corporation shall so determine; such determination to be indicated in the manner to be prescribed by the bylaws of said company upon the question. SEC. 14. This act shall take effect from and after its . passage, and all acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved February 20, 1857. Chapter 27. An Act to incorporate the Kenosha Pier Company. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Style. SECTION 1. Ephriam S. Elkins, Samuel Hale, and Corporators. Harvey Durkee, and their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name of the "Kenosha Pier Company," for the purpose of keeping and maintaining piers erected in lake Michigan, at the city of Kenosha, with the warehouses and out-buildings thereto attached, keeping the same in repair or re-building the same as they may Objects and deem necessary, and doing thereon wharfing, ware- powers of corhousing and other business thereto appertaining; and poration. for that puspose they may, by their corporate name, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, appear, prosecute and defend in all courts and actions whatsoever er; may have a common seal, and the same alter or renew at pleasure, and may purchase, hold, mortgage, lease, transfer, and convey any real or personal estate, and enjoy all the privileges incident to corporations. SEC. 2. The persons named in the first section of this First directors, act shall be the first board of directors of said body corporate, and shall hold their places as such directors until their successors are elected as hereinafter provided. The said directors shall cause a book to be opened and Register of stockholders. kept, containing the names of all persons who are stockholders of said company, showing their residence, and the number of shares of stock held by each respectively, and the time when they respectively became owners of said shares, which book shall be kept open for the inspection of stockholders at all usual hours of business. R, Capital stock. SEC. 3. The capital stock shall be divided into not exceeding five hundred shares of one hundred dollars each, and the said company may provide for the sale and transfer thereof in such manner and form as they may deem expedient. First meeting called, Directors. SEC. 4. The first meeting of said corporation shall be -by whom called by the persons named in this act, at such time and place in said city of Kenosha, on or before the first day of March, 1857, as said persons may elect; and at such meeting a board of directors of three shall be chosen among the stockholders, by ballot; each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote, and a majority of votes cast shall be necessary for an election. Such board of directors so elected shall take charge of and 'conduct all the business and affairs of said company, subject to such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the stockholders, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until their successors are elected; and they may make such rules and regulations in relation to the management of the affairs of said company as they may deem expedient, not inconsistent with the rules made by the stockholders, or the constitution and laws of this State, or the United States. Debts. SEC. 5. Said company shall not at any time contract debts to an amount exceeding the capital stock of said company. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1857. An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporate the Manitowoc, Two Rivers and Mishicott Plankroad Company," approved March 18, 1856. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. Section thirteenth, of chapter one hun- Amendment. dred and seventy, of the private and local laws of 1856, is hereby amended by striking out from the said section the word "five," and inserting in lieu thereof the word "four." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1857. י . Chapter 29. An act to amend an act in relation to the La Crosse and Milwaukee The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. So much of section two of an act entitled Repealed... "An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the La Crosse and Milwaukee Railroad Company," approved March 28, 1856, is hereby repealed as is in the following words, to wit: "The said company may, after the route of the said railroad shall be located and determined, offer, by its agents, to pay to the owner or owners of any lands which by the provisions of act the said company is authorized to enter upon, take, possess, occupy, or use, or to any person claiming any interest in such land, and if any such owner or person claiming any interest in such lands, shall be a minor, non compos mentis, insane, or married woman, or under any legal disability, then to the guardian of such minor, non compos mentis, or insane person, or husband of such married woman, such sum for said lands as the company or its agent shall conceive to be the full value of the same, and if such owner, or claimant, guardian, or husband, shall not accept of said offer, or if for any reason the said company shall fail to agree with the owner or person claiming any interest in such land, then and". Appraising SEC. 2. It shall not be necessary for the said company, commissioners in their application for the appointment of commissioners, or in the published notice of such application, to specify any particular tracts of land in reference to the value of which they wish an appraisal and award made by the commissioners; but it shall be sufficient, in such application and notice, to describe said lands as being all the lands upon the route of said railroad possessed, occupied, or used, or desired to be possessed, occupied, or used by said company, for any of the purposes for which the said company is authorized to possess, ocAppointments Cupy, or use lands. And any appointment of commisheretofore sioners heretofore made by the supreme court, or any made, valid. judge thereof, is hereby declared valid; and any commissioners which have been heretofore or which may be appointed, or which shall be hereafter appointed, are hereby authorized and empowered to make an appraisal and award in pursuance of the provisions of said act, approved March 28, 1856, of any tract of land taken, possessed, occupied, or used by said company for any of the purposes for which the said company is authorized to take, possess, occupy, or use any lands. SEC. 3. Whenever said commissioners shall be apmay apply for pointed, any person having or claiming to have any the appoint- interest in any lands taken, possessed, occupied, or used by said company may, as well as the said company, make application to said commissioners to make an appraisal and award of the value of such land, and upon such application the said commissioners shall proceed in the manner provided in said act, approved March 28, 1856, and their appraisal and award shall be filed in the office of the clerk of the circuit court of the county in which such lands shall lie within thirty days after the day appointed for the view and assessment of damages. Land owners ment of commissioners. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1857. Chapter 30. An Act to authorize the laying out and establishing a State Road from Dunleith, on the Illinois State line, to Boscobel, in the county of Grant The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. Horace Smead, Samuel Vance, and C. R. Commission'rs SEC. 2. The said commissioners, or a majority of Laying out them, may meet, at such place as they may designate, road and com- and proceed, after complying with all the requisites of pensation. the law, to view and lay said road, and they shall re- ceive, on completion of their labors, such compensation as the board of supervisors of the county of Grant may direct. An Act to provide for laying out a State Road from Fort Howard, in Brown county, through the village of Iola, in Waupaca county, to Stevens Point, in Portage county. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows! SECTION 1. That A. J. Dufur, Ab'm. Brawley and Commission'rs Ira Miller, Jr., be and the same are hereby appointed to lay out a |