Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-07-28
HISTORICAL FACTS
WauWat0Sa incorporated as a
City Without Special Flee
ton or Vote of Citizens.
aY DECISION OF VILLAGE BOARD.
Amended Ordinance for Issuance of
Waterworks Bonds for $40, 900 Passed
and Bonds Negotiated without
Special Election in 1897.

The amended bill regulating incorporation Of
/ villages passed the Wisconsin Senate April 49,
/ 1877 Nauwatosa village was declared a iourth-
I class city 10y resolution of village board, April
/ q lsH7 al q meeting Of said board on that date.
/ @. b. Perry, city attorney went to Madison to
| present the necessary legal papers to secre-
tary of state declaring Nauwatosa a ci-y,
| directly after the election of WauWatosa's first
| city officials, May %, 1891; the election was
| held from a. III. to p m
The city Of Wauwatosa common council held
its first meeting June I, 1871. The amended
| ordinance for issuance of waterWorks bonds
amounting to $4,000 passed" in the council
July 20, 1871 and special election was held
TO ratify the action, although Wauwatosa was
a tourth-elass cily when the ordinance passed.
The money was secured without vote of the
! people.
We present herewith few facts also,
and we recommend them to the careful
consideration of our contemporary,
who can verify some of them from the
files Of the Wauwatosa Independent,
published at time within so recent a
period that the oldest inhabitant as
well as some Of the younger ones win
still remember them.
If the necessary files of the Iadepen-
dent (now in its sixth year, have not
been deemed worthy of preservation,
and are consequently not available for
the purposes of verification the records
Of the city and village of Wauwatosa
still exist and the files contain sworn
vouchers upon which moneys were paid
out to the newspaper proprietors, but
we have no doubt of the existence in
our contempory's Office of several files
of its valuable historical organ-we
don't believe subscribers exhausted
every issue
The village board of Wauwatosa on
September 18th, 1895, passed u resolu-
ton declaring the purpose of the board
to raise the sum of $4o,0OO-by issuing
corporate bonds the money to be used
in erecting and constructing system
of waterworks in and for the village
The resolution entered into details as
TO amount, interest and time of pay
ment of bonds, and thereafter special
election was called by the village clerk
as directed by the village board and as
provided by law, and we believe the
notice was published for three full
weeks prior to the election in the Wau-
watosa Independent now in its sixth
YEAR,; thereafter the VILLAGE Of IVAN
watosa paid for the publication of the
notice upon presentation and allowance
Of the sworn bill of the proprietor Of
that paper.
The special election was held mr.
suant to call SO published ON 0ctober
Is, 1895, and the purpose Of the VILLAGE
board was ratified at the said snacia1
election by q ma ;oritv of an votes cast
at Tie same.
Thereafter and ON the 10Th dav Of
November. 1sa5. an ordinances was ,lnlv
passed by the villape board nronerlv
approved and PROVIDING for thc b,nd
issue. That ordinance vas published in
the Indepeudeat or lis predecessor the
Wauwatosa Northwestern. and an ex-
animation of the files will doubtless he
u refreshing task Ia the nrescnt editor
Of that historic Sheet although it NAV
not prove to be in all RESPECTS a de-
lightful one or in every way in accord
with "ll,storieal Facts.
Before amy bonds were marketed
ana ON the stst day OF April, 1897,
Chapter 2S7 of the laws Of the State
Legislature 81 that year was approved,
/ hy which in Section % thereof il vo>