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follows: Section 9. The per diem hereby established shall only be allowed from the commencement to the adjournment of the legislature. Each of the officers mentioned in this act is hereby authorized to receive his per diem from the treasury in the following manner: The chief clerk shall certify to the secretary of clerk and serstate the names of all persons employed in his depart- geant-at-arms. ment, the capacity they are employed in, and the number of days employed, which certificate shall be authenticated by the presiding officer of the senate or assembly, as the case may be. The sergeant-at-arms shall make a like certificate of all the persons employed in his depatment, which shall be authenticated in the same manner that the chief clerk's certificate is authenticated. The chairman of each committee authorized to employ a clerk shall make a like certificate for the clerk employed by such committee. On filing the cer- Secretary of tificates above mentioned with the secretary of state, list. he shall audit the accounts in favor of the persons named, in the same manner as other accounts are audited, and draw his warrant on the treasury therefor. At the close of each session of the legislature, the secretary of state shall publish in the official state paper a full list of the accounts audited under this act.

Approved February 16, 1877.

state to publish

[Published February 19, 1877.]

CHAPTER 19.

AN ACT to amend section two of chapter 192, of the laws of 1875, entitled "An act to authorize William Dunlap to keep and maintain a ferry across Lake Pepin, from the village of Stockholm, Wis., to Lake City, Minn."

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

Authority to

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter 192, of the laws of Wisconsin for the year 1875, is hereby amended so maintain ferry. as to read as follows: Section 2. William Dunlap or his assigns shall, within twenty-six (26) months after the passage of this act, place and maintain such good and sufficient boat or boats as may be necessary to carry across said lake all teams, horses, cattle, and other property, and accommodations for foot passengers, and shall cross at least four times per day, if weather and

ice will permit, Sundays excepted; provided, that this act shall in no way affect or prejudice the rights of any party or parties which may have been acquired in or to this charter by purchase or otherwise.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 16, 1877.

Acts legalized.

Action not to be maintained against town.

Act repealed.

[Published February 19, 1877,]

CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT to legalize the acts and proceedings of officers of the town of Rosendale, in assessment and collection of taxes to aid in the construction of the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac railroad.

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

SECTION 1. The several acts and proceedings of the officers of the town of Rosendale, in Fond du Lac county, and of each of them, in the subscription for stock and in the issue of bonds or orders of the said town to aid in the construction of the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac railroad, and in the assessment, levy and collection of the taxes to pay such bonds or orders, with the interest thereon, and which have been had or done in good faith in attempting to comply with or conform to the provisions of chapter 78 of the private and local laws of 1871, are hereby declared legal and valid to all intents and purposes, and shall be so taken and held to be in all the courts of this state.

SECTION 2. No action shall lie nor be maintained in any of the courts of this state against the said town, nor against any of its officers, to recover back any money paid or collected for any tax assessed, collected, or purporting to have been assessed and collected under the authority and privileges conferred by said chapter 78 of the private and local laws of 1871.

SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, and especially chapter 88, of the general laws of 1870, so far as it would apply to any case arising out of said acts and proceedings in the first section of this act declared legal and valid, are hereby repealed.

act.

SECTION 4. This act shall be construed to apply to Construction of all actions which shall have arisen and are now pending, as well as to each and every cause of action which may hereafter arise out of any alleged error, omission or illegality on the part of the officers of said town of Rosendale, or any of them, in any of their or either of their acts or proceedings declared valid by the first section of this act

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 16, 1877.

[Published February 19, 1877.]

CHAPTER 21.

AN ACT to extend the time of exemption from assessment and
taxation of certain lands, fixed in the act incorporating the
Winnebago and Lake Superior Railroad Company, approved
April 6, 1866, and in the act incorporating the Portage and
Superior Railroad Company, approved April 9, 1866.

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

Amended.

