Amendment of names. Amendment of dates. CHAPTER 25. [Published February 15, 1861.] AN ACT to amend Chapter 181, Private and Local Laws of 1859, entitled "An act to provide for a special tax to improve a road therein named." The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 181 of the private and local laws of 1859, entitled "An act to provide for a special tax to improve a road therein named," is hereby amended by striking out the names of "Edward Finnigan and William Playfair," and inserting in lieu thereof the names "Patrick Hogan and Thomas Watts." SECTION 2. Section 4 of said chapter 181 is hereby amended by striking out the words "first day of December, 1859," and inserting in lieu thereof the "first day of September, 1861." SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force. on and after its passage. Approved February 14, 1861. Sec. 95, chap. 16, Five per cent. to be paid in county treasury. CHAPTER 26. [Published February 15, 1861.] AN ACT to amend Chapter eighteen of the Revised Statutes, entitled "Of the assessment and collection of taxes." The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section ninety-five of chapter eighteen of the revised statutes, entitled, "Of the assessment and collection of taxes," is hereby amended by inserting after the word "assessed," in the eleventh line, the following: "except the five per cent. collector's fees." SECTION 2. Strike out section ninety-seven of said act, and insert in lieu thereof the following: "The five per cent. on the delinquent tax list returned by the treasurer of any town, city or incorporated village, to the county treasurer as collector's fees, shall be collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as other delinquent taxes are collected, and paid into the county treasury for the use of the county. SECTION 3. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 14, 1861. CHAPTER 27. [Published February 15, 1861.] AN ACT to legalize the sale of lands for unpaid taxes in the The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: legalized. SECTION 1. The tax sale of lands for unpaid taxes Tax sale for 1860 held in September, A. D. 1860, in Juneau county, is hereby declared to be valid and binding, to all intents and purposes, the same as if all the provisions of law then in force, relative to the sale of lands for unpaid taxes had been fully complied with, and the omission or neglect of the county treasurer to post the statements and notices, and to make and file the affidavits as required by chapter twenty-two of the general laws of 1859, shall not in any manner invalidate such tax sale, nor shall any certificate of sale of lands for unpaid taxes given at said sale, nor shall any tax deed that Tax deeds dehereafter may be given, pursuant to any such certifi-clared valid. cate of sale, be invalidated or in any manner prejudiced by reason of any such omission. SECTION 2. This act is hereby declared to be a general law, and shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 14, 1861. Time extended. Authority to treasurer. CHAPTER 28. [Published February 18, 1861.] AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the city of Beloit. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in the city of Beloit, in the county of Rock, is hereby extended till the first Monday in April, 1861: provided, that this act shall not be so construed as to extend the time for the payment of state taxes. SECTION 2. The treasurer of said city shall have the same power and authority to collect the taxes contained in said city tax-roll, after, as before such extension of time for the collection of said taxes, and the return of the city treasurer to the county treasurer within the time limited by this act for the collection of taxes in said city, shall be as valid as if made pursuant to the direction of the original warrant, anything in any law to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1861. Sale of lands postponed. CHAPTER 29. [Published February 18, 1861.] AN ACT to postpone the sale of lands in the county of Pierce for delinquent taxes for the year 1860. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The sale of lands in the county of Pierce and state of Wisconsin, for the delinquent taxes of the year 1860, is hereby postponed until the first Tuesday in September next, and the county treasurer of said county is hereby required to advertise said delinquent lands on which the taxes remain unpaid on the first of August preceding such sale, and shall sell the same in the manner required by law, on the first Tuesday in September, 1861. SECTION 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 15, 1861. CHAPTER 30. [Published February 16, 1860.] AN ACT to change the time of holding Courts in the Sixth Judicial Circuit, and to authorize the holding a special term in and for said Circuit at the city of La Crosse. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: court. SECTION 1. That hereafter, the general terms of the Terms of holding circuit court in and for the counties of Trempealeau and Buffalo, in the sixth judicial circuit of this state, shall be held as follows: In the county of Trempealeau on the first Monday of April, and the first Monday of December of each year; in the county of Buffalo on the second Monday of April, and on the Monday succeeding the fourth Monday of September of each year. turnable. SECTION 2. All process, actions, proceedings or re- Process, &c., recognizances heretofore commenced, issued or taken in or from said courts, or either of them, and all proceedings pending therein, or returnable thereto, whether by recognizance or otherwise, shall be held and taken as returnable at the times named in this act as the times for holding said courts respectively. La Crosse. SECTION 3. On the third Monday of March in each Special term in year, a special term of the circuit court in and for said circuit, shall be held at the court house in the city of La Crosse, in the county of La Crosse, by the judge thereof, for the transaction of all business not requiring the intervention of a jury. quired. SECTION 4. No notice of the holding of said special Notice not reterm shall be required, other than the passage and publication of this act. SECTION 5. All acts and parts of acts conflicting Repeal. with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed., SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 15, 1861. Preamble. Authority to county judge. Duty of guardians, &c., in re CHAPTER 31. [Published February 16, 1861.] AN ACT for the relief of Racine County. Whereas, All the probate records of the county court of Racine county, and the greater part of the papers and files belonging to the probate office of said county, were destroyed by fire on the twenty-fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one : Now, therefore, in order to restore the evidence lost by reason of the destruction of said records and files, and to perpetuate the same, and to relieve the said county, the people thereof, and all other persons interested, from the disorders that might result therefrom, therefore, The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The judge of the county court of Racine county, in this state, is hereby authorized and empowered to restore the records of all probate proceedings heretofore had in said court, as far as the same can be done, in the manner hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of every guardian, storing records. executor and administrator, heretofore appointed by said court, within three months after the passage of this act, to appear before the judge of said court and make application for the restoration of said record in any matter in which he may be guardian, executor or administrator, as aforesaid. Such application shall be by petition, setting forth all such proceedings as have already been had before the said court, as fully as the petitioner is able to do, and praying that the same may be made a matter of record; and if such petition be made by any executor or administrator, with the will annexed, a copy of the will duly certified or proved to be a true copy, to the satisfaction of the judge, shall |