office of the register of deeds of the proper county within three months after the passage and publication of this act. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 6, 1901. AN ACT to amend sections 78 and 79 of the statutes of 1898, relating to election returns. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Returns how sent. SECTION 1. Section 78 of the statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "deliver" in the fifth line thereof, the words "or send by registered letter from the nearest postoffice," and by inserting after the word "deliver" in the eighth line thereof the words "or sending," and by striking out all after the word "therefor" in the eighth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "fifty cents, together with postage and registration fees paid by him, to be paid out of the town, city or village treasury," so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Section 78. The chairman of the inspectors or one of them appointed by him. shall forthwith deliver to the clerk of the town, city or village one of said statements and poll lists, to be filed and preserve in his office, and shall, with all convenient dispatch and within two days after the election, deliver to the county clerk or send by registered letter from the nearest postoffice, the other statement and poll list to the county clerk, they having been by the inspectors carefully sealed up, with the oaths of the inspectors and clerks affixed, in an envelope properly directed to such clerk. The person delivering or sending such returns shall receive as compensation therefor, fifty cents, together with postage and registration fees paid by him, to be paid out of the town, city or village treasury. Penalty for failure to deliver. SECTION 2. SECTION 2. Section 79 of the statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by inserting between the words "to" and "deliver," in the second line of said section, the words "send or," so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Section 79. If the person to whom such returns are delivered shall fail or neglect to send or deliver them to the county clerk within such time, he shall be liable for all expenses incurred in procuring such returns by special messenger or otherwise, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than twenty days or by both such fine and imprison ment. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pasage and publication. Approved April 6, 1901. No. 241, S.] [Published April 10, 1901. CHAPTER 149. AN ACT to allow the Jackson County Bank of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to reduce its capital stock. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Capital stock reduced to $25,000. SECTION 1. The Jackson County Bank of Black River Falls, Wisconsin, is hereby authorized to reduce its capital stock from twenty-seven thousand seven hundred twenty-five dollars, to twenty-five thousand dollars; "providing, however that said reduction shall be made by and with the approval of the state bank examiner." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 6, 1901. No. 267, S.] [Published April 10, 1901. CHAPTER 150. AN ACT to transfer certain sums of money from the school fund to the school fund income, and from the normal school fund to the normal school fund income, and from the university fund to the university fund income, and from the agricultural college fund to the agricultural college fund in come. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Transfer to school fund income. SECTION 1. There is hereby transferred from the school fund to the school fund income the sum of sixteen thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and forty-six cents. Transfer to normal school fund income. SECTION 2. There is hereby transferred from the normal school fund to the normal school fund income the sum of eleven thousand four hundred and twenty-six dollars and eight cents. Transfer to university fund income. SECTION 3. There is hereby transferred from the university fund to the university fund income the sum of three thousand nine hundred and ninetyfour dollars and ninety-nine cents. Transfer to agricultural college fund income. SECTION 4. There is hereby transferred from the agricultural college fund to the agricultural college income fund the sum of six thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-four cents. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 8, 1901. No. 183, A.] [Published April 12, 1901. CHAPTER 151. AN ACT relating to sales of oleomargarine, and amendatory of section 4607c of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Filled cheese; oleomargarine; penalties. SECTION 1. Section 4607e of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "sell," in the tenth line of said section, the words, "or solicit or accept orders for," so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Section 4607c. Any person who shall by himself, his agent or servant manufacture, buy, sell, offer, ship, consign, expose or have in possession for sale, any cheese manufactured from or by the use of skim milk to which there has been added any fat which is foreign to such milk, or who shall by himself, his agent or servant manufacture, buy, sell, offer, ship, consign, expose or have in possession for sale, within this state, any skimmed-milk cheese or cheese manufactured from milk from which any of the fat originally contained therein has been removed, except such last mentioned cheese is ten inches in diameter and nine inches in height, or who shall, by himself, his agent or servant, render or manufacture, sell or solicit or accept orders for, ship, consign, offer or expose for sale or have in possession, with intent to sell, any article, product or compound made wholly or partly out of any fat, oil or oleaginous substance or compound thereof, not produced from unadulterated milk or cream from the same, and without the admixture or addition of any fat foreign to said milk or cream, which shall be in imitation of yellow butter produced from such milk or cream with or without coloring matter, shall for the first offense be punished by fine of not more than five hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, and for each subsequent offense, by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed sixty days nor less than ten days, or by fine of not more than five hundred dollars nor less than one hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine in a separate and distinct form and in such manner as will advise the consumer of its real character, and free from coloration or ingredient that causes it to look like butter. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 9, 1901. No. 300, A.] [Published April 12, 1901. CHAPTER 152. AN ACT to amend sections 3075 and 3088 of the statutes of 1898, relating to ejectments. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Amend section Occupant to be made defendant. 3075 of the statutes of Wisconsin by adding to the end of said section the following: "or against the person in whom any title appears of record in the office of the register of deeds in and for the county in which said premises are located, at the commencement of the action;" so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Section 3075. If the premises for which the action is brought are actually occupied by any person, such actual occupant shall be made defendant in complaint; if they are not so occupied, the action must be brought against some person exercising acts of ownership on the premises claimed, or claiming title thereto or some interest therein, at the commencement of the action, or against the person in whom the title appears of record in the office of the register of deeds in and for the county in which said premises are located, at the commencement of the action. Judgment to be conclusive. SECTION 2. Section 3088 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by adding to said section the following: "and every purchaser whose conveyance is not recorded or filed, shall be deemed to have acquired his title after the filing of such notice, and shall be bound by the proceedings in the action to the same extent and in the same manner as if he were a party thereto;" so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Section 3088. Every judg |