Appendix to contain certain acts. Volume of shall be retained, but the enacting clause of each subsequent chapter or act, and the signatures of the governor and the presiding officers of the legislature, and the date of approval shall be omit ted. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts of a general and permanent nature, passed previous to the present session of the legislature, which are not repealed or incorporated in the Revised Statutes, shall be published as an appendix and bound in the volume of the Revised Statutes. SEC. 3. The declaration of independence, the constitution of statutes what the United States and its amendments, and the constitution of this to contain. state shall preface the Revised Statutes, and the ordinance of July 13, 1787, the act establishing the territorial government of Wisconsin, and the acts amendatory thereof, the act authorizing the people of Wisconsin territory to form a constitution and state government, the act for the admission of this state into the union, and an abstract of the laws of the United States in relation to the naturalization of aliens, and prescribing the mode in which the public acts, records and judicial proceedings in each state shall be authenticated, shall be published in the appendix to the Revised Statutes. Laws how arranged. SEC. 4. The laws composing the Revised Statutes shall be arranged in parts and chapters, with appropriate titles at the head of each chapter, which shall also be indicated by suitable words on the top margin of each page; and the chapter[s] shall be numbered in order from the beginning to the end of the volume. Com'r to ar SEC. 5. The commissioner appointed to súperintend the pubrange order of lication of the Revised Statutes shall arrange the order of publicapublication. tion, distributing the chapters into parts and titles as he may deem proper; he shall prep are suitable marginal notes and a full index, examine and correct the proof sheets, and cause all clerical and typographical errors to be corrected so far as he may discover the Com'r may re-arrange. Com'r may correct errors. C. M. Baker appointed commissioner same. SEC. 6. Such commissioner in preparing the laws for publication, may re-arrange the order of the sections in any chapter, or transpose any section from one act or chapter to another act or chapter, whenever it will not alter the intent and meaning of the law, and the proper order of arrangement shall require it. SEC. 7. He may also correct errors which may have occurred in numbering the chapters or sections, and in any references made thereto, and shall insert the proper numbers and references in the printed volume, and words inserted or omitted in the enrolled acts by clerical mistakes, may be omitted or supplied without brackets, but in every such case such corrections shall be inserted at the end of the volume. SEC. 8. Charles M. Baker is hereby appointed the commis-t sioner to superintend the publication of the Revised Statutes, in accordance with the provisions of this act, and shall receive as compensation therefor such sum as may be agreed upon between him and the person or persons appointed under the act approved March 17, 1849, to publish such statutes, not exceeding six hundred dollars, which sum shall be paid by such person or persons as aforesaid, and in no wise to be a charge upon or against the state. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause Sec'y of state to be copied the several chapters composing the Revised Statutes, to copy and and all other laws which are required to be published therewith, furnish laws. and to furnish them to the said commissioner within thirty days of the close of the present session of the legislature, and he is hereby authorized to employ such clerk or clerks as may be necessary to accomplish the work within the time specified: Provided, no such clerk so employed shall receive a compensation of more than two dollars per day, nor shall such expense for copying exceed in the aggregate more than two hundred and fifty dollars, which sum shall be paid by the person or persons having the copy right. SEC. 10. The copies of all laws which are required to be furnished by the secretary of state, as provided in the preceding section, shall be certified by him to be true copies of the originals deposited in his office, and the said commissioner shall certify that the printed chapters and acts contained in the volume of the Revised Statutes are correctly published from such certified copies, with the exception of such corrections of clerical errors and mistakes as are authorized in this chapter to be made, which certificate shali be prefixed to said statutes, and shall be deemed in all courts and places, a sufficient authentication of the several chapters and acts contained in the volume of the Revised Statutes. Laws to be certified by sec'y of state. SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of said commissioner to furnish Duty of com to the person or persons appointed as aforesaid to publish the missioner. Revised Statutes, with copy for printing as rapidly as the same will be needed. uted. SEC. 12. The Revised Statutes when published and delivered Statutes bow as provided by law, shall be distributed and delivered over to each to be distribpublic officer by his successor, in the same manner as the session laws of this state are required to be delivered and distributed, and under the same penalties, but no distribution shall be made to any district attorney, coroner, justice of the peace, or town superintendent of common schools, and the balance which shall be left, shall be deposited in the state library, and be kept for distribution to the public officers entitled to the same, in new towns and counties as the same shall be required. SEC. 13. If a vacancy shall occur in the office of commission Vacancy how er for superintending the publication of the Revised Statutes, the filled. governor of this state may appoint some suitable person to supply his place SEC. 14. This act shall be published forthwith in a newspaper This act to be printed in Madison, and the secretary of state is herein directed to published. furnish some newspaper with an authenticated copy of the same, and it shall take effect from and after such publication, and shall be printed in the volume of the Revised Statutes. 66 SEC. 15. The act entitled an act to provide for revising the Acts repealed statute laws of this state," approved July 13, 1848, and the act entitled an act for the appointment of commissioners to revise and simplify the rules of practice in courts," approved August 19, 1848, are hereby repealed. