CHAPTER 19. [Published February 14, 1861.] AN ACT to vacate a part of the Village of Newport and additions, in the County of Sauk. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: vacated. SECTION 1. Blocks one, two, the north half of blocks Lots and blocks three, four and thirty-one, and the east half of blocks three, four and thirty-one, and the east half of blocks ten and eleven, and all of blocks nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three, twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven, thirty-two, thirtythree, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-one, forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine, fifty, fifty-one, fifty-two, fifty-three, fiftyfour, fifty-five, fifty-six, fifty-seven, fifty-eight, fiftynine, sixty, sixty-one, sixty-two, sixty-three, sixty-four, sixty-five, sixty-six, sixty-seven, sixty-eight, sixtynine, seventy, seventy-one, seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six, seventy-seven, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, eighty-one, eightytwo, eighty-three, eighty-four, eighty-five, eighty-six, eighty-seven, eighty-eight, eighty-nine, in the village of Newport, county of Sauk, and all of Norris' addition to said village of Newport, also all Darrow's addition to said village of Newport, are hereby declared vacated: provided, however, that any person owning a lot or lots in any of the aforesaid blocks, for the purpose of sale or paying taxes thereon, may describe such lots as formerly lot in block in the village of SECTION 2. It shall be the duty of the assessor so Duty of assessor. [to] describe such lots, when requested so to do by the owner or occupant of the same. . SECTION 3. This act shall take effect, and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1861. Proviso. When drainage fund interest to be paid. CHAPTER 20. [Published February 14, 1861.] AN ACT to provide for the expenditure of the Drainage Fund moneys, in the County of Pierce. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. That portion of the interest of the drainage fund which is or may hereafter become due to the county of Pierce, shall be paid out to the county treasurer of said county, at the same time that moneys due from [the] school fund are paid to said county treasHow to be paid. urer, and shall be paid out by said county treasurer only on the order of the county board of supervisors of said county, as hereinafter provided. How fund to be expended.' Supervisors to draw orders on treasurer. Proviso. SECTION 2. The drainage fund interest mentioned [in] section one of this act, and all moneys heretofore paid to or received by said county on account of said fund now remaining unexpended, shall be applied and expended under the direction of the county board of supervisors, in opening and improving such county roads in said county as may be designated by said supervisors; and for the purposes designated in this act, the said supervisors are hereby authorized, through their clerk and chairman, to draw orders on said treasurer for any and all sums of money derived from said fund that are now or may hereafter come into the hands of said treasurer: provided, that no order shall be drawn on said treasurer for the payment of any labor that shall not have been actually performed at [the] time of the drawing of such order. SECTION 3. its passage. This act shall take effect from and after Approved February 12, 1861. CHAPTER 21. [Published February 14, 1861.] AN ACT to amend Chapter 327 of the Private and Local Laws of 1856, entitled "An act to consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Watertown, and the several acts amendatory thereof." The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: on receipt of tax SECTION 1. Section nine of chapter 7 of said act is Treasurer's duty hereby amended so as to read as follows: On the receipt list. of such tax list the treasurer shall give one week's notice thereof in some one or more newspapers published in said city; such notice shall state that the taxes on real and personal property must be paid within thirty days from the first publication of said notice, and that all tracts or parcels of land specified in such tax list, upon which the taxes and assessments shall remain unpaid, will be sold at a certain time and place to be therein specified, and the publication of such notice shall be deemed a demand, and a neglect to pay the taxes and assessments within the time specified, shall be deemed a refusal to pay the same. lect taxes. urer. SECTION 2. Section ten of chapter 7 of said act is Treasurer to colhereby amended so as to read as follows: On the expiration of the thirty days mentioned in the preceding section, the treasurer shall proceed to enforce the collection of state and county taxes, and city taxes levied for ordinary city, ward and school purposes, both on real and personal property, in the manner specified in title five of the revised statutes; and if any such taxes shall not be paid, or collected, in consequence of the Liability of treasneglect or delay of the treasurer, the common council may sue for and recover the amount thereof from the said treasurer and his sureties. In case any state and county taxes, or any city taxes levied for ordinary city, ward or school purposes, shall not be paid within the time limited in the ninth section of this chapter, the treasurer may issue his warrant directed to the city marshal, requiring and commanding him within a cer- City martial to tain time in such warrant to be specified, to proceed and collect such taxes as shall remain unpaid, and the marshal receiving such warrant, shall be subject to all the liabilities and shall have all the powers of levying, collect in certain cases. State tax not extended. Repeal. Taxes for 1860 to be collected. : distraining and selling, that are given to the treasurer, and shall be entitled to the fees for collecting which the treasurer would have had the taxes been collected by him provided, that nothing contained in this act shall be so construed [as] to extend the time for the payment of state taxes beyond the period heretofore provided by law. SECTION 3. Section twelve of chapter nine, entitled "Miscellaneous provisions," is hereby repealed. SECTION 4. The treasurer of the city of Watertown is hereby authorized to proceed without giving other or further notice, to enforce the collection of all taxes on real and personal property named in the lists put into his hands for collection for the year 1860, by proceeding in the manner specified in title five of the revised statutes, and the time for collecting such taxes is hereby extended for thirty days after the passage of this act. SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 12, 1861. Fishing prohibit ed for five years. CHAPTER 22. [Published February 13, 1861.] AN ACT to amend an act entitled An act for the preservation of fish, in Lake Ripley," being Chap. 375 of the General Laws of 1860. The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The first section of chapter three hundred and seventy-five of the general laws of 1860, is hereby stricken out, and the following words substituted as the first section of said chapter: "No person or persons shall, by any net or seine, take or catch any fish in Lake Ripley, commonly called Dow's Lake, situated in the town of Oakland, county of Jefferson, at any time during the next five years.' SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication. Approved February 12, 1861. CHAPTER 23. [Published February 13, 1861.] AN ACT to repeal section 3 of Chap. 210 of the General Laws of 1859, entitled "An act to provide a permanent School Library Fund." The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section three of chapter two hundred Repeal. and ten of the general laws of 1859, entitled "An act to provide a permanent township school library fund,” is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 12, 1861. CHAPTER 24. [Published February 15, 1861.] AN ACT to repeal section 2 of Chapter 197 of the General Laws of 1859, entitled "An act in relation to evidence and limitations in certain cases." The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two of chapter one hundred and Repeal. ninety-seven of the general laws of 1859, entitled "An act in relation to evidence and limitations in certain cases," (be and the same) is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 14, 1861. |