priation of finished their education in the schools, there is Annual appro- year. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 12, 1899. No. 261, S.] [Published April 13, 1899. CHAPTER 162. AN ACT to provide for the examination of the accounts of school boards. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ers to audit SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of every Three tax payschool district in the state of Wisconsin at its annual meeting to appoint three competent men, who shall be tax payers in the district, to examine all accounts, books, vouchers, moneys and property of whatever kind belonging to said district, between the first and fifth days of July of each year and report the finding, in writing, at the next regular annual meeting. SECTION 2. Said report shall be recorded in the school records, properly signed by the committee. SECTION 3. All acts and parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed. Ch. 162 05 c 78 SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 12, 1899. No. 120, A.] [Published April 13, 1899. Appropriation of $10,000 annually. CHAPTER 163. AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money for the further prosecution of the geological and natural history survey of the state. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the further prosecution of the geological and natural history survey, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand dollars annually for the term of two years. This money shall be expended by the commissioners of said survey for the purpose of executing the duties assigned to them by chapter 297 of the laws of 1897. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 12, 1899. No. 247, A.] [Published April 13, 1899. CHAPTER 164. AN ACT to amend section 1121, of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, relating to the collection and payment of taxes by county treasurers. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: county treas uniform. SECTION 1. Section 1121 of the Wisconsin Payment of statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by omitting state tax by therefrom the following words: "except that urers made the treasurers of the counties of Douglas, Polk, Bayfield, Burnett, Marathon, Oneida and Ashland shall pay such taxes on or before the second Monday in July in each year." Said section when so amended, shall read as follows: Section 1121. The several county treasurers shall pay to the state treasurer the amount of state taxes charged to their respective counties, on or before the first Monday of February in each year. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after August 1st, 1899 Approved April 12, 1899. Ch. 165 116 365 371 380 Ch. 165 107 654 Actions must be brought within three mouths. Other limitations. No. 351, S.] [Published April 13, 1899. CHAPTER 165. AN ACT to limit and restrict actions involving the validity of proceedings by cities to adopt the provisions of the general city charter law. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. In any case, whether occurring heretofore or hereafter, where the common council of any city incorporated by special act shall have undertaken and assumed to visions of this act shall in no manner affect pending actions. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 12, 1899. No. 274, S.] [Published April 13, 1899. CHAPTER 166. AN ACT to provide for the declaration of divi dends of stock fire insurance companies and for increase of their capital stock in certain cases. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: may be de Dividends de trary to pro to work for charter. SECTION 1. Any stock fire insurance company Dividends of doing business or organized under the laws of ten per cent. this state may declare dividends not exceeding cared, when. ten per centum of its capital stock in any one clared conyear, if in addition to the amount of its capital visions of act stock, plus ten per centum of the capital stock, feiture of and of such dividends and all of its outstanding labilities, it shall have accumulated and be in possession of a lawful fund equal to the amount of all unearned premiums on risks not terminated at the time of making such dividend. No dividends in excess of said ten per cent. of its capital stock shall be declared until such corporation shall be in possession of a net surplus equal to one-half of its capital stock, which surplus in no event shall be less than one hundred thousand dollars. Any dividend made contrary to the provisions of this section shall work a forfeiture of the charter of the corporation making such dividend, and each stockholder receiving such divi |