Clerk to give notice for sealed proposals.

Amount to be levied as special tax.

Shall allow ac

count, and di

drawn.

SECTION 2. Whenever an order is made for the construction of such cistern or reservoir, it shall be the duty of the city clerk to give public notice in the offi cial paper or papers of said city, that such cistern or reservoir will be constructed, and that sealed proposals will be received by the board of aldermen, or a com mittee of said board, for at least ten days from the date of the first publication for constructing such cistern or reservoir, and furnishing all the material necessary for the same, and contract shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder, in the same way as contract is let for street improvement.

SECTION 3. The contract price of such cistern or reservoir shall be levied and assessed from the real estate, exclusive improvements, in such blocks from which such petition, as prescribed in section one of this act, emanates, and shall be added as a special tax to the next annual tax roll of said city, and collected in the same manner as other general or special taxes of said city are collected.

SECTION 4. As soon as a contract, as prescribed in rect order to be section three of this act, has been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the board of aldermen, said board of aldermen shall allow the account as stipulated in said contract, and cause a city order, payable from the general fund to be issued therefor, and such general fund shall be reimbursed from the special taxes levied, assessed and collected as prescribed in section three of this act.

If contract is not fulfilled, may refuse to accept.

May contract with owners, to fill cisterns.

SECTION 5. Whenever any contract for the construction of a cistern or reservoir shall not have been fulfilled to the satisfaction of the board of aldermen, nor according to the order as prescribed in section one of this act, it shall be lawful for said board of aldermen to refuse to accept such cistern or reservoir until the same be constructed according to the provisions of such order or to the satisfaction of said board of aldermen, or the said board may make such deduction from the contract price as to them may seem just and proper. SECTION 6. The board of aldermen make con. tracts or agreements with the owners of buildings in the vicinity of such cisterns or reservoirs, for filling the same with water, or may order such cisterns or reservoirs to be filled by the fire department, or from any fountain, spring, creek or stream of water in said city,

may

and the costs of filling such cisterns or reservoirs shall be paid from the general fund of said city.

SECTION 7. Whenever any cisterns or reservoirs Not lawful to shall have been built under the provisions of this act, eral fund withpay out of genit shall be unlawful for the board of aldermen to order out refunding. the construction of cisterns or reservoirs at the expense of the general fund, unless said board of aldermen shall refund the special taxes levied, assessed and collected, according to the provisions of section three of this act. SECTION 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 9. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872,

CHAPTER 128.

AN ACT to authorize Willet P. Ranney and DeElbert Ranney to maintain two certain docks and piers in Washington harbor.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Willet P. Ranney and DeElbert Ran- May maintain ney, their associates, successors, heirs, executors, ad- docks and piers. ministrators and assigns, are hereby authorized and empowered to maintain for their exclusive use, profit, benefit and advantage, their two certain docks and piers heretofore constructed and extending into the waters of Washington harbor from the lands of the said Willet P. Ranney and DeElbert Ranney, in lots Nos. two (2) and five (5) respectively, of section twenty-five (25), in township thirty-four (34), of range twenty nine (29); and the same docks and piers to repair, improve, enlarge and rebuild, in the same manner and with like effect, in all respects, as if the same had been originally constructed under authority of an act of legislature.

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

Approved March 25, 1872.

CHAPTER 129.

AN ACT to authorize T. B. Sheldon and William Howe to keep and maintain a ferry across the Mississippi river, at some point in the county of Pierce, in the state of Wisconsin, opposite the city of Redwing, in the state of Minnesota.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. T. B. Sheldon and William Howe, their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns shall have the exclusive right and privilege, for the term of ten years from and after the passage of this act, of keeping and maintaining a ferry across the Mississippi river, where the town line between township number twentyfour (24), range number seventeen (17), and township number twenty-four (24), range number eighteen (18), strikes the said river, and within two miles of said point, up and down said river.

SECTION 2. The said T. B. Sheldon and William Howe, their associates or assigns shall, within three months after the passage of this act, place and maintain, at the aforesaid place, such good and sufficient boat or boats as may be necessary to carry across said river, all teams, horses, cattle or other property, and for the accommodation of foot passengers, and shall at all times give ready and prompt attendance on passengers or teams on all occasions, and at all hours of the day or night; but persons crossing the said ferry at night may be charged double the fare hereinafter prescribed.

SECTION 3. The said corporation may land their boats, passengers and property on any public highway which now does or may hereafter terminate within the points above specified, or on the lands of any person or persons owning the same, they having first procured the permission of such owners to do so.

SECTION 4. The said T. B. Sheldon and William Howe, their associates or assigns shall, within three months after the passage of this act, file or cause to be filed with the clerk of the board of supervisors of the county of Pierce, in the state of Wisconsin, a bond to the said board, with two or more sureties, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned that they

will fulfill all the duties imposed upon them by this act, and in case of their failure to do so, they shall forfeit all the benefits that might accrue to them from the passage of this act.

failure to keep

SECTION 5. That for every neglect to keep a good Forfeiture for and sufficient boat cr boats, failure to give prompt and boats, etc. due attendance upon all persons wishing to cross the said ferry, when said river is clear of ice, the aforesaid corporators shall forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be recovered by and for the use of Pierce county, in a civil action before any justice of the peace in and for said county, and shall be further liable in a like action for all damages any persons may sustain by reason of the neglect of the aforesaid corporators to fulfill any of the duties imposed upon them by this act, or any one in their employ.

charged.

ferriage.

SECTION 6. The rates charged for crossing at said when double ferry shall not exceed the following, except to those rates may be crossing after eight o'clock, P. M., and before five o'clock, A. M., when double the rates herein allowed may be charged; double rates may also be charged when it shall be necessary for said corporators, on the account of high water, to run a steam ferry arround or across the island in front of Redwing in Minnesota. The regular rates for crossing shall not exceed for Regular rates of each foot passenger, fifteen cents; for each horse or mule with or without rider, twenty-five cents; for each two horse, mule or ox team, loaded or unloaded, with or without driver, fifty cents; for each single horse with buggy or carriage, with or without passengers, forty cents; for each single horse, mare, mule, ox or cow, ten cents; for each swine or sheep, five cents; all freights of merchandise or other articles not in teams, at the rate of ten cents per hundred weight, when the same is delivered on board, and thirty cents per thousand feet for lumber also delivered on board.

SECTION 7. If the said corporators, their heirs or Penalty for exacting higher assigns, or any ferryman or other person employed by rates than althem shall take, exact or receive any greater or higher lowed by this rate of ferriage for transporting persons, goods and chattels or other things whatsoever, than is allowed by this act, the said corporators, their heirs or assigns shall be liable to the party aggrieved, in the sum of five dollars for every such offense, and which may be recov

Penalty for infringement upon rights herein conferred.

ered before any justice of the peace of this state, having by law, jurisdiction over the same.

SECTION 8. If any other person or persons shall, after the establishment of the said ferry as aforesaid, set up or keep or maintain any ferry, or shall carry any person, goods or chattels for hire or pay across the Mississippi river from any place on the east side or shore of the waters of said river, within the points above specified, every such person shall, for every such offense, forfeit and pay a sum not to exceed ten dollars, to be recovered as aforesaid, by and for the use of said corporators, their assigns, or any person or persons entitled to the rights herein granted

SECTION 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872.

May constitute

CHAPTER 130.

[Published April 5, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the town of Albion, Jackson county, to constitute a school district in said

town.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: ·

SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the town of school district. Albion, Jackson county, are hereby authorized to constitute high school district No. 1, in said town, and to appoint the first district officers of said town, to hold their office until their successors are elected and qualified.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 25, 1872.