Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-03-29

authorized aud empowered to employ a clerk at al
annual salary of twelve hundred dollars payable
at the end of each MONTH The Office of said com.
missioner shall be kept at Madison, and all sums
of money authorized to be paid by this act out OF
the state treasury shall be paid only on the order
of the governor; prouaded, that the total sums o.
money to be expended by said commissioner fol
office rent. furniture and stationery shall in ne
case exceed the total sum of e hit hundred dollars
Section Is. This act shall be in force from and
after it's passage and publcascn.
Approved February "a, 1876
Published February II, 1876
CHAPTER o.
ACT providing for the laying out of building
lots without the limits of village or city, and
for making map thereof, and for the recording
of the same.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Any person owning tract of land
without the limits of any village or city, and not
adjoining thereto, wishing to divide the same into
lots, Streets and alleys for the purpose of sale
assessment, or both, may cause the same to be &C
curately surveyed and divided into lots, streets,
and alleys, as he may choose The boundaries OF
such lots, Streets and alleys shall be marked and
established in the field by suitable monuments
placed at all the corners of each and every lot and
at the beginning and terminus of each and every
street, and at each every in such street
streets. Alleys may be established by the bounda-
ries of the lots adjoining thereto. When such
vey and subdivisions SO made shall be completed, he
shall cause map thereof to be made, which shall
truly and correctly represent the exterior bounda-
RES OF the tract of land so surveyed and divided,
and OF all the lots streets and alleys into which the
same shall be divided. The lots shall be numbered
in numerical order lettered in regular alphabet
ical order.
Section 2. The following requirements shall be
fully complied with, to entitle map made under
the provisions of this act to be recorded in the Office
of register of deeds:
Section 3. On the face of the map shall appear
the shape and all the exterior boundaries Of the
lands which it is intended to represent The shape
boundaries and contents of each and ali the subdi-
visions made thereof. The length and course of
all boundary lines and the center line of all roads
and streets, when such center line is not used
boundary line, shall be noted on the proper and
spective lines All monuments erected in the field
must be represented in their proper and respective
places thereon, and the kind of material of which
such monuments SO represented is composed, noted
at the representation thereof. When an arc of a
circle Is used as boundary or for center line of
road, or street. the main cord shall be drawn in
red, in its proper and respective place, and on it
shall be noted its course and length the radius of
the circle of which such is part the angle be-
tween the main cord and the tangent the detection
angle and the length of the DETECTION cord used in
stalking out such arc the name given to the tract Of
land so divided and mapped, and the streets there
Section 4. On the back Of any map 80 offered 1or
record under the provisions of this shall appear
surveyed and mapped the land, which certificate
shall contain: LIST. clear and concise description
OF the land SO surveyed, by legal subdivisions when
practicable, otherwise by metes and bounds, start
ing such description from some corner established
in the government survey, or from some corner of
q subdivision of section used and recognized by
the United States in the sale of the public lands
giving the town, range, section, and county where
in such corner is situated. Cd. By whose order
and direction he made the survey and map. Sd.
That the map is a true and correct representation
oil H..
ed, and of the divisions thereon made. 4th That
he has fully complied with the provisions of this
act in surveying, subdividing and mapping the
same.
Section s. The certificate Of the owner of the
land, which certificate may be in the following
form, viz: /, @, hereby certify that caused
the land described in the foregoing certificate Of
surveyor, to be surveyed and mapped as
represented On the within map, for the purpose of
convenience and certainty of description in the
sale and assessment Of the lots therein contained.
Such certificate shall be signed by the owner or by
his lawful attorney, in the presence of two wit
nesses. The person 30 signing such map and GER
tifcate shall acknowledge the same before some Of
fcer authorized to take the acknowledgment OF
deeds, whose certificate of acknowledgement in TIE
usual form of deeds shall be written upon the back
OF such map and duly signed by the officer taking
the same.
Section g. It shall be the duty of any register of
deeds to whom is presented for record map made
under the provisions of this act to record the
as town and city plats or maps are recorded. Any
map made, certified, signed, acknowledged and re-
corded under the provisions of this act, shall have
the same legal force and effect in all cases town
and city plats maps. The register of deeds
shall be entitled to the usual fees for recording
town or village plats for each and every lot con-
tanned in such map, for recording the same, and
he shall be entitled to the fees per folio for
recording all written or printed matter on any
such map as is allowed fer recording deeds
Section Z. All wri item or printed matter on eth
er the face or back of any such map shall be re-
corded and form part Of the record. The whole
record shall be made in such manner that it will be
a fac smile of the original.
Section 8. This act shall take effect add be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved February IA, 1876.
Published February IT, 1851
CHAPTER Is.
AN ACT to repeal chapter 342, of the laws of Wis
consin for the year 1876 act entitled AN act
to amend chapter 1874 Of the revised statutes, en-
titled of inquests of the dead.'"
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, represented
N senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Chapter three hundred and forty-iwo
OF the laws of Wisconsin Cor the year 1875. an act
entitled " An act to amend chapter one hundred
and eightyfour Of the revised statutes entitled of
induests of the dead, ," is hereby repealed.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved February IA, 1876.
Published February II, 1851
CHAPTER 33.
AN ACT to repeal chapter one hundred and seven
(L9), laws of 1871, entitled An act to provide for
system of county highways in Brown county,
and for the adoption of such system by other
countless"
The people Of the state Of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Chapter one hundred and seventeen
Q17,) laws of 1869, and chapter nineteen 19) laws
of 1871, hereby repealed.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved February 16, 1876.
Published February 1e, 1861
CHAPTER 27.
AN ACT to authorize town insurance companies to
insure real and personal property in any towns
adjoining towns in the same county where such
insurance companies may be located, and to le-
galize such insurance heretofore made.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. It shall be lawful for any town insur-
ance company organized under the lave Of this
state without reorganization to insure the real and
personal property Of the inhabitants of any adjon-
ing towns (in the same county, where such town
insurance company may be located; such property
being situated within such adjoining town, in the
same manner and at the same rates as other insur-
ance is made. And all insurance heretofore made
and all policies heretofore issued by town insur-
ance companies upon property situated in adjoin-
ing towns and all the acts and proceedings of town
insurance companies in respect to such property