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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
No. 533, ST. Published Nav 81 1909
CHAPTER 222. LAWS OF 1909.

No. 533, s. Published May 81 1909.
CHAPTER 222, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to amend subsection 9 of section
461 of the statutes, relating TO powers
of county superintendent to hold school
board conventions.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section 1. Subsection of section 461
OF the statutes is amended to read: 8.
The county or district superintendent of
schools shall annually call and hold at
least one school board convention for his
superintendent district at the county seat
or some other convenient place for the pur-
pose Of consultation advice, and instruction
upon matters pertaining to the MANAGEMENT
OF the schools. The county superintendent
may determine the number of days each
convention shall be in session. provided no
convention shall be held for more than two
consecutive days. Each district clerk shall.
and the director and treasurer may, attend
such convention Each member present
shall be allowed two dollars for each days
attendance at the convention. provided his
certificate Of attendance shall show that he
was present at each session of the conyen-
ton, and mileage at the rate of three cents
per mile each way. going and returning to
and from said meeting, said sum TO be
paid from any moneys in the school district
treasury not otherwise appropriated. Such
per diem and mileage shall be in full pay
ment OF all expenses incurred by each men,
Der while In attendance at the convention.
The county superintendent shall keep a rec
oiu VI the dlIehuahce OF an memDefs at
each morning, afternoon evening SEES
sion of the convention during the days the
convention shall be in session. and shall
issue to each member in attendance a GER
tihcate. setting forth the actual attendance
OF each OF said members. which shall be
filed with the school district clerk and serve
as a basis or evidence for drawing the
necessary warrant upon the district treas
Try.
Section .. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Approved May 20, 1909.
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The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows
Section l. Section 900 of the statutes is
amended TO read Section 800. Each
member of the county board shall be al
lowed and paid by the county a compensa-
tending the meeting of the board at the rate
of three dollars per day for the time he
shall actually attend, excepting Sundays,
and six cents for each mile Travelled in go
ing 20 and returning from the place of
meeting; but no per diem allowance shall
be made for any tine occupied in travelling,
where mileage is allowed therefor and no
supervisor shall be allowed to draw pay for
more than fifteen days attendance on the
county board in any one year, except for
services as Il member OF a committee as
provided in section SOS provided that in
count es where rhe population exceeds fif
teen thousand, the county board may sit and
receive pay for not exceeding twenty days
In each year
Approved June ], 1909.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
No. 1O1 81 Published June 2, 1909
CHAPTER 226. LAWS OF 1909.

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AN ACT to amend section 2523-2 of the
statutes, relating to the establishment OF
municipal courts by county boards.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section /. Section 252a--a of the stat
utes Is amended to read: Section 2523-2
The county board OF supervisors OF any
county may, by a majority of all members
elect. adopt the provisions of this act by
resolution. and upon such adoption may
Thereafter in like manner and upon like
vote. provide for a special municipal court
or courts as herein, provided to be known
erical designation) Special Municipal Court
of ............ county and by reso-
luton of said board, adopted by majority
of the members elect, at any time there
after rescind it's action and abolish the
same; and such board shall determine the
place or places where the Judge OF any such
court shall hold his office and provide suit
able quarters thereafter. Such court shall
be provided with an official seal. necessary
aoclets and records, stationery, aud blanks
Approved June /, 1909.
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30 o35. AT Published June 2. 1909
CHAPTER 245, LAWS OF 1909.


AN ACT to amend section 2091 OF the stat.
utes relating to the contravention OF
trusts In certain cases.
The neople of the State of Wisconsin. rep
resented in Senate and Assembly. do en-
act as follows:
Section /. Section 209l OF the 81 itutes'
When the trust shall be expressed in the
instrument creating the estate, every sale,
conveyance or other act OF the trustees III
contrayention of the trust shall be abso-
lutely void. .a
ciary is an infant whose maintenance ana
education is not sufficiently provided Tor
bv the trust. and said infant has no other
property and no parents able to provide
him suitable maintenance or education. or
in ease a beneficiary is an adult whose
maintenance is not sufficiently provided for
by the trust, who has become, or is unable
to take care Of himself the court having
Jurisdiction over the trust estate. may II
In his judgment the rights and interests Of
others in said trust, viii not be thereby
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
No. 224. 81 Published June 2, 1909
CHAPTER 243, LAWS OF 1909.


