mony, or a certified copy thereof, shall accompany the application for pardon. 91 SEO. 3. No pardon shall be granted unless the warden Warden's ceror keeper of the prison where such applicant shall have tificate. been confined, shall certify to the governor that the ap plicant has during his confinement conducted himself in a peaceful and obedient manner: Provided, That this Proviso. act shall not be so construed as to render it obligatory upon the executive to pardon any convict, although the application for such pardon shall be made in accordance with the provisions of this act. SEO. 4. This act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage. Approved March 31, 1856. CHAPTER 85. Published May 14. An Act to constitute an infant child an heir of Sylvanus S. Burgess. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: heir. SECTION 1. The female infant now known by the name Constituted of Mary Ellen Burgess, and whose parents are unknown, but supposed to be dead, and who now lives, and from the time she was only a few days old has lived with Syl. vanus S. Burgess, of Leroy, Dodge county, in this state, is hereby declared, constituted and made an heir of the said Sylvanus S. Burgess, the same as though she were the legitimate daughter of the said Sylvanus S. Burgess. SEO. 2. This act shall take effect upon being printed by the state printer. Approved March 31, 1856. Additional CHAPTER 86. Published May 14. An Act to provide for additional terms of the Circuit Court for Milwaukee The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in SECTION 1. In addition to the terms of the circuit court terms of courts appointed by law to be held in the county of Milwaukee, there shall hereafter be held annually, in and for said county, by the judge of the second judicial circuit, a term of said circuit court, commencing on the second Monday in December, and a term commencing on the second Monday in April, and a grand and petit jury for said terms shall be drawn and summoned in the manner provided by law. Said additional terms shall be for criminal and chancery jurisdiction only. Term abolished. SEC. 2. The May term of the circuit court for Milwaukee county is hereby abolished, and there shall hereafter be held in lieu thereof, an annual term of said court, commencing on the third Monday in June. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the fourth day of July next. Approved March 31, 1856. Secretary to audit account for postage. CHAPTER 87. Published May 17. An Act to pay the Postage of the several State Offices. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented is Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The secretary of state is hereby authorized audit the accounts of the postmaster at Madison, for the postage of the executive office, office of the secre tary of state, attorney general, state superintendent, bank comptroller, state treasurer, and clerk of the supreme court, for the year 1856, said accounts to be certified by the said postmaster, at Madison, by affidavit. SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated to the postmaster Appropriation at Madison, out of any money in the treasury not other wise appropriated, a sum sufficient for the payment of the above accounts, to be drawn quarterly, from the treasury, upon the presentation of said accounts properly certified to by their respective offices. Approved March 31, 1856. CHAPTER 88. Published May 17. An Act to prevent fraud in the buying and selling of grain and other produce. The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. If any produce merchant, warehouseman, Punishment miller, or storage, forwarding or commission merchant, or for using false any other person or persons whatever, shall wilfully use weights, &c. false weights or measures, in the buying or selling, of any commodity or thing, and thereby shall cheat or defraud the seller or buyer, of any such commodity or thing, he or they shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. Every justice of the peace shall have jurisdic- Justices of the tion, concurrent with the circuit court, of all cases men peace to have tioned in the preceding section of this act, when the jurisdiction. amount of damages occasioned by such cheat or fraud, shall not exceed the value of twenty dollars, in all which cases, the punishment shall be fine, not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding three months, saving to every person who shall be convicted before the justice, the right to appeal as in other cases. SEO. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication by the state printer. Approved March 31, 1856. Amendment. CHAPTER 89. Published in Extra April 16. An Act to amend chapter thirty of the Revised Statutes. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The second section of chapter thirty (30) of the revised statutes is hereby so amended as to read: "It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, give away, or dispose of or keep for such purpose, any intoxicating liquors, at any place upon lands belonging to or occupied under treaty stipulations with the United States by any nation or tribe of Indians within this state, and any Indian superintendent or agent shall have and is hereby given the authority to seize and destroy any liquor kept for such purpose within the said limits, without any other or further warrant therefor. SEC. 2. This act ehall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 21, 1856. Amendment. CHAPTER 90. Published in Extra April 16. An Act to amend [to amend] section twenty-two of chapter sixteen, of the The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Every male inhabitant in each road district. being over the age of twenty-one years, and under the sge of fifty years, excepting persons of color, paupers, idio and lunatics, shall be assessed to pay a poll tax of we dollar, said tax may be paid to the overseer in cash, or be commuted for in labor, as now provided by law. SEO. 2: So much of section twenty-two of chapter six Repealed, teen, of the revised statutes, as conflicts with the provis ions of this act, is hereby repealed. SEO. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first (1st) day of April noxt. Approved March 31, 1856. CHAPTER 91. Published September 27. An Act to organize the county of Dunn for Judicial purposes. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. From and after the first day of January next, County organthe county of Dunn shall be fully organized for judicial ized for judipurposes, and shall enjoy all the rights and privileges ap cial purposes pertaining to other counties so organized in this state. cireuit. SEC. 2. Said county of Dunn shall be and hereby is con- County of stituted a part of the eighth judicial circuit and two terms Duon part of of the said court shall be holden annually in said county eighth judicial of Dunn, at the county seat thereof, to wit: on the second Monday of June, and on the second Monday of Decem ber in each year. &c. SEO. 3. All writs shall issue and be made returnable as write, de required by law in other counties in this state, and all laws returnable, now in force applicable to the summoning and empannelling of jurors, shall be applicable to, and be in force, in said county of Dunn. SEC. 4. The qualified electors of said county, at the Election of general election to be held in said county in November officers. next, shall elect a register of deeds, clerk of the board of supervisors, a county surveyor, a sheriff, district attorney, clerk of the court and coroner, who shall qualify, as re quired by law, and enter upon the duties of their several offices, on the first day of January next, and hold the same as now provided by law. SEO. 5. The qualified electors of said county shall, ou County judge. he first Monday of September next, elect some suitable person as county judge, who shall qualify as now provided |