The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-03-19

JANUS enurluB TO ealU rOdutS bu0 noNoIdl dCb
of congtes, bestowirg such grants, within on
year from the date of the pass ge Of this act.
Sec, 3. Any railroad company violating or neg
shall forfeit he grant of land enuring to sucl
company, and such lands shall forth with revert Il
| the state, and the charter of such company becom
forfeited proyided h0eoever that in case any of thu
selections mede in good faith and pursuance of lsy
! by tbs compares shall be rejected by the commits
sioner OF the general land office, said company shall
i have such further time as may be abso utely nee
| essary to select the remaining amount of land
they may be entitled to in lieu or such rejections
prouided that the provisions of this act shall no
apply to the lands of the Sugar River valley rail
road company, nor to the lands OF the Portage AM
Superior railroad company.
! Sec A. All acts and parts of acts inconsisten
with this act are hereby repealed. .
| Section s.. This act shall take effect and be II
| force from and after its passage and publication.
/ Approved March 4, 1868. > COPY.
/ t 20 j Published March A, 1885,
/ CHAPTER 6l-GENEnAL.
1 AN ACT to amend subdivision of section and tt
4 repeal subdivision of section of chapter 90 o
the revised statutes, entitled -"of real property
oy descent pa l2sA -1efi5l a~a- - iai 1tl y
| The people OF the state Of Wisconsin, represented
| il senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
| Section l. Subdivision Of section of chapter
90 of the revised statutes Is hereby amended a.
to read as follows: '1f he shall leave no issue his
his estate, real and personal, shall descend to hi:
widow and if ne shall leave issue or widow, his
estate shall descend to his father" r q f-s
| Sec. 2. Subdivision of sect'on of chapter 81
of the revised statutes, and all laws conflicting with
4 the provision of said sestion as amended, are
| hereby repealed. ssT 81 .rr ~.
Sec. g. This act shall take effect and be in force
| from and after its passage. az
| Approved March 8, 1868. ss1s, Ry-C COPY.
| Published March 4. 1861 1-t. ..1
CHAPTER 5S-GBNERAL
AN ACT to amend section one of chapter 1856 of the
general laws Of $780, entitled San act to provide
and appropriate compensation to the officers OF
the legislature "
The people of the state of Wisconsin, re presented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1, Section of chapter 1856 of the gen.
| erai laws of 1860is hereby amended as to read
| ss follows: There is hereby appropriated out OF
any money in the state treasury not otherwise APP
proprated, rum sufficient to pay the per diem of
officers of the Legislature follows To the chief
clerks each six do lara to the assistant clerks and
| sergeant-at arms each five dollars to all other
/ clerks, book-keepers, clerks Of standing commit
tees, assistant sergeantat.arms and postmssters,
each four dollars; to the assistant postmas ers,
door-keepers, fremen, porterss gallery attend
| and night watehmen each three dollars and fifty
| cents to all messengers each two dollars'
Sec O. This act shall appy to the whole time
| of the present session of the legislature
Sec 8. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publieation.
Approved March 8, 1858. - RD COPY.
1o1 .sii Published March 6, 1861 a.5 b
e94a CHAPTER 57-GENERAL.
AN ACT to authorize the Chicago and Northwest
| ern railway company to execute certain
| trust. +, ia va b-T..tei mas III, ,s,.
WHEREAS, In 1859 or there abouts, the Chicago
and Northwestern railway company issued to d.
persons aid ng In the construction of it's rail-
road from Fond du Lac northerly, convertible land
grant certificates, emitting the holders thereof to
receive 2i0 sections or acres Of land which
the said company should receive on the compile
ton Of the hrst 20 miles of its railroad northery
from the city of Fond du Lac; and
| WHEREAS, Such certificates entitled the holder
/ ~
said lands as she amount of money for which the
same was given and expressed therein bore to ST.
