General Acts Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin

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Beriah Brown, 1853 - Session laws
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Page 72 - ... dollars, to be recovered in an action of debt in any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name...
Page 90 - No county shall be divided, or have any part stricken therefrom, without submitting the question to a vote of the people of the county, nor unless a majority of all the legal voters of the county voting on the question shall vote for the same.
Page 54 - ... bearing a rate of interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, payable semiannually, which bonds shall be substantially in the following form : No.
Page 75 - And the river Mississippi and the navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the State, as to the citizens of the United States, without any tax, impost or duty therefor.
Page 92 - Each sheriff, county clerk, county treasurer, county attorney and probate judge, shall keep his office at the county seat of his county, and in the office provided by the county, if any such has been provided, and if there be none established, then at such place as shall be fixed by special...
Page 43 - ... such authority may acquire the same directly or through its agent or agents from the owner or owners thereof, or may acquire the same by the exercise of eminent domain in the manner provided by an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the exercise of the right of eminent domain," approved April 10, 1872, as amended.
Page 82 - SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of supervisors of the several counties of this State...
Page 72 - ... a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, to be recovered by an action of debt, in any court having cognizance thereof.
Page 111 - Georgia will never so far compromit her sovereignty, as an independent State, as to become a party to the case sought to be made before the Supreme Court of the United States by the writ in question.
Page 16 - The object of the society shall be to collect, embody, arrange and preserve in authentic form a library of books, pamphlets, maps, charts, manuscripts, papers, paintings, statuary, and other materials illustrative of the history of Iowa; to rescue from oblivion the memory of its early pioneers; to obtain and preserve narratives of their exploits, perils, and hardy adventures...

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