Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-30

date the charter of the city OF Lam
caster
The people of the state of Wisconsin
represented in senate and assembly,
10 enact a follows
CORPORATE POWERS.
Section |. All that district of coun.
try in the county of Grant hereinafter
described shall be city by the name Of
Lancaster, and the people now inhabit-
ing and those who shall inhabt SAID
district shall be municipal corpora
ton, by the name of the city Of Lancas-
ter, and shall have the general powers
possessed by municipal corporations al
common law, and in addition thereto
shall have and possess the powers
hereinafter specifically granted, and the
authorities thereof shall have perpetual
succession; and shall be capable of con
tracing and being contracted with
suing and being sued; pleading and be
ing implicated in all courts of law and
equity, and shall have common sea-
and may change and alter the same al
pleasure.
BOUNDARIES.
Section 2 All the territory within
Grant county described rs follows, to-
wit, all of section three, the west halt Of
section two, the north half of section
ten, and the northwest quarter Of sec
ton eleven, Of town four north, range
three west Of the fourth principal meri-
dian, shall be included in and constitute
the city of Lancaster.
GOVERNMENT.
Section 3. The government of said
city and the exercise of its corporate
powers and management of its financial.
prudential and municipal concerns shall
be vested in mayor and four alder
men, who shall be dcnominated the
common council, and such other officers
as arc hereinafter provided for. All OF
fcers must be residents of said city
Section A. The elective officers OF
said city shall be one mayor, four alder
men, one Justice Of the peace and one
supervisor to represent the city in the
county board of supervisors, and shall,
until otherwise provided, be elected by
the city at large All other officers nee
cssary for the proper management OF
the affairs Of said city shall be appointed
by the common council, and it shall be
the duty of the common council, at its
first meeting after the annual election in
each wear, or rs soon thereafter as may
be-, to appoint q city clerk, city treas
urcr, city marshal, city attorney,
and Il street commissioner, and may
from time to time appoint such other
officers rs are hereinafter provided for.
or rs the common council shall Ordaln.
All officers of the corporation, except
justices of the peace, unless otherwise
provided, shall hold their respective Of
ficeS one year and until their successors
are elected or appointed and qualified.
Said Justice Of the peace shall hold his
office for the term OF two years from and
after the first Monday in May succeed
inc his election Such justice OF tho
peace shall be chosen at the first cleo
ton under this act, and biennially there
after All other elective officers of said
city shall be elected annually.
ELECTIONS
Section s. The annual election for
city officers shall be held on the third
Tuesday in March each year. and at
such peace in the city as the common
council shall designate, and the polls
shall he opened at one o clock in the
afternoon and kept open until shutdown
Of the same day; notice shall be given
by the city clerk, by publication in some
newspaper in said city, or by posting
written or printed notices in at least
three public places in said city, at least
ten days previous to the holding of any
election, of the time and place at which
the same will he held, and of the Off
GERS to be elected thereat.
Section 6. All qualified electors foI
state anc county officers shall be entitled
to vote at any election in said city held
in pursuance of this act; provided, thai
no person shall vote at any such elec
ton unless he be an actual resident OF
the city at the time he offers his vote
Section I. All elections by the people
shall be by ballot, and a plurality o.
votes shall constitute an election; tn,
vote for all elective officers shall be OF
one ballot, and shall be depositedin one
ballot box. When two or more Condi
dates for an elective Office shall re-
ccive an equal number of votes for the
same office the election shall be deter
mined by lot in the presence of the com
mon council, and at such time and il
such manner rs it shall direct.
Section g. The common council, o
quorum thereof, shall act as inSpec
tors of such election; and in case 0
the absence of a quorum of such com
mon council, the electors present at thu
time Of the opening of the polls ma,
appoint from the electors Il suilicien
number to- make, with the members q
the council present. three inspectors
The city clerk shall be the clerk of sue
elections, and in his absence the inspec
tors may appoint aclcrk. The inspector
and clerk shall take and subscribe the rs
ual oath rs prescribed by the laws Of thi
state for inspectors and clerks of cleo
tiOn, and the inspectors shall cXerciS
all the powers and perform all the dutie
prescribed for inspectors of election b
tie general statutes. And the election
shall be- held and conducted and th
votes canyasscd in the same mannt
and under the same penalties as pr,
yidel by the laws of this state nrcspeC
toelcctons. and returns thereof shall d
made by The inspectors in the sam
election of town oiiecrs and when con
pleted shall be delivered to the cit
clerk To- be filed in his office, and ii
clerk shall. within five days thereafter
give to each person elected notice
his election, except in eases OF person
voting at such election.
Section g. Special elections to ii
vacancies or for any other purpose n
thurizcd by law. shall be held and con
Quoted i'm the same manner rs is PROV
dcd for the annual elections, and ma
be ordered by The common council, {
max hc called lbs request being mac
e. the city clerk in writing, signed |
twelve qualified electors OF said cit
specifying in such request the puipo.
for which such election is to be hel
And in either such ease the city clci
shall give notice of such election, spec
wing particularly the purpose for Viii,
the same is to be held, giving ut len
ten DAYS notice Of the time and pla
at which such election will be held.
REMOVALS. RESERVATIONS ANp NACA
CHS
Section TO- The common conn,
shall have power to remove, +
cause, any officer or agent appointed
them. reasonable notice being tir
given to such officer or agent, and ;
opportunity afforded him to make
defense; and the mayor shall have POI
or to suspend any such officer or age
complained of, until the case be hea
and disposed of by the common counc
and may fill anyvacancy 50 created Il
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