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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15
No. no, Al Published June A. 1909
CHAPTER 265, LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to amend section 4423b of the
statutes, relating to the unauthorized
wearing of military, marine or naval uni
form
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
IS follows:
Section /. Section 4423b of the statutes
is amended to read: Section 4423b. L.
Any person not regularly enrolled in the
United States army or marine corps, the
national guard of one of the states or one,
of the student cadet companies armed and
recognized by the national or a state gov
eminent or not an inmate Of any veterans
or soldiers home who shall wear the uni
form of the Wisconsin national guard or
of the United States army, marine or navy,
shall be punished for each such offense by
fine of not less than ten dollars nor more
than one hundred dollars, or by imprison-
ment in the county jail not less than five
days nor more than thirty days. or by both
fine and Imprisonment. The district attor-
ney of the county in which any such offense
is committed shall bring an action in the
name of the state against the offender.
g Nothing in this act shall be construed
as prohibiting persons of the theatrical pro-
fession from wearing such uniform in any
playhouse or theater while actually engaged
In following said profession.
g. Nothing in this act shall be construed
as prohibiting the members of any uni
form rank of civic societies from the wear
ing of such uniforms
A. Whenever the national guard or any
part thereof is called into active service
on account of war, Instruction, rebellion,
riot. invasion, resistance to the execution
of the laws Of this state, or of the United
States or on account of public disaster, no
civic organization or member thereof shall
parade or appear in uniform in the locality
where said national guard is In service
Section g This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage and
publication.
Approved June 2, 1909.
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CHAPTER $50. LAWS OF 1909.


CHAPTER $50, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to create section 2316m of the
statutes. relating to public sales under
chattel mortgages.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section /. There is added to the stat
utes a new section to read Section 2316m.
/. No public sale Of any personal property
taken by virtue of any chattel mortgage,
lease or other instrument intended as Sc
curly. EXCEPT by consent of the mortgagor,
his legal rapresentatives or assigns, shall
be made unless at least five days before such
sale the mortgage or his agent shall serve
upon the owner of the equity Of redemption
in such property so taken, If he reside
within the county. written notice of such
proposed sale served either as q circuit
court summons is served, or served by mail
ing to him by registered mail. At any
time prior to fofty-eight hours in advance
of such sale the mortgagor may serve upon
the mortgage or MS agent IN charge OF
the property notice that he elects to have
such public sale conducted by an auctioneer
or other competent person not interested
in such sale or mortgaged property who
shall reside within the city or village where
such property is located to be named in
such notice, and thereafter no other person
shall conduct such sale, provided, however,
that If such auctioneer or other person so
named shall not attend and conduct the
sale any other person may sell the mort
gagged property at the request OF the owner
Of the mortgage, lease or other instrument
intended as security.
2. Such auctioneer or other person shall
be compensated wholly by the mortgagor
and shall have no claim against the mort
gagee or against the proceeds Of the prop
erty sold, except that portion OF the pro-
ceeds which belongs to the mortgagor The
auctioneer or other person named in such
last mentioned notice shall conduct such
sale, but shall forthwith turn over to the
mortgage or his agent all the proceeds of
of as provided by law
3. Any person aggrieved by violation
of any provision of this section may re-
in addition to his actual damages, twenty
five dollars as liquidated damages.
Section 2 This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 3. 1909
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CHAPTER 285. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to create sections 2024-7Sl,
2024-TSm, and 2024-7Sn of the stat
utes, relating to banking.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section l. There are added to the stat
utes three new sections to read: Section
202478l The soliciting, receiving, or ac-
cepting of money or its equivalent on de-
posit as regular business by any person,
co-partnership, association, or corporation,
shall be deemed to be doing a banking bust
ness, whether such deposit is made subject
to check or is evidenced by certificate OF
deposit, pass book, note, receipt, or
other writing, provided that nothing herein
shall apply to or include money left with
an agent, pending investment in real estate
or securities for or on account of his prin-
cipaL
Section 2024-7sm. 1t shall be unlawful
for any person, co-partnership, association.
or corporation to do banking business
without having been regularly organized
and chartered as a national bank, state
bank, mutual savings bank, or a trust
company bank. Any person or persons viO-
lating any of the provisions Of this section.
either individually or as an interested
party in any co-partnership association, or
corporation shall be guilty of a misdemean-
or and ON conviction thereof shall be fined
in a sum not less than three hundred dol
lars nor more than one thousand dollars,
or by Imprisonment in the county jail not
less than sixty days nor more than one
year, or by both such fine and imprison-
ment.
Section 2024-TSn. Any person, co-part-
nership, association or corporation doing
business in this state as defined in this act,
may incorporate as a state bank and may
convert into a state bank, on or before
September LIST. 1909, as provided In section
2024-55 Of the statutes.
Section 2 This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 8, 1909.
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GHA PTER 276. LAWS nF 1909

