How election conducted. Form of ballot, Duty of regents on the question of raising by tax upon the taxable property of said city, the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars for the purpose of aiding in the erection of a state normal school in said city. SECTION 2. Said election shall be conducted, the votes counted and canvassed, and the returns made in the same manner as is provided by law for conducting the municipal elections in said city, and it shall be the duty of the clerk of said city to give ten days' notice in the usual manner of giving notice for holding elections, of the time and places of holding said election. SECTION 3. On the ballots used at said election shall be printed or written the words "for the normal school," or "against the normal school." SECTION 4. If a majority of votes cast at such election shall be "for the normal school," it shall be the duty of the board of regents of normal schools to notify the mayor and clerk of said city of Oshkosh in writing of the time when the moneys to be raised under this act are required for the purposes herein specified Duty of clerk. and thereupon it shall be the duty of the city clerk of said city immediately to make or cause to be made a copy of the last previous assessment roll of said city of the real estate and personal property of said city, and upon the valuation of said property in said roll to apportion and carry out in said roll the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, to be collected as a tax on said real estate and personal property; and the said clerk shall cause a warrant, signed by the mayor and clerk, for the collection of said tax to be annexed to said copy of said roll, which warrant shall conform as nearly as practicable to the warrant prescribed by law for the collection of general taxes; and the said copy of said roll and warrant shall thereupon be delivered to the treasurer of said city: provided, that the tax to be collected by virtue of this act shall not be collected before the first day of October 1868. Duty of trea surer. Delinquent tax. SECTION 5. On the receipt of the warrant aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said city treasurer to collect the tax specified in said roll, within thirty days thereafter: provided, that the common council of said city, may by resolution, extend the time for collecting said tax, not to exceed fifteen days. SECTION 6. If any portion of the tax provided for in this act shall remain unpaid at the expiration of the time specified in section five of this act, it shall be the duty of the said city treasurer to make return of such delinquent taxes, naming the persons and describing the property upon which said tax is assessed, to the city clerk of said city, verified in the manner and form required by law for the return of delinquent taxes; and the said city clerk shall, upon making out the general tax list for said city, next, after the receipt of said return as aforesaid, add the taxes so returned to him by the city treasurer, with five per cent. added thereto, to the taxes charged against the same property and persons in the list last above mentioned, and the treasurer shall collect the same with the other taxes in said list. to pay over SECTION 7. Immediately after the return of said How treasurer delinquent taxes to the city clerk, as provided in sec- moneys. tion six of this act, it shall be the duty of said city treasurer to pay out of the moneys collected under this act; first to the state treasurer the sum of thirty thousand dollars; and not to exceed the further sum of three thousand five hundred dollars to such person as may be designated by the said board of regents to receive the deeds of conveyance of the site of said normal school, without any further order or authority for so paying than the provisions of this act. If moneys be SECTION 8. If the moneys raised under this act in insufficient, the hands of the city treasurer, at the time of making how proceed. return of the delinquent taxes, as aforesaid shall be insufficient to meet in full the requirements of section seven it shall be the duty of the city treasurer to pay to the parties named in said section seven, first, to the state treasurer the sum of thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as shall then have been collected, and the balance, if any, of the money so raised to the person designated as aforesaid, by the said board of regents, and any deficiency in the amounts required to be paid under said section seven shall be paid as aforesaid out of the first moneys collected of the general taxes in said city for the year 1868, after deducting the amount of state tax and school tax included therein. cil may offer SECTION 9. The common council of said city of Common counOskhosh, or any committees thereof, or the alder- site. men of any ward of said city, may, at any time prior to the first day of July, 1868, and not afterward, offer to said board of regents or their proper committee a site or sites for the location of a state normal school Regents may select site. in said city, and the said board shall receive and consider all propositions so made: provided, that no such offer shall be considered by said board unless it shall include an offer to furnish a good title to the site so offered, at a price not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars. SECTION 10. The said board of regents may select a site for said normal school from the sites so offered, and if no site satisfactory to said board shall be offered or if a site shall be selected as aforesaid, and a good and satisfactory title thereto shall not be furnished. upon the terms aforesaid within one month after notice of the selection shall be given to the person or persons offering the same to said [board of regents, said] normal school shall be located on the site heretofore selected by said board in said city. SECTION 11. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 2, 1868. CHAPTER 189. [Published April 3, 1868.] Amended. "an AN ACT to amend section three, chapter 391 of the private and local laws for the year 1857, entitled act to incorporate school district No. 1, in the town of Geneva, Walworth county." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter 391 of the private and local laws for the year 1857, is hereby amended by striking out from the fifteenth line of said section the word "fire" ["five"] and inserting in place thereof the word "ten." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1868. CHAPTER 190. [Published March 6,1868.] AN ACT to amend chapter 268 of the general laws of 1868, [1865] entitled "an act to codify, consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Appleton, and the several acts amendatory thereof." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: appointive offi cers. SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 2 of chapter 268 Amended. of the general laws of 1865, entitled "an act to codify, consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Appleton, and the several acts amendatory thereof," is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: Sec. 2. The elective officers of the said city shall be Elective and a mayor, a treasurer, a city clerk, an assessor, a city attorney, a marshal and a street commissioner from the city at large, and two aldermen and one justice of the peace for each ward. A city surveyor, if necessary, and all other officers necessary for the proper management of the affairs of said city shall be appointed by the common council. A city superintendent of schools shall be appointed by the board of education. All elective officers except justices of the peace and aldermen shall, unless otherwise provided by law, hold their respective offices for one year, and until their successers are elected and qualified; and justices of the peace, aldermen, and the city superintendent of schools, shall each hold office for two years and until their successors are chosen and qualified: provided, however, the common council shall have power, for due cause, to expel any of their own number and to remove from office any officer or agent under the city government, except justices of the peace, written notice being first given to the officer complained of to appear before the common council and answer to the complaint made. filled. SECTION 2. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in Vacancies, how the office of mayor, aldermen or city attorney, such vacancy shall be filled by a new election, which shall be ordered and held within ten days after official notice of such vacancy shall be received by the city clerk or mayor, and any vacancy happening in any SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in Name and powers. Objects. Officers. CHAPTER 191. AN ACT to incorporate the Young Men's association of the city of The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate SECTION 1. The members of the Young Men's as- SECTION 2. The objects of said corporation shall be to establish and maintain a reading-room and library, and to procure literary and scientific lectures, and to promote the intellectual improvement of its members SECTION 3. The officers of said corporation shall be a president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and ས་ |