Act amended. Chap. 9. AN ACT to amend an act entitled “an act to amend chapter forty-one of the Revised Statutes, approved April 2, 1853." Published, February 11, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The act to which this is amendatory is hereby amended by striking out the words, "not within the municipal jurisdiction of and such city or town." 82. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved, February 9, 1854. Boundary of county. Election when hold. Chap. 10. AN ACT to divide LaPointe county and create the county of Douglass. Published, February 11, 1854. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. All that portion of country now embraced in LaPointe county, lying and being west of range nine (9) west, shall be and is hereby set off into a separate county to be called and known as the county of Douglass. § 2. There shall be an election held in the several towns and precincts such as now are or may be hereafter established by law, on the first Tuesday in April, A. D. 1854, for the election of all such town officers as the said county by virtue of its organization and privileges of this act shall be entitled to, who (said town officers) shall severally hold their town offices one year, and until their successors are duly qualified. 83. There shall be an election of all the county officers Election of coun except county judge in said county, at the next general ty officers, &c. election holden in November, A. D. 1854, and the officers so elected shall hold their respective offices two years from the first day of January, Á. D. 1855, except county judge, and until their successors are duly qualified; and such election shall be conducted in all respects, in the manner now provided for holding the same under the law regulating general elections; and the votes cast at the same shall be returned and canvassed as therein provided and the judges of said election shall issue certificates of election to any person duly elected under the provisions of this act. cated. § 4. That the county seat of justice of the said county County seat loshall be located on section thirty, town forty-nine north, range thirteen, west of the fourth meridian, at or near the mouth of St. Louis river. Provided, That the said county may, at a general election hereafter duly called, alter said location by a majority of all the legal voters of said county, present at such election for the same. Proviso. cial purposes. 5. From and after the twenty-fifth of November, A. When may or D. 1854, the said county may be organized for judicial ganize for judipurposes; the circuit court shall be holden on the first Monday in June and the first Monday in December in each year. § 6. The county court for the said county shall be held Time of holding as follows: on the first Monday in January, the first Mon- court. day in April, the first Monday in July, and the first Mon day in October of each year. county judge. 87. There shall be elected in said county, on the first Election of Tuesday in April A. D. 1854, a county judge, who shall hold his office two years, and until his successor shall be duly qualified, and shall enter upon the duties of his of fice, immediately after notice given of his election. Provided, Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the county judges elected thereafter, from holding their office as is now provided by law. 88. All acts or parts of acts, that conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 9, 1854. Proviso. Act amended. Proviso, Chap. 11. AN ACT to amend section twenty-nine of chapter one hundred and thirty of the Revised Statutes. Published, February 11, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Section twenty-nine of chapter one hundred and thirty of the revised statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: In all cases of appeal from a justice of the peace, in civil actions, the party recovering judgment shall recover costs. Provided, however, If a party appeal from a judgment in his own favor, and in the appellate court shall not recover a larger judgment exclusive of costs, than in the court below, he shall not recover costs, but shall pay costs to the opposite party. Approved, February 9, 1854. Charges for main. tenance of con Victs to be paid by State. Chap. 12. AN ACT to amend chapter 153 of the Revised Statutes. Published, April 21, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. Section three of chapter 153 of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows, viz: All charges for maintaining convicts who have been sentenced to confinement in the state prison shall be paid out of the state treasury yearly; the accounts of the keeper being first verified by his oath and presented to the board of supervisors of the county where the convict shall be confined, and certified to by them to be correct and just, and a proper charge against the state, and the expenses for maintaining persons charged with offences, and duly committed for trial, and of those who are sentenced to confinement in the county jail, or who may be committed for the non-payment of any fines, and expenses for safe keeping all prisoners in said jail, shall be paid out of the treasury of the county; the accounts of the keeper being first allowed by the board of the county supervisors. Provided, That the state or any county shall never pay more than two and a half dollars per week for the support of any person confined as aforesaid. § 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect from and after its publi cation. Approved, February 11, 1854. Proviso. Chap. 13. AN ACT to divide the sixth Judicial Circuit and organize an eighth Judicial Circuit, and to fix the time for holding the Circuit Courts in the Counties of the respective circuits. Published, March 6, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. From and after the first day of January, in the Eighth Judicial year eighteen hundred and fifty-five, all that portion of constituted. this state included within the counties of Chippewa, Dunn, Pierce, St. Croix, Polk, LaPointe, and Douglass, shall constitute and be a separate judicial circuit, to be known and designated as the eighth judicial circuit; and all that portion of this state included in the counties of Crawford, Bad Ax, LaCrosse, Monroe, Jackson, Clark, Trempe a l'eau and Buffalo, shall continue to be the sixth judicial circuit. § 2. The terms of the circuit court in the several coun Terms of Court ties of the eighth judicial circuit after its organization, shall be holden at the times following, to wit: when holden. election. In the county of St. Croix on the fourth Monday of April and fourth Monday of October of each year. In the county of Pierce on the fourth Monday of March and fourth Monday of September of each year. In the county of Polk on the second Monday of April and second Monday of October of each year. In the county of Chippewa on the second Monday of March and the second Monday of September of each year. The county of Dunn shall be attached to the county of Chippewa for judicial purposes. In the county of Lapointe on the first Monday of February and the first Monday of August of each year. In the county of Douglass on the third Monday of February and the third Monday of August of each year. · § 3. An election shall be holden in said eighth judicial Time of holding circuit for the election of a judge of the circuit court thereof, in the several counties and precincts, on the fourth Monday of September next; such election shall be conducted and the votes canvassed in the same manner as at general elections for state and county officers. The inspectors or judges of said election shall make returns thereof to the clerk of the board of supervisors of their respective counties, immediately after the same are canvassed, and the said clerks of the board of county supervisors shall file the same in their offices, and forthwith transmit a copy thereof to the governor of this state. Canvassing returas. 4. On the first Monday of November next, the governor, with the secretary of state and treasurer, shall proceed to canvass said returns; and the person having the highest number of votes for said office, cast in said circuit shall be the judge elect of said eighth judicial circuit, and the governor shall transmit to the person so elected a certificate of his election under the seal of the state; and in case there shall be a tie, the governor shall forthwith proclaim the fact and order a new election in said circuit. § 5. The judge elect, before he enters on the duties of Oath of Judge, his office, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation: "I, do solemnly swear, (or In ease of tie. affirm as the case may be,) that I will support the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Wisconsin, and that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and will faithfully and impartially |