county at their last meeting, as petit jurors, the number required by law to serve as petit jurors, at the several jury terms of said court to be held in said county for the year 1861.

constitute regu

SECTION 2. The persons whose names shall be drawn Persons drawn to as aforesaid, shall constitute the regular panel of pet- lar panel. it jurors for the terms for which they shall respectively be drawn; and said drawing shall be as legal for all pur- Drawing to be poses, as if the number of names selected by said board of supervisors had not exceeded that specified in section 1 of chapter 209 of the laws of 1860.

SECTION 3.

This act shall take effect and be in force

from and after its passage.

Approved January 18, 1861.

legal.

CHAPTER 4.

[Published January 23, 1861.]

AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain outstanding indebtedness against the Swamp Land Fund.

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

SECTION 1. The state treasurer is hereby author- Treasurer to pay ized and required to pay out of the swamp land fund income, all accounts that have been or may be legally audited for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, payable out of the swamp land fund: provided, Proviso. that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to require or compel the state treasurer to pay any such account which has been, either in part or in whole, illegally audited.

SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the Appropriation. swamp land fund income a sufficient amount of money

to pay the accounts to which reference is had in section

one of this act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 22, 1861.

Authority to cor

bonds.

Security.

CHAPTER 5.

[Published January 23, 1861.]

AN ACT to authorize "The River and Lake Shore City Railway
Company" of Milwaukee, to issue and dispose of its Bonds to the
amount of seven thousand dollars.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for "The River and poration to issue Lake Shore City Railway Company" of Milwaukee, a corporation heretofore organized and established under and in pursuance of the provisions of chapter seventythree of the revised statutes, to issue and dispose of its corporate bonds, not exceeding seven thousand dollars in the aggregate, payable at a time to be fixed in said bonds, not more than five years from January 1st, 1861, and bearing interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and to secure such bonds by a trust-deed or a mortgage upon the company's railway, including side track and switches, in the city of Milwaukee, and upon the cars and rolling stock of said company connected with or used on said railway provided, that the issuing of said bonds so secured shall be approved by the votes of stockholders of said company, owning and holding a majority in amount of the capital stock thereof, at a meeting called for that purpose, of which meeting at least six days' notice shall be given.

Proviso.

SECTION 2. The said company is hereby authorized to negotiate and dispose of such bonds or any part thereof to such persons or corporations on such terms and at such rates as may be agreed on, any law on the subject of usury to the contrary notwithstanding.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed so far as the same are applicable to the corporation named in this act.

Approved January 23, 1861.

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AN ACT to legalize the official acts of David Y. Wethern, as Justice of the Peace in the county of Pierce.

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

SECTION 1. That all the official acts and duties per- official acts formed by David Y. Wethern, as justice of the peace, legalized. in the town of Diamond Bluff, in the county of Pierce, in this state, prior to the passage of this act, so far as the same are consistent with the general laws of this state, are hereby legalized and declared to be as valid for all purposes, as though the said David Y. Wethern had caused his official bond and oath to be made and filed in conformity with the statutes of this state.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, January 25, 1861.

CHAPTER 7.

[Published January 29, 1861.]

AN ACT to extend the time for collecting Taxes for the year 1860, in the County of Manitowoc.

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

SECTION 1. The time for the voluntary payment of Time extended. all taxes, except state taxes, on property in the county of Manitowoc, for the year 1860, levied pursuant to any law of this state, is hereby extended to the third Monday in July next, and it shall not be lawful for any town or village treasurer, in said county, to levy the same by distress and sale prior to said day.

SECTION 2. In all cases where the treasurer of Where treasurany ers have not town or village in said county shall not have made his made return, returns of delinquent taxes, before receiving notice of may receive taxthe passage of this act, he shall retain in his hands for collection all delinquent taxes, and may receive such of

es.

Where treasurers have made

treasurers shall

not issue warrant.

the taxes therein, as shall be paid voluntarily, prior to the third Monday in July next, and receipt the same to the person or corporation making such payment thereof without other or further authority than the original warrant issued to him for the collection of the same.

SECTION 3. In all cases where the treasurer of any return, county town or village in said county, shall before receiving notice of the passage of this act, have made return to the county treasurer of delinquent taxes for said year 1860, the said county treasurer shall not issue any warrant to the sheriff for the collection of the same till after the fourth Monday in August next.

Tax warrants

may be renewed.

SECTION 4. If upon the third Monday in July next there shall be remaining in the hands of any town or village treasurer any delinquent and unpaid taxes, it shall be the duty of such officer to present his original

warrant to the officer who issued the same for a renewal thereof, and it is hereby made the duty of said officer to renew the same for thirty days from said third Monday in July, by endorsement under his hand, and the said treasurer shall thereupon proceed to enforce collection of the same by distress and sale in the manner When return to now provided by existing laws, and shall make return of such warrant and tax list to the county treasurer on the fourth Monday in August next, in the manner now provided by existing laws.

be made.

Terms of office

of treasurers extended.

New bond to be given.

Treasurers to

pay over taxes first of every month.

SECTION 5. The term of office of the treasurer of the towns and villages in Manitowoc county, for the purposes of this act, is hereby extended to the fourth Monday in August next, but said treasurers shall give a new official bond before the first Tuesday in March next, in double the amount of delinquent taxes retained in their hands.

SECTION 6. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to authorize any collector to retain in his hands any taxes already collected by him, and every collector is hereby required to pay over to the proper officer in person, such taxes as he may have collected, on the first Monday of every month, until the time shall have elapsed to make his return as herein before provided.

SECTION 7. This act is hereby declared to be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 29, 1861.

CHAPTER 8.

[Published January 31, 1861.]

AN ACT to amend Chapter Thirty-Eight, "Acts of a general nature," of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled, Of Agricultural Societies.

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

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter thirty-eight, Amendment. acts of a general nature," of eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, "An act to amend chapter fifty-three of the general laws of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight," is hereby amended by striking out the words "thirty-first day of December," in the last line of said section, and inserting the "first day of February."

for depositing

SECTION 2. The time for depositing the reports of Time extended the several county agricultural societies of this state, reports. with the secretary of state, and the secretary of the state agricultural society, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty, is hereby extended to the first day of February next, and the secretary of state is hereby requir- Secretary to ed to audit the annual appropriations of all county agricultural societies which shall make their report agreeable to this act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 30, 1861.

audit.

CHAPTER 9.

[Published January 31, 1861.]

AN ACT to amend Chapter 287 of the General Laws of 1860, entitled "An act to provide for laying out a State Road from Chilton, in Calumet County, to Wrightstown, in Brown county."

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

SECTION 1. Section one (1) of chapter 287 of the Amendment. general laws of 1860, entitled "An act to provide for laying out a state road from Chilton, in Calumet county, to Wrightstown, in Brown county," is hereby amended