AN ACT to amend subdivision of section
7T6 of the statutes, relating to the pow
ers of town meeting.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section L, Subdivision of section re
Is amended to read Z. To authorize the
town board to issue and negotiate bonds
of the town, not exceeding five thousand
dollars in the aggregate for the purpose
of defraying the expenses Of building any
bridge over any stream in such town, when
the cost thereof shall exceed the sum of
two thousand dollars to authorize the
town board to issue and negotiate bonds
of the town, not exceeding five thousand
dollars in the aggregate, for the purpose of
defraying the expenses of building roads.
Such bonds may be made payable at diff
ferent times, not, however. to exceed five
years from the date thereof, with interest.
The powers conferred by subdivisions 5
and shall not be exercised at any such
town meeting unless the town board shall
have given notice of their intention to pre-
sent the proposition to such meeting as is
required In case of special town meetings,
nor unless a resolution or order to be voted
upon containing the particulars required by
section 777 shall be first publicly
read to such meeting before the vote shall
be taken.
Approved June 1, 1909.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
No. sos. Al published June 8. 1909.
CHAPTER 249. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to create section 925-46m Of the
statutes relating to the publication of
the official proceedings of boards of edu-
cation.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly. do enact
as follows
Section /. There is added to the statutes
a new section to read Section 925-46m.
The official proceedings of regular and spe-
cial meetings of boards Of education in all
incorporated cities and villages in this
state, including full statement of all re-
ceipts and expenditures. shall be printed
and published In such manner as the board
of education shall direct.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Approved June /. 1909.
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No. 553, Al Published June g.. 1909.
CHAPTER 255, LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to amend section 1347b of the
statutes, relating to road engines
The people OF the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented In Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows
Section /. Section 1S47b of the statutes
is amended TO read: Section 1347b. L.
The owner or owners of any steam engine,
or any person who propels or causes such
an engine to be propelled or otherwise
moved or used along or upon any public
highway in any town shall be liable for all
damages that may be caused thereby to
such highway, or any sluiceway, culvert or
bridge thereon, or to any person or cor
poration by reason of the propelling or
otherwise moving Or using the same upon
any such highway in the following cases:
% When such engine with Its equip
ments and attachments and whatever, It
may be moving upon the highway shall
weigh more than ten tons exclusive of the
animals by which 1t Is moved, II 1t is so
moved.
(2) When any such engine shall be set
up or used within the limits Of any such
highway, for any other purpose than TO
be propelled or otherwise moved along or
(S) When any such engine shall be left
unattended within the limits Of any such
highway.
"a When any such engine shall be in
such highway, whether standing or moving
and the person in charge shall not signal
and stop 1t when it Is approached within
fifteen rods in either direction by any
team or any person riding or driving any
animal and desiring to pass such engine,
or when the person or persons in charge of
such engine shall neglect or refuse to rem
der all proper assistance within their power
to enable such team or persons to pass in
safety.
(5l When the person in charge of any
steam engine shall neglect to span any
bridge, or culvert, before crossing the same,
with hardwood planks, at least two inches
thick and twelve inches wide, or other
sound planks of like width. at least three
inches thick, so that the engine wheels shall
rest thereon in crossing such bridge or cul-
vert
2. The amount recovered by any town
under the provisions of this section, shall,
when collected. be credited to the town
highway fund.
3. Any person In charge of any steam
engine having mud luggs on the drive
wheels thereof who shall neglect to span
any bridge or culvert before crossing the
same with pianks of the kind and In the
manner as provided in paragraph OF
subsection I of this section shall be guilty
of mlsdemeanor and on conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine of not less than
five nor more than twenty-five dollars or by
imprisonment in the county jail not exceed
ing twenty Gays
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be In force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June /, 1909.
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No. 454. $. Published May 81, 1909.
CHAPTER 221. LAWS OF 1909.

