tained by weight and shall be computed at two hundred pounds. SECTION 6. All laws or parts of laws contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 11, 1895. Guardians to minors, how appointed. No. 200, S.] [Published April 15, 1895. CHAPTER 196. AN ACT to amend section 3962, of the revised statutes, relating to the appointment of guardians to minors. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 3962, of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto as follows: Such nomination shall be made in the county court, by the minor, or, if he does not reside within ten miles of the place of holding the county court, he may sign the application in the presence of a justice of the peace of the town, city or village, in which he resides. The justice shall certify to the county court, that the application is the application of said minor, signed in his presence, and the court shall be satisfied that the person appointed is the deliberate choice of such minor. So that said section 3962, when so amended shall read as follows: Section 3962. All persons under the age of twenty-one years shall be deemed minors; and the county court in each county may appoint guardians to minors and others subject to guardianship, being residents in the same county, and also to such as shall reside without the state and have any estate within the county. If a minor is under the age of fourteen years, the court may nominate and appoint his guardian; if he is above the age of fourteen years, he may nominate his own guardian, who if approved by the court shall be appointed accordingly. Such nomination shall be made in the county court by the minor, or if he does not reside within ten miles of the place of holding the county court, he may sign the application in the presence of a justice of the peace of the town, city or village in which he resides. The justice shall certify to the county court, that the application is the application of said minor, signed in his presence, and the court shall be satisfied that the person appointed is the deliberate choice of such minor. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 11, 1895. No. 563, A.] [Published April 17, 1895. CHAPTER 197. AN ACT to amend section 290, of the revised statutes of 1878, relating to the distribution of stationery. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: be kept by the SECTION 1. Section 290, of the revised stat- Stationery to utes of 1878, is hereby amended so as to read as superintendent of public propfollows: Section 290. The state stationery, erty. when purchased, shall be deposited with the said superintendent for safe keeping and disbursement. He shall charge himself in the books of his office with all stationery purchased and received by him, at cost price, and shall How purchased and to whom. and distributed keep separate accounts with each state officer, the supreme court, the legislature and other officers and institutions to whom he shall furnish stationery as required by law. In addition to the stationery required by law to be furnished to the legislature, its officers, clerks, employes, reporters and committees, the said superintendent shall furnish all necessary stationery as follows, and to no others: To the governor, or his private secretary, for his office; to the secretary of state, or his assistant, for his office; to the chief clerk of the land office, for his office; to the state treasurer, or his as sistant, for his office; to the state treasury agent, for his office; to the attorney-general, or his assistant, for his office; to the state superintendent, or his assistant, for his office; to the clerk of the supreme court, for the supreme court; to the corresponding secretary of the state historical society for its rooms; to the adjutant general, or his assistant, for his office; to the quartermaster general, or his assistant, for his office; to the secretary of the state ag ricultural society, for said society; to the railroad commissioner, or his deputy, for his office; to the insurance commissioner, or his deputy, for his office; to the secretary of the board of control, for the use of said board; to the state librarian, for the use of the state library; to the commissioner of labor statistics, for his of fice; to the superintendent of public property, for his office; to the dairy and food commisNothing can be sioner, for his office. No clerk, or any state on written or- officer, or any department of the state shall be permitted to receive any stationery unless on the written order of some of the persons above described. received'except der. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 11, 1895. No. 236, S.] [Published April 18, 1895. CHAPTER 198. AN ACT to provide for the appointment of jurors to be sworn and serve as a jury to view lands in cities operating under special char ters. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: of jurors to SECTION 1. Whenever in any city incorpo- Appointment rated by and operating under a special charter serve as a granted by the legislature of this state, they to view requisite number of jurors shall have been summoned to appear before any court or judge, to be sworn and serve as a jury to view lands for the purpose of determining the necessity of taking any lands for public use, or vacating any highways, streets, alleys or public walks, and shall have appeared before said court or judge for the purpose of taking an oath or affirmation in the matter of such taking or vacating, and any of the jurors summoned shall fail to attend or shall be excused by the court or judge, the court or judge shall thereupon forthwith name and appoint the requisite number of other duly qualified jurors to serve upon said jury in the place of such jurors so excused, or failing to attend. Any juror so named and appointed may be examined by any person interested in such taking or vacating, who shall be present, and if it shall appear to the court or judge that any such juror or jurors are disqualified to act in the matter, he or they shall be excused, and a requisite number of other jurors shall be thereupon named and appointed in his place until the requisite number of jurors shall be obtained, and the said jurors shall thereupon before they proceed to view the premises proposed to be taken or vacated, severally take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before the In case one of the juror sbe absent," court or judge to the effect that they will faithfully and honestly discharge the duties imposed upon them, and determine whether or not it is necessary to take or vacate the premises in question for the public use. SECTION 2. Whenever such jurors shall have met in any duly authorized manner for the purpose of hearing persons interested in such taking or vacating, and any such juror or jurors shall be absent at the time set for such hearing and for one hour thereafter, the jurors present shall have power to publicly adjourn their proceedings to the same place for a period not exceeding twenty days, and the city attorney shall report the names of such absent juror or jurors to the chief of police or to any of the police officers of the city, together with the place and the hour to which such jury has adjourned, and the said chief of police or police officer shall thereupon notify said absent juror or jurors of such adjournment and direct them to be present at the time and place fixed by such adjournment. SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are repealed, in so far as they interfere with this act and no further. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 11, 1895. |