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CHAPTER 185.

[Published April 3, 1872.]

AN ACT to prohibit bridging or obstructing the bay of Superior, and imposing upon railroad companies conditions of crossing the Saint Louis river or bay, at or above Conner's Point.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful and the same is obstructing bay hereby prohibited, for any person or corporation, to have, construct or operate any railroad or railroad bridge, or bridge of any kind, across the bay of Superior, between Minnesota Point, in the state of Minnesota, and the shores opposite the same.

Conditions for construction of railroad or bridge.

Subject to provisions of this act.

SECTION 2. Every railroad company which may construct, operate or maintain any railroad or railroad bridge across the St. Louis river or bay, at or above Conner's Point, shall so construct, operate and maintain the same, subject to the following conditions, and not otherwise, viz. Every such railroad company shall, at some point in Superior, on the navigable water of the bay of Superior between Nemadji river and Conner's Point, establish and maintain a depot and construct and forever maintain proper tracks and side-tracks, docks, piers, warehouses and freight-houses and depot accommodations, suitable and convenient for the receipt, transfer or shipment of all freights and the general business of railroad companies; and shall furnish and maintain at such point, facilities for such receipt, transfer, shipment and railroad business, equal in all respects to the facilities which said company may have and maintain at any port in Minnesota, on or upon the St. Louis river or bays of St. Louis or Superior, and shall not discriminate in any manner in rates, drawbacks or facilities for freights or passengers, against Superior in favor of ports in Minnesota.

SECTION 3.

All acts heretofore passed conferring on any railroad company the right to cross the St. Louis river, at or above Conner's Point, and all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act, shall be construed subject to the provisions of this act.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force. from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 186.

[Published April 8, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize the judge of the third judicial circuit to appoint a court commissioner.

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

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SECTION 1. That the circuit judge of the third ju- May appoint dicial circuit of the state of Wisconsin is hereby au- sioner. thorized and empowered to appoint one court commissioner in and for the county of Dodge, in said circuit in addition to the number now authorized by law. SECTION 2. That the person appointed such court Powers and commissioner under this act shall have all the power and authority conferred by and subject to all the requirements under the laws relating to court commissioners in this state, and shall hold his office for the term of two years from the time of his appointment unless removed by the court or judge of said court.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872.

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term of office.

Time changed.

Return of writs,

CHAPTER 187.

[Published April 8, 1872.]

AN ACT to fix the terms of circuit court in Marathon county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The time of holding the terms of the circuit court in the county of Marathon, in the seventh judicial circuit, is hereby changed from the second Monday in March to the second Monday in April, and from the third Monday in August to the third Monday in October, in each year.

SECTION 2. All writs, recognizances and other proetc. changed. ceedings made returnable to the circuit court of the said county shall be considered and deemed to be returnable to the terms of said court as fixed by this act. And all continuances and notices made or taken to the terms of the circuit court for said county shall be deemed to be made or taken to the terms of said court as the same are fixed by this act. And all motions and other proceedings noticed to be heard at the regular term or terms of said court shall be allowed and considered to be noticed for the hearing at the regular term or terms of said court as fixed by this act.

SECTION 3. All statutes now in force and such as conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 188.

[Published April 4, 1872.]

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AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of villages.

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

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SECTION 1. Any part of any town or towns, not May be incorincluded in any incorporated village, and containing a resident population of not less than five hundred persons, and, if it shall include within its boundaries a territory of more than one square mile, containing a resident population of not less than three hundred persons to every square mile of territory included within such boundaries, may be incorporated as a village under the provisions of this act. And when so incorporated, every such village shall be a body corporate and politic by the name and style of "the village of (the name of such village in the order of the court in- lage and its gen. corporating the same), and by that name may have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, complaining and defending in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever, with power of purchasing, receiving, holding, occupying and conveying real and personal estate, and shall have a common seal, and may change the same at pleasure, and shall have generally the powers possessed by municipal corporations at common and statute law, and in addition thereto shall possess the powers hereinafter specifically granted.

SECTION 2. The persons intending to make applica- Shall cause surtion for the incorporation of such village, as herein vey to be made. provided, shall cause an accurate survey and map to be made of the territory intended to be embraced within the limits of such village; such survey, to be made by a practical surveyor, shall show the courses and distances of the boundaries thereof, and the quantity of land contained therein, the accuracy of which survey

Shall cause census to be taken.

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and maps shall be verified by the affidavit of such surveyor, written thereon or annexed thereto.

SECTION 3. Such persons shall, also, cause an accurate census to be taken of the resident population of such territory, as it may be on some day not more than ten weeks previous to the time of presenting such application to the court, as hereinafter provided, which census shall exhibit the name of every head of a family residing within such territory on such day, and the name of every person who is a bona fide resident of such territory on such day, and it shall be verified by the affidavit of the person taking the same, written thereon or annexed thereto.

SECTION 4. Such survey, map and census, when completed and verified as aforesaid, shall be left at the residence or place of business, within such territory, of some person residing therein, and shall be subject to examination at all reasonable hours by every person interested in such application, for a period of five weeks from the posting or first publication of the notice of such application, as hereinafter provided.

SECTION 5. The persons intending to make such tice of applica- application shall give notice that they will apply, on some day therein specified, to the circuit court of the county in which such territory lies, or if it lie in more than one county, to such court in one of such counties to be named in the notice, for an order incorporating such territory as a village, by a name to be therein specified; and such notice shall describe the boundaries of such territory by courses and distances, and by specifying the town or towns in which it lies, and it shall state where such survey, map and census have been left and may he examined, as aforesaid.

Publication of the notice.

Application to be by petitionwhat petition shall set forth.

SECTION 6. If there be a newspaper printed within such territory, such notice shall be printed therein once in each week for six successive weeks previous to the time specified for making such application; and if there be no such newspaper, such notice shall be posted in at least three of the most public places in such territory, at least six weeks before the time so specified in said notice.

SECTION 7. Such application shall be by petition, subscribed by the applicants, who shall be not less than five in number, and who shall be tax-payers and resi dents of such territory, and such application shall set