Name and powers.

First election, and officers to be elected.

Annual meeting

-election of officers.

of the northwest quarter of section number twenty-five (25,) in township sixteen north, of range eleven (11) east; thence east to the line between ranges eleven and twelve; thence south on said range line to the southwest corner of the northwest quarter of section number nineteen, in township sixteen north, of range twelve east; thence east to the center of said section nineteen; thence north to the place of beginning, shall hereafter be known and designated as the village of Princeton; and the inhabitants residing or who may hereafter reside within the said boundaries, are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name and style of the president and trustees of the village of Princeton, and by that name they and their successors shall and may have perpetual succession, and shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, impleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places, and in all matters whatsoever.

SECTION 2. It shall be lawful for the inhabitants of said village, qualified to vote at any general election, to meet at the office of David M. Green, Esquire, in said village, on Monday, the 30th day of January, A. D. 1865, and to choose, viva voce, three judges of election and one clerk, and then to elect by ballot one president, who shall be ex officio a trustee, two trustees, one treasurer, one assessor, one clerk and one marshal, who shall hold their offices until the first Monday in April next, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

SECTION 3. The annual meetings for the election of village officers, shall be held on the first Monday of April, in each year, at which meetings there shall be annually elected one president, (who shall be ex officio a trustee,) two trustees, one treasurer, one assessor, one clerk, one marshal, and two justices of the peace, who shall severally hold their offices for one year, and Notice of meet- until their successors are elected and qualified. The clerk of said village shall give ten days' notice of the time and place of holding each annual election, by posting such notice in at least three conspicuous places in said village; and the trustees of said village, or any two of them, shall preside at the election, and act as inspectors of the same.

ing.

Terms of present justices.

SECTION 4. The justices of the peace now holding

office in said village by virtue of a town election, shall continue in office until the first annual election, and until their successors are elected and qualified.

officers.

SECTION 5. No person shall be eligible to any office Qualification of in said village, unless he be an elector, and duly qualified to vote at a general election.

be conducted.

SECTION 6. At all elections held under the authority How elections to of this act, the polls shall be opened at ten o'clock A. M., and continued open until four o'clock P. M.: provided, the inspectors may adjourn at noon for one hour, and the elections shall be conducted and the votes canvassed and the result declared, as is now provided by law in relation to elections for town officers, as far as such law is applicable.

filled.

SECTION 7. In case a vacancy shall occur in the of- Vacancies-how fice of president or trustee, such vacancy shall be filled at a special election to be called by the remaining trustee or trustees, and vacancies in all other offices, except justices of the peace, shall be filled by appointment by the trustees.

SECTION 8. The board of trustees shall have power to require bonds to be given by the treasurer and marshal to the trustees, in such sum, with such conditions and with such security as said trustees or a majority of them shall direct, which bonds shall be filed with the village clerk; and a failure to give such bond shall work a forfeiture of office, and the said board may thereupon declare such office vacant, and fill the vacancy by appointment.

Treasurer to give

bond.

dent.

SECTION 9. It shall be the duty of the president to Duty of presipreside at all meetings of the trustees, to see that all ordinances and laws are duly observed, and to prosecute or defend all suits in which said corporation is a party.

trustees.

SECTION 10. The board of trustees shall have all Powers of the powers which by chapter seventy of the revised statutes are vested in and conferred upon the trustees of villages which are created and organized under the provisions of said chapter, as far as the same is consistent with this act.

maintained.

SECTION 11. The bridge over Fox river, in said vil- How bridge to be lage, shall be maintained by the town of Princeton and the said village of Princeton, the expense to be divided between said town and village in proportion to the equalized value of the property in said town and village,

Joint meeting to andit accounts,

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 #pecial 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 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.]

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 senale and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The tax roll of the town of La Grange, Tax roll legalised 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 roli 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.

CHAPTER 9.

[Published January 30, 1865.]

AN ACT to legalize certain acts of the officers of the towns of Buena
Vista and Richland, in the county of Richland.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sen-
ate and assembly, do enact as follows:

ceedings legal.

SECTION 1. All the acts and proceedings of the Bounty tax protown officers of the towns of Buena Vista and Rich- incd. 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

Sale of lands for delinquent taxes.

day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfour, and in the said town of Richland on the second day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixtyfive, are hereby declared valid and legal for all purposes whatsoever.

SECTION 2. The county treasurer of the said county of Richland is hereby authorized and empowered to sell any lands upon which said special tax shall not be paid, when returned to his office, at the same time and in the same manner as is now provided by law for the sale of lands for the non-payment of taxes.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 26, 1865.

Acts of supervisors legalized.

Orders may issue.

CHAPTER 10.

[Published January 30, 1865.]

AN ACT to legalize the acts of the supervisors of the town of Otsego, in the county of Columbia.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. The acts of the supervisors of the town of Otsego, in the county of Columbia, in applying the sum of two hundred and seventeen dollars towards the bounty to volunteers, are hereby legalized and declared to be valid.

SECTION 2. The supervisors of said town are hereby authorized to issue orders amounting to two hundred and seventeen dollars and interest, to pay said indebtedness; said amount of money to be added to the next tax roll of the town, and collected as other money.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 27, 1865.