No. 642, A.] [Published March 27, 1903. CHAPTER 29. AN ACT to amend chapter 8 of the laws of 1903, entitled "An Act to detach certain territory from the town of Grantsburg, Burnett county, and to create the town of Anderson." The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: First election; time and place. SECTIO 1. Section 3 of chapter 8 of the laws of 1903, entitled, "An Act to detach certain territory from the town of Grantsburg, Burnett county, and to create the town of Anderson," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 3. The qualified electors of the said town of Anderson shall meet at the Grettum school house in school district number six, situated in township number thirtyseven north of range number nineteen west, of the fourth principal meridian in the state of Wisconsin, on the first Tuesday of April, A. D. 1903, and at such town meeting in the manner provided by law, elect town officers for the said town of Ander son. "For the purpose of such town election, the qualified voters in said town hall shall, between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock in the forenoon of said day, choose three of their number to act as inspectors, and two ballot clerks of the election, and such inspectors and ballot clerks shall, before entering upon their respective duties severally take the usual oath of office and file the same with their returns; and such inspectors shall respectively canvass and return the votes cast at such election in all respects as provided by law for inspectors at annual town meetings. And the qualified electors so assembled at the place aforesaid may vote for judicial officers, whether for justices of the supreme court, judge of the circuit court or county judge, or all of them, shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner and shall have the same effect, as if the said town of Anderson was fully and completely organized." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 27th, 1903. No. 102, S.] [Published March 28, 1903. CHAPTER 30. AN ACT to compel the rebuilding and reconstruction of the railway bridges of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company and of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company over the Yahara river in the city of Madison, and likewise to compel said city of Madison to rebuild and reconstruct its bridges over said river, so as to remove obstructions to the navigation of said river. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Railroad bridges to be reconstructed. SECTION 1. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway company and of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company, on or before the first day of May, 1904, to reconstruct the railroad bridges owned by them, respectively, over the Yahara river or Cat Fish creek, so called, in the city of Madison, Dane county, Wisconsin, in such manner as to raise the same and the tracks adjoining and over said bridges so that there shall be left between the bottom structure of said bridges, when so reconstructed, and the surface of the ordinary stage of water in said river or creek a space of at least eight feet, and so that there shall be left a lateral space or width of the stream under said bridges of at least thirty feet. City bridges to be changed. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of said city of Madison, on or before the first day of May, 1904, to so change, rebuild and reconstruct all bridges owned by said city and now spanning said Yahara river, as to raise or elevate the same so that there shall be left between the bottom structure of said bridges, when so reconstructed, and the surface of the ordinary stage of water in said river a space of at least eight feet, and so that there shall be left a lateral space or width of the stream under the said bridges of at least thirty feet. Navigability to be restored. SECTION 3. Such reconstruction and raising of said railway tracks and bridges and of said city bridges, shall be so done for the purpose of restoring the public use and navigability of said river, which are now ob structed by said bridges. Certificate to be filed. SECTION 4. This act shall be duly published and shall take effect and be in force from and after the filing, in the office of the secretary of state, of a certificate, signed by the governor, certifying that there has been filed in his office, a statement under oath, by the president of the Madison Park & Pleasure Drive association, showing to the satisfaction of the governor that there has been subscribed by the citizens of Madisons and others a sum of not less than fifteen thousand dollars for the improvement of said Yahara river and its banks, between said lakes Mendota and Monona. Approved March 27, 1903. No. 364, A.] [Published March 28, 1903. CHAPTER 31. AN ACT to legalize the official acts of Thomas Marsh as a police justice for the village of Waunakee, Dane county, Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Official acts legalized. SECTION 1. The official acts of Thomas Marsh as a police justice within and for the village of Waunakee, Dane county, Wisconsin, as done and performed by him between the fourth day of April, A. D. 1899, and the twenty-fourth day of January, A. D. 1903, being the interval between the election of said Thomas Marsh to said office and the filing of his oath of said office with the clerk of the circuit court for Dane county, are hereby legalized and declared to be of as full force and effect to all intents and purposes as if he had filed his said oath of office within ten days after his election as provided by law. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 27, 1903. No. 169, A.] [Published March 28, 1903. CHAPTER 32. AN ACT amendatory of section 2331 of the statutes of 1898, relating to persons authorized to solemnize marriages. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Who may solemnize marriage. SECTION 1. Section 2331 of the statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by inserting after the words "justice of the peace," where they occur in the second line of said section, the words "police justice, municipal judge," so that said section when sc amended shall read as follows: Section 2331. Marriages may be solemnized by any justice of the peace, police justice, municipal judge or court commissioner in the county in which he is elected or appointed, and throughout the state by any judge of a court of record, and by any ordained minister or priest in regular communion with any religious society and who continues to be such minister or priest. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 27, 1903. No. 137, S.1 [Published March 28, 1903. CHAPTER 33. AN ACT granting to the United States jurisdiction over certain lands in Fond du Lac county. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Jurisdiction except for service of civil and criminal process. SECTION 1. The consent of the state of Wisconsin is hereby given to the purchase, by the United States, of any tract or tracts of land in the city of Fond du Lac, and county of Fond du Lac, within the state, for the site of and the erection of a federal building under the provisions of an act of congress, ap proved June 6, 1902, entitled, "An act to increase the limit of cost of certain buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes," and the state hereby cedes to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over such tract or tracts of land as shall be purchased for the purposes aforesaid, so long as the same shall be or remain the property of the United States, for all purposes except the service of civil or criminal process therein. Lands exempt from taxes. SECTION 2. That the lands aforesaid, when so purchased, shall hereafter be exempt from all taxes and assessments levied or imposed under authority of the state, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 27, 1903. No. 157, A.] [Published March 28, 1903. CHAPTER 34. AN ACT to amend section 1529d of the statutes of 1898, relating to bonds of members of Soldiers' Relief Commission and to legalize bonds heretofore given. The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: Relief commission; appointment, terms, bond. SECTION 1. Section 1529d of Wisconsin statutes is hereby amended by inserting after the word "bond" in the twelfth line thereof the words "or each an individual bond," so that said section when so amended, shall read as follows: "Section 1529d. Every county judge shall, on or before the second Monday in December after such report is made, appoint three residents of the county, at least two of whom shall be hon |