CHAPTER 193. of five per cent. for each lot or piece of land so advertised for the first advertisement, and each lot or parcel of land which shall be sold as aforesaid, shall be chargable with the following fees: for each certificate to be given to a purchaser of any lot or parcel of land at such sale, twelve and a half cents; for certifying the amount necessary to redeem any lot or piece, twelve and a half cents; and one dollar for each conveyance executed in pursuance of this act, the said fees to be paid by the person receiving such instrument; the charges for advertising the forfeiture of a piece of land shall be ten cents for each lot or parcel.

All taxes to be

chaser.

55. Any person who shall purchase any lot or paid by pur- piece of land in pursuance of this act, shall pay all taxes returned subsequent to such sale on such lot or piece of land to the treasurer, with interest at the rate of twenty-five per cent. per annum for the benefit of the certificate holders or corporation so paying said tax.

Taxes for im

&c.

§ 56. All taxes levied and collected by the trustees proving road, of said village for the purposes of repairing, grading or improving roads, streets or alleys, (or building or repairing any bridge,) in said village, shall be expended within the limits of each ward respectively, in which the same has been assessed and collected, except the highway tax and poll tax, or any part thereof, may be expended upon the streets running between and divid ing the two wards.

Street Commissioners.

al report.

57. The street commissioners of said village shall, under the directions of the president and trustees, su perintend (the building or repairing of bridges) the grading, paving and improvements of streets, and building of and repairing sidewalk, and the expendi tures of taxes levied and collected for that purpose, and shall receive such compensation as shall be allowed by the trustees under the provisions of this act.

Trustees shall § 58. At every annual election the trustees shall make an annu- make a full and correct report and statement which shall show the name of every person who have had an account or claim allowed by them, the amount of such account or claim as presented, the amount allowed and a brief statement of the demand, which shall be publicly read and shall embrace all accounts allowed by them during the preceding year, and up to the time of making said report.

Affidavit of

59. The affidavit of any person competent to tespublication of tify in a court of justice, of the publication in posting

notice.

up of any notice required by the provisions of this act CHAPTER 198. to be published or posted up, shall be received as proof

of the publication of such notice in all courts and places,

Trustees may

§ 60. If the first or any annual election provided In case no elecfor in this act, shall, for any cause, not be held at the tion be had, time prescribed, it shall not be considered a sufficient order new elecreason for arresting, suspending or absolving the said tion. corporation, but such election may be held at any time thereafter by order of any five freeholders, or by or der of the trustees of said village, of which ten days' notice shall be given by posting up a notice in three public places in each ward; and furthermore, if any of the duties enjoined by this act, at a time therein specified, or specified by any ordinance of said village, are not there done, the trustees may appoint an other time in which the said duties may be performed. Provided, That the officers so failing to execute such duties at the time required shall be liable to the same actions, fines and penalties, as they would have been, had not said power been conferred upon or exercised by said

trustees.

and remove.

861. The trustees shall have power to appoint, and Power of Trusat their pleasure to remove the following officers, to tees to appoint wit: one chief engineer of the fire department, two fire wardens, and as many assistant wardens as they may from time to time deem necessary, one surveyor, one sealer of weights and measures, sexton and keepers of burial grounds, and a street commissioner in each ward, and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation under the provisions of this act, and to impose and enforce in law such penalties as to the said trustees may seem proper for any malfeasance or improper conduct of any of said officers, and to require bonds for the faithful performance of the duties of any such of them as may be deemed expedient and necessary by the

trustees.

business.

$62. A majority of the trustees shall be a quorum Transaction of for the transaction of business, but a less number may meet and adjourn from time to time, or may compel the attendance of any trustee or trustees by an order to be executed by the marshal until a quorum shall be present, but shall do no other business, and in the absence of the president three trustees being present, one of their number may be appointed chairman pro tem. § 63. Any person or persons who shall vend any

cating liquors

CHAPTER 198. spirituous, ardent or intoxicating liquors or drinks withPenalty for in the corporation in violation of the provisions of selling intoxi- this act or contrary to any ordinance or by-laws thereof without license. without first having obtained a license to sell the same, shall for every such offence be fined not less than ten dollars or more than fifty dollars with costs, or be im. prisoned in the county jail of the county of Oconto, not exceeding thirty days.

Peace.

