Proviso.

Trustees may

pay to the purchaser or the treasurer, his heirs or assigns, the sum mentioned in such certificate, together with the interest thereon, at the rate of twenty-five, per cent per annum from the date of such certificate, the treasurer shall, at the expiration of said two years execute to the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, a conveyance of the lots or lands so sold, which conveyance shall vest in the person or persons to whom it shall be given an absolute estate in fee simple, and the said conveyance shall be conclusive evidence that the sale was regular according to the provisions of this act, and every such conveyance executed by the treasurer under his hand and seal in the name and on the behalf of the village of Prairieville, and the execution thereof witnessed and acknowledged as by law in other cases provided, may be given in evidence, and recorded in the same manner and with the like effect as a deed regularly acknowledged by the grantor may be given in evidence and recorded: Provided, That no deed given in pursuance of this act, shall have any validity or force where the taxes shall have been paid previous to such sale.

SEC. 32. It shall be lawful for the trustees aforesaid, to apappoint agent point an agent to attend any sales of lands made for the purpose of collecting taxes due said corporation, and bid off lands for the taxes and charges due thereon, in the name of said trustees, and the said trustees and their successors shall acquire by such purchase, in trust for such corporation, all the rights which might have been acquired by any other purchaser: Provided, That the said agent shall not purchase any land in the name of the trustees until the same shall have been once offered and not bid upon by other persons.

Treasurer to advertise.

SEC. 33. In the month of July of each year, the treasurer shall publish in some newspaper printed in said village, if one [be] published therein, and if not, in some paper printed nearest thereto, for three weeks successively an advertisement stating each lot and tract of land which will be forfeited in the ensuing December, (stating the day thereof) if the taxes and charges upon the same are not paid before that day, together with the amount of taxes and charges, and shall also post up three copies of said notice, in three public places in said village during the month of July. As soon as the treasurer shall have advertised as aforesaid, he shall make a re

cord of the same upon some book by him kept for that purpose.

Fees of treas

SEC. 34. Upon all lots or tracts of land, on which the taxes shall not be paid before the first day of October, as aforesaid, and which shall be advertised for sale for non-payment of taxes, and upon all lots or pieces of land sold as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the treasurer to demand and receive the following fees: For each tract or lot of land advertised for sale, three cents; for each urer. certificate of sale, twelve and a half cents; for certifying the sum necessary to redeem any lot or tract of land sold, twelve and a half cents; for each deed or conveyance executed by him for one lot or tract, one dollar; for each additional tract included in one deed, by order of the purchaser, five cents. The said fees shall be paid by the person receiving the deed, except for advertising where the taxes shall be paid before sale, in which case the person paying the taxes shall be chargeable with, and pay the fees for advertising.

deem lands

SEC. 35. If any person who shall purchase any lot or tract of How to reland in pursuance of the provisions of this act, shall pay any tax sold for taxes. returned subsequent to such purchase, on such lot or piece of land,

the person who shall return [redeem] such lot or piece of land,

shall pay the amount of such tax with interest.

SEC. 37. [36.] The trustees shall have the sole right of licensing Who to license and regulating groceries, victualling houses, taverns, shows, public groceries, &c. exhibitions and theatrical or other entertainments, and also the sale of strong and spirituous liquors within said corporation, and shall have power to fix such rates of licenses, and enact such by-laws on the subject, with penalties for the breach thereof as they may think proper, and to collect such penalties in the same manner provided for collecting other penalties by this act: Provided, that any and every person licensed by said corporation, shall be required to pay such additional tax for license as now is, or may hereafter be prescribed by law, to be paid into, the county treasury, and the county supervisors of Mliwaukee county shall have power and authority to sue for and collect such additional tax for the use of the county.

SEC. 38. [37.] All persons entitled to vote as aforesaid, and who shall have resided within said corporation six months immediate

ly previous to an election therein, shall be entitled to vote at any election or meeting authorized by this act.

SEC. 39. [38.] This act shall be considered a public act,and may be altered, amended or repealed by any future Legislature, APPROVED Feb. 3, 1846.

