Penaltyt for islature, setting forth particularly the amount of capital invested, the length of road in operation, the expenses paid and tolls collected during the preceding year, and generally such information in regard to the affairs of the company as the legislature may require; which report shall be verified by the oath or affirmation of the president or secretary, and one of the directors of said company. SEC. 15. If any person shall wilfully and knowingly obstruct, injury to road break, injure or destroy the plank road so to be constructed by said company, or any part thereof, or any work, building or fixture 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, be liable to a civil suit for the recovery of damages by said company, by an action of debt, in any court having competent jurisdiction in the county wherein the offence shall have been 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. to be taken for debt. SEC. 16. The property of every individual which may be Stock liable invested in 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 company from such individual shall be first paid. Liabilities limited. How stock may be increased. SEC. 17. The debts and liabilities of said corporation shall not exceed in amount at any one time, fifty per cent. of its capital actually paid in, and if debts and liabilities shall at any time be incurred to a greater amount than by this section is provided for, the directors of said company shall be jointly and severally individually liable for such excess, in addition to their other liabilities at law and as provided for in this act. SEC. 18. The directors of said company may at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders, with the consent of a majority in amount of such stockholders, provide for such increase of the capital stock of said company as may be found necessary to complete said road in such sections as may have been actually commenced but remain in an unfinished state for want of means and for the further purpose of extending the road from time to time to its terminus. ProIvided, that the whole stock of said company shall not be so increased as to exceed at any time four thousand dollars per mile for each mile of road. SEC. 19. If said company shall misuse or abuse any of the privileges hereby granted, the legislature may resume all and singular the rights and privileges [vested in said company] by this act, and may establish rules and regulations for the government of said company in relation to said plank road and the use of the same. TIMOTHY BURNS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED, March 13, 1848. President of the Council. HENRY DODGE. Charter may be resumed. 1 AN ACT To provide for laying out and altering certain territorial roads therein named. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin : SECTION 1. That Russell Babbit, George W. Gould, and Territorial J. N. Patterson, be, and they are hereby appointed commis- roads. sioners to review the territorial road leading from Rock Grove to Madison, commencing at the south line of town No. 4, From Rock north of range No. 9 east, thence north to the north line of Grove to MadGreen county, at or near the north west corner of the east ison. From Milwau. town. half of the northeast quarter of section No. 3, in town No. 4, north of range nine east, thence north, on or near the line of eighty acre lots, to a stake eighty rods west of the north east corner of section No. 22, town No. 5,, north of range No. 9 east, thence to continue north about twenty-eight rods to the Beloit and Madison road, but old road not to be closed up until new one is put in as good repair as old one is at the time of alteration. SEC. 2. That Hiram Carter, Pardon H. Sibley, and John. Kelley, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to kee to Water. make certain alterations in the Milwaukee and Watertown territorial road, to wit: commencing at or near the quarte post between section one and section tweive, of town num ber eight, north of range number sixteen east, thence running easterly and intersecting the original road in section 7, town 8, north of range 17 east, also commencing near the (and) south quarter line of section 10, town 8, range 17 east, thence running easterly on the most practicable route, and intersecting the original road, at or near the quarter post between sections two and eleven, town 8 north, range 7 east. Also commencing at or near a bearing tree marked "A. S. 788 E." thence in an easterly direction until it intersects the original road at or near the bridge on the south west quarter of the north west quarter of section 15, town 8, range 18. To West From East Waupon to age. SEC. 3. That Sherman R. Hopkins, John Weston, and Levi Ostrander, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road on the most feasible and direct route from the