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Chapter rs.

AN ACT to increase the compensation of the County
Commissioners of the county of York.
SECT l. From and after the first day of January
and ninety the salary of the county commission
ers of the county of York shall be the sum of two
dollars and fifty cents per day instead of the now
fixed by law, while actually employed in the service
OF the county, including the time actually spent in
travelling for which each shall have ten cents mile
for the distance actually travelled.
SECT 2 This act shall take effect when approved
Approved February 1Ol
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Chapter 23.

AN ACT to fix the salary of the County Attorney of
the county of Hancock =
SECT. l. On and after the first day of January
In the year of our Lord thousand eight hundred
ana the salary of the county attorney of
hancock county shall be four hundred dollars per
aLnnum, instead OF the sum now established by law.
SECT. z This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved February &c.
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or enects from an inn or boarding house, while there
Is lien existing thereon for the proper charges due
from him for fare and board furnished therein shall
De punished by Imprisonment not exceeding three
months or by fine not exceeding fifty dollars
Approved February 16.
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Chapter ~.

AN ACT to fix the salary of the County Attorney of
the county of Washington.
:. SECT. l. On and after the first day of January,
In the year OF our Lord thousand eight hundred
and ninety the salary of the county attorney of
washington county shall be five hundred dollars per
annum, payable in quarterly payments, instead of
the sum now established by law.
SECT 2. This act shall take effect when approved
Approved February 10.]
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Chapter 25.

AN ACT to amend section thirty five, chapter one
hundred and twenty-four of the Revised Statutes,
pOrtatiOn.
Section thirty five, chapter hundred and TWEEN
u1our OF the Revised Statutes is hereby amended by
inserting in the eighth line of said section after the
word own the words and other sucklings, that
SAID section when amended shall read as follows
SECT 80. Railroad companies within the state
shall give cars containing cattle, sheep swine or
other animals continuous ,sSage in preference to
other freight; and cars loaded with such animals at
any station shall nave precedence over al other
freight A greater number of animals shall not be
loaded into any than stand comfortably
therein. Animals of one kind only shall be loaded
In tn same apartment. Young animals should not
be loaded in the same apartment with those larger
and mature, except in case of dams with their owa
and other Stockings, which shall in all be trans
ported in the same apartment and separate from
other animals Calves shall have free to their
dams, and shall not be muzZed. During Dec mber
january, February and March, used for the
transportation fanimas shall be sufficiently boarded
on the sides and ends to afford proper protection to
such animals in of storms or severely cold
weather. Apr we'd February 81.
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Chapter is.

AN ACT to amend chapter ifty-eight of the Revised
Statutes, relating to the Board of Agriculture.
SECT l. Section three of said chapter is hereby
amended follows Strike out all between the word
session in the first line and the word ssat' in the
second line and inserting the word commencing be-
fore the word son" in the second line, so that said
section as amended, shall read as follows:
SECTION 3. The board shall hold business session
at the capitol annually, commencing the third
Wednesday of January for the election of officers
and perfectng of plans for the execution of the work
for the year.
SECT 2. Section four of said chapter is hereby
amended as follows: Strike out the word ssone' in
the second line and insert in lieu thereof the word
two also in the thirteenth line of said section strike
out the words fourteen hundred" and insert in lieu
thereof the words three thousand so that said sec
ton as amended, shall read as follows:
SECT. 4. The board, by it's secretary and one Of
It's members, shall hold annually, two farmers ins
tutes IN each county, and as many more as 1T deems
eXpedlent or finds practicable with the it's
disposal for the public discussion of topics relating
TO nusbandry either independently in connection
with any organization devoted to the same general
object, and 1t may issue bulletins, employ experts
lecturers, reporter, other aids to enhance the
usefulness OF said institutes to the public and SHALL
SO far as practicable aid and encourage agricultural
societies and associations in their efforts The mem
bers shall receive no compensation for time and
Wees but shall be reimbursed for expenses incurred
In the discharge of their duties, two dollars day
subsistence and six cents mile for travel The
whole expenses under this section Shall not exceed
three thousand dollars annually.
Approved February 10.
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Chapter 26.

