CHAPTER 33. [Published March 14, 1870.] Amended. Town Clerk AN ACT to amend section 37 of chapter 182 of the general laws of 1889, 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: A 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 amend 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. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage Approved March 8, 1870./1 1 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 f special term shall be required, other than the passage and publication of this act. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 8, 1870. CHAPTER 37. [Published March 12, 1870.] AN ACT to amend section 1 of chapter 179 of the general laws of 1863, entitled an act to amend section 1 of chapter 36 of the revised statutes, entitled "of the sale of intoxicating liquors to Indians." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 179 of the general Amended. laws of 1863 is hereby amended by striking out the words, "who receives his annuity from the United States," where the same occur in the fifth and sixth lines of said section. Amended. How offender to SECTION 2. Section three of chapter 36 of the revised statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. When any offense shall hereafter be committed under the first section of this chapter, it be prosecuted. shall be lawful to prosecute the offender by indictment in the circuit court of the proper county, or by complaint made as in other criminal cases before any justice of the peace of the proper county, and upon conviction the offender shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding three months, or both, in the discretion of the court or justice of the peace before whom such conviction may be had: provided, that in all cases of prosecutions under this section before a justice of the peace, the defendant shall enjoy the same right of appeal as in all other cases. SECTION 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 8, 1870. CHAPTER 38. [Published March 10, 1870.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter 110 of the general laws of 1867, entitled "an act to amend chapter 12 of the revised statutes, entitled 'of notaries public.'” 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 ten of the general laws of 1867, is hereby amended by striking out the words, "to the governor," where they occur in the sixteenth line of said section, and inserting in the place thereof the words, "into the state treasury. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1870. Additional institution to be established. Commissioners tution to be appointed. CHAPTER 39. [Published March 11, 1870.] AN ACT to provide for an additional institution for the insane. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen ate and assembly, do enact as follows: the SECTION 1. There shall be established as soon after passage of this act as practicable, an additional state institution for the proper care and treatment of the insane. ༈་ SECTION 2. For the purpose of the establishment, to locate insti location and erection of the buildings of said institu tion, the governor is hereby authorized to appoint six persons, one from each congressional district, together with the medical superintendent of the Wisconsin state hospital for the insane, to constitute a board of com missioners, who shall meet at the state capital within |