CHAPTER 221, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to amend subsection % of section
1882 of the statutes, relating to exemp-
lions from execution.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section J. Subsection % Of section 1882
of the statutes is amended to read: %.
The shares held by a member of a local
building and loan association as the same
is defined in section 2009, to the value %, OF
one thousand dollars at the time of the
withdrawal thereof; but this subdivision
shall not apply to any person owning
homestead which is exempt.
The exemptions provided for in subdivis-
ions three, six, seven, eight, nine, eleven.
thirteen, fourteen, seventeen,
nineteen. and twenty-five of this section
shall extend only to debtors having an ac-
tual residence in this state, and when such
debtors and their families or any of them
shall be removing from one place OF resi-
dence to another and those granted in
teen. fifteen. seventeen: nineteen;
and TWENTY-FIVE hereof shall not be claimed
as against an attachment or execution is
sued upon a Judgment for the plalntln In
action brought to recover compensation
for any manual or domestic labor rendered
or performed by any female in or about
the dwelling OF another NO property e1-
empted by the provisions of this section
shall be exempt from execution or attach
ment brought by any person for the recov-
cry of the whole or any part of the .pur-
chase-money of the same property. ALI ar
tices so exempted may be selected by the
debtor, his agent. clerk, or legal represen-
tative, when necessary to distinguish the
same ; and if they shall fail or neglect to
claim such exemption, the debtors wife,
unless she shall have deserted him, may,
before sale select the same and in her own
name maintain an action for the recovery
Of the possession. or the value thereof if
the same shall have been taken away, pro-
vlded the claim of exemption and selection
have been made.
Section q This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Approved May %. 1909.
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NO 413 :. Published June 2, 1909.
CHAPTER 242, LAWS CT 1909
AN ACT to amend section 1910 of the
statutes, relating to statistics of farm
products
The people of the State of Wisconsin. rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
Section ]. % Section 1910 of the stat
utes Is amended to read Section 1910 1t
shall be the duty of the assessor of each
town, village, or city, at the time of max
ing the annual assessment of property to
collect statistics in relation to the princi-
pal farm products as follows, to-wit:
ta) OF wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye,
faxseed, potatoes. beans, sugar-beets, cab
bages, and cranberries
(b) The number OF acres devoted to the
cultivation OF each, respectively, for the
els of each, respectively, raised in the pre-
cedlng year, except sugarbeets and cab
bages, which shall be given in tons;
go OF apples, the number OF acres in
orchard, the number Of trees OF bearing age
the current year, and also the number of
bushels raised the preceding years
I'D Of strawberries, raspberries, black
berries, currants, and grapes, the number
OF acres or each the current year. and the
number of bushels or pounds of each raised
in the preceding year
(e) OF hops, tobacco, and fax fibre, the
number or acres the current year, the num-
Der Of pounds raised the preceding year;
90 OF grasses, cultivated for hay, the
number Of acres the current year, the num-
Der Oh IONS OIL nay raised the preceding
year;
(g) OF growing timber the number of
acres;
(h) Of mich cows, the number and
value
ID Other cattle than mich COWS, num-
Der and value;
% Horses of all ages, number and value !;
(k) Sheep and lambs number and value
ID Swine, four months old or over, num-
Der and value
(m) OF clover and timothy, the plumber
of acres of each harvested for seed the pre-
ceding year, and the number of bushels Of
each obtained therefrom
(2l And said assessor shall make dupii-
cate certificates of such statistics. one Of
which he shall file in the Office of the town
clerk OF his town. and the other with the
clerk of his county, on or before the
first day OF August of the same
year.
(3) The county clerk shall on or before
the fifteenth day of August of each year,
forward to the secretary of the state board
of agriculture to be kept in his Office, GER
ttfcate OF the aggregate number of acres
and the amount OF yield of each Of said
products, in his county, and the number
and value of animals, as ascertaned and
compiled from the certificates of said as
SCISSOR and the secretary of the state board
of agriculture shall tabulate and publish
such statistical reports, each year, In the
annual report of such board of agriculture.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June i, 1909.
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No. 472. AL Published June 3. 1909.
CHAPTER 256, LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to create section 461s of the stat
in section 461r
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented In Senate and Assembly do enact
as follows:
Section /, There is added to the statutes
q new section to read Section 461s. The
singular form of the word schools" as used
in section 461r shall relate to a public
school only and shall be construed to be
collective body of pupils assembled in
room which is wholly or principally under
the control. management, direction and in
Is made wholly or chiefly responsible for
the control management, direction and In
struction of such pupils and whose duty 1t
Is to keep complete and special register
for such room or department.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be In force from and after It's passage and
publication.
Approved June l. 1909
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No. 3TS, ST. Published June q 1909.
CHAPTER 23b. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to amend subsection 13 of section
776 of the statutes, comforting upon
towns the powers conferred upon villages
when directed by resolution Of the direc-
tors.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section L. Subsection 10 of section 776
of the statutes is amended to read ID.
All powers relating to villages and CON
ferred upon village boards by the proyis-
ions of chapter 40 of the statutes, except
ing those, the exercise of which would con-
fict with the statutes relating to towns
and town boards, are conferred upon towns
which contain population of not less than
five hundred and having therein one or
more unlncorporated villages, and may. be
exercised by the board of such town when
directed by resolution of the electors there
of at an annual town meeting.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication
Approved June 1, 1909
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No. SOS, AL Published June 1909.
CHAPTER 254. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to create section 1636-52m of
the statutes, relating to the operation of
automobiles, motor cycles and other SINH
lar motor vehicles
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows
Section /, There is added to the statutes
a new section 10 read: Section 1036~-52m
l, Any person who shall operate any auto
mobile, motor cycle, or other similar motor
vehicle upon any public highway OF this
such motor vehicle, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by fine not exceeding
ing thirty days, or by both such iine and
Imprisonment In the discretion of the court
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be IN force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June l. 1909
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No. 455, S. published June 2, 1909.
CHAPTER 236. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to amend section 1888 of the
statutes, relating TO guardians and wards
and the support of a ward.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows
Section /. Section 1888 of the statutes
is hereby amended to read Section 1888.
Every guardian shall manage the estate. Of
his ward frugally and without waste and
apply the personal property or the income
therefrom or from the real es-
tate, as far as may be necessary for the
suitable education, maintenance, and sup
port of the ward and, of his family, if there
be any legally dependent upon him for sup
port, and also for the care and proper pro
lection of the real estate of such ward.
If the personal property and in
come from the real estate shall
be insufficient for those pur--
poses, the guardian may also sell the real
estate, upon obtaining license therefor, as
provided by law, and shall apply the pro
sary for such maintenance and support as
aforesaid.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Approved June l, 1909.
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No 365. S. Published June ,, 1909.
CHAPTER 234. LAWS Or 1909.

