Reduced rates and free transportation; interchange of traffic; com- plaints and investigations; grade crossings; system of render- Plan; area; plans and perspectives; erection of one section author- ized; appropriation; secretary and executive officer of commis- When required to be built; commissioners of fisheries to adopt plans for; notice to owners of dams; when to be kept open; when to be constructed; complaint; hearing; findings; appeal; penalty; RAILROAD RATE REGULATIONS Refusal to establish joint rate; power of rate commission. 17 LAWS OF WISCONSIN, SPECIAL SESSION OF 1905. No. 6, A.] [Published December 16, 1905. CHAPTER 1. AN ACT to amend section 1319 of the statutes of 1898, as amended by chapter 225, laws of 1903, and by chapter 288, laws of 1905, relating to county aid in building or repairing bridges. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: County aid in building and repairing; limitation. SECTION 1. Section 1319 of the statutes of 1898, as amended by chapter 225, laws of 1903, and by chapter 288 of laws of 1905, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1319. Whenever any town board shall file its petition with the proper county board setting forth the fact that said town has voted to construct or repair any bridge wholly or partly within such town, designating as near as may be the location of such bridge, and further stating that such town has provided for the payment of one-half of the cost of such construction or repairs and that the cost of such bridge or repairs or each bridge exceeds one-eighth of one per centum of all the taxable property in said town according to its last equalized valuation, the said county board shall appropriate the other half of such cost and cause such sum to be levied upon the taxable property of the county as will, with the amount pro vided by said town, be sufficient to defray the expense of erecting or repairing each bridge so petitioned for, and such money, when collected, shall be paid out on the order of the chairman of the county board and county clerk whenever the said town board and the commissioners hereinafter provided. for shall notify them that the work has been completed and accepted. The county board shall, at the time of acting upon such petition, designate two of its members who shall act as its commissioners and who shall co-operate with the board of such town; and such board and the said commissioners shall have full charge and authority to act in the letting, inspecting and acceptance of the work; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any county board from constructing or repairing any bridge in its county if it shall so desire; and if the whole of the cost of the construction or repairs of any bridge or bridges is to be borne by any county, or any county shall arrange with such town so as to assume and have exclusive charge of such work, then the county board may direct the letting, inspecting and acceptance of such work in such manner as it may deem proper; provided, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the levy of any tax upon the property in any city or incorporated village required by law to maintain its own bridges; provided that supervisors from such cities or villages so required to maintain their own bridges, shall have no vote on the granting or determining of such petition, or in providing a tax therefor; provided further that no more than one mill on the dollar on the equalized valuation of the property in any county shall be levied for the aforesaid purpose, and for all other county bridges in any one year, unless the county board, by a two-thirds vote of all the members entitled to vote on such proposition shall decide in favor of a larger sum, and in that case an amount not to exceed one mill on the dollar of such equalized valuation may be levied in addition to the one mill herein provided for and no order shall be drawn on account of such levy except upon the certificate of the county treasurer that the money produced by said levy has come to his hands to pay such order. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved December 16, 1905. No. 5, A.] [Published December 20, 1905. CHAPTER 2. AN ACT relating to primary elections and amendatory of section 12 of chapter 451 of the laws of 1903. The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Conduct of primaries; manner of voting. SECTION 1. Subsection 1 of section 12 of chapter 451 of the laws of 1903 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 12. The provisions of chapter 5 of the statutes of 1898 as amended by . chapter 432 of the laws of 1905 as hereinafter amended shall be applicable to the conduct of primaries where not otherwise provided. Section 1, of chapter 432, of the laws of 1905, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. Sub-section 1 of section 47 of the statutes of 1898 is hereby amended to read as follows: The mayor of every city shall nominate to the common council thereof, at their first regular meeting in February of each year in which a general election is to be held, and if no such meeting is held, then at a special meeting, which he shall call for such purpose on the last Tuesday of said month, three persons for inspectors of election, two for clerks of election, and two for ballot clerks, in each election district therein. The president of every village shall nominate to the board of trustees thereof, at their first regular meeting in February of each year in which a general or other election is to be held, under the provisions of this title, and if no such meeting is held, then at a special meeting, which he shall call for that purpose on the last Tuesday of said month, three persons for inspectors of election, two for clerks of election, and two for ballot clerks, in each election district therein. Each of the persons so nominated shall be an elector in the district for which appointed; be able to read and write the English language understandingly, and shall not be a candidate to be voted for at such election, and not more than two of such inspectors, nor one of said clerks of election or ballot clerks so nominated, shall be of the same political party, but all such officers shall be chosen from the two parties which cast the largest vote in such district at the last preceding gen eral election. The party which cast the largest vote being entitled to two inspectors, one clerk and one ballot clerk, and the party receiving the next largest vote shall be entitled to one inspector, one clerk and one ballot clerk. The basis in each case shall be the vote of the party for the presidential elector receiving the largest vote at the last preceding presidential election, and such inspectors, clerks and ballot clerks shall be chosen from a list submitted to the mayor of the city, or to the president of the village, for that purpose by the regular county committee or city committee of the aforesaiu two parties. Such list shall be submitted by the chairman from each ward to the city or county committee, and only such persons so selected by the chairman from each ward shall act as such inspectors, which list shall bear the signature of the chairman and secretary of said county or city committee. Such common council or board of trustees shall immediately approve or disapprove such nominations. If they disapprove as to any such nominee, the mayor or president shall immediately nominate another person, qualified as aforesaid, from the list of the two committees representing the two parties which cast the largest vote in said district in the last general election, and the mayor or village president shall continue to do so until the requisite number have been nominated and confirmed at such meeting. The persons so appointed inspectors, clerks, and ballot clerks, in cities, shall . hold their offices for two years and until their successors are appointed and qualified, and shall act as such officers at every primary, general, municipal and special election following their appointment held within their respective districts, during such term. The persons so appointed in villages shall hold their offices until their successors are appointed and qualified and shall act at every election held under this title within their respective districts. Such inspectors shall fill any vacancy in their number, or in the number of such clerks by persons qualified as aforesaid, and may, appoint one of their number as chairman. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved December 19, 1905. |