The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-28
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
Published March IA, 1874.
CHAPTER 300.

CHAPTER 209.
AN Act to appropriate of money to the Insti-
tuition for the Education of the Blind, for the cur
rent expenses for the year 1874.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact az follows
Section l. There is hereby appropriated out of
any money in the general fund not otherwise appro-
priated, the sum of nineteen thousand dollars IN
full for the payment of current expenses at the
Institution for the Education OF the Blind, for the
year 1874
Section O. All sums for current expenses shall be
drawn from the treasury, not oftener than quarter
Section g. This act shall take effect aud be in
force from and after its passage and publication,
and shall be printed i'll the volume of general laws
for the year 1874.
Approved March 10, 1874
Published March IL, 1874
CHAPTER 126
AN Act to confer certain lands upon the North Wis
consn Railway Company and the Chicago and
Northern Pacific Air Line Railway Company, and
to execute the trusts assumed by the State of
Wisconsin by its acceptance of the grants OF land
made by Congress by acts approved June ), 1856,
and May s. 1864
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. There is hereby granted to the North
Wisconsin Railway Company all the right, title
and interest which the State OF Wisconsin has
may hereafter acquire in and to the lands
granted to said state by acts of congress approved
June 8, 1885, and May s. 1864 to aid III the oonstruc
ton of a railroad from the Saint Croix river
lake, between townships twenty-five and thirty-one,
to the west end of Lake Superior and bayfield,,
cept those herein granted to the Chicago and
Northern Pacific Air Line Railway Company, this
grant beng for the purpose of enabling the said
North Wisconsin Railway Company to complete
the railroad heretofore partially constructed by
them from the SAINT CrolX river or lake aforesaid,
to Bayfield, the said grant being however, upon the
express condition that the said company shall inn
mediately proceed with the construction of said
thp int lax. VfIaiI
and shall construct so much thereof the first year
SHALL with that already constructed, make forty
miles, and lot less than twenty miles each year
thereafter until the entire road is completed.
Section 2. The said North Wisconsin Railway
Company shall, within years from the passage
of this act, complete said road in accordance with
the requirements of said acts of congress, and shall
build and complete said road from Hudson, by the
way of River Falls to Prescott, some point on
the Mississippi river, i'll Pierce county, Wisconsin,
within seven years from the date of the acceptance
of the said grant by the said company, herein
provided, and shall perpetualy maintain freight
and passenger depot not more than threctourths of
mile from the present corporate limits of the city
of Hudson
Section 3. The governor is hereby authorized
and directed, upon presentation to him of satisfac-
tory proof that the first forty continuous miles of
said road have been completed III accordance with
said acts of congress and with this act to and
deliver cause to be issued and delivered to said
company patents i'll due form e ON the said state,
for five hundred and twenty sections of land, and
thereafter upon the completion of any twenty con-
| tinuous miles, he shall issue and deliver, cause
! TO be issued or delivered to said company, patents
in due form for two hundred sections of said land
Section 4. The said North Wisconsin Railway
Company shall, within sixty days from and after
the passage of this act, file with the secretary of
state resolution duly adopted by its board of d-
| rectors, accepting this grant upon the terms and
conditions herein contained, and shall also within
sixty days execute to the State OF Wisconsin and
| deposit with the state treasurer, bond under
taking, with two more sureties, to be approved
by the governor, to pay the said state, iqdated
damages, the of five thousand dollars for each
mile of said first forty miles which shall not be
completed at the expiration of one year from the
passage of this act and further to pay TO said state
| lquidated damages the sum of five thousand
dollars for each mile of the remainder of the said
road which shall not be constructed i'll accordance
with this act: Provided, however that except to
said forty miles, the said bond undertaking shall
be of no force or effect until congress shall have
passed an act renewing said grant. extending the
time for the construction of said road Until it
shall have been decided by the supreme court of
the United States that the present title the state
is absolute and indefe asiblc And upon the failure
of said company to file said resolution and to give
said security within the time hereinbefore limited,
this act shall be of 10 force or effect whatever,
30 far it grants 20 the said North Wisconsin
Railway Company any interest III or right to said
| grants.
