Vacated. Construed. CHAPTER 6. AN ACT to vacate a portion of the Black River Road in Vernon county. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. So much of the old traveled state or territorial road, known as the Black River Road, as lies within the towns of Franklin and Viroqua, in Vernon county, is hereby vacated. SECTION 2. This act shall not be construed so as to vacate or make void any county or town road laid upon, near or parallel to the road aforesaid. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 16, 1872. Repealed. CHAPTER 7. [Published February 24, 1872.] AN ACT to repeal chapter three hundred and twenty-three of private and local laws of 1871, entitled" an act to enable damages in certain cases to be paid by the first ward of the city of Oshkosh." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter three hundred and twenty. three (323) of the private and local laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one (1871), entitled "an act to enable damages in certain cases to be paid by the first ward of the city of Oshkosh," is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 20, 1872. CHAPTER 8. AN ACT to vacate a portion of the state road laid out under chapter ninety-three of the private and local laws of 1871. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The state road laid out, surveyed and Vacated. established from the village of Richland Center, in the county of Richland, to the village of Platteville, in the county of Grant, on the 20th day of June, 1871, by the commissioners appointed under chapter 93 of the private and local laws of 1871, is hereby vacated from the place of commencement of said road, at the southeast corner of the northeast quarter of section twentyone, in the said village of Richland Center, to the south line of the county of Richland. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts, contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. The provisions of this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 20, 1872. CHAPTER 9. AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and seventy-six of the private and local laws of 1871, entitled "an act to authorize and require the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county of Saint Croix to keep up and maintain an abstract of tax sales." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one hundred and Amended. seventy-six of the private and local laws of 1871, entitled "an act to authorize and require the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county of Saint Croix to keep up and maintain an abstract of tax sales," is hereby amended by striking out all after the word, "paid," where the same occurs in the twelfth line of said section, and in sert in lieu thereof, the following: "Such compensation as the board of supervisors of said county may by resolution fix." SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 21, 1872. CHAPTER 10. [Published February 24, 1872.] May authorize issuing bords AN ACT to authorize the city of Milwaukee to aid in the construction of the Eastern La Fayette and Mississippi Railway Company. 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 to aid railroad. Milwaukee shall have power by ordinance to authorize, upon such terms and conditions, and with such guaranties and securities as they may require, the issue of the corporate bonds of said city to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, payable at such time as the common council shall determine, with interest at the rate of seven per cent. per annum, to be used exclusively for the purpose of aiding in the construction of a railroad for public use from Monroe, in Green county, to the left bank of the Mississippi river in Grant county, which is to be a continuation and extension of a railroad now constructed and in operation from the city of Milwaukee to Monroe aforesaid, and which is proposed to be constructed by the Eastern La Fayette and Mississippi Railway Company, of which company the city of Milwaukee, by the issue of said bonds, is to become a stockholder and joint owner, and which railroad, when built, will promote the general prosperity and welfare of said city of Milwaukee. How bonds to be executed. SECTION 2. The bonds hereby authorized to be issued, shall be signed by the mayor and clerk of the said city, and countersigned by comptroller of the said city, and attested by the commissioners of the public debt of the said city, and shall in terms be made pay able in the city of New York, and shall each be for the principal sum of one thousand dollars, or five hundred dollars, and shall have coupons or interest warrants attached thereto, for the semi-annual payment of the interest thereon. SECTION 3. No bonds shall be issued by the com- To be submitmon council under this act, unless a majority of the ted to vote. legal voters of said city, voting on the question shall have first voted in favor of the same at the time and in the manner hereinafter set forth. SECTION 4. At the election to be held for city where and how officers in the said city, in April, 1872, the legal voters submitted. in the several wards may vote on the question of issuing the bonds mentioned in this act, and the inspectors of election are directed to provide a separate box, for the reception of the votes offered on such question, and the ballots so taken shall either have the words, Form of ballots "for the Monroe and Dubuque bonds," or "against the the Monroe and Dubuque bonds," written or printed thereon; the polls to be kept open for the same period as for the election of city officers, and the votes canvassed and returned at the same time, and in the same manner, and if the majority of the votes cast shall be "for the Monroe and Dubuque bonds," then the vote shall be deemed and declared to be in favor of issuing said bonds. what amount terms to be de and upon what delivered. SECTION 5. Whenever a majority of the legal ir vote is favorvoters shall have voted in favor of said bonds in man- able, how bonds to be issued, to ner aforesaid, the mayor and clerk of the said city of Milwaukee shall make and issue the bonds of said city to the amouut of fifty thousand dollars in manner and form as herein before provided, and shall deliver the same in trust to such person or corporation as shall be designated by said common council, which person or corporation so designated, is hereby declared the trustee of said bonds, to hold the same for the following uses and trusts and for no other purpose, to wit: Whenever the said Eastern La Fayette and Mississippi Railway Company or its successors or assigns shall have completed the construction of their railroad from the village of Monroe, in Green county, to the Mineral Point Railroad, so that cars are actually running over the same, the said trustee shall deliver to the said railway company or its successors or assigns twenty-five thousand dollars of said bonds: provided, the said railway company 2-P. & L. Shall be entitled to all the stock held. shall simultaneously with the delivery of said bonds and in-consideration thereof, deliver to the said trustee, for the use of the city of Milwaukee, such number of shares of the capital stock of said railway company as will, at their par value, amount to the said sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and the said trustee shall immediately deliver said shares of stock to the treasurer of the city of Milwaukee for the use and benefit of said city. And whenever the said railway company shall have completed the construction of their railroad, so that cars are actually running thereon, from the said Mineral Point Railroad, to any point on the Illinois Central Railroad, near the left bank of the Mississippi river, the said trustee shall deliver to the said railway company or its successors or assigns, the remaining twenty-five thousand dollars of said bonds: provided, the said railway company shall simultaneously with the delivery of said låst mentioned bonds, and in consideration thereof, deliver to the said trustee for the use of the city of Milwaukee, such additional number of shares of the capital stock of said railway company as will, at their par value, amount to the further sum of twenty-five thousand dollars; and provided, further, that none of such bonds shall be delivered by such trustee, until the full performance of all conditions, terms and agreements upon the part of such railroad company be performed, stipulated to be precedent to such delivery. And the said trustee shall immediately deliver such additional shares of stock to the treasurer of the city of Milwaukee, for the use and benefit of said city. SECTION 6. The said city of Milwaukee, when it benefits of the shall have received any stock in said Eastern La Fayette and Mississippi Railway Company, shall be part owner of said railroad, and of the franchises of said company, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and advantages resulting or to result from the ownership of such stock, to which any other stockholder is entitled, and the common council of said city may appoint an agent to vote at all meetings of stockholders of said company, for the election of officers or otherwise, on all the stock held by said city. May levy tax instead of iɛ suing bonds. SECTION 7. The said common council shall have power by ordinance, instead of issuing bonds as hereinbefore provided, to levy a tax on the taxable property |