CE1AE LEkO 40, 44A 10 OE 1SoS.
AN ACT to amend sections 2729 and 37o1.
and to create section 2752m and 3716m
Of the statutes. relating to attachment
and punishment in aid of actions for the
recovery Of liquor debts.
The people OF the State OF Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section l. Section 272e of the statutes
is amended to read: Section 2729. ANY
creditor shall be entitled to proceed by at
tachment in the circuit court for the proper
county, against the property of his debtor,
whether natural person or corporation, in
manner prescribed in this chapter. No writ
of attachment shall be issued against a
municipal corporation, or in any action or
In aid Of any action or in aid OF any exc
cution In any action brought to recover the
price or value of strong, spirituous malt,
ardent, or Intoxicating liquors sold at re-
tail.
Section 2. There is added to the statutes
q new section to read: Section 2752m. No
garnishee proceeding as provided In section
2752 shall be commenced in any action or
in aid Of any action brought to recover the
price or value of strong. spirituous, malt,
ardent or intoxicating liquors sold at re-
Section 8. Section s701 of the statutes
is amended to read: Section BIOL Any
person NAV commence an action by warrant
Of attachment in Justices court and pro-
coed thereon against the property of his
debtor in the cases. upon the condition, ana
in the manner provided by this chapter. No
warrant of attachment shall issue in any
action or la aid of any action, or in aid
of any execution In any action brought to
recover the price or value Of strong, spir-
ituous malt. ardent, or intoxicating liquors
sold at retail.
Section 4 There is added to the stat
utes a new section to read: Section
3716m. No garnishee proceeding, as pro-
vided in section 3716, shall be commenced
in any action to recover the price or value
of strong, spirituous. malt ardent, or In
toxicating liquors sold at retail.
Section g. This act shall not apply to
any debts contracted prior to the taking
effect of this act.
Section 6. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 2, 1909.
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approved June ., 13uS.
~ CHAPTER 2s2, LAWS OF 1908 9''''
AN ACT to amend section 4549 of the stat
utes. relating to Official malfeasance
The people OF the State of Wisconsin rep
resented in Senate and Assembly do en-
act as follows:
Section l. Section 1919 of the statutes is
amended to read: Section 4549. Any OFF,
cer agent or clerk of the state or Of any
county. town, school district, school board,
city, or village therein, or in the employ
ment thereof. or any officer. regent, treas
urer, secretary. superintendent, clerk or
agent OF any penal correctional, educational
or charitable Institution instituted by or in
pursuance of law within this state, or any
member of any body or board having charge
or supervision of such institution who shall
have reserve or acquire any pecuniary in
terest, directly or indirectly present or
prospective absolute or conditional, in any
way or manner in any purchase or sale Of
any personal or real property or thing In
action. or in any contract proposal or bid
in relation to the same. or in relation to
any public service. or in any tax sale. tax
title. bill of sale, deed. mortgage, certificate,
account order, warrant or receipt made by.
to or with him in his official capacity or
employment, or in any public or Official
service or who shall make any contract or
pledge, or contract any Indebtedness or Tia
bility, or do any other act in his official
capacity or in any public official service
not authorized or required by law, or who
shall make any false statement, certificate,
report. return or entry in any book of ac-
counts or of records in respect to anything
done or required to be done by him official
", or in any public or official service, or
who shall ask. demand or exact for the per-
Torrance of any service or duty imposed
upon him by law any greater fee than is
allowed by law for the performance of such
service or duty shall be punished by i'm
prisonment in the county jail not more
than five years or by hne not
exceeding five hundred dollars.
Section .. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 3, 1909.
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CHAPTER 274. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to create section 1941-9m of the
statutes. relating to the non-payment Of
assessment fees.
The people of the State of Wisconsin. repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows
Section /. There is hereby added to the
statutes a new section to read Section
1941-9m. Whenever the secretary shall
have omitted or neglected for more than
five days to notify every member of an as
sessment as provided in section 1941--9,
such notification thereafter and within one
year shall. nevertheless. be lawful, pro-
vided it otherwise comply with said section
and the time for payment be fixed In such
later notice at not less than sixty nor more
than ninety days from the date of such
notice as the board of directors shall then
determine. Any assessment made prior TO
January /. 1909. in which bona fide at
tempt has been made to comply with this
section is hereby validated
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 2. 1909.
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No. 800. ST. Published June 4, 1909.
CHA PTER. 272. LAWS OF 1909

