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JOHN W. STEVENSON.
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prescription of any perpetual right to such attachment or extension.

Every woman who is a citizen of Wisconsin, and twenty-one years of age and upward, and who has resided therein one year next preceding any election pertaining to school matters, shall have a right to vote at such election.

The Supreme Court of the state must, on or before the first Tuesday of August in each year, appoint five competent attorneys, resident in the state, who shall constitute a board of examiners, for the examination of applicants for admission to the bar. Such board shall meet at the capital of the state once, or oftener, in each year, and also at such times and places within Wisconsin, as the Supreme Court shall direct, for the purpose of examining all applicants for admission to the bar. Applicants for admission to the bar, who shall pass the required examination, and shall receive a certificate from such board to the effect that they have passed the required examination, may be admitted to practice as attorneys in all courts of record, except the Supreme Court, by any court of record.

Any person who shall commit the crime of larceny in any ship, vessel, railroad, or stage-coach, by stealing the property of another while said property is in transit, may be tried for said offense in any county through which said ship, vessel, railroad car, or stage-coach shall pass.

The legal standard of time within the state shall be the mean solar time of the nineteenth meridian west from Greenwich, now commonly known as "Central time."


CIVIL RIGHTS.

Alabama, Indiana, Massachusetts, Colorado, and Nebraska, have each passed laws to protect all persons in their civil and legal rights in the enjoyment of all accommodations, advantages, privileges of inns, restaurants, theaters, barber—shops, public conveyances on land and water, etc., prescribing penalties for their violation by civil action, and yet defining certain misdemeanors and fixing their penalties.