Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-26
THE LEGISLATURE.
MONDAY, MARCH 16.


amend section 1447 of the revised stat
utes relating to cemeteries; to protect
game and the shipment thereof; to
authorize the city of Chippewa Ealls to
issue bonds; the bill to fix the salary of
the state librarian passed unanimously;
also, a bill disseminating q part of a
state road in the counties of Barron
and Polk; also, TO regulate the practice
of dentistry. and establish a state board
of dental examiners; to provide apart
mentS fer the Wisconsin academy of
sciences, arts and letters; and to author
ize the granting of unlimited state GER
titicates to the graduates of the normal
department of the Milwaukee high
school; and to create the town of Glen
wood in st CrOix county; but the bill to
authorize the county of Amherst. in
Portage county, to appropriate certain
moneys to build town ball, was in
definitely postponed.
House-In the assembly bills passed ::
Relating to attachments in Justices
courts; to discontinue a certain state
road in Jackson county; to amend the
revised statutes relating to free high
schools; to authorize the city Of Chip
pewa Falls to issue bonds for the pur-
pose of paying its Indebtedness; to cor
rect certain errors in the statutes re-
lating to assessing and collecting taxes:
to appropriate to the Southwestern In
dustrial association $500 for 1885 and
5000 for 1886.
The governor submitted a communi-
cation enclosing joint resolution of the
Minnesota legislature relating to a
change of the boundary line between the
two states. The following is a joint res
olution:
WHEREAS, 1t is believed to be the common in
tereSt OF The several communities in Wisconsin
and Minnesota, lying in the vicinity of the river
and bay of Saint Louis, and the b avs of Saint
Louis and Duluth that the same should consti-
tute parts of our commonwealth, in order that
their natural and harmonious commercial devel-
opment may not be unfavorably affected by the
artificial barriers interposed by state lines there
fore be it
ResoIUed, by the legislature of the state of Min
neSota, that the state of Wisconsin be, and is
hereby respectfully requested to consent to such
a change in the northern portion of the boundary
line between the two states will transfer TO the
state OF Minnesota SO much OF the county of Doug
las in the state of Wisconsin as may be agreed
upon by commissioners appointed by the respec-
tive states as hereinafter provided.
That the governor of this state is hereby auth
oriZed to appoint in behalf of this state three COM
missioners to confer with similar commissioners
to be appoint ed by the state of Wisconsin with
respect TO the mutual deSirability of the change
of boundary hereinbefOro mentioned, and with re-
spect to the terms and conditions thereof; and
that the state of Wisconsin is hereby respectful
ly requested to appoint similar commissioners to
confer upon said subject with the commissioners
so appointed by the state.
That the secretary of state is hereby request
ed to transmit forthwith to the governor of the
state of Wisconsin certified copy of this resolu-
ton.
Approved this seventh day of March, A D.,
eighteen hundred and eiehty-flve 1805).
TUESDAY, MARCH II.
SenGte.-In the senate bills passed:
Relating to the graduates of free high
schools, granting than certificates or
diplomas. In relation to the transfer of
insane, and leave Of absence from insti-
buttons. Relating to a commitment
and detention of insane. Memorial to
Congress in relation to the improvement
or the Wisconsin and Fox rivers. To
organize the town of Grant. To
amend the charter of che CITY of Wau-
sau. Bills were concurred in: To in
corporate the city of Fort Atkinson.
To authorize a Jam on the Wisconsin
river. Relating to the liability of tele-
graph companies for negligence in re-
celvlng, copying, or transmitting or
delivering dispatches. To amend the
revised statutes IL relation to weights
and measures. To loan portion Of the
trust funds to the city of Kewaunee.
| Relating to special powers of county
boards and amendatOry of section 800,
revised statutes. To prohibit the use of
the words bank, banking, or banking
houses, in certain cases. To prescribe
| certain duties of state treasurer. To
provide for perpetuatiOn of the records
of the state land office. For the pur-
chase of s, 900 additional copies of the
blue book at 80 cents per copy. Ayes
| 90, noes 6. Assembly bills indefinitely
postponed: To amend section 1919, re-
vised statutes, IN relation to highways.
| Senate bills indefinitely postponed:
Relating to voluntary assignments. and
amendatory of section 2 of chapter 346,
laws of 1888. To appropriate $1,000 to
st. Luke's hospital, IN Chippewa Falls.
To grant municipal suffrage to wo-
men.
Hoatse-The assembly passed bills to
amend subdivisions l and of section
3572 Of the revised statutes, relating to
Jurisdiction of Justices III civil actions;
to amend section of chapter $40, laws
of 1888, relating to suppression of
| vagabondage; to amend section 695 of
chapter SO of the statutes Of 207S, relat-
ing to compensation of members of
county boards; to amend section 2313,
wv
fraudulent conveyances relating to per-
sonal property; to amend section 1,
chapter 249 of the laws of 1883, entitled
an act in relation to certain proceed
ings in cases of attachment and garnish-
ment, and to repeal sectien 2758 of the
| revised statutes; relating to the NUM-
cipal court for Barron county, and con-
| ferring the powers of court commits
sieners upon the judges thereof; to
amend section 1 of chapter 1877 of the
general laws OF 1882, entitled an act to
regulate the practice Of pharmacy, the
licensing of persons to carry On such
practice, and the sale of poisons in the
state of Wisconsin,; to amend chapter
4s, section 1888, of the revised statutes,
regarding the assessment of taxes; to
amend section 2753 of the revised stat
utes, entitled "of garnishment:' to
amend section 1926 of the revised stat
utes, relating TO release of dover: to
facilitate the sale of certain piece of
| land therein described; to prescribe
more fully the duties of county superin-
| tcndents of schools; to fix the compen-