Declaration. Repealingì? he may request it, an accurate list of all members of this corporation, who are exempt from jury or military duty, that are or may become entitled to the benefits thereof. SEC. 9. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and the same shall in all courts and places be regarded benignly and favorably for every beneficial purpose hereby intended. SEC. 10. The legislature may alter, modify, amend or repeal this act at any future session. SEC. 11. All acts and parts of acts which contravene the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved, March 8th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 165. Use of Dredge Boat when discretionary. Guaranty An Act to extend the navigation of Fox River and to provide for the improvement of the same above Fort Winnebago to Swan Lake. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. After the improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers shall be completed or when the said improvements shall not require the use of the dredge boat now owned by the State for said improvement, the said Boat may be used in the discretion of the board of Public Works for the further improvements of Fox River or of any tributary to the Fox or Wisconsin Rivers or Lake Winnebago. SEC. 2. Before the said boat shall be used for the purpose against injury. specified in the preceeding section, the board of Public Works shall receive from the person or persons desiring such use sufficient guaranty that said boat shall be returned to the Commissioners upon demand uninjured and in good repair. Expense not to be borne by State. SEC. 3. No monies shall be paid out of the State Treasury to defray any portion of the expenses that may be incurred in using said boat for the purpose of such improvement. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 8th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to amend an act entitled an Act to incorporate the city of Kenosha, ap- Chap. 166. proved February 8th, 1850. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: When City certain im SECTION 1. Whenever two-thirds of all the owners of real Council may estate on lots, bounding both sides of any street or part of a levy a tax for street, not less than sixteen rods in length in said city, shall de- provements. sire to have such street graded, paved or otherwise improved,or shall desire to construct a sewer in such street, they may make application in writing to the Mayor and City Council of said city, specifying in such application the sum necessary to be raised for that purpose; and it shall be lawful for said City Council to levy and cause to be collected such sum by tax on all the owners of real' estate, or lots, on such street or part of street; said tax to be levied on the last assessed valuation of said real estate or lots respectively, as the same shall appear in the assessment roll of said city. City clerk to of persons tax ors to give no how payment SEC. 2. Whenever the said City Council shall levy any tax give street Sufor the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, the city pervisors a list Clerk shall make out and deliver to the Street Supervisor of ed." the ward in which such tax shall be levied, or to such Street Supervisor as the said City Council may appoint for that purpose, a list of the persons and description of property taxed,and thereupon the said Street Supervisor shall notify the persons Street supervianamed in such tax list by posting up notices in three or more tice when and public places in the ward in which such tax shall be levied, may be made. specifying a time or times in such notice, not less than twelve days from the date thereof, when the taxes charged against the said persons and descriptions of property, may be paid in labor, materials or money, and the persons charged with such tax may at such time and place, as may be required by the said Street Supervisor, pay their taxes in labor, materials or money, provided the labor or materials offered in payment for such taxes, are suitable and such as may be required by said Street Supervisor. make! statement Council. SEC. 3. At the expiration of such time as shall be specified Supervisor to by the City Council the said Street Supervisor shall return such under eath to tax list to the said City Council, accompanied with a statement in writing verified by his affidavit, subscribed to thereon, showing the amount of tax collected in labor and material and the amount collected in money and the manner in which the same was expended, and the items of such expenditure; also the taxes which remain unpaid, and the persons and description of real estate, or lots, to which such taxes stand charged. SEC. 4. The City Clerk in making out the duplicate assessment roll next thereafter for said city, shall enter such unpaid be collected as general city taxes. Unpaid taxes to taxes in a separate column therein, with twelve per cent interest added thereto, opposite the names of the persons and description of property against which the taxes so remain unpaid; and such taxes shall be collected by the city Treasurer in the same manner as the other taxes for city purposes are collected, and when so collected shall be paid out on the order of the City Council for the benefit of the street or improvement for which they were originally assessed. Assessor to give ion of assess ment. SEC. 5. The Assessors of the several wards in said city, notice of revis when they shall have made out a list of taxable property, as required by the act of incorporation, shall meet to review their assessment rolls on the first Monday of June in each year, at such time and place in their respective wards as they shall des ignate for that purpose by giving public notice thereof in writing, posted up in at least five public places in such wards, not less than six days previous to the time of meeting. Manner of revision.i When returns SEC. 6. The Assessors shall at such time and place of meeting as shall have been specified in the notice mentioned in the next preceding section, proceed to review their respective assessment rolls and hear applications of persons conceiving themselves aggrieved, in the same manner and with the same powers as is prescribed in chapter fifteen of the