Wisconsin Session Laws, 1917 [Published January 29, 1917. CHAPTER 1 AN ACT relating to expert and clerical assistants for the joint committee on finance, and making an appropriation therefor. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The joint committee on finance and the legislature of the session of 1917 is empowered to employ trained experts in accounting and statistics and in the formulation of public financial statements and such other assistants as may be necessary. Such experts and assistants shall be exempt from the provisions of chapter 363 of the laws of 1905, and its amendments. SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general fund for the legislative session of 1917 a sum, sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act, not to exceed thirty-five hundred dollars, the same to be paid upon the approval and order of the chairman of the senate and assembly divisions of the joint committee on finance. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication. [Published January 31, 1917. CHAPTER 2 AN ACT to amend subsection 1 of section 990-42 of the statutes so as to continue the board of public affairs; to renumber section 172-31 of the statutes to be subsection 1 of said section, and to create subsection 2 of said section 172-31 and making appropriations. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Subsection 1 of section 990-42 of the statutes is amended to read: (990-42) 1. On or before the first day of February in each odd-numbered year the governor *, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, 184073 shall appoint the three appointive members of such board, each for a term of two years from the said first day of February. SECTION 2. Any unexpended balance of the appropriation made by section 172-31 of the statutes is reappropriated to the board of public affairs and shall be available until July 1, 1917, for carrying out the functions of said board. SECTION 3. Section 172-31 of the statutes is renumbered to be subsection 1 of said section, and a new subsection is added to said section to read: 2. There is annually appropriated, beginning July 1, 1917, from the general fund, to the state board of public affairs, eighteen thousand dollars for the execution of its functions. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect upon passage and publication, as of January 1, 1917. Approved January 30, 1917. No. 157, S.] [Published February 23, 1917. CHAPTER 3 AN ACT to amend section 2574m of the statutes, relating to continuances for members of the legislature. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2574m of the statutes is amended to read: Section 2574m. When a party or an attorney for any party to any action or proceeding in any court or any commission, is a member of the Wisconsin legislature or is president of the senate, in session, such fact shall be sufficient cause for the adjournment or continuance of such action or proceeding, and such adjournment or continuance shall be granted without the imposition of terms. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage and pub lication. Approved February 20, 1917. No. 35, A.] [Published February 23, 1917. CHAPTER 4 AN ACT to create section 943f of the statutes, validating bonds proposed to be issued by cities in certain cases. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is added to the statutes a new section to read Section 943f. All bonds proposed to be issued by any |