Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-02-20
LAWS or WISCONSIN.


Whatever the following means, ii
lis law, ard Town Clerks ought to com
ply with it
AN ACT to authorize Town Clerks 10 ceFti-
~ to the State Superintendent the amount 81
money assessed for the support Of schools
and to provide for levying tax in certain
cases.
The People Of the STATE of Wisconsin
Ia Ssaate aud Hsseaabi,f, do
enact g fottows
Section |. Those towns that have moi
assessed by direction of the board Of
county supervisors, an amount equal to
one-half the amount received from the
school fund, shall and are hereby autho-
Irized to certify, through the clerks oil
said towns, to the State superintendent
such additional amounts as have been as
Isessed for The support Of schools.
Sec. z. Those towns that have not as
lsessed by order Of the board OF county
supervisors, and in addition thereto .
sum of money equal to one-half the a.
mount received from the school fund, are
hereby authorized to supply such def
cheney by an immediate assessment upon
the taxable properly cf said towns, such
sum as shall be necessary !: the same to
be estimated and directed by the board
Of supervisors of the respective towns
TO be levied and collected in the same
manner as other taxes, and certified by
the town clerk to the state superinten-
dent, previous to the 9TH day OF March
1854.
Sec. 3. The state superintendent is
hereby authorized to apportion TO the
different towns that comply with the re-
questions of this act, such sums of mo.
ney as they may be thereby entitled to-
Sec. 4. This act shah take effect
from and after its passage and publica-
ton.
Approved, January %, 1854.
AN ACT to provide for the collection and ap
propri of five per cent. returned on tn,
delnqu ent tax list.
The people of the Staie of Wisconsin
represented IN Senate and assembly, do en-
act as follows
Section |. That section seventy OF
chapter fifteen of Revised Statutes. shall
be so construed as TO require the sever
al town treasurers, in this State, te
return with their delinquen list to
county treasurers, the five per cent al
lowed by law for collection fees, and
FIVE per cent. on the delinquent tax list
returned by the town treasurers 10
collectors fees shall be collected by the
county treasurers in the same manner are
that other delinquent ooraty taxes col
lected, and in like manner appropriated.
See. 2. That all moneys previously
so collected and now remaining in ), tie /
paid to the order Of tie c sfefsb s Of
their several counties, the same as other
county funds.
Sec. 3. This act shall be printed i'm
Imediately after its passage aid when So
printed shall be in force.
Approved February 8, 1854.
The RAT AND THE WEAsEL.-My
informant states that farmer in the
State OF Maine' OF his acquaintance, had
noticed at different times for the period
Of two weeks combats between large
rat and weasel in his barn, from which
encounters the latter invariably came of
second best. One day being at work
near his barn, his attention was attracted
to the weasel very busily engaged in
dirocinu a bn}o ~ n j,,pf. bao1 TT n
watched the weasel until he had 'tun.
nelled' the heap, and made a hole oil
considerable size at the entrance and a
bout halfway through the heap; the
rest Of The hole was tapered Off, so that
at the place Of egress it was barely suf-
ficien! for the simlittle body Of the wease
to pass through. When the latter haG
finished his, hole, he went into the barn
an engaged his antagonist Tatship. Bea-
ten, OF course, again in the encounter,
the weasel ran, pursued by the rat, in
to the hole in the dung heap, the grain
eater little suspicious of the snare laid
for him. Like many unfortunate human
beings, the poor rat was ''stuck,' and
halted sadly between the two extremes
while his cunning little foe emerged
from The small end, and whipping round
briskly to the larger entrance, brought
up the rear, and there was soon a dead
nat. Here now was a regular plan laid
a shrewd design carried out successfully
on the part of the weasel for destroying
ia foe which was too much Tor him in a
fair fight. It showed forethought and
lcontrivance, and these are very strong
symptoms of something more than in
Istinct-reason.- Conn. Valley Farmer
SFarmers of Wisconsin never had
la better inducement to plant spring
lcrop than The present. In the first place
1.-The winter thus far has been unusually
favorable. Snow has covered the ground
for some two months, andi seems prob
able that snow will remain until the o.
perling of spring. This prepares the
ground fer the planting Of crops. Wheat
and all other grain is higher now than ii
was ever before known in New York
and for reasons not predicable unor mere