Jate a burial ground in said village, and to sell lots therein, and regulate the burial of the dead.

X. To establish and regulate markets, and restrain sales in Ib. the streets: to establish and regulate a public scale, and appoint a weigher to attend the same: to regulate the place and manner of selling hay and other gross commodities.

XI. To suppress disorderly, and gaming houses, gambling and devices for the purposes of gaming.

XII. To call regular and special meetings of the voters of said village.

XIII. To prescribe the compensation of all officers of the corporation except their own.

XIV. To tax every male resident of said village above the age of twenty-one years, and under the age of fifty-five years, two days labor (before) or in lieu thereof, two dollars, to be appropriated in improving the streets of said village, under the direction of such persons as they may appoint.

XV. Upon the application of two-thirds of the owners of the lots on any street, or on one side of any street or block, to levy and collect a special tax on the owners of the lots on such street, or part of street, according to the respective parts, for the purpose of making a cross walk or side walk along the same.

XVI. To organize school districts, to receive the money coming from the county for the benefit of the scholars in said village, and take such measures for the benefit of public institutions as they tnay deem proper.

XVII. To make, pass, ordain and establish such by-laws ordinances and regulations not repugnant to the laws of this Territory or to the laws and constitution of the United States, for the purposes of carrying into effect the provisions of this act as they may deem proper; but no such ordinance or by-laws shall take effect until the same shall have been published three weeks successively, and to repeal or amend the same at pleasure, but the said trustees shall not in any case purchase any real or personal estate other or more than shall be necessary to carry on the proper business of the corporation for ordinary purposes except in the case of the purchase of property sold for taxes according to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 15. The said trustees as often as they shall make or pub.

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lish any by-laws, regulation or ordinance may ordain and provide such reasonable fines, forfeitures and penalties upon the of fenders against any such by-laws, regulations or ordinances, as they shall deem proper, not exceeding twenty dollars for any one offence, to be prosecuted and recovered before any justice of the peace or court having cognizance of the same, in the name of the corporation, to and for the use of the corporation, and in any such action it shall be lawful to declare generally in debt for such pen. alty or forfeiture and to give the special matter in evidence, and the defendant may plead the general issue and give the special matter in evidence. All expenses incurred in prosecuting for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture shall be defrayed by the corporation; and all penalties and forfeitures when recovered shall be collected with costs and paid to the treasurer for the use of the corporation; also to remit such fines or penalties or any part thereof as shall appear to the trustees to have been excessively or unjustly imposed.

SEC. 16. The affidavit of the printer of the publication of any by-law or ordinance, or the affidavit or oath of the clerk of the corporation of the putting up notices, by-laws or ordinances as requir ed by this act shall be sufficient proof in all courts and elsewhere that such by-laws, notices and ordinances were properly published or posted up.

SEC. 17. Whenever by this act the publication of any by-law, ordinance or advertisement of delinquent town lots, is required, the same shall be published in one or more newspapers printed in said village, if there be any, for three weeks successively: Provided, that the trustees shall let the corporation printing to such publisher or printer of a public newspaper who shall agree to print them for the lowest price: And provided further, that said trustees shall not pay for said printing a greater sum to any such printer than fifty cents per folio for the first insertion, and for each subsequent insertion per folio, twenty cents; but if there be no newspaper published in said village, or if there be one, and the publisher thereof shall refuse to publish such by-law, ordinance or advertisement, for the price herein specified, then it shall be lawful to publish the same by printing [posting] copies thereof in three of the most public places in said village.

SEC. 18. Any four of said trustees shall be a quorum for the

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transaction of all business; but no by-law or ordinance shall pass unless four of said trustees shall concur therein.

SEC. 19. No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, witness or juror by reason of his being an inhabitant or freeholder in said village in any action or proceeding in which said cor poration is a party or interested.

SEC. 20. Every inhabitant of said corporation belonging to any Who exempt from juries. fire company or hook and ladder company therein, shall be exempt from serving on juries and from doing military duty except in case of war, invasion or insurrection.

SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of the trustees before the annual election to publish a full and correct statement in detail of the receipts and expenditures by said trustees for said corporation during the past year.

SEC. 22. The following property shall not be taxed by virtue Property subof any law or ordinance adopted by the trustees of said village ject to tax. of Prairieville, namely: The property of the United States, of this Territory, of Milwaukee county, of said corporation, and of all incorporated, literary, benevolent, charitable and scientific institutions, every public library, school house, house of public worship, academy, or other seminary of learning, and the lot or lots belonging to the same, and all property which is by law exempt from sale on execution.

