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4th. When a person has been assessed the same year for the same personal property in more than one ward.

SECTION 10. The city treasurer and chief of police chief of police. shall be liable, on their respective bonds, for any loss accruing by their default or negligence in the collection of taxes under the warrants directed to them.

Lands may be redeemed.

SECTION 11. Lands heretofore sold for taxes by the city treasurer may be redeemed, or tax-deeds issued thereon, as provided by the statute, by virtue of which such lands were sold by the city treasurer.

SECTION 12. This act shall be in force from and af ter its passage.

Approved February 20, 1877.

[Published February 28, 1877.]

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CHAPTER 27.

AN ACT to amend section 1, of chapter 211, of the laws of 1874, entitled, “An act relating to the purchase of stationery." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 211 of the laws of 1874, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Property to provide samples of all stationery necessary for the use of the state, and keep such samples for inspection in his office, and to furnish speci mens of such samples to any person requiring such specimens for the purpose of bidding for furnishing such stationery, as far as the specimens demanded are of a kind to be furnished, and to advertise in one of the newspapers in the city of Madison, the city of Milwau kee, and the city of Chicago, weekly, for four weeks, for bids for furnishing the state with the necessary sta tionery for the use of the state, and to let the contract for furnishing such stationery at such time and in such quantities as he shall deem necessary and proper, to the lowest bidder, who shall furnish_security, satisfactory to the Superintendent of Public Property, that he will furnish such stationery according to the terms of his bid and the contract entered into in pursuance of such bid: provided, however, preference shall always be given to any bidder residing and doing business in the

state of Wisconsin, if said bid shall be as low, freight added, as that of any other bidder not doing business in the state.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and alter its passage.

Approved February 20, 1877.

[Published February 28, 1877.]

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT to amend chapter 133 of the private and local laws of 1857, entitled "An act to consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Kenosha, and the several acts amendatory thereof."

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

plers, etc.

SECTION 1. Chapter 5 of said chapter 133 of the pri- Amended. vate and local laws of 1857, entitled "An act to consolidate and amend the act to incorporate the city of Kenosha, and the several acts amen latory thereof," is hereby amended by adding to said chapter 5 an additional section, to be known as section 10, and to read as follows: Section 10. The common council shall also Power of counhave power to authorize the construction of suitable cil to erect piers, breakwaters, sheet piling and such other protections as may be planned or devised for the purpose of protecting the lake shore within the limits of said city from the encroachments of the waters of Lake Michigan, and to make the necessary appropriations therefor, and to levy a tax to pay the same. But no such improvement shall be authorized by said council until a plan of the same shall have been submitted to them in writing, and a careful estimate of the cost thereof made, and the same when authorized, shall be let by contract to the lowest bidder or bidders, reasonable notice having been given of the time and place of receiving bids. The council may, by resolution, require any person. presenting a bid for such work, or any part thereof, to furnish a sufficient and satisfactory bond, in such sum as said council shall direct, conditioned for the skillful, prompt completion of the work contracted by his bid, in accordance with the plans and specifications agreed upon. And the council may refuse to receive any bid not accompanied by such bond.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 20, 1877.

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fices abolished.

[Published February 28, 1877.]

CHAPTER 29.

AN ACT to amend chapter 254 of the private and local laws of 1868, and the several acts amendatory thereof, being the acts revising and consolidating, and the acts amending the charter of the city of Sheboygan, and to repeal chapter 111 of the laws of 1875.

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

SECTION 1. The office of city assessor in and for the ed and other of city of Sheboygan is hereby revived and re-established and the offices of tax commissioner and of ward assessors in said city are hereby abolished, and chapter one hundred and eleven of the laws of 1875 is hereby repealed. The city assessor shall hold his office for the term of two years, and shall be elected by the people at the anrual municipal election, and shall receive such yearly salary as shall be fixed by the common council, not exceeding five hundred dollars per annum. The first election of city assessor under this act shall take place at the municipal election, held in April, 1877.

Amended.

Municipal government.

