the highway running easterly from near the Catholic CHAPTER 26. church in the village of Waukesha by the residence of Sabrina Barney, and running thence north through land owned by C. H. Miner, is hereby vacated. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1861. CHAPTER 26. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Peshtigo lumbering and manufacturing company," approved October 11th, 1856, and the amendments thereto. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the rights, franchises, privileges and immunities granted to and conferred upon the Peshtigo company, by an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Peshtigo lumbering and manufacturing company," approved October 11th, 1856, and the amendments thereto, are hereby declared to extend to the northern and eastern limits of said Oconto county, and to the line of the state of Michigan, including the Menomonee river and the mouth thereof; and the said Peshtigo company shall have and enjoy the same rights, franchises, privileges and immunities in reference to said Menomonee river, as are now legally conferred upon it in reference to the said Peshtigo river, and as if the words "Menomonee river" had been orginally used in said act of incorporation, and in the amendments thereto, wherever the words "Peshtigo river" are used in said act and amendments thereto, meaning and intending hereby to grant and confer the same rights in reference to the one river as the other, to the extent of the limits and jurisdiction of the state of Wisconsin, and with the right, power and authority in said Peshtigo company to accept or contract for, or consolidate with any grant, company, chartered privilege or corporation heretofore or that may be hereafter granted by the state of Michigan to said Peshtigo company, or to others in reference to the improvement and uses of the said Menomonee river or tension of rights, franchi ses, &c. CHAPTER 26. the mouth thereof, or in reference to dams or locks, basins or harbors, mills or manufactories upon said Menomonee river, or to other improvements of the navigation or uses thereof. May build railread, &c. May lease or sell said road. SECTION 2. The said Peshtigo company are hereby authorized and empowered to build, construct and operate a railroad to be called "the Peshtigo railroad,” with single or double track, from their mills in the village of Peshtigo to or near Green Bay, at or near the mouth of the Peshtigo river, or at or near the mouth of Menomonee river, or both, and also to or near the Oconto river, and may charge and collect tolls, fares and freight from all persons or parties using or availing of the same; and where the right of way or depot grounds of said road or roads shall not be upon lands of said company, or lands which they may purchase, or lands of the state of Wisconsin, the said company shall have the same rights and power to condemn and take any lands needed by them for such right of way or depot grounds, as are now conferred upon said company for condemning and appropriating lands necessary for the construction of a harbor at the mouth of the Peshtigo river, or for the improvement of the channel of said river and its tributaries. Where such right of way or depot grounds shall be upon lands of this state, the said Peshtigo company shall have the right to acquire the title to the same in the manner now provided by law for railroad corporations. SECTION 3. The said Peshtigo company may lease, sell and convey or otherwise dispose of their said road or any part or portion thereof, at any time hereafter, on such terms, conditions and provisions as they shall think proper. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 21, 1861. CHAPTER 27. AN ACT to legalize a certain highway in Columbia county. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: CHAPS. 27-28. Highway between the towns Leeds. SECTION 1. The acts of the supervisors in laying out the highway between the towns of Arlington and of Arlington and Leeds, in the county of Columbia, described as follows, to wit: "Commencing at the northwest corner of section No. six, in town ten, range ten, thence south on said town line to the southwest corner of section No. eighteen, in said town of Leeds," are hereby legalized and declared to be valid, and the said highway is hereby declared to be a legal highway. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1861. CHAPTER 28. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate Racine college," approved March 3rd, 1852. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : Repealed. of trustees. SECTION 1. That section three (3) and four (4) of the act of which this is amendatory, are hereby repealed, and the following sections are substituted in their place, to wit: "Section 3. The board of trustees shall Powers of board have full power to prescribe the course of instruction and discipline to be pursued in the said college and its departments; to appoint, and at pleasure remove such officers, professors, teachers and agents as they may see fit, and prescribe their duties, and generally direct, manage and control the business and affairs of the said corporation in such manner as they may be of opinion. will best promote its objects; also, shall fill all vacancies that may occur in their own board by resignation, death or neglect for more than one (1) year to attend to the duties of the trustees; but any person who Must be memmay be so elected trustee, must, at the time of his elec- bers of the P. B. Church. CHAPTER 29. tion, be a member in communion of the Protestant Episcopal church. Said board of trustees shall hold their next annual meeting May 27th, 1861, and afterwards they shall meet on their own adjournments; but in case of emergency the president, with the concurrence of two trustees, may call a special meeting, or any five members may call such meeting by giving notice to the members of the board, at least ten days before the time of such meeting. Ex-officio trustees. "Section 4. The three following named persons shall be ex officio trustees of the said corporation: the bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church within whose territorial limits the said institution may be located, the president of Nashotah house, and the rector or head of the faculty of the institution hereby incorporated. Including the said ex officio trustees, there shall be not less than twelve (12) nor more than twenty-five (25) trustees of said corporation. Seven (7) members of the board, regularly convened, shall form a quorum. SECTION 2. Section seven (7) of the act of which this is amendatory, is hereby repealed. Approved March 21, 1861. May reduce capital stock, and remove.] Proviso. Certificate to be filed. CHAPTER 29. AN ACT to authorize the Commercial bank to reduce its capital and remove its place of business. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Commercial bank at Racine is hereby authorized to reduce its capital stock to the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, the outstanding circulation of said bank being not greater than that sum, and to remove its place of business to the village of Lancaster, Grant county, in the state of Wisconsin: provided, that said bank shall be required to pay to the state treasurer all taxes due the state up to and including the day on which this act shall take effect, on the full amount of its present capital stock. SECTION 2. Before the removal of said bank, as provided in the foregoing section of this act, a certified CHAPTER 30. copy of the certificate recorded in the office of register of deeds of Racine county, in pursuance of section sixteen of "an act to authorize the business of banking in the state of Wisconsin," approved April 19th, 1852, shall be filed in the office of register of deeds in the county to which said bank shall remove, as hereinafter provided, and a copy thereof, duly certified by the register of deeds of said county, shall be filed with the bank comptroller and state treasurer. SECTION 3. Hereafter the bank comptroller shall my new notes not issue to said bank, after it shall file its certificate to remove its place of business, as hereinafter [hereinbefore] provided and authorized, any circulating notes, unless the same shall distinctly mention Lancaster as the place of their issue and redemption. When be issued. able, &c. SECTION 4. The holder or holders of any outstand- Where notes paying circulating notes of said bank may have such notes presented for payment, and the payment thereof demanded, and may cause such notes to be protested for non-payment at the place to which said bank shall remove, as herein authorized, in the same manner and with like effect as if the same had been presented, demanded and protested at the place where said note or notes are made payable. filed with regis SECTION 5. The president of said bank shall, after Certificate to be the passage of this act, file in the office of register of ter of deeds. deeds in the county to which it shall remove its place of business, in pursuance of this act, a certificate under oath, stating the sum to which the capital stock of said bank is reduced. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1861. CHAPTER 30. AN ACT to authorize J. R. Slauson and C. H. Cunningham to keep and maintain a boom on the Kewaunee river. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. J. R. Slauson and C. H. Cunningham, their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby author |