STATUTES OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. 1851. An Act making an appropriation for the payment of money to the Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court. THE People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The State Treasurer is hereby authorised to pay to Daniel H. Chandler, the Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six hundred dollars, in full compensation and satisfaction for two hundred volumes of the decisions of the Supreme Court, for the years one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine and one thousand eight hundred and fifty, being volumes one and two; which he has published and delivered to the State, under the provisions of the act entitled "An Act to provide for the publication of legal decisions,' approved March 31st, 1849. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor, and President of the Senate. Approved, January 15th, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. An Act to change the name of the town of Buena Vista, in St. Croix county. " The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That the town of Buena Vista, in the county of St. Croix, shall hereafter be called and known by the name of Willow River. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, January 22d, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 1. Chap. 2. Chap. 3. An Act to pay to Joseph Bowron 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 be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Joseph Bowron, the sum of fifty dollars, in full for expenses and services rendered in transmitting the election returns of St. Croix county to Madison, in the autumn of eighteen hundred and forty-eight. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly: SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, January 22d, 1851. NELSON DEWEY. Chap. 4. Senate. Assembly. An Act to appropriate money to pay the mileage of the members of the Legislature. The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the warrant of the Chief Clerk of the Senate, the sum of two hundred and ninety-seven dollars and ten cents, being the amount due members of the Senate for their mileage. SEC. 2. There is also hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, on the warrant of the Chief Clerk of the Assembly, the sum of eleven hundred and eighty-two dollars, being the amount due members of the Assembly for their mileage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, January 22d, 1851. NELSON DEWEY.. Chap. 5 An Act to extend the time for collecting and making returns of the Taxes levied in Time of pay the county of Fond du Lac, for the year eighteen Itundred and fifty. T The People of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The time for collecting and making return of ment extended. the taxes for Fond du Lac county, apportioned and levied for the year eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby extended to the third Monday of February, eighteen hundred and fifty one; and the time for making payment to the State Treasurer, of the amount due from Fond du Lac county to the State, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty, is hereby extended to the second Monday of March, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. collcet. SEC. 2. The Town Treasurers of said county are hereby Treasurers to authorised to collect the taxes specified in the warrants delivered, or which may be delivered to them by the Town Clerks, in the same manner that they are authorised to do by the general laws on that subject; and to make return thereof on or before the third Monday of February, eighteen hundred and fifty-one. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. FREDERICK W. HORN, Speaker of the Assembly. SAMUEL W. BEALL, Lt. Governor and President of the Senate. Approved, January 22d, 1851. An Act to authorize the assessment and collection of Taxes in the city of Milwaukee. Chap. 6. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: le vied. SECTION 1. It shall and may be lawful for the common Taxes may be council of the city of Milwaukee to assess and levy a tax or taxes, for the several city, ward, special, and other purposes, of every kind and nature authorized by law, or the ordinances. of said city, upon the real and personal property and effects by law taxable in said city, for the several city, ward, special and other purposes, sufficient in amount to pay, satisfy and discharge all demands, claims and debts, due or becoming due within the present year against said city, including also a debt against said city in a sum amounting to and equal to the interest for one year, at the rate of seven per cent. per annum upon the several sums paid into the treasury by tax payers, and by purchasers at sales for taxes heretofore assessed, for the years 1849 and 1850, and supposed to have been illegal, and also the several sums, with the same interest thereon, required by law to be raised and collected by taxation in said city, for state and county purposes, not heretofore legally assessed and collected. appointed. SEC. 2. The common coungil of said city shall, in such Assessors to be manner as they may think proper, select and appoint, for each and every ward in said city, three assessors, who shall reside in the ward for which they may be selected and appointed; and in case of neglect, refusal, or any inability on the part of said assessors, or either of them, to discharge the duties of the office, the common council may revoke any such appointment and appoint others in their stead. Tax list when returnable. Equalization. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the said assessors, after having been duly qualified according to law, to make, before the first day of March next, a list of all taxable property within the ward for which they were appointed, with such a clear and definite description that the property may be known as nearly as practicable, as directed by the laws now in force for the assessment of taxes, and shall set opposite to each lot, or part of a lot, or piece of land, or other thing, article or commodity, in such list contained, the actual cash value thereof, as nearly as said assessor can determine; and said assessment roll shall be returned on or before the said first day of March next (or such other time as the Common Council may prescribe), to the clerk of said city, with an affidavit of the taxable property for the ward for which they were respectively appointed thereunto annexed. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Common Council, upon receiving the assessment roll as aforesaid, to lay the same before the Common Council for their consideration, and the said Council shall be a Board of Equalization, to consider the value of the property on the several lists of assessment, and, if deemed necessary, make such amendments, corrections and alterations as to them may seem proper, to produce equality of assessment, agreeably to the true value of property comparatively in the several wards; and after such equalization shall have been completed, rates per centum on the amount of the assessments in each ward, shall be levied as a tax, or taxes, for the several city, ward, special, and other purposes, and for the said unpaid debts of the said city, and the several wards thereof, and the said state and county taxes as aforesaid; and when the said Common Council shall have determined the rates per centum to be taxed on the assessed value of property as contained in the said assessment rolls, it shall be the duty of the Glerk to prepare Clerk, together with such assistance as the Council may select, under the direction of the Council, to make out in accordance with such determination, a schedule of all the property in each ward separately, as contained in such assessment rolls, annexing to each lot or other item of property, in separate columns, the amount of tax chargeable on the same, for the several purposes by this act authorized, which schedule shall be called the tax list,and shall be recorded by said Clerk, for each ward separately, in a book to be by him kept for that purpose; and said tax roll, in the ward thereof, shall be conclusive evidence of the amount of taxes assessed. tax Treasurer's warrant. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the clerk to complete the tax lists of each ward, within such time as may be prescribed by the Common Council, and deliver the same to the Treasurer of the said city, together with a warrant of the Mayor for col |