If vote for removal, clerk to

removal of

county offices.

of the county board within six days after the town meeting.

SECTION 4. The clerk of the county board shall, at the expiration of the time specified in the foregoing section, call to his assistance two justices of the peace to act with him as canvassers, and they shall proceed at once to canvass the votes that are properly returned by the inspectors of the several precincts in said county of Juneau.

SECTION 5. If upon the final canvass by the board issue order for specified in the preceding section, it is found that a majority of the votes cast are for New Lisbon, the clerk of the board shall at once issue an order to each of the county officers to move their offices, books and papers, to the village of New Lisbon, within thirty days after receiving such notice.

Penalty for dis

SECTION 6. In case of refusal or willful neglect of obeying order. any of said officers, obeying the order specified in the fifth section of this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and subjected to a fine by any justice of the peace of not less than ten dollars, or imprisonment not less than ten days, for every day he shall continue to hold his office in the village of Mauston.

SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 4, 1868.

May vote and levy tax.

CHAPTER 21.

[Published March 18, 1868.]

AN ACT to authorize school district No. 1, in the town and village of Manitowoc to levy a tax to build a school house.

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

SECTION 1. The electors of school district No. 1, in the town and village of Manitowoc, in the county of Manitowoc, are hereby authorized and empowered to vote and cause to be levied, a tax upon all the taxable property in said district, not exceeding the amount

of five thousand dollars annually, for the purpose of building a school house, which, when completed, shall cost not less than ten, nor more than twenty-five thou sand dollars.

How tax as

sessed and col

SECTION 2. The tax authorized by this act shall be levied, assessed and collected in the same manner as lected. taxes for other purposes in said district are or may, by law be levied, assessed and collected and when collected, shall be paid over to the treasurer of the district, who is hereby required to give his bond with sufficient sureties to the district in double the amount of such tax, conditioned for the keeping and disbursing the moneys so coming into his hands, in the manner provided in this act; such bond to be appproved by the clerk or director or both.

shall procure

cifications.

SECTION 3. Before any such tax shall be levied, District clerk the clerk of the district, on application in writing of plans and speten or more electors of the district, shall without unnecessary delay, procure from some competent architect, plans and specification for four several buildings to be constructed either of brick or stone, or of both, the estimated cost of which when completed to be respectively ten, fifteen, twenty and twenty-five thousand dollars, and shall submit such plans and specifications to the inspection of the said electors and forthwith give public notice of not less than twenty nor more than thirty days by publishing the same for three successive weeks, in the two newspapers published in said district, of the time and place that a meeting of the said electors will be held for the purpose of determining by vote which of said plans, if either, shall be adoptel, and the sum to be annually raised by tax for Constracting the building upon such plans: provided, that if at such meeting or at any subsequent meeting the said electors shall fail to adopt either of said plans, or to vote any tax, then upon like application the said clerk shall give like notice of a meeting submitting the same or other plans to a vote of said electors.

tered.

SECTION 4. At any meeting so notified as aforesaid, Names of vot the names of all the electors present and voting shall ers to be regisbe registered by the clerk, and if a majority of those present and voting shall vote in favor of any sum for a school house to cost not less than ten thousand dollars, such sum shall be levied, assessed and collected in amounts not exceeding in any one year the sum of

Clerk shall give posals.

District board

tracts.

five thousand dollars; and it is hereby made the duty of the proper officers of said district to annually levy, assess, collect and disburse the sums so voted to be raised by tax in the manner provided in this act.

