Bodies of persons dying of contagious disease (chap 1481 18463-approved April 16, 1897)Section 1 prohibits the transportation of bodies dead of contagions diseases. 110 o-do ynibely of es noifididong si Jan 08

Section 2 describes how bodies must be prepared and wrapped for shipment.”d SEC. 4. The bodies of persons dying of diseases that are noncontagious and noninfectious may be transported under certain conditions; must be accompanied with a transit permit. a) lixi

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SEC. 5. No dead body shall be disinterred if it be the means of spreading disease. Consent of health authorities required. SEC. 9. Violation of act, misdemeanor: Penalty, $25 to $500 for each offense, or county jail thirty to sixty days, or by both. 3 9d to momentoing sd1 918-9vni el Regulating the practice of medicine and surgery (chap. 264, pr505, approved April 19, 1897).-Section 1 authorizes the governor to appoint a board of medical examiners. Such appointment shall be made from three separate lists of ten names each, presented every second year to the governor-one list by the Wisconsin State Medical Society, one by the Homeopathic - one by sin State Eclectic Medical shall consist of seven members50 the WisponSection 3 prescribes that person practicing medicines must practicing medicines must procure a license from SEC. 6. Every person beginning the practice of medakakoly joi valangų 4 practice of medicine or surgery within the State after July 1, 1897, shall be required to have such licensed Any person practicing without license, advertising himself as a physician or surgeon, or using the title of doctor or appending to his or her name the letters M. Dor M. Bashall be guilty of a misdemeanor: Penalty $50 to $100 or imprisonment in county jail three months, or both. 1938)× le vispopop out yd bopsi ed of sensoid & Jaz NOTE. The medical board new. Act contains various features acts Section 6 similar to chapter 256, 1881, amended by chapter 40,1882. Former penalty, $25 to $100 or Imprisonment ten to sixty days. 0004 of 901 vileast solo & le ĴING TO FERVISO LİDE Sale of impure ice. —An act to regulate the sale of impure ice (Chap. 273. 522, approved April 20, 1897.),

said board.

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Section 1 forbids the sale for domestic, culinary, or drinking purposes of ice contains mud, decayed vegetation, animal matter, or malarial substance SEC. 2. Ice wagons required to be labeled with the name of the place from which the ice offered for sale was cut. .1897 sito o edinom z 5 SEC. 3. Violation of act misdemeanor: Penalty $50 to $100 or imprisonment in county jail not more than six months, or by both. 13 01 0004 908 10 1857 900 nożną

to thirty days.

NOTE New as general law. Chapter 361, 1887 prohibits sale of certain iềo in Milwaukee The provisions of that act, simplified and made general, are comprised in this chapter. The penalty as given in act concerning Milwaukee is fine $100 to $500 and imprisonment in house of correction ten Tedi iuge. A o lo eno beshente od) evig & moltes Discharge of sewage (chap. 275, p. 524, approved April, 20, 1897). Forbids the discharge of sewage into Delevan Lake quiwage sut yahub svila slidw im bu SEC. 2. Penalty for violation, $10 to $100. van onsbeim a yiquos of sati Selling without license (chap. 300, 642, approved April 22, 1897).-Amenas section 1565e of Sanborn and Berryman's Annotated Statutes, relating to excise and the sale of intoxicating liquors. Penalty for selling without a license, 350 to $100 and costs, or, in lieu of such fine, imprisonment three to six months, and in case of punishment by a fine, unless the fine and costs be paid forthwith, shall be committed to county jail until fine and costs are paid. In case of a second conviction during any year, the punishment shall be by fine and imprisonment,staw to 9 foi shivong of NOTE. Change in phraseology of a od ovat lade silduq lengy 94T I 2

The business of banking. —An act to revise the laws authorizing the business of banking. A long and elaborate act combining new provisions with previous legislation. Chap. 303, p. 647, approved April 22, 1897.), vi enivorouį 10 gainish Section 17, chapter 2, declares that every bank failing to transmit report to bank commissioner shall forfeit $100 for each day after the time required for making such reports. di noriblu, ni has tongenrebzim

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SEC. 19. Any officer swearing falsely shall be deemed guilty of perjury, and b punished as provided by law.

