NOTE.-Where a superfluous word has been found in the enrolled bill, it has been printed in the text, but in italics, and enclosed in a parenthesis, (thus). Where a word has been found necessary to sustain the sense of the context, or where one word has been obviously mistaken for another, the word supposed to be proper has been supplied. but in brackets, [thus ;] and in no case has the text of the enrolled bill been altered.

PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS.

OF THE

STATE OF WISCONSIN.

CHAPTER 1.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "An act to incorporace the Merchants'
Mutual Insurance Company of Milwaukee," and the several acts
amendatory thereof.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

CHAPTER 1.

instead of twen

SECTION 1. That whenever the said Insurance Com- May choose pany shall avail itself of the provisions of an act seven Directors approved April 15, 1858, to which this is amendatory, ty Trustees. and shall have authorized and approved of the subscriptions of stock, as therein provided, the said Company shall thereafter be managed by a board of seven directors, who shall be stockholders in said Company, instead of twenty trustees, as is now provided.

'Directors.

§ 2. Said directors, after the first election, shall be Annual meetannually chosen by the stockholders in said Company, ing-choice of on the first Monday of February; and at said election each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each Each share enshare of stock owned by him. Said election shall be titled to one held at the office of said Company, and said directors vote. shall hold their offices till others are chosen.

ers of the Trus

§ 3. Said directors shall have all the powers and Directors to perform all the duties which now appertain to said have the pow board of trustees, and may elect such officers of said tees. Company as they may deem necessary for the management of its affairs. A majority of said directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business.

CHAPTER 2.

of this act.

newspaper.

§ 4. Immediately after said Company shall have
When Compa- availed itself of the provisions of the said act of April 15,
ny shall avail 1858, and shall have approved of the subscriptions of
Secretary shall stock as therein provided, the Secretary of said Compa-
give notice for ny shall give notice of the time of the election of said
choice of Direc- seven directors, by publication of a notice of said elec-
tors in a daily tion three times in some daily newspaper printed in the
city of Milwaukee, the last publication of which notice
shall be at least five days before the time for said
election... Said election shall be held at the office
of said Company, and shall be in conformity with sec-
Directors to tion 2 of this act, and the directors then elected shall
hold office to hold their office till the first Monday of February,
February, 1861. 1861, and till others are chosen.

Where held.

1st Monday in

No notes to be

miums.

85. The fourth section of the act approved April
received in ad- 15, 1858, to which this is amendatory, is hereby
vance for pre-amended so as to read as follows: "Hereafter the
said Company shall receive no notes in advance for
premiums, as now allowed by the act to which this act
May surrender is amendatory; but the said directors may from time to
time surrender any and all of such notes on hand:
Provided, the Provided, however, that the amount of such notes re-
amount of notes tained added to the amount of stock subscribed shall at
and subscrip-
tions shall not no time be less than fifty thousand dollars."

notes.

be less than 6. This act shall take effect from and after its
$50,000.
passage.

Corporations.

Approved January 31, 1860.

CHAPTER 2.

AN ACT to incorporate the Hanover Street Congregational Society.
The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Oliver Parsons, Stoddard Hillartin, Rob-
ert Love, A. C. Jones, R. P. Fitzgerald, Thomas Cran-
dall, and such others as may hereafter become associa
ted with them, be and they hereby are created a body
politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, by the
name and style of the "Hanover Street Congregational
Society," in the city of Milwaukee, and by that name
and style shall be competent to contract and be con-
tracted with, to sue and be sued, to answer and be
answered unto in all courts of law or equity, and also to
Hold property. acquire hold, possess and enjoy property, both personal

Title.

Corporate pow-

ers.