Penalty for vio- City may use county jail. Private prop erty not liable for city debt. How judgments collected of the cers. Every such license shall contain a clause prohibiting the selling, vending or giving away of any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors on general or special election days. SECTION 13. Every person having such license who shall vend, sell or give away any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors on any election day, shall be liable to prosecution under this act, or the ordinances of the city, or may be indicted or prosecuted by information in the circuit court of Crawford county, and upon conviction thereof, any such offender shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned in the jail of Crawford county, not more than thirty days nor less than ten days, at the discretion of the court, and the license held by such person shall be forfeited and void. SECTION 14. The use of the jail of Crawford county until otherwise provided, shall be granted to said city for the confinement of offenders, and every such of fender shall be delivered to the sheriff of said county, for whose custody, safe keeping and delivery, the said sheriff shall be responsible as in other cases. SECTION 15. No real or personal property of any inhabitant of said city or any individual or corporation shall be levied upon or sold by virtue of any execution issued to satisfy or collect any debt, obligation or contract of said city. SECTION 16. When a judgment shall be recovered city or its offi- against said city or any ward thereof, or against any officer of said city or of any ward thereof, in any action prosecuted by or against him, in his name of office, when the same should be paid by the city or any ward thereof, no execution shall be issued or awarded upon such judgment, except as hereinafter provided; but the same, unless reversed, shall be levied and collected as other city or ward charges, and when so collected, shall be paid by the city treasurer to the person to whom the same shall be adjudged, upon the delivery of a proper voucher therefor; but if the payment thereof be not made within sixty days after the city treasurer is required to make his return of city or ward taxes, next after the rendition of such judgment, execution may be issued thereon, upon the order of the court authorized to issue execution on special application therefor. SECTION 17. The moneys in the hands of the town How public treasurer of the town of Prairie du Chien, and all sums divided. moneys to be due from the county of Crawford to said town by reason of delinquent taxes or otherwise, and all sums due to said town from all other sources, on the first Monday of April, 1872, shall be divided between said town and said city in proportion to the value of the taxable property of each, which shall be ascertained and agreed upon by the town treasurer of said town and city treasurer of said city, and the assessment roll for the year 1871 shall be the basis of such agreement; and when the proper amount due the city from said town, county and other sources shall be sc ascertained, the same shall be paid to the treasurer of said city on demand of said treasurer for the use of said city, and shall become the moneys and funds of said city." priation for SECTION 18. The common council shall have power Annual approto appropriate a sum not exceeding five hundred dol- highways. lars annually, for the purpose of repairing and maintaining highways leading into the city, which shall be expended under the direction of the common council. SECTION 19. This act shall be considered a public act, and shall be construed favorably in all courts and places. SECTION 20. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1872. CHAPTER 22. [Published March 8, 1872.] AN ACT to amend chapter 500 of the private and local laws of 1868, entitled "an act to consolidate and amend an act to incorporate the city of Madison and the several acts amendatory thereof," approved March 6, 1868. 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 May convert street into pubMadison shall have power and authority to convert the lic park and foot of Wisconsin avenue, between Wilson street and change its name Prohibited from contracting debt. Not to order sidewalks ex of owners of lots. Lake Monona, into a public park, and to exclude teams therefrom, and also upon petition of the inhabitants living thereon to change the name of that part of Wisconsin avenue, lying between the Capitol park and Lake Monona, to Monona avenue, and may also upon like petition, change the name of such part of any other avenue or street as shall be disconnected from the avenue or street bearing the same name. SECTION 2. The common council of the city of Madison shall have no power or authority, and they are hereby prohibited from borrowing any money or from authorizing any city officer to borrow money for the use of the city; nor shall they have power or authority to contract or create any debt for any purpose whatever, unless there is money in the city treasury for the payment of the same, except for such work on the streets as shall be paid for by special tax or assessment on the property benefited thereby provided, however, that said council, during the present year in cases of emergency or necessity, may make temporary loans of money for current expenses, but no such loan or loans shall exceed the sum of five hundred dollars in any one month, and all such loans shall be paid out of the taxes assessed in the year 1872, for general city purposes; but after the year 1872, no such loans shall be made, and any loan made or debt created or authorized by the mayor or council contrary to the provisions of this act shall be void. SECTION 3. The common council shall not order cept on petition the construction of any sidewalk or gutter, or the grading or paving of any street or part of street, which is to be paid for in whole or in part by special taxes or assessments, except on petition of the owners of at least one-half of the property to be taxed or assessed for the payment of the same; and all such work, when ordered, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder, except the repair of sidewalks, which may be done as now provided in the city charter. Limitation of taxes. SECTION 4. At the time of levying taxes each year as provided in the city charter, the common council may levy a tax for general city purposes, but no such tax shall exceed the sum of fifteen thousand dollars in any one year; but this section shall not be so construed as to effect or prevent levying taxes for the curreat expenses of common schools, or for the payment treasurer. misapplied. of principal or interest on the bonded debt of the city, or for the payment of amounts voted to the Madison and Portage and Baraboo Air Line Railroads or special assessments, but shall include and cover all other taxes. SECTION 5. The city treasurer shall charge and col- Fees of the city lect one per cent. fees upon all taxes paid on or before the tenth day of January in each year, and upon all taxes paid after that day, he shall charge and collect two per cent. fees, but the whole compensation of the city treasurer shall in no case exceed eight hundred dollars a year, and all fees collected by him exceeding that amount shall be paid by him into the general fund of the city provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the treasurer now in office. SECTION 6. All funds coming into the city treasury Funds not to be shall be appropriated and used exclusively for the purpose for which said funds were raised and for no other purpose whatever, and any conversion or appopriation of any of the funds of the city to persons, or for purposes not authorized by the city charter, by the common council, shall be deemed a misdemeanor on the part of each and every member of the common council voting for the same and each and every member thereof so voting may be prosecuted and punished as provided in section twelve of chapter eleven of the city charter for other similar offenses. It shall not be lawful for the city treasurer to pay out any funds in his hands that were raised for any particular or specified purpose, on appropriations or orders made by the common council, for any other purpose than that for which such funds were raised; and any violation of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, such treasurer shall be fined in a sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars and costs of suit, and shall also be liable on his official bond for the repayment of all such sums of money; and the city or any person or persons having claims against the fund so misapplied may sue for and recover the same. SECTION 7. No ordinance, by-law, resolution or or- When ordider passed by the common council shall have any force nances, etc., to or effect, until approved and signed by the mayor, and the president of the council, as acting mayor shall sign no ordinance, by-law, resolution or order that the mayhas refused to sign, and made known such refusal to the council, the action of the mayor being final there take effect. on. No per diem whatever shall be paid to any police officer in the city, and they shall receive only such fees as are authorized by the city charter. SECTION 8. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 6, 1872. Amended. CHAPTER 23. AN ACT to amend section three of chapter twenty three of the private and local laws of 1867, entitled "an act to incorporate the Wisconsin yearly meeting of Free Will Baptists." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter twenty-three of the private and local laws of 1867 is hereby amended by inserting in the fourth line of said section, after the word, "such," the words, "time and." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 6, 1872. Repealed. CHAPTER 24. [Published March 7, 1872.] AN ACT to amend chapter ten of the private and local laws of 1871, entitled" an act to authorize the city of Appleton to fund its corporate indebtedness, and to limit the amount of its bonded indebtedness." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The ninth and tenth sections of chapter ten of the private and local laws of 1871 are hereby repealed, but the repeal of said sections nine and |