Rates of toll.

Punishment For injury done to road.

Company may increase stock

Charter may

be resumed.

SEC. 10. The directors may erect toll-gates and exact toll from persons travelling on their road, whenever five consecutive miles are finished, or when the whole road is completed, not exceeding two cents a mile for every vehicle, sled, sleigh or carriage drawn [by] two animals; and if drawn by more than two animals, one cent a mile for every additional animal. For every vehicle, sled, sleigh or carriage drawn by one animal, one cent a mile; and for every horse and rider, or led animal, one cent a mile. (For score of sheep or swine three cents a mile and) for every score of sheep or swine three cents a mile, and for every score of neat cattle four cents per mile: Provided, that persons going to and returning from military parade, at which they are required by law to attend, and persons going to or returning from funerals, shall be exempt from toll, and no toll shall be exacted of any person or persons while actually going to or returning from any religious meeting on Sunday.

SEC. 11. If any person shall wilfully and knowingly ob struct, 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 in 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 shall be punished by fine and imprisonment, or either, at the discretion of the court.

SEC. 12. The directors of said company may at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders, with the consent of a majority of amount in such stockholders, provide for such increase of the capital stock of said company as may be found necessary to complete said read, in suelt sections as may have been actually commenced but remain in an unfinished state for want of means for completing the same.

.SEC. 13. If said company shall violate any of the privi leges hereby granted, the legislature of the state of Wiscon

sin may resume all and singular the rights and privileges vested in said company by this act.

damages.

SEC. 14. Said company shall be liable for all damages Liable for that may be sustained by any person or persons in consequence of the omission or neglect to keep said road in good repair and condition.

TIMOTHY BURNS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
HORATIO N. WELLS,

APPROVED, March 6, 1848.

HENRY DODGE.

President of the Council.

AN ACT

To change the name of Christian W. Schwartz.

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

SECTION 1. That the lawful name of Christian W. Schwartz shall hereafter be Christian W. Schwartzburg, by which name he shall be called and known to all legal intents and purposes.

TIMOTHY BURNS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

HORATIO N. WELLS.

APPROVED, March 6, 1919.

President of the Council.

HENRY DODGE.

AN ACT

To authorize the trustees of the several school districts in the towns of Salem and Fond du Lac to make returns of the children of their respective districts, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. That the trustees of the several school districts in the town of Salem in Racine county and the town of Fond du Lac in Fond du Lac county, be, and are hereby au thorized to take the enumeration of the children in their respective districts between the ages of four and sixteen years inclusive, and make return of such enumeration to the school commissioners of said towns on or before the tenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight

SEC. 2. That all moneys raised by said towns for school purposes during the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, shall be distribuied among the several districts of said towns which shall have made returns of the children as provided in the first section of this act according to the num ber of children in each district so returned, on or before the twentieth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight.

TIMOTHY BURNS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

APPROVED, March 6, 1849.

HORATIO N. WELLS,

President of the Council,

HENRY DODGE.

AN ACT

To authorize the road commissioners of the town of Rochester to levy a tax to build a bridge across Fox river.

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

SECTION 1. That the road commissioners of the town of Rochester and county of Racine, may, and are hereby authorized and required to levy and collect a tax of a sum not exceeding four hundred and fifty dollars, on the taxable property of said town, for the purpose of building a bridge across Fox river, in the village of Rochester, and that the said tax shall be levied and collected as is now provided by law for the collection of other taxes under the township form of gov

ernment.

TIMOTHY BURNS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

HORATIO N. WELLS,

President of the Council.

APPROVED, March 7, 1848.

HENRY DODGE.

Name and style and

powers of

AN ACT

To in corporate the Wisconsin Iron Company.

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

SECTION 1. That John H. Orr and James White, of Dodge county, and their associates, be, and are hereby constituted corporation. a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the "Wisconsin Iron Company," for the purpose of manufactur ing iron, and they and their successors shall continue as such corporation for the term of twenty-five years, from and after the passage of this act, and by the name and style of the "Wisconsin Iron Company," are hereby made capable to contract and to be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded with, in any court of justice in this territory, or elsewhere, the same as a material person, and shall be so recognized in law and equity.

Shall have

SEC. 2. Said company shall have a common seal, by common seal. which all their acts shall be authenticated, and they may change and alter the same at pleasure; and they shall be capable of purchasing and holding, using and conveying any estate, real or personal, necessary for the use and security of said corporation, and each member of said company shall be individually liable for all debts contracted by or on behalf of said company.

low concerns managed.

SEC. 3. The stock, property, and concerns of said company shall be managed and conducted by three directors, who shall be stockholders, one of whom shall be president, who may respectively hold their offices for one year, and until others shall be chosen. The said board of directors shall have power to ordain and establish such bye-laws and regulations as they shall deem necessary, to promote the objects of the company, not inconsistent with the laws and constitution of the territory or state of Wisconsin.