Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-06-26
AN ACT.

TO authorize the town of Eagle River,
Villas County, Wisconsin, to build
and maintain dam across the
Wisconsin river in said town, for
public uses and purposes; to
authorize said town, by the
exere Sc of eminent domain, to
acquire all such rights and prop
erty as may be necessary for
calculating such purpose, and
repeating chapter 1870 of the laws
of1897, authorizing William J..
Walsh, Fred Morey and w. A.
Bradford, their associates, heirs
and assigns to build and maintain
a dam across the Wisconsin river
in Villas county, Wisconsin.
The people ofthe State Of Wis
consin, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION L. The town of Eagle
River, Villas county, is hereby author
szed to build, construct and maintain
a. dam not exceeding twenty feet in
HIGHT across the Wisconsin river at
such place on government lots mum :
bers seven Z and eight 81, in section
thirty-six 80, township forty 40
north, range nine % east, in said
town of Eagle River, as the town
board of said town shall, by ordinance
or resolution, hereafter determine, for
the following purposes:
To obtain hydraulic power for
generating electricity for lighting the
streets, bridges and public buildings
of the unincorporated~village of Eagle
River in said town, and furnishing
electric light to the Inhabitants there
of;
To obtain hydraulic power for
operating water works for the purpose
of supplying said village and in
habitants thereof with water;
10 obtain hydraulic power to be
used for any other lawful municipal
purpose.
SECTION g. In case the said dam as
SO constructed and maintained shall
make available for use amy electrical
power which shall not be- continuous
ly needed and used for the purposes
aforementioned. the said town is here
by authorized and empowered to let,
lease or rent the same for use for any
lawful private purpose, such leas,
however, not to be for a longer term
than twenty years.
SECTION 3. Said dam shall be so
built and maintained as not to mate
rally obstruct or impede tae naviga-
ton of said river, or the running of
logs or forest products down said
river, and that suitable logslide or
sluice way of sufficient width shall be
as may be necessary to
pass all logs and forest products down
said river without unnecessary delay.
SECTION 4. For the purpose of
erecting said dam and maintaining
and operating the same at such height
authorized by this act, the said town
is hereby authorized to take, oven
flow and use any land or lands which
will at any time be over-fowed by
reason of the construction and opera
ton Of said dam and maintaining the
same, and to take and use all other
property necessary for such purposes,
or for any of the public uses and
purposes for which authority is by
this act granted to erect such dam
andmaintain the same.
For the purpose of acquiring title
to such lands and other property, the
said town is hereby authorized to
exercise the right of eminent domain
under and in pursuance with sections
1777a, 1777b, 1777c and 1777d of the
statutes of 1898 and laws amendatory
thereof and supplemental thereto.
This act shall be deemed tc authorize
the taking and acquisition of title to
any lands or other property already
devoted to public uses to such extent
as may be necessary for calculating
the purposes of this act by the exer'
else of the right of eminent domain
under and in pursuance with said
sectians 1777a, 1777b, 1777c, 1777d of
the statutes of 1898 and laws amenda-
tory thereof ard supplemental thereto,
as fully as if such lands or other
property were devoted to private