Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-03-15

An Act to amend and define the act entitled "an
act to provide for the government of the several
towns in this Territory and for the revision OF
county government approved Feb. Is, 1S41
BE 1t enacted by the Council and House Of Repre-
sentatires Of the Territory Of Wisconsin,:
SEC. |. That the act entitled % an act to provide
for the government of the several towns in this Ter
rltory, and for the revision of county government,
approved Feb. Is, 1871, is hereby declared to have
been adopted by the people OF the counties OF Mil
waukee, Brown, Racine, Waworh, Rock, Jeffer-
and Fond du Lac, sgreeably to the second sec
ton of said act, and shall therefore be in force and
take effect in said counties op and after the first
Tuesday Of April next, and the taking effect of said
act in all other counties, in which the same may
have been adopted, shall be postponed until the first
Tuesday of April, 1S43.
SEC. =. The powers and duties conferred upon
the county commissioners, by 4" an act to regulate
averns and groceries, shall hereafter devove upon
the supervisors of the several towns in the above
named counties, and the supervisors of said towns
respectively, may execute and perform the duties
aforesaid in their respective towns in granting IL
censes for taverns, and groceries under the regula-
tons and restrictions of said act provided that the
proceeds of such licenses shall accrue to the
raj towns, and be appropriated by the supervisors
thereof to the support of the poor if needed for that
purpose, and if not, shall be paid over at the end of
the year to the School Commissioners, to be appro-
prlated to the support of common schools.
SEC. 3. The annual town meetings authorized to
be held under the act of which this is amendatory
shall be held the first Tuesday of April in each
year. And in all election of officers the person re-
ceiving plurality or the highest number of votes
shall be deemed and declared TO be elected, any
thing In said act to the contrary notwithstanding.
SEC. a. That the official duties and liabilities of
the Clerks of the Board of County Commissioners,
in the counties of Milwaukee, Racine, Walworth,
Rock and Jefferson, shall extend to the first Tues
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OF supervisors shall be appointed, and that special
meeting of the board of supervisors may be called
AT any time previous to the first meeting provided
by law, and upon application OF a majority of the
chairmen of the several boards of town supervisors
In any county made to the clerk of the board of
county commissioners in writing stating the time
the meeting so applied for shall be held at the seat
OF Justice of said county; and it shall be the duty of
the clerk, upon receiving such application, TO post
up notices of the same In three of the most public
places in said county
SEC. D. Any moneys, except such may
be collected for school purposes, paid into The
raj county treasures in the tax lists of lS4l may
be applied TO the discharge and payment of any
county expenses, without regard to the purposes for
which the same may ha re been levied
SEC. d. The county Collectors of those counties
wherein the act, entitled 90 provide for the
government of the several towns in this Territory,
and for the revision of county government" approx
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proceed to complete the collection of the taxes now
due the said counties respectively, in the man
ner they authorized proceed previous to the
adoption of said act.
SIC. 7. Should there be any taxes due and I'M
collected IN the said counties the first day of July
1872 1t shall be the duty of the several collectors to
make return thereof to the county Treasurers of
their respective counties And the said county
Treasurers shall proceed to sell the lands on which
the said taxes levied, at the time and in the
manner prescribed in the referred to in the last
preceding section.
SEC. 6. The county collector of the county of
Racine, is hereby authorized to sell on the second
Monday in April 1912, the lands advertised by the
collector of the said county to be sold the first
Monday of December, lS4l, for the taxes and char
ges due thereon.
SEC. 9. The said sale shall be conducted and no.
nce thereof given, in all respects provided by law
for the sale of lands for county taxes