Legalized. CHAPTER 98. [Published March 18, 1868.] AN ACT to legalize an ordinance of the board of supervisors of the county of Polk, relating to the creation of the town of Black Brook. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The ordinance of the board of supervisors, of the county of Polk, enacted August fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, creating the town of Black Brook, in said county of Polk, and providing for the first town meeting to be held in the said town, and the election of officers, and all acts of the electors at said town meeting, if such as may be done at an annual town meeting, are hereby declared to be valid, and shall be of binding force and effect, and the said town of Black Brook shall be deemed and taken to be a duly organized town from the day of the said first town meeting, notwithstanding the non-compliance with law, by the said county board of supervisors, in the matter of creating said town. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 22, 1868. CHAPTER 99. [Published March 2, 1868.] ay raise tax. AN ACT to athorize the city of Sheoygan to aid the Sheboygan and The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The city of Sheboygan is hereby authorized to raise by tax upon the taxable property of said city the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, to aid the She boygan and Fond du Lac railroad company in procur ing the necessary grounds for the said company's work, machine and car-shops at the city of Sheboygan, and the erection of work, machine and car shops thereon, and pay over the same to said company at the time or times and in the manner and upon the conditions hereinafter prescribed. open. SECTION 2. On the third day of March, A. D. Special election 1868, a special election shall be held in the city of She. for tax. boygan, to decide whether the said aid shall be rendered to the said railroad company, and all persons qualified to vote in said city at a general election, and who have resided in said city for ten days immediately preceding such election shall be qualified to vote thereat. There shall be but one poll for such election in said city, which shall be held in the second ward of said city, at a place to be designated by the mayor or acting mayor of the city of Sheboygan, by proclamation to be published with this act, in the city of Sheboygan as hereinafter directed. Said poll shall be opened at 9 When polls o'clock in the forenoon and remain open until five o'clock in the afternoon. The mayor or acting mayor, and four aldermen of said city to be summoned by the said mayor or acting mayor for that purpose, shall be the inspectors of said election. Said election shall be conducted in all other respects as general elections are conducted, and the laws of this state relating to the challenging of votes and the punishment of frauds, per- Punishment for jury and other misbehaviors and offences of inspectors of election and electors shall apply to such special election, and to the said inspectors in the discharge of their duties thereat, and to all persons voting at the same. SECTION 3. The voting at such special election Vote by ballot. shall be by ballot, and the ballots shall be deposited in one box; and the ballots in favor of rendering such aid shall have printed or written thereon the words, "for raliroad aid." and those against rendering such aid shall have printed or written thereon the words, "against railroad aid." After the poll at such election shall be closed, the inspectors shall proceed at once to canvass the votes cast, in the same manner that votes at general elections are canvassed, and file the return of said canvass with the city clerk of said city. frauds. Form of ballot. SECTION 4 If a majority of all the votes cast at If aid voted, such election shall be cast "for railroad aid," the be expended. how moneys to City orders to be received for taxes. When road to be completed. mayor and city clerk of said city shall immediately issue the orders of said city in sums of fifty dollars each, to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars, and deposit the same with James H. Mead, for the uses and purposes herein named, and to be disposed of as follows: If the said railroad company shall complete its line of railroad to the town of Fond du Lac, so as to run cars continuously from the city of Sheboygan to the said town of Fond du Lac, in Fond du Lac county, for general frieght and passenger business by the first day of October, A. D. 1869, and shall give notice of such completion to the said James H. Mead, then the said Mead shall at once deliver the said city orders to the said railroad company or its authorized agent, and forthwith give notice thereof to the common council of said city of Sheboygan of such delivery; and it shall in such case be the duty of said common council to levy, assess and cause to be collected, a tax upon taxable property of said city, sufficient to pay the said orders, at the time of the levying, assessing and collecting of the general taxes for the year 1869, which taxes shall be levied, assessed and collected as other taxes in said city are levied, assessed and collected. Every person who shall pay any tax or taxes levied, assessed and collected under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to receive from the treasurer of said city a receipt therefor, specifying the sum paid and for what object. SECTION 5. The said city orders, after their delivery to the said railroad company in pursuance of this act, shall be, in the hands of said company, or of any bona fide holder, conclusive evidence to establish the indebtedness of said city according to their several tenors in all courts and places whatsoever; and said orders shall also be receivable by the proper officer collecting taxes for the taxes levied as aforesaid for the purpose of paying the same, and the said taxes when collected shall constitute a separate fund for the payment of the said orders, and no part of the same shall be paid out or used for any other purpose than that specified by this act. SECTION 6. If the said railroad company's line of road shall not be completed so as to run cars for general freight and passenger business continuously from the city of Sheboygan to the town of Fond du Lac, in the county of Fond du Lac, by the first day of October, A.D. 1869, then and in that case said orders shall not be delivered by said James H. Mead to said railroad company, but shall be forthwith, and at their first meeting after the said first day of October, 1869, delivered by said Mead to the mayor and common council of said city and by them be destroyed; and it is further provided, that in such case no tax shall ever be levied or collected under the provisions of this act. act. SECTION 7. This act shall be published for not Publication of less than two successive weeks, once in each week, immediately preceding the said third day of March, 1868, together with a proclamation of the mayor or acting mayor of said city, appointing the place of the election authorized by this act, in not less than one newspaper printed in the English language, and one newspaper printed in the German language, printed and published in the said city of Sheboygan, which publication shall be all the notice required to be given of the said elec tion. SECTION 8. The city orders authorized by this act Form of city to be issued shall be in the following form: The city of Sheboygan will pay the bearer out of the city railroad aid fund, dollars upon presentation hereof to the city treasurer, after the collection of the tax authorized by an act of the Wisconsin legislature, entitled "an act to authorize the city of Sheboygan to aid the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac railroad company." SECTION 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 22, 1868. order. Time extended. Power to collect. CHAPTER 100. [Published March 18, 1868. ] AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the town of Port Washington in the county of Ozaukee. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in the town of Port Washington, in the county of Ozaukee, levied for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, is hereby extended to the last Monday in March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight: provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the treasurer of said town from collecting and paying over to the county treasurer of said county, the state tax assessed for said town; and provided, that the time for the payment of said state tax is not extended nor in any way affected by this act. SECTION 2. The town treasurer of said town shall have the same power and authority to proceed in the collection of the taxes mentioned in the assessment roll and warrant in said town, after as before such extension of the time for the collection thereof; and said town treasurer may make his return to the county treasurer of said county at any time before the said last Monday in March, A.D. 1868, anything in the said warrant to the contrary notwithstanding. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 22, 1868. |