such lands shall be no longer needed for the purposes aforesaid, the said company are hereby authorised to sell and convey the same. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to amend Section 9 of Chapter 76 of the Revised Statutes. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 265 valid. SECTION 1. Section 9 of Chapter 76 of the Revised Statutes is amended so that the same shall read as follows: No Chattel Mortga ges--against mortgage of personal property hereafter made shall be valid what parties against any other person than the parties thereto, unless possession of the mortgaged property be delivered to and retained by the mortgagees, or unless the mortgages, or a copy thereof, be filed in the office of the Town Clerk where the mortgagor resides, or in case he does not reside in the State, in the town Clerk to endor where the property mortgaged may be at the time of executing tion the same; and such Clerk shall endorse on such instrument or copy, the time of receiving the same. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to incorporate the Columbia and Sauk county Bridge Company. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: time of reoop Chap. 266 SECTION 1. That James F. Flanders, James Maxwell, Incorporation. Isaac H. Palmer and Chester Matson, and such other persons as may associate with them, be and they are hereby incorpora ers. ed by the name and style of " The Columbia and Sauk county Corporate powridge Company," and by such name may sue and be sued, I ead and be impleaded in any court in this state, may have a >mmon seal, and change the same at pleasure. ital stock. SEC 2. The capital stock of said company shall be ten Division of eayousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of ten dollars ach: Provided said company shall have power to increase the Proviso Commissioners places named. capital stock to any amount not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. SEC. 3. James F. Flanders, James Maxwell and Isaac H. to open books at Palmer and Chester Matson, are hereby appointed commissioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock, and shall open a book of subscription at the house or office of James F. Flanders, in the town of Adams in Sauk county, on the second Monday in May, A. D., 1851, and another at the house of Isaac H. Palmer, in the town of Lodi, in the county of Columbia, on the third Monday in May, A. D., 1851, which books shall be kept open for three days. Location of Bridge. Width of bridge SEC. 4. Said company shall have power to build and construct a bridge across the Wisconsin river, between the county of Columbia and the county of Sauk, at a place known as Matson's Ferry, on the south-east quarter of section number two, in town number ten north of range number seven east. SEC. 5. The said bridge shall not be less than fourteen feet wide, and shall be constructed with a double track for wagons, and shall have a good substantial railing on both sides. It shall also be constructed with a draw over the channel of the river, Width of draw. not less than fifty feet in width, for the free passage of boats, vessels, and rafts of all kinds navigating said river, and the said corporation shall provide adequate attendance to said draw so as to permit boats, vessels and rafts to pass through the same Passage of draw at all times, free of charge and without unnecessary delay. to be free, &c. Said bridge shall be commenced within one year, and shall be completed within four years from the passage of this act. Rates of Toll. List to be posted up. Power to make SEC. 6. The said company shall have power for the term of thirty years after the completion of said bridge, to demand and collect toll for crossing the same as follows: For any vehicle drawn by two horses or oxen twenty-five cents; for any vehi cle drawn by one horse fifteen cents; and for each additional horse or ox five cents; for foot passengers three cents; for a single horse five cents; for all animals, (hogs and sheep excep ted,) in droves of less than fifty, two cents each; and for all over fifty, one and a half cents each; for hogs and sheep one cent each. SEC. 7. Said company shall keep posted up in some conspicuous place on said bridge, a list of rates of toll allowed by this act. SEC. 8. Said company shall have power to make all by-laws necessary for the regulation of their corporate affairs not repug nant to the laws of the United States or of this State. SEC. 9. This act may be amended, altered or repealed by any future legislature. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to incorporate the Lake and Mississippi Steamboat Company. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 267 SECTION 1. That John Bannister, and his associates, own- Incorporation. ers of the steamers Peytona and Oshkosh, are hereby declared to possess corporate powers under the name and style of the Lake and Mississippi Steamboat Company. SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be twenty- Capital Stookfive thousand dollars, divided into shares of two hundred dollars how increased. each, subject to increase at the pleasure of said company. elected at annu SEC. 3. The affairs of said company shall be managed by Directors to be five directors, to be elected by the stockholders from among al meeting. their number at their annual meeting, on the first Monday of December in each year, and to hold their offices for one year and until others are elected in their places. The directors shall appoint one of their number President, and shall keep a book in which minutes shall be entered of all their proceedings and open to the inspection of any of the stockholders. The direc- Directors may tors may appoint a Treasurer, Secretary and such other officers pot certatú as may be necessary