SECTION 5. As soon as the plan of a school house notice for pro- shall have been adopted and the sum necessary for the construction voted by the electors of the district, it shall be the duty of the clerk of the district to give notice of not less than twenty nor more than thirty days, by publishing the same in all the newspapers published in said village, that sealed proposals for the construction of the said house on the plan so adopted will be received by him, and on a day to be named, the same will be opened and contracts entered into by the board, and thereupon the said board or a majority may make con- of them may enter into contract or contracts with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders for the completion of the whole or any portion of said house, such contract or contracts to be guarantied by sureties approved by a majority of the board, and may contract to pay to the contractor or contractors upon their contract or contracts, money or orders or both, and for that purpose they or a majority of them may direct their clerk to sign and their directors to countersign orders on the treasurer to the amount and payable in those years in which the said tax is to be annually levied and collected, and the said treasurer to pay over the same on the contract or contracts according to the terms thereof; and for the purpose of raising money to be paid on any contract or contracts, the said board or a majority of them are hereby further authorized and empowered to negotiate and sell for money any or all of such orders so authorized to be issued at any rates of discount below their nominal par value, not exceeding the legal rate of annual interest on the dollar of such nominal par value; and all such orders which may be so issued, paid out or negotiated and sold shall be receivable by the proper officer in payment of any such tax so as aforesaid to be levied in the years in which the same shall become due and payable.

SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force. from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 5, 1868.

CHAPTER 22.

AN ACT to amend the title of chapter 496, of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to incorporate the Milwaukee Merchants' and fire insurance company," and to amend section one of said chapter 496.

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

SECTION 1. The title to chapter 496 of the private Amended. and local laws of 1867, is hereby amend so as to read as follows: "An act to incorporate the Merchants' marine

and fire insurance company of Milwaukee."

SECTION 2 Section one of chapter 496, of the Name of comprivate and local laws of 1867, is hereby amended by pany changed. striking out the words, "Merchants' insurance company," in the seventh line of said section, and inserting the words "Merchants' marine and fire insurance company of Milwaukee," so as to read as follows: That Lester Sexton, Edward D. Holton, William A. Corporators. Prentiss, David Furgeson, John Nazro, Hoel H. Camp, John A. Dutcher, Edwin Townsend, T. H. Judd and John J. Talmadge and their associates, successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the "Merchants' marine and fire insurance company of Milwaukee, and by such name may have perpetual succession, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, Powers of the answer and be answered unto, in all courts and places corporation. whatsoever, and have and use a common seal, and may renew and alter the same at pleasure. Said company shall have power to purchase, hold, enjoy and convey all such real and personal property as may be necessary for the convenient transaction of the business

and affairs of said company, and for the preservation and also to make all such by-laws, rules and regulaand safe-keeping of their books, papers and records, tions not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this state, as shall be necessary for the proper management, regulation and control of their business affairs, and may alter and amend the same from time to time at pleasure.

force from and after its passage.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in

Approved February 5, 1868.

3 P. & L LAWS.

Corporators.

Name.

Powers and franchises.

Shall elect directors.

May adopt constitution and by-laws.

CHAPTER 23.

[Published March 24, 1868.]

AN ACT to incorporate the "Freie Gemeinde" of the city of
Milwaukee.

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

SECTION 1. Roman Suhm, John J. Laubenheimer, Charles F. Kurth, H. M. Kotlinger, Jacob E. Louis, Ernst Salomon, George Logemann, Gustav R. Vollhardt and Henry Wild and their associates, who have united themselves into a religious association, together with such other persons as may be hereafter associated with them, are hereby created a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, by the name of the "Freie Gemeinde" of the city of Milwaukee.

SECTION 2. The said corporation shall have power to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and be vested with all the powers, privileges, franchises and immunities incident to a corporation.

SECTION 3. Said association may make, have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure, and shall have power to acquire, possess, purchase, receive, hold and enjoy property, real and personal, not exceeding in value twenty-five thousand dollars, and sell and convey or otherwise legally dispose of the same at pleasure.

SECTION 4. The members of said corporation shall have power to assemble at such times and places as may be agreed upon. The direction and management of all concerns of said corporation shall be vested in a board of nine directors, who shall be elected for a term of not less than one year, nor more than three years.

SECTION 5. Said corporation shall have further power to establish for its government a constitution and by-laws, not inconsistent with this act or with the constitution or laws of this state, or of the United States, and to make such rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry into effect the object of their association.