Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-04-25

providing that registers in probate
shall also be county clerks; giving |
town insurance companies the session /
laws since 1873; requiring the use of /
non-combustiIe gun-wadding during /
the dry season: Withdrawing all state
lands from the market for the present; |
increasing the salary Of supreme court
judges from 5000 to $500; reducing
those salaries to $500; making the Of
flee Of supreme court reporter elective;
limiting the tenure Of office of county
treasurerS TO one term; requiring dis
trict schools to be open eight months
year instead Of six; providing IT,
railway companies shall place gates al
all crossings in cities and villages;
permitting public officers to have
guaranty companies as their sureties;
permitting town insurance companies
to print special matter on their pol
icies; eliminating the $4,000 maximum
damage limit for loss OF life; permit
ting town boards and mayors to ap-
point justices of the peace when va
cancies occur: for the licensing of sta
tionary engineers; making incurable
insanity cause for divorce; regulating
the sale Of virus; establishing a med
zeal council and examining boards;
compelling railway companies to use
a device that will keep trains up
right after derailment; creating the
counties Of Rusk, Rivers,
Garfield, Upham, and 4adisson,
and changing the boundaries
of Washburn, Sawyer Burnett. Chip
peWa. Clark, Taylor, Grant and Craw-
ford; making the offices of county
clerk and register OF deeds SaIaried:
giving the chairman of county boards
the veto power: exempting mortgages
on real estate from taxation; permit
ting citizens not lawyers to
appear for parties in
probate matters; establishing
boards of Cancellation and to keep
controversies away from lawyers and
out Of courts; forbidding the coloring
OF vinegar; creating an agricultural
experiment station in northern Wis
consin; requiring wild animals to be
Gagged on the public streets; forbidding
towns, cities or villages to make
water, gas Or electric contracts for
more than one year; creating an his
tOrical commission; inhibiting public
exhibitions of hypnotism; appropriate
ing $4,000 for the purchase of cram
berry vines for fire sufferers; chang
ing the rate of interest on tax GER
titicates, comforting police powers on
humane society officers; raising the
penalty for horse stealing from two
to four years; giving circuit judges
authority to appoint bailiffs; forbid
ding insurance agents from acting
as assessors; making 6 the minimum
school age; requiring public school
teachers to be past g years old: for
bidding the existence Of the A. 2. A:
establishing an official interpreter in
Milwaukee; making a river a lawful
fence; establishing the 18th judicial
circuit out of the 18th and 10Th cir
cults; regulating the flow of water
over dams in the Wisconsin river;
licensing palace and sleeping-car com
panies: requiring county judges to
administer small estates without eX-
pense; giving court commissioners
circuit court powers in chambers;
providing for the semi-annual collec-
ton of taxes; preventing discrimina-
ton by telephone companies; amend
ing the law which gives state aid to
agricultural societies even though they
allow liquor selling during fairs; for
the publication of the town laws; max
ing deadbeating on railways misde
meanOr; allowing the killing of mink
at any time; providing for state geo.
logical survey: doing away with state
census; providing for licensing plumb
ers; permitting the state to aid in
building bridges: for the regulation
Of express rates; reducing the wage
exemption from $50 to $50; ma king
hours a days labor on public works;
providing for bee inspector: requir-
ing secret societies bearing arms to
report membership, equipment, etc;
making sheriffs eligible to re-elec-
ton; providing for tax commissions:
fOrbidding the sale of liquor to vet
Grams Of the soldiers homes within
two miles of those homes; fOrbidding
the erection of another normal school;
limiting public franchises to q years;
for a revision of the tax laws; for
bidding the corrupt use of money in
elections; and empowering towns to
aid in the construction Of telephone
lines.