An act prescribing certain duties to be performed by the State Treasurer. Chap 34. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The treasurer of the state is hereby directed and Treasurer to authorized to keep and set apart the sum of seventeen thousand set apart funds. dollars out of any money which is now or may hereafter come into his office, for the payment of the expenses of the legislature, at its present session: also, the sum of three thousand dollars as a contingent fund to pay the postage and other incidental expenses of the present session. SEC. 2. The sums as specified in section one, shall be subject to such specific appropriation as the legislature may hereafter enact for the purpose aforesaid. HARRISON C. HOBART, JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 15, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to authorize the construction of a bridge across Fox river. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 35. build. SECTION 1. That Conrade J. Coon, his associates and assigns Power to shall have power to build and construct a bridge across Fox river on any land owned by them at Algoma, on section fifteen (15), in town eighteen (18), of range sixteen (16). SEC. 2. That said bridge shall not be less than twelve feet wide, Size of bridge and shall be constructed with a draw over the channel of the river, not less than fifty feet wide, and not less than eight feet high in the clear from high water mark, and the said Conrade J. Coon his as-' sociates and assigns shall attend to the draw, so as to permit boats and vessels to pass through the same at all times free of charge and without unnecessary delay; and shall be commenced within one year, and completed within three years. SEC. 3. The said Conrade J. Coon, his associates and assigns May collect shall have power for the term of ten years after the completion of toll. said bridge to demand and collect toll for passing the same as follows: for any yehicle drawn by one horse, ten cents; for any vehicle drawn by two horses or oxen, twenty cents; and for each additional horse, five cents; foot passengers, two cents; for a single horse five cents; for all animals in droves two cents each: Provided that hogs and sheep shall not be charged more than at the rate of one cent per head. SEC. 4. The said Conrade J. Coon, his associates and assigns shall keep posted up in some conspicuous place on the said bridge, a list of the rates of toll allowed by this act. act. SEC. 5. Any future legislature may repeal or amend this SEC. 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 15, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 36. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to prescribe the mode of pro Amendment. ceeding in Chancery." THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enuct as follows: SECTION 1. The act entitled " an act to prescribe the mode of proceeding in chancery" is hereby amended by inserting between sections sixty-four and sixty-five the following section: SEC. 2. A purchaser from the United States, his heirs, assigns, or grantees (as the case may be) of land lying on a meandered river may proceed in the first instance by injunction against any other person or persons illegally obstructing the flow of water of such river, over land lying between the meander line and middle of such river, in cases where such person or persons shall have no legal or equitable right or title to such land so lying between such meander line and the middle of such river. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 37. To make enumeration. An act for the distribution of school moneys. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The trustees of the several school districts within the several towns in this state be and are hereby authorized to take the enumeration of the children in their respective districts, between the ages of four and sixteen years inclusive, and make return of enumeration to the school commissioners or superintendent of such towns, on or before the tenth day of April, A. D., 1849. SEC. 2. All moneys raised by such towns for school purposes, not otherwise appropriated, during the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, shall be distributed among the several districts of such towns, as shall have made returns of the children as provided in the first section of this act, according to the number of children in each district so returned, as specified in the first section of this a ct. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES. Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to apropriate to William H. Sullivan the sum therein named. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 38. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to William H. Sulli- W. H. Sullivan the sum of twenty-four dollars, being an amount appropriated van. by an act of the territorial legislature of Wisconsin, approved Feb ruary eleventh, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and not drawn. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act in relation to School District number eleven in the town of Wau- Chap 39. kesha. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That it shall and may be lawful for the trustees of May levy tax. school district number eleven, in the town of Waukesha in Waukesha county, to levy such tax on the taxable property in said district, for the purpose of purchasing a site for a school house for said district, and for building and completing a school house thereon not exceeding three hundred dollars, and at such time or times as a majority of the legal voters of said school district present at a meeting of said school district, called by the trustees thereof for that purpose, may vote in favor of levying: said tax shall be levied and collected as is now provided by law for the collection of school taxes. HARRISON C. HOBART, J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 40. An act to authorize the construction of a dam across the Milwaukee river. THE people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Oscar Day, his associates and assigns shall have power to build and construct a dam across the Milwaukee river on any land owned by them on fractional lot number five, being the northeast fraction of southeast quarter of section ten (10) town eleven, range twenty-one east, in the county of Washington, for hydraulic purposes. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY, An act to change the name of Lucy Ann Brown Leland to Lucy Ann THE people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the name of Lucy Ann Brown Leland of the town of Beloit, Rock county, be and the same is hereby changed to Lucy Ann Brown, by which name the said individual shall and may hereafter be known in all places whatever. SEC. 2. And that the said Lucy Ann Brown be and is hereby made and constituted heir at law to the said Benjamin Brown. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 42. Vacated. An act to vacate the town plat of the town of Victory in the county of Dodge. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The town plat of the town of Victory, in the county of Dodge, is hereby vacated. HARISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to legalize the proceedings of a special town meeting in the town Chap 43. of Calumet. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The proceedings of the special town meeting held Legalized. in the town of Calumet, county of Fond du Lac, in the month of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, are hereby legalized. SEC. 2. The first annual town meeting at the town aforesaid, shall be held at the school house, in district number two (2), in said town, and Rufus P. Eaton, Mathias Olig, and Henry Yokey shall be the board of inspectors at said meeting. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to extend the time for collecting and returning taxes in the town of Chap 44. Eagle Waukesha county. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for collecting and returning taxes in the Time extend. town of Eagle, Waukesha county, for the year one thousand eight ed. hundred and forty-eight be and the same is hereby extended to the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly, J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, February 17, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to appropriate to Beriah Brown the sum therein named. THE people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 45. SECTION 1. That there be and hereby is appropriated to Beri- Beriah ah Brown out of any moneys in the state treasury the sum of one Brown.. hundred and twenty-seven 43-100 dollars, in full payment for printing done for the several state departments, up to January, 1849. SEC. 2. That there be and is hereby appropriated to Beriah Brown, out of any money in the state treasury, the sum of one hundred 50-100 dollars, in full payment for publishing, by order |