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A. L. Lauby; Fifth Ward, L. D. Hartford; Sixth Ward, Leonard Freiburger, Sr .- 1914-15. First Ward, Rich- ard Healy, Sr .; Second Ward, Lee Waste; Third Ward, Julius Below; Fourth Ward, A. L. Lauby; Fifth Ward, L. D. Hartford; Sixth Ward, Leonard Freiburger, Sr. -1915-16. First Ward, R. E. Krause; Second Ward, H. A. Baldwin; Third Ward, Julius Below; Fourth Ward, A. L. Lauby; Fifth Ward, Charles Tuma; Sixth Ward, Leonard Freiburger, Sr .- 1916-17. First Ward, Richