CHAPTER 46. AN ACT to amend chapter 158 of the private and local laws of 1858, entitled "an act to incorporate the Waupaca union school district in the county of Waupaca." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section two of chapter 158, of the Amended. private and local laws of 1858, is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to-wit: The Waupaca union school district shall when organized under the provisions of this act, be a body corporate with perpetual succession, and shall possess all the powers and receive all the benefits, and enjoy all the rights and privileges conferred by law on common school districts; and in addition thereto, the qualified voters when legally assembled, shall have power to elect annually on the second Monday of July of each year, three directors, one clerk and one treasurer, who shall constitute the district board of said district as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 17, 1869. CHAPTER 47. AN ACT to legalize the official acts of the district treasurer of school district No. 1, of the town of Scott, in the county of Columbia. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. All the official acts of Wm. H. Judd, treasurer of school district No. 1, of the town of Scott in the county of Columbia, are hereby declared to be as legal and binding as they would have been had his 6-P. & L. Legalized. official bond been filed in the proper office within the time prescribed by law. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 17, 1869. Corporators. CHAPTER 48. AN ACT to incorporate the Waubeka fire and protection company in the county of Ozaukee. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. James Hedding, Chas. G. Myer and John Neuens and their associates, who have united themselves into a fire and protection company, together with such persons as may be hereafter associated with them; are hereby created a body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, by the name of the WaubeName and pow ka fire and protection company, in the county of Ozaukee. Said fire and protection company shall have power and is hereby authorized to procure and acquire a fire engine, hooks and ladders and other apparatus used for the extinguishment of fires, and also is authorized to build an engine house for the keeping and preserving of the same. ers. Powers. Further powers. SECTION 2. The said association shall have power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to implead and be impleaded with, to answer and be answered unto, in all courts of this state, and shall be vested with all the powers and privileges necessary to carry out and fulfill the objects of this corporation. SECTION 3. The said corporation shall further have power to establish for its government a constitution and by-laws, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state, to have and to use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure, and to take by gift, grant or devise, and to hold and convey real and personal property, not exceeding in value twenty-five thousand dollars. tees. SECTION 4. The members of this association shall Board of trushave power to assemble at such times and places as may be agreed upon, and they shall elect any number of discreet persons of their association, not less than three nor more than nine in number as trustees, to take the charge of the real and personal property belonging thereto, and transact all business relative to the investment and disposal thereof. SECTION 5. It shall be lawful for said association officers. to elect or appoint a foreman and such other officers as the condition and circumstances of the corporation may require, and to prescribe their powers and duties, and require bonds for the faithful performance thereof, in such penal sum and with such sureties as they may choose. SECTION 6. The trustees shall hold their term of Term of office. office for one year, and all the other officers shall hold their term of office for the space of six months, except when otherwise provided for in their constitution. SECTION 7. It shall be the duty of the secretary to Duty of secrekeep and file in his office all the books and papers be- tary. longing to said corporation, and copy all the by-laws made by said corporation in a book kept for that purpose, and shall also enter in said books the names of all persons who may become members of said corpora tion. devoted. SECTION 8. The property, real and personal of said Property-how association shall be devoted solely to the and purpose object of said association, and all real and personal estate which may hereafter be lawfully conveyed by devise, gift, grant, purchase or otherwise, to said association, shall descend with improvements, in perpetual succession, and shall be held by said trustees and their successors in office, in trust for said corporation. SECTION 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 18, 1869. Sec. 3, chap. 1, amended. Sec. 1, chap. 2, amended. CHAPTER 49. [Published February 26, 1869.J AN ACT to amend chapter 404 of the private and local laws of 1867, [1857] entitled, an act to incorporate the city of Prescott." The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. In the third section of chapter 1 of said act, after the word, "members" in third line, strike out the words, "each ward," and insert, "three members from the first ward and five from the second ward,' so that the section will read as amended as follows: Section 3. The corporate authority of said city shall be vested in one principal officer, styled the mayor, in one board of aldermen, consisting of three members from the first ward and five from the second ward, who with the mayor shall be denominated the common council, together with such other officers as are hereinafter mentioned or may be created under this act. SECTION 2. Amend section 1, chapter 2 of said act by inserting after the word, "alderman" in the 3d line, the words, "in the first ward and five in the second ward; " also strike out in the 7th line of said section the words, "each ward," and insert the following: "in the first ward and three in the second ward;" also strike out the words, "each ward" from the 8th line in said section, and insert the following: "in the first ward and two in the second ward," so that the section will read as amended as follows: Section 2. The elective officers of said city shall be a mayor, a treasurer, a police justice for the city at large and three aldermen in the first ward and five in the second ward, one justice of the peace, one assessor and one constable for each ward, which said officers shall hold their respective offices as follows: the mayor, treasurer, assessor and constables, and two aldermen in the first ward and three in the second ward, for one year; one alderman in the first ward and two in the second ward, police justice and justice of the peace for two years. The term of officers shall commence on the first Monday in May next after their election. Each of said officers shall continue in office for his respective term and until his successor is elected and qualified, and shall have such powers and perform such duties as are prescribed in this act, or which may not be incompatible with the nature of their respective offices. SECTION 3. Amend section 2 of chapter 2 of said sec. 2, chap. 2, act by inserting in the 7th line after the word, "alder. amended. men," the words, "in the first ward and five in the second ward," so that said section as amended will read SECTION 4. Strike out all of section 8, chapter 2, sec. 8, chap. 2, and insert the following in the place thereof: Section amended. 8. At every annual election hereafter, there shall be elected one alderman in the first ward and two in the.. second ward, who shall hold their offices for one year. The alderman having the highest number of votes in each ward shall be the alderman for two years. SECTION 5. This act shall be in force and take effect from and after its passage. Approved February 18, 1869. CHAPTER 50. [Published February 25, 1889.] AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the town of St. Marie, Green Lake county, to levy and collect a tax for the purpose of paying a bounty to Oscar Barrett. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the town- May pay bounty ship of St. Marie in the county of Green Lake, are |