Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-07

lliG olotIItt dIUOiiIty VI DIOWn County
relating to transcribing the Senate ans
Assembly journals; to authorize w. II
Horn to build a pier in Lake Michigan
relating to swamp and overf1owed lands
in the counties of Manitowoc and Cal
umet; TO appropriate to the Wisconsin
State Hospital for Insane $S9,37:
for current expenses; relating tC
booms on the Wisconsin river
Assembly bills were concurred in: te
appropriate to Hugh Lewis S175. ayes
Is; noes, 4; for the improvement ot
the Embarrass river; to legalize acts Of
the Rocky Mound Grange Company
to authorize the City of Manitowoc tC
issue certificates Of Indebtedness; tc
legalize official acts of William Shum-
way; to authorize cemetery associa-
tions to erect buildings for the purpose
of holding burial services therein; to
legalize the official acts of the board OF
trustees of the Fremont Cemetery
Association in Waupaca county; to
authorize the commissioners of school
and university lands to convey certain
lands to the Sturgeon Bay and Lake
Michigan Ship Canal and Harbor
Company; to authorize the COM
missioners of school and university
lands to loan portion Of the trust
funds to the city Of New London:
to authorize the commissioners OF
school and university lands
to loan a portion of the
trust funds to the town OF
Princeton, Green Lake county.
Bills were indefinitely postponed: relat-
ing to the employment Of children in
factories and workshops in this state;
relating to town treasurers; to prescribe
the duties of town officers; to provide
a Photographic reporter for the 9th ju-
dicial circuit; to amend the charter OF
the city of Chippewa Falls; to incorpo-
rate the city of Neillsville; to lay out a
state road from Beaver Dam Lake,
Barron county, to But5ernut Station,
Ashland county; to regulate district,
ward and graded schools.
SATURDAY, March 2.-Assenaby.-In
the assembly bills passed to amend an
act in relation to the public schools in
the city of Watertown; to amend chap
ter 364 laws of 1876 relating to sherifs
fees; to incorporate the city of Wau-
pun. Senate bills were cOncurred in;
to prevent deceptive statements by in
surance companies; relating to dam
on Little Wolf river in Waupacca coun-
ty. Bills were indefinitely postponed
to authorize the secretary of state to au-
dit the claim of Nelson Mcneil; rela-
ting to district, ward and graded schools;
to incorporate the city of New London
A large number of remonstrances were
presented against the passage of No
sos A. to provide for licensing life in
surance companies.
MONDAY, March 4th-Se7,aLe. In the
senate Il number of remonstrances
were presented against the passage oi
the bill taxing life insurance compan-
les; a remOnstrance against the passage
of any law exempting railway lands
from taxation; also petition for an ex-
tension of the time for the completion
Of the North Wisconsin railway. Bills
passed: to exempt the lands of the
North Wisconsin railway from taxation
to provide for the purchase of the cabi-
net and library Of the late Moses
Strong; to provide means of escape
from hotels in cases of fire; for the i'm
provement of the public highways; to
appropriate $1,000 to build bridge
across Buffalo lake in Marquette
county. Bills were concurred in to re-
wise the charter of the city of Chippewa
Falls; to legalize the official acts OF
K. W. Button, notary public;
for the preservation of fish
in Brown lake, Racine county;
relating to trusts; to authorize the loan
ing a portion of the trust funds to the
town of Necedah, Juneau county; re-
lating to cemetery associations; to au-
thorize the city of Watertown to issue
bonds to compromise its Indebtedness
relating to taxing dogs; to legalize the
acts of the board Of supervisors of Chip
pewa county in electing a superintend-
ent of the poor; for the preservation OF
game; relating to town officers and the
powers and duties of towns.
The bill to authorize Oconto county
to issue bonds to construct a county
jail was Indefinitely postponed. The
bill relating to exemptions of mechan-
les and labOrers was also indefinitely
postponed.
MONDAY, March, 4-Assen6M.-In
the assembly a resolution was concur
red in concerning freight and passen.
ger traffic on railways. Bills were
passed: To amend chapter 81 of the
general laws of 1871, authorizing town
supervisors to construct drains in Ger
tain cases; to appropriate to schoO
district No. s, of the town of Highland
Iowa county, a sum Of money; regu
lating the keeping and maintaining O.
slaughter houses in this state; to au
thorize the town ofPlymouth, Sheboy
gan county, to hold its elections anG
transact its business in the city of Ply
mouth; relating to the preserva
ton of game in the state
to laying out state road from the tow1
of Marinette, Oconto county, to Bis
Suamico, Brown county; to appropriate
the drainage fund in township No. %
range 27 east, Door county, for highwa,
purposes; for the preservation Of fisl
in the Kingston mill-pond in Greer
Lake county; to appropriate to Thoma
B. Rogers certain sum of money; Join
resolution relating to the bankrupt act
asking the senators and representative
IN congress to secure a survey of tn
headwater of the St. Croix. Senate bill
were concurred in: To amend act in
cooperating the Lawrence Institute O
Wisconsin; to provide compensation
for services of the president pro tenn. O
the senate; to amend the law incorpor
ating the city of Columbus. Bills wer
indefinitely postponed: Relating t
highways upon town boundaries, o.
motion of Mr.. Kelly, the assembly wen
into committee of the whole.
The hens-and especially the pullet