be assessed and levied upon the property of such district or districts, and collected in the same manner as other town charges are assessed, levied and collected, except that the amount thereof shall be put into a separate column upon the tax roll and the town board shall cause the same so certified to by the town clerk to be levied upon the taxable property of such superintendent district or districts. The chairman of such town board shall, with the assistance of the superintendent of highways in any superintendent district which is to be charged with the payment of such machines after the completion of the assessment roll and ten days before the regular meeting of the town board for the levying of taxes, make and deliver to the supervisors of such town a list of all persons in such district or districts who are named in the last assessment roll as being liable to assessment for taxes to be levied for the payment of such implements. It shall be the duty of each town to provide suitable places for the storage and proper housing of all tools, implements and machinery owned by the town or by the districts therein, and to cause such tools, implements and machinery to be stored and housed therein at all times when not in use; and such tools, implements and machinery when purchased by a district or districts. shall be under the care and control of the superintendents thereof, who shall take proper care thereof. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be ir force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. No. 222, S.] [Published April 1, 1899. Common council to fix and magistrates in certain actions. CHAPTER 84. AN ACT to amend chapter 9, entitled, "The Police Court," of chapter 40a of Wisconsin statutes of 1898, of the organization and gov ernment of cities under general law. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 9, entitled "The Police fees of officers Court," of chapter 40a of Wisconsin statutes of 1898, entitled "of the organization and government of cities under general law," is hereby amended by adding after section 925-62 thereof the following section: Section 925-62a. In cities of the second, third and fourth classes having no police court, the common council may fix and regulate from time to time the fees or compensation of officers and magistrates for services performed in all actions or prosecutions for any violation of the charter, ordinances or by-laws of the city and no greater fees or compensation than shall be so fixed shall be charged or recovered. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. No. 204, S.] [Published April 1, 1899. CHAPTER 85. AN ACT to amend section 823 of the Wisconsin statutes of 1898 construing the rights of claimants against towns. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. allowed in part, without prejudice to right of ac After the word "issued" in the Claim may be eleventh line of section 823 Wisconsin statutes of 1898 insert the following sentence: Any per claimant's son whose claim has been allowed in part may re- tion as to part ceive the order drawn for the part so al- disallowed. lowed without. prejudice to his right of action against such town as to the part disallowed, so shall read as that when so amended it follows: Section 823. The amount of any account audited and allowed by the town board shall be paid by the town. treasurer on the order of the board signed by the chairman and countersigned by the clerk, and all orders issued to any person or persons by the town board for any sum due from such town shall be receivable in payment of town taxes in said town. But no order shall be signed or issued for the disbursement of any money of such town until the tax for the payment of such order shall have been voted by the electors of such town or until the town board shall have authorized the issue of such order; and no town board shall authorize the issue of any order in a sum exceeding the amount which the town is authorized to appropriate for the purpose for which such order is issued. Any person whose claim has been allowed in part may receive the order drawn for the part so allowed without prejudice to his right of action against such town, as to the part disallowed. Every supervisor, chairman or clerk violating the provisions of this section shall forfeit not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. No. 113, A.] [Published April 1, 1899. Place where meeting of town board CHAPTER 86. AN ACT to amend section 783 of Wisconsin statutes of 1898, relating to town boards. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senale and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 783 of Wisconsin statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by adding thereto and immediately after the last word of said section of determining the following:-The meeting of any town board may be held, and manner same. of supervisors for auditing accounts, equalizing taxes, and other legal meetings of said board, may be held at and in any incorporated village or city in this state, which is within or adjoining the town of which said supervisors constitute the town board, so that said section when amended shall read as follows: Section 783. The annual town meetings in each town shall be held at the place where the last town meeting was held, or at such other place therein or in a city or incorporated village within or adjoining the town as shall have been ordered at a previous meeting, or when there has been no such previous meeting at such place as shall be directed in the act or proceedings by which the town was organized. When twelve electors shall file with the town clerk at least four and not more than six weeks before any annual town meeting their written request that the place of holding such meeting be decided by ballot, he shall within one week after the filing of such request post notices in at least four public places in said town stating that the place of holding the annual town meeting will be decided by ballot at the town meeting then next to be held. Each elector may vote a ballot designating thereon a building or public hall within said town or such city or village, which ballots at the close of the polls shall be canvassed and the result certified and recorded. The place receiving the largest number of ballots shall be established as the place of holding the annual town meeting thereafter until otherwise ordered. In towns which are divided into election districts where towns the annual meeting shall be held, until the are divided electors otherwise determine, in the district des- districts. ignated as the first election district; provided, that in counties having a population of two hundred thousand inhabitants or over, according to the last census, votes for town and judicial officers shall be cast at the polling booths in the election district where the voter resides in the manner provided for general elections. The meeting of any town board of supervisors for auditing accounts, equalizing taxes, and other legal meetings of said board, may be held at and in any incorporated village or city in this state, which is within or adjoining the town of which said supervisors constitute the town board. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force, from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 30, 1899. into election |