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Act how construed.

Power conferred on county super

intendents of poor.

tenements, real estate and chattels real, for the same period of time, and as though the same were a judgment, and not otherwise.

§ 6. This act shall not be so construed as to prevent clerks of the circuit courts, in their respective counties, from docketing final decrees in the same books kept by them for the purpose of docketing judgments at law.

7. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 27, 1854.

Chap. 26.

AN ACT to amend section 36 of chapter 28 of the Re vised Statutes.

Published, April 10, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. Section thirty-six (36) of chapter twenty-eight (28) of the revised statutes, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

When any county shall have abolished the distinction between county poor and town poor, the same powers conferred and duties imposed in said chapter twenty-eight, on town supervisors as officers of the poor, shall be exercised by the county superintendents of the poor in such county and the same powers and duties shall also be conferred upon the county snperintendents of poor, as is conferred on town supervisors in cases of "bastardy," under chapter 31 of the Revised Statutes, and in any and in all cases where bonds are required to be given by said chapter 31, such bonds may be given to the county superintendents of poor of the proper county, and either the town supervisors or the county superintendents of poor may approve such bonds when the same is necessary.

§ 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening this act are hereby repealed.

3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, March 3, 1854.

Chap. 27.

AN ACT to amend section fifty-one, of chapter eightyeight, of the Revised Statutes.

Published April 18, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

§ 1. At the time of the return of a summons in all cases where the defendant does not appear, the justices shall upon the application of the plaintiff without requiring cause to be shown, adjourn the case for such time as inay be required, not exceeding one week, but if sufficient cause be shown on oath by plaintiff, his agent or attorney, the justice shall grant an adjournment for a longer time than one week, not exceeding ninety days.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication.

Approved March 3, 1854.

Chap. 28.

AN ACT relating to counties not duly organized for
Judicial purposes.

Published April 1, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:

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§ 1. If any county organized by act of the legislature Where contes for judicial or county purposes shall fail to organize as by law required for the term of one year from the passage of this act, it shall be attached and hereby is attached to the county which shall have been organized for judicial purposes for the longest period of time and which shall adjoin and form a part of the boundary of the county which shall have failed to become duly organized as by law required. And the town of such organized county

Collection of taxes, &c.

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forming a part of the boundary of the county not duly organized which shall have the least amount of taxable property of such town shall have power, and it is hereby made the duty of the supervisors, assessors, and collectors and treasurers of such town to levy, assess and collect a tax on all the taxable property in such unorganized county, equal to the same per cent. as shall be levied in such town upon property within the original boundary of such town, for town, school, county, state or other tax required by law to be levied and collected, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 2. Any county attached to another county for judicial purposes shall pay annually into the treasury of the county organized for judicial purposes, all costs and expenses incurred in prosecuting crimes and misdemeanors, perpetrated in said attached county or other county, proceedings and suits, out of the county treasury of the county so attached for judicial purposes, and it is hereby made the duty of the board of county supervisors of such county to provide a sum annually sufficient for that purpose, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 6, 1854.

Chap. 29.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to provide for the incorporation of Mutual Savings, Trust, Loan, and Building Associations, approved February 9th,

1850.

Published April 8, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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§ 1. Section one in said act is hereby so amended, that where the word "ten occurs in the first line of said section it shall read "five."

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication.

Approved March 28, 1854.

Chap. 30.

AN ACT concerning elections.

Published, March 30, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. At any election for county judge, judge of the circuit court, or justice of the supreme court, a poll may be opened at any place duly designated therefor, according to the statutes of this state regulating general elections, and the votes given at such poll shall be canvassed and return thereof made in like manner as at the general election for county and state officers; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 2. This act shall take effect from its passage and publication.

Approved, March 11, 1854.

Chap. 31.

AN ACT concerning judgments and executions issued thereon in the County Courts.

Published, March 30, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The provisions of sections one hundred and eighteen, one hundred and nineteen, one hundred and twenty and one hundred and twenty-one, of chapter one hundred and two of the revised statutes, (sections 118, 119, 120 and 121, of chapter 102,) shall apply in all cases to judgments and writs of executions and all other proceedings

in the county courts, as fully and to all intents and purposes whatever, as to judgments, writs of executions, and proceedings in the circuit courts; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 2. This act shall be published and take effect upon its passage.

Approved, March 11, 1854.

Chap. 32.

AN ACT to appropriate money for the construction of the South Wing of the State Prison, to authorize further letting of contracts, and to provide for reward ing convicts.

Published, March 30, 1854.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

§ 1. The sum of twenty-five thousand dollars is hereby Appropriation. appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the construction of the south wing of the state prison, to be drawn and paid to the contractors as hereinafter provided.

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§ 2. The state prison commissioner is hereby required Work let to low to proceed to let to the lowest and best bidder the work which is not already under contract for the completion of the south wing of the state prison, to be made fireproof, by advertising at least fifteen days in the Madison Argus and Democrat, and the Milwaukee Sentinel, and Wisconsin, requiring the bidders to offer a certain price per day for all the convict labor at the disposal of the state, to be used on said work, and requiring the work to be finished on or before the first day of January, A. D. 1855; the bidders or contractors to be required to give good and sufficient sureties.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the state prison commissioner, on the last Tuesday of March, 1854, and upon the

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