Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-04-23

TO register regs,eIsl Of deeds. fer recording IKE
instramentGs sffs fsf -
spectpr 20 report TO the Legislature 10 each year.
within ten DAYS after the meeting thereof the
amount of logs, timber and lumber by him surveyed
scaled in his DISTRICT for the year previous TO the
Sec Ia The several s'surveyors- general"appointed
in accordance With the provisions Of chapter eighty
three Of the general laws of 1861, and the acts
ameudatory thereof are hereby required to deliver
the lumber inspectors of their respe districts
all bills, papers, books, journals aud other effects
appertaining to their respective Offices the first
Monday of April, 1864, Cor hereafter said
inspectors shall enter upon their duties such of
hcers respectively n like manner as they requr
ed by the provisions of section four OF said chapter
eighty three of OF 1861 deliver the
same TO their successors in Office and the lumber
inspector appointed pursuant to the provisions of
section one Of this act, having first qualified as
quired by section four of this act shall, after
the first Monday of April. 1864, demand and receive
OF she ssurveyors-general of their respective dis
tricts, the bills, papers, books, journals and all
records and effects appertainiDg to the Offices of
said surveyors general respectively, which records
sha he held and deemed to be records Of said lum-
Der districts, respectively, and shall continue to
have the same force and effect II the said Office
Of surveyo general had not been abolished.
Sec. Is. Chapter eigh'y-three Of the general
nc in logs, timber and lumber on tn Wisconsin,
Black, Chippewa and st. Croix rivers" aud chap
tiers one hundred and sixty-seven and one hundred
and eighty hit of said laws of 1851 aud chapters
seventyfOur and two hundred and eight of the gen.
eral laws Of 1868, amendstory OF said chapter eigh
sy,three are hereby repealed to take effect on and
Sec. 10. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with the provisions OF this act are hereby repealed,
aud this act shall take effect and be in force from
Approved March is, 1854 TO- COPY.
Published March 80, 1s64.l
CHAPTER 200.
AN ACT authorizing garnishee actions In the cir
cult court.
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, represented
IN senate and assembly. do enact as follows:
Section l. Whenever any plaintiff, his, her or
their agent attorney In any action In the circuit
court, founded upon contract, shall at the time of
issuing summons, or at any time before judgment,
make affidavit that he has good reason to believe
that any person persons, corporation corpora
tions, (naming him or her, them OF It is are in
debted to the defendant, or Gin case of more than
one defendant.l to sither OF any of them, upon
contract, has property effects OF credits belong
ing TO said defendant defendantss and also stat
ing that the aiant has reason TO believe, and does
believe, that the party defendant has net property
liable to execution sufficient TO satisfy the plain
tif's demand and snail file said affidavit in the Of
ice Of the clerk of the circuit court IN the county
in which said action is pending, and shall deliver to
said person persons, corporation or corporations,
a copy of said affidavit, together with notice to
commissioner, at some place therein named, within
the county IN which said action spending, at time
therein named, not lees than six more than
twenty days from the time Of such service, to an
under oath all such questions as shall be put
to him her, touching his or ner liability, or the
liability of the corporation of which he is an OFF,
GER, garnishee OF said defendant or defendants,
the person or persons, corporation corporations
SO notified, shall, from the time of such service
stand liable to the plaintiff or plaintiffs in said ae-
ton, to the amount of the property, money, effects
and credits in his her, its their hands, and debts
due or to become due from him or her, IL or them
to said defendant or defendants, or to such an
amount of said property, money, effects and credits
will satisfy the plaintiffs demands and the costs
of the action. ttE
Sec 2 The attendance of any garnishee, mott
fed as herein provided, may be compelled, and he
may be punished in the manner and Tor the causes
provided in chapter one hundred and thirty Of the
revised statutes, and judgment may be rendered
against such garnishee for the reasons, upon the
contingencies aud with the same effect as provided
in that portion of said chapter one hundred and
thirty Iating the subjsct of garnishee, and all
the provisions of that portion of said chapter,
this act.
