Year: 1864

CHATTER 6S.


AN ACT to authorize the city of Mineral


Point to raise money, by tax, for the


payment of volunteers for the military SER


vice of the United St,tes, ard to provide


for the levy and collection of the same.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-


sented in senate and assembly, do enact


follows:


Section l. The qualified electors of the
city of Mineral Point shall have power at any
annual or special election. to vote to raise,
BY tax, such sum or sums of money as may
be necessary to pay bounties to volunteers in
the service of the United States, who may
have enlisted, or shall hereafter enlist, and
become credited to said city, upon its quota,
Under any call of the President Of the United
State. heretofore made, or hereafter to be
made for volunteers for the military service
of the United States or for the purpose of
giving aid to the families of volunteers Pro
Uided that such bounty shall IL no case ex-
ceed two hundred dollars to any one volun-
teer.


Sec. 2. Special elections shall be held in
said city for the purpose mentioned in section
one of this act, upon the written memorial to
the clerk thereof, of ten tax payers of said
city. Such memorial shall state at length the
amount of money proposed TO be raised, and
the maximum sum to be paid TO each volun-
teer. Within twenty-four hours after the
presentation of such memorial, the clerk of
said city shall proceed to call special cleo
ton, by posting notices of the same, stating
the time when and the places where such
election will be held in said city, and the OBJ
iect of the same, in not less than three public
places in each ward in said city, FIVE DAYS
previous previously to the time appointed
for the holding such special election. Such
special election shall be conducted, and the
action at, and result of such election shall be
certified 10, and recorded in the same manner
as now provided by law for conducting other
elections in said city. The balio. to be voted
a. such elections shall have written orprinted
there, the worlds, "For volunteer tax" or
against volunteer tax"


See g. Whenever the qualified electors of
said city shall have voted TO raise any sum of
money for the purpose Of paying bounties to
volunteers. or filing the quota or quotas of
said city, prior to the 2Sth day of February
1864, it shall be the duty Of the clerk of said
CITY TO make or cause to be made a copy of
the last assessment roll or rolls of the zeal
and personal property of said city and upon
the valuation of said property to apporton
and carry out in said rolls, the said tax so
voted for the purpose aforesaid and cause a
warrant for the collection of said tax to be
annexed thereto, which warrant shall he made
bv the proper officer or officers and shall
conform as near as practicable, to the war
rant prescribed by law for the collection of
other taxes commanding the treasurer of said
city to collect said tax prior 70 the first day
of April next: and said roll ard warrant an
uexed shall forthwith be delivered to the
treasurer of said city, to whom the same Is
directed


See. L. Said treasurer shall forthwith pro-
cccd TO the collection Of said tax, and shall
make such collection and return of the delin-
quent roll to the county treasurer in manner
provided by chapter thirty nine of the gene
raj laws of 1864, which said chapter thirty
nine is hereby declared to have full force and
effect in said city of Mineral Point. except
in so far as it is modified by the provisions
OF this act; and all officers whose duty it is
TO act under this law, shall be liable to the
same penalties for neglect of said duty, as is
prescribed in said chapter thirty nine.


Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publica-
ton


Approved Feb. Is, 1864.