OSHKOSH COURIER
April 27, 1860
Wolf River Lumber Mortgages.
The following law in relation to Chattel Mortgages upon logs, or lumber, of the Wolf River Pineries, was passed at the last session of the Legislature. Those interested, will do well to make a note of its provisions:
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The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. No mortgage of, or upon, any logs, lumber, or timber of any kind, floating in the waters of, or lying on or along the banks of the Wolf river, or any of its tributary streams, (excepting Waupaca and little rivers) in the counties of Winnebago, Waupaca, Shawano, and Outagamie, or of or upon any logs, lumber or timber of any kind floating in the waters of, or lying on or along the banks of the Fox river, between the point where the Fox and Wolf rivers meet in the county of Winnebago, and where the said Fox river empties in Lake Winnebago, shall be valid against any other person than the parties thereto, unless possession of the mortgaged property be delivered to, and retained by the mortgages or mortgages, or unless the mortgage, or a copy thereof, be filed in the office of the clerk of the city of Oshkosh, in the county of Winnebago; and in case the mortgage does not reside in the State, then the same need be filed in the office of the clerk of the city of Oshkosh only, to make the same valid.
SEC. 2. The provisions of this act shall not affect mortgages executed and filed prior to the time this act shall take effect.
SEC. 3. All acts, or parts of acts, contravening the provisions of this act, are repealed so far as they contravene the provisions of this set, and no further.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force fifteen days from and after its passage and publication.