said city, and shall in all respects be subject to assessment and taxation,and be under the government and control of said city and the ordinances thereof, in the same manner and to the same extent as though the same had been included within the original corporate limits of said city. SEC. 2. That portion of section six described in the first section of this act shall until the City Council of said city shall see fit to alter or change the same, constitute and be a part of the third ward of said city. SEC 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851.· NELSON DEWEY. An Act to authorise the construction of a dam aoross the Milwaukee river. Chap. 80. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION. 1. George W. Foster, his associates, successors, heirs and assigns, are hereby authorised to build and maintain a dam across the Milwaukee river on section twenty-nine, town twelve, range twenty-one east of the fourth principal meridian (in the county of Washington); also to erect mills or other machinery or in any other manner make use of the water for hydraulic purposes: Provided, The erection of the dam shall not Proviso. flow the lands of others than the said Foster and his associates. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to authorise the laying out of a State road in Marquette and Brown counties. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 81. SECTION 1 That Cyrus Langworthy, David H. Robinson and Edgar Sears are hereby appointed Commissioners to lay out and establish a State road commencing at the farm owned by Thomas McLelland, on the Ceresco and Strong's Landing Direction road, thence running north as near as practicable to Weyauwaga in the county of Brown, via the village of Sacremento in the county of Marquette, and the Little River and Weyauwaga Mills. SEC. 2. The Commissioners appointed under the provisions of this act, shall, upon the performance of their work, be entiCompensation. tled to such compensation for their services as the Supervisors of the towns through which said road passes shall allow to be paid by said towns; provided, that no part of the expense of laying out said road shall be paid out of the State treasury. FREDERICK W. HORN, Proviso. Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act granting to Marcus Warren and Moses S. Chap. 82. Calkins, the right to keep and maintain a ferry across the Wisconsin Riyer," ap proved February 9, 1859. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1 That after the twentieth day of October, in each year, and during the season the ice is running in the spring, the proprietors shall be entitled to receive such rates as other ferries on the river receive at such times. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 83. Boundaries. An Act to divide the county of Brown and create the county of Outagamie. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That all that portion of country now embraced in the county of Brown,known and designated as Towns 21, 22, 23 and 24, north of ranges 15, 16, 17, 18, and the west half of 19, east, is hereby set off into a separate county, which shall be called and known as the county of Outagamie. SEC. 2. That the County of Outagamie aforesaid, shall be organized after the first day of April next, for the purposes of county government, and shall enjoy all the rights, privileges, immunities and powers of the other counties in this state. SEC. 3. There shall be an election held in the several towns cers. and precincts, such now are, or may be hereafter established by law on the first Tuesday of April next, for the election of all Election of offsuch town and county officers as the said county by virtue of its organization and the privileges of this act shall be entitled to, who shall severally hold their officers until the first day of January after the next general annual election and their successors are duly qualified. SEC. 4. The said election shall be conducted in all respects. in the manner now provided for holding the same under the law regulating general elections, and the votes cast at the same shall be returned and canvassed as therein provided, and the judges of said election shall issue certificates of election to any person duly elected under the provisions of this act. SEC. 5 That the scat of justice of said county shall be, and is hereby located at the Town of Grand Chute in said county, and the citizens of said county may at their first election vote for or against the establishment of the seat of justice of said county at any place in said county and the place so receiving a majority of the votes polled at such election shall be the permanent seat of justice. County Seat visors. SEC. 6. Said county so established shall remain attached to Duty of Superthe county of Brown for judicial purposes until otherwise provided by law. SEC. 7. The County Supervisors so elected on said day of election, shall meet as soon thereafter as may be, at the seat of justice, and with the Clerk of said county, all of whom being first duly qualified according to law and under oath by some person authorised to administer the same, shall then and there proceed to organize said county, and may then and there perform all such duties and services as may be required of them by law, in Judicial Expenorder that the said county may be organized as contemplated by this act, and to approve the qualifications of other county of ficers. SEC. 8. That the county of Outagamie shall pay into the Treasurer of the county of Brown, all costs, fees, charges and expenses, that shall be paid by the county of Brown, that may accrue in consequence of any prosecution, conviction, imprisonment or proceedings whatever against any person charged with any crime or misdemeanor within said county of Outagamie, and the Supervisors of the county of Brown may sue and collect the same from said county of Outagamie in any court of competent jurisdiction. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. ses. Chap. 84. An Act to appropriate to Rev. Wesley Lattin the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1 That there is hereby appropriated to the Rev. Wesley Lattin the sum of fifty dollars, for his services as Chaplain during the session of eighteen hundred and fifty, in full, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, that no more than fifty dollars shall be paid the said Lattin for his services as Chaplain for the year eighteen hundred and fifty. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 85. Chap. 86. An Act to appropriate to George H. Slaughter 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 G. H. Slaughter the sum of thirteen dollars, in full for furnishing maps to T. Burns for locating State lands, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to Moritz Shofer 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 Moritz Shoefler, forty-five dollars, in full, for printing three hundred copies of the Governor's Message in the German language, for the use of the Senate in 1850, and for papers furnished the Legislature for the year aforesaid. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the enate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. 7 An Act to appropriate to Moritz Shofler 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 Moritz Shoefler, forty dollars, in full, for four hundred copies of the Governor's Message in the German language, for the use of the Senate in the year 1851. FREDERICK W. HORN, DUNCAN C. REED, Speaker of the Assembly, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 17th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 87. An Act to amend an act entitled "An Act to authorise Eliphalet S. Miner and Henry, Chap. 88. Clinton to improve the navigation of the Grand Rapids in the Wisconsin river," approved January 29th, 1847.g The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SEC. 1. John Werner, junior, assignee of Eliphalet S. Miner and Henry Clinton, and his heirs and assigns, wherever he shall have so improved the navigation of the Grand Rapids of the Wisconsin river, for running lumber rafts, that four men can run over the said Grand Rapids a single raft of lumber containing not more than twenty thousand feet of lumber, in safety, by using ordinary care and diligence; shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights and privileges which are granted to the said Eliphalet S. Miner and Henry Clinton by the act of which this is amendatory. SEC. 2. The said John Werner, junior, shall be authorised Toils. and empowered to demand, receive, sue for and recover, six cents per thousand feet of sawed lumber instead of the sum of ten cents, as provided in the act of which this is amendatory. SEC. 3. To enable the said John Werner, junior, to enforce the remedy by attachment, given by the third section of the act of which this is amendatory, it is hereby provided that whenever the said John Werner, junior, his agent or attorney, or his heirs or assigns, or their agent or attorney, shall make and file with any justice of the peace an affidavit stating that any person is justly indebted to the said John Werner, junior, or his Remedy by atheirs or assigns, in any sum for tolls due to him for the running of any raft, flat-boat, scow, or other water craft, over the said Grand Rapids, which sums shall be stated in such affidavit, and stating that such person refuses or neglects to pay such tolls, such justice of the peace shall issue a writ of attachment commanding the tachment. |