for damages. lowed. Compensation apply to the Supervisors of said town for compensation for such When to be al damages, who shall allow the same, if, in their opinion, such person is entitled to any; and such person if not satisfied with the determination of said Supervisors, may, within thirty days thereafter, apply for a jury to assess and appraise such damages, under. the provisions of Chapter Sixteen of Title Six, of the Revised Statutes, for the assessment and appraisal of damages by a jury, in cases of appeals from Town Supervisors, in allowing damages upon the laying out or altering of highways. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from and after its . passage. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly, pro tempore. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 28th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap 128 An Act to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the city of Racire in the Certain officers to have no pay county of Racine. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Neither the Mayor, nor any member of the City Council, shall receive any pay from the city, for services rendered during his term of office. SEC. 2. In case of a vacancy in any city office, except that How vacancies of Mayor or alderman, the City Council shall fill such vacancy by appointment; and the person so appointed shall hold his office until the next annual election. to be filled. Proof of publication. Extension of Expenses, by whom borne. SEC. 3. Any newspaper purporting to contain the publication of any by-law or ordinance of said city, shall be prima facie evidence of such publication at the date of said paper. SEC. 4. The limits of said city shall be enlarged by having the north boundary line thereof extended due east to a point two miles east of the north west corner of section nine in said city, and by having the south boundary line thereof, extended due east to a point two miles east from the south-west corner of section sixteenfin said city, and by having the east boundary line thereof two miles east from, and parallel to the west boundary line of said city. SEC. 5. Section thirty-three of the act to which this is amendatory, shall be so amended that each lot and piece of land shall bear the whole expense of making, altering and repairing the sidewalk immediately adjoining it. SEC. 6. All expenses incurred by authority of section thir ty-four in said act, shall be charged to the ward in which the improvements are made, and shall be wholly paid by a tax on the property of such ward. Where a street forms the boundary of ward imline of two wards, the expense of improving the same, shall be provements. borne equally by such wards. But no such improvement shall be voted by the City Council, when the aldermen from the ward in which such improvements are to be, shall vote against them. SEC. 7. The City Council shall have power to establish, construct and keep in repair sewers in said city. All the Of Sewers. proceedings in relation to sewers, shall be the same as those provided in said act for laying out new highways. SEC. 8. All expenses incurred for improvements authorised by sections thirty-one and thirty-two of said act, and for sewers, which shall not be paid for, by the tax on property directly benefitted thereby, shall be charged to the ward in which such improvement are situate. lect a Ward tax SEC. 9. All expenses incurred for public ground, or for improvements on the same, shall be charged to the ward in which such public grounds are situated, and for the purpose of defraying the expenses specified and named in sections six, eight and nine of this act, the City Council shall have power to levy and collect Council to colannually, a ward tax on all such real and personal property or capital of any kind within each ward respectively, where such improvements are made or expenses incurred as is subject to taxation by the laws for levying the taxes of this State for the time being, said ward tax to be levied and collected in the same manner as annual taxes are levied and collected in said city. SEC. 10. No highway, street or alley, shall be laid out and established, or discontinued or changed; no sewer shall be established, unless some person interested in the same shall have given public notice in one of the newspapers printed in said city, for two weeks, of the time and place when application will be made to the city council for the same. Said notice shall specify particularly the improvement or alteration which will be asked for, and the last publication thereof shall be at least one week before the time of hearing. SEC. 11. At the annual election in said city, there shall be elected one assessor instead of five as heretofore. His powers, scr. duties and liabilities shall be the same as provided for assessors Duty of A83esin said act, and as town assessors have, except it shall be his duty to assess all the taxable property in said city, and to complete his assessment roll during the months of May and June of each year, and deliver the same to the clerk. SEC. 12. For the last three days, (Sundays excluded,) immediately previous to the return of the assessment roll to the Assessor to give clerk, the assessor shall attend at the office of the city treasur- ion. notice of revis When taxes shall be levied. er, for the purpose of reviewing his assessment roll, and shall give two weeks notice of the same in some newspaper printed in said city. SEC. 13. The assessment of property in said city for city and ward taxes shall stand also as the assessment for county and state taxes. SEC. 14. During the month of July in each year, the City Council shall decide what per cent. shall be levied and assessed for city taxes, and what per cent. shall be levied and assessed in each ward for ward taxes. The City Clerk shall deliver the tax lists to the City Treasurer on or before the first Monday of September in each year, from which day the taxes shall become a lien upon real estate. SEC. 15. At each annual election hereafter to be held in said city for city officers, there shall be elected one Supervisor in the first ward, one Supervisor in the second and third wards, and one Supervisor in the fourth and fifth wards of said city, Supervisors to who are hereby empowered to meet with and act in the county board of Supervisors, in the same manner, and with the same rights and powers as is or may by law be prescribed and exercised by other members of said board. be elected. