Proceedings of ized. Town ordera. SECTION 2. All the official acts of the supervisors supervisors legal of the said town of Mazomanie, done and performed in pursuance of the vote of the electors of said town to raise the sum of two thousand eight hundred dollars, to pay such extra bounty to volunteers, are also hereby declared valid and binding in the law; and all town orders signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors of said town, and countersigned by the town clerk of said town, payable out of the volunteer bounty fund of said town, are hereby declared valid and binding in the law, the same as if the law had been strictly complied with in auditing the claims for which they were issued, and in issuing the same. When tax to be collected. SECTION 3. The tax voted by the electors of said town on the said first day of January, 1864, for the purpose of paying extra bounties to volunteers as aforesaid, shall be collected at the same time the town taxes of said town shall next hereafter be collected, and in the same manner. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1864. Town meeting legalized. CHAPTER 10. [Published February 5, 1864.] AN ACT to legalize the acts of a certain town meeting held on the 19th day of January, A. D. 1864, in the town of Westfield, Sauk county, Wisconsin, and the tax voted at such meeting. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The town meeting held in the town of Westfield, in the county of Sauk, in this state, on the nineteenth day of January, A. D. 1864, for the purpose of raising money, by special tax, to pay town bounties to volunteers for the military service of the United States, is hereby declared legal and valid to all When tax to be intents and purposes for which the same was held; and said tax shall be levied and collected with other town taxes for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. collected. tificates, &c. SECTION 2. Either of the supervisors of said town Execution of cerand the town clerk of said town, may sign any and all papers, instruments in writing and certificates which shall or may be necessary in order to carry into effect the purposes for which said town meeting was held; and such papers, instruments in writing and certificates, so signed, shall be valid and binding on said town, to all intents and purposes. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1864. CHAPTER 11. [Published February 5, 1864.] AN ACT to provide for the purchase of two hundred copies of The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen- to purchase. SECTION 1. The state superintendent of public in- Superintendent struction, with the consent and approval of the governor, is hereby authorized to purchase on behalf of the state, two hundred copies of Webster's unabridged dictionary of the English language, to supply the deficient school districts of the state: provided, the cost shall price. not exceed four dollars and fifty cents per copy. buted. SECTION 2. Such dictionaries, when purchased, shall How to be distri be distributed by the state superintendent on the receipt of the affidavit, in due form, (which shall be kept in his office,) of any town or district clerk, or city superintendent of schools, that such town, district or city, or any public school or department in the public schools thereof, has not been supplied by the state with a copy of said dictionary; and he shall send, at the expense of the district receiving the same, one dictionary for each unsupplied public school or department thereof. library, &c. SECTION 3. Each such dictionary, when received, Shall belong to shall belong to the library of the district, and shall be subject to the same laws and regulations as other library books, but during the time a school shall be taught Appropriation. in the district, it shall be and remain in the school room for the use of the teacher and pupils of such school; and the teacher shall be responsible to the district for its loss, or for any unnecessary damage it may receive. SECTION 4. There is hereby appropriated out of the income of the school fund, a sum of money sufficient to pay for the dictionaries provided for in this bill; and the state superintendent of public instruction shall certify to the state treasurer the amount of such expendi ture. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 2, 1864. Extended to CHAPTER 12. [Published February 27, 1864.] AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the several towns in the county of Dane. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for the collection of the state, county and town taxes for the year 1863, in the several towns in Dane county, is hereby extended until the 20th day of March, 1864; and the town treasurers of the several towns in said Dane county, shall have the same rights to proceed to collect all the unpaid taxes upon the tax rolls in their hands, in all respects, in the same manner as they would have been authorized to do had the time of their original warrants to collect the same not expired: provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to extend the time for the payment to the county treasurer of the state tax, as now required by law. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 25, 1864. CHAPTER 13. [Published February 5, 1864,] AN ACT to empower the county of Milwaukee to raise money for the payment of bounties to volunteers. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: authorized. SECTION 1. The county board of supervisors of the Issue of bonds county of Milwaukee, is hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said county of Milwaukee to an amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, and payable in the city of New York, not less than five years nor more than twenty years from their date, to raise money to pay bounties to volunteers enlisted and mustered into the military service of the United States, in and for the county of Milwaukee. amounts, interest SECTION 2. The bonds issued under and by virtue How signed, of this act, shall be signed by the chairman and coun- coupons, &c. tersigned by the clerk of the said board of supervisors, and shall be under the corporate seal of said county, and shall be in sums to be fixed by said board of supervisors, with interest coupons payable semi-annually thereon, at such time or times and place in the city of New York as said board of supervisors may determine; and said bonds, when signed, countersigned and sealed as aforesaid, shall be in the hands of a bona fide holder of the same, full and complete evidence, both in law against county, and equity, to establish the indebtedness of said county of Milwaukee, according to the tenor and effect of said bonds. Shall be evidence of indebtedness bonds. SECTION 3. The county board of supervisors of said Negotiation of county of Milwaukee, at any legal meeting thereof, may direct, by resolution, their chairman to sign and the clerk to countersign the whole amount of bonds authorized to be issued by this act, or such part thereof as said board may from time to time determine; and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer of said county of Milwaukee, under the supervision of said board of supervisors, to negotiate the bonds so to be issued, and to place the proceeds thereof, as soon as received by him, in the treasury of the said county of Milwaukee; and the treasurer, before he shall re- Treasurer to exceive said bonds for any purpose whatsoever, shall exe ecute bonds. Levy of tax for cute to the county board of supervisors of said county, a bond with three or more sufficient sureties, in the penal sum of double the amount of the bonds so to be received by him, conditioned for the faithful performance of all the duties imposed upon him by this act, or by any order or resolution of the county board of supervisors of said county, which may be passed by virtue of the powers conferred upon said board by this act, which said bond shall be approved by the county board of supervisors of said county, and filed in the office of the clerk of said board of supervisors. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of said board of pal authorized. Supervisors to provide for the payment of the interest and the ultimate payment of the principal of any and all county bonds which shall be issued under and by virtue of this act; and for that purpose said board of supervisors is authorized, empowered and required to annually levy a tax upon all the taxable property of said county, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds, in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected by law; and in the year next preceding any year when any or all of said bonds shall become due, the county board of supervisors of said county of Milwaukee shall levy a tax, as provided in this section, sufficient to pay said bonds so to become due. Bonds to be num tered. SECTION 5. The clerk of the board of supervisors bered and regis shall number said bonds, and cause the same to be registered in the office of the treasurer of said county of Milwaukee, in a book to be provided for that purpose. How moneys to be applied. Prohibition. SECTION 6. The moneys received and paid into the county treasury of Milwaukee county, under and by virtue of this act, shall for one year from and after the publication of the same, be exclusively applied to the payment of bounties to volunteers mustered into the military service of the United States, and credited to the quota of soldiers required by the United States of the said county of Milwaukee, at a rate not exceeding one hundred dollars for each such volunteer, and for the payment of expenses incident to and necessary to carry this act into effect; and any and all such moneys remaining in the said county treasury one year after the publication of this act, shall be used as other moneys collected by tax for county purposes. SECTION 7. While any of the bonds issued under this act remain unpaid, the board of supervisors or other officers acting for the county of Milwaukee, shall |