No. 10, A.] [Published May 10, 1901. CHAPTER 311. AN ACT to amend chapter 45 of the laws of 1899, being an act to provide for the paying of a bounty for the killing of wolves, and repealing all conflicting laws. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Bounty for wolves and wolf cubs. SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 45 of the laws of Wisconsin for the year 1899, is hereby amended by inserting between the words "wolf" and "by" in the second line of said section, the words "eub under six months of age;" and by inserting between the words 'dollars" and "and" in the third, line of said section, the words, "and every person who shall kill any mature wolf by poison or otherwise shall be entitled to a reward of five dollars;" so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Section 1. Every person who shall kill any wolf cub under six months of age, by poison or otherwise, shall be entitled to a reward of three dollars, and every person who shall kill any mature wolf, by poison or otherwise, shall be entitled to a reward of five dollars, to be paid by the county wherein said wolf was killed, on presentation to the county clerk of the town chairman's certificate provided for in section 1627 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898. Nothing in this act shall prohibit any county from increasing said bounty or reward by a majority vote of its county board at any annual meeting, provided that no county shall pay more than six dollars reward for the killing of a full grown wolf. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved May 8, 1901. No. 107, A.] [Published May 10, 1901. CHAPTER 312. AN ACT to authorize the levy of a special highway tax in towns and to provide for county aid in constructing permanent highways. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and and assembly do enact as follows: Special tax for main highway improvements. SECTION 1. The electors of any town in this state, at the annual town meeting, may vote a special highway tax not less than one-half mill, nor to exceed two and one-half mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of said town in addition to the highway tax provided by law; said special tax to be collected in money and used only for the purpose of covering any main traveled highway already graded, with gravel, crushed rock or clay and gravel. County aid for, how received. SECTION 2. Whenever the supervisors of any town shall file with the county board of the county in which such town is situated, a petition setting forth that such town, in addition to levying the usual highway taxes has voted to cover any main traveled highway, after the same has been properly graded at the expense of said town, not less than twenty-four feet wide, with gravel, crushed rock or clay and gravel to a depth of not less than four inches and not less than eight feet in width, and that said town has provided for the payment of one-half of the cost of covering said main traveled highway with gravel, crushed rock or clay and gravel, the county board shall appropriate the other half of such cost and cause such sum to be levied upon all the taxable property in the county, as will with the amount provided for by said town be sufficient to defray the expense of covering said main traveled highway or highways designated in said petition. Such money when collected, shall be paid out on order signed by the chairman of the county board and county clerk whenever said town supervisors shall notify them that the work has been completed and accepted. The county board shall, at the time of making such appropriation, designate four of its members who shall have full authority to act with the town board of supervisors in letting the contract for, providing the specifications for, and inspecting and accepting the work, provided that nothing herein contained shall compel any county to make or cover more than one mile of highway at a cost not to exceed one thousand dollars in a town in any one year, or to levy a total tax of over one mill on the dollar of the assessed valuation in any one year. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved May 8, 1901. No. 349, A.] [Published May 10, 1901. CHAPTER 313. AN ACT to create a municipal court in and for Forest county. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and and assembly do enact as follows: Court created. SECTION 1. There is hereby created and established in and for the county of Forest, a municipal court with the power and jurisdiction hereinafter specified and provided. Election of judge; term, vacancy. SECTION 2. On the first Tuesday in April 1901, and every four years thereafter, there shall be elected in the county of Forest in the same manner as county judges are elected, a municipal judge, who shall hoid his office for the term of four years and until his successor is elected and qualified, and in case of a vacancy occurring in the office of municipal judge, the vacancy shall be filled by appointment by the governor and the person so appointed shall hold the office until the end of the term for which he is appointed. Provided that upon the passage and publication of this act the of fice of judge of said court shall be deemed to be vacant, and shall be filled by appointment as herein provided. Judge to be an attorney. SECTION 3. No person shall be eligi ble to the office of judge of said municipal court who is not an attorney of a court of record in this state. Oath and bond of judge. SECTION 4. The judge of said mu nicipal court shall, before entering upon the duties of his of