assistants. have the right to appoint, and the same to remove at CHAPTER 174. pleasure, one or more assistants, who shall have the Appointment same right to brand all packages inspected by either of and removal of them in the name of the said inspector; but each assistant shall have some distinctive mark, with which he shall designate each package inspected by himself, so as to indicate by whom the inspection was actually made; and the said inspector shall have the right to take bond, with sufficient penalty and security, running to himself, from each of the assistants appointed by himself, and to the same tenor, as the bond herein required to be executed by said inspectors; and the said inspeetor shall be liable for the acts of his said assistants, and may sue on the bonds of any of them, to recover any damages that he may have suffered, by reason of their misfeasance or malfeasance. 15. The said inspector shall have the right to sue, Right of Inin any court having jurisdiction of the action, for his spector to sue fees for services performed, either by himself or his assistants by virtue hereof. in any court. term of office. 816. The inspector, to be appointed, as herein pro- Inspector-apvided, shall be appointed by the common council of the pointment and city of Milwaukee, as soon as convenient after the election of said body; and he shall hold his office for the term of two years, and until his successor be legally qualified. § 17. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1859. CHAPTER 174. AN ACT to amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the city of La The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate SECTION 1. Section eleven (11) of chapter nine (9) Amendment. of an act entitled an "an act to incorporate the city of La Crosse" approved March 14, 1856, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: The city shall be entitled to be represented in the county board of supervisors by CHAPTER 175. One alderman from each ward, as provided by statute in the case of towns, and also by the mayor of said city. Supervisors. The alderman in each word whose term of office expires with the current year, shall be the representation from that ward, and the mayor, from the city at large. The mayor, or alderman acting as supervisor, shall have the power to substitute any alderman in his ward to act in the county board in his stead. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1859. Amendment. CHAPTER 175. AN ACT to amend section one of chapter 361 of the local laws of 1856, entitled an act to vacate a part of the village plat of Mt. Vernon, in Dane county, Wisconsin. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. That section first of chapter 361 of the local laws passed in the year 1856, be and the same is hereby so amended as to read township six (6) north of range seven east, instead of township five (5) north of range seven east, and also to include the west half of the south west quarter of section thirty-four (34) and the west half of the north east quarter of the south-west quarter of said section thirty-four, all in township six north of range seven east. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1859. CHAPTER 176. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the City of Green The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate CHAPTER 176. SECTION 1. Section 17 of the act to which this act Amendment. is amendatory, is hereby amended by adding after the word "laws" in the last line of said section, as follows: "as town treasurers, and the fees of said treasurers shall be limited and established as follows: for all sums received by him as such treasurer, on or before the 25th day of of December of each year, he shall receive as his fees one and a half per cent., and two and a half per cent. for all amounts received thereafter, and he shall receive two and a half per cent. on all special taxes collected by him, and in cases of distress and sale by him of goods and chattels for the payment of any tax, he shall be entitiled to collect and receive for the same in addition to such tax, such fees as constables are authorized to receive for levying upon and selling goods under execution. § 2. The mayor and city council of the rite ofissa Green Bay are hereby authorized and empowered to oonus. issue twenty-five bonds of said city, numbered from one to twenty-five, both inclusive, each of said bonds to be conditioned for the payment of the sum of one thousand dollars to Timothy O. Howe, or bearer, in twelve equal annual installments, from the first day of April, 1859, with interest thereon at the rate of seven per centum per annum, payable annually on all principal sums remaining unpaid, until paid. Said bonds shall only be used in payment of or in exchange for the bonds, and the iuterest thereon, issued by the president and trustees of the borough of Green Bay in payment of the subscription ef said borough to the capital stock of the Green Bay and DePere Plank Road Comipany: Provided, however, That the said bonds shall not be negotiated nor exchanged for less than their par value. interest § 3. It shall be the duty of the mayor and city Anuual tax to council of the said city of Green Bay, and they are pay hereby authorized and empowered, to levy an annual and principal tax sufficient to pay and discharge the interest and such portion of the principal as may annually fall due upon on bonds. CHAPTER 177. Proviso. any portion of the bonds so issued and negotiated, according to the terms and conditions thereof, and the same shall be levied upon all the property in said city liable to taxation for State and county purposes, and shall be carried out in the afsessment roll in a separate column, to be headed, "For Plank Road Purposes," and all taxes so assessed shall be payable only in cash, and when collected shall be kept as a separate fund, and shall be applied to the payment of the interest and principal so falling due upon said bonds, and to no other purpose whatever: Provided, however, That for the convenience of the holder or holders of any of said bonds, the mayor and city council may anticipate the amount to become due on any of said bonds in any one year, by issuing city orders therefor, which orders shall be drawn payable "out of the plank road fund," and all orders so drawn shall be receivable in payment of all taxes assessed in said city for plank road purposes. § 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1859. Alteration of boundaries. CHAPTER 177. AN ACT to change the boundaries of a certain School District therein named. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The boundaries of "Union School District Number Eight," in the town of Monroe in the county of Green, are hereby so altered as to include within said district so much of the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section number thirty-four in town two north, range seven east, as lies north and west of the highway running through said tract; also sixtyfive acres off the south end of the west half of the northwest quarter of section number thirty-six in the same town and range. § 2. This act shall take effect from and after its pas CHAPTER 178. AN ACT to authorize the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee to levy a special tax upon the taxable property of the eighth ward of said city. The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: CHAPTERS 178, 179. purposes. SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Mil- Increase of waukee may, at any time of levying other city taxes taxes for ward for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, increase the amount to be raised for ward purposes in and for the eighth ward of the city of Millwaukee. The sum to be raised for the purpose above specified, shall be three (3) thousand dollars, but shall not exceed five mills on the dollar, upon all taxable property in said ward, such tax to be collected at the same time and in the same manner as other city taxes are collected. § 2. The said tax shall be used, applied, and appro- How tax to be priated for the sole use and purpose to grade, fence and applied. improve the public square between blocks 18, 24, 25, 31, in Walker's Point addition, eighth ward, city of Milwaukee. § 3. Authority is hereby granted to the street com- Street Commismissioners, or the persons who have the control of the sioners. work on the streets and public grounds in the eighth ward, to cause the work provided for in this act to be done during the season of 1859, or at any time thereafter. 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1859. CHAPTER 179. AN ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to incorporate the Wolf River The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate SECTION 1. The act entitled an act to incorporate the Repealed. Wolf River Bridge Company, approved February the 5th, 1859, is hereby repealed." § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 17, 1859. |