Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-30
An Act to Incorporate the
VILLAGE OF LANCASTER,

CHAPTER 209-LoCAL.

AN ACT to incorporate the village
OF Lancaster.
The people of the State of Wiscon-
sin, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly,, do enact as follows
Section l. All of section numbe
three (3), the ives. half w. y of secs
ton number two CD, the north half
On. y of section number ten (10),
and the northwest quarter On. w. ID
of section number eleven Cd of
township number four "a north, of
range number three (3) west of the
fourth principal meridian, in the
county of Grant and State of Wis
consin, shall hereafter be known and
designated by the name of the village
OF Lancaster, and the inhabitants re-
siding or who may hereafter reside
within the limits OF the said village
are hereby constituted body corpo>
rate by the name Of the president and
trustees of the village of Lancaster,
and by that name they and their sue
! cessOrs forever hereafter shall and
may have perpetual succession, and
shall be persons in law capable of SUI
ing and being sued, pleading and
being impleaded, answering aud be-
ing answered unto, defending and be-
ing defended in all courts and places
and in all suits whatsoever, with power
OF purchasing, receiving, holding, oc-
cupying and conveying real and per-
sonal estate, and shall have com
mon seal and may change the same
at pleasure, and shall be competent
to have and exercise all the rights
and privileges aud be subject to all
the duties and obligations pertaining
to municipal corporation.
Sec. 2 The government of said
corporation and the exercise of its
corporate powers and the manage
ment of its fiscal, prudential and mu>
nicipal concerns, shall be vested in q
president and four trustees, and such
other officers as are hereinafter pro-
vided for.
Sec. 3. The officers Of the said
corporation shall be one president
and four trustees, one clerk, oae treas.
urer and one constable who shall be
er oficlo marshal Of said corporation,
one attorney, one surveyor and such
other officers as the trustees shall or
dain. The president and trustees
shall be elected by the qualified yo-
ters of the said corporation on the
first Monday Of May in eacL year,
and shall hold their respective offices
for one year, and until their successors
are elected and qualified. The clerk
shall give at least ten days notice of
time and place of holding any election,
and the president and trustees or any
three of them, shall preside at every
such election, and any vacancy ir the
Office of president shall be filled by a
special election, aud vacancies in the
Office of trustees shall be filled by the
president and trustees. All other
officers shall be appointed by the
president and trustees, and shall hold
their offices during the term for
which the trustees are elected, and
until their successors are appointed
and qualified, and shall be subject to
removal by the president and trusts
ees. All persons qualified to vote in
said village for members Of the State
Assembly, and who have been resi-
dents of said village for twenty days
at the time said vote is offered, shall
be legal voters for corporation off,
GERS, and no person shall be eligible
to the office of trustee unless be is q
freehold voter therein. and the pres
ident shall be eT o6iclo trustee OF
said village. The voters present at
any election may appoint three vo,
ters to act as judges of election, in
case there shall not be a quorum OF
trustees present to conduct the cleo,
ton.