Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-02-14

r LAW VI DO III relatloH 10 county r0luS,
re-enacting the old law on the sub
. ject and permitting town electors to
/, determine at annual meetings b: a
ma jority vote whether road taxes shall
, be paid In money or work; by Mr..
. Woller, permitting county boards to
borrow money to pay current expenses
in sum not exceeding twenty per
!, cent. of the amount Of the last pre-
Z ceding tax roll; by Mr.. Rosenkranz, re-
= quiring railways to grant stop-over
: privileges on all first-class or coupon
tickets, for 90 days and making all
/. such tickets good till used; by Mr..
Miller, legalzing the act of the town of
. Melrose, Jackson county in bonding
itself to build two iron bridges; also
authorizing county judges to give full
instruction as to how to administer
{ estates not exceeding In value $1,000
and over where there are no contests
and to furnish all blanks necessary to
t facilitate administration; by Mr.
| Spaulding, altering the method by
which high schools may be established
by Mr.. Marsh, permitting town drug
glstS, church and other mutual fire in
surance companies to print on stand
ard fire insurance companies special
matters; by Mr.. Frazer, providing that
town boards of supervisors shall com
prise three persons, one of whose
terms shall be for three years, one for
two years and one for one year. The
supervisor elected every third year
shall be chairman; by Mr.. Werhen,
requiring railways to properly main
tain crossings OF new highways built
over their lines; by Mr.. $. S. Jones,
| regulating the manufacture and sale
Of adulterated dairy products, requir-
ing them to be plainly marked wher-
ever offered for sale; by Mr., d. X.
Smith, amending the statute so as to
make any fence a legal fence which
fence views may deem sufficient to
turn domestic stock: by Mr.. Bradbury,
detachng the towns of MuScadO, Cas-
tie Rock, Hickory Grove, Watertown,
| Woodman, Boscobel, Marion and Mill
vile from Grant county and attach
ing them to Crawford and making
Boscobel instead of Prairie du Chen
the county seat of Crawford county,;
| by Mr. YaWkey, creating lumber in
spcction district No. IL by Mr., Lee
requiring any candidates for county
superintendent shall hold teachers
certificates; that in counties where the
superintendent salary is $500 or
more the minimum qualification shall
be Il tirst-grade certificate, where the
salary is less than $500 a second grade
certificate and In either case the can
dldate must have Mt least one years
experience as Il teacher
Madison, Feb. Sim the senate bills
were introduced: by Senator Brown,
to create commission to regulates the
navigatio on the Wisconsin river and
| its tributaries; also, to compel county
supervisors to provide private high
ways where a persons property Is
surrounded by that of othes; by Sen
ator " ithee, to create the office of
bank examiner ut a salary of $4,000
with a deputy with salary of $500
and travelling expenses for both; by
Senator Woodworth, to define pen
atty $50 to 500 for selling liquor to
minors or In prohibited places; by
| Senator Conger, to allow the killing
of mink at any time in counties where
| there are trout brooks; by Senator
| Mills, to decrease the number of county
supervisors to three with three year
terms and dividing counties into three
| supervisor districts, supervisors to be
| elected at the time OF elccting town
officers and terms of office to expire
one each year; 10y Senator Putnam,
changing the number of members of
the board Oh control from six to five;
also, to compel county officers to return
farm product statistics and fixing a
penalty from So to $50 for not so
doing; also, reducing the salaries of
supreme court justices from $4,000 to-
$500; also, to reorganize the state
land office so as to provide for chief
clerk at $1,000 a year and for four
assistants at 81 900 each
In the assembly bills were-.intro-
duccd: by Mr. Lange, forbidding
towns, cities or villages from making
water or lighting contracts for more
than one year; by Mr. Thomas, chang
ing the boundaries of Chippewa and
Sawyer counties and creating the
county OF Rusk; by Mr.. Frost, re-
Quiring iishways to be placed in all
dams; by Mr.. Shcllenbcrg, requiring
Il uniform minimum liquor license of
500 in towns with the privilege now
existing of increasing it by vote; by
Mr.. Treat, by request, for the fornG
tion OF Joint school district In the
towns Of Monroe and Washington,
Monroe county: by Mr.. Boncel, re-
Qulrlng telephone companies to pay
I taxes on all their real property In al
dlton to that on gross earnings; by
) Mr.. Arson. making the biennial appro-
pration to the various state instttu-
tinn for maintenance and improve
mcnts amounting to So3S,oO0 in the
aggregate.