fi de holder of the same full and complete evidence to establish the indebtedness of said city according to the tenure and effect of said bonds. missioners, cil; qualifica to SECTION 4. Before any such bonds shall be is Board of com sued the common council shall elect a board of be elected by commissioners consisting of nine freeholders and common counelectors of the city, and not more than five of tions. whom shall be of the same political party; and it shall require two thirds vote of all members elect of the common council to elect each of said commissioners; that each of said commissioners shall before entering upon the discharge of his duties and within ten days after his election give a bond to run to the city of Chippewa Falls in the sum of five thousand dollars with at least three sureties, and such sureties shall justify in a sum which in the aggregate shall not be less than ten thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties; and said bond to be valid must be approved by a vote of a majority of the members-elect of the council; the term of office of each of said commissioners shall be four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, except that four of the commissioners first elected under this act shall be elected for the term of two years; the first election of commissioners hereunder shall be had at a regular meeting of the common council within thirty days after the election and qualification of the members of the council to be elected at the annual municipal election of the year 1891, and such commissioners shall be disqualified during their term of office from holding any other municipal office, and shall not receive any compensation whatever. The duties of said board of Powers and commissioners shall be to select, designate, missioners. purchase and acquire the site and location in each case for any such bridge, schoolhouse, water, electrical or other power, park, gas works, street railway, and the amount of bonds to be issued for each such purpose, and the conditions upon which, and the manner in which the proceeds thereof shall be expended; and to make on behalf of said city such contract or contracts as may be incident or necessary to carry out the objects and purposes of this act, and the powers hereby given; but no such contract shall be binding upon such city until approved by a majority vote of all the duties of com Bonds, form of and denomina sold for less than face value. members elect of said common council, and all matters to be acted upon by said common council hereunder shall be by said commissioners submitted upon written report and signed by the president of said board of commissioners. And said commissioners shall, within ten days after their qualification, meet at the chamber of the common council in said city; the clerk of said city shall be ex-officio secretary for said board; and at its first meeting, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the said board shall organize by electing one of its members president of said board and one of its members vice-president; such election of president and vice-president to be by ballot. The term of said officers, excepting that of secretary, shall be for four years, or during the term of office for which such person is to be elected. SECTION 5. The bonds to be issued under this tion; not to be act shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and shall be payable in twenty years after their date and each to be of the denomination of five hundred dollars, and have attached thereto interest coupons for the several installments of interest to be paid under the terms thereof; and they may be made payable, principal and interest, at such place as may be determined by the board of commissioners with the approval of the common council, which place of payment shall be designated in each of said bonds. Section 4, chapter 184, general laws of Wisconsin, for the year 1885, shall apply to all bond issued under this act, and no bond issued under this act shall be sold for less than its face value. SECTION 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 7, 1891. No. 412, A.] [Published April 13, 1891. CHAPTER 200. AN ACT to amend chapter 151, laws of 1883, entitled, "An act to consolidate and amend the charter of the city of Wausau," and acts amendtory thereof. (See Vol. 2.) No. 748, A.] [Published April 11, 1891. CHAPTER 201. AN ACT to amend chapter 493, laws of Wisconsin, year 1889, entitled, "An act to regulate the manner of drawing petit jurors in certain counties." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: chapter 493, made applica jurors. SECTION 1. All of the provisions of chapter 493 Provisions of of the laws of Wisconsin for the year 1889, shall laws of 1889, be equally applicable to the municipal court of ble to munici Milwaukee county, except as hereinafter provided. pal court. SECTION 2. The commissioners provided for in Manner of said chapter 493, shall, in addition to the list of drawing names furnished to the clerk of the circuit court of said county, furnish to the clerk of the municipal court of said county a list of six hundred names of persons to be drawn from the body of the county to serve as petit jurors in said court, having regard in furnishing such names to the requirements and provisions of chapter 116 of the revised statutes and the acts amendatory thereof; such list of names when so made up, shall constitute the jury list of said municipal court from which all juries shall be drawn, under the rules and regulations prescribed in said chapter 493 for the drawing of jurors from jury lists made up for The first jury list. the courts of exclusive civil jurisdiction within the purview of said act. SECTION 3. The first jury list under the provisions of this act shall be made up and furnished by the commissioners in said act mentioned, on or before ten days after the passage and publiIcation of this act. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 10, 1891. Recital of facts. No. 188, S.] [Published April 13, 1891. CHAPTER 202. AN ACT granting to James Reynolds, his heirs and assigns, the right to complete the draining of certain swamp, wet and overflowed lands in the counties of Waukesha and Racine, and to confirm his title thereto. WHEREAS, By a certain act of the legislature of the state of Wisconsin, passed, enacted and approved March 3, 1868, and known as chapter 198 of the private and local laws of the state of Wisconsin, of the year of 1868, there was granted to James Reynolds and other persons in said act named, the right, among other things, to construct and maintain a canal for the purpose of draining the waters of Muskego lake in the county of Waukesha, and also to construct and maintain such other canals in the towns of Muskego and Norway, as might be necessary to connect the waters of the said lakes in said towns with the waters of said Muskego lake, and to drain the same, and all right, title and interest of the state in and to all the lands submerged by the waters of said lakes, together with the marsh and swamp lands, surrounding said lakes in the said towns of Muskego and Norway which might be redeemed by the draining thereof, was thereby relinquished to said James Reynolds and the other persons in said act named; provided, however, that they, the grantees in said act named, should commence said canal within two years and complete it within four years from the time of the passage of said act; and WHEREAS, In pursuance of said act the said James Reynolds within one year from and after the passage of said act proceeded to, and did expend and lay out large sums of money in the prosecution of said work; and WHEREAS, Before said period of two years had expired, and during the four years in said act named, and while said work was being prosecuted, said act was repealed, and the corporation created by said act was dissolved; and WHEREAS, The said James Reynolds is now the owner, by purchase, grant and conveyances, of all the rights, titles and interests of each and all of the persons named in said act, and of their respective heirs and assigns, in and to said real estate, the title whereof was by said act released and relinquished, so that the said James Reynolds is now the sole equitable owner of all the lands and real estate by said act released and relinquished; and WHEREAS, In pursuance of the provisions of chapter 169, of the laws of Wisconsin of the year 1887, proceedings were had in the 'circuit courts for the counties of Waukesha and Racine, for the drainage and reclamation of the wet and overflowed lands adjacent to said Muskego and Wind lakes, in which proceedings commissioners were duly appointed, and a ditch was constructed from the southerly end of Muskego lake in the county of Waukesha, to Wind lake, in the county of Racine, and thence in a southwesterly direction to the Fox river in the town of Rochester, in said county of Racine; and WHEREAS, The preservation of the public health, and the well being of the communities adjacent to said lakes, imperatively require that said system of drainage should be extended, enlarged and completed, so as to effectually drain such wet and overflowed lands; and WHEREAS, In order to enable said James Reynolds to complete said work and drain the waters. from said lands, it is expedient that further rights. be granted, now therefore, |