SECTION 2. This act shall be in force from and after its publication. Approved February 19, 1869. CHAPTER 21. [Published February 25, 1869.] Amended. AN ACT to amend section 1 of chapter 165 of the general laws of 1860, entitled "of alienation by deed, of the proof and recording of conveyances and the cancelling of mortgages." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 165 of the general laws of 1860, is hereby amended so as to read as follows, viz.: "Section eight of chapter eighty-six of the revised statutes, entitled "of alienation of [by]deed,of the proof and recording of conveyances and the cancelling of mortgages," is hereby amended by adding after the word, "peace," in the seventh line of said section, the words, "or clerk of the circuit court," and after the word,"state" in the same line, the words, "or the clerk of the municipal court of the city and county of Milwaukee." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 19, 1869.. CHAPTER 22. [Published February 25, 1869.] AN ACT relating to evidence in certain cases. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: shall make records. SECTION 1. Each clerk of the board of supervisors Clerk of board in the several counties in this state, is hereby required transript of and it shall be his duty to make a transcript for any person demanding the same, of such part of the books, records, papers, files and proceedings in his office as appertain or relate to the assessment of taxes, or the sale of lands for taxes in his county for such year or years as shall be designated by the person requiring the same provided, that in such transcript it shall only be necessary to set forth or describe such tracts or parcels of land designated by the person requiring such transcript. cate to trans SECTION 2. There shall be attached to such trans- Form of certificript a certificate of the clerk of the board of supervi- cript. sors of such county, substantially in the following form: "I hereby certify that the annexed and foregoing is a true and correct transcript of all books, records, papers, files and proceedings of every name and nature on file or of record in my office, relating or in any wise appertaining to the assessment cf taxes upon or to the sale for taxes of the following described lands uate in the county of the year (or years), A. D. thereof. sit state of Wisconsin, for In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand day of A. D. and official seal, this Clerk of the board of supervisors of county, Wis." SECTION 3. It shall not be necessary upon of any cause, to produce the original books, papers, files or proceedings of record on file or Clerk's fees for transcript. the office of the clerk of the board of supervisors, but such transcript, with such certificate attached, shall be received as evidence in all courts of this state in like manner and with the same effect as the original books, records, papers, files or proceedings. SECTION 4. Each clerk of the board of supervisors shall be entitled to demand and receive for such transcript, twenty cents per folio for each folio, before he shall be compelled to make or deliver the same. SECTION 5. This act shall be in force after its passage and publication. Approved February 19, 1869. CHAPTER 23. [Published February 20, 1869.] Section 1 amended. Section 13 amended. AN ACT relating to the organization of religious societies, and amending sections 1, 13, 14 and 15 of chapter 66 of the revised statutes, entitled "of religious societies." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1 of chapter 66 of the revised statutes, entitled "of religious societies," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. It shall be lawful for all persons of full age belonging to any church, congregation or religious society, not already incorporated, to assemble at the church or meeting-house, or other place where they statedly attend for divine worship, and by a majority of votes, elect any number of discreet persons of the church, congregation or religious society, not less than three nor more than nine in number, as trustees, (a majority of whom shall in all cases be actual communicants of such church, congregation or religi ous society,) to take charge of the estate and property belonging thereto, and to transact all affairs relative to the temporalities thereof. SECTION 2. Section 13 of said chapter is so amended as to read as follows: Section 13. The said trustees shall hold their offices for three years, and until their successors are elected; and immediately after their first election, as herein before provided, the said trustees shall be divided by lot into three classes, numbered one, two and three; and the seats of the first class shall be vacated at the end of the first year, of the second class at the end of the second year, and the seats of the third class at the end of the third year; to the end that as near as may be, one-third part of the whole number of trustees may be annually chosen. amended. amended. SECTION 3. Section 14 of said chapter is hereby Section 14 amended by adding to said section, as follows: provid ed, if the clerk shall fail for any cause to give the notice as herein before required, or the election shall not be held at the time as herein before required, the church, congregation or society shall not for that reason be dissolved or in the least affected thereby, but the notice and election may be held on some other day. SECTION 4. Section 15 of said chapter is so amend- Section 15 as to read as follows: Section 15. All subsequent elections shall be held and conducted by the same persons and in the same manner as hereinbefore provided for the first election; and in case any vacancy shall happen by the death of a trustee, his neglect or refusal to act with the board of trustees, for the space of two months or more, or removal from said society before his term of office expires, or otherwise, notice thereof shall be given as aforesaid, and an election shall be held and another trustee chosen in his stead for the remainder of such term. SECTION 5. This act shall be published immediately after its passage, and take effect and be in force from and after its publication. Approved February 19, 1869. Amended. CHAPTER 24. [Published February 25, 1869.] AN ACT to amend section 16 of chapter 129 of revised statutes, entitled "of injunctions and writs of ne exeat, and of receivers." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 16 of chapter one hundred and twenty-nine of the revised statutes, entitled "of injunctions and writs of ne exeat and of receivers," is hereby amended by inserting the words, "judgment or," after the article "a" at the end of the fourth line of said section, so that the said section, when so amended, shall read as follows: "Section 16. When the answer of the defendant expressly, or by not denying, admits part of the plaintiff's claim to be just, the court, on motion, may order such defendant to satisfy that part of the claim, and may enforce the order as it enforces a judgment or provisional remedy. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 24, 1869. Clerk of court tificate of con CHAPTER 25. [Published February 26, 1869.] AN ACT prescribing the form of certificate of conviction in criminal cases. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: any SECTION 1. That whenever any person shall be conshall make cer- victed in any circuit court of this state, of criminal viction. offense, and shall upon such conviction be sentenced to confinement, either in the county jail or in the state's |