To keep records, & c. ing and promoting the interests of said society, not inconsistent with the laws of the United States or of this state. SEC. 4. Said society shall keep a full and complete record of all ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations made by them, and of all notices, elections, and the names of all such persons as shall become or be elected officers of said society, and of all moneys received, paid out, or expended by them or any of them in and about the affairs of said society; which records shall always be open to the inspection or examination of the members of said society, and shall be received in all courts as competent evidence of the facts therein stated. SEC. 5. All the officers of said society shall hold their respective offices for one year and until others are chosen or elected in their stead.· HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 20, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 118 An act to amend "an act to provide for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and connecting the same by a canal," approved August 8, 1848. Act amended, Amendment. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 66 SECTION 1. The second section of an act entitled an act to provide for the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and connecting the same by a canal," is so amended as to make the term of office of the present board of public works, and all subsequent boards terminate on the first Monday in February in each year, or as soon thereafter as their successors shall be elected or appointed and qualified. SEC. 2. After the first Monday of February next, the said board of public works shall consist of three persons, two of whom shall constitute a quorum. SEC. 3. The forty-first section of said act is so amended as to read as follows: whenever a person has settled or shall settle and improve any of said lands, and shall intend to purchase the same under the provisions of the said act, such person or his heirs shall make the necessary proof and payment for the same before the day appointed for the sale of said land. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. HARRISON C. HOBART, J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 20. 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Chap 119 Madison" THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That so much of an act to incorporate the village Charter of Madison, approved February 3, 1846, as exempts from taxation amended. by said corporation all property which is by law exempt from sale on execution be and the same is hereby repealed; and that all property within the limits of said corporation, which by the laws of the state is subject to taxation for state and county purposes, be and the same is declared to be subject to taxation by the trustees of said village. SEC. 2. ter its passage. This act shall take effect and be in force from and af HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, March 20, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to organize the towns of Primrose and Perry in Dane county. THE people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 120 SECTION 1. Township number five north, of range number Primrose. seven east in Dane county, is hereby set off from the town of Montrose and organized into a separate town by the name of Primrose, and the first town meeting shall be held at the school house in said town, on the first Tuesday in April next. SEC. 2. Township number five north of range number six east Perry. in Dane county is hereby set off from the town of Montrose, and organized into a separate town by the name of Perry, and attached to the said town of Primrose for all town purposes. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect on the first Tuesday of April next. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to organize the town of Buena Vista, in the county of Richland. THE people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Township number nine north of range number two east, in the county of Richland, is hereby organized into a separate Chap 121 Buena Vista. town by the name of Buena Vista, with all the powers and privilleges of towns within this state, and the first town meeting shall be held at the present residence of Isaac H. Wallace, in said township, on the first Tuesday of April next. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 122 Clayton. 1 An act to organize the town of Clayton, in Winnebago county. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. So much of Winnebago county as is embraced in town twenty north, range sixteen east, shall constitute a separate town, and shall be known by the name of Clayton, and the first town meeting shall be held at the house of W. Giddings. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 123 Chap 124 An act to legalize the proceedings of the collector of the town of Addison in Washington county. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the proceedings of the collector of taxes in the town of Addison in the county of Washington, in collecting the taxes therein for the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, are hereby declared legal. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. JOHN E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to declare part of a state road a lawful highway. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That so much of the state road leading from Fort Winnebago in Columbia county, to Janesville in Rock county, lying and situated in Columbia county, is declared to be a lawful highway. HARRISON C. HOBART. Speaker of the Assembly, J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to amend an act to provide for levying and collecting state reve nue. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 125 SECTION 1. The first section of the act to provide for the levy- Revenue to ing and collecting state revenue, approved August 1st, 1848, is be paid in hereby amended so as not to allow any thing to be received by gold and the state treasurer in payment of the revenue of the state, but gold' and silver, after the passage of this act. silver. SEC. 2. This act shall not be so construed as to prevent the treas- To receive urer of the state from receiving evidence of state indebtedness, &c. which may be in the hands of the county treasurer on the date of the passage of this act. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage, To be pub and the secretary of state shall cause the same to be published in lished. some newspaper printed in Madison, as soon after its passage as can be done in the due course of publication of any paper so published at Madson. HARRISON.C. HOBART, J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Published March 24, 1849. THO'S. Mc'HUGH. An act to organize a school district, in the town of Sun Prairie, in Dane Chap 126 county. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. That sections one, two, three, ten, eleven, twelve District or and the north half of sections thirteen, fourteen and fifteen, ganized. in town eight range eleven east, are hereby formed into and constitute a separate school district, and may be numbered to correspond with the other districts of said town. SEC. 2. George Anderson, John A. Peckhamn, and Hoag, Who to call or a majority of them are hereby authorized to call the first district meeting. school meeting, for the purpose of organizing said district and electing the officers required by law in said district, which notice and election shall be conducted according to law. SEC. 3. The legal voters of said district or a majority of them at said meeting, or any subsequent meeting, may levy a tax to build a school house in said district, which tax shall be collected as is now provided by law, but in no case shall such special tax exceed the sum of two hundred dollars. HARRISON C. HOBART, J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. ་ Chap 127 An act to change the name of the First Presbyterian Society of White Name chang. ed. water and vicinity," and to confer certain powers on said society. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the "First Presbyterian Religious Society of Whitewater and vicinity," in the town of Whitewater in Walworth county, is hereby changed to "the Congregational Society of Whitewater," and by that name shall be a body corporate and politic, competent to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, to answer and be answered unto in all courts of law and equity, with all the privileges conferred on other religious societies, provided in an act approved February 8, 1847. SEC. 2. Said society shall have power to form a new constitution and enact by-laws for its government, as provided by the said act of February, 1847. HARRISON C. HOBART. J. E. HOLMES, Lt. Governor and President of the senate. Approved, March 21, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 128 Secretary to publish certain laws. An act to provide for the publication of certain laws. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to cause to be published in some newspaper printed in Madison, the act prescribing certain duties to be performed by the clerks of counties, under the county commissioner system of government, also an act amendatory to an act to provide for the division of the several counties under the county system of government into |