The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-27

/ SEC g. Suits at law may be brought against any
member Of such company Who shall refuse or neg
lect to pay any assessment MADE upon nun ID og sle
pany so formed, who shall wilfully neglect or re-
| fuse to perform the duties imposed upon them by
the foregoing sections of this act shall be liable in
their individual capacity to the person sustaining
SEC. 10. No company formed under the provisions
of this act shall insure any property In any city or
Incorporated village in this State, shall such
company insure any property out of the town or
towns in which said company is located; provided,
however that any existing company shall be con-
sidered without reorganization or other act COM
| prising such town or towns as such company may
have effected insurance in and provided further,
that adjoining towns may be attached to and be-
come part of the territory OF any town insurance
| company by the act of the members of such COM
PAW at the annual meeting thereof, but such act
shall require an affirmative vote of majority Of
all the shares, or stock composing such company.
SEC H. No company formed under this act shall
insure any property other than detached dwellings,
and their contents, live stock the premises or
running at large farm products in the stack or bin,
and farming implements; provided, however, that
any such company, at its annual meeting may, by
majority vote of members thereof. authorize It's
directors to insure country stores and their con-
tents school-houses, churches, town ana society
halls but such risk shall not exceed fifteen hundred
dollars in any one case
SEC IL The directors of such company shall be
chosen by ballot at the annual meeting thereof
which shall be held the first Tuesday OF January
in each year unless otherwise ordered by majority
of the voters of such company, and every person
shall have one vote for each two hundred dollars
for which he or she may be insured at said cleo
tion or in the TRANSACTION OF any business put no
person shall be allowed to vote by proxy, excepting
women; provided, that If the day hereinbefore fixed
for such annual meeting should fall upon the first
day of January or upon any legal monday, then the
said meeting shall be held upon the next succeed
ing day upon which business may be under the laws
of this State lawfully transacted.
SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the secretary of
every such company to prepare statement show
ing the condition of such company, on the day pre-
ceding their annual meeting, which statement
shall contain the amount insured by each policy;
the number of policies issued, and to whom, and
the aggregate amount insured, and all other mat
tiers pertaining to the interests of such company,
which statement shall be filed in the Office OF the
town clerk of the town in which said company be
located on or before the fifteenth day of January in
each year, and which statement shall also be read
to the members of said company at their annual
meeting. -
SEC IA Any member of such company may with
draw therefrom at any time, by giving notlce IN
writing to the president or in his absence to the
secretary thereof and paying his share OF all claims
then existing against said company and the dlfec-
tors or majority thereof, shall have power to an
null any policy, by giving notice in whiting to that
effect to the holder thereof.
SEC. Is. Non-residents Of any town In this State,
owning property therein, may become members OF
any company formed under this act and shall be enti
tied to all rights and privileges apperaln1ng thereto
except that it shall not be lawful for such nonresl-
dent to become director of said company.
SEC. Is. The company so formed may adopt such
with the provisions of this act and may therein pre-
scribe the compensation of its officers.
Sec. II. accompanies heretofore organized under
the various laws in relation to town insurance COM
panies shall be deemed to be organized under
the provisions of this act, and the several acts OF
such companies are hereby legalized and declared
valid.
SEC 49, All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with
the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be In force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March Ii, 1876.
Published March 81, 1861
CHAPTER 366.
AN ACT to establish State board of health; to pro-
vide for the appointment of superintendent OF
vital statistics, and to assign certain duties TO
local boards of health.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows
SECTION ]. The, Governor, with the advice and
consent of the Senate shall appoint seven persons
who shall constitute the State board of health and
vital statistics. The persons appointed shall hold
their offices for seven years; provided, that the
terms of office of the first appointed shall be
so arranged that the term of one shall expire on
the thrtyrst day of January of each year, and the
vacancies created, well as all vacancies occur
ring otherwise, shall be led by the Governor with
the advice and consent Of the Senate; but any one
may be re-appointed.
general supervision of the interests OF the health
and life of the citizens of The State. They shall es-
pecally study the vital statistics OF the State and
endeavor to make intelligent and profitable use OF
the collected records of death and sickness among
the people, They shall make sanitary Investigations
and inquiries respecting the of disease, and
especially of epidemics; the of mortality, and
the effects of localities, employments, conditions,
engesta habits, and circumstances on the health OF
the people, and they shall gather such information
in respect to those matters they may deem proper
for diffusion among the people. They shall, when
required, or when they shall deem 1t best, advise
officers of the government, or other boards within
the State in regard to the LOCATION drainage water
supply disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation
of any public institution or building They shall
from time to time recommend standard works on
the subject of hygiene for the of the schools of
the State. They shall in the month of January
make report to the Legislature of their doings, in
vestigatOns and discoveries during the year ending
December thirty-first, with such suggestions to
legislative action as they may deem necessary.
SEC 3. The first meeting of the board shall be
within ten days after its appointment, and there
after in June and January in each year. and at such
other times the board or president of the board
shall deem expedient The meeting in January of
each year shall be in Madison majority shall be
a quorum They shall choose one of their number
to be president, and may adopt rules and bylaws
subject to the provisions of this act. They shall
have authority to send their secretary, commit
tee of the board, TO any part OF the State, when
deemed necessary to investigate the cause of a
special or unusual disease mortality, TO inspect
any public building.
SEC A. The board shall elect secretary, either
from their own number or otherwise, but when
elected he shall be member of the board and its
executive officer. He shall hold his Office so long
as he shall faithfully discharge the duties thereof
but may be removed for a just cause, at regular
meeting of the board, two-thirds of the members
voting therefor. He shall perform the duties
prescribed by this act and such others as the board
may require. He shall keep record of the tran
sactions of the board shall have the custody OF all
books papers, documents and other property be-
longing to the board he SHALL far practicable
communicate with other State boards of health
and with the local boards within this State ;-sha
keep and file all reports received from such boards,
and all correspondence appertaining to the bust
ness of this board. He shall aid far possible
in obtaining contributions to the library and
museum of the board. He shall prepare blank
forms of returns, and such instructions may be
necessary and forward them to clerks of the several
boards of health throughout the State. He shall
collect information concerning vital statistics,
formation on the subject of hygiene, and through
an annual report, and otherwise, as the board may
direct, shall disseminate such information among
the people.
! SEC. S. The secretary shall receive annual
salary, which shall be fixed by the State board OF
health he shall also receive his necessary travelling