SEC. 7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.
FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

DUNCAN C. REED,

President pro tempore of the Senate

Approved, March 15th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 327 An Act supplementary to an Act entitled " An Act to authorise the assessment and

Council may

extend time for

collection of taxes in the city of Milwaukee," approved January 24th, 1851.

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

SECTION 1. The Common Council of the city of Milwaukee collecting taxes shall have power to extend the time for the collection of the taxes and the tax sale authorised by "An Act to authorise the assessment and collection of taxes in the city of Milwaukee," approved January 24, 1851; said extension of time not to exceed two weeks.

Secretary of State to pub ish act.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause this act to be published by the public printer, immediately after its passage, and the same shall be in force from and after its publication.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved March 15th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 328 Au Act for the relief of these persons commonly called Seventh Day Baptists, and

Proviso for continuance of

cause on certain conditions

others who keep the seventh day of the week as a day of rest.

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

SECTION 1. Whenever civil process shall be issued by any Justice of the Peace against any person who habitually observes and keeps the seventh day of the week instead of the first as a day of rest, and such process shall be made returnable on the seventh day of the week, known as Saturday, such defendant shall be entitled to have the cause continued to the (Monday) following Monday, [at the] same time by filing with such Justice, one day before the return of the writ, an affidavit in writing stating that he or she (as the case may be), habitually keeps and observes the seventh day of the week instead of the first as a day of rest; and such defendant shall be entitled to all his rights, on such adjournment day of the same, as if it were the

return day of such writ: Provided, that the costs of such continuance shall be paid by the plaintiff in such suit.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved, March 15th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY

An Act to incorporate the Portage Bridge Company.

Chap. 329

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The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Jerid Walsworth, Silas Walsworth, Hugh Name and powMcFarlane, Charles H. Moore, William Armstrong, and such tion. other persons as shall associate with them, be and they are hereby incorporated by the name and style of "The Portage Bridge Company ;" and by such name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any Court in this State; and may have a common seal, and may change the same at pleasure.

to open subscrip

SEC. 2. Jerid Walsworth, Hugh McFarlane, and Charles Comm H. Moore, or any two of them, are hereby appointed commis- tion book. sioners to receive subscriptions to the capital stock, and shall open a book of subscription at the house of Charles H. Moore in Portage city, Columbia county, on the first Monday in April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, which book shall be kept open for three days.

ital stock.

SEC. 3. The capital stock of said company shall be twenty Amount of capthousand dollars, and shall be divided into shares of ten dollars each: Provided, said company shall have power to increase the Proviso. capital stock to any amount not exceeding fifty thousand dollars. SEC. 4. The said company shall have power to build and Location of construct a bridge across the Wisconsin river, on section seven (7), town twelve (12), north of range nine (9), east of fourth principal meridian in the town of Fort Winnebago.

bridge.

draw, how con

completed,

SEC. 5. The said bridge shall not be less than twenty feet Bridge and wide, and shall have a draw of at least fifty feet across the structed and channel of the river, to admit the free passage of rafts and vessels, and shall be constructed with a double track for wagons, and a single track for foot passengers; and shall have a good substantial railing on both sides, and shall not be less than fifty feet span over the channel, and shall be commenced within two years, and shall be completed within six years.

SEC. 6. The said company shall have power, for the term Rates of toll of thirty years after the completion of the bridge, to demand and collect toll for passing the same, as follows: for any vehi

Toll list to be posted up.

Company may make by-laws.

Reservation.

cle drawn by one horse, fifteen cents; and for each additional horse or ox, five cents; for foot passengers, three cents; for a single horse, five cents; for all animals in droves of less than fifty head, two cents each; and for all over fifty head, one cent each Provided, that hogs and sheep shall not be charged more than one cent per head.

SEC. 7. Said company shall keep posted up, in some conspicuous place on said bridge, a list of the rates of toll allowed by this act.

SEC. 8. Said company shall have power to make all by-laws for the regulation of the affairs of the said company, not repugnant to the laws of the United States and of this State. SEC. 9. Any future legislature may alter or amend this act. SEC. 10. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

SAMUEL W. BEALL,

Lt. Governor and President of the Senate.

Approved March 15th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to extend the time for the collection and return of Taxes in the town of Willow springs, in the County of Lafayette.

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

SECTION 1. The Treasurer of the town of Willow Springs, in the county of Lafayette, is authorised to receive from the county Treasurer the warrant and tax-list of the said town for the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty, and to proceed to the collection of all taxes due and unpaid on aaid tax-list, according to law.

