Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
No. 49,, 81 Published June 20, 1907
CHA PTER 9o2 LAWS OF 1907

No. 49,, 81 Published June 20, 1907
CHAPTER 1913, LAWS OF 1907
AN ACT to amend sections $50, 662, 663,
repeal section SS3 and create section 663a
Of the statutes relating to county boards
in counties having a population OF at
least two hundred and fifty thousand
The people of the State OF Wisconsin, rep
resented in Senate and Assembly, do
Section /. Section 875 of the statutes
is amended to read: Section 8T5. At the
annual charter election in each village there
shall be chosen the following officers, viz
A president, six trustees, clerk, a treas
urer, an assessor and con-
stable; also two justices of the peace and
a police justice, If required to be elected
in such year, unless such last named office
shall have been discontinued, and a super
visor except in counties having poPula-
ton of at least two hundred and fifty thou
sand. All other officers Of villages organ
lied under the provisions of this chapter
or any general law shall be appointed by
the village board at their first meeting
after the annual election unless such board
shall otherwise provide; and such officers
shall be removable by such board on
vote of majority Of all the trustees. no
person not a resident elector In such VII
lage shall be eligible to any office therein
The village clerk may appoint a deputy
clerk for whom he shall be responsible,
and who shall take and file the oath of
office and in case of the absence, sickness
or other disability of the clerk may per
form his. duties and receive the same COM
pensation unless the village board shall
appoint person to act as such clerk.
Section 2. Section 662 of the statutes
is amended to read Section 662. Every
ward part thereof of any city, every
incorporated village or part OF such village
shall be represented IN the county Doafd
of supervisors of the county in which such
ward or part thereof or city or village or
part thereof is situated, by one super
visor, except In counties having q p0pula-
ton of at least two hundred and fifty
thousand all such supervisors shall be
elected annually by the electors OF such
wards, or parts of wards, villages or parts
of villages, respectively, at the same time
and in the same manner as city ana VII
Iage officers are elected. And when any
vacancy shall occur in the Office OF such
supervisor the proper common council or
hoard of trustees shall fill such vacancy
bv appointment. The holding of the Office
of such supervisor by any person shall not
disqualify him from being a. mem0er Oh Oh
the common council of the city or board
of trustees of the village in which he Is
elected or appointed. !
Section g. Section 663 of the statutes
IS amended to read Section 663. The
county board of supervisors, except In coun-
ties having a population of at least two
hundred and fifty thousand shall consist
of the chairman of the several towns and
the supervisor of each ward and part of
ward of every city, and of each Incorporated
village or part thereof; but II from sick
ness or other cause the chairman of any
town board shall be unable to attend any
meeting of the county board either OF the
other members Of such town board, to be
designated by themselves (and if they shall
disagree they shall decide the same by lott,
shall attend such meeting and act as
member of such county board but such
member of q town board shall not be per-
mitted to act as a member Of the county
board until the town clerk of such town
shall certify to the county clerk the name
of the supervisor so designated to repre-
sent said town. When the county shall
consist of one town the supervisors of such
town shall constitute the county board of
such county No county officer or deputy
of any such offices shall be eligible to the
office of supervisor, except as is provided
in section 665. s
Section a. Section 1888 of the statutes is
hereby repealed.
Section s. There is added to the stat
/ utes a new section to read Section 663a.
The county boord of supervisors in all
counties having a population of at least
two hundred and fifty thousand, according
to the last state or Unl.ed States census,
Snail be composed of supervisors chosen
from each assembly district within said
county Each assembly district of said
county shall be entitled to one supervisor
who shall be elected for a term of two
wears by the electors of said assembly
district. Said election to be held on the
first Tuesday in April, following the pas
sage of this act, and every two years there
after. ~
Said supervisors shall perform all the
member thereof shall be paid out of the
dollars per annum.
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