Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
No. SS4, A Published June %, 1907.
CHAPTER 1853. LAWS OF 1907.

CHAPTER 1858, LAWS OF 1907.
AN ACT to amend section 1872 of the
statutes, providing for a system Of tract
indices in counties having a population
of one hundred fifty thousand or more.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly, do
Section 1. Section 1872 of the statutes
Is amended to read: Section 1872 l. The
register shall also keep a tract index in
suitable books, so ruled and arranged that
opposite to the description to each quar-
ter section, sectional lot, town, city or
village lot or other subdivision of land in
the county, which a convenient arrange
ment may require to be noted, there shall
be a blank space of at least forty square
inches in which he shall enter In ink the
letter or mineral indicating each volume,
designating mortgages by the letter M,
deeds by the letter D, and miscellaneous
by the abbreviation Mis-, and the register
Of attachments, sales and notices by the
letter r, together with the page of said
volume upon which any deed, mortgage or
other instrument affecting the title to or
mentioning such tract or any part thereof
shall heretofore have been or may here
after be recorded or entered provided, that
no such index shall be kept in any county
where none now exists until ordered by
the county board to be made but no sucn
index, when once made in any county, shall
ever thereafter be discontinued, unless
such county has or shall adopt, keep and
maintain a complete abstract Of title to
records of the Office of the register Of
deeds thereof.
2. In any county which has a city Of
the first class, the county board of SUI
pervisors may, by resolution, adopt more
complete system of tract induces than that
above specified, or system of chain OF
title indices, provided such system be
clearly specified in such resolution; and
may thereafter at any time before the COM
pletion Of such system alter or change
such system or add to the same by reso-
luton clearly specifying such alterations;
such adoption, said board Of supervisors
may contract, with any suitable person., to
compile and compete such system of In
dices and may make supplemental con-
tracts for the compilation and completion
of such alterations, changes and additions,
and may levy such taxes as may be required
to cover the cost of so doing said register
of deeds shall not be required to compile,
install or complete such system Of indices
or such alterations, changes or additions,
but shall after the same be so completed
under such contract, or contracts of
such board Of supervisors, thereafter main
tain and keep up the same; and, thereafter
shall discontinue all other tract indices
heretofore in use or maintained.
8. In the event Of the adoption OF
any such system of tract indices, or of
any such system of chain of title indtces,
by such county board Of supervisors, by
such resolution, IL such resolution shall
provide that any such index shall include
an abstract or notation of any proceeding
or proceedings pending, or of any instru-
ments or documents filed or entered in the
Office Of the clerk Of any court of such
county or of the county court or of the
register Of probate, or Of any sales for
taxes made by any officer of said county,
or of any city in said county,
made to the register of deeds Of said coun-
ty by any officer in charge of any such
Office Of any such proceedings. instruments
or documents or tax sales, each such office
ca nd resolution to make
such daily report, shall, upon the close of
business on each day report, in writing,
under his hand, to said register of deeds,
any and all proceedings, instruments and
such resolution, and said register shall,
when required to maintain and keep up
such system of indices, note all such pro-
ceedings instruments and documents, and
tax sales upon such indices, in accordance
with such resolution.
Approved June "a, 1907.