Penalty, &c.

Dam where to be built.

Subject to law

of 1840.

To build slide.

§ 6. That if any person or persons shall wilfully and unlawfully injure, damage or destroy said bridge, or any part thereof, such person or persons shall, for every such offence, forfeit the sum of fity dollars, in addition to the penalty provided in the statute for such offences, and pay all damages consequent upon such offence over and above such forfeiture.

§7. This act shall be liable at any time to be altered, amended or repealed by the Legislature.

APPROVED, February 17, 1842.

AN ACT to authorize George Lurwick to build and maintain a dam across the Oconto river.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

§ 1. That George Lurwick and his associates, be and are hereby authorized and empowered to build and maintain a dam across the Oconto river, in the county of Brown, on lots numbered six and seven, in section numbered twenty-four, in township numbered twenty-eight, of range numbered twenty-one east, of the fourth principal meridian, on lands owned by him or his associates, sufficient to make and create a head of seven feet, and to make use of the water of said river for hydraulic purposes.

§ 2. That the general law, approved January thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty, "Relating to mills and mill dams," shall be and hereby is declared to be applicable to any dam which may be constructed by virtue of this act.

§3. This act shall be subject to amendment or alteration whenever the said river shall be so improved above said dam as to admit of the passage of boats and barges, by any future Legislature of Territory or State of Wisconsin; and the said Lurwick, his associates or successors, shall construct and keep in good repair a sufficient slide, not less than thirty feet wide, and so constructed as not to cause a fall of more than one foot to every ten feet of smooth

surface, to admit of the passage of all rafts of lumber, &c. down said stream.

APPROVED, February 16, 1842.

AN ACT to provide for the payment of the expenses of the Legislative Assembly therein named, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

§1. That there shall be appropriated out of the sum appropriated by Congress for defraying the expenses of the Legislative Assembly for the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-two

To John Dowling, for bill of stove pipe furnished for capitol, one hundred and sixty-three dollars.

To Kingsland & Lightner, for bill of stoves furnished for capitol, two hundred and fifty-six dollars.

To Grashet & Childs, for freight and charges on stoves, eightynine dollars and twenty-eight cents.

To Yates Scoville, for transportation of furniture from Milwaukee to Madison, one hundred and forty-five dollars.

To Alexander P. Field, for one year's postage, to July first, 1842, one hundred dollars: Also, for desk for secretary's office, twelve dollars; for hauling books from Mineral Point, fifteen dollars; for purchasing a press and screw for the great seal of the Territory, seventy-five dollars; for going to St. Louis and Milwaukee for the purpose of purchasing furniture for capitol, one hundred and twenty-five dollars; for amount advanced to Yates Scoville, Benoni W. Finch and William Moorehead, for transporting furniture, one hundred and fifty-eight dollars; for office rent from June to December, 1841, and stationery, one hundred dollars.

To B. W. Finch, for hauling furniture, forty-five dollars.

To David Hyer, for labor in putting up stoves, three dollars. To George Beatty, for locks for desks for Council and House of Representatives, three dollars and seventy-five cents.

To Otis & Gove, for chairs and cushions for Council Chamber' and Representatives' Hall, three hundred and sixty dollars.

To Cady & Farwell, for sheet iron and andirons for capitol halls, sixty-eight dollars and thirty-one cents.

To Kneeland & Co. for materials for trimming desks, and furniture for Legislative halls, two hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-one cents.

-To Abner Nichols, for three days attendance and one hundred and ten miles travel, in attending as a witness before a committee of the House of Representatives, twenty-five dollars and fifty

cents.

To Thomas J. Mormon, sergeant-at-arms, for expenses in subpenaing witnesses, forty-nine dollars.

To C. S. Peasley, for materials furnished and labor, in putting down carpets in the Legislative halls, thirteen dollars.

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To Robert Moore, for sixty-five days services in attendance at capitol, carrying wood, one hundred and thirty dollars.

To Gideon Chapin, for making stove doors in capitol, twelve dollars and fifty cents.

To Thomas Dailey, for chopping and hauling wood, and cleaning capitol, two hundred and twelve dollars and twenty-five cents. To A. K. Clark, for hauling andirons and sheet iron from Milwaukee, ten dollars.