SEC. 2. Said Treasurer shall make return of the warrant to the county Treasurer according to the provisions of law, within thirty days after [the] time he shall receive the same; and the county Treasurer shall proceed to sell the lands for delinquent taxes in the manner now provided by law, after due notice as provided for the sale of lands for taxes.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

DUNCAN C. REED,

President pro tempore of the Senate.

Approved, March 15th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Act to incorporate the Sheboygan and Calumet Plank Road Company.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows;

Chap. 331

SECTION 1. Warren Smith, Henry L. Anable, Amos Ad- Commissioners ams, E. Fox Cook, A. P. Lyman, Charles E. Morris, appointed to reEl-ceive subscriplis, Charles Greening, William Poulson, William Fowler, Alon- tions. zo D. Dick, and James Cramond, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners, under the direction of a majority of whom subscriptions may be received to the capital stock of the Sheboygan and Calumet Plank Road Company, and they may cause books to be opened at such times and places as they shall direct, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions to the capital stock of said Company, first giving thirty days notice of the times and places of receiving subscriptions by publishing in a newspaper printed either in oheboygan or Calumet county.

SEC. 2. All persons who shall become stockholders pursu-Incorporation. ant to the provisions of this act, are hereby created a body corporate inlaw, with continued succession, by the name and style of the Sheboygan and Calumet Plank Road Company, for the purpose of constructing a plank road from the village of Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan, to a point on Lake Winnebano, in the town of Manchester, Calumet county, where the Plymouth and Manchester state road terminates, which company shall have power to sue and be sued in all courts, to receive by gifts or Corporate Powpurchase, and hold all such real and personal estate as may be necessary for the coastruction and management of said road, to have and use a common seal, and pass all by-laws necessary for the government of said company.

ers.

transferable.

SEC. 3. The capital stock of said company shall not exceed Shares of stock one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and shall be assignable and transferable in such manner as shall be prescribed in the by-laws of said company.

SEC. 4. Whenever ten thousand dollars of the capital stock Commiss to give notice of shall be subscribed for and distributed, and ten per cent. paid election of directors. thereon to said commissioners for the use of said company, it shall be the duty of the commissioners named in this act, to call a meeting of the stockholders at such time and place as they shall designate, by giving public notice thereof in a newspaper published in either county, through which said road is run, for the purpose of choosing five directors of said company, and the persons there chosen shall be the first directors of said company, and shall hold their offices for one year, and until others are chosen in their stead. The board of directors shall choose one of their number as President of the company, who shall hold his office for one year, and until his successor is elect

ed. At every election of said company each stockholder shall

Stock to vote be entitle one vote for every share of capital stock he shall hold, and may vote in person or by proxy.

Company may locate and construct read.

When highways may be used.

Condition of Charter.

Appropriation of lands-when

SEC. 5. The company, when so organised, shall have the right to locate and construct a single or double track plank road between the points mentioned in section [two] of this act, or any part of the distance, and may connect the same with any plank or other road. The track of said road shall be constructed of timber and plank, stone, or partly of each, so as to have a hard, smooth, and even surface. The particular manner of building said d to be determined by the said board of directors.

The location of the route of said road shall be determined by the board of directors of said company; and if the same be located on any public highway, they shall have power to contract with the proper authorities of the town in which said road may be, for the right to use said highway for the purppose of said road; and the said proper authorities are hereby authorised to grant to said company the right to use any highway in their town as aforesaid, on such terms as they may agree upoz.

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SEC. 7. If said company shall not, within five years from the passage of this act, commence the construction of said road, then, and in that case, it shall be considered a violation of their charter, and all the rights, privileges and powers of said company under this act may be resumed by the State of Wisconsin, and such disposition made with regard to any portion of said road which may have been constructed, as the Legislature thereof may deem meet and proper, consistent with law and justice.

SEC. 8. It shall and may be lawful for said company, their lawful. officers, engineers and agents, to enter upon any lands for the purpose of exploring, surveying, and locating the route of said road, doing thereto no unnecessary damage, nor locating any such route through any orchard or garden without the consent of the owner thereof, nor through any buildings, or any fixtures for the purposes of trade or manufactures, or any yard or enclosures necessary to the use and enjoyment thereof, without permission of the owners. And when the said route shall be determined by the said company, it shall be lawful for them, their officers, agents, engineers, contractors and servants, at any time, to enter upon, take possession of, and use such lands to the width of four rods, and also to take from any lands adjoining said road, gravel, stone or earth, for the purpose of conCompensation structing or repairing said road; subject, however, to the payto be made. ment of such compensation as the company may have agreed