CHAPTER 146.

[Published March 22, 1870.]

AN ACT to amend section 2, chapter 40 of the general laws of 1867, entitled " an act to encourage the cultivation of cranber

ries."

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

SECTION 1. Section two of chapter forty of the Amended. general laws of 1867, is hereby amended by striking out from the third and fourth lines, the words, "below said marsh lands," and inserting after the word, draining" in the fifth line, the words, "watering and flooding," and inserting after the word, "from" in the sixth line the words, " or bringing it on to," so that the entire section when thus amended, shall read as follows: Section 2. It shall also be lawful for any such person or persons to dig, construct and keep open, upon, across and through any lands, all such drains and ditches as shall be or become necessary for the purpose of draining, watering or flooding and carrying off the water from or bringing it on to such marsh land, wherever it shall be desirable so to do.

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

Approved March 16, 1870.

Duty of city, village and

ers.

CHAPTER 147.

[Published March 25, 1870.]

AN ACT requiring all city and village treasurers to return delinqnent lands on which the state has any claim to the county treasurer, who shall return the same to the state treasurer.

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

SECTION 1. If the taxes on any of the state lands county treasur- held on contract, or that have been mortgaged to the state for any purpose, lying within the boundaries of any city or incorporated village of this state, shall not be paid during the time required by law for the payment of taxes, the treasurer of such city or incorporated village shall return a list of such lands on which the taxes have not been paid, to the county treasurer, at the time fixed by law for town treasurers to return delinquent lands. And the county treasurer shall forward to the state treasurer a certified list of said lands in accordance with the provisions of section 68 of chapter 538 of the general laws of the year 1865; and said section is hereby made applicable to cities and villages. And so much of the charter of any city or village of this state as requires the said lands to be returned by the city or village treasurer directly to the state treasurer, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its pass age. Approved March 17, 1870.

AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUTION.

AMENDMENT to sections 5 and 9 of article 5 of the constition of the state of Wisconsin, published in accordance with the provisions of section 91 of chapter 7 of the revised statutes.

SECTION 5. The governor shall receive during his continuance in office an annual compensation of five thousand dol lars, which shall be in full for all traveling or other expenses incident to his duties.

SECTION 9. The lieutenant governor shall receive during his continuance in office an annual compensation of one thoudollars.

I, Thomas S. Allen, secretary of state of the state of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that the foregoing amendment to sections 5 and 9 of article 5 of the constitution of the state of Wisconsin, was duly ratified and adopted by the people at a general election, held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, 1869, as appears from the determination and certificate of the state board of canvasser, now of record in this office.

In testimony where of, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the state, at the capital in Madison, this 30th day of December, 1869.

[L. S.]

THOMAS S. ALLEN,
Secretary of State.

AMENLMENT to section 21 of article 4 of the constitution of the state of Wisconsin, published in accordance with the provisions of section 91 of chapter 7 of the revised statutes.

SECTION 21. Each member of the legislature shall receive for his services three hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and

ten cents for every mile he shall travel in going to and returning from the place of the meetings of the legislature, on the most usual route. In case of an extra session of the legis lature, no additional compensation shall be allowed to any member thereof, either directly or indirectly.

I, Thomas S. Allen, secretary of state of the state of Wis consin, do hereby certify that the foregoing amendment to section 21 of article 4 of the constitution of the state of Wisconsin, was duly ratified and adopted by the people, at a general election, held on the Tuesday succeeding the first Monday of November, 1867, as appears from the determination and certificate of the state board of canvassers, now of record in this office.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the great seal of the state, at the capital in Madison, this 30th day of December, 1869.

[L. S.]

THOMAS S. ALLEN,

Secretary of State.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

NUMBER 1.

JONT RESOLUTION providing for the purchase and distribution of 1,000 copies of the "Legislative Manual" year 1870.

Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the superintendent of public property be directed to furnish for the use of the legislature, 1,000 copies of the Legislative Manual for 1870: provided they can be furnished in ten days, said manuals to be distributed as follows: ten copies to each state officer; 25 copies to the State Historical Society for distribu tion; 25 copies to the secretary of state for exchanges; six copies each to the chief clerks and sergeant-at-arms of the senate and asembly, and one copy to each of the clerks in the several state departments and to the principal officer of the. several state institutions, and one copy to each reporter in attendance at this session, and six copies to each member of the senate and assembly: provided further, that the price for said manuals shall not exceed $2 00 per copy. Approved February 10, 1870.

NUMBER. 2.

JOINT RESOLUTION relative to American citizens confined in foreign prisons.

WHEREAS, Many American citizens are now and have been for a long time past, confined in English prisons for the alleged crime of seeking to restore to the land of their birth her lost liberties; and

WHEREAS, These American citizens are at least entitled to our sympathy if not to the protection of this their government; therefore,