Revised Statutes of this State, relative to the duties of town Assessors, except that the time for the review of such assessment roll shall not be extended beyond the first Monday of July in each year. SEC. 7. The said Assessors shall hereafter make return of shall be made. their assessment rolls to the Clerk of said city, on or before the first Monday of July in each year, and the City Council of said city shall annually on or before the first Monday of August determine and levy the amount of taxes to be raised for city purposes: Provided, That nothing in this section contained shall be so construed as to authorise said City Council to raise more than one per cent. in any one year for city purposes. Equalization. Repealing SEC. 8. Upon the return of the several assessment rolls to the city Clerk, the said Clerk shall lay the same before the City Council, and thereupon the said Council shall proceed to equalise and correct the same in the manner prescribed in sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight and thirty-nine of chapter fifteen, of the Revised Statutes of this State. SEC. 9. So much of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the city of Kenosha," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, relating to the duty of Assessors and to equalisation of assessment rolls as contravenes with the provisions of this act is hereby repealed. SEC. 10. The city of Kenosha shall have the use of the jail u se of county of Kenosha county for the imprisonment of any person liable to Provision for be imprisoned for the violation of any ordinance of said city, and jail. all persons committed to said jail by the Marshal or any other officer of said city, shall be under the charge of the Sheriff of said county. SEC. 11. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. DUNCAN C. REED, President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 8th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An act to incorporate the Strongsville Seminary. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Chap. 167 Corporate SEC. 1. That there be established and located in the town of Berlin, Marquette county, an Institution of learning by the name and style of "the Strongsville Seminary," and that Nathan H. Strong, Michael Myers, George N. Smith, A. N. Merriman, H. R. Merriman, Harvey Stedman, Charles Bartlett, Jeremiah Murphy, Thomas McClalland, James Field, Philo M. Hackley, and J. R. Dikeimer, and their associates and successors be and they are hereby created a body politic powers. by the name and style of the Trustees of the Strongsville Seminary, by which name they and their associates and successors shall forever be known and declared and shall have succession and power to acquire, receive, purchase, possess,hold, retain and enjoy in deed and in law to themselves and their successors, property, real, and personal, and mixed; and the same to sell, grant or convey, rent or otherwise dispose of at pleasure, for the purposes of education and no other: Provided the amount of real estate owned by said association shall at no time exceed fifteen thousand dollars, and they shall have power under said corporate name to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts and places, in all suits, actions, complaints and causes whatsoever, and they shall have a common seal and may alter the same at pleasure. SEC. 2. The stock of said corporation shall consist of shares Proviso. of ten dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property, shares of stock and be transferable on the books of said corporation in such transferable. manner as may be directed by the Trustees of said association. SEC. 3. The business relations of said corporation shall be tees. managed by a board of thirteen Trustees, and five of said Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busiElection of trus- ness; they shall be elected annually on the first Monday of January in each year by the Stockholders of said company, and shall hold their offices for one year and until others are chosen in their place. The election shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for every share owned by him or her to the number of four shares, and one vote for every four shares owned by him or her over and above of voting by that number Votes may be given in person or by proxy: All meetings of the Stockholders shail be called by the Trustees or a majority of them, by publishing a notice thereof two weeks successively in a newspaper issued in said town, or by posting up notices in four public places in said town two weeks previous to said meeting: All meetings of the Stockholders shall be held in the village of Strongsville. shares or proxy. Place of meeting. Appointment of first board. Limit of annual income. SEC. 4.. The persons named in this act shall be the first board of Trustees; and shall hold their offices for the term of one year from the first Monday in January, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, and until others are chosen in their places. SEC. 5. The annual income of said Seminary shall never exceed the sum of five thousand dollars. SEC. 6. The Trustees of said Seminary (beside the general powers and privileges of a corporation) shall have power and authority First, to adjourn from time to time as they shall deem expedient, and to elect their President, Secretary and Specific powers. other necessary officers: Second, to fill all vacancies which may occur in their number during the time for which they were chosen Third, to contract with and employ all teachers, and provide suitable accommodation for giving instruction: Fourth, to take and to hold by gift, grant or devise any property, personal, real or mixed, to sell, mortgage, let or otherwise use or dispose of said property for the benefit of said Seminary. SEC. 7. There shall be an annual election on the first MonAnnual election day of January by the Stockholders of said company; the officers to be elected shall be a President, a Vice President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Librarian, and thirteen Trustees. of officers. FREDERICK W. HORN, DUNCAN C. REED, Speaker of the Assembly. President pro tempore of the Senate. Approved March 8th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY, |