NO. BOO, -. IuDIlSneu June :, l3UJ.
CHAPTER 234, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to create section 107Sx of the
statutes, relating TO insurance corpora
tions.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows
Section i. There is added to the stat
utes a new section to read: Section 197Sx.
All corporations, associations partnerships,
or individuals organized and engaged for
profit in the business of providing for the
payment of funeral, burial, or other ex-
penses of deceased members. or to holders
OF benefit certificates therein, shall be held
to be dong an insurance business under the
provisions of section 1918 of the statutes.
Benefit certificates issued by any such
corporation, association, partnership. or in
dividual shall, within thirty days after
maturity of such certificate, be payable to
the surviving husband or wife, If living; If
not, then to any child Of suitable age, or
to the personal representatives of said de-
ceased person, in cash only.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be In force from and after its passage and
publication
Approved June /, 1909
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NO 525, =. Published June 3 1909
CHAPTER 241, LAWS Or 1909.

AN Act relating to iuries in the municipal
court for Rock county.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section L. The jury commissioners of
Rock county shall furnish annually to the
aicniCipai court of sad county Tor petit
Jurors, the list of two hundred names pro-
vded for in section s OF chapter 1917, laws
of 1891.
Section 2. All acts or parts of acts in
conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
Section B. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and AFTER it's passage and
publication.
Approved June / 1909.
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The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows;
Section | There is hereby added to the
statutes q new section to read: Section
3947m Every trustee of a trust bequeathed
or devised for charitable uses or purposes
shall render his account of his trust an
nually to the county court having jurisGic-
ton thereof in the same manner as eyeeu-
tors and administra tors are required to
render their account, and such account
shall be rendered on the first Tuesday of
January. 1910, and every year thereafter
on the first Tuesday OF January, and from
county court; and he may be examined by
account and his conduct of such trust.
The county court having jurisdiction of
said matter SHALL annually, upon the hear
ing and allowance of such account, make
in order directing such trustee TO carry out
the trust as provided by the bequest or de-
y-se creating such trust and such other or
further order as mag be necessary to carry
out the provisions OF the bequest or devise
creating such trust
Upon the failure of any trustee to COM
ply with this section, or with the order of
the county court, such trustee may there
upon be removed by the county court and
some other person appointed as trustee as
provided by law or the terms of the be-
quest or devise creating such trust.
Section . This act shall take effect
and be IN force from and after its passage
and publication
Approved June /, 1909
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Secretary of State
shall be received in evidence with the same
effect as the rginal Transcribed and as
presumptive evidence of the facts stated
in such certificate
Section 4. This act shall take effect and
be In force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved May %, 1909.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
No. $40, ST. Published June q 1909.
CHAPTER $40, LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to amend section 900 of the stat
utes. relating to the pay Of members OF
the county board.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
No. 342 ST Published June q 1900
CHAPTER 2S3. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to create section 3o2Im of the
statutes, relating to the duties of trus
tees of charitable trust.