where said lands may be located, to act as appraisers of said lands as hereinafter provided.

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SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, within Secretary to ten days after the appointment of appraisers as specified in the notify apprais first and second sections of this act, to issue a notice of such ap- pointment. 2 pointment in writing under the seal of the state to the persons so selected, which said notice shall either be delivered to the appraiser in person or forwarded by mail, directed to the post office nearest his residence, and in case any or either of the appraisers so selected shall refuse to qualify according to law, within twenty days after notice of his appointment, the governor shall proceed to make a new appointment to fill such vacancy or vacancies, and continue so to do until all the commissions are full.

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SEC. 4. The appraisers appointed under either of the foregoing Appraisers to provisions, shall before entering on the duties of their office, take inake cath &e and subscribe an oath or affirmation to be administered by some proper officer, to support the constitution of the United States and of this state, and faithfully and honestly to discharge the duties devolving upon them as such appraisers, according to the best of their ability, which said oath or affirmation shall be attached to their report to be returned as hereinafter provided.

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SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the appraisers or a majority of Duty of ap them, upon receiving notice as provided in the third section of this praisers. act, and after having taken the oath provided for in the fourth section of this act, to proceed to make a personal inspection of all lands situate in the county for which they were appointed, and to appraise the same in forty acre lots, stating the value per acre of cach, and every such lots at a fair valuation, without reference to any improvements made thereon. They shall also return a particular description of all improvements inade by any occupant or claimant upon any such lands if any, with a full and fair estimate

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of the value of such improvements, with the name or names of the person or persons claiming the same.

SEC. 6. After having inspected each and every parcel of said land, situate in said county for which said appraisers were appointed, and within six months after their appointment, to make a full, distinct, and correct report to the office of the secretary of state, of all the lands within their respective counties, describing them by forty acre divisions, with the value per acre, as estimated by them, of each subdivision; also, an estimate of the improvements, &c., on each, as before provided, and for the purpose of giving form, uniformity, distinctness and correctness to their said reports, the secretary of state is required to furnish to such appraisers printed forms upon which to make their returns, upon such plan as may be by him provided.

SEC. 7. The said appraisers aforesaid shall be allowed for the services herein required of them, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day for the time they may be necessarily engaged in the discharge of their duties as such appraisers, to be determined by their oaths; the payment thereof to be made out of the school fund upon the certificate of the secretary of state, stating the amount so due for such service, but no certificate shall be granted until such appraisers shall have fully complied with all of the requirements of this act.

SEC. 8. After the lands shall have been so appraised and the appraisal duly reported to the office of the secretary of state, and whenever in the opinion of the treasurer, secretary of state, and the attorney general, it shall be for the best interest of the school fund, the said lands shall be offered for sale, which sale shall be conducted in the manner and under the restrictions which are now provided for the school and university lands, by chapter twentyfour of the revised statutes, or as may hereafter be provided; but in all cases of pre-emptions under this act, the pre-emptor shall have the right to purchase according to the premises herein pro

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Pre-emption SEC. 9. There is hereby secured to every person who at the secured to set- time of the location for school purposes, any tract of land referred to in section one of this act, had made an actual settlement and cultivation thereon, the pre-emption right to purchase an amount of land not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, embracing such settlement and cultivation to be selected by the claimant in legal subdivisions at the appraised value: Provided, That no such pre-emptor shall be allowed to purchase any land so claimed for a less sum than one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre. SEC. 10. Pre-emptor to At any time before any such lands shall actually be prove claim, offered for sale, any person or persons residing thereon wishing to avail themselves of the rights secured by section eleven, of chapter twenty-four of the revised statutes, shall prove up their right to such pre-emption before the said commissioners by the affidavits of two or more disinterested persons, together with his or her own, setting forth that he or she had at the time of the location as school

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lands by the state, of the premises therein described, made an astual settlement and cultivation thereon, and shall at the time of the sale comply with the same conditions and obligations imposed upon other purchasers of said lands, and in case of non-compliance with the terms hereof shall forfeit all right to pre-emption. SEC. 11. The appraisers appointed by virtue of this act are hereby prohibited from surveying the lands appraised by them. SEC. 12. In all cases in which in the opinion of the treasurer, secretary of state, and attorney general the said lands are an adegiven not exquate security for the purchase price, and will remain so during ceeding thirty the time for which a credit shall be given on them, the same shall years. be sold on a credit of not exceeding thirty years, with interest payable annually, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum in ad

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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 the several sams therein mentioned.

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

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SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to E. R. Utter the E. R. Utter. sum of sixteen dollars and eighty cents, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for papers furnished the present legislature.

There is hereby appropriated to Alden & Holt the sum of twelve dollars and twenty-five cents, for papers furnished the present legislature.

There is hereby appropriated to S. M. Booth the sum of ten dollars for papers furnished the present legislature, and the further sum of two dollars for publishing governor's proclamation.

Alden & Molt

S. M. Booth.

There is hereby appropriated to Densmore & Cooley the sum Densmore & of six dollars for papers furnished 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.

Cooley.

An act to appropriate to Samuel Ryan, Jr., the sum therein named .

Chap 238

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 s. Ryan, Jr.

Chap 239

J. R. Rickey.

Chap 240

S. H. Taylor.

any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Samuel Ryan, Jr., the sum of four dollars in full for twenty copies of the Fond du Lac Republican furnished members of the present legis

lature.

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 J. R. Rickey 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 J. R. Rickey the sum of two dollars and fifty cents in full for medicines furnished Reed, state prisoner.

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 to appropriate to S. H. Taylor 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 S. H. Tayfar the sum of thirteen dollars and seventy-five cents, in full for two hundred and twenty copies of newspapers furnished the menhers of the present legislature.

MOSES M. STRONG,

Speaker of the Assembly,

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate.

Approyed, February 9, 1850.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap 241

Cramer &
Curtis.

An act to appropriate to Cramer & Curtis the sura therein named.

THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Fenate 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 Cramer

& Curtis the sum of fifty dollars in full for the daily Wisconsin furnished the members of the present legislature at its present session.

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 the county of Waukesha the sum therein named. Chap 242 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 Waukesha co. any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the county of Waukesha, the sum of one hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirteen cents in full for board and clothing furnished state. prisoners up to October 30, 1849, and also in full for charges for removing state prisoners from Milwaukee to Waukesha.

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 Tenney, Smith, Holt, & Co. the sum therein named.

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

Chap 243

SECTION. 1. There is hereby appropriated to Tenney, Smith, Tenney, Smith Holt, & Co. the sum of one hundred and ninety-three dollars and Holt & Co. fifty cents, for three thousand two hundred and twenty-five copies

of the Wisconsin Argus furnished to the members of the legisla

ture, at five cents per copy.

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 Rev. Charles Lord the sum therein named.

THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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SECTION. I. That there is hereby appropriated to the Rev. Rev. C. Lord.

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