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NOTE.-Where a superfluous word has been found in the enrolled bill, it h been printed in the text, but in italics, and inclosed in parenthesis, (thu Where a word has been found necessary to sustain the sense of the context, where one word has been obviously mistaken for another, the word supposed be proper has been supplied, but in brackets, [thus.]

PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS.

CHAPTER 1.

[Published January 11, 1867.]

AN ACT to declare the true intent and meaning of sections eleven and twenty-eight of chapter 161 of the private and local laws of (4. D.) 1858, entitled "an act to amend chapter 344 of the priFate and local laws of (A. D.) 1856, entitled an act to incorporate the village of Delavan," and also of section two of chapter 144 of the private and local [general] laws of (A. D.) 1861, entitled "an act to amend an act entitled 'an act to amend chapter 344 of the private and local laws of 1856, entitled' an act to incorporate the village of Delavan.'".

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

tion 11.

SECTION 1. It shall be taken to be, and was and is Meaning of sece true intent and meaning of section 11 of chapter 1 of the private and local laws of (A. D.) 1858, the marshal of said village of Delavan should cute all writs and processes to him directed by president, or president and trustees, of said village Delavan, including processes, summonses, notices, Cen to summon the freeholders, mentioned and prided for in section 28 of said chapter 161 afore. said and in section two of chapter 144 of the private

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general] laws of (A. D.) 1861, amending said sex 28 of said chapter 161 aforesaid.

tion 28.

SECTIO It shall be taken to be, and was and is Meaning of secthe true itat and meaning of section 28 of chapter 161 of said private and local laws of (A. D.) 1858 aforesaid, and of section two of chapter 144 of the private and local [general] laws of (A. D.) 1861, that

the said president and trustees shall cause the marshal
of said village to summon the freeholders mentioned
and provided for in said section 28 aforesaid, and in
section 2 of chapter 144 of the private and local [gen.
eral] laws of (A. D.) 1861, by issuing a summons, no-
tice or order to said marshal for that purpose.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in

force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved January 11, 1867.

Repealed.

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CHAPTER 3.

[Published January 25, 1867.]

AN ACT to ameid an act entitled "an act to incorporate the village of Elkhorn.”

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

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SECTION 1. When one-third of all the resident Construction of owners of real estate or lots lying or bordering on any street or part thereof, in the village of Elkhorn, shall make application in writing, signed by such resident Owners, requesting the supervisors of said village to cause a sewer to be constructed within and through the length of such street or part thereof, adjoining or contiguous to such real estate or lots of such owners, the supervisors shall have power to order the construction of such sewer, and to cause the same to be constructed; and they shall cause the expense incurred in the construction of such sewer to be assessed upon the real estate and lots lying and bordering upon that portion of such street through which such sewer shall have been constructed, and such expense shall be apportioned to the several such parcels of real estate and lots in such manner as said supervisors shall deem equitable, with due regard to benefits conferred by uch sewer upon such real estate and lots; and the mount so apportioned shall be inserted in the assessent roll of said village next thereafter issued, and same shall be collected in the same manner as ther Tes embraced in such assessment roll.

er defined.

SECTION 2. The term "resident owners," as used in "Resident own -
act, and as used in the act entitled "an act to
dm act to incorporate the village of Elkhorn,"
ved March 31st, 1858, shall be construed to
me and to include such owners of real estate or lots
upa street or part thereof as at the time of such
applic under said act, respectively, are residents
of saidage of Elkhorn, and none other.

of money.

SECTIC The qualified electors of said village Appropriation shall havewer at any legal meeting of such electors, whether anal or special, to appropriate any money belonging to any fund of said village, or any money

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Special meet. ings.

before that time raised or ordered to be raised for any specific purpose, whether such money shall then have been collected or shall be in process of collection, or shall have been ordered to be collected, for any other purpose which such meeting may deem advisable; and any such appropriation heretofore made or which shall be hereafter made by such electors at any meeting heretofore or hereafter called for that purpose, shall be deemed legal.

SECTION 4. Special meetings of the qualified electors of said village, may be called and held in the same manner as town meetings in the several towns in this state are now or may hereafter be authorized by law to be called and held.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved January 25, 1867.

CHAPTER 4.

[Published January 26, 1867.]

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AN ACT to authorize the board of supervisors of Green Lake county to provide temporarily places for holding courts and county offices in said county.

WHEREAS, The legislature of the state of Wisconsin did, at the last annual session thereof, pass an act entitled "an act to authorize the voters of Green Lake county to vote for the removal of the county seat from Dartford, in said county, to Princeton," which act was approved March 21, A. D. 1866, and published March 23a, A. D. 1866;

AND WHEREAS, A vote was taken in the several towns, villages and cities of said county, at the election held therein on the first Tuesday of April, A. D. 1866, upon the subject of such removal, pursuant to the provisions of said act;

AND WHEREAS, According to the returns made by the inspectors of election of the several towns, villages and cities in said county, of the votes cast upon that subject, it appears that there was a majority o one hundred and five votes cast in favor of such removal;

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