pend sentence and place such minor under the guidance and control of some reputable and suitable adult person, who shall have consented in writing to become responsible for the good behavior of such minor, for such period of probation not exceeding six months as the court may fix. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved March 20, 1915. No. 3, S.] [Published March 22, 1915. CHAPTER 14. AN ACT to create section 1492ab-5 of the statutes, relating to suppression of dangerous diseases among domestic animals in this state; and making an appropriation for the state's share of expense, including compensation to owners of slaughtered animals, incurred in connection with the foot and mouth disease prior to the passage of this act. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is added to the statutes a new section to read: Section 1492ab-5. 1. Whenever it is determined by the live stock sanitary board and the state constitutional officers that it is necessary to combat dangerous diseases among domestie animals in this state in coöperation with the bureau of animal industry of the United States department of agriculture and to destroy animals affected with or which have been exposed to any such disease or to destroy property in the disinfection of the premises or to do any other act or incur any other expense reasonably necessary in suppressing or combating such disease, the state live stock sanitary board may accept, on behalf of the state, the rules and regulations prepared by the United States department of agriculture under authority of an act of congress relating to the suppression of any such disease and coöperate with the authorities of the United States in the enforcement of their provisions; or it may follow such procedure as to inspection, condemnation, appraisal, disinfection and other acts reasonably necessary in the suppression of such diseases as may be agreed upon and adopted by the live stock sanitary board and the state constitutional officers with the representatives of the United States department of agriculture. Within the amount which may, subsequent to the passage and publication of this act, be appropriated for this purpose, the state shall pay such proportion of the expense incurred in suppressing or combating any such disease and in compensating owners of animals slaughtered under the provisions of this subsection as shall be determined by and mutually agreed upon with the United States department of agriculture. SECTION 2. There is appropriated to the state live stock sanitary board out of any money in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed Seventy-five Thousand Dollars to pay the state's share of the expense, including compensation due owners of slaughtered animals, incurred in suppressing and combating, in coöperation with the United States department of agriculture, the outbreaks of the "foot and mouth" disease in this state prior to the passage of this act. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved March 20, 1915. No. 253, S.] [Published March 22, 1915. CHAPTER 15. AN ACT to amend section 2505 of the annotated statutes of 1889, as amended by section 3, chapter 7, laws of 1895, relating to the municipal court of Milwaukee county. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2505 of the annotated statutes of 1889, as amended by section 3, chapter 7, laws of 1895 is amended to read: Section 2505 (annotated statutes 1889). Said clerk may appoint three or more deputy clerks, either of whom may perform the clerk's duties in his absence from his office, and for whose acts said clerk and the sureties upon his official bond shall be liable. The appointments shall be in writing, shall be subject to the approval of the municipal judge, and shall be filed in said court, and may be revoked at the pleasure of the judge or clerk. Each of such deputies before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed in the constitution, which oath shall be filed in the office of the city clerk of the city of Milwaukee. In case of a vacancy in the office of the clerk for any reason, the deputy designated by the judge for that purpose shall perform the duties of clerk until the vacancy is filled. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved March 20, 1915. No. 18, S.] [Published March 27, 1915. CHAPTER 16. AN ACT to create subsection 29a of section 172-54 of the statutes, appropriating to the board of regents of normal schools. a certain sum for the completion and equipment of the main building, now under construction, to replace the building which was destroyed by fire at the state normal school in the city of Superior. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is added to the statutes a new subsection to be numbered and to read: (Section 172-54) 29a. There is appropriated to the board of regents of normal schools, out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum of eighty-one thousand five hundred dollars to be expended by said board of regents for the completion and equipment of the main building, now under construction, to replace the building which was destroyed by fire at the state normal school in the city of Superior. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved March 26, 1915. No. 590, A.] [Published March 27, 1915. CHAPTER 17. AN ACT to legalize the acts of the county board of Vilas county in detaching certain territory from the town of Eagle River and attaching the same to the towns of Conover, State Line, Presque Isle, Plum Lake and Farmington and in creating the towns of Lincoln and Washington in said county and in detaching certain territory from the town of Farmington and attaching the same to the town of Conover in said county. