SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 15, 1872. Amended. Shall be exempt. CHAPTER 61. [Published April 4, 1872.] AN ACT to regulate the giving of bonds by executors, trustees and testamentary guardians in certain cases, and amendatory of section three of chapter ninety-eight of the revised statutes, entitled "of letters testamentary and other proceedings on the probate of a will." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter ninety-eight of the revised statutes is amended by adding thereto the following: An executor or trustee or testamentary guardian named in such will shall be exempt from giving a surety or sureties on his bond, when the testator has ordered or requested such exemption, or that no bond should be taken: provided, that the county judge may, at or after the granting of letters testamentary, or of guardianship, require a bond with sufficient surety or sureties, if he is of opinion that the same is required by a change in the situation of the executor or trustee or testamentary guardian, or for other sufficient reason. Approved March 15, 1872. CHAPTER 62. [Published March 19, 1872.] AN ACT to provide for the payment of the witnesses who appeared and testified before the joint investigating committee appointed by virtue of joint resolution No. 16, senate, of the session of 1871. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: cate. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the chairman of Shall file certifithe joint investigating committee appointed by virtue of joint resolution No. 16, senate, of the session of 1871, to file in the office of the secretary of state, a certificate, showing the names and residence of such witness who appeared and was sworn before said committee, the number of days in attendance and the number of miles each has traveled by the most usual route, from his residence to the place where he so testified. SECTION 2. Upon the filing of the certificate men- shall draw tioned in the preceding section, it shall be the duty of warrant. the secretary of state to draw his warrant upon the treasurer, in favor of each of said witnesses, for the sum that may be due him, for mileage and per diem, as is now provided by law for witnesses in like cases. SECTION 3. There is hereby appropriated out of any Appropriated. money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1872. 5-GEN. LAWS. Amended. free tuition. CHAPTER 63. [Published March 19, 1872.] AN ACT relating to the University of Wisconsin, and amendatory of section nine, chapter one hundred and fourteen of general laws of 1866, entitled "an act to re-organize and enlarge the University of Wisconsin, and to authorize the county of Dane to issue bonds in aid thereof." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section nine (9) of chapter one hundred and fourteen (114) of the general laws of 1866, entitled "an act to re-organize and enlarge the University of Wisconsin, and to authorize the county of Dane to issue bonds in aid thereof," is hereby amended so as to Who entitled to read as follows: One suitably qualified pupil from each assembly district whenever a vacancy shall occur, to be nominated by the representative of such district in the legislature of the state, who, other things being equal, shall prefer an orphan of a soldier who has died in defense of his country, and all graduates of any graded school of the state who shall have passed an examination at such graded school satisfactory to the faculty of the University for admission into the subfreshman class and the college classes of the Universi ty, shall be at once and at all times entitled to free tui tion in all the colleges of the University. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1872. CHAPTER 64. [Published April 5, 1872.] AN ACT to provide for the enforcement of laws in certain cases. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ue when and change of venhow to be punished. SECTION 1. If any insurance company or associa- Application for tion shall make application to change the venue or remove any suit or action heretofore commenced or which shall be hereafter commenced in any court of the state of Wisconsin, to the United States circuit or district court, or to the federal court, contrary to the provisions of any law of the state of Wisconsin, or contrary to any agreement it has made and filed, or may make and file as provided and required by section number twenty-two (22) of chapter fifty-six (56) of the general laws of Wisconsin, for the year A. D. 1870, or any other provision of law now in force in said state, or may hereafter be enacted therein, it shall be the imperative duty of the secretary of state, or other proper state officer, to evoke and recall any authority or license or certificate to such company, to do and transact any business in the state of Wisconsin, and no renewal or new license or certificate shall be granted to such company for three years after such revocation, and such company shall therefore [thereafter] be prohibited from transacting any business in the state of Wisconsin, until again duly licensed. tion to be filed. SECTION 2. In case any insurance company or as- For previous sociation incorporated by, or organized under the laws foreign compaapplications of of any other state of the United States, or any foreign nies, applica government, shall have, previous to the passage of this act, made application to any court of this state to change the venue or place of trial to the federal courts or United States circuit or district courts, in any suit commenced or pending in such state court, contrary to the provisions of said chapter fifty-six (56) of the general laws of Wisconsin for the year A. D. 1870, or any other law of said state, or contrary to any agreement which such company or association may have made and filed according to section tweny-two (22) of chapter fif ty-six (56) of the general laws of Wisconsin for 1870, or any other law of said state, and an order has not been made by such state court or the judge thereof, changing the venue or place of trial to the said United States or federal court or courts, unless such company or association shall, within sixty days after the passsage and publication of this act, make and file in such action in whatever court the same may then be pending, a stipulation withdrawing such application, and wholly abandoning the same, the secretary of state, or other proper state officer, shall recall and revoke any license, certificate or authority to such company or association to do or carry on business in the state of Wisconsin. And in case any such company or association shall refasal to stipu- fuse or neglect to make and file such stipulation as above provided, such company or association shall be prohibited from doing or carrying on business in the state until again duly licensed as herein before provided, and no new license or renewal of license or certifi cate shall be granted to such company or association to do or transact any business in the state of Wisconsin for three years next after its neglecting to make and file such a stipulation. Penalty of re For violation of previous agreement. SECTION 3. If any insurance company or association shall make application to remove any case from the state court into the United States circuit or district court or federal court, contrary to the provisions of chapter fifty-six (56) of the general laws of Wisconsin, for the year A. D. 1870, or any other state law, or contrary to any agreement which such company may have filed in pursuance of said chapter fifty-six (56) of the general laws of Wisconsin for the year A. D. 1870, or any other law of the state of Wisconsin, it shall be liable, in addition, to a penalty of not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars, for each application so made, or for each offense so committed for making such application, the same to be recovered by suit in the name of the state of Wisconsin; and it shall be the imperative duty of the attorney general of the state of Wisconsin to see and attend that all of the provisions of said chapter fifty-six (56) of the general laws of 1870, and the provisions of this act are duly enforced. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1872. |