guards thereon, and if such company, after being so notified shail refuse or neglect for the space of six months to fence its road and to construct the necessary farm crossings and cattle gurds, it shall be liable to pay to the owner or occupants of such premises the sum of ten dollars for each and every train of cars, or for each locomotive that may thereafter pass through such premises and over such road, to be recovered in an action of trespass against the railroad company so offending.

SECTION 3. The notice mentioned in the foregoing section shall be signed by the person owning or occupying the land, and shall contain a description of the premises so owned or occupied, and may be served on the president, general manager, or superintendent of such road, or on any agent having charge of a station on such road, by leaving a copy thereof with any of said officers.

SECTION 4. Upon the trial of any action arising under this act against such railroad company, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff to prove ownership of the land, but the proof of possession of the premises shall be deemed sufficient to entitle him to sustain such action.

SECTION 5. Every justice of the peace shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court of the county wherein such action may arise against any railroad company not complying with the provisions of this act.

SECTION 6. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 4, 1875.

CHAPTER 280-LAWS OF 1875.

AN ACT to restore section one, (1,) two, (2,) three, (3,) and seven, (7,) of chapter seventy-nine (79), of the Revised Statutes of 1858.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Aseembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. That section one (1), two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), and seven (7), of chapter seventy-nine (79), of the Revised Statutes be and the same are hereby revived, restored and re-enacted and declared to be in full force and effect; subject, however, to the provisions of section three (3), of chapter 341, of the laws of 1874, entitled, an act in relation to railroads.'

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

Approved March 5, 1875.

CHAPTER 303-LAWS OF 1875.

AN ACT to encourage the construction of railroads in and through the State of Wisconsin.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The Green Bay and Minnesota Railroad Company, formerly known as the Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railroad Company, is hereby authorized and empowered to build and construct a bridge across the Mississippi River, commencing at the most feasible point in Buffalo county, for the purpose of crossing the same with a railray track or tracks; provided, such bridge [is] so constructed, with sufficient draws, that the navigation of the river shall not be unnecessarily incommoded thereby; provided, further, that said bridge shall be so constructed as to comply with all the restrictions and requirements of the act of Congress approved July 25th, 1866, entitled, "An act to authorize the construction of certain bridges and to establish them as post roads." And the said company is hereby invested with full power and authority to issue certificates of stock or bonds, to be secured upon the line of its road or bridge, to an amount equal to the cost of construction thereof, and to use such issue of stock or bonds in payment and satisfaction for such construction, and the said Green Bay and Minneseta Railroad Company is hereby authorized and empowered to build, construct, or purchase and complete any railway to be hereinafter, in whole or in part, constructed in the State of Minnesota, having its terminus on the Mississippi River opposite, or nearly so, to any present or future terminus of the Green Bay and Minnesota Railroad, and to use for the building or purchases and completion of such railroad sufficient of its stock or bonds, secured by mortgage as aforesaid, to an amount equal to the cost of such building, or purchase and completion, as the case may be.

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

Approved March 5, 1875.

CHAPTER 305-LAWS OF 1875.

AN ACT to re-enact chapter 533 of the general laws of 1865, entitled, "An act to accept the grant of land made to the State of Wisconsin by act of Congress approved June 25, 1864, to aid in the coustruction of a military road from Wausau to Lake Superior."

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Whereas, it has been established by the decisions of

the United States Courts, that the title to lands granted by Congres to the State of Wisconsin for specific purposes of improvement, remains in the State subject to its disposition for the specific purposes designated by such grants, notwithstanding the time for the completion of such improvements has expired; now therefore, chapter five hundred and thirty-three (533,) of the general laws of this State for the year 1865, approved April 10, 1865, and entitled "an act to accept the grant of lands made to the State of Wiscor sin, by act of Congress approved June 25, 1864, to aid in the construction of a military road from Wausau, Marathon county, to Lake Superior," is hereby re-enacted and declared to be in full force and effect.

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

Approved March 5, 1875.

CHAPTER 312-LAWS OF 1875.

AN ACT to appropriate a certain sum of money to Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty-one thousand three hundred and twenty-two dollars and seventy-eight cents, in full for taxes and interest erroneously paid by said company into the state treasury.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1875.

CHAPTER 328-LAWS OF 1875.

AN ACT in relation to the election of directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The term of office of each and all of the directors of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway company, as such directors, shall expire at twelve o'clock noon of the day on which the annual meeting of the stockholders of said company is required by law to be held in June, A. D. 1875, and on that day the stockhold

ers of said company shall elect a full board of thirteen directors who shall serve as directors thereof for one year then next ensuing said election; and annually thereafter there shall be elected by said stockholders a full board of thirteen directors of said company.

