more than one official capacity of office at the same time, unless the town shall have fixed a different compensation at the annual town meeting. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 3, 1869. Persons charg'd with crime may half. CHAPTER 72. [Published March 9, 1869. AN ACT in relation to evidence in criminal prosecutions. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: person SECTION 1. In the trial of all indictments, comgive evidence plaints and other proceedings against persons charged In their own be- with the commission of crimes or offences, the so charged shall at his own request, but not otherwise, be deemed a competent witness, nor shall the neglect or refusal to testify create any presumption against the defendant. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 4, 1869. Judge may ap point phono CHAPTER 73. [Published March 23, 1869.] AN ACT to authorize the appointment of phongraphic reporters for the circuit court for the county of Walworth. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the judge of the graphic report eircuit court for the county of Walworth, to appoint ers. two phonographic reporters for said court, who shall be sworn officers of said court, and shall be skilled in the art of short-hand reporting, one of whom shall attend upon such court at each term thereof, when required by the court or the judge thereof so to do, and shall discharge such duties as the judge may direct. SECTION 2. The phonographic reporters shall be al- Compensation. lowed such daily compensation as shall be fixed by the judge of the court, not exceeding ten dollars per day for each day's attendance upon such court, when required by the judge thereof to attend, which shall be certified, audited and paid in like manner as is provided by law for the payment of the sheriff for attending up-. on the court: provided, but one such reporter shall be employed at the same time. pensation. SECTION 3. In addition to the above compensation, Additional comthe phonographic reporters may charge and collect as fees, ten cents per folio (of one hundred words) for making and furnishing transcripts of their short-hand notes of the testimony and other proceedings of the court in the trial of any action, to be paid by the party requiring such transcript to be made. In the trial of criminal cases the court may in its discretion order such transcripts to be made, certified, audited and paid for in the same manner as the reporter's per diem compensation. In such cases the reporter's notes shall be written out in full and filed with the clerk of the court. move reporters. SECTION 4. The judge of the said court may, in his Judge may rediscretion, remove such reporters or either of them, and may fill any vacancy caused by such removal or from any other cause. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 4, 1869. Red Cedar river to constitute CHAPTER 74. [Published March 6, 1869.] AN ACT to establish lumber district number 8, in the state of The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. For the purpose of inspecting and regdistrict No. 8. ulating the survey and measurement of logs, timber and lumber in this state, the Red Cedar river and its tributaries, within the county of Dallas are hereby constituted and created a lumber district, to be known and called lumber district number eight. To be subject to provisions of chapter 167, laws of 1864. Where inspector to keep his office. SECTION 2. Said lumber district number eight shall be subject to the provisions of chapter 167 of the general laws of 1864, entitled "an act to establish lumber district in this state and to regulate the traffic in logs, timber and lumber in said district the same as the district therein named." SECTION 3. The inspector of said lumber district number eight shall keep his office at Barron, in the county of Dallas, SECTION 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 4, 1869. CHAPTER 75. [Published March 6, 1869.] AN ACT to change the name of the county of Dallas to that of The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the county of Dallas in Name changed. the state of Wisconsin, is hereby changed to that of Barron, and by the name of Barron it shall hereafter be known and designated. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 4, 1869. CHAPTER 76. [Published March 22, 1869.] AN ACT relating to the county court of Trempealeau county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: office. SECTION 1. The county judge of the county of Where county Trempealeau is hereby authorized to keep his office judge may keep and to transact any and all probate business and to hold terms of the county court at the village of Trempealeau, and all business done and transacted and all lawful judgments, orders and decrees made by the said judge or court shall be as valid and binding in all respects, as if such courts had been held and such business had been done at the county seat of said county. SECTION 2. All lawful orders, judgments and de- All orders, etc. crees heretofore made, and all business heretofore done legalized. and transacted by the county judge or county court of Trempealeau county, are hereby legalized and declared to be as valid and binding in all respects as if such business had been done and such orders, judgments and decrees had been made at regular terms of said county court held at the county seat of said county. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 4, 1869. CHAPTER 77. [Published March 8, 1869.] Price of swamp and overflowed duced. AN ACT to reduce the price of the swamp and overflowed lands in certain cases. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The commissioners of school and univer lands to be re- sity lands are hereby authorized and required to reduce at once, the price of all swamp and overflowed lands now owned by the state in the counties of Adams, Juneau and Wood, and that have not been once sold, and all such lands that have been once sold and forfeited to the state, and now held by the state, to the uniform price of fifty cents per acre, with the amount of unpaid taxes added thereto: provided, that the above deduction shall not apply to any of said lands now under contract, and which may hereafter become forfeited to the state until the expiration of two years after such forfeiture. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1869. |