Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-03-17
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
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CHAPTER III.


SAFE, aud providing for the relief OF families Of
such seidier1 in certain cases, AID t" prescribe
| severe penalties for uds committed IN procur-
lug sucn extra pay
The people of the state OF Wisconsin represented
IN senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
| section l. Each enlisted drafted COM
| MI sloped officer, musician aud private heretofore
hereafter mustered into the military service. eff
the United States or of this state in pursuance of
any law of congress or OF this state aud having a
1snity dependent on him for support shall receive
from the time OF being mustered IN addition to
| the pay provided Tor like non-ccm ssioued off
GERS, musicians aud Irivates in the army OF the
oGitsI Staes, the sum cf i've dollars per mon Ii:
pr0rided, h01ot0@r, that tiis act shall not be so
construct as 10 extend SAID monthly pay to the
| family OF any person who the time of enlistment
was not an actua resident of the state OF Wiscon-
SIN, or who enlIstt d in any company or regiment
not org auiztd within this state except in such ca
ses as are provided for in section Ii of this act
ana pr0uaded, Jurther, that non com uissi ed
ofncer u uslclan private WHO shall ,iasert n b.
dlshoao! ably dismissed the strvic- shs II he euti
tied to the benefits OF this act but any soldier who
having once deserted, las Returned or shall return
to his regiment under the presidents proclamation
Of pardon, shall be entitled to the benefits of this
act from the time he shall be restored to his
company.
Sec. =. The term "family - or families where
it occurs in this act, shall be construed to mean
the wife living with and actually dependent upon
The soldier for support at the time of uent
or being drafted; having wife, above or if
the wife shall have deserted his child children
then his children under fourteen years of age or
having no wife or children, then te widowed moth
actually dependent upon tue soldier for SUPPORT
at the time of his enlistment or being drafted; or
having no wife CT children, widowed moth
er, then the inhm or INDECENT father, actually and
wholly dlsablsdfom Importing himself, and VIII DIV
dependent upon the labor said soldier for support
at the time Of his enlistment or being drafted In
any case IN which the dependence Of a parent has
been or shall be transferred from the husband to
son, by the dea h of saiu husband in service.
or from one son, by the death of said son in serv
Ice, TO another son or sons still in service,
the said parent shall be entitled to re-
eel'e the said five dollars per rIouth so long as
said parent parents has have any son in service
upon whom said parent parents is or are depend
ent provided, that no family or person shall
De entitled to draw than I'VE dollars per
month under the provisions of this act; and pro
0a0ed, also, that nothing in this act shall author
ize or require the payment OF said extra compen-
be made to any person wbe has received the
extra pay heretofore provide by law tor any time
ior which sdch person has heretofore civ ed such
extra pay.
Sec. 8. The additional pa} provided in section
one OF this sct shall be paid at the expiration
OF each month, but shall remain in the state treas
ury. and the smount there accumulated to the
credit OF any soldier shall be used and appropriate
ed by the state treasurer to pay such orders may
De orawo on hlmln accordance with law for the sup
port and maintenance of the family OF such SOL
der but il the pay accumulated the credit of
any soldier shall not be drawn from the trea.urv
on such orders, it shall be paid such soldier or
MS legal representative at the expiration of his
term OF service.
Sec. 1. Upon the presentation to the secretary of
charge
of the:amily of any soldier cred to the sery-
lee OF this state the United States as aforesaid
upon which shall be statement of justice of the
peace of the town a court comm ssioner in the
county in which such solid shall reside ang that
the drawing the order is the wife or thu per-
son having charge of the family OF such soldier the
secretary of state, if fully satisfied such wife or
person is legally entitled to receive the extra pay
authorized by section of this act, shall draw
his warrant upon the fund in the treasury
for the amount of such order, for ssch portion
as a a han dina
lily, and the state treasurer shall pay the same on
presen tation.
Sec. 5. In case there shall be no Justice of the
peace residing in the town in which the soldier
shall reside, required and provided in the pre-
ceding section, any justice of the peace residing
any adjoining city town. within this state, shall
be authorized &c make the statement mention ed in
said section; and If the wife other person en-
titled to receive such extra pay, shall actually re-
move to some other town than that in which the
soldier resided at the time of his enlistment or be-
log drafted, any justice of the peace of TIE town
to which such residence is changed, shall be
authorized to make the statement mentioned in
said section.