Cf1AFIER az, 3AW0 OE lSUS.
AN ACT authorizing the state treasurer to
discharge the balance of three hundred
and eighty and 35-100 dollars appearing
on his books to be still unpaid in the ac-
count against First National Bank of
Ladysmith. by crediting against the same,
charges for attorneys fees and disburse-
ments in the matter of collecting the
balance heretofore due from First Ma
tional Bank of Ladysmith and unpaid.
The Ieople of the State of Wisconsin. repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section /. The treasurer of the state of
Wisconsin is hereby authorized to discharge
and cancel the balance. in the amount Of
three hundred and eighty and 35-10o dol
lars and interest appearing upon his books
to be still owing and unpaid from First Ma
tionaI Bank of Ladysmith, a state deposi-
tory. BY crediting and offsetting against the
same. the charges of Timlin and GIicksman,
and Glicksman and Gold for attorneys
services rendered. and disbursements made
in behalf of the state of Wisconsin in the
case of state of Wisconsin versus o. E.
Peterson ct al, in the circuit court of
Rusk county and the supreme court of this
state.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
Approved June 2, 1909.
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CHAPTER 275, LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT to grant relief to John p. Foerst
for injuries received at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison, Wisconsin, In
1905, while an employee Of said Univer-
sity, and making an appropriation there
for.
The people of the State of Wisconsin. repre-
sented In Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section l. There is appropriated to John
P. Foerst of Madison, Wisconsin. out of
any money in the general funds in the state
treasury. not otherwise appropriated, the
sum of five hundred dollars. in full for in
juries sustained and received by him on the
sixth day of July, 1906. while an employee
of the University Of Wisconsin at Madison.
Wisconsin
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 2. 1909.
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CHAPTER 284, LAWS OF 1909.

No. 30, 81 Published June 4. 1909.
CHAPTER 284, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to create section 1S4Tn of the
statutes, relating to the use of the earth
road-drag.
The people of the State of Wisconsin. rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do en-
act as follows:
Section 1. There is added to the stat
utes a new section to read: Section 1347n.
l. The town board of any town is author
lied to have earth roads dragged with the
split log-drag, or other drag of similar ma
ture at all seasons of the year whenever
they may deem it beneficial to have such
work done; and may contract, a preference
to be given adjoining land owners or ten
ants. to have given piece of road dragged
at rate not to exceed seventy-five cents
per mile for each time dragged provided
that the width required by the highway
commissioners to be dragged shall not be
less than twenty feet. if the width of the
the dragging is done as nearly as practi-
cable in accordance with the instructions
Of the town board.
2. 1t shall be unlawful for any person
or persons to place loose earth, weeds,
sods, or other matter on the portion Of a
road which has been dragged and so nam
a.ned in good condition, or to place any
material In such a manner as to interfere
with the free flow of water from the
dragged portion of the road to the side
cutters or bitches; provided that this re-
earth or other material that may be made
by the authority OF the proper road officials,
if necessary, for filing or raising the eleva-
ton of a given section of road or other
necessary construction work.
Approved June 3, 1909.
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No. 1T6, ST. Published June 4 1909.
CHAPTER 26o. LAWS OF 1909.

AN ACT relating TO the publication of re-
ports OF the Shiloh monument commits
sion, and the Andersonville monument
commission.
The people of the State of Wisconsin. repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section l. The commission appointed
pursuant to the provisions of chapter 800
of the laws of 1908 to select monument
and have the same placed in its proper To-
cation IN the old prison grounds Of Ander-
sonville prison near Andersonville. Georgia.
are hereby authorized and directed to make
a suitable report on the erection and dedi-
cation Of such monument. such report TO
contain suitable cuts and a history of the
pr so1a, together with the list of the names
of the soldiers from Wisconsin who died in
said prison and were buried in the national
cemetery at Andersonville. Georgia. and
such other material as said commission
shall deem advisable. Such report shall he
published and printed by the state printer
In book form, and such printer is authorized
and directed to print two thousand COPIES
OF said report. and in like manner there
shall be published and printed one thou.
sand copies Of the report of the Shiloh
monument commission, in addition to the
number heretofore issued.
Section 2. Any unexpended balance of
the appropriation made in chapter $50 Of
the laws Of 1908, as amended by chapter
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CHAPTER 273. LAWS or 1909.

