The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-04-17
WISCONSIN LAWS.
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CHAPTER 24Q
An act 10 appropriate to William w Johnson
a sum of money therein named.
The people of the state of Wisconsin. repre
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. There is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the state treasury not
otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hund-
red and fifty dollars 10 William w Johnson
for his necessary and reasonable attorney
fees, officers fees and other disbursements.
incurred in the contest for his seat in the as
sembly, by Michael J. Egan.
Section ,. This act shall take effect ard
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved March 9Th, 1879.
CHAPTER 2o7.
An act relating to the civil rights of discharg
ed convicts
The people Of the safe of Wisconsin repre-
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. The governor of Wisconsin is
hereby authorized and empowered to restore
to any convict discharged from prison in this
state the civil rights, possessed by said con
vlct previous to his conviction, on satisfac-
tory evidence that said discharged convict
has violated no laws of this state or OF the
United States for period Of not less than
ten years subsequent to his discharge from
said prison.
Section ?. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved March 4, 1870.
CHAPTER 24S.
An act TO prevent adulteration and fraud
in food and drugs and liquors.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin re r,ra-
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. No person shall mix, color,
stain, powder, order or permit any other per
son to mix, color, stain or powder, any article
OF food with any ingredient or material so as
to render the article injurious to health, with
intent that the same may be sold in that con
dition. And any person that shall sell any
such article, SO mixed, colored, stained or
powdered, shall be subject to a penalty in
each case not exceeding a fine Of fifty dollars
for the first ofiense, and for a second oi1ense
shall be punished by Imprisonment in the
state prison for period not exceeding one
year with hard labor.
Section 2. No person shall, except for the
purpose'of compromising as hereinafter des
cribed, mix, color, stain or powder, OF per
NIT any other person to mix, color, stain or
powder any drug with any ingredient or ma
terlal so as to affect inuriOusly the quality or
potency of such drug, with intent that the
same may be sold in that condition. And
any person who shall sell any such drug. so
mixed, colored, stained or powdered, Shall
be liable 10 the same penalty or punishment
in each case respectively as in the preceding
section, for first and subsequent offense:
provided, that no person shall be liable to be
convicted under the foregoing sections of this
act, in respect to the sale of any article of
food or Of any drug, if he shows to the salts
faction OF the justice or court before whom
he is charged that he did not know of the
article or drug sold by him being so mixed,
colored, stained or powdered, as in that sec
ton mentioned, and that he could not, with
reasonable diligence, have obtained that
knowledge, or that such mixing, cooring.
staining or Powdering was tequired for The
production, extraction, preparation, preser-
Walton, consumption or transportation as an
article Of commerce in a state fit for carriage,
or where the drug or food is supplied in the
state required by the specification of the pat
ent IN force, or that the food or drug was I'm
avoldably mixed with some eXtraneouS mat
ter in process of collection or preparation.
Section 5. Every person who shall COM
pound or put up for sale any food, drug or
liquor, in casks, boxes, bottles or packages
with any label, mark or device whatever, so
as and with intent to mislead or deceive as
to the true name, nature, kind and quality
thereof, shall be liable to penalty not to ex-
coed five hundred dollars for the first offense.
and for every ofenSc after the first oflenSe,
shall be punished by imprisonment in the
state prison for not less than one year nor
more than ten years.
Section 4. The term ''iood,'' as herein
used, shall include every Article nsed for food
or drink by man other than drugs. The
term drug" shall include medicine for in
ternal or external use.
Section 5. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after the first dav of
July, after its passage and publication.
Approved March 5, 1879.
CHAPTER 100
An act relating to the division of towns, and
amendatory of section six hundred and
seventy-one of the r. S. of 1873.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repre-
sentcd in senate and assembly do enact as
follows:
Section I. Section six hundred and sew
enty-one Of the revised statutes of 1873 is
hereby amended SO as to read as follows:
Section 67I. When thirty or more freehol-
ders, residents of any town, and at least one
third Of the legal voters thereof shall petit
ton the county board for division of such
town, such petitioners shall, at least twenty
days before the next annual town meeting,
file a copy of such petition with the town
clerk of such town, who shall, at least ten
days before such town meeting, give notice
that the question of the division of such town
will be voted upon at such town meeting. by
posting notices thereof, showing the manner
in which il Is proposed to divide such town,
IN four public places in each proposed subdi-
vision thereof. The vote shall be bv ballot
and those voting in favor of the division shall
vote a ballot containing the words ''for di-
yision," and those voting against the divis
ion, ballot containing the words against
division" The voters residing in each of
the proposed subdivisions shall vote separate
~, and if 4 majority of the votes cast in eth
er subdivision shall be in favor of division.
the town clerk shall certify the fact to the
county clerk, and thereupon the county board
shall have power to divide such town accord
ingly. But no town shall be divided 50 as
to constitute or leave any town of less than
thirty six sections, according to u. S. survey,
unless each such town, after division, shall
have real estate valued al the last preceding
assessment, al thirty thousand dollars or
more, and twenty-five qualified voters, resi- !
dent therein at the time of division: and no
town shall be divided, or have any part de
tached therefrom, 50 as to make its area less !
than thirty-SlN sections, as aforesaid, exceDt
when a majority of the votes cast in each sub |
division, as aforesaid, shall be in favor of
such division
Section 2. This act shall take effect and |
be IN force from and after its passage and |
publication.
Approved March 20, 1870.