this state, or against any one excepting corporations so as aforesaid created, but which has in whole or in part ceased to act as a body corporate from any cause whatever, such person or persons, body or bodies, may commence, maintain, and prosecute to final judgment, any appropriate action, and may enforce satisfaction of such debt, claim, or demand, out of any moneys, credits, effects, or property lying or being in this state and belonging to or owned by or in which any such corporation has an interest, or which would belong to or be owned by, or in which any such corporation has or would have an interest had the same not ceased to act as aforesaid, whether held, managed, or controlled by such corporation, or by a trustee or trustees, assignee or assignees, agent or agents, for the use and benefit in whole or in part, of such corporation or the creditors thereof, or for the use and benefit of both such corporation and creditors, however created, made, constituted, or appointed.

suit.

§ 2. The owner or owners of any such debt, claim, or Institution of demand, as aforesaid, may institute a suit for the recovery and enforcement of satisfaction thereof, by suing out of any circuit court of this state a writ of sunimons or attachment. The plaintiff or plaintiffs in all suits for the recovery of any such debt, claim, or demand as atoresaid, shall to the extent of the final recovery on such suits, in Lion. all cases have a lien by virtue of such suit upon all moneys, credits, effects, property and interest aforesaid, from the time an appearance to the action shall be or has been entered, by or on the part of the defendant, (which shall be such corporation by its corporate name,) unless such corporation or some one on its behalf, shall make to such plaintiff a bond in the penal sum of double the amount claimed to be due, executed by two or more sureties resident free holders of this state, who shall swear that they are each worth of real estate lying in this state and liable to execution, at least one-half of the penal sum therein named, over and above all debts and legal liabilities, which bond shall be conditioned to pay and satisfy the final judgment that may be rendered in favor of such plaintiff or plaintiffs, for debt or damages or for both damages and costs, within sixty days from the rendition of Not to effect any such judgment. The provisions of this section shall in no execution &c., case effect or invalidate any lien created or acquired by the on any property. execution or extending a writ of attachment upon any mon

lien created by

rected.

eys, credits, effects, property, or interest aforesaid, until such bond as aforesaid shall be filed with the clerk of, and be approved by the court in which the suit is pending. The judgment rendered in any such suit as aforesaid shall be a lien as in other cases, from the time of the rendition thereof.

§ 3. In all suits of attachment issued under the provisDuty of officer to ions of this act, the officers to whom the same is directed whom writ is di- shall be commanded to attach the moneys, credits, effects, and property lying or being in this state, and belonging to or owned by or in which (naming the corporation,) has an interest, or which would belong to or be owned by, or in which (naming the corporation,) has or would have an interest, had the same not ceased to act as such corporation, or so much thereof as will satisfy the plaintiff's demand with costs, whether held, managed, or controlled by such corporation or by a trustee or trustees, assignee or assignees, agent or agents, for the use and benefit, in whole or in part, of such corporation or the creditors thereof, or for the use and benefit of both such corporation and creditors, however created, made, constituted, or appointed, and also to summon (naming the corporation,) to appear and answer to the plaintiff or plaintiffs in a plea of trespass on the case.

Writs-how served.

84. Writs of summons and attachment as to the mandate to summon, may be served upon any officer of any such corporation as aforesaid, or upon any trustee, assignee, or agent aforesaid; and such service shall be as binding and effectual as personal service in suits between individuals in other cases.

§ 5. The writs issued under this act shall conform as To be like writs near as may be to the like writs in other cases, except in so far as is otherwise in this act provided.

in other cases.

law to apply to suits commenc

§ 6. From the issuing of the writ under this act to final All provisions of judgment and satisfaction, all the provisions of law shall apply to sales commenced or to be prosecuted under this act, so far as the same are consistent with and not repugnant to the provisions of this act, and no further.

ed, &c.

§ 7. All actions or suits heretofore commenced under Buits continued. the act entitled "an act concerning a writ of attachment, approved July 12, 1853," and printed or published as chapter 106 of the session laws of the year last aforesaid, shall be continued and proceeded with to final judgment and satisfaction, and shall be governed hereafter by the

provisions of this act, and the aforesaid chapter one hundred and six of the laws of the year last aforesaid, is hereby repealed, but the repeal aforesaid shall not effect or divest any right or lien accrued or acquired thereunder.

§ 8. This act shall be printed by the state printer immediately after the passage thereof, and when so published shall take effect and be in full force.

Approved, March 23, 1854.

Chap. 40.

AN ACT for the encouragement of Agriculture and its kindred Arts in this State.

Published, March 29, 1854.

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

81. There is hereby annually appropriated, until the Appropriation. legislature shall by law otherwise direct, to the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, the sum of three thousand dollars, to be expended by said society in such manner as it may deem best calculated to promote and improve the How expended. condition of agriculture, horticulture, and the mechanical, manufacturing, and household arts in this state, either for the payment of premiums at the annual cattle shows and fairs of the society, or in the purchase and distribution of choice seeds, cuttings, plants, or tubors which have been tested and found adapted to the soil and climate of this state, or in the prosecution of scientific investigations and experiments, and the collection and diffusion of information tending to develope the natural and agricultural resources of Wisconsin: Provided, That no part of Provise. the sums of money hereby appropriated shall be applied

of expenditures

to be kept.

either directly or indirectly to the payment of any salaries or fees of any of the officers of said society.

82. It shall be the duty of the executive committee of Accurate account said Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, to keep an accurate account of the manner of expenditure of the said sums of money hereby appropriated, and transmit the same, together with the vouchers therefor, to the governor of this state, in the month of January in each year, to be by him laid before the legislature.

Duty of execu. tive committee.

appropriation.

§ 3. It shall also be the duty of the said executive committee of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, to collect, arrange, and collate all the information in their power in relation to the nature, origin, and preparation of soils, the cultivation and growth of crops, the breeding and management of stock, the application and character of manures and fertilizers, the introduction of new cereal and other grains, and other agricultural subjects, and report the same, together with a statement of their own proceedings, to the governor of this state, in the month of January in each year, to be by him laid before the legislature.

84. The sums of money hereby appropriated shall be Time of paying paid to the treasurer of said society in the month of February in each year, upon the order of the president and secretary of said society. Provided, That in the present year the same shall be paid immediately after the passage of this act.

Proviso.

§ 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage; and an act entitled "an act for the encouragement of agriculture and its kindred arts in this state," approved April 2, 1853, is hereby repealed.

86. The fifth section of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society," approved February 9, 1853, is hereby repealed.

Approved, March 23, 1854.

Chap. 41.

AN ACT concerning the terms of office of Judges of the several courts of this State.

Published, March 30, 1854.

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

commence.

81. The term of office of county judges, circuit judges When terms shall and justices of the supreme court, shall be for such time as at present prescribed by law, and shall commence on the first Monday of each year, next after the election of such officer, unless otherwise specially provided.

2. This act shall take effect from and after the passage and publication thereof.

Approved, March 23, 1854.

Chap. 42.

AN ACT to amend chapter 119 of the Revised Statutes of this State.

Published, March 28, 1854.

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

§ 1. Section thirty-three of chapter one hundred and Act amended. nineteen of the revised statutes, is hereby so amended as to read as follows: The defendant, whenever he shall be entitled to return of the property replevied, instead of taking judgment for such return, as in said chapter provided, may take judgment for the value of his interest in the property replevied, in which case the value of such