CHAPTER 148. [Published March 30, 1868 | Amended. Duty of treasurer. Duty of clerk. Unpaid taxes to be entered in separate col umn. AN ACT to amend chapter 128 of the private and local laws of 1858, entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Two Rivers in the county of Manitowoc." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 46 of chapter 128 of the private and local laws of 1858, entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Two Rivers in the county of Manitowoc," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 46. In case the tax on any lot or parcel of land shall remain unpaid on the first day of November, it shall be the duty of the village treasurer within ten days thereafter to make out and deliver to the town clerk of the town of Two Rivers, a statement in writing, containing a description of the lots or pieces of land upon which such taxes remain so unpaid, together with the amount of tax assessed to each, and he shall make and subscribe an affidavit to such statement before some justice of the peace or other person authorized to administer oaths that the taxes mentioned in such statement remain unpaid." SECTION 2. Section 47 of said act is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: "Section 47. The town clerk of the town of Two Rivers upon the delivery to him of such statement, shall give a certificate to the village treasurer of the amount of taxes so remaining unpaid, as the same shall appear from the statement of such treasurer, which certificate shall be deposited by the treasurer with the village clerk, and shall be filed by such clerk in his office.' SECTION 3. Section 48 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 3. [48.] The town clerk shall, in making out the duplicate assessment roll of the town next thereafter, enter such unpaid village taxes in a separate column therein, opposite the description of the land upon which taxes so remain unpaid, and such taxes shall be collected in the same manner as town and county taxes are collected, and when so collected, shall be paid over to the village treasurer. SECTION 4. Sections forty-nine, fifty and fifty-one of Repealed. said act are hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1868. CHAPTER 149. [Published March 2, 1868.] AN ACT to authorizes the towns, villages, and cities on the line of the Blue river valley railroad, to aid in the construction thereof. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: railroad. SECTION 1. The several towns, villages and cities May levy speupon or contiguous to line of the Blue river valley rail-cal tax to ald road, as the same may be hereafter located and established, are, and each of them is hereby authorized to aid in the construction of said railroad by subscribing to the stock of the company and paying for the same in money, and levying a special tax to raise money for that purpose, or by issuing bonds to said company in payment for said stock and levying taxes to pay the interest as it accrues upon said bonds, and to establish a sinking fund for the gradual redemption and ultimate full payment of such bonds at maturity; and for these purposes the boards of supervisors of such towns, the boards of trustees of such villages and the common council of such cities respectively and severally shall have power to negotitate and arrange the terms and conditions upon which such aid shall be granted; to enter into all proper contracts with said company in relation to the same and to adopt such ordinances and regulations pertaining thereto or to the taxes to be levied under this act as may be expedient and proper and consistent with law: provided, that before any such aid shall be granted or contracted for by any such town, village or city, the question of granting the same shall be submitted to a vote of the electors thereof respectively as hereinafter provided. When route lo cated special called. SECTION 2. Whenever the president and secretary election to be of the said Blue river valley railroad company shall certify under their hands and the seal of said company, to the authorities of any such town, village or city, that the route of said railroad has been located through or contiguous to such town, village or city, it shall be the duty of the authorities thereof hereinbefore mentioned to call a special election to determine the question whether aid shall be granted to said company in the manner prescribed in the preceding section of this act. Such election shall be called, notice thereof shall be given, the form of ballot shall be prescribed and all regulations relating to the same, be determined by the proper authorities herein before mentioned, of such towns, villages and cities, so that the question be fairly submitted to a vote of the electors. In case at any such election, the majority of votes shall be against granting such aid, the proper authorities may afterwards in their discretion, call another election upon the same subject and the same shall be conducted in a like man If aid is grant may make contracts. ner. ed, authorities SECTION 3. If at any election authorized by this act, any such town, village or city shall vote in favor of granting such aid, by a majority of the votes cast at such election, then the authorities thereof shall have and exercise, in their discretion, the powers conferred upon them by the first section of this act, and all contracts made by them by virtue hereof shall be valid. and enforceable according to the true intent and meaning thereof. Towns, etc., to own stock. SECTION 4. The several towns, villages and cities which shall subscribe for the stock of said company, as authorized by this act, are hereby authorized severally to own, control and dispose of the same in the same manner as an individual might do, and to vote upon the same by agent duly authorized, at any election held by the stockholders of said company. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1868. CHAPTER 150. [Published March 2, 1868.] AN ACT to incorporate the village of Kilbourn City, in the county of Columbia and state of Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All that district of country described Boundaries. as follows: commencing at the northeast corner of the southeast quarter of section number three (3), in township number thirteen (13) north, of range six (6), east of the fourth meridian; running thence west on the half section line of said section to a small creek known as "Barney's Run," thence along said creek to the Wisconsin river; thence southerly along said river to a point eighty rods south of the north line of section number ten (10) of said township and range; thence east to the east line of said section ten (10); thence north on the east line of said sections ten (10) and three (3) to the place of beginning, and being in the town of Newport, of Columbia county, Wisconsin, shall hereafter be known and designated as "the vil. lage of Kilbourn City," and the inhabitants who may now or hereafter reside within said district are hereby created and constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of "the president and trustees of the village of Kilbourn City;" and by that name they and their successors forever hereafter shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended against in their corporate names, in all courts and places, and in all suits whatsoever, with power of purchasing, receiving, holding, occupying and conveying real and personal estate, and shall have a common seal, and may alter or change the same at pleasure: and shall be competent to have and exercise all the rights and privileges and be subject to all duties and obligations pertaining to a municipal corporation. SECTION 2. The government of said corporation Government of and the exercise of its corporate powers and the management of its fiscal, prudential and municipal concerns the corporation Officers-elective and appointive. shall be vested in a president, who shall be ex officio trustee, and six trustees, and such other officers as are hereinafter provided for; and said president and trustees shall receive no compensation for any services rendered conformably to the provisions of this act. SECTION 3. The officers of said corporation shall be one president and six trustees, one clerk, one treasurer, one police justice and one constable, who shall be ex officio marshall of said corporation, and such other officers as the trustees shall ordain. The president and trustees and police justice shall be elected by the qualified voters of said corporation, on the second Monday of May of each year, and shall hold their respective offices for one year and until their successors are elected and qualified. The clerk shall give at least ten days' notice of the time and place of holding an election, and the president and trustees, or any two of them shall preside at every such election; and any vacancy in the office of president shall be filled by a special election, and vacancies in the office of trustees shall be filled by the president and trustees. All other officers shall be appointed by the president and trustees, and shall hold their offices during the term for which the trustees are elected, and until their succes sors are appointed and qualified, and shall be subject Qualification of to removal by the president and trustees. All persons qualified to vote in said village for member of the state assembly and who shall have resided in said village for twenty days next preceding the election, at which he may offer to vote, shall be entitled to vote for any officers required to be elected by this act Whenever any person shall present himself to give his vote, and either of the judges shall suspect that such person does not possess the qualifications of an elector, or if his vote shall be challenged by an elector, the judges or some one of them, before receiving the vote of any such person, shall cause such person to take an oath that he possesses the qualifications prescribed in this section, and that he has not voted at such election, which oath may be administered by any or either of such judges; and the general provisions of law so far as applicable, relating to the challenge of voters and the oath to be tendered, administered or taken by a person whose vote is challenged, and the penalties provided for taking such oath falsely, wilfully and knowingly, shall all voters. |