dance upon such draw be provided by the said village CHAPTER 271 authorities to prevent any delay in the passage of ves sels through the same. § 2. The said village authorities of Manitowoc are Further auhereby further authorized and empowered to construct thority. and build a bridge across the said Manitowoc River, from a point on the south side of said river, to wit: from the street which strikes the said river a few rods east of Curran's Point on the said south side of the river, to the point where Commercial street strikes the north bank of said Manitowoc river; and the said authorities of Manitowoc village are to be governed by the same conditions and restrictions as regards the construction of a draw, and the proper attendance thereon, as is provided in section one of this act, which relates to the bridge authorized to be constructed across the said. river on ninth (9th) street. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 17th, 1858. CHAPTER 271. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Manitowoc and The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate SECTION 1. The next meeting of the stockholders of Meetings of the Manitowoc and Mississippi Railroad Company, for Directors. the election of directors, shall be held on the first Monday of July, 1858, at 10 o'clock A. M., at the Court House in the village of Manitowoc in the county of Manitowoc, and State of Wisconsin. tion. 2. The Governor of the State shall appoint three Judges of el. competent disinterested persons, who shall act as judges of the election, at said next annual election, they shall receive and count the votes cast at such election, and shall have power and authority to decide upon the legality of the votes offered and shall reject such votes as in their opinion are not proper to be received at such election, and for the better imformation of such judges as to who are rightfully entitled to vote at said elections, the CHAPTER 271 said judges so appointed by the Governor, shall have access to the books and papers of the company, in whosoever hands the same may be, for one week before said election, and on the election day, the said judges of the election appointed by the Governor, shall declare at the close of such election, who have been elected directors of said company for the next ensuing year, commencing on the said first Monday of July, Å. D. 1858, and upon any question arising before said judges, any two shall have power to decide the same, and any two of said judges so appointed, shall have power to hold such election, with all of the other authority granted in this section. Provided but two shall attend to per form the duties herein assigned. Directors. Repealed. Compensation §3. The persons who shall be declared by the said judges of election to have been elected directors of the said Manitowoc Railroad Company shall be the directors of the said Company for the next ensuing year, commencing on the first Monday of July, A. D. 1858. 4. So much of an act entitled an act to incorporate the Manitowoc and Mississippi Railroad Company, and the several acts amendatory thereof, as are inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. § 5. The said judges of election shall be entitled to receive eight dollars a day each, for each day's attendance upon such election or in preparing therefor, and ten cents a mile traveling fees for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from such election, to their respective homes, said mileage and per diem to be paid by the said Railroad Company. Provided, none of said inspectors shall be residents of either of the counties of Winnebago, Calumet, Sheboygan, or Mani towoc. § 6. This act is hereby declared a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 17, 1858. CHAPTER 272. AN ACT to amend an act entitled An Act to incorporate the city of Madison. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: CHAPTERS 272 and 278, SECTION 1. The act amending the charter of the city Amendment. of Madison, approved Feb. 1st, 1858, shall not be so construed as to prevent the Common Council of said city from issuing orders upon the Treasurer in payment of any debt contracted previous to the passage of said act, and section four of the act of which this amendatory, is so amended as to authorize the City Treasurer to receive all orders issued prior to the 1st day of Febru. ary, A. D. 1858, whether issued for side walk or any other purpose, in payment of city taxes. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 17, 1858. CHAPTER 273. AN ACT authorizing the Mississippi, Black River and Lake Superior Rail Road Company to build branches and extending the time to build the first ten miles of the Road. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The Mississippi, Black River and Lake Time for buildSuperior Railroad Company are hereby authorized to tended. ing road exbuild and extend branches of the said rail road, from section (10) ten, town (18,) eighteen range (8) eight, to the city of LaCrosse, in LaCrosse County, and also from the same point on section (10) ten, town (18) eighteen, range (8) eight, to Upper Fountain City, in the county of Buffalo, upon the same terms and conditions as the said company are now authorized to build the said rail. road. 2. The time now limited to build the first ten miles of said railroad is hereby extended three years from the time now limited by the charter for the building of same. $ 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage... Approved May 17th, 1858. Ib. CHAPTERS 274 and 275 Repealed. Revived and in full force. CHAPTER 274.) AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entiled an act to SECTION 1. That chapter 539, of the private and local laws of 1856, being an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Milwaukee and Superior Rail Road Company, approved October 13th, 1856, is hereby repealed. 2. The words, "and a point not more than one mile from the village of Port Washington," contained in section 8 of an act entitled, an act to incorporate the Milwaukee & Lake Superior Rail Road Company, which were repealed by said chapter 539, of the private and local laws of 1856, are hereby revived and declared in full force and virtue. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved May 17, 1858. Township of AN ACT to organize the township of Ray. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The south half of township No. eight, Ray organized. north of range No. six east, being from No. nineteen to section No. thirty-six, both inclusive, shall be organized into and constitute the township of Ray.. Election of $2. § 2. It shall be lawful for the legal electors of said town officers, township to meet at the school house in the village of Black Earth on the first Tuesday of June next, and thereafter the elections shall be held annually as prescribed by law, and proceed to election of town officers in the manner prescribed by law for electing town officers in new and unorganized towns, except that there shall be elected two Justices of the Peace, elected for the term of two years, and one for one year, whose term of office shall be designated on the ballots east for such officers, and the Justice of the Peace holding over in the village of Black Earth shall serve out his unexpired CHAPTER 276 term as such Justice of Peace. § 3. All property, books, papers, and other matters Property. shall be vested in and belong to the township or Black Earth as virtually as though no part thereof had been stricken therefrom. § 4. All school districts which may be divided by a School dis r town line, in consequence of this act, shall remain as all other fractional school districts. sage. 5. This act shall take effect from and after its pas Approved, May 17, 1858. CHAPTER 276. AN ACT to legalize School District No. Five in the town of Lowville in the The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate SECTION 1. School district number five in the town Declared legal. of Lowville, in the county of Columbia, as set off and organized by the Town Superintendent, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and Town Clerk in and for said town, on the twenty-fifth day of March, A. D. 1857, is hereby declared to be a legal school district. 82. The proceedings of the school meetings held in Proceedings of said school district on the eigteenth day of July, and on the twenty-eighth day of September, A. D. 1857, are hereby declared to be valid and of lawful force and effect. school-meet officers. $ 3. The acts done or duties performed by the sev-District school eral school district officers elected at either of the school meetings mentioned in section two of this act, are hereby declared to be legal. 84. The school district officers elected at the annual Ib. meeting held in said district, on the twenty-eighth day of September, A. D. 1857, are hereby declared to be the legal officers of said school district, to hold their term of office until the time appointed by law for the annual election of school district officers, and until their |