Return of unexpended bal ance. bronze badger for the battleship Wisconsin, the sum of ten thousand dollars. SECTION 2. The unexpended balance of the appropriation made to said battleship commission by the legislature of 1897 is hereby returned to the fund from which it was appropriated. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1899. Appropriating $26.24 to Julius M. Derthick. No. 296, A.] [Published March 17, 1899. CHAPTER 18. AN ACT appropriating to Julius M. Derthick a sum of money. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Julius M. Derthick the sum of twenty-six and twenty-four one-hundredths dollars, the same being in payment for services from the date of his enlistment, April 28, 1898, to May 14, 1898, in company "F," 1st. regiment Wisconsin Volunteers, and for which services he has never received any compensation. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 16, 1899. No. 40, S.] [Published March 20, 1899. CHAPTER 19. AN ACT to divide the town of Marshland in The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: town of Marsh land and first meeting of. SECTION 1. The territory of the town of Boundary of Marshland, Burnett county, shall be divided into the following towns, to-wit: The town of Marshland shall consist of sections one, two and three of township thirty-eight of range eighteen west, and township thirty-nine of ranges seventeen and eighteen west, and fractional township thirty-nine of range nineteen west, and fractional township forty of ranges seventeen, eighteen and nineteen west, and fractional township forty-one of range seventeen west. The first meeting of said town of Marshland shall be held at the Freya schoolhouse in school district numher two, on the first Tuesday in April, 1899. The town of Meenon shall consist of the west Boundary of half of township thirty-nine of range fifteen on and first west and township thirty-nine of range sixteen west, and township forty of ranges fourteen, fifteen and sixteen west, and township forty-one of ranges fourteen and fifteen west, and fractional township forty-one of range sixteen west, and township forty-two of ranges fourteen and fifteen west, and fractional township forty-two of range sixteen west. The first meeting of the town of Meenon shall be held at the Orange school house in district number seven the first Tuesday of April, 1899. town of Meen meeting of. of two towns SECTION 2. On the fifteenth day of April, Joint meeting 1899, the town boards of the town of Marshland to adjust inand of the town of Meenon, as by this act consti tuted, shall meet together and determine what debtedness. Powers of county board portion of indebtedness legally incurred by the the old town of Marshland shall be chargeable to the town of Marshland and the town of Meenon as by this act constituted, and shall also determine what portion of the credits of the old town of Marshland each of the towns as by this act constituted shall be entitled to. Said town boards shall apportion the indebtedness aforesaid in such manner that the town of Marshland as by this act constituted shall be chargeable with one-third thereof, and the town of Meenon with two-thirds thereof, and the town of Marshland as by this act constituted shall be entitled to one-third of the credits aforesaid, and the town of Meenon shall be entitled to two-thirds of said credits. The said town board shall set off against each other such indebtedness and such credit, and determine which town is indebted to the other and the amount of such indebtedness. The town board of the town so found indebted shall levy a tax upon all the taxable property of such town sufficient to pay such amount. SECTION 3. Nothing in this act shall be so not abridged. construed as to abridge any of the powers of the county board of Burnett county to set off, organize, vacate or change the boundaries of said towns at any time hereafter, in accordance with the powers conferred by law upon county boards. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 17, 1899. No. 47, S.] [Published March 21, 1899. CHAPTER 20. AN ACT relating to sidewalks and amendatory of sub-chapter 19 of chapter 40a of the revised statutes of 1898. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: pairs to be city if common dains. SECTION 1. Sub-chapter 19 of chapter 40a of Sidewalks rethe revised statutes of 1898 is hereby amended maintained by by adding thereto section 925-205a, which shall council so orread as follows: Section 925-205a. Whenever the council shall by resolution or ordinance so determine, the sidewalks of the city shall be maintained and kept in repair by and at the expense of said city, after such sidewalks shall have been first laid by the lot owner and accepted and approved by said city. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 17, 1899. Judges of po lice courts may inations of alleged insane persons. No. 109, S.] [Published March 21, 1899. CHAPTER 21. AN ACT to confer upon the justice or judge of the police court in any city of the first class having a police court, which is a court of record, the same powers in such city as are conferred by chapter 32 of the revised statutes upon county judges in their respective counties, as to the examination of persons alleged to be insane and the commitment of persons adjudged to be insane to the hospital or asylum. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby conferred upon conduct exam the justice or judge of the police court in any city of the first class having a police court which is a court of record, the same powers in respect to the examination of persons in such city alleged to be insane, and the commitment of persons adjudged to be insane to the hospital or asylum, as is conferred by chapter 32 of the revised statutes upon the county judges in their respective counties. Such cases before said police judge or justice shall be conducted in accordance with the procedure prescribed by law in similar cases before county judges. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 17, 1899. |