No. 53, A.] [Published March 10, 1899. CHAPTER 12. AN ACT appropriating a sum of money to Otto The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ited with 1874 appropri SECTION 1. The state treasurer of Wisconsin Moneys depos is hereby authorized and directed to refund to treasurer in Otto Neitge and Julius Neitge, as sole surviving ated to heirs heirs of George Otto Neitge, deceased, the sum of of depositor. four hundred eight and two-hundredths dollars, same being that certain sum of money deposited by said George Otto Neitge with the state treasurer in 1874 to secure certain St. Croix and Lake Superior railroad lands and since that date carried on the treasurer's books to the credit of the said St. Croix and Lake Superior railroad deposit fund. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publica tion. Approved March 9, 1899. 2 Criminal or bastardy ac movable. No. 60, A.] [Published March 10, 1899. CHAPTER 13. AN ACT to amend chapter 129 of the laws of Wisconsin for the year 1897, entitled "An act to confer and impose criminal jurisdiction upon the county court of La Crosse county." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 4 of chapter 129 of the tions, when re- laws of Wisconsin for the year 1897, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. No criminal or bastardy action or proceedings or prosecution under the police regulation of the state, shall be removable from said county court for trial or examination; but when it shall appear, by the affidavit of the accused or of his attorney, that the judge thereof is disqualified, by reason of prejudice or other cause, to hear or try any such action or proceeding, he shall, and if by reason of absence, sickness or temporary disability he is unable to perform his duties, he may, by order in writing to be filed in County judge said court, call in any justice of the peace of said county to act in his stead; and in case of the inability of the county judge to make such order, the same may be made by the circuit judge of La Crosse county; and such justice of the peace, when so called in, shall have and pos sess all the powers and authority conferred, and shall perform all the duties imposed upon said county judge by this act. Such justice of the peace shall receive from the county treasurer the sum of five dollars for each day and three dollars for each half day during which he shall may call in justice of peace, when. so serve. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 9, 1899. No. 61, A.] [Published March 10, 1899. CHAPTER 14. AN ACT to protect purchasers of county, town, city, village and school orders. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: filed with the action is brought. SECTION 1. No judgment shall hereafter be Orders to be rendered in any action brought upon any court where county, town, city, village or school order or orders, unless the order or orders upon which said action is based shall first be produced in evidence and filed with the court in which said action is pending or with the clerk thereof, and such clerk shall note thereon, and upon each of such orders, the date of such filing. Fart of judg ment roll. SECTION 2. Any order or orders so intro- To be made duced in evidence and filed, shall be attached to and become a part of the judgment roll in such action and the same shall not thereafter be detached from such judgment roll or removed from the files in such action without an order of the court or presiding judge, authorizing such withdrawal. SECTION 3. Any judgment rendered or entered in violation of this act shall be absolutely roid. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 9, 1899. Superintendent of public property to conduct improvements. No. 65, A.] [Published March 16, 1899. CHAPTER 15. AN ACT authorizing and directing the overhauling of the public closets in the capitol building, and the renewing of the plumbing therein, and making an appropriation therefor. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The superintendent of public property is hereby authorized and directed, by and with the advice of the governor, to overhaul the public closets in the capitol building and renew the plumbing therein. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient amount of money to carry out the purposes of this act, not exceeding the sum of two thousand dollars. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1899. No. 62, A.] [Published March 16, 1899. CHAPTER 16. AN ACT to appropriate to the governor's contingent fund a sum of money named therein. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ernor's con for years 1899, SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to $4.000 to govthe governor's contingent fund, out of any tingent fund moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars per annum for the years 1899 and 1900. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1899. 1900. No. 246, A.] [Published March 16, 1899. CHAPTER 17. AN ACT to appropriate ten thousand dollars to the Wisconsin battleship commission to purchase a silver service and bronze badger for the battleship Wisconsin and to return to the treasury the unexpended balance of the appropriation made to said battleship commission in 1897. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: for silver ser the vice and SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Appropriation the Wisconsin battleship commission for purpose of purchasing a silver service and bronze badger. |