SEC. 3. The several officers of the said association at Officers, etc. the time of the passage of this act, shall continue to hold their respective offices, as officers of the corporation hereby created, until the expiration of the term for which they were elected and qualified, and all personal property, funds or securities now owned and held by the said association, or by said officers, or either, or any of them, or by any other person or persons in trust for the said association, or for the use or benefit of the same, including all debts due or to become due, to the same from the members thereof for stated dues, in arrears, fines, &c., or from any other person or persons, shall vest in, and become the property of, and may be sued for, and received in the name of the corporation hereby created, and the said corporation shall assume, and be liable for all debts, all contracts and agreements entered into previous to the passage of this act, by any of the officers thereof, lawfully acting in behalf of said association. SEC. 4. The present constitution and by-laws of the Constitution said association, as far as the same are consistent with and by-laws. the provisions of this act, and not inconsistent with the constitution of this State, or of the United States, shall continue in force as the laws and regulations of the corporation hereby created, until the same shall be legally altered and amended. SEC. 5. The estate, property, and funds of the said Estate, procorporation, shall be devoted solely to the general pur- perty, etc. poses and objects specified in the first section of this act. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Approved February 24, 1857. Time extended Treasurers Chapter 96. An Act to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the county o The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in the county of Monroe is hereby extended to the first Tuesday of April next. SEC. 2. The town treasurers of the several towns of their powers. the said county of Monroe shall have the same power to proceed to collect the taxes yet remaining due by distress and sale of goods and chattels of persons and corporations as now required by law, notwithstanding any informality in the tax list. Payment by SEC. 3. The several town treasurers shall pay over to town treasur- the county treasurer all taxes collected by them required ers to county by law to be paid over to said county treasurer on or treasurer. before said first Tuesday of April next, and shall at the Time of pay same time make return to said county treasurer of all lands upon which the taxes are then unpaid, as required by law, and the county treasurer is directed to proceed to sell such lands upon which the taxes are unpaid for such unpaid taxes, on the second Tuesday of May next, giving notice thereof for the time and in the manner and conducting said sale in all respects as now required by law. SEC. 4. The time for the payment of taxes to the ment to state State treasurer by the county treasurer of the county of Monroe, is hereby extended to the fourth Tuesday of April next. treasurer tended. ex SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 24, 1857. Chapter 97. An Act to amend chapter 78 of the private and local laws of 1853, enti- The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. Chapter 78 of the private and local laws of Amended so as 1853 is hereby so amended as to authorize and empow- to extend road er the said Watertown and Madison Railroad Company to extend, construct, and maintain their said railroad from the city of Madison to some point on the Mississippi river at the mouth of Platt river. M. R. R. SEC. 2. The said railroad, from the city of Madison Shall form a westerly, shall form a part of and be connected with the part of W. and Watertown and Madison Railroad, and all privileges, immunities and restrictions, contained in the said act of incorporation are extended and continued to the said. company in the construction of said road from the city of Madison to the Mississippi river. SEC. 3. The capital stock of the Watertown and Mad- Capital stock ison Railroad Company is increased to three millions increased, of dollars. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 24, 1857. Chapter 98. An Act to provide for laying out a State Road from Mauston, to intersect The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. That Ira A. Swetland, William A. Jocelyn Commission'rs and I. M. Hausbury, be and hereby are appointed com- to lay out a missioners to lay out and establish a State road from road, Mauston, in Adams county, via One Mile Post Office, To make re Fowler's Prairie, Hillsborough, Debello, Yaba, Spring SEC. 2. Said commissioners shall immediately after port of survey laying out said road, cause a report of their survey to be made and filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors of each county through which said road shall pass, and in all respects comply with the requirements of chapter 44 of general laws of 1853 Compensation SEC. 3. Said commissioners shall be entitled to such compensation as the board of supervisors of each county through which said road shall pass shall deem proper, and the same shall be paid by said counties respectively; Provided, No compensation shall be allowed for laying out so much of said road as lies upon any other road heretofore laid out. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 25, 1857. Persons au struct dam. Chapter 99. An Act to authorize the construction of a dam across the Waupaca river. SECTION 1. That Charles L. Gormar and Richard thorized to con Holdsworth, their associates and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct and maintain a dam across the Waupaca river, on any lands owned by them, in section thirty-six, township twenty-two north, of range twelve east of the fourth principal meridian. In case of overflow. SEC. 2. In the event said dam shall cause the water to flow back upon any land not owned by the said Gormar and Holdsworth, their associates and assigns, then they shall pay to the owner or owners thereof all damages in consequence of such overflow, to be ascertained by the verdict of a jury in action of trespass, to be brought by the owner or owners of such overflowed lands, in any court of record in Waupaca county. SEC. 3. The said Gormar and Holdsworth, their as- slide or chute sociates and assigns, shall provide and keep up a slide or chute in said dam, sufficient to pass a raft twenty feet wide and drawing twenty inches of water. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 25, 1857. Chapter 100. An Act to amend chapter 269 of Private and Local Laws for 1856. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. Chapter two hundred and sixty-nine of Amendment. the private and local laws of 1856, entitled "an act to authorize the town of Omro, in Winnebago county, to subscribe stock to a railroad," is hereby so amended as to read "not exceeding eight per cent." instead of "two per cent." as appears in the ninth line of section two of the aforesaid chapter. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 25, 1857. Chapter 101. An Act to incorporate the Wolf River Boom Company, and to repeal The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. That Benjamin Brickley, Flavius J. George, Corporators. James H. Weed and Walter H. Weed, and their associates and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, by the name and title of the Wolf River Boom Company, style. |