ered by the prevailing party, of five dollars in all cases where the judgment shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars, and ten dollars in all cases where the judgment thall exceed the sum of fifty dollars.

SECTION 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 7, 1870.

Amended.

CHAPTER 31.

[Published March 9, 1870.]

AN ACT to amend section 16 of chapter 67 of the revised statutes, entitled of" cemetery associations."

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen-. ate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 16 of chapter 67 of revised statutes is hereby amended by striking out the words, "forever thereafter," and inserting in their place the words, "while any person is buried thereon," so that said section shall read as follows: Whenever the lands alienable and to of any such association shall be laid out in lots, and

Lots in cemeteries to be in

descend to heirs.

such lots or any of them, shall be transferred to individual proprietors, and after there shall have been an interment in any lot so transferred, such lot from the time of such interment shall while any person is buried thereon be inalienable, and shall upon the death of the proprietor descend to the heirs of such proprietor forever, but any one or more of such heirs may release to any other of said heirs, his, her or their interest in the same. A copy of such release shall be filed with the town clerk of the town or with the register of the city within which the said cemetery shall be situated. The body of any deceased person shall not be interred in any such lot unless it be the body of a person having at the time of such decease an interest in such lot, or the relative of some person having some interest, or the wife of such person or her relative, except by the consent of all persons having an interest in such lot.

SECTION 2.

This act shall take effect and be in force

from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 8, 1870.

CHAPTER 32.

[Published March 9, 1870.]

AN ACT to repeal chapter 110 of the general laws of 1866, entitled "an act relating to the license and keeping of dogs, and to repeal chapter 415 of the general laws of 1865, and chapter 404 of the general laws of 1862, relating to the license and keeping of dogs."

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 110 of the general laws of Repealed. 1866, entitled "an act relating to the license and keeping of dogs, and to repeal chapter 415 of the general laws of 1865, and chapter 404 of the general laws of 1862, relating to the license and keeping of dogs," is hereby repealed, and all other laws relating to the license and keeping of dogs, be and the same are hereby repealed, and each and every town in the state of Wisconsin, and all town officers therein are hereby absolved and relieved from the operation, force and effect of all laws relating to the license and keeping of dogs, now and heretofore in force in this state, whether such towns or town officers have fully complied with such laws or not.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 8, 1870.

CHAPTER 33.

[Published March 14, 1870.]

Amended.

Town clerk

AN ACT to amend section 37 of chapter 182 of the general laws of 1869, entitled "an act to establish a township system of school government."

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

SECTION 1. Section thirty-seven of chapter one hundred and eighty-two of the general laws of 1869, entitled "an act to establish a township system of school government," is hereby amended by adding at the end of said section the words following: no vote shall be taken upon the question of township school government in pursuance of this act, unless notice thereof shall be given as hereinafter provided. The shall give notice town clerk of any town, upon the petition in writing of any ten electors of said town, shall publish by posting in three of the most public places in said town a notice in writing, that the question of township school government will be submitted to the electors of said town at the ensuing town meeting or fall election. Such notice shall be so published and posted, at least ten days before the holding of any such town meeting or fall election; and any town having adopted the township school government according to the provisions of this act, may abolish the same at any town meeting or spring election, or at any fall election in the same manner as provided for its adoption in this section.

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

Approved March 8, 1870.

CHAPTER 34.

[Published March 10, 1870.]

AN ACT to abeud section 18 of chapter 120 of the revised statutes in relation to claims against railroad companies.

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

SECTION 1. Section eighteen of chapter one hun. dred and twenty of the revised statutes is hereby amended by adding thereto the words: "provided, that in all actions for damages against any railroad company or corporation operating any railroad within this state under any lease or otherwise, the process may be served upon any agent of the corporation against which the damage is claimed, who has charge of a depot or station on the line of railroad owned or operated by said company or corporation."

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 8, 1870.

Amended.

CHAPTER 35.

[Published March 10, 1870.]

AN ACT to provide for the payment of the chief messenger of the assembly.

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

chief messenger

SECTION 1. The per diem of the chief messenger of Per diem of the assembly is hereby fixed at three dollars per day, and there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay the per diem of said messenger.

SECTION 2. This act shall apply to the whole term of the present session of the legislature.

Regular terms

cial terms.

CHAPTER 36.

[Published March 14, 1870.]

AN ACT relating to a special term of court in the seventh judicial

circuit.

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

SECTION 1. The regular terms of circuit court held to be also spe- in each of the counties in the seventh judicial circuit in this state, shall be special terms for the whole of said circuit; and all actions, motions, proceedings or other business now pending or which may hereafter arise in any or either of the counties in said circuit, and not requiring a jury, may be brought on, heard, tried and determined, or otherwise acted upon or disposed of, at any or either of said special terms, in the same manner and with the same force and effect as if the same were brought on, heard, tried and determined or otherwise acted upon or disposed of, in the county wherein the same are now pending or may hereafter arise; and when any causes or matters are pending in either counties, different from the county in which the special term is held, the clerk of the court where the special term is held shall transmit all orders, judgments and other papers to the clerk of the circuit court of the county where said causes or matters are pending, and the said papers shall be filed and entered by such clerk in the same manner as if said cause or matter had been heard or determined by the circuit court at a term thereof held in that county. And all orders, proceedings and judgments made in pursuance of this act, shall have the like force and effect as if made in the county where such causes or matters are or may be pending. And no notice of the holding of such