$40, 200. appraised value thereof; and a9H
WHEREAS, The said company has completed said
20 miles of road and received such lands; and
| WHEREAS, The owners and holders of many of
thes5 certificates are unknown and cannot be as
certained, therefore, for the purpose of enabling
said company 60 make an equitable disposition Of
such lands among the holders of suck certif Gates
espectively, e 'ts' -
The people Of the state CT Wisconsin represe N ted
in senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
| section1. The said Chicago 4 Northwestern rail-
way company may institute and prosecute an ac-
ton or actions in the circuit court of any county
of this state for division and partition safe Of
the lands for which such certificates were issu.
according the respective rights of the parties
in er sted therein, aud said court may order So CHI
partition or sale Of such lands as hereinafter
provded, e 1t shall appear that partitioa cannot
be m ads vi thout pref udice to snch parties. ~ ="
| Sec. If the owners or holders Of any such GER
| tiicates sre unknown, tuch owne or holders may
unknown owners of certificates issued by the Chi
cago and Northwestern railway company, In two
hundred and forty sections of land granted by Con-
gress to the state of Wisconsin to aid in the con
etruction OF railroad from Fond du Lac northery
to the state line" " ~ Htt" re
Sec. 8. If my Of the holders of such certf ca es
or persons having an interest in such lands are
unknown, or if either of the known holders thereof
or persons interested or parties defendants re
side out Of The state or cannot be found therein,
and such facts be made to appear to the court in
rh anc n inn Ia npndfnp IN ho iud0
court commissioner thereof, BY affidavit, an order
may be made by such court, Judge thereof or
court commissioners, requiring such person or per.
sons or defendants TO appear and answer the com.
plant by day certaiD 10 such order to be specified
or stand defauited and Iequiring the SUNNI ons In
such action, together with the following notice
thereto, with blanks properly filed, viz: stake
notice, that this seton e brought to make parti.
tion sale Of 240 sections 1853 600 scres of land
which was received by the Chicago and Northwest
ern Hallway company for the construction of tw enty
miles of its railroad ortberly from Fond du Lac,
d for which land said company issued con Yerti-
BILE land grant certificates, and that pursuant to
order duly made according to law, you are hereby
required to appear and answer the complaint in
said action, on or before the -- day of ,
A. D., 1856, or you will stand defaulted. Dated
---A. D., 1856. To (here raining those
who not servtd with process),'' to be either
T personally served upon such defendsn or published
such PAGER or papers as shall therein be desig-
nated and for the lengr of time be design ated
in such order, and upon proof Of personal SER
vice publication fsuch summons and notice as
aforesaid, jurisdiction sh all be acq ured all such
defe ndants and upon their failure to appear and
answer as required by said order, they shall stand
defaulted. -sf sf-. ffa ttesa a.s ~ i tf
Fec. A. The proof of personal service or of the
publication CT such summons and notice
quired ny said order shall authorize the court to
proceed to final judgment against all such unknown
parties and persons not resident in this state,
not found therein, shall not appear and answer
by the day mentioned in the order. or on such flu
ture day as the court may appoint, in the same
manner as provided in other Of failure to
twer the complaint, and all such unknown parties
es may appear shall be entitled to be made parties
to the action, and they may be made parties by
| an order Of the court, the judge thereof or any
court commissisner thereof, and whereupon the
attorney OF the plain tiff mey insert such party's
name Ia the complaint on file, and he shall theI
upon become party to such suit to all intents
and purposes, asif he had been made originally q
party therein. es.s rea IN fufvf-ra - rrs--
See. s. If In such action the court shall order
sale of such lands, it shall app oint commission
for that purpose, and may la It's discretion direct
such commissioner to receive In pa ment of such
expressed upon the face thereof il rendered for
that purpose by the lawful holder thereof, and
thereupon said certificates to be cancelled and de-
livered to the said company. prorided, however,
ment upon any purchase or purchases oflands Jun
less the price therefor bid and to be paid shall be
at least twelve dollars per acre In the aggregate:
provsded further, that the court shall direct and
require the payment Of such per centage Of the
purchase money of each tract and tracts OF land
sold, to be paid In lawful money, as 1t shall deem
sufficient to pay the cost and expense OF such &C.
ton or partition or sac, including reasonable
attorney, counsel and com missioner's fees; and
the said court Ii hereby authorized and directed TO
allow the plaintiff In CHI action q per centage or
sum as it shall deem sufficient to pay thecosts and
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