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CHAPTER 468.

AN ACT relative to the apportionment of school moneys to the town of Springfield, Dane county.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. School district number 7 in the tow of Springfield in the county of Dane, is hereby declared to be entitled to its full share and proportion of the school fund and school taxes for the year 1869, the same as if the report of the clerk of said district had shown that five months' school had been taught and kept up in said district during the year 1868, and the proper officers are hereby authorized and required to apportion and pay said moneys as aforesaid.

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

Approved March 11, 1869.

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CHAPTER 469.

AN ACT to amend chapter 128, private and local laws of 1868, # titled "an act to amend an act to incorporate the Platteville a Calamine railroad [company]," approved March 15, 1861.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senat and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Dubuque, Platteville and Milwaukee railroad company shall have power, in addition to the railroads now by its charter authorized to be constructed by it, to locate, construct and perpetually to have, use and enjoy a railroad with one or more railway tracks, from the village of Platteville in the county of Grant to the mouth Platte river in the said county, and from thence up the Mississippi river through the towns of Potosi and Cassville to Prairie du Chien; also from

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the said town of Potosi, in a northerly direction through the towns of Potosi, Lancaster, Liberty, Fennimore and Wingville in the said county, to the Wisconsin river, or to intersect any line of railroad running north to the said last named river; and also from the said mouth of Platte river in a southerly direction to the state line of this state, and to connect any such railroad with any other railroad company or corporation as they may deem expedient, and in the location, construction and enjoyment of the railroad hereby authorized to be constructed, the said railroad company shall have and possess the same powers, rights and privileges conferred by their original charter and the several acts amendatory thereof, and shall have power to increase its capital stock for the purpose of constructing the railroads hereby authorized to be constructed, the sum not exceeding the sum of two millions of dollars.

SECTION 2. Any town, village or city into which Towns may aid. the line of any of said railroads, authorized by this act to be constructed may run, or any other town, city or village adjacent to or near the same, may aid in the construction of any of the said railroads or any part thereof in the manner provided by chapter 457 of the session laws of 1867, entitled "an act to authorize the towns, villages and cities on the line of the Dubuque, Platteville and Milwaukee railroad to aid in the construction thereof," and of the several acts amendatory of said chapter 457.

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SECTION 3. The articles of association of the Du- Amendment of buque, Platteville and Milwaukee railroad company, election of diand of the Mineral Point railroad company are each rectors. hereby with the consent of the stockholders as hereinbelow named, so amended as that at the next annual meeting of the stockholders they may elect the directors of said railroad company as follows: one third of said directors as near as may be to hold office for three years; one third for two years, and one third for one year, and thereafter at each annual meeting they shall elect one third of their board of directors as near as may be each year to hold office for three years.

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SECTION 4. The holders of all classes of bonds issued by said company upon complying with such bonds may have reasonable and proper regulations as shall be established vote.

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the office of the company, may thereafter have and give one vote for the election of directors on each one hundred dollars of the principal of the bonds.

SECTION 5. Sections No. 3 and 4 of this act shall not be binding or obligatory unless it or one or the other of sections 3 or 4 thereof shall be first accepted by a majority of the stockholders of said company, and in the event of said stockholders accepting one of said sections thereof and not the other, then the section not accepted shall be null and void.

SECTION 6. The secretaries of said railroad company shall certify to and file with the secretary of state the action of the stockholders thereon.

SECTION 7. This act when accepted by the said Dabuque, Platteville and Milwaukee railroad company by a resolution of its board of directors entered on its records, shall be binding upon the said company ani become a part of its charter and acts of incorporation, and this act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 11, 1869.

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The secretary of state of the state of Wisconsin does hereby certify, that the laws published in this bes have been compared with the originals deposited in this office, and that they appear to be correctly printed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my band

and affixed the great seal of the state, at the ca [L. S.] itol, in Madison, this 6th day of August, A. D.

1869.

THOMAS S. ALLEN,
Secretary of Stat.

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