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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-04-15
Published March 10, 1851
Oh 4 DTER III

AN ACT to amend Sec. of Chap. 65 of the Gen
era Laws of 1873 entitled IAN act to provide
for the depositing of funds of the counties, the
taxable property of which shall exceed in vau-
alton, as fixed by the state Board of Equaliza-
ton, the amount Of thirty million (S3O0v0,0 Ou)
dollars.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows
SECTION 1. Sec. of Chap. % of the General
Laws of 1872 entitled An act to provide foQ
the depositing of the funds of the counties the
taxable property of which shall exceed in val
uation, as fixed by the State Board of Equali-
ization the amount of thirty millions $3.50 co., 00)
of dollars is hereby amended so as to read as
follows: Sec. 2. The Treasurer of any such county
shall render weekly statements to the County
Clerk of such county of the amounts received and
dlsbursed by him, and the balance over $1,000 on
hand in the treasury at the end of each week
shall be deposited by such Treasurer on Saturday
of each week with the banlL or banks or banking
associations selected it or they giving proper
voucher therefor From the time OF so deposit
ing such funds and during the time such funds
so deposited shall remain with such bank, banks
or banking associations, such Treasurer shall
be relieved from all liability to the coun-
ty arising from the failure of the bank,
banks or banking associations safely to keep
said funds. Such funds shall be drawn out only
upon the check of such Treasurer, countersigned
by the County Clerk of such county.
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Published March 19. 1874

CHAPTER 2b1.
AN ACT to amend Secs ~ and II Of Chap Of
the Revised Statutes of this State. entitled Of
the elections of Representatives in Congress,
of electors Of President and Vice President
and Senators in Congress-
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
lows:
SECTION l. Sec. ten 1O) of Chap. eight 81
of the Revised Statutes of this Sta.e, entitled
''Of the election of Representatives in Congress,
electors of President and Vice-President and
Senators in Congress- is hereby amended so
that said section shall read as follows: Sec
10. The President of the Senate and
Speaker of the House shall cause du-
plicate statements of the result of such cleo
ton to be made under their hands, certifying
who has been chosen such Senator, one of which
certified statements shall be delivered to the Gov
ernor and filed and recorded in the executive
office, and the other shall be delivered to the Sec
rotary of State, who shall file and record the
same in his Office
SEC. 2. Sec eleven (11) of said Chap eight
81 of the Revised Statutes is hereby amended SO
that said section shall read as follows: Sec IL
Immediately thereafter the Governor shall certify
the election of such Senator under the seal of the
State, to the President of the Senate of the
United States, and the Secretary of State shall
also, Immediately thereafter, make certificate
under the seal of this State, and attested by him
as Secretary, certifying to such choice and de-
liver the same to the person so chosen Senator
SEC. g. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication, and
all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed.
Approved March 4, 1875. s~COPY.
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years, unless sooner discharged by the officers of
such school pursuant to its bylaws, who shall
nave authority to discharge any such child when
In their Judgment it shall be for his interest to
do so.
SEC. g. The officers and managers of any indus
trial school organized pursuant to this act shall
receive and take into such school all children
winch are committed thereto by competent
thouty, and shall cause all children in such school
to be instructed in such branches of useful knowl
edge as may be suited to their years and capacl-
ties, and shall especially cause the girls to be
taught domestic avocations, sewing, mending,
knitting and housekeeping in all it's depart
ments, with the common branches of education
The officers of any such school shall have power
in their discretion to bind out any child commit
tea TO 1T as apprentices or servants during
learn such proper trades and employments
as in their Judgment will be most for
the future advantage of such child. Such
officers may also, in their discretion, give
away to any suitable person for adoption any
such child during its minority. All and singular
the provisions contained in Chap. 113 of the Re-
vlsed Statutes entitled OF masters and ap-
prentices.'' shall apply to the apprentices and
servants and to the person or persons to whom
they shall be bound by virtue of this act, and
every minor so bound and the officers binding
MIN and the person or persons to whom such
child is bound shall be subje to all the provis
ions OF said chapter. Any commitment, consent
order committing any child to any industrial
school found [formedl pursuant to this act,
made pursuant hereto, shall be full, sufficient
and competent authority to the officers and agents
VI any suCH sCHOOl lOr the deCenuOn anu keeping
therein of any such child. Any clergyman in
good standing of any church or denomination
may, at all reasonable and proper times and
places, freely minister to and impart moral and
religious instruction, in accordance with the re-
liglous forms and usages of retrospective church
denomination, to said inmates or children who
respectively belong to such clergymans church
or denomination, and be granted all reasonable
facilities for the proper discharge of his duties
such clergyman.
SEC. 9. The corporators of any industrial school
organized pursuant to this act shall consist of
such persons as shall contribute to the expenses
thereofln such manner as may be provided in its
bylaws.
SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage and publication.
Approved March 5, 1875. eYeCOPY.
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"ACTS OF GENERAL INTEREST"
Published March ID, 1871
on PIER Deg

