CHAPTER 335. § 34. The trustees shall levy a highway tax in each Highway tax. year of an amount not exceeding three mills on the assessed valuation of the property in said village, which shall be levied and collected in the same manner that highway taxes are levied and collected in the towns to be expended on the streets of said village, to be expended by the street commissioner under the direction. of the trustees.

Each person

way duty to be taxed.

35. The trustees shall tax each male person, who, subject to high- by the laws of this state, is subject to perform highway work or labor, one day's labor in each year, to be expended on the streets of said village; but any such person may, at his option, pay one dollar for such tax, which money and labor shall be expended by the street commissioner, under the direction of the trustees; and in default of the payment of such money or labor, the street commissioner may sue and collect such money, with the costs of suit, in the name of the village of Wausau.

Jurisdiction of
Justices.

Statement of

receipts and

§ 36. The justices of the peace within said corporation shall have jurisdiction of all cases under the provisions of this act, or for the violation of any ordinance or by law thereof, and in all such, and all criminal cases, and in suits for damages done to real estate, if the suit should be removed from the justice, before whom the same was commenced, for prejudice or other cause, the papers shall be transmitted to some other justice of the peace in the said corporation, and if there be no such justice, or if he be absent or unable to attend to the matter, in that case, the papers shall be transmitted to the nearest justice of the county of Marathon.

§ 37. The trustees shall, within ten days next expenditures to preceding every annual election, cause to be published be published. in three public places in said village, by posting up written notices, a statement which shall show the name of every person who shall have had an account or claim claim allowed by, the amount of such account or claim as represented, the amount allowed, and a brief statement of the nature of the demand; it shall also give a statement of the condition of the treasury. The first statement so published, shall embrace all the account, allowed from the incorporation of the village to the time of publishing the same, and each subsequent statement shall embrace all accounts allowed to the time of publishing from the publication of the last preceding statement.

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§ 38. A majority of the trustees shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may Quorum. meet and adjourn, from time to time, until a quorum shall be present, but shall do no other business; and in the absence of the president, three trustees being present, on [one] of their number may be appointed chairman pro tem.

§ 39. In case this charter shall hereafter, in any How charter respect, be amended or altered, such amendment or amended. alteration shall not take effect until the same shall have been submitted by the trustees to a vote of the qualified electors at a general election, or a special election, duly notified for that purpose, and shall be approved by a majority voting at such election.

8 40. Every inhabitant of said village belonging to Exemption of any hook and ladder company, or any fire engine firemen. company, which has been duly organized by the trus tees, shall be exempt from service on any jury, and from military duty, except in case of war, invasion, or insurrection.

of President

and Trustees.

§ 41. The president and trustees of said village Compensation shall receive the same compensation allowed to town supervisors, and no other pay or emoluments, for any services performed for said village, or for the discharge of any of their official duties, and they shall not be either directly or indirectly interested in any contract made with or work done for said corporation.

row money.

§ 42. Said corporation shall have no power to bor. Limitation of row money, nor shall it be liable to pay money borrow-power to bored on its account or advanced in its behalf by its officers or any other person, nor shall any money or property be applied to any such purpose, nor shall this

corporation incur any debt or liability in any year, Shall not incur greater than the amount of tax allowed by this act to debt. be raised by said corporation in the year in which such liability was incurred, unless two-thirds of the legal voters of said village shall vote in favor of incurring such debt.

compensation.

843. The street commissioner of said village shall, un- Duty of Street derthe direction of the president and trustees superin- Com'r, and tend the grading, paving and improving of streets, and the building of side-walks, and the expenditure of taxes levied and collected for such purposes, and shall receive such compensation for his services as shall be allowed. by the trustees under the provision of this act.

§ 44. The president, by virtue of his office, shall

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represent the said village in the county board of supervisors, in the same manner as the several towns are member of Co. represented, and should said president at any time from any cause, be unable to attend the meeting of the county board, the trustees may appoint one of their number in his stead.

Board.

Connection be

and town dissolved.

§ 45. On the first Tuesday of April next, connectween village tion between the town of Wausau and the village of Wausau, for town purposes, shall be dissolved, and the duties now and hereafter imposed upon the supervisors and other officers of towns, shall be imposed on the officers of the village of Wausau, and so much of the town of Wausau as is not included in the limits of said village of Wausau, shall continue to be and constitute the town of Wausau, for the purpose of town and county government, and they shall, at the next town meeting or election, fix their place of meeting by a vote of the electors of the town meeting.

Debts to be

46. After the first Tuesday of April next, the proportioned. amount of funds remaining or debts due, as the case may be, from said town as now constituted, shall be proportioned between said town and village, according to the amount of property in each, as taken from the assessment rolls.

Approved April 2, 1860.

Boundaries of village.

AN ACT to incorporate the village of Englsburg.

The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All that district of country included in the following description, lying and being in the town of Granville, county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin, to-wit: Sections numbered thirty-two and thirty three (32 and 33) in township numbered eight, (8) north, in range number twenty-one (21) east, shall hereafter be known and designated as the village of Englsburg, and the inhabitants residing, or who may here. after reside, within the limits of said two sections of

land, are hereby constituted a body corporate by the CHAPTER 386. name of "The President and Trustees of the Village Body corporate of Englsburg," and by that name they and their successors, for ever, hereafter, shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, implead- Powers. ing and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places, and in all suits whatever.

§ 2. It shall be lawful for all free male inhabitants of Organization said village, over the age of twenty-one years, to meet of village. at the school house in district number twelve, in said town of Granville, on the third Monday of April, 1860, at ten o'clock A. M., of said day, and choose, viva voce, two judges of election, and one clerk, and elect by ballot, one president, who shall be ex-officio a trustee, four trustees, one treasurer, one assessor, one clerk, and one marshal.

3. On the first Monday in April in each year Annual electhereafter, there shall be an annual election of the officers tion. of said village, above specified; and the trustees shall give ten days' notice of the time and place of holding the same by posting such notice in at least three conspicuous places in said village,for ten days before the day of holding the same; and they, or any two of them, shall preside at the same, and act as inspectors of such election.

§ 4. No person shall be eligible to any of said offices Eligibility to unless he be an elector and qualified by law to vote for office. town officers.

5. At all elections by the voters of said village, Polls opened. held under this act, the polls shall be opened at ten o'clock A. M., and continued open till two o'clock P. M., and the election shall be conducted, and the votes canvassed, and the result declared, as far as may be, in Result declared a similar manner to election for officers of villages under chapter seventy, of the Revised Statutes. A plurality of votes shall, in all cases, decide the election."

§ 6. In case such officers, or any of thein, shall not Vacancies may be chosen on the day herein provided for the same, the be filled at specorporation hereby created shall not thereby be dis- cial election. solved, but vacancies of the office of president or trustees shall be filled at a special election, to be called by the remaining trustees, and vacancies in all other offices shall be filled by the trustees. All of said officers shall hold their offices until the first Monday of

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Bonds of office. § 7. The board of trustees shall have power to require bonds to be given by the treasurer and marshal to the trustees, in such sun, with such conditions, and with such security, as said trustees, or a majority of them, shall direct; which bonds shall be filed with the clerk, and a failure to give such bond, shall work a forfeiture of office; and said board shall have power to declare the office vacant, and to fill the vacancy by appointment.

8. It shall be the duty of the president to preside at all meetings of the trustees, to see that all by-laws and ordinances are duly observed, and to prosecute all suits which may be necessary in the name of the corporation.

§ 9. The board of trustees shall have all the powers, which are by chapter seventy of the revised statutes vested in, and conferred upon, the trustees of village corporations created and organized under said chapter seventy.

810. All that part of chapter seventy, of the revised statutes, embraced between sections twenty-four and seventy-two of said chapter, and including both of said sections twenty-four and seventy-two, so far as the same are applicable and consistent with the provisions of this act, shall apply to and govern the corporation hereby created, to the same extent and with the same effect as if said portion of said chapter seventy, were incorporated in, and made a part of, this act.

§ 11. The legislature may at any time alter, modify, or repeal this act.

§ 12.

passage.

This act shall take effect from and after its

§ 13. It is hereby declared that in the judgment of the legislature the objects of the corporation hereby created, cannot be obtained under the general laws relating to villages.

Approved April 2, 1860.