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power and jurisdiction throughout said county to cause to come before him persons who are charged with committing any criminal offense, and commit them to jail or bind them as the case may require. Said judge shall further have all the jurisdiction, authority, powers and rights given by law to justices of the peace, and shall be subject to the same prohibitions and penalties as justices of the peace. The proceedings and practice of said court shall in all respects be governed, as far as practicable, by the laws relating to justices' courts of this state, and transcripts of the judgments of the municipal court may be filed and docketed with the clerk.of the circuit court for said county with the same effect as may be transcripts of judgments rendered by justices of the peace of said county, and appeals, civil and criminal, from said court, may be taken in the same manner and with like effect as are provided by law from courts of justices of the peace. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to give said munici pal judge cognizance of any actions mentioned in subdivisions one, two and three of section three thousand five hundred and seventy-three of chapter one hundred and fifty-four of the revised statutes.

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Section 9. No action, examination or other proceeding shall be removed from said court, but whenever it shall appear by affidavit that the municipal judge is interested pecuniarily in the action, examination or other proceeding, or that said judge is a material witness, or is within the forbidden degree of consanguinity, or from prejudice or other cause will not decide impartially in the matter, the municipal judge shall notify the municipal judge or county judge in the county of Barron, not disqualified to try said case, or to hear said examination or other proceedings, as the case may be; whereupon, it shall be the duty of said judge, so notified as aforesaid, to forthwith appear at the court room of said municipal court, and to discharge the duties of judge of said municipal court, on the trial of said case, or the hearing of said examination or other proceeding, in the same manner and with like effect as said municipal judge would, if not disqualified to act; and the doings of said judge, while so presiding over said municipal.court, shall have and be of the same force and effect as like proceedings of said municipal judge, and when said action, examination or other proceeding is concluded, a like record, as in other like cases, shall be made in said court, and thereafter, and thereupon, execution may be issued as in other cases, tried before said municipal judge. Said judge, while presiding over said municipal court, shall receive the same fees as are allowed by law to said municipal judge for like service.

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Section 14. The same fees in all actions, civil and criminal, that are now allowed by law to justices of the peace, it shall be lawful for said municipal judge to charge and collect,

but in lieu of the fees fixed by law for the following items he shall receive for a summons, warrant or other process by which a civil action is commenced, one dollar; for a warrant in criminal case, one dollar; for entering judgment, one dollar; and for any order terminating a preliminary examination, one dollar. He shall pay over to the treasurer of said county all fines paid him, imposed under the laws of this state.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Approved May 21, 1919.

No. 431, A.]

[Published May 24, 1919.

CHAPTER 210.

AN ACT to amend section 3782 of the statutes, relating to security for costs in justice court.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 3782 of the statutes is amended to read: Section 3782. Every justice of the peace shall, in all civil actions, except as is otherwise provided in these statutes, either before or after the process shall issue, require the plaintiff, if a nonresident of the county, to give security for costs and may. in his discretion, require a like security of all other plaintiffs; unless such security for costs is asked for or ordered on or before the return day, the giving of such security shall be deemed to be waived; and if the plaintiff refuse or neglect to give such security, when required, the action shall be dismissed; provided, that whenever the plaintiff in an action to recover for work or labor performed shall file an affidavit with the justice that he has a valid claim against the defendant for work or labor performed and is unable to comply with the order requiring him to give security for costs, the action shall not be dismissed because such security is not given.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publi cation.

Approved May 21, 1919.

No. 26, A.]

[Published May 26, 1919.

CHAPTER 211.

AN ACT to create section 1747ee of the statutes, relating to the application of anti-trust laws to labor and agricultural organizations and to create section 1747ff of the statutes, relating to the organization of labor unions and to the issuance of restraining orders and injunctions and procedure thereon, and to limit the meaning of "conspiracy" in certain cases.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. A new section is added to the statutes to read: Section 1747ee. Nothing contained in the anti-trust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the pur-pose of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the anti-trust laws. The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce.