SEC. 33. Penalty for embezzlement, imprisonment in State prison hot to oxbeed twenty years. Auka 1991e ya 9, sal to tism çeq si noi bizony of the A-(Te81

NOTE.-The general law for embezzlement, section 4418, imposes penalty of one to five years, If amount 1 is over $100 in value. If less than $100 in value and over $20 in value, jail from six to twelve months and fine not over $200. If less than $20 in value, jail not less than six months or not over $100 fine... SEC. 34. The penalty of violation by officers of the bank or employees, after Warning from bank commissioner, is forfeiture of the charter.nadomi yllæsib819-2107 TH 829 900 2

Chapter 5, section 1, makes penalty for unlawful use of term “bank” or “banker” $25 for each day unlawfully used. from log at jullie

Chapter 8 provides for the submission of this act to the electors of the State in November, 1898. 23697 976 of 9W 169 5751% 197

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Nomination of candidates (chap. 312, p. 691, approved April 23, 1897) previous legislation. The penalties embodied in the act are:

Revises

SEC. 9. Voting in caucuses more than once misdemeanor. No person shall print, distribute, OF fr offer to distribute caucus tickets or ballots, nor print sample ballots. Violation, misdemeanor.

SEC. 10. Bribery or interfering with voter, misdemeanor.bora y mom to trau SEC. 12, Penalty for misdemeanors under provisions of this act, fine not exceeding $500 or imprisonment in county jail two to six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. 2+5 deine to glog al molto- yd botelquist County jails. An act authorizing the county board of any county to place the County jail under the supervision of a board of trustees. (Chap. 318, p. 710, approved April 23, 1897.)

Section 1 provides for the election of a board of three trustees by the county board at any annual meeting. Their duties are defined. Section 4 provides for the erection of workhouses. SEC. 5. Every male person over 16 years of age convicted convicted of vagabondage, drunkenness, disorderly conduct, or petit larceny, in a county which has elected trustees of the county jail and erected a workhouse, shall be punished by a fine from $1 to $100, and in default of payment committed to the county jail at hard manual labor from five to thirty days for first offense; for second offense, fifteen days to six months.

Prisoners must labor ten hours a day; no liquor or tobacco allowed; may be punished by solitary confinement not exceeding ten days for refusing to work diligently.

SEC. 9. Officers of any jail who shall neglect or refuse to require prisoners sentenced to hard manual labor to perform such labor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: Penalty, fine not exceeding $100; for second offense shall be removed from office,

Sale of cigarettes to minors. An act to prohibit the sale of cigarettes and cigaThrette paper to minors. (Chap. 329, p. 734, approved April 23, 1897.) at bael v.

SEC. 1. It is forbidden to sell or give away cigarettes or cigarette paper in any quantity whatsoever to a minor under twenty-one years, Violation, misdemeanor: Penalty, $5 to $25 for each offense besides costs of suit, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than five nor more than thirty days. In case of a second or any subsequent conviction, fine from $25 to $100 and costs or imprisonment in county jail from "thirty days to three months, and in case of punishment by fines such person shall, in default of payment, be committed to jail until fine and costs are paid. TR0) bacilar lo so zoiquis

NOTE.-Revises a previous law. Wrecking railroad trains (chap. 331, p. 738, approved April 23, 1897).-Amends section 4342 of the Revised Statutes. Any person willfully and maliciously obstructing the track, displacing rail, destroying bridges, etc., of any railroad, and the death of any person shall ensue therefrom, he shall be imprisoned in the State prison for life. NOTE→→Former penalty. He shall be deemed guilty of murder in the second degree. Licensing of plumbers (chap. 338, p. 759, approved April 24, 1897).Requires plumbers to be examined by a board, and forbids them to work without a license; 1. provides for the appointment of such board and for an inspector of plumbing in cities of the first, second, and third class. cafidont Zl- of -yah 191 moiÌ

SEC, 7. Violation of any provision of the act a misdemeanor.
Penalty, $50 for each violation, and license may be revoked by examining board.