AN ACT to fix the salary of the Judge of Probate tor
the county of Hancock.
SECT l. From and after the first day of January in
the year of our Lord thousand eight hundred and
nineyone the salary of the judge of probate for the
County OF Hancock shall be eight hundred dollars per
year. instead of the sum now fixed by law.
SECT. 2. This act shall lake effect when approved
Approved February 21.]
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Chapter 35.

AN ACT to amend section thirtyone of chapter forty
as amended by chapter two hundred and sixty
ofthe Public Laws of eighteen hundred and eighty
nye, ana chapter seventy-seven OF The Public Laws
Of eighteen hundred and eighty.seven, and chapter
two hundred and nine of the Public Laws of eigh-
teen hundred and eighty nine.
SECT. |. Section thirty-One ofchapter forty of the
Revised Statutes as amended by chapter two hundrec
and sixty OF the public laws of eighteen hundred
eighty-fve, and chap er seventyseve of the public
laws OF eighteen hundred and eighty seven, and
chapter two hundred and nine Of the public laws OF
eighteen hundred and eighty nine, is hereby amend
ed by Iestorlng IN INES seven and eight the words
as amended shall read rs follows:
SECT. 81 The following waters and their tributa.
ries exempt from provisions relating migratory
fishes and the supervision of 1shways by the commits
mouth, Sewelrs pond or its outlet in Arrowsic; SO
much of the waters of Damariscotta river are wesf
eastern Penobscot river in Orland, Winslows stream,
in PenobscOt; all waters in Vinalhaven, Buehili,
Turk river in Steuben, Pleasant river in Wash
ington county, and East Machias river.
SECT. 2 SO much Of chapter two hundred and nine
Of the public laws Of eighteen hundred and eighty
nine, relates to Wnslow's stream in Penobscot, il
hereby repealed Approved February 2l.l
Chapter 9S.
AN ACT in relation to prosecutions for violations Of
municipal ordinances and bylaws
In prosecution in any municipal police court
for violation of an ordinance bylaw of city
town. or of any bylaw Of a village corporation or
local board of health, it shall not be Necessary to re-
cite such ordinance or bylaw in the complaint or to
allege the offense more particularly than in prosecu
tions under general statute.
fApproved February 21.]
AN ACT to amend section ninety of the school
laws OF Maine.
Section ninety seven the school laws of Maine is
hereby amended as follows: that after the word
"ruin' in the asst line Of said section, it shall read
public schools of this state devote not less than
ten minutes OF each week Of the school term to teach
of kindness to birds and animals'
Approved February FL
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our LORD one thousand eight hundred and ninety one,
annual salary of five hundred dollars in quarterly
cobr on the rst days of January April July
ton twenty three of chapter eighty of the Revised
statutes and it is hereby further provided that the
sher1 OF said county shall receive any of his
deputies any of the fees earned by said deputies or
any percentage thereon after said date
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved
approved February D.
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chapter EJ.

AN ACT to fix the compensation of the Sheriff of the
county of Lincoln.
SECT l. The sheriff of the county of Lincoln, from
and after the first day of January in the year of
Lord thousand eight hundred and ninety-One,
shall receive an annual salary of two hundred and
fifty dollars in quarterly payments the first day of
January pril, July and October instead of the
pensation provided in section twenty three of chapter
eighty of the Revised Statutes, and is further pro-
from any of his deputies, any of the fees earned by
said depuiest or any percentage thereon after said
date.
SECT. 2 This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved February TO-
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Chapter 10.

AN ACT to make the first Monday in September of
each year Legal Holiday.
SECT. l. The first Monday in September Of each
year, being the day celebrated and known as labors
nonday is hereby madea legal public holiday to all
nltenIS ana purposes III the same manner Thanks
giving East and Christmas days, the twenty
day OF February, the thirtieth day of May, the
holidays.
SECT. 2. This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved February 101
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Chapter "a.

