Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22
Of said city, detailed report OF all its
official transactions and expenditures

such city shall upon the request of such
commission provide adequate space for
the purposes and uses of such commits
sion in the city hall or any other proper
public building of such city, II such space
is available; all rentals, light, heat and
other proper charges shall be paid by
such commission out of the fund herein
after created to the proper officers OF such
city; provided, however. that such
commission may rent space In
any other buildings or places
in such city or within the county in
which such city is situated for all neceS-.
sary purposes and pay all proper charges
arising out of such renting out of the
fund hereinafter created, with the APP
prevail of the common council.
Section 5. Said commission shall be
charged with the duty of projecting,
planning. constructing and establishing a
sewerage system for the collection, trans
mission and disposal of the house and
other sewage and drainage of any such
city, including either as a combined or
separate feature of said system, the coll
lection, transmission and disposal OF
storm and ground water, respectively, and
shall be clothed with every and all pow
erS which may be necessary or proper
for these purposes, or either OF them,
among which shall be the following. to
wit:
(a) To make all such preliminary in
Vestigations and to do all such prelim-
mary work as should, in it's judgment,
precede the actual projection, planning,
construction and establishment of said
system OF sewerage. .s~
CD To project, plan and adopt such
system of sewerage as it may deem best
calculated to promote the objects of this
act.
(C) To compel any owner or occupant
of any premises located along the line OF
any intercepting sewer or of any of it's
branches, who is now engaged in dis
charging sewage, refuse, factory-Waste
or trade wastes of any kind into any river
or canal within any such city, to so
change OR rebuild any drain or sewer as
to discharge all such sewage, refuse, fac
tory wastes or trade wastes into said in
tercepting sewer and under such regula-
tons as said commission may determine.
(d) To pIan construct and establish all
such local, district lateral, ntercepting,
outfall OF other sewers, and all such con-
Quits. drains and pumping or other
plants, and all such buildings. struc-
lures, works or agencies, and to lay such
mains and pipes and to create Or use.
or create and use all such instrument
talitles and means within any such city
or any counties of the state, including
submerged as well as other lands, as 1t
may deem expedient or necessary for
carrying said system of sewerage. pro-
jected planned and adopted as afore-
said, into full effect And said commits
sion is hereby specifically empowered to
lay or construct, and any such city there
after to maintain, without compensation
to the state, any part or parts of said
system of sewerage, or of its works or
appurtenances, over or upon or under any
part or parts of the bed or beds of any
river or rivers or their branches flowing
through any such city, or of any land
covered by any of the navigable waters
of this state the title to which is held by
this state, and over, upon or under canals
Or other waterways and under rights of
way Of railroads, interurban and electric
railway companies, and If the same be
deemed advisable by the said commission,
aff re +I,O -tnofa - Re-
consin are hereby authorized and directed
upon the application of the said commits
sion to execute, acknowledge and deliver
to the proper officers of any such city
such deed or deeds or other instruments
as may be proper for the purpose of fully
confirming this grant.
(e) To incorporate with said system OF
sewerage, or otherwise utilize for the pur-
poses Of this act, so far as 1t may deem
expedient, any or all existing public sew
ers or drains, including storm water
sewers and drains, in any such city, and
any or all of their appurtenanceS, either
in their then condition or. with such re-
pairs, notifications or changes as said
commission may see fit to make and to
condemn, close up, abolish or destroy, in
its discretion, any and all such then ex-
listing public sewers and drains, or to
alter their functions or to increase their
burdens, as it may deem necessary to
carry out the purposes of this act.
Q) To appoint or employ a chief en-
gineer and such other professional or
technical advisers and experts, and such
agents, assistants, clerks, employees and
iaborers, skilled or unskilied, of all kinds,
as it may deem requisite for the due and
proper execution of the duties devolved
upon it by this act, or any of them, and
10 fix their respective compensations and
to remove or discharge them at pleasure
Except such highly trained, experienced
or skilled individuals as it may agree to
appoint or employ upon special terms,
for definite and fixed periods of time),
and to exact from them such indemnity
bonds for the proper performance Of
their respective duties, as it may deem
proper.
(g) All appointments by the said
commission except those of secretary,
chief engineer, professional or technical
advisers and experts and such highly
trained, experienced or skilled individ-
uals as such commission may agree to
appoint or employ upon special terms
for definite and fixed periods of time shall
be made subject to and in accordance
with the laws of the state respecting the
civil service in any such city to which
this act shall be applicable; and said
act from any of it's appOintees such in
demnity bond or bonds for the proper
performance of their respective duties
as it may deem proper.
Chi To frame, promulgate and enforce
such reasonable rules and regulations for
/
vision, protection, management, and con-
duct of its work as it may believe expe-
dent.
CD To make and enter in the name
and on behalf of any such city any and
ell contracts, agreements, or stipulations
germane to the scope of it's duties and
powers under this act.
Cd To purchase, hire or otherwise law
fully obtain the use of all such ma
chinery, tools, implements, appliances,
supplies, materials and working agencies
as it may need for its purposes.
(k) TO enter by themselves, their of
fcers, agents and servants upon any land
or water in the said city or any county
in the state for the purpose of making
examinations or surveys in the perform
ance of their duties under this act; pro-
vided, however, that this enumeration Of
special powers shall not be construed as
restricting in any degree the scope of the
general powers hereinbefore conferred
upon said commission.
| Section g. Any such city acting by and
through the agency of such commission
may acquire by gift, purchase, lease,
whatever the duration of the lease, or
other like methods of acquisition, or by
! condemnation any land or property sit
uated wholly or partly within any such
| city or within any of the counties of this
state, and all tenements, Entertainments
and appurtenances thereunto belonging
or in any way appertainng, or in any