· Corrupt practices in elections (chap. 358, p. 912, approved April 27, 1897), Section 1 defines bribery at elections. In five paragraphs to sodes, at 18 éga 10h The giving of any valuable consideration to induce any voter to vote or abstain from voting, annoyed མཙུན ༡༽ ཪི་ལ༩།

Jo 2 and 3. Promising voter office or employment.

Iq45 Or promise to secure the election of any person.. 5. Or advance money to be expended in bribery, badenky od jar! Bribery a felony: Penalty, State prison six months to two years.jt mendim gr SEC. 2. Those who receive bribes or consideration also guilty of bribery. Any "voter so offending guilty of a misdemeanor: Penalty, imprisonment in county one month to one year.

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SEC. 3. Those who use or threaten to use force to compel a voter to votes or refrain

from voting, misdemeanor: Penalty, county jail one month to one year. penalty, imprisonment not more than one year or fine not more than $500.

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SEC. 4. A person who personates another and secures a ballot paper, guilty of a felony. Punishment, State prison two to five years.

SEC. 5. Payment of money to secure election of senator or assemblyman by nonresidents a misdemeanor: Penalty, county jail one month to one year.

SEC. 7. Penalty for failure of candidate to make return of election expenses, misdemeanor. Fine, $100 to $500.

SEC. 13. Every treasurer of a political committee who shall fail to make out statement of money received and disbursed and file with the registry of deeds, guilty of a misdemeanor. Penalty, $50 to $500.

SEC. 14. Every treasurer who shali fail to keep books, setting forth details as required, or mutilate or destroy books, or fail to file the statement and account contemplated by section 11, guilty of a misdemeanor. Imprisonment in county jail from two to six months.

NOTE.-Bribery laws have been in force heretofore. Present chapter more extended, with much new matter and variation in penalty.

Forest fires (chap. 362, p. 932, approved April 27, 1897).-Amends chapter 266, laws of 1895.

Section 1 provides for appointment of State forest warden and deputy.

SEC. 2. The State forest warden shall appoint at least one fire warden in each of the organized towns of the State. Describes the duties of fire warden. Any fire warden who shall refuse to carry out the provisions of this section, or any person who shall refuse, when called upon by the fire warden, to render any reasonable asssitance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor: Penalty, fine $10 and costs for each

offense.

SEC. 4. Any person who shall build a fire on any lands in this State not his own or under his control and fail to extinguish the same before leaving shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: Penalty, fine $100 or county jail not exceeding one month, or both. Any person willfully setting fire upon any land whereby such land is injured or endangered, guilty of a misdemeanor: Penalty, same as above.

SEC. 5. Fire wardens may post notices in a dangerously dry time stating that no fire shall be set. After the posting of such notices no person shall set any fire upon any land in said town except for warming the person or for cooking food, and shall entirely extinguish the same before leaving.

NOTE. The dry-time section is new.

SEC. 6. Railroad companies are required to cut, burn, or remove all grass, weeds, brush, and logs from their right of way once a year. Locomotives to have arrangements to prevent the escape of sparks. The State forest warden shall inspect the right of way of railroad companies when it shall appear necessary. Officers or employees of railroad companies violating provision of this section, guilty of a misdemeanor: Penalty, fine $100 and costs of prosecution for each offense.

NOTE. The act is more stringent and more thorough than previous laws.

Building and loan associations (chap. 368, p. 953, approved April 27, 1897).An elaborate law of thirty-six sections, being a substitute for and repealing legislation of 1891 and 1895.

SEC. 32. To act as agent for any unauthorized building and loan association in the State a misdemeanor. Fine, $100 to $500; and every person convicted of such offense shall be personally liable for any sums received by him.

Former penalty, fine not less than $100 nor more than $500 and imprisonment from ten days to six months.

Electric wires (chap. 374, p. 983, approved April 27, 1897).—Amends section 4559 of Revised Statutes relating to injury to wires by removal of buildings. As amended the act includes in its protection electric light and power companies, as well as telegraph and telephone companies; provides that any person removing any building or any timber to which such wires are attached, so as to destroy or injure the wires or poles of any company, without giving forty-eight hours' previous notice, shall be punished by imprisonment in county jail not more than thirty days or by fine not exceeding $50, or both. Any person who shall break down, or remove, or interrupt such wires shall be punished by imprisonment in county jail not more than three months or fine not exceeding $100, or both.

