Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-09-24
Notice of Special
Town Meeting

| WHEREAS, the Town Board OF SUP
Iervisors of the Townof Eagle River.
Villas County, Wisconsin, on the IlCl
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 LIST, 1895, an unimorporated VII
lage Of d population OF more than one
thousand Inhabitants, being the VII
lage of Eagle River. In said town. anu
WHEREAS, the annual town meeb-
ing of Shutdown held on the first tues
day of April, 1896, and on the nrst
Tuesday of April in each succeeding
year thereafter and including the 1rst
Tuesday of april, 1909, duly passed q
resolution comforting upon said town
all the powers relating to villages
which are conferred upon village boards
by Chapter forty (40) 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 Dy
the electors and legal voters OF said
Town, and
WHEREAS, there is conferred upon
said town, by virtue Of Subdivision 10
of Section 776, Subdivision 10 of Sec
ton 1913, Section 943 of the Wisconsin
| Statutes of 1898 as amended by Chap
| ter "A 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 amendatory
| thereof, and by the General Laws OF the
State of Wisconsin the power to es6ab-
| lish a fire department. to appoint the
I officers and members thereof and pre-
Iscribe and regulate their duties; TO
provide protection from fire by the
purchase of fre-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 waterwOrks; 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 it's communication to other build
ings; to establish 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 d special tax upon such real estate,
to be assessed and collected as other
taxes in such village: to regulate the
storage of gunpowder and other dam
| 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 bonfres and the use of fireworks
and fire-a arms in the village Or any part
thereof; to authorize ire wardens, at
all reasonable times, to enter and eX-
anime all dwelling. houses, lots, yards,
Enclosures and buildings of every de-
| ScriptiOn i'll order to discover whether
any of them are in a dangerous condi-
4 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-
tinguishment of fires as may be neces-
sary and proper: and to issue bonds of
said town for the purpose Of meeting
the expenses thereofJ
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
| tits necessary for the best interests of
said town to provide for the purchase
of apparatus and the construction of a
sufficient water-works system for the
extinguishment of fires within the vii
| 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, 0OO.OO) with interest at the rate
of six 80 per cent per annum, which
sum, in the Judgment of said Board, is
| necessary and which will also be ample
andsufficient to pay all expenses for
properly purchasing the necessary ap-
paratus and for the construction of a
sufficient water works system for ex-
tingulshing fires, within the said vii.
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,
| $1,000,00 payable OF the first day oil
| May, 1912,
100000 payable on the first day o
| May, 1913,
100000 payable on the first day Q.
May, 1914,
100000 payable on the first day d
100000 payable on the first day .
May, 1917,