Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1865-02-15
Laws Of Wisconsin.
Published Feb. ., 1865. I
CHAPTER IA

CHAPTER II.
AN ACT to authorize towns, cities and
incorporated villages to raise money by
tax for the payment of bounties to vol
unteers for the military service Of the
United States, and to provide for the
levy and collection of the same
The people OF the State of Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact rs follows:
Section l. The qualified sector. of each
town, city and incorporated village in this
State, shall have power at any annual or
special meeting thereof, to raise BY tax
such sum or sums of money as they may
deem necessary to pay bounties to volun-
teers who may haze enlisted or who shall
hereafter enlist under the call Of the Pres
ident Of the United States, Of December
10Th, 1864, for 100000 men, and who shall
here. ftcr enlist under any cal of the
PRECEDENT Y,."h may hereafter be made,
and become credited to sL"h town, city or
village, under such calls; and also tn per-
sons who shall procure substitutes 10:
themselves before being drafted, and have
them credited to such town, city or village,
upon its quota under any s1ch call, and
for the purpose of givin. aid to the farni
lies of volunteers and of drafted mon in
the ser ice Of the United States, or Of this
state: prorided, that more than two
hundred dollars shall be paid TO any such
volunteer or person furnishing substitute
or to the family Of any volunteer or draft
ed man, out Of the MONEY 80 raised
See. >. special meeting may DC held
in any town city or cOrporated village Of
this state, for the purpose or purpose,
mentioned in section one Of this act, upon
written petition to the clerk thereof,
signed by five or more qualified electors
and frecholders of such town, city or in
corporated vii age, which petition shall set
forth the purpose or purposes for which
said spccia meeting is asked by the Pc
titioners, t. gcther with the amount of
money sought to be appropriated or raised
by tax ut such meeting for said purposes
and it is hereby made the duty Of every
such clerk, upon presentation to him OF
such petition, to call special meeting of
the qualified electors of such town city or
village, by posting notices of the same in
three or more public and conspicuous
places in such town city or VILLAGE stating
the time when, designating the hour and
the place where such meeting will be held,
and the object Of the same, together with
the amount Of tax proposed to be voted
thcreat, which notice shall be posted not
less than FIVE nor more than ten days pre-
vious'y to the time appointed for no ding
such special meeting. Such meeting, if
in any town, shall be held at the place of
the last annual town meeting in such town,
whenever the same shall be practicable,
and shall be opened and conducted in the
manner provided by law for holding an
nual town meetings, and the vote shall in
all cases be by ballot In all other cases,
such meetings shall be held Mt the place
designated therefor in the petition asking
for the same. The board OF inspectors for
meetings in cities and villages. shall be
chosen by ma ority Of the electors pres
ent ut the opening of the polls, and the
village or city clerk (as the case may be)
shall be the clerk of said polls, but in case
Of his absence or refusal to net, clerk
for said polls may be appointed by the
board OF inspectors, and the same laws
which now govern the no ding of elections,
as TO the simc Of opening and closing the
polls IN cities md villages, shall govern
in the holding of the meetings contempla-
ted in this act prorided, that the electors
assembled at any such meeting, not less
than twelve in number may, before pro-
ceedlns to vote on the question Of raising
any such tax, agree or determine upon
less sum to be voted for an such purpose
than the amount named therefor in the
petition aforesaid and a correct aud com
plete record Of the proceedings of every
such meeting shall be kept, in which shall
be stated the amount of tax voted thereat
and the purpose for which the same was
voted : and such proceedings shall be
signed or attested by the officers thereof,
and filed and recorded in the Office OF the
clerk of the proper town, city or village;
aud prorided, also, that the board of su-
pervisors of any town, the common council
OF any city, or the board of trustees of any
village, in which tax or taxes shall hare
been voted at a meeting held for that pur
pose IN pursuance Of this act shall be au-
tnorIzed to issue town, city or village or
ders, as the case may be, not exceeding
In amount the sum so voted to be raised
by tax, bearing interest of not more than
seven per cent per annum; and such or
der. may be made payable at such time or
times, and atsuch place ~ such respective
boards may determine within the period
or periods limited Tor the collection of such
taxes; and such orders shall be received
in payment of any take. Of such town, city
or vil.-e, az IN. case may be, ~ am time