Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1855-04-25
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
AN ACT to provide for taking Census or emu.
ueration OF the people of this State.

The People of the State Of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate aud .asssmbly, do enact as foilo,cs
Section 1. The town clerk of the several |
towns in this State under the direction of the Clerk
of the Board of Supervisors of their respective
counties, are hereby authorized and required to
take an enumeration, Indians not entitled TO the
right OF suffrage under the Constitution and laws
of the State and in there shall be no orga
nized town, shall be no town Clerk, IN any
district composing the whole or part of any coun-
w then, and in every such case, the Clerk of the
2oard of Supervisors of the county to which any
such district may be attached for judicial purpo-
ses, shall appoint one or more assistants with
power to perform the services required of town
clerks by this act and within the limits of any
incorporated civ village the said services shall
be performed by the clerk of the corporation
Sec 2 The SecretarY of State shall prepare
appi opIiate forms, distinguishing therein persons
of each SEX deaf and dumb, blind, insane, and
persons of color and shall cause sufficient num-
Der of copies thereofto be printed and transmitted
to the several cer ks of the Board of Supervisors,
on or before the first day OF May next, and imme-
dately thereafter each OF said clerks shall forward
the requisite number of such forms TO the town
clerks and assistants appointed by him, within his
country. 10 enable them to take said census 10
uniform manner.
Sec g. The town clerks and assistants shall
severaliy take and subscribe an oath before
some person authorized TO administer oaths pre-
vious TO entering upon the discharge of the duties
imposed by this act that they will we'll and truly
cause TO be made just and perfect enumeration
of all the persons resident within their city, town
osdvision. as the cause may be, and a true return
thereof make in pursuance of the provisions OF
this act, according to the best of their ability,
which oath shalt be returned with the census
taken by each person respectively TO the clerk of
the Board of Supervisors, of the county,
before the first day of August next.
Sec. f. The said enumeration shall be made
by an actual enquiry, by the person taking such
census, at every dwelling or by personal enquiry
of the head of every family, IN hei: several cities
towns or districts and shall commence on the
first day of June next and shall be compile ID and
closed in two months thereafter, and said enum-
Grafton shall include only those whose place Of
residence shall be in said cities, towns districts
on the first day of June aforesaid, and the several
clerks and assistants shall deliver TO the clerks of
Board of Supervisors true and accurate enum-
Grafton of all persons within their respective cities
towns and districts, which enumeration shall be
set forth in schedule according TO the form pre-
scribed by the Secretary of State designating the
city, town district, and shall embrace the sew
eral families by the OF the head thereof, and
the aggregate population therein
Sec. 5. The several clerks of the Boards of
Supervisors SHALL on the first day of August or
sooner, if all the returns shall be received by him
from the clerks and assistants, prepare duplicate
copies OF the enumeration OF the inhabitants of
their respective counties and transmit one of said
copies to the Secretary OF State, and deliver the
other together with the returns received from the
clerks and assistants to the Register of Deeds of
the country, and the said Register shall preserve
the same on file in his office.
Sec. 6. The persons appointed TO take said
census shall be allowed compensation for the SER
vice TO be performed in taking the same, fol
lows Clerks of incorporated cities and villages
shall be paid at the rate of one dollar for every
one hundred persons enumerated by them respec-
lively town clerks and assistants appointed by
the clerks of the board of supervisors shall be
paid at the rate of one dollar and fifty cents for
every hundred persons enumerated by them
respectively, provided that in those counties not
organized for Judicial purposes, and in districts
not included in any town organization there may
be allowed 10 persons taking said census addition,
al compensation at the rate of one dollar and fifty
cents for every hundred persons enumerated
therein and provided further that each clerk of
the the board of supervisors shall be allowed for
making his returns FIVE dollars in case schedule
returned by him shall contain thousand per-
sons or less, and one dollar for every one thous-
and the schedules returned shall contain exceeding
that number. The account for taking The census
herein provided, shall be certified by the clerks
of the boards of supervisors respectively and
shall be paid out OF the State Treasury
! Sec. 7. Every clerk Of the board of supervisors
/ town clerk assistant appointed, and who shall
have accepted said appointment, who shall neglect
or refuse to perform the duties required of them
/ in taking returning the census as herein direc
ted, shall forfeit and pay the sum OF Two Hun
dred and Fifty Dollars, 10 be recovered in the
manner provided by law for the collection of fines
and forletures.
Sec s. This act shall take effect and be in
70. from and after its passage.
App wed March 81, 1855.
DIALOGUE The following dialogue occurred
at place of public resort, last evening:
Dir. C.-Where has your brother been the past
week :?
Editor-To Iowa County
Mr. C-What for To hunt up Judge Craw
ford
Eduor-No But to perform the burial ser.
vice his judicial remains.
Mr.. C.-ln accordance with the verdict of the
popular lnquesta
Editor-Precisely And he informs US that
the services were conducted with proper decorum,
and the closing benediction all the people said
AMEN Free Dem.
We had been told tst our City Fathers had
found it necessary O. late, to use an unusual de-
gree of vigilance to guard against burglars ncen
diaries, &c, and that notwithstanding all their
watchuness, the house of one of our most unof
Tending citizens twice set on fire within a
week but not before aware that one of
the Booth family had been among US. Strange
coincidence
Tx PERILs OF PowDER.-A son of Col Haz- |
ard proprietor of the famous Powder Mills in |
Enfield, CT, lost arm, and was injured, it is |
supposed, fatally on the 4th inst, by the prema-
ture explosion of charge he trying. Mr. !
II. was aged %, and much respected.
MoRE ScHooLMA RMS CoAING-On the 31st
ult, Elk Governor Slade left Hartford, Conn. with
-four hundred ladies for the West, who design be-
coming teachers. A pretty heavy invoice of ladies
for one lot
II Mrs. Beecher Stowe, authoress of Uncle |
Toms Cabin, has issued a new work entitled the