laws of 1889, and the acts amendatory thereof,

shall be given.

ment, how

SECTION 3. In each year after the issue of said Special assessbonds, until all of them are paid, when the tax extended on roll for the year is prepared, sufficient of the tax roll. special assessment on each parcel of land covered by said bonds to pay the annual installment of the principal and the interest on the amount of said special assessment then unpaid, shall be extended upon the tax roll as a special tax on said property, and shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected, and when collected shall constitute a special fund for the payment of such special bonds, and shall be used for no other purpose.

conclusive

SECTION 4. No action shall be maintained to Bonds to be avoid any of the special assessments of taxes proof of regu levied pursuant to the same, after bonds shall have larity of proceedings. been issued covering such special assessments, and said bonds shall be conclusive proof of the regularity of all the proceedings on which the same are based.

new bonds in

aside assessment, when

commenced.

SECTION 5. When any such city shall have is- void bonds, sued bonds, which for any reason shall be void, lieu may be it may issue in lieu thereof new bonds, and any issued. proceeding had as the basis for the issuance of any such void bonds shall in all respects be sufficient as a basis for the issuance of such new bonds; and all such proceedings up to and including the making of the assessment, are hereby in all respects legalized and confirmed; and no Action to set action or proceeding shall be commenced to set aside any such assessments or proceedings, un- must be less commenced within nine months after the passage of this act; and such new bonds so issued may, at the option of the council, be either general bonds or special improvement bonds, the issuance of which are provided for in this chapter, as the exigencies of the case may require. common council of any city herein mentioned shall, before the issuing of any of the bonds mentioned in this section, pass a resolution providing for the issuance thereof, and such resolu tion shall be sufficient authority for such issue. When general bonds shall be issued as provid ed in this chapter, the resolution providing for such issue shall specify the form of the bond to be issued thereunder.

The

Special im

provement

SECTION 6. The special improvement bonds Bonds to be lien herein mentioned shall be a lien against all lots, parts of lots or parcels of land. against which special assessments have been made, which lien shall take precedence of all claims or liens thereon, and when issued shall transfer to the holders thereof, all the right, title and interest of such city in and to the assessments made for the purpose of improvement mentioned therein, and the lens thereby created, with full power to enforce the collection thereof by foreclosure, in the same manner as mortgages on real estate are foreclosed; but the time of redemption therefrom shall be fixed by the court, and a copy of the bond foreclosed may be fled as a part of the judgment roll in said action in lieu of the origiWhen owners Lal thereof. If within ninety days after the may foreclose commencement of the annual sale of lands for taxes. the amount to pay any installment of principal or interest shall not have been collected by the city, the owner or owners of at least one-third in par value of bonds issued on any single improvement may proceed in his or their own names to collect the same by foreclosure thereof, in any court of competent jurisdiction. and shall recover in addition to the amount of said bonds and interest, all costs against the property of the party Redemption or parties in default: provided, however, that the owner of any property covered by such bonds. may redeem the same at any time before judg ment by payment to the county clerk of the amount due against such property, together with ten per cent. additional thereon, which shall be in full of all costs chargeable to such property in such action. Any number of the holders of such bonds for any single improvement, may join as plaintiffs in any such action, and any number of the owners of, or other persons interested, in the property covered by the assessment upon which such bonds are issued, and on which the said bonds are a lien, may be joined as defendants in any such action; and in case more than one action of foreclosure shall be commenced upon a single improvement, such actions may be consolidated. Any holders of bonds for the same improvement, who do not join as plaintiffs, may be made defendants in

Parties to action.

action to be

the action, and their rights adjudicated therein. Such bonds shall be equal liens upon the property for the assessments represented by such bonds without priority one over another, to the extent of the several assessments against the lots and parcels of land against which the special assessments shall have been made. Upon the Notice of commencement of any such action, the plaintiff shall cause a notice thereof to be filed in the offices of the county clerk and county treasurer, designating the particular property affected by such foreclosure and thereafter no redemption of any such property from such assessments shall e had, without payment of all costs theretofore accrued in such action, except as herein before provided.

