Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08


unless derelict in his duty all necessary
expenses in the care, management and
settlement of the estate and for his serv-
ices one dollar and fifty cents per day,
and commissions upon the amount of per-
sonal estate collected and accounted for by
him and the proceeds of real estate sold
| under an order Of the county court for the
payment of debts or legacies as follows ::
For the first thousand dollars at the rate
of five per cent for all above that sum
at the rate of one per cent !;
and such further sums in cases of unusual
difficulty extraordinary services as the
county court shall judge reasonable. The
same provision for compensation 4 shall
apply to administrators.
Section 6. Section 3970a of the statutes
is amended to read: Section 3979a. J..
Whenever any person who is or may he n
patient in any hospital for the insane in
this state shall appear to the satisfaction
of the superintendent of such hospital to
be incurable. and it shall appear that he
has property within In s state, that he has
no wife or children who would be depend
ent upon him for support if sane, and that
he has no guardian, such superintendent
shall apply to the county court
of the county in wn--A suca patient resided
at the time of his commitment for the
appointment of a guardian of his person
and estate, and the court, upon such ap-
plication, shall proceed to the appointment
of such guardian in the same manner as is
or may be provided for the appointment of
guardians of the persons and estates OF
minors
4.
have and exercise the same powers and du-
ties as are or may be by law conferred
upon guardians Of minors, and may sell
any real or personal estate, the property
of such insane person, in the same manner
and for the same purposes as is or may be
provided by law for the sale by guardians
of minors of the real or personal estate
of their wards Such sale shall be made
in the county where such estate is situa ted,
and the proceeds thereof shall be
applied to the use and support
of such ward.
Section T. Section 1922 Of the statutes
is amended to read Section 1922. No
such adoption shall be made without the
written consent of the living parents OF
such child unless the court shall find that
one of the parents has abandoned the child
or gone to parts unknown, when such con-
sent may be given by the parent, if any,
having the care of the child. In case
where neither of the parents Is living, or
if living are unknown or mentally incom-
petent or have abandoned the child, such
consent may be given by the guardian Of
such child, if any. If such child has no
any Of the next OF kin of such child resid-
ing in this state or, in the discretion of
the court, by some suitable person to be
appointed by the court. In case of a child
not born in lawful wedlock such consent
may be given by the mother, If she Is liv-
ing and has not abandoned such child !;
provided, that unless the living parent or
parents of minor consent to such aoop
ton it shall be the duty of the court
having jurisdiction Of the proceedings, upon
the filing of any petition for adoption, by
order to appoint time and place for hear
ing such petition and cause notice of such
time and place to be given to such parent
or parents, by personal service OF said
notice on such parent or parents at least
ten days before the hearing or by pubica-
ton thereof in newspaper at least three
weeks successfully prior to said hearing,
and when notice is duly given as herein
provided the parent of any minor shall be
bound by the order of adoption as fuzzy as
though he had consented thereto. And In
case such child has arrived at the age OF
twenty-one years such consent may be CIV
en- by such child alone, and the consent
Of no other person III behalf Of such child
shall be required.
Section g.. Section 2441 of the statutes
shall be a general election Of county judge
in each county on the first Tuesday in
April, 1905, and every fourth year there
after. The term Of office of county judge
shall be four years, commencing on the
first Monday in January after such cleo
ton. When a vacancy shall occur in the
office Of county judge or there shall be no
person qualified to take the Office at the
shall appoint such judge, and the person
SO appointed shall hold until the first
Monday of June next succeeding an cleo
ton to fill such vacancy; but when no
election to fill such vacancy Is held then
such appointment shall be for the residue
of the term and where any county judge
ty the judge first elected shall hold his
Office until the first Monday Of January
following the first general election for
county judges thereafter. No person shall
be eligible to the office of county judge
who shall not, at the time of his election
or appointment thereto, be an attorney Of
a court of record provided, that the fore
going provision shall not disqualify any
person who held such Office in this state
on or before the first day of july 1907.
Every county Judge may be removed from
Office by address in the manner
provided in the constitution for the re-
moval of justices Of the supreme court or
judges of the circuit courts.
Section g. Section /, chapter 397, laws
of 1901, is amended by striking, out, the
sorting in place thereof the words and
figures section 4O41b."
Section 10. Section 4042 of the statutes
is amended to read Section 4042. In all
cases mentioned in sections
4O41, 4O41a and 4O41b the county court
may, in it's discretion, require the claim
ant, or contestant, or other person to give
security for costs. Such security shall be
written undertaking. in such sum and
with such surety as shall be approved by
the county court, to the effect that such
surety will pay all costs that may be
awarded by such court in such proceeding
against the claimant or contestant. A
judgment for costs against the claimant
contestant may also be rendered against
the surety in such undertaking.
Section II. Section 4051 of the stat
utes is amended to read Section 4051
Fees in the county court shall be allowed :
1) To appraisers not less than one dol
lar nor more than three dollars lola per Gay
ton to be fixed by the court;
~ To commissioners to make
partitions, or to assign dover or home
stead against deceased person, three dol
'@f 81 pG In ali ali cases, travel, four
cents per mile each way;
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the same fees as provided in circuit
court;
IS In cases not provided for a reason
able compensation shall be allowed by the
court.
Section - Section 245O of the stat
utes is amended to read: Section 245O.
The county judges may perform. all the
official duties of county judges, including
the one in which they shall have been
elected, upon the request of the county
judge of such other county and while so
doing they shall have the same powers as
if elected for the county in which they are
Section IS. Section 1904 of the statutes
is amended to read Section 1904 The
application for such disposition must be
made to the circuit or county court Of the
county in which such real estate or some
part thereof is situated or to the
presiding judge of either court by petition
of the general guardian Of the infant or
of such incompetent person or by any rela-
tive or other person in behalf Of either.
Such petition must be verified and must set
forth the facts which would authorize the
selling mortgaging or leasing of such real
estate or some part thereof for one or
more of the reasons set forth in the pre-
ceding section. If sale is sought on be-
half of one or more but not ALL of such
infants in any case where an action for par
tition would lie, the whole tract may be
sold and the proceeds applied as directed
in section 1913; but the share of those
who do not join in the application shall
be paid to their guardians.
Section IA. Section 1905 of the stat