Act to amend Chapter one hundred and two of the Révised Statātēs.

The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Strate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Chap. 197

ings.

SECTION 1. The Clerks of the several courts of record shall, Clerks of Cogeth within thirty days after the expiration of each term of their re- er certain plead spective courts, attach together the pleadings and other papers. forming the record in every cause in which a final judgment or decree shall have been rendered at such term.

certain memo

SEC. 2. The Clerk shall make on[e] the back or mar-Clerk to make gin of each pleading and paper so attached as memorandum of randums and all orders and entries in relation thereto, with a reference to the references book and page in which each order shall have been entered; and at the end of the documents attach a memorandum of the judgment or decree, stating the substance thereof, with a ref erance to the book and page in which the entry thereof is made. SEC. 3. The papers so attached, with a memorandum required by the preceding section, shall be carefully preserved, as the roll of the judgments and decrees.

Papers to be preserved

tions to be ad

SEC. 4. When any bil! of exceptions shall have been allow-,,Bill of excep ed and signed, the Clerk of the court shall, within the same pe-ded. riod, cause the same to be written out at full length, unless previously done, and attach such bill of exceptions to the roll, as a part thereof.

tions to be also

SEC 5. When an execution shall be issued and returned, Return Execu the same shall in like manner be attached to the roll in the attached cause to which it apportains, and be made a part thereof.

Exception may

SEC. 6. In making out transcripts of records, except in When bills of suits of error, the hills of exception shall not be inserted, un- be omitted in less specially requested by the applicant therefor.

Transcript.

Clerk to make

certain entries

is given.

SEC. 7. Immediately after the rendition of a judgment, is shall be the duty of the Clerk to make the same entries in the whes judgment judgment docket as he is now required to do at the time of filing a record of judgment, and after such entry such judgment shall be a lien upon the real estate of the par[t]y against whom such judgment was rendered.

certain laws.

SEC. 8. All laws of this State referring in any manner to Construction of judgment records, except in cases otherwise herein provided, shall be construed to refer in like manner to the judgment roll herein named.

SEC. 9. Sections one and two of chapter one hundred and two, and all other acts or parts of acts contravening this act, are hereby repealed.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

clause.

Repealing

Approved, March 11, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 198 An Act to amend Section sixteen, Chapter one hundred and thirty-four, Titlofthirty,

Term of imprisonment.

Chap. 199

Commissioners appointed.

Proviso

Part four, of the Revised Statutes.

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

SECTION 1. Section sixteen, of chapter one hundred and thirty-four, of title thirty, part four, of the Revised Statutes, is so amended that the imprisonment in the county jail shall be for the term of six months or less, at the discretion of the jus tice having cognizance of the same.

SEC. 2. All actions contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly,

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Appoved, March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to authorise the 'aying out of a State road therein named.

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

SECTION 1. L. A. Reed, W. G. Cooper and Randal Johnson be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State road, from Depere to Kewaunee in Brown county: Provided, that no part of the expense of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 200

When pre-emp. tors may prove rights.

An Act to provide for praving pre-emotion righ's, ani to vnnd Section forty, of
Chapter twenty four, of the Revised Statutes.

The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do en ict as follows:

SECTION 1. Any person or persons who by any law of this State are entitled to pre-emptiou rights, to any of the school or university lands of this State, may at any time previous to the actual offering of such lands at public auction, prove their right to such pre-emption before the commissioners of school and university lands, at the capital of the State, in the same manner as is now provided by law.

recorded.

