T the state line to the centre of lake Michigan, and the south-east corner of said county, thence northerly through the centre of lake Michigan to the town line between towns two and three, thence westerly on said town line to the eastern line of the present town of Burlington, thence southerly on said eastern line of the town of Burlington to the south-east corner thereof, thence westerly on the south line of the said town of Burlington, to the east line of the county of Walworth, thence southerly on said east line of Walworth county to the place of beginning, is hereby set off and erected into a separate county, under the name and title of Kenosha. SEC. 2. That said county of Kenosha is hereby erected, established, and organized, with all the rights, powers, and privileges by law granted to other counties of this state, and subject to all general laws established for county government. Election of SEC. 3. That on the first Tuesday of April next, the elecBounty officers tors resident within said new county, shall meet in their respective towns at the usual place of holding elections, and then and there proceed to elect all and every of the county officers provided by law for county government, which said officers shall hold their offices when duly qualified until the expiration of the term of similar offices in other counties. Election of SEC. 4. That on the first Monday of May next, there shall be County judge. elected by the qualified electors of said county of Kenosha, a county judge, in accordance with the provisions of chapter eighty-six of the Revised Statutes of Wisconsin, who shall hold his office under the same terms and restrictions, and with the same limita tion as is provided by said act for county judges. The county Where court held. County seat. Indebtedness of Racine co. to be paid. courts of said county shall be held in accordance with law at such place in the village of Southport as shall be designated by the supervisors of the county, until the completion of the court house therein. SEC. 5. The present village of Southport is hereby declared to be the county seat of said county of Kenosha. The circuit court of the first district of Wisconsin shall hold its session at said county seat of Kenosha, commencing on the fourth Monday of May, and on the fourth Monday of November in each year, the first term to be held on the fourth Monday of November next. SEC. 6. The liabilities or indebtedness of the present county of Racine shall be paid, satisfied, and discharged rateably by said county of Racine and county of Kenosha, according to the last assessment of Racine county, except so far as the county of Racine shall have a fund on hand or in prospective, which said fund shall be used in discharge of such indebtedness, and except further that any new liability of said county arising from any and all erections, alterations, or repairs of county buildings, which said liabilities shall be a charge upon the county of Racine, and in case there is a Fund to be di- county fund on hand, the same shall be divided between said counvided. ties at the same rates as that for the discharge of indebtedness.The board of supervisors of either county shall have power to audit claims for which both counties are liable. SEC. 7. The county of Kenosha shall have no claim against the county of Racine on account of the county buildings therein situate. court to be SEC. 8. All process, appeals, recognizances, and other pro- Actions in ceedings commenced either in the circuit court for the county of Racine, or in the county court of said county, prior to the first prosecuted. Monday of March next, shall be prosecuted to final judgment therein, in the same manner they might have been had this act not have been passed. SEC. 9. The county of Kenosha shall constitute the sixteenth 16th Senate senatorial district, and any part of the sixteenth district as before district. limited, which may be situated north of the north line of said coun ty of Kenosha is hereby attached to the seventeenth senate dis. trict. SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the county supervisors elected Duty of superat the next April town election, within the limits of said county of visors. Kenosha, to meet at the Durkee House in the village of Southport, on the first Monday of May next, at ten o'clock, A. M., and organize a board of county supervisors, shall then proceed to select within the limits of said town of Southport, suitable and convenient grounds for the erection of a court house and other county buildings, and also to procure a suitable room for the county courts: Provided, Section eleven of this act shall have been complied with. surer of Kenosha. SEC. 11. There shall be executed to the treasurer of the coun- Bond to be ty of Kenosha and his successors in office, a good and sufficient given to treabond in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, by five or more good and responsible persons to be approved by the judge of the first judicial circuit of the state of Wisconsin, conditioned, that they will erect or cause to be erected, free of expense or charge to the county of Kenosha, upon lands to be located by the supervisors, a good, ample and sufficient court house, jail, and fire proof register's and clerk's offices, to be approved and accepted by the supervisors of the county. The court house to be completed and County buildready for use by the first Monday of November next, and the jail ings to be oreeand offices of clerk and register within one year, and further, shall cause to be erected in the county a good, ample, and sufficient title of warrantee, free of all costs or charge, the lands located by the supervisors for such county purposes, with the appurtenances, within thirty days after the selection thereof by said supervisors, said - bond shall be filed with the treasurer of the state of Wisconsin, for the use of said county, on or before the first Monday of March next, and the certificate of the state treasurer of the receipt of such bond so approved, published in a newspaper in said proposed county, shall be evidence of the compliance with the terms of this sec tion. ted. SEC. 12. This act shall take effect immediately upon the filing when act take of the bond provided for in the eleventh section of this act: Pro-effect. vided the filed within the time therein limited and not other wise. