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WADSWOBTH V. ST. OBOIX 0OT3NTT. 879 �county to issue bonds toaid in the construction of the Tomah & St. Croixj now the West Wisconsin, Railtray. Th© acts and parts of acts under which the question arises are as follows: �Genbbal Laws of Wisconsin — 1864— Page 368. �Chapter S07. �[Published A.pril 20, 1864.] �An act to authorize certain counties therein named to aid in the construction of a railroad from Tomah to Lake St. Croix, by the Tomah & Lake St. Croix Bailroad Company. �The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assemhly, do enact as follows: �Section 1. At the annual town meeting for the election of town officers, to be held in and for the different towns com- prising the counties of St. Croix, Dunn, Cbippewa, Pierce, Eau Claire, Buffalo, Clark, Trempealeau, Jackson, Pepin, and Monrce, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty- four, or at any subsequent annual town meeting or general election held in each and any of said towns comprised in any one of said counties, the legal voters of said counties, or either of them, may deposit ballots, written or printed, in words as follows: "For railroad aid," or "against railroad aid." Such ballots shall be deposited in a separate box provided for that purpose by the inspectors of election, and such ballots shall be considered as the votes of the legal voters upon such ques- tion, and shall be counted, canvassed, and returned to the proper officers as in other elections, and as provided under the election laws of the state applicable thereto : provided, ten days' notice of such submission shall be given by the sheriff of said counties, respectively, by po&ting in each town in the county, in four public places, a written , or printed notice stating that a submission of the question of railroad aid wiU be bad. �Sec. 2. If a majority of the ballots cast in any of said counties be "for railroad aid," the cbunty board of super-- visors of said county shall have pbwer, by resolution, to causer ����