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Company organized.

To have the same powers as those of Milwaukee and

Racine.

No. 101.

AN ACT to incorporate the Iowa mutual fire insurance company at Burlington.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of representatives of Wisconsin territory, That Geo. H. Beeler, Jesse B. Webber, Nathaniel Chase, Jonathan Morgan, James W. Grimes, Levi Moffett, Geo. W. Kelly, Wm. Janes, Amos Ladd, Isaac Leffler, David Rorer and John H. Randolph, and their associates, and all such persons as shall hereafter have property insured by said company, shall be and hereby are ordained, constituted and declared to be a body corporate and politic in fact and in name, by the name of "the Iowa mutual fire insurance company."

SECTION 2. The said corporation shall have power and authority, to make contracts of insurance upon the same terms, and be bound by the same regulations and restrictions, and with the same privileges as are granted to the Milwaukee and Racine mutual fire insurance company, approved the twenty-seventh day of December, A. D. eighteen hundred and thirtyseven, and set forth in the act incorporating said Milwaukee and Racine mutual fire insurance companies.

Approved January 19, 1838.

No. 102.

AN ACT supplementary to an act concerning costs and fees.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That each grand juror shall receive for every day's attendance at · the district court, to be paid out of the county treasury, one dollar.

SECTION 2. That each petit juror be allowed the sum of one dollar per day for each day's attendance at the district court to be paid out of the county treas

ury.

SECTION 3. That each juror in case of forcible entry and detainer shall be allowed the sum of one dollar per day.

Approved January 19, 1838.

No. 103.

AN ACT to authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Jackson to build a bridge and levy a tax to pay for the same.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That the board of county commissioners of the county of Jackson, be, and they are hereby authorized to build a bridge or cause the same to be built, by contract or otherwise, across the stream passing near or through the southerly part of the town of Bellview, known by the name of Mill Creek at the most eligible point on the same.

SECTION 2. That for the raising of a sum of money sufficient to pay for the building of said bridge, the board of county commissioners of said county are hereby authorized to levy and collect a tax of not more than one half per cent. on any real and personal property subject to taxation in said county. Approved Jan. 19, 1838.

No. 104.

AN ACT to enlarge the county of Crawford.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That all that part of Wisconsin territory lying south and west of lake Superior, and east of the Mississippi and Grand Fork rivers, and north of the Wisconsin river, heretofore not included in any other county in this territory, be, and the same is hereby attached to and made a part of Crawford county, for all judicial pur

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No. 105.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to establish the judicial districts of the territory of Wisconsin and for other purposes," and to regulate the times of holding courts in the several counties of said territory.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the council and house of ed to first judi- representatives of the territory of Wisconsin, That the counties of Du Buque, Clayton and Jackson, and the counties attached to them respectfully for judicial purposes, shall hereafter constitute a part of the first judicial district; and the counties of Scott and Cedar and the counties attached to them respectively shall and to second continue to form a part of the second judicial district. And it shall be the duty of the judges of the said districts respectively to hold the courts and perform district duties in said counties until further provisions be made by the congress of the United States for the appointment of an additional judge in this territory; upon which event the counties above named shall constitute a new and separate district to be called the fourth judicial district.

hereafter to] form fourth.

Time of holding supreme court.

District courts.

In Green,

Iowa,

Grant,

Crawford,

Clayton,

Dubuque,

Jackson,

Lee,

SECTION 2. The annual meeting of the supreme court shall be held at the seat of government of the territory on the third Monday in July in each year.

SECTION 3. The terms of the district courts in the several counties of this territory in each year shall be as follows:

In Greene on the first Monday in April and on the fourth Monday in August.

In Iowa on the second Monday in April and first Monday in September.

In Grant on the first Monday in May and fourth Monday in September.

In Crawford on the third Monday in May and second Monday in October.

In Clayton on the fourth Monday in May and third Monday in October.

In Du Buque on the first Monday in June and fourth Monday in October.

In Jackson on the third Monday in June and second Monday in November.

In Lee on the first Mondays in April and Septem

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In Van Buren on the third Mondays in April and Van Buren, September.

În Henry on the fourth Mondays in April and Sep- Henry, tember.

In Slaughter on the first Mondays in May and Oc- Slaughter, tober.

In Louisa on the second Mondays in May and Octo- Louisa, ber.

In Muscatine on the third Mondays in May and Oc- Muscatine, tober.

In Cedar on the fourth Mondays in May and Octo- Cedar, ber.

In Scott on the first Mondays in June and No- Scott. vember.

In Des Moines on the second Mondays in June and Des Moines, November.

In Brown on the fourth Monday in May and second Brown, Monday in October.

In Milwaukee on the second Monday in June and Milwaukee, first Monday in November.

In Racine on the first Monday in July and third Racine. Monday in November.

abate by reason

of change.

SECTION 4. No suits, writs, indictments, recogniz- Suits not to ances, informations or other process or proceedings returnable to the supreme or any of the district courts of this territory shall abate, be made void or in anywise affected in consequence of any change of time of holding any of the said courts by the provisions of this act but when the same may have issued or may have been made returnable to any day in accordance with the time of holding courts before the passage hereof they shall be considered as returnable to the term of the courts respectively named in this act which may be nearest in point of time to the day to which they have been made returnable; and all jurors, witnesses and other persons bound in any way to appear before the courts when the time of holding the same shall be changed by this act, shall be bound to appear before the said courts at the term nearest thereto in point of time as established by this act

Approved January 20, 1838.

RESOLUTIONS.

No. 1.

Resolution authorizing the secretary of the territory to expend the unexpended balance appropriated for the use of the late secretary for rent of office and furniture.

WHEREAS, from the account rendered by John S. Horner, Esq., late secretary of this territory, corroborated by a statement of the present secretary, there appears to remain an unexpended balance of two hundred and fifty dollars of the appropriation made by the legislative council at their last session for rent of office, furniture, &c., therefore,

Resolved, by the council and house of representatives of this territory, That the present secretary of the territory is hereby authorized to expend the aforesaid unex pended balance of two hundred and fifty dollars for the use and purposes expressed in the act of appropriation.

Approved November 29, 1837.

No. 2.

Resolution relatiing to the franking privilege.

Resolved, that the council and house of representa tives of this territory, concur in the resolution of the senate and house of representatives of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, recommending the extension of the franking privileges to the governor, secretaries and chief clerks of both branches of the several state legislatures, and that our delegate in congress be in structed to procure the passage of a law to that effect, including the same officers in the different territories of the United States.

Approved November 29, 1837.

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