addition to the amount due on each assessment as aforesaid, for his fees in receiving and paying over the

same.

to recover as

SECTION 9. Suits at law may be brought against any May bring suit member of such company, who shall refuse or neglect sessment. to pay any assessment made upon them by the provisions of this act, and the directors of any company so formed, who shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform the duties imposed upon them by the foregoing sections of this act, shall be liable in their individual capacity to the person sustaining such loss.

SECTION 10. No company formed under this act where and shall insure any property out of the limits of the town what to insura or towns in which the said company is located, nor shall they insure any property other than detached dwellings and their contents, and farm buildings and their contents and live stock while on the premises or running at large, and hay and grain in the bin or stack, nor shall they insure any property within the limits of any incorporated city in this state.

SECTION 11. The directors of each company so How directors formed shall be chosen by ballot at the annual meeting to be chosen. thereof, which shall be held on the first Tuesday of January in each year, and every person shall have one vote for each two hundred dollars which he may be insured, but no person shall be allowed to vote by proxy at such election.

annual state

SECTION 12. It shall be the duty of the secretary Shall prepare of every company as aforesaid, to prepare a statement ment of condishowing the condition of such company on the day tion. preceding their annual meeting, which statement shall contain the amount insured, the number of policies issued, and to whom, and the amount insured by each policy, and all other matters pertaining to the interest3 of such company, which statement shall be filed in the office of the town clerk, in which said company may be located, on or before the fifteenth day of January in each year, and which statement shall also be read to the members of said company at their annual meeting.

from company on notice.

SECTION 13. Any member of such company may May withdraw withdraw therefrom at any time, by giving notice in writing to the president, or in his absence, to the secretary thereof, and paying his share of all claims then existing against said company; and the directors, or a majority thereof, shall have power to annul any policy

by giving notice in writing to that effect to the holder thereof.

SECTION 14. Non-residents of any town in this state, owning property therein, may become members of any company founded under this act, and shall be entitled to all rights and privileges appertaining thereto, except that it shall not be lawful for such non-resident to become a director of said company, unless he be at the time of such membership, a resident of a town adjoining the town or towns in which said company has been formed under the provisions of this act. SECTION 15, The company so formed may adopt such by-laws for its regulation as are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and may therein prescribe the compensation of its officers.

SECTION 16. No company formed under this act shall continue for a longer term than thirty years.

SECTION 17. This act shall apply to all companies heretofore organized in compliance with the provisions of chapter forty-six of the general laws of 1859, and the amendments thereto.

SECTION 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 19. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 23, 1872.

Shall republish reports.

CHAPTER 104.

[Published March 25, 1872.]

AN ACT to provide for the republication and stereotyping of cer tain volumes of the reports of the decisions of the supreme

court.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. There shall be republished by the publishers of the Wisconsin reports, from time to time, under the direction and by the approval of the supreme court, all volumes of the reports of the decisions of said court, which shall be out of print, or so nearly so

and style.

as to make the republication thereof, in the opinion of the court, advisable; and such republication shall be edited by such person learned in the law and resident of this state as shall be selected or approved by said court, and in such manner and with such reduction of the number of volumes, as said court shall by its order direct; the entire cost of such editing to be paid by cost, numbersuch publisher, and the numbers of the present vol- ing and paging. umes and pages to be preserved in such new edition; and the plates of all such volumes of reports, as shall shall be stereobe republished under this act shall be stereotyped, and tpyed-number four hundred and twenty-five copies of such volumes thereof, the same to be of the same style and quality as to paper and binding, as volume twenty-five (25) of Wisconsin reports, and to contain seven hundred and fifty pages, at least all the cases reported in the corresponding number in the original volumes, shall be delivered to the secretary of state; and upon furnishing Price per copy to the secretary of state such copies and satisfactory to be paid to proof of having stereotyped the plates of such volumes, the said publishers shall receive from the state the same price per copy as is now paid by the state for each copy of the current volumes of reports, to be audited by the secretary of state, and paid by the state treasurer, on the warrant of the secretary of state, out of any money not otherwise appropriated: provided, that before doing any work under this section, the said Shall execute publishers shall enter into a contract, to be approved by the judges of the supreme court, and filed in the office of the secretary of state, stipulating that they will faithfully perform all the acts and conditions in this act required to be performed by them, and particularly will, at all times, keep for sale and sell to the state of Wisconsin and to residents of the state, copies of the volumes to be so republished, at the rate herein fixed.

publishers.

contract.

price.

SECTION 2. The said publishers shall sell said vol- Limitation of umes at a price not exceeding four dollars and fifty cents per copy to all residents of this state, and no greater price shall be demanded or received by them or their agents or assigns or either of them.

SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated from the Appropriated. state treasury, a sufficient sum of money to pay for the books above mentioned payable proportionately upon the delivery of the copies of each volume.

May sell copies on hand.

SECTION 4. The secretary of state is authorized to sell to said publishers any copies of the volumes to be so republished, which the state may now have on hand, exceeding fifty of each volume, which he shall retain for the state. The price shall be four dollars and fifty cents per volume, and the said publishers shall include in the contract to be executed by them as aforesaid, a stipulation to sell the copies so purchased by them at the same rate.

Approved March 23, 1872.

Not compelled to keep open passage.

Not to work forfeiture of rights.

CHAPTER 105.

[Published March 26, 1872.]

AN ACT to define certain privileges and powers.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows;

SECTION 1. No person, company, corporation or association, authorized or empowered to build, construct, maintain or keep dams, boom or booms, pier or piers,upon, in, along, across any river, creek, stream, slough, bayou or marsh in this state, shall be obliged or compelled to keep or maintain a passage for boats, vessels, barges, scows, rafts, cribs, logs, timber or other floating material in and through any bayou or outlet, (other than the main outlet) of any such river, creek or stream, or through any slough or marsh formed therefrom, or which may be adjacent thereto, or a part of such river or stream, or an expansion thereof: provided, a free passage is left or provided in the main channel, (that is to say, in the main river, creek or stream,) or channel which has been a usually followed route for boats, barges, rafts of lumber and logs, in any such river, stream or creek, for the free navigation of such river, creek or stream, with boats, barges, scows, vessels, rafts, cribs, logs, timber or other floating material. And if any such person, company, corporation or association shall have been required by any law or its acts of incorporation, to maintain, keep or provide, a passage

for boats, scows, barges, vessels, or other floating mate. rials, in and through any such outlet, (other than the main outlet,) slough, marsh or bayou, and has failed and neglected so to do, such failure or neglect, shall in nowise or manner forfeit, or work a forfeiture of any right, franchise, power or privilege enjoyed by or granted to any such person, company, corporation or association by any law or act of incorporation, anything in any law or act of incorporation to the contrary notwithstanding, but such person, company, corporation or association, shall be entitled to have and enjoy any and all of such rights, powers, privileges and franchise, as fully and the same as if it, he or they, in that particular or requirement had fully complied with such law or act of incorporation.

SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts, whether gen- Conflicting acts eral, special, private or local, conflicting or inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed so far as they conflict, or are inconsistent with the provisions of this act, and no further: provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be held to impair the rights secured to the public by section one of article IX of the constitution of this state, or to authorize any obstruction to navigation in contravention of these rights.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 23, 1872.

CHAPTER 106.

[Published March 26, 1872.]

AN ACT relating to special terms of the circuit court for the second judicial circuit.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The regular terms of the circuit court, Shall be special held in the counties of Milwaukee and Waukesha, in terms.

the second judicial circuit, shall be special terms for the