No. 99, S.]

[Published Feb. 23, 1901. «

CHAPTER 16.

AN ACT to compensate the legislative visiting committee appointed to visit the state charitable and penal institutions.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

Amount appropriated. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for expenses incurred by the state visiting committee, for 1900 and 1901, to the state institutions; to J. J. McGillivray one hundred fifty-seven dollars and thirty-seven cents; to P. A. Orton one hundred twenty-five dollars; to James Johnston one hundred sixty dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved Feb. 21, 1901.

No. 46, A.]

[Published Feb. 23, 1901.

CHAPTER 17.

AN ACT granting to the United States, jurisdiction over certain lands in Douglas county.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

Jurisdiction except for service of civil and criminal process. SECTION 1. The consent of the state of Wisconsin is hereby given, to the acquisition, by purchase, or condemnation in the manner prescribed by its laws, upon making just compensation thereof, of any tract or tracts of land, in the city of Superior and county of Douglas, which may be required for a site for a public building, or for other purposes of the government of the United States, and the state hereby cedes to the United States, exclusive jurisdiction over such tract or tracts of land as shall

be acquired for the purposes aforesaid, so long as the same shall be or remain the property of the United States, for all purposes except the service of civil or criminal process therein.

Lands exempt from taxes. SECTION 2. That the lands aforesaid, when so acquired, shall thereafter be exempt from all taxes and assessments levied or imposed under authority of the state, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its approval.

Approved Feb. 21, 1901.

No. 144, S.]

[Published Feb. 23, 1901.

CHAPTER 18.

AN ACT relating to the municipal court for Rock county.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate ana assembly do enact as follows:

Dismissal of appeal.

SECTION 1. .If neither party shall bring a case appealed to the municipal court for Rock county to a hearing in said court within six months after the filing of the return of the justice therein, such court shall dismiss the appeal unless it shall continue the same by special order for cause shown.

Calling in of circuit or county judge, on application for change of venue. SECTION 2. When in any case pending in said municipal court for Rock county on information or on appeal, a change of venue shall be applied for on account of the prejudice of the judge of said court, said judge may, in lieu of granting such application, in his discretion, retain such action in the same court, without entering an order changing the place of trial, for not exceeding twenty days and in the meantime shall call upon the circuit judge or the county judge of said county to attend and hold court for the trial of such action. If either of said judges can so attend and hold court for such purpose the same shall be done with the same effect as if a change of

venue to the circuit court of said county had been granted and a trial of such action had been had therein. If neither said. judges may attend within said twenty days however, said change of venue shall thereupon be made. Jurisdiction to hear, try and determine any such case is hereby granted to both said judges. Jurisdiction of any action in said court shall not be lost by failure to continue the same to a day, or place certain or by the extension of the trial beyond the said twenty days mentioned above.

Compensation of attending judge. SECTION 3. Any qualified person attending and holding court in the place of the municipal judge of the municipal court for Rock county shall receive therefor the sum of five dollars per day for each day he is actually so engaged, to be paid by the county treasurer of Rock county upon the certificate of said municipal court, not more than thirty days, however, in any one year to be paid for by said county. Said county shall have the right to charge back to the city of Janesville one-third of any moneys so paid.

Powers of municipal judge over verdicts, judgments, rulings, etc. SECTION 4. For ten days after judgment in civil actions, and for twenty-four hours after judgment in criminal causes over which the municipal court for Rock county or the judge of said court has jurisdiction to hear, try and determine, the said municipal judge shall have, and he is hereby vested with the same power over verdicts, judgments, rulings, orders and proceedings in his court as are possessed by the circuit courts over their judg ments, orders and proceedings at or before trial or judgment and during trial term. And said municipal judge may direct or set aside verdicts, grant new trials on payment of all costs or on such conditions as to costs as justice requires, modify and reverse judgments and orders of his said court or of the judge thereof, or do any act or thing which circuit courts may do during trial term, being governed therein by the general law and practice of the circuit courts, as near as may be, where the rules of law for justice courts are inadequate or do not apply.

Limit of judgment by confession. SECTION 5. Judgment may be rendered in said municipal court for Rock county by confession for any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, in the manner provided by statute.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved Feb. 21, 1901,

[Published Feb. 23, 1901.

No. 457, A.]

CHAPTER 19.

AN ACT amending section 1210d of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, relating to the re-assessment of void special assessments.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

No proceedings to be had after three years. SECTION 1. Section 1210d of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "No proceedings shall be had under the provisions of this section for the re-assessment of any tax or assessment after the expiration of three years from the time the original tax or assessment was set aside or declared void."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved Feb. 23, 1901.

No. 43, A.]

[Published March 1, 1901.

CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT to establish a ferry across Lake St. Croix at Hudson.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Limitations as to other ferries. SECTION 1. H. J. Anderson, his successors and assigns, shall have the exclusive right and privilege, for the term of ten years, from and after April 15, 1901, of keeping and maintaining a ferry across Lake St. Croix, from the city of Hudson, in the state of Wisconsin, to Lakeland in the county of Washington, in the state of Minnesota, and no ferry charter shall be granted during the said period, within one mile below the said city of Hudson and the village of Lakeland, Minnesota, and above said city and village and below the rail

road bridge over the Lake St. Croix. This grant, so far as it is exclusive, being, however, upon condition that the said H. J. Anderson, his successors and assigns, shall, during said period, maintain and operate the said ferry so as to subserve the public interest and convenience, as herein provided.

Steam or other power to be used; night service. SECTION 2. There shall be kept for use a good and sufficient boat or boats, propelled by steam or otherwise, for the use and accommodation of all persons wishing to cross said ferry; and said H. J. Anderson his successors and assigns, shall give prompt and ready attendance to passengers desiring to cross said ferry either with or without teams and merchandise, on all occasions; provided, that said boat or boats need not be run when serious injury would result thereto by contact with ice, or otherwise; and provided, further, that when crossing is demanded after eight o'clock at night, double the usual rates for ferrying may be charged; and provided, further, that said H. J. Anderson, his successors and assigns shall not be obliged to run their boat or boats before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning nor after the hour of eight o'clock at night, of each week day, nor before the hour of nine o'clock in the morning, nor after the hour of six o'clock at night on Sunday.

Penalty for other persons conducting a ferry during running hours. SECTION 3. Any person who shall make it a regular business, during the running hours of the ferry, to in any manner carry any person, persons, teams, goods or chattels across said lake in any boat or boats, to or from the Wisconsin shore of said lake within the limits above mentioned, to the opposite shore, for hire, shall forfeit and pay for each offense the sum of ten dollars and costs to be collected and recovered by the said H. J. Anderson, his successors and assigns, in any court having jurisdiction thereof.

Rates of toll; reduction of rates. SECTION 4. The rates for crossing at the said ferry shall not exceed the following: namely. For each foot passenger, one way, ten cents; for round trip, fifteen cents; for each horse, mare, gelding, mule or ass, with or without a rider, one way, twenty cents; for each vehicle drawn by two animals, loaded or unloaded, with a driver, one way, forty cents; and for a round trip, sixty-five cents; for each two horse or two ox teams, with a driver and without a wagon, one way, thirty cents; for single horse and carriage, one way, thirty cents, and for a round trip fifty cents; for each ox or cow, one way, fifteen cents; for each swine, or sheep one way, five cents.