Bay, to protect and increase the fish supply thereof, and to appropriate a certain sum of money therein named, and to repeal chapter 455, of the laws of 1885," is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 13, 1891. No. 455, A.] [Published April 21, 1891. Amends sec. 1775, R. S. 1878. Electric street railway com pany may puretc., of other chase stock, electrical power company. CHAPTER 234. AN ACT relating to corporations and amendatory of section 1775, revised statutes of Wisconsin, as amended by chapter 133, of the laws of 1881, and chapter 70, of the laws of 1883. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1775 of the revised statutes of the state of Wisconsin, as amended by chapter 133 of the laws of 1881, and by chapter 70, of the laws of 1883, is hereby further amended by adding thereto the following, to-wit: Provided also, that any street railway corporation, heretofore or hereafter formed or organized under or in pursuance of any general or special law of this state, or of any other state, and which owns or controls a street railway, operated by electric power, or which shall make the purchase hereinafter described, for the purpose of being so operated, shall have authority to purchase, take and hold, all or any part of the real and personal property, rights, privileges, ordinances and franchises of any other street railway company, foreign or domestic, operating or to operate a street railway by electric power or of any corporations, foreign or domestic now or hereafter existing, formed for the purpose of manufacturing, creating or generating electricity for power, or light, or heat, or any other purpose, and shall have authority to purchase, take and hold stock in, and in its corpo rate capacity, become a subscriber to the capital stock of any other similar street railway, or any electrical corporation or corporations, foreign or domestic, now or hereafter existing; the terms of such purchase to be assented to by the holders of three fourths of the capital stock of each company buying or selling as aforesaid, at any general or special meeting of such stockholders; the consideration for such purchase may be paid in the stock, or bonds, or both, of the purchasing company; the conveyance of property to be by deed or bill of sale, or both, in the usual form; the transfers of stock to be by endorsement, in the usual form. The electric power so acquired may be sold or leased by the purchasing company, for power or light or heat, or other purpose, to all persons and corporations, for cash, or for the stock, or bonds, or both of any corporation to which the same is furnished; and provided also, that all electric light companies, foreign or domestic, now or hereafter existing, shall have all the rights, powers and privileges conferred by this section on street railway corporations. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 16, 1891. No. 473, A.] [Published April 17, 1891. CHAPTER 235. AN ACT relating to proceedings in criminal cases in justice courts and before magistrates, and amendatory of sections 4745 and 4746 of the revised statutes. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: 4745, R. S. 1878, SECTION 1. Section 4745 of the revised statutes, Amends sec. is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec admitting pris tion 4745. From the time of the return of the ouers to bail. warrant until the conclusion of the trial or proceedings, the accused may give bail; provided, the Amends sec. 4746, R. S. 1878, form of bail bond. offense for which he is under arrest is bailable, in such sum as the court or magistrate shall direct, with one or more sufficient sureties, for his appearance at the time fixed for the trial or examination, and from time to time thereafter until discharged by law; or in the event of failure so to do, may be committed to jail for safe keeping, by order of said court or magistrate, or left in the custody of an officer. SECTION 2. Section 4746 of the revised statutes, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4746. The following form of recognizance or bail bond may be used in all courts of the state, not of record, and in all examinations held under chapter 195, upon the adjournment of any action, proceeding or examination: a..... We, A. B., and C. D. and E. F., hereby give bail in the sum of ...... dollars, for the appearance of the said A. B. upon the .... day of ......... A. D., 18.., at .. M of that day, before G. H. of said county, at his office in the [town, village or city] of ......, in said county, to answer a [criminal prosecution, examination or proceeding] for [state offense], and from time to time there after until discharged by law. Signed, A. B. Dated C. D. which said recognizance or bail bond given or entered in the above form or a form of substantially the same import, shall be as valid, binding and effectual and as much a charge as those given in the form heretofore in use, and shall bind the principal and sureties jointly and severally as follows: For the appearance of the accused and his attendance upon the court or magistrate, at any and all times to which any such trial or examination may be adjourned, until discharged by law. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 16, 1891. No. 564, A.] [Published April 17, 1891. CHAPTER 236. AN ACT to amend chapter 207, laws of 1879, being an act relating to the civil rights of discharged convicts. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: 1879. vict his civil SECTION 1. Section 1. of chapter 207, of the Amends chap laws for the year 1879, is hereby amended by strikter 207, laws of ing out the word "ten" in the seventh line of said section, and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "five," so that said section so amended shall read as follows: Section 1. The governor of Wiscon Governor may sin is hereby authorized and empowered to restore restore to conto any convict discharged from prison in this state, rights. the civil rights possessed by said convict previous to his conviction, on satisfactory evidence that said discharged convict has violated no law of this state or of the United States for a period of not less than five years subsequent to his discharge from said prison. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 16, 1891. No. 700, A.] [Published April 17, 1891. CHAPTER 237. AN ACT to amend section 2 of chapter 115 of the general laws of Wisconsin for the year 1887, relating to cemetery asscciations. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 115 of the laws Amends chapof Wisconsin for the year 1887, is hereby amended ter 115, laws of by striking out the word "paid" in the third line of 1887. Forfeitures, said section and inserting the word "sued," so that said section shall read as follows: Section 2. "All how recovered. forfeitures imposed by any by law, rule or regulation of any such cemetery association or corporation, may be sued for and recovered pursuant to chapter 112, revised statutes, and acts amendatory thereof." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 16, 1991. No. 158, S.] [Published April 17, 1891. CHAPTER 238. AN ACT to authorize Bertin Ramsay and Charles H. Jones, their successors and assigns, to improve the south branch of Pine river, in Forest county, Wisconsin, and to collect tolls therefor. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Bertin Ramsay and Charles H. Jones, and their successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to maintain and keep in repair, a certain dam on the south branch of Pine river, Forest county, Wisconsin, heretofore built by them, which said dam is hereby legalized, and are also hereby authorized to otherwise improve the said south branch of said Pine river, by clearing and straightening its channel, so as to facilitate the driving of logs down, and out of, said south branch of said river. SECTION 2. In consideration of said improvements, the said Be:tin Ramsay and Charles H. Jones, and their successors and assigns, shall be entitled to charge, sue for and collect as toll on all logs so driven down, and out of, said south branch of said Pine river, the sum of fifteen cents per thousand feet, board measure. SECTION 3. The tolls authorized by the provisions of this act, shall be a lien on all logs driven through said dam, for the amount thereoof, at the |