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All acts and proceedings of the county board of supervisors of Vilas county had on the thirteenth day of May, A. D. 1914, relating to the detaching of certain territory from the town of Eagle River in said county and attaching parts thereof to the towns of Conover, State Line, Presque Isle, Plum Lake and Farmington and in creating the towns of Washington and Lincoln in said Vilas county; and all acts and proceedings of the county board of supervisors of Vilas county had on the third day of December, A. D. 1914, relating to the detaching of certain territory from the town of Farmington and attaching the same to the town of Conover in said county are hereby legalized. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. Approved March 26, 1915. No. 329, S.] [Published March 27, 1915. CHAPTER 18. AN ACT to detach certain territory from the towns of Round Lake and Reserve and to create the town of Hunter, to provide for town meetings and for a settlement between said towns. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All that territory within township forty north, range five west, township forty north, range six west, and township forty north and range seven west, heretofore constituting a part of the town of Round Lake, in Sawyer county, Wisconsin, is hereby detached from said town of Round Lake and all that territory within the north half of township forty north, range six west, heretofore constituting a part of the town of Reserve in said county is hereby detached from said town of Reserve; and such territory herein detached from the towns of Round Lake and Reserve is created and constituted as a separate town to be known and designated as the town of Hunter. SECTION 2. On the first Tuesday of April, 1915, the qualified electors of the said town of Hunter shall meet at the schoolhouse, known as the West Forks schoolhouse, in the southeast quarter of northwest quarter of section fourteen, township forty north, range seven west, in the said town of Hunter; and shall by ballot, elect town officers for said town; and for the purposes of said election, the qualified electors of such town, assembled at the place aforesaid, shall, between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock in the forenoon of said day, choose three of their number to act as inspectors of said election, and such electors shall, before entering upon their duties as said inspectors, take and subscribe the usual oath of office, and file the same with their returns; and the inspectors of such town shall canvass and return the votes cast at such election in all respects as provided by law for inspectors at annual town meetings; and the qualified electors of such town so assembled, may vote for all officers to be chosen on said day, and the votes cast for such officers shall be counted, canvassed and returned in the same manner, and shall have the same effect as in other annual town meetings; and said electors so assembled shall have full power to make all provisions for the government of such town as are now authorized by statute to be exercised and made at the annual meeting of any town. SECTION 3. Notice of said town meeting shall be given by the posting of a copy of this act in at least six public places in said town of Hunter at least five days before the time of holding said first town meeting, by any duly qualified elector of said town who shall make a proper affidavit of such posting and file the same on the day of said first town meeting with the inspectors chosen to conduct said first town meeting. SECTION 4. When said town meeting shall have been held as herein provided, and the town officers required by law duly elected, the said town of Hunter shall be deemed and shall be duly organized, and shall possess all the rights, powers, privileges and authority, and shall be subjected to the usual liabilities of other towns in the state of Wisconsin. After the said first town meeting all annual meetings shall be held on the day provided by law for the holding of town meetings in other towns in the state of Wisconsin. SECTION 5. The assets and liabilities of the said towns of Round Lake and Hunter shall be proportioned to said town of Hunter according to the provisions of section 672 of the statutes, and the liability, if any, so proportioned and the credits and assets, if any, so proportioned, shall be paid according to the provisions of said section 672 of the statutes. SECTION 6. The assets and liabilities of the said towns of Reserve and Hunter shall be proportioned to said town of Hunter according to the provisions of section 672 of the statutes, and the liability, if any, so proportioned and the credits and assets, if any, so proportioned, shall be paid according to the provision of said section 672 of the statutes. SECTION 7. The town boards of the towns of Round Lake, Reserve and Hunter shall, on the eleventh day of May, 1915, meet at the usual polling place of the town of Round Lake for the purpose of making a settlement between the said towns according to the provisions of this act; and at such meeting or at any subsequent or adjourned meeting held by said town boards, any three of the supervisors shall have full power and authority to send for any persons, books, papers and records necessarily involved in the settlement between said two towns. The town clerk of the town of Round Lake shall be and act as clerk of such joint meeting, and the town clerks of the towns of Reserve and Hunter shall be present and assist; sufficient duplicates or copies |