provided, that no officer shall receive any compensation for serving or executing any venire for any jury or summoning any talesman.

SECTION 12. Section twenty-four (24) of said chap- Clerk's fees. ter is hereby amended so as to read and be as follows: the fees of the clerk of said court in any one cause shall not exceed the following sums: in cases settled or discontinued before answer, two dollars; in cases discontinued after answer and before the same shall be put upon calendar, three dollars, and after answer, and after having been put upon calendar, four dollars; in cases when judgment is entered without application to the court, four dollars; in cases of no answer when judgment is upon application to court, seven dollars; in like cases when judgment is entered upon application to court and the same could be entered in vacation, five dollars; in case there is an answer and the same is tried by court, eight dollars, (if a final determination on a demurrer, six dollars); if tried by a jury, ten dollars; in appeal cases tried by the court upon return of justice, five dollars; in all appeal cases which are dismissed without trial, four dollars; in all other appeal cases, eight dollars. In case there is more than one trial, three dollars shall be added to such limitation for each additional trial.

title to lands to

ty court.

SECTION 13. When in any suit, commenced before suits involving any justice of the peace of Winnebago county, a plea be certified by or answer shall be put in showing that the title of justice to counlands will come in question, as provided by sections fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fifty-four and fifty-five of chapter one hundred and twenty of the revised statutes, or of any act which may hereafter be passed amendatory thereof, such suit shall be sent and certified to said county court, instead of the circuit court of said county, and wherever in said sections the words circuit or circuit court are used, the same shall be and are hereby changed, so far as the same relate to Winnebago county, to county and county court, and the bond to be given shall be conditioned to prosecute his said action in the county court instead of the circuit court. This section shall take effect and be in force on the first of May, A. D. 1870.

SECTION 14. This act, (except said section 13,) shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved February 17, 1870.

Where judge may hold special terms.

Business declared valid.

CHAPTER 9.

[Published February 24, 1870.]

AN ACT relating to the county court of the county of Dodge.

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

SECTION 1. The judge of the county court of the county of Dodge is hereby authorized to keep his office and to hold special terms of said court at the city of Beaver Dam, in said county, at his discretion, between the times for holding the regular terms in each month, and all business done and transacted, and all judgments, orders and decrees made by the said judge or court at such special terms shall be as lawful, binding and valid in all respects as if done, transacted and made at the regular terms at the county seat of said county.

SECTION 2. All business done and all judgments, orders and decrees heretofore made by the county judge of said county at any other place than the county seat, are hereby declared to be and [be] made as valid and binding in all respects as if done and made at the county seat of said county.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 23, 1870.

Clerk of court

CHAPTER 10.

[Published February 26, 1870.]

AN ACT to provide for the discharge of judgments in certain

cases.

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

SECTION 1. When a judgment] shall have been charge of judg- duly satisfied of record in the county where it was en

may certify dis

ment.

tered, the clerk of the circuit court of such county may at the request of any party, make a certificate under his hand and official seal, that such judgment (describing it) has been duly satisfied and discharged, and upon filing such certificate with the clerk of the circuit court of any other county where such judgment may have been docketed, such clerk shall enter and note upon the docket of the judgment in his county, that said judgment is paid and satisfied, and such entry shall be evidence that said judgment is paid and satisfied.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 24, 1870.

CHAPTER 11.

[Published March 1, 1870.]

AN ACT to amend section 3 of chapter 103 of the general laws of 1866, entitled an act (entitled an act) to amend chapter 276 of the general laws of 1861, entitled an act to amend chapter 22 of the general laws of 1859, entitled an act relative to the sale of lands for unpaid taxes, and the conveyance and redemption thereof.

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

The

SECTION 1. Section 3 of chapter 103 of the general Amended. laws of 1866, approved April 12, 1866, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. provisions of this act shall extend to and be in force only in the counties of Vernon, Richland and Marathon.

Approved February 25, 1860.

Amended.

Limitation of time for indict-】 ments.

CHAPTER 12.

[Published February 28, 1870.]

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and nine of the general laws of 1868, entitled "an act to amend section two of chapter 177 of the revised statutes, entitled 'of indictments and proceedings before trial.'"

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

SECTION 1. Section one (1) of chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the general laws of 1868, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 1. Section two of chapter 177 of the revised statutes, entitled 'of indictments and proceedings before trial,' is hereby amended so as to read as follows: An indictment for crime, punishable by imprisonment for life may be found at any period. All other indictments for other crimes shall be found and filed within two years after the commission of the offense, when the offender shall be known: provided, that at least two regular terms of the grand jury of the county where the offense was committed, shall thereafter be held before the said limitation shall be deemed complete, but any period during which the party charged was not actually and publicly a resident within the state, or was unknown to the sheriff or prosecuting attorney of the county where the offense was committed shall not be reckoned as a part of the two years.

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

Approved February 25, 1870.

CHAPTER 13.

[Published March 1, 1870.]

AN ACT to amend section three of chapter one of the general laws of 1870, entitled "an act in relation to the settlement of accounts in certain cases."

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

against surety.

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter one of the Amended. general laws of 1870, entitled "an act in relation to the settlement of accounts in certain cases," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. In case court may renany action has been heretofore commenced upon the der judgment administration, bond of any such deceased executor or administrator against the sureties or either of them in such bond, and in case such action shall be pending and undetermined at the time of the passage of this act, and in case such sureties or surety against whom such action has been commenced shall apply to the judge of the county court for a final settlement of the administration accounts of such deceased executor or administrator, as provided in this act, the court in which such action is pending shall render judgment against such surety or sureties for the amount which such judge of the county court shall upon such final settlement, find to be due and justly chargeable against such deceased executor or administrator upon his administration accounts, and in case such judge of the county court shall find upon such final settlement that nothing is due upon the administration accounts of such deceased executor or administrator, then the court in which such action is pending shall dismiss such action; but in case an appeal is taken upon the finding of such judge of the county court, the court in which such action upon the bond is pending shall stay judgment until the final determination of the subject matter of such appeal, and shall then render judgment in accordance with the finding of the appellate court.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 26, 1870.