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ty, in any such case, to make a certified transcript of all writs, process, pleadings, papers, and proceedings whatever, in such suit, and transmit the same to the clerk of the district court for Sauk county; and the district court for Suk county shall have jurisdiction of all such suits the same as though they had been originally commenced in Sauk county.

§ 16. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to Dane County prevent the collector of Dane county, from collecting any may colect tax tax now due from the citizens of Sauk county.

APPROVED, January 10, 1844.

AN ACT to punish trespass on lands.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin.

§ 1. That any person who shall wilfully cut down or Cut or girdle destroy or, by girdling or otherwise, shall injure any tree any tree. growing or standing upon the private property of any individual, or who whall wilfully cut upon, or take, carry or haul away from any such land any timber or wood previously cut or severed from the freehold, or who shall wilfully cut down or destroy, or by girdling or otherwise shall Or injure. injure any tree standing or growing upon, or who shall On any miner. dig or carry away any mineral, earth or stone, in or up- al or school on any of the lands reserved and set apart for the use and land. support of a University in the Territory of Wisconsin, or in or upon any lands reserved or set apart for school purposes, or any of the even sections upon the canal grant, sworn out of market by the settlers upon such lands, shall be held guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon On conviction conviction of any of said offences, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county Jail of the proper county, not Imprisoned more than one year, or by fine not exceeding five hun- and fined. dred dollars, nor less than five dollars: Provided, that any Proviso. justice of the peace, shall have concurrent jurisdiction in Justice to have his own county with the district court of any offence in this jurisdiction, act, when the value of the trees, wood, timber, mineral, earth or stone shall be alleged, not to exceed the sum of fifty dollars, and in such case the punishment shall be by fine, not less than three, nor more than fifty dollars; more than $50

Fine
than $3 nor

in not less

and if any person on conviction of such offence shall refuse or neglect for the space of ten days, to pay such fine he shall be imprisoned in the county Jail, not less than ten nor more than fifty days.

§ 2. The twenty sixth section of an act entitled an act, to provide for the arrest and examination of offenders, commitment for trial and taking bail shall be construed to embrace offences under this act.

§3. This act shall take effect on the first day of March next.

APPROVED, January 27, 1844.

Payment of interest, &c. postponed.

Proviso.

AN ACT to postpone the payment of principal and interest moneys due from purchasers of canal lands, and other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin.

§ 1. That the payment of all principal and interest money which now is, or which may hereafter become due to this Territory, from purchasers of lands granted by Congress to said Territory, to aid in the construction of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal, be, and the same hereby is indefinitely postponed; and no suit shall be instituted, at law or in chancery, upon any bond, mortgage, or other security, given for any such principal or interest money, until such times as the Legislature shall hereafter determine; and in case any such bond, mortgage, or other security, shall not be paid or discharged until such time as the Legislature shall prescribe, the same, or the condition thereof, shall not for that cause be deemed to have become forfeited: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall affect the right of the Legislature at any time hereafter to require the payment of said interest and principal moneys at such times or on such conditions as they may provide, not inconsistent with the contracts of such purchasers.

§ 2. That all persons whose lands on said canal grant Who may pay have been sold for taxes, and redeemed by the Territory or any of its officers or agents, may pay to the Re

ax to.

ceiver of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal, the amount which may have been paid for such redemption, with seven per cent. interest on such payment; and such payment when made shall defeat any title or claim to any such lands, which the Territory may have acquired by such redemption.

APPROVED, January 25, 1844.

AN ACT to change the time for holding the annual meetings of the several boards of county supervisors.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

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§ 1. That the annual meeting of the board of county Commission. supervisors, shall hereafter be held on the first Monday in hold meetings each year, following the day now prescribed by law, for holding the general elections in this Territory.

§ 2. The chairman of town supervisors in the several towns, whose duty it shall be to attend the annual meeting of the board of county supervisors, shall return the poll No charge for books of the general election of their respective towns, book. without charge for mileage.

§ 3. In case of the absence by sickness or other cause of the chairman of the board of supervisors, one of the board present shall return the poll books at the time specified in section one, and shall be paid as is by law now provided.

APPROVED, January 10, 1844.

AN ACT in relation to the qualifications of voters for state government and for the election of delegates to form a state constitution.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

§ 1. That whenever the question of forming a state government in Wisconsin Territory shall be submitted

returning poll

Who may re

turn poll book

Who shall

vote.

to the people thereof, all the free white male inhabitants, above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have resi-. ded in said Territory three months, shall be deemed qualified, and shall be permitted to vote upon said ques

tion.

§2. That at any election hereafter to be held in this Territory, for the purpose of choosing delegates to a convention to form a constitution and state government for the people of said Territory, all the free white male inhabitants thereof, above the age of twenty-one years, who To reside six shall have resided in said Territory three months next preceding such election, shall be deemed qualified, and shall be permitted to vote for such delegates. APPROVED, January 22, 1844.

months in

Territory.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act concerning costs and fees."

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

§ 1. That in all actions commenced in the District Court if the demand of the plaintiff as found on the trial Demands ex. shall exceed the sum of fifty dollars, and shall by the set ceed $50 off of the defendant be reduced to a sum less than fifty dollars, the plaintiff shall have judgment for his damages and costs.

Shall have costs.

§ 2. And the fifty-third section of the act of which this is amendatory is hereby repealed.

§3. That provisions in the 13th section of said act Part of act re- which authorizes constables to be paid out of the Terripealed. torial Treasury for attending the District Courts is hereby repealed.

§ 4. Whenever any cause of action shall have accrued in this Territory, and the person against whom it has acLimitation act crued shall be absent from and reside out of the Territory,

the time of his absence shall not be taken as any part of the time limited for the commencement of the action, and the statute of limitations shall cease to run during such absence.

APPROVED, January 27, 1844.

AN ACT to set off the several towns therein named.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin, as follows, o wi: :

§ 1. All that district of country, on the west side of Fox river and Green Bay, (now comprising a part of the town of Green Bay,) and formerly known as the towns of Howard, Paysaukie, and Oconto, be, and the same is Town of Howhereby set off, into a separate town; and shall be known ard.

as the town of HOWARD.

§ 2. The first town meeting for said town of Howard, Town meeting

shall be held at the house of Daniel W. Hubbard on the where held. Suamigo River.

§ 3. All that district of country in surveyed township number two north, range twenty east, now part of the towns of Burlington and Salem, county of Racine, and all that district of country comprised in the surveyed sections numbered twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, and thirtysix, in township three north, in range twenty east, fourth meridian, now part of the town of Burlington in said county, be, and the same is hereby set off into a separate Brighton. town to be known and distinguished as the town of Town meeting Brighton; and the first town meeting shall be held at the when & where house of Michael Ward in said town.

Town of

held.

Bloomfield 1st

§ 4. All that district of country comprised in town one north, in range eighteen east, fourth meridian, be, and the same is hereby set off as a separate town, and shall be Town of known and designated as the town of Bloomfield, in the town meeting County of Walworth-and the first town meeting shall be when & where held at the house of Ebenezer Tupper in said town. held. § 5. All that district of country in surveyed township number two, range eighteen east, being now part of the town of Geneva, in the county of Walworth, be, and the same is hereby set off into a separate town, to be known, and distinguished as the town of Hudson; and the first ing when and town meeting shall be held at the house of John Stacy in where held.

said town.

§ 6. All that district of country comprised in surveyed township number one north, range seventeen east, now a part of the town of Geneva, county of Walworth, be, and

Town of Hud.

son town meet.

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