The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-07-29
No. $40, Al Published June Ia. 1909.
CHAPTER 354, LAWS OF 1909.

No. $40 A. Published June IL. 13US.
CHAPTER 354, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to legalize proceedings taken or
to be taken under chapter 426 of the laws
of Wisconsin for 1905, regulating actions
by tax payers and cities Joined in the
erection Of buildings hereunder, and
amending said chapter 426, laws of 1905,
relating to the erection and maintenance
of auditoriums and music halls for cities
of the first class.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section 1. After any city of the first
class has Joined, or may hereafter join,
under the provisions of chapter 426 of laws
of Wisconsin Of 1905, in the erection of an
auditorium building, and has actually made
a payment towards the erection of such
institution, and which building contains one
or more auditoriums and Is not designed
as building for offices. class rooms, studios,
lions for any Industrial, commercial. scien-
tifc, educational fraternal or musical Or
carnations or labor associations any lack
of authority on the part of said city, and
any irregularity in the proceedings or fail
ure to comply with any of the provisions of
chapter 426 of the laws Of Wisconsin OF
garded, and the exercise of any such power
by such city is hereby legalized. and all
such proceedings are hereby validated, and
the uses and purposes Of any such instl-
tuition are hereby declared to be pubic uses
and public purposes. O..
Section 2. After any city Of the first
class has made payment toward the cree
tion of an institution under the provisions
of chapter 426 of the laws of Wisconsin OF
1905, no injunction or other restraining Or
der or judgment shall be granted, entered
or made, 10 enjoin prevent any further
payment by such city or to interfere in any
way with the erection, maintenance or oper-
alton of said institution, and no action for
the recovery OF any payment made by any
such city toward the erection Of any such
Institution shall be maintained, whether
such action be instituted prosecuted by
oh oil or hIT f0v Nf
city or by any other person, unless 1t ap-
pear that such action was commenced with
in six months after the making of the first
payment by such city toward the erection
OF such institution; provided, however, that
in case the first payment made by any such
city toward the erection of any such insti-
tuition shall have been made prior to the
enactment of this statute, then. and in that
event. such action may be commenced at
any time within six months after the enact
Section 9. After any city of the first
class shall have erected an institution I'M
der the provisions of chapter 426 of the
laws of Wisconsin for 1903, such as is de-
scribed in section 1 of this act, the COM
mon council of such city shall have power
to provide for and defray from its general
CIV fund one half of the expense of main
tpnance and repair of such institution, one
half the payment of salaries of employees
thereof and one half all necessary expenses
incurred By said board in keeping up and
conducting such institution provided, that
If the city shall acquire the rights to all
the stock of the joint corporation and be-
come. the sole owner OF said institution,
dafrav the entire expense of maintenance
and repair, salaries and other expenses of
such institution after all the income come derived
from the use of the institution snail De nfst
applied for such purposes.
Section 4. Sections 6, and of chapter
426. laws of 1905, are. amended to read:
Section g. Within ten days alter the mem,
beers of said board shall have been elected
or appointed as aforesaid. they shall hold
a meeting and shall elect president,
Nlce-prcsident, a secretary and a treasurer
UNI H55 The fourth Tuesday of April of the next
d nei even numbered year. and said
Olhcers snail thereafter be elected biennially
on me fourth Tuesday in April of the even
NUMBERED years, and shall hold for q term
or TWO years. The
treasurer Shall. Immediately upon his cleo