word "twenty-five," the word "fifteen," so that said section shall read as follows: "Section 1165. land sold for taxes. The owner or occupant of of any land sold Redemption of for taxes or other person may at any time within three years from the date of the certificate of sale, redeem the same, or any part thereof, or interest therein, by paying to the county clerk of the county where such land was sold, for the use of the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the amount for which such land was sold, and all subsequent charges thereon authorized by law, or such portion thereof as the part or interest redeemed shall amount to, with interest on the amount of purchase money at the rate of fifteen per centum per annum, from the date of such certificate; and all other taxes and charges thereon imposed subsequent to such sale and paid by such purchaser or his assigns prior to such redemption, with interest thereon at the rate of fifteen per centum per annum; vouchers or other evidence of payment of which shall have been deposited with the county clerk, or produced to such person seeking to redeem, but whenever any land sold for taxes shall be redeemed within six months after the sale thereof, interest as first aforesaid shall be paid for six months and in all cases any such person may in like manner, redeem any such lands, or any part thereof, or interest therein, at any time before the tax deed executed upon such sale is recorded and when so redeemed such deed shall be void. 1146, 1192 and 1200, R. S. 1878. SECTION 2. Sections 1146, 1192 and 1200 of the Amends secs. revised statutes are hereby amended by striking out the words, "twenty-five per centum" wherever they occur in said sections and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "fifteen per centum." SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 6, 1891. No. 288, A.] [Published April 11, 1891. CHAPTER 183. AN ACT to amend section 4 of chapter 13, of chapter 184, of the laws of 1874, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and amend the charter of the city of Milwaukee, approved February 20, 1852," and the several acts amendatory thereof. (See Vol. 2.) Judge may appoint short No. 290, A.] [Published April 11, 1891. CHAPTER 184. AN ACT to authorize the appointment of a phonographic reporter in the county court of Milwaukee county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The judge of the county court of and reporter. the county of Milwaukee, in the state of Wiscon sin, is hereby authorized to appoint a short-hand reporter, whose duty it shall be to attend upon each term of said court when required by the judge, for the purpose of recording the oral testimony of the witnesses, and such other matter as the judge of said court may direct; the said shorthand reporter to be a sworn officer of the court and well skilled in his art, and fully competent to discharge the duties required. Salary. Duties. SECTION 2. The short hand reporter appointed shall be allowed a compensation to be fixed by the judge of said court, of not more than ten dollars per day for each full day's actual attendance, which sum shall be paid by the county treasurer upon the certificate of the county judge. SECTION 3. When either or both the parties in any case thus reported shall desire a copy of such record or any part thereof, a fair transcript shall be made by the said shorthand reporter at a cost not to exceed five cents per folio of one hundred words; the said cost to be paid by the party or parties requiring such transcript. SECTION 4. The said reporter so appointed may May be reat any time be removed for misconduct or inat. moved for m istention to his duties, and another be appointed in his stead. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 6, 1891. conduct. No. 390, A.] [Published April 11, 1891. CHAPTER 185. AN ACT to appropriate to Michael Wilhelm a certain sum of money. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Wilhelm. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Appropriation Michael Wilhelm the sum of one hundred and to Michae sixty five dollars, on account of material furnished and labor performed by the said Michael Wilhelm for the erection and completion of the buildings situated on the grounds of the university of Wisconsin, known as the carpenter and machine shops and boiler house and chemical laboratory. SECTION 2. The sum of money mentioned in Claim, how audited by the section 1, of this act, shall be paid to the said Secretary of Michael Wilhelm for the material so furnished state. by him, and for the labor so performed by him, on bills therefor to be audite by the secretary of state only upon the sworn statement of such creditor, that the sum claimed by him is for material actually furnished, and labor actually performed in the construction of said buildings or either of them and the sum claimed therefor is just and accompanied by a certificate of Allen D. Conovor, superintendent of construction of said buildings, that the said bill or claim is just and true. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 6, 1891. James MeikleJohn et, al., authorized to maintain dam across Little Wolf river, Waupaca county. 3 ides. No. 362, A.] [Published April 11, 1891. CHAPTER 186. AN ACT to authorize James Meiklejohn and W. H. Hatten, co partners as Meiklejohn & Hatten, to maintain a dam on the Little Wolf river, in Waupaca county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. James Meiklejohn and W. H. Hatten, co-partners as Meiklejohn & Hatten, their heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized to maintain and keep up a dam across the Little Wolf river, at a point on the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section fifteen, in township twenty-three north, of range thirteen east, in Waupaca county, for log driving, boomage, hy draulic and manufacturing purposes; provided, such dam shall not raise the water to exceed sixteen feet. SECTION 2. The aforesaid persons, their heirs and assigns, shall maintain suitable slides in said dam for running logs, timber and lumber over the same, and shall keep the same in repair. The same shall be kept open at all times when the river is in a driving stage and there are logs, timber or lumber to run over said dam and when it is not necessary to hold the water back for the purpose of driving or flooding logs, timber or lumber below the dam, for which purpose flood gates shall be kept in repair and be built in such a manner as to be shut or opened, as the case may require, to flocd the said logs, timber or lumber. on logs. SECTION 3. The said persons, their heirs or as- May collect toll signs, are hereby authorized and empowered to receive and collect from the owners of logs, timber and lumber passing over such slides, or driven by the aid of said dam, as a compensation for keeping up and maintaining such dam, the sum of two cents per thousand feet, board measure, the amount to be ascertained by scale on the landings. And the aforesaid persons, their heirs and assigns, shall have a lien upon all logs, timber or lumber passing over said dam, or driven by the aid thereof, until the charges aforesaid shall be fully paid, which lien may be enforced in the same manner as the lien of laborers on logs on said river; provided, that they shall at all times comply with the provisions of this act. SECTION 4. The control of said dam, the slides control of and gates of the same, shall belong to the afore- dam. said persons, their heirs and assigns, but subject always to the provisions of section 2 of this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication, but the legislature reserves to itself the right to amend, alter or repeal this act whenever in its judgment the public interest may so require. Approved April 6, 1891. No. 449, A.] [Published April 17, 1891. CHAPTER 187. AN ACT to promote school attendance and restrain truancy. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tween the ages to attend SECTION 1. Every parent or other person hav- children being under his control any child between the ages of seven and of seven and thirteen years, shall cause such thirteen years child to attend, for at least twelve weeks in each school at least and every school year, some public or private school; provided, however that this act shall exceptions. twelve weeks each year; |