Jurisdiction of 64. The justices of the peace within the said corJustices of the poration shall have jurisdiction of all cases under the provisions of this act or for the violation of any ordi nance and by-laws thereof, and in all such cases and in all criminal cases and in suits for damages done to real estate, if the suit should be removed from the justice before whom the same was commenced for prejudice or other cause, the papers shall be transmitted to the other justice in the said corporation if authorized to try a suit between the parties and if no such justice, or if he be absent or sick, in that case the papers shall be transmitted to the nearest justice of the county in which the defendant may reside or which the writ was served.

Transcript of judgment.

urors.

Present officers

tion vacancies.

§ 65. A transcript of a judgment for more than ten dollars exclusive of costs rendered by any justice of the peace of said corporation may be filed with the clerk of the circuit court of Oconto county and shall be a lien on the real estate of the defendant therein and execution may be issued therein as in other cases made and provided in relation to the transcript of justices judgments.

§ 66. All persons residing within said corporation qualified to serve as jurors in courts of record shall be competent to serve as jurors in any case tried before any justice of the peace therein.

§ 67. If from any cause the president cannot attend the meeting of the county board, the trustees may appoint one of their number to attend in his stead.

§ 68. All the officers of the town in which said vilof town-elec-lage of Oconto is situated shall remain in office as if this act had not been passed, until the first Tuesday of April, 1860, except such of said officers as may reside within the limits of said village, and the term of office of all such officers shall expire on the first Monday of June next, and it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said town to fix a time and place within the limits of said town between the second Monday of

May and the first Monday of June at which a special CHAPTER 194. election shall be held to fill any vacancy to occur as aforesaid, notice of which shall be given by posting up notices thereof in three or more public places in said town for at least ten days previous to the time so fixed for such special election.

take effect.

§ 69. This act shall take effect from and after its When act shall passage; Provided, however, That if from any cause an election shall not be held on the first Tuesday of May next, as herein provided for, the first election of village officers, then and in such case the operation of this act and of all of the provisions therein contained shall be suspended and shall have no force or effect until the first Tuesday of April, 1860, at which time the first election may be held, and the said village become incorporated and established as herein before provided. Approved March 17, 1859.

CHAPTER 194.

AN ACT to incorporate the First Unltarian Society of Milwaukee.

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

SECTION 1. That William H. Metcalf, Edward P. Body corporate Allis, and Charles F. Ilsley and their associates, together with such persons as may be hereafter associated with them, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession by the name of "The First Unitarian Society of Milwaukee" and by that name shall be competent to contract and to be contracted with, sue and be sued, answer and be answered unto in all courts and places and to acquire, hold and enjoy as well as to sell and convey or otherwise dispose of property both real and personal; Provided, That the powers herein granted shall not be so construed as to authorize the corporation hereby created to purchase, sell, or deal in any property except for purposes connected with the erection, completion or preservation of a house of public worship and parsonage connected therewith, and Provided, further, That the annual income of any property so held and owned by said society shall not exceed ten thousand dollars.

§ 2. The corporate concerns of said corporation shall

tees.

CHAPTER 194. be managed by a board of three trustees, a majority of Board of Trus- whom shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall be elected at the first annual meeting held in pursuance herewith and shall hold their of fice except as herein provided for the period of three years. Immediately after their first election they shall decide by lot upon the length of their respective terms and the office of the one who shall draw the short term shall expire in one year, the middle term in two years, and the long term in three years, to the end that one trustee shall be chosen annually thereafter. They may have a common seal and may alter the same at pleasure, and may take into their custody and possession all the temporalities of the society whether the same consist of real or personal estate, and whether given, granted or devised directly or indirectly to such society or to any other person or persons for their use. They shall have power to call special meetings and generally to do and perform all such acts and duties as shall be designated in the by-laws, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

First boardterm of office.

ety.

§ 3. The persons named in this act shall be the first board of trustees and shall hold their office for the term of one year from the first Monday of November, 1858, or until the first annual meeting of the society, and any secretary, treasurer, or other officer which the society may have elected previously to the passage of this act, is hereby confirmed in office, the same to hold to the intention of the said society until such annual meeting.

Powers of soci- § 4. The society at any regular meeting thereof, may adopt such consitution, by-laws and regulations for the management of their temporal concerns, not inconsistent with any law of this state, as they may see fit, and may enforce the same. They shall have power to construct one or more houses of worship, and parsonages, and to alter, repair, and reconstruct any church edifice or parsonage now erected or in process of erection, to order and regulate the sale or renting of the pews, and provide for their forfeiture and reversion to said society in case of the non.payment of any instalment of purchase money, rent or assessment levied in pursuance of any by-law of the society. Said society shall keep a full and complete record of all ordinances, by-laws, rules and regulations made by them and of the names of all members and officers, and of all their pro