in the transaction of the business of the company and make such by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of said company as may be deemed expedient and proper: Provided, That such by-laws, rules and regulations are proviso. not inconsistent with the laws of this State. oilers. ble. Stockholders SEC. 4. The stock which any 'person may hold in said company shall be deemed personal property and liable to attach- personally liament and execution in such manner as is or may be provided by law, each stockholder shall be personally liable for all debts, dues and demands of said company and on a failure upon any execution against said company to make the full amount due thereon, an alias may be issued against the individual stockholders and levied upon their private property, liable as aforesaid. Company to file a statement with Secretary SEC. 5. The company shall file a statement annually, on or before the first day of Februaay, with the Secretary of State, of state. showing the amount of capital of said company, the names of the stockholders, and number of shares of stock owned by each, T Flection of Di rectors. Declaration and reservation. and the liability of the stockholders whose names are so returned and filed, shall not cease until the expiration of one year from the date of such filing. SEC. 6. The first directors shall be elected at a meeting to be held at Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago, on the first Monday of May next, to hold their offices until the next annual election. SEC. 7. This act is declared to be a public act, and as such shall be admitted in evidence in all the courts of this state, and shall be subject to amendment, alteration or repeal by any future legislature. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 268 Who may ereet bridge. Bridge not to An Act to authorise the erection of a free bridge across the Milwaukee River at Hamboldt in Milwaukee County The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. That E. B. Woolcott, Lelotees A. Cotten and Brecker, of the county of Milwaukee and their associates are hereby authorised to erect and maintain a free bridge across the Milwaukee river on the dam across said river, at or near Humboldt in Milwaukee county. SEC. 2. Said bridge shall be so constructed that all such obstruct passage water crafts as have usually navigated said river can pass un of crafts. der it. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 13th, 1851. Chap. 269 Aldermen to give notice to owners to do work. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to authorise the Aldermen of the Third Ward of the city of Milwaukee to pave certain streets in said Ward. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Aldermen of the third ward shall have power and they are hereby authorised to assess special taxes on the city lots and lands lying on or bounded by east Water པས་ men may contract for work. be issued in pay street in said ward, and also the east and west streets from the river to Main Street in said ward for the purpose of paving said streets opposite said lots and lands. They shall give notice to the owners or occupants of such lots and lands if to be found, but if not found, by advertisement for twenty days in one or more daily newspapers published in said city, requiring them to do the work therein mentioned within a reasonable time therein specified, in the street opposite their said lots or lands, and if the work should not be done within the time specified and in pursuance of such notice, the said Aldermen may when Aldercontract for the doing thereof: and when the said work shall be completed according to the terms of such contract, and the expenses thereof ascertained, the said Aldermen shall give to the contractor a certificate under their hands, stating therein. the amount due such person for the work, whatever it may be, and the lot and piece of land upon which the same is chargeable, with interest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum until paid, which said certificate may be transferred by endorse- Certificates to ment thereon: and if the amount of such certificate with the ment. accrued interest thereon shall not be paid within ninety days from the date of said certificate, then it shall be lawful for the owner or holder of such certificate to present their petition to When holder of the circuit court of the county of Milwaukee setting forth the petition-Circuit nature of the labor performed, and the work done, with a copy of such certificate and a description of the lot or piece of land described in such certificate, and the notice given as aforesaid, with an affidavit of the truth of the fact contained in said petition: whereupon the said court or the Judge thereof in vaca- When Court to tion shall order judgment to be recorded against the said owners of such lots if known, otherwise against the said several lots by description, for the said amount and costs and interest at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum until paid, in the name of the city of Milwaukee for the use of the person named in said petition. Said judgments shall be liens on said lots, in preference to any other liens of previous or subsequent dates, ted to have pref and shall be entered by the Clerk without the aid of an at- erence. torney or without a judgment record, and execution may be issued thereon, and said lots sold as other real estate upon examination; and if such notice shall have been given to do the work as herein directed, no informality or error in any of the proceedings or assessments shall vitiate or make void said tax. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 13th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. certificate may Court. order judgment. Liens thus crea |