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved January 30 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 40. An act relating to the assessment and collection of the highway tax for the year 1849, in the town of Hazel Green. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the action of the supervisors of the town of Act legalized. Hazel Green in the county of Grant, relative to the assessment of the highway tax in said town in the year 1849, be, and the same is hereby declared legal. SEC. 2. The unpaid portion of said tax, shall or may be collected and applied as the law provides. Chap. 41. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, January 30, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act to legalize the acts of joint school district number four, in the towns of THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the acts of the school commissioners in forming the present joint school district, number four, in the towns of Jefferson and Aztalan, shall not effect or prevent the said joint school district number four, from exercising through its proper officers all the rights and privileges that they would have been entitled to had said act been strictly legal. SEC. 2. The officers of said district are hereby authorized to levy and collect a tax in said district, in pursuance of a vote of the same,for the erection of or payment for a school house in said district. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate: Approved February 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act relative to the location of a School House to be erected by Union Chap. 42. School District No 1, Town of Beloit, County of Rock. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Union School District No. 1, Town of Beloit, District author County of Rock, are hereby authorized to erect a school house on ized to erect such part of the grounds laid out as a Public Square as said dis- house. trict shall decide upon. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passsage. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Approved, February 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act legalizing the acts of Isaiah W. Thayer, as Town Superintendent of THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 43. SECTION 1. All the acts of Isaiah W. Thayer, as town superintendent of common schools for the town of Beloit, county of Acts of I. W. Rock, shall be deemed to possess the same force and value, in law, ized, Thayer legalas if he had been duly elected to fill that office at the last election held for that purpose, and had proceeded according to law in the discharge of his duties. SEC. 2. This act shall take 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 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act to provide for the protection of married women in the enjoyment of Chap. 44. their own property. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The real estate, and the rents, issues, and profits thereof, of any female now married, shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband, but shall be her sole and separate property, as if she were a single female. SEC. 2. The real and personal property of any female who may hereafter marry, and which she shall own at the time of marriage, and the rents, issues, and profits thereof, shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband, nor be liable for his debts, and shall continue her sole and separate property. SEC. 3. Any married female may receive by inheritance, or by gift, grant. devise, or bequest, from any person, other than her husband, and hold to her sole and separate use, and convey and devise, real and personal property, and any interest or estate therein, and the rents, issues and profits, in the same manner and with like effect as if she were unmarried, and the same shall not be subject to the disposal of her husband, nor be liable for his debts. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap: 45. An act to authorize the laying out of a road therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That John R. Smith. Resin Barnes and John J. Mathews, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay Commissioners out and establish a state road, beginning at Richmond, in Richland to lay out county, on the nearest and best ground to Springville Postoffice, road. in Crawford county. a SEC. 2. The said commissioners shall not be entitled to any compensation for the services rendered under this act. MOSES M. STRONG, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Speaker of the Assembly, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 46. An act to change the name of the village of Rochester in Sheboygan county. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the village of Rochester, in the counName chang-ty of Sheboygan, is hereby changed to Sheboygan Falls, by which name it shall hereafter be known in all places whatsoever. ed. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. |