CHAPTERS 11, 12.

Time for pay

extended.

CHAPTER 11.

AN ACT to extend the time for the collection of taxes in the city of Beloit.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The time for the collection of taxes in ment of taxes city of Beloit, in the county of Rock, is hereby extended until the first Monday of April, 1859. Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to extend the time for the payment of State taxes.

lector.

Powers of col- § 2. The collector of taxes shall have the same power and authority to proceed in the collection of taxes contained in said city tax roll, after, as before, such extension of time for the collection of said taxes, and the return of the collector of taxes to the county treasurer within the time limited and specified by this act, extending the time for the collection of taxes, shall be as valid and effectual, as if made pursuant to the direction of the original warrant.

Authority to

make an assessment roll.

3.

This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 1, 1859.

CHAPTER 12.

AN ACT to provide for the Assessment and Collection of Taxes in the town of New Berlin, Waukesha county.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The chairman of the board of supervisors, town clerk, and town superintendent of the town of New Berlin, in Waukesha county, are hereby authorized to make an assessment roll of the taxable property in said town, and for that purpose shall take the assessment roll made out and equalized by the county board of assessors of said county, and shall have power to correct all errors of descriptions in said said list, and to supply oll omissions of property that was taxable on the first day of June, 1858, and shall complete said assessment roll by the 10th day of February next, and deliver a copy thereof to the town clerk of said town, who shall immediately proceed to compute the amount of taxes due on said assessment roll, and complete the same by the 20th day of February next.

§ 2. The town clerk shall deliver said assessment CHAPTER 18. roll to the town treasurer whenever he shall produce Town Clerk. the proper certificate of the county treasurer that his bond has been approved and filed in his office.

fect.

§ 3. The said assessment roll, when perfected and Force and efdelivered as aforesaid, shall be of equal validity and have the same force and effect as though the same had been made out as required by chapter 115 of the general laws of 1858.

§ 4. In case of the neglect or refusal of either of the Neglect or repersons herein named to perform any of the duties im- fusal to act. posed by the first section of this act, any two of them may perform the service so required."

time for collec

ting taxes.

§ 5. The time for the collection of taxes in said Extension of town and the payment of the county and state tax is hereby extended to the first day of April next, and the present treasurer of the said town of New Berlin is hereby authorized to collect said tax, and his term of office for that purpose is hereby extended to that date. § 6. This act shall take effect immediately after its passage and publication.

Approved February 3d, 1859.

CHAPTER 13.

AN ACT to authorize the Town Clerk of the the town of Cyrstal Lake in county of Marquette to correct and adjust the Assessment Roll of said town, and to extend the time for the collection thereon.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

ment roll.

SECTION 1. The town clerk of the town of Crystal Authority to Lake, in the county of Marquette, is hereby authorized correct assessand empowered to correct and adjust the assessment roll of said town, now in his hands as such clerk, and to perfect the same by a re-assessment of the taxable property in said town and by an' assessment of such property as is liable to assessment and not now upon said assessment roll, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors of said town, to be endorsed thereon in writing.

extended.

§ 2. The time for the collection and return of the Time for collectaxes in the town of Crystal Lake, in the county of Mar- tion of taxes quette, is hereby extended to the first day of April next. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 3d, 1859.

CHAPTERS 14, 15.

Proceedings declared valid.

CHAPTER 14.

AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of Joint School District No. one, of the town of Utica, Rushford, Omro, and Nepuskun.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All taxes voted or levied, and all contracts made, or liabilities incurred, and all proceedings had in joint school district No. one, comprising parts of the towns of Utica, Rushford, Omro and Nepuskun, in the county of Winnebago, for the purpose of erecting the school house therein situated, are hereby declared to be legal and valid.

2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 4, 1859.

Town Clerk authorized to correct assessment roll.

CHAPTER 15.

AN ACT to authorize the Town Clerk of the Town of Port Washington in the county of Ozaukee to correct and adjust the Assessment Roll of said Town for the year 1858.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The town clerk of the town of Port Washington, in the county of Ozaukee, is hereby authorized to correct and adjust the assessment roll of said town for the year 1858.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 4, 1859.

CHAPTER 16.

AN ACT to legalize the assessment of State, County and School Taxes in the county of Milwaukee for the year 1858, and the Assessment Rolls made in pursuance of such Assessment.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Asesmbly, do enact as follows:

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16, 17.

clared valid.

SECTION 1. The assessment of State, County and Assessment deSchool taxes in the county of Milwaukee, for the year 1858, and the assessment rolls therein made in pursuance of such assessment, are hereby declared to be legal and valid to all intents and purposes, notwithstanding any mistakes, informalites or irregularities in making out, equalizing and returning of the same.

82. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 4, 1859.

CHAPTER 17.

AN ACT to amend the act entitled "an act to extend the time for collecting taxes for the year 1858, in the counties of Brown, Oconto, Calumet, Manitowoc and Ozaukee."

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

extended.

SECTION 1. The provisions of the act entitled "an Time for colact to extend the time for collecting taxes for the year lecting taxes 1858. in the counties of Brown, Oconto, Calumet, Manitowoc and Ozaukee," of which this is amendatory, shall extend to and have force in the counties of Kewanee, Door, and Shawanaw, and the time for the voluntary payment of taxes for the year 1858 in said last named counties, and the manner of collection thereof, shall be as prescribed in the act of which this is amendatory, for the counties named therein.

§ 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 4, 1859.

Authority to

ment roll.

CHAPTER 18.

AN ACT to authorize the correction of the Assessment Roll of the city of Milwaukee for the year 1858, and a re-levy of taxes in said city for the said year.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Milcorrect assess- waukee are hereby authorized to correct the asssessment roll of the said city made for the year 1858, by rectifing all errors and illegal assessments apparent on the same, and also wherever improvements are assessed on the wrong lot or piece of land by correcting the error and assessing them on the proper lot or piece of land.

Duty of Common Council.

Tax to be levied.

Duty of Clerk.

Re-levy of tax.

Duty of Treas➡

urer.

§ 2. Such correction shall be made within thirteen days from the passage of this act, or as soon thereafter as it conveniently can be done.

3. When such assessment roll shall have been so corrected, the common council shall, by resolution, declare the same to be the assessment roll of said city for the said year, and such resolution shall be conclusive evidence that such assessment roll is valid and legal. § 4. The common council shall thereupon levy such tax upon the property so assessed, as they were authorized to levy for the year 1858.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the said city to report without delay to the clerk of the board of su pervisors of the county of Milwaukee, a list of all the corrections of the assessment roll so made by the common council, and the said clerk of the board of supervisors, if the board of supervisors shall not then be in session, shall, as soon as practicable after the reception of such list, call a meeting of the board of supervisors of said county.

8 6. The said board shall re-levy upon the assessment roll of the said city, corrected as aforesaid, percentages, for state and county purposes, which will produce the same amounts intended to be produced by their former levy on the assessment roll of 1858.

87. The clerk of the said board of supervisors shall, within a reasonable time, furnish copies of such proceedings to the treasurer of the city of Milwaukee.

§ 8. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said city to correct the tax lists now in his hands so as to make them correspond with the assessment roll as corrected, and the taxes as levied under this act.