The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-14

the names and residence of the electors voting
whose names are not said completed register
and attach such list to the register and return it.
together with all the afidavits aforesaid to the
town. village city clerks office in which such
election district may be. Any person whose name
is on the register may be challenged and the same
oaths shall be put as now or hereafter may be pre-
scribed by law.
section Q. The clerks at each poll. in addition
TO the duties prescribed by law shall enter on
the poll list kept by them, columns prepared for
that PURPOSE, opposite the Bams of each person
voting. the same statement or minute as bereinhe
fore required of inspe tors in making the registry
Every elector at the tim of Offering his vote sb
truly state the street in which he resides and If
the house. lodging or tenement III which he resides
is numbered. the number thereof and the clerks of
the polls shall truly enter in the appropriate column
of the poll list opposite the name of the eecto- the
stree In which the elector resides and the number
in the house, lodging or tenement ia numhsred
and if the same is not numbered, then the clerk
shs enter =" not numbered in the column of the
poll list for entering the number. In case of re-
fusa to make the sta ement as aforesaid the vote
OF such elector shall N OF be-received Any person
VINO shall wi fully make any false statement in re-
lation thereto, shall be deemed guilty of INSIDE
meanor, and shall upon conviction be punished
With fine Of fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in
the county Jail of the county for a period of ten
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 10. After the canvass of the votes, one
of said poll lists and said registers 80 kept and
checked as aforesaid shall be attached together
and shall on he following day be filed in the town
village city clerks Office las the case may beg
in hch said district may be, to be used by the IN
spectors in making the list OF voters at the next
general election The other OF said poll lists and
registers kept and checked, shall be returned to
the office Of the county clerk of the county in which
such district may be- at the same time the returns
of the election made.
Section IL. The registers shall at all times be
open to public inspection at the office of the
authorities in which they shall be deposited with
out charge.
Section II. The members of the board of regis
tration and their clerks 81 all each receive the
same compensation as il now allowed by law for
~ election M
ployed in the making and completion of the regis
try, to be paid to them at the me and in the maui
in which they paid their other fees.
Section ID. The said board shall have and exer-
else the power for preserving order at their
NEE lnes under this act is given to inspectors of
election for preserving order On election days.
Section ID. Any person who shall cause his name
to be registered than election district,
who shall cause his to be registered,
knowing that he is not qualified voter in the dis
trict where such registry il made, who shall
falsely personate any regist,re voter, and any
person causing, aiding or abetting. any
acts, shall be punished for each and
every offense byimprison ment in the state prison
for not less than one year. All false airing before
such board of registration, or in making afidavts
required by this act shall be deemed willful and
corrupt perjury. and, on conviction, pun
ished as such. Ii any member or officer of
such board shall willfully violate any of the provs
ions of this act, or be guilty of any fraud in the
cutioR of the duties of his Office, he shall be
punished for each and every offense by impris-
onment in the state prison for not less than
year.
Section Is. The secretary.of State shall cause
this law to be printed in pamphlet form, with suit
able forms and instructions for carrying it into eff
feet, together with the general election law Of this
state, and sufficient number of copies thereof
sent to each clerk of the board of supervisors in
every county in this stat to supply each of the OF.
hcers named in this act with copy; and it shall
be the duty of each of said clerks Immediately to
transmit copy of the same to each of the inspect
ors of election in his county.
Section Is. The necessary blanks for making
the registers required by this law shall be prepared
by the Secretary of State, and transmitted to the
persons entitled to receive them in the same
manner that blank returns of elections are now
transmitted
chapter 1885, of the laws of 1867 chapter 1885, of the
laws OF 1866 chapter 49, of the laws of 1871 chap
ter 3D. of the laws OF 1915, and chapter 3J2 of the
laws of 1876, are -reby repealed, and section
o., of this act, shall be taken and held to be an
amendment in respect to the matter
tanned therein, of every city and village charter in
this state.
Section 49, This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after Its passage and publication.
Approved March 8. 1871.
Published March 81 1877
CHAPTER 165.
AN ACT relating to the salary of county judges,
and amendatory OF section g. of chapter III, OF
the general laws of 1868, as amended by chap
ter a. of the general laws of 1871
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section /. Section g. of chapter 121, of the gen
eral laws OF 1858, us amended by chapter 81 of
the general laws of 1871, is hereby repealed.
Section ?. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 7, 1877.
Published March 26, 1871
CHAPTER los.
AN ACT relating to prisons and common jails, and
amendatory of section 9 of chapter 100, of the
revised statutes,
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l Section nine of chapter one hundred
and ninety 900 of the revised statutes of 1853 is
hereby amended by inserting in the fifth line, af
ter the words nit listers of the Cos pei " the words
persons duly delegated by any regularly or
ganized Your Mems Christian Association within
the county" so that said section of cha ter 100,
when amended, shall read: The keeper Of each
prison Sd all provide at THE expense of the county
for each prisoner under his charge who may be able
and DESTROYS to read a copy of the Bible New
Testament, to be used by such prisoner at proper
seasons during his confinement, and any minister
of the gospel or person duly delegated by any reg
ulary organized YounS Mems Christian Association
within the county disposed TO ad in reforming the
prisoners and insructing them in their moral and
religious duties, shall have access to them at
enable and proper times.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March l. 1877
Published March %, 18TH
CHAPTER 1913.
AN ACT relating to the invention and successful
use OF steam or other mechanical agents on
highways and amendatory of chapter 1874 of the
laws Of l85. as amended by chapter 1s2 of the
laws of 1876
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows.
Section l. Chapter one hundred and thirty -four
Q3H, of the laws of 1873, as amended by chapter
one hundred and eighty-two Qs2l, of the laws of
1876, is hereby amended so as to read follows: :
There is hereby appropriated the sum of ten
thousand dollars S0,C COG, out any money in the
treasury rot otherwise appropriated to be used as
bounty, and to be paid to any citizen of Wscon-
SIN who has invented o. shall invent machine
propelled by steam or ether motive agent, which
shall be cheap and practical substitute for the
use Of horses and other animals on the highway
and farm; proUided, that said appropriation shall
not be paid until successful trial of said ma
chine has been had, and award made as hereinafter
provided.
Section 2. II shall be the duty of the Cover nor
on or before the LIST day of june 1878, to appoint
three commissioners two of whom shall be prac-
ical and experienced farmers, and the other
practical and sktllful IN chinist, to each of whom
the Governor shall execute and deliver certificate
of his appointment. 1t shall be the duty of said
commissioners to examine and test, hereinafter
provided, all machines which shalI compete for or
claim said bounty proUidei, the inventors shall
have made at the tine of trial, the statement and
complied with the conditions hereinafter pre-
sCribed.
Section 8. Every inventor who shall heretofore
or at any time hereafter, prior to the LIST day of
June 1878, have fled with the Secretary of State
statement of his invention to compete the said
bounty, and that he has made progress in the con-
struction Of a machine for the purpose aforesaid,
shall have the right to exhibit his machine TO such
commissioners, to be by them examined and tried
as hereinafter provided.
Section 4. The said commissioners shall meet
IN the city of Madison on the 10th day of June,
1873, and shall have power to adjourn from day to
day, and to such other time and place the
may see fit, not exceeding sixty days in
all from said 10th day of june 1878
All persons claiming to have invented a ma
chine of the character aud for the purpose herein
mentioned shall appear before said commissioners
on said 10th dsy of June, aud file with said COM
ml'slouers description of the machine which they
claim to have invented, with plans and specifca-
uons OF the same, and the said commissioners
thereupon shall enter the name of such claimant in
hst 70 be entitled " Competitors for the bounty