have license Supervisors Anctioneers to tioneer by selling any goods, wares or merchandise at any sale from Clerk of at which the highest bidder is deemed to be the purchaser, unless such person shall have a license therefor from the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county in which he intends to execute said business, signed by the clerk of said board of supervisors, on penalty of forfeiting to the treasurer of the county, for the use of the county, for every such sale the sum of fifty dollars, together with the duties payable by this act upon the goods, wares or merchandise so sold without license: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to require a license for the sale at auction of any goods, chattels or other things which by this act are not made liable to duty. Proviso. Clerk may grant license Proviso. SEC. 3. The clerk of the board of supervisors of the several counties may grant license to exercise the business of an auctioneer of goods, wares or merchandise within their respective counties, to any inhabitant of this State who shall apply for the same: Provided, that the person so applying shall first give bond with surety in the sum of five hundred dollars, to be approved of by a Judge of the circuit or probate court in which he resides, payable to the treasurer of the county, that the person applying for such license shall duly pay the duties imposed by this act to the treasurer of the county, on or before Applicant to the first Monday of October, January, April, and July in each year, and shall in all other respects comply with the require ments of this act, and said clerk shall be entitled to receive the sum of one dollar for every such license signed by him to be paid by the person who files his bond as required by this act with the clerk of said board of supervisors. give bond. When persons licensed to make statement. Clerks to render account to SEC. 4. Every person licensed as aforesaid shall render on oath to the clerk of the board of supervisors of said county on the first Monday of October, January, April, and July in each year, a true and particular account in writing of all moneys for which any goods, wares or merchandise, hable to duty by this act, have been sold by him at auction. SEC. 5. Each clerk of the different boards of supervisors Board annually who shall have received any reports on sales at auction, agreeably to the provisions of this act, shall annually on or before the meeting of the board of supervisors at their annual meeting, render an account thereof to said board, containing the number of licenses by him granted, the amount of duties reported to him to have been paid the county treasurer, from whom paid, with the total amount of sales made by auction in said county. SEC. 6. No license granted by virtue of this act shall be of any validity for any longer term than one year from the date In all cases where the auctioneers or owner of the Licenses to be va id one year. thereof. SEC. 7. ject to duties in property sold by virtue of this act, or any person employed by Purchasers subthem or either of them shall become the purchaser, such sale all cases. shall be subject to the same duties as if any other person had become the purchaser. FREDERICK W. HORN, DUNCAN C. REED, Speaker of the Assembly. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 14, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. [NOTE. This act was published March 21st, 1851. WILLIAM A. BARSTOW, Secretary of State. An Act to authorise the draining or lowering of North Lake in the Town of Lerton, county of Waukesha The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 289 Lake. SECTION 1. Robert Mason, David Mason, Allen Dawson, Who may lower Thomas Dawson, Christian Hire, and John Bellweed, their associates, successors, [and] assigns are hereby authorised to excavate the bottom of the outlet of North Lake, situated in the town of Merton, county of Waukesha, on part of sections sixteen, seventeen, twenty and twenty-first, to a sufficient depth, and of a width not exceeding thirty-five feet, to lower the water of said lake, not exceeding thirty inches: Provided, They do Prov so. no damage to any mill privilege upon said stream. Peace to sum SEC. 2. Any person who may consider that he has sustain - When Justice of ed any damage in consequence of said excavation being done, mon Jury to asmay apply to any Justice of the Peace in said county, who sess damages. shall summon a jury in the same manner, that they are now summoned to assess damages for the laying out of public highways; and said jury shall be competent to assess any damages, such aggrieved person may sustain; and before proceeding to do so shall be sworn to faithfully and honestly discharge their duty. They shall also hear all evidence which either party of fer in relation to the amount of damages sustained. tion for dama against person SEC. 3. Should damages be assessed in favor of any per- When execuson, as provided in the preceding section, said Justice shall ges to issue make an entry of the same upon his docket and if not paid named. with cost within sixty days, he shall issue an execution against the goods and chattels of the said Robert Mason, David Mason, Allen Dawson, Thomas Dawson, Christian Hire and John P. Bellweed, their associates, successors, and assigns, which shall have the same force that it would have had, if a judgment had been rendered against them by said Justice. Condition of SEC. 4. If said excavation be not commenced within two grant. years, and completed within five years, then all privileges [granted] by this act shall cease and be void. FREDERICK W. HORN, DUNCAN C. REED, Speaker of the Assembly. