Power of society.

To keep rec.erd.

Banking powers withheld.

any property except for purposes connected with the 'erection completion or repairing of a house of public worship, or for purposes connected therewith.

SEC. 2. That any three of the above named persons shall have power to call a meeting by giving ten days notice thereof by posting up notices in three public places in the town of Milwaukie.

SEC. 3. That said society shall have power to form a constitution and enact by-laws for its government, to prescribe the number and title of its officers, and to define their powers and du. ties and such other powers necessary for governing and promoting the welfare and interest of said society.

SEC. 4. Said society shall keep a full and complete record of all ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations made by them, and shall keep a full and complete record of all notices, elections, and a full record of all the names of such persons as shall become or be elected officers of said society, and of all monics received, paid out or expended by them or any of them in and about the affairs of said society, which said record shall always be open to inspection and examaination of the members of said society, and said record shall be received in all courts as competent evidence of all facts therein stated.

SEC. 5.

Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to give to said society banking powers.

SEC. S. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and may be amended altered or repealed at any time by the Legislature of Wisconsin.

APPROVED, February 22, 1845.

Duty of county com'rs.

AN ACT to authorize the construction of a free bridge across the Sheboygan river.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners of Sheboygan county to levy a tax of two hundred dollars upon the taxable property in said district number one in said county, to be laid out and expended under the direction of the supervisors of

said district, in the building of a free bridge across Sheboygan riv er in the village of Sheboygan, said bridge to start from the north side of said river, at or near block No. one hundred and thirty. three, as laid down in the map of Sheboygan, thence crossing the river so as to correspond with the county road, leading to the house of B. L. Gibbs, and known as the Gibbs road, which said bridge when so constructed shall be a part of said road district.

be constructed

SEC. 2. The supervisor of said road district, shall be author- Supervisor ized to receive subscriptions and donations to aid in the construc- may receive subscription. tion of said bridge,and when a sufficient sum, shall be thus raised,he shall proceed to advertise and let out the same according to law. SEC. 3. Said bridge shall be erected on piles or bents, and How bridge to shall be constructed with a convenient draw over the channel of said river, not less than forty feet wide in the clear, so as to admit the free passage of all water craft navigating said river: Pro- Proviso. vided however, That no tax shall be levied, as provided in the first section of this act, unless the requisite sum including such tax shall be secured to be paid as contemplated in the second sec

tion of this act sufficient to complete the said bridge.

SEC. 4. This act may at any time be altered, amended or repealed.

APPROVED, February 8th 1845.

AN ACT to authorize William H. Thomas, Waldo Rosebrook and Martin C. Frary, to alter a certain territorial road therein named.

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

SECTION 1. That William H. Thomas, Waldo Rosebrook and CommissionMartin C. Frary,be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners ers appointed. to lay out a road agreeable to the provisions of an act to provide for laying out and opening Territorial roads, and for other purposes, passed January 11th, 1840, beginning in the Territorial road leading through said town of Manomine to Milwaukee,at an angle in said road seventy-two rods east of the west line of said town: and running thence in a southeasterly direction to the westerly end of the mill dam belonging to Abram Nottingham, thence along the

Road vacated.

Proviso.

embankment of said dam in a northeasterly direction to the centre of the road aforesaid.

SEC. 2. That so much of the present road as lies between the two points of intersection as herein described, be and the same is hereby vacated: Providing however, Said road shall not be vacated until said Nottingham, or others concerned in said mill, shall have cleared the road hereby authorized as wide as the road so vacated.

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

APPROVED, January 30, 1845.

Returns how made.

How canvass ed.

AN ACT concerning the returns of elections in certain counties therein named.

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

SECTION 1. That hereafter the clerk of the board of county commissioners of St. Croix county, Chippewa county, and the clerk of the board of commissioners, or the judge of elections in any precinct of the county of La Point, hereafter to be organized, may make their returns to the clerk of the board of commissioners of Crawford county, when by law they are required to make returns, by transmitting their respective returns by mail, the same shall be canvassed upon the receipt thereof in like manner as if they had been received from the hands of the said clerk, and certificates shall be issued by said clerk in the same manner as if the election had been held within Crawford county, any law of this Territory to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 2. Any returns so made shall be canvassed as aforesaid if received within thirty days after the election day from the county of St. Croix, and within forty-five days from the county of La Pointe when organized.

APPROVED, February 19, 1845.

AN ACT further to amend "an act to incorporate the Village of Racine."

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

ed.

SECTION 1. That the piers now constructed, or hereafter to Limits extenbe constructed at the mouth of Root river by the trustees of the village of Racine, or the United States, and the adjacent waters flowing between the said piers and for two hundred feet north of the north pier, and two hundred feet south of the south pier, for the distance of two thousand feet into Lake Michigan, be, and the same are hereby included within the corporate limits of said village, and subject to all the corporate powers and duties of trustees of said village.

tees.

SEC. 2. That the said piers and the said waters are hereby declared public highways, open and free to all, but that the said trus- Power of trustees shall have power to prohibit by their ordinances the use of any horses, waggons or other carriages on the said piers, and also to prohibit, remove and abate by suit or otherwise, at law or in chancery, any incumbrance or obstruction of the said piers and

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water.

SEC. 3. That the said trustees of the village of Racine, shall Harbor masappoint an officer, who shall be called the harbor master of the vil- ter tobe appointed. lage of Racine, whose duty shall be to keep order on the said piers and the adjacent waters, and to enforce such police regulations touching the same, as the said trustees may ordain: Provided, Proviso. that nothing herein contained, shall be construed so as to interfere

with the agents or officers of the United States in the construction of said piers.

SEC. 4. That the loan of money made by the trustees of said Interest on village, under and by authority of an act entitled "an act to au-loan legalized. thorize the village of Racine to borrow money and for other purposes, approved January 6th, 1844," to obtain which the said trustees agreed to pay the interest thereon semi-annually; shall be as

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legal and valid against said corporation as if the interest thereon,
was to be paid annually.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.
APPROVED February 19th, 1845.

Who incorpo

rators.

Powers of the company.

Business how conducted.

AN ACT to incorporate the Wisconsin River Navigation Company.

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

SECTION 1. That John B. Du Bay, Abraham Brawley and Enoch G. Bean, and such other persons as may hereafter subscribe stock in said company, for the purpose authorized in this act, shall be known in law and equity by the name of the Wisconsin River Navigation Company, any [and] by said name shall have perpetual succession, may enter into contracts and he contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts of law and equity in this territory, and may have a common seal and may alter it at pleasure.

SEC. 2. That said company shall have power and right to erect a dam across the Wisconsin river, below the Little Bull Falls, the same being on the southeast quarter of section twentynine, in town twenty-seven north, and range seven east of the fourth principal meridian; from the main east shore to an island known by the name of John L. More's Island,and of such height as will raise the water on said falls as high as the present surface of the water above said falls at an ordinary stage of water, and in some suitable place in said dam there shall be a slide not less than sixty feet wide, and not less than sixty feet long, or eight feet long for every one foot the dam is high.

SEC. 3. The business of said company shall be conducted under a board of three directors, who shall appoint one of their number as chairman of the board, who shall preside at all meetings of the board, and shall be styled the first director, but in his absence another director may preside who shall be chosen by