Havemeyer v. Iowa County

Subsequently to the passage of this act of 1852–that is to say, in March, 1853–the legislature of Wisconsin passed an act authorizing counties through which a certain railroad should pass Iowa County being one of the counties–to aid its construction by subscribing to its stock and issuing bonds of the county to pay for it. But by the terms of the act, no bonds were to be issued except a majority of the electors should authorize the issue by vote at an election, the mode of holding which and the duties of the county officers in regard thereto were prescribed in the statute. This act of March, 1853, coming, soon after its passage and in ordinary course, before the secretary of state and attorney-general for classification, they decided that it was not an act of a general nature, but was a local act, and classified it accordingly. No volume containing the act was published till October, 1853.