No. Dos, >. Published June a 1909
CHAPTER 273, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to compensate the officiating chap
lains of the senate and assembly. and
make an appropriation therefor.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly. do enact
rs follows.
Section i. There is appropriated to each
clergyman who has or may hereafter off,
ciate as chaplain of the senate and assem-
bly, during the session OF the legislature for
the year 1909. the sum of three dollars for
the certificates of the chief clerks of the
senate and assembly. respectively. showing
the amounts to which each such chaplain
is entitled.
Section =. This act shall take effect and
be In force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved June 2. 1900
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No. CHAPTER S2 2e4 pq IA%s 9 IF 1909 59O9
AN ACT to amend section 411--4 and
411--5 Of the statutes, relating to the
number of county training schools for
teachers that may be established
The people OF the State of Wisconsin. repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
of the statutes are amended to read Sec
ton 411-4. The state superintendent shall
give such information and assistance as
may seem necessary In organizing and
maintaining such training schools He
shall prescribe the course OF study to be
pursued shall have the general supervi-
sion of all schools established under this
act shall from time TO time inspect the
same, make such recommendations relating
to their management as he may deem neces-
sary, and make such reports thereon as
shall give full information concerning their
number, character and efficiency provided
that he shall not place upon the said list
more than twenty-six schools
Section 411--5. l. ANY school estab-
lished under the provisions OF this act,
whose courses of study and the uualifica-
tons of whose teachers have been an
proved by the state superintendent NAV.
upon application. be placed upon an aD-
proved list OF county training schools for
teachers. A school once entered upon such
list may remain listed and be entitled to
state aid so long as the scope and char
acter of its work are maintained in such
manner as 10 meet tne approval Of the state
superintendent provided that he shall not
place upon said list more than
twenty-six schools. On the first day of
July In each year the secretary of each
county training school board maintaining
a school on the approved list shall report
to the state superintendent setting forth
the facts relating to the cost of maintain
ing the school, the character of the work
done the number and the names of teachers
employed and such other matters as may
be required.
2. Upon the receipt Of such report. If It
tained IN a satisfactory manner for a
period of not less than ten months during
the year closing on the thirtieth day Of the
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preceding June, the said superintendent
shall make a certificate to that effect and
file It with the secretary of state Upon
receiving such certificate the secretary of
state shall draw his warrant, payable to
the treasurer of the county maintaining
such school for a sum equal to two-thirds
the amount actually expended for maintains
Ia, such school during the year. prov. ded,
that the total amount SO apportioned shall
not exceed thirty-fiye hundred dollars in
any one school year to any one school,
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage and
publication
Auproypd June 1909
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No 1853, AL Published June 3. 1909.
CHAPTER 259. LAWS OF 1909,

CHATTER 259, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to create section t219m of the
statutes, relating to license fees to be
paid upon unauthorized insurance
The people of the State Of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section /. There is added to the statutes
81 new section to read: Section 1219m.
Any company not authorized to do business
in this state, which shall insure any prop
erty situated In this state against fire or
the risk Of inland navigation or transporta-
ton shall pay to this state a tax upon the
gross premiums paid to such company on
such insurance computed at the rate per
centum prescribed by section 1919, and on
default of any such company in the pay
ment Of such tax before the first day Of
March next succeeding, the owner of such
property shall pay such tax. Every person
paving more than one hundred dollars
premiums to any one such company in any
wear shall report the same in writing by
mail to the commissioner Of insurance be-
fore the 1rst day of March next succeeding
aud If such report be not made and such
lax remains unpaid for sixty days after the
said first day OF March, the tax shall be in
creased by one-tenth for every month dur
ing which such tax remains unpaid after
the expiration of said sixty days.
Section .. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and afted its passage and
publication.
Approved June 2, 1909.
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CHAPTER 26O, LAWS OF 1909.

No. S71. A.. Published June 3, 1909.
CHAPTER EGO, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to amend section SIS of the stat
utes, relating to the term Of office Of
village officers.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
as follows
Section /. Section s78 of the statutes is
amended TO read Section S7S. The term
Of Office Of all village officers. except Justice
Of the peace and police justice, shall be one
year and until their respective successors
are elected or appointed and qualified and
all vacancies therein shall be filled for the
residue Of the unexpired term only. Every
such vacancy shall be filled by the village
board. and If any officer be absent
or temporarily incapacitated from any cause
the board may appoint some person to dis
charge, in the meantime. his duties. The
board may accept the resignation of any
officer. '
Section .. This act shall take effect and
be n force from and after its passage and
Approved June O. 1909.