ment of a bounty for the killing of rattlesnakes, and may prescribe in such resolution or ordinance the necessary proof of such killing to entitle any person to such bounty.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 6, 1903.

No. 207, A.]

[Published April 9, 1903.

CHAPTER 52.

AN ACT to prohibit the use of the public highway for camping purposes, without permission, and fixing a penalty therefor.

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

Camping on highway for more than twelve hours prohibited. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, to camp in wagon, tent or otherwise, on the public highway, or lands adjacent thereto for a longer period than twelve hours after a written notice to remove therefrom by the owners of such adjacent land or of the owner of land abutting on the highway, or by a member of the board of supervisors or any trustee of said town or village, where such camping place is

made.

Penalty for violation. SECTION 2. SECTION 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 6, 1903.

No. 241, A.]

[Published April 2, 1903.

CHAPTER 53.

AN ACT for taking and transporting game birds for propagating purposes.

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

SECTION 1. The

Game birds may be transported, how. state fish and game warden is hereby authorized to issue to any person a permit to take and transport game birds for propagating purposes within the state, provided the same be done under the supervision of a deputy game warden.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 6, 1903.

No. 242, A.]

[Published April 9, 1903.

CHAPTER 54.

AN ACT to appropriate to the governor's contingent fund a sum of money named therein.

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

There is hereby

$2,000 annually for two years. SECTION 1. appropriated to the governor's contingent fund, out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars per annum for the years 1903 and 1904.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 6, 1903.

No. 315, A.]

[Published April 9, 1903.

CHAPTER 55.

AN ACT to authorize cities to license and regulate the storage and use of nitric, sulphuric and other dangerous acids, and cities of the first class to provide additional fire extinguishing apparatus.

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

Storage of acids; fire apparatus. SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for all cities within this state by ordinance, to license the storage and use of nitric, sulphuric and other acids, the fumes or vapors from which will cause death to human beings by inhalation, and to regulate the storage thereof, and for all cities of the first class by ordinance to provide buildings with a sufficient number of automatic stream and distributing nozzles, such buildings and the number of nozzles to be determined by the chief of the fire department and building inspector of said cities.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 6, 1903.

No. 567, A.]

[Published April 9, 1903.

CHAPTER 56.

AN ACT to limit the scope of contracts of casualty and acci dent companies.

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

Limit of liability not to exceed one-tenth of assets. SECTION 1. No casualty or accident insurance company, association, society, order or corporation organized under section 1955a of

the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 1901; and no such company, association, society, order or corporation, now or at any time hereafter transacting business within this state, shall assume a greater liability in its contracts of insurance to any one person, payable in case of death of the assured, than one-tenth, of the amount of its assets reported to the commissioner of insurance, and in actual existence at the time of the last preceding annual report to the said commissioner of insurance.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of August, 1903.

Approved April 6, 1903.

No. 645, A.]

[Published April 9, 1903.

CHAPTER 57.

AN ACT to provide for certain repairs upon the improvement, of the capitol building of the state and making an appropriation therefor.

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

$200 appropriated. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the state of Wisconsin, such necessary sum of money, not exceeding, however, two hundred dollars, to be applied for the payment of bills for repairs upon and the improvement of the capitol building of the state, said repairs and improvements to be made at once under the direction of the superintendent of public property, the sergeant-atarms of the senate and the sergeant-at-arms of the assembly. All bills for such repairs and improvements to be paid in the usual manner out of the state treasury after proper audit by the secretary of state.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication,

Approved April 6, 1903.

No. 343, S.]

[Published April 9, 1903.

CHAPTER 58.

AN ACT granting to the United States jurisdiction over certain lands in Marathon 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 Wausau, county of Marathon, for the erection of a building under the provisions of an act of congress, approved June 6, 1902, entitled "An act to increase the limit of cost of certain public 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 they shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes, except the service of civil and criminal process therein.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 6, 1903.