or annexed thereto. They shall also cause to be taken an accurate census of the resident population of the territory to be contained in the village after the proposed change or alteration as it shall be on some day not more than ten weeks previous to the time of making such application, exhibiting the name of every head of a family and the name of every person a resident in good faith of such territory on such day, which shall be verified by the affidavit of the person taking the same affixed thereto.

and census to

clerk of vil

SECTION 4. Such survey, map and census, Survey, map when completed and verified as aforesaid, shall be filed with be left with the clerk of said village, subject to lage. the examination of every person interested, for a period of three weeks from the posting or first publication of the notice of such application as hereinafter provided.

to contain.

SECTION 5. The intending applicants shall Applicants for change to give give notice that they will apply on some day notice. What therein specified to the circuit court of the county in which such village or any part thereof lies for an order altering or changing the boundaries of such village; and such notice shall describe the territory to be annexed or disconnected, and shall describe the boundaries of such village, as they shall be after the proposed alteration, by courses and distances and state that such survey, maps and census have been left with the clerk of such village.

printed.

SECTION 6. If there be a newspaper printed Notice to be within such village, such notice shall be printed therein once in each week for four consecutive weeks previous to the time specified for making such application, and if there be no such newspaper such notice shall be posted in at least three conspicuous places in such village at least four weeks prior to the time specified in said notice.

how made out.

SECTION 7. Such application shall be made Application, by petition, subscribed by the applicant or aplicants, who shall be either some officer or officers of said village acting under authority and

direction of the board of trustees of such village, or at least five tax-payers and residents of such village, and shall set forth a description of the territory to be annexed or disconnected, and shall also set forth the boundaries of the village as the same will be if the proposed change or alteration be made, with their courses and distances, the quantity of land therein embraced according to such survey, and the resident population therein contained according to such census; such survey, map and census and the affidavits verifying the same, and an affidavit that they were left with the clerk of the village as required herein, also a copy of the notice of application aforesaid, with an affidavit thereon or affixed thereto of the publication or posting of same as hereinbefore provided, shall be annexed to such petition, otherwise it shall not be acted on by the court; and it shall be presented at the time specified in the notice for presenting the same or as soon thereafter as the applicants can be conveniently heard in respect thereto.

SECTION 8. The court shall hear all parties interested for or against such application who shall seasonably appear, may in its discretion adjourn such hearing from time to time, direct a re-survey to be made or another census taken by whomsoever it shall appoint, and refer any question for examination and report thereon, and if the court shall, after such hearing, deny such application, it may, in its discretion, by order, compel the applicants to pay such disbursements or any part thereof as shall have been incurred by the parties opposing the same.

SECTION 9. If the court, after such hearing shall be satisfied of the correctness of any such survey or re-survey and census, that all the requirements of this act have been complied with, and that such village, after the proposed alteration or change, contains within its limit a population equal in number to that required by seetion 854 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, and that it contains an area as required by said sec

trustees, du

tions on ques

tion, it shall make an order altering and chang ing the boundaries of such village as prayed for in said petition, said order shall describe the boundaries as altered and changed which shall be therein set forth by courses and distances; and if the court after such hearing shall be satisfied by affidavit or other due proofs that the board of trustees of such village has duly passed a resolution consenting to such proposed alteration or change and that all of the owners of property to be annexed, or disconnected, or annexed and disconnected, consent to such proposed alteration or change, the boundaries of such village shall be Board of deemed altered and changed without any further ties of. Elecacts, upon the recording of such order in the of- tion, how held. fice of the register of deeds of the county in which said village may be located. But if no resolution shall have been passed by the board of trustees of such village consenting to such alteration or change or each owner of land to be annexed annexed or disconnected shall not have consented to such alteration or change, then the order of the court shall direct a special election to be called by the trustees of such village as well as an election in such additional territory or disconnected territory by inspectors to be appointed by the court. If the majority of ballots in either the village or such territory shall have thereon the word "no" the alteration or change shall be void and no further action had under such application. But if the majority of the ballots in each be in the affirmative such boundaries shall be altered and changed from the time of recording such order of alteration or change with the register of deeds. The inspector of election on both the village and such territory shall make a similar statement to that required in section 865 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898 and all proceedings shall be recorded as provided in said section 865. In all cases of an alteration or change of boundaries under the provisions of this act, like certificate and affidavit shall be filed in the office of the sec

retary of state as in the case of the incorporation of new villages.

SECTION 10. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby modified, superseded or repealed to the extent that this act be carried into full force and effect.

SECTION 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 30, 1899.

No. 62, S.]

[Published April 1, 1899.

Shop on ground floor.

Space allowed employes.

Requirements as to size of room.

Ventilation of

room.

CHAPTER 79.

AN ACT regulating the manufacture of cigars.

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

SECTION 1. No shop or place wherein cigars are manufactured shall be located below the ground floor.

SECTION 2. Each employee in any shop or place wherein cigars are manufactured, shall, while actually employed, be allowed to use twenty square feet of surface space, unob structed to the ceiling. SECTION 3.

Every room wherein cigars are manufactured shall contain at least seven hun

dred cubic feet of air space. It shall in every part be not less than eight feet in height, from floor to ceiling, every window shall have not less than twelve square feet in superficial area, and the entire area of window surface shall not be less than twelve per cent. of the floor space of such room.

SECTION 4. Every room in which cigars are manufactured while work is carried on shall be

sc ventilated that the air shall not become impure and injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, and it shall wherever necessary, by the means of air shafts or other ventilation, be so changed as to render harmless all gases, dust and other impurities generated in the process of manufacturing cigars. All windows are to be kept open for thirty minutes before working hours and for thirty minutes after working hours.

as to cleanli

SECTION 5. Every such shop or place in Precautions which one or more persons are employed and ness. every such factory in which five or more persons are employed, shall be kept clean. The dust must be removed from work tables and floors once every day, the floors scrubbed at least once. a week and one cuspidor provided for every two employees.

ployes and

hours of em

ployment.

SECTION 6. No person under eighteen years Age of emof age shall be employed or permitted to work in a cigar shop or a cigar factory at manufacturing cigars for longer than eight hours a day or fortyeight hours a week.

SECTION 7. Where men and women are employed there shall be separate dressing rooms and water closets for the different sexes.

Penalties for violation of

SECTION 8. Any person violating any provision of this act shall be punished by fine not act. exceeding twenty-five dollars and no less than ten dollars for the first offense, and by fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and no less than twentyfive dollars for the second and each following offense.

SECTION 9. The factory inspector shall have full power and it shall be his duty to enforce all the provisions of this act, but no prosecution shall be instituted for any violation of sections 2, 3 and 4 unless the employer or manufacturer, or the firm has been notified by a notice sent in a registered letter for at least four weeks prior to a prosecution, requiring the necessary changes in the factory or workshop, and such request has not been complied with.

Factory in

spector to en

force provis

ions of act.