The Wisconsin legislature passed war-related laws: claims payable out of the war fund, investment of school fund principal in war bonds, amendments to exemption and State Aid laws, and stay of mortgage foreclosure proceedings.

The evidence

• “The legislature at its regular session of 1862, passed a law making it necessary to present all claims which were made payable out of the war fund, within twelve months from the time they accrued ; a law was also passed authorizing the investment of the principal of the school fund in the bonds of the state issued for war purposes ; another, amendatory of the act of the extra session, of 1861, granting exemption to persons enrolled in the military service, so as to except persona acting as fiduciary agents, either as executors or administrators, or guardians or trustees, or persons defrauding the State, or any school district of moneys belonging to the same; also author, izing a stay of proceedings in foreclosures of mortgages, by advertisements. " The State Aid Law" was amended so as to apply to all regiments of infantry, cavalry, artillery and sharpshooters, defining the rights of families, fixing penalties for the issue of false papers, and imposing duties on military officers in the field to make certain reports.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/02-wisconsin-as-a-state.md, PDF p. 76 / book p. 30

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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