CHAPTER 143.

[Published March 4, 1868.]

AN ACT to amend chapter 251 of the private and local laws of the year 1854, entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Sauk city."

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

SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 251 of the pri- Amended. vate and local laws of 1854, entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Sauk City," is hereby amended by inserting after the word "attached" in the third (3) line of said section the following words, viz: "and all of section number twelve (12) and fraction number four (4) in section number thirteen (13), all in township number nine (9) north, of range number six (6) east, not embraced in the plat of the village of Sauk City. SECTION 2. Section two of said act is hereby Section two amended so as to read as follows: "The officers of said corporation shall be one president and five trustees, one clerk, one treasurer and one constable, who shall be, ex officio marshal of said corporation, one attorney, one surveyor, and such other officers as the president and trustees shall order. The president, trustees, clerk, treasurer and constable shall be elected annually on the last Monday of March in each year; all other officers shall be appointed by the president and trustees."

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SECTION 3. The president shall preside at all meet- Duties of presiings of the board of trustees, sign all commissions, licenses and permits which may be granted by the president and trustees. He shall maintain peace and good order and see that the ordinances of the village are enforced and observed. A municipal court is hereby created in the said village of Sauk City, to be styled the "police court," and the person elected as president of said village shall be elected on the same ballot as president and police justice, who shall hold the said police court, and he shall have power to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take and certify acknowledgments and proofs of the execution of deeds and other instruments of writing relating to real estate

His powers as police justice.

Marshal his powers and duties.

and other matters required by law to be acknowledged or recorded, or both. As a judicial officer and court, the said police justice and court shall have and possess all the authority, jurisdiction, powers and rights of justices of the peace and justices' courts in civil and criminal proceedings, and shall have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace and justices' courts of this state, residing in the same county of Sauk, and shall have concurrent jurisdiction with justices of the peace and justices' courts residing in said village, of all civil and criminal actions and cases for the violation of any provision of this act or of any ordinance, by-law, rule, regulation or resolution of the president and trustees of said village of Sauk City. The president, when presiding, shall have a casting vote at any meeting of the trustees when the votes of the members are equal, and as police justice he shall have the same fees as a justice of the peace receives for his services. Appeals and writs of certiorari may be taken from the judgment of the police justice in the same manner and with like effect as from judgments of justices of the peace.

SECTION 4. The marshal shall possess all the powers and enjoy all the rights of a constable of this state, aud be subject to the same liabilities. It shall be his duty to execute all writs and serve all processes to him directed by the president or other judicial officer, and when necessary in criminal cases, or for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, or of any ordinance of said village, or by-law or rule, regulation or resolution thereof, he may serve the same in any part of the state of Wisconsin. It shall be his duty to suppress all riots, disturbances and breaches of the peace and to apprehend all disorderly persons in said village, and pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice in any part of the state of Wisconsin; to apprehend any person in the act of committing any offense against the provisions of this act, or the laws of the state, or the ordinances, by-laws, rules, regulations or resolutions of the president and trustees of said village, and forthwith to bring such person before competent authority for examination, and for such and other similar services he shall receive like fees as are allowed to constables, for like services. It shall be the duty of the marshal to see that all peddlers, hawkers and com

mon showmen and all the exhibitors pay their license according to law and this act and the ordinances of the village and in default of payment, to prosecute for the same in the corporate name of the village and to pay over the same to the treasurer when received by him. SECTION 5. The attorney shall perform professional Attorney-his services incident to his office, as prescribed by ordinances or by resolution of the president and trustees, or as directed by the president, and when required shall furnish written opinions to them.

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SECTION 6. The president and trustees of Sauk Powers of preCity shall have the control and management of the tees. finances and of all the property owned by said village, and shall likewise, in addition to the powers heretofore and herein vested in them, have full power to make, enact, ordain, establish, publish, enforce, alter, modify, amend and repeal all such ordinances, rules, regulations, resolutions and by-laws for the government and good order of said village as they may deem expedient, and to declare and impose adequate penalties for the violation of the same, and to enforce the same against persons who may violate any of the provisions thereof: and such ordinances, rules, regulations and bylaws when passed and published as provided in this act, and the several acts to which this is amendatory, to be and have the power and force of laws: provided, that they are not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States or of this state, and for such purpose the said president and trustees, in addition to other powers heretofore conferred upon them by law, shall have power and authority by ordinances, rules, regulations, resolutions or by-laws:

1st. To license and regulate the exhibition of com- License shows. mon showmen or shows of any kind, or of caravans, circuses or theatrical performances, and to provide for the abatement and removal of all nuisances under the ordinances, or at common law, to restrain, prohibit or license billiard tables, ten pin or other ball alleys, or the setting up or playing on the same in said village.

ing.

