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 378 FEDERAL REPORTBE. �I said, a construction making these statutes apply to con- tracts made before their passage should net be adopted unless neeessary, and whatever may be said of chapter 60, Laws of 1868, it is no longer in force, having been repealed by the Eevised Statutes of 1878, which substitutes the other provision above referred to in its place; and as to the last provision, which is now in force, though the language is gen- erai enough to apply to ail contracts, if such a construction would not render the law unconstitutional, it should, I think, in view of this consideration, if no other, be held to apply only to contracts executed after its passage; and such I hold to be the proper construction. �The plaintiff will be entitled to judgment for the principal of the two bonds, and the amount named in the unpaid cou- pons thereto attached, with interest at 8 per cent, upon the principal from January 1, 1877, the time the bonds fell due, and with interest at 7 per cent, upon the unpaid coupons from the time they severally fell due. ���Wadsworth ». St. Croix Coxjntt. iGireuit Court, W. D. Wiseonain. , 1880.) �L MimicrPAii Bonds— Boakd of Supbbvisobs. — An act of the legisla- ture of the State of Wisconsin provided that the board of super- visors of the defendant county " shall have poTver, by resolution, to cause to be issued bonds ******* to an amount not exceeding flfty thousand dollars," •' if a majority of the ballots cast " by the legal votera in said county " be 'for railroad aid. ' " Sdd, where a majority of the ballots cast were " for railroad aid," that it still rested in the discretion of the board of supervisors whether such bonds should be issued. AapenijoaU v. Cffm'r» of the County ofDamess, 22 How. 364 Town of Coneord v. Savings Bank, 92 U. S. 625. �Demurrer to Complaint. �Btinn, D. J. This case stands upon a general demurrer to the complainant's bill, The suit is in equity, to compel the specifie performance of an alleged contract on the part of the ����