SECTION 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage and publication.

Approved April 18, 1893.

No. 94, A.]

[Published May 2, 1893.

CHAPTER 263.

AN ACT to provide for the annual appropriation of a sum of money therein named to the Wisconsin Cranberry Growers' Association.

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

to Wisconsin

SECTION 1. There is hereby annually appro- Appropriation priated to the Wisconsin Cranberry Growers' As- Cranberry sociation, the sum of two hundred and fifty dol- Association. lars.

Growers'

used.

SECTION 2. Said moneys shall be used exclu- For what to be sively for the purposes of procuring and publishing information relative to the cultivation and production of cranberries.

ings.

SECTION 3. Said society shall hold two meet- Annual meetings annually, one in the month of August, and one in January, of each year, at such place as shall be previously fixed by a vote of the society.

Report of disbursements, transactions,

lished.

SECTION 4. The secretary of the society shall report to the governor annually, immediately etc., to be pub- after the January meeting, an itemized account, duly verified, of all disbursements made during the previous year, and shall therewith publish in pamphlet form a pamphlet of not to exceed fifty pages, which shall contain an account of the transactions of the association, and a compilation of the best information which it shall have been able to collect during the previous year, relative to the cultivation and production of cranberries, and shall cause two hundred and fifty copies thereof to be distributed gratuitously to cranberry growers in the state of Wisconsin.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 18, 1893.

No. 88, A.]

[Published May 2, 1893.

John Arbuckle et al. authorized to build dam.

CHAPTER 264.

AN ACT to authorize the parties therein named to construct and maintain a dam across Clam river in township thirty-eight north, of range fourteen west, and to collect tolls on the same.

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

SECTION 1. John Arbuckle, his heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized to erect, maintain and keep up a dam across the Clam river, at a point on the northeast quarter of section thirty, of township thirty-eight north, of range fourteen west, in Burnett county; provided that such dám shall not raise the water to exceed ten feet; provided, said John Arbuckle shall be the owner of the land upon which said dam is hereby authorized to be erected, or shall acquire title to the same within one year from the date of the passage of this act.

When to be

SECTION 2. The aforesaid person, his heirs slides to be and assigns, shall build suitable slides in said built. dam for running logs, lumber and timber over the same, and shall keep the same in repair; the said dam shall be kept open at all times when the river is at a driving stage, and there are logs, kept open. timber or lumber to run over said dam, and when it is not necessary to hold the water back for the purpose of driving or flooding or floating logs, timber or lumber, below the said dam, for which purpose flood gates shall be built and kept in Flood gates repair, in such manner as to be shut or opened, as the case may require, to flood said logs, lumber and timber.

SECTION 3. When the aforesaid person, his May collect heirs or assigns, shall have completed the said tolls. dam, as aforesaid, they are hereby authorized and empowered to receive and collect from the owners of said logs, timber and lumber, passing over such slides, and of all logs, lumber or timber coming into the north fork of Clam river, above the section line running between sections fifteen and sixteen, in township thirty eight north, of range fifteen west, which may be driven by aid of said dam, as a compensation for keeping up and maintaining said dam, the sum of eight cents per thousand feet, board measure, the amount to be ascertained by scale on the landings in the woods; and the aforesaid Arbuckle, his heirs and assigns, shall have a lien Tolls to be lien. on all logs, lumber or timber run over said dam, or driven by aid thereof, until the charges aforesaid shall be fully paid, which lien may be enforced in the same manner, as the lien of labor

on logs; provided that the said Arbuckle, his heirs or assigns, shall at all times comply with the provisions of section 2, of this act.

SECTION 4. The control of said dam, and the control of slides and gates, shall belong to the said Ar- dam. buckle, his heirs and assigns, but subject always

to the provisions of section 2, of this act.

SECTION 5. Nothing in this act shall be con- when gates to strued as to give the party aforesaid, his heirs or be opened. assigns, any right to shut down the gates of said dam during the months of July, August or September, in each year, but the gates of said dam shall remain open during the said months, and the waters of the said Clam river shall flow free