Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-12

! said among the several counties of the state
as p1ovived by law, or before the second Mon :
day of October next, and certify the same to the
clerk of the board of supervisors of earh Of the
. several counties, provided by law
Sec. ;. This shall take effect and be tn force
. frOhl aud after its passage and publ. -atIou
Approved Apri! !, 1864. ~ cory.
Published May 8, 1864
CHAPTER 952.
AN ACT TO amend section dfty-one of chapter
thirteen OF the revised statutes, entitled I" of
counties and county Office rs -
The people OF the state Of wisconsin, represented
IN senate and assembly. do enact as follows
Section l. Section fifteen ffty-one of chapter thir
teen of the revised statutes is hereby amended by
adding after the word aw,' in the last line of said
section, the following words "And no such publ
required to be published by law in a newspaper
printed in this state, shall be deemed legal no.
tice except the same be published in a newspaper
printed Ia tn English language
Sec 2. This act shall take effect and be force
from and after its passage.
Approved April l. 1861 To- COPY.
Published May 6, lS64.l
CHAPTER 467.
AN ACT to prohibit any person from taking or re-
ceiying from any Yoluuteer into the military sar
vice, any fee or reward for procuring for such
volunteer extra bounty.
PREAMBLE.
WHEREAS, 1t has been represented that certain
persons calling themselves town, village or city
of towas villages and cities in this state, and for
paying such volunteers the town, village or city
bounties to which they may be entitled, in the
practice of taking for their services in procuring
such bounties in the enlistment of men, eXorbi-
tant fees and
WHEREAS, We believe that the public interest re-
quires that patriotic volunteers should be pro-
tected from the swindling operations of those So
called " agents." and that such volunteers and
their families should be secured the avails of all
bounties voted them in accordance with only any,
Therefore,
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repre- scented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. 1t shall not be lawful for any person
or persons to take receive either directly in
directly from any volunteer in the service Of the
United States, or OF this state, any Zee reward
for procuring such volunteer the town, village
city bounty to which such volunteer may be emit
tied, which fee rewar shall exceed in value
three per cent. of the bounty obtained.
Sec. 2. 1t shall not be lawful for any person
persons employed by any town, village city, for
any Tee or reward, to fill the quoa Of such town,
village or city, to take receive either directly
or indirectly, any fee reward for in pro-
curing the town, village city bounty, from any
volunteer in the service of the United States vr of
this state, who may be credited to such town. vii
lage or city.
Sec. s. Every person violating the provisions of
either of the preceding sections shall be deemed
guilty Of misdemeanor, and on conviction there
of shall be punished by fine of not less than
fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars
with costs of suit. for each offense;
Sec. A. Justices of the peace shall have iuris-
dcton to try and determine all cases arising under
the provisions of this act: pr0Uided that the de-
tendant shall not be deprived of a jury trial, nor
his right to appeal as in other cases; and all fines
collected under the provisions of this act shall be
disposed of by said justice as follows: One-half
shall be paidto the complainant in the action and
the remaining half to the treasurer of the county
in which the justice receiving the fine resides to
be by said county treasurer paid over the state
treasurer and by him to be placed to the credit of
the fund for the payment of families of volunteers
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and alter its passage.
Approved April 4, 1864. ESC COPY.
Published May 6, 1864. ..
CHAPTER 4S3.
AN ACT to establish and define the liberties of
Jails, and admitting persons thereto
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows:
Section l. space OF ground, in a square, for a
distance of ose mile each way from the Jail of each
county, in this state, is hereby set apart and des.
lgnated as the Liberties of Jail OF each county in
this state.
Sec. 2 1t shall be the duty of the sheriff of each
county as soon practicable, after the passage ef
this act, to designate by monuments, enclosures or
posts or other visible and permanent marks at the
expense of the county, the extent and limit of such
iberties.
