the company may remove their property and provide for a new connection. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and shall be liable in a civil action to such company, and to any person or corporation for all damages occasioned by said violation.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 15, 1872.

CHAPTER 55.

[Published March 19, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and forty of the general laws of 1864, entitled "an act to amend chapter one hundred and eighty-seven of the general laws of 1859, entitled an act to amend section twenty-one of the revised statutes, entitled of the school and university lands."

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

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter two hundred and Amended. forty of the general laws of 1864 is hereby amended

tice of time and

so as to read as follows: "All sales at auction of Shall give noschool, university and swamp lands and all other state place of sale. lands, shall be made at such time and at such such public places as the commissioners of school and university lands shall designate. and the commissioners shall, previously to any such sale, cause a notice thereof, specifying the time when and the place where the same will be held, to be published once in each week, for at least six successive weeks, in one newspaper, printed in the county where such lands are situated, if any; but if there be no such newspaper, then in the newspaper printed nearest to the place where such lands are located."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1872.

Only two elections in one

year.

CHAPTER 56.

[Published March 19, 1872.]

AN ACT to regulate elections upon .the question of aiding rail roads

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

SECTION 1. No law of this state authorizing the electors of any town, village, city or county to vote at any election upon the question of aiding in the construction of any railroad or railroads by the levy of a tax or issue of bonds of such town, village, city or county, or by the subscription to the stock of such railroad company, shall be construed to authorize more than two such elections in one year in any town, city, village or county in this state, except on a petition signed by legal voters of such town, city or village, equal to, or not less than one-fourth of the votes cast at the next preceding annual spring election of such town, city, village or county.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1872.

CHAPTER 57.

[Published April 3, 1872.]

Amended.

Shall give notice of determination.

AN ACT to amend section 11 of chapter 17 of the revised statutes, "of fences and fence viewers; of pounds and the impounding of cattle."

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

SECTION 1. Section 11 of chapter 17 of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso: "provided, that if said fence viewers shall determine it to be impracticable, either from the formation of the banks of said river, brook, pond or

creek, or from any other cause, to maintain any fence along or near said boundary line, they shall give written notice to the said parties of such determination, and thereafter each party shall restrain his cattle and other animals from passing to and doing damage upon adjoining land, on the other side of said boundary line."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 15, 1872.

CHAPTER 58.

[Published April 4, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend section two of chapter one hundred and seventeen of the general laws of 1864, entitled "an act revising, amending and consolidating the laws relating to extra pay to Wisconsin soldiers in the service of the United States or of this state, and providing for the relief of families of such soldiers in certain cases, and to prescribe severe penalties for frauds committed in procuring such extra pay," and extending the provisions of said chapter.

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

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter one hundred Ameuded. and seventeen of the general laws of 1864, is hereby amended by striking out the words, "enlistment or being drafted," wherever they occur in said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words, "being mustered into service."

where applica

SECTION 2. All applications for extra pay under When and the provisions of said chapter one hundred and seven- tion to be filed. teen of the general laws of 1864, as amended by this act, must be filed with the secretary of state, on or before the 31st day of December, A. D. 1872, and said chapter one hundred and seventeen as herein amended for the purposes of this act is hereby re-enacted and declared to be in full force.

SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated out of any Appropriated. money in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, an amount sufficient to pay all claims presented and allowed under 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 15, 1872.

Amended.

State printer

CHAPTER 59.

[Published March 19, 1872.]

AN ACT to amend chapter 74, general laws of 1868, entitled "an act to provide for the printing and publication of the transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society."

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

SECTION 1. Chapter seventy-four of the general laws of 1868, entitled "an act to provide for the printing and publication of the transactions of the Wisconconsin State Agricultural Society," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Hereafter, it to print report. shall be the duty of the state printer, on the order of the governor, to print on good book-paper, fold, stitch, and bind in muslin covers, uniform in style with the previous volumes thereof, five thousand copies annualÎy of the transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, including abstracts of the reports of county agricultural socities, and such other matters pertaining to the industry of the state as shall be deemed most important: provided, the number of printed pages of said volume of transactions shall not exceed five hundred; and to deliver the same, when complete, to the superintendent of public property, to be by him How distribu- distributed as follows: One thousand copies for the use of the legislature; fifty copies to the State Library; one hundred copies to the State Historical Society; one hundred copies to the Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters; fifty copies to the State Horticultural Society; fifty copies to each district industrial organization, embracing two or more counties and furnishing the State Agricultural Society a report of its proceedings; twenty-five copies to each county agricultural society, and the remainder to the State Agricultural Society.

ted.

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

Approved March 15, 1872.

CHAPTER 60.

[Published March 19, 1872.

AN ACT to appropriate to the governor of the state of Wisconsin, the sum of six hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety cents, for the purpose therein mentioned.

WHEREAS, By chapter 159 of the general laws of the Preamble. year 1871, a certain sum of money was appropriated to be used at the discretion of the governor in perfecting the title in the purchasers from the state of Wisconsin therein named, to certain lands therein described, which said sum of money so appropriated has been found insufficient to pay the necessary cost and expenses actually incurred in perfecting said title; therefore,

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Appropriated. governor of the state of Wisconsin, the sum of six hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety cents, out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, to be used at his discretion, in full settlement of all cost paid or expenses incurred by Jacob Lanyten, Michael Goff, Nicholas Reich and Nicholas Hemman, or either of them, in perfecting the title, or for any and all damages sustained on account of any imperfection in said title to the lands enumerated in said chapter 159 of the general laws for the year 1871, the amount hereby appropriated to be received by said parties in full payment and satisfaction of all claims or demands of every name or nature arising, growing out of or in any manner connected with the title to said land, or any question connected therewith in which the state of Wisconsin may have any interest, or may have incurred or may be supposed to have incurred any liability.