count of Atwood and Rublee for printing three thousand copies of the memorial to congress and proceedings of the Prairie du Chien canal convention, heretofore distributed by the governor: providing, the amount does not exceed four hundred dollars.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 10, 1869.

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Term of office

Axed.

CHAPTER 156.

[Published March 18, 1869.]

AN ACT in relation to certain officers in the county of Dallas, and their terms of office.

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

SECTION 1. The appointment heretofore made by the governor of a board of supervisors for the county of Dallas, is hereby declared to have been legal and valid.

SECTION 2. The supervisors so appointed shall hold of supervisors their respective offices, one of them for one year, an other for two years and the other for three years from the first day of January, 1869, or until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified, the length of their respective terms to be determined by casting lots on or before the first day of September next, in the manner prescribed by chapter thirty-one of the general laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.

One supervisor to be elected at each general election.

County judgehis tenure of office.

SECTION 3. At each general election hereafter, one supervisor shall be elected in said county to take the place of that supervisor whose term of office shall expire in the month of January next succeeding such election, to hold his office for three years and until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified.

SECTION 4. The present county judge of the said county of Dallas shall hold his office until his successor, to be elected in April next, is elected and qualified, and such successor shall be elected at the annual town

meetings in April next, and the term of such successor shall commence on the first day of January next.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1869.

CHAPTER 157.

[Published March 23, 1869.]

AN ACT relating to evidence in certain cases.

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

transcript of

office.

SECTION 1. It shall the duty of the secretary of Secretary of state, upon demand of any person or corporation, to state shall make make a true and correct transcript of all books, files, re- records in his cords, certificates or other written documentary evidence of title on file or of record in his office of, concerning or appertaining to any and all such tracts or parcels of land as shall be designated or described by the person or corporation making such demand: provided, that the said secretary of state shall not insert in said transcript any other lands than those designated by the person or corporation demanding such transcript.

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SECTION 2. The said secretary of state shall make Form of certifi and annex to said transcript a certificate substantially cript. in the following form:

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,

I hereby certify that the annexed and foregoing is a true and correct transcript of all books, files, records, certificates and other written or documentary evidence of title on file or of record in this office relating or appertaining to the title to the lands described in the foregoing transcript, and of the whole thereof. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the state, this day of A. D.

Secretary of State.

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SECTION 3. Such transcript with such certificate ed in evidence. annexed, shall be received in evidence in all courts of this state as prima facie of all facts therein contained; and in all cases and upon the trial of any cause, if any party shall make or show, or offer to make or show title to any lands, by or through, or offer in evidence for such purpose, the certificate of the secretary of state prescribed in section one (1) of chapter twenty-nine (29) of the general laws of 1867, it shall be competent for any other party to such cause to rebut or dis prove such certificate, and the evidence of title made or proven thereby, by offering in evidence the transcript and certificate annexed mentioned in this act, containing a description of the same lands set forth in such certificate of the secretary of state, and such transcript with such certificate annexed, when so offer ed to rebut or disprove such certificate and the evidence of title made thereby, shall be taken and deemed better evidence of title to such lands than such certificate, anything contained in said chapter 29, general laws of 1867, to the contrary notwithstanding; and when such transcript with such certificate annexed shall have been offered in evidence as herein provided, unless it shall appear therefrom that the party offering in evidence such certificate mentioned in section one (1) of the general laws of 1867, has or had title to the said lands described in said certificate, and in said transcript and certificate annexed (herein mentioned), at the time mentioned in said certificate, then such certificate shall have no force or effect whatever as evidence of title to any such lands: provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent either party from showing title to such lands by any other competent evidence. Approved March 10, 1869.

CHAPTER 158.

[Published March 23, 1869.]

AN ACT to exempt the real estate of the home of the friendless from taxation.

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

SECTION 1. The real estate of the home of the Exempted. friendless, owned and occupied by said company in the city of Milwaukee, not exceeding one lot in amount, is hereby exempted from taxation so long as the same shall continue to be used as such home.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

'Approved March 11, 1869.

CHAPTER 159.

[Published March 23, 1869.]

AN ACT in regard to supervisors of the county of Burnett.

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

SECTION 1. The election of the county board of Legalized. supervisors of the county of Burnett, at the general election in November last, of which board Canute Anderson is acting as chairman, is hereby legalized and declared to be of full binding force and effect, and all the acts of said board so far as the illegality of its election may affect the same are hereby declared to be valid and are hereby legalized.

SECTION 2. The said board of supervisors shall hold Term of office office, one for one year, one for two years and one for of supervisors. three years from the first day of January, A. D. 1869, or until their successors shall be duly elected and

One supervisor to be elected at

qualified; their respective terms to be determined by casting lots in the manner prescribed in the second section of chapter 31 of the general laws of 1868.

SECTION 3. At each general election hereafter, one each election. supervisor shall be elected in said county of Burnett, to take the place of that supervisor whose term of office shall expire in the month of January next succeeding such election, to hold his office for three years and until his successor shall be elected and quaified.

SECTION 4. All acts and parts of acts con flicting with this act are hereby repealed, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 11, 1869.

Legalized.

CHAPTER 160.

[Published March 23, 1869.]

AN ACT to legalize the acts of the board of supervisors of the county of Dallas of the sixth day of February, 1869.

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

SECTION 1. The ordinance and action of the county board of supervisors of the county of Dallas of the sixth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, changing the name of the town of Dallas, are hereby legalized and declared to be valid and of full binding force and effect.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 11, 1869.