day of April, 1878, and biennially thereafter, subject to confirmation by the common council of said city, a commissioner of health, whose duty it shall be to examine into and consider all measures necessary to the preservation of the public health in said city, and to see that all ordinances and regulations in relation there be observed and enforced. missioner. SECTION 2. Such commissioner shall, before he en- Duty of com ters upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe. the usual oath of office; and shall receive for his services such salary as the common council of said city by ordinance fix and determine. SECTION 3. Any vacancy in the office of commis- Vacancy — how sioner of health shall be filled by appointment of the alled. mayor with the approval of said common council; such appointment to be for the unexpired term. missioner. SECTION 4. The commissioner of health shall have Power of compower to appoint, subject to confirmation by said common council, such assistants, clerks, agents and workmen, as may be necessary for the proper discharge of his duties, and they shall receive such salary or compensation for their services as said common council may fix. SECTION 5. All powers vested in the board of Same. health and the health officer of said city, are hereby conferred upon the commissioner of health, and all the duties of said board and of said health officer shall, from and after the taking effect of this act, devolve upon and be vested in the said commissioner of Lealth. SECTION 6. Sections one, two and three of sub- Acts repealed. chapter thirteen of chapter one hundred and eightyfour, or the laws of 1874, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and amend the charter of the city of Milwaukee, approved February 20, 1852, and the several acts amendatory thereof;" also chapter three hundred and sixty-nine of the laws of 1876, amendatory of said chapter one hundred and eighty-four, aud all other acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SECTION 7. This act shall take effect on the 15th day of April, A. D. 1878. Approved February 23, 1878. Money, donations, etc., to be paid into city treasury. Per cent. deducted from salaries. Relief of sick etc. [No. 143, A.] [Published February 27, 1878.] CHAPTER 37. AN ACT in relation to the establishment of a [firemen's relief fund in the city of Milwaukee. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All moneys received by the chief engineer of the fire department of the city of Milwaukee, as donations or presents to said fire department, and now in his hands, and all donations and presents hereafter received by such chief engineer of the fire department in his official capacity, shall be paid into the city treasury of the city of Milwaukee, and shall constitute a fund to be called the "Firemen's Relief Fund," and the persons who shall from time to time fill the offices of mayor, chief engineer and first assistant engineer of the fire department of said city of Milwaukee, are hereby declared the trustees of said fund. SECTION 2. The officers and members of the fire department of said city of Milwaukee shall suffer a deduction of one-half of one per cent. of their respective salaries as often as paid to them, and the treasurer of said city shall pay into the firemen's relief fund the money so deducted. SECTION 3. Whenever any officer or member of the and disabled, fire department of the city of Milwaukee, while a member thereof in good standing, shall become sick and disabled, he shall be entitled to receive during the time his sickness or disability continues, such relief out of said fund as may be fixed upon in the rules and regulations to be adopted as hereinafter provided. And in case of death of any officer or member of said fire department, his survivors shall also be entitled to receive such relief as may be provided in such rules and regulations. SECTION 4. Said trustees shall make and adopt, subject to the approval of a majority of the members of said fire department, such rules and regulations for the purpose of giving effect to and carrying out the provisions and object of this act, as may be deemed necessary and expedient, not inconsistent with this act, and may amend the same with the approval of a majority of the members of said fire department. They shall have the exclusive control of the expenditures of all moneys belonging to said firemen's relief fund, sub ject to said rules and regulations, and shall make an annual report to the common council. be kept sepa SECTION 5. Said firemen's relief fund shall be kept Relief fund to separate and apart from other moneys of said city, and rate; how shall be drawn out upon the order of said trustees, or a drawn, etc. majority of them, countersigned by the chief engineer of said fire department. SECTION 6. Any member of said fire department Money to be rewho shall be discharged for any cause or reason other funded. than neglect of duty, shall receive, upon his discharge, the amount which may have been deducted from him. for the purposes herein named, less such sum or sums as may have been received by him from said fire relief fund. SECTION 7. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 23, 1878. [No. 72, A.]. Published February 26, 1878.] CHAPTER 38. AN ACT for the relief of Babetta Silverfriend, widow of M. Sil verfriend. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to Babet- Appropriation. ta Silverfriend, widow of M. Silverfriend, from the general fund, out of any moneys not otherwise appropri ated, the sum of thirty-five dollars, being that part of license money paid into the state treasury May 29, 1877, by said M. Silverfriend, now deceased, for a license to travel and trade within this state, with two horses and wagon, which was not earned at the time of his death. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and af ter its passage and publication. Approved February 23, 1878. [No. 107, A.] Published February 26, 1876.] Appropriation. CHAPTER 39. AN ACT to refund to the Mineral Point Railroad a sum of money therein named. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated to the Mineral Point Railroad, out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, three thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-four cents, the same being in full payment of all sums of money due to, or claimed by said company from this state for, or on account of taxes, paid by mistake, and said sum shall be taken and considered to be full payment thereof. Provided, that the state treasurer shall deduct from the sum hereby appropriated, the full amount of all license fees due from said railroad company to the state. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 23, 1878. [No. 288, A.] [Published February 26, 1878.] Expense of redredging; how paid. CHAPTER 40. AN ACT to charge the expense of redredging the rivers and canals in the city of Milwaukee to the general city fund. The people of the state of Wisconsin, respresented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. After a river or public navigable canal in the city of Milwaukee has been docked and dredged to a width of fifty feet from its dock line towards its center, in compliance with the order of the proper city authorities, and at the expense of the lots or parcels of land abutting thereon, the expense of redredging such river or canal to a width of fifty feet from such dock line to its center shall be charged to and paid out of the general city fund of said city of Milwaukee. SECTION 2. All acts and parts of acts contravening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 23, 1878. [No. 124, A.] [Published February 26, 1878.] CHAPTER 41. AN ACT to provide for the erection of a monument to the memory of the late Governor Harvey. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: governor. SECTION 1. The governor of the state is hereby Authority of authorized to procure a suitable monument to be erected to the memory of the late governor of this state, Louis P. Harvey, not to exceed in expense, seven hundred dollars. SECTION 2. There is hereby appropriated out of Appropriation. any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum to carry out the provisions of this act. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 23, 1878. [No. 34, A.] [Published March 1, 1878.] CHAPTER 42. AN ACT to legalize the acts of Franz Narvoratzky, justice of the peace in the county of Manitowoc. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the official acts of Franz Narvor- Acts legalized. atzky, as a justice of the peace in the town of Eaton, Manitowoc county, from the fourth day of May, 1876, till the seventeenth day of May, 1877, inclusive, are hereby legalized and declared to be valid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Received by the Governor, February 21, 1878. 1878. NOTE BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the Governor for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of the legislature in which it originated, within the time prescribed by the constitution of the state, has become a law without his approval. |