Shall apply to all actions of complaint shall not contain such specifications, the sa me shall be held bad upon general demurrer. SECTION 2. This act and the provisions of the precedquo warranto. ing section shall apply to all actions of quo warranto, or actions brought to determine the right to any office now pending, and the defendant may at any time be fore the trial, demand in writing that the complaint in any such action shall be amended to conform to the requirements of the preceding section and of this act, and the plaintiff and relator shall serve an amended complaint, embracing and containing allegations of facts as required by the preceding section, within twenty days after such demand, and the defendant shall have a like time to answer such amended complaint, and in case such demand is made, all proceed. ings in the action shall be stayed until such amended complaint be served. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 9, 1869. CHAPTER 128. [Published March 16, 1869.] Section 95 amended. AN ACT to amend sections 95 and 97 of chapter 13 of the revised statutes, entitled "of counties and county officers." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 95 of chapter 13 of the revised statutes, entitled "of counties and county officers," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 95. A sheriff shall be elected in each county of this state, organized for judicial purposes, for the term of two years, and shall before he enters upon the duties of his office, execute to the people of this state a bond, with at least three sureties, being freeholders, in such penal sum, not less than five thousand dollars nor more than twenty-five thousand dollars, as the officers approving the same shall specify, which bond shall be approved by the clerk of the circuit court and county judge of the same county and filed with such clerk; and no person shall be received as such surety who, the persons approving such bond believe, is not worth at least the sum of two thousand dollars over and above all debts, liabilities and property exempt from execution, notwithstanding such surety may have so sworn." Section 97. Before amended. SECTION 2. Section 97 of said chapter is hereby Section 97 amended so as to read as follows: such bond shall be approved, an affidavit shall be endorsed thereon or attached thereto, stating that each surety named therein is worth at least two thousand dollars over and above all debts, liabilities and property exempt from execution, which affidavit shall be subscribed by each surety, and taken and certified before some officer authorized to administer oaths." Approved March 9, 1869. CHAPTER 129. [Published March 11, 1869.] AN ACT to fix the compensation of the members of the board of supervisors in the counties of Calumet and Columbia. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: fixed. SECTION 1. The members of the board of supervi- Per diem and sors of the counties of Calumet and Columbia shall each mileage fees receive three dollars per day for each and every day they shall be employed on the session of the board, and six cents per mile for going to and returning from the place of holding such session. But no supervisors shall be allowed to draw pay for more than twenty five days' attendance on the county board in one year. 1 SECTION 2. Section 10 of chapter 129 of the general Amended. laws of 1861, section 49 of chapter 13 of the revised statutes, and all acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act, so far as the counties of Calumet and Columbia are concerned, are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Amended. Question of aid may be submitted to vote. CHAPTER 130. [Published March 23, 1869.] AN ACT to amend sections 1 and 2 of chapter 372 of the general laws of 1864, entitled "an act to authorize the city of La Crosse to aid in the construction of railroads.' The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Sections one and two of chapter 372 of the general laws of 1864, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The common council of the city of La Crosse shall have power to submit to the tax payers who are legal voters resident of said city, the question whether said city shall issue bonds, as hereinafter provided, to aid in the building and construction of a railroad or railroads already built or constructed, or which may hereafter be built or constructed in the state of Minnesota, terminating on the west bank of the Mississippi river opposite said city, or upon any of the islands adjacent thereto, or any railroad or railroads in the state of Wisconsin running to or passing through said city, by giving at least three weeks notice of the time and place of deciding said question, to be published in a public newspaper printed and published in the English language and having a general circulation in said city, and stating in said notice the amount of said bonds, not however to exceed the sum of two hundred thousand dollars for each road so aided. The question Form of ballot. shall be decided by ballot, those voting in favor of issuing bonds, voting "for issuing bonds," and those opposed thereto, voting "against issuing bonds." majority of the votes cast on said question be in favor of issuing bonds, then said common council may in the discretion of said council, by resolution entered upon the records of said council, issue said bonds under the seal of said corporation, signed by the mayor of said city and countersigned by the clerk thereof. council may is SECTION 2. If said vote shall be in favor of issu- If vote in favor, ing said bonds, said common council shall have power sue bonds. to issue the same if in their discretion they shall deem it advisable so to do, payable in not less than five years nor more than thirty years from the date thereof, with coupons attached drawing interest at a rate not to exceed seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually and at such place or places as said council may deem expedient; and shall have power to lay a special tax on all property taxable in said city to pay said bonds. and the interest which may accrue thereon, and to create a sinking fund for that purpose, and to collect such special tax at such times and in such amounts annually as shall be necessary and expedient in the opinion of the council, but said council shall not in any event have power to dispose of said bonds nor any of them for a less sum than the face thereof, together with the inter.. est which may have accrued thereon at the time of the sale thereof, and the same shall be sold for cash only. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 9, 1869. CHAPTER 131. [Published March 11, 1869.] AN ACT to provide for the publication and distribution of the laws of Wisconsin concerning the organization and government of towns. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: to purchase SECTION 1. That the secretary of state be and he is Secretary of hereby authorized and required to purchase of the com- state required pilers, as soon as the same may be ready for delivery, laws concerning à sufficient number of copies of a work, entitled "laws and governm'nt of Wisconsin concerning the organization and government of towns, and the powers and duties of town organization of towns. Shall distribute books to counties. Shall purchase copies to remain in his office. Appropriation. officers and boards of supervisors, with numerous praetical forms, by J. C. Spooner and E. E. Bryant, counselors at law," to supply each organized town in this state with seven copies, at a cost not to exceed sixty cents per copy, said work to be bound in the same style as Haynes' edition of same, published in 1858: provided, said work shall first be submitted to and approved by a committee of three atterneys of the supreme court, to be appointed by the judge thereof, and shall contain, properly arranged, all laws concerning the organization and government of towns which shall be in force at the close of the present session of the legislature. SECTION 2. The secretary of state shall distribute said books among the several counties of the state, allowing to each county a sufficient number to afford seven copies to each town therein, in the manner now provided for the distribution of the general laws, and to be distributed among town officers as the board of county supervisors of each county may order. SECTION 3. The secretary of state shall also at the same time purchase one thousand copies of said book to remain in his office for distribution to towns that may hereafter be organized. SECTION 4. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury belonging to the general fund, a sum sufficient to defray the expense authorized and required by this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 9, 1869. |