courts, and the trial and determination thereof shall apply to appeals from said district court to the municipal court. when to be SECTION 19. On the first Monday of May, Police court, 1901, all actions, causes, pleadings, processes discontinued. and proceedings, which may be pending in the police court of the city of Milwaukee in relation to any violations of the ordinances of said city, or the laws of this state, in cases of crimes and misdemeanors not indictable arising in said city and county, and in relation to the examination of persons charged with the commission of an offense in said county and not triable before a justice of the peace, shall on that day be transferred, returnable and continued to and become actions, proceedings and examinations in said district court as herein constituted, and such actions, proceedings and examinations shall, on and after that date, be deemed and treated as pending in said district court for all purposes, to the same extent and with the same effect as if said actions, proceedings and examinations had been originally commenced and had in said district court as herein constituted, but until said first Monday of May 1901, the jurisdiction and procedure of said police court of said city shall continue unaffected by this act. SECTION 20. When the district court of Milwaukee county shall be duly organized, and not otherwise as herein specified, the police court of the city of Milwaukee shall no longer exist, and all laws and parts thereof establishing the police court of said city of Milwaukee shall be deemed repealed and no longer in force and effect, provided, however, that all criminal actions pending and at issue before any justice of the peace of said county on the first Monday of May, 1901, shall be tried and determined by such justice. SECTION 21. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, such repeal taking effect on and after the first Monday of May 1901, Powers of powhen to be lice court, repealed. SECTION 22. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 19, 1899. No. 310, A.] [Published April 21, 1899. Jurisdiction of court in CHAPTER 219. AN ACT to amend chapter 278, laws of 1895, entitled "an act to amend section 2 of chapter 112 laws of 1893, entitled 'an act to amend chapter 181, as amended by chapter 61 laws of 1891,' entitled 'an act to create a municipal court for Douglas county."" The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 278 laws of 1895, is civil matters. hereby amended so that when amended said chapter 278 shall read as follows: Section 2 of chapter 61, laws of 1889, entitled "an act to create a municipal court for Douglas county," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The municipal court of Douglas county shall have jurisdiction in civil matters over such subjects as justices of the peace have jurisdiction, and where the amount claimed, over and above all set-offs, does not exceed five hundred dollars; and shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all criminal actions arising in said county not punishable by imprisonment in state's prison; and have jurisdiction to hold to bail all persons charged with other offenses against the laws of the state of Wisconsin, and exclusive jur isdiction of all penalties and offenses against the charter, ordinances and by-laws of the city of Superior, and shall have all the jurisdiction of Jurisdiction in criminal cases. tence and commit. the justices of the peace and police justice of said county, and may solemnize marriages. The practice and procedure in said court shall comply with the laws relating to justice courts, so far as applicable and not inconsistent with this act, and transcripts of its judgments may be filed with like effect with the clerk of the circuit court of said county. All appeals, civil and criminal, Appeals. from said court may be had in the same way and with like effect as from courts of justices of the peace either to the circuit or to the superior court of Douglas county. The judge thereof shall have power of power to sentence and commit all persons judge to senconvicted of offenses over which he has jurisdiction to try and finally determine, provided that no justice of the peace in the city of Superior shall hereafter exercise criminal jurisdiction. This act shall not be construed to deprive justices of the peace in Douglas county, outside of the city of Superior, of any of their powers or jurisdiction in criminal matters, but such justices of the peace shall have and exercise all the powers and jurisdiction in criminal matters which have been or may hereafter be conferred upon justices of the peace generally. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the county judge or court commissioner of Douglas county of any of their powers or jurisdiction in criminal matters. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts, contravening 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 April 19, 1899. 24 No. 244, A.] [Published April 22, 1899. Liens on grain, how taken etc. CHAPTER 220. AN ACT to provide for lien for threshing grain and shelling corn, and for its enforcement. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Every person who, as owner or Notice of sale, lessee of a threshing machine or corn sheller, threshes grain or shells corn for another there with, shall have a lien upon the grain so threshed and corn so shelled for the value of his services in threshing or shelling the same, to the extent the person contracting such services has an interest therein, from the date of the commencement of such service; and in case the value of such services remains unpaid, may seize and take possession of so much of such grain or corn as shall be necessary to pay for such services and the expenses of enforcing such lien, for the purpose of foreclosing said lien at any time within six months from the last charge for such threshing grain or shelling corn, and sell the same at pub lie auction, upon notice of not less than ten, nor more than fifteen days from the date of such seiz ure, provided the same be not redeemed before such sale, or be taken by proceedings at law. Notice of such sale to be given personally and by posting in at least three public places in the town where the owner of such grain or corn resides, and also in the town where such sale is to be made, if in another town; and if such owner is a non-resident of the state, in the town where such grain or corn, or some part thereof, was threshed or shelled, and apply the proceeds of such sale to the payment of the amount due for such service, together with the expenses of such seizure and sale, returning the residue, if any, to the party entitled thereto. SECTION 2. No such lien shall be effectual for any purpose as against an innocent purchaser for value, or the holder of any incumbrance or lien thereon. ure. SECTION 3. The costs and expenses of seizure Cost and exand sale aforesaid shall be: seizing grain or corn peu os of seizfifty cents, posting up each notice twelve cents, serving each notice of sale twenty-five cents, for every copy of such notice delivered on request, twelve cents, for each mile actually traveled, going and returning to serve any notice, or to give or to post up notices of sale, ten cents, for conducting such sale, fifty cents, for collecting and paying over all sums upon such sale, five per cent., but in no case shall the whole percentage exceed ten dollars, and all necessary expenses incurred in taking possession of any grain or corn and preserving the same as shall be just and reasonable. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 20, 1899. No. 246, S.] [Published April 22, 1899. CHAPTER 221. AN ACT regulating the payment of wages in time checks or other paper than legal money. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Time checks specific pla e. SECTION 1. All corporations or individuals paying wages in time checks or other paper than payable at a legal money, shall make such time checks or paper payable in some designated place of business in the county in which the work was per |