SECTION 2. At the annual meeting of the stockholders for the election of directors of said company in June next and before the poll for said election shall be opened, the question of the acceptance of this act shall be submitted to a vote of the stockholders. If at such election a majority of all the stockholders voting upon said question shall vote in favor of the acceptance of this act, the same shall be accepted and be in full force and binding upon said company from and after such vote; but if a majority of all the stockholders voting upon said question shall vote against such acceptance, then this act shall be of no force or effect; provided, however, if for any cause the election provided for in this section is not held as herein provided and the result declared before the poll for the election of directors is opened, then and in that case the first section of this act shall be in full force and effect and binding upon said company, and a full board of directors shall be elected as therein provided.

SECTION 3. The secretary of said company shall make a certificate under the seal of the company certifying the result of said vote on the question of the acceptance of this act, and file the same in the office of the Secretary of State of the State of Wisconsin within ten days after said election.

SECTION 4. Section 1, of chapter three hundred and thirty-five (335,) of the private and local laws of the year 1869, and all other acts or parts of acts contradicting or conflicting with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 5, 1875.

CHAPTER 334-LAWS of 1875.

AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and seventy-three [273] laws of 1874, entitled, "An act relating to railroads, express, and telegraph companies in the state of Wisconsin.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 4, chapter 273, of the general laws of 1874, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 4. No individual, company, or corporation owning, operating, managing, or leasing any railroad or part of a railroad, designated in section one as class" A or "B," shall charge for or receive a greater or higher rate for carrying articles named in the several special classes herein designated, than is hereinafter provided, namely:

Class D, not exceeding six cents per 100 pounds for the first twenty-five miles, and not exceeding one and six-tenths mills per hundred pounds per mile for the distance actually carried for the second twenty-five miles; and not exceeding three cents per hundred pounds for the third twenty-five miles or fractional part thereof, unless the fraction be less than thirteen miles, in which case the rate shall be one and one-half cents per hundred pounds for said fractional part, and not exceeding two cents per hundred pounds for each additional twenty-five miles or fractional part thereof, unless the fraction shall be less than thirteen miles, in which case the rate shall be one cent for said fractional part, unless the whole distance be over two hundred miles, when no greater rate than onehalf cent per 100 pounds shall be received for each twenty-five miles over said first two hundred miles.

Class E, not exceeding twelve cents per barrel for the first twenty-five miles, and not exceeding three and two-tenths mills per barrel per mile for the second twenty-five miles, and not exceeding six cents per barrel for the third twenty-five miles or fractional part thereof, unless the fraction be less than thirteen miles, in which case the rate shall not exceed three cents per barrel for said fractional part, and for each additional twenty-five miles a sum not exceeding four cents per barrel for each twenty-five miles or fractional part thereof unless the fraction be less than thirteen miles, in which case rate shall not exceed two cents per barrel for such fractional part, unless the whole distance be over two hundred miles, when no greater rate than one cent per barrel shall be charged for each additional twenty-five miles over said two hundred miles.

Class F, not exceeding fifteen cents per barrel for the first twenty-five miles, and not exceeding two and four-tenths mills per barrel per mile for the distance actually carried for the second twentyfive miles, and not exceeding five cents per barrel for each additional twenty-five miles, or fractional part thereof, unless the fraction be less than thirteen miles, in which case the rate shall not exceed two and one-half cents per barrel for snch fractional part.

Class G, not exceeding eight dollars per car-load for the first twenty-five miles; and not exceeding twenty cents per mile per car-load for the distance actually carried for the second twenty-five miles, and not exceeding three dollars per car-load for the third twenty-five miles, or fractional part thereof, unless the fraction be less than thirteen miles, in which case the rate shall not exceed one and one-half dollars per car-load for such fractional part thereof, and for each additional twenty-five miles or fractional part thereof not exceeding two dollars per car-load, unless the fractional part be less than thirteen miles, in which case the rate shall not exceed one dollar per car-load for each fractional part thereof.

Class H, not exceeding ten dollars per car load for the first twenty-five miles, and not exceeding twenty-eight cents per mile per carload for the distance actually carried for the second twenty-five miles, and not exceeding four and one-half dollars per car-load for each additional twenty-five miles, or fractional part thereof; unless the fraction be less than thirteen miles, in which case the rate shall