The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-03-30

certified to the clerk of such town city or village
by the county clerk, special county tax to be
raised therein at the time of making the annual
apport1onment Of taxes in November in each year.
The compensation so charged to the town, city
or village, shall be paid back into the treasury of
the town, city or village by such delinquent clerk
and it shall be the duty of the treasury of such
town, city or village to deduct such comp ensa-
ton out OF the salary for fees) of such delinquent
clerk.
Section 2. Whenever the county clerk of any
county shall fail to discharge the duty required by
section two f2), of chapter one hundred and fifty
(l6O), OF the general laws Of 1872 it shall be the
duty OF the secretary Of state to dispatch
messenger to such county clerk to procure the
statistics require by such section; and such mes
senger hall be entitled to compensation of three
dollars $500 per day for such services and trav
cling fee OF ten cents 10 cts) per mile for the dis
lance necessarily travelled in the discharge of such
duty, and such compensation shall be paid by draw
ing warrant by the secretary of state the state
treasury for the amount, and said secretary shall
certify such amount to the county clerk of the
county so delieqrent, at the time of certifying to
the state tax necessary to be raised in such coun
ty, and the said amount shall be special state
tax against such county, and shall be collected and
be returned in the manner that other state
taxes collected and paid into the state treasury
The compensation SO charged to the county shall
be paid back into the treasury of the county by
such delinquent CLERK, and it shall be the duty of
the treasurer Of such county to deduct such COM
pensst1on out of the salary of such delinquent
county clerk.
Sec 8. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
Approved February ~, 1876.
Published February II, 1876.
CHAPTER 49,
AN ACT supplemental to an act to encourage the
building OF narrow gauge railroads, and to Sc
cure cheap transportation to the people, approx
ed March I'd, 1875.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. Municipal corporations named in the
act to which this act is supplemental may by agree
ment with narrow gauge railroad companies in the
state of Wisconsin, aid in construction of narrow
gauge railroads by guaranteeing and agreeing to
pay the interest on a given amount of the first
mortgage bonds Of such roads for the period of
teo years, and whenever any municipality shall
give aid to any narrow gauge railroad under this
act they may, and it shall be their duty to levy
tax each year for the period of ten years on the
taxable property of such municipality, to pay the
interest SO agreed to be paid as the same becomes
due and payable, and in consideration thereof, the
railroad so aided shall Immediately upon the pay
ment of the interest by such municipality pay back
to such municipality the amount of interest so paid
by it by tax upon the property of such municipal
ty in the first mortgage bonds of the company, at
their par value. or in lawful money of the United
States of America, as the company may elect.
Section 2. In all cases when municipal corpora
tions aid in the construction OF narrow gauge rail-
roads by guaranteeing and agreeing to pay the in
terest on a given amount of the fret mortgage
bonds of such comp any, such guarantee and agree
ment shall be endorsed on each bond so guaranteed
by them, and signed by the proper officers of such
municipality, with the corporate seal attached and
no municipal corporation shall be held liable for
the payment OF the interest on any bond issued by
any railroad company unless it's guarantee and
agreement with its seal attached placed upon the
bond, and in no case shall such municipality be
held responsible for the payment of the principal OF
such bond, or any portion thereof in consequence
of such guarantee or otherwise.
Section 8. The guarantee and agreement may be |
written or printed, partly written and partly |
printed, but shall be signed by the hand and bear
the actual signature of the proper officers of such
municipality; and such municipalities as are not
required by law to have SEAL giving aid to mar |
row gauge railroads under this act, shall obtain |
seal with the name of their corporation engraved |
thereon, and shall afx the same to their guarantee
and agreement; and no guarantee or agreement |
shall be valid except the seal of the corporation |
making the same shall be Allied thereto. /
Section A. The agreement between such railroad |
companies and such municipalities shall be arrived
at provided in act entitled San act to author
ize municipal corporations to aid in the construc-
ton of railroads" approved March 25th 1872. as
provided by section three OF an act amendatory |
thereof approved March 10Th, 1873 and in all
when ajority of the voters of any municipality |
in the state Of Wisconsin shall vote in favor of aid
ing the construction of narrow gauge railroad
under this act, majority of the taxpayers shall
petition in favor of such aid in accordance with the
provisions Of either of the acts referred to in this
section t shall be the duty of the proper officers OF
such municipality to place upon first mortgage |
bond of such narrow gauge railroad company the
guaranteed agreement of such municipal corpora
ed, to the given amount voted or pettioned by the
voters or taxpayers Of such municipality in city
or village having legally elected treasurer. The
officers of such municipality guaranteeing such
bonds shall place the in the hands of its treas
urer, together with the proposition OF the railroad
company asking aid; and it shall be the duty OF
suchs treasurer in whose hands such bonds are |
placed, to hold them in his possession until the
railroad company has fully complied with the con-
ditions upon which such aid was voted or made;
and when the railroad company has fully complied
with this conditions according to the proposition |
made by the railroad company for aid, it shall be
the duty of the treasurer custodian holding such
bonds to deliver them to such railroad company on
its order, and the treasurer 30 holding said bonds
may, before the company has complied with all the
con 1itions upon which such guarantee and agree
ment was MADE, accept an order for such bonds
given by the company to parties from whom they /
may buy iron, rolling stock or other material for |
their road; but the acceptance shall be conditional,
and the bonds shall not be delivered to such third
parties until the company has complied with the |
conditions upon which such guarantee or agree
ment was made, as shown by the proposition OF the
railroad company to the municipality for aid.
Section g. When towns Townships or counties |
give aid to gauge railroads under this act,
and place upon the first mortgage bonds of the |
company their guarantee and agreement to pay |
the interest such first mortgage bonds for the |
period of ten years. hereinbefore provided, such
bonds when 30 guaranteed, shall be placed in the
hands of the county treasurer, and he shall hold |
them upon the same terms and upon the same con- |
d1tons as provided in the last section for city and
village treasurer.
oecIlon D. All municipalities giving alu 10 mar
gauge railroads under this act shall be entitled
to all the benefits of the act to which this is supple
mentary, the if they had given aid under |
the former act. Narrow gauge railroad companies |
before asking aid under this act, shall fix their
freight and passenger rates provided in section
three of the former act and municipalities giving
aid under this act shall receive their share Of the
license or tax money provided in section of the
act to which this sup Elementary, and upon the
same basis, to wit: in proportion to the amount OF
bonds each municipality shall guarantee the pay
ment of the interest on hereinbefore provided,
and to this end it shall be the duty of the acting
to immediately forward to the state treasurer a
schedule of the number and amount of bonds go
guaranteed by such municipality.
Section Z. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved February Is, 1876.