CHAPTER 20. [Published March 2, 1872.] AN ACT to amend chapter 8 of the general laws of 1870, entitled an act to amend chapter 361 of the general laws of 1860, entitled 'an act conferring jurisdiction on the county court of Winnebago county.' The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: amended. SECTION 1. Section one of said chapter 8 of the laws Section one of 1870 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section one of said chapter 361 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: There is hereby conferred upon the Jurisdiction county court of Winnebago county jurisdiction in all conferred. civil actions and proceedings in law and equity, and under the statutes of the state of Wisconsin, except actions of quo warranto and proceedings by information in the nature of quo warranto, concurrent with and equal to the jurisdiction of the circuit court in said county, for all claims, demands and sums, and of and concerning all property, not exceeding the sum or value of twenty thousand dollars: provided, that said county court shall have jurisdiction in all actions in said county for the foreclosure of mortgages, in which the amount claimed, and in actions for divorce in which the alimony asked for does not exceed twenty thousand dollars, although the property to be affected by the judgment may exceed that amount in value; and to the amount and within the limits aforesaid the said county court shall be a court of general jurisdiction, with the same power and jurisdiction in all such civil actions and proceedings as belong to and are exercised by the circuit court in and for said county. SECTION 2. Section 3 of said chapter 8 of the laws Section threc of 1870, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: amended. "Section 14 of said chapter 361 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: There shall be held at the county Time of regular seat of said county, three general terms of said court, term. viz: on the second Mondays of February, May and October in each year. Special terms of said court may be called and held by order of the judge of said court, a copy of which order shall be published three success Special term. ive weeks in some newspaper published at the county seat of said county before such special term, and a jury may be selected for any such called special term in the same manner as for general terms of said court, when in the discretion of said judge it is deemed necessary. A special term of said court shall be held on the first Monday of each month, except the months of Febru ary, May, July, August and October: provided, that no issues of fact nor appeals from justices' courts shall be tried or heard at such special terms. Such special terms may be held at the office of the county judge of said county, and no officer shall receive any compensation for attendance upon such special terms, unless directed to attend by the judge of said court. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 21. [Published March 1, 1872.] Appropriated. To be drawn quarterly. AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money therein named for the payment of current expenses at the Institution for the Education of the Blind, for the year 1872. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-one thousand dollars in full, for the payment of current expenses at the Institution for the Education of the Blind, for the year 1872. SECTION 2. All sums for current expenses shall be drawn from the treasury not oftener than quarterly in advance. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication, and shall be printed in the volume of general laws for the year 1872. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 22. [Published March 1, 1872.] AN ACT to repeal section 2 of chapter 24 of the general laws of 1871, entitled an act to change and fix the time for holding the terms of the circuit court for the third judicial circuit of this state." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 24 of the general Repealed. laws of 1871, entitled "an act to change and fix the time for holding the terms of the circuit court in the third judicial circuit of this state," is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 23. [Published February 28, 1872.] AN ACT to facilitate a settlement with the national banks, for the taxes due for the years 1865 and 1866. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: urer to execute SECTION 1. If any banking association, organized If taxes shall under the laws of the United States shall, within fif- be paid, treasteen days after the passage of this act, pay to the state receipt. treasurer, taxes at the rate of one and a half per cent. upon the par value of its stock or shares, for each of the years eighteen hundred and sixty-five (1865) an 1 eighteen hundred and sixty-six (1866), or for each of said years for which said taxes have not heretofore been paid, the said treasurer shall execute to such bank a receipt in full for the taxes due therefrom to the state for the year or years aforesaid. SECTION 2. The taxes above referred to shall be How taxes to be computed. computed for the year 1865 upon the capital stock of Bank to have lien upon each bank which was organized before the 5th day of June of such year, and not afterwards, and for the year 1866, upon the capital stock of each bank which was organized before the 5th day of June of that year, and not afterwards; but in all cases where the capital stock was increased after the 5th day of June in either of said years, the shares representing such increase shall not be taxed for such year: provided, however, that in the case where any state bank was converted into a national bank between the 1st day of January and the 5th day of June, in either of said years, the tax to be computed upon its capital stock for such year, shall bear such proportion to the rate above provided for as the part of the year unexpired at the date of such conversion bore to the whole year. SECTION 3. Any such bank which shall pay taxes shares on which upon its shares, as above provided for, shall have a taxes are paid. lien upon each of such shares for the taxes so paid thereon, and may retain the same out of any dividend accrued or to accrue upon such share, and may refuse to transfer any such share upon its books until the tax so paid has been refunded to it, by the owner of such share, with interest in either case at the rate of ten per cent. per annum. Bank to present statement. To be excluded from benefits. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of every such bank, at the time of paying the said taxes, to present to the state treasurer a statement verified by its president or cashier, showing the date of its organization and the amount of its capital stock on the 5th day of June of each of the years 1865 and 1866. SECTION 5. Any national bank which fails to accept the provisions of this act, within the time above limited therefor, shall be excluded from all the benefits thereof. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 28, 1872. CHAPTER 24. [Published March 2, 1872.] AN ACT relating to the recovery of lands illegally sold by executors, administrators and guardians. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: land declared SECTION 1. A purchaser in good faith of land from Purchaser to any executor, administrator or guardian, in case his have lien on conveyance is declared void at the suit of any heir, de- illegally sold. visee or next of kin, or ward or person claiming under them or either of them, shall have a lien on the land for the purchase money paid by him, so far as the same has been applied in payment of the debts of the decedent under whom such heir, devisee or next of kin claims such land, or so far as the purchase money has been applied for the use and benefit of the ward, heir, devisee or next of kin whose land has been sold; and in case such purchaser has conveyed such land, those holding through him shall be entitled to such lien, and the amount thereof and interest shall be added to the value of the improvements made by the purchaser and those holding through him, and judgment shall be rendered for the same in pursuance of section thirtyone of chapter one hundred and forty-one of the revised statutes. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 28, 1872. 3-GEN. LAWS. |