Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-11

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may be reviewed by the supreme court as in other
cases.
Section s. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after it's passage and publication.
Approved March g. 1881.
Published March 30, 1891
CHAPTER 2O2.
ACT to amend section one of chapter two hundred
and sxty-six Ct the general laws of 1880, entitled
an act to repeal sections FIVE hundred and ninety
two and five hundred and ninety-four of the re-
V1se1 statutes of 1873, relating to public chart
ties, and to amend section five hundred and ninety
three, revised statutes of 1875 and to prescribe the
procedure for committing persons to the insane
hospitals
The people of the state of Wisconsin ranresenteo in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. On the receipt by the county Judge of
the petition provided for by section one of chapter
two hundred and sixty-six of the general laws of
$780, such judge may, if in his opinion the public
safety require it, deliver to the sheriff of his county
an order in writing requiring him forthwith to take
and confine such insane or supposed insane person
In some place to be specified until the further pro-
ceedings provided for by said chapter can be had
until the further order of the judge, and after the
receipt by such judge of the report of the exaun-
ing physicians, provided for in said chapter such
judge may in his discretion, deliver to such sheriff
MS order in writing, requiring him forthwith to take
such person into custody, and keep him In some
place to be specified until the further order of such
judge.
Section .. The examining physicians provided for
by said section of said chapter two hundred and
sixtysix, in addition to the report required to be
made by them, by said section, shall state as follows:
%. Has the patient any infectious disease? o. In
your opinion, is he insane?
Section 8. When any person shall be confined in
any hospital, asylum or other place of confinement,
upon commitment as an insane person, application
may be made in his behalf by any respectable citi-
zen having reason to question the propriety or JUS
tce OF such confinement to the judge of the county
court OF the county in which said person is confined
or to the judge of the county by whom he was
SO committed, for re-hearing and further judi
cal inquiry as to the mental condition of such per-
son, such application shall be by petition setting
is dad
Section l. Upon the receipt of such application the
judge shall have and may exercise the authority and
jurisdiction in the matter Of such application confer
red by said chapter two hundred and sxy-six as to
the original commitment, and the same proceedings
provided for in said chapter may be had in such mat
ter. All the provisions of said chapter two hundred
and sixty necessary to such rehearing and fur
Their inquiry, to the full determination thereof and
including those relating to costs, fees and expenses
shall be applicable thereto.
Section 5. If upon such rehearinp and furtber in
quiry, it shall be determined that the person so con-
fined is sane, such judge shall make and enter an
order requiring the officers or persons in charge of
the hospital asylum or place in which such person
is confined, forthwith to set him at liberty and such
officers and persons shall comply with such order
upon being served with duly certified copy thereof
but if it shall be determined that such person is in
sane, no further action shall be taken upon such APP
plicaton.
Section g. From and after the time this act shall
take effect, no physically infrm mentally imbecile
person, not deemed to be dangerous when at large,
shall be committed as an insane person to any hos
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infrmity or imbecility.
Section T. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 25, 1881.
Published April IL, 1881
CHAPTER 299.
AN ACT regulating the inspection of the BAYFIELD,
rifles.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senaIe and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The adJutant general is hereby author
lzed to make inspection of the Bayfield, rifles vol
unteer company of the Wisconsin national guard, at
any time during the year; and upon being satisfied
that said organization has been kept up and MAIN
tanned by members duly uniformed and that it has
kept suitable armory and properly cared for the state
property IN charge OF its commander, he is hereby
authorized to certify and allow its annual pay and
benefits for the years 1879 and 1880, the same as
though said company had been duly inspected and
duly complied with the law in respect to inspections
musters, parades, returns and reports. The COM
mander of said company is hereby authorized to en-
list and recruit members of his company residing in
Ashland county, and when sufficient number are
there enlisted to have the headquarters of one pla-
toon of said company at Ashland.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April 2, 1881.
Published April 6, 1881
CHAPTER 278.
AN ACT relating to the fees of register of deeds,
and amendatory of section seven hundred and
sixty-four of chapter thirty-seven of the revised
statutes.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
Section 1. Section seven hundred and sixty.four of
chapter thiryseven of the revised statutes relating
to the fees of register of Deeds is hereby amended
by striking out the words ssuuarterly from the
county treasurer itemized account verified by
his oath" where the same occurs in the ninth divi.
sion Of fees made by said section and by inserting
IN lieu thereof the words sfby the county in cases
where the certificate or proof of such marriage
birth or death is presented for registration within
one year after its occurrence, but otherwise to be
paid by the party procuring its regstraton" SO that
said section when amended shall read as follows:
Section 764. Every register Of deeds shall receive the
following fees, to-wt: For entering or recording any
deed or other instrument ten cents for each folio
and three cents for every necessary entry thereof in
the tract index when kept but to be at least fifty
cents Tor any deed and seventy-tive cents for any
mortgage. For recording any instrument written in
any other than the English language twenty cents
for each folio. For filing and entering any writ of
attachment or copy thereof with the certificate of
the officer or any certificate of sale or any notice of
the pendeucy OF any action containing not more
than twenty defendants, twenty-five cents and
twenty-five cents for every additional twenty defend
ants In any such notice. For copies of any records
or papers seven cents for each folio and TWENTY-FIVE
cents for his certificate. For every entry of dis
charge OF mortgage in the margin of a record ten
cents. For fling every other paper and making an
ensry thereof when necessary ten cents. For Ger
titled copy of the full record of any marriage birth
or death nifty cents For examining the proofs of
marriage, birth or death when presented in the form
OF ahdavite twenty-five CENTS all the foregoing fees
to be payable in advance by the party such
SERVICE for registering any marriage birth or death
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the secretary of the state ten cents to be paid by the
county in cases where the certificates or proof of
such marriage birth death is presented for regis
Tation within one year after its occurrence but
to be paid by the party procuring the regis
tra1on; for making his annual statistical return of
real estate sales to the secretary of state eight cents
per folio to be paid out of the state treasury For
making new tract index upon the order of the
county board, such sum may be fixed by the
county board not exceeding two cents for each en-
try to be paid from the county treasury Whenever
all the fees together of the register are less than
three hundred dollars per annum, the county board
may IN It's discretion pay him salary not exceeding
two hundred dollars per year.
Section 2 This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April 1, 1881.
Published April 2, 1851
CHAPTER $780,
AN ACT to provide for the better collection of
statistics.
The people OF the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. The clerk of each town and city, and of
each village which collects its taxes independently of
the town and the town clerk of each town in which
any village is situated the taxes for which village
are collected by the town treasurer shall annually at
the time he is required by law to deliver the tax roll
to the town city village treasurer, make out and
transmit to the county clerk blanks furnished by
the secretary of state statement showing the as
sessed valuation of all property within his town. city
or village; and separately the amount of all taxes
levied therein by said CITY jDcldinp