Amendment.

CHAPTER 89.

Published in Extra April 16.

An Act to amend chapter thirty of the Revised Statutes.

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

SECTION 1. The second section of chapter thirty (30) the revised statutes is hereby so amended as to read: "1 shall not be lawful for any person to sell, give away, dispose of or keep for such purpose, any intoxicating liquors, at any place upon lands belonging to or occupied under treaty stipulations with the United States by an nation or tribe of Indians within this state, and any In dian superintendent or agent shall have and is hereby given the authority to seize and destroy any liquor kep for such purpose within the said limits, without any other or further warrant therefor.

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

Approved March 21, 1858.

Amendment.

CHAPTER 90.

Published in Extra April 16.

An Act to amend [to amend] section twenty-two of chapter sixteen, of the
Revised Statutes.

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

SECTION 1. Every male inhabitant in cach road district, being over the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of fifty years, excepting persons of color, paupers, idiots, and lunatics, shall be assessed to pay a poll tax of one dollar, said tax may be paid to the overseer in cash, or be commuted for in labor, as now provided by law.

SEO. 2. So much of section twenty-two of chapter six Repealed. en, of the revised statutes, as conflicts with the provis

ns of this act, is hereby repealed.

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

ad after the first (1st) day of April next. Approved March 31, 1856.

CHAPTER 91.

Published September 27.

An Act to organize the county of Dunn for Judicial purposes.

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

SECTION 1. From and after the first day of January next, County organhe county of Dunn shall be fully organized for judicial ized for judicial purposes. purposes, and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges appertaining to other counties so organized in this state.

SEO. 2. Said county of Dunn shall be and hereby is con- County of tituted a part of the eighth judicial circuit and two terms Dunn part of of the said court shall be holden annually in said county eighth judicial of Dunn, at the county seat thereof, to wit: on the second Monday of June, and on the second Monday of Decem

Der in each year.

circuit.

SEC. 3. All writs shall issue and be made returnable as Writs, da required by law in other counties in this state, and all laws returnable. now in force applicable to the summoning and empannell

ng of jurors, shall be applicable to, and be in force, in said county of Dunn.

SEO. 4. The qualified electors of said county, at the Election of general election to be held in said county in November officers. next, shall elect a register of deeds, clerk of the board of supervisors, a county surveyor, a sheriff, district attorney, clerk of the court and coroner, who shall qualify, as required by law, and enter upon the duties of their several offices, on the first day of January next, and hold the same as now provided by law.

SEO. 5. The qualified electors of said county shall, on County judge. the first Monday of September next, elect some suitable

person as county judge, who shall qualify as now provided

Returns of election.

by law, and enter upon the duties of his office on the first day of January next and hold the said office for the term of two years, and until his successor is elected and quali· fied.

SEC. 6. At such elections the votes given for such offi cers, shall be returned and canvassed in the same manner as votes are returned and canvassed at a general election in other counties in this state.

SEO. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 31, 1856.

Amendment.

Proviso.

CHAPTER 92.

Published in Extra April 16.

An Act to amend chapter 79 of the Revised Statutes.

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

SECTION 1. In addition to the causes for which a divorce may now be granted, a divorce from the bond of matri.. mony may in the sound discretion of the court be decreed by the several circuit courts of this state, sitting as a court of chancery, on suit brought in the county where the parties or one of them reside, on application by peti tion or bill of the aggrieved party, whenever either party shall have become incurably insane, and shall have 80 remained for the term of seven years continuously: Provided, That in case of the insanity of the wife, before a divorce shall be granted for such cause, the husband shall give bonds to the board of supervisors in the county in which such wife shall reside, with good and sufficient security to the satisfaction of the court, for the support and maintenance of said insane party during her life.

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

Approved March 31, 1856.

CHAPTER 93.

Published June 18.

An Act to provide for the paymont of clerks in the School Land Office.

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

office.

SECTION 1. The commissioners of the school and univer. To employ sity lands of this state are hereby authorized to employ and pay clerks such number of clerks, either permanently or temporari- in school land ly, as shall be necessary, in order to the correct, prompt and efficient management of the school and university fund of this state, and the secretary of state is hereby required to keep a daily account of all such clerks so necessarily employed in said commissioners office; Provided, That before any clerk who may be appointed by the said commissioners shall enter upon the discharge of the duties of his clerkship, he shall take and subscribe the following oath, to wit: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be) that I will support the constitution of the state of Wisconsin, that I will not be engaged either directly or indirectly in the purchase for my own benefit of any school or university lands of the state of Wisconsin, so long as I remain a clerk in the school land bureau thereof: and that I will faithfully discharge to the best of my ability the duties of clerk in said bureau-so help me God": -which said oath shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

Oath.

SEC. 2. The clerks hereby authorized to be employed Compensation shall be employed either by the day, week, month, quarter, or year, as the said commissioners shall deem advisa. ble, at a price to be agreed upon by them. The accounts of such clerks for services shall be audited by the secretary of state, and paid out of the income of the school and university funds, pro rata; Provided, That no clerk shall be paid for any time when not actually and necessarily employed in the duties of said office.

SEO. 3. There is hereby appropriated out of the income Appropriation of the school and university funds of this state, a suffi. for same. cient sum to cover all expenses incurred under the provisions of this act during the year 1856, and to pay the clerks hired and employed in said department in said year prior

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Repealed.

to the passage of this act. The accounts of such clerks for services rendered in said year to be audited by the secretary of state.

SEO. 4. So much of chapter 70 of the general laws of 1854, entitled "An act to provide for defraying the contingent expenses of the state for the present year, and to amend chapter 24 of the revised statutes, entitled of school and university lands" as conflicts with the provis ions of this act is hereby repealed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 31, 1856.

County of Burnette.

Attached to Polk county for judicial purposes.

CHAPTER 94.

Published April 3.

An Act to set apart and incorporate the county of Burnette.

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

SECTION 1. That all that section of country lying and be ing in the county of Polk, in this state, embraced in townships thirty eight (38), thirty nine (39) and forty (40), of ranges twelve (12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), and twenty (20), together with so much of the county of Douglas as is embraced in townships forty one (41), forty two (42), and forty three (43), of ranges twelve (12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15) and sixteen (16), shall be and the same hereby is set apart, and shall constitute a county, with all the rights and privileges heretofore granted to other counties; and shall hereafter be known in law and otherwise by the name and style of the county of Burnette, and shall hereafter be and hereby is attached to the county of Polk for judicial purposes; and for the time being, the same shall constitute two township for all township purposes, and shall be known as Yellow River township, and under such name shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges heretofore granted by law to other townships. And the first election in said township