contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend Powers of and be defended in all courts of law and equity: said corporation, corporation. shall have a common seal, and shall have power to acquire, purchase, receive, possess, hold and enjoy property real and personal, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, and the same to sell and convey, rent or otherwise lawfully dispose of at pleasure. be elected. SEC. 3. The stock of said company shall be divided into shares Stock divided of ten dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable on the books of said corporation, in such manner as shall be directed by the by-laws of said corporation. SEC. 4. The concerns of said corporation, shall be managed Trustees to by seven trustees, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business: they shall be elected at a meeting to be holden on the first Monday of September next, at one o'clock P. M., at the court house in the said village of Elkhorn, and annually thereafter, on the same day and at the same place, by the stockhold➡ ers present at such meeting, and shall hold their offices for the term of one year and until their successors are duly elected: the election of trustees shall be by ballot; each stockholder shall be 'entitled to one vote for every share owned by him to the number of five," and one vote for every five shares above that number: the annual meeting of the stockholders shall be holden on the first Monday of May of each year, at such place in said village as shall be designated by the by-laws of said corporation. SEC. 5. The trustees shall have power: 1st. To elect their president, secretary and other officers; 2nd. To call special meetings of the stockholders to fill vacan cies in the board of trustees; 3rd. To sell, lease, mortgage, or otherwise to dispose of any real or personal property of said corporation, in such manner as they shall deem most conducive to the interests of said academy,” and to erect and keep in repair all necessary buildings for the use of the same ; · 4th. To prescribe and direct the course of study and disciplineTM to be observed in said academy; 5th. To prescribe the duties and fix the salaries of all the of ficers of said corporation, and to remove or suspend them from office for incapacity, immoral conduct or misbehavior in office," and to appoint others in their places; 6th. To make all rules, regulations and by-laws necessary or proper to carry into effect powers herein granted, and not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state. t Powers of trustees. SEC. 6. No religious test or qualification shall be required from No religious any trustee or other officer of said corporation, and no distinction test required. shall be made in the admission of youth in said academy, but they shall all be admitted equally to its privileges, advantages and hou ors. SEC. 7. This act may be amended or repealed by any future legislature. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. ASA KINNEY, President of the Senate, pro tem. Approved, March 26, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act additional to an act to amend an act to authorize the further sale of canal lands and for other purposes," and the act amendatory thereto, approved March 11, 1848. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the secretary and treasurer of the state of Wisconsin, at any time hereafter, to assign and transfer all the interest of the state in and to any of the lands mortgaged to the territory of Wisconsin, in pursuance of any law of the legislature of said territory to provide for the sale of lands granted by congress," for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of lake Michigan with those of Rock river," to any person or persons applying for such assignment, upon the payment to the treasurer of this state the full amount due upon any such mortgage, estimating the same as provided in the act to which this is supplemental. SEC. 2. Any person or persons to whom any such mortgage has been or may hereafter be assigned in pursuance of this act, or the act herein referred to, or any person who may have acquired a tax, sheriff's or chancery deed, and who, or whose assignors shall have actually paid, to any officer authorized by the laws of the territory or state of Wisconsin, to receive the same, the amount due upon any land thus mortgaged, his, her, or their heirs or assigns may proceed to foreclose the equity of redemption of the mortgagor, his, her, or their heirs or assigns, in and to the tract of land mentioned in any such mortgage, in the same manner and with like effect as in any other case of mortgage; and upon the hearing of the cause, it shall be the duty of the court to enter a decree for the full amount paid by the complainant, upon such mortgage, tax, sheriff's or chancery deed, including costs and subsequent taxes and interest: Provided, that the amount claimed shall not be a lien upon the mortgaged premises as against bona fide purchasers, unless the claimant shall within three months after the publication of this act, or within three months after acquiring title as herein described, file for record a statement of the amount claimed, and the assignment or deed under which he claims, in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such premises are situate. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. ASA KINNEY, President of the Senate, pro tem. Approved, March 26, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. An act to vacate a part of Johnson street, in the village of Port Wash ington. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 148 SECTION 1. That all that part of Johnson street, which lies street vacatbetween the west side of city street and the west side of lake ed. street in the northeast addition of Port Washington, Washington county, is hereby vacated. SEC. 2. From and after the passage of this act, the United U.S. jurisdic. States shall have exclusive jurisdiction of so much of Johnson tion. street as is vacated by the provisions of this act. Approved, March 26, 1849. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. ASA KINNEY. President of the Senate, pro tem. NELSON DEWEY. An act to organize the town of La Prairie', in the county of Rock. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap 149 SECTION 1. Those parts of the towns of Harmony and Tur- La Prairie tle, in the said county of Rock, comprised in township number organized. two north of range number thirteen east, are hereby set off and organized into a separate town by the name of La Prairie, and the first election in said town shall be held at the house of Justus P. Wheeler, and thereafter at such place in said town, as the electors thereof shall by vote determine. SEC. 2. The said town of La Prairie is hereby added to the first assembly district of said county. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. ASA KINNEY, President of the Senate, pro tem. Approved, March 26, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 150 An act to anthorize the trustees of school district number five, in the town of Turtle, Rock county, to levy a tax to build a school house. Trustees may levy tax. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enaci as follows: SECTION 1. It shall and may be lawful for the trustees of school district number five in the town of Turtle, Rock county, to levy a tax on real and personal property to the amount of two hundred and fifty dollars to build a school house: Provided, that a majority of the legal voters of said district, present at a meeting called for that purpose, shall vote to levy such tax. SEC. 2. The said tax shall be collected and returned in the same manner as is now provided by law, for the collection of taxes for building school houses. Approved, March 26, 1849. HARRISON C. HOBART. Speaker of the assembly. ASA KINNEY, President of the senate, pro tem. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 151 An act to authorize the issuing of patents for canal lands sold and not pat ented, and to provide for the payment and discharge of the mortgages thereon. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: The governor SECTION 1. The governor of the state is hereby authorized authorized to and directed to issue patents to the purchasers of any lands not issue patents. patented and sold prior to the twenty ninth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-eight, under any law of the late territory of Wisconsin, and belonging to the grant of land made by act of congress entitled " an act to grant a quantity of land to the territory of Wisconsin, for the purpose of aiding in opening a canal to connect the waters of lake Michigan with those of Rock river," approved June 18, 1838. Persons in debted may pay to state treasurer. SEC. 2. Ail patents so issued by the governor of this state shall have the same force and effect as patents issued for any of said lands by the governor of said territory, under the territorial government of Wisconsin. SEC. 3. Any person or persons being indebted to the late territory, or the now state of Wisconsin, for or by reason of the purchase of any of the lands included within the grant of land hereinbefore specified, and who shall have executed a mortgage thereon, to secure the payment thereof, or who shall become liable to pay said mortgage by reason of a subsequent purchase or assignment from the original purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, may pay to the state treasurer the amount of principal and interest due thereon: and the state treasurer shall execute and deliver to such person or persons a receipt therefor, stating the amount of principal and in terest by him received, and the time when received, and referring to the mortgage upon which the same is to apply. SEC. 4. The attorney general of the state is hereby authorized Duty of attorupon the delivery to him of the proper receipt therefor, to dis- ney general. charge the mortgage to which the same relates, if it sufficiently appears that the same is paid and satisfied. SEC. 5. Any person or persons owning a divided or undivided Persons payinterest in any such lands on which the territory or state of Wis- ing to be disconsin now hold a mortgage, upon paying the amount due, prin- charged. cipal and interest, shall be discharged on the mortgage, for such portion of the land as may be held and owned by him or them. SEC. 6. The secretary of state is hereby required to furnish the state printer, immediately after the approval of this act by the governer, a copy thereof for publication. Approved, March 27, 1849. HARRISON C. HOBART, ASA KINNEY, President of the Senate, pro tem. NELSON DEWEY. An act relating to the admission of attorneys at law. THE People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever any person shall apply to the supreme, eircuit, or county court to be admitted to practice therein as an attorney, and shall show satisfactorily to such court, that he is a resident of the state, and is of good moral character, the judge or judges thereof shall grant to such applicant a license to practice in the said courts respectively in which he or they may preside. HARRISON C. HOBART, Speaker of the Assembly. President of the Senate, pro tem. Approved, March 27, 1849. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 152 Any person to be admitted on applica. tion. An act to legalize a certain road therein named. THE people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1 All that part of the territorial road commonly known as the Madison and Chicago road, surveyed and laid out by Ogden, Newhall and Douglas, in the year of our Lord one Chap 153 |