fice, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office and file the same with the clerk of the circuit court of Forest county and execute to said county a bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, with such sureties as shall be approved by the county treasurer of Forest county, and recorded and filed as provided in section 702 of the Wisconsin statutes conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of said office and the faithful accounting of all moneys or properties that may come into his hands by virtue of his said office. County to provide court room. SECTION 5. The judge of the said municipal court shall hold his office at the county seat of Forest county in a suitable room provided for such purpose by the county board of said county. Civil and criminal jurisdiction of court. SECTION 6. The municipal judge of Forest county shall have cognizance of and jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all action and proceeding at law wherein the amount of the debts, damage, demand, penalty or forfeiture shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, and actions to recover the possession of personal property, with damages for the unlawful taking and detention thereof, wherein the value of the property claimed shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. Said judge shall also have exclusive criminal jurisdiction of all actions now cognizable by justices of the peace in said county and no justice of the peace in said county shall have a jurisdiction in any criminal examination or trial except to issue warrants returnable to the municipal court of said county. The proceedings and practice of said court shall in all respects be governed as far as practicable by the laws governing justices of the peace in this state and transcripts of the judgments of the said municipal court may be filed and docketed with the clerk of the circuit court for said county with the same effect as transcripts of judgments rendered by justices of the peace, and appeals, civil and criminal, from said court may be taken in the same manner and with like effect as is provided by law for appeals from judgments of justices of the peace. The said municipal court shall also have power and jurisdiction to hear, try and determine any action mentioned in subdivisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of section 3573 of chapter 154 of the Wisconsin statutes wherein the amount of the damages or property in question does not exceed the value of five hundred dollars. Judge ex-officio court commissioner. SECTION 7. The municipal judge of Forest county shall be ex-officio court commissioner and shall have and may exercise all the powers conferred upon court commissioners by section 2434 of the Wisconsin statutes and the official designation of said court when so acting shall be "municipal judge of Forest county." Judgment by confession. SECTION 8. Judgment by confession may be entered before the judge of said municipal court in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars without action either for money due or to become due or to secure any person against a contingent liability on behalf of the defendant, or both, if a statement in writing be made and signed by the defendant and verified by his oath to the following effect: (1) It must state the amount for which judgment may be entered and authorize the entry of judgment therefor by the municipal court or the judge of said court: (2) If it is for money due or to be come due it must state concisely the fact or facts out of which it arose and must show, that the sum confessed therefor is justly due or to become due: (3) If it be for the purpose of securing the plaintiff against a contingent liability, it must state concisely the fact or facts constituting the liability and must show that the sum confessed does not exceed the same. When justice of peace may preside. SECTION 9. In case of sickness, absence or temporary disability of said municipal judge he may by an order in writing, to be filed in said court, appoint the county judge or any justice of the peace of said county to discharge the duties of said judge during such sickness, alsence or disability, who shall have the same powers as said judge while administering said office. Froceeding in lieu of change of venue. SECTION 10. No action, examination or other proceeding shall be removed from said court but when prior to joining issue in any action or before the commencement of any examination it shall appear by affidavit that the municipal judge is a material witness or is within the forbidden degree of consanguinity or from prejudice the municipal judge will not decide impartially in the matter, the mu nicipal judge shall notify the county judge or some justice of the peace to hear said examination or other proceeding as the case may be, whereupon it shall be the duty of such magistrate to forthwith appear at the court-room of said municipal court and to discharge the duties of said municipal judge or the hear ing of such examination or other proceeding in the same manner and with like effect as if heard by the municipal judge of said court, and the record shall have like force and effect as if made by said municipal judge. The magistrate so acting in said proceeding shall receive for his compensation therefor the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents for each half day he shall spend in such examination or other proceeding, which shall be in full for his services therein. If such examination or trial shall be for a criminal offense he shall be paid out of the county |