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 181 An act providing for the sale of the school section in the city of Racine. Persons entitled to THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Every person legally holding a lease, either as lessee or assignee, from the school commissionsrs of the town of pre-emption. Racine, of any portion of section numbered sixteen, in township three north, of range twenty-three east, shall be entitled to a preemption upon the lots or blocks, or parts of lots or blocks included within his lease, at the price fixed upon said lots or blocks or parts of lots or blocks by Elisha Eldred, Charles M. Goodsell and Benjamin Hunkins, appraisers, appointed by an act of the legisla Com'rs to meet at Racine. ture. SEC. 2. The board of commissioners for the sale of the school and university lands, shall meet at Racine, on the first Monday of, June next, for the purpose of taking proof of the rights of preemption granted by this act, and shall continue their session for two weeks, and longer if they shall deem it necessary. Who entitled SEC. 3. Every person who shall have proved up his right of to receive pre-emption under this act, shall be entitled to receive a conveyconveyances. ance from said board, of the lands upon which he shall have proved his right of pre-emption, by paying to said commissioners ten, per cent. of the amount at which said lands were appraised, and by giving to said commissioners a bond, running to the state of Wisconsin, in the penal sum of double of the amount of the balance due on said lands, conditioned to pay to the state, at the state treasurer's office in Madison, the balance of said purchase money, in ten equal annual instalments, and the interest on the whole sum unpaid annually at seven per cent. ; and to pay all taxes and assessments of every kind upon said lands the same year that they become a lien upon the same; and also to pay all costs and such charges for attorneys and solicitors' services, as shall be allowed by the court in collecting and foreclosing the mortgage given to secure said bond, so that it may be collected without any expense to the state; and shall also at the same time deliver to said board of commissioners a mortgage upon the lands purchased, duly executed, witnessed and acknowledged, to secure the fulfilment of the conditions of said bond; and shall also pay to said board the expenses of recording such mortgage. Privilege of purchaser. Sec. 4. Any purchaser under the provisions of this act, shall have the privilege of paying up the whole of the purchase money at first, or the whole which shall remain unpaid with the interèst thereon, at the time any instalment may become due. SEC. 5. No person shall be entitled to a pre-emption under Must prove this act, unless he shall prove up his right to the same, pay up the right. ten per cent. of the purchase money, and give the bond and mortgage required by this act, within two weeks from the first Monday of June next, or within such further time as said board of commissioners shall continue their sitting at Racine, as above provided. SEC. 6. Any two of said commissioners shall be authorized to transact any business required by this act. SEC. 7. The secretary of state shall cause this act to be published immediately after its passage. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to appropriate certain sums therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 182 SECTION 1. That there be and hereby is appropriated out of E. H. Rudd. any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Edward H. Rudd, the sum of one hundred dollars, for engraving, as per order of the last legislature, seals for the circuit and probate courts of the state, and a seal for the state department. SEC. 2. That the seals engraved by E. H. Rudd, now in the Seals to be office of the secretary of state, shall be returned to said Rudd to re.engraved. be re-engraved; and when so re-engraved, they shall be returned to said secretary's office. SEC. 3. On their return as aforesaid, the secretary of state Seals to be and the treasurer shall be a committee to examine said seals, and examined. if they approve of them, the treasurer is hereby authorized to pay said Rudd at the rate of six dollars for each seal, deducting the appropriation made in the first section of this act. SEC. 4. Said Rudd is authorized to receive the seal of the state, and the supreme court seal, which have been rejected. SEC. 5. There is hereby appropriated to Jonathan A. Hadley J. A. Hadley. the sum of thirty dollars, for papers (Watertown Chronicle) fur nished members of the legislature at the present session. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES. Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 183 An act to appropriate to the county of St. Croix the sum therein named. Repealed. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to credit the county of St. Croix the sum of forty-three dollars and sixty-one cents, being the balance of indebtedness due from said county, up to January 1, 1848. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 184 An act to amend an act entitled "an act to organize the county of Manitouwoc for judicial purposes," approved March 2, 1848. Manitouwoc. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That section six (6) of an act entitled "an act to organize the county of Manitouwoc for judicial purposes," approved March 2, 1848, is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. All acts contravening this act are hereby repealed. HARRISON C. HOBART, J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 31, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 185 An act to provide for the publication of certain laws therein mentioned, What laws to in the German and Norwegian languages. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 66 SECTION 1. Laws of the titles following, viz: "Of Town and be published. Town Officers ;"" Of Assessment and Collection of Taxes ;" "Of Highways and Bridges;" "Of Common Schools ;" shall be published in the German and Norwegian languages, as hereinafter provided : Committee to SEC. 2. That Moritz Schoeffler, Frederick Fratney and Ersuperintend. nest T. Herzberg are hereby appointed a committee for the purpose of translating and publishing two thousand copies of the above mentioned laws, with appropriate index thereto, in the German language. Committee to That S. D. Reymert is hereby appointed a committee for the superintend. purpose of translating and publishing fifteen hundred copies of said laws, with appropriate index thereto, in the Norwegian lan guage. |