The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1882-04-13

better accommodations of the Supreme
Court and State Historical Society libra
ries. The main building at the State
University was ordered to be renovated,
improved and ventilated. A joint reso-
luton for constitutional amendment
providing for biennial general elections
was ratified. Cemetery and agricultural
fair associations are authorized to con-
denn lands for suitable highways thither.
Corporations owning dams were granted
the power to condemn overfowed lands.
An appropriation was made to still
further encourage experiments in amber
cane culture at the State, University ex.
-perimental farm. Circuit court judges
are not hereafter PERMITTED to sign fore
closure judgments in vacation. The Bell
Telephone Company was ordered to
permit any person or company to use its
machines, on tender of the usual fees.
The law making insanity cause for
divorce was repealed. The Wisconsin
Farm Mortgage Land Company was
authorized to close up its business.
Hereafter, five years non-use of high
way works discontinuance thereof.
Certain lands on the headwaters of the
st. Croix, Black and Wisconsin rivers
are ceded to the United States, so as to
allow for the proposed reservoir scheme.
1t was enacted that when a vote is taken
by the people to change county seat,
the vote shall be final for five years. The
spring limit for catching fish in the state
is extended from May Is to April Is.
The sale of trout from the state fish
hatcheries is prohibited. Any person
who has had an uninterrupted practice
within this state for twenty years, as
physician or surgeon, is authorized to
serve without diploma. Stringent
regulations were adopted regarding the
practice of pharmacy. The earnings of
married laborers are exempt from exc
cution for ninety days preceding the
fling of suit, or in lieu thereof, $500
worth of property. Logs, lumber, and
telegraph poles belonging to non-res-
Idents, are hereafter to be taxed. Tele-
graph companies are to be taxed as fol-
lows: one dollar per mile for the 6rst
wire, fifty cents for the second, twenty
five for the third, and twenty for the
fourth.
The county of Florence was created,
out of portions of Oconto and Marinette
counties, A law was passed, providing
fees to doctors, for recording births and
deaths. Provisions were made for the
creation of a commission to determine
the claims of the state against the general
government, and vico versa, and report
thereon to the Eext legislature. The
rather loose method hitherto existing re-
garding the number and pay of Iegisla-
tive employees was annulled by law
giving the chief clerk in each house $500
IL full for the seasons work, $50 for
opening the session, and $40 per day
in special sessions; the number of en-
ployes is definitely fixed; sergeants-at-
arms, assistant clerks, and book keepers
are to have So per day, transcribing,
enrolling and engrossing clerks, proof
readers, assistant sergeants and post
masters, 81; all other clerks, and assist
ant postmasters, $3.50; door keepers,
firemen, portGrs. gallery attendants, night
watchman and janitors, So; messengers,
So.
A proposed constitutional amendment,
relative to the registry of voters, intended
to meet the objections of the supreme
court to the old law, was agreed to, and
will be put to the popular vote next fall.
1t was decided that the first biennial
session shall be held on the second
Wednesday of January, 1888.
The Attorney General and the Cover
nor were authorized to confer with the
general government and the parties
interested and secure an amicable settle
ment, if possible, of the controversy over
the Neenah dam.
Congress was memorialized to improve
the Mississippi aud its tributaries; to
build harbor of refuge on the east
shore of Lake Pepin; to improve the
Sturgeon Bay ship canal; to adopt Pend.
leton's civil service reform bill; to
suppress polygamy, and to settle the
claims of this state for certain tracts of
swamp and overfowed lands.
A state tax of half a million dollars
was ordered to be levied for this year.
State Journal.