Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

automobile, motor cycle or other similar
motor vehicle shall be operated. ridden or
driven along or upon any public highway
Of the state. unless the same shall have
been registered or application for the reg
istration OF the same shall have been
made and forwarded to the secretary OF
state accompanied by the requisite fee
therefor in accordance with the provis-
ions Of sections 1861 to 1861 in
elusive; provided, however, that in case
any person shall operate. ride Or drive
any automobile, motor cycle or other
similar motor vehicle along or upon any
public highway Of this state, without the
display thereon Of registration number
plates as provided by sections 1861 to
prima faeie evidence of operating the
same without the registration thereon as
hereinafter provided.
A. The secretary Of state or his duly
authorized agent shall then register in a
book or card index system to be kept for
that purpose the automobile, motor cycle
or other similar vehicle described in said
application. giving to such automobile,
motor cycle or other similar motor
vehicle distinguishing number, and shall
thereupon issue to said applicant GER
tificate of registration in card
form, which shall contain the name,
place Of residence and address of the APP
plicant the registered number assigned,
the date of registration and a brief de-
scription of the automobile, motor cycle
or other similar motor vehicle so regis
tered. Said certificate OF registration
shall always be in the possession of the
operator or firmly attached in some ac-
cessible place in the automobile, motor
cycle or other similar motor vehicle de-
scribed therein
5. There shall be paid annually to the
secretary Of state for the registration OF
each automobile fee of five dollars and
for the registration Of each motor cycle
a fee of two dollars All registrations
shall expire on December thirty-first of
each year.
g. All certificates of registration of
motor vehicles heretofore issued in 1913.
shall continue in force until December
81, 1913, and every owner Of a
motor vehicle so registered Shall there
after register such motor vehicle annu-
ally in accordance with the provisions OF
sections 1861 to 1636-57, inclusive.
s. The secretary of state shall also is
sue and deliver to each owner OF motor
cycle, an official number plate of uniform
size and design, which shall have dis
played thereon the initial letter of the
state and the number assigned to such
motor cycle such letter and figures to
be at least two inches high, and which
said number plate shall be firmly and
rigidly fastened on the rear of such mo-
torcycle in a conspicuous place and be
so displayed at all times.
g. Upon the sale of such automo-
vehicle the owner Of the
certificate of registration thereof and
number plate or plates thereon shall
retain the same, and may, dur
ing any such year, make application to
the secretary of state, upon blanks pre-
pared for such purpose, for the transfer
of such number plate or plates to any
other automobile, motor cycle or other
similar motor vehicle acquired and
owned by him during such year. Such
application for transfer of such number
plate or plates shall be accompanied by
fee of fifty cents to cover the cost OF the
issuance OF new certificate OF reglstra-
ton. In case of sale, the new
owner of any automobile, motor cycle or
other similar motor vehicle previously
registered during any such year, shall
make application for transfer to such
automobile, motor cycle or other similar
motor vehicle so purchased of any num-
Der plate or plates heretofore issued to
him during such year, or in case no SUCH
number plate or plates shall nave been
so issued during such year, he shall make
application for a certificate Of registra-
ton and number plate or plates and pay
the fee, in the manner hereinbefore pro-
vided. In case of a sale of any such auto
mobile, motor cycle or other motor
shall be unlawful for the seller
to permit the use of and it shall
be unlawful for the buyer to use the
number plate or plates upon such auto
mobile, motor cycle or other motor We
hicle under which the same had thereto
fore been registered and operated.
II. The secretary of state shall
hereafter on or before April first of any
year, transmit to each county
clerk, Sheriff and to the chief of police in
each city in this state and every
village clerk making application therefor
an up-tO date numerical list, from Janu-
airy first, and every two months there
after up to November fifteenth, a supple
mentary list, in booklet form, of all reg
istrations of automobiles, motor cycles
and other motor vehicles registered dur
ing each intermittent period.
Such lists SO furnished to such officers
and clerks shall contain the name and ad-
dress of the person registering such We
h1cle, the name or make thereof, and the
registered number so assigned to it. Such
officers and clerks shall keep such lists OF
registrations on file in their respective Of
fees as official records, and the same
shall be open to the inspection of all per-
sons during reasonable business hours.
The superintendent of public property
shall, upon application therefor sell to
the general public copies Of such regis
tration lists in booklet form, at a cost not
exceeding ten dollers for the entire an
nual series.
Is. For the purpose of administering
this section, the secretary of state is au-
thorized to employ such clerks and
stenographers as are necessary to carry
out the provisions hereof, but there shall
not be expended, in any one year, more
than twenty-five hundred dollars for COM
pensatiOn to such employees. After de-
Quoting the expenses of administering
sections 1861 to 1636-57, inclusive, in
the office of the secretary of state from
the moneys derived from regis
tration fees under it's provisions, three
fourths of the remainder shall be paid
as soon as may be after the close of the
fiscal year to the county treasurers of the
several counties in which the persons
paying the registration fees re-
side, in the proportion in which such fees
shall have been received from the resi-
dents of the several counties, and shall
be used for repairing highways in said
counties, outside of cities and incorpo-
rated villages, in such manner as the
county boards shall determine. The re-
naming one-fourth of said moneys shall
be paid into the state treasury to aug
ment the state highway fund
(Section 1865. 1. Every manufac-
turer of, or dealer in automobiles, motor
cycles, or other similar motor vehicles,
may, instead of registering each automo-
bile motor cycle, Or other similar motor
vehicle owned or controlled by him, make
application upon a blank furnished by the
secretary of state for a general distingu-
fishing number, and said secretary of state
shall issue to the applicant one certif-
cate of registration, containing the name,
place of business, address of the appli-
cant and general distinguishing number,
and shall also issue and deliver to such
applicant v eight official plates