No. 219, A.] [Published May 20, 1891. CHAPTER 390. AN ACT to authorize the city of Rice Lake to issue bonds and raise money for the erection of public buildings therein and to convey such buildings to the county of Barron upon the conditions therein expressed, and to legalize the acts, proceedings and ordinances of the common council of said city in relation thereto, and the grant of such buildings to said county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: legalized. SECTION 1. The acts and proceedings of the Acts of commayor and common council of the city of Rice mon council Lake in issuing bonds and appropriating money for the erection of public buildings in said city, and all ordinances of the said common council in relation thereto, and especially an ordinance of said city passed May 31st, 1890, and approved by the mayor, June 2nd, 1890, entitled, " An ordinance to authorize the issue of bonds, to aid in the construction of public buildings," are hereby legalized and validated and such ordinance is hereby declared to be a valid ordinance of the common council of said city, and all such acts and proceedings shall have the same force and effect and for all purposes shall be as valid and binding as though they were especially authorized by law enacted prior to the performance of such acts and proceedings, and to the passage and ap proval of such ordinance. cil may convey ron. SECTION 2. It shall be lawful, and the mayor Common coun and common council of said city are hereby buildings to authorized, when, if ever, the county seat of the county of Ear county of Barron shall be located at said city of Rice Lake therein, to grant and convey any buildings which may have been constructed by said city to the said county of Barron, with or without consideration, as said council has determined, or may determine, to be used for county purposes, and any conveyance heretofore made by by said city, con ditional or otherwise, to said county or to individuals in trust for said county or for said city, shall be as effectual to grant and convey the same and insure title in the grantee upon the conditions expressed in said grant, as though done after the passage of this act and the same had been duly authorized by law. Provided, however, that nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect in any manner any litigation now pending in court. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 23, 1891. No. 352, S.] [Published May 21, 1891 CHAPTER 391. AN ACT to amend the charter of the city of Dodgeville. (See Vcl. 2.) No. 351, S.] [Published May 12, 1891. Diet of prison era. CHAPTER 392. AN ACT relating to the diet of inmates of county jails. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of the sev eral counties of this state are hereby authorized to prescribe the diet of the inmates of the jails in their respective counties and to fix the maximum compensation to be paid therefor. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 23, 1891. No. 338, S.] [Published May 5, 1891. CHAPTER 393. AN ACT appropriating money to the Wisconsin Veterans' Home, at Waupaca, and for the rɛgulation of the expenditure of moneys provided by the state for the support thereof. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: to Wisconsin Home. tail. SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Appropriation Wisconsin Veterans' Home, at Waupaca, out of veterans' any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and for the use and purposes, and upon the conditions herein specified as follows: To pay Purposes and 1 mortgage and indebtedness, six thousand dollars; amounts in defor additional buildings, namely: Old men's building, ten thousand dollars; old people's building, ten thousand dollars; women's hospital, dead house, extension to general hospital, heating apparatus and furniture, eleven thousand dollars; clothing for inmates, two thousand dollars; office building and vault, one thousand dollars; cemetery and ground improvements, three thousand dollars; purchase of additional lands, one thousand dollars; electric light plant, six thousand five hundred dollars; total, fifty thousand five hun dred dollars. SECTION 2. The members of the board of trus tees of the said Wisconsin Veterans' home shall execute to the state of Wisconsin a joint and several bond on their part in the penal sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, conditioned that they will faithfully expend and apply moneys appropriated by this act for and to the several objects and purposes for which the same are appropriated, and all moneys received at any time from the state of Wisconsin for the use and benefit of the home, and that they will, in all respects, faithfully discharge their duties as such trustees. And the treasurer of the said board of trustees and of said home shall make and execute to the state of Wis Trustees to give bond to execute trust. consin a bond in the penal sum of fifty thousand dollars, with two or more sufficient sureties, which bond shall be conditioned that all moneys appropriated by this or any other act of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin, or in any wise derived from the state of Wisconsin, shali be paid out by him only for the uses and purposes specified in this act, or the act making such appropriation, and for the faithful accounting therefor, and the payment to his successor in office as such treasurer or the return to the state treas urer of this state of all moneys so received by him in pursuance of this or any act of appropri ation. The sureties upon such bond shall severally justify their responsibility as such sureties by affidavit affixed thereto, and the total of the amounts in which the sureties to each such bond shall justify shall not be less than double the penalty of said bond, and the said bonds shall be approved by the governor, and filed in the office of the secretary of state. Until the bonds hereinbefore provided shall bonds filed and be each properly made, approved and filed as so required, no money shall be paid out of the state treasury in pursuance of the appropriation made by this act or any other act of appropriation by the state, and the treasurer of said Wisconsin Veterans' home for the time being, who may receive any moneys so appropriated, shall not, upon the expiration of his term of office, or his resignation thereof or removal therefrom, in any manner pay any moneys so received from the state to his successor until such successor shall have executed and filed an approved bond as herein required, but may discharge himself from further liability by depositing any balance of such moneys in his hands with the state treasurer. Money not to be paid until approved. Title to lands purchased with ations, to be in state. SECTION 3. If any additional land shall be purstate appropri chased with the moneys herein or hereafter at any time appropriated by the state to the said Wisconsin Veterans' home, the title thereto shall be taken to the state and shall be held by and for the uses and purposes of the said home so long as used for the present objects and purposes thereof, and no payment shall be made out of the state treasury or otherwise for any such land until the title shall have been examined and the conveyance thereof to the state of Wisconsin approved by the attor ney general, and every such deed of conveyance shall be immediately recorded in the office of the proper register of deeds by the board of trustees of said home, and thereafter filed with the secretary of state. first. SECTION 4. Of the sum herein appropriated to Mortgage and pay mortgage and indebtedness, there shall be liens to be paid first applied sufficient to pay for a mortgage and all liens and incumbrances of any kind or nature upon the real estate now used and occupied for said home, and the title to which has been conveyed to the state; and the board of trustees shall procure a due and proper release thereof, and deposit such mortgage and every such release, after having been recorded in the office of the register of deeds, with the secretary of state. approve places ings. SECTION 5. Before any part of the moneys Governor to herein appropriated for buildings shall be ex and specifica pended, the board of trustees of the Wisconsin tions for buildVeterans' home shall prepare plans and specifica tions and estimates for such buildings, and shall submit the same to the governor for his approval, who, for that purpose, may employ the services of any architect, engineer or builder, on account of said money's so appropriated, and until the approval by the governor of such plans, specifications and estimates, the secretary of state shall not draw his warrant for payment from the treasury of the moneys appropriated for such purpose. Any moneys which may be saved by Balance may the board of trustees from the special appropria- be used for imtions for buildings or other purposes herein pro vided for, after the accomplishment of such pur poses, may be expended by the said board of trus tees for such other permanent improvements and equipment for said home as shall be approved by the governor as necessary and proper. provements, governor's ap etc., subject to proval. bursements to of names of in SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of the board of Account of retrustees of said home to cause to be kept a true ceipts and disand accurate account of the disbursements of the be kept, also moneys herein appropriated, and of all moneys mates, etc. derived from the state at any time, and annually to make report in writing to the governor, giving a true and itemized account in such form as he may require or prescribe, of all expenditures made of moneys appropriated by this act or in any manner derived from the state, and also of the names and number of inmates, the date |