the "Milwaukee insurance company," and by such name the said corporation shall hereafter be called and known. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 7, 1867. CHAPTER 15. [Published February 27, 1867.] AN ACT to authorize the common council of the city of Beloit to invest certain money now in the treasury of said city. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: May invest cer SECTION 1. The common council of the city of tain moneys. Beloit are hereby authorized to invest, in such manner as the said council shall think proper, all or any portion of the moneys in the treasury of said city, and which has been collected for the purpose of paying the pro rata share of said city upon certain bonds issued by the town of Beloit, commonly called bridge bonds. to be held. SECTION 2. The securities taken and received by How securities said city upon any loan or other investment of said moneys, shall be held by the city treasurer, and all interest collected or received thereon shall be applied to the payment of interest on said bridge bonds as the same becomes due, and the principal sum shall be ap plied to the payment of the principal sum of said bridge bonds when the same shall become due and payable. SECTION 3. In case any note or other security shall be taken on making any such investment by way of loan, the same shall be made payable to "the city of Beloit:" provided, however, that it shall be competent for the common council to accept and receive other securities as collateral to such note or other writings `given to said city for any portion of said moneys. The common council may also invest said moneys, or any How payable. part thereof, in bonds of the United States or of this state. SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1867. Preamble. Tax to amount ized. CHAPTER 16. [Published February 9, 1867.] AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of the town of WHEREAS, The legal voters of the town of Mukwa, in the county of Waupaca, in the state of Wisconsin, at the annual town meeting in the spring of 1866, and at a special meeting held in said town in the month of June, 1866, for that purpose, voted certain sums of money for the purpose of building a bridge and repairing the draw in the bridge across Wolf river, at the village of New London, in said town of Mukwa; AND WHEREAS, The said bridge has been built and said draw repaired; AND WHEREAS, The board of supervisors of said town of Mukwa have failed to raise the said tax so voted, and to make provision to pay for building said bridge and the repairing of said draw: therefore, The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of the town. of 83,000 author of Mukwa, in the county of Waupaca, are hereby authorized and empowered to assess and levy upon the taxable real and personal property of said town of Mukwa, such sum, not exceeding three thousand dollars, as in their judgment shall be necessary to raise the amount so voted at the meetings aforesaid, and expended in the erection and building of said bridge and repairs of said draw at New London aforesaid. SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, that said board of supervisors of Mukwa shall have the power, and they are hereby authorized, to assess and levy said. tax upon the property as now contained in the last assessment roll and tax list of said town of Mukwa, proportionally, as other taxes are assessed. SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, that said board of supervisors of said town of Mukwa be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to make, or cause to be made, a copy of the last assessment roll and tax list of said town, and to assess and levy said tax afore said upon the real and personal prop rty thereon, and to cause to be attached to said roll and list when so made and completed, a warrant in the form and manner now required by law, to collect said tax within thirty days from and after the date of said warrant. Assessment of tax. Collection of SECTION 4. Be it further enacted, that the treasurer tax. of said town of Mukwa is hereby authorized, and it is hereby made his duty, when said list and warrant shall be placed in his hands, to proceed and collect said tax, and make his return of his doings under and by virtue of said list and warrant, and that all the laws of this state not in conflict herewith shall control and govern in the collection and return of said taxes, and also the amount which shall be returned by said treasurer as uncollected. SECTION 5. Be it further enacted, that this act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 9, 1867. CHAPTER 17. AN ACT to authorize and provide for the construction of a hall and school-house in joint district No. three, of the towns of Oshkosh and Vinland, in the county of Winnebago, and the forming of an association for that purpose. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: erection of hall SECTION 1. The clerk, director and treasurer of Contract for joint school district number three, of the towns of authorized. Oshkosh and Vinland, in the county of Winnebago, or a majority of said officers, are hereby authorized long and how to be used. and empowered to enter into a contract with Ephraim F. Dunham, Cornelius Newman and Horace Clemons, or any two of them, personally, or as trustees for others, for the erection or construction of a building To whom to be within said district, which shall belong in part to said district, to be used for school purposes, and in part to said Dunham, Newman and Clemons, personally, or as trustees of the hall association hereby created, and their heirs, assigns or successors, for a hall. The parties aforesaid are hereby authorized, on behalf of said district and of said Dunham, Newman and Clemons, or said association, to make and enter into a contract for the purpose aforesaid, and as to the character and kind of building to be constructed, and the interests and rights of the contracting parties therein. Hall association -their powers and duties. SECTION 2. The said Ephraim F. Dunham, Cornelius Newman and Horace Clemons, and their successors, are hereby organized into a hall association for the purpose of owning and taking care of the hall herein provided for, and of using, renting and enjoying the same, of which they shall be the first trustees, and are hereby empowered to fix the name and capital stock of such association, and provide for the number of shares of stock therein and the amount thereof, and to issue and sell said stock to such persons as may subscribe therefor, for the purpose of building said hall. Said trustees shall hold their of fices until their successors are duly elected and quali fied; and they shall, on or before the first day of August after the passage of this act, call a meeting of the stockholders of said association, at some public place in said district, by posting written or printed notices of the time and place of such meeting, in three public places in said district, at least ten days before the date thereof. Such stockholders shall at said meeting select by ballot such number of trustees, not exceeding five, as shall be determined by the holders of a majority of the shares of stock. Each share of stock shall be entitled to one vote at such meeting. The board of trustees so chosen shall prepare and adopt a code of by-laws for the necessary government of such association, and to provide for the necessary officers thereof, their terms of office, and the time and manner of holding elections for officers and the transaction of all the necessary business of said association, which by-laws may be amended at any meeting of said trustees by a vote of two-thirds of all the trustees. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 9, 1867. CHAPTER 18. [Published February 12, 1867.] AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Dane county to raise a tax to aid in the erection of a normal school building at the village of Stoughton, Dane county, Wisconsin. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in sena te and assembly, do enact as follows: $10,000 tax au SECTION 1. The county, board of supervisors of thorized." the county of Dane, in the state of Wisconsin, are hereby authorized and empowered to raise a tax of such sum as they shall deem proper, not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to aid in the erection of a normal school building, to be located at the village of Stoughton, in the county of Dane, and state of Wisconsin; Collection of the said tax to be levied and collected and paid over in such manner and at such time or times as the said county board of supervisors shall by resolution determ ine. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved February 11, 1867. tax. CHAPTER 19. AN ACT to incorporate the Gilead lodge, No. 41, I. O. B. B. benevolent society, of the city of Milwaukee. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Marcus Hermann, Moritz Sonlander, Moritz N. Baker, Isaac Stransky, L. Adlern, S. Weil, R. 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