AN ACT amendatory of section thirty of Chapter
ninetyo of the Revised Statutes relating to Liens
on Buildings and Lots.
Section thirty of chapter nnety-one the Revised
Statutes, is hereby amended by inserting after the
word altering in the second line, the word NOV
ing and after the word "erected, in the ninth line
the words which moved so that said section
amended shall read as follows:
SECT. 80. Whoever performs labor, or furnishes
labor or materials in erecting, altering moving re-
pairing house, building appurenances, by virtue
of contract with by consent of the owner, has u
lien thereon, and on the land which it stands and
on any interest that such has in the same, to
secure payment thereof with COSTS to be enforced
attachment and if a levy is made thereon, the aD.
praisers set out suitable lot for said building if
they think that the whole is not needed therefor If
the building is erected, or to which it is moved the
lien attaches to the building and may be enforced as
before provided; and if the owner of such land or
building, so contracting, is minor, married
woman, such lien shall exist, and such minority OF
coverture shall not bar recovery in any brought
to enforce it,
Approved February 49,
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Chapter %.

Approved February Is. |
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Chapter go.

AN ACT to fix the salary of the Judge Probate for
Knox County.
SECT. |. From and after the first day of January
In the of our Lord thousand eight hundred and
the salary of the judge of probate Knox
county shall be three hundred and twenty five dollars
year.
SECT. z This act shall take effect when approved.
Approved February IL.
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AN ACT to provide for the appointment of Stcnogra
pher to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial
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AN ACT relating to the Annual Returns of Railroad
Corporations
SECT. i. Revised Statutes, chapter ffty-on sec.
ton sixty far amended that the annual returns
hereafter made by each railroad corporation shall
the year ending June thirteth instead of Sep
TENDER thrtieth and shall be made by September first
instead of by December first. For the year ending
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred ninety one the re-
shall be in the form required to be made for the
year to the Interstate Commerce Commission of
the United States each subsequent year in the
form required to be made for the year to the In
terstate Commerce Commission, with such additions
for any year may be prescribed before the begin
ming of the year by the railroad commissioners OF this
state.
SECT. O. The amounts 10 be assessed and paid upon
and by each railroad corporation under section forty
two of chapter six of the Revised Statutes and section
four of the act approved March thirteenth eighteen
hundred eighty nine, entitled can Act amendatory of
section one hundred thirteen chapter fifty of the
Revised Statutes, and additional to said chapter
lating to Railroad commissioners" shall be deter
mined in the year eighteen hundred ninety-two, and
IN each subsequent year. according to the gross trans
porat0n receipts for the preceding year ending June
thirtieth instead of September thirtieth.
LApproved january 80.
Chapter =.
AN ACT in relation to the compensation of the SherA
of the county of Washington
SECT /. The sheriff of the county of WASHINGTON
from and after the first day of january in the year
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-05
CONCERNING PRICES.
How the Tariff Law Affects the
Rates for Farm Produce and
Manufactures.
Figures Show That What the
Farmer Sells Brings Better Re-
turns Than a Year Ago.

The government of the United States
buys annually about S2,500,000 worth of
miscellaneous supplies for the Indians.
Advertisements descriptive of the things
needed and fixing date upon which pro-
posals for supplying them will be received
are posted in conspicuous public places for
some time previous to the reception of
bids. Each competitor, of course, offers
to supply the goods at the lowest possible
fgure. Prices SO fixed afford an excellent
basis of comparison of prices of COM
modities between any two years. The San
Francisco Chronicle has made use of the
data furnished by the records of the In
dian department 10 measure the Mckinley
prices humbug, with the result that it is
made to stand out with all the prominence
it has frequently occupied in the columns
of the American Economist. The two
points emphasized are: Agricultural pro-
ducts are the only ones that have advanced
in price Manufactures have, on the
whole, materially declined. We present
the testimony below:
Prices of farm produce, as fixed in public
competition for supplies for the Indians
in 1890, before the new tariff, and in
1891, under that tariff. The figures
show that prices for all the farmer has
to sell rule higher this year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-05

