of town of SECTION 3. All that territory embraced within the Organization following boundaries, to-wit: Commencing at the Pine River. southeast corner of township thirty-one (31), north of range ten (10) east, thence running north to the northeast corner of township thirty-three (33), north of range ten (10) east, thence running west to the northwest corner of township number thirty-three (33), of range eight (8) east, thence south to the northwest corner of township thirty one (31), north of range eight (8) east, thence west to the northeast corner of section four (4), of township thirty-one (31), range seven (7), thence south to the southeast corner of section thirty-three (33), township thirty-one (31), range seven (7) east, thence east on the town line, between towns thirty (30) and thirty-one (31), to the southeast corner of township thirty-one (31), range ten (10) east, to the place of beginning, shall constitute and be known as the town of Pine River. not to alter SECTION 4. The balance of the territory of the County board county of Lincoln, not embraced in the above men- boundaries of tioned towns of Corning and Pine River, shall here- towns. after constitute and be known as the town of Jenny. The county board of supervisors shall not have power to change the boundaries of said towns or any of them for three years next after the passage of this act. officers for SECTION 5. The qualified electors of the town of Election of Corning shall meet at the house of Jacob Webber, in town of Cornsaid town, on the first Tuesday of April next, and ing. shall elect the various town officers, as is now prescribed by law. officers for SECTION 6. The qualified electors of the town of Election of Pine River shall meet at the school-house in said town of Pine town of Pine River on the first Tuesday of April next, River. and shall elect the various town officers, as is now prescribed by law. officers for SECTION 7. The qualified electors of the town of Election of Jenney shall meet at the school-house in said town of town of Jenny. Jenney, on the first Tuesday in April next, and shall elect the various town officers, as now prescribed by law. zation to take SECTION 8. After the several elections shall have When organibeen held, as provided by this act, and the offi- effect. cers that may be elected thereat, shall have duly qualified according to law, the several towns above mentioned shall be deemed to be duly organized and shall possess all the rights and privileges of other towns of this state. SECTION 9. This act shall take effect and be in force. from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1876. Transcribing assembly jour CHAPTER 242. [Published March 18, 1876.] AN ACT relating to senate and assembly journals. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The practice heretofore adopted of tranof senate and scribing the senate and assembly journals from the nals abolished. printed journal to a journal in manuscript, and the offices of transcribing clerks, is and are hereby abol Printed jour stituted for manuscript ished. SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the chief clerks nals to be sub- of the senate and assembly to preserve and use the printed journals for the senate and assembly, for the same purpose, and in the same manner, for which the manuscript journals have heretofore been kept. journals. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force on January 1, 1877. Approved March 10, 1876. CHAPTER 243. [Published May 5, 1876.] Assessment tion of taxes legalized. AN ACT relating to the equalization and assessment of taxes in the city of Grand Rapids. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The assessment and equalization of and equaliza- taxes in the city of Grand Rapids in the county of Wood, in this state, for the year 1874 and 1875, and the acts of the proper city authorities, in relation thereto, are hereby legalized and' declared valid and binding in all respects, the same as though the laws then in force had been strictly complied with. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1876. CHAPTER 244. [Published March 25, 1876.] AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and thirteen (213), of the laws of 1873, entitled, "An act authorizing the construction of a levee along the Wisconsin river, in the counties of Columbia and Sauk." The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section one (1), of chapter two hundred and Amended. thirteen (213), of the laws of 1873, entitled, "An act authorizing the construction of a levee along the Wisconsin river, in the counties of Columbia and Sauk," is hereby amended by adding to said section the following: Provided, that upon application of any owner Construction or owners of lands along said river, it shall be the duty of levees. of the board of aldermen of said city, or the board of supervisors of said towns, within thirty days after such application is made to them to locate the line of said levee, within their respective territories, through the lands of said applicants; and said land owners shall have power, after the line of said levee shall have been located as aforesaid, to construct on and through their own lands, a levee as contemplated by this act. And said land owners shall be further empowered to construct such lateral levees connecting with the main one, as shall be necessary to protect their lands from overflow, occasioned by failure to construct the whole or any part of the main levee above their lands; and if said land owners shall construct parts of said levee, as herein provided, and thereafter the city or towns above named, or either of them, shall complete or extend said levee, the said city or towns shall adopt and use the parts constructed by said land owners, and shall pay for the same to said land owners, in the same manner and at the same price per cubic yard, or otherwise, as shall be paid for the completed or extended work done by said city or towns. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1876. Amended. Construction of road to be CHAPTER 245. [Published March 25, 1876.] AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred and twenty-three (223), of of the laws of Wisconsin, of 1875, entitled, "An act to lay out and establish a state road from the village of St. Croix Falls, in Polk county, to and intersecting state road established from New Richmond to Ashland." The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three, of chapter two hundred and twenty-three, of the laws of Wisconsin of 1875, entitled, "An act to lay out and establish a state road from the village of St. Croix Falls, in Polk county, to an intersecting state road established from New Richmond to Ashland," is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following: Provided, that such authorized by opening, removal, building, constructing and contracting shall have been first authorized in part or in whole, by the county board of supervisors of the county through which so much of said road runs as is to be thus opened, obstructions thereon removed, bridges, drains, corduroys, and culverts constructed; and said commissioners shall perform the same only to such extent as may haye first been authorized by said county board of supervisors. county board. Amended. SECTION 2. Section four of said chapter is hereby amended by adding to the end thereof the following: Provided, that the county board of supervisors of the county through which so much of said road may pass, as such needful subsistence is used upon, shall have first anthorized the expenditure therefor. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1876. CHAPTER 246. [Published March 31, 1876.] AN ACT to amend section 76, of chapter 7, of the revised statutes, entitled, "Of general and special elections, and the manner of conducting the same, and the canvass." The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: how constitu SECTION 1. Section 76, of chapter 7, of the revised Amended. statutes, entitled, "Of general and special elections, and the manner of conducting the same, and the canvass," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "The secretary of state, state treasurer and attorney general, shall constitute the board of state canvassers, Board of state two of whom shall be a quorum for the transaction canvassers of business, and if only one of said officers shall at- ted. tend on the day appointed for a meeting of the board, the clerk of the supreme court, at Madison, on being notified by the officer so attending, shall attend without delay with such officer, and with him shall form the board. When any member of the state board is a candidate, he shall so advise the chief justice, and the chief justice shall thereupon designate a judge of the circuit court to act in his stead. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 10, 1876. CHAPTER 247. [Published March 25, 1876.] AN ACT to amend section four (4), of chapter one hundred and fiftythree (153), of general laws of 1874, entitled, "An act to authorize W. A. Talboy and H. H. Hanscom to maintain a dam on north fork of Clam river, in Barron county." The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section four (4), of chapter one hun- Amended. dred and fifty-three (153), of the general laws of 1874, is hereby amended by striking out the words "above specified," where they occur in the twelfth (12th) line, |