Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-04-25
Published April 8, 1881
CHAPTER 237

Published April ., 1878.
CHAPTER 237.
AN ACT relating to tract indexes, and amen
datory OF chapter 352 of the general laws of
1864, entitled 6 An act TO provide for tract
index''
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repre-.
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section |. Section one of said chapter 352
is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section l. The register of deeds of each county
in this state shall as soon as practicable after
the first day of May, A. d. 1878, or whenever
directed, so to do by the county board Of SUI
peryisors, as hereinafter provided, procure
at the expense Of said county, and kept
in his office, a suitable book or books,
substantially bound, and so ruled and
arranged that opposite to the descriptionof each
forty acre tract of land, according to the gov
eminent subdivision OF sections, fractional lots
and town, city or village lots (Which descrip-
ton shall be arranged in numerical order )shall
be blank space OF about forty square inches.
IN which he shall enter in red ink, the letter
or letters, mineral or numerals indicating the
volume, and in black or blue ink the class of
records referred to designating mortgages by
the letter M. deeds by the lette ID. and mis-
ceanous by the abbreviation Mis.) together
and every deed, mortgage or other instrument
affecting the title 70 or ilcumbering the whole
or any part or subdivision thereof shall here
tofore have been or my hereafter be recorded
and shall be entitled to demand and receive of
the grantee or grantees, mortgage or
mortgages, in each instrument there.
after recorded, the sum of three cents
for each entry IN said index, made necessary
by the recording Of such instrument.
L. ~
has now in the Office of register of deeds
tract index of lands anu lotsin which the same
are entered and indexed by quarter section
descriptions only (expect in case of fractional
and plated lots) the register OF deeds Of such
county is hereby directed, as soon as practicable
after the passage of this act, to re-index, ia
accordance with the provisions OF section one
of this act, all such lands so indexed by greater
than forty acres subdivisions, and for such
service said register shall be entitled to de-
mand and receive from said county the sum
of two cents for each necessary entry in said
index of records herein provided for, unless
the price shall be otherwise fixed by contract,
as hereinafter provided.
Section 3. Section of said chapter 1852 is
hereby amended SO as TO read as follows: The
provisions of this act shall not exte ndnor apply
to the register of any county which now has
in the office of register ofdeeds general trac
index of record made substantially in accord
ance with the provisions of this act, nor to
any county whose county board of supervisors.
or majority thereof, shall fail to accept and |
ratify the same, by ordering ths register of |
deeds to comply with its requirements.
Section A. The county board of supervisors
Of each organized county in. this state is hereby
authorized and empowered to provide the |
necessary books and direct and employ |
the register ofdeeds to perform the |
work of indexing and re-indexing such |
records, as hereinbefore provided for,
at the expense of the county, so far as the
same should be done by the county, at price
therefor not exceeding the figures above given;
provided thatany such county board may enter |
into a contract with the register Of deeds
for the doing of such work, at such price
compensation, not exceeding the sum above
mentioned, as may be agreed upon.
Section 5. The index povided for in this
act shall be opened to the free inspection of
all persons during reasonable business hours.
Section g All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
Section I. This act shall taxed effect and
be in force from and after its passage and pub
LEGATION.
Approved March is, 1878.