farmer for the beets without losing money
Farmers could not grow beets at so low a
price, and the nsequence was, so long as
these conditions remained unchanged,
that no beet sugar would be produced in
this country.
At this point the Mckinley law steps in
and guarantees 2 cents pound, in add1-
ton to the regular market price, for all
the sugar the manufacturer can produce.
This amounts to an additional 10 cents on
the sugar produced by 100 pounds Of beets,
and enables him to pay the farmer 20
cents hundred, which makes beet grow
ing profitable business 1t is plain that
! the farmer is the one who really receives
the bounty, although it is first paid to the
manufacturer.
If the farmer at any time believes or
discovers that the manufacturer is not
paying all he should for beets, but is put
ting the bounty into his own pocket, all
he has to do is to make his beets into
sugar himself and get the bounty direct.
If he has not sufficient capital, the farm
ers of neighborhood or township can
unite and build a joint factory for the
beets of all.
But there is little danger of the manu-
facturers making abnormal profits, for
there are millions of capital waiting for a
chance of investment. and its owners con-
tinualIy on the watch for some paying in
dustry in which to embark. They would
quickly find 1t out if the beet sugar makers
we're getting rich and would go into the
business themselves. This would increase
the demand for beets. Sugar-maker
Brown would bid against sugarmaker
Black for the farmers beets and their
prices would advance to the highest point
which the market price of sugar plus the
bounty would warrant
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-05
THE SILVER QUESTION.
The Republican Position as Stated by Majo,
Mckinley.

Mckinley.
Free and unlimited coinage of silver"
says Major Mckinley, would give the
profits to the silver producers Of the
world, instead of to the government of the
United States. You can buy to day 81 IA
grains Of pure silver, which constitutes
the silver dollar, in the mark
cts of ire world for seventy-six cents.
Free and unlimited coinage invites the
silver producers of the world to bring their
seventy-six cents worth of silver to the
minis of the United States, the govern
agreeing to coin that silver into a silver
dollar, and by its fat scompels people to
take it for one hundred cents, and the diff
ference between seventy-six cents, which is
the price OF silver to-day, and hundred
cents, which is the free value of the silver
dolla-, goes into the pockets of the silver
kings of the world, and if we had had
free and unlimited coinage in the last
twelve years, the seventy-seven millions of
dollars which was the seignorage or gain
to the government would have been dlvid-
ed among the silver producers of this
country and the silver producers Of the
| world.
THE republican position is, that if there
is to be airy profit in this matter of money
making, that profit should 60 to the gov
ernmept of the United States and not to
any class of our citizens. or any of our
silver producers of silver or otherwise
anywhere in the world. (Applaus.) When
we sell our labor or our crops we want to
get for it money that is as good as the
thing we give for that money, and we
want the thing we get to be unvarying in
value, not only coed to-day, but good
every day of every week of every year.
| Not only good in the United States, but
good where every trade goes. (Cries of
good, and applause.)
"In a word, we want no short dollar
| (appause); we want no short weight, we
| want no short measure. When the farmer
sells his bushel of wheat he is required to
give full bushel in measure; when he
gets his pay he is entitled to have full
dollar in value (cries of That is it, and
| applause; and short dollar always falls
most heavily upon the poor. The rich can
take care of themselves. They hoard the
best money and pay out the
poorest which will pass current under the
law.
why, there is general notion that If
we had free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer that we would have more money in the
United States Instead of having more
money, we would have less money, for
every dollar that is worth one hundred
cents would 90 out of circulation at the
very appearance of silver dollar that was
worth but seventysix cents, for will tell
you one hundred cent dollar won't keep
company with an eighty cent dollar. 1t
never has and it never will, applause
And if there is anything we have right
to demand of our government, it is that
the dollar that the government issues shall
be fixed and unvarying in value and rep
resent a full dollar in every mart and
market place in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-05
HAIR GREW AFTER DEATH.
Heavy Braids Ten Feet Long Found In q
Coffin Tu enty Years Buried.

