sors. ner, and all other county officers required for the due or ganization of a county for county and judicial purposes. 84. The county of Monroe shall constitute one town, County Suporvi and the board of supervisors shall be the board of county supervisors. Said board of county supervisors shall have power to divide the county into three or more towns, at any regular meeting of said board, County seat, &c. where and 85. The county seat shall be located at the village of Sparta, in the town of Leon. § 6. All writs, processes, appeals, suits, indictments, Writs, processes recognizances, and other proceedings whatsoever, now how prosecuted. pending, or that shall be hereafter commenced, or pending before the Monday next after the first Tuesday of April next, in the county or circuit court of the county of La Crosse, shall be prosecuted to a final judgment, order, or decree, and execution may issue thereon; and such judg ment, order or decree, may be carried into effect and enforced in like manner as if the counties of La Crosse and Monroe were still but one county; and all executions. writs, process, or other proceeding, may be directed and carried into execution and effect as such court shall direct, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Election for judges, &c. Approved, March 21, 1854. Chap. 36. AN ACT concerning the election of Judges. Published March 23, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: § 1. Hereafter all elections for judges of the county and circuit courts, and for justices of the supreme court, shall be held on the day of holding the annual town meetings in the several towns in this state unless special provision is otherwise made for the first election of a county To apply to cities or circuit judge. The provisions of this section shall apply to cities. And hereafter the secretary of state, shall give at least twenty days notice of all judicial elections that may be about to take place; and if the election is for county judge, the notice shall be given in the county; for circuit judge, in the circuit; and if for justice of e supreme court in the state at large; Provided, That notice shall be required to be given of the election of cuit judge of the third circuit in April next. held in counties has been hereto § 2. In counties and circuits where no judge has been When election retofore elected, the first election (unless within the ex- where no judge ption contained in the first section of this act) for judge fore elected. all be held on the first annual town meeting day after e taking effect of the law providing for such first elecn and of this act. of vacancy. § 3. In all cases of vacancy, the election for judge or Manner of prodges, justice or justices of the courts herein before men- ceeding in case ned, shall be held on the first annual town meeting, y next after the yacancy shall happen, in case such vancy shall happen twenty days before said annual town eeting day; and if no election shall then be held for ch purpose, then, and in such case, and all other cases, e election shall be held on the annual town meeting day, til a judge or judges, justice or justices, shall, as occaon requires, be elected. pire-Proceed lenged. § 4. In all cases where the term of office of a judge or When term of of stice is about to expire, the election for such judge or fice about to exstice shall be held on the annual town meeting day next ings in that case. ior to the time of the expiration of such term of office fixed by law; and in case no such election is held, then ach election shall be held on the annual town meeting ay or on some subsequent annual town meeting day ext after the expiration of such term of office. § 5. Any male white person, or persons of Indian de- Vote when cha zent, offering to vote for county judge, circuit judge or stice of the supreme court, who shall be challenged as nqualified to vote for such officer by an inspector, or by ny other person entitled to vote for state officers of this ate, then, and in such case, some one of the board of spectors shall declare to the person so challenged the ualification of an elector as provided in the constitution this state. If therefore such person shall state that he duly qualified, and the challenge shall not be withdrawn ne of the inspectors shall tender to the person so chal- Form of oath. enged the following oath: "You do solemnly swear, (or ffirm, as the case may be,) that you are twenty-one years age; ; that you are a citizen of the United States, (or hat you are of foreign birth, and that you have declared our intentions to become a citizen conformably to the ting illegally. laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization (or that you are of Indian blood, and that you have le declared by law of Congress to be a citizen of the Une States, or that you are a civilized person of Indian le scent, and not a member of any tribe,) that you have re sided one year in the state, next preceding this elect n that you have not voted at this election, and that you v not made any bet or wager, or become directly or indirect ly interested in any bet or wager, depending upon the e sult of this election." § 6. If any person shall vote for a county judge, cir Penalty for vo- judge, or justice of the supreme court, who is not at time by law entitled to vote for state officers in this ste he shall forfeit therefor the sum of fifty dollars, to be e covered in an action of debt in the name of any per n who will prosecute therefor. elections. 7. Any person, whether qualified or not qualified vote for state officers of this state, who shall vote f a judge of the circuit court out of the circuit in which e resides, or who shall vote for a judge of the county co t out of the county in which he resides, shall forfeit for ery such offence or act the sum of fifty dollars, to be covered in an action of debt in the name of any per who will prosecute therefor. § 8. Every person who shall vote more than once at a election for any of the aforesaid judges or justices, sh 1 forfeit for every such act the sum of two hundred dolla to be recovered in an action of debt in the name of a ▾ person who will prosecute therefor. 9. All laws relative to elections now in force, a Laws relative to which are not inconsistent with the provisions of this t or repugnant thereto, shall govern the action of all offic in holding and conducting elections, and in canvassi and certifying the votes cast under the provisions of t act, and in stating and certifying the result of electio held as by this act declared. § 10. All laws contrary to the provisions of this act, repugnant thereto, and not hereby preserved, are here] repealed. 11. This act shall be printed by the state printer, i mediately after its passage, and when so published shi take effect and be in full force. Approved, March 22, 1854. Chap. 37. AN ACT to appropriate to John N. Jones, Post Master at Madison, a certain sum of money, and to authorize the Secretary of State to audit the further account of said Post Master for Postage. Published, April 1, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: §1. There is hereby appropriated to John N. Jones, Appropriation. post master at Madison, three thousand five hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty-nine cents, ($3,583 69,) in full for postage of members of the senate and assembly from January twelfth to March eleventh, in the year 1854, inclusive, to be paid out of the state treasury, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated. Sec. of State to 8 2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to all-audit account. dit any further account of said post master, for the present session of the legislature, and when so audited and allowed, it shall be paid by the state treasurer on the order of the secretary of state, out of any money not otherwise appropriated. $ 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, March 22, 1854. Chap. 38. AN ACT concerning issues of fact in the Supreme Court. Published, March 31, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: § 1. The supreme court may order a jury in said court May order jury. to consist of twelve men qualified to act as jurors in the circuit courts of this state, to come from any one or more venire. counties, in all cases commenced in said supreme court either for the trial of an issue of fact therein joined or for the assessment of damages, or both, and in such order the Court shall order court shall award a venire and fix the return day thereof and direct the same to such sheriff as the court in its discretion shall think fit. The name of the jurors shall be contained in the venire, and shall be obtained, struck from thirty-six names, and summoned, and the same pro ceedings had in all respects as to manner and form, as now provided by law for obtaining a jury in the county courts in this state, except so far as such provisions may be in conflict with the other provisions of this act. Duty of court where issue of fact is joined. § 2. The foregoing section shall not apply to cases of mandamus or writs of prohibition in the supreme court, but when in any such case an issue of fact shall be joined it shall be the duty of the supreme court to the circuit court for the county within which the material facts relative to such issue shall be alleged to have taken place, and shall be tried in such court in the same manner as other issues of fact are tried and returns shall be made thereupon, as directed by the supreme court. 83. This act shall be printed by the state printer imme diately after the passage thereof, and when so printed shall take effect and be in full force. Approved, March 23, 1854. Suits-against Chap. 39. AN ACT concerning Suits in certain cases. Published, March 8, 1854. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: 81. Any person or persons, body or bodies, having any whom maintain debt, claim, or demand not sounding in tort against any foreign corporation or corporations created by or under the laws of any state government or country other than ed. |