No. 186, S.] [Published April 1, 1899. CHAPTER 90. AN ACT to create a special fund for the re-equipment of the Wisconsin National Guard and make an appropriation therefor. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: pended in American war purposes. §1 C 90 '99 §1 C 62 '01 SECTION 1. All moneys hereafter received by Money exthe state of Wisconsin from the United States in Spanishpayment of the claim of the state of Wisconsin to be used for against the United States for quartermaster's equipment stores and supplies, ordnance and ordnance stores and supplies, and for equipment of whatever character, furnished by the state of Wisconsin for the use of the Wisconsin Volunteers in the service of the United States in the year 1898, during the Spanish-American war, shall be and are hereby set aside and constituted a special and separate fund to be used, at the discretion of the governor, only in the re-equipment of the Wisconsin National Guard. SECTION 2. Disbursements from said fund shall only be made for the purposes designated in this act and payments shall be made only on Vouchers audited by the quartermaster general and approved by the governor. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. Ch. 90 1901, c 62 No. 296, S.] [Published April 1, 1899. When to be sent to indus CHAPTER 91. AN ACT to amend section 1546, Wisconsin stat utes of 1898, relating to punishment of va grants. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1546, Wisconsin statutes of 1898, is hereby amended by striking out the words, "or if in the opinion of the justice the de fendant is a proper subject for such relief he shall commit him to the county or town poor house, as the case may be, there to be kept at hard labor for a term not exceeding six months," so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Section 1546. If it appears from the confession of the defendant, the finding of the justice or the verdict of the jury that the defendant is a vagrant within the meaning of this chapter such justice shall render judgment accordingly and sentence such person, if a child over ten and under fourteen years of age and of a suittrial schools. able condition to be received into the state public school, to such school, unless the parent or guardian thereof shall express a a preference for some industrial school organized or existing under chapter 86, in which case such child, if a female under sixteen years of age, shall be sent to such school; if a male child between the ages of ten and fourteen and not of suitable condition to be received into the state public school, or between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, to the state industrial school for boys, and if a male child of any age not more than ten years and not of such condi tion, then to some industrial school organized or existing as aforesaid; in each of which cases such child shall be committed until it arrives at the age of twenty-one years or is sooner discharged pursuant to the laws regulating the school where sent. In all other cases the person so convicted may be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding ninety days. Any sheriff or constable of the county may execute any warrant of commitment issued pursuant to any such judgment; any person convicted hereunder may appeal as from other convictions before justices of the peace. SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. No. 95, A.] [Published April 1, 1899. CHAPTER 92. AN ACT to pay a sum of money therein named, to Albert Kalmbach, by reason of the unlawful confiscation of a shipment of fish by the state game warden or his deputies. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: tion of $70. SECTION 1. There shall be paid by the treas Appropriaurer of the state of Wisconsin, from any public moneys not otherwise appropriated, to Albert Kalmbach the sum of seventy dollars, which amount is due the said Albert Kalmbach from the state, by reason of the unlawful confiscation of his property by the state game warden or his deputies, on or about the eighteenth day of October, 1897. Ch. 93 § 1 05 c 370 SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. No. 387, A.] [Published April 1, 1899. Appropriation Commission to CHAPTER 93. AN ACT to appropriate a certain sum of money therein named, for the erection of a suitable monument for Ex-Governor, Nelson Dewey of this state. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding five thousand dollars, from the general fund for the erection of a suitable monument at the grave of Ex-Governor Nelson Dewey in the city of Lancaster, Grant county, Wisconsin. SECTION 2. There is also hereby created, a expend same. commission to supervise the expenditure of the money hereby appropriated, said commission to consist of the governor, Senator Charles H. Baxter and Assemblyman Thomas McDonald. This commission shall receive no salary but all neces sary expenditures to carry out the purpose of the commission shall be taken out of the sum appro priated, and all moneys remaining unexpended after the completion and erection of the monument, shall be covered back into the treasury. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899, No. 483, A.] [Published April 1, 1899. CHAPTER 94. AN ACT to provide for the redemption of land sold for taxes in cities, and to fix the rate of interest to be paid for such redemption. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. any May redeem in three years of from date of of certificate, per cent. inter est, and six months from date of sale. The owner or occupant of land sold for city taxes by the city treasurer any city in this state, or any other person, may with fifteen at any time within three years from the date the certificate of sale, redeem the same, or any undivided interest therein, by paying to the city treasurer of the city where such land was sold, for the use of the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, the amount for which such land was sold, and all subsequent charges thereon authorized by law, or such portion thereof as the interest redeemed shall amount to, with interest on the amount of the purchase money at the rate of fifteen per centum. per annum. from the date of such certificate, and all other taxes and charges thereon imposed subsequent to such sale and paid by such purchaser, or his assigns prior to such redemption, with interest thereon at the rate of fifteen per centum. per annum.; and whenever any land sold for such city taxes shall be redeemed within six months after the sale thereof, interest as aforesaid shall be paid for six months; and in all cases any such person may in like manner, redeem any such lands, or undivided interest therein at any time before the tax deed executed upon such sale is recorded; but when so redeemed such deed shall be void. SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts, including the provisions of any city charter, which are contrary to the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. |