mons, writ or process was based, and a statement of the names of the parties to the action, the date of the summons, writ or process, the time when the same is returnable, and the nature of the demand or claim, upon which the said judge shall forthwith docket said case, which docket entries shall have the same force and effect as if made at the time of issuing the summons, writ or other process.

Compensation of judge; must file statement. SECTION 14. The salary of the judge of the municipal court of Sawyer county shall be fixed by the board of supervisors of Sawyer county and shall be paid out of the county treasury of Sawyer county in the same manner that the salary of other county officers is paid, and shall be in full for all services rendered in any criminal examination, trial or other criminal matters. He shall have the same fees and is empowered to tax and receive the same fees as allowed by law to justices of the peace, except as hereinafter provided and shall tax as costs the same fees in the same manner as in justices' courts. He shall pay into the county treasury monthly all fees received by him in any criminal matter, and may retain all fees received by him in any civil action. He shall file on the first day of November of Each year with the county clerk of said county a statement of all fees paid by him to the county treasurer, and said statement shall be verified by him under oath. He shall also file with said clerk the statements required from other magistrates by sections 679 and 680, statutes of 1898.

Jurisdiction of court; appeals, how taken. SECTION 15. Said court shall have jurisdiction to try and determine all appeals in civil actions from justices of the peace of Sawyer county; provided, that in civil cases, appealable from the justices' judg ments, the party appealing may, in his option, appeal to the circuit court of Sawyer county, instead of to said municipal court. And all such cases shall be certified and returned to said municipal court within ten days after the perfection of the appeal. Any action appealed to said court may be brought on for trial on notice of ten days given by either party to the other. In case neither party shall notice such appeal, or bring the same to trial within six months, the appeal shall be disTaissed with ten dollars costs against the appellant. Appeals shall be made to such court in the same manner that they are now made from justice to circuit courts.

Fees fixed on appeals. SECTION 16. In appealed cases tried and determined in said court upon the record of the court be

low, or any questions of law or fact appearing in such record, the judge of such court shall be entitled to receive the sum of ten dollars, and no more for his fees, and the prevailing party in appealed cases shall be entitled to recover the sum of five dollars as attorney's fees.

Appeals to circuit court. SECTION 17. Appeals from said municipal court shall be taken to the circuit court of Sawyer county, and when not otherwise provided, the law relating to appeals from justices' courts shall apply. The same affidavit and notice, in substance, shall be made and given as upon appeals from justices' courts.

Seal evidence in all courts. SECTION 18. The municipal judge may provide a seal for said court and all papers, depositions, certificates, acknowledgments, examinations and other documents executed or signed by said judge, when sealed with the seal of the court, shall be evidence in all courts and places in this state, and shall have the same effect as the seal of a court of record.

Records to be public. SECTION 19. The dockets and records of said municipal court shall be public records, open to the inspection of all persons at all reasonable hours.

Attorney's fees, how taxed. SECTION 20. In all actions in the municipal court for the county of Sawyer attorney's fees shall be taxed and allowed as provided in subdivision 4, of section 3775 of the statutes of 1898.

Notice of election by county clerk. SECTION 21. The county clerk of Sawyer county shall give the same notice of the election of said judge, as in other judicial elections.

Blanks, how furnished. SECTION 22. All necessary stationery and all blanks required by said court in civil and criminal actions and examinations, and judge's dockets required by law, shall be furnished at the expense of Sawyer county.

Phonographic reporter may be called in; compensation of. SECTION 23. It shall be lawful for the municipal judge to call in a phonographic reporter skilled in the art of shorthand reporting, to take testimony in any action, examination or other proceeding in the municipal court, and the reporter's notes so taken may be filled in lieu of the minutes of testimony required

by law to be taken by justices of the peace in like proceedings; provided, that in case of appeal in civil actions, said reporter, when requested by the appellant, shall file a transcribed copy of his notes verified by his oath which shall be returned as the testimony in the case, and the fees for transcribing said testimony not exceeding five cents per folio, shall be taxed as part of the judge's fees in the case. Said reporter shall receive such compensation for taking testimony as shall be fixed by the municipal judge not exceeding three dollars per day for each day's actual attendance on said court, which amount shall be taxed as costs in the case. In all criminal trials and proceedings said fees and per diem shall be certified, audited and paid out of the county treasury monthly; fees per diem shall be certified and audited by the certificate of the municipal judge, showing the title of the case and the amount due said phonographic reporter for services therein. Section 2439 of the statutes of 1898 shall apply to said reporter and said court.

