The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1877-04-28

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81 s;stricf and the facts showing that he no
sS,,ch elector on the day said register was com
nleted, and he shall also deliver to such inspect
G = with bis own affidavit the affidavits of two
"a Two freeholders of such election district, tor
,horating in detail the material statements In
lie own affidavit. No one freebooter shall be
*zSeompe .ent to make TT any one election corrobo
ating aidavits for more than three voters. AL
IN said afidavits all be sworn to before some of
tcrr authorized Ly the laws of Wisconsin to take
dispositions. Ike inspectors shall keep list OF
@ the names and residence of the electors voting
III whose names are not on said completed register
and att aoh such list to the register and return it
together With all the affidavits aforesaid to the
III town. village or city clerks office in which sucf
election district may be. ny person whose name
is on the register may be challenged and the So ms
oaths shall be put as now or hereafter may be pre-
# scribed by law
81 Section 8. The clerks at each poll, in addition
# TO the du les prescribed by law shall enter OIL
3 the poll list kept by them, in columns prepared fol
III that PURPOSE, opposite the name of each person
81 voting. the same statement or minute hereinbe-
fore required OF inspe tors in making the registry
Every eector at the time of offering his vote shall
truly state the street in which he resides, and il
the house, lodging or tenement in which he resides
y numbered. the number thereof and the clerks OF
the polls shall truly enter in the appropriate column
OF the pol list opposite the name of the eector me
street in which the elector resides, and the number
in case the house lodging or tene ment is numb red
and If the same is not numbered, then the CLERK
shall enter " not numbered" in the column OF tue
pell list for entering the number. In case OF re-
fusal to make the sta ement aforesaid. the vote
of such elector shall d ot be received. ANY person
VIII shall wilfully make any fase statement III re-
ation thereto shall be deemed guilty of misde-
meanor and shall upon conviction be punished
With fine of fifty collars, or by imprisonment IN
the county jail Of the county Tor period OF ten
DAYS or bv both such fine and imprisonment.
Section TO- After the CANVASS OF the votes, one
of said pol SITS and said registers SO Kept and
check a as aforesaid, shah be at ached together,
and shall on he following day be fled In the town
village or city clerks office las the case may be)
in which 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 saiG 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 H. 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.
tration aud their clerks q all each receive the
same compensation as il now allowed by lew for
inspe tors of election for each day actually en-
ployed in the making and completion of the regis
try, to be paid to them at the me and in the
in which they paid their other fees.
Section b. The said board shall have and exer-
else the same power for preserving order at their
meetings under this act is given to inspectors of
election for preserving ord on election days.
Section a. Any person who shall cause his name
to be registered in than election district,
or who shall cause his name to be regist red,
knowing that he is not qualified voter in the dis
trlct where such registry Is made, or who shall
falsely personate any regist red voter, and any
person causing, aiding abetting any
person et I'M IA any manner IN either OF said d
every offense by Imprisonment in the state prison
for not less than year. All false swearing before
such board of registration in making affidayits
required by this act shall be deemed willful and
corrupt perjury, and, on conviction, pun
such board shall wfuly violate any OF the provis-
ions OF this act, or b. guilty of any fraud IN the exc
cution 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 one
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 egener 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 STATE to supply each of the of
hcers named in this act with copy and il shall
be the duty Of each of said clerks Immediately to
transmit copy of the same to each of the nspy Ct
of election in b county.
Section 10. The necessary blanks for making
this registers required by this law shall be prepared
by the ec-efary of State, and transmitted to the
persons entitled to receive them in the same
manner that blank returns of elections are now
Section IT, Chapter AS, of the laws of 1864
chapter 296 of the laws of 1865 chapter 1885, of the
laws OF 1865 chapter 13i, of the laws of 1871, chap
ter 23l of the laws of 1876, and chapter 3J2 of the
laws of 1876, are hereby repealed and section one
az. of this act, shall be taken and held to be an
tanned therein of 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 8. 1871.
Published March %. 1911
CHAPTER 293.
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 l85, as amended by chapter 1o2 of the
laws of 1876.
The people of the state of Wisco lsin represented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows.
Section /. Chapter one hundred anu thirty-four
(l3D, of the laws of 1873, amended by chapter
hundred and eighty-two (s2), of the laws of
1875 is hereby amended so as to read follows
There is hereby appropriated the sum Ga ten
thousand dollars $4,000, out OF any money in the
treasury rot otherwise appropriated, to be used as
bounty, aud to be paid to any citizen of Wiscon-
who has invented or shall invent machine
propelled by steam or oiher motive agent, which
shall be chap and practical substitute for the
of horses aud other animals the high way
and farm pkovided, that said appropriation shall
not be paid until successful trial of said ma
chine has been had, and award made as hereinafter
provided.
S ction q 1t shall be the duty of the Governor
or before the LIST day of June, 1873, to appoint
three commissioners, two of whom shall be prac-
ical and experienced farmers, and the 9th q
practical and skillful m chnst, to each of whom
the Governor shall execute ard deliver certificate
of his appointment. 1t shall be the duty of said
comm ssioners to examine and test, as hereinafter
provided all machines which shalI compete for or
aim said bounty propidei the inventors shall
have made at the me IF trial. the statement and
complied with the conditions hereinafter pre-
scrbed.
Section 8. Every inventor who shall heretofore
or at any time hereafter, prior to the LIST day OF
June, JSIS have hied with the Secretary of State
statement OF his invention to compee for 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,
1913, and shall have power to adjourn from day to
day, and to such other time and place as thes
may see Mt, not exceeding sixty days in
al from said 10th day of June 1873
All persons claiming TO have invented ma
chine of the character and for the purpose herein
meatoued shall appear before said commission ne ri
on said 10Th dsy of june ard file with said com
mi slot description of the hne which the,
claim to have invented, with plans and specihca
tions of the same and the said commissioner
thereupon shall enter the name of such claimant il
list TO be entitled " Competitors for the bount,
provided by law for the invention of machine
propelled by steam or other motive agent, whci
shall be a cheap aud practical substitute
for the use Of horses and other animal
on the highway and farm" The ssiC
commissioners shall thereupoa appoint a tim,
and place, and prescribe the manner of the trial ~
said machine or machines.
Section ). At the time and place so appointed
all persons tho have complied with the provision,
of this sct may produce their machines, and the
same shall be subjected to the examination of
commissioners, and TO such experiments and test,
az said commissioners may require provided, tina
very machine entering the lists to compete fol-
said bounty shall perform journey of at Least
two hundred miles, in continuous line, on q com.
mon road or roads, running nearly as may bt
north and within this state to be designated by
said commissioners, snd be propel ed by its OWL
internal rover at the average rate of speed of o.
least five miles per hour. working time. The SAID
machine shall be of such construction and widtI
as 70 conform to or rua in the ordinary track OF
the common wagon or buggy now in use, and be able
to run backwards or turn ont OF the road accomo
date other vehicles in passing and to be able as
tehu or descend grade of at least two hundred
feet to the mile.
Section {. Upon the conclusion of said trial
which shall commence within twenty days after the
10th day OF June, 1878, and shall be concluded
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