2nd. To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of Restrain gamgaming and fraudulent devices and practices, and all playing of cards, dice or other games of chance for the purpose of gaming, and to authorize the destruction of

Prevent riots.

Abate nui

sances.

Locate markets

Prevent encumbering streets.

Horse racing,

tc.

Restrain cattle.

Prevent running at large of dogs.

Cause removal of carcasses.

Prevent driving on sidewalks.

Restrain drunkenness.

all instruments and apparatus used for the purpose of gaming in said village.

To prevent all riots, noise, disturbance or disorderly assemblages, suppress and restrain disorderly houses, or groceries or saloons and houses of ill-fame.

4th. To compel the owner or occupant of any grocery, cellar, tallow chandier shop, soap factory, tannery, stable, barn, privy, sewer or other unwholesome nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate the same from time to time.

5th. To direct the location and management of slaughter houses and markets, and to prevent the erection and occupation of the same in improper places.

6th. To prevent the encumbering of the streets and sidewalks, lanes, alleys and public grounds and bridges and to prevent the sinking of shafts or holes in the streets, alleys and public grounds.

7th. To prevent the public exhibition of stallions, horse racing, immoderate driving or riding in the streets, and to regulate the places of bathing in the water within the limits of said village.

8th. To restrain the running at large of horses, cattle, mules, sheep, swine, poultry and geese, and to authorize the restraining, impounding and sale of the

same.

9th. To prevent the running at large of dogs and to authorize the destruction of the same in a summary manner when at large contrary to the ordi

nances.

10th. To prevent any person or persons from bringing, depositing, or leaving within said village any putrid carcass or other unwholesome substances, and to require said person or persons to remove the same, and in default thereof, to authorize the removal of the same by some competent officer at the expense of such person or persons.

11th. To prevent all persons from riding or driving any horse, ox, mule or cattle or other animal on the sidewalks or in any way injuring such sidewalks.

12th. To restrain drunkenness, immoderate drinking or obscenity in the streets or other places in said

village, and to provide for the arresting, removing and punishment of all persons who may be guilty of

the same.

ing of firearms.

13th. To prevent the shooting of fire-arms or the Prevent shootexhibition of any fireworks in any place which they may consider dangerous to any property or person in said village, or dangerous or annoying to any person or persons therein.

dlers.

14th. To regulate, suppress or license hawkers Regulate ped or peddlers who travel from place to place to sell goods, wares and merchandise within said village, and to license transient dealers and traders to sell therein.

15th. To direct or order the owner or owners, occu- Remove snow, pant or occupants of buildings or grounds to remove walks. snow, ice, dirt or rubbish from sidewalks, streets or alleys opposite thereto, and in default thereof to cause the same to be done at the expense of such owner or

occupant.

tions.

pair streets.

16th. To regulate the time place and manner of Regulate aucholding public auctions. 17th. To make, open and keep in repair, grade Make and reor improve streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, sewers, bridges and sidewalks, to keep them free from incumbrances and to protect them from injury. All such as well as all highways within the corporation limits, shall be under the exclusive control and protection of the president and trustees of said village.

18th. And to tax every male resident of said vil- Levy poll tax. lage, above the age of twenty one years and under the age of fifty years, one day's labor, or in lieu thereof, one dollar and fifty cents, to be applied in improving the roads and streets in said village, under the direction of such person as the president and trustees may appoint.

amount of gen

SECTION 7. The president and trustees of the said Shall determine village shall, on or before the first Monday of Novem- eral tax. ber, in each year, by resolution to be entered on their records, determine the amount of general tax for village purposes to be levied and assessed on the taxable property within the corporate limits of said village for the current year, which tax shall not exceed onehalf of one per cent on the assessed valuation of said property in any one year; and the clerk of said village shall thereupon, on or before the second Monday of the