Chap. 55. An act to authorize societies of Free Masons, Odd Fellows and Sons of Temp. erance, and other similar societies to hold property. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for all persons of full age, beTrustees may longing to any Grand Lodge or Divisions of Free Masons, be chosen. Odd Fellows, Harmons Sons, or Sons of Temperance. and other sinilar societies, and subordinate Lodges and Divisions, duly organized, and acting under and by the authority of the Grand Lodges or Divisions of the aforesaid Orders of the State of Wisconsin, other similar societies not under the jurisdiction of a Grand Lodge or Division, to assemble at their usual places of meeting, and by the rules of their societies, elect any number of discreet persons of their order or society, not less than three nor more than nine in number, as trustees, to take charge of the estate and property bɛlonging thereto, and to transact all business relative to the investment and disposal thereof... SEC. 2. Such trustees may have a, cominon seal, and may alTrustees may ter the same at pleasure, and they may take into their possession have seal, and and custody all property of such. Lodge or society, whether the same shall consist of personal or real estate and whether the same may have been given, granted or devised, directly or indirectly, to such Lodge or society, or to any other person or persons for their take possession of prope ty. tees. use. SEC. 3. Such trustees may also, in the name of such Lodge, Powers of trus- Division, or society, and in strict conformity with the rules and regulations of the Grand Lodge, Division or society, from which they may derive their charters, sue and be sued in all courts and places, and they may recover and hold all the debts, demands, rights and privileges, all buildings, burying places, and all the estate and appurtenances belonging to such Lodge. Division or tociety, in whatsoever manner the same may have been acquired or in whose hands soever the same may be held, as fully and amply as if the right and title thereto had been originally vested in the said trustees, and they may hold other real or personal estate, and devise, lease and improve the same; and being anthorized by a vote of a majority of all the members of a Lodge, Division or society, in regular standing, may grant. bargain, sell and convey the same in fee simple, but the whole of such estate, real and personal, shall not exceed the yearly value or income of three thousand dolJars; and such trustees shall also have power to erect buildings for the use of their Lodge, Division or society, and keep the same in repair. Term of office. SEC. 4. The said trustees shall hold their offices for one year, but may be removed at any time and the vacancy filled by such Lodge, Division or society. Any two of the trustees may at any Meetings, how time, call a meeting of the trustees, and a majority of them being convened, in accordance with the rules and regulations which may be established by such Lodge, Division or society, shall be compe called. tent to do and perform all matters and things which such trustees are authorized to do and perform. SEC. 5. All lands, tenements and hereditaments that have been or may hereafter be lawfully conveyed by devise, gift, grant, pur chase or otherwise, to any person as trustee in trust, for the use of any such Lodge, Division or society, shall descend with improvements in perpetual succession to, and shall be held by such trustees in trust for such Lodge, Division or society. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate, Approved, February 7, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act for apportionment of school monies for 1850. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 56. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the town superintendent of Superintend'nt the several towns of this state, between the first Monday in April to apportion school moneys. and the first Monday in May next, to apportion the school moneys received from the town and county treasurers to the several districts and parts of districts, within their respective towns, in pro portion to the number of children residing in each, over the age of four and ander the age of twenty years. SEC. 2. The number of children residing in the several school Number of districts and parts of districts between the ages of four and twenty children to be years, shall be ascertained by the clerks of the several school dis. ascertained. tricts 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. SEC 3. No money's shall be apportioned to any district or When moneys part of district, unless it shall appear by the certificate of the not to be apclerk of such district, that a school has been taught therein by a portioned. 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 Act to continFebruary, eighteen hundred and fifty, and shall continue in force ue in force. ull 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, 1950. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 57. An act to legalize the organization of school district number four in the town Organization of New Berlin. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the organization of School district number of district le- four, so termed in the town of New Berlin, in the county of Waugalized. kesha, be and the same is hereby declared legal, and the several acts of the trustees and other officers of said district, shall not be deemed invalid in consequence of any defect in the organization of said district. Meetings, & c. legalized. SEC. 2. That the several regular and special meetings here. tofore held in the aforenamed district, and the acts of the several officers as aforesaid, are hereby legalized. