To fill vacancy

otherwise appropriated; Provided, That the said Proudfit shall execute and file in his office a full release of all claims and demands against the state growing out of said contract.

SEO. 8. In case said commissioners or either of them shall decline or refuse to serve, or die, or resign, the gov ernor is hereby authorized to fill such vacancy by appoint ment of a commissioner or commissioners to fill such vacancy.

Approved October 2, 1856.

To organize county of Eau Claire.

Rights, &c.

Election of

CHAPTER 114.

Published October 7.

An Act to organize the county of Eau Claire.

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

SECTION 1. So much of the county of Chippewa as is situated south of the township line between township twenty seven (27) and twenty eight (28), is hereby or ganized into a separate county, to be known by the name of Eau Claire.

SEO. 2. The said county of Eau Claire is hereby erected established and organized, with all the rights, privileges, both for governmental and judicial purposes as is by law granted to other counties in this state.

SEO. 3. That on the last Tuesday in December, A. D. county officers 1856, the electors resident in said new county shall meet in their respective towns and precincts, at the usual places for holding elections, and then and there proceed to elect all and every of the county officers, prdvided by law for county government, which said officers shall hold their office when duly qualified until the expiration of the time of similar officers in other counties.

Return of election.

SEO. 4. The returns of said election for county officers shall be returned to and canvassed by the town board of supervisors elect of the town of Eau Claire in the same

smanner as by boards of county canvassers, and all oaths of office, and official bonds of said county officers shall be filed in the office of town clerk of the said town of Eau Clare, and that the official bonds of said county officers shall be approved by the chairman of the board of supervisors of the said town of Eau Claire.

SEO. 5. The village of Eau Claire is hereby declared to County seat. be the county seat of the said county of Eau Claire; the circuit court of the eighth (8) judicial circuit of Wisconsin, shall hold its session at the county seat of Eau Claire, commencing on the third Monday of May, and on the last Monday in September in each year.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from When to take and after the election and qualification of the county offi- effect. cers as herein before provided. Approved October 6, 1856.

CHAPTER 115.

Published November 12.

An Act to provide for the annual examination of the accounts of certain
State officers.

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

SECTION 1. A joint standing committee consisting of For appointone member of the senate and two members of the as- ment of comsembly, to be called the "committee for investigation," mittee of inshall be elected or appointed in such manner as other committees are elected or appointed at the commence. ment of each annual session of the legislature, whose duty it shall be to examine the annual reports of the secretary of state, state treasurer and commissioners of the school and university lands, for the year next preceding, and all books, records, accounts and vouchers of said officers respectively, pertaining to the condition and management of the state treasury, and of all lands and funds in charge of said officers or any or either of them during said year, and to report the result of such examination to

the legislature, within four weeks after the commencement f such session.

SEO. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved October 6, 1856.

Concerning

CHAPTER 116.

Published November 13.

An Act concerning Notaries Public, and other officers.

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

SECTION 1. The clerks of the circuit court of this state notaries public are hereby authorized to certify, in the same manner as they are now authorized to do in the case of justices of the peace, to the official qualifications of any notary public residing in their county, who shall have deposited in their office a certificate of the secretary of state, showing that such notary public is duly qualified, and the time when his commission will expire; together with his autograph and an impression of his official seal.

Record by

SEO. 2. It shall be the duty of the several clerks of the Clerk of circuit circuit court to keep a record of all certificates so depos ited with him as aforesaid.

court.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state, when any notary public shall resign or be removed to [from] his office, to notify forthwith the clerk of the cir cuit court of the proper county of such resignation or removal.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved October 6, 1856.

CHAPTER 117.

Published November 18.

An Act to amemd chapter 386 of the session laws of 1852, entitled " relating to hawkers and pedlars."

an act

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 386 of the session laws of 1852 is Concerning hereby so amended that it shall not hereafter be neces book pedlars. sary for any person to obtain a license to sell or to travel from place to place for the purpose of carrying to sell any printed book, newspaper, pamphlet or map whether the same shall have been produced or printed in the state

or not.

SEC. 2. This act shall not authorize the sale or the traveling for the purpose of carrying to sell any immoral or obscene book, paper or pamphlet or playing cards.

SEO. 3. So much of chapter 386 of the session laws of 1852 or of any other law of this state as contravenes the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 4. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

Approved October 6, 1856.

Repealed.

CHAPTER 118.

Published November 12.

An Act to accept the grant and execute the trust conferred upon the State of Wisconsin, by an act of Congress entitled "an act granting public lands to the State of Wisconsin to aid in the construction of railroads in said State," approved June 3d, 1856.

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

SECTION 1. That the lands, rights, powers and privile- To accept ges, granted to and conferred upon the state of Wiscon- land grant sin by the act of Congress, entitled "an act granting

public lands to the state of Wisconsin, to aid in the construction of railroads in said state," approved June 3d, 1856, be and the same are hereby accepted, upon the terms, conditions and restrictions contained in said act of Congress, and the said state of Wisconsin hereby assumes and undertakes the trust created by the said act of Congress.

SEC. 2. This act shall be in force so soon as the same is published.

Approved October 8th, 1856.

Supervisors may order printing in foreign languages.

Rate.

How paid.

Acts legalized.

CHAPTER 119.

Published November 12.

An Act to authorize county boards of supervisors to order the publication of public notices relating to county affairs in foreign languages.

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

SECTION 1. In all cases where the board of supervisors of any county in this state shall deem it necessary for the better information of the different inhabitants thereof, they shall have the power to order public notices relating to tax sales or other affairs of said county, to be inserted in papers published in any other than the English language, and circulated in said county.

SEC. 2. The rates for such publications shall be the same as those prescribed by law for the publication in the English language, and no extra charge shall be allow ed for the translation of the same.

SEC. 3. All such publications shall be paid by the county ordering the same, and the county board of supervisors shall audit all such accounts, and draw orders on the county treasurer in payment therefor.

SEC. 4. The acts of any county board of supervisors heretofore ordering publications (and paying for the same by orders drawn on the county treasurer) in any paper printed in a foreign language, are hereby legalized, and the county treasurer of any such county is hereby author