Punishment for drunkenness.

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neglecting to perform such acts as are required of him by law.

SECTION 30. Any person who shall be guilty of drunkenness, or iramoderate drinking, improper reveling, obscenity, or noisy, boisterous and disorderly conduct in the streets or public places of the city of Eau Claire, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before the police justice of said city, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of Eau Claire county for a term of not less than two days nor more than three months.

SECTION 31. Whenever any complaint is made to sue of warrants. the police justice of said city by any police officer, sheriff, policeman or other person, that any offense has been committed within the said city against the provisions of the charter of said city, or of the by-laws or ordinances passed in pursuance thereof, whether such offense is made punishable under such charter or ordinances, by fine, penalty or imprisonment, the said justice shall examine the complainant on oath, and reduce the complaint to writing, and cause the same to be subscribed by the complainant; and if it shall appear that any such offense has been committed, the said police justice shall issue his warrant, reciting the substance of the complaint, requiring the officer forthwith to arrest the accused and bring him before such police justice to be dealt with according to law. All the laws of this state relating to the manner of conducting criminal actions before justices' courts shall be applicable to all trials before the police justice under this act, so far as the same do not conflict with the provisions of this act: provided, when the complaint is made by any person other than a police officer of said city or sheriff of Eau Claire county, the said justice, before issuing his warrant, may require security, as provided in section thirteen of chapter ten of this act.

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pewa.

SECTION 32. No compensation or salary shall be paid the mayor or any alderman of said city, except as provided in section twenty-one of this chapter.

SECTION 33. The said city is hereby authorized and across the Chip- empowered to acquire by purchase from the county of Eau Claire all the right, title and interest of the said county, in and to the toll-bridge across the Chippewa river in said city, and the board of supervisors of said

county of Eau Claire is hereby authorized and empowered to sell and convey to said city all the right, title and interest of said county in and to said bridge, and the common council of said city is hereby further authorized and empowered to execute and deliver to said county of Eau Claire, bonds of said city in a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, payable at such time and to bear such rate of interest, not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, as shall be agreed upon be tween the board of supervisors of said county and the common council of said city; and the said city shall have the right to construct other bridge or bridges across said river, and the Eau Claire river, whenever and wherever the common council shall deem it necessary so to do: provided, however, that all bridges hereby authorized to be constructed across the Chippewa river shall be so constructed as not to obstruct the free navigation thereof by steamboats or rafts, and no tax, im. post or duty shall be imposed for passing any such bridge by any boat, raft or craft, navigating said river.

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SECTION 34. No assignees of any license shall be Licenses aspermitted to pursue the occupation or business licensed, transferable. except upon the same premises where the business was conducted by the original holder of said license, except by a vote of two-thirds of the common council.

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SECTION 35. The several town boards of supervis- When present ors and the board of trustees of the several villages, c official year to the town clerks and village clerks, the town treasurers and village treasurers of the several towns and villages included, in whole or in part, within the city limits of said city, shall hold their respective offices, and discharge their respective duties as such officers, until the first Tuesday in April next, in the same manner, and shall have the same power as. if this act had not been passed, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.

prohibited.

SECTION 36. Nothing in this act contained shall be Erection of dam construed as authorizing the erection of a dam or dams across the Chippewa river, within the limits of said city.

SECTION 37. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall be liberally construed in all courts of this state.

Approved March 2, 1872.

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bonds or orders therefor.

How money to be used.

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CHAPTER 17.

[Published March 8, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize the city of Manitowoc to borrow money for the purpose of building bridges.

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

SECTION 1. The board of aldermen of the city of Manitowoc are hereby authorized to borrow such sum or sums of money, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty thousand dollars, at such times as said board of aldermen may deem necessary, for the purposes hereinafter specified, and at the rate of interest not to exceed ten per cent. per annum.

SECTION 2. For the sum or sums of money so borrowed, the said board of aldermen may cause city orders or city bonds to be issued, which orders or bonds shall be signed by the mayor of said city and the city clerk, and be in such denominations as may be thought best by the said board of aldermen, and shall specify the time when each such order or bond shall become due and payable: provided, however, that no such order or bond shall be issued for a longer term or period than five years after the date of issue. Such orders or bonds shall have interest coupons attached thereto for the interest falling due thereon in each year, and such coupons shall be taken in payment for city taxes in such years in which such coupons may become due and payable.

SECTION 3. The moneys so borrowed, shall be used only for the purpose of building a drawbridge across Manitowoc river, in said city of Manitowoc, at a place where Main street crosses said Manitowoc river.

SECTION 4. No money borrowed under the provisfor paying city ions of this act shall be used for the purpose of repairing bridges, or paying interest or principal on the orders or bonds issued under the provisions of this act, or principal or interest on any other indebtedness said city may have contracted or may hereafter contract, or for any other purpose whatsoever, except as specified in section three of this act.

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principal.

SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of the city clerk of Tax to be assaid city of Manitowoc, whenever any orders or bonds interest and shall have been issued under the provisions of this act, to add annually to the amount of taxes levied and assessed by the board of aldermen of said city for the purpose of defraying the general and special expenses of said city, a sum equal to the whole amount of principal or interest on such orders or bonds, which may become due and payable during the year next succeeding the levy, assessment and collection of such taxes, and the sum or sums so added to the amount of taxes levied by said board of aldermen shall be assessed and collected in the same maner as is now or may be hereafter provided by law.

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SECTION 6. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of Payment of said city of Manitowoc to pay on presentation, out of treasurer. any moneys in his hands collected for that purpose or belonging to the general fund of said city, all orders or bonds issued under the provisions of this act, or any coupons thereto which may become due and payable. And in case such orders, bonds or coupons shall have been paid out of moneys belonging to the general fund of said city, then such general fund shall be reimbursed by the taxes ordered to be levied, assessed and collected by section 5 of this act.

to be canceled,

SECTION 7. All orders, bonds or coupons so paid Orders or bonds by the city treasurer, as provided in section 6 of this when paid. act, shall forthwith be canceled by said treasurer, by writing, printing or stamping the word, "paid," in clear and legible letters, on the face of such orders, bonds or coupons, and the same shall be counted, entered and canceled in the proper books to be kept by said treasurer, and destroyed in the same manner as other city orders, bonds, or coupons issued by the city of Maintowoc are counted and destroyed.

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SECTION 8. No order, bond or coupon issued under Not to be re-isthe provisons of this act, and paid by the city treasurer, shall be reissued, nor shall new orders, bonds or coupons be issued for those which have been paid, canceled and destroyed, as prescribed in sections 6 and 7 of this act.

SECTION 9. All acts and parts of acts, so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 10. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1872.

Detached.

CHAPTER 18.

[Published March 8, 1872.]

AN ACT to detach certain territory from the county of Burnett, and to annex the same to the county of Barron.

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

SECTION 1. Township number thirty-seven of ranges ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen and fourteen west, is hereby detached from the county of Burnett and annexed to the county of Barron, and shall hereafter be a part of said county of Barron.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 5, 1872.

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CHAPTER 19.

[Published March 8, 1872.]

AN ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Milwaukee to extend Van Buren street in the third ward of the said city.

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 Milwaukee are hereby authorized to cause Van Buren street to be extended and opened, from Detroit city to Buffalo street in the third ward of said street, in the manner provided for in the charter of the said city, and the acts amendatory thereof.

SECTION 2. The cost of extending and opening said Van Buren street between Detroit street and