government of said company in relation to said road and the

Corporation ereated.

Name and

Ivie of corporation.

. Proviso.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Sinsinawa Mound College.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives 1 of the Territory of Wisconsin:

SECTION 1. That Right Reverend Doctor Henni, Bishop of Milwaukee, Reverends Samuel Mazzuchelli, Francis Maz zuchelli, Victor Jouanneauet, Messrs. Augustus L. Gregoire, Patrick Quigley, George W. Jones, and Nicholas Dowling, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby created a body corporate and politic for educational purposes. by the name and style of "The President and Trustees f the Sinsina wa Mound College," and by that name to remain in perpetual succession, with full power to sue and be sued. plead and be impleaded, to acquire, 'hold, and convey prop. Jerty, real and personal, to have and use a common seal, to alter and renew the same at pleasure, to make and alter from time to time, such bye-laws as they may deem necessary jut the government of said college, its officers students, and servants: Provided such bye-laws are not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this ter

ritory or the future state of Wisconsin, also to have power to confer on those who they may deem worthy, all such honors and degrees as are usually conferred in like institutions of learning.

SEC. 2. The said college shall be located at Sinsinawa Where college located. Mound, in Grant county, Wisconsin, and may be erected on a plan sufficiently extensive to afford instruction in the liberal arts and sciences, and the said president and trustees may erect any or all of the different departments for the study of the liberal professions in such manner as they may think proper.

SEC. 3. The said president and trustees shall have power Power of corto appoint a president, vice president, treasurer, and such poration. other officers, professors, tutors, curators, and agents as they may deem necessary, and shall fill all vacancies that may occur in their own board, by resignation, death, or n glect for more than one year to attend to the duties of trustees, and to prescribe the powers and duties of all officers, teachers, or agents, and to remove any of them for sufficient reasons. Also to prescribe and direct the course of studies to be pursued in the institution and its departments..

trustees.

SEC. 4. The board of trustees shall consist of eight mem- Number of bers, with power to increase their number to twelve, any four of whom, including the president, (or in his absence the vice president,) shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Said board of trustees shall hold their fist anWhen first nual meeting at such time and place as the Reverend Sam- annual meetuel Mazzuchelli shall designate, of which time and lace he ing held. shall give due notice to the other persons incorporated, and afterwards they shail meet on their own adjournment, and May hoid special meetings. may hold special meetings in such manner as suali be prescribed by the bye-laws of said college.

estate.

SEC. 5. The said college in its corporate name may hold May hold real real estate not to exceed in value fifty thousand dollars.

SEC. 6. The College buildings, out houses, church buildings, library, apparatus and appurtenances of said college, together with sufficient land for college purposes, not to exceed forty acres, shall be forever exempt from taxation.

Property ex

empt from taxaten.

Property of colleges exempt from taxation,

Proviso.

Qualification students

and teachers.

Act may Le amended.

SEC 7. The college buildings, out houses, church buildings, library, apparatus, and appurtenances, of the Lawrence Institute, Beloit, and Carroll collages, together with sufficient land for college purposes, not to exceed forty acres for each, shall also be forever exempt from taxation: Provided, that no lands exempt from taxation by the provisions of this act shall ever be used for any other purposes than those of embellishment and recreation, or for the erection thereon of the necessary college buildings, out houses, and gardens for the use of said colleges, their officers, teachers or servants.

SEC. 8. That no religious tenets or opinions shall be requisite to entitle any person to be admitted as a student in said college, (and no such tenets or opinions shall be required as a qualification for any professor, tutor, or teacher of said college,) and no student of said college shall be required to attend religious worship in any particular denomination.

SEC 9. This act may be altered or amended by any fu ture legislature of the territory or state of Wisconsin.

TIMOTHY BURNS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

HORATIO N. WELLS,

APPROVED March 11, 1848.

President of the Counsil.

HENRY DODGE.

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

From Green

Bay to Fort

SECTION 1. That Edward Eastman, Erasmus D. Hall, and Richard Hallock, be, and. they. are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road from Green Bay through the Oneida settlement, and thence to Oshkosh, Winnebago. from thence to Fort Winnebago, by the way of Waukau. Said road to be laid on the most favorable route.

From White

SEC. 2. That Edward Gilman, Charles Bell, and William P. Ward, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners water to Wa to re-locate so much of the territorial road leading from White- tertown. water, in the county of Walworth to Watertown, in the county of Jefferson, as lies between Jefferson and Watertown..

SEC. 3. That Robert Black, John Whess, and George Squire, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay From Hustis' out and establish a territorial road, commencing at Hustis' Ford to MilFord, Dodge county, and running thence to Milwaukee on the best and most feasible route..

SEC. 4. That Thomas Noyes, Mathias Mitchell and Na-

than Strong, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to

waukee.

Lac to Plover

lay out and establish a territorial road commencing at Fond From Fond du du Lac, and running to Plover Portage, by way of Ceresco Portage. and Strong's landing, on Fox river, in section number four, in township number seventeen, range number thirteen, and: that said commissioners shall have, power to adopt such pub lic road as they may deem necessary as a part of said road.

SEC. 5. That David Hume, Mathias, Mitchell, and John. Q. Henning, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a territorial road commencing at Fond

Lac to lover

From Fond du du Lac, running thence to Humesville, on Fox river, in secPortage. tion number seventeen, in township number eighteen, north

of range number fifteen east, from thence to Plover Portage.

SEC. 6. That Allen Foster. William Larbee, and Warren Smith, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay From Sheboy out and establish a territorial road from Sheboygan, by the gan to Harriway of Mayville, to Harrison, in Dodge county.

son.

From Fond du
Lac to Sum.

mit.

SEC. 7. That Lucas Vanorden, Allen Foster. and John S. Rockwell, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a territorial road from Fond du Lac to Summit, by the way of Maysville, Neosha and Oconomewor, and the said commissioners shall have power to adopt such roads and parts of roads as are located they [that] may seen to them practicable.

SEC. 8. That Charles F. Rogers, Keyes A. Darling, and Frederick Bacon, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out and establish a territorial road, commencing From Ford du at Fond du Lac village, and running to Ceresco village, via the center of the town of Rosendale.

I ac to Ceres

co.

From Manchester to

SEC. 9. That George W. Featherstonhaugh, William Fowler, of the town of Manchester, Calumet county, and J. L. Moor, of Sheboygan county, be, and are hereby oppointed commissioners to lay out and establish a territorial road from the town of Manchester, Calumet county, to Sheboygan, comSheboygan. mencing at the military road, on the line between lots nambers twenty-three and twenty-four, thence running due east, on the best and most feasible route, to the east line of the late Brothertown reservation, from thence the nearest and most practicable route to Sheboygan.

From South

Sec. 10. That John McCay, E. D. Robbins, and Joseph D. Whitely, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial road, commencing at Southport, port to Beloit thence to D. Stevens, thence to Walker's bridge, thence to Noxon's Corners, thence to Liberty, thence to Welmot, thence along the south line of the territory as near as the ground and circumstances will admit, to Beloit. }

SEC. 11. That the time for making the returns of the rope missioners appointed by an act of the legislative assembly