The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-27


room suitable for the meetings of the board at Mad
ison, and Off ce room for its secretary.
SEC. -. This act shall take effect upon its pass
age.
Approved March 10, 1876.
Published March 81, 1851
CHAPTER OCT.
AN ACT to amend and combine sections twenty
nine (29) and thirty 800, of chapter twenty-eght
(28, of the revised statutes of 1858, entitled. OF
school and other lands.''
The people of the State of Wisconsin represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION l. Section twenty nine {l9l and thirty
(3O) of chapter twanty-eight (2S), of the revised
statutes of 1858, shall be combined and amended SO
as to read follows: Every purchaser OF any lot,
or tract of land, at sale made by the commission
ers aforesaid shall pay the amount of the purchase
| money and interest required by the term OF the
SALE to be paid in hand Immediately after the land
shall be bid off by him, and if such purchaser shall
refuse or neglect to pay immediately for the land
bid off by him, and the laud shall be again offered
for sale, and the purchaser shall for his refusal or
neglect to pay aforesaid, forfeit the sum OF
i twenty-five {25l dollars, which the commissioners
SHALL in the of the State, to be inmedl-
ately sued for and collected, and when coec ted the
sum SO forfeited and collected shall be credited to
the fund the income of the fund that the land so
| bid off belonged [to].
Sec 2. This act shall take effect and be in force
! from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March H. 1876.
Published March 81, 1861
CHAPTER 295.
AN ACT to amend chapter eighty (80), of the gen.
| eral laws of 1872, entitled, !" An act authorizing
cities and villages to establish free Hbrarles and
reading rooms"
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION /. Chapter eighty (8O), OF the general
laws of 1872, is hereby amended so as TO read as
follows: Section l. The city council Of each incor
porated city, not exceeding in population fifty thou
sand go 000 inhabitants and the board OF trustees
of each incorporated village and the board OF super
| vsors of any town containing over two thousand
(2O0O inhabitants in this State shall have power to
n0
room, for the and benefit of the inhabitants of
| such city, town, incorporated village, and may
levy tax not exceeding onemlll on the dollar on an
taxable property of the city, town, or village, Tor
such purpose, to be known as the " library fund ;"
provided that no library shall be established,
no tax so levied without irstSubmitting it to vote
of the legal voters of such city, village or town.
Sec 2. When any common council, board of
supervisors or board of trustees shall have decided
| to establish and maintain a public library and
reading room under this act, the mayor of such
CITY, chairman of such board of supervisors or the
president of such village SHALL with the approval OF
the common council, board Of supervisors, or board
of trustees proceed to appoint board of nine 10y
directors for the same chosen from the citizens at
| large, with reference to Gheir fitness for such
| Office and not more than one member OF the city
council board of supervisors, board of trustees
shall be at any one time member OF said board OF
directors.
SEC. 3. Said directors shall hold Office from their
appointment and one-third for one year, one-thlrd
for two years, and one-third for three years from
the first st) of July of each year following their
shall cast lots for their respective terms, and annu-
ally thereafter the mayor of such city, chairman of
such board of supervisors or president OF sucn
village SHALL before the first (lst day OF July OF
each year. before, appoint three directors to take
the place of the retiring directors. who shall hold
office for three years. and until their successors are
appointed.
/ SEC 4 Vacancies in the board of directors,
occasioned by removal, resignation, or otherwise,
shall be reported by the board to the city coun-
Gil board of supervisors, board of trustees and
be filed in like manner original appointments
and no director shall receive any compensation as
such.
SEC s. Said directors SHALL Immediately after their
| appointment, meet and organize by the election of
one of their number president, and by the election
| Of such other officers they may deem necessary.
They shall make and adopt such bylaws rules and
regulations for their guidance and for the gov
eminent of the library and reading-rooms as may oe
expedient not inconsistent with this act They shall
have the conclusive control of the expenditures OF
all moneys collected for the library fund, and the
supervision care and custody of the rooms or build
ing constructed leased set apart for the purpose
provided, that all moneys received for such library
shall be deposited in the treasury Of said city, town
or village to the credit of the library fund.- and shall
be kept separate and apart from other moneys OF
such city. town or village, and drawn upon by the
proper officers of said city, town or village, upon the
properly authenticated vouchers OF the library Doard
| Said board shall have power to occupy, lease or
erect an appropriate building for the use OF said
library, not exceeding, from the library fund in one
| ~ year in building, more than half the income of
such year, and shall have power to appoint suitable
librarian and necessary assistant and shall IN gen
era carry out the spirit and intent OF this act IN
establishing or maintaining the best library and
reading-room with the at their disposal pro
vded however, that purchase or lease OF land or
buildings, and order contract Tor the erection
or construction of buildings shall take effect with
out the previous approval OF the mayor and common
council of the city, or board OF supervisors of the
| town, OF board of trustees of the village
| SEC. 6. Every library and reading room estab-
1ished under this act shall be forever free for the
use of the inhabitants of the city, town, or village
where located always subject to such reasonable
rules and regulations the library board may find
necessary to adopt and publish, in order to render
| the use of said library and reading room OF the
greatest benefit to the greatest number, and may
exclude and cut off from the of said library and
reading any and all persons who shall W1ltuily
| violate such rules.
annual report to the city council, town board, or
| beard of trustees stating the condition OF their
trust, the various sums OF money received from the
literary fund and from all other sources, and how
| such moneys have been expended; the number OF
| books and periodicals hand; the number added
by purchase, gift, or otherwise, during the year
| the number lost or missing; the number OF books
loaned out and the general character and KIND OF
such books, with such other statistics, imforma-
ton, and suggestions as they may deem OF general
! interest.
SEC. 8. All taxes levied under this act shall be
levied and collected in like manner with other gem
| eral taxes of said city, town. or village.
SEC 8. Any person DESTROYS of making donations
of money or real estate, for the benefit OF such
library shall have the right to vest the title to the
money or real estate so donated in the board OF
directors created under this act to be held and
controlled by such board, when accepted, according
to the terms of the deed of gift DEVISE or bequest
of such property, and as to such property the said
board shall be held and considered to be special
trustees.
SEC 10. This act shall take effect from and after
it's passage and publication.
Approved March II, 1876.
published March 81, 1861
CHAPTER 246.
AN ACT to amend section IS, of chapter Z, of the
revised statutes entitled, "Of general and special
elections, and the manner of conducting the
same, and the canvass"
The people OF the State of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION l. Section rs, of chapter Z, of the revised