county to be sold the present year no money shall be drawn from the state. treasury by the board of regents, except in pursuance of an express appropriation by law. § 7. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage. 8. The commissioners of the school and university Lands in grant lands are hereby authorized to cause to be appraised and sold in the same manner that university lands have been heretofore appraised and sold, two sections of university lands in Grant county, and the governor is hereby authorized to appoint three commissioners to appraise the same, who shall perform their duties in pursuance of previous laws on that subject, and receive the same compensation that has heretofore been by the state for similar services, and a sum sufficient to pay the same is hereby appropri ated out of the university fund. Approved April 1, 1854. ports. Chap. 82. AN ACT to authorize the Librarian to purchase Reports of the Supreme Court. Published, May 6, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 1. The state librarian is hereby instructed and au To parehase re- thorized to purchase of Daniel H. Chandler one hundred copies of the reports of the decisions of the supreme court of the state of Wisconsin for the years 1849 and 1850, to be deposited in the state library, and distributed according to the provisions of chapter 22, section 2, of the revised statutes. 83. Said reports shall be bound in one volume, in good workmanlike manner, and embrace the decisions of the years 1849 and 1850, and shall be furnished at the rate of three dollars per volume-and payment shall not be made until one hundred copies of said reports shall be delivered to the governor or the secretary of state. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately after the compliance with the provisions thereof. Approved, April 1, 1854. Chap. 83. AN ACT to appropriate to Daniel H. Chandler the sum therein named. Published, May 6, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay to Amount appro Daniel H. Chandler, the late reporter of the decisions of priated. the supreme court, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred dollars, in full compensation and satisfaction for one hundred volumes of the decisions of the late supreme court, being volume four of such decisions, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two; but such payment shall not be made until one hundred bound copies shall be delivered to the governor or to the secretary of state, for the state of Wisconsin, in conformity with title eight, chapter twenty-two, of the revised statutes. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately after the compliance with the provisions thereof. Approved, April 1, 1854. chase reports. Chap. 84. AN ACT to provide for the purchase of the Reports of the Supreme Court. Published, May 4, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The governor is hereby authorized to purchase four Governor to pure hundred copies of the reports of the supreme court for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, at a price not exceeding four dollars per volume. tion. § 2. The copies purchased under the provisions of this Mode of distribu- act shall be disposed of as follows: one copy to each of the judges of the supreme and circuit courts, one copy to the clerk of the circuit court of each county in the state organized for judicial purposes, one copy to cach of the administrative state officers, to be delivered over to their successors in office, one copy for exchange with each state of the United States, one for each of the departments of the United States government, and the remainder to be deposited in the state library. § 3. This act shall take effect from and after its pas AN ACT for the relief of William W. Brown. Published, May 8, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. The governor of this state is hereby authorized to audit and settle upon just and equitable principles, the account of William W. Brown, for services as agent of this state in going to the city of Washington, and procuring that portion of the grant of land made by congress to Chap. 86. AN ACT fixing the compensation of Supreme Court Reporter.. Published, May 4, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: reporter. §1. The compensation of the reporter of the supreme Compensation of court is hereby fixed at one thousand dollars per annum, which shall be payable quarterly out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated; said term to commence from the first day of June next. Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to authorize the furnishing of any of the reports of the supreme court for any year heretofore authorized by any law of this state to be furnished. § 2. The said reporter shall furnish the state library at publisher's prices, two hundred copies annually of said reports. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. agents. Chap. 87. AN ACT supplementary to "an act to provide for the more speedy collection and payment of fines, forfeitures and penalties remaining in the hands of Justices of the Peace," approved February 21, 1850. Published, May 5, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of Gov- to appoint this act, the governor shall appoint so many agents as he may deem necessary, who shall hold their offices for the term of two years, respectively, unless sooner removed by the governor; and he shall prescribe and from time to time may alter and fix the limits of the districts within which such agents shall respectively act. § 2. It shall be the duty of each such agent so often as Duties of agents. he may have reason to believe it necessary, to call for, demand, and receive, and when necessary to sue for and collect all moneys heretofore paid to or received by any county or town officer, or other person, on account of any fine, penalty, or forfeiture the proceeds of which belong to the school fund or state treasury, and which have not been paid over by such officer or person as required by law, and all moneys which shall be hereafter paid to or received by any such officer or person, and which shall not be paid over within the time required by law. production by such agent of his appointment, or of a copy thereof, certified by the secretary of state under the seal of the state, shall be prima facie evidence of his authority to make such demand. The 83. Any officer or person who has heretofore received any moneys specified in section two of this act, and who has failed or shall fail, as the case may be, to |