Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-04-15
Published March "a, 1874
CHAPTER 1913.

SECTIONS 8.
g. TO- H. IL, Is, Is and 16 of chapter 1855, OF
the general laws of 1871 an act to create the office
of state commissioner OF immigration, to provide
for the same, and define the duties thereof.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 20 of chapter 155, of the gen.
eral laws of 1871, is hereby amended to read
as follows There is hereby annually appropri-
ated out of any money in the general fund not
otherwise appropriated, not exceeding
twenty-five hundred dollars, to pay the salary of
said commissioner and defray the expenses author
lied to be incurred by this act. The expenses of
year exceed the amount appropriated for such
year for the payment of such expenses"
Section 2. Sections 49, 81, 8, 10, II, u, Is, Is
and Is OF said chapter 1855 of the general laws OF
1871, are hereby repealed
Section 8. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March II, 1874.
Published March "a, 1874
CHAPTER 257.
AN ACT to require general guardians of minors
and others to render annual accounts, and
amendatory of chapter liz, revised statutes.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section :. Subdivision three % section eight
(8) Of chapter one hundred and twelve (12) of the
revised statutes is hereby amended by adding after
the word appointment in the fourth line there
of, the words, " and annually thereafter" that
said section eight of the revised statutes when
amended will read as follows: Section 8. Before
appointing any person guardian of minor, the
judge shall require of such person bond to the
minor with sufficient sureties to be approved by the
judge, and in such he shall order, con-
ditiOned as follows: l. To make true inventory
of all the estate, real and personal, of his ward,
that shall come to his possession knowledge, and
to return the same into the county court Of the
proper county within such time the Judge shall
order. II. 10 dispose of and manage all such es-
tate according to law and for the best interests of
the ward, and faithfully to discharge his trust in
relation thereto, and also IN relation to the care
custody and education of the ward. III To rem
der an account oath of all the property, estate
and moneys of the ward in his hands, and all pro-
ceeds or interest derived therefrom and of the
management and disposition of the same, within
year after his appointment, and annually there
after, and at such other times the proper court
shall direct, and, ~. At the expiration of his
trust, to settle his accounts with the Judge of the
county court, with the ward if he be of full age
his legal representatives, and to pay over and de-
liver all the estate, moneys and effects remaining
in his hands or due him such settlement to the
person Or persons who shall be lawfully entitled
thereto.
Section 2. The annual accounts of every general
guardian shall be rendered under oath, and shall
specify the amount of property received by him and
remaining in his hands invested by him and the
manner and nature of such investment, and his
receipts and expenditures in the form of debtor
and CREDITOR and shall state at the end thereof the
length OF time each of his wards, if minors has
attended public school during the year for which
the account is rendered, and shall give the names
of the sureties of the guardian, and their resi-
dences if they are living, and the time of the de-
cease OF any of them that have died whose deaths
have not been previously reported, and their resi-
dences at the time of death.
Section s. 1t shall be the duty of the county
court of each county to forthwith order all guard
ians heretofore appointed by such court, or by
wills proved therein, to render annual accounts,
and the t1e for rendering the first account under
said order, shall be fixed by the court as required
by the circumstances of the case.
Section A. At the next stated term of the couptv
court after the filing OF any guardians account
therein the said account and its vouchers shall be
examined by said court, and if said account if full
and satisfactory it may be entered of record but
if it is not it shall be examined notice, and the
court shall make such order thereon as justice
may require.
Section 5; Every guardian who fails to render
any account required of him for thirty days after,
the same should have been rendered, may be re-
moved, and a new guardian appointed.
Section g.. Every county judge shall annex
copies OF sections two, three four aud five of this
act to all letters of guardianship granted by him,
or cause the same to be printed thereon.
Section z. Any minors, males of the age of ff-
teen years or over and females of the age of thlr-