Section 5. If the said North Wisconsin Railway
shall fail to file said resolution and to give said Sc
cury provided in the preceding section il shall
| be the duty of the governor, the agent of the
| state to proclaim forfeiture by said company of
Ali rights and privileges under this act, and there
| upon any other railway company that shall first,
after said proclamation of forfeiture hereInhefore
referred to- file with the secretary OF state rcsolu-
ton of its board of directors accepting said grant
upon the terms and conditions of said acts of con-
gress and OF this act, and shall deposit with the
state treasurer, security herenbefore provided
| for the North Wisconsin Railway Company ap-
proved by the governor to construct said road in
accordance with said acts of congress and with this
act, eha succeed to the rights and privileges herein
condltiOnally granted to the said North Wisconsin
| Railway Company fully though this act had
IN the first instance applied to said company.
fia -. rt,t,
treasurer of satisfactory proof that said North Wis
| consin Railway Company has completed forty con-
tinuous miles OF said road, it shall be the duty of
the state treasurer and he is hereby directed and
CURED TO pay over TO said company so much of the
money In the state treasury collected from trespass-
any of said lands embraced in said grant as
shall be apportioned to it rs herein provided: Pro-
| vided, that none of said money shall be so paid
over until congress shall have renewed or extended
said grant, the title to said grant shall have be-
come vested IN the state.
| Section T. 1t shall be the duty of said railway
company to make and have functions and running
| connections with all railroads that may or shall
cross the same or in any other way connect there
with, and said railway company shall receive grain
IN bulk or other freight for transportation to any
pace within TINS state and shall receive and trans
port the gram and other freight 50 Received. and
shall transport all passengers that may be trans
ferred to said railroad from roads crossing the same
or which may connect Herewith in any other man
ner, at the rates that said railway coplpany
may charge for grain, freight passengers received
ana transported wholly on the line of said road
NIECDnEID
Company shall have the right to enforce reciprocal
obligations all other roads crossing the same o.
connecting IN any other manner Herewith as To
the rates tor transporting grain, freight passen-
gers received by said road crossing or
as aforesaid, from said North Wisconsin Railway
Company.
Section 3. There rs hereby granted to the Chicaoo
and Northern Pacific Air Line Railway Comnapy all
the right, title and interest which the State of Wis
consln now has may hereafter acquire in or IN
that portion of the lands granted TO said state by
said two acts of congress, is or can be nnde an
plicable to the construction Of that part of the rail
way of said company lying between the point of in
tersectlon of the branches of said grants, fixed
by the surveys and maps on file in tie land Office at
| Washington and tie Vest end of Lake SUPERIOR
inns grant IL made upon the express condition that
SAID company shall construct, complete and put in
operation that part OF Its railway above mentioned
as soon as railway shall be constructed and nut in
operation from the city of Hudson to said point of
| intersection, and within five years from its accent
ance of said lands herein provided and shall also
construct and put in operation the railway of said
| company from Genoa northly at the rate Of twenty
| miles per year,
Section o. The governor is hereby authorized
and directed upon the presentation to him of salts
factory proof that twenty continuous miles of that
part of the railway of said company first above
mentioned have been completed in accordance with
said acts of congress and this act to issue and de-
liver or cause to be issued and delivered to said
company patents in due form from said state for
| said two hundred sections of said land and there
| after upon the completion of twenty continuous
miles OF said railway, he shall issue or cause TO be
issued and delivered to said company patents for
two hundred sections of said lands, and on the com
pleion of that part of the railway of said company
lying between said point of intersection and the
west end OF Lake Superior, he shall issue and de-
liver or cause to be issued and delivered to said
company patents for the residue of said lands here
by granted to said company.
Section 10. The moneys i'll the state treasury col
lected from trespasses on the lands included in the