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tion of lot in pursuance of the charter of said city, or of any act amendatory thereof, or of any ordinance passed in accordance therewith.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 7, 1877.

Authority of board of superbonds.

[Published February 13, 1877.]

CHAPTER 7.

AN ACT relating to the issue of bonds in the county of Brown for the payment of outstanding indebtedness.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen· ate and assembly, do enact is follows:

SECTION 1. That for the purpose of paying off the visors to issue outstanding indebtedness of the county of Brown, the board of supervisors of said county are hereby authorized to issue the bonds of said county of Brown to such an amount as said board of supervisors may see tit, but the amount of bonds so issued shall not exceed the sum of twenty thousand dollars in all; provided, that such amount shall (including existing county indebtedness) not in the aggregate exceed five per centum on the value of the taxable property of Brown county as appears by the assessment for state and county taxes for the year 1876.

Denomination

of bonds and

able.

SECTION 2. Said bonds shall be of the denomination when to be pay of fifty dollars, one hundred dollars and two hundred and fifty dollars each, in such proportions as said board may determine, and shall be payable in one, two and three years respectively, in such proportions as said board may determine.

Rate of interest on bonds.

Board of super

visors to levy

SECTION 3. Said bonds shall bear such rate of interest, not exceeding 8 per cent. per annum, as said board shall determine, and shall be payable at the county treasurer's office in said county, and shall be signed by the chairman of the board of supervisors of said county, countersigned by the clerk of said board, and shall have the county seal thereto affixed, and shall be used solely for the purpose of defraying the outstanding indebtedness of said county.

SECTION 4. The board of supervisors of said county tax for payment shall annually levy a tax on all the taxable property

principal of

in said county sufficient to pay the interest on all said of interest and bonds outstanding at the time, and the principal of so bonds. many of said bonds as shall mature and become payable in each year, which tax shall be called the county bond tax, and shall be paid in money or in the bonds and coupons then due and payable; and the said bonds Bonds and con and coupons, whenever they shall be due and payable, for county taxshall be receivable in payment of any tax due to said es. county in like manner as county orders.

SECTION 5. This act shall be in force from and after

its passage and publication.

Approved February 9, 1877.

pons receivable

[Published February 13, 1877.]

CHAPTER 8.

AN ACT to authorize the appointment of a reporter for Kewaunee County Circuit Court.

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

ized.

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the judge of the Appointment of circuit court, for the fourth judicial circuit of this reporter authorstate, to appoint one or more phonographic reporters for the circuit court in and for the county of Kewaunee.

SECTION 2. Said reporters shall be sworn officers of General duties said court, and shall be skilled in the art of short-hand of reporters. reporting, one of whom shall attend upon each general term of said court, when requested by the judge so to do, and shall discharge such duties as the court or judge thereof shall require.

SECTION 3. The said reporter shall be allowed such daily compensation as shall be fixed by the court, not exceeding ten dollars per day for each day's actual attendance upon said court, when required by the judge thereof to attend, which shall be certified, audited and daid in like manner as is provided by law for the payment of the sheriff for attending upon the court; provided, that one only of such reporters shall be employed at the same time.

Compensation.

er to furnish

SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of said reporter, up- Duty of reporton the request of a party to any suit, or the attorney transcripts of or attorneys of such party, the evidence in which suit evidence. shall have been taken by said reporter, to make and furnish transcripts of such evidence so taken by him,

or any other proceedings had in such trial, to such party or his attorney, or shall make and furnish trancripts of any part of such evidence or proceedings designated upon like request, for which transcripts so furnished, said reported shall be entitled to charge and receive from the party requiring the same to be made, Fees for same. six cents for each folio of one hundred words. In the trial of criminal cases the court may, in its discretion, order a transcript of the evidence and proceedings to be made, certified and audited and paid in the same manner as the per diem compensation of said reporter, and in such cases, the reporter's notes shall be written out in full and filed with the clerk of the court.

Power of judge

to remove re

porters.

SECTION 5. The judge of said court may, in his discretion, remove such reporters, or any one of them, and may fill any vacancy caused by such removal, or from any other cause.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect ard be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1877.