AN ACT to amend an act entitled 6 An act to pro-
vide for the incorporation of villages.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows
SECTION l. Sec. 3 of Chap. "A of the Revised
Statutes is hereby amended by inserting in the
fourth line thereof, between the words s. town.
and sor,'' the word village so that said
section when amended shall read as fol-
lows: Any mortgage of personal property, one
copy thereof may be filed in the office of the Clerk
of any town, village or city where the mortgager
executing the same may reside, or in case he Is
nonresident of the State, then in the Office of the
Clerk of the town, village city where the prop
erty mortgaged may be at the time of executing
said mortgage; and such Clerk shall indorse on
such instrument or copy the time of receiving
the same, and shall keep the same in his office for
the inspection of all persons. Mortgages SO filed
shall be as valid and binding upon all persons as
If the property thereby mortgaged had immedi-
ately upon the execution of such mortgage been
delivered to and the possession thereof retained
by the mortgage.
SEC. 2. The Village Clerk shall perform the
same duties and be entitled to the same fees as
the Clerks of the several towns in like cases.
SEC. B. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March d. 1875 ~ COPY.
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Published March 10, 1881.
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AN ACT to amend Sec. forty-four (4D of Chap
one hundred and sixty-fve (165) of the Revised
Statutes of 1885, entitled g Of offenses against
property
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact follows:
SEC. l. Sec. forty-four % of Chap. one hun
dred and sixty-fiye (165) of the Revised Statutes
of 1858, entitled "Of offenses against property
is hereby amended by adding after the words
County JAIL where they occur in said section,
the words = or State Prison at the discretion of
the court" SO that when amended to read as fol-
lows: Every person who shall willfully and ma
liciously kill, MAIN or dstgure any horses, cattle
or other beasts of another person, shall will
fully and maliciously administer poison to any
such beasts, Or expose any poisonous substance
with the intent that the same may be taken or
swallowed by Them or shall willfully and mali
ciousy destroy or injure the personal property of
another in any manner or by any means not
particularly mentioned or described in this chap
ter, shall be punished by imprisonment in the
County Jail, State Prison, at the discretion of
the court, not more than two years nor less than
three months, or by fine not exceeding $500
nor less than fifty dollars
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 4, 1875. sg@COPY.
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AN ACT to amend Chap. AS of the laws of 1864,
entitled AN act to guard against the abuse of
the elective franchise and to preserve the puri-
ty of elections by registration of electors, >
and all acts amendatory thereof and supple
mentary thereto.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, 90 enact as
follows:
SECTION /. The provisions of Chap four hun
dred and forty-ve (445) of the laws of 1864 emit
tied = An act to guard against the abuse of the
elective franchise and to preserve the purity of
elections by a registration of electors and all
thereto, shall hereafter be applicable only to in
corporated villages and cities.
SEC. ?. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this act are hereby re-
pealed, and this act shall take effect from and
after its passage and publication.
Approved March 4, 1875. ~COPY.
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SEC. 2. The County Treasurer of any such
county shall hold no other county Office, and be
ineligible for two years next succeeding the ter
mination of his office.
SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts contravening
the provisions of this act are hereby repealed
SEC. T. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 4, 1875. "a COPY.
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Published March 10, 1875. |
OH PTER 9S1

