Where pas sage way to all times provide the necessary attendance so as to open said draw for the convenience of persons navigating such stream. SEC. 14. For the convenience of persons owning or posbe made by sessing lands through which said rail road shall pass, it shall be the duty of said company, when required, to make Company. When com a good and sufficient passage way, over or under said rail road, wherever the same may be necessary, to enable the occupants of said lands to pass over or under the same with wagons, carts, and implements of husbandry, as occasion may require: Provided, that the said company shall in no case be required to make more than one such passage way for each farm, and when any public road shall cross such rail road, in any farm, the person owning or possessing such farm shall not be entitled to require said company to make any additional causeway. SEC. 15. On the completion of said rail road, or any por tion of the track, not less than ten miles, it shall and may pany may re- be lawful for the company to demand and receive such sum or sums of money, for passage and freight of persons and property as they shall from time to time think reasonable. ceive tull. Penalty for damage done to road. Property of liable for debt SEC. 16. If any person shall wilfully and knowingly break, injure, or destroy the rail road so to be constructed by said company, or any part thereof, or any work, building, or ma chinery attached to, or in use upon the same, belonging to said company, such person or persons, so offending, shall, each of them, for every such offence, forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding three times the amount of damages caused by such offence, which may be recovered in the name of the said company, by action of debt, in any court having competent jurisdiction in the county wherein the offence shall be committed, and shall also be subject to indictment, and upon conviction of such offence, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either, at the discretion of the court. SEC. 17. The property of every individual invested in stockholders said corporation shall be liable to be taken in execution for the payment of his or her debts, in such manner as is or may be provided by law: Provided, that all debts due said com pany shall be first paid. increased. SEC. 18. The stockholders, holding a majority in value Stock when of the stock may at any annual or special meeting, increase the capital stock of this company to an amount not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars. strued SEC. 19. This act shall be favorably construed to effect Act to be fathe purposes thereby intended; and the same is hereby de- vorably con clared to be a public act, and copies thereof printed by authority of the territory, shall be received as evidence thereof. lature may resume SEC. 20. In case of a violation by the company of any of When legisthe provisions of this act, the legislature of the territory, or state of Wisconsin, may resume all and singular, the rights grant. and privileges hereby granted to said company. SEC. 21. This act shall be in force from and after its pas To incorporate the trustees of the Beaver Dam Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin : SECTION 1. That there be established in the village of Name and Beaver Dam in the county of Dodge, a seminary of learning, style of corby the name and style of the Beaver Dam Academy, and poration. that John Van Eps, George W. Brower, A. Ackerman, Parker Warren, Israel Root, Joseph McNiel, C. S. Bristol, Thomas Mackie, David Drake, and M. W. Rowley, and their associates and successors in office, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "The Trustees of the Beaver Dam Academy," by which name they and their successors shall forever be known and have perpetual succession, and shall have power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts and places, in all actions, suits, complaints, and causes whatever; and they shall have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure; and they shall have power, under said corporate name, to acquire, Powers of corporation purchase, receive, hold, and enjoy, in deed and in law, to themselves and their successors, property, personal, real and mixed, and the same to sell and convey, rent, or otherwise lawfully dispose of at pleasure, for the purpose of education: Provided, that the real estate owned at any time by said corporation shall not exceed ten thousand dollars. General Amount and nature of stock. Offcers, how lected. SEC. 2. The stock of said corporation shall consist of shares of ten dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable on the books of said corporation in such manner as shall be directed by the trustees of the same. SEC. 3. The corporate concerns of said academy shall be managed by five trustees, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business; they shall be elected annually on the first Monday of May by the stock holders of said academy, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected. The election of trustees shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each and every share by him owned to the amount of ten shares, and then to one vote for every five shares over and above that number. Any stockholder may vote in person or by proxy. The said trustees shall elect one of their number to be president, and shall have power to fill all vacancies in their own body. All elec tions shall be held at the academy building, when the cor poration shall have erected one; and until then, elections SEC. 4. The trustees of said academy shall have power, II. Upon any vacancy in the said offices of president or trustees, to elect others in their places, by the votes of a majority of the trustees, present at any regular meeting. III. To take and hold by gift, grant, or devise, any real or personal property, and to sell, mortgage, let, or otherwise dispose of the same, in such manner as they shall deem most conducive to the interests of said corporation, IV. To direct and prescribe the course of study and discipline to be observed in said academy. V. To appoint a treasurer, clerk, and such other officers. as they shall deem expedient, who shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the trustees. VI. To prescribe the duties, and fix the salaries of all the officers of said corporation and to remove or suspend them from office for incapacity, immoral conduct, or misbehavior in office, and to appoint another in the place of any officer so removed or suspended.. VII. To make all ordinances and bye-laws necessary and proper to carry into effect the preceding powers, not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States and the laws of Wisconsin. Power of trustees. test to be re SEC. 5. No religious test or qualification shall be required No religious from any trustee, or other officer of said corporation, or of quired any student, for admission to any privilege in said academy. Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED, February 11, 1847. President of the Council. HENRY DODGE. Duty of clerk. Duty of treas urer. AN ACT To abolish the office of county collector in the county of Grant, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of [the Territory of] Wisconsin: SECTION 1. That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of county commissioners, in the county of Grant, to make out and deliver to the county treasurer, a transcript of the assessment roll, or rolls, together with a precept, at the time, place, and in the manner that he is now required by law to make out and deliver the same to the county collector. SEC. 2. That the county treasurer shall immediately af ter receiving the transcript and precept, as herein before provided for, cause a notice to be posted up at the place of holding elections, in each precinct throughout the county, also to be inserted in some newspaper having general circulation in the county, if such there be, for four successive weeks, stating on what day the treasurer, or his deputy, will attend at the place of holding elections in each precinct, for the purpose of receiving taxes; and the treasurer or his depu ty shall attend for the purpose aforesaid, on the day and at the time named in such notice; and shall attend at his office, |