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date with any other illuminating company, without the consent of the common council, then this ordinance shall be null and void.

Section 10. It is hereby expressly enacted that the Milwaukee Gas Light Company is prohibited from acquiring any interest whatever in the said Milwaukee Telegraph Company of Milwaukee, and if the said last named company shall allow said Milwaukee Gas Light Company to acquire any interest whatever in said company, then this ordinance shall be null and void.

Section 11. Whenever the common council of the city of Milwaukee shall deem it to the interests of the city to purchase the property, rights and privileges of the said Milwaukee Telegraph Company of Milwaukee, as mentioned in the preceding sections of this ordinance, also all grounds, buildings, machinery and other property required to operate the electric plant as mentioned above, it shall have the right so to do by paying to said company or its assigns such compensation as may be determined. between said company and the said city of Milwaukee, and in case they cannot agree so to do, then the value of the said property of the Milwaukee Telegraph Company of Milwaukee shall be settled by arbitration of three persons, one chosen by said corporation or company and one by the common council of the city of Milwaukee, and the third by the two thus chosen, and the decision of such arbitration shall be final and conclusive.

Gas Light Co. prohibited from acquiring interest.

Right reserved by city to purchase.

ance.

This ordinance being intended as an amendment to an Written acceptordinance passed June 5, 1883, the said ordinance, except as herein modified, is hereby repealed; provided, that the said company within thirty days from the passage hereof files with the city clerk an agreement in writing accepting all the provisions hereof.

Passed October 21, 1889.

XXIX.-WISCONSIN AUXILIARY FIRE ALARM

COMPANY.

146-AN ORDINANCE

Granting certain rights to the Wisconsin Auxiliary Fire
Alarm Company, its successors and assigns.

The mayor and common council of the city of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Rights granted.

Underground wires.

Bond.

Section 1. There is hereby granted to the Wisconsin Auxiliary Fire Alarm Company, its successors and assigns, the right to erect, maintain and operate within said city for any time during the period of twenty-five years from and after the date of the approval of this ordinance, an auxiliary fire alarm system for the purpose of giving speedy alarms of fire, and to that end the said Wisconsin Auxiliary Fire Alarm Company, its successors and assigns, shall have the right for and during said period to lay and string all necessary wires and connect the same with and auxiliarise the fire alarm boxes now in use or hereinafter put in use by the said city; provided, however, that all connections and auxiliarization of said fire alarm boxes shall be done by and under the supervision of the city electrician and chief of the fire department.

Section 2. It is agreed by the Wisconsin Auxiliary Fire Alarm Company that in such sections of the city where said fire alarm wires are under ground that the Wisconsin Auxiliary Fire Alarm Company shall also have their wires under ground.

Section 3. It is hereby agreed that the Wisconsin Auxiliary Fire Alarm Company shall give bond for $25,000 as guarantee to said city of Milwaukee that it will in no way damage or interfere with the workings of the city fire alarm system.

Passed December 12, 1892.

XXX.-MILWAUKEE GAS LIGHT COMPANY.

AN ACT

To incorporate the Milwaukee Gas Light Company.

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

Section 1. John Lockwood, William P. Lynde, James Kneeland, James H. Rogers and D. P. Hull, trustees of the Milwaukee Gas Light Company, organized under chapter fifty-one of the revised statutes, on the third day of January, 1852, and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them as stockholders, their successors and assigns, are hereby created a body corporate and

politic by the name of the Milwaukee Gas Light Company, with perpetual succession, and by that name shall have all the privileges, franchises and immunities incident to a corporation. They shall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, defending and being defended, in all courts and places; they shall be capable in law of purchasing, holding, selling, leasing and conveying estate, either real, personal, or mixed, so far as the same may be necessary and proper for the construction, extension, management and usefulness of the works of said company, and for the good government of the same; they may have a common seal, and may alter the same at pleasure.

