tended for two years from the passage of this act: provided, that the commissioners to expend said fund shall make a full report of their doings and expenditures to the county board of each county, at any meeting thereof, respectively, every six months during the two years herein provided for. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1865. CHAPTER 217. [Published May 6, 1865.] Name changed. Transfer of liabilities. AN ACT to change the name of the town of Abbott, in Sheboygan county, to that of Sherman. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of the town of Abbott, in the county of Sheboygan, is hereby changed from that of Abbott to that of Sherman, by which name it shall be known in all places and for all purposes. SECTION 2. All liabilities which now exist and which of right attach themselves to the town of Abbott, or any citizen of said town, and all rights, privileges and immunities now enjoyed by the citizens of the said town of Abbott, are hereby and herein transferred by virtue of this act, from the town of Abbott (as above named) to that of Sherman. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1865. CHAPTER 218. [Published May 6, 1865.] AN ACT to change the name of Hydraulic street to Union street, in the city of Beloit. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of Hydraulic street, in the city Name changed. of Beloit, Wisconsin, is hereby changed to Union street, and said Hydraulic street shall hereafter be called and known as Union street. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1865. CHAPTER 219. [Published May 8, 1865.] AN ACT to amend the charter of the village of Jefferson, Jefferson county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: stitute three SECTION 1. The charter of the village of Jefferson, Village to conin Jefferson county, is hereby amended as follows, to road districts. wit: "The said village of Jefferson shall constitute three road districts of the town of Jefferson, that part of said village lying west of Rock river, to be designated as road district No. 29; that part of said village east of Rock river and north of the south line of Racina street and the Milwaukee road, to be designated as road district No. 30, and the residue of said village to be designated as road district No. 31." street commis SECTION 2. At the annual election of said village, Election of clerk, there shall be elected a clerk of said village, a street sioner and overcommissioner, and three overseers of highways, one to seers. reside and act in each of the above named districts; and said overseers shall receive their tax rolls from the supervisors of said town and make retuns to said supervisors, Portion of road taxes may be ex lage. as other overseers of highways of towns are by law required to do. SECTION 3. The board of trustees of said village pended on roads may, in their discretion, order that any portion, not exleading into vil- ceeding one-half, the road taxes in either or any of said road districts in said village, shall be expended upon any highway or highways in said town leading into said village, and the same shall be expended by the village overseer or overseers of such district or districts, within one mile outside of the boundary of said village, on the highway or highways so designated. Bxpenditure of SECTION 4. The street commissioner shall expend Hoense momeys. the license money and village tax appropriated for that purpose, in making crosswalks and other improvements, and shall have the supervision of sidewalks as heretofore, in pursuance of the charter and amendments previously enacted. Collection of special taxes. Repeal. SECTION 5. Section 35 is hereby amended, by adding thereto "Provided, that if in any year no general tax shall be collected, as provided in this charter, and there shall have been theretofore levied a special tax for the purpose of grading, paving or otherwise improving any street, or for building or repairing any sidewalks, as provided in this charter, and said special tax shall remain unpaid on the second Monday in June, of the year in which no general tax shall be collected, then such special tax so remaining unpaid, shall be collected in the manner provided in this charter for collecting a general tax, with the addition of like interest, cost and penalty, and when so collected, shall be paid over to the street commissioner on the order of the trustees, to be expended on the streets or sidewalks for which they were originally assessed." SECTION 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this amendment, are hereby repealed. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 25, 1865. CHAPTER 220. [Published May 8, 1865.] AN AOT to authorize the boards of supervisors of the counties of Manitowoc and Outagamie to give the clerks of the circuit court of their respective counties a salary. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: may be made SECTION 1. The boards of supervisors of the counties Clerks of court of Manitowoc and Outagamie may give the clerks of salaried offices. the circuit court of said counties, respectively, a salary, in lieu of the fees now provided by law, to be paid out of the county treasury to the said elerks of the circuit court, for all services hereafter rendered by such clerks, and which are now made payable out of such treasury. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1865. CHAPTER 221. [Published May 8, 1865.] AN ACT to amend chapter 236 of the general laws of 1863, en- The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 3 of chapter 236 of the general Amendment. laws of 1863, is hereby amended, by striking out the word "January," where it occurs in the twelfth line of said section, and inserting the word "February" in lieu thereof. SECTION 2. The assessment and collection of taxes Legalized. in and for the village of Oconto, for the years (A. D.) 1863 and 1864, and the sales of lands and lots for the non-payment of said taxes in said village, for said years, are hereby legalized and declared valid. SECTION 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1865. CHAPTER 222. [Published May 9, 1865.] Not applicable to gutters. Further powers of trustees. AN AOT to amend chapter 30 of the private and local laws of 1859, entitled "an act to amend an act to incorporate the village of Waukesha."" The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section twenty-six of chapter thirty of the private and local laws of 1859, is hereby amended, by adding thereto the following: "Provided, that nothing in this section shall apply to the making, paving or repairing any gutter in any street, highway or alley in said village, or to the levying or collecting any tax therefor." SECTION 2. Section twenty-nine of said chapter thirty is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: "The trustees of said village, in addition to other powers conferred on them by this act, may order the making, paving and repairing of gutters in any street, highway or alley in said village; and whenever they shall order any such gutter to be made, paved or repaired, or shall order sidewalks to be built or repaired upon any street, highway or alley in said village, they shall levy and cause to be collected such sum or sums as they may estimate to be necessary for such purpose or purposes, by tax upon all the real estate or lots fronting or bounding on that side of such street, highway or alley where such gutter is ordered to be made, paved or repaired, or where such sidewalk is ordered to be built or repaired, in equal proportions per foot of the front or width of such real estate or lots on such street, highway or alley; and in case such tax shall prove insufficient to pay the expense of making, paving or repairing such gutter, or |