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AN ACT to provide for the election of Clerks of the Circuit Courts of this state.

The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be elected in each county and the several counties attached for judicial purposes, a clerk of the circuit court who shall enter into like bonds, and who shall perform the like duties as have been heretofore required by law to be performed by the clerks of the district court of the territory of Wisconsin: Before entering upon the duties of his office he shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation faithfully to perform the duties of the office of clerk of the circuit court for the proper county and to support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Wisconsin.

SEC. 2. The election of clerks of the circuit court of the several counties aforesaid shall be held at the same time as the general election for state and county officers: The returns shall be made to the clerk of the board of supervisors or county commissioners of the proper county who shall canvass the same, and the person baving the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected, and the clerk of the board of supervisors or county commissioners shall make out and deliver to the person so elected a certificate of his election, and the term of service of the clerks to be elected under the provisions of this act shall commence on the first day of Janwary next after their election and continue for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified.

N. E. WHITESIDE,

Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved August 17, 1818.

NELSON DEWEY,

AN ACT amendatory to "an act to incorporate the Milwaukee and Waterford Plank Road Company," approved March 13th 1818.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Luther Parker, J. D. Reymert, Samuel C. Russ, Samuel E. Chapman, P. Potter, D. Merrill, Charles M. Goodsell and John E. Cameron a e hereby appointed commissioners of the Milwaukee and Waterford Plank Road Company instead of those named in said act, with the same power and duties as confererd in said act upon the commissioners in said

act.

SEC. 2. The capital stock of said company shall be seventy-five thousand dollars to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and as soon as six hundred shares of stock shall be subscribed, and two dollars on each share of stock actually paid in, and a statement shall be deposited with the secretary of state of Wisconsin and authenticated by the oath of the secretary of the company and two or more of the said co.nmissioners, that such subscriptions and payments have been in good faith made the subscribers of such stock, with such other persons as shall associate with them for that purpose, their successors and assigns shall be and they are hereby declared a body corporate and politic by the name and st le of the Milwaukee and Waterford Plank Road Company with perpetual succession, and by that name shall have all the rights and privileges as conferred upon said company by the second section of the act to which this is amendatory.

SEC. 3. The said company shall have power to locate and construct a single or doubls track plink or Macadamized road commencing at such point in the city of ilwaukee as may be designated by the commissione:s or board of directors and running thence on the most feasible and practicable route to such point in the town of Muskego as the company when formed shall select, from thence to the village of Waterford on Fox river; and the company shall also have power to make con truet and erect side tracks. turn outs, and connecting tracks, and also all such gates, toll houses and

other works and appendages as may be necessary for the convenience of said campany in the use of said plank road, and also to connect such plank road, and operate the same with other plank roads and branch of roads in the state of Wisconsin.

N. E. WHITESIDE,

Speaker of the Assembly.
J. E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved. August 17, 1848.

NELSON DEWEY.

AN ACT to provide for the division of the several counties un der the county system of government into towns.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SEC. 1. The board of county commissioners in all the counties in this state now under the county commissioner system of government shall theet on the second Tuesday of January next and divide their respective counties into convenient towns describing the same accurately and naming each town, and shall also designate some place in each town so set off at which the first town meetings shall be held.

SE. 2. Immediately after such division shall have been made the clerk of the board of commissioners of each county aforesaid shall transmit under his hand and the seal of his county to the secretary of state at Madis on a description of the towns so organized in his county with the name of each town and shall also record such description together with a plat of eich town so organized in the journal of the board of county commission

Sz. 3. The first town meetings infsuch towns shall be held on the first Tuesday of March next at the places designated in the several towns by the board of commissioners of each county and it shall be the duty of the clerk of each board of commissioners at least twenty days prior to said day of election to place in the hands of the sheriff of his county three written or printed notices specifying the time when and the place where said town meeting is to be held for the election of town officers and such sher iff shall post up such notices in three of the most public places in each towa at least fifteen days previous to such election.

SEC. 4. The clerks of the board of county commissioners and the treasurers in the aforesaid counties shall continue to hold their respective offices until the next general election shall be holden in such counties and until their successors shall be chosen and qua'ified and shall be subject to the same rules and regulations as the clerks and treasurers now are or by law may be subject to in those counties now under the supervisor system of government.

SEC. 5. This aci shall be in force and take effect from and after the first day of January aext.

N. E. WHITESIDE, Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, August 17, 1848.

NELSON DEWEY,

AN ACT supplementary to an act entitled "an act to author ize the supervisors of the town of Watertown in the county of Jefferson to raise a tax to build a bridge across Rock River. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The legal voters of the town of Watertown in the county of Jefferson are hereby authorized and empowered to vote for or against the levy of a tax of eight hundred do lars provided for by the act to which this act is supplement. ry which vote shall be taken on the Tuesday succeeing the first Monday in November next: on such ballots as are in favor of said tax shall be written or printed or partly written and partly printed the words bridge tax: yes" on such ballots as are against said tax shall be written or printed or partly written and partly printed the words bridge tax: no: If a majority of said votes shall be in favor of said tax then the supervisors of said town sha I order said tax to be levied and co lec edwithin ninety days after said election; but if a majority of said votes shall be against said tax then it shall not be lawful to levy or collect any tax under said law.

SEC 2. If a majority of said votes shall be in favor of said tax then the law to which this act is supplementary shall be in full force and effect and the said bridge shall be buit in conformity to he said original act.

SEC. 3. All ac's of the commissioners appointed by the act to which this act is supplementary and of al: persons acting under said commissioners are hereby suspended until said vore shall have been taken; and if majority of said votes shal be against said tax, then all monies col ected by virtue of said law shall be re:undel to the persons from whom the same was collected; and all work done by virtue of any contract under said law shall be agreed upon by the supervisors and the compensation therefor shall be paid out of the treasury of said town on the order of said supervisors.

N. E. WHITESIDE, Speaker of the Assembly.

JOHN E. HOLMES,

Lieut. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved August 17, 18.

NELSON EWEY,

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