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No. 47, S.]

[Published February 18, 1915.

CHAPTER 6.

AN ACT to amend section 113.01 of the statutes, relating to the term of office of circuit court judges.

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

SECTION 1. Section 113.01 of the statutes is amended to read: Section 113.01. The term of office of every circuit court judge, when elected for a full term, is the period of six years, and until his successor is elected and qualified, which commences with the first Monday of January next succeeding his election; and, when elected to fill a vacancy, is the period commencing with the first Monday of June next succeeding such election and continuing during the residue of the unexpired full term and until his successor is elected and qualified. Full terms shall hereafter commence in the respective circuits with the first Monday of January in the following years and every sixth year thereafter, namely:

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Nineteenth Circuit

Twentieth Circuit...

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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and pub

lication.

Approved February 17, 1915.

No. 31, S.]

[Published February 20, 1915.

CHAPTER 7.

AN ACT relating to expert and clerical assistants for the joint committee on finance, and making an appropriation therefor. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The joint committee on finance and the legislature of the session of 1915 is empowered to employ trained experts in accounting and statistics and in the formulation of public financial statements and such other assistants as may be necessary. Such experts and assistants shall be exempt from the provisions of chapter 363 of the laws of 1905, and its amendments.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general fund a sum, sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act, not to exceed forty-five hundred dollars, the same to be paid upon the approval and order of the chairman of the senate and assembly divisions of the joint committee on finance.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Approved February 19, 1915.

No. 176, S.]

[Published February 24, 1915.

CHAPTER 8.

AN ACT to amend sections 2 and 3 of chapter 4, laws of 1911, being an act to provide for the nomination of judicial officers in the counties having a population of over one hundred thousand inhabitants by a nonpartisan primary election. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Sections 2 and 3 of chapter 4, laws of 1911, are amended to read: (Ch. 4, laws of 1911.) Section 2. Nomination papers for candidates for any such office shall be designated as nonpartisan, and shall be signed by qualified electors equal in number to not less than * one per cent nor more than of such county,

* five per cent of the electors

who voted for all candidates for such office at the last previous judicial election.

Section 3. Such nomination papers shall follow substantially the form prescribed by section 11-5 of the statutes for the September primary, excepting that where such form and affidavit use the word "precinct" the same may be changed to "county," and shall be filed with the county clerk at least ten days prior to such primary. No one elector shall sign a nomination paper for more than one candidate for each office.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Approved February 23, 1915.

No. 83, A.]

[Published March 6, 1915.

CHAPTER 9.

AN ACT to authorize the Commissioners of Fisheries to sell the fish car known as Badger No. 1 and to execute a bill of sale thereof.

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

SECTION 1. The Commissioners of Fisheries having on the 28th day of February, A. D., 1914, entered into a contract with the Province of Ontario, Canada, for the sale of the fish car known as "Badger No. 1," property of the state of Wisconsin, for the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500), said amount now being on deposit at the First National Bank in the city of Madison, Wisconsin, to be paid by said bank to the state of Wisconsin upon delivery by the said Commissioners of Fisheries to the First National Bank, Madison, Wisconsin, of good and sufficient muniments of title to vest the title to said fish car in said Province of Ontario, the said fish car having already been delivered to the said Province of Ontario, under and pursuant to the terms of the contract above mentioned.

NOW, THEREFORE, The said contract made and entered into by the Commissioners of Fisheries of the state of Wisconsin with the Province of Ontario in the Dominion of Canada, on the 28th day of February, A. D., 1914, for the sale of said fish car known as "Badger No. 1" for the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars ($3,500), is ratified and confirmed, and the Commisgioners of Fisheries of the State of Wisconsin are hereby authorized and empowered to make and execute to the Province of Ontario, a deed of conveyance, bill of sale, or other muniments of title, sufficient to convey to and vest in said Province of On

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The Secretary of State shall certify that said muniment of
title has been executed in compliance with and pursuant to
authority conferred by law, and affix the great seal thereto.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from

and after the date of its passage and publication.

[Published March 10, 1915.

CHAPTER 11.

AN ACT to repeal sections 926-5 and 976a of the statutes and
to create a new section to be numbered 976a of the statutes,
relating to the filling of vacancies in elective offices in towns
and villages and in cities organized under special charters.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

pealed.

Sections 926-5 and 976a of the statutes are re-

SECTION 2. There is added to the statutes a new section to be

numbered and to read: Section 976a. Whenever a vacancy

shall occur from any cause in any elective town, village, ward or city office, the town board, village board or common council in any such town, village, or city may fill such vacancy by appointment and the person so appointed shall hold such office for the unexpired term only. This section shall not apply to municipalities incorporated under the general law, nor to any city of the first class.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Approved March 9, 1915.

No. 114, A.]

[Published March 18, 1915.

CHAPTER 12.

AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money therein named to the committee of Wisconsin educational exhibit at the PanamaPacific exposition.

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

SECTION 1. There is appropriated to the committee of the Wisconsin educational exhibit at the Panama-Pacific exposition, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of thirty-one hundred dollars to be used in making and maintaining an educational exhibit from Wisconsin at and during the Panama-Pacific exposition.

SECTION 2. The amount sought to be apropriated by this bill shall be taken from the fund provided for by chapter 477, laws of 1913.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Approved March 18, 1915.

No. 59, S.]

[Published March 22, 1915.

CHAPTER 13.

AN ACT to amend subsection 1 of section 4725a of the statutes, relating to probation of minors.

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

SECTION 1. Subsection 1 of section 4725a of the statutes is amended to read: (Section 4725a) 1. If any minor be found guilty of any misdemeanor, or be convicted of a felony for the first time, for which offense the maximum penalty shall not exceed * ten years, the court in its discretion, may sus

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