Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-21

"Section 1885, Any officer, or other person in
charge of employed in any hospital for the insane
poor house, state prison, JAIL institute for the edcl
ton of the deaf and dumb or blind, house of correc-
ton, Industrial school for boys girls, or orphan
asylum, who shall abuse neglect or i-treat any per-
son confined therein, inmate thereof, shall be
punished by imprisonment in the county jail not
more than one year, or by fine not exceeding two
hundred dollars.
Section q This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March Is, 1880
Published March Is, 1901
CHAPTER 209.
AN ACT authorizing the granting Of state certi
fcates to graduates of colleges and universities.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly do enact as follows
Section l. After any person has graduated at
any incorporated college or university located in
the state of Wisconsin, whose courses of study are
fully and fairly equivalent to the corresponding
of study in the state university, and after
such graduation, has successfully taught public
school inthis state for sixteen school months,
the superintendent of public instruction shall
have authority to countersign the diploma
Of such teacher aftersuch examination as to
moral character, learning and ability to teach,
as to said superintendent may seem proper
and reasonable, and after having ascertained
that the course of study from which such
person has graduated is fully and fairly equal
to the corresponding course in the state university
Section 2. Any person holding diploma grant
ed by any such aforesaid college or university,
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graduate of such college or university, SHALL after
his diploma has been countersigned by the state
superintendent of public instruction as aforesaid,
be deemed qualified to teach any of the public
schools of this state, and such diploma shall be a
certificate of such qualification until annulled by
the Superintendent of public instruction,
Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after it's passage and publication.
Approved March II. 1880.
Published March 81, $780,
CHAPTER 284.
IN no oF
societies in connection with Congregational
churches.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows;
Section l. The male members over twenty-one
years of age, not ees than three in number, of any
Congregational church known such in both gov
eminent and name, which shall have been organized
in this state and which at the time maintains requla
public worship, may, after due public notice, gve
at some ttated meeting of such church, organizer
corporation for religious, CHART BILE Quotations
purposes, in the manner hereinafter provided.
Section 2 Such members shall sign and acknow
edge, before some officer authorized by law to taxi
| the acknowledgment of deed in the county wher
such society is organized certificate substantiallyiI
| the following form: Sc Know all men by these pres
| ents that the undersigned Gnsert the name of the
| signers) and those who are, or who may become
associated with them for the purposes herein speci
fed, have organized themselves in religious society
! of the - church, located in (name town, city or
sin, for religious, charitable and educational pur-
poses, which society shall be known and incorporated
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record the in the office of the register of deeds
of such county; and when such certificate shall have
been recorded the society named therein shall be
corporation, and shall possess the powers and pryi
leges granted to corporations by chapter eighty
Of the revised statutes far the same are plli-
cable necessary to accomplish its purposes and also
such as conferred by this chapter. And the re-
spectiye churches, connected and socated in pub
lie worship with such religious societies, shall con-
nue to have, exercise and enjoy all their accustomed
privileges and liberties respecting divine worship,
church order and discipline and shall be encouraged
in the peaceble and regular enjoyment and practice
| thereof
Section g. Such corporation may by it's conetitu-
| ton and bylaws fix the terms and qualifications of
membership and office therein, may provide rules
! for the government of the society and
| its officers, and fix the number of it's trustees,
not less than three than nine their term of
office and the manner of appointing or electng the
same.
| Section 4. Such corporation may also take re-
ceiye purchase hold and both real personal
estate for tue purposes for which has been incor
porated, and no oher and may lease mortgage, sell
and otherwise dispose of the same, or any portion
thereof in the provided by its rules and by
laws and may also tAke by purchase, gift other
wse and forever hold and improve, any lands in
tended to be used for cemetery purposes burial
places, subject to the provisions and restrictions
far applicable in chapter fftynine of the revised
statutes.
Section s. The secular business and temporal af-
fairs of such corporation shall be administered by
the board of trustees. 1t shall appoint clerk
secretary, and treasurer, with power to remove
the same, and shall accurate records of all it
proceedings and of all business meetings of such So
cety to be kept; it shall have the custody and
agement of the corporate property, and shall be gov
erned in its official acts by the rules of it's society," ap
pcabe thereto and not inconsistent with the laws of
the state.
Section S. Every existing religious society of any
Congregational church known as such in both gov
ernment and name, whose board of trustees hive
heretofore been Incorporated under the laws of the
state, may, by five Of its members, including
in every case all the member at che time acting
trustees, thereunto duly authorized by and acting for
the society, become corporation under this cha ter
by making and recording the certificate provided
herein. with additional statement therein Of the
by which such society and the corporation con-
nected with it has before that time been known and
called, and that such society and corporation
organized under this chapter; but such reor9aniZa
ton shall not work change in the ecclesiastical
nection of any such society. If any such society
corporation shall fail to become reorganiZed here
in provided, such failure shall not work its dissolu
ton andhe board of trustees heretofore incorporated
not less than three more than nine in numbtr,
shall hereafter be appointed or elected according to
the rules of the society with which they connect
ed, and shall be governed by the provision of this
chapter which relates to the duties of rus tees, and
shall have all the powers and be subjected to all the
liabilities of religious corporations under the pro-
vision Of this chapter.
Section T. No failure to elect trustees at the proper
time shall work dissolution of any corporation
their offices until their succe sors elected In
of the dissolution of any such corporation the
same may be rencorporated under the provisions of
this chapter at any time within six years after such
dissolution and thereupon all the estate real and
personal, formerly belonging to The same and not
lawfully disposed Of shall vest in such corporation
as # there had been no such dissolution.