The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-04-12

OF notice given street
er, he shall make out and deliver to the clerk OF the
town in which such village is situated certified
list of the LOTS pieces or tracts of land in said VII
lage upon which said sidewalk or gutter tax remains
unpaid, with the amount of such delinquent tax up
each of said lots, pieces, parcels of land and
such list shall be returned to said town clerk be-
fore the completion of the assessment roll of said
town for the year. the said clerk shall add said
deinu lent sidewalk or gutter taxes to said assess
ment roll opposte to the description of the proper
lots pieces or parcels of land therein; and the said
delinquent sidewalk gutter taxes shall be colsct-
ed with and in the same manner as the town taxes
If such list shall be returned to the town clerk after
the completion of the assessment roll and before the
town treasurer's return or delinquent taxes, he
shall deliver said list to the said who shall
collect the with tue other taxes i'll said village
and add what remains unCollected OF said sidewalk
or gutter to his list of delinquent taxes re-
turned to the county treasurer who shall collect the
same sell the lots, pieces parcels of land atore
said for such delinquent taxes in the same manner
lands sold for other delinquent taxes and all
subsequent proceedings in relation thereto shall be
the in all respects in the Of lands sold
for other delinquent taxes.
Sec L. Every town treasurer county treasurer
who shall collect receive money on account OF
such sidewalk gutter taxes shall pay the same to
the treasurer of the proper village, and take dupl-
cate receipts therefor, and file of said receipts
with the clerk of his town or county.
Sec. 5. Whenever any street commissioner shall
have returned any lots, pieces parcels of land tor
delinquent sidewalk or gutter taxes as herein pro
vided the board of trustees of such village shall be
authorized to build or repair such sidewalk or gut
ter at the expense of said village provided, nothing
in this section shall be construed to release said
land or the owner thereof from the lien and pay
ment of sush delinquent sidewalk or gutter tax.
Sec. 6. When the law under which any village is
Incorporated contains different mode of proceed
ure from the one herein prescribed, the same may
be followed.
Sec. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March IL, 1873.
Published March %, 1881
CHAPTER 176.
AN ACT TO grant certain lands to the Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railway Company, and TO execute
the trust assumed by the state of Wisconsin by
its acceptance of the grants of land made by Con-
gress, by acts approved June 3, 1885, and May 5,
1864
The people of the state OF Wisconsin represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. There is hereby granted to the MIL
waukee and st. Paul Railway Company all the right
titleap interest which the state OF Wisconsin now
has may hereafter acquire in 10 the lands
granted to said state by two certain acts of Con-
gress one approved June s. 1856, entitled IAN act
granting public lands to the state of Wisconsin to
aid the construction of railroads i'll that state, and
the other approved May 5, 1864, entitled San act
granting lands to aid IN the construction OF certain
railroads III the state of Wisconsin, far said
lands granted to aid in the construction of a
railroad from St. Croix river lake, between town
ships twenty-five and thirty-one, to the west end
of Lake Superior and to Bayfield,; and this grant is
| ma de upon the condition that SAID Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railway Company shall construct a rail
road from some point on st. Croix river or lake. at
| Prescott, by the way of River Falls to the
city of Hudson, and along through the city of Hud
son. west OF the buf, to the valley of Willow river,
and thence up SAID valley to the west end OF Lake
Superior and to Bayfield,, and is upon the condi-
| ton that said Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Com
paDy shall proceed Immediately with the construc-
ton of said railroad, and shall construct the same
at the rate of forty miles each year until the same
is completed, and that sixty miles thereof shall be
| completed and in operation within year from
and after the passage of this act and also upon the
within two years also build and complete railroad
| from point the Mississippi river, from a
| point below the mouth of the Chippewa river, in
Buffalo county Wisconsin. i'll town twenty two 22),
range thirteen Q3), by the way of the village of Du-
| rand or Mondovia to Eau Clare, Chippewa Falls
| and to Menominee, and that much of said road
| from the Mississippi river to Durand or Mondcva,
from Eau Claire to Chippewa Falls shall be
pleted i'll one year from the passage Of this act.
