town or county officer shall, directly or indirectly, receive the same or any part thereof, the person or persons so offending against the provisions of this act shall be severally liable in their official bonds, to the printer publishing said notice, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, to be recovered in an action to be instituted at any time within two years from the taking or receiving thereof."

SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872.

May purchase land.

CHAPTER 168.

[Published April 8, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize the purchase of a tract of land for the Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Blind.

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

SECTION 1. The trustees of the Wisconsin Institute for the Education of the Blind are hereby authorized and empowered to purchase for the use of said institute the tract of land lying west of the land upon which said institute is situated, and between it and the land belonging to said institute, and used by it as a Appropriated. pasture, being about ten acres of land. The sum of fourteen hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purchase of said land.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force

from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 169.

[Published April 3, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize counties in this state to purchase land to be held and devoted to the purpose of holding fairs and exhibitions of an agricultural nature.

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

SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the several May purchase counties in this state are hereby authorized to purchase land for fairs. land to be devoted to the purpose of holding thereon fairs and exhibitions of an agricultural character.

SECTION 2. The amount which shall be expended Limit of for such purpose shall in no case exceed the sum of amount. eight thousand dollars.

of land.

SECTION 3. The board of supervisors of the county May grant use in which land shall be purchased under the provisions of this act may, from time to time, grant the use of such land to agricultural and other societies of similar

nature.

SECTION 4. Societies which may be permitted the Societies shall use of such land, and shall erect thereon fences, build- erect fences ings, sheds, and otherwise improve such land, shall do so with the express condition that all such improvements shall, when made, become the property of the county.

donations.

SECTION 5. For the purpose of improving lands May receive purchased under the provisions of this act, the several counties in which such lands are situated are authorized to receive from any person or persons, or from towns, cities or villages of the county, donations of money, material or labor.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 25, 1872.

Amended.

May prescribe form.

CHAPTER 170.

[Published April 3, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend section thirty-five of chapter thirteen of the revised statutes, entitled " of counties and county officers." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section thirty-five of chapter thirteen of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto an additional clause to stand as subdivision nine of said section, as follows: Subdivision 9. The board of county supervisors may, when not otherwise provided by law, prescribe the form and manner of keeping the public records of the county, or require the keeping of such additional public records in any county office as in their judgment shall be expedient and proper.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872.

Shall be deem

ed to be legally

CHAPTER 171.

[Published April 3, 1872.]

AN ACT concerning the incorporation of religious societies.

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

SECTION 1. Every society in this state composed of incorporated. persons who have united themselves together for the purpose of maintaining as a body corporate, public worship or other religious exercises, which for the term of five years has maintained an actual organization by the election of officers, maintenance of public worship, or such other acts as are usual in conducting the operations of incorporated religious societies in this state, shall be deemed to have been legally incorporated, and shall

ficate.

have all the rights and powers, and shall be subject to all the liabilities of religious societies duly incorporated under the laws of this state. But any society desirous shall ffle certiof obtaining the benefit of this act shall be permitted to do so only upon filing in the office of the register of deeds in the county in which said society is situated, a certificate executed by three officers of said society, in the following form:

STATE OF WISCONSIN,

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county, ss.

do

A. B. C. D. and E. F., of the county of hereby certify, that they and each of them are trustees (or other officers) of the a religious society located at in said county; that during five years immediately preceding the date hereof, the said society has maintained an actual organization, by the support of public worship with ordinary regularity, (or in other manner, stating how), and that such organization has been maintained with the intent to maintain a corporate existence under the laws of this state. Dated,

Form of certificate.

A. B.

C. D.

E. F.

Such certificate shall be verified by the officers making How verified the same, before some person authorized to administer and recorded. oaths, and shall be recorded at length by the register of deeds of said county, in the book in which the certificates of the organization of religious societies are recorded, upon the payment of his fees therefor. Such shall be evicertificate when so recorded, or the said record, or any duly certified copy of such record shall be received as evidence in all courts in this state, and shall be prima facie proof of the facts in said certificate set forth.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 25, 1872.

dence.

Amended.

Shall print transactions.

May include engravings.

Number of pages.

How distributed.

CHAPTER 172.

[Published April 5, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend section 4 of chapter 149 of the general laws of 1871, entitled " an act to provide for the incorporation of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, and the printing and publishing of its transactions."

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

SECTION 1. Section four of said chapter one hundred and forty-nine is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The state printer is hereby directed to print on good book paper, fold, stitch and bind in muslin (uniform in style with the last volume published, of the transactions of the State Agricultural Society), two thousand copies of the transactions of the State Horticultural Society, embracing the years 1870 and 1871, which volume may include such necessary engravings of new fruits, system of pruning, and insects injurious to fruit culture, as shall be necessary to properly illustrate the printed matter, the cost of said engravings not to exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars in any one year: provided, the number of printed pages of said volvme shall not exceed two hundred, and to deliver the same to the superintendent of public property, to be distributed by him as follows, to-wit: three copies to each member of the legislature; fifty copies to each county or town horticultural society, who shall report its organization with officers elect, and number of members, with an abstract of its proceedings for publication in said volume, to the secretary of the State Horticultural Society; fifteen copies to each county ag ricultural society; twenty-five copies to the State Ag ricultural Society; twenty-five copies to the State Historical Society; fifty copies to the State University, and all the remaining copies to the State Horticultural Society.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 25, 1872.