Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-04-14
Published MAJ ch 81. 1861
CHAPTER 172.

therein.
che provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sec 4. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved March 49, 1864. So Cof1.
Published March %, 1864.
HAPPIER 1S2.
AN ACT to amend section IS of chapter 10 of the
revised statutes. entitled s. of state officers"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. Secton45 Of chapter 10 of the revis-
ed statutes, is hereby amended, so as to read as
follows The assistant state treasurer shall re-
eeive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars,
60 be paid in such manner as the salaries OF
of state officers"
sec 2 Section 20 of chapter 10 of the revised
statutes is hereby amended as to read as foil
HThe assistant secretary of state shall! receive an
annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, to be
paid in the same manner as the salaries OF state
oficers.''
Sec. 8. There is hereby appropriated annually
out of the general fund.- the sum of three thou
sand dollars to carry into effect the provisions OF
this act -
Sec e. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
Sec 5. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after it's passage
Approved March p, 1861. E4 COPf.
Published March 81, 1851
CHAPTER 1877.
AN ACT to amend section 50 of chapter 1T of the
revised statutes, entitled g of county courts"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and sssmbly, do enact as follows:
Section / Section 80 of chapter III of the re-
yised statutes is hereby amended, so as to read as
follows: "SectiOn IS. Each county shall furnish
the Judge of the county court with all necessary
blanks and stationery and all books necessary for
keeping the records of the county court"
Sec q This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after its passage.
Approved March %, 1864 GB COPY.
Published March 81, 1S64.I
CHAPTER I67.
AN ACT to establish lumber districts in this state
and to regulate the traffic in logs timber aud
lumber in said distr ct.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Sec l. For the purpose of inspecting and gu
Eating the survey and measurement of logs, timber
and lumber in this state, the Wisconsin river and
it's tributaries hereby constituted and created
a lumber district, TO be known and eall-d lumber
dis No / the Black river and its tributaresto
be known aud called lumber district No 2; the Chip
pewa and it's tributaries as far up as the northern
boundary line of Eau Claire county, including the
Eau Claire river and its tributaries, to be known
aud called lumber district No. - the St CroiX riv-
or and It's tributaries, to be known and called lum
Der district No A Green Bay and such ofits trbuta
ries are within this state, save ana except Lake
and its tri butaries to be and called
lumber district No 5; and so much OF the Chippewa
river as lies above the northern boundary line ofthe
county of Eau Claire, together with the ttihuta-
res emptying into said portion of the Chippewa
river to be known and called lumber district No. 6.
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inspector for each of said lumber districts who shall
be styled "Lum5 Der inspector OF District No."
designating the proper Gstuct.) His term of Of
flee shall be for two years, and he shall. at the time
OF his appoin tmept be citizen of this state, and
reside within the lumber district for y hich he is
appointed; and the inspec first appOn ted under
this act shall hold their respective offices for the
term of two years from the first Monday of April,
1864 and until their successors are appointed and
qualified.
Sec 3. The inspector of lumber district number
shall Il q
ids in the county Wood, Stevens Point. in
Portage county, or WARSAW, in Marathon county
of district number two, Mt the city of La Crosse.
at North La Crosse in the county Of La Crosse; of
district number three at Eau Claire, in the county
of Eau Claire; of district number tour, at the city
of Hudson, in the county of St Cr>iX; OF district
number fiys at the city of Green Bay, in the
~ of Brown; of dirtrict number six, at Chippewa
Falls in the county of Chippewa.
Sec. T. Each lumber inspector appointed under
the provisions of this act, shall, before entering
upon the discharge of the duties of his office take
and subscribe oath before some person authoriz-
ed to administer oaths, that he will faithfully dis
charge tie duties of his office TO the best of his
knowledge, judgment and ability and shall
cute to the treasurer of the county in which his
said office shall be kept, bond, with three more
sufficient sureties, to be approved by the said treas
and the county judge of his county, in the
penal sum of FIVE thousand dollars, conditioned
for the faithful performance of his duties, lum-
Der Inspector of his district, giving the number
thereby and for the delivery to his successor in
office, [ofl all bills papers, books, journals and
other effects apeertainng to his said office; and such
bond, so executed and approved, shall be filed and
kept in the office of the said county treasurer;
and any person feeling himself aggrieyed, may
commence action thereon before any court hay
ing jurisdiction, and recovery thereon by one
person, shall not render the bond void, but the
same may be prose ccuted from time to time to time
until the whole penalty shall be recovered.