See. This act shall take effect when published
Approved March "a. 1854 Ga COPY.
Published April ,. 1864.
CHAPTER 1877.
AN ACT to protect persons engaged in fishing in
Lake Michigan with " trap or (" pond" nets.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section 1. All persons who shall hereafter en-.
gage in fishing in the waters of Lake Michigan,
within this state, with strap" or !" pond" nets,
shall. before using any such net for such purpose
in said waters, erect and maintain a monument OF
iron. stone or timber the shore beach OF said
lake. within said state, at conspicuous point and
within twenty rods Of the water line OF said lake,
and there securely fasten and keep the same, as
plainly to designate thereby the locality of the
part or point of said beach from whence he or they
intend proceed into said waters fer the purpose
of setting or placing such net for the purpose Of
fishing Herewith in said waters. And they shall
also legibly and securely inseribe the initials of his
their name or names in a conspicuous place on
said monument, and the date OF such inscription,
and also within ten days thereafter, file state
ment Of his their claim to such locality. pursu-
to the provisions of section three of this act
with the register Of deeds OF the county wherein
such locality is situated.
Sec 2. All persons Intending to make claim
to any such locality, for the purpose OF fishing in
said waters with such net nets specified in
the preceding section, may secure the same to him
or I'd cir Ttheml and his their assigns. by comply
ing with the provisions OF this act, and not other
wise.
rec. 5. The person persons erecting such
monument for the purpose contemplated by this
act, shall, within she time herein specified, file
dacaratery statement in writing, of his intention
to do so, with such register, and state therein that
they have erected such monument, thatit is his or
their ntentio to occupy said locality for the pur
nose of fishing in said waters from said locality,
with such net nets, under the provisions of this
act, and they shall give also therein particular
description of such monument, aud the place where
situate by reference TO the description of the lot
of land or in front of which the same is erected
known and described by government survey, and
specify the distance such monument is placed from
the nearest point corner of such lot thereto,
together with the initials and dates inscribed there
and also tnA Iull name or names OF the party
or parties making such claim, which deciaratOry
stateme Mt shall be signed and verified by the oath
OF the person or some one OF the persons named
therein which oath shall be taken before and duly
certified by some person qualified by law to admin
lister oaths, and on payment of his fees, the same
shall be duly recorded by him in book of records
kept by him in his Office for that purpose such
register; and such record Of snch claim shall be
deemed and taken TO be sufficient notice to all
persons that such claim has been made at the
point specified in said record.
Sec T. Any party intending to acquire any such
claim under the provisions of this act, shall actual
ly occupy the same by fishing in said waters, from
the point designated by such monument with such
net or nets on before the fifteenth day of July,
eighteen hundred and sixty -for-, and continually
thereafter, or before the fifteenth day Of July,
in each year, ,orjn default thereof, the claimant
shall be deemed and taken 10 have abandoned
the same and forfeited all right to the claim and
occupancy of the same, any part thereof, for the
purpose contemplated by this act; and any other
party shall after such forfeiture, be at liberty to
make claim to said location, pursuant to the
purposes contemplated by this act.
Sec. 8. Whenever any claim for the purposes
specified in this act shall have been duly register
ed as required by this act, other person per-
sons than the person or party having priority, and
duly establishing the fact, shall be permitted to
fish in said waters with sucn net nets nearer to
such monument than the d stance Of mile
therefrom, either side thereof, along said beach
shore and extending out into the said water OF
said lake far the lawful claimant any such
locality may see 1T TO extend his claim into said
waters within this state, line at right angles
with said beach or shore, within the said distance
above prescribed, without incurring the penalty
specified in his act.
Sec 6. No person or party making such claim
as is hereby provided, shall be deemed and taken
to have fully acquired che same, until he or they
shall have actually commenced fishing within their