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

ojabt NJ the general laws of 1860. to be rendered
them. shall he as follows For entering any cop
IF gberi,g certificate of writ Of attachment of RI
estate or certificate of sale of real estate twenty
| five cents for notice OF the tendency of any az
ton affecting the title to real properly, containin
not more than twenty defendants, twenty -iv
| cents, and twenty-five cents in addition for ever
| additional twenty defendants.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be IN fore
| from and after its passage.
| Approved April 2, 1864, EgCOPY
| Published April 23, 1861
| CHAPTER Sol.
| AN ACT to authorize the borrowing of money t
| repel invasion, suppress Instruction, and defen
the state in time OF war.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, representa-
| in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
| Section The governor, secretary of state an
state treasurer, a majority of them are here b
authorized and directed, in the name and behalf O
the people of this state, for the purpose of organic
ing and bringing into and sustaining in active ssr
vice. the volunteer militia, to repel invasion sup
press insurrection or defend the state in time o
war, to negotiate and contract for a lean or LOAF
| for such sum sums of money they u Y deem
necessary ior the purposes indicated by this act
not exceeding IN the aggregate the sum of three
hundred thousand dollars. They shall irsue fo
the same certificates of indebtedness, bearing in
teresf at rate not exceeding per cent. pei
annum, payable at the pleasure of the treas-
urer, before six months from the date of said
certificates 0Cjded. that certificates of indie BIT
edness authorized by this act, shall be sold at
than par. The proceeds OF said loan shall be paid
into and constitute part of the war fund
sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the secretary oil
s ate to levy such per centage of taxation the
taxable property of this state, in the year 1864
shall be sufficient to pay the principal and accru
ing interest on all certificates Of Indebtedness is
sued under authority of this act
Sec. 3. There is hereby appropriated out of any
money in the state treasury, a sufficient sum to
pay the principal and interest of said certificates of
Indebtedness whenever the same may become due
and payable; and if there shall not be a sufficient
amount of money in the treasure allied from the
special tax levied for that purpose, to pay said
principal and interest, the state treasurer shall
pay the same from any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated
Sec. 4. The faith of the state is hereby pledged
for the payment OF principal and interest OF all GER
tifcates of Indebtedness which may be issued under
the proVsioa of this act
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after It's passage.
Approved April g 1864. gBCOpY.
Published April %, 1861
CHAPTER 362.
AN ACT in relation to suits ana proceedings by
and against joint stock companies.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repr sented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows
Section /. Any joint stock company or associa-
ton doing business in this state, consisting of
or more shareholders or associates, may sue and
shall be sued in the name of the president of such
joint stock company association for the time be-
ing, and all suits and proceedings prosecuted by
against such joint stock company or association
and the service of all process or payers in such
suits and proceedings on the president for the time
being, OF such company or association, shall have
the same force and effect, regards the Joint
rights, property and effects of such joint stock
company or association, as if such suits and pro.
ceedingS were prosecuted in the names of all the
shareholders or associates, in the manner now pro-
vided by law.
Sec ,. After Judgment shall be recovered against
any such Joint stock company or association AS
above provided, and execution thereon shall be re-
turned uusatisied in whole in part, suits may be
brought against any or all of the shareholders or
associates, individually, as now provided by law,
but no more than one suit shall be brought and
maintained against such shareholders or associates
at any time, until the same shall have been
determined, and execution issued and returned
unsatisted in whole or in part The death. removal
resignation of officers shareholders, or sale or
transfer of stock, shall not work dissolution of
any such joint stock company association, as
against the parties suing being sued, as herein
provided against any creditor or person having
any demand against such joint stock company or
association at the time of such death, removal,
resignation, sale or transfer.
Sec. 3. No suit or proceeding so commenced
shall abate by reason Of the death, removal or
reslgr alton of such president of such joint stock
company association, or the death or legal in
capacity of any shareholder or associate during
the tendency of such suit proce edlng, but the
same may be continued by or against the successor
of such president.
Sec. q. The president of any such joint stock
company or association shall DOT be individually
liable, by reason Of any suit or proceeding prose-
cuted as above provided, by or against him the
nominal plaintiff or defendant therein: Ur0Uided
thai such president shall not be exempted from
any liability to which he may be otherwise legally
subject, as stakeholder or shareholder in such
JOINT stock company or association.
See. o. Nothing herein contained shall be
strueu to confer upon any joint stock company
association mentioned in the first section of this
act, any OF the rights privileges of corporations,
except as herein specifically provided.
Sec: .. In any suit or proceeding against any
snen lolnt stock company or association as above
provided, If such president cannot be found within
this state. then all process and papers in such suit
or proceeding may be served upon such joint stock
company association, by delivering the same to
any authorized agent Of such joint stock company
or association. personally, in this state, with TIL
anne force and effect if served upon such presi-
dent personally.
Sec. Z. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication
Approved April 2, 1864 rs COPY.
Published April %, 1861
CHAPTER 352.
AN ACT to provide for tract index.
The pc pie of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate aud assembly, do enact as follows
section /. The registers of deeds in each county
in this state shall, as practicable after the
first day of June, A. D. 1864, procure at the ex-
pense of said county and keep in his Office a su:ta-
BILE book or books, substantially bound and so
ruled and arranged that opposite to the description
OF each quarter section of lard, sectional lot and
town. city and village lot, (Which descriptions shall
be arranged in numerical order.) shall be a blank
space OF at least forty square inches, in which he
shall enter in red ink, letter or letters numer-
al or numera indicating the volume, and in black
blue ink the class of records erred to- (desig
mating mortgages by the letter - deeds bv the
letter sd >, and miscellaneous by the abbreyiation
'Mis.'> together with the page of said volume up
on which each and every deed, mortgage or 9th or
Instrument affecting the title to or incumbe rim o
the whole or any part subdivision thereof shall
heretofore have been or may hereafter be record
ed; Tor which services the said registers shall he
entitled to receive from said counties the sum of
two cents for each necessary entry in said index of
records, made prior to the time which this act
Il EltFA ficlan h.,
receive OF the grantee or grantees in each instru-
ment thereafter corded the sum of tbrea cents
for each entry in said index, made necessary by
cordlhS SAID instrument: rOUided that ia case the
county board of supervisors shall (as thew are
hereby authorized to do) before the first day of
June, A. d. 1864, purchase correct and reliable
abstract of title to the real estate of said county,
then and in that case the register of deeds shall
not make the entries herein provided for of reco DIS
referred TO in said abstract; and pr0Ujded further
that the purchase price of said abstract shall NOT
exceed the sum to which the register of deeds
would be entitled for making the necessary entries
in the index herein provided for of the records re-
ferred to in said abstract of title.
Sec. 2. The index provided for in this act shall
be open to the free inspection of all persons during
reasonable business hours.
Sec. 5. The provisions of this act shall not ex-
tend or apply to the register of deeds of any coun-
ty which now has in the office of register of deeds
a general tract or numerical index of deeds, and a
general tract or numerical index of mortgages of
any kind, nor to any county whose county board
OF supervisors or majority thereof, shall on o.
before the first day OF December, A D. 1864 all
to accept and ratify the same ordering the regis
ter of deeds to comply with its require ments.
Approved April ?, 1864. R4r COPY.
Published April %, 1854
CHAPTER 354.
AN ACT authorizing the governor to take care OF
the sick and wounded soldiers of Wisconsin. ant
appropriating money out of the treasury for that
purpose.
The people of the state OF Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows:
Section l. There is hereby set apart and appro.
prated out OF any money in the state sury n OF
| otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten Thousand
dollars to be paid out and expended upon the order
Of the governor of state for the liquidation of al