The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-20

laws not inconsistent with the constitution anC
laws of this State, and to make such rules and regu
lations as may be deemed necessary to carry int
effect the object of their association and the mem
bers shall have power to assemble and meet at sucl
! times and places as may be agreed upon, and the.
shall ell sct once in each year foreman, first assist
ant foreman. second assistant foreman, secretary
and treasurer and the samo shall be board of trus
tees, and to take charge of the real and persona
property of said corporation, and the said property
shall be solely devoted to the purpose of said
cation, and all real and personal estate which has
| been, may hereafter be lawfully conveyed By
devise gift, grant, purchase, otherwise shall de-
| scend with all improvements and appurtenances
inperpetual succession to- and be held by the trus.
tets IN trust for said corporation. The trustees
may sue and be sued in [thel company's name, and
besuDJect to other duties as may be prescribed by
the laws OF said corporation; and the said officers
shsl hold their Offices for tie sterm of one year OF
uIfil their successors duly elected. And the
members may elect or appoint such other officers
as nay be deemed necessary.
{ kSEC 8. The said corporation may prescribe the
mole OF adopting new members and expel members
forbad behavior, for violating the constitution,
bylaws, rules, regulations, or disObeying orders
from the proper officers of said corporation, and
mar also impose such fines for the punishment for
sucl o1enses as they may deem fit, not to exceed
thesum of fifteen dollars and costs for any one of
fense and may collect the same by suit and execu-
tion before any justice of the peace in the county
in which said corporation is located and the same
when collected shall be paid into the treasury of
said company.
SEC. 6. The secretary of each company shall
within ten 0A days after the election Of officers in
each year, make out and deliver to the town clerk
of The town in which such corporation is located
report giving the names of officers elected for the
ensuing year and also after the election of officers
or appointments of same to fill vacancies thas may
occlr during the year. Each and every member so
reported shall be exempt from military duty, ex-
cept in case of war or invasion and insurrection
and said company or department shall have all the
benefits derived by all the general laws now in
force or that may hereafter become in force, and
any secretary or other person who shall report to
the town clerk that any person belongs to fire
company, for the purpose OF getting them the bene-
tits derived from this section any other law of
this State, shall be deemed guilty of nisdemeanor
and be punished by reasonable fine or imprison-
mNt in the county jail not less than one or
more than ten days for any one offense. Justices
of the peace shall have jurisdiction of such cases to
try and determine the same.
SEC. z. The company with membership of not
less than thirty, two or more companies with a
membership of notices. than fifteen each, equipped
with one hook and ladder truck, one steam, hand or
chemical fire engine, with at least two hundred feet
of good sound rubber or leather hose Qocated in
the unincorporated village) shall constitute
fire department for all intents and purposes by law
and it shall be lawful for the members of the COM
pany or companies COintly) to meet and elect one
of their members chief of the fire department and
dtliver to him certificate of election and he shall
held his Office for the term of year from date of
such certificate or his is duly elected or
ifsaid certificate shall be signed by the secretary of
such companies he shall have control Of said COM
pany companies at all times and they shall obey
his orders and he shall be ex-ocio trustee of each
company, and shall be vested with all the power and
privileges, and be liable to the penalties fire
wsrdens in Incorporated villages.
SEC. 8. 1t is hereby made the duty of town clerks
ineach town containing a fire department or fire
company, to receive the said department
pany reports provided by this act, and file the
same as other papers are filed in their Offices, and
deliver to the treasurer of each company Tor depart
nent) a receipt therefor.
SEC. 8. The purpose and object of said corpora
tons shall be to aid and assist in the extngushing
OF fires at or such villages and for refusal to
attend any fire within three quarters Of mile
flon location of engine or truck houses (when
IDrifed), shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty
dollars for each otfense to the town authorities for
the benefit of the poor fund, and shall be collected
Iy suit same as other forfeitures are collected.
Sec 10. This act shall be published Immediately,
and shall be in force from and after its passage
and publication and all acts and parts of acts con-
Eavening the provision of this act are hereby re-
Iealed.
/ Approved March T. 1876.
Published March Is, 1861
CHAPTER 121.
AN ACT relating to Che preparation publication
and distribution of the final report of the geo.
logical survey.
Tie people of the State of Wisconsin, represented
N Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Sec. l. That in the preparation of his final report,
thechief geoogist be, and he is hereby authorized
to c0ate the general geology and the leading facts
and principles relating to the material resources of
the State together with the practical suggestions
the methods of detecting and utilizing the same
so as to constitute the material for volume suited
to the wants Of explorers, miners land owners and
who use crude native products, and
to the needs of the schools of the State, and the
masses of intelligent people who are not familiar
with the principles of geology said volume to be
written in clear, plain language with explanations
of technical terms. and to be properly illustrated
with maps and diagrams, and to be so arranged as
to constitute key to the perfect understand
ing OF the whole report.
Sec. 2. The annual reports for the years 1873,
1874 and 1875 hereby placed in the hands OF the
chief geoogist to be used in the preparation Of his
final report.
SEC. 5. The Commissioners of Public Printing
are hereby authorized and directed to procure the
printing under the supervision of the chief geolo-
gist of seven thousand copies of the volume pro-
vided for by section one ~, of this act and twenty
four hundred copies of the complete report.
SlcJ. 4. The said Commissioners are also hereby
to procure, on the best terms they can
MAKE, such plates, cuts, engraved stones and
other means of representations as may be neces-
sary to properly illustrate the report and they
directed to contract for the delivery, after the
printing of the report, of such plates, cuts, en-
grayed stones and other of illustration to the
STATE.
SFC. & The said commissioners are hereby further
authorized to determine, with the advice OF the
chief geologist the form in which the report shall
be printed, and to make exception OF the printing
of slid report in advertising for bids for the pubic
printing and making contracts for the same, as
provided for in chapter two hundred and forty
three (243), of the general laws OF 1874, II, in
bD6r 1uQgm0nC, the udGlE0 VI GGO PuUuCuG1O1
makes it desirable to do so, and are empowered
to make special contract for the printing of said
report provided they shall in no case pay rate
exceeding that paid the State printer and provided
further that they shall not violate any existing con-
tract.
SEC. 6. Each school district within the State shall
be entitled to copy of the volume provided for
by section of this act, each high school and ncor
p0iated academy to six (6) each normal school and
college to fifteen 15), and the State
University to twenty-five copies, respectively, of
said volume Each member of the Legislature of
1876 and 1877, every officer of State, each judge of
the Supreme court shall be entitled to two copies
of The complete report Each officer of .the present
Senate and Assembly, each incorporated college or
academy, each normal school, each high school,
each State charitable penal institution each per-
son who has rendered assistance in the prosecution
of the survey, each scientific society in the State
and each town city library, established under the
provisions of chapter eighty (8O of the general laws
Of 1872, shall be entitled to one ~ complete copy.
Tie State University, the Wisconsin Academy OF
Science, Arts and Letters, the Historical Society,
and the State Lbrsr shall each be entitled to ten
QO) complete copies. The remaining copies shall
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