Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22


own number, and by making provision
| for stated meetings
| Section 959-78m. The board shall
/ have power and it shall be it's duty
| for and in behalf of the municipality
1. To cause to be prepared a com
prehensive plan for the Improvement
of its harbor and waterfront, making
/ provision for the needs of commerce
and shipping, and providing for the
construction of such docks, basins,
piers, slips, wharves, warehouses, belt
railway connecting with all lines with
in the municipality, and such cranes,
| dock apparatus and machinery equip
| ment as 1t may deem necessary for
/ the convenient and economical accom-
mediation and handling or water craft
/ of all kinds, and Of freight and pas
i sengers, and the free interchange of
traffic between the waterway and the
| railways, and the railways and the
waterway; and it may modify such
! plan from time to time as the require
| ments of commerce and shipping and
the advance of knowledge and infor-
| nation on the subject may suggest.
2. To purchase or acquire by expro-
/ priation or condemnation as herein
after provided, or by other lawful
means. such lands or rights, or inter
| est therein, as may be necessary for
use in the construction of belt rail-
| way, or in the construction of any
publicly owned dock, basin, pier, slip,
wharf, warehouses or other structures
as may be provided for in such plan.
| II the board should deem is proper
and expedient that the municipality
| should acquire possession of such
wharf property or land and no price
can be agreed upon between the board
| and the owner thereof, the board may di-
! rect the village or city attorney to take
legal proceedings to acquire the same
| for the municipality, in the same man
ner as land is condemned for the pur-
pose of acquiring lands for parks or as it
| is or may be provided by general laws
| relating thereto. The title of all lands
| acquired by the board shall be taken
| in the name of the municipality. If
any lands acquired by the board shall
| become unavailable for the purposes
! for which they were acquired, they
| shall become the property Of the mum
| icipality free from any restrictions
! upon the passing by the board of a
| resolution so declaring as to such
lands; the board may exchange, or
| otherwise dispose of the same in the
| discharge of its duties as hereinafter
! set forth; provided, however, that any
such lands so acquired or held by said
municipality, and which shall border
or abut upon any navigable stream,
| lake or waterway, shall never be
alienated, transferred or exchanged by
| said municipality.
| 8. The board shall have exclusive
charge and control Of the wharf prop
| erty belonging to the municipality in
Guiding belt railway, all the wharves,
piers, bulkheadS and structures there
on. and waters adjacent thereto, and
all the slips, basins, land under water,
docks, water-fronts, the structures
thereon and the appurtenances, ease
ments, uses, reverSionS and rights be-
longing thereto, which are now owned
| or possessed by the municipality, or
] to which the municipality Is or may
| hnnnn1n QnfitJnd uvn "a MN i
| cipality may acquire under the provi-
sions hereof or otherwise. The board
| shall have the exclusive charge and
| control Of the building, rebuilding, al
teration, repairing, operation and
| leasing of said property and every part
thereof, and all the cleaning, grading,
dredging and deepening necessary in
and about the same.
4. The board is also vested with ex-
elusive government and control of the
harbOr, and of all wharf property, belt
| railway, wharves, piers bulkheads,
structures and equipment thereon, and
water adjacent thereto and all basins,
slips, docks and land under water be-
longing to the municipality, with the
right to collect dockage, wharfage,
cranage fees and tolls thereon, as
hereinafter provided.
5. In the condemnation Of docks,
| wharves and their appurtenances, or
/ in the performance of other work, the
board shall proceed only after public
notice asking for proposals based upon
the plans and specifications previously
submitted and filed with the board ny
it's engineer and approved by it; pro-
vided that when in the judgment of the
/ board the bids received are excessive
or otherwise unsuitable, the board
may proceed to do the work directly
The board shall in all cases have the
right to reject any and all bids. In
the event that it shall perform the
work directly, it shall make no pur-
chase of materials in amounts exceed
ing five hundred dollars, except by
public letting, or except in case of
failure to receive satisfactory bids
after reasonable published notice, or
except in. case Of emergency where
delay of public letting might cause
serious loss. or injury to the work.
6. The board shall have the power
to make general rules and regulations
for the carrying out of the plans pre-
pared by it for the building, rebuild
ing, repairing, alteration, mainten-
ance and operation of all struc-
lures, erections or artificial con-
the waterfront of the munic-
ipality, and except as provided by the
general rules of the board, no new
structures or repairs upon or along
said waterfront shall be undertaken,
except upon application to the board
and under permit by it and in &C
cordance with the general plans of
the board and in pursuance of speci-
flea atoms submitted to the board and
approved by it upon such application
The general rules and regulations of
the board shall be embodied in the
form of ordinances and certified copies
thereof shall, forthwith upon their
passage, be transmitted to the village
or city clerk, who shall cause the same
to be transcribed at length in a book
kept for that purpose and the same
shall be included in any publication or
compilation Of the ordinances of the
municipality.
7. The board shall have the power
to fix and regulate from time to time,
and from time to time alter the tolls,
dockage, wharfage, cranage, shedage,
storage and other charges for all pub
lie owned docks, belt railways, piers,
slips, basins, wharveS and their equip
ment, and a schedule of such charges
and regulations shall be enacted in the
form of ordinances and a certified
copy thereof shall be transmitted
to the village or city clerk in like
manner as other ordinances of the
board, before the same shall go into
or be in effect.
8. The power and authority over
that part of the streets and alleys of
the municipality which abut or inter-
sect it's navigable waters, lying be-
tween the harbor line and the first