When fees not No. 322. A. Published March 23, 1593. CHAPTER 41. AN ACT relating to fees of county and municipal judges in proceedings to determine insanity. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assemli'y, dy enact as folimes; SECTION 1. Every county or municipal judge to be charged. of counties whose population exceeds two hundred thousand shall not charge or receive the fees or compensation mentioned in section 593. of the Revised Statutes of 157, and the acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, as payable to such judges for proceedings to determine insanity. SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.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 20, 193. No. 492, A.] Published March 23, 1893. Name changed. CHAPTER 42. AN ACT to change the name of the free library of the city of Beaver Dam, and legalize the acts of the common council, and the trustees of said library in relation thereto. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the free public library of the city of Beaver Dam is hereby changed to the "Williams Free Library of the City of Beaver Dam," and said library shall hereafter be known and designated at all times and places by such name, and all the acts and proceedings of the common council of said city, and of the trustees of said library in relation to said name, are hereby fully ratified and confirmed. SECTION 2. The said Williams Free Library Powers given. of the City of Beaver Dam may acquire, take, hold and enjov real and personal property for the use of said library by gift, grant, devise, bequest, purchase or otherwise, and all such gifts, grants, devises, bequests or conveyances heretofore made, under whatever name or designation, intended for such library or its use and enjoyment are hereby in all things ratified, confirmed and made valid, and shall enure to the use and benefit of said Williams Free Library as fully and absolutely as if made and executed in and to the same by its true, correct and legal name and designation. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 20, 1893. No. 142, S.] [Published March 23, 1893. CHAPTER 43. AN ACT to amend chapter 278. of the general laws of 187, relating to punishment for larceny. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: 1887. SECTION 1. Section 1, of chapter 278, of the Amends sec. 1 general laws of 1887, is hereby amended by in- ch. 28, laws of serting after the word "prison," in the second line, on page 292, the words, "not more than one year," and after the word "or" in the same line, the words "in the," and after the word "months, in the third line, same page, by adding the words "or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars;" and said chapter is further amended by inserting as section 2, the words "all acts in conflict here Larceny, pun ishment therefor. with are hereby repealed," and by changing section 2 to section 3; so that said section 1, when so amended, shall read as follows: Section 1. Any person who shall commit the crime of larceny, by stealing the property of another, any money, goods or chattels, or any bank note, bond. promissory note, bill of exchange, order, certificate, book of account, conveyance of real estate, bill of sale, mortgage, valuable contract, receipt. release, defeasance, railroad passenger ticket, ticket of admission to any place, or any writ, process or public record, or any instrument in writing, whereby any demand. right or obligation is created, increased, diminished, or extinguished, or any personal property whatever, if the value thereof shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than five years, nor less than one year; and if the value thereof shall not exceed one hundred dollars, and shall exceed twenty dollars. he shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than one year, nor less than six months, or in the county jail not more than one year. nor less than six months, or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars; and if the value thereof shall not exceed twenty dollars, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars; and the value of a railroad ticket shall be the price for which it is authorized to be sold to passengers by the company for which it is sold. Whoever, being a bailee of any chattel, money or valuable security, shall fraudulently take, or fraudulently convert the same to his own use, or to the use of any person other than the owner thereof, although he shall not break bulk or otherwise determine the bailment, shall be guilty of larceny. and may be convicted therof on an indictment or information for larceny, and upon such conviction be punished as hereinbefore prescribed. SECTION 2. All acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 20, 1893, No. 212, S.] [Published March 23, 1893. CHAPTER 44. AN ACT to amend chapter 379, of the laws of 1891, relating to the manner of conducting elections to secure the purity and secrecy of the ballot. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: of 1891. cinets, how when more than six hun cast. SECTION 1. Section 31, of chapter 379, of the Amends sec. laws of 1891, entitled "An act relating to the 3,379, laws manner of conducting elections to secure the purity and secrecy of the ballot," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 31. Voting preVoting districts or precincts shall be composed composed and of compact or contiguous territory. and so divided. arranged that no such voting district or precinct shall contain more than five hundred voters or fraction of one hundred in excess thereof, according to the vote cast at the last general election, and if after any election to be held, it shall appear that more than six hundred votes were Redivision of, cast at such voting district or precinct, it shall be the duty of the officers now charged by law dred votes with the division or alteration of voting districts or precincts, four months prior to the first succeeding general election, to redivide the ward, town or other territory in which such voting precinct may be located, in the manner by law provided for dividing wards or towns into voting precincts. If such officers shall fail to make such redivision within said time, any voter of such city or town may upon petition apply to the circuit court of the county, or to the presiding judge of said court, in which such city or town is located, for an order commanding said officers to redivide said ward or town, according to the provisions of this act, within a reasonable time to be fixed by the court or judge in the order, and if such officers shall refuse, fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of such order, they shall be adjudged guilty of contempt. as any other case of disobedience of lawful orders, and punished as provided in chapter 150, of the Revised Statutes of Wisconsin. If for any Judicial elections. cause no voting precinct shall be redivided as required hereby, the election shall not be invalidated by being held at the precincts previously established where the last preceding election was held. All elections for justices of the supreme court, circuit judges, county judges or municipal judges in any town divided into two or more election precincts, shall be held at each precinct. or voting place in said town; and at the opening of the poils two additional ballot clerks for the same shall be chosen rica voce by the electors there present. All ballots cast at any judicial election in any town or precinct in this state shall be prepared and distributed at the public expense, according to the provisions of law, and shall be separate from the ballot for town officers and deposited in a separate box. The votes cast and received for such judicial officers in such town or precinct shall be counted, canvassed, certified and returned in and from each precinct in the same manner in all respects as in towns consisting of only one election precinct or voting place. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 20, 1893. No. 119, S.] [Published March 25, 1893. Amends sec. 4. 1883. CHAPTER 45. AN ACT to amend sections 4 and 5. of chapter 357, of the laws of 1883, relating to the appointment of a register in probate for Fond du Lac county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 4, of chapter 357, of the ch. 357, laws of laws of 1883, is hereby amended so as to read Salary of reg. as follows: Section 4. Such register in probate shall receive a salary out of the county treasury of Fond du Lac county in a sum to be fixed by ister in probate. |