CHAPTER 11. [Published February 8, 1865.] AN ACT to legalize a special town meeting in the town of Norway, county of Racine, on the 8th day of February, 1834, to vote a tax to pay bounties to volunteers. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Town meeting SECTION 1. The special town meeting of the town of and town order s Norway, in the county of Racine, held on the 8th day legalized. of February, 1864, for the purpose of voting to raise by tax, extra bounties to be paid to volunteers in the military service of the United States, and all votes, acts and resolves of said meeting, are hereby declared legal and valid for all intents and purposes for which said meeting was held, the same and as fully as if the said meeting had been called and conducted in all respects in accordance with the provisions of law then in force relating to that subject; and all acts done and town orders issued in pursuance of the vote of said meeting, by the officers of said towa, or any of them, are hereby declared legal and valid. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 2, 1865. CHAPTER 12. [Published February 3, 1865.] AN ACT to legalize the proceedings of a certain town meeting held in the town of Williamstown, Dodge county, January 12th, 1865, and to legalize the bonds and orders issued by the officers of said Jown, to pay bounties to volunteers, and the tax roll for 1864. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: co-dings legal SECTION 1. All the proceedings had prior to and at Bounty tax proa certain town meeting held in the town of Williams- ized. town, Dodge county, on the 12th day of January, 1865, and the tax voted to be raised to pay bounties to vol Bonds and town unteers and for the support of the families of drafted men of said town, are hereby declared to be legal and valid for all purposes whatever. SECTION 2. The bonds and town orders issued by orders legalized. the supervisors, signed by the chairman and attested by the clerk of said town, since the special town meeting held on the 8th day of August, 1864, and used for the purpose of paying bounties to volunteers for said town, and the acts of the officers in said town, in issuing and using the same for such purpose, and the tax roll of said town for the year 1864, are hereby declared to be legal and valid for all purposes whatever. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1865. CHAPTER 13. [Published February 3, 1865.] Road legalized. Plot and field notes to be recorded. AN ACT legalizing a state road in the counties of Grant and La The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen- SECTION 1. That the acts of the commissioners in laying out a state road, as provided for in chapter 148 of the general laws of 1864, by an act entitled "an act to provide for the laying out a state road from Platteville, in Grant county, to Calamine, in La Fayette county," are hereby legalized, and the road as surveyed and platted by them, is declared a public highway; and the commissioners so acting shall be entitled to such compensation for their services as is provided for in said act; and that the clerks of the several boards of supervisors of the counties of Grant and La Fayette, through which said road was laid, shall, on or before the first day of March, A. D. 1865, record so much of the return of the survey and plat and field notes of said road as lies within their respective counties. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 1, 1865. CHAPTER 14. [Published February 2, 1865.] AN ACT to authorize towns, cities and incorporated villages to raise money by tax for the payment of bounties to volunteers for the military service of the United States, and to provide for the levy and collection of the same. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Towns, cities amë ties to volun those who have tutes. ties. SECTION 1. The qualified electors of each town, villages authoris city and incorporated village in this state, shall have ed to pay boapower at any annual or special meeting thereof, to toers, and to raise by tax such sum or sums of money as they may procured substi deem necessary to pay bounties to volunteers who may have enlisted or who shall hereafter enlist under the call of the president of the United States, of December 19th, 1864, for 300,000 men, and who shall hereafter enlist under any call of the president which may hereafter be made, and become credited to such town, city or village under such calls, and also to persons who shall procure substitutes for themselves before being drafted, and have them credited to such town, city or village upon its quota under any such call, and for the purpose of giving aid to the families of volunteers and drafted men in the service of the United States or of this state provided, that no more than two hundred Limit to b dollars shall be paid to any such volunteer or person furnishing a substitute, or to the family of any volunteer or drafted man, out of the money so raised. SECTION 2. A special meeting may be held in any Petition fer: special meeti town, city or corporated village of this state, for the purpose or purposes mentioned in section one of this act, upon a written petition to the clerk thereof, signed by five or more qualified electors and freeholders of such town, city or incorporated village, which petition shall set forth the purpose or purposes for which said special meeting is asked by the petitioners, together with the amount of money sought to be appropriated or raised by tax at such meeting for said purposes; and it is hereby made the duty of every such clerk, Call for meest upon presentation to him of such petition, to call a special meeting of the qualified electors of such town, city or village, by posting notices of the same in three or more public and conspicuous places in such town, Joint meeting to audit accounts, ke. respectively, to be ascertained as far as practicable form their respective assessment rolls. SECTION 12. The supervisors of the town of Princemake estimates, ton and the trustees of the village of Princeton, shall hold a meeting in each year, on the Wednesday next preceding the annual town meeting, at the office of the village clerk, for the purpose of auditing all accounts relating to the building, repairing and maintaining of said bridge for the previous year, and the amounts so audited and allowed shall be apportioned and divided between said town and village in proportion as aforesaid, and each shall pay its just proportion of such indebtedness; and at such joint meeting they shall estimate the amount necessary for the succeeding year for the building, repairing and maintaining of said bridge, which amount shall be likewise apportioned between the town and the village, and shall be levied and collected with the next taxes to be raised in said town and village, as other taxes are collected.... Notice of special Joint meeting. SECTION 13. It shall be the duty of the village clerk to call a special joint meeting of said 'supervisors and trustees whenever an application or request for such a meeting shall be presented to him in writing, signed by two-thirds of the members of such joint board. He shall give at least five days' notice to each member of such special meeting. At a special meeting of such joint board duly called, it shall be lawful to transact any business which might legally be done at the regular annual meeting, as above provided. SECTION 14. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 26, 1865. CHAPTER 8. [Published February 8, 1865.] T AN ACT to legalize the tax roll of the town of La Grange, in the county of Walworth, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows : SECTION 1. The tax roll of the town of La Grange, Tax roll legalime in the county of Walworth, for the year 1864, as made by the town clerk of said town, including all corrections made by said clerk after said tax roll was placed in the hands of the treasurer of said town, is hereby legalized and declared valid for all purposes whatsoever, notwithstanding the law may not have been fully complied with in all respects in making out and delivering the said tax roll to the treasurer of said town. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 26, 1865. AN ACT to legalize certain acts of the officers of the towns of Buena The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen- ceedings legal. SECTION 1. All the acts and proceedings of the Bounty tax protown officers of the towns of Buena Vista and Rich- izd. land, in the county of Richland, in authorizing and proceeding to the immediate collection of a 'special tax authorized by a vote of the electors of each of said towns, for the purpose of procuring volunteers to be credited to said towns under the last call of the president of the United States for three hundred thousand men, at special town meetings called for that purpose, and held in the town of Buena Vista on the thirty-first |