Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-19
Published April Z, 1882. ]

Published April :, 1921
CHAPTER 298
AN ACT to amend chapter 121 laws of 1879 re-
specung the attendance of children at school and
records thereof.
The people of the state of Wisconsin. represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Section of chapter l21 laws of 1879 ia
hereby repealed and the following is substituted
therefor: Section 2. The school district board or
the board of education after having given notice. as
now required by law for special school meetings. shall
meet at the schoolhouse in their respective districts
or at some other place to be designated in such no.
tice, on the first Monday of September in each wear
or within fifteen days hereafter fer the purpose of
nearing causes for the nou-attendance upon the
pubic school of all children in such districts be-
tween the ages of seven and fifteen years. And all
parents, guardians other persons having charge
OF such children, shall appear and show cause for
such non-attendance; and if such parent, guardian
or other person shall claim exemp ton from the pro-
visions OF this act on the ground that his child or
ward has attended some other school than the pub
lie school of such d1f tric he shall file with the clerk
written statement showing what school such child
or ward attended, and the number of days of such
attendance within the year ending on the thirty
day OF August next preceding, and the district clerk
at such meeting shall make list of all children
siding IN the district who have lot attended the
public school for the time required by this chapter,
and shall note. opposite the name of EACH whether
such child is exempt from the provisio rs of this
chapter and, if exempt, the cause for such exemu-
ton.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after it's passage and publication
Approved March go 1892
published April T. 1897
CHAPTER 2O1,
AN ACT to amend section 1 of chapter I19 of the
laws of 1881, in relation to fences
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l.. Section of chapter 119 of the laws of
1881 is hereby amended as follows: BY striking out
the word "forty" where it occurs in the ninth line
of said section, and by inserting the words thirty
six each in lieu thereof, that the section when
80 amended shall read as follows: All fences not
less han fftyfour inches high, consisting of boards
firmly fastened to posts well set, not more than nine
feet apart the space between the ground and bottom
board and each space between the boards not more
than eight inches; and all fences consisting of five
barbed wires with at least thirty-six barbs each to
the rod, firmly fastened to posts well set, not
than sixteen feet apart with good stay between
The top wire not less than fortyeght inches high at
the place of attachment, and the bottom wire not
more than seven inches from the ground, and the
space between the bottom and second wire not more
than seven inches, and the spacebetween the second
and third wires not than eight inches, and the
space between the third and fourth wires not more
than twelve inches and the space between the fourth
and top wire not more than sixteen inches the above
mentioned spaces to be measured at the place of at
tachment and all fences consisting of rails, timbers
wires, boards or stone walls any combination
thereof, and all brooks, rivers, ponds, creeks
considered equivalent to the board barbed wire
fence herein provided for in Judgment of the fence
viewers within whose jurisdiction the same may be-
shall be deemed legal and sufficient fences Fences
on marsh lands may be made by ditch or by a
fence combined with ditch bitches, not exceeding
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taken from or equal space occupied on each side Of
the division line.
Section q This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and pubicat ton.
Approved March "a, 1882.
Published April 7, 1892
CHAPTER IT'S.
AN ACT TO regulate commitments to and discharges
from industrial schools.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact follows:
Section l. III all cases of commitments hereafter
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dustrial school within this state, the sentence and
order therefor shall be that the child sentenced shall
be received and kept at the school therein to be
named, until he she shall be thence dis
charged, transferred to other industrial
school according to law and all sentences and orders
for commitment of children to such schools, whether
in form as above prescribed or otherwise shall be
construed and understood to mean that said children
shall be kept therein until so discharged or trans
ferred.
Section O. The managers of any industrial school
within this state are hereby authorized and empow-
cred to release discharge therefrom any inmate at
such times and upon such terms and conditions as
to them shall to be most for the future benefit and
advantage of such inmate provided, that after the
first day of May, 1882, no person shall be detained
in any such school, against his or her WILL after such
person shall have reached the age of eighteen years.
Except girls who shall have been convicted and
sentenced to such industrial school for an offense
against chastity and such may be detained in the dis
erection of the managers until they twenty years
OF age.
Section 8. Any person who shall have been condi-
tonaly released from any industrial school in this
state may be returned thereto by any person upon
the request order consent of the managers there
of, and shall be kept and detained therein upon the
original sentence and order of commitment, in the
same manner as though there had been release in
the case.
Section 4. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with
the provisions of this act are hereby repealed
Section 5. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 81 1882
Published April Z, 1921
CHAPTER 194.
AN ACT tn amend sectioD oh mfr
statutes, entitled "of evidence"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows:
Section 1. Section 1895 of the revised statutes of
1878 is hereby amended by inserting after the word
party, in the third line of said section, the words
''or in case corporation be party, the examina-
ton of the PRESIDENT secretary, other principal off,
Ger or managing agent Of such corporation"
that, when amended, said section shall read as fol-
lows: Section 4096. No action tc obtain discovery
under oath, in aid of the prosecution defense of
another action, shall be allowed; but the examina-
ton Of party, or, in corporation be party,
the examination of the president, secretary, other
principal officer or general managing agent of such
corporation, otherwise than as a witness trial,
may be taken by deposition at the instance of the
adverse party, in any action proceeding, at any
time after the commencement thereof and before
judgment. Such deposition shall be taken before
a judge at chambers, on previous notice to such
party, and any other adverse party, their
spective attorneys of at least five days; it may be
taken without the state upon commission, in the
manner provided for taking other depositions. The
attendance of the party to be examined may be
PEELED upon subpoena and the payment or tender Of
his fees witness; and such examination shall be
subject to the same rules that Of any other wit
ness but he shall not be compelled to disclose any,
thing not relevant to the controversy. On motion,
and one days notice. the court, or presiding judge
thereof in which the action proceeding is pend
ing, may, before the examination is begun, by ORDER
limit the subjects to which such examination shall
extend but the party examining shall in all cases
be allowed to examine upon oral interrogateries.
Such examination shall not be compelled in any
other county than that in which the party to be
amined resides.
Section 2. This act shall be in force from and after
its passage and publication.
Approved March %, 1852.
Published April 7, 1891
CHAPTER 239.
AN ACT relating to the Of damages in
actions to recover possession of logs, timber
lumber wrongfully cut from the lands of another,
the value thereof, and amendatory of section
1869 of the revised statutes of 1878.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 1869 Of the revised statutes of
lte year A. D. 1878 is hereby amended by adding
thereto at the end thereof the folloTing Provided
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