Amended. maps, etc. and may extend survey. CHAPTER 136. [Published April 6, 1872.] AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and thirty-seven of the general laws of 1870, entitled "an act to provide for the survey of the lead district, making maps and collecting statistics and specimens from the same.' The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one (1) of chapter one hundred and thirty-seven (137) of the general laws of 1870, is hereby amended by adding to said section the followShall include ing proviso: "provided, that the survey of said lead region, including the maps, facts and statistics prepared by Prof. J. D. Whitney, shall be taken into account by the commissioner under this act; and provided, further, that the survey herein provided for may be extended with the consent of the governor, and under his direction and that of the commissioner, along the line of mineral formations running in a northerly direction to the intersection of the Penoka or other iron ranges; and provided further, that said survey shall not be limited to the ores of lead and zinc, but may include all mineral deposits of an ironomic value found in the vicinity of said line of survey, or of the several iron and copper ranges in the north part of this state." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1872. CHAPTER 137. [Published April 3, 1872.] AN ACT to amend chapter 136 of the general laws of 1871, entitled "an act to organize a state board of charities and reform." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section nine of said chapter 136 is Amended. hereby amended so as to read as follows: On or before Annual reportthe fifteenth day of December in each year, the board what to contain shall present to the governor a report of their proceedings and of their expenses under this act. Said report shall contain a concise statement of the condition of each of the charitable and correctional institutions supported by the state, or receiving aid from the state treasury, together with their opinion of the appropriation proper to be made for each for the following year. It shall also embody the results of their investigation during the year in regard to the support of the poor, and the treatment of criminals, and shall also contain any information, suggestions or recommendations which they may choose to present upon the matters by this act assigned to their supervision and examination. Three thousand (3,000) copies of this Number of report shall be printed by the state printer, in the same copies. manner as those of state officers are printed, for the use of the board and of the legislature. tion-actual ex SECTION 2. Section 11 of said chapter 136 is here- Amended. by amended so as to read as follows: The members of No compensathe board shall receive no compensation for the ser- penses paid. vices rendered under this act. Upon filing with the secretary of state sworn statements of the amount of the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in carrying out the other provisions of this act, they shall have the amount of said expenses refunded to them from the state treasury; and the secretary of state is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant upon the state treasury for the amount of expenses so incurred and proven. The secretary of Salary of the the board shall receive for all services rendered by him secretary. under this act, fifteen hundred dollars per annum, pay The able upon the warrant of the board, quarterly, from the state treasury. His actual and necessary expenses incurred in performing his duties shall be refunded in the same manner as those of the members of the board. 'Appropriated. And there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to comply with the provisions of this act. Shall be sup- board shall be supplied with all necessary stationery, blanks, printing, postage stamps and stamped envelops for their own use and for the use of their secretary, in the same manner in which state officers are now supplied with these articles. And there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to comply with the provisions of this act. plied with stationery, etc. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1872. CHAPTER 138. [Published April 3, 1872.] Amended. AN ACT relating to proceedings for the partition of lands and amendatory of section thirty-one (31) of chapter one hundred and forty-two (142) of the revised statutes. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section thirty-one of chapter one hundred and forty-two of the revised statutes, entitled " of the partition of lands owned by several persons," is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section Copy of report the following: "A copy of the report of the commisto be recorded. sioners and of the judgment of the court, certified by the clerk of the court to be true and correct copies of the originals, and of the whole thereof, shall be recorded in the county or counties where the premises are situated, and the expenses of such copy and the recording thereof may be taxed as a part of the costs of such action." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872. CHAPTER 139. [Published April 6, 1872.] AN ACT authorizing the secretary of state to procure stereotyped plates for portions of the legislative manual. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: stereotyped SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby author- May procure ized to procure, on the best terms he can make, stereo- plates. typed plates of the constitution of the United States, the constitution of the state of Wisconsin, Jefferson's manual, and such other matter as he may deem proper, for use in the annual publication of the legislative manual. and where SECTION 2. The plates thus procured shall be the Whose property property of the state, and shall be deposited with the kept. state printer, who shall be responsible for their custody and safe keeping, and shall be turned over by him to his successor. SECTION 3. The state printer is hereby required to state printer to use the plates thus procured, but he shall not be enti- use plates. tled to any compensation for composition when such plates have been employed. SECTION 4. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriated. any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, belonging to the general fund, an amount sufficient for the expenses authorized by this act. Approved March 25, 1872. CHAPTER 140. [Published April 3, 1872.] AN ACT to amend chapter sixty-six of the general laws of 1871, entitled "an act to regulate the sale of patent rights in the state of Wisconsin, and to prevent fraud connected therewith." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Every person who shall take any promissory note or other written obligation, the consideration for which, or any part thereof, shall be a patent right, or any interest therein or right thereunder, or appointment as agent for the sale of any patented article, substance, compound or process, shall insert, or cause to be inserted in the body thereof, at the time of the taking thereof, in prominent and legible writing or print, the words, "given for a patent right." SECTION 2. Every person who, either as principal or agent, shall take or procure to be taken, payable to himself or otherwise, any promissory note or other obligation in writing, the consideration for which or any part thereof shall be such as is mentioned in section one of this act, without complying with the provisions of this act, or shall knowingly sell or dispose of any promissory note or other obligation in writing, taken in violation of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall pay a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars, or be committed to jail for not more than six months, and shall be liable to the party injured for double the damage by him sustained." Approved March 25, 1872. |