SEC. 2. The Secretary of State, on receiving any reports, Maps, &o, to be, plats or maps made by any appraisers of school and university lands, shall employ competent draftsmen to record the same in the manner provided in section forty of chapter twenty-four of the Revised Statutes, the expense of which record shall be paid out of the income of the fund to which said reports, plats or maps may belong.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Ar Act to lay out a State road from the village of Madison in the county of Dane, to

the quarter stake on section number thirty six, township number nine, north of Chap. 201

range number two east, in the county of Richland

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

Direction of

SECTION 1. That Orrin B. Hazzletine of Dane county, Gar- "Commissioners appointed to lay wood Greene of Richland county and John T. Jones of Iowa out a road. county, be and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State road, beginning at Madison in the county of Dane, and running westerly by the head of Fourth Lake, thence to Black Earth Valley, (the north side of John W. Thomas' house, where the county road now runs from,) thence down said valley to Arena, thence westerly crossing the Wisconsin river, thence on the nearest and best ground to the east line of Richland county, at the quarter-stake on section number thirty-six, township number nine north, of range number two

east.

Road

visors to make

SEC. 2. The commissioners appointed under the provisions County Superof this act, shall upon the performance of the work be entitled compensation. to such compensation for their services as the Supervisors of the counties where such services are performed shall deem just

and proper: Provided, that no part of the expense of laying Proviso. out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALE,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 202

Commissioners

of a road

out

An Act to authorise the laying out of a State road therein pamed,

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

SECTION 1. That R. Walsh, William Wightman and George Ramsey are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and es Direction there-tablish a State road from the village of West Bend in the county of Washington, to the village of Sheboygan Falls in the county of Sheboygan.

Supervisors to make compensation.

Proviso:

SEC. 2. The commissioners shall be entitled to such compensation for their services from the counties through which the road passes, as the board of Supervisors shall deem just. Provided, that no part of the expenses of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, March 11th 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 203

Dam-who to construct-and height.

Channel of riv

ed.

An Act to authorise Ebenezer Dakin to build a dam across White river.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do ena t as follows:

SECTION 1. That Ebenezer Dakin, his heirs and assigns, shall have power to build and construct a dam, to the height of twelve feet, across the White river, in the county of Marquette, on or near section seventeen, town seventeen, range eleven, for hydraulic purposes.

SEC. 2. That said Ebenezer Dakin shall be further empower-how improv ered, at his own cost to alter, enlarge and improve the channel of said river, from the point selected for the location of said dam, to its junction with Fox river, for the purpose of the free navigation of said White river.

Chap. 204

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, March 11th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An act to authorise the laying out of a State Road therein named.

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

SECTION 1. That William Bach of Manitowoc, Solomon

Commissioners

Lombard of Greenbush, and William R. Longstreet are hereby appointed to lay appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a State Road out road-route from the village of Manitowoc, through the villages of Greenbrush and Mayville, to Madison.

may employ Sur

SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall be allowed to employ such Commissioners surveyors and other assistants for the survey of said road, as veyors, &c. they may deem necessary.

visors to pro

tion.

SEC. 3. Said commissioners, surveyors and other assistants County Supershall be entitled to such compensation for their services, from vide compensathe counties through which said road passes, as the Supervisors of said counties shall deem just and reasonable: Provided, Proviso. That no part of the expenses of laying out said road, shall be

'n Act authorising the State Treasurer to pay to the Town Superintendents of Com

teen gebooks in the County of deterson, munies to which they are entitled by law. Chap. 205

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

to pay to the or

SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the State is hereby author- State Treasurer ised and required to pay over, upon the orders of the town der of Town SuSuperintendents of the several towns in the county of Jeffer- perintendents. son, the amount of school money apportioned by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to each such town respectively such order to be countersigned by the Town Clerk of the proper town, and directed to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

SEC. 2. Such orders so drawn as above, shall first be State Superintendent to enpresented to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, dorse orders pri and shall be by him endorsed, indicating thereon the amount of or to payment. money apportioned to such towns, and such order so drawn and countersigned shall be sufficient vouchers for the payment of the amount of money called for thereby in the hands of the Treasurer in his settlement with the Treasurer of the county of Jefferson for such fund, so far as the same shall be paid apon such orders.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and Duration of set. after its passage, and shall be and continue in force only so long as shall be necessary to close up account of school money in the hands of the Treasurer belonging to said county of Jefferson.