No. 83, S.] [Published April 1, 1899. CHAPTER 100. AN ACT in relation to corporations and to amend chapter 86 of the statutes of 1898. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: other, how Ch. 100 05 c 12 SECTION 1. Chapter 86 of the statutes of 1898 Stock of coris hereby amended by adding a new section to be held by annumbered and to read as follows: Section voted. 1776a. In all cases in which one corporation shall hold stock in another, such stock shall, at all meetings of the stockholders of the latter corporation be voted by the president of the former, unless its board of directors, by resolution adopted at any regular or special meeting of such board, designate some other officer or officers for that purpose; and any one or more officers of the former corporation may be chosen, qualify and act as directors and officers of the latter corporation as in the case of other stockholders. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be ir force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. 1899 c 101 119 318 Policy holder without con No. 453, A.] [Published April 1, 1899. CHAPTER 101. AN ACT to amend section 1955c under sub-head "beneficiary" of chapter 89 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1955c of chapter 89 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, is hereby repealed, sent of latter. and the following substituted in place thereof: Beneficiary. Section 1955c. Any member of such society, order or association may name as his beneficiary any person or persons designated by the laws of such society, order or association or if the laws thereof permit, his insurance may be made payable to his estate. Any member may change the beneficiary named in his certifi cate or policy without the consent of such beneficiary, by complying with the by-laws of the society, order or association which issued the same. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. No. 82, A.] [Published April 1, 1899. CHAPTER 102. AN ACT to provide for the acquisition by the state of Wisconsin, of the title to certain lands herein described; to appropriate the same to public use as an interstate park, and to make an appropriation to pay the owners thereof such compensation as may be awarded them under the provisions of chapter 315 of the laws of Wisconsin, for the year 1895, or of this act. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: acquired for Ch. 102, § 1 See 1901 c 305. SECTION 1. That the provisions of section 1, Territory to b/ of chapter 315, of the laws of Wisconsin for 1895, park purposes. be and are hereby extended and applied to all the lands hereinafter described, viz.: all those portions of sections twenty-five, thirty-five, and thirty-six, in township thirty-four north, of range nineteen west, lying on the east side of the St. Croix river; also the following described parcels of land in section thirty-one of township thirty-four north, of range eighteen west, viz.: the west half of the northwest quarter of said section thirty-one; twenty-two acres, more or less, of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter (being the unimproved portion of said forty acres) of said section thirty-one; also government lot No. four of section thirty, of township thirty-four north, of range eighteen west, containing, according to the government survey, twenty-four and seventy-six hundredths acres more or less; also all unplatted lands lying between the north line of the said government lot No. four and the platted portion of the village of St. Croix, Polk county, Wisconsin, according to the plat of said village on file and of record in the office of the register of deeds in and for said Polk County Wisconsin; also all that part of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of said section thirty as lies between the platted portion of said village of St. Croix and said gov ernment lot No. four in said section thirty; also the following described lots and lands lying within the platted portion of said village of St. Croix, viz.: all of blocks eight and twelve with the streets adjacent thereto on the north, in Hungerford's addition to said village of St. Croix, according to the recorded plat thereof; also lots eight, nine, seventeen and eighteen in block four in said Hungerford's addition to the village of St. Croix; also blocks five, six, seven in said village of St. Croix, with the streets adjacent thereto on the north and east; also all of blocks eight, nine and ten, with the streets adjacent thereto on the north and east, and lots one, two, three, four, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, and twenty-two, of block eleven in said village of St. Croix; with the street adjacent thereto on the north, and that portion of River street in said village as lies between the south line of said block eleven, and the north line of block five in said village of St. Croix; also all of block eighteen in said village of St. Croix with the street adjacent thereto on the north; also all of blocks nineteen and twenty with the streets adjacent thereto on the north and east; also all of block twenty-one with the street adjacent thereto on the east, in the said village of St, Croix; also all of block twenty-two in said village of St. Croix, with the street adjacent thereto on the north; also lots eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four of block twenty-nine in said village of St. Croix; also all that portion of the ri parian reservation along the banks of the St. Croix river, in said village, according to the official plat of said village of St. Croix, as lies be tween blocks seven, eight, twenty, and twentyone, and the streets between said blocks, and the St. Croix river as the above described lots and lands are designated and indicated upon the plat of the same on file with the secretary of state. Also all islands in the St. Croix river adjacent to or lying between, any of the above described lands and the St. Croix river, which lie within the state of Wisconsin. All of the above lands being those shown and designated on a plat filed in the office of the secretary of state, and entitled, "plat of lands proposed to be taken by the state of Wisconsin for an interstate park, at the Dalles of St. Croix," and the governor of the state of Wisconsin is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to acquire the title to all the foregoing lots and lands for public use as an interstate park, under and in pursuance of the provisions of chapter 315 of the laws of the state of Wiscon sin for the year 1895, and under the provisions of this act. maintain SECTION 2. To enable the governor to carry Appropriation into effect the provisions of the act of April 19, park and to purchase 1895 and of this act, there is hereby appropriated out of the money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of sixty-five hundred dollars. No payment shall be made from this fund until the commission appointed by the governor to determine what compensation the owners of private property shall receive for their lands and property thus appropriated to public use, have made and filed their final report with the gover nor and secretary of state, and the same has been approved by the governor of the state: and any remainder of said sixty-five hundred dollars shall be available for the general purposes and care of the park; the same to be expended by said commission under the direction and approval of the governor. commissioners with governor to determine SECTION 3. When the title to the foregoing Governor or lands have been acquired by and vested in the to co-operate state of Wisconsin the governor from thence of Minnesota, forth shall be, and hereby is authorized and em- on improvepowered to co-operate with the governor of the ments. state of Minnesota and either personally or by a joint commission, determine the character and |