attended, so as to pass and repass all boats, vessels, and water craft, at all times, free of expense, and without unnecessary delay or interruption.

DAMAGES.

SEC. 4. The said Thomas P. Williams and associatesTM or assigns shall be liable for any damage that may occur to any person or persons, in consequence of any insufficiency of said bridge, or any bad management of the draw of the

same.

SEC. 5. All laws in force for the protection of public bridges, and all laws that may hereafter be enacted for their protection, and all ordinances of the city of Milwaukee for the protection of bridges within the city, shall be applicable to said bridge. HARRISON C. HOBART,

Speaker of the Assembly.

MYRON B. WILLIAMS, President of the Senate, pro tem."

APPROVED March 2, 1849.

NELSON DEWEY.

AN ACT to authorize the Aldermen of the First Ward of the City of Milwaukee to levy a Special Tax to raise money for the purpose of erecting a Market House in said ward.

The people of the State of Wisconsin represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

TO ISSUE BONDS.

SECTION 1. The aldermen of the first ward of the city of Milwaukee are hereby authorized to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding six thousand dollars, payable out of any funds belonging to the first ward of said city, not otherwise appropriated, in the treasury at the time said bonds become due; the bonds to be made payable at such time and place, and on such rate of interest, not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, as the aldermen of said ward, or a majority of them, may deem proper and necessary to carry out the object, viz: to build a market house on lots five and six, in block fifty-five, in said first ward.

SPECIAL TAX.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of liquidating and paying the said bonds, the said aldermen of the first ward of said city, shall cause to be levied a special tax upon all the taxable property in said ward, not exceeding one per cent. in any one year, which tax shall be collected and paid over to the city treasurer, at the same time, and in the same manner and form as other taxes are collected and paid, and when so collected, the same shall not be appropriated or used for any other purpose whatever than paying the bonds provided for in the first section of this act.

PERSONAL LIABILITY.

SEC. 3. Any alderman voting to have the funds mentioned in this act, or any part thereof, appropriated or used for any other purpose than paying the bonds as provided for in the second section of this act, shall be held personally liable for the same; and any person having rights by virtue of the provisions of this act, may enforce the same by an action on the case.

MARKET HOUSE.

SEC. 4. The said market house shall belong to and be the property of the first ward of the city of Milwaukee, and together with the lots upon which the same shall be situated, shall be exempt from all taxes, and the same shall be under the management and control of the aldermen of said ward, and the proceeds arising from the letting of the same, shall enure to the benefit of said ward.

ELECTION.

SEC. 5. This act shall be submitted to the legal voters of the first ward, at the next annual charter election held after its passage, or at any special election which may be called by the aldermen of said ward, of which ten days' notice shall be given, by publishing the same in one or more newspapers published in the city of Milwaukee; and if a majority of the votes cast upon the question shall be "for the market house," then this act shall take effect and be valid; but if a majority of the votes so cast, shall be “ against the market house," then this act shall be null and of no effect. HARRISON C. HOBART,

Speaker of the Assembly.

ASA KENNY,

President of the Senate, pro tem.

APPEOVED March 27, 1849.

NELSON DEWEY.