quarter post on the south side of section seventeen, town seven, north of range twenty-two east, to the village of West Bend, in Washington county. SEC. 4. That L. W. Parsons, Philetus Sawyer, and Seymour Wilcox, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road from East Waupon, Fond du Lac county, via Waukau, in Winnebago county, to Plover Portage, following as near as practicable on the old Indian trail running between the two places. SEC. 5. That Gilbert Wright, Jehiel H. Baker, and James Allen, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to kesha to West Jay out a territorial road on the nearest and best route from From WauWaukesha, Waukesha county, to the village of West Bend, Bend. Washington county. From Clinton SEC. 6. That James H. Ostrander, J. L. Brighton, and Abel Keyes, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road, on or near the county line, to territorial between the counties of Jefferson and Dane, commencing at read. the village of Clinton, thence running northerly so as to in'tersect the territorial road leading from Fort Washington, near the house of Daniel Foulson, in Waterloo. tinued. SEC. 7. That so much of the territorial road leading Road disconfrom Beloit to Madison as crosses sections fifteen, twentytwo, twenty-seven, and thirty-four, in town three, north of range ten east, is hereby discontinued. du Lac to SEC. 8. John Smith, Walter H. Weld, and John Bannis- From Fond ter, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay Oshkosh. out a territorial road from Fond du Lac, in Fond du Lac county, to Oshkosh, in Winnebago county, on the nearest and best route. From Ten to Fox Lake. SEC. 9. That so much of the territorial road running from Aztalan, in Jefferson county, by Nashud, in Dodge county, Mile Creek to intersect the road leading from Ten Mile Creek to Fox Lake, as crosses sections eight and seventeen in the town of Waterloo, is hereby vacated. SEC. 10. That William Farrington, Amos Bush, and Road altered. Denison S. Dunning, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to alter so much of the Sauk, Washington, and Beaver Dam road, as they may think advisable, within the town of Beaver Dam. SEC. 11. That Clark Young, Gilbert Alden, and Elijah Lee, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road, commencing at the southeast corner of section thirty-five, town ten, north of range eleven east, thence to the northwest corner of section number twenty-six, same town and range, from thence to Dekora, in Columbia county, on the nearest and most practicable route. SEC. 12. That Harvey Bush, Adam Smith, and W. T. Bradley, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners To Dekora. From Adam Smith's to yocena. W From Hustis' From Dun. to lay out a territorial road, commencing at or near the house of Adam Smith, in town number eight, north of range number ten east, from thence by Jonathan Gilbert's place, in town eleven, north of range ten east, section twenty-six, from thence to Wyocena, on section twenty-two, town twelve, north of range twelve east. SEC. 13. That Paddoc Morris, James R. Main, and John C. Lewis, be, and they are hereby appointed commissionors to lay out a territorial road, commencing at Hustis' Rapids, thence running in a westerly direction, to intersect the Watertown and Fox Lake road, on the town line between towns ten and eleven. SEC. 14. That J. D. Clapp, Abel Keyes, and Lyman Farkirk Falls to go, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road from Dunkirk Falls, Dane county, via Cambridge and Lake Mills, to Milford, Jefferson county. Milford. SEC. 15. That John T. Haight, Ira Rood, and Nathan G. From Janes. Vanhorn, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road from Janesville via Clinton, in Dane county, to Columbus, in Columbia county. ville to Co lumbus. From Plover Lake Pucka wa. From the mil SEC. 16. That F. B. Harris, Satterlee Clark, jr.Hallock, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road from Plover Portage to Lake Packawa, on the nearest and most feasable route.. SEC. 17. That David Fowler, Jesse Mills, - Dutton. and Edwards, of Manitowoc, be, and they are hereby itary road to appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road, comManitowoc. mencing at the military road, in the county of Calumet, on the line between the towns of Manchester and Stockbridge, thence running easterly as far as section twenty-five, town eighteen, range nineteen east, from thence on the nearest and best route to the town of Manitowoc. From Port SEC. 18. That David Newland, David Fowler, and William Trall, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners Washington to lay out a territorial road from Port Washington via Green Bush, in Sheboygan county, and terminating at or near Cal umet, in Calumet county. to Calumet. SEC. 19. That John McCoy, E. D. Robbins, and Joseni |