Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1874-03-25
LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
Published March IA, 1874.l


CHAPTER 2O9.
AN ACT to appropriate sum of money to the Insti-
tuition for the Education of the Blind, for the
rent expenses for the year 1874.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 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 -....e . ..e#. ...n ....
Section q All sums for current expenses shall be
drawn from the treasury, not oftener than quarter
~, in advance. .......
Section g. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication,
and shall be printed in 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
consin 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 3, 1856,
and May 8, 1864.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. There is hereby granted to the North
Wisconsin Railway Company all the right, title
and interest which the State OF Wisconsin now has
or may hereafter acquire in and to the lands
granted to said state by acts of congress approved
June g. 1885, and May 1864 to aid in the construc-
ton of railroad from the Saint Crox river or
lake. between townships twenty and thrty-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 being for the purpose of enabling the said
North Wisconsin Railway Company to complete
the railroad heretofore partially constructed by
them from the Saint Croix river or lake aforesaid
to Bayfield,, the said grant being, however, upon the
express condition that the said company shall i'm
medately proceed with the construction of said
road from the Saint Croix river lake to Bayfield,
and shall construct SO much thereof the first year
as SHALL with that already constructed, make forty
miles, and lot less than twenty miles each year
thereafter until the entire road is completed.
Section q 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, in Pierce county, Wisconsin,
within seven years from the date of the accordance
of the said grant by the said company, as herein
provided, and shall perpetually maintain freight
and passenger depot not more than threefourths 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 in accordance with
said acts of congress and with this act to issue and
deliver, cause to be issued and delivered to said
company, patents in due form from the said state
for five hundred and twenty sections of land, and
thereafter, upon the completion of any twenty
tinuous miles, he shall issue and deliver, or 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 di-
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 a bond or under
taking, with two or more sureties, to be approved
by the governor to pay the said state, hqudated
damages, the sum 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
hquidated damages the of five thousand
dollars for each mile of the remainder of the said
road which shall not be constructed in 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 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 of the state
is absolute and indefeasible 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 no force effect whatever,
far it grants to the said North Wisconsin
Railway Company any interest in or right to said
grants.
Section 5. If the said North Wisconsin Railway
shall fail to file said resolution and to give said
curity provided in the preceding section it shall
be the duty Of the governor, as the agent of the
state, TO proclaim forfeiture by said company of
all rights and privileges under this act, and there
upon any other railway company that shall first
after said proclamation of forfeiture hereinbefore
referred to- file with the secretary of state resolu-
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 hereinbefore 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 shall succeed to the rights and privileges herein
conditionally granted to the said North Wisconsin
Railway Company, as fully as though this act had
in the first instance applied to said company.
Section 6. Upon the presentation to the state
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
quired to pay over to said company much of the
money in the state treasury collected from respass
any of said lands embraced in said grant as
shall be apportioned to it herein provided: Pro-
vided, that of said money shall be paid
over until congress shall have renewed or extended
said grant, the title to said grant shall have be-
come vested in the state. ...z a
Section T. It 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 other freight for transportation to any
place within this state, and shall receive and trans
port the grain and other freight 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 same rates that said railway company
may charge for grain freight passengers received
and transported wholly on the line of said road.
Provided, that the said North Wisconsin Railway
Company shall have the right to enforce reciprocal
obligations on all other roads crossing the or
connecting in any other manner Herewith, as to
the rates for transporting gran freight passen-
gers received by said road crossing connecting
as aforesaid, from said North Wisconsin Railway
Company.
Section s. There is hereby granted to the Chicago
and Northern Pacific Air Line Railway Company all
the right title and interest which the State of Wis
consin now has may hereafter acquire in to
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said two acts of congress, as is be made APP
pcabe to the construction of that part of the rail-
way of said company lying between the point Of in
tersecton of the branches of said grants, fixed
by the surveys and maps file in the land office at
Washington, and the west end of Lake Superior.
This grant is made upon the express condition that
said company shall construct, complete and put in
operation that part of its railway above mentioned
as soon railway shall be constructed and put in
operation from the city of Hudson to said point of
intersection, and within five years from its accept
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 g. The governor is hereby authorized
and directed upon the presentation 20 him of salts
factory proof that twenty continuous miles of that
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