The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1877-04-19

Section ID. The said board shall have and exer-
else the same power for preserving order 1t their
under this act is given to inspectors of
election for preserving order On election days.
Section IA. ANY person who shall cause his name
10 be registered in more than one election district
or who shall cause his name to be registered,
knowing that he is not qualified voter in the dis
trict where such registry is made, or who shall
falsely personate any regsts red voter. and any
person causing, aiding or abetting any
person in any manner in either of said
every offense by imprisonment in the state prison
for not less than year. All false swearing before
such board Of registration, or in making afdayits
required by this act, shall be GeeIaed wflfal and
corrupt perjury, and conviction, pun
ished as such. II any member or officer Of
such board shall wiluny violate any Of the provis-
cution of the duties of his Office he shall be
punished for each and every ofense by impris-
onment in the state prison for not less than one
year.
Section 49, The Secretary of State shall cause
this law to be printed in pamphlet form, with suit
able forms and instructions for carrying it into ef-
feet together with the general election law of this
state, and sufficient number Of copies thereof
sent 10 each clerk Of the board of supervisors in
every county in this state 10 supply each of the of
hcers named in tins act with a 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 16. The necessary blanks for making
tha 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.
Section II. Chapter AS. OF the laws OF 1854
chapter 295 of the laws Of 1865 chapter 1876 OF the
laws OF 1866 chapter 49,, Of the laws of 1871 chap
ter 23l of the laws of 1875 and chapter 312. of the
laws OF 1876, are hereby repealed, and section
a., of this act, shall be taken and held to be an
amendment in respect to the matter con.
tanned therein, CT every city and village charter in
this state.
Section Is. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication
Approved March 5. 1871.
Published March %, 1911
CHAPTER 295.
AN ACT relating to the invention and successful
use Of steam or other mechanical agents On
highways, aud amendatory of chapter 1874 of the
laws Of lS5, as amended by chapter 1872 of the
laws of 1876.
The people Of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section /. Chapter one hundred and thirty-four
asa, of the laws of 1875, amended by chapter
one hundred and eighty-two us2), of the laws of
1875, Is hereby amended 50 81 TO read as follows
There is hereby appropriated the sum Of ten
thousand dollars $1,000 J. out OF any money in the
treasury Tot otherwise appropriated, TO be used as
bounty, aud to b. paid to any citizen of Wiscon-
SIN who has invented or shall invent machine
propelled by steam or ether motive agent which
shall be cheap aud practical substitute for the
use Of horses and other animals on the highway
and farm proUided, that said appropriation shall
not be paid until q successful trial Of said ma.
chine has been had, and award made as hereinafter
provided.
Section 2. 1t shall be the duty of the Governor.
on or before the LIST day of June, 1873 to appoint
three commissioners, two of whom shall be prac-
ical and experienced farmers, and the other a
practical and skillfu 9chinist, 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 as hereinafter
provided, all machines which shali compete for or
claim said bounty; prOUtded, 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 filed with the Secretary of State
statement OF his invention to compete for the said
bounty, and that he has made progress in the con-
struc.ion of 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 journ from day to
day, and to such other time and place they
may see ht, not exceeding sixty days in
All persons claiming to have invented ma
chine of the character aud for the purpose herein
mentioned shall appear before said commissioners
on said 10Th day of June, ard file with said COM
missio' ers description of the machine which thev
claim to have invented, with plsns aud speciica-
tons of the same, and the said commissioners
tneTtupOn snail enter the name OF such claimant in
list to be entitled q" Competitors for the bounty
provided by law for the Invention of a machine
ropelted by steam or other motive agent which
shall be cheap and practical substitute
for the use of horses and other animals
on the highway and farm" The said
commissioners shall thereupon appoint time
and place and prescr be the manner of the trial of
said machine or machines.
Section 5. At the time and place so appointed,
au persons who have complied with the provisions
OF Tins act, may produce their machines, and the
CO ElGai1I has nf.I
commissioners, and to such experiments and tests
as said commissioners may require 1)r0pided that
every IN ichine entering the lists to compete for
said bounty shall perform journey of at least
two hundred miles, in 4 continuous line on a COM
mon road or roads, running nearly as may be
north and south within this state to be designated by
said commissioners, and be propel ed by its own
internal power at the average rate of speed of at
least five miles per hour, working time. The said
machine shall be of such construction ard width
as to conform to run in the ordinary track of
the common wagon or buggy now in use, and be able
to run backwards turn ont of the road to accomo
date other vehicles in passing and to be able as
cend or descend grade of at least two hundred
feet to the mile
Section g. Upon the conclusion or SAID trial.
which shall commence within twenty days after the
10th day of June, 1878, and shall be concluded
within ~ days from its commencement, and shall
lake place within this state the said commissioners
or majority of them shall determine which of the
inventors of said machines, if any, entitled to
SAID bounty and whether any of them are, and
shall file their determination reward with the
secretary of state within ten days after the concu
sion of said trial
Section I. 1t shall be the duty of the secretary
OF state, upon the fling of such determination in
case sTlch determination TO the effect that any
such inventor is entitled to such bounty, to draw
his warrant on the treasury for the sum of ten
thousand dollars, which sum, on the presentation
CT such warrant to him, shall be paid by the state
b easurer to the inventor of such cessfll ma
chine; 3IrOrited, that no money shall be paid under
the provisions of this act of the act which this
Is amendatory, unless such payment hall be ap-
proved by the GOVERNOR pYoriied further, that the
appointed under the provisions of
-his act shall not receive any compensation for
heir services, but their actual expenses incurred
lille in the per of their duties under this
vet shall be paid by the state.
Secto s. This act shall take effect and be in
Gree from and after its passage and Publication
Approved March s, 1877.