SEC. 23. All property real and personal, within the limits of the corporation, subject to be taxed by the county of Milwaukee, not exempt as ahove, shall be subject to taxation.

SEC. 24. The trustees shall have power to levy and collect, annually,a tax on all property subject to taxation in said corporation not exceeding the rate of fifty cents on every one hundred dollars of the assessment valuation thereof.

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SEC. 25. It shall be the duty of the assessor between the first Duty of assesday of April and the first day of May of each year, to make out an assessment roll in which he shall set down the names of all the taxable inhabitants of said corporation, and the names so far as they [he] can ascertain, of non-residents who shall own real estate therein, and the description, quantity and value of all the property subject to taxation in said village, and deposite the same with the clerk, on or before the said first day of May, in each year; and the said assessor shall assess all property subject to taxation with

in the said corporation at its cash value at the time of making

such assessment.

Duty of clerk. SEC. 26. It shall be the duty of the clerk, annually, on the first Monday of May, to lay the assessment roll before the trustees, at which time they shall meet and determine the rate për centum to be taxed on the assessment roll for the current year; at which time any person feeling aggrieved at the value the assessor may have put upon his or her property, may appeal to the board of trustees, who may alter the same as justice may require; and when the said trustees shall have determined the rate per centum to be taxed on the assessed value of property as contained in the assessment roll as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the clerk in the month of May, to make out, in accordance with such determination, a schedule of all the property, as contained in said assessment roll after the same shall have been corrected by said trustees, together with the names of the owners thereof, when known, annexing to each lot or other kind of property the amount of taxes which shall be chargeable on the same, agreeably to the assessment, and the rate per centum of taxation as fixed by the trustees, which schedule shall be called the tax list, and shall be recorded in a book to be by him kept for that purpose, and the said tax list or the record thereof, shall either of them be conclusive evidence of the amount of corporation taxes assessed for the year for which the same shall be made out and dated.

SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the clerk to complete and record the tax list as aforesaid, and deliver the same to the treasurer in' the month of May and make a record of such delivery in the book where such list shall be recorded, which record shall be conclusive evidence of such delivery, and the tax assessed on real estate shall be a lien on the same from the first day of May,until such tax shall be paid, together with all penalties and costs which may ac true thereon agreeably to the provisions of this act.

SEC. 28. Upon the receipt of the tax list as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to give public notice in a newspaper printed in said corporation, if there is one, and if none, then by posting up notices in three of the most public places, that such tax list has been committed to him for the purpose of collecting the taxes thereon, and that he will receive payment for taxes at his of fice until the first day of September then ensuing, subject to a

deduction of five per centum if paid before the said first day of

September.

SEC. 29. If the taxes are not paid to the treasurer on or before Treasiffer to collect taxes. the first day of September, he may proceed to collect the same by distress and sale of the goods and chattels of the persons charged, giving six days notice of the time and place of such sale, by written notices set up in three public places in said village.

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SEC, 30. In case the tax on any lot or other piece of land shall remain unpaid on the first day of October, and there are no goods or chattels of the person charged there with to be found, it shall be the duty of the treasurer to make out a general advertisement Treasurer to stating that all lots and other pieces of land upon which the taxes have not been paid will be sold by him on the third Monday of December, at a place to be therein mentioned, for the purpose of paying the taxes which may be assessed thereon, together with all costs and other liabilities which shall accrue by advertisement and sale, agreeably to the provisions of this act. Such advertisement shall be published four successive weeks, commencing in the month of October, in a newspaper printed in said corporation if there be one,and if not, by posting up the same in three of the most = public places: Provided, that in case of assessment of taxes in Provisó. gross upon any tract or lot of land, the treasurer upon the application of any claimant or owner of a part thereof, either divided or undivided, shall receive a part of the taxes, interest and charges due thereon, proportionate to the quantity of such fot or tract so owned or claimed, and the balance of such taxes, interest and charges shall be a lien only on the remainder of such lot or tract of land.

SEC. 31. On the third Monday of December, the treasurer Treasurer to sell lands. shall commence the sale of the said lots and lands, and continue the same from day to day until all shall have been sold or offered for sale. When a lot or tract of land shall be offered for sale, the treasurer shall designate what part or portion of the same shall be sold, if a less portion than the whole tract shall be bid, and shall give to the purchaser a certificate describing the lands sold with sufficient certainty, stating the sum paid therefor, including fees, and the time when the purchaser will be entitled to a deed for the said land, and if the person claiming title to the lots or lands described in such certificate shall not within two years from the date thereof,