Duty of officers when vote is in

bonds.

and returned in the same manner as the votes at any such general election, and the canvassers shall make, certify, sign and deposit with the clerk of such county, town, city or incorporated village, a statement of the whole number of votes cast upon the question as well as the number for the railway proposition, and of the number against the railway proposition; and such certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the fact as to the number of votes cast for or against such proposition, and also of the fact that such election was regularly held and conducted according to law.

SECTION 4. If a majority of the legal voters who favor of issuing shall vote on the question at any election to be held in any such county, town, city or incorporated village, in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall as indicated by the official returns of any such election, vote "for the railway proposition," it shall be the duty of the proper officers in every such county, town, city or incorporated village, upon receiving from the directors of said railway company, stock or bonds, in conformity with the agreement with said company, to issue and deliver the bonds of said county, town, city or incorporated village, as is provided and agreed upon in the agreement made and filed according to the provisions of section one of this act.

Who shall be construed to be County and

SECTION 5. For the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this act, the officers of every counproper town officers. ty, town, incorporated city or village mentioned in this act, are hereby delared to be the chairman of the county board of supervisors, and the clerk of the board of supervi sors in each county; the chairman of the town board of supervisors, and the town clerk in each town; the mayor and city clerk of each incorporated city and the presi dent and clerk of each incorporated village; and all bonds issued by any of the said counties, incorporated cities or villages, shall be signed by the proper officers as aforesaid, of the said counties, incorporated cities or villages, under their corporate seals respectively, and all such bonds issued by any such town shall be signed by the proper officers of such towns, and have affixed to them the official certificate of the [clerk of the] board of supervisors, under his official seal, that they are such officers, and their signatures are genuine.

Counties and towns to be sev

SECTION 6. Every county, town, incorporated city or erally liable for village, which by the provisions of this act is author

interest of

ized to issue any bonds, shall be severally liable in payment of law, faithfully, promptly and at maturity to pay and principal and discharge the principal and interest due upon any such bonds. bond when all the terms and conditions specified and mentioned in the agreement named in section one of this act are fully and completely complied with and fulfilled; and in no case shall said counties, towns, incorporated cities and villages be liable upon said bonds, nor shall any action at law be maintainable upon said bonds in any of the courts of this state to enforce the collection of the same, until all the terms and conditions in said agreement are complied with, but when that is done by said railway company or its assigns, the sepa rate faith of every such county, town, incorporated city or village, shall, when the terms and conditions before named are complied with, by the issue of said bonds, be irrevocably, inviolably pledged for the prompt discharge of every such liability; every such county, town, incorporated city or village, shall annually levy a tax on all its taxable property for the payment of the annual interest on all bonds which it may issue in accordance with the provisions of this act, in addition to all other taxes, equal in amount to the amount of the annual interest on all the bonds which it may issue as aforesaid.

town board to

SECTION 7. The board of supervisors of any county One member of or town, the common council of any city and the each county and trustees of any village, shall annually appoint one of attend annual their number, who shall attend the annual meetings of road company. the stockholders of said railway company for the election of officers thereof, and shall be entitled to cast one vote for every share of stock which said county, town, incorporated city or village shall hold in said railway company, and in case of his inability to attend, to appoint in writing, under their hands, some other person who shall have the same power.

road pledged

county and

SECTION 8. The shares of stock in said railway stock and company, or the bonds of said company thus taken by bonds of railsaid counties, towns, incorporated cities and villages, for payment of and all dividends and interest arising from the same, town bonds. are hereby pledged for the payment of the principal and interest of said county, town and incorporated city or village bonds: provided, however, that the board of supervisors of any county or town, the common council of any incorporated city or trustees of any incor

porated village, may sell such shares of stock or bonds, and other securities of said company; but the proceeds thereof and interest shall still be pledged to pay the interest and principal of said bonds.

SECTION 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 8, 1869.

CHAPTER 114.

[Published March 12, 1869.]