SECTION 2. A new section is added to the statutes to read: Section 1747ff. 1. Working people may organize themselves into or carry on labor unions and other associations or organizations for the purpose of aiding their members to become more skillful and efficient workers, the promotion of their general intelligence, the elevation of their character, the regulation of their wages and their hours and conditions of labor, the protection of their individual rights in the prosecution of their trade or trades, the raising of funds for the benefit of sick, disabled, or unemployed members, or the families of deceased members, or for such other object or objects for which working people may lawfully combine, having in view their mutual protection or benefit.

2. No restraining order or injunction shall be granted by any court of this state, or a judge or judges thereof, in any case between an employer and employe, or between employers and employes, or between employes, or between persons employed and persons seeking employment, involving, or growing out of, a dispute concerning terms or conditions of employment, unless necessary to prevent irreparable injury to property or to a property right of the party making the application, for which injury there is no adequate remedy at law, and such property or property right must be described with particularity in the appli

cation, which must be in writing and sworn to by the applicant or by his agent or attorney.

3. No such restraining order or injunction shall prohibit any person or persons, whether singly or in concert, from terminating any relation of employment, or from ceasing to perform any work or labor, or from recommending, advising, or persuading others by peaceful means so to do; or from attending at any place where any such person or persons may lawfully be, for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicating information, or from peacefully persuading any person to work or to abstain from working; or from ceasing to patronize or to employ any party to such dispute, or from recommending, advising or persuading others by peaceful and lawful means so to do; or from paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person engaged in such dispute, any strike benefits or other moneys or things of value; or from peaceably assembling in a lawful manner, and for lawful purposes; or from doing any act or thing which might lawfully be done in the absence of such dispute by any party thereto; nor shall any of the acts specified in this paragraph be considered or held to be violations of any laws of this state. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Approved May 23, 1919.

No. 203, A.]

[Published May 26, 1919.

CHAPTER 212.

AN ACT to amend subsection (3) and paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of section 35.84 of the statutes, relating to the distributing of legislative journals and Wisconsin statutes. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Subsection (3) and paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of section 35.84 of the statutes are amended to read: (35.84) (3) of the legislative journals in book form, one copy to each state officer and each senator and assemblyman applying therefor, and to each member, officer, journal clerk and index clerk of the next succeeding legislature applying therefor: not exceeding ten copies each to the state library, the university library, the university law library and the library of the legislative reference department: one copy each to all other public libraries applying therefor. The copies printed on bond paper shall be delivered to the respective chief clerks. Each chief clerk shall, upon request be supplied for use during the session, with the journals of any previous session of the legislature.

(6) (a) Of Wisconsin statutes, one copy to each state officer and each senator and assemblyman applying therefor and to each member and officer of the next succeeding legislature applying therefor; four copies to each chief clerk of such legislature; one copy to each judge and district attorney of the United States in this state, the secretary of state of the United States, the library of congress, each charitable and penal institution of the state, the Milwaukee law library association, the Oshkosh law library, and each other public library applying therefor; not exceeding ten further copies each to the state library, the university law library, the law library of Marquette University, the library of the legislative reference department and the state historical society; and to the county clerk of each county enough copies to enable him to deliver one copy to each of the following officers in his county: The judge and clerk of each court of record, the county clerk, treasurer, sheriff, district attorney, register of deeds, surveyor, coroner, county superintendent of schools, superintendent of poor, chairman of the county board and each village and city clerk.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication.

Approved May 22, 1919.

No. 205, S.]

[Published May 26, 1919.

CHAPTER 213.

AN ACT to amend subdivision (c) of subsection 3 and subdivision (d) of subsection 7 of section 1770b of the statutes, and to provide a measure for determining the amount of filing fees to be paid by foreign corporations having stock without any nominal or par value.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Subdivision (c) of subsection 3 of section 1770b is amended to read: (Section 1770b.) (3) (c) The amount of the capital stock paid in money, property or services, including also the number and value of shares, if any, of capital stock issued without any nominal or par value. The amount or value of such authorized capital stock without nominal or par value for purpose of such statement and for the purpose of computing filing fees under this section shall be taken as the amount by which the entire property of said corporation shall exceed its liabilities other than such capital stock without nominal or par value, but each share of capital stock without nominal or par

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