SECTION 2. Section 1, of chapter three, of said chapter 254, of the private and local laws of 1868, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Section 1. The municipal government of the city shall consist of a common council composed of the mayor and three aldermen from each ward. The other officers of the corporation shall consist of a comptroller, city clerk, city treasurer, city attorney, city marshal, city surveyor, city assessor, poor master, one justice of the peace for the city at large, harbor master, sealer of weights and measures, three school commissioners (one of whom shall be appointed by the common council as superintendent of schools), three cemetery commissioners, to gether with the water and park commissioners, and such other officers as may be provided for by the charter and such as the common council shall, from time to time, appoint. There shall also be a justice of the peace and a constable for each ward, as heretofore provided by law."

SECTION 3. The city marshal shall be appointed an- City marshal. nually, by the mayor, by and with the consent of the common council. He shall have and possess all the rights, powers and privileges of a constable, and shall be the chief police officer of the city, subject to the direction and control of the mayor and of the common council, and shall perform such other and further duties as may be prescribed by the common council. His salary shall be fixed by the common council, and he shall further be entitled to the fees of a constable for all services performed, provided that the city shall in no wise be or become chargeable with any such fees in any proceedings or prosecution. The city marshal shall be removable by a two-thirds vote of the common council, at any time, and in such case another appointment shall be made for the unexpired term in like manner as herein before provided.

missioners.

SECTION 4. The three cemetery commissioners shall Cemetery combe elected by the common council, and shall hold their offices for the term of five years, from the first day of May of the year in which they are elected. They shall constitute a board of cemetery commissioners, and shall organize by the election of a president and a clerk and treasurer. Such board shall have the supervision, care and charge of the cemetery of the city, under regulations of the common council and control of all the funds thereof, which shall be kept by and deposited with the treasurer thereof, and disbursed by him upon the order of the board. The common council shall by ordinance establish such rules and regulations in relation to their duties and supervision as they shall from time to time deem proper. The duties of clerk and treasurer may be filled by one person who shall be a member of said board and shall receive out of the cemetery fund such compensation as shall be prescribed by the said board and approved by the common council.

SECTION 5. Section 5 of chapter 3 of said chapter Amended. 254 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "Sec- officers to give tion 5. The comptroller, city clerk, city treasurer and bonds. city marshal, and such other officers as the common council may require, shall severally, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, execute to the city of Sheboygan a bond, with at least two sureties, accompanied by the affidavits of such sureties in which each shall state that he is worth a certain sum men. tioned in such affidavit, over and above all his debts

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Taxation.

City assessor.

and liabilities, in property not by law exempt from execution, and which sums so sworn to by such sureties on each bond shall in the aggregate exceed the penalty therein specified. Such bonds shall contain such penal sum and such conditions as the common council shall prescribe, and the common council may from time to time require of such officers new and additional bonds, and when executed and approved in such manner as the common council shall require, the bonds shall be filed and recorded in the office of the city clerk within fifteen days after the officer executing the same shall have notice of his election or appointment. SECTION 6. The subdivision of said chapter 254, designated therein as chapter eleven, is hereby amended and revised to read as follows:

CHAPTER 11.

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SECTION 1. All property in said city, real, personal and mixed, shall be subject to taxation for all purposes authorized by law, excepting only such property as is or shall be exempted from taxation by general laws exempting from taxation throughout the state particular classes of property or property of particular classes of corporations or persone, and the same shall be assessed by the city assessor, in the manner provided by general law, except as hereinafter expressly prescribed, and for such purpose the city assessor shall have and possess the same and all the powers that are or may be conferred upon town assessors, and the common council may prescribe the form of assessment roll, or more fully define the duties of assessor, and make such rules and regulations in relation to revising, altering or adding to such rolls, and may require of the city assessor that he obtain, and file or record, information deemed serviceable in making or correcting assessments, as they shall from time to time deem advisable, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

SECTION 2. The city assessor shall have and keep an office as prescribed by the common council, and shall have and keep therein such records of taxable real property, and of personal property and persons and corporations liable to assessment, as shall be required by the common council. At the time designated by law, or within such time as the common council shall prescribe, the city assessor shall proceed to examine and determine the valuations of taxable real and personal property within said city, and shall enter the

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