NOTE. The former law required but twenty-four hours' notice, and former penalty made fine or imprisonment alternative, omitting the words "or both."

Bakeries. An act relating to bakeries and persons employed therein. (Chap. 375, p. 985.)

SEC. 1. All bakeries to be provided with a proper system of plumbing. SEC. 2. Every room shall have, if deemed necessary by board of health, a floor of hard wood, properly saturated with linseed oil. The side walls and ceilings to be plastered or wainscoted, and shall be whitewashed at least once in six months.

The manufacture of meal-food products shall be kept in perfectly dry and airy rooms so arranged that the floors, shelves, and all other facilities for storing the same can be easily and perfectly cleansed.

Section 4 provides that wash rooms and water-closets shall be apart from the bake rooms or rooms where such food products are manufactured. The sleeping places shall likewise be separate from the rooms where flour or meal-food products are stored and manufactured.

SEC. 6. Violation of the provisions of this law a misdemeanor: Penalty, $20 to $50 for first offense; second offense, $50 to $100 or imprisonment for not more than ten days; third and every succeeding offense, fine not less than $250 or imprisonment not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 7. The owner, agent, or lessee of property required to alter premises within sixty days after receiving notice.

SEC. 8. The board of health of the city or town in which a bakery is situated may enforce the provisions of this act.

NOTE.-New. The act is followed by the following note of the secretary of state: "The foregoing act having been presented to the governor for his approval, and such approval having been withheld, said act was returned by him to the house of the legislature in which it was originated; it was then passed over his veto by a vote of 21 ayes and 8 noes in the senate; it was refused passage over governor's veto in the assembly by a vote of 56 ayes and 31 noes; said vote in the assembly was reconsidered and action of the senate concurred in by a vote of 52 ayes and 26 noes. Said act has been deposited in this department as a law without the governor's approval, as prescribed in the constitution.

"AUGUST 21, 1897.”

"HENRY CASSON, Secretary of State.

Statutes of 1898.—An act to provide for the immediate taking effect of certain sections of the Statutes of 1898, as reported by the revisers and joint committee on revision. (Chap. 380, p. 995, approved August 20, 1897.)

Section 1 declares that the sections following of the Statutes of 1898, as reported by the revisers, are hereby designated for immediate publication, and the same shall be published in the official paper and included in the volume of session laws of 1897. The sections selected cover more than fifty pages, and relate to a great variety of subjects. The only sections involving penalties are the following:

SEC. 2533f. Unlawful for any person to solicit the jury commissioners to have his name put on the list. Penalty, fine $25 to $100 or imprisonment in county jail ten days to six months, or both.

SEC. 4374a. Any person who shall assault another in a manner evincing a depraved mind, regardless of human life, without any premeditated design, to effect the death of the person assaulted, and under such circumstances that if death had resulted the assailant would have been guilty of murder in the second degree, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison not more than eight years nor less than one year. Practice of pharmacy (chap. 257, p. 489, approved April 17, 1897).—Amends previous legislation of the laws of 1882, 1885, 1887, and 1895, so as to allow country stores to sell proprietary medicines, paris green, "poison," etc., when properly labeled.

Section 9 makes it unlawful for any person to conduct any pharmacy for retailing or compounding drugs, medicines, or poisons in any town, city, or village having 500 or more inhabitants, unless such person shall be a registered pharmacist. Penalty, $40 for each offense; and any person who shall permit the compounding of prescriptions in his store or place of business in such town, city, or village shall forfeit $50

for each offense.

Municipal penalties.-An act to provide for the incorporation and government of villages and legalizing the acts of villages and the officers thereof. (Chap. 287, p. 563, approved April 21, 1897.)

Sections 26 and 27 gives power to the village board to ordain ordinances and to prescribe penalties for their violation from $1 to $200, and in default of payment they may commit to the county jail until payment be made, but not to exceed ninety days.

Common schools (chap. 354, p. 804, approved April 27, 1897).—Amends, codifies, and revises previous legislation. An elaborate act.