Section 2. The capital stock of said company shall be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each.* The affairs of said company shall be managed by a board of five directors, who shall be chosen by ballot; and each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote; the votes to be delivered in person or by proxy, duly authorized; and for the purpose of electing the first directors, the persons named in the preceding section, or a majority of them, shall give ten days' notice in two daily papers, printed in the city of Milwaukee, of the time and place by them appointed, for the subscribers or stockholders to meet for the purpose of electing directors, which directors shall appoint one of their number president; and annually thereafter, on the first Monday in July, the stockholders shall meet for electing directors, as aforesaid: Provided, that none but stockholders shall be elected directors. And, "provided, always, that at any time the board of directors, for the time being may, and they are hereby authorized, by resolution, which shall be spread upon the records of the company, to add to the number of the directors of said company any number, so that the whole number of directors shall not in any case exceed nine."

Section 3. A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall have

* The capilal stock was increased to $400,000 by chapter 286. laws of 1857, approved March 6; and again the directors were authorized to issue stock until amount should be increased to $800,000, by chapter 19, laws of 1869, approved February 15. By chapter 145, laws of 1883 permission was granted to increase the capital stock to $1 500,000. By chapter 105, laws of 1893, the company is authorized to manufacture and dispose of all its residual products, and chapter 376, laws of 1895, permits it to extend its mains to Wauwatosa.

† Proviso added to section 2, by chapter 44, Private and Local Laws of 1859.

power to appoint a secretary and treasurer, and such other officers and agents as may be deemed necessary, to make and prescribe such by-laws, rules, orders, and regulations, respecting the management, control and disposition of the stock, property, and affairs of said company, as they may deem proper, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the United States, or of this state, to make such covenants, contracts, and agreements, with any person or persons, co-partnership or body politic whatsoever, as the execution and management of the works, or the convenience and interest of the company may require.

Section 4. The said company shall have power and full and exclusive authority to manufacture, make, and sell gas to be made from any and all the substances, or a combination thereof, from which inflammable gas is obtained, for the purpose of lighting the city of Milwaukee, or the streets thereof, or any buildings, manufactories, public places or houses therein contained, and to erect all necessary works and apparatus, and to lay pipes for the purpose of conducting the gas in any of the streets, avenues, commons, lanes or alleys in said city; provided, that no permanent injury shall be done to any street, highway, lane or alley in said city, agreeably to the terms and conditions of a contract now existing between the city of Milwaukee and John Lockwood, entered into on the sixth day of June, A. D. 1851, a certified copy of which contract shall be placed on file in the office of the secretary of state.

Section 5. If said corporation shall not, within the time prescribed by said contract, complete the construction of said gas works, so far as to put the same in operation, then the rights and privileges and powers of said corporation, under this act, shall cease, and be null and void.

Section 6. If, from any cause, an election for directors shall not be held at the time specified therefor, the corporation, for that reason, shall not be dissolved, but it shall be lawful, on any other day to hold an election for directors as shall be provided for in the by-laws of said corporation, and until such election, the directors of the preceding year shall continue to act, and all their doings shall be binding upon said corporation until their successors shall be elected.

Section 7. If any person shall wilfully do, or cause to be done, any act or acts whatsoever, to injure any machine,

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pipe, or structures whatsoever, or anything appertaining to the works of said corporation, whereby the same may be stopped, obstructed or injured, the person or persons so offending, shall be considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted, shall be punished by fine not exceeding three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding two years, or both; provided, such criminal prosecution shall not in any wise impair the right of said company for damage, by a civil suit hereby authorized to be brought for any such injury as aforesaid, by and in the name of said corporation, in any court of the state having competent jurisdiction of the same.

Section 8. The said corporation are hereby authorized and fully empowered, in their corporate capacity, to borrow any sum or sums of money, from any person or persons, corporations, or body politic of any kind, and make and execute in their corporate name, all necessary writings, notes, bonds or other papers, and make and execute and deliver such securities in amount and kind, as may be deemed expedient by said corporation, for all purposes, in carrying out the objects of this company; and the official acts of said company are hereby declared binding in law and equity, upon said corporation, and upon all other parties to such contracts.

Section 9. This act shall be favorably construed to effect the purposes thereby intended, and the same is hereby declared to be a public act, and copies thereof printed by authority of the state shall be received as evidence thereof.

Section 10. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 27, 1852.

AN ACT

To amend an act entitled "an act to incorporate the Milwaukee Gas Light Company."

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

Section 1. An act entitled "an act to incorporate the Milwaukee Gas Light Company," approved March 27, 1852, is hereby amended so as to authorize, and this act does hereby authorize said Milwaukee Gas Light Com

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