SECTION 1. The time fixed in section 21, of an act entitled, "An act to incorporate the Winnebago and Lake Superior Railroad Company, and to execute the trust created by section 3, of the act of Congress, entitled, "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the state of Wisconsin, approved May 5th, 1864," approved April 6, 1866, and in section 22, of an act entitled, " An act to incorporate the Portage and Superior Railroad Company, and to execute the trust created by an act of congress, entitled, "An act granting lands to aid in the construction of certain railroads in the state of Wisconsin, approved Time of exemp May 5, 1864," approved April 9th, 1866, during which tion extended. the lands granted to said companies by said acts are exempted from all assessments and from all taxation whatsoever, for the term of ten years from the taking effect of said acts, is hereby extended three years.

SECTION 2. It is hereby declared to be the object of object of act. this act to insure the completion of the Wisconsin Central railroad, and to secure the advantages therefrom arising, and the privileges and exemptions hereby granted are in consideration and on the express condition of

Duty of commissioner and other cfficers.

Not to be ex

empt from taxes heretofore levied.

Repeal of exemption from licensed tax.

When act to be void.

Acts repealed.

the renewing of the work of construction by said company and the completion of said road to Lake Superior within the current calendar year.

SECTION 3. The land commissioner or other officers of said company having in charge the sale of the company's lands, shall, on or before the first day of May in each year, file with the county clerk of each county in which said company has sold lands, a statement, under oath, of all lands previously sold or contracted to be sold, or on which the timber has been previously sold or contracted to be sold, up to the fifteenth day of April, in the year 1877, and annually thereafter, and all such lands sold or contracted to be sold, or on which the timber has been sold or contracted to be sold, shall be from the date of such sale or contract subject to assessment and taxation.

SECTION 4. The provisions of this act shall not apply to nor in any manner exempt said lands from the taxes which have been heretofore assessed against them, nor shall this exemption apply to any lands belonging to said company which have heretofore been, or may hereafter be platted or laid out in village or town lots, nor to any permanent improvements made upon such lands.

SECTION 5. So much of section 2, of chapter 113, of the laws of Wisconsin of 1875, which exempts the Wisconsin Central Railway Company from payment of its license fees during the time which by this act it is exempted from taxes on its lands, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 6. The provisions of this act exempting said lands shall be null and void if the said railroad company shall neglect or refuse to comply with any of the conditions and provisions of this act on its part to be performed within the times therein limited.

SECTION 7. All acts or parts of acts so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, as for the purposes of this act.

SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved February 17, 1877.

[Published February 19, 1877.]

CHAPTER 22.

AN ACT to authorize the county board of supervisors of Milwaukee county to appropriate to Richard Rooney, late county treasurer, a certain sum of money.

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

Rich'rd Rooney

SECTION 1. The county board of supervisors of the Payment to county of Milwaukee are hereby authorized to audit, authorized. allow and pay, in the same manner that other accounts and claims against the county are audited, allowed and paid, to Richard Rooney, late county treasurer of said county, his account, claim and demand against said county, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, for necessary clerical services and assistance, by him furnished the county, in his said office for and during the term thereof, commencing on the first Monday in January, A. D. 1875, and for which no provision was then provided by law.

SECTION 2. This act shall be published immediately, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved February 17, 1877.

[Published February 26, 1877.]

CHAPTER 23.

AN ACT to authorize Peter Wilkinson, Ignez Steinmetz, William Owen, Amos Johnson, Darius Palmer, and others, to erect and maintain a dam across Leach Creek, in Sauk county.

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

SECTION 1. Peter Wilkinson, Ignez Steinmetz, Wil- Authority to liam Owen, Amos Johnson, Darius Palmer, and their maintain dam. associates, successors and assigns, are hereby authorized to construct and maintain a dam across Leach Creek in section 13, town 12 north, range 7 east, in the county of Sauk. Said dam to be constructed for the purpose of conducting the water through its original channel, and to prevent damages from back water in time of freshets.

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