AN ACT to incorporate the City of Milwaukee,

BE IT ENACTED by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wisconsin:

SECTION 1. That the district of country included within the following limits and boundaries in township numbered seven, of range numbered twenty-two east, in the county of Milwaukie, to wit: Beginning on the Lake shore, in the northerly part of Milwaukie Bay, where it is intersected by the section line running cast and west on the north-line of section numbered twenty-two, thence west along said section line and the north line of section numbered twenty-one and section twenty, to the quarter post on the north line of section numbered twenty; thence south along the quarter section line to the center of said section numbered twenty; thence west along the quarter section line in said section numbered twenty and section numbered nineteen, to the west line of said township and range; thence south along the said range line to the north boundary line of township numbered six; thence east along said north line to the lake shore in the southerly part of Milwaukie Bay; and the north and south boundaries as herein described are to extend from the two points of intersection with the lake respectively, in lines running due east to the eastern boundary of the Territory of Wisconsin in Lake Michigan shall be a city by the name of "Milwaukie," and the people now inhabiting, and those who shall hereafter inhabit within the district of country hereinbefore described shall be a municipal corporation by the name of the "City of Milwaukee," and shall have

ers.

the general powers possessed by cities at the common law; and in General powaddition thereto shall possess the powers hereinafter specifically granted; and the authorities thereof shall have perpetual succession, shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued,pleading and being impleaded in all courts of law and equity; and shall have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at pleasure.

wards.

SEC. 2. For the better government of the said city the district of country comprised in the limits described in the first section of Boundaries of this act shall be divided into five wards, as follows: All that part of the said district which lies east of the middle of Milwaukie river and north of the middle of Wisconsin street shall be the first ward; all that part of the said district which lies west of the middle of Milwaukie river, and north of the middle of Cedar street, and its extension to the west line of the city shall be the second ward; all that part of the said district which lies east of the middle of said river and south of the middle of Wisconsin street shall be the third ward; all that part of the said district which lies west of the middle of said river, south of the middle of Cedar street, and within sections numbered twenty-nine and thirty, shall be the fourth ward, and the residue of said city shall be the fifth ward.

SEC. 3. The elective officers of the said city, shall be one Officers to be mayor for the city, three aldermen in each ward, one justice of elected. the peace in each ward, and one constable in each ward; and said aldermen, justices and constables shall be residents and voters in the wards for which they may be elected, and the removal of any justice of the peace not of such ward except the person who may be appointed police justice shall vacate the office of the person so removing, which vacancy may be filled by special election to be held at such time and place as shall be appointed by the Common Council, and in the manner prescribed by this act for holding elections. SEC. 4. The first election for city officers shall be held on the Election when first Tuesday of April next, at which time an election shall be held in each ward, at such place as may be designated by the president and trustees of the town of Milwaukie, and be conducted by three inspectors, or a majority of them, who shall be appointed by the said president and trustees and shall make due return to the clerk of the board of trustees, and all elections thereaf ter shall be held annually on the first Tuesday of April, at such

held.

Electors in each ward

place in each ward as shall be designated by the mayor and common council, who shall annually appoint three inspectors of elections, who, or a majority of whom, shall superintend such election and make return of the same to the common council in such manner and at such time as said common council may prescribe.

SEC. 5. At the first election the electors in their respective may elect cer, wards shall vote for one mayor of the city, three aldermen, one tain officers. justice of the peace and one constable, for the ward wherein such elector may vote; and annually thereafter the electors at their respective ward elections shall vote for one mayor of the city, three aldermen, one constable. and every second year for one jus tice of the peace.

of electors.

SEC. 6. All white male citizens who are duly qualified to vote Qualification for county and territorial officers and have resided in said city one year, and in the ward where he may offer his vote three months next preceding such election, and all white male aliens who shall have legally declared their intentions to become citizens, of the age of twenty-one years, and who shall have resided in the said city one year, and in the ward where they propose to vote three months next previous to the election, and shall have been assessed and paid a tax upon real or personal property in said city within one year, or shall within the same time have been assessed for highway work in said city, and shall have actually performed the same, or may have been a member of a fire company in said city, and have done duty therein for at least six months next preceding such election shall be electors of said city and be entitled to vote for any of the elective officers therein.

Concerning challenges at election.

SEC. 7. Whenever any person shall present himself to give his vote, and either of the inspectors shall suspect that such person does not possess the qualifications of an elector, or if his vote shall be challenged by any elector, the inspectors of the election before receiving the vote of any such person, shall require such person to take an oath that he possesses the qualifications prescribed in the preceding section, and that he has not voted at such election. If the person offering to vote shall take such oath his vote shall be received, unless it shall be proved by evidence satisfactory to a majority of the inspectors, that he does not possess the qualifications of a voter, in which case his vote shall be rejected. And if any person shall take such oath knowing it to