Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
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AN ACT to amend sections g. g. "a 30. 80.
ana " OF chapter %, laws of 1907. re-
latlng to municipal court of the county
OF Outagamie.
The people of the State of Wisconsin. rep
resented In Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
an SECTION sb a. =. Sections Sect 6; 8, a. %, 80,
amended to read: Section g. No person
shall be eligible to the office of judge of
the municipal court unless he be prac-
uclng attorney duly admitted to the bar of
Outagamie county, and a qualified eector
ana rreehoider of said county, The
Judge OF said court shall not, while holding
said Office. engage in the practice of law
IN any court, nor be retained or employed
as solicitor, attorney, or counsel in any ac-
ton ton m matter, Or proceeding nor give ad-
torney, solicitor or counsel
ceiSe etaon :. me municipal judge shall re-
five hundred dollars per year, payable quar-
terly out of the treasury of Outagamie
county, and the same shall be in full COM
pensation for all his services as such jul
dicial officer
Section "a. L. Said judge shall have
exclusive Jurisdiction to institute and con-
9uct examinations in all criminal ana "a
prescribed IN the preceding section, and the
power and Jurisdiction to cause to come be-
Iore MIN the persons so charged with com
uniting bastardy or criminal Offense, within
such district. and commit them to jail or
bind them over the case may require,
and on a plea of guilty by the accused and a
request by him to be sentenced, the said
judge. shall have power, authority, and
Jurisdiction to sentence the accused for any
the Jurisdiction in examinations for muir
der, manslaughter, arson, rape, robbery,
burglary, possession of burglarious tools,
forgery, larceny, embezzlement, false pre-
tense, and attempts to murder: rape OF
rob- when, committed within the city OF
kaukaunas or in the town of Freedom,
Kaukauna or Buchanan shall be concur
rent with the 1uSticpS of the other
examining magistrates in the city OF kau-
kauna, and the towns of Freedom, Kau-
kauna, and Buchanan and exclusive as TO
all other magistrates.
2. The said municipal court shall have
and exercise powers and jurisdiction equal
and concurrent with the circuit court OF
Outagamie county in all cases OF crimes
and misdemeanorS arising in said county,
except the crimes of murder and man
slaughter.
Section 20. The municipal court shall
have and exercise powers and Jurisdiction
in all civil, actions within the county both
in law and in equity including &C
! tions for. divorce and the annulment of
marriages., concurrent with and equal TO
the powers and jurisdiction of the circuit
court of Oufagamie county, where the
value, of the property in controversy or the
amount of money claimed or sought TO De
recovered, after deducting all payments
and set-offS, shall not exceed ten
thousand dollars, and also of all actions for
the foreclosure of mortgages or In proceed-
ingS under chapter LAB, statutes OF 1898,
III WHICH the amount CldlHieU uOes uOL Ca
coed the sum aforesaid, although the value
of the property to be aHected by
the Judgment exceeds that sum- and snail
also have and exercise powers and 1urls-
diction within said county concurrent with
and equal to the powers and jurisdiction OF
the said circuit court in certlorarl proceed
ings, actions brought for breach of any recog-
nizance given in said court. and OF all &C
lions and proceedings under chapters 14Z,
145, lat, 148, 149, $50, and 1913, statutes
of 1898 and the amendments thereto. In
or for divorce said
have and exercise unlimited powers ana
Jurisdiction respecting property rights
therein involved.
Section 80. All examination, recognizances,
and commitments from or by examining
magistrates and from or by the municipal
judge, in bastardy cases and all criminal aaI
cases except murder and manSlaughter
- shall be certified and returned TO the
municipal court instead of to the circuit
court of said county, within the time pre-
scribed by law, and the accused, the COM
plainant and all other witnesses required
TO attend shall, in like manner as now pro
vided by law, be committed to be brought
or recognized to appear before the NUM-
cipal court on day certain which shall
not be more than thirty 800 days from
the date of such commitment or recognlz-
ance, and the said municipal court shall
have and exercise all the powers and Jurls-
diction of the circuit court to hear, try,
and determine said d baa asst dy+ and criminal
Section 62. 1. The judge shall have
power in actions on trial according to
justice court procedure. in his discretion,
TO charge the jury.
2 In all jury trials in actions in which
said court has and exercises power and
Jurisdiction concurrent with that of the
circuit court for Outagamie county, the
jury shall be instructed and charged in
the same manner as provided for the in
structing and charging of juries in the cir
cult court and ali statutes applicable to in
structing and charging the jury in the cir
cult court shall be and are made appi-
cable TO instructing and charging the jury
in such actions in said court.
Section g This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
A1lnrnvad Nav oR 1909