Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1861-06-01
Laws of Wisconsin.
Published March IS, 1861.
CHAPTER 80.

ted IN Senate and assembly, do enact as toll0Ws
Sec. /. For the purpose of surveying and
regulating the survey Of or measurement of
logs, timber and lumber, the Wisconsin river
and its tributaries are hereby constituted and
created district, to be known and called dis.
trict number one. The Black River and its
tributaries to be known and called district
number two. The Chippewa River and its trib-
utaries to be known and called district number
three, and the St. Croix River and its tributa-
ries to be known and called district number
four.
Sec. 2. There shall be appointed once in two
years, by the Governor of TIE State of Wis
consin, Surveyor General for each of the
said districts, who, at the time Of his appoint
mcnt shall be citizen of and reside in the
district to which he is appointed and who shall
enter upon the discharge of the duties of his
Office the first Monday of A pril next sue
ceeding his appointment and shall hold his
office for two years, Or until his successor is
appointed and qualified.
Sec. B. The Surveyor General Of district
number one, shall keep his Office at Centralia,
in the county Of Wood; of district number
two, at the city of Lacrosse, or at North La
Crosse, in the county of Lacrosse; of district
number three, at Chippewa Falls, in the coun-
ty of Chippewa, or at Eau Claire, in the coun-
ty of Eau Claire Of district number four, at
the city of Hudson, i'll the county of ST Croix.
Sec. 4. Each Surveyor General shall before
entering upon the discharge of the duties of
his office, take and subscribe an oath, before
some person authorized to administer oaths,
that he will faithfully discharge the duties of
his office to the best of his knowledge, judg-
ment and ability, and shall execute to the
treasurer of the county in which his said Office
shall be kept, bond with three or more suf-
flcIpOt SurptipS to he annrOUad IL, ~ !
treasurer, and the county Judge of his county,
IN the penal sum of five thousand dollars. con
ditioned for the faithful performance of his du-
ties as Surveyor General, and for tho delivery
to his successor i'll office, all bills papers, books
journals and other effects appertaining to his
said office, and such bond, so executed and an.
proved, shall be filed and kept in the Office of
the county treasurer; and any person feeling
himself aggreved may commence an action
thereon before any court having jurisdiction,
and recovery thereon by one person shall not
render the bond void, but the same may be
prosecuted from time to time, until the whole
penalty shall be recovered
See. 5. Each Surveyor General NAV appoint
such number of deputies as may be necessary
to transact the business of his district, for
whose conduct and fidelity in discharge of
their duties as such, he shall be responsible
for upon his bond
Sec. b. 1t shall be the duty Of each Survey
or General, III person or by deputy at the re-
quest OF any owner of logs timber, or lumber
after settlement or measurement to make out
a bill, stating therein the number of logs, the
number of feet board measure, contained in
such logs and lumber, and the number of feet,
cubic, running, or board measure contained in
said timber, and at whose request the same
were scaled or measured, and to whom scaled
r,lnn C,lpnT rOf I.
ter upon the books Of his office to be provided
by him and kept for that purpose, with the
marks as they occurred upon the logs; a cor
rect bill of the same shall be given to the own
er or owners OF the logs, timber, or lumber
with certificate thereto attached that it is a
true and correct bill, which bill, so certified to-
shall be received III all courts of this State as
prima tdcic evidence of the truth and correct
ness thereof; the Surveyor General or his dep
uties shall not be allowed to survey or measure
logs, timber or lumber owned by him or them,
in either Of the districts aforesaid.
Sec. T. All prize logs shall be divided be-
tween the owners in each district, in proper
ton to the amount they may have on the river
or its tributaries; and prize logs" are hereby
defined to mean such logs as bear no mark. and
all logs bearing marks, not recorded or claim
ed within one year after any general drive"
See g. Each Surveyor General and his dep
utics, shall, in surveying or measuring logs,
make such allowance for hollow, rotten or
crooked logs as would make them equal to
good, sound, straight, merchantable logs, and
all logs that are straight and sound are to be
measured at their full size inside of the bark
at the small end and all logs over twenty-four
feet lorg, and not exceeding thirty-six feet,
shall be scaled or measured as two logs, allow
ing such rise from the first to the second log
rs the same may require, as may seem prop
err in the opinion of the Surveyor General or
his deputy.
Sec O. The "scribe rule" shall be the stand
ard for scaling or surveying logs in the said
districts but other rules may be used at the
request of the owner owners of logs, but in
all such cases the bill of the Surveyor General
shall state by what rule the logs were surveyed
or scaled.
Sec. 10. Each Surveyor General shall be en-
titled to receive, and may sue for and collect.
the sum of four (4) cents per thousand feet, for
surveying or scaling and making out survey
bills for all logs that be is called upon to scale;
and the sum of twelve (l2) cents per thousand
feet, running measure, for measuring squared
timber; and the sum of fifteen (15l cents per
thousand feet for sawed lumber, including bills.
Sec. IL. Any owner or owners of logs in the
said several districts may use on his or their
logs any mark not before used by any other
person or persons in the district in which thcv
do business, and such mark shall be left with
the Surveyor General or his deputy, and shall
be by him or them recorded in a book to be
provided by and Kept in the Office of the said
Surveyor General, between the first day of No
vember and the first day of March, in each
year. And the books of the Surveyor General
shall at all times be open for the inspection OF
all persons intcrcsted and if any person or
persons shall use such mark on any logs in his
district after such mark shall have been re-
corded in the manner aforesaid, before having
had recorded his or their marks in the same
manner, or shall mark any prize log within the
district, such offender or offenders shall forfeit
and pay ten dollars for every such offence, to
be recovered i'll any court having jurisdiction
TO try the same in the district. to the use of
the person prosecuting therefor, and the Sur
veyor General shall be entitled to fifty cents