NAME.

OFFICE.

RESIDENCE.

POST OFFICE.

COUNTY.

Smith, Winfield..... Member of Ass'bly. Milwaukee..

Solon, John.....

..do...

Spooner, John C..

..do.

Richwood.
Hudson....

Geneva

Milwaukee.
Jefferson.

St. Croix.
Walworth.

Waukesha.

Mineral Point... Iowa.

Kilbourn City... Columbia.

Wallber, Emil..

.do..

Milwaukee.

Milwaukee.

Rock.

Fond du Lac.

Sheboygan.. Sheboygan.

Schleisingerville. Washington.

Whitewater... Walworth.

Yorty, Andrew J.

Fond du Lac.

Milton H. Pettit.....Lt. gov. & pres. sen. Racine.

Charles G. Williams. Pres. senate pro tem Janesville.

Daniel Hall...

Speaker of ass'bly. Watertown

Racine.

Rock.
Jefferson.

James H. Waggoner. Chief clerk senate. Richland Center. Richland.

S. F. Hammond...

E. W. Young..

W. M. Newcomb

Ass't clerk senate..Clinton
Rock.
Chief cl'k assembly Prairie du Sac... Sauk.
Ass't cl'k assembly Darlington La Fayette.

NOTE. Where a superfluous word has been found in the enrolled bill, it has been printed in the text, but in italics, and enclosed in parenthesis, (thus). Where a word has been found necessary to sustain the sense of the context, or where one word has been obviously mistaken for another, the word supposed to be proper has been supplied, but in brackets, [thus ]

GENERAL LAWS.

CHAPTER 1.

[Published January 25, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize the city of Green Bay to convey to the United States, Grass Island, at the mouth of the Fox River, for the purpose of erecting thereon a light-house, and to convey all the interest of the state to said island.

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

island.

SECTION 1. The city of Green Bay is hereby au- May sell and thorized to sell and convey to the government of the convey Grass United States, the island at or near the mouth of Fox river on Green Bay, commonly called Grass Island, or so much as may be necessary for the purpose of erecting a light-house thereon, and such other buildings as may be necessary; and a conveyance thereof legally executed by the mayor in the name of the city of Green Bay, and under the corporate seal of said city shall vest the title thereof in the United States and its assigns forever.

SECTION 2. In case any right, title or interest shall State to convey remain in the state of Wisconsin, all its right, title and all right, etc. interest is by this act conveyed to the government of

the United States for the uses and purposes in sec

tion one of this act expressed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 24, 1872.

May vote to increase capital stock.

May hold real estate.

Shall not plead

usury.

Mortgages

1

and trust deeds

CHAPTER 2.

[Published February 13, 1872.]

AN ACT in relation to railroad companies organized under chapter seventy-three of the revised statutes, entitled "of joint stock companies."

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

SECTION 1. Any corporation heretofore organized under the provisions of chapter seventy-three of the revised statutes of Wisconsin, for the purpose of building a railway in this state, may by a vote of its board. of directors, increase its capital stock to an amount not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for each mile of railway which said railway corporation may, by its articles of association, contemplate building in this state, and said capital stock may be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each.

SECTION 2. Every such railway corporation may hold all such real estate in fee simple, within this state, as it may acquire by purchase or otherwise, and may manage, sell, lease and dispose of the same by its proper officers, at pleasure.

SECTION 3. No such railroad company shall ever set up the defense of usury as against the holder of any bond or other obligation for the payment of mon ey, issued by said company. SECTION 4. Any mortgage or deed of trust, exeto be recorded. cuted by such railway company, may be recorded in the office of the secretary of state, in a book to be kept for that purpose, and such record shall have the same effect as if such mortgage or deed of trust was recorded in the several counties through which such road may run.

May enter upon lands, for sur

SECTION 5. Any such railway company shall have veying route. authority and power, and is hereby authorized and empowered, by its officers, engineers and agents to enter upon any land for the purpose of exploring, surveying, locating or determining the route of its railroad, and when the route of said railroad shall be determined by said company by resolution adopted by the board of