Sec. 6. Tie families of all non commits sion ed of
fcers, musicians and prvates, mustered into the
| military service of tue United States or of this
state, who are now entitled, or who have bean
may become entitled, under the laws of this state,
to receive five dollars per month"; shall, in case
such commissioned officer musician or prvnt
shall have died, or shall hereafter die in the mill
tary service OF the United States OF this state
or shall die within one month after having been
the United states or of this state, from disease
wound. contracted received while in such serv-
ice continue to receive such five dollars per mon tn
Tor six months after the death of such
mission ed officer musician private or his honor
able discharge aforesaid provided that the same
shall cease at such time, during said six months,
any such family shall commence receiving PEN
sion from the United States government Such pay
ment shall be made in the manner and to the
same persons is hereinbefore provided for the pay
ment of the said tive dollars per month the
families of soldiers.
Sec. Z. The secretary of state may prescribe
ru es of evidence, and require such proofs under
oath, aud such certificates and statements, as he
shall deem necessary to carry out the provisi of
TINS act but in shall the claim of the faith
of soldier to receive the extra pay aforesaid,
be established unless upon the sworn testimony of
at least three credible and responsible persons who
shall state in their affidavit affdaVits, that the
matters and facts sworn to by them in relation to
such claim, true of their own personal knowl-
edge. The OF state may also provide all
such blanks and blank forms he shall deem
necessary and proper to facilitate the transaction
of the business imposed him by this act. 1t
shall also be the duty of the secretary of state,
the TWEEN tieth day of March and the twentieth day
of October, in each and every year, to make out
and forward to the town clerk of each town and
the city clerk of each city, in this sta5e, lists
tanning the names of every parent in each of said
towns and cities who may then be receiving aid
from the volunteer aid fund. under the provisions
of this act; audit is hereby made the duty of each
of said clerks to file said lists in his office, for the
examination of any taxpayer of his town or city,
who may desire to examine the same.
Sec. s If any officer or person shall willfulEy
make a false certificate or statement to accompany
any application for the extra pay provided by this
act or shall knowingly afix jurat false state
ment aIidavit to be used in obtaining the aid
provided by this act, he shall forfeit double the
amount received from the state treasurer upon
such application, to be oVered, with costs, on
complaint of any person who shall bring a suit
therefor in the name of the state nehalf the for
felt go to the complainant, AMI the remainder.to
be paid to the county treasurer of the county
where the suit is brought, to be placed to the cred
it OF the of the state OF Wisconsin; and such off,
Ger or person shall, in addition to the foregoing
penalty be liable to Indictment for misdeme
or, and if convicted, shall be punished by fine and
Imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.
Sec. 9. If any person shall willfully AM know
ingly falsely in regard TO any fact matter
alleged stated in any affidavit required made
in support of any application for the aid extra
pay authorized by this act, such person shall be
deemed guilty of perjury, and upon conviction,
shall be punished in the same manner and to the
same extent if convicted of wilful and corrupt
perjury committed in judicial proce edng.
Sec. 10. If any person shall sign, attach afix
the of any other person officer to any afi-
davit, certificate. statement jura, to be used in
making or supporting any claim for the aid or extra
pay aforesaid, unless the person officer whose
name is signed, attached or affixed, person
ally present at the time, and, after having first
read or heard read such affidavit, certificate
statement, expressly authorize his name to be
signed, attached affixed thereto sha II be deemed
guilty of forgery, and upon conviction thereof,
shall be punished therefor in the manner and to
the same extent as If convicted Of any ofense
toned in section one of chapter one hundred aud
sxty-six of the revised statutes of this state.
Sec IL. Every person who shall apply for and
receive any sum sums of money, as extra pay to
soldiers without being legally entitled under this
act to receive the same, shall forfeit double the
amount so received, upon any such application, to
be recovered with COSTS, and applied in the manner
provided in other by section eight of this act
and if such person shall make said application,
knowing that he or she is not legally entitled to
receive the pay aforesaid, or if any officer or
other person shall counsel, aid or assist any sucC
person apply for the pay aforesaid knowing
that the person applying is not legally entitled
thereto, The person offending, in addition to any
civil shall be liable indcc