Appropriation for payment. February 2, 1897, and of each of said clerks from and after their appointment subsequent to the passage and taking effect of this act. The chief clerk of the senate is hereby authorized to employ a clerk of the committee on bills on their third reading whose compensation shall be three dollars and fifty cents a day. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay such compensation, which shall be paid on the cer tificate of the chief clerk of the senate on its approval by the presiding officer thereof. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 4, 1897. No. 9, A.] [Published March 6, 1897. CHAPTER 16. AN ACT making certain appropriations for the benefit of the Wisconsin home for the feebleminded. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the purpose of providing furniture and other necessary outfits for the buildings and farm, and completing the electric lighting plant for the home for the feeble-minded. SECTION 2. There is also appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, twenty-five hundred dollars, to pay all current expenses of the Wisconsin home for the feeble-minded until further provision shall be made by law therefor. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1897. No. 76, A.] [Published March 6, 1897. CHAPTER 17. AN ACT authorizing Manufacturers' Bank of New Richmond, Wisconsin, to reduce its capital stock. Richmond au Whereas, The stockholders of Manufacturers' Bank of New Bank of New Richmond, Wisconsin, did by a thorized to revote of the majority of the stock of said bank- duce its capi ing association, at a regular meeting of said stockholders, held at New Richmond, Wisconsin, on the sixteenth day of January, A. D. 1897, direct and determine that the capital stock of said banking association be reduced from fifty thousand dollars to thirty thousand dollars, and the president and cashier of said banking association have furnished the secretary of state with a certificate of such vote; now, therefore, The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: $30,000. SECTION 1. The banking association known From $50,000 to as Manufacturers' Bank of New Richmond, Wisconsin, is hereby authorized and permitted. to reduce its capital stock from fifty thousand dollars to thirty thousand dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1897. No. 152, A.] [Published March 6, 1897. The word en out in arti- zation of church societies. The word "male en out. CHAPTER 18. AN ACT to amend sections 1990, 1993 and 1995, of the revised statutes, relating to religious societies. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1990, of the revised statutes is hereby amended by striking out the word "male" wherever it occurs in said section, so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Section 1990. The members over twenty-one years of age, not less than three in number, of any church or society of any religious sect or denomination, which shall have been organized in this state, and which at the time maintains regular public worship, may after due public notice given at some stated meeting of such church, sect or denomination, and any five or more persons of like age, not members of any religious congregation, desirous of organizing a corporation in connection with a church of their own peculiar tenets to be associated therewith, may organize a corporation for religious, charitable or educational purposes in the manner hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. Section 1993, of the revised statstrick- utes is hereby amended by striking out the word "male" wherever the same occurs in said section, so that said section when so amended Public shall read as follows: Section 1993. en out. SECTION 3. Section 1995, of the revised stat- The word utes is hereby amended by striking out the "male" strickword "male" wherever it occurs in said section, so that said section when so amended shall read as follows: Section 1995. Every existing church, congregation or religious society heretofore incorporated, is hereby established and confirmed, and shall continue to be governed by the statutes now applicable thereto, notwithstanding the same are repealed by this statute, in the same manner as if not so repealed, until organized under this chapter; and every such church, congregation and society may, by five or more of its members thereunto duly au thorized by, and acting for all its members at the time, become a corporation under this chapter, by making and recording the certificate provided herein, with an additional statement therein of the name by which such society and the corporation connected with it has before that time been known and called, and that such society and corporation are reorganized under this chapter; but such reorganization shall not work a change of the ecclesiastical connection of any such society. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1897. No. 145, S.] [Published March 6, 1897. Location of tions not to be any gift. CHAPTER 19. AN ACT to regulate the location of all public institutions in the state of Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. No gift, bonus or appropriation, public institu- either of money, lands, tax certificates, warinfluenced by rants, orders or anything of value whatever shall be made, nor any liability incurred, nor any tax levied, by any town, city or village, as a consideration or inducement to the state to locate any public, educational, charitable or penal institution. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1897. |