The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-04-03
WISCONSIN LAWS.
Published March 4, 1870. I
CHAPTER ISS.


The people of the state of Wisconsin repre-
sented in senate and assembly do enact a.
| follows:
| Section l. Any male person sixteen years
of age, or over, being vagrant within the
/ purview of section one thousand FIVE hundred
and forty-three Of the revised statutes, who
| shall be found in any town, city or village il
| this state, not being an inhabitant of such
| town, city or village, shall be deemed {
/ tramp.
Section 2. Any person convicted of being
/ a tramp, shall be punished by Imprisonment
at hard labor in the county Jail, for 4 period
Of time not exceeding six months, or by i'm
| prisonment in the county jail not exceeding
! thirty days, in solitary confinement and L
| be fed on bread and water only, during the
| whole period of such confinement.
| Sec ton ). Justices of the peace, police
magistrates, county courts, having civil iuris
| diction, shall have jurisdiction of all offenses
arising under the preceding sections of thi.
| act.
| Section 4. Any tramp who shall wanton-
| " or maliciously by means of violence,
| threats or otherwise, put IN fear any inhabit
| ant Of this state, or who shall kindle any fire
on any highway or on the land of another
within this state, without the consent of the
| owner or occupant of such land, or who shall
wantonIy or maliciously enter any house.
| barn or building belonging to any other per
| son, without the consent of the owner or oc-
/ cupant of such premises, or who shall carry
| any firearms or other dangerous weapon
| shall, on conviction thereof, be punished Al
| hard labor in the state prison not more thar
| two years.
| Section s. Any five or more tramps who
shall assemble or congregate together within
| this state for the purpose Of encouraging vag
| abondage or any other unlawful purpose
shall on conviction thereof, be punished by
Imprisonment al hard labor in the state prison
not to exceed two years.
Section 8. Any tramp engaged in sucl
assemblage may be prosecuted and convicted
| thereof alone, if it be alleged in the indict
ment or information and proved at the tria
| that five or more tramps were engaged there
in; and if known they must be named; but l
unknown, that fact must be alleged.
Section 7. Any peace officer in the STATE
may arrest and imprison, without process
any person whom he knows, or has good rea
son to believe to be 4 tramp, provided tina
| such peace officer, within twenty four hour
after making such arrest, Sunday excluded
| shall bring such person SO arrested before
magistrate, and lodge a complaint agains
him.
Section S. Any peace officer making an.
such arrest, under the provisions of this act
shall pc empowered to return any warrant Is
sued on such compiaint and shall be entitled
to the same fees as constables for similar ser
vices.
Section O. It shall be the duty of tn
keeper of any common jail, upon written lie
quest from the chairman of any town, tn
president of any city, to detail any numbe
of tramps confined in said Jail to such town
village or city, in charge of an officer, (
work upon the highways or other public i'm
proyements; such town, village or city to sus
tain any necessary expense in transporting
such officers and prisoners to and from labor
Any officer having such tramps in charge
while at labor as provided in this section
shall receive two dollars for each day, an
one dollar for each half day so employed, t
be paid by the town, village or city for whor
such work is done.
| Section 10. Any tramp who has been du
ly sentenced TO hard labor under the provis
ions of this act, who wantonly or willfull
refuses TO work, shall on conviction thereof
be punished by imprisonment at hard labo
in the state prison, for a period not exceed
ing two years.
Section II. Hereafter no sheriff or jailc
shall receive, and no county board of super
visors shall allow any compensation for keer
ing or boarding any tramp in the commo
Jail or any other place of any other county i
the state, unless such tramp shall have bee
duly arrested or committed under the pre-
visions Of this act.
Section II. Each of the counties of TIL
| ana mold all the necessary real estate for ia
purposes and purposes of Imprisonment 9
hard labor OF all persons adjudged guilty c
an ofense against this act And whenever
in opinion Of the board of supervisors of
county, the county shall require for such pun
| pose, or either or any Of them, any lands 70
the use thereof, and such board Of superyi
sors shall be unable to agree with the owne
upon the amount of compensation to be pai
therefor, or where, by reason of the legal in
capacity or absence of any such owner, 0
other sufficient cause, no such agreement o
purchase can he made without delay, tn
Judge of the circuit Co-irt Of the county il
which such lands or any part thereof are SIT
uated, may, upon application in writing o
| the board OF supervisors of such COUNT
making the application, containing a de
sctlPtiop of the lands SO required appoin
three disintefested persons, residents of sucl
county, commissioners to apprSiSe such lands
and thereupon and thereafter such proceed
| tHgS shall be had in the premises, SO far a
| applicable, rs required by chapter thirty
| three of the revised statutes, in case of tht
! state requiring and taking lands for the ust
! OF the charitable educational, correctional
| or penal institutions of the state, to the enc
that the county acquire and have an absolute
title in fee simple 10 the lands so required
and taken, upon payment OF the comEensa
| ton finally awarded.
Section Is. All acts or parts of acts in
| consistent with the provisions of this act ART
hereby repealed.
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be in force from and after It's passage ant
publication.
Approved March 4, 1870.
Published March :, 1870
/ CHAPTER I62.
! AN ACT amending section one thousand
| nine hundred and seyenty-tvo, chapter
: ~htvnine, Of the revised statutes of 1878
by inserting in the IN" W aA'o Seei1al'
after the words except millers,'' the w..
town insurance companies
he people Of the state of Wisconsin. repre-
sented III senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. Section one thousand nine
hundred and seventytwo of chapter eighty
nine OF the revised statutes Of 1873, is hereby
amended by inserting the following, after the
word except" in the third line Of said sec
NiOi4s HHSit ~ siilchued, Snail read as follows:
section 1872. There shall be paid to the
commissioner OF insurance by every insurance
corporation, person or agent, TO whom this
chapter applies, except town insurance COM
panIeS, mlliers' and manufacturers mutual
insurance corporations, the following fees:
for fling the first declaration or statement
with certified copy Of charter, twenty 1--WE
dollars; for filing the annual statement of anv
insurance corporation other than life or acct
dent corporation, twenty-five dollars: for fl
ing such annual statement of any life or acct
dent insurance corporation, twenty-five dol
lars: for each certificate of authority TO agents
OF all corporations doing business in this
state, one dollar; for every copy of paper filed
in his Office, fifteen cents per folio; and for
certifying and afixing seal, fifty cents. Mil
lers and manufacturers mutual insurance
corporations organized under the provisions
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