Shall have exclusive control. Penalty for injuring dam or and raising fish and fishes known as the brook or speckled trout upon his or their premises, shall have the right and are hereby authorized to erect and maintain upon their own premises, such dams, sluices, screens, wires, pens and other fixtures, buildings and obstructions as may by them be deemed necessary for such purpose: provided, such sluices, dams and other contrivances shall in no way obstruct the navigation of any navigable waters, or interfere with or injure any mill or other water privilege as now enjoyed, or in any way interfere with the rights previously acquired by other persons. SECTION 2. Such person or persons shall have the exclusive control and own all such fish as by him or them are propagated and raised, and may at any time catch and dispose of the same in any way, or in any of the markets of this state. SECTION 3. Any person or persons who shall, with destroying fish. out the authority of the owner of said premises, tear down or destroy, or cause to be destroyed, or shall injure or cause to be injured, any dam, sluice, pen, building or other contrivance erected pursuant to the provisions of this act, for the purposes aforesaid, or any person or persons who shall, without the permission of the owner or owners of the premises, catch or cause to be caught in any way or manner, brook or speckled trout from any of the waters appropriated by the owners to the purposes aforesaid, or any person or persons who shall place or cause to be placed in such waters any sun fish, pickerel or other fish, or poison destructive to trout, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, be subject to a fine for each offense of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, and in default of payment thereof, to be imprisoned in the county jail not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, and shall be liable to the owners of the premises in civil action in treble damages. Jurisdiction. SECTION 4. Justices of the peace shall have jurisdiction to hear, try and determine all cases arising under this act, except when the damages claimed exceed two hundred dollars. SECTION 5. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 79. [Published March 19, 1870.]: AN ACT to provide for the admission to the bar of the graduates of the law départment of the Wisconsin University. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All graduates of the law department of Entitled to adthe Wisconsin University, shall be entitled to admis. mission. sion to the bar of all the courts of this state, upon pre sentation to the judge or judges thereof, certificate of such graduation. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 80. [Published March 23, 1870.] AN ACT to amend chapter 114 of the general laws of 1866, en- The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate. and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section five (5) of chapter one hundred section 5 and fourteen (114) of the general laws of 1866, is here- amended. by amended so as to read as follows: "The govern- Government of ment of the University shall vest in a board of regents university. to consist of thirteen (13) members, two (2) to be appointed by the governor from each congressional district of the state, as the districts are now constituted; and the state superintendent of public instruction, who shall be an ex-officio member of the board: provided, that the present members appointed from the state at Section 13 amended. of different funde. large shall continue in office until the expiration of their respective terms." SECTION 2. Section thirteen (13) of said chapter 114 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Appropriation "For the support and endowment of the University there are hereby appropriated: First, the income of the university fund; second, the income of a fund derived from the sales of the two hundred and forty thousand acres of land granted by congress to the state of Wisconsin by virture of an act approved July 2, 1862, entitled "an act donating land to the several states and territories, which provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," which fund shall be designated "the agricultural college fund;" third, all such contributions to the endowment fund as may be derived from public or private bounty. The entire income of all said funds shall be placed at the disposal of the board of regents, by transfer to the treasurer of said board, thenceforth to be distinct and independent of the accounts of the state, and for the support of the aforesaid colleges or departments of arts, of letters, and such other colleges and departments as shall be established in the University or connected therewith: provided, that all means derivable from other public or private bounty shall be exclusively devoted to the specific object for which they shall have been designed by the grantor." SECTION 3. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 81. [Published March 21, 1870.] AN ACT to amend section 1, chapter 165 of the general laws of 1869, repealing so much of the provisions of chapter 484 of the private laws of 1868, entitled "an act to incorporate the State Firemen's Association of Wisconsin, organized September 24, 1863," as exempts individual property from taxation, The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 165 of the general Amended. laws of 1869, is hereby amended so as to read as fol lows, after the words, "provided, however": the com- Compensation mon council of any city and the trustees of any incor- of firemen. porated village in the state, in which there shall be a fire engine or engines owned by such city or incorporated village, shall annually appropriate or pay to each active fireman belonging to any fire or hook and ladder company organized by authority of such city or incorporation, such sum as such common council or board of trustees, as the case may be, shall deem a reasonable compensation for the services of such fire men. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication... Approved March 15, 1870. CHAPTER 82. [Published March 21, 1870.] AN ACT relating to the preservation of the colors and flags of our late regiments. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The quartermaster general of the state Preservation of is hereby authorized and required to procure suitable flags. cases in which to store and preserve the colors and flags of our various regiments, batteries and detachments having such colors or flags, engaged in the late war: provided, that the cost of such cases shall not exceed the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars. SECTION 2. The cases shall have glass fronts and of sufficient size to receive all such colors or flags, placing them therein so that they can all be labeled, and when so labeled, seen with the labels from the outside, and without opening the cases. SECTION 3. The label shall be placed in a conspicu ous place on the colors or flags, and shall state the number of the regiment, and also, briefly, the battles, sieges and campaigns in which the regiment, battery or detachment was engaged. SECTION 4. The quartermaster general shall certify the correctness of all expenditures incurred under the provisions of this act, and when the same is approved by the governor, file such certificate in the of fice of the secretary of state, and thereupon the secretary of state shall issue his warrant upon the state treasurer for the amount so certified and approved in favor of the parties to whom the same may be due. SECTION 5. There is hereby appropriated, out of the geueral fund, a sum sufficient to meet the requirements of this act. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 15, 1870. Amended. [Published March 22, 1870.] AN ACT to amend chapter 179 of the general laws of 1867, extitled an act to regulate insurance companies not incorporated by the state of Wisconsin." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and seventy-nine of the general laws of 1867, is hereby |