NOTE. Where a superfluous word has been found in the enrolled bill, it has been printed in the text, but in italics, and enclosed in parenthesis, (thus.) Where a word has been found necessary to sustain the sense of the context, or where one word has been obviously mistaken for another, the word supposed to be proper has been supplied, but in brackets, [thus.]

PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS.

CHAPTER 1.

[Published January 23, 1869.]

AN ACT, authorizing an amendment of the tax roll and warrant for the collection of taxes in the town of Osceola, in Fond du Lac county, for the year 1868.

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

money.

SECTION 1. The town clerk of the town of Osceola, Town clerk to in the county of Fond du Lac, is hereby authorized to apportion apportion the amount of three hundred and ninety-six dollars for contingent fund for town and local purposes, upon the property described in the corrected assessment roll of said town for the year 1868, in the same manner as the state and county taxes are apportioned by law, in addition to the moneys already apportioned to said property.

collected.

SECTION 2. Such apportionment shall be made in How apportiona separate column upon the said roll and shall be col- ment made and lected by the town treasurer of said town under his warrant for the collection of taxes for the year 1868, in the same manner as though the said amount had been apportioned upon the property on said roll at the time of the delivery of the same with the warrant annexed thereto to him.

SECTION 3. The town clerk of said town is hereby May amend authorized to amend the warrant now in the hands of warrant. the treasurer of said town, by increasing the amount specified therein "to be retained and paid out," by the town treasurer by adding to the same the sum of three hundred and ninety-six dollars.

SECTION 4. The said warrant, the said tax and all warrant and the taxes directed to be collected by such warrant shall tax legalized. be as legal and valid under the warrant and roll as

amended, and the warrant shall have the same force and effect as though the amendment and addition had not been made and the said taxes had all been included in the warrant as it originally issued.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 19, 1869.

Time extended.

Authority to collect.

Legalized.

CHAPTER 2.

[Published January 23, 1869.]

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the village of Elkhorn, Walworth county, for the year 1868, and to legalize the assessment roll of said village.

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

SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in the village of Elkhorn, in the county of Walworth, upon the assessment roll of the year 1868, is hereby extended until the first day of March, 1869: provided, that this act shall not be construed to extend the time for the payment of state taxes.

SECTION 2 The treasurer of said village shall have the same authority to collect the taxes contained in said tax roll after as before said extension of time, and the return of the treasurer of said village to the county treasurer within the time limited by this act, shall be as valid as if made pursuant to the original warrant.

SECTION 3. The tax roll of the village of Elkhorn, Walworth county, for the year 1868, as made out, when placed in the hands of the treasurer of said village, and the warrant attached thereto, are hereby declared legal and valid for all purposes.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passsage.

Approved January 22, 1869.

CHAPTER 3.

[Published January 27, 1869.]

AN ACT to legalize a bridge tax in Chippewa county, and fixing the location of the bridge.

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

SECTION 1. The bridge tax of fifteen thousand dol- Legalized. lars, levied by the supervisors of Chippewa county, at their regular meeting in the month of December, 1868, in pursuance of chapter 344 of the private and local laws of 1866, for the purpose of constructing a bridge across the Chippewa river in the towns of Chippewa Falls and La Fayette, is hereby declared to be legal

and valid.

contract for

SECTION 2. The supervisors of Chippewa county Supervisors are hereby authorized to locate and contract for build- may locate and ing the bridge authorized by chapter 384 of the gen- building bridge eral laws of 1864, as amended by chapter 344 of the private and local laws of 1866, upon the following site, to-wit: commencing at a point on the north bank of the river, bearing north 71o east, 495 feet from a point on the section line between sections five and six, fifty feet north of the meander post on said section line in the village of Chippewa Falls, thence crossing the Chippewa river in a southerly direction to the south bank of said river in the town of La Fayette.

SECTION 3. Said supervisors of the county of Chip- May procure repewa are hereby authorized to procure releases for the leases of land. lands on both sides of the river necessary for the use

of said bridge.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 26, 1869.

Corporators.

CHAPTER 4.

[Published Feburary 1, 1869.]

AN ACT to incorporate the northwest paper company.

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

SECTION 1. Theodore L. Wright, John C. Newcomb and Richard F. Newcomb, and their associates, successors and assigns, are hereby created and constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name Name and pow- of the "northwest paper company,' " and by that ers of company name shall have perpetual succession, and shall have and enjoy all the privileges, franchises and immunities incident to a corporation. The said company may have and use a common seal, and may alter and renew the same at pleasure. By that name they may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, contract and be contracted with, may take and hold by deed, grant, lease or contract, or in exchange for its stock or other property owned by said corporation, any real estate or personal property in this state or elsewhere, and may grant, bargain, lease, convey, mortgage or pledge the same, or any part thereof, in such manner as the board of directors at any meeting thereof may direct.

Capital stock.

Board of directors.

SECTION 2. The capital stock of the corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, but the same may be increased by a vote of a majority of the stockholders at any meeting thereof, to an amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars; the stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars and shall be deemed personal property, and shall be transferable only on the books of the company in such manner as may be provided by the by-laws.

SECTION 3. The business of the corporation hereby created, shall be managed and conducted by a board of directors, to consist of not less than three nor more than five, to be determined by the stockholders at their annual meetings, and a majority of such board of di