the expiration of said three years, execute to the purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, a conveyance of the lots and lands so sold, Deed when to which conveyance shall vest in the person or persons to whom be given. the same shall be given, an absolute estate in fee simple, and the said conveyance shall be prima facia evidence that the sale was regular according to the provisions of this act, and any such conveyance to be executed by the treasurer, under his hand and (the) seal of the corporation, in the name, and on behalf of the village of Fond du Lac, and the execution thereof witnessed and acknowledged as by law in other cases provided, may be given in evidence, and recorded in the same manner, and with like effect, as a deed regularly acknowledged by the grantor, may be given in evidence.

Notice to be

of lots.

SEC. 27. In all cases before lands shall be conveyed as aforesaid, the treasurer shall advertise the same by correct published of description thereof, for three months, in some paper published the forfeiture in said village, or by written notices, as prescribed by section. twenty-seven of this act, stating therein that all such lands or lots will be forfeited if the taxes and charges upon the same are not paid before the day mentioned.

SEC. 28. That all lots or lands which shall be advertised Fees for ad

for sale, for the non payment of taxes, shall be subject to a vertising. charge of three cents for each lot or piece of land so advertised, for the first advertisement, and for each lot or piece of land which shall be sold as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the treasurer to demand, and receive the following fees: For each certificate to be given to a purchaser, of any lot of land at such sale, twelve and a half cents. For certifying to amount necessary to redeem any lot or piece of land, twelve Fees of treasand a half cents; and one dollar for each conveyance executed in pursuance of this act. The said fees to be paid by the person receiving such instrument. The charge for adverti sing the forfeiture of a piece of land shall be ten cents for each lot or parcel.

SEC. 29. That if any person who shall purchase any lot

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in pursuance of this act, shall pay any tax returned subse- Rates of interquent to such purchase, on such lot or piece of land, the per- est on taxes son who shall redeem such lot or piece of land, shall pay to the treasurer the amount of tax, with interest, at the rate of

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twenty-five per cent. per annum, for the benefit of such pur

SEC. 30. This act shall be deemed a public act, and may be amended, altered or repealed by the legislature of the territory or state of Wisconsin, and shall take effect after having been adopted by a vote of two-thirds of the legal voters of said village of Fond du Lac, and for this purpose the said voters may assemble at the court house in said village on the day, and in the manner prescribed by the second section of this act, and having organized, according to the provisions of said section, shall first vote for or against this act, by casting a ballot, on which shall be written, or printed, "for corporation," or "against corporation," which ballot shall be kept open from the hour of eleven o'clock, A. M., to the hour of one o'clock, P. M., when the votes shall be openly canvassed and counted by the moderator and clerk, and if it shall appear that two-thirds of the legal votes there cast shall be "for corporation," the same shall be entered with the proceedings of such meeting, to be certified to by the moderator and clerk as before provided, after which the voters may forthwith proceed to choose all officers authorized by this act: Provided, however, if the votes shall be against such corporation, it shall be lawful for any ten legal voters of such village to notify a subsequent meeting at said court house, for the same purpose, and after having given two weeks' notice, in some paper published in said village, of the time and place of such meeting the said voters may again meet and proceed to organize under the provisions of this act, in the same manner as provided for herein, on the first Monday of March next.

AN ACT

To incorporate the stockholders of the Green
County Seminary.

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

where estab

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SECTION 1. That there be established in the village of Seminary Monroe, in the county of Green, a seminary of learning for lished. the instruction of persons of both sexes, in science and literature, by the name of the Green County Seminary; and William Rittenhouse, E. T. Gardner, William C. Fillebrown, John A. Bingham, J. W. Stewart, William C. Green, Hiram Brown, William Bowen, William Jones, R. D. Derrick, John Walworth, Alvinza Hayward, and Simon P. Condee, and such other persons as may associate with them, be, and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name and style of "The stockholders of the Green County Seminary," by which name they and their successors shall be for- poration. ever known, and have perpetual succession, and shall have power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts of law and equity, in all actions, suits, causes, and complaints whatever; and they shall have a common seal; and they shall have power, under such corporate name, to acquire, purchase, receive, possess, hold, and enjoy, to themselves and their successors, property, real and personal, and the same to sell, convey, rent, or otherwise lawfully dispose of at pleasure.

SEC. 2. The stock of said company shall be divided into Stock transshares of twenty dollars each, which shares shall be deemed ferable. personal property, and shall be transferable on the books of

said corporation in such manner as shall be directed by the

trustees of the same
SEC. 3. The corporate concerns of said seminary shall be

their election.

Trustees and managed by nine trustees, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall be elected at an annual meeting to be holden on the first Monday of March, at twelve o'clock, noon, by the stockholders present at such meeting, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected. The election of the trustees shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for every share by him owned, to the number of five, and one vote for every five shares he shall own above that number.

Annual meeting.

General powers of

trustees.

SEC. 4. The annual meeting of said stockholders shall be holden at the court house in Monroe, until said seminary shall be erected; and thereafter the said meetings shall be held at said seminary.

SEC. 5. The trustees of said seminary shall have power: 1. To elect their president annually on the day of the annual meeting:

2. Upon any vacancy in the office of president or trustee, to fill such vacancies, by a vote of a majority of the trustees present at any regular meeting:

3. To make such assessment upon the stockholders of said seminary as shall be necessary to finish the necessary buildings after the same shall have been commenced, and for other necessary purposes; and to enforce the payment of such assessments by the sale of the stock of the delinquent stockholders, in such manner as the trustees may prescribe, at public auction, at any time after thirty days from the time of making such assessments, upon giving six days notice of such sale, by putting up a notice in writing on the court house door; such assessments to be paid out of the proceeds of such sale:

4. To take and hold, by gift, devise, or grant, any property, real, personal, or mixed, and to sell, mortgage, let, or otherwise dispose of the same, in such manner as they shall deem most conducive to the interests of the said seminary: Provided, that the income of said seminary shall not exceed the sum of five thousand dollars in any one year:

5. To direct and prescribe the course of study and disci pline to be observed in said seminary;

6. To appoint a secretary, and such other officers as they shall deem expedient, who shall hold their offices during the pleasure of the trustees:

7. To prescribe the duties and fix the salaries of all the officers of said corporation; and to remove or suspend them from office, for incapacity, immoral conduct, or misbehavior in office; and to appoint another in place of such person or officer so removed or suspended:

8. To make all ordinances and bye-laws necessary and proper to carry into effect the powers herein granted, and not inconsistent with the constitution of the United States or the laws of Wisconsin.

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SEC. 6. No religious test or qualification shall be required No religious from any trustee or other officer of said corporation as a condition for admission to any privileges in the same; nor shall any religious tenets or opinions be taught in said seminary. SEC. 7. The county of Green is hereby authorized to be- County of come a stockholder in said corporation to amount of the value of such real estate as may have been donated to said county for the purpose of the establishment of a seminary of learning, and to such other amount as the said county may deem proper; and the county commissioners of said county shall be entitled at the election of the trustees of said corporation to cast the number of votes to which said county may be entitled by the second section of this act.

SEC. 8. The legislature shall have full power to alter, amend, or repeal this act at any time without any judicial. investigation.

SEC. 9. That the act of the legislative assembly entitled "An act to incorporate the Green County Seminary," approved January 12, 1838, be and the same is hereby repealed. WILLIAM SHEW,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

MASON C. DARLING,

APPROVED, February 8, 1847.

HENRY DODGE.

President of the Council.