Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-08

and Lake Superior Railroad Company, is hereby
amended SO as to read as follows: Section B. Any
person shall have full power to prosecute III the
name of the state of Wisconsin, any person or per-
ssrs by causing their arrest and trial for larceny
before any court having competent jurisdiction,
who shall cut carry away any timber or logs,
growing or being upon said lands, as provided III
section So of chapter l65 OF the revised statutes,
and 11pon the conviction Of the defendant under
the provisions of this act, the person making said
complaint shall be entitled to receive one-half of
the fine which may be imposed upon the person or
persons thus complained of. And the judge OF
officer receiving said fine is directed and empow-
cred to pay over to said complainant his appli-
cation one-half of the fine received. Any per-
son or persons who shall cut or carry away any
timber or logs growing or being upon said lands
granted to said st. CroiX and Lake Superior Rail
road Company, without the consent of said Com
pany, shall be guilty of the crime of
larceny. and upon conviction thereof shall be fined
a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and in
the discretion of the court may be imprisoned in
the county Jail for term not exceeding year or
less than three months.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage
Approved March II, 1874
Published March q, 1871
CHAPTER las.
AN Act to authorize the city of Appleton to fund
its corporate Indebtedness.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The Mayor and Common Council of
hereby authorized to fund the corporate indebted
ness of said city, and for that purpose to issue the
bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding ten
thousand dollars principal with interest coupons
nexed OF sufficient amount to equal all interest
that may accrue said bonds
Section 2 The bonds herein provided for shall
be issued in amounts of not less than twenty live
dollars nor more than one thousand dollars Of prin-
tipal at per cent. per annum interest, payable
the first day of February, 1875, at the office of the
City Treasurer.
HOW
authorized the Mayor and Common Council of said
city authorized and required at the next annual
levy of taxes, to levy and assess upon the taxable
property of said city, tax OF sufficient amount to
pay the whole amount of said bonds and the interest
accrued thereon.
Section L. All taxes herein before provided for
when collected shall be exclusively appropriated
! for the payment of said bonds and interest cOu-
pons, and shall not be used for any other purpose
whatever
Section s. All acts and parts of acts conflicting
with the provisions of this act are hereby re-
pealed
Section g. This act shall take effect and be III
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 7, 1874
Published March &c, 1874
CHAPTER 226.
AN ACT to amend chapter 1877 of the general laws of
1871, entitled " an act to provide for the trial of
offenses upon information and to make the gen
eral laws of the state applicable thereto"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section L. Subdivision of section 43 of chap
ter 1877 of the general laws of 1871 entitled an act
TO provide for the trial of otfenses upon infOrma-
ton, and to make the general laws Of the state APP
plicable thereto" is hereby amended as to read
as follows: Section 2. An indictment or nforma-
ton for crime punishable by imprisonment for life
may be found or filed at any period All indict-
ments or informations for other crimes, except
misdemeanors shall be found and filed within six
years after the commission of the offense, where
the offender shall be known but any period during
which the party charged was not actually and pub
1icy resident within this state, in which the
party committing the offense was unknown as an
offender to the sheriff or prosecuting attorney of
the county where the otfense committed, shall
not be reckoned part of the six years, and all in
dictments or informatOns for misdemeanOrs of
any kind shall be found and filed within four years
after the commission of the same but any period
during which the party charged was not actually
and publicly resident of the state shall not be
reckoned part of the four years.
Sec. q This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved March II, 1874.