SEC. 440b. Every member of a district board or of a board of education who shall, within three years from the date of adoption of a list of text-books, order a change of text-books in said district or city shall forfeit the sum of $50.

Section 446a relates to compulsory attendance at school. Requires children between the age of seven and thirteen to attend for at least twelve weeks in every school year some public or private school. ziouzorgboo, brand Penalty for violation, $3 to $10 for each offense. It is made the duty of the director of any school district, the president of any board of education, or any truant officers appointed by such a board of education to prosecute any offense occurring under this act. Any person neglecting to prosecute for such fine within fifteen days after receive, ing a written notice from any qualified elector or taxpayer shall be liable to a fine from $10 to $20 for each offenseko 918 1

Section 461b forbids county superintendents from teaching or engaging in other pursuits for the term they are elected. Penalty for violation, removal from office; but provisions of this section shall not be applicable to counties in which the salary of county superintendent of schools is less than $800 per annum. e pengo bait zal SEC. 498. Every district clerk who willfully neglects to make the annual report for his district, as required by law, shall be liable to pay the whole amount of money lost by such district in consequence of his neglect. And in section 499 town clerks and county superintendents are likewise made liable for neglect to make required reports. died adT 50

Sections 413 and 415 describe how a school district shall be formed, providing, that the supervisors shall deliver to a taxable inhabitant of the district their notice thereof, appointing a time and place for the first district meeting, and shall direct such inhabitant to notify every qualified voter of the district either personally or in writing at least five days before the time appointed therefor.

Section 500 contains the penalty for neglect of duty of such taxable inhabitant mentioned in sections 413 and 415, namely, he shall forfeit the sum of $5; and every person elected to the office of director, treasurer, or clerk of any school district who shall neglect or refuse without sufficient cause to accept such office and serve therein, or who, having entered upon the duties of his office, shall neglect them, shall forfeit the sum of $10; and every school district officer neglecting to deliver his books and papers to his successor shall forfeit not exceeding $50.

SEC. 501. Officers and teachers of schools and school districts are forbidden to be agents of school books or furniture. Penalty, $50 to $200, and liable to removal from office, but

SEC. 502. District clerk drawing an order upon the treasurer for any purpose not authorized by law and every director countersigning such order shall forfeit for ea each order $20 to $100. AAT.

SEC, 504. Each supervisor or other officer refusing or neglecting to carry into effect any decision of the State superintendent shall forfeit the sum of $50.

SEC. 505. The director of the school district shall prosecute for the recovery of any forfeiture under the provisions of this chapter, except when such director has incurred a forfeiture, in which case such action shall be prosecuted by the treasurer of such district. In case either shall neglect or refuse to prosecute he shall forfeit $20, ...; o boulstang ed and brow talis kot sat ni ta samosiïqui zd

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GAME LAWS.

Fish and game (chap. 188, p. 326, approved April 8, 1897). Sec. 1. The ownership of and title to all fish and game in the State of Wisconsin is hereby declared to be in the State.

SEC. 3. Bass fishing is prohibited from March 1 to May 25. excepted. Penalty for violation, $10 to $25 or imprisonment in more than ten days.

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NOTE.-Former close season for bass from August 20 to April 15. Former penalty, $10 to $100. SEC. 4. Trout fishing prohibited between September 1 and the succeeding fifteenth day of April. Violation, fine $10 to $50 or imprisonment in the county jail, not exceeding thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court.

NOTE.-Former close season August 20 to April 15. Former penalty, $10 to $100. IsqisingM

SEC. 5. Nets and traps are prohibited in inland waters, but dip nets may be used at certain times and for certain fish. Penalty, $25 to $100 and imprisonment until fine be paid, not exceeding ninety days. Former penalty, $10 to $100.. ( ག་

SEC. 6. Except as otherwise provided, only angling and trolling are allowed in inland waters. Penalty, $10 to $50 or imprisonment in county jail thirty to sixty days.

NOTE.-Former penalty, $5 to $100 and imprisonment until paid or discharged

SEC. 7. Dynamite or other explosives not allowed except to clean channels for log driving Penalty, $25 to $250 or imprisonment in county jail from sixty days to six months.

NOTE.-Former penalty, $25 to $100.