performance of any covenants in such lease, as are given by law in other cases. But no buildings shall be erected thereon: provided, no lease for a longer period than three years shall at any time be executed, and the owner or owners of the adjoining lot or lots shall in all cases have the preference in leasing such property; but a free passage over the same for all persons with their baggage, shall be reserved in such lease." Subdivision thirteen of said section three is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "To establish cemetery grounds, regulate the burial of the dead and the returns of the bills of mortality, to establish police regulations over any cemetery grounds belonging to said city, for the prevention of the discharge of fire-arms of hunting on said grounds, or mutilating or defacing any part of said grounds or any improvements thereon, or disorderly conduct on said grounds or in any manner trespassing thereon; and all burial or cemetery grounds and all grounds set apart for public use, belonging to said city are hereby declared to be exempt from taxation." Sub-division twenty-four of said section three, is hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "To preserve the harbor; to prevent any use of the same or any act in relation thereto inconsistent with or detrimental to the public health, or calculated to render the waters of the same, or any part thereof, impure or offensive, or tending in any degree to fill up or obstruct the same; to prevent and punish the casting or depositing therein any earth, ashes or other substance, filth, logs or floating matter; to prevent and remove all obstructions therein and to punish the authors thereof; to regulate and prescribe the mode and speed of entering and leaving the harbor and of coming to and departing from the wharves and streets of said city by steamboats and other crafts and vessels, and the disposition of the sails, yards, anchors and appurtenances thereof while entering, leaving or abiding in the harbor; and to regulate and prescribe by such ordinances, or through their harbor master or other authorized officer, such location of every steamboat or other craft or vessel or float, and such changes of station in aud use of the harbor as may be necessary to promote order therein, and the safety and equal convenience, as near as may be, of all such boats, vessels, crafts or floats, and may impose penalties not exceeding fifty dollars for any offense against any such ordinance and by such ordinance charge such penalties, together with such expenses as may be incurred by the city in enforcing this section, upon the steamboat or other vessel, craft or float," SECTION 2. Section four of title four of said act is Amended. hereby amended by adding thereto the following: "The city council shall have power to appoint and remove at pleasure one chief engineer and two assistant engineers, whose salaries shall be fixed by the city council." SECTION 3. Sub-division four of section one of title Ibid. eight of said act is hereby amended by substituting for said sub-division the following: "A sum not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum for the support of the fire department." Said section is further amended by adding thereto a new sub-division as follows: "7th A sum not exceeding two thousand dollars per annum for the support and maintenance of such police force as may be deemed necessay by the city council." SECTION 4. Section one of title nine of said act is Ibid. hereby amended by adding thereto as follows: "And any justice of the peace of said city shall have full jurisdiction to hear,try and determine any and all offenses against or violations of the provisions of the charter of said city, or any ordinance or regulation passed by the city council of said city by virtue of said charter." SECTION 5. Section six of title nine of said act is Ibid. hereby amended by striking out the word "fifty," where it occurs immediately preceding the word "dollars," in said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "one hundred.” He SECTION 6. Section five of title ten of said act is Ibid. hereby amended so as to read as follows: "The board of education shall appoint some properly qualified person as superintendent of schools for said city, who shall if the board of education so choose, also be principal of the high school of the city, and shall hold his office for one year or until his successor is appointed. shall discharge all the duties imposed by law upon the city superintendent of schools, and shall receive for his services as such superintendent and principal of the high school, a salary to be fixed by the said board of education and to be paid from the school fund of said city; and said board shall have authority to grant to any person appointed by them principal of the high Amended. school, a certificate of qualification, and such certificate shall have the same force as a certificate of the highest grade issued by a county superintendent or other school officer of this state: provided, however, that if the person appointed by the board of education shall not act as principal of the high school, then the city council shall fix his salary as city superintendent at a sum in no case to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be paid out of the general fund of the city." SECTION 7. Section ten of title ten of said act is hereby amended, by striking out the words "one hundred" where they occur in said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words "one hundred and fifty." SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force on or after its passage and publication. Approved March 2, 1868. Repealed. CHAPTER 179. [Published April 3, 1868.] AN ACT to repeal chapter 19 of the laws of 1868, entitled “ all act to authorize school district number one (1), in the town of Whitewater, in the county of Walworth, to borrow money for the erection of a school building." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 19 of the laws of the year 1868, entitled "an act to authorize school district number one (1), in the town of Whitewater, in the county of Walworth, to borrow money for the erection of a school building," is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1868. CHAPTER 180. AN ACT to repeal chapter 358 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to amend section 2 of chapter 148 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to incorporate the Baraboo manufacturing company,” and to amend said section 2 of chapter 148. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 358 of the private and local Repealed. laws of 1867, entitled "an act to amend seticon 2 of chapter 148 of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to incorporate the Baraboo manufacturing company," is hereby repealed and section 2 of said chapter 148 is hereby amended by striking out all after amended. the word "provided" in the 11th line of said section and insert "no dams shall be so constructed as to take away any of the legal rights of those occupying the water power on said stream above the site of said dam." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1868. CHAPTER 181. [Published April 4, 1868.] AN ACT to legalize a certain plat of the out-lots adjacent and belonging to the village of Wautoma, county of Waushara, state of Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for the register of Legalized. deeds to record a certain plat of the out-lots adjacent and belonging to the village of Wautoma, county of Waushara, state of Wisconsin, made in the year 1866, by one William Truesdale. 23-P. & L LAWS SECTION 2. Said plat, when so recorded, shall be as valid for all purposes whatsoever as if the same had been duly certified and acknowledged, as provided by law with reference to village plats. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1868. Name changed. CHAPTER 182. AN ACT to change the name of Charles Francis Hunter to Charles The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The name of Charles Francis Hunter, of the town of Lisbon, in the county of Waukesha, in this state, is hereby changed to that of Charles Francis Raisin, and he is hereby made and shall be known as the adopted son and heir-at-law of Job Raisin, of the town of Lisbon, in said county, and he is and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges, and shall be subject to all the duties of inheritance, support and maintenance as fully and effectually, and in the same manner as if he were the legitimate son of Job Raisin. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1868. |