Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-10-01
Notice Of Special
Town Meeting

WHEREAS, the Town Board of Sup
ervisors of the Town of Eagle RlVer.
Villas County. Wisconsin, on the 1lth
day of September, 1909, duly passed
and adopted the following resolution,
tO-wit:
State of Wisconsin,
Villas County. So.
Town of Eagle River.
WHEREAS, the said Town of Eagle
River contains and has contained since
June lst. 1895, an uninLorporated viii
lage OF a population of more than one
thousand inhabitants, being the vii
lage of Eagle River. in said town, ana
| WHEREAS, the annual town meet
| ING of said town held on the first Tues.
day of April 1896, and on the llrst
Tuesday of April in each succeeding
wear thereafter and including the hrSt
Tuesday of April, 1909, duly passed
resolution comforting upon SAID town
all the powers relating to villages
which are conferred upon village boards
| by Chapter forty 400 of the Wisconsin
Statutes of 1898, and acts amendatOry
thereto except those the exercise OF
which would conflict with the statutes
relating to Towns and Town Boards,
and said resolutions have been duly
recorded in the records OF said town
and were duly passed and adopted by
the electors and legal voters OF said
Town, and
WHEREAS, there is conferred upon
said town, by virtue of Subdivision IL
of Section 776, Subdivision 10 OF Sec
tion 1913, Section 943 of the Wisconsin
Statutes of 1898 as amended by Chap
ter IA of the Laws of 1901, Chapter BIZ
of the Laws of 1903 Chapter 37S of the
Laws of 1905 and Chapter POS OF the
Laws of 1907, and acts amepdatory
thereof, and by the General Laws of the
State of Wisconsin the power to estab-
lish fire department. TO appoint the
officers and members thereof and pre-
scribe and regulate their duties; to
provide protection from fire by the
purchase of fire-engines and all the
necessary apparatus for the exiting
uishment of fires, and by the erection
or construction of pumps, water mains,
reservoirs or other water-WOrks: to
erect engine-houses: to compel the
inhabitants of the village to aid in the
extinguishment Of fires and to pull
down and raze such buildings in the
vicinity of fires as shall be directed by
them or any two OF them who may be
at the fire. for the purpose OF prevent
ing its communication to other build
ingS: to esta bIish fire limits or the
limits within which wooden or other
combustible buildings shall not be
erected; TO require the owners or Occu-
pants of buildings to provide and keep
suitable ladders and fire buckets which
shall be appurtenances to the realty
and exempt from seizure and forced
sale: and after reasonable notice to
such owner or occupant, and refusal or
neglect by him to procure and deliver
the same to him, and in default of pay
ment therefor to levy the cost thereof
as a special tax upon such real estate,
to be assessed and collected as other
taxes in such village; to regulate the
storage OF gunpOWQer and other dan
gerOus materials; TO require the con-
StructiOn OF safe places for the deposit
of ashes; to regulate the manner OF
putting up stove pipes and the cOnstruc-
tion and cleaning of chimneys; to pre-
vent bOnfires and the use Of fireworks
and firearms in the village or any part
thereof: to authorize tire Wardens, at
all reasonable times, TO enter and eX-
anime all dwelling. houses, lots. yards,
Enclosures and buildings of every de-
scripJiOn iii order to discover whether
any of them are in a dangerous condi-
tiOn and to cause such as may be dan
gerous to be put in a safe condition;
and generally to establish such neceS-
sary measures for the prevention or eX-
tiDguishment Of fires as may be neces-
sary and proper; and to issue bonds Of
said town for the purpose of meeting
the expenses thereof
NOW THEREFORE,, Be it and it is
resolved by the Board of Supervisors
of said Town of Eagle River, Villas
/ County, Wisconsin, that the said town
| does hereby determine and declare that
it is necessary for the best interests of
said town to provide for the purchase
of apparatus and the construction of q
sufficient Water-works system for the
| eXtingushment of fires within the viii
| lage of Eagle River in said town, and to
issue bonds for the purpose OF provid-
ing the money necessary therefor, to
the amount of Ten Thousand Dollars
| $50, OOO.00) with interest at the rate
of six TO- per cent per annum, which
sum, in the Judgment of said Board, is
necessary and which will also be ample
and sufficient to pay all expenses for
properly purchasing the necessary ap-
paratus and for the construction of a
sufficient water-works system for ex-
tinguishing fires, within the said viii
lage OF Eagle River, said bonds to draw
interest at the rate of six (6) per cent.
per annum, payable as follows:
100000 payable on the first day of
May, 1911,
100000 payable OF the first day of
May, 1912,
100000 payable on the first day Of
May, 1913,
$1,OoOoo payable on the first day Of
May, 1914,
100000 payable on the first day OF
May, 1915,
81 100000 payable on the first day O.
May, 1916.
ST, 100000 payable on the first day O.
| Nav 1917 I