General terms.

Special terms.

[Published February 13, 1877.]

CHAPTER 9.

AN ACT to fix the time for holding the general and special terms of the circuit court in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.

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

SECTION 1. The general terms of the circuit court in the thirteenth judicial circuit shall hereafter be held in each year as follows: In the county of Buffalo on the third Tuesday in May and third Tuesday in November; in the county of Eau Claire on the fourth Tuesday in March and fourth Tuesday in September; in the county of Trempealeau on the first Tuesday in June and first Tuesday in December.

SECTION 2. All the general terms held in the counties of Eau Claire and Trepealeau shall be special terms for the whole circuit. There shall also be held in the county of Eau Claire, on the second Tuesday of January in each year, a special term for the whole circuit. At any special term of said court herein provided for, any and all business may be done which might be done at any special term of said court, except the trial of issues of fact by a jury.

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

Approved February 9, 1877.

[Published February 17, 1877.]

CHAPTER 10.

AN ACT relating to and amendatory of chapter 16 of the private and local laws for the year 1872, entitled "An act to incorporate the city of Eau Claire."

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

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SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one of said Amended. chapter 16, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. The first ward shall be all that portion of Ward bounda said city lying north of the Eau Claire river and east of the Chippewa river, and east of a line commencing at the Eau Claire river in the centre of Dewey street; thence northerly on Dewey street to the centre of Broadway; thence westerly on Broadway to the centre of Farwell street; thence northerly on the line of Farwell street to the east and west quarter line of section seventeen (17), town twenty-seven (27) north, range nine (9) west; thence east on said line to the centre of said section; thence north on the north and south cen tre line of said section to the Chippewa river. The second ward shall be all that portion of said city lying south of the Eau Claire river and east of the Chippewa river, and north of Jones street, together with lot six (5) of section sixteen (16), and lots one (1), two (2), three (3) and four (4) of section twenty-one (21), and lot five (5) of section twenty (20), of town twenty-seven (27), range nine (9) west. The third ward shall be all that portion of said city lying south of the second ward and east and south of the Chippewa river. The fourth ward shall be all that portion of said city lying north of the Chippewa river and south of the east and west quarter line running through section nineteen of town twenty-seven (27), range nine (9) west, and section twenty-four (24) of township twenty-seven (27), range ten (10) west, and west of the centre line of Ninth avenue, together with lots seven (7), eight (8) and nine (9) of section nineteen (19) aforesaid, according to government survey. The fifth ward shall be all that portion of said city lying north of the Chippewa river east 2- Laws.

or any other proceedings had in such trial, to such party or his attorney, or shall make and furnish trancripts of any part of such evidence or proceedings designated upon like request, for which transcripts so furnished, said reported shall be entitled to charge and receive from the party requiring the same to be made, Fees for same. six cents for each folio of one hundred words. In the trial of criminal cases the court may, in its discretion, order a transcript of the evidence and proceedings to be made, certified and audited and paid in the same manner as the per diem compensation of said reporter, and in such cases, the reporter's notes shall be written out in full and filed with the clerk of the court.

Power of judge

to remove re

porters.

SECTION 5. The judge of said court may, in his discretion, remove such reporters, or any one of them, and may fill any vacancy caused by such removal, or from any other cause.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect ard be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1877.

General terms.

Special terms.

[Published February 13, 1877.]

CHAPTER 9.

AN ACT to fix the time for holding the general and special terms of the circuit court in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.

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

SECTION 1. The general terms of the circuit court in the thirteenth judicial circuit shall hereafter be held in each year as follows: In the county of Buffalo on the third Tuesday in May and third Tuesday in November; in the county of Eau Claire on the fourth Tuesday in March and fourth Tuesday in September; in the county of Trempealeau on the first Tuesday in June and first Tuesday in December.

SECTION 2. All the general terms held in the counties of Eau Claire and Trepealeau shall be special terms for the whole circuit. There shall also be held in the county of Eau Claire, on the second Tuesday of January in each year, a special term for the whole circuit. At any special term of said court herein provided for, any and all business may be done which might be done at any special term of said court, except the trial of issues of fact by a jury.

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