River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-06-04
LAWS FOR WISCONSIN.
Important Bills Passed at Session of
Legislature Just Ended.
A Brief summary Showing In Cen
eraI What the Lawmakers Accom-
pIished-OId Laws Amended
and New Laws Adopted.

Chapter 6-Permitting domestic life
insurance companies to extend their
loans to organized territories and the
District of Columbia.
Chapter Extending to army
nurses the same privileges with regard
to county aid or admission to the Wau-
paca home that are granted to old sol
diers.
Chapter 8-Creating the town of An
derson, Burnett county.
Chapter 9-Providing for refunding
municipal debts.
Chapter 12-Allowing COZ porations
to mortgage their franchises.
Chapter 14-Prohibiting the running
at large of bulls, stations, boars, etc.
Chapter 15-Enabling married wom-
en- to assign or otherwise dispose Of
their interests in life insurance pol
icies.
Chapter 22-Amending chapter 44O,
laws of 1901, relating to the slaughter
of diseased animals, and providing that
payment shall be made if it is done I'M
der the order of the state veterinarian
or the live stock sanitary board.
Chapter 23-Relating to temporary
logging highways.
Chapter 28- Providing that cities
shall regulate whether supervisors
shall be elected for one or two years
Chapter 29-Creating the town of
Anderson, Burnett county.
Chapter 34-Amending the laws in
relation to bonds of the soldiers re-
lief commission so that each member
can give an individual bond.
Chapter 36-Creating the towns of
Hiles and Laona Forest county.
Chapter 39--Adding sugar beets to
the products to be enumerated in sta
tistics of farm products.
Chapter 43-Prescribing a standard
measure for the use of the Babcock
test.
Chapter 46-Limiting the scope of
casualty or accident companies to one
tenth Of the assets in individual cases.
Chapter 51-Authorizing counties
and towns to pay bounties for killing
rattlesnakes.
Chapter 52-Prohibiting camping on
public highways without the permits
sion of holders of abutting property.
Chapter 53-Allowing the state game
warden to take and transport game
birds for propagation purposes.
Chapter 61-Provrding that unex-
pended balances of appropriations to
Institutions may be carried on TO the
next appropriation year.
Chapter 63-Providing for bulletin
4Ia 4;pna for. o1fivol Of no
ger trains.
Chapter 68-Proyiding for state in
surance of public buildings by setting
aside each year the amount that would
be paid for regular premiums.
Chapter 7O-Relating to the organ
ization of drainage districts.
Chapter 71-Amending the park land
law, so. as to exempt from taxation
when held under contract.
Chapter 73-Regulating the issue of
warehouse certificates.
Chapter 74-Providing that interur-
ban railways shall have toilet rooms
on their cars.
Chapter 76-Relating to certificate
of proof of record.
Chapter S1-Forbidding spite
fences more than six feet high.
Chapter 92-Regulating the printing
of 500 copies each of legislative jour
mails, bills, resolutions or memorials.
Chapter 93-Allowing village mu-
tual insurance companies to do bust
ness in any county of the state.
Chapter 94-Authorizing the build
ing of interstate bridges.
Chapter 96-Providing for the re-
printing of the first ten volumes of
State Historical collections.
Chapter 98-Authorizing mutual in
surance companies to accept members
from outside the home village or town.
Chapter 99-Allowing common coun-
ellis to enforce the planting of trees.
Chapter 1O4-Authorizing life insur-
ance companies TO transact personal,
accident and health insurance.
Chapter 1O9-Providing for an ex-
plicit statement of the privileges of
preferred stock, and having it also
printed for information on common
stock.
Chapter 110-Allowing county
boards to elect vice chairmen.
Chapter 111-Providing for paying
for the care of maternity cases occur
ring in the Home for the Feeble Mind
ed.
Chapter 112-Creating the town of
Hawkins. Gates county.
Chapter 115-Authorizing deposits
of the funds of minors, females and
trustees in the savings departments of
national banks.
Chapter 122-Providing for the max
ing and preservation of evidence of
sales of property under ehattel mort
cages.
Chapter 13O-Prohibiting accident
and health insurance without license.
Chapter 132-Providing that no in
toxicating liquors or beer shall be
taken into an election booth until
after the votes are counted and certif-
Gates made out.
Chapter 133-Amending the statutes
relative to the adulteration of drugs
and food and providing that it shall
not be necessary for owners of pro-
prietary foods to disclose their exact
nature further than to show they are
not adulterated
Chapter 13S-Giving cities the right
to prescribe by ordinance for the pun
ishment of assault, ARRAY or abusive
language.
Chapter 141-Absolutely forbidding
the sale of liquor to minors.
Chapter 142-Creating the towns of
Athelstone, Beaver and Lake, in Mari