The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-06-06
Published Nay 81, 1861
Chauter 6.-Ex,ra sessiou,

|. AN ACT to provide for the purchasing Of arms am
| equipments for the use Of the State.
The People oftae State Of Wisconsin, represented ii
Senate and assembly, do enact as JolLoeCs:
Section1 The Governor of this state is hereby at
thorized and empowered to procure from the United
states and if necessary to purchase for the use of h
of arms consisting of rifles rifle muskets, of the mos
improved construction suitable every respect to the
use and for the instruction of the volunteer militia
this state together with all necessary cartridge boxes
cap boxes BELTS plates bullet moulds and other appen
dases belonging to said arms, approaching near as
possible to the same class OF arms according to the Ia
test improvements 10 the service of the United States
and which, II obtained from private sources, shall be
subjected to the tests of efficiency as are used in
the service Of the United States.
Section 2. For the purpose mentioned in the first Sec
ton of this act, there is hereby appropriated OF
by war; ant of Secretary of State Treasurer and
e be paid out Of the war fund in said treasury:
Section 3. If in order to procure the said and
equipments. provided in section of this act it
may be necessary to purchase the same, then the Gov
or sna appoint one or more Dut not 10 exceed three
commissioners who shall be authorized in the name Of
the State to ene1nto contracts for the purchase of the
several arms ana equipments aforesaid, such por
tons OF them as the Governor shall direct which
tract shall be in writing and when approved by the
Governor shall be binding the state for the several
articles therein named, which contracts, or copy
thereof duly certified, shall be deposited with the Secre
| tary of State: Pr0Uided. no payment shall be made
thereon until said arms and equipments, Or portion
thereof are delivered and received by e Quarter Mas
ter General and certified by him to correspond in quail
| ty with the terms of the contract.
upon receipt OF portloQ OF the articles
above contracted for the Quarter Master General shall
furnish to the Governor his receipt certificate there
for, detailing specifically what articles have been
ceyed by him. and the contract price therefor and the
Governor shall hereupon file with the Secretary of State
said receipt or certificate or copy thereof together
with written order directing said Secretary to draw
his warrant the Treasurer for the payment to the
contractor of eighty per cent of the contract price of
the articles certified to have been delivered out OF
fund in the treasury the state reserng the 9TH
tract shall be fully completed. When the said
shall be fully competed the residue remaining due and
unpaid thereon shall be fully paid to the contractor by
the state in the the like certificate,
der and warrant and from the same 4Nd, is in this
section above proved Ifsuch contract he not fully and
completely performed the said twenty per cent retain
ed as above, shall be forfeited to the state.
Section 8. Any commissioner appointed under the
provisions of this act who shall receive any benefit
advantage, directly indirectly from the contracts
made by him in pursuance of this act shall be deemed
guilty of embezzlement, and be punished by imprison
ent at hard labor in the penitenary not less than one
nor more than five years.
" Section g. The commissioners appointed In pursuance
OF this act shall receive for their services each, such
sum as the Governor shall fix ard determine, not to
coed three hundred dollars TO be paid out of the war
Iund in the treasury, the warrant of Secretary of
state, who shall issue such arrart e certificate of
the Governor being filed in the office ofsaid Secretary
certifying to the amount allowed TO said commissioners
as compensation for their services, and that such
vices have been performed.
Section Z. This act shall be in force and take effect
from and after its passage.
Approved May %, 1851.