Who are qualified electors.

When the first city election

and where.

SECTION 8. All persons who are qualified electors of the state of Wisconsin, and entitled to vote at a general election, and who are actually residents of the city of Cedarburg shall be entitled to vote for any officer to be elected, and be deemed qualified electors at city elections.

SECTION 9. The first city election of said city of shall be held, Cedarburg, for the election of city officers, shall be held on the first Tuesday in April, 1885, in the upper floor room of the Turn Hall in said city, and at all city elections of said city, at the time of opening the poll the electors present shall choose, viva voce, from the qualified electors present, three inspectors of election and two clerks of election, and the persons so chosen to act as inspectors and clerks, shall, before entering on the duties of their offices, take and subscribe the oath required of inspectors and clerks of general elections. Six days' previous notice of said first election shall be given, signed by the sheriff of Ozaukee county, Wisconsin, stating the time and place of holding the same and of the officers to be elected, which notice shall be posted in three public places in said city.

Duties of inspectors of election.

SECTION 10. If either of the inspectors of elections shall suspect that any person offering to vote does not possess the requisite qualifications, or if any such vote shall be challenged by an elector, the inspectors before receiving the vote of any such person, shall require him to take the following oath: "You do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be), that you are twentyone years old; that you are a citizen of the United States (or have declared your intentions to become a citizen, conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization); that you have resided in the state of Wisconsin one year; that you are an actual resident within this city, and that you have not voted at this election, and that you have made no bet or wager depending on the result of this election." Which oath any member of the board of inspectors is hereby authorized to administer. And if the person so offering to vote shall take such oath falsely, he shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt perjury, and upon conviction thereof shall suffer the punishment provided by law for persons guilty of perjury. If any person who is not a

qualified voter, shall vote at any election, or shall vote more than once at any one election, he shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars. It shall be the duty of the inspectors to keep a list of all the names of all persons whose votes may be challenged and who shall swear in their votes, which list shall be filed with the city clerk. The penalty for any unlawful or illegal conduct of clerks or inspectors of election shall be the same as that provided by statutes of this state for similar conduct at any general election.

SECTION 11. When the polls of an election shall be finally closed, the inspectors shall proceed to count and canvass the votes in each of the boxes, one box being completed before another shall be opened, and shall make a return of the number of votes for each and every office and the number of votes for each and every person for each and every office, and shall deliver such returns to the city clerk immediately after such election, and shall declare the result as it appears from the same. In all cases of the election or appointment of any person to office, the common council shall file with the clerk a certificate, signed by at least a majority of them, giving the name of the person elected or appointed, and the term for which he was so elected or appointed, and the clerk shall record such certificate in a book, to be provided for that purpose. Whenever a justice of the peace or city marshal shall be elected, the clerk shall forthwith give notice thereof in writing to the clerk of the circuit court of Ozaukee county, giving both the names and terms for which elected, and upon the election of mayor or treasurer the clerk shall give like notices to the clerk of the board of supervisors of Ozaukee county, and those county officers, upon receiving such notices, shall file the same in their resective offices.

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SECTION 12. Special elections to fill vacancies, special elec or for other purposes, shall be held and conducted vacancies. in the same manner, and the returns thereof shall be made in the same form and manner. as regular elections, and within such time as may be provided by the common council.

SECTION 13. Any officer removing from the What is deemed city, or any officer who shall neglect or refuse for

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a vacation of office.

The term of every officer.

First election

of city officers.

In case there is

a failure to elect.

Persons elected shall take oath of office.

Powers and duties of the mayor.

ten days after his election or appointment to qualify and enter upon the discharge of his duties, shall be deemed to have vacated his office, and the common council shall proceed to fill such vacancy as herein provided.

SECTION 14. The term of every officer elected under this act, except justices of the peace, shall commence the second Tuesday in April of the year for which and in which he was elected.

SECTION 15. The first election of officers under the provisions of this act shall be held on the first Tuesday in April, 1885; the election of justices of the peace shall be held at the same time and place, and so every two years thereafter, or when a vacancy shall occur; provided, that the justices of the peace now residing within said city of Cedarburg shall hold their offices until their terms expire.

SECTION 16. Should there be a failure to elect any officers herein required to be elected, on the day designated, the common council may order a new election to be held, ten days' notice of the time and place being first given.