Sec. s. Each inspector may divide his district in
to such number of sub districts as he NAV deem
best, ana in each sub district may appoint one or
more deputies, for whose conduct ana fidelity in
the discharge of his or their duties as SUCH he
shall be responsible upon his official bond
Sec. 6. 1t shall be the duty of each lumber in
inspector, in person or by deputy, at the request
Of any owner of logs, timber or lumber, after
settlement or measurement, to make out bill,
stating therein the number of logs, the number of
feet, board measure, contained in such logs and
and lumber, and the number of feet, cubic,
ming or board measure, contained in said timber,
aud at whose request the same were scaled or
measured, and TO whom scaled or measured, copy
of which bill he shall enter upon the books of his
office, be provided by him and kept for that pur
pose, with the marks they occurred upon the
logs A correct bill of the same shall be given TO
the or owners Of logs, timber lumber, with
certificate thereto attached that it is true and
correct bill, viii CHI bill, certified to- shall be
csived in all courts of this state as riG dcic ev
'dence of the truth and correctness thereof: pro-
Gided, that the certificate of such inspector de-
putty inspector shall net be received evidence of
the correctness of the survey or measurement of
logs, timber or lumber owned by himself
Sec. z. All prize logs shal be divided between
the owners in each sUbdrstrict, in proportion to
the number of logs owned by each person in COM
pany respectively in each subdistrict; and prize
logs are hereby defined to mean such logs as bear
no mark or marks aud all logs bearing marks not
recorded or claimed within one year after any
general drive"
Sec. S. Each lumber inspector and his deputies
shall, in surveying or measuring logs, make such
allowance for hollow, rotten crooked logs as
would make them equal to good, sound, straight,
merchantable logs, and all logs that straigh
and sound to be measured at their full SIZE, in
side of the bark at the small end and all logs over
twenty-four feet long, and not exceeding thirty
six feet, shall be scaled or measured two logs,
allowing such rise from the first to the second log
as the same may require, may seem proper in
the opinion OF the inspector or his deputy,
Sec. 9. The ''Scribner rule" shall be the stand
ard rule for scahng or surveying logs in the said
districts. but other rules may be used at the re-
quest of the owner or owners of logs but in all
what rule the logs were surveyed or scaled
Sec. TO- Each lumber inspector shall be entitled
to receive, and may sue for ard collect the sum of
five ceats per Thousand feet for surveying or seal
iugand making survey bills for ali logs that q
is called upon to scale, and the of twelve cents
per thousa d feet running measure, for measuring
souare time and the sum of fifteen cents Der thou
sand for sawed lumber, including bills
Sec IL. Any owner or owners OF logs in the said
several distrj It's may his or their legs any
mark not before used by any other person per-
sons in the district in which they do business, and
such mark shall be left with the inspector or his
deputy and shall be by him or them recorded in q
book to be provided by and kept in the office OF the
said inspector, between the first day or NoVemoel
and the first day of March, in each year, ana me
BOOKS OF the iDST ector snail at W
the inspection all persons interested ana II any
person or persons shall use such marx on any ios'
in his district after such mark shall rave pee re
corded in the manner aforesaid before having nse
recorded his or their marks in the same manner o.
shall mark any prize log within the district, SUI
offender offenders shall forfeit and pay ten col
lars for every such offence to be recovered IN any
court having jurisdiction to try the same IN the
districro the use of the person prosecuting there
for and the inspector shall be entitled to fifty
cents Tor each mark SO recorded ..-
3 Sec II. 1t shall be the duty of each of said in
sfectors to record all mortgages, liens and bills o