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village, subject to taxation by the laws for levying state and county taxes, for the time being: provided, that such tax shall not in any year exceed one per cent. on the dollar of the assessed property.

SECTION 28. Special taxes for the purchase of fire Special taxes. engines or for the purpose [purchase] of cemeteries, or for improving the same, for the burial of the dead, may be voted at any special or regular meeting of the voters. But no votes shall be taken unless such tax be first recommended by the said trustees and a notice of the same specifying the purpose for which said tax is to be raised, and the time and place for voting be published at least ten days before such meeting by three or more handbills put up in public places by the clerk, or in some newspaper published in said . village.

SECTION 29. The assessor elected or appointed by Assessor. the provisions of this act shall, in all things pertaining to his office, be governed by the same laws as assessors of towns; and constables elected under the provisions of this act shall have the same powers as constables elected in towns; and the clerk and treasurer provided for by the provisions of this act shall in all things pertaining to their office be governed by the same laws as town clerks and town treasurers.

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SECTION 30. On the day appointed for holding the When town or annual town meeting for the several towns in this state ganization disnext ensuing, all connections between the town of West Bend and the village of West Bend, for town purposes, shall be dissolved, and the duties now and hereafter imposed upon the supervisors and other officers of towns shall be imposed upon the officers of the village of West Bend. And so much of the town of West Bend as is not included in the limits of said village shall continue to constitute the town of West Bend for the purpose of town and county government, and they shall at the next town meeting or election fix their place of meeting by a vote of the electors at the town meeting.

SECTION 31. After the day fixed by law for the How debt ar holding of the annual town meeting in the several towns portioned., in this state next ensuing, the amount of funds remaining or debts due, as the case may be from the said town as now constituted, shall be proportioned between

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said town and village, according to the amount of property in each, as taken from the assessment roll.

SECTION 32. Said village shall constitute an election district at all general and special elections and the president and two of the trustees thereof shall constitute the board of elections, and who shall appoint two clerks of said election; all of whom shall qualify and make the returns of any such elections as is required by law in other cases.

SECTION 33. All moneys accruing for granting any licenses which, by any law of this state the trustees of said village are authorized to grant, shall be paid into the treasury of said village to be expended under the direction of said trustees, exclusively for the purpose of making and constructing sidewalks in said village.

SECTION 34. The board of trustees of said village er to grant li- shall have the exclusive power within the limits of said village to grant licenses for selling spirituous, vinous or fermented liquors, to regulate groceries, taverns, victualing houses, and to revoke the same for a violation of any ordinance of said village or the laws of the state. The sum to be paid for such license shall not be less than ten dollars annually, and all moneys accruing from granting any such license or licenses shall be applied to and expended in the making and construction of sidewalks in said village.

SECTION 35. This act shall be considered a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 28, 1868.

May build dock and pier.

CHAPTER 136.

AN ACT to authorize John Grant to build and maintain a dock and pier extending into the bay of Superior.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. John Grant, his associates, successors, executors, heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized

and empowered to build and maintain a dock and pier, extending into the bay of Superior, from the land owned by him in block three, between Division and Monsset avenues the Middletown division of the town of Superior, Douglass county, state of Wisconsin; and the said John Grant is authorized to extend the pier as far into the bay of Superior as may be necessary to secure good shipping facilities.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 28, 1868.

CHAPTER 137.

AN ACT to legalize the official acts of C. H. Steinfort as notary public, in and for the county of Jefferson.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The official acts of C. H. Steinfort as Legalized. notary public in and for the county of Jefferson, in this state, from the 28th day of January, A. D. 1868, to the 4th day of February, A. D. 1868, are hereby legalized, and made of full force and effect.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved Feburary 28, 1868.

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Repealed.

CHAPTER 138.

[Published April 2, 1868.]

AN ACT to repeal section 3 of chapter 394 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to authorize the common council of the city of Milwaukee, to divide the several wards of said city into election precincts."

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section three (3) of chapter 394 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to authorize the common conncil of the city of Milwaukee to divide the several wards of said city into election precinets," is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 28, 1868.

CHAPTER 139.

[Published March 21, 1868.1

Abrogated.

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Farmington.

AN ACT to abrogate the organization of the town of Jackson, in the county of La Crosse, and attach the same to the towns of Farmington, Holland and Onalaska.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The town organization of the town of Jackson, in the county of La Crosse, is hereby declared to be entirely abrogated from and after the town meeting in April, 1868, except for the purposes set forth in section four (4) of this act.

SECTION 2. All that portion of township number nineteen (19) north, of range number seven (7) west, comprised in the limits of the present town of Jackson, and sections numbers one (1), two (2), three (3), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), twenty-two (22), twenty-three (23),

twenty-four (24), twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26) and
twenty-seven (27), of township number eighteen (18),
north, of range number seven (7) west, are hereby de-
clared to be attached to, and constitute a part of the
town of Farmington; such portions of sections four
(4), five (5) and six (6), as lie in said town of Jackson,
and sections seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), sixteen (16),
seventeen (17), eighteen (18), nineteen (19), twenty
(20), twenty-one (21), twenty eight (28), twenty-nine
(29), thirty (30), thirty one (31), thirty-two (32) and
(33), are attached to, and constitute a part of the town
of Holland; and sections thirty-four (34), thirty-five
(35) and thirty-six (36) are attached to, and constitute a
part of the town of Onalaska: provided, that the pro-
visions of this section shall not take effect and be
in force until after the town meeting in April, 1868,
excepting so far as authorized in the next section of
this act.

voters.

SECTION 3. The qualified electors of the present Who are legal town of Jackson shall be legal voters in the towns to which they are severally attached, and eligible to office therein, at the annual town meeting in April, 1868, the same as if now residents of said towns.

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SECTION 4. A special election or town meeting Special elecshall be held at the usual place of holding elections in the present town of Jackson, on the Tuesday succeeding the annual town meeting in April 1868, at which the legal voters of said town may make a final settlement of the fiscal affairs thereof, and may order such disposition as they see proper to make of any moneys remaining in the town treasury after paying off all indebtedness, or provide for the settlement and payment of all claims against said town; and the present town board of supervisors shall conduct such election or town meeting, and make such reports as now required. by law at an annual town meeting.

to remain in

SECTION 5. For the purpose of carrying out the Present officers provisions of this act and of such orders and determina- once. tions as may be made at said special election or town meeting,the present town officers of the said town of Jackson shall remain in office, and have full authority and power to act as such until the objects above mentioned are accomplished.

SECTION 6 This act shall take effect and be in

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