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

or with any municipality in the county,
using such methods and materials as it
may deem eXpedient; to determine and
prescribe building lines along the same;
and to make rules for the regulation Of
the use and enjoyment thereof by the
public;
(2) To accept, In the name of the
county, devises of land and requests and
donations of money to be used for park
(3) To acquire, in the name Of the
county, by purchase, land contract lease,
condemnation, or otherwise, with the APP
prevail and consent of the county board,
such tracts IF land or public ways as 1t
may deem suitable for park purposes;
but no land so acquired shall be disposed
of by the county without the consent or
said commission, and all moneys received
for any such lands, or any materials, so
disposed of, shall be paid into the county
park fund hereinafter established.
Section 697-72. Whenever the said
commission requt IS lands or rights IN
the lands or public ways for any of the
purposes specified in section 697-73 and
is unable to agree with the owner or
owners as to the price and terms of pur-
chase, or whenever for any reason SUCH
agreement cannot be made without I'M
reasonable delay. a report in writing by
said commission including a description
Of the lands or rights in lands or public
ways so required, with the name or names
Of the owner or owners and other parties
III,
if known, and the value placed thereon by
said commission, of each tract or right,
with an estimate Of the damage resulting
to the owner or owners from the taking
thereof shall be served on all parties in
tereSted, in the manner of service Of
summons in civil action, and filed in the
office of the clerk of the circuit court. At
any time within twenty days thereafter
any such owner or other party Interested
may apply to the judge of the circuit
n11rt al nd tharalIranto J,r06nOHinpC shall
had, according to the provisions OF sec
tons $685. 606 and GOT Of the statutes; but
if no such application be made within
said time the report of said commission
shall stand in lieu of the appraisal and
thereupon all further proceedings shall be
as provided in said sections.
Section 3. A new section is added to
the statutes, to read: Section 697-73.
The county board shall annually, at the
same time and the same manner as other
county taxes are levied and collected by
law, levy and collect tax upon the tax
able property of such county of one tenth
of a mill upon each dollar of the assessed
valuation of the taxable property upon
which other county taxes are levied and
collected, and the entire amount of such
special tax shall be paid into the county
treasury as a separate and distinct fund,
to be paid out only upon the order of the
county park commission for the purchase
of land and the payment of expenses in
Cured in carrying on the work OF the
commission. Any part of said fund, ex-
cept five thousand dollars annually, may
be transferred to the general fund of the
county treasury whenever county bonds
for the purchase of land have been voted
by the county and placed at the disposal
of the county park commission, or when
ever the county has assumed an indebt-
edness on it's behalf, equal to the amount
of money to be transferred.
Section A. Sections 1787o-4 and 1850
5 of the statutes are repealed.
Section 5. Park commissions organized
under former statutes hereby revised and
consolidated shall continue to act and be
deemed reorganized under this statute
with all powers and liabilities herein
granted and imposed.
Section 6. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and publication.
Approved June g. 1918. Copy Law.