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 13, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 290 An Act to repeal "An Act authorising the construction of a Bridge across the south Act repealed. Proviso. branch of the outlet of Lake Winnebago," approved February 5, 185) The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That "An Act authorising the construction of a bridge across the south branch of the outlet of Lake Winnebago, granting authority to Harrison Reed, James D. Doty, Curtis Reed, and their associates, to build and maintain a bridge aeross the south branch of the outlet of Lake Winnebago," approved February 5th, 1850, be and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, This act shall not take effect until a bridge shall be built according to the conditions of a bridge chartered to Gorham P. Vining and others, approved February 8th, 1850, across the south channel, leading to Walnut street, or the street passing southwardly by D. D. Dodge's tavern, in the village of Winnebago Rapids; and in case of a failure so to construct and forever maintain, according to the terms of said charter of said bridge, the persons named in the act repealed When certain by this act, may resume all rights and privileges granted to su me rights. them by said act; and all persons who have erected a bridge upon the act repealed by this act, are hereby required to re persons may re move from said stream all materials and obstructions put in said stream in the erecting, or subsequently for sustaining said Bridge owners bridge, as soon as said bridge below the dam shall be made safe te amove for crossing loaded teams, or the same may be removed as a nuisance by any one else, for the expense of which removal, said proprietors and builders shall be liable. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 15th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to pay to Wm. Doughty the pri cipal and interest due in five bonds issued by Chap. 291 the Territory of Wi-cousin The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows ? SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to William Doughty, of Georgetown, D. C., out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, payable on the first day of June next, the following sums, to wit: Bonds. For five bonds of one thousand dollars each, due on the 20th Payment for of June, A. D. 1851. Five thousand dollars, also, for eleven months' interest, sixty dollars and sixty cents. Also: for twenty coupons, for thirty-five dollars each, five of which are due each Dec. 20th 1849, June 20th 1850, Dec. 20th 1850, and June 20th 1851, seven hundred dollars. Also: for interest due on said coupons, thirty-six dollars and seventy-four cents. Payment for Coupons. Payment for Interest. Exchange. Also: for exchange on Bank of America, New York, where Payment for such bonds and coupons are payable, sixty-nine dollars and ninety-six cents. Treasurer to SEO. 2. It shall be the duty of the treasurer on the pay- Treel bonds & ment of this appropriation, to take up and cancel said bonds and coupons. Approved, March 15th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act providing for the appointment of Commissioners to review and survey a Ter ritorial Road therein named. Chap. 292 appointed to re The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Jameson Hamilton, of the county of La Fay- Commissioners ette, William Bateman, of the county of Iowa, and Benjamin view and surDenson, of the county of Dane, are hereby appointed commis- vey road. sioners, and vested with powers to review and survey an old Territorial road commencing at the village of Shullsburgh in Route, said county of La Fayette and running to the Blue Mounds in the county of Dane aforesaid, via Avon, Darlington, Cox's Mills on Otter Creek, Fayette, Parkinson's Mills in Yellow Stone Creek, R. G. Scott's store, William Bateman's farm, and thence to the Blue Mounds, there to intersect the road leading from Madison to Mineral Point, said road being the same that was surveyed by one Hugh R. Hunter. Variations may be made. State not to pay expense. Chap. 293 Sum appropriated. Chap. 294 Sum appropriated. SEC. 2. Said Commissioners are hereby also authorised to make such trifling variations in said road from the original survey, as may be by them deemed necessary. SEC. 3. No compensation for services rendered under the provisions of this act, shall ever be claimed of or paid by this State. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 15, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropri: te to William F. Cramer 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 William E. Cramer, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-two dollars and twenty-five cents in full, for publishing in the Wisconsin proposals for doing the public printing for the years 1849 and 1850, for publishing notice of sale of canal property, and the Governor's proclamation for the detection of A. Briggs, a murderer. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 15, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act appropriating to E. B. Quiner 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 E. B. Quiner out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. the sum of three dollars and seventy-five cents in full, for publishing in the Democratic State Register a notice in relation to the unpaid mortgages in canal lands, by order of the Secre tary of State. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 15, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. |