Heavy Braids Ten Feet Long Found In q
Coffin Ts enty Years Buried.
A prominent citizen of Wa1 rem Summit,
N. H., recently caused the body of his
mother to be disjnterred for the purpose of
buryine it in another spot, when it was
found that the coffin was completely en-
wrapped with the strands of tie lady's
hair, even the grave being filed with the
silky masses. which had to be cut through
before the coffin could be removed. Upon
opening the coffin the remains, with the
exception of the head, were found to have
persisted, but the skull was wonderfully
preserved, and even the skin intact, and
from this had grown quantity OF BAR
such as no living person could carry. Ib~
lady has been dead nearly twenty years,
and at the time of her decease her magni-
fcent suit of hair had been clipped
short, so there is no doubt Of all that
was found in the coffin having grown after
death.
Her son says, however, that his
mothers hair was OF beautiful bright
golden hue, whereas the post -mortem
growth is of a pale, colcrless tinge, dingy
and coarse, though retaining sort Of
vitality. 1t had forced its way through
the seams of the coffin and twined about
it like the tendrils of vine, and was so
thick as to hide it completely, while it
filed the coffin as entirely. 1t was calcu-
lated that tuere was nearly seventy-fve
pound, of it in all and that the strands
were fully ten feet in length. The lady
on whose head this grew died at the age
of q and after an illness of only few
hours, consequently retaining her robust
and fuil-habited figure, which may posi-
bly, account for the extraordinary growth.
When it was removed from about
the coffin the latter fell apart, showing
that it had held together by the hair
Exchange
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-05
BELT SUGAR BJUNTY.
An Ehec Answer to the Question "Whs
Gels It?'

The American Economist answers the
question which Is often asked, does the
farmor or the sugar manufacturer receive
the bounty on beet sugar?
The Manufactures receives it from the
govern mcnt and turns it over to the fan
mer in pa5 ment for his beets. Without a
bounty the manufacture of beet sugar
could not, at its present stage of develop
mept in this country, b. successfully car
ried on. TIE sugar maker was in a con
dition somewhat as follows: He found
that say 100 pounds Of beets would pro-
duce pounds of sugar, which would sell
for say 4 cents pound; or 20 cents. He
knew it would cost him so much in inter
est on capital invested, wear and tear of
machinery, deterioration of plants. wages
and other expenses incident to working
the beets into sugar, that he could not
possibly pay over 10 cents hundred to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-05

Pork, California, per Dbl IA 90 Is IS
Prices of manufactures, as fixed in public
competition for supplies for the Indians
in 1890, before the Mckinley bill pass
ed, and in 1891, under the new law.
The figures show that present prices are
lower
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-11-05
COUNTY CLERKS LIST
OFFICE OF COUNTY CLERK,

Wood County, WISCONSIN,.
NOTICE u HEREBY GIVEN. That the fol
~ lowing described lands were sold 10y the
County Treasurer the 2lst day of May, a. ID.
1889 for the and charges thereon for the year
Of 1888, and The same are yet unredeetned in this
ssice and tn holders of certificates of sale of
said lands vii be entitled TO a deed thereof III
accordance with the laws OF this state, unless re-
deemed on or before the z1st day of May, A. D..
is92. The TN rest and charges, including re
ismption fees are to be computed to the last day
redemption.
Given nder my hand and seal at Grand
,kkAL Rap Is, Wisconsin, this 18th day OF
August, A. D. 1891.
1T. YOUNG,
County Clerk, Wood County. Wisconsin.
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ATBURNDALE.
Town o, Range East
VILLAGE 0FAUBURKDALE.

Town o, Range East
UAknown east part Of % sv. sec. . 3
do W y lot 2 blk 10
do south OF 4. R. biz
Unknown. Commencing on the u line rum
ming north and south through sc. -
16S IT. north of center OF w. c. r r
and 80 Il. east Of said Il line running east
40 #, thence north 15s IT., thence west
ia t., thence south 153 tt. to place or
KArttng.
Unknowu. Commencing 164 #. east of
southeast corner of block 8 and running
north $50 it., thence east 96 it., thence
south $50 it,. thence west G6 # to place
OF starting. 3
Unknown. All Of sw Il of Sc Il of sec. %
south OF w. c. r. R., not otherwise listed 2
Unknown Commencing 30 #. north and
74A IT. west OF the Sc cor. of sec. -.
and running north IS it,, thence west 81
II. thence south IS #. thence east 81 fl.
70 place OF starting