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.]

GENERAL LAWS.

CHAPTER 1.

[Published January 16, 1869.]

AN ACT changing the time of holding the February term of the circuit court of Dodge county, for the year 1869.

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

SECTION 1. The next term of the circuit court in When term and for the county of Dodge, shall commence and be shall be held. held on the Tuesday next succeeding the fourth Monday of February next, and all process and proceedings of whatever name or nature, returnable on the fourth Monday in February, 1869, shall be deemed returnable and returned on the said Tuesday.

future terms.

SECTION 2. This act shall apply only to the Feb- Not to apply to ruary term of said court for the year 1869, and all future terms of said court shall be and remain as now fixed by law.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved January 15, 1869.

When and

where term shall be held

When writs,

turnable.

CHAPTER 2.

[Published January 27, 1869.]

AN ACT to regulate the time of holding the general terms of the circuit court for the sixth 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 for the sixth judicial circuit shall hereafter be held as follows In the county of Clark, on the first Tuesday of March and the first Tuesday of September in each year; in the county of Jackson, on the second Tuesday of March and second Tuesday of September in each year; in the county of Monroe, on the fourth Tuesday of March and the fourth Tuesday of September in each year; in the county of Trempealeau, on the fourth Tuesday of April and second Tuesday of October, in each year; in the county of Buffalo, on the first Tuesday of May and the third Tuesday of October, in each year; in the county of La Crosse, on the second Tuesday of May and the second Tuesday of November in each year, and in the county of Vernon, on the second Monday of June and the first Monday of December, in each year.

SECTION 2. All writs, process, services, continuetc., shall be re- ances, recognizances and proceedings heretofore issued, made, taken, entered into or commenced, or which may be issued, made, taken, entered into or commenc ed in or from said courts of said counties respectively, or either of them, and all proceedings pending therein or returnable thereto, whether by recognizance or otherwise, shall be held and taken as returnable at the times mentioned in this act, for holding the said general terms of court respectively, in the said several counties.

Repealed.

SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts, so far as the same contravene or conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved January, 26, 1868..

CHAPTER 3.

[Published February 2, 1869.]

AN ACT to provide postage stamps for the use of members of the legislature.

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

to furnish

SECTION 1. The superintendent of public proper- Superintendent ty is hereby authorized to procure and deliver to the stamps. lieutenant governor and each member of the senate and assembly, as soon as practicable, this, and at the opening of each annual session hereafter, postage stamps to the amount of twenty-five dollars, and of such denominations as those receiving such stamps may desire. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriation. the general fund of the state, not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum of money to carry this act into effect.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 1, 1869.

CHAPTER 4.

[Published February 17, 1869.

AN ACT in relation to service of process.

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

make return.

SECTION 1. Whenever, in any action brought by Sheriff shall the attorney general in the name of the state, against any banking association, organized under the laws of this state, the sheriff to whom the summons in such case has been or shall hereafter be delivered for service, shall make return thereon that no officer of such corporation