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such services, they shall be entitled to collect and receive either from the owners of such logs, or the contractors or persons in possession of the same the reasonable and proportionate share of the cost of driving all such logs down and out of said stream, and they shall have a lien on all logs so driven until the charges for driving aforesaid shall be fully paid, which lien may be enforced in the same manner and at the same time and in the same proceeding as the lien for tolls, as provided in section 2, of this act.

dam.

SECTION 4. The control of said dams, slides and Control of gates of the same shall belong to said Henry Collette, J. S. Chase and Levi Collette, their successors and assigns, and be under their exclusive control; and provided, further, that the right of the legislature is hereby reserved to alter, amend and repeal this act at any future time.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 11, 1891.

No. 337, S.]

[Published April 16, 1891.

CHAPTER 230.

AN ACT to authorize Winnebago county to construct a sewer across the grounds of the Northern Hospital.

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

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sewer across

Northern Hos

sane.

SECTION 1. The county board of Winnebago county board county are hereby authorized to construct a sewer may construct for the poorhouse and the county asylum of said grounds of county across the grounds of the Northern Hospi- pital for Intal for the Insane, in such location as shall be approved by the state board of supervision of Wisconsin charitable, penal and reformatory institutions, and to make connections with the water mains of said Northern Hospital, and to use the same for fire protection and for flushing sewers, upon such terms and conditions as the said board

of supervision and the said county board may agree, such agreement to be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 11, 1891.

No. 45, A.]

[Published April 16, 1891.

Commissioners may loan trust

age county.

CHAPTER 231.

AN ACT to authorize the county of Portage to borrow money of the state.

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

SECTION 1. The commissioners of public lands funds to Port are hereby authorized in their discretion to loan from the trust funds of this state, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) to the county of Portage, in this state, for the purpose of redeeming certain railroad bonds, issued by said county, in the year 1871, which become due on the first day of June, 1891, amounting to the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000,) or to purchase said bonds with such funds; and the said county of Portage is hereby authorized to borrow the said sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), of said commissioners, and to issue to said commissioners, certificates of the indebtedness so contracted. Said indebtedness shall bear interest at the rate of not less than four and one half per centum per annum; said interest shall be paid annually; said indebtedness shall be paid in twenty equal installments of five thousand dollars ($5,000) each; the first installment to be paid on the first of March, 1892, and annually thereafter in the years from 1893 to the year 1911, inclusive. And in case of purchase, the commis sioners are authorized to extend the time of payment of said bonds, so that the same shall become payable in twenty annual installments in the manner hereinafter provided, and reduce the in

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terest of said bonds to correspond with the foregoing provisions.

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SECTION 2. Each and every year thereafter, Secretary of until the whole of said debt, principal and inter- state to add inest shall be paid, the secretary of state, when he debtness to apportions the state taxes among the several state tax. counties, shall add to the state tax properly chargeable to said county of Portage, the annual interest due the state on said indebtedness, and the said secretary of state shall, when he apportions the state tax among the several counties as aforesaid, for the several years from 1891 to 1910, inclusive, add to the state tax which would be properly chargeable to said county of Portage for the years last above mentioned, a sum sufficient to pay the amount of the installments due on said indebtedness for the years from 1892 to 1911, inclusive, and the same shall be levied and collected out of the taxable property of said county, and paid over to the state, in the same way as other state taxes are levied, collected and paid.

SECTION 3. At the time and in the manner provided for levying taxes for state and county purposes, the board of supervisors for said county of Portage shall annually levy the amount of money required for the payment of the annual interest for the current year, and said board shall in each year for the years from 1891 to 1910, inclusive, levy the amount of money required for the payment of the installments due on said indebtedness for each of the years from 1892 to 1911, inclusive, as certified to by the secretary of state as aforesaid, until the whole amount of said indebtedness is paid.

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SECTION 4. Before any of said funds shall be Acceptance of delivered to said county, in exchange for said cer- county to be tificates of indebtedness, the board of supervisors retary of state. of said county, by resolution certified to by the chairman of said board, and the county clerk of said county shall file with the secretary of state an acceptance of the provisions of this act, and of the terms and limitations herein provided for. SECTION 5. Said certificates of indebtedness shall be for the sum of five thousand dollars indebtedness, ($5,000) each, numbered from one to twenty in how issued. clusive, and payable to the commissioners of public lands, and be signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors of said county, and counter

Certificates of

form of and

Certificates when paid to

signed by the clerk thereof. Said certificates may
be deposited by the chairman of said board, with
the state treasurer, as custodian thereof, together
with a list of the bonds heretofore issued by said
county, and which become due on the first day of
June, 1891, being in aid of the Wisconsin Central
Railroad company. No money shall be paid,
or become payable to the said county
of Portage, upon or for said certificates
of indebtedness; and the same shall have no
validity or effect, unless nor until the said
bonds of said county, with the unpaid cou-
pons, if any, which are attached thereto, and
are unpaid, shall be surrendered to the said
commissioners for cancellation, upon their pay-
ment to the holders, the principal mentioned
in said bonds; upon which surrender, and not
before, the said certificates of indeptedness shall
be delivered to said commissioners by said state
treasurer, and become in force. All the bonds
so surrendered for cancellation, with the un-
paid coupons, if any, shall be cancelled and
destroyed by
by the said commissioners, in
the presence of the chairman of the board.
of supervisors, and the clerk of said coun-
ty, all of whom shall make and sign in
duplicate, a certificate of said cancellation and
destruction, setting forth therein the number
and amount and date of each instrument so can-
celled and destroyed, and of the number and
amount of the coupons aforesaid, if any, one of
which certificates shall be recorded in the office
of the said commissioners, and the other in the
office of said county clerk.

SECTION 6. Whenever any of said certificates be surrendered of indebtedness shall be paid, as herein before pro and cancelled. vided, such certificates when paid shall be surrendered to the county treasurer of said Portage county, to be by him surrendered to the county board of supervisors, at their annual meeting in each year for cancellation.

SECTION 7. Chapter 85 of the laws of this state for the year 1880, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 13, 1891.

No. 428, A.]

[Published April 16, 1891.

CHAPTER 232.

AN ACT relating to the compensation of the of ficiating chaplains of the senate and assembly.

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

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SECTION 1. The sum of ten dollars is hereby Payment of authorized to be paid to each and every clergyman chaplains. who has officiated or may hereafter officiate as chaplain of the senate and assembly, for each week of such service, during the session of the legislature for the year 1891, but no payment shall be made for less than four days' service and only upon the certificate of the chief clerk of the assembly showing the amount to which each such chaplain is entitled.

SECTION 2. A sum of money sufficient for the Appropriation. payment of the provisions of this act is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the state treasury.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 13, 1891.

No. 169, A.]

[Published April 16, 1891.

CHAPTER 233.

AN ACT to repeal section 2, of chapter 520, laws of 1887, in relation to fishing industries.

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

chapter 520,

SECTION 1. Section 2, of chapter 520, of the Repeals sec. 2, laws of 1887, entitled, "An act in relation to the laws of 1887. fishing industries of Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Chequamagon Bay, Green Bay and Sturgeon

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