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and 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. Chap. 58. Bridge how built. When menced completed. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Fox river. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That George H. Tuttle, his associates and assigns, shall have power to build and construct a bridge across Fox river, on any land owned by them at Omro,on section eighteen, in town eighteen. (18) of range fifteen (15.) SEC. 2. That said bridge shall not be less than twelve feet wide, and shall be constructed with a draw over the channel of the river not less than fifty feet wide; and the said George H. Tuttle, his associates and assigns, shall attend to the draw, so as to permit boats, vessels and rafts, to pass through the same at all times, free of and charge, and without unnecessary delay, and shall be commenced within one year and completed within three years. com. SEC. 3. The said George H. Tuttle, his associates and assigns, shall have power, after the completion of said bridge, to demand and collect tolls for passing over the same, as follows: For any Rates of toll. vehicle drawn by one horse, ten cents; for any vehicle drawn by two horses or oxen, twenty cents; and for each additional horse, five cents; for foot passengers, five cents; for a single horse, five cents for all animals in droves, three cents each: Provided, That hogs and sheep shall not be charged more than at the rate of two cents per head. SEC. 4. The said George H. Tuttle, his associates and assigne, shall keep posted up in some conspicuous place on said bridge, a SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Speaker of Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. An act to provide for laying out a road from Fox Lake to Marquette. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 59. SECTION 1. Martin Webster, M. W. Stevens, and Mad- Commission. ison Miller are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and es- ers to lay out tablish a state road from Fox Lake in Dodge county, to Marquette road. in Marquette county, upon the most direct and practicable route. SEC. 2 The said commissioners shall be entitled to receive for laying out said road, such compensation as the board of supervi- Compensation. sors of Dodge and Marquette counties may deem sufficient. 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 legalize the act of the Superintendents of commor schools in the towns of Lisbon and Menomonee, in the formation of joint school district No. 6, of Lisbon and Menomonee, and the organization of said district. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 60 Acts of officer &c. legalized SECTION 1. The act of the superintendents of common schools in the towns of Lisbon and Menomonee, in the county of Waukesha, in forming and establishing joint school district No. 6, in the said towns of Lisbon and Menomonee, and organization of said district, together with the acts of said district officer for the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine, be, and the same are hereby declared to be legal and valid for all purposes thereby intended. SEC. 2. The proceedings of the special school meetings held in Proceedings of the aforenamed district in the month of November, one thousand meetings le eight hundred and forty-nint, are hereby declared legalized. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and af fer its passage. galized. Approved February 1, 1850. NELSON DEWEY, proper, to be paid out of the county treasies of the said counties respectively. Approved, February 4, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 65. Power to change location. Right to extend road. Increase capi tal. An act to amend an act entitled, "an act to incorporate the Madison and Beloit Rail Road Company, approved August 19, 1848. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The said company shall have power to change the location of the said rail road and to terminate the same at any point that to them shall seem expedient, on the south line of the State of Wisconsin and at such termination as may unite with any other rail road. SEC. 2. The said company shall have the right to extend said road to any point on the Wisconsin river that to them shall seem proper. SEC 3. The said company shall have power to increase their capital stock to six hundred thousand dollars. MOSES M. STRONG, Speaker of the Assembly, SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 4, 1850. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 66. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Fox river. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Alexander Spaulding, his associates and asBridge in Al signs, shall have power to build and construct a bridge across Fox river, on any land owned by them in Algoma, on section fifteen, (15,) in town eighteen, (18,) of range sixteen, (16.) goma. Bridge how built, &c. SEC. 2. That said bridge shall not be less than twelve feet wide, and shall be constructed with a draw over the channel of the river, not less than fifty feet wide, and the said Alexander Spaulding, his associates and assigns, shall attend to the draw, so as to permit boats, vessels, and rafts to pass through the same at all times free of charge, and without unnecessary delay, and shall be commenced within one year and completed within three years. SEC. 3. The said Alexander Spaulding, his associates and assigns, shall have power after the completion of said bridge, to de |