The officers and clerks of the senate enumerated. The officers and clerks of [Published April 27, 1895. No. 713, A.] CHAPTER 300. AN ACT to prescribe the number and duties of the legislative employes and the compensation of the same. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The officers of the senate, other than the president ex-officio and the president pro tempore, shall be one chief clerk, one assistant chief clerk, one journal clerk, one bookkeeper, one proof reader, one engrossing clerk, one enrolling clerk, one index clerk, one custodian of the engrossing room, one custodian of the enrolling room, two stenographers, one clerk of the judiciary committee, one clerk of the joint committee on claims, one clerk of the committee on state affairs, one sergeant-at-arms, one assistant sergeant-at-arms, one postmaster, one assistant postmaster, one document clerk, one document room attendant, four door keepers, one gallery attendant who shall act as committee room attendant, two committee room attendants, one janitor, one custodian, one night watchman, one night laborer and night messengers. The officers of the assembly, other than the speaker, shall be one chief clerk, one assistant chief clerk, two journal clerks, two bookkeepers, one stationery clerk, one proof reader, one index clerk, one engrossing clerk, one enrolling clerk, one custodian of the engrossing room, one custodian of the enrolling room, two stenographers, one clerk of the judiciary committee, one clerk of the committee on state affairs, one sergeant-at-arms, one assistant ser geant-at-arms, one postmaster, one assistant postmaster, one day attendant, four door keepers, two gallery attendants who shall act as committee room attendants, one document room clerk, one document room attendant, one porter clerks may be session. who shall act as wash room attendant, two cloak room attendants, one night watchman, one flagman, two custodians for committee rooms and twelve messengers. The chief clerk of the senate and assembly shall appoint their own assistants, and may discharge any of said assistants for cause, or from the cessation of the work which made their employment necessary. After the legislature has been in session thirty Additional days the chief clerks of the senate and assembly employed after may employ for each house an assistant index thirty days in clerk, an assistant enrolling clerk, an assistant engrossing clerk, and four comparing clerks, a clerk each for the committees on engrossed bills and enrolled bills, and the chief clerk of the assembly may appoint a clerk for the commit tee on bills in their third reading, should the good of the service demand it. The chief clerks Chief clerks to may employ such copyists as the proper and copyists. expeditious transaction of the business may require, not to exceed, however, fifteen in the senate and twenty in the assembly. The messengers may be assigned for attendance upon committees when necessary. The sergeant-at- Sergeant-atarms of each house shall appoint and have full arms shall have charge of the employes in his department, and his employes. shall have full authority to discharge any em ployes who are unfit or unqualified for the serv ice assigned to them and employ competent per sons in their places. No employes other than these provided for in this act shall be employed by authority of joint resolution or otherwise, except by act of the legislature. employ charge of all clerks and all of the senate SECTION 2. The chief clerks shall receive a Salary of chief salary of eight hundred dollars each for every other employes regular session, and ten dollars per diem for and assembly. each special session, and fifty dollars for opening each session, which shall be in full for all services rendered. The other officers and employes of the senate and assembly shall receive pay per diem as follows: The assistant clerks, six dollars each. The journal clerks, book keepers, index clerks, and sergeant-at-arms, five dollars each. The proof readers, enrolling clerks, engrossing clerks, stationery clerks, assistant Printing the the bills, memorials, etc., by the state printer. index clerks, assistant sergeant-at-arms, post- masters, document room clerks, document room attendants and general attendants of the assembly, clerk of joint committee on claims and clerk of judiciary committee of each house, clerk of the committee on state affairs of each house, four dollars each. The assistant postmasters, assistant enrolling clerks, assistant engrossing clerks and all other committee, three dollars and fifty cents each. The messengers two dollars each. All other clerks and employes three dollars each. The copyists shall be paid one dollar per day from the date of their employment, and fifteen cents per folio for enrolling, and ten cents per folio for other copying, the term "folio" meaning one hundred words, full count, and only on accepted work. Every clerk or employe on the chief clerk's or sergeant-atarm's forces shall assist, when required, at any other work than that to which he is regularly assigned, when the good of the service can be promoted thereby. No per diem shall be allowed after the close of the session, except for two days to the index clerks, whose duty it shall be within that time to satisfactorily and fully complete indexing of the journals, and in case such work is not so completed a sufficient sum shall be reserved from the pay of the clerk who may make the default, to insure the completion of their work. SECTION 3. All bills, memorials, joint resolutions and the journals of the two houses shall be printed by the state printer, who shall furnish three hundred copies of each, in form and size as is now provided by law, and shall furnish the senate and assembly with two hundred and fifty proof sheets of the proceedings of each house, printed on tinted paper, for examination and correction, and after the proof has been carefully read and all errors eliminated two hundred and fifty copies of the journal of each house shall be printed in size and form as is now prescribed by law, of which ten copies shall be upon bond paper. He shall also print on good book paper, and bind in half binding with sheep backs and corners, five hundred copies of the journals of each house of the legislature as now prescribed by law, five of the copies printed upon bond paper as aforesaid shall be furnished to the chief clerk of the senate, and five copies to the chief clerk of the assembly who shall preserve them until the close of the session. After the index shall have been completed, the chief clerk of the senate and the chief clerk of the assembly shall each cause one copy of the journal and index of the house of which he is such officer, printed on bond paper, to be bound and lettered properly, and shall attach thereto his certificate in writing, that the same is the journal of such house, and shall deliver the same to the secretary of state to be deposited in his office, which printed journals shall be the official record of the legislature. The compensation of the state printer for the printing of bills, memorials, joint resolutions and the journals, shall be as is now provided by law. secretary of SECTION 4. The chief clerks of the senate and Chief clerks to assembly and sergeant-at-arms of each house of employes to certify name shall certify to the secretary of state the names state. of all persons employed in their respective departments, the capacity in which employed, and the amounts respectively due them, which certificate shall be approved by the presiding officer of the house in which they are employed. Upon such certificate the secretary of state shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amounts therein named, and the same shall be paid out of the state treasury. At the close of each session of the legislature the secretary of state shall publish in the official state paper a full list of the accounts so audited. SECTION 5. Chapter one of the laws of 1893 and all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 19, 1895. Appropriation to pay for annotated statutes furnished the legislature. No. 155, S.] [Published April 29, 1895. CHAPTER 301. AN ACT to appropriate money to pay for the copies of Sanborn and Berryman's annotated statutes furnished this legislature pursuant to joint resolution number three senate. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not other wise appropriated a sum sufficient to pay for the copies of Sanborn and Berryman's anno tated statutes furnished this legislature by the superintendent of public property pursuant to joint resolution number three senate. The ac count for said statutes shall be audited by the secretary of state, on its approval by said su perintendent, provided that the cost thereof shall not exceed four dollars and fifty cents per volume. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 19, 1895. |