shall be deposited in the office of secretary of state, and all copies of documents, instruments, papers and writings filed or deposited in the office of the bank comptroller, and transcripts from the books of said office, certified with the said seal attached, shall be evidence in all cases equally and in like effect with the original. SEC. 5. Whenever in the opinion of the bank comptroller, the bond executed in pursuance of section seventeen of the banking law of this state, shall be insufficient security, he is hereby authorized to demand and receive a new bond in lieu thereof, or as additional security, and the bond so received shall be as binding and obligatory upon the parties executing the same, as the original bond. SEC. 6. Whenever any banking association is desirous of withdrawing its stockholders' bond filed with the bank comptroller, the bank comptroller may at his discreton, permit the same to be done, and shall receive a new bond in lieu thereof, and the bond so received shall be as binding and obligatory upon the parties executing it, as the original bond, and all bonds executed by any person or persons to the bank comptroller to secure the redemption of the circulating notes of any banking association, shall be binding and obligatory upon the parties executing the same, for the penalty contained in such bond. SEC. 7. All bonds hereafter to be executed to the bank comptroller in pursuance to section seventeen of the banking law of this state, shall have a warrant of attorney thereto attached, authorizing a judgment to be entered up on the same, either in term time or in vacation, in any court of record in this state, or elsewhere, and no judgment so entered up shall be set aside or delayed in consequence of any error or informality in the bond or warrant of attorney, or in the proceeding in entering up the same; and it shall be the duty or the bank comptroller to immediately, upon his advertising for sale the securities deposited to secure the redemption of the circulating notes of any banking association, to enter up a judgment upon such bond, but no execution shall issue thereon until the securities deposited in such bank shall be sold, and then only for the amount due upon such bond. SEC. 8. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to oblige the bank comptroller to accept any bond unless he is satisfied with the security, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 20, 1855. Chapter 48. [Published April 23.] An Act to authorize the State Superintendent to furnish school district clerks with blank forms on which to make their annual reports. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The state superintendent is hereby authorized and required on or before the first day of August in each year, to furnish to each school district clerk in the state a blank form, upon which such officer shall make his annual report to the town superintendents of his own town. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage. Approved, March 21, 1855. Proviso. Chapter 49. [Published April 11.] An Act relative to the rights of married women. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any married woman, whose husband, either from drunkenness, profligacy, or from any other cause, shall neglect or refuse to provide for her support, or for the support and education of her children; and any married woman who may be deserted by her husband, shall have the right, in her own name, to transact business, and to receive and collect her own earnings and the earnings of her own minor children, and apply the same for her own support, and the support and education of such chil dren, free from the control and interference of her husband, or any person claiming the same, or claiming to be released from the same, by or through her husband: Provided, That if is denied by plea, that either of the causes enumerated in this act, as entitling the married woman to sue in her own name, exists, in point of fact, then the is sue upon this plea shall be tried and determined by the jury trying the case, with the other issues submitted. The issue upon this plea shall be tried and determined and by the jury trying the case, with the other issues submitted. SEC. 2. That this act shall take effect from and after its publication. Approved March 23, 1855. Chapter 50. [Published March 29.] An Act in relation to Attorneys at Law. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Any person who has been duly admitted and licensed to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law, in the supreme court of the state of Illinois, and all other states in the Union, where counsel of this state are admitted as counsel of such state, on the same terms hereinafter prescribed, shall be admitted and licensed to practice as an attorney and counsellor at law and solicitor in chancery, in all the courts of this state, upon written application, signed by such person, and upon presenting to such court proof that he has been so admitted to practice in the supreme court of Illinois, and all other states in the Union, where counsel of this state are admitted as counsel of such state, on the same terms hereinafter prescribed and an affidavit of good moral character, and that he is a resident of said state of Illinois. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any court of this state, upon application and proof aforesaid, to admit any attorney of the state of Illinois, and all other states of the Union when counsel of this state are admitted as counsel' of such state, on the same terms hereafter prescribed, to practice, and to take and subscribe the usual oaths required by the laws of this state, in relation to attorneys at law in this state, and to issue a license as in other cases of admission of attorneys at law, and the clerk of such court to enroll the same on his roll of attorneys as in other cases, and such attorney, so making the application as aforesaid, shall, upon receiving such license, be entitled to all the privileges of attorneys at law resident in this state. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect and be of full force from and after its passage. Approved, March 23, 1855. Electors to vote upon division of co. Mode of ballot How to be canvassed. Chapter 51. [Published March 26.] An Act to provide for taking off from the County of Winnebago certain towns SECTION 1. The qualified electors of the county of Winnebago shall vote for or against the division of Winneba go county, by striking off from said county town twentyone, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four and twentyfive north, in range ten, at the next annual town meeting, after the passage of this act. SEC. 2. All votes given upon the question aforesaid shall be by ballot, upon, which shall be written or printed either the words "for division" or "against division." Said ballots shall be deposiied by the inspectors of election in a separate box, to be by them for that purpose prepared. SEC. 3. The votes cast as above provided, shall be canvassed, certified, and the result ascertained and declared by the same officers, at the time and in the manner provided by law for canvassing, certifying, ascertaining the result of elections for county officers, and such result, when so ascertained, shall by last canvassing officers be reduced to writing and by them certified to be in all respects true and correct, and when the same is so reduced to writing and certified, the clerk of the board of supervisors shall record the same in the county record book in his office, and shall thereafter, without delay, transmit the original to the Secretary of State, at Madison, who shall upon receipt thereof, file and preserve the same in his office. SEC. 4. This act shall be printed by the state printer immediately after the passage thereof, and when so published shall take effect and be in full force. SEC. 5. The Secretary of State is hereby directed to transmit a copy of this act, under the seal of the state, to be published in the Oshkosh Courier and Oshkosh Dem ocrat. Approved, March 23, 1855. Chapter 52. [Published April 13.] An Act to change the name of Charles Adams to Charles Edgar Tabor. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: i SECTION 1. The name of Charles Adams, infant, of Prairie du Sac, in the county of Sauk, is hereby changed to Charles Edgar Tabor, by which name he shall be hereafter known, to all intents and purposes. SEC. 2. The person whose name is changed by this act, shall be the adopted child and heir at law of Thomas Tabor, of said county of Sauk, state of Wisconsin, and the obligation of parent to child, and child to parent, shall pertain as fully between the parties herein mentioned as in the case of natural parentage and descent. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in full force from and after its passage. Approved March 24, 1855. |