The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-04-11
CHAPTER 12S

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laws of 1879. entitled "an act 10 regulate the
time for holding the general terms Of the cir
cult court in the eighth ludiciG circuit, and to
authorize the circuit judge OF said court 10 ap-
point special terms therein
The people of the state of Wiscou in, represented
IN senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Section one OF an act entitled IAN
act TO regulate the time for holding the general
terms of the circuit court III the eighth judicial
circuit and to authorize the circuit Judge Of said
court TO appoint special terms therein gpprOyeti
February 2l, 1879, is hereby amended hy striking
out the words third Monday" in the last line OF
said section, and inserting in lien thereof the
words second Monday" SO that said section
circuit court in the eighth judicial circuit shall
he held as follows: In the county of Buffalo, on
the fourth Monday Of February and on the fourth
Monday of October; in the county of Dunn, on
the second Monday of March and on the second
Monday of September in the county Of Eau
Claire, on the fourth Monday OF March and on
the fourth Monday of September In the county
OF Pepin, on the third Monday Of April aud on
the third Monday of October; in the county Of
Pierce, on the second Monday of June and on the
second Monday OF December; in the county of
ST. Croix, on the Second Monday Of May and on
the second Monday of November
Section 2 All acts or parts of acts inconsistent
with this act are hereby repealed.
Section 8. This act shall take effect and be IN
force from and after July l, 1885.
Approved March 25r 1885.
CuAPTER S.
AN ACT TO secure the wages due employees and
laborers from railway corporations in GER
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. Whenever any railway CORPORATION
in this state shall become the successor of pre-
existing railway corporation, it shall become
charged and liable Tor the amount then due the
employees and laborers upon said road tor period
not exceeding six months prior to becoming sucn
successor
Section .. This act shall take effect and be IN
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March Is, 1885.
CHAPTER 102.
AN ACT relating to highways, and amendatory
OF section 1894, OF chapter So, of the revised
statutes, entitled 'of highways and bridges"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. Section 1894, of chapter 81, of the
revised statutes of 1873, is hereby amended by
adding to said section the following words: land
in case any such laid out highway shall not have
been fully and sufficiently described or recorded,
il such records have been lost or DESTROYED, the
presumptiye evidence shall be that the same were
originally designed to be of the width of four
rods so that said section when amended shall
read as follows Section 1894 Every public high
way already laid out, or which shall hereafter be
laid out, shall cease to be considered public
highway ut the expiration OF four years from the
time when it was so laid out, except such parts
thereof as shall have been opened, Travelled or
WORK ed within such time, and all public highways
now in rse, heretofore laid out and established,
pursuant 10 law, and all roads not recorded which
shall have been or shall be used ana worked as
public highways ten years or more shall be
deemed public highways except that roads and
bridges built upon the bottoms and sloughs of the
Mississippi river in this state by citizens or mu
inequalities OF any other state, shall not become
LEGAL highways or charge upon the town in
which they situated unless upon petition they
are legally laid out by the supervisors OF such
town, and in case any such laid out highway
shall not have been fully and sufficiently de
scribed or recorded, or if such records have been
lost or destroyed, the presumptiye evidence shall
be that the same were originally laid OF the width
OF four rods
Section II. This act shall take effect and be In
force on and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 10, 1885.
CHAPTER 1O1.
AN ACT relating 10 foreign life and accident IN
surance corporations, and amendatory of sec
tion 1877 of the revised statutes.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. Section 1917 of the revised statute 4,
OF Wisconsin is hereby amended by adding at the
end OF said section the following: Provided, that
IN case any such lie accident insurance cor
Doratlon organized under the laws of any other
state or country, having procured license as here
in provided shall remove or make appl cation TO
remove into any court of the United States any
action or proceeding begun in any cOur OF this
state upon claim or cause OF action arising out
OF any business or transaction done in this State
1t shall be and is hereby made the 'mUcratiye
duty of the commissioner of insurance to revoke
any and every authority license or ertitcate
granted to such corporation or any ageni thereof,
10 transact any business in this state, aud such
corporation or agent thereof shall hereafter
transact any business of insurance in this state
TILL again duly authorized, and no re- eWaI,
lcen-e or certificate OF authority shall be granted
to such corporation for three years after such rev.
ocation; and provided further, that If the
license of any such corporation shall be revoked
as aforesaid, the attorney last appointed and the
agents last designated acting such for it
shall continue attorney and agents for the pur-
pose of serving process for beginning actions
upon any policy or liability incurred or con-
raced in this state, while it transacted business
therein, 30 long as any such liability shall exist
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force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 10, 1885.
CHAPTER 1872.
AN ACT to amend section 2400 of chapter l12, of
the revised statutes, entitled " of the Supreme
Court" and to provide for the appointment Of
certain messengers and copyists.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate end assembly, do enact as follows:
section l. Section 2400, of the revised statutes,
is hereby amended so that it shall read follows:
Section 400. Such justices may appoint three
messengers and copyisLs, to render such assist
ance III the performance of the duties OF the JUS
tices as they may require. They may remove any
of the persons so employed at pleasure, and may
appoint others in the places of any whose en-
ployment has terminated. The chief justice or
in case he is absent, one of the other justices,
shall certify TO the secretary of state from time to
time, the name of each person so appointed, and
the dates, respectively, of the commencement and
termination of his service. The compensation of
each of said appointees shall be seyenty-tive dol
lars per month, and the same shall be audited by
the secretary of state and paid on his warrant
therefor, out of any money in the state treasury
not otherwise appropriated; provided, however,
the governor may appoint messenger for the
state librarian who shall receive for his services
the compensation above named. He may also
appoint one or more janitOrs, when necessary,
for services in and about the library and rooms
pertaining TO the supreme court and fix his or
their com pensaton.
Section q This act shall take effect from and
after its passage and publication.
Approved March 25, 1885.
CHAPTER 1l3
AN ACT TO amend section 81, Of the revised stat
utes, concerning the purchase of books for the
state library, and increasing the appropriation
therefor.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows
Section l. Section 81, of the revised statutes is
hereby amended so to read as follows: The
trustees shall procure for the library from time
to time, such law books books of reference and
works on political science and statistics, but no
others, they shall think reasonably necessary
or desirable. There is hereby appropriated for
the purchase OF paying tor such books two thou
sand dollars per year. The accounts for such
purchases shall be audited by the secretary of
state upon affidavits by the state librarian that
the books have been received in the library,
and upon approval thereof by the trustees or
Section 2 This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March 20, 1885.
CHAPTER Sc.
AN ACT 10 repeal chapter 20, of the private and
chapter l2l, general laws of 1868, entitled an
act relative to compensation of county judges D."
The people of thestate of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact follows:
Section1- Chapter 40, of the private and local
laws of 1872 entitled ''an act TO amend chapter
121 general laws Of 1865, entitled IAN act relative
to compensation Of county judges, is hereby
repealed.
Section q This act shall take effect and be In
force from and after December 81, 1885.
Approved March Is, 1885.
CHAPTER ia.
AN ACT to provide apartments for the Wisconsin
Academy Of Sciences, Arts and Letters, in the
Capitol.
The people OF the state of Wisconsin, represented
q senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. The governor is authorized to assign
10 the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and
Letters suitable rooms in the Capitol for the
meetings of the Academy, the preservation Of is
library, and the proper exhibition of its collec-
tions, including the specimens gathered by the
state geologIsJ and his assistants during the state
geological survey, now in the possession of the
Academy.
section q This act shall take effect upon its
passage
Approved March 19, 1885.
CHAPTER 10
AN ACT 10 amend section 24S3, chapter I13, Of