Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-05-21
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
OFFICIAL.
Published May 7, 1854
CHAPTER 4s2.

Published May I, 1854
CHAPTER 4s2.
AN ACT prohibiting railroad agents direct rs
from purchasing and transporting certain articles
OF merch andise therein named, and compelling
railroad companies 10 carry wood
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, represented
in senate md assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. IL shall nor be lawful for any agent,
director or for any person hume diately connected
with the active operation OF any railroad Ia this
state to engage in the busine ss Of purchasing and
Transporting over the roads in which he may be
90 interest ed, any wheat, lumber or other agreui
turaI products.
state shall be compelled o transport
hrewoOd unless the same shall be piled
at some reasonable, conve nient Poibt on their
line in quantities sufficient to load at least five
cars at time. When that is done, ard five days
notice l. given the proper railroad officer, IL
shall be the duty of such railroad company to pro
vide with all convenien dispatch sufficient cars 10
transport such wood proUided, the same shall be
loaded and unloaded by the owners thereof, and
7,rOufded further that the railroad company
carrying wood, shall charge more for such trains
portation per cord than lie charged in the published
tariff of rates for carrying rails posts and ran
road ties and proUidsi further, that no railroad
company shall be required to carry such wood dur
ing the months of june, September, October and
Approved april 4. 1854 az copy.
Published May 7, 1864
CHAPTER 400.
AN ACT to amesd chapter twenty-five of the gen
eral laws of one thou sand eight hundred and hf.
ty.niue, entitled " act relative to tine sale OF
lands for unpaid taxes and the conveyance and
redemption thereof"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact IS follows:
Section L Section sixteeI Of chapter twenty two
of the general laws of enc thousand eight hun
dred and fifty nine, is hereby amended, by adding
Drorided that before causing TO be advertised for
redemption, such list of unTedeemed lands, the
clerk of the (the) board of supervisors shall care
fully compare the county treasurer's advertised
list of sales for delinquent taxes with said treasu-
rer's list of the same lands in his book of salesi
and If upon such examination there be found any
omission erroneous description in said advertis-
ed list, such parcel of land in the description of
which the omission error shall occur, shall q t
be advertised for redemption but the said clerk of
the board of supervisors shall cancel the certificate
of sale of said parcel of land and shall retnrn the
corrected description of the same to the county
treasurer who shalt re-advertise and sell the same
at the next ensuing sale of lands tor unpaid taxes"
Sec 2. Section twenty-five of said chapter Is
hereby amended, by adding at the end of said sec-
ton the following: PRECEDED, that the clerk o.
the board of supervisors shalt not issue deed Of
any parcel of land until by carefully comparing
the advertised sale list of said lands for unpaid
taxes and the advertised list OF the same for re-
denpton, with the treasurer's list of said lands in
his book of sales he shall find that the description
of such parcel of land, to be conveyed, has been
correctly ndfuly published both in such advertise
aQfsliSt OF sales ana reuemptlOut anu II upon euc0
examination, the clerk of the board of supervisors
sh I'll find any error or omission in any such adVer-
tsed description, he shall enter opposite the de-
scrption of said land in his book of sales, state
ment of the fact of such error or omission and it
is hereby made the duty of the county board, in
all such cases, to cause e-rtifcate of sale of
land, errOneousy sdsertIsed, to be cancelled,
and II direct the county treasurer to correct the
description thereof, aad advertise and sell the
same at the next ensuing s'le, according to law.
for unpaid taxes.
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from aud after its passage and publication.
Approved April 4, 1864. Hs-COPY
Published May Z. 1864
CHAPTER ass.
AN ACT to provide for the appraisal Of certain
school aud university lands.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. All school lands which have never
been appraised, appraised at the sum of one
dollar and twenty I've cents per acre All univer-
sty lands which have never been appraised are ap-
praised at three dollars per acre.
Sec. 2 This act shall take effect soon as pub
Iished.
Approved April A, 1864 ~ COPY.
Published May Z, 1894
CHAPTER 456.
AN ACT to revive and restore chapter enc hundred
aud fifty of the revised statutes, entitled "of
proceedings for the collection of demands against
boats and vessels" AMI the acts amendntory Of
said chapter, and to repeal chapter one hum
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact az follows:
Section 1. That Chapter one hundred and fifty
OF the revised statutes, entitled of proceedings
for the collection of damands against boats and yes
sels," and chapter ninety of the acts of gen.
eral nature of 1858, amendatory of said chapter
one hundred and fifty, be and the same are
hereby revived, re-enacted and declared 70 be in
full force
Sec 2. CHARTER one hundred and ifty-one of
the general laws of 1859. is hereby repealed.
Sec 3. This act shall take effect and b. in force
from and after its passage.
Approved April 4, 1S64. w. COPY.
Published May 7, 1861
CHAPTER ASS.
AN ACT relating to evidence in certain cases.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
In senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Whenever in action now pending
or hereafter commenced, in any court in this state
for the recovery Of the possession of personal prop
erty, or the value thereof, and in which action a
sheriff. constable, coroner or other officer shall be
defendant and 1t shall appear upon the trial or said
action that the defendant took obtained pos
session Of said property by virtue of any writ of
ecuton attachment against the goods and chat
ties of any person not party to said action, and
from whom the plaintiff claims to have derived his
right to the POSSESSION of said personal property by
mortgage, and that said personal property was
TAX by said defendant from the possession OF the
person persons against whose goods and chat
tells said writ of execution attachment issued or
from premises occupied controlled by him, and
10 shall be aiege0 IN the answer OF the
that the mortgage of said personal property by the
person from whose possession the same was so
taken, to said plaintiff, was fraudulent or without
consideration, and intended to binder and delay the
creditor creditors of said person from whose pos
session the same taken, then and in every
such case the burden of proof shall be upon the
plaintiff to show that the given to secure
an actual indebt edness, and the amount thereof,
and the plaintiff shall also be required in every
to ablish the fact that the transaction was
in good faith.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after
its publication HgC0PY.
Approved April 4, 1864.
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