tion shall be conducted by the district attorney in the same manner as is now provided in case of the violation of the laws relating to the sale of impure, adulterated or counterfeit articles of food, or drink, or drug.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 20, 1899.

No. 515, A.]

[Published April 25, 1899.

Jurisdiction granted except for service of civil and criminal process.

CHAPTER 235.

AN ACT granting to the United States, juris over certain lands in Eau Claire

diction

county.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The consent of the state of Wis consin is hereby given to the purchase by the United States, of any tract or tracts of land in the city and county of Eau Claire, for the erec tion of a building under the provisions of an act of congress, approved March 2nd., 1899, entitled, "an act to provide for the purchase of a site, and the erection of a public building thereon at the city of Eau Claire, in the state of Wisconsin," and the state hereby cedes to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over such tract or tracts of land as shall be purchased for the purposes aforesaid, so long as they shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the service of civil and criminal process therein.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 20, 1899.

No. 518, A.]

[Published April 25, 1899.

CHAPTER 236.

AN ACT granting to the United States, jurisdiction over certain lands in Rock county.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

for service of

inal process.

SECTION 1. The consent of the state of Wis- Jurisdiction consin is hereby given to the purchase, by the granted except United States, of any tract or tracts of land in civil and crimthe city of Janesville and county of Rock, for the erection of a building under the provisions of an act of congress approved March 2nd, 1899, entitled, "an act to provide for the construction of a public building at the city of Janesville, Wisconsin," and the state hereby cedes to the United States, exclusive jurisdiction over such tract or tracts of land as shall be purchased for the purpose aforesaid, so long as they shall be or remain the owner thereof, for all purposes except the service of civil and criminal process therein.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 20, 1899.

No. 241, S.]

[Published April 25, 1899.

Diplomas of universities and normal schools, in

states.

CHAPTER 237.

AN ACT to amend section 458c of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898, relating to common schools and teachers thereof.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 458c of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by striking this and other out the words "of two years' successful teaching in a public school after the date of said diploma" where the same occur in the ninth and tenth lines of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words, "if a holder of a diploma granted by any such college or university located within this state of one year's successful teaching in a public school after the date of said diploma; if a holder of a diploma granted by any such college, university or normal school not located within the state, the applicant shall furnish therewith like testimonials of good moral character, and of two years' successful teaching in a public school after the date of said diploma," so that said seetion when so amended shall read as follows: section 458c. The holder of a diploma granted by any incorporated college or university whose regular collegiate courses are fully and fairly equivalent to corresponding courses of the university of Wisconsin, or the holder of a diploma granted by a state normal school whose courses of study are fully and fairly equivalent to the courses of study in the Wisconsin normal schools, may present such diploma, together with evidence of the required standing of the college, university or normal school granting the same, to the board of examiners. The applicant shall furnish therewith testimonials of good moral character and, if a holder of a diploma granted

by any such college or university located within this state, of one year's successful teaching in a public school after the date of said diploma; if a holder of a diploma granted by any such college, university or normal school not located within the state, the applicant shall furnish therewith like testimonials of good moral character, and of two years' successful teaching in a public school after the date of said diploma. The holder of any such diploma recommended favorably by the board shall be entitled to receive an unlimited state certificate. The holder of a diploma granted upon the completion of a course of study accredited as herein provided, upon which a state certificate has not been issued, upon the recommendation of the board of examiners made in pursuance of such examination as to learning, moral character and ability to teach as said board may require, may be given a special license by the state superintendent to teach for two years in a public school.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 21, 1899.

No. 365, S.]

[Published April 25, 1899.

CHAPTER 238.

AN ACT to correct an error in the name in chapter 161 of the laws of 1899.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

name to free

SECTION 1. Chapter 161 of the laws of 1899 Chang ing is hereby amended by striking out the words library com"state library commission" wherever they occur mission.

in said chapter and inserting in lieu thereof the words "free library commission" so that the section when amended shall read as follows: "The free library commission is hereby empowered to conduct a summer school of library science in connection with the summer school of the university of Wisconsin, and to hold librarians' institutes in various parts of the state in order to train librarians of public, school and traveling libraries to make wiser and more effective use of the libraries in their charge. The commission is also authorized to accept, arrange and circulate books, traveling libraries and pictures to be loaned to public libraries, traveling library associations, study clubs, farming communities, charitable and penal institutions, and individuals, under such conditions and restrictions as shall make them of the greatest good to the greatest number. In order to care for such trayeling libraries, to bind periodicals for them, to encourage the growth of study clubs in conneetion with them, to train librarians to be better educators, to aid more efficiently in the proper organization of new libraries, and to aid in building up a better system of popular education for people who have finished their education in the schools, there is hereby annually appropri ated to the free library commission, in addition to such sums as have been heretofore appropriated, the sum of three thousand and five hundred dollars, and any balance not expended in any one year may be added to the expenditure for any ensuing year."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 22, 1899.