Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-13
CHAPTER 076.
CHAPTER 275.
AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of re-
1ipiouS missionary societies.


Section !. Any male persons, not less than ten
In number, tweIfty zone years of age, who are
members of churches of any religious sect or de-
nomination, which churches have been or may
hereafter be incorporated under the laws of Wis
conSin, and are then maintaining regular public
worship, may organize corporation for religious
missionary purposes in the manner hereinafter
provided.
Section q Such persons shall sign anG &C
knowledge before some officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgements of deeds GER
tifeate substantially in the following form:
'Know all men by these presents, that the I'M
dersigned (here insert the names of the signers)
members of churches incorporated under the
laws of Wisconsin, and now maintaining regular
public worship, and all other persons who are or
may become associated with them for the pur-
poses herein specified have organized themselves
in religious society to be located in (here insert
name of town, city or village) in the county of
-, in the state of Wisconsin, for religious
missionary purposes, which society shall be
known and incorporated by the name of (here in
sert the name)" And each such person so sign
ing sucn certificate shall add or cause to be
added Immediately after his signature the follow
ing: Member of this denomination church at
WISE other designat
ing the church of which he Is such member And
they shall record the same in the Office of the reg
lister of deeds of such county, and when such
titicate shall have been so recorded the society
named therein shall be q corporation, and shall
possess the powers and privileges granted to cor
porations by chapter IS of the revised statutes
far the same is applicable or necessary to ac-
complish its purposes, and also such as are con-
ferred by this chapter.
Section g. Such corporation may, by its consti-
tuition and by laws, fix the terms and qualifca-
tions of membership and office therein, may pro-
vide rules for the government of the society and
its officers, and fix the number of its trustees, not
less than three nor more than -, their terms
of office and the manner OF appointing or elect
ing the same.
Section 4. Such corporations may take and re-
ceive by gift, grant, purchase otherwise and
hold and use, both real and personal estate for
the purposes for which it has been Incorporated
other. lease mortgage. sell
otherwise dispose of the same any portion
thereof at pleasure
affairs of such corporation shall be administered
by the board of trustees. It shall appoint q
clerk secretary and treasurer with power ts
remove the same and shall cause accurate rec
ords Of all its proceedings and of all business OF
such society to be kept, and such board of trus-
tees shall have the custody and management of
the corporate property and shall be governed in
its official acts by the rules of its society applca
BILE thereto and not inconsistent rith the laws of
this state and it may adopt and have corporate
seal and alter the same at pleasure. No failure
to elect trustees at the proper time shall work
dissolution of any corporation organized under
this chapter, and those once elected shall hold
their offices until their successors are elected.
The signerS of such certificates shall constitute
the first board of trustees directors and in like
manner shall hold their offices until their sue
cesSors are elected.
Section 6. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication
Approved April 3 1885.
CHAPTER 449
AN ACT 20 facilitate the giving of bonds requtr.
ed by law.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
section l. Any company, with paid-up capt.
tai of not less than two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, incorporated and organized under the
laws of any state of the United States for the pur
pose OF transacting business as surety on obliga-
lions OF persons or corporations, and which has
complied with all the requirements of the law
regulating the admission of such companies to
transact business in the state, may upon pro-
duct1On OF evidence of Solvency and credit SatiS~
factory to the judge, head of the department or
other officer authorized to approve such bond, be
accepted as surety upon the bond of any person
or corporation required by thehws of this state
to execute bond, and if su&hsaarety company
shall furnish satisfactory evidence of its ability
70 provide all the security required by law, no
additional surety may be exacted, but other
surety may, in the discretion of the official
authorized to approve such bond, be required
and such surety may be released from its liability
on the same terms and conditions as are by law
prescribed for the release of individuals 1t being
the true intent and meaning of this act to enable
corporations created for that purpose to become
the surety on bonds required by law subject to
all the rights and liabilities of private parties.
The certificate of the commissioner ofinsurance
for the state of Wisconsin, to the effect that from
the certificates and other evidences file in his
Office, 1t appears that the surety company is sol
vent to an amount at least four times the penalty
of the proposed bond or undertaking shall be and
the same hereby is made equivalent 10 the iusti-
fication of sureties required by law.
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any bond as surety under the provisions of this
act, shall be estopped, in any proceedings to en-
force the liability which it shall have assumed to
incur, to deny Its corporate power to execute
such instrument or assume such liability.
Section 5. This act shall take effect from and
after its passage and publication.
Approved April IL. 1885.
CHAPTER S55.
AN ACT relating to the alteration of school dis
tricts, and amendatory of section 412, of chapter
81, of the revised statutes.
The people of the state of WISCONSIN, represented
in senate and assembly do enact as follows:
Section l. Section 412, of chapter q of the
vised statutes of 1878, is hereby amended as to
read as follows: Section l. The town board III
each town in this state shall have power to form
and alter districts in the manner hereinafter set
forth; provided that every school district shall be
of contiguous territory and shall not embrace
more than thirty-siX square miles of land, and
that whenever any school district which has by
vote contracted a debt shall be altered by taking
territory from it before such debt is fully paid
such altera ton shall be made to leave to the
district from which such territory Is taken IN
debtedness exceeding five per centum on the val
ne of the taxable property therein, to be ascer-
tainad by the last assessment for state and cOun-
ty taxes previous to the mourning of such 1ndebt
edness.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and afer its passage and publication.
Approved April 8, 1885.
CHAPTER $685.
AN ACT concerning insurance companies and to
authorize insurance commissioners to sue for
and collect penalties.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. It is hereby made the duty of the
commissioner of insurance to prosecute to final
Judgment in the name of the state or to compro-
mise settle or compound sery forfeiture incurred
by any insurance corporation by its failure to
comply with. or for its violation of any law of
this state, OF which he may be credibly Informed.
Section 2. One-half of every sum collected,
paid or received by virtue of section of this act
shall be paid into the state treasury and the re-
mainder shall belong to the commissioner OF in
surance, who shall pay all expenses incurred in
prosecuting all actions brought to enforce the
payment of such forfeitures, both in and out of
the state, and shall pay all expenses incident to
the collection of such forfeitures.
Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication
Approved April IL, 1885.
CHAPTER 241
AN ACT to amend section 49, of revised statutes,
relating to common schools.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Amend section 472, of chapter q,
revised statutes, by striking out the words ION
demand at any time he has received the equaliZed
assessment roll of said town." where they occur
in the seventeenth and eighteenth lines of said
section, and insert in lieu thereof the words
''shau on or before the last Monday of September
In each year." that said section 472 after being