The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-05-23


Sec. 8. The officers Of any insurance company or
ganized under any law of this state, who shall VIII
fully neglect refuse to comply with the provisions
OF this act shall be deemed guilty or mlsaeinean-
or, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined IN any
sum not less than $50, more than $500
Sec. 9. All acts and parts of acts inconslstent
with the provisions Of this act are hereby repealed
Sec. To- This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April II, 1864.
Published April 20, 1861.
CHAPTER 167.-GENERAL;
AN ACT to amend chapter IS of the revised statutes
~ 80 Tar as 1t relates to permanent land MARKS.
The people of the state OF Wisconsin, repre-
sented in senate and assembly do enact as
follows:
Section l. The qualified electors of the sew
eral towns in this state, are hereby author
lied to determine by vote, at any annual town
meeting hereafter to be held, whether they
are in favor of erecting permanent landmarks
at the corner of sections, and quarter stakes,
or not; and for this purpose every qualified
'elector may vote separate ballot, on which
shall be written or printed, or partly written
and partly printed, the following words
For erection of permanent landmarks" or
against erection OF permanent landmarks,
which ballots shall be counted and canvasseC
in the same manner as ballots for town officers
are canvassed.
Sec. 2, Whenever a majority of all the votes
cast at such election, shall be in favor of the
erection Of permanent landmarks, it shall be
procure, at the expense of said town, a sutii-
cient number of stone monuments, not less
than three feet in length and six inches in di-
ameter, and to make contract with the coun-
ty surveyor, or any competent surveyor for
the survey of all the sections of said town, and
for the erection of said monuments, one at
each section corner, and one at each external
quarter-section in said town; said stone monu-
ments to be set two and a halffeet in the ground
and to stand six inches above the ground, except
rs
highways, and in that case the top shall be set
even with or below the surface of the ground;
and such monuments shall be set at the cor
ner of sections, shall have engraved upon them,
in cyphers, the number ofeach section for which
such monument forms landmark, and those
which shall be set for quarter posts, shall have
engraved upon them, II s."
| Sec. 3. In case any town shall vote in favor OF
the erection of permanent landmarks, the SUI
pervisors of such town shall ascertain the
amount of money requisite for such purpose,
and deliver statement of such amount to the
town clerk, who shall add the said amount to
| the amounts to be raised for town purposes
for the current year. and cause the same to be
inserted in the taX-rOll, and shall be collected
and paid into the treasury in like manner as
other town taxes.
| Sec 4 The board of supervisors may make
an agreement with the county surveyor, or
any other competent surveyor, what compen-
Sation he shall receive for his services in the
erectl0n OF Sucn lana markSi ana Sucn survey
or, before commencing such survey, shall give
bond to the people of such town, in the penal
sum of three thousand dollars, conditioned
that he will make a correct and true survey
of all the sections in said town, and cause such
landmarks to be set permanently at each cor
ner section and at each external quarter Sec
| ton, as the same have been established by the
government survey, and faithfully perform the
duties enjoined upon him by the provisions of
this chapter, and according to law.
Sec. 5. Such surveyor shall in all cases make
correct aad fall minutes of his survey, con-
tanning the exact distance and bearings which
monument at the corner of a section has from
the external quarter monument, north, south,
east and west of the same, and also the exact
distance and bearings which each external
monument has from the two adjacent corner
sections. Such statement shall be recorded in
the county wherein such town is situated, in
a book kept for that purpose. Such register
of deeds shall receive the same compensation
for recording the minutes of such survey, as is
fixed by law for recording deeds and other
| documents.
Sec g. All acts or parts of acts contraven.
ing the provisions of this act, are here by re.
pealed.
Sect. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved April IL, 1867.