AN ACT to provide for the payment of certain
expenses of District Attorneys.
The people of the Stale of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
SEC. /. In all cases in which District Attor-
ney of any county in this State shall be required
to go to any county other than that in which he
lives, i'll order to attend to the trial of any GRIM
1nal case or any civil case in which the State or
county may be interested or to do any business
required to be done by him as District Attorney,
he shall be paid by the county of which he is an
officer the full amount of his actual necessary ex-
penses, in addition to the salary as fixed by the
County Board of Supervisors of his county.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after
its passage and publication.
Approved March 5, 1875 seCOPY.
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Published March 10, 1875
CHAPTER ga.


AN ACT to amend Sec of Chap: 101 of the Re
debts and legacies Of deceased persons
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
SECTION 1. Sec. 1 of Chap. 101 of the Revised
Statutes, entitled {" OF the payment of debts and
legacies of deceased persons" is hereby amended
by adding the following as subdivision four
az: When it shall appear from the in
ventory or other evidence thai there is no
property belonging to the said estate except real
estate and that there are no debts outstanding
against the estate of the deceased, and the ad-
ministrator or executor shall petition FOR final
settlement of the estate setting forth in the
petition chat there is 10 property belonging
to said estate except real estate; that there
are no debts due or to become due against
said estate, the County Judge shall, upon the
filing of such petition cause a notice of such
application to be given by publication in some
newspaper printed and in general circulation in
the county in which the real estate be-
longing to said deceased is sitn, ted, for four
consecutive weeks, of the time and place ap-
pointed for the hearing of such petition, which
notice so published shall set forth the substance
of SAID petition, and if upon the hearing no per-
appear to oppose, and if the facts set forth in
said petition be fully established to the satisfaction
of the County Judge, the County Court shall be
authorized TO adjudge that no further proceeding
shall be necessary to such estate and to declare
said estate to be settled and to assign the same
according to law.
SEC. 2. This act shall! take effect and be in
force from and after the passage thereof.
Approved March 4, 1875. "a COPY.
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wCOPY
Published March 10, 1875
CHA PTER 24O


AN ACT authorizing adjoining towns not exceed
ing fifteen in number to form insurance COM
panies.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
SECTION l. 1t shall be lawful for any number of
persons, not less than twenty-five, residing in ad-
Joining towns in this State who shall own col
lectivey property of not less than S25 900 in value
which they desire to have insured, to form them
selves into company for mutual insurance against
loss or damage by fire or lightning, which corpora
ton shall possess the usual powers and be subject
TO the usual duties Interpretations and the corpo-
rate name thereof shall embrace the name of the
town in which the business office of said company
shall be located: Provided, h0aUeUer That the ad-
joining towns in which the said persons reside
and IN which they shall have authority to do a
business OF mutual insurance shall not exceed if-
teen in number.
SEC. q The company thus formed shall have
all the rights and be subject to all the duties
either conferred or imposed upon town insurance
companies by Chap. 103 Of the laws of 1872, and
the acts amends tory thereof
SEC. B. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 4, 1875 Is COPY.
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published March 10, 1875.
CHAPTER 01o


AN ACT to facilitate the artificial propagation
and preservation of fish
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented In Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Fish Commissioners of Wisconsin, out of any
money IN the State Treasury not otherwise ap-
proprlated, the sum of two thousand dollars
S2,UOO), TO be expended under the provisions of
Chap. 253, General Laws of 1874.
SEC. g. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after lis passage and publication.
Approved March T. 1915 sS-COPY.
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Published March 10. 1872. I