! Sec. ?. The Milwaukee and st. Paul Railway
Company shall, IN consideration of the granting of
the right title and interest of the state Wiscon-
sin i'll and to the before named grants of land erect
and maintain passenger and freight depots within
the city limits of the city of Hudson, and shall also,
within two years from the passage of this act,
| struct, complete and put IN operation a railroad
| from Monroe, in Green county, to Shullsburg, i'll
| the county of La Fayette.
Sec. 3. The governor is hereby authorized and
directed, upon the presentation TO him of satisfac-
tory proof that the first sixty continuous miles of
said railroad from st. CrCx river lake, at near
Prescott to the west end of Lake Superior and to
| Bayfield, have been completed i'll accordance with
| said acts of Congress and with this act and that
the said road is also completed from the Mississippi
| river far Durand Nondovia or from Eau
Claire TO Chippewa Falls, to issue and deliver, or
| cause to be issued delivered to said cornran~
patents in due TO m from the said state for seven
| hundred and twenty sections of said land and
thereafter upon the completion of any twenty con-
| tnuCus miles of said road from st. Crox river or
lake towards Superior and Bayfield,, he shall issue
and deliver, to be issued or delivered to
SAID company, patents for two hundred sections of
said land, and shall make and deliver to said ccn-
nv he aptS
OF Congress granting said lands provided that Ger
hhcates for no IN ore than hundred and TWEEN
ty sections of sad land shall be issued until the
completion OF said road from the Mississippi river
by the way of Durand or Mondovia and Eau Claire
to Chippewa Falls and Menominee. and from said
Monroe 10 Shulsburg, in La Fayet county,
Sec. 4. The said company shall, within sixty DAYS
from and after the passage of this act, fife with the
secretary 81 state resolution duly adopted by its
BOARD Of directors, accepting this grnt upon the
terms and conditions herein contained and shall
also within said sixty days, give 10 tn state of Wis
co1sln such security for the completion of said road
from ST. Croix river lake to the west end of Lake
Superior and to Bayfield,, in accordance with the
provisions of the said acts of Congress and Of this
act, as shall be required by the governor; and upon
the failure of said company to file said resolution
and to give said security within the time hereinbe-
fore limited, this act shall be of no effect so far as
it grants to said Milwaukee and ST. Paul Railway
Company any interest in, or right to said grant
Sec. >. If the said Milwaukee and St Paul Rail-
way Company shall tail to ale said resolution and To
give SAID security, as provided in the preceding
tlJu, DE Cue uuty OF the governor, the
agent of~the state, to proclaim forfeiture by the
SAID company of all rights and privileges under this
act and thereupon any other raiIway company that
shall first, after SAID proclamation of forfeiture
hereinbefore referred to- file with the secretary of
state resolution of its board of directors accenfi
said grant upon the terms and conditions of said
acts OF Congress and of this act, and shall depost
with the state treasurer security, approved by the
governor, to construct said road in accordance with
the provisions of said act of Congress and of this
act sau succeed to the rights and privileges herein
cond1eonally granted to the said Milwaukee and st
raul Railway Company, as fully as though this act
had III the first instance applied to said company
Sec. b. Upon the presentation to the state treas
urer OF satisfactory proof that said Milwaukee and
| ST. Paul Railway Company has completed forty
miles OF said road from ST. Crox river or lake to-
wards the west end of Lake Superior and to Raw
neld 1t shalt be the duty of said treasurer and he
Is hereDy directed to pay to said COMPANY all
moneys IN the treasury collected from trespasssers
on SAID lands embraced i'll said grants.
Sec Z. ANY person who, prior to the first day of
January, 1870, may have settled upon any quarter
section or other subdivision less than Quarter sec
uon OF salG lands, and improved the same as farm
ana who has since continued to reside thereon and
occupy the same as his home, NAV on urovino
such settlement, Improvement and continued resi
dence acquire the title to the same by having r.
SAID Milwaukee and st Paul Railway Comnanv tbe
sum OF two dollars and fifty cents per acre for sale
iand, such proof and payment to be made within
one year rom the passage of this act
Sec O.. ms act shall take effect and he in fore.
from and after its passage and publication
Approved March II, 1873
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