Terms of court

To transcribe papers of record.

County seat.

ed shall qualify and resume the duties of their respective offices, the said county of Juneau shall remain under the jurisdiction of said Adams county, for all county purposes and the business to be transacted with county officers and all county officers so elected at such special elections shall enter upon the duties of the office to which they are severally elected, as soon as they shall legally qualify un der such election.

SEO. 4. There is hereby established in the county d Juneau, two terms each year of said circuit court, which hy the judge of the seventh judicial circuit at such time as he shall appoint, until said terms are regu larly established by law. The said judge shall further appoint the times for holding such terms of court, and give notice of the same by filing a notice of the same with the clerk of the circuit court of said county.

SEO. 5. The register of deeds of Adams county shall, as soon as may be, transcribe into suitable books, all re cords of conveyance and other papers recorded in his office at the time this act shall go into operation, relating to real estate, situated in the territory hereby embraced in said county of Juneau, and deliver the same to the re gister of deeds, who shall be elected in said county of Juneau, and shall receive therefor the compensation now established by law for like services.

SEC. 6. The county seat of said county of Juneau shall be and hereby is located at the village of New Lisbon in town sixteen, range three, east of the fourth princi pal meridian.

SEO. 7. This act shall be in force and go into effect on the first day of January, A. D. 1857. Approved Oct. 13, 1856.

State tax.

CHAPTER 131.

Published October 17.

An Act to provide for levying a State Tax for the year 1856.

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

SECTION 1. There shall be levied and collected for the year, 1856, a state tax of three hundred thousand dollars

300,000) to be apportioned among, and assessed upon the everal counties of this state, as provided in chapter venty-three (73), of the session laws of 1854, entitled an act to establish a board of equalization of state Ix, and to provide for levying a state tax for the year 854," approved April 1st 1854: and shall be levied upon he property real and personal in this state, according to e equalization to be made the present year, by state oard of equalization, which tax shall be levied, collected nd paid into the state treasury as provided by law.

SEC. 2. The state board of equalization shall within ten Equalization. ays after the passage of this act proceed to, and make e equalization aforesaid, and immediately certify the ame to the several counties in this state, as provided by aw, to have full force and effect for the year 1856.

SEC. 3: This act shall take effect immediately after its assage, and shall be immediately printed, and ten printed opies thereof sent to the clerk of the board of superisors of every county in this state-by the secretary of *tate.

An Act to prevent the spreading of a weed, known by the name of

Suapdragon.

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

SECTION 1. No person or persons residing upon or occu- To prevent the pying any land within this state, either as owner, lessee or growth of otherwise for purposes of cultivation, shall knowingly snapdragon. permit or allow the weed known by the name of Snapdragon, to go to seed on such land, under the pains and penalties prescribed in the following section:

plying with

SEC. 2. Any person or persons violating the provisions Punishment of the preceding section, shall be deemed guilty of a mis. for not comdemeanor, and shall on conviction thereof, be punished this act. by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than

five dollars.

Justices of

peace to have

jurisdiction.

SEC. 3. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction within their respective counties of all violations of this act, and it shall be competent for any person to complain of and prosecute any person or persons violating the provisions of this act.

Approved October 13, 1856.

Supervisors may levy a bridge tax.

Proviso.

When levied.

CHAPTER 133.

Published November 15.

An Act to authorize the Town Board of Supervisors to levy a Special Tax for the purpose of constructing and maintaining Permanent Bridges.

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

SECTION 1. The respective boards of supervisors in any town in this state are hereby authorized and empowered to levy and collect a tax on all the taxable property of such town, for the purpose of rebuilding and maintaining suitable and permanent bridges across any river, stream or creek in any such town, whenever the board of super visors of any such town shall deem it necessary, for the public interest and convenience, to rebuild repair or main tain any such bridge: Provided, That no such tax shall exceed the sum of three hundred dollars for any bridge, and not more than one such tax shall be levied and col lected in any one year in any of said towns: And provided further, That all the supervisors agree in levying and assessing such tax.

SEC. 2. Said tax shall be levied and collected whenever any of said board of supervisors shall decide, in the same manner as other town taxes are levied and collected.

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

Approved October 13th, 1856.

CHAPTER 134.

Published November 14.

Act regulating the Terms of the Oircuit Court in the county of Waukesha, and the Terms of the Circuit Court in the County of Milwaukee.

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

county.

SECTION 1. The terms of the circuit court in and for the Terms of court
unty of Milwaukee, shall be holden and commence as
in Milwaukee
llows: On the second Monday in February, on the third
onday in April, on the fourth Monday in June, on the
ird Monday in September, and on the fourth Monday in
ecember in each year.

SEO. 2. The first Jurors for the April and December Jurors.
rms of the circuit court, in said county, shall be sum-
oned to attend on Monday of the second week on said

erms.

SEC. 3. The supervisors of the county of Milwaukee, Supervisors to hall select and return to the clerk of the circuit court, in return list of he manner provided by law, at their annual meeting in jurors. November, a list of one hundred and eighty petit jurors.

SEC. 4. The terms of the circuit court, in and for the Terms of Bounty of Waukesha, shall be holden and commence as Waukesha ollows: On the fourth Monday in March, on the second court. Monday in June, and on the third Monday in November n each year.

able.

SEC. 5. All writs and process issued out of the said Writs, &c. circuit and county courts, after this act shall take effect, when returnshall be made returnable at the respective terms of the aid courts as herein fixed, except when otherwise made returnable by order of a court or judge, in pursuance of law; and all writs and process which may be issued and made returnable at any term which is hereby changed or abrogated, shall be deemed and taken to be returnable on the first day of the next ensuing term of said courts res pectively.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved October 13th, 1856.

Superintend

tionary.

CHAPTER 135.

Published November 15.

An Act to provide for the purchase of a certain number of copies of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary,and for their distribution to the several school districts of this State.

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

SECTION 1. The superintendent of public instruction is ent to purchase hereby authorized to purchase and distribute three hun300 copies of Webster's dic- dred copies of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary upon the same terms and under the same provisions of an actentitled "an act to provide for the purchase of a certain number of copies of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, and for their distribution to the several public schools of this state," approved March 21st, 1855, and all the provisions for the payment and for the distribution of the said three hundred dictionaries in said act of March 21st, 1855, are hereby applied to this.

Distribution of

same.

Superintendent's report.

SEC. 2. Where there is more than one school taught in any one school district in this state, or where there is more than one school department in any school building, then, in such cases, such school or each department in a school, shall be entitled to one of said dictionaries.

SEO. 3. It is hereby made the duty of said superinten dent to report annually as a part of his annual report, the whole number of copies by him distributed,-to what counties distributed, and the time of distribution.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its pas sage and publication.

Approved October 13, 1856.