empowered to meet on the first day of October next, as a city board of equalization, in said city; and at such meeting, after having taken the oath required by section 22, chapter 167, of the general laws of 1859, they shall equalize the assessment of new structures, new entries and personal property in said city, for the year 1862, in the manner prescribed in said section 22, and such equalized value shall be deemed the true value thereof, and shall be so returned by the assessor and be made the basis of taxation.

equalization.

SECTION 2. Such equalization and return shall be Validity of taken and deemed the same, to all intents and purposes, as if the said equalization had been made at the time appointed by law.

Approved Sept. 23, 1862.

CHAPTER 4.

[Published September 24, 1862.]

AN ACT to further explain and extend the benefits of chapter 8 of the laws of the extra session of 1861, entitled "an act to provide for the aid of volunteers in the service of the United States or of this state," approved May 25, 1861, as explained and extended by chapters 112 and 374 of the general laws of 1862, and also to provide for levying and collecting a special state tax for the purpose of extending such aid to the volunteers of this state.

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

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SECTION 1. The benefits of said chapter 8 of the Extension of laws of the extra session of 1861, as explained and unteer aid fund. amended by chapters 112 and 374 of the laws of the session of the legislature of 1862, are hereby extended to and shall apply to all regiments of infantry and cavalry, and batteries of artillery, raised or to be raised in this state, which have been or may hereafter be mustered into the service of the United States or of this state, which are not included in said chapter 8 of the laws of the extra session of 1861, or in the aforesaid acts of the session of 1862, amendatory or supplementary thereto.

SECTION 2. There shall be levied and collected for Special tax. the year 1862, a special state tax of two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, which shall be placed in

the war fund for the uses and purposes set forth in said chapter 8 of the laws of the extra session of 1861, as (further) amended and explained by chapters 112 and 374 of the laws of 1862, as further extended by the provisions of section one of this act.

SECTION 3. Said tax shall be apportioned among and assessed upon the several counties of this state, as provided by law, and such tax shall be levied upon the taxable property of this state, real and personal, and collected and paid into the treasury, as provided by

law.

SECTION 4. The secretary of state shall apportion said tax among the several counties of the state, as provided by chapter 386 of the general laws of 1860, on or before the second Monday of October next, and certify the same to the clerk of the board of supervisors of each of the several counties, as provided by law.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved Sept 23, 1862.

Salaries of mili

CHAPTER 5.

[Published September 24, 1862.]

AN ACT authorizing the secretary of state to audit certain accounts.

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

SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authortary clerks, &c. ized to audit the claims for salaries of clerks and employees in the office of the paymaster-general and other military offices of the state, and to draw warrants on the treasury for the same.

Appropriation.

SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury belonging to the " war fund," not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay all warrants drawn in accordance with the provisions of this act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved Sept. 23, 1862.

CHAPTER 6.

[Published September 24, 1862.]

AN ACT to authorize the county of Rock to raise money to pay the scrip of said county, issued and hereafter to be issued for bounties to volunteers, and to legalize the action of the county board of supervisors of said county.

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

of $43,000 may

county scrip is

teers.

SECTION 1. The county board of supervisors of Rock Tax to amount county, are hereby authorized, empowered and directed be levied to pay to levy, in the same manner and at the same time as sued to volunother taxes for county and state purposes are levied, a tax on the taxable property of said county, for the purpose of paying all scrip known as the Rock county bounty scrip, issued or hereafter to be issued by said. county, under and in pursuance of the direction and authority of the aforesaid board, given at special meetings of said board, on the 8th and 13th days of August, A. D. 1862: provided, that such scrip, exclusive of interest, does not exceed in amount the sum of $43,000.

on or before

earlier.

SECTION 2. Said board shall, in the manner above Scrip to be paid provided, levy a tax sufficient for the purpose aforesaid, Feb. 1, 1864. to pay said scrip in full on the first day of February, A. D. 1864, and also provide for the collection of said tax and the payment of said scrip: provided, that in Part may be paid case said board shall deem it expedient to raise a portion of the money for said scrip earlier than the day last aforesaid, said board are hereby authorized and empowered to provide for the payment of such portion thereof as they may think advisable, by a tax to be levied as aforesaid, in the year (A. D.) 1862, and the money so raised shall be applied on said scrip under the direction of said board.

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SECTION 3. All the acts and proceedings of the Proceedings of aforesaid board, at their aforesaid special meetings, by galized."

which said board pledged the faith and credit of said county for the payment of bounties to volunteers in the service of the United States, as provided in the resolutions by them thereat adopted, and by which said board authorized and empowered the treasurer of said county to issue said scrip, are hereby declared to be Validity of scrip legal and binding on said county; and the scrip issued and to be issued under the same, is also hereby in all respects declared to be [as] valid as though the same were issued under and by virtue of an act of the legislature thereunto first enacted for that purpose.

issued.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved Sept. 23, 1862.

Officers by whom acknowledg

ments may be taken.

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CHAPTER 7.

[Published September 27, 1862.]

AN ACT authorizing commissioned officers to take acknowledgment of deeds, affidavits and depositions, in certain cases.

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

SECTION 1. Every commissioned officer of volunteers in any company, battery, regiment or other military corps organized in this state, is hereby authorized to take and certify the acknowledgment of deeds or other contracts intended for record, in respect to lands situate in this state. Such commissioned officer is likewise authorized to administer oaths, take and certify to affidavits and depositions to be used as evidence in Where powers to the courts of this state: provided, that the powers granted by the provisions of this act, shall be exercised only out of the limits of this state.

be exercised.

Depositionshow taken, &c.

SECTION 2. Depositions taken under the foregoing section, shall be taken as in other cases where the witness resides out of this state, except so far as the law and practice is [are] altered by this act; and no such deposition shall be rejected or excluded by the court for the reason that it has been taken at a place different from that set forth in the notice. The party

desiring such deposition shall serve on the opposite party a notice specifying the name of the witness, the commissioned officer or officers (any one of whom may act) who is to take the deposition, and a copy of the interrogatories. Such party shall, if he thinks fit, serve his adversary with cross interrogatories within ten days thereafter. The party serving the notice shall thereupon transmit the direct and cross interrogatories to the officer or officers named in the notice, who shall take and certify such deposition, and enclose it to the judge, clerk of the court or justice of the peace before whom the cause or matter is pending, in the same manner as if authorized by a commission issued for this purpose.

Approved Sept. 25, 1862.

CHAPTER 8.

[Published September 27, 1862.]

AN ACT to ascertain and settle the liabilities, if any, of the state of Wisconsin to the Milwaukee and Rock river canal company.

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

missioners to

SECTION 1. The governor, secretary of state and Board of comstate treasurer are hereby appointed a board of com- ascertain liabilimissioners to determine and ascertain the liabilities, if ty of state. any, and also the amount of indebtedness of said company to the state, if any, incurred by the territorial and state governments of Wisconsin, under the act entitled "an act to grant a quantity of land to the territory of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of Lake Michigan with those of Rock river," passed by congress, and approved June 18th, 1838.

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SECTION 2. Said board is hereby authorized to make Board may make an amicable adjustment with the Milwaukee and Rock justment, &c. river canal company, with respect to which company said liabilities were incurred, and if it finds any sum of money due said company by the state thereon, the commissioners shall sign an award to that effect, one copy