No. 172, S.] [Published March 11, 1897. CHAPTER 20. AN ACT relating to auctions and auctioneers, and amendatory of section 1590, of chapter 68, of Sanborn and Berryman's annotated statutes of Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: licenses in vil from $10 to $25 SECTION 1. Section 1590, of chapter 68, of Auction Sanborn and Berryman's annotated statutes of lages to be Wisconsin, is hereby amended by striking out per day. the word "fifty" in the eleventh line of said section, and by inserting the word "ten" in lieu thereof, so that when so amended said section shall read as follows: "Section 1590. The common council of any city, and the board of trustees of any village, are authorized to regulate uniformly, by ordinances passed according to law, the sale by auction within the meaning of this chapter, of goods, wares and merchandise or other property within their respective cities or villages; and thereby may prohibit, under proper fines or penalties, any sales at auction therein by any person without license, and require daily reports of any sales made, verified by affidavits, to be made by every auctioneer to the municipal clerk, and require sufficient bonds from the licensee for compliance with any such ordinance, and require the payment of a license fee of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars per day, or when fixed by the year, not less than ten nor more than three hundred dollars per year, in addition to any percentage they may fix, not less than ten nor more than twenty per centum upon the gross amount of sales made; but they shall not require the payment of any duty in the cases excepted in section 1585." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1897. No. 165, S.] [Published March 11, 1897. CHAPTER 21. AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of the public lands to loan a portion of the trust funds of the state to joint school district number one, of the city of Black River Falls and the town of Albion, in Jackson county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The commissioners of the public lands are hereby authorized to loan a portion of the trust funds of the state, not to exceed five per cent. of the assessed value of the real estate in the district as shown by the assessment roll of 1896, and not to exceed eight thousand dollars, to joint school district number one, of the city of Black River Falls and the town of Albion, Jackson county, Wisconsin; and the said joint school district is hereby authorized to borrow a sum not exceeding the above amount, of said commissioners, for the purpose of building an additional schoolhouse to be erected in said district. Said indebtedness shall bear interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum payable annually in advance, on the first day of February of each and every year. The principal of said loan shall be payable in twenty years as follows: Eight hundred dollars each and every year after the first ten years. Before said loan shall be granted there shall be filed with said commissioners an application in the same form now required by law to be filed by other school districts applying for a loan. principal to be SECTION 2. The interest and principal of the Interest and loan authorized in section one, when made by collected as the commissioners of the public lands, shall be other loans. collected in the manner provided for the collection of loans in section six of chapter 167, of the laws of 1881. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1897. No. 48, S.] [Published March 11, 1897. CHAPTER 22. AN ACT fixing the amount of money to be kept on hand in the treasury of cities of the first class. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The city treasurer of áll cities of $10,000 may be the first class in this state, whether organized in the treasury kept on hand under general laws, or incorporated by special of cities of the act of the legislature, may keep on hand in the treasury of said city, in addition to the amounts that may be deposited in bank, to the credit of said city, the sum of ten thousand dollars, and the treasurer and comptroller may, whenever the balance in the treasury does not amount to ten thousand dollars, increase it to thatamount by their check upon any bank where. the funds of said city may be deposited. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1897. Chapter 203, laws 1895, repealed. No. 14, A.] [Published March 12, 1897. CHAPTER 23. AN ACT to repeal chapter 203, of the laws of 1895, relating to the treatment and cure of inebriates and persons addicted to the excessive use of drugs and other narcotics. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 203, of the laws of 1895, is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1897. No. 52, A.] [Published March 12, 1897. Amending sec- AN ACT to amend section 1010, of the revised statutes of 1878, relating to the duties of as sessors. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1010, of the revised stat utes of 1878, as amended by chapter 226, of the laws of 1889, is hereby amended by striking out the word "July," where it occurs in the tain statistics twenty-first line of said section, and inserting farm products. in lieu thereof the word "August," and by striking out the word "July," where it occurs in the twenty-second line of said section, and relating to substituting therefor the word "August;" so that said section, when so amended, shall read from July to 6 as follows: Section 1010. It shall be the duty Time changed of the assessor of each town in this state, at August. the time of making the annual assessment of property, to collect statistics in relation to the principal farm products of this state as follows, to-wit: Of wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, potatoes, root crops, and cranberries; the number of acres devoted to the cultivation of each, respectively, for the current year, and also the number of bushels of each, respectively, raised in the preceding year; of apples, the number of acres in orchard, the number of trees of bearing age, the current year, and also the number of bushels raised the preceding year; of flax, hops and tobacco, the number of acres the current year, the number of pounds raised the preceding year; of cultivated grasses, the number of acres the current year, the number of tons raised the preceding year; of growing timber, the number of acres; of milch cows, the number and value; of butter and cheese, the number of pounds manufactured of each, the preceding year; of clover and timothy, the number of acres of each harvested for seed the preceding year, and the number of bushels of each cbtained therefrom; and said assessor shall make duplicate certificates of such statistics, one of which he shall file in the office of the town clerk of his town, and the other with the clerk of the board of supervisors of his county, on or before the first day of August of the same year. The county clerk shall, on or be fore the fifteenth day of August, in each year, forward to the secretary of state, to be kept in his office, a certificate of the aggregate number of acres and the amount of yield of each of said products in his county, as ascertained and compiled from the certificates of said as sessors. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1897. |