SECTION 17. Every person elected or appointed to any office under the provisions of this act, except justices of the peace, shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath of office, and file the same, duly certified by the officer taking the same, with the city clerk, The treasurer, clerk, marshal and such other officers as the common council may direct, shall severally, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, execute to the city of Cedarburg a bond with two sureties, to be approved by the common council or a majority thereof; and said common council may, from time to time, require new and additional bonds, and remove from office any officer refusing or neglecting to give the same.

SECTION 18. The mayor, when present, shall preside over the meetings of the common council, and shall take care that the laws of the state and the ordinances of the city are duly observed and enforced and that all executive officers of the city discharge their respective duties. The mayor shall be the chief executive officer and the head of the police of the city, and in case of riot and other disturbance or apparent necessity, he may

appoint as many special or temporary policemen as he may deem necessary. The mayor shall in all cases have a seat in the common council and he shall vote in the common council only in a case of a tie vote; he shall give the common council such informations and recommend such measures as he may deem proper and advantageous to the city. The mayor shall have the Veto power. power to veto any ordinance passed by the common council by notifying the common council of his objections thereto at any time within seven days after the passage of such ordinance. In case of no session of the common council on any day after the passage of the same and before the expiration of said seven days, such notification. shall be made by filing with the city clerk a copy of his objections; and in case the council shall not, at the next ensuing meeting, re-enact such ordinance, by the vote of two-thirds of the alder-men elect, and cause the same to be published, the same shall be null and void. The mayor shall Representation represent the said city in the county board of board. supervisors of Ozaukee county, Wisconsin, and in his absence or inability to act, the common council shall designate one of their number to so represent said city. The common council shall at its regular meeting after its election, choose one of the board of aldermen, who shall be styled president of the board of aldermen, and who in the absence of the mayor shall act as such mayor and have and possess all the rights and privileges of such officer and be subject to all the liabilities thereof, during the absence of such mayor.

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SECTION 19. The city clerk shall perform all the Duties of city duties required of him by law and the ordinances clerk. of the city. He shall be keeper of the books, records and papers, and the corporate seal of the city, and the records of the proceedings of the council, and shall possess the same powers that town clerks possess by law to issue transcripts from the records of his office, and they shall, when certified by him, be received in all courts in like manner and effect. He shall perform the same duties in regard to common schools in said city that are by the general laws imposed on town clerks. He shall draw and countersign all orders on the treasurer, and keep a record of the same; he shall file in his office all chattel mort

Jurisdiction of the justice of the peace.

Duties of city treasurer.

gages left with him to be filed and the renewals. thereof, receiving the same fees allowed to town clerks therefor, and the said mortgages and renewals shall be as valid and lawful as when filed in the office of town cierks, and the said clerk shall possess authority to administer oaths; and he shall receive such compensation as the common council shall provide by ordinance or resolution.

SECTION 20. The justices of the peace elected under this act, or who hold over, shall have the same and equal jurisdiction and perform all and like duties of justices of the peace under the general laws of the state of Wisconsin, and have, furthermore, jurisdiction of all offenses against the provisions of this charter and the ordinances, by-laws and police regulations of the common council of the city, and shall qualify in the same manner as provided by the general laws of this state, except that the official bonds or agreements required to be given by them shall be approved by the common council of said city.

SECTION 21. The city treasurer shall perform all the duties required of him by law, collect all city, county and state taxes, and pay over all moneys in his hands according to law. He shall keep in a proper book an account of all moneys received and of all moneys paid out, and the same shall at all times be open to the inspection of the voters of the city. He shall make reports quarterly, and render an itemized account to the common council of all sums received, when and by whom the same was paid, and also of all moneys by him paid out; and all moneys raised, received, recovered or collected by means of any tax, license, penalty, forfeiture, fine or otherwise belonging to said city, under the authority of this act, shall be paid into the treasury of the city, and shall not be drawn therefrom except by an order issued by order of the common council and signed by the mayor or acting mayor, and countersigned or attested by the city clerk. The treasurer shall have the same powers and be subject to the same laws and liabilities and governed by the same laws as treasurers of towns in this state; provided, that he shall receive no other fees except the compensation hereinafter provided.

SECTION 22. The marshal shall perform such