Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1843-05-09

the building thereof; and it shall be the du-
~ of the oyerseers Of highways to build
the necessary bridges on highways in their
respective road districts, ualess otherwise
ordered by said commissioners, and to re-
pair the same when necessary.
Sec. 7. Whenever the commissioners of
highways shall have laid out any public
highway through any enclosed, cultivated
or improved lands, and their determination
shall not have been appealed from, and on
all pupIic highways already laid out
through such lands, they shall give the
owner, his agent, or the occupant of the
land through which such road shall have
been laid, thirty days notice in writing TO
remove his fences; if such owner shall not
remove his fences within the thirty days,
the comm issioners shall cause such fences
TO be removed, and shall direct the road to
be opened and worked; if the determina-
| ton Of the commissioners shall have been
appealed from, then the thirty days notice
shall be given after the final decision upon
such appeal: Provided, however, that no
| fence under the provisions Of this section
or the act Of which this is amendatory,
cept between the first day Of October and
Fl rsl day Of May in each year.
Sec. 8. The commissioners and over
seers Of highways shall have power to
make contracts. and to sue and be sued in
their name of office on all subjects pertain
ing TO their respective Offices.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Sec. 1. If from any canse, any town
organized at the last or present session Of
the Legislative Assembly, shall not hold a
town meeting, at the time fixed for holding
annual Town meetings, such town may hold
lis first town meeting on the first Monday
Of May next.
Sec. ?. This act shall be in force only
in those counties which have or may here
after adopt the township and county sys-
tenn Of government.
Sec. 3. The following parts and sec
tons Of the act of which this is amcnda-
tory, are hereby repealed, to wit: all Of
{ part fourth, chapter eleven, section four.
six and eight, in part first Of chapter four,
section seven, in part third Of chapter five,
section FIVE, nine and twenty, in part third
seven Of chapter eleven; and all such other
! parts OF said act as contravene or are not
consistent with the provisions Of this act;
and all the provisions Of the act Of which
this is amendatory not hereby repealed,
shall be and remain in full force and viz
tue as modified by the provisions Of this
act.
Sec. 4, Section four Of the act entitled
" an act to amend the several acts to pro-
vide 10Y the support OF common schools -
| approved February 15, 1912, is hereby re-
| pealed as to all Of those counties which
have adopted the town and county system
Of governmental bat shall be in full force and
operation in all other counties of the Terri
| tary.
Sec. $. The second section chapter first
Of the act hereby amended. shall be SO
amended as to authorize any county of this
| Territory, which shall not already have
adopted the same, to vote for or agairst the
adoption Of said act, at any annual election
in said county, and to proceed therein and
make returns of such election according to
the provisions Of said section two: Pr0ri-
ded, however, that the electors of no coun.
ty shall be required to vote upon such ques.
ton, unless a notice 20 that effect shall have
been issued by the clerk Of the board Of
commissioners as required by law in rela
ton to other election notices. And the
clerk Of the board Of commissioners Of any
such county, shall upon the petition of 6
majority of the persons who shall have no.
tce at the next previous annual election
as shall appear by the poll lists, be required
to issue such notice OF the time Of issuing
general election notices.
Sec. 6. No person shall vote at any towr
meeting who has not resided in the town r
winch he shall claim the right to vote, fol
six calendar months next preceding the
day of each meeting, and who shall not BIZ
otherwise qualified as required by law.
Sec. I. The cost of advertising unre-
deemed land which shall remain unpaid a
the first subsequent assessment after the for
future, shall be charged upon all land thu:
advertised and unpaid, and the county
board of supervisors shall annually include
all such unpaid costs and thirty per cent
interest thereon, from the day Of forfture
| with the amount Of other county expense:
to be collected by the respective towns il
the same manner as other county taxes
are or shall be collected: Provided, how.
ever, that, hereafter the legal charges fol
such advertising shall not be more than
twenty five cents per folio for the first in
sertion, nor more than ten cents per folio
for each subsequent insertion.
Sec. 8. Chapter three, part first, Sec
ton five Of the act to which this act is a.
mandatory, is hereby amended as follows,
to wit: add to the end Of section five the
following: Proridsd, that the per centage
10 be laid on the assessment, for any one
year shall not exceed, for all purposes
whatever, one and a half per cent: prori-
ded further that this provision shall no,