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 28th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 129 An Act to authorize Merrick Murphy and his associates to build a dam across the f Oconto river. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That Merrick Murphy and his associates, successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to build and maintain a dam across the Oconto river, on lots number two and seven, in section number thirty-four, in township number twenty-eight, and range number twenty, on any lands owned by them, at any point on the said lands they may deem most suitable, and to make use of the water of said river for hydraulic purposes. SEC. 2. Said dam shall not exceed ten feet in height above high water mark, and in some suitable place in said dam, there Slide to be fur shall be a good and sufficient slide that will admit the passage of all such rafts, crafts or boats as may navigate the said river. mished. SECTION 3 This act may be amended or repealed by any subsequent Legislature. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved February 28th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to appropriate to the County of Waukesha the sum therein named. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the county of Waukesha, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-one cents, in full pay and satisfaction for maintainance and support of state prisoners up to January 1st, 1851, including medicines, medical attendance, clothing, and all other items chargeable therefor. GEO. H. WALKER, Speaker of the Assembly pro tempore. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, February 28th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 130 An Act to divide the county of Crawford and organise the counties of Bad Ax and La Crosse, The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 131 boundaries. SECTION 1. All that portion of the county of Crawford lying between sections nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three and twenty-four, in townships eleven and townships Division and fifteen, north, of ranges two, three, four, five, six and seven west, be and hereby is organised into a separate county, to be known and called by the name of Bad Ax; and all that portion of Crawford county lying north of townships number fourteen north, of ranges two, three, four, five, six and seven, be and hereby is organised into a separate county to be known and called by the name of La Crosse. SEC. 2. On the first Tuesday in the month of April next the electors of said counties of Bad Ax and La Crosse shall in addition to electing their town officers vote for and elect all of When County ficers necessary for a complete county organisation, and the elected. officers to bo county officers so elected shall qualify by bond and oath as prescribed by law, and enter upon the duties of their respective offices upon the third Monday of May and continue in office until the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, and until their successors are elected and qualiClerk to give fied. It is hereby made the duty of the Clerk of the board of notice of elec tion. Ax. supervisors of the county of Crawford to make out notices of such elections to be posted in the respective counties upon the publication of this act; and the sheriff of Crawford county shall cause the said notices to be duly posted as in other general elections. SEC. 3. The county of Bad Ax shall remain one town until Oftowns in Bad the board of town supervisors shall divide the same into three or more towns, and the Supervisors, town Clerk, and town Treasurer may act as and be county officers for such offices respectively. Crosse. SEC. 4. All that portion of the county of La Crosse laying south of townships range number nineteen is hereby organised Of tewas in La in a separate town to be called the town of La Crosse, and the towns of Albion and Pine Valley shall retain the present respective boundaries except as herein altered; and the county board of supervisors shall have power at any time to organise new towns or alter the boundaries of any town or towns. Of Towns in SEC. 5 The county of Crawford as so organised shall constitute and be one town and the town supervisors shall also be the board of county supervisors; the board of county supervisors shall have power at any time to divide the county into three or more towns according to law, when they shall deem it necessary. SEC. 6. From and after the third Monday of May next, the said counties of Bad Ax and La Crosse shall be organised for judicial [and] county purposes, and for all purposes and matters whatever, and the county of Chippewa shall be attached to the county of La Crosse for judicial purposes. The circuit Cirouit Courts, court shall be holden in the county of Bad Ax on the third Monday of May and fourth Monday of November of each year, and in the county of La Crosse on the fourth Monday of Febru ary and the fourth Monday of August of each year. when held. SEC. 7. All writs, process, appeals, suits, recognizances, or other proceedings whatever already commenced, or that may hereafter be commenced, previous to the third Monday of May next, in the county or circuit court of Crawford county, shall Process to con- be prosecuted to a final judgment, order, or decree, and execution may issue thereon and judgment, order or decree may be carried into execution in like manner, and the sheriff of said county shall execute all process therein, in like manner as if tinue as com menced. |