To William D. Daggett, for making and trimming desks for Legislative halls, seven hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents.

To N. Smith, for furnishing materials, binding and sewing carpets for Legislative and Executive rooms, eighty dollars.

To John Wentworth, for publishing in Chicago Democrat, resolutions upon the southern boundary, by order of Legislative Assembly, nine dollars.

To Abel Rasdall, for labor putting down carpets, eight dollars. To Charles H. Russell, for articles furnished for the funeral of the Hon. C. C. P. Arndt, late a member of the Legislative As. sembly, four dollars and thirty-nine cents.

To Jeremiah E. Dodge, for services as assistant secretary of the Council, from the sixth of December to the thirteenth of January, both inclusive, at three dollars and fifty cents per day, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.

To Thomas J. Emerson, assistant secretary of the Council, for

thirty-six days services, at three dollars and fifty cents per day, one hundred and twenty-six dollars.

To John F. Meade, assistant clerk of the House of Representatives, for seventy-five days services as assistant clerk, at the present session, three dollars and fifty cents per day, two hundred and sixty-two dollars and fifty cents.

To Elisha S. Sill, for mileage, and for forty-seven days attendance upon the session, prosecuting his claim to a seat in the House of Representatives, one hundred and eighty-six dollars and fifty

cents.

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To Rev. B. Phelps, as chaplain to House of Representatives, two hundred dollars.

To Rev. J. M. Clark, as chaplain to the Council, two hundred dollars.

To George Beatty and John Catlin, for preparing the Journals of the Council and House of Representatives, of the present ses、 sion, and affixing an index thereto, each two hundred and fifty dollars.

To William Pyncheon, for making boxes for stoves and putting. up the same, nine dollars.

To David Wilder, bill of wood furnished per order of librarian, fifty-five dollars and fifty cents.

To William McDonald, for labor in putting up shelves in library, four dollars.

To Clarke & Jones, for freight and charges on ten boxes of books, and globe lamps and tacks, delivered librarian, thirty-nine dollars and twenty-five cents.

To Almon Lull, for salary as librarian from November twentysecond, eighteen hundred and forty-one, to the eighteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-two, seventy-one dollars and twelve cents: Also, for postage, three dollars and twenty-six cents; also, for services in preparing library room, Council and Representatives' halls, and Governor's room, and for furnishing carpet nails, brooms and lumber for library shelves, fifty-two dollars and seventy-five cents.

To Darwin Clark, for repairs on library room, two dollars.

To H. Connelly, for one and a half days labor in putting down" carpets, three dollars.

To John Nelson, for services, per order of librarian, making

clerks desk, repairing stoves, curtains, &c. fourteen days, twentyeight dollars.

To J. T. Wilson, for bill blacksmith's work, per order of librarian, thirty dollars.

To Charles C. Savage, for eighteen days services as engrossing clerk, fifty-four dollars.

To Rhenodyne Bird, for seventy-five days services as assistant librarian, one hundred dollars.

To Stephen B. Thrasher, for services for self and horse, eight days, by order of sergeant-at-arms of House of Representatives, thirty-two dollars.

To D. G. Fenton, for taking depositions of Joseph Brisbois, in case of contested election between Alfred Brunson and Theophilas La Chappelle, five dollars.

To Daniel Baxter, for sundry bills, stationery furnished librarian, seventy-five dollarsand eleven cents.

To the secretary of the Territory, the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, to be applied by him to the payment of the interest due on money advanced and certificates issued under "An act to provide for the payment of the expenses of the Legislative Assembly, and for other purposes," approved February thirteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, and "An act to provide for the payment of the expenses of the Legislative Assembly therein named," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, which sum, or so much thereof as shall be paid on the certificates aforesaid, shall be endorsed on said certificates, and the said secretary aforesaid shall report to the next Legislature the number of each certificate, name of the person to whom issued, the amount endorsed thereon, also of any money paid for interest on money advanced, and to whom paid, and that so much of "An act to provide for the payment of the expenses of the Legislative Assembly therein named," approved February nineteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-one, as appropriates fifteen hundred dollars to the secretary for the payment of interest to accrue on certificates, &c. is hereby repealed.

To A. P. Field, for furniture for Governor's room, to wit: Cur