Provision for cases where tax

has been issued, and any person or persons shall have has been paid. paid or shall have had collected from his, her, or their property the whole or any portion of the tax therein appearing as assessed against him, her or them, or upon any property belonging to such person or persons, the amount so paid or collected shall be credited to him, her or them, by the treasurer of the school district upon being requested by such person or persons, and upon the production of proper evidence of such payment. The affidavit or receipt of a former treasurer or personal knowledge of the acting treasurer of such payment, shall be good evidence under the provisions of this section. A credit made upon request as herein before provided, shall operate as and is hereby declared to be a perpetual bar to any and all actions heretofore or which may hereafter be commenced by the person or persons thus credited and the same may be pleaded puis darien continuance, or otherwise, as the case may require; and the same be pleaded singly, or with any other proper plea to such action or actions.

Clerk to make certificate of amount of tax

voted at last annual meeting.

§ 3. Hereafter, the clerk of each school district, shall, on or before the last Monday of November in each year, deliver to the town clerk of the town in which the district is situated, a certificate, verified by his affidavit, showing the amount of the tax voted at the last preceding annual meeting, and a list of all persons and corporations liable to a school district tax therein; or in case of a joint district, he shall deliver to the town clerk of each town in which any part of the district is situated a certificate so verified, showing the proportion of the tax to be assessed in that part of the district within such town, and the persons and corporations liable to a school district tax in that part of the district, which proportion shall be ascertained from the valuations contained in the last assessment rolls of the respective towns; and to enable the district clerk to ascertain the same, the town clerk of each such town, shall on demand, at any time after he has received the equalized assessment roll of his town, deliver to the district clerk of any such joint district, a certified statement of the valuation of real and personal property in that part of such district lying within his town, as the same appears from said assessment roll.

§ 4. The town clerk shall assess such tax, or the due proportion thereof, upon the real and personal property

assess tax.

liable thereto, placing the same in a separate column in Town Clerk to the next assessment roll of his town, delivered to the town treasurer for collection whenever such certificate of the district clerk shall be received by him in time therefor, although after the last Monday of November. And if for any reason such tax shall not be assessed in the next assessment roll after the tax is voted, it shall be assessed in that of the next succeeding year. The tax shall, in all ions." respects be collected or returned delinquent like other taxes, and when collected, the money shall be paid over to the town superintendent and by him to the district treasurer, like other school moneys.

Further provis

mer act repealed.

85. After three months from the passage of this act, Sections of for the town clerk shall not be required to make out transcripts of the assessment roll for school districts; and sections two, three, and four of the act entitled "An act to amend chapter nineteen of the revised statutes of this state," approved March 29, 1853, are hereby repealed.

lished.

6. This act shall be published in the Weekly Argus Act to be puband Democrat, printed at Madison, immediately after its passage, and shall thereupon take effect. The Secretary of State shall also forthwith, cause it to be published in each weekly newspaper printed in this state, and shall audit the accounts therefor, as provided in chapter one hundred and four of the general statutes of 1853. Approved Feb. 25, 1854.

Chap. 23.

AN ACT to authorize the election of officers in Shawanaw county and to extend the jurisdiction of the

same.

Published April 29, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

1. The qualified electors of the county of Sha wanaw Repealed. are hereby authorized to elect all officers to which said county is entitled at the annual town election in said

Towns attached.

Penalty for resisting civil,

officers

county on the first Tuesday of April next, and such officers shall hold their offices until their successors, who shall be elected on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in November, A. D. 1854, shall be duly elected and qualified.

§ 2. So much of section 3, of chapter 9 of the general statutes of 1853, as specifying the time for holding the first election in said county of Shauanaw is hereby repealed.

§ 3. Towns twenty-eight, (28) twenty-nine, (29) and thirty (30) north of range fifteen (15) sixteen (16) and seventeen (17) east, are hereby attached to said county of Shauanaw for county purposes.

4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved Feb. 27, 1854.

Chap. 24.

AN ACT for the protection of sheriffs, constables, marshals and other ministerial officers.

Published April 10, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. Every person who shall knowingly resist any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, marshal, or other ministerial officer, while engaged in the lawful execution of any civil or criminal process issued by any court, body, board or officer, authorized to issue the same, or in lawfully doing any act as such officer; or who shall in any way knowingly and intentionally counsel, advise, or procure any other person or persons to resist any such officer, so lawfully engaged in the execution of such process, or in lawfully doing such other act as such officer, shall, for every such offence, be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three months, nor more than two years, or by fine not less than five dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved Feb. 27, 1854.

Chap. 25.

AN ACT to amend section thirty-seven, of chapter eighty four of the Revised Statutes.

Published April 8, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§1. Section thirty-seven of chapter eighty-four of the How amended. revised statutes, of this state, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: A final decree of a court of chancery shall have the same operation, force and effect as a judgment at law, from the time of signing and docketing such decree, in the manner hereinafter provided.

of Court.

§ 2. The clerks of the circuit courts of the several coun- Duties of Clerk ties in this state, shall immediately after the signing of a final decree obtained in a court of chancery, in the several counties in this state, enter in an alphabetical docket, in books to be provided and kept by him, a statement of such final decree, containing:

1st. The names at length of all the parties to such decree, designating particularly those against whom it is

obtained.

2d. The amount of the decree, or the substance of what is required by the decree; to be done without the cost. 3d. The hour and day of entering such docket.

§ 3. If the decree be against several persons, such statement shall be repeated under the name of each person, against whom the decree was obtained, in the alphabetical order of their names, respectively.

Clerk's attention

§ 4. It shall be the duty of the party, his or their so- Parties to call licitor, or counsellor, in whose favor a final decree shall to this act. have been obtained, to call the attention of the clerk to the provisions of this act and request him to docket such decree in the manner required by this act.

when dockedet

§ 5. A final decree of a court of chancery for the re- Final decree covery, or payment of a sum of money when docketed as binding. aforesaid from the time when an execution might by law be issued thereon, shall bind and be a charge upon lands,

Act how construed.

Power conferred on county super

intendents of poor.

tenements, real estate and chattels real, for the same period of time, and as though the same were a judgment, and not otherwise.

§ 6. This act shall not be so construed as to prevent clerks of the circuit courts, in their respective counties, from docketing final decrees in the same books kept by them for the purpose of docketing judgments at law.

§ 7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 27, 1854.

Chap. 26.

AN ACT to amend section 36 of chapter 28 of the Revised Statutes.

Published, April 10, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. Section thirty-six (36) of chapter twenty-eight (28) of the revised statutes, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

When any county shall have abolished the distinction between county poor and town poor, the same powers conferred and duties imposed in said chapter twenty-eight, on town supervisors as officers of the poor, shall be exercised by the county superintendents of the poor in such county and the same powers and duties shall also be conferred upon the county snperintendents of poor, as is conferred on town supervisors in cases of "bastardy," under chapter 31 of the Revised Statutes, and in any and in all cases where bonds are required to be given by said chapter 31, such bonds may be given to the county superintendents of poor of the proper county, and either the town supervisors or the county superintendents of poor may approve such bonds when the same is necessary.

§2. All acts and parts of acts contravening this act are hereby repealed.

§3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, March 3, 1854.