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

Section 3. Sections IA and LA, chapter
812, laws Of 1899, as amended, are hereby
Approved June %, 1907.
No 299, 81 Published June 26, 1907.
CHAPTER 395, LAWS OF 1907.
AN ACT to make available balances IN
the tailor shop and knitting shop funds
of Wisconsin State Prison, to be used in
extending rear prison walls and charging
and recOnstructing female prison at the
Wisconsin State Prison.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows
Section l. The state board of control is
hereby authorized to use balances now
available In the knitting shop and tailor
shop funds OF the Wisconsin state prison,
viz thirty-ive hundred dollars ($3,500)
in tailor shop fund and sixteen thousand FIVE
hundred dollars ($16,500) in knitting shop
fund, IN extending the rear prison walls
and enlarging and reConstructing the female
prison of that institution, and said sums
are hereby appropriated for this purpose.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
Approved June 20, 1907. aa
No. 551, ST. Published June 20, 1907.
CHAPTER 1896, LAWS OF 1907.
AN ACT to establish a municipal court in
and for the village Of Winneconne and
the county Of Winnebago.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section 1. A municipal court for the vii
lage or Winneconne and county of Winnie
bago, Is hereby established under the name
OF municipal court for the village of Win
neconne and county of WinnebagO, with the
powers and jurisdiction hereinafter speci-
lied and provided. Said court shall have a
seal with suitable device to be procured
under the direction Of the judge of said
court at the expense of the said county of
tidcates, Acknowledgements, communications
and other documents, accepted and signed
by the judge Of said court when sealed
with the seal of said court shall be evil
dence in all courts and places In this state
and shall have the same effect as the seal
of a court OF record.
Section 2. 1. Said municipal court end
the Judge thereof shall take cOgniZance Of
and shall have Jurisdiction to hear, try
and determine all actions and proceedings
at law wherein the amount of the debt,
damages and demand and penalty or for
feiture shall not exceed the amount Of
three hundred dollars; all actions to re-
cover the possession OF personal property
with damages for the unlawful taking or
detention thereof, wherein the value of
the property claimed shall not exceed the
sum of three hundred dollars; all actions
arising under chapter 145 of the statutes
Of 1898, when the amount claimed shall
not exceed three hundred dollars; all
charges for criminal offenses, including bas-
tardy, arising within said county which are
not punished by commitment to state prison,
and exclusive jurisdiction of all offenses
and violations arising under the charter,
bylaws and ordinances Of the said village
Of WlnnecOnne.
q No justice of the peace or court
commissioner within said village of Winnie
come shall exercise any jurisdiction In
criminal or bastardy cases but all such
jurisdiction is vested In said court. Said
judge shall nave power and Jurisdiction
throughout the county to cause to be
brought before him all persons who may
be charged with having committed any
criminal ofense and to Issue process there
for and TO commit them to jail or require
bail as the case may require and he shall
have the jurisdiction, powers and rights
in all matters given by law to justices Of
the peace.
B. A Judgment by confession may be
entered by the judge Of said court in any
sum not to exceed five hundred dollars
without action under the same conditions
as is provided for entering Judgment by
under section 1857, statutes of 1898.
4. But nothing herein contained shall
be construed to give said municipal judge
COgniZance of, or Jurisdiction over any &C.
ton mention in subdivisions 1, 2 and 8 of
section of 1913 of the statutes of 1898.
.. The general provision of law relative
to civil and criminal actions by justices OF
the peace shall apply to the said court as
far as applicable and all appeals, civil and
criminal, from said court may be taken in
the same manner ana with like effect as
~
ments of justices of the peace.
Section ). On the first Tuesday In April,
1908, and every four years thereafter, there
shall be elected in the county of Winnebago,
in the same manner as county judges are
elected, judge of said municipal court,
who shall hold his Office for a term of four
years from the first Monday in May next
following his election and until his sue
CpssOr IS elected and qualified, and In case
of a vacancy occurring in the office of the
said municipal judge, such vacancy shall
be filled by appointment by the governor
of this state. and the person SO appointed
shall continue in Office for the residue of
the term for which his predecessor was
elected or appointed Upon the passage and
publication OF this act the office of the said
Judge of said court shall be deemed vacant
and shall be filed by appointment by the
governor within thirty days thereafter and
the person thus appointed shall hold office
until the first Monday In May, A. D. 1908,
or until his successor Is elected and quail
fed.
Section 4. The Judge of said municipal
court shall hold no other county office nor
any state Office during the term for which
he was elected or appointed The said
Judge shall, before entering upon the duties
of his office, take and subscribe the CON
stitutlonal oath of office and file the same
with the clerk of the circuit court of Win
nebGgo county, and execute to the said
county a bond in the sum of six hundred
dollars, with two or more sureties to be
approved by the county treasurer, of said
county, conditioned upon the faithful per-
fOrmance of the duties of said Office and the
faithful accounting of all moneys, prop
critics and effects which may come into his
hands by authority of the said office, and
shall record and file the same as provided
by section 102 of the statutes of 1898.
Section ,. The judge of said municipal
court shall have his Office and hold court
in the village of Wlnneconne In said Win
nebagO county, In a suitable room fur
nished and cared for and provided for
such purpose by the said village of Winnie
come in said county. In case of sick
ness, absence or temporary disability, the
said municipal Judge may by order in writ
ing to be filed in said court, appoint any
justice of the peace, court commissioner
other municipal Judge of said Winnie
bagO county to discharge the duties of such
municipal Judge during such sickness, alb
sence or disability, who shall have, the
powers of such judge when administering
said office and who shall be entitled to
fees as said municipal Judge.
Section 6. The judge of said municipal
court for the village of Winneconne and
county of Einnebago shall DE ex-officio
court commissioner and shall have and may
exercise all the powers conferred upon
court commissioners by section 2434 of the
statutes OF 1898 of this state and every
authority, granted to and limitations Of
the powers of court commissioner by the
laws of this state shall be construed to
extend to said municipal judge acting in
such capacity, except when otherwise ex-
pTeSsly provided. and the official designa-
Judge of the municipal court for the village
of Winneconne and county Of Winnebago.
Section {. The municipal judge shall
have and receive the same fees in all ac-