CHAPTER 15!! Published March 11. An Act to authorize the extension of time for the collection of taxes in cer tain cases. AGA (A The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as enact as follows: and time for collecting taxes, SECTION 1 The board of supervisors of any town, and To extend the common council of any city, shall have power, they are hereby authorized to extend the time for the collection of taxes in such town or city, for such period of time not exceeding thirty days, as the said board of supervisors or the said common council may deem necessary. Not to postSEC. 2. The extension of time for the collection of taxes pone payment. any town or city, shall not in any manner, postpone in the time for the payment to the county treasurer, of the state tax included in any town or city tax roll. SEC. 3. The collector of taxes shall have the same power Collector-and authority to proceed in the collection of taxes con- powers. tained in such town or city tax roll after, as before, such extension of time for the collection of said taxes and the return of any such collector of taxes to the county treasurer within the time limited and specified by said board of town supervisors, or to the common council in their order, extending the time for the collection of taxes, shall be as valid and effectual as if made pursuant to the direc tion of the original warrant. SEC. 4. Such order extending the time for the collection Forma. We hereby renew this warrant for —————days. day of Supervisors of the town of of the city of or Mayor and Clerk of common council SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 1, 1856. CHAPTER 16. Published March 12. An Act to change the names of Eliza Lucy Allison and James Henry Allison to Eliza Lucy Van Orden and James Henry Van Orden. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of Mrs. Eliza Lucy Allison, of the town of Linn, in the county of Walworth, is hereby changed to Eliza Lucy Van Orden, and the name of James Henry Allison, her infant son, is hereby changed to James Henry Van Orden, and by such names of Eliza Lucy Van Orden and James Henry Van Orden, the said two persons shall hereafter be legally known in all places and at all times, and for all purposes. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 7, 1856. It oft d ad DIE BOXO To change name. Heir-at-law. An Act to change the name of James Thomas Jones to James Thomas The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. That the name of James Thomas Jones, son of Hannah Jones, deceased, late of La Fayette county, in this state, shall be and is hereby changed to James Thomas Parkinson, and by this latter name he shall hereafter be called and known in popular nomenclature and in law. SEC. 2. The said James Thomas Parkinson shall be esteemed and taken in law to be the child and heir-at-law of Daniel M. Parkinson and Mary F. Parkinson, his wife, SEO. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its When to take passage, publication and a full compliance with the pro- effect. visions contained in the second section of this act. t Approved March 7, 1856. CHAPTER 18. Published March 17. An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to audit accounts for printing docaments in foreign languages, and appropriating for payment of such accounts when audited. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: state to audit certain eo SECTION 1. The Secretary of state is hereby authorized Secretary of to audit all accounts for printing in any foreign language state ordered by either branch of the legislature, at the present counts. session, at the rate of ten cents for every thirty two pages of the English copy of the reports or documents as fur nished by the state printer. SEO. 2. The state treasurer is hereby directed to pay on Payment of the warrant of the secretary of state, the accounts audited same. as provided in section one of this act, and a sum sufficient to pay said accounts as they are audited, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated. Sno. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 14, 1856. for blind. I Y › An Act to appropriate to the Wisconsin Institute for the education of the Blind, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in -297 Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: Appropriation SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Wisconfor institution sin Institute for the education of the blind, the sum of five thousand dollars for the support of said institute, from the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, to the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, to be levied and collected in the tax of eighteen hundred and fifty six, and paid to said institution in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-seven. To complete building. SEO. 2. There is hereby appropriated to said institution the further sum of ten thousand dollars for the completion of the main building of said institution according to the plan of the same. SEO. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 14, 1856. Secretary of state to audit account of postmaster. CHAPTER 20. Published March 17. An Act to authorize the Secretary of State to audit the account of the Post The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to audit the account of the post master at Madison, for postage of members of the senate and assembly 'from March 7, 1856, to the close of the present session of the ச legislature, and when so audited and allowed, the same shall be paid by the state treasurer on the order of the secretary of state out of any moneys not otherwise ap propriated. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 14, 1856. An Act to remit certain forfeitures, and extend time for payment of School or University Land interest. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows:, SECTION 1. All forfeitures that have accrued to this Forfeitures restate, in consequence of the non payment of any interest mitted. due the state on any loan from the school or university funds, or on account of any interest due on account of school and university lands, in any manner, on the fifth day of March, A. D. 1856, are hereby remitted to the persons respectively from whom interest was due, and if any such person shall have paid any such forfeiture between the fifth of March aforesaid, and the passage of this act, the state treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to place the amount thus paid as forfeiture, to the credit of the person who may have so paid the same, and apply the same to the payment of the interest which shall be due from said persons next year, and the time for payment of interest due the state as aforesaid, for the present year, is hereby extended to the first day of May, A. D. 1856. SEO. 2. This act shall be in force and go into effect from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1856. |