Sec. 3. Every person who shall be in the custo-
dy of the sheriff of any county, by virtue LIST. Of
any cdDiaS al reSpondendu2a, or any order of ar
rest, in civil action or, I'd. OF any execution
civil action kor Sd. BY virtue of any attachment
for the non payment of costs in civil action or,
4th. In consequence of a surrender on exoneratio
of his bGil-shal be entitled to be admitted to the
liberties of the Jail hereby established upon exc
cutting bond to such herff and his assigns, as
prescribed in the next section.
Sec. f. Such bond shall be executed by the pris-
oner and one or more sufficient sureties being in
habitants and householders of the county, in
penalty which shall be follows 1st 1t shall not
be less than double the amount of the sum in
which the sheriff required to hold the defend
ant to ball. if he be in custoday on mesne process
or order of arrest or be surrendered in exonera-
hoil hpTn a.
him I'd. 1t shall not be less than double the
amount directed to be levied by the execution or
attachment, if he be in custody upon attachment
or execution Sd. 1t shall not be less than double
the amount for which judgment shall have been
rendered against him, if he be surrendered after
judgment docketed.
Sec. 5. Such bond shall be conditioned, that the
person so in custody of such sheriff. shall remain
true and faithful prisoner, and shall not at any
time or IN any manner escape or go without the
limits and boundaries of the liberties established
for the jail of such county, until discharged by due
course eff laW.S
Sec G. Every such bond taken for the liberties
OF any JAIL shall be valid, and shall be held for
indemnity of the sheriff taking the same, and of
the party at whose suit the prisoner executing such
bond shall be confined.
Sec 7. If q sheriff who shall have taken any
such bend, for the liberties of any jail shall dis
cover that any surety to such bond is insufficient
he may commit the prisoner who executed the |
same, to close confinement in such Jail until other
good and sufficient sureties shall be offered.
Sec s. The sure ties in any bond given for the lib
any time before judgment shall have been render
ed against Them such bond but such bail shall |
not be exon Grated thereby from any liability incur
red before the making such surrender.
Sec. 9. Such surrender may be N ade as follows |
The bail may take their principal to the keeper of
the Jail, and upon the written requirement of such
bail the keeper shall take such principal into his
CUSTODY, and thereupon indorse upon the bond CIV
en- for the limits, acknowledgment of the sur
render of such princlpal and such keeper shall |
also, ured, give the bail certificate acknowl
edging such sure nder.
Sec. 10. The going at large of any prisoner who |
within the limits OF the liberties OF the Jail of the
shall have executed such bond, of any
prisoner who would be entitled to the lib |
critics of any Jail upon execatiug such bond, |
county in which he shall be in custody, shall not
be deemed an esca pc of such prisoner; but in
any such prisoner shall go at large without the Jail
liberties Of such county, without the assent of the
party at whose suit such prisoner shall be in
tody, the same shall be deemed escape and for
felture OF the bond so executed; and the sheriff in
whose custody such prisoner shall have been. shall
have the same authority to pursue and retake such
prisoner as if such escape had been made from the
Jail.
Sec IL. In every suit brought by sheriff on |
such bond, the defendants may plead a voluntary |
return of the prisoner to the jail from which he
capped, the liberties thereof, the recapture of
such prisoner by the sheriff from whose custody he
escaped before the commencement of such suit, |
and may give evidence thereof in bar of such &C.
ton; and such defendants shall be entitled to |
make such or any other defense to such suit which
might be made by such sheriff to an action against
him for such escape.
Sec. II. But if an action shall have been brought
against such sheriff for such escape, and due no.
tice thereof shall have bee given to the prisoner
and his sureties, who executed the bond for the |
jail liberties, the judgment against such sheriff
shall be conclusive evidence of his right to recover
against such prisoner and mis- sureties, to whom
su oh office was given in the action such bond,
as to all matters which might have been
in the action against the sheriff.
Sec l3 In every sucl action brought by |
sheriff bond executed for the jail liberties, if