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

city may be carried out And provided.
furthermore, that, If any such laws re-
quire the exercise Of discretionary powers
on the part of the common council or any
other department of the city or any pub
lie authority outside such city and the
common council or such other department
or public authority shall fail, neglect, or
refuse to exercise such powers within
sixty days from the first date that the
council or such other department or au-
thority shall have jurisdiction to act at
any stage of such condemnation proceed
| ings, then the commission shall have pow
err and authority to act in the place and
stead OF the common council or SUCH
other department or authority and SUCH
substitution of power and authority shall
be resorted to whenever necessary and
provided, Furthermore, that IL the laws
of the state then applicable to such city
with reference to condemnation proceed
ings shall make no provision for the con-
domination of any property, privileges, or
franchise outside the limits of such city,
other than for park or boulevard pur-
poses, then such condemnation proceed
ings shall be had in the manner and &C
cording to the procedure then pro-
vided for the condemnation Of lands ly-
ing outside such city for public park or
boulevard purposes; the commission small
have and enjoy all of the rights. privi-
leges, and prerOgatiVeS in such case as
are given it, in the other respects, as pro-
vided in this section; all powers, duties,
and privileges vested in the board of park
commissioners of any such city for the
purpose of such board shall be vested in
said commission for the purposes Of said
commission.
Section T. All individuals and corpo-
ratons lawfully having buildings, struc-
lures, works, conduits MAINS. pipes,
tracks, or other physical distractions. in
over, or under the public lands, avenues
streets, alleys, or highways of any such city
which shall block Or impede the progress
of construction and establishment, shall,
upon reasonable notice from said COM
mission promptly SO shift, adjust &C
commodate or remove the same, at the
cost and expense of such individual and
corporation as fully to meet the eXigen-
cies occasioning such notice; and II any
such individual Or corporati ton shall re-
fuse neglect, or fail after such reason
able notice to discharge any duty cast
upon him or it by this section he or it
SHALL in addition to but not In subStitu-
ton for any other remedy or remedies
that said commission or such city may
have in the premises, be subject to a fine
of one hundred dollars for each and every
offense and also an additional fine Of fifty
dollars a day for every day that said re-
fusal, neglect, or failure shall continue;
said fines to be collected as other fines in
such city are collected; and should the
exigencieS of said commission and Its
work in any case involve a taking. in the
constitutional sense, Of the franchise or
right in the exercise Of which such OBJ
struction had it's origin, such city acting
by and through the agency of said COM
mission shall be empowered to secure the
condemnation of such franchise or right
in the manner provided for in section six
Of this act. The preceding provisions OF
this section shall likewise be applicable to
any such obstruction in, over, or under
the public highways of any county of this
state into which said sewerage system
shall extend
Section That all work done or sup
plies or material purchased IN carrying
out the purposes of this act when involv-
ing the expenditure of two hundred dol
lars or more shall be by contract awarded
to the lowest responsible bidder in &C.
cordance with the laws Of this state and
ordinances then applicable to any such
city having reference to the letting OF
public work by and through the board or
commissioner of public works or other
proper department in such city except
that said commissioners shall discharge
the duties imposed by such laws upon the
commissioner or board of public works Or
other department; provided, however, that
said commission shall be empowered, If
1t see fit, to insert in the specifications Of
any such work reasonable and lawful con-
ditions as to hours of labor, wages and
the residence and character of workmen
to be employed by the contractor and es-
pecially so far as may be practicable in
the Judgment of said commission, such
reasonable and lawful conditions as will
tend to confine employment on such work,
in whole or in part to permanent and bona
fide residents of the state of Wisconsin;
and provided, however, also that said
commission with the consent Of four or
all it's members may itself do any part
or parts of any such work under such
conditions in every respect as it may pre-
scribe by day labor, whenever the chief
engineer in writing, shall recommend
that course; any and all bids or parts Of
bids for any such work or supplies or
materials may be rejected by said COM
mission. The commission shall have the
power to demand of such bidders and
contractors that all contracts shall be let
subject to the provisions of chapter 110a
of the Wisconsin statutes for 1911 and
acts amendatory thereof, entitled Work
mems Compensation and Industrial Com
mission" to the end that said commits
sion and such city may be held harmless.
Section 8. That while the work author
lied by this act is being done by said
powers of the proper officers and depart
ments Of such city having reference to
existing sewers in such city shall, subs
ject to the duties and powers hereby con-
ferred upon said commission, continue;
and said commission shall be authorized
as the work progresses to turn over from
time to time, in it's discretion, such COM
pleted portions of said work as it may
see fit to the charge, superintendent, and
control of the proper city officials. When
it's work under this act shall be fully and
finally completed in every respect in such
city, and not before, the life of said COM
mission, or originally appointed and as
subsequently recruited by appointments
to occasional vacancies, if any, shall
come to an end and the city sewerage
! system established by it, so far as it has
not already been surrendered to the
! charge superintendent and control of
! said officials, be then so surrendered and
at the same time all the records, writings
and papers of said commission shall be
| delivered up to such department of such
! city as the common council may by reso-
/ luton determine, to be preserved in such
| office; and all property and effects then
| in the possession of the commission be-
! longing to the city shall be turned over
i to the comptroller of such city to be dis
posed of my him as may be provided by
| ordinance.
/ Section 10. Such commission shall re-
/ port to the common council of such city
under this act at or before the first meet
| ing of the council in September in each
year until all of the work of the COM
/ mission shall have been completed, the
amount of money required for the next
| fiscal year for the projection, planning,
| construction and establishment of such
! sewerage system, and it shall be the duty
4 of the said common council to levy and
| collect a tax upon all property subject to
! taxation in said city at the same time
| and in the same manner as other taxes