AN ACT TO allow Sherifs and COnstables to re-
cover necessary anu actual disbursements in
certain cases.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represent
ed in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
lows:
SECTION /. Every Sheriff and Constable, in
serving criminal warrants, shall in addition to the
mileage now allowed by law be entitled to all act
ual necessary disbursements for board and con-
veyance of prisoners; and when bill thereof is
presented to the County Board of Supervisors for
allowance the said Board shall allow only such
sum as may appear reasonable and necessary.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March d, 1875. s&@COPY.
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SECTION /. Sec. of Chap. PSI of the laws of
1878, entitled An act to amend Chap. 155 of the
general laws of 1862 entitled An act to codify
the laws of the State relating to common
schools" be and the same is amended by
adding to said section the following: And PRO
gtded, FURTHER, That a majority Of the District
Board OF any school district in this State shall
have right to permit the schoel-houses to be oc-
cupled by religious meetings. temperance meet
ings and any other meetings which in the iudg-
ment OF the majority OF the Board will aid in dis
seminating intelligence and good morals amono
the Inhabitants of the district
SEC 4. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after the passage and publication there
Of
Approved March 4, 1875. ~ COPY
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Weekly.

WE DO not desire to excite unneces-
sary alarm, but the great extent to which
farms are becoming mortgaged to East
ern capitalists is bad state of affairs.
We are informed that three-fourths of
all the farms in some of the counties in
this State, as we'll as Illinois, Minnesota
and Wisconsin, are mortgaged to long
time loans, at from 10 to Is per
cent. interest. There are agents in all
our counties for Eastern moneyed men
literally advertising money to loan
Generally the owners of the money get
10 per cent. and the agent adds as much
more as will pay him for his trouble Of
this we do not complain. Anyone has a
right to loan his money, and in many
cases it is advantageous to have such an
opportunity 10 borrow money But
there are but few men and few branches
of business that can pay for any length
of time 10 per cent. interest. 1t is al
most sure bankruptcy to the borrower
And if the agricultural interests should
be depressed for few years, but few OF
the present owners of the farms of the
Northwest will be the lords of the soil
Let US look at this question. In Iowa for
the past six years wheat has not aver
aged over twelve bushels to the acre, nor
over seventy cents per bushel, making
the value OF the product per acre, at the
railroad warehouse, $40. The cost of
production is, seed, $1.40 per acre; rent
of ground, So; blowing, $125;
seeding and narrowing, 81; har-
vesting stacking and threshing, $430,
hauling to market, Shaking it
cost S11.95 per acre, or a loss of So. So
per acre, or more than the entire rent of
the ground. Others who keep no books,
and know nothing what it costs to raise
wheat, may show different figures, but
twenty years of close observation has so
ground these items into our mind that 1t
will require strong demonstration to re-
move their impressions. With this show
ing and with determined persistence
in raising wheat there is no wonder our
farms are matched with mortgages. In
our late trip South we frequently met
with Eastern tourists who were lavish of
their statements that they had large in
vestments in mortgages on the farms of
Iowa or Illinois. We would advise our
farmers to prepare for the storm that is
coming. Estimate exactly when your
mortgage has to be paid and create
sinking fund to meet it. If the debt is
$500, and is due in three years, buy at
once at least ten good steer calves and
set them apart to meet that debt, or in
some other way set apart some certain
source to meet it, and by economy and
industry keep out of debt otherwise, and
thus let the intolerable incubus to the
prosperity of our State be wiped out at
maturity Wheat alone will not do, but
will sink deeper and deeper those who
are bound hand and foot to the Cart that
bears the sheaves State Register
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Published March 10, 1851


AN ACT TO amend Chap. PSI of the laws of 1873,
entitled : An act 10 amend Chap. 155 of the
general laws of 1868, entitled An act 10 codify
the laws of the State relating to common
schools"
The people of the State OF Wisconsin, represent
lows:
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a wELLKNowN printer of Albany has
sold his HOUSEHOLD effects, and, with his
wife and family, has Joined the New
Lebanon Shakers.
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Butter and other perisha Die articles
can be kept fresh and sweet without the
use of ice by lining packages with sheets
made out of the pulp of poplar wood.
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Ministers and Mustaches.-To pro-
mote their growth rub in the following
lotion two or three times a week at
night: Eau de Cologne, two ounces;
t1neture Of cantharides, two ounces: oil
of rosemary and oil of lavender, each
ten drops.-Ercbange
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=" Careless grace" the aim OF the
spring costumes.