Sec. 1, chap. 307,

general laws of

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to aid in the construc tion of railroads in the counties therein named, so as to apply to certain towns in the county of Pierce.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 307, general 1864, ameuded. laws of 1864, is hereby amended by inserting after the word, "counties" in the ninth line, "and of the several towns and cities in said county of Pierce."

Section 2 amended.

Section 3 amended.

SECTION 2. Section 2 of said chapter 307 is hereby amended by inserting after the word, "counties," in the second line, "or towns and cities in said county of Pierce," and further amend by inserting after the word, "counties" in the third line, "and the town board of supervisors of the several towns, and the common council of the several cities in said county of Pierce,' and after the word, "exceeding," in the sixth line, and in lieu of the word, "fifty," "twenty-five," and after the word,"counties" in the seventh line, "and for the several towns and cities in the aid county of Pierce."

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SECTION 3. Section three of said chapter 307 is hereby amended by inserting after the word, "coun ties," in the second line, "and the town board of su pervisors of the several towns, and the common council of the several cities in the said county of Pierce,' and further amended by inserting after the word, "coun ty," in the third line, "and town and city," and inserting after the word, "counties," in the sixth line, "and

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towns and cities in said county of Pierce," and inserting after the word, "interest," in the eighth line," the town and city treasurers of the several towns and cities in said county of Pierce shall pay over to the county treasurer of Pierce county and."

with other

tioned.

SECTION 4. Said chapter 307 is hereby further county of amended so that in the fourth section thereof and in each Pierce included and every section thereafter, after the word, "counties" counties menwherever it may occur, by inserting, "and the several towns and cities in said couuty of Pierce," except when the word, "counties" follows the words, "supervisors of each of said," when it shall be amended by inserting the words, "and the town board of supervi sors of the several towns, and the common council of the several cities in the said county of Pierce."

SECTION 5. The provisions of said chapter 307, as shall apply to amended by this act, shall apply to any railroad com- any railroad. pany which shall locate and construct a railroad through Pierce county or any part thereof.

SECTION 6. Section eight of said chapter 307, is Section 8 hereby amended so that the said question of railroad amended. aid may be submitted to the electors of the several towns and cities in said county of Pierce, or either of them, at the annual town meeting on the first Tuesday of April, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, or at any annual town meeting or general election held in said county of Pierce hereafter.

SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 8, 1869.

CHAPTER 115.

[Published March 10, 1869.]

AN ACT in relation to the courts of the county of Milwaukee.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The judges of the circuit and county May appoint courts respectively, of the county of Milwaukee, are

crier.

8-G. L.

Sheriff to keep deputies in at

tendance, and their per diem.

hereby authorized to appoint, each for his own court & crier whose duty it shall be to open and adjourn court, and to assist in preserving order in court, who shall hold his office during the pleasure of the judge appointing him, and shall receive for his services two dollars and fifty cents per diem during his actual attendance in court, to be paid out of the county treasury of the county of Milwaukee.

SECTION 2. The sheriff of Milwaukee county is is hereby required to keep in attendance upon each of said courts, during the session thereof, as many deputy sheriffs as the judge of said court shall require, and no more, and each deputy sheriff in actual attendance upon said courts, shall receive for such, and for actual attendance only, two dollars and fifty cents per diem, to be paid out of the county treasury of said county: provided, that neither crier nor deputy sheriff shall receive compensation for any day when the court shall not have been in session, doing business.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication, and all acts and parts of acts conflicting with or superseded by the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 8, 1869.

Set off from

nexed to Bay

field.

CHAPTER 116.

[Published March 11, 1869.]

AN ACT to annex a part of the county of Ashland to the county of Bayfield.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All the following described lands are Ashland and an- hereby detached and set off from the county of Ashland and annexed and attached to the county of Bayfield, viz: townships forty-three (43), forty-four (44), forty-five (45), forty-six (46) and forty-seven (47), of range five (5) west, forty-three (43) and forty-four (44) of range six (6), forty-three (43) and forty-four (44) of range seven