SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from

An Act to change the time of holding the Circuit Court in Waupacca County, in the Seventh Judicial Circuit.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The spring term of the circuit court, in the seventh judicial circuit, for the county of Waupacca, shall hereafter be held on the third Monday of April, in each

year.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 14, 1855.

An Act to amend the third section of the act for the quieting of Tax Titles, approved April 19, 1852.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All persons are authorized to redeem land How may be sold for taxes and which have heretofore been deeded, or redeemed. may hereafter be deeded, their heirs, devisces, executors, administrators, or legal representatives, under and by virtue of the third (3) section of the act hereby amended, may pay the amount required to be paid or tendered by

Duties of clerks

said section, to the clerk of the board of supervisors for the county wherein the lands to be redeemed are situated, for the use of the party holding such tax title, and such payment shall have the same effect as if inade to the said party personally.

SEC. 2. The clerk of the board of supervisors on receiving the amount mentioned in the preceding section, shall execute a receipt to the party making such payment, mentioning the name of the grantee in such deed, describing the lands intended to be redeemed, and the amount by him received, and which receipt shall be evidence in all cases of the facts therein contained; and, if recorded as hereinafter stated within the time of redemption provided by the third section of the act hereby amended, shall have the effect fully to vacate and annul such deed and discharge all interest of the grantee, and his heirs, assigns or grantees, under or by virtue of the same. Such receipt may be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the proper county, in the same manner and with like effect of conveyances of real estate.

SEC. 3. This act shall be published and take effect from and after its passage.

Approved Feb. 28, 1855.

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circuit courts.

Chapter 16.

[Published, April 11.]

An Act to "give effect to an act entitled "n act to amend chapter eighty-six of the revised statutes and for other purposes," approved April 1854, relating to county courts.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All appeals and certioraris, and all civil actransferred to tions of whatever name or nature, now pending in the county courts of this state, and which said county courts have not jurisdiction to try and determine, are hereby transferred to the circuit courts for the same counties in which said appeals, certioraries, or other civil actions are

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pending, and shall immediately upon the passage of this act be deemed to be pending in such circuit courts.

SEC. 2. All appeals, certioraris, or other actions, removed from a justice of the peace, which the county courts of this state have not jurisdiction to try and determine, shall hereafter be taken directly to the circuit courts for the same counties in which said appeals, certioraris, or other actions may arise.

SEC. 3. In all cases where a writ of error shall have Writs of error. been taken from the judgment of any county court to the supreme court, the remittitur shall be sent to the circuit court for the same county, and any further proceedings. necessary to be had therein shall be taken in such circuit court, with like effect, as if the said judgment had originally been rendered in said circuit court.

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SEC. 4. Circuit courts in and for the counties of this state, wherein the county courts have not now jurisdic- circuit courts. tion to try and determine civil suits, shall have the same power, jurisdiction and control over all judgments, orders and proceedings heretofore entered, made or had in such county courts (except in probate cases) as the said circuit courts would or might have over the same if originally entered, made or had in such circuit courts. All executions hereafter issued upon such judgments shall be issued from the circuit courts, in the same manner and Executions with like effect, and be made returnable at the same time, sued. in the same manner, and the same proceedings may in all respects be had upon the same, as if the same were issued upon a judgment of the said circuit court; and proceedings to revive and carry into effect all such judg ments and proceedings, as may be necessary, may be hereafter had in the circuit courts of the proper counties, as fully to all intents and purposes as though the same had been originally in the said circuit courts.

SEC. 5. The circuit courts of this state are hereby authorized to try and determine all appeals, certioraris or other actions pending or brought therein by virtue of this

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make return.

SEC. 6. All causes in which an appeal or certiorari has Justice to been taken to the circuit court since the first day of July e last, shall be proceeded with therein in the same manner 8 as if they had been taken to the county court, and had been transferred by this act to the circuit court, and if the justice has failed to make a proper return in any such cause, he may be compelled to make such return at the

Appeals from

cuit court.

next term of the circuit court holden in the same county, after the passage of this act, or at such other time as the circuit court shall order.

SEC. 7. All appeals and certioraris from justices of the justice to cir- peace shall hereafter be taken to the circuit court of the same county, according to the provisions of law, which now regulate the taking of the same to the county court: and when, in any provision of law, relating to such ap peals, certioraris, or other civil action, the words "county court," appear, the same shall be read circuit court; and all statutes regulating the proceedings in appeals and certioraris, in the county courts, shall apply to and govern such proceedings in the circuit courts.

SEC. 8. This act shall not apply to the county of Milwaukee.

SEC. 9. This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and publication.

Approved February 28, 1855.

Chapter 17.

[Published, April 6.]

An Act to amend Section 20, of Chapter 89, of the Revised Statutes, and to provide for the more speedy collection of costs in criminal proceedings before Justices of the Peace.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section twenty, of chapter eighty-nine, of the revised statutes of Wisconsin, is hereby amended, by adding at the end of said section, the following proviso, to wit: "Provided, That if the complainant shall neglect to give said security, or shall neglect to pay such costs, then, in such case, the court before whom the cause is tried, may issue execution on said judgment against the person of the complainant, in the same manner and to the like effect as is now provided by law, in cases where execution may issue against a defendant in actions founded in fort.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas

Chapter 18.

[Published March -]

An Act to change the time of holding the Spring Term of the Circuit Court, in the County of Brown.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The spring term of the circuit court in and Change of for the county of Brown, shall be held annually on the terms of court fourth Monday of May, instead of the fourth Monday of March, as now required by law; and all writs, process, indictments, appeals, recognizances, or other proceedings whatsoever, made returnable to the March term of said court, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five; and all adjournments, appearances, continuances, motions, and notices of any proceedings in the said circuit court, made or taken to the said March term, eighteen hundred and fiftyfive, shall be held to be the May term for the year eighteen hundred and fifty five.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication; and the secretary of state shall forthwith transmit by mail a printed copy of this act to the clerk of the circuit court of said county of Brown. Approved March 3, 1855.

Chapter 19.

[Published April 13.]

An Act to provide for the purchase of Stationery for the use of the next

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Legislature.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. James Halpin, superintendent of public pro- Halpin to pur perty, is hereby authorized to purchase all stationery ne- chase statione cessary for the use of the next legislature.

ry.

SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of Appropriation: