the transaction of business; and said officers and delegates, separately, and as a board of Trustees shall do and perform such duties and things as may be incumbent upon or required of them by the constitution or by-laws of the department.

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SEC. 4. There shall be an annual meeting of the members Election of offiof said corporation on the second Monday of January, in each year, at which the officers shall be elected by ballot by a majority of the members present, from their own body, and the officers elected shall hold their offices for one year or until others be chosen in their places; but in case it at any time happens that an election of officers shall not be made or had on that day, the said corporation shall not be dissolved, but it shall and may be lawful to hold such election thereafter, pursuant to public notice given in one or more of the newspapers printed in said city.

Appointment of

SEC. 5. Of the Fire Department of the city of Kenosha, Arst board of Isaac W.Webster shall be President; William L. Hinsdale, Vice rustees.. President; Frederick S. Lovell, Secretary; John R. Phelps, Treasurer, and John E. Henry, Collector, who, together with the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, duly appointed by the Common Council of the city of Kenosha, and the delegates chosen aforesaid, shall constitute the first board of Trustees, and shall hold their offices until the second Monday of January next, or until others shall be chosen in their stead.

Of funds and

SEC. 6. The funds of said corporation shall consist of a gen- their disposi eral fund, which shall be applied to such general purposes of the tion. Fire Department as the board of Trustees shall in their discretion determine; and of a firemen s benevolent fund, (arising from donations and other sums specially devoted to said fund) the interest arising from which shall be appropriated to the relief of indigent and disabled firemen and their families as may be interested in the fund, and who may be in the opinion of a majority of the Trustees worthy of assistance.

Department to

SEC. 7. All certificates now required to be obtained by give Certificates firemen from the Clerk of said citypursuant to the provision of any law of this state, shall hereafter be obtained from the department, by this act incorporated; which certificates, signed by the President and Treasurer of this department and countersigned by the City Clerk of said city and under the seal of this incorporation shall have the like effect of those heretofore obtained from the said city Clerk, and shall be satisfactory evi, dence of the facts therein contained, and each person applying for such certificate shall pay therefor such sum as the by-laws of the department shall prescribe for the benefit of the corporation. and the objects thereof.

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SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the Trustees to make out Trustees to give and deliver to the city Clerk once in each year, or whenever of members.

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Repealing
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he may request it, an accurate list of all members of this cor poration, who are exempt from jury or military duty, that are may become entitled to the benefits thereof.

SEC. 9. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and the same shall in all courts and places be regarded benignly and favorably for every beneficial purpose hereby intended.

SEC. 10. The legislature may alter, modify, amend or re peal this act at any future session.

SEC. 11. All acts and parts of acts which contravene the provisions of this act are hereby repealed, and this act sha take effect from and after its passage.

FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assembly.

DUNCAN C. REED,

President pro tempore of the Senate.

Approved, March 8th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

Chap. 165.

Use of Dredge Boat when discretionary.

Guaranty!

An Act to extend the navigation of Fox River and to provide for the improvemen: the same above Fort Winnebago to Swan Lake.

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

SECTION 1. After the improvement of the Fox and Wis. sin rivers shall be completed or when the said improveme shall not require the use of the dredge boat now owned by State for said improvement, the said Boat may be used in discretion of the board of Public Works for the further impre ments of Fox River or of any tributary to the Fox or Wiscon Rivers or Lake Winnebago.

SEC. 2. Before the said boat shall be used for the pur against injury. specified in the preceeding section, the board of Public Wo shall receive from the person or persons desiring such use ficient guaranty that said boat shall be returned to the Comm sioners upon demand uninjured and in good repair.

Expense not to be borne by State.

SEC. 3. No monies shall be paid out of the State Treas to defray any portion of the expenses that may be incurre using said boat for the purpose of such improvement. ท FREDERICK W. HORN,

Speaker of the Assem

DUNCAN C. REED,

President pro tempore of the Senate.

Approved March 8th, 1851.

NELSON DEWEY.

An Aot to amend an act entitled "an Act to incorporate the city of Kenosha,” ap

The People

proved February 8th, 185041

State of

and Assembly, do enact as in represented in Senate

Chap. 166.

When City

certain im

SECTION 1. Whenever two-thirds of all the owners of real Council may estate on lots, bounding both sides of any street or part of a levy a tax for street, not less than sixteen rods in length in said city, shall de- provements. sire to have such street graded, paved or otherwise improved, or shall desire to construct a sewer in such street, they may make application in writing to the Mayor and City Council of said city, specifying in such application the sum necessary to be raised for that purpose; and it shall be lawful for said City Council to levy and cause to be collected such sum by tax on all the owners of real estate, or lots, on such street or part of street; said tax to be levied on the last assessed valuation of said real estate or lots respectively, as the same shall appear in the assessment roll of said city.

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of persons tax

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SEC. 2. Whenever the said City Council shall levy any tax give street Safor the purposes mentioned in the preceding section, the city pervisors a list Clerk shall make out and deliver to the Street Supervisor of ed. the ward in which such tax shall be levied, or to such Street Supervisor as the said City Council may appoint for that purpose, a list of the persons and description of property taxed,and thereupon the said Street Supervisor shall notify the persons Street supervisnamed in such tax list by posting up notices in three or more tice when and public places in the ward in which such tax shall be levied, how payment specifying a time or times in such notice, not less than twelve days from the date thereof, when the taxes charged against the said persons and descriptions of property, may be paid in labor, materials or money, and the persons charged with such tax may at such time and place, as may be required by the said Street Supervisor, pay their taxes in labor, materials or money, provided the labor or materials offered in payment for such taxes, are suitable and such as may be required by said Street Super

visor.

may be made.

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Council.

SEC. 3. At the expiration of such time as shall be specified Supervisor to by the City Council the said Street Supervisor shall return such under eath to tax list to the said City Council, accompanied with a statement in writing verified by his affidavit, subscribed to thereon, showing the amount of tax collected in labor and material and the amount collected in money and the manner in which the same was expended, and the items of such expenditure; also the taxes which remain unpaid, and the persons and description of real estate, or lots, to which such taxes stand charged.

SEC. 4. The City Clerk in making out the duplicate assessment roll next thereafter for said city, shall enter such unpaid

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Unpaid taxes to taxes in a separate column therein, with twelve per cent intergeneral city est added thereto, opposite the names of the persons and description of property against which the taxes so remain unpaid; and such taxes shall be collected by the city Treasurer in the same manner as the other taxes for city purposes are collected, and when so collected shall be paid out on the order of the City Council for the benefit of the street or improvement for which they were originally assessed.

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ion of assessment.

SEC. 5. The Assessors of the several wards in said city, notice of revis when they shall have made out a list of taxable property, as required by the act of incorporation, shall meet to review their assessment rolls on the first Monday of June in each year, at such time and place in their respective wards as they shall designate for that purpose by giving public notice thereof in writing, posted up in at least five public places in such wards, not less than six days previous to the time of meeting.

Manner of revision..

When returns

SEC. 6. The Assessors shall at such time and place of meeting as shall have been specified in the notice mentioned in the next preceding section, proceed to review their respective assessment rolls and hear applications of persons conceiving themselves aggrieved, in the same manner and with the same pow ers as is prescribed in chapter fifteen of the Revised Statutes of this State, relative to the duties of town Assessors, except that the time for the review of such assessment roll shall not be extended beyond the first Monday of July in each year.

SEC. 7. The said Assessors shall hereafter make return of shall be made. their assessment rolls to the Clerk of said city, on or before the first Monday of July in each year, and the City Council of said city shall annually on or before the first Monday of August determine and levy the amount of taxes to be raised for city purposes: Provided, That nothing in this section contained shall be so construed as to authorise said City Council to raise more than one per cent. in any one year for city purposes.

Equalization.

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SEC. 8. Upon the return of the several assessment rolls to the city Clerk, the said Clerk shall lay the same before the City Council, and thereupon the said Council shall proceed to equalise and correct the same in the manner prescribed in sections thirty-seven, thirty-eight and thirty-nine of chapter fifteen, of the Revised Statutes of this State.

SEC. 9. So much of an act entitled "an act to incorporate the city of Kenosha," approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and fifty, relating to the duty of Assessors and to equalisation of assessment rolls as contravenes with the provisions of this act is hereby repealed.

SEC. 10. The city of Kenosha shall have the use of the jail

use of county

of Kenosha county for the imprisonment of any person liable to Provision for ! be imprisoned for the violation of any ordinance of said city, and jail, all persons committed to said jail by the Marshal or any other officer of said city, shall be under the charge of the Sheriff of said county.

SEC. 11. This act shall take effect from and after its pas

"An act to incorporate the Strongsville Seminary.

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

Chap. 167

Corporate

SEC. 1. That there be established and located in the town of Berlin, Marquette county, an Institution of learning by the name and style of "the Strongsville Seminary," and that Nathan H. Strong, Michael Myers, George N. Smith, A. N. Merriman, H. R. Merriman, Harvey Stedman, Charles Bartlett, Jeremiah Murphy, Thomas McClalland, James Field, Philo M. Hackley, and J. R. Dikeimer, and their associates and successors be and they are hereby created a body politic powers. by the name and style of the Trustees of the Strongsville Seminary, by which name they and their associates and successors shall forever be known and declared and shall have succession and power to acquire, receive, purchase, possess,hold, retain and enjoy in deed and in law to themselves and their successors, property, real, and personal, and mixed; and the same to sell, grant or convey, rent or otherwise dispose of at pleasure, for the purposes of education and no other: Provided the amount of real estate owned by said association shall at no time exceed fifteen thousand dollars, and they shall have power under said. corporate name to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts and places, in all suits, actions, complaints and causes whatsoever, and they shall have a common seal and may alter the same at pleasure.

SEC. 2. The stock of said corporation shall consist of shares

Proviso.

of ten dollars each, which shall be deemed personal property, Shares of stock and be transferable on the books of said corporation in such transferable. manner as may be directed by the Trustees of said association. SEC. 3. The business relations of said corporation shall be