Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-05-19
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
OFFICIAL.
Published May :. 1854
CHAPTER Is


CIAPTER -.
AN ACT prohibiting railroad agents or direct rs
from purchasing aud Transporting certain articles
4 Of merchandise therein named, and compe liing
railroad companies carry wood.
The people OF the state OF Wisconsin. reUresente
/ il senate nd assembly, dc enact follows:
Section /. 1t shall not be lawful for any agent
director or Tor any person Immediately connected
! with the active operation OF any railroad in this
STATE, to engage in the business of purchasing aD7
! trans porting over the roads in which ne NAV he
SO interested, any wheat, lumber or other agrcul.
/ tural products
/ state shall be compelled o transport
! fTewood unless the shall be piled
! at some reasonable, convenient Poilt on tn r
line, 10 quantities sufficient to lead least five
/ cars at time. When that is done, and fye davis
notice i given to the proper railroad officer it
shall be tn duty Of such railroad company to pro.
vide with all conYenien dispatch sufficient cars &,
transport such wood: pForided, the same shall lie
| loaded and unloaded by the owners thereof and
/ tFoCEded, further, that the railroad comYanv so
carrying wood, shall charge more for such trans
Portation per cord than is charged ip the published
tariff OF rates for Carrying rails fence posts and rail
ROAD ties ana provided. FURTHER, that no railroad
November.
Approved April 1, 1854 80 COPY
Published May :, 1861
CHAPTER 400
/ AN ACT to amend chapter twenty-five of the gen
eral laws of one thousand eight hundred and if-
ty nine, entitled Z" act relative to the sale OF
LANDS for unpaid taxes and the conveyance AMI
redemption thereof
The people OF the state OF Wisconsin. Representa-
in senate and assembly, do enact IS follows:
Section /. Section sixteel of chapter twenty-five
dred and fifty nine, is hereby amended, BY adding
| to said section the following words =:
"prOrided that before causing TO be advertised tor
| redemption, such list of unredeemed lands, the
clerk of the Chez board of supervisors shall care
fully compare the county treasurer's adv. rtised
list of sales for delinquent taxes, with said treas
rer's list of the same lands in HIS book of sales;
and if upon such examination there be found an
omission erroneous description in said advertis
ed list such parcel of land in the description of
which the omission or error shall occur, shall t
be advertised for redemption, but the said clerk of
the boerd OF supervisors shall cancel the certificate
of sale of said parcel OF land and shall return the
corrected description of the county
treasurer, who shai re-advertis and sell the same
at the next ensuing sale OF lands tor paid taxes
Sec.2. Section twenty five of said chapter is
hereby amended, by adding at the end of said sec
ton the following: ,ProUided, that the clerk f
the board of supervisors shall 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 the same for re
demption, with the reasurers list of said lands
his book of sales, he shall find that the description
of such parcel of land, be conveyed has be en-
correctly andfully published both in such adyertis
edslist of sales aud redemption; and if upon such
examination, the clerk of the board of supervisors
tised description, he shall enter opposite the de-
scripton OF said land in his book of sales, state
ment of the fact of such omission; and it
is hereby made the duty Of the county board, in
all such cases. to su"h certificate of sale of
land, so erroneousy d, ri ed. 10 be Cancelled,
ana to direct the county treasurer to correct the
description thereof and advertise and sell the
same at the next ensuing lie, according to law,
for unpaid taxes.
Sec 3. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April 4, 1864. rs COPY.
Published May I, 1861
CHAPTER 49,
AN ACT to provide for the appraisal of certain
school and university lands.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows:
Section l. All school lands which have never
been appraised, are appraised at the sum of one
dollar and tWenty-fi cents per acre All univer-
sty lands which have never been appraised are ap-
praised at three dollars per
Sec. This act shall take effect as pub
lished.
Approved April 4, 1864. - COPY.
Published May 7, 1864
CHAPTER 1856.
AN ACT to revive and restore chapter one hundre
and fifty of the revised statutes, entitled "of
proceedings for the collection of demands again
boats and Vessels,' and the acts amendn tory of
said chapter, and to repeal chapter hun
dred and ffty-one of the general laws of 1859,
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows
Section 1. THAT Chapter one hundred and fifty
of the revised statutes entitled So of edings
for the collection of damands against boats and
sels and chapter ninety-nine of the acts of gen.
eral nature of 1855 amendatory of said chapter
one hundred and fifty, be and the same are
hereby revived, re enacted and declared to be in
full force
Sec. 2. CHAPTER one hundred and fifty-one of
the general laws of 1859, is hereby repealed
Sec. s. This shall take effect and b. in force
from and after its passage.
Approved April 4, 1854. va. 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 follows:
Section 1. Whenever in action pending
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
sheriff, constable, corouer other officer shall be
defendant it shall appear upon the trial of said
action, that the defendant took or obtained pos
session of said property by Writ ue of any writ of
ecution or 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
taken by said defendant from the possession OF the
person or persons against whose goods and chat
tells SAID writ OF execution or attachment issued
from premises occupied controlled by him, and
it shall be al eyed in the answer of the defendant,
that the mortgage of said personal property by the
person from whose possession the
taken, to said plaintiff, fraudulent with out
considerations and intended binder and delay the
creditor creditore Of said from whose pos
session the same taken, chen and in every
such case the burden of proof shall be upon the
plaintiff to show that the same given to secure
an actual indebt edness, and the amount thereof,
and the plaintiff shall also be required in every
case to es ablish the fact that the transaction
in good faith.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and after
its publication. re COPY.
Approved April 4, 1864.