SECTION 2. Said dam may be of sufficient height for the purposes for which it is to be used, and shall be constructed with a suitable sluiceway to run logs or timber over the same. SECTION 3. This art shall not be so construed as to authorize said Carl Kleinschmidt or his assigns to flow any lands of the state or individuals, by virtue of the erection or maintenance of said dam as aforesaid, without making compensation therefor. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publica tion. Approved March 24, 1893. No. 26. A. Published March 29. 1893. CHAPTER 51. AN ACT relating to cemeteries, and amendatory of section 2. chapter #15, of the laws of 1887, entitled. An act to provide for the enlargement of cemeteries in certain cases, and to amend section 1454, of the Revised Statutes. in relation to cemeteries. SECTION 1. Section 2. of chapter 315, of the 4 laws of 157, is hereby amended by inserting after the word cemetery, where it occurs in lizes nineteen and twenty, of said section 2. the following: With the improvements thereon, and of each tract or parcel thereof, and of each parate estate therein, and the damages sustalled by the owner or owners of such lands by reason of the taking thereof. Also by inserting after the word application, where it occurs in Line twenty-two of said section 2. the following: Provided. however, that in no case excepting in incorporated cities or villages shall lands be taken under the provisions of this act so as to sring the boundary lines of such cemetery Learer than twenty rods to a residence owned grounds, how obtained. appointed. by the occupant thereof, without the written consent of such resident owner," so that when amended such section shall read as follows: Section 2. Whenever it shall become necessary Lands adjointo enlarge any public cemetery grounds, by adding cemetery ing thereto the lands adjoining the same, and the may be owner or owners of the adjoining lands refuse to sell the same to the proper authorities, or demand an exorbitant price therefor, then in such case an application may be made in writing to the county judge of the county in which said cemetery grounds are situate, by twelve or more resident freeholders of the town, city or village in which said cemetery is located, setting forth that the owner or owners of the lands adjoining will not sell the same, or that he or they ask an exorbitant price therefor, stating the price, whereupon the said county judge shall ap point three commissioners, residents and free- Commissionholders of the county, but not of the town, city ers, how or village where said cemetery is located, to appraise the value of the lands deemed necessary to be added to said cemetery with the improvements thereon, and of each tract or parcel thereof, and of each separate estate therein, and the damages sustained by the owner or owners of such lands by reason of the taking thereof. But the damages assessed by said commissioners shall in no case exceed the price stated in the application. Provided, however, that in no case. Consent of excepting in incorporated cities or villages shall, when must be lands be taken under the provisions of this act, given. so as to bring the boundary lines of such cemetery nearer than twenty rods to a residence owned by the occupant thereof without the written consent of such resident owner. Said commissioners, after giving ten days' notice to all parties interested, shall meet at said cemetery and decide upon the value of said lands. The commissioners shall file their report in writing, with the county judge, within ten days after the appraisement, and upon payment into the court by the proper authorities, of the amount of the damages so appraised by the commissioners to be by him paid to the owner or owners of said land, the land so appraised and condemned shall become a part of the said cemetery grounds. Either party may appeal from the determination Appeals. of the commissioners, in the same manner as pro land owner, of commissioners. vided for in section 1276, of the Revised Statutes, providing for appeals from the determination of town boards in the laying out and altering Compensation highways. The commissioners employed under the provisions of this act shall receive for their compensation two dollars per day for each day actually employed, and six cents per mile for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in the performance of their duties, to be paid by the town, city or village in which such cemetery is located. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 24, 1893. No. 154, S.] [Published March 29, 1893. Appropriation to governor's contingent fund. CHAPTER 52. AN ACT to appropriate to the governor's contingent fund a sum of money therein named. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the governor's contingent fund, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, for the years 1893 and 1894. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 24, 1893. No. 152, S.] [Published March 29, 1893. CHAPTER 53. AN ACT to extend the provisions of chapter 205, of the laws of 1891, entitled, "An act to provide for the purchase and distribution of Sanborn and Berryman's Annotated Statutes, and to appropriate money there for." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: sec. 1, ch. 205, certain offices, SECTION 1. The provisions of section 1, of Provisions of chapter 205, of the laws of 1891, are hereby ex- laws of 1891, tended and continued in force for the purpose of extended to supplying such offices, institutions, towns, cities towns, etc. and villages therein mentioned as have been created or organized since the distribution of the statutes therein provided was made, or as may hereafter be created or organized, with the Annotated Statutes of Wisconsin, upon the same terms and conditions, and subject to all the provisions of said chapter, except that no village which has been supplied with statutes pursuant to that chapter, and which has since been or may hereafter be organized as a city, shall be supplied under the provisions of this act. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out Appropriation. of any money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to pay for the s.atutes which may be purchased pursuant to this statute, and also a sum sufficient to pay for the copies of said Annotated Statutes which have been furnished this legislature pursuant to joint resolution number three, senate; provided, that the price per copy of said statutes delivered in the city of Madison, shall not exceed four dollars and fifty cents per volume. The provisions of section 3, of chapter 205, of the laws of 1891, shall govern the auditing of the accounts which may be rendered pursuant to this chapter. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 24, 1893. May sell cer in city of Madison. No. 143, S.] [Published March 29, 1893. CHAPTER 54. AN ACT authorizing the State Historical Society of Wisconsin to sell and convey certain real estate. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:· SECTION 1. The State Historical Society of tain real estate Wisconsin is hereby authorized to sell and convey certain real estate on West Washington avenue, city of Madison, known as "the Draper homestead," being lot number, four, block number fifty-one, according to the recorded plat of said city, and the buildings thereon. The proceeds from such sale shall go to said society's binding fund. Deed, how executed. SECTION 2. Whenever the executive committee of said society shall sell said real estate, the deed or conveyance thereof shall be signed by the president and corresponding secretary, attested by the recording secretary, with the seal of the society affixed thereto, and shall be acknowledged before some proper officer authorized to take the acknowledgment of deeds. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 24, 1893. |