Place and time of holding court. SECTION 24. The municipal judge of Sawyer county, whenever it shall appear to him to be for the best interests of all parties to do so, may appoint a time and place in any part of Sawyer county in which to hold court, for the purpose of holding an examination or trial or other proceeding and shall be entitled to receive, as a part of his compensation, his necessary and actual expenses in going to, returning from and attendance upon any criminal examination, trial or other process, to be paid out of the county treasury in the manner that other claims against said county are paid, and may tax the amount as a part of the costs in any civil action.

SECTION 25.

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

Approved March 17, 1903.

Sub. for No. 45, A.]

[Pub. March 23, 1903.

CHAPTER 19.

AN ACT relating to the examination of applicants for admission to the bar and amendatory of section 2586 of the statutes of 1898.

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

Proof of practice required. SECTION 1. Subdivision 2 of section 2586 of the statutes of 1898, is amended, so that said subdivision two, when so amended shall read as follows:

2. All persons who shall have been admitted to practice in the supreme court of any other state or territory, and who shall be residents of this state, may be admitted, upon production of their certificates of admission to practice in such courts, upon satisfactory proof of their having been engaged in actual practice in such other state or territory for a period of at least two years prior to application for admission to courts of record of of this state. Such proof may be the certificate of any judge of a court of record, under seal of such court, knowing the fact.

Subdivision 3, of

Who admitted to practice. SECTION 2. said section 2586, is amended so that said subdivision three when so amended shall read as follows:

3. Every person of full age, who is a citizen of the United States, or has declared his intention to become such citizen as provided by law, and a resident of this state, of good moral character and otherwise qualified, may be admitted to practice in all of the courts of this state by the supreme court, upon the production of the certificate of the board of law examiners hereinafter mentioned, and such persons may be admitted to prac tice in all of the courts of this state, except the supreme court, by any circuit court in this state, upon the production of such certificate.

Board of examiners to be appointed. SECTION 3. Subdivision 6 of said section 2586, is amended so that said subdivision six when so amended shall read as follows:

6. The supreme court shall on or before the second Tuesday in August in the year 1903, appoint five competent resident attorneys, who shall constitute a board for the examination of ap

One of such

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plicants for admission to the bar of this state. persons shall be appointed for one year, one for two years, one for three years, one for four years and one for five years. supreme court shall, on or before the second Tuesday in August in each year, after 1903, appoint one member of said board, who shall hold his office for five years and said court may at any time fill such vacancies as may occur in said board. Three members of said board shall constitute a quorum. The supreme court shall, from time to time, make and adopt such rules and regulations relating to the qualifications of applicants for examination, the course of study to be pursued by such applicants and the standard of acquirements of such applicants to entitle them to admission to practice in the courts of this state and such other rules and regulations relating to the examination of applicants for admission to the bar as such court may deem necessary or desirable. The period of study necessary to enable the applicant to take the examination shall be at least three years. The board of examiners may adopt such rules, regulations and forms relating to holding and conducting its meetings and its procedure as it may deem necessary. The board shall examine each question presented to each applicant on his written examination and his answer thereto and mark thereon the percentage to which such applicant is entitled by his answer, and within thirty days after such examination, return such questions and answers, with his percentage thereon, to such applicant. The board shall also within the time aforesaid, send to such applicant a detailed statement clearly stating the percentage to which such applicant is entitled upon each answer of his oral examination. There shall be paid out of the treasury to each such examiner a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day and his actual and necessary expenses in going to, holding and returning from any such examination, also for time necessarily expended in the preparation of questions and the actual cost of procuring question books for oral examination, if they shall, in the judgment of the board, be necessary, to be fixed and certified by one of the justices of the supreme court. The state printer shall print such questions as may be necessary for conducting examinations.

Conflicting laws repealed. SECTION 4. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Provided that all applicants for admission to the bar whose period of study has been two years or more, may take the ex