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employ counsel for indigent persons and fixing compensation therefor.—Chapter 218.

Making county in which commitment is made liable for support of persons committed to jail for failure or refusal to comply with court order respecting payment of alimony.—Chapter 153.

Providing for the parole of minors convicted of misdemeanors and felonies.—Chapter 131.

Defining burglary with explosives and fixing a penalty therefor.—Chapter 89.

Providing for writ of error for state in criminal actions under certain conditions.—Chapter 187.

Relating to comity between states and foreign decrees of divorce.—Chapter 174.

Empowering clerks of circuit courts having 1000 or more actions on the term calendar to arrange such actions according to date or filing of complaint, petition, or other pleadings necessary to commence the action, and making the serial record number of every action its calendar number.—Chapter 212.

Requiring clerks of courts of record in the state to turn over to county treasurer all unclaimed moneys, securities or funds for which no order has been made during four years and requiring county treasurer to turn all such moneys, securities, and funds into county treasury when no legal claim is made for same after due publication providing for waiver of all actions for same after provisions of law have been complied with.—Chapter 209.

Making wages due workingmen, clerks, or servants, which have been earned within three months before date of death of testator or intestate, not to exceed $300 to each claimant, valid claims against estate of deceased.—Chapter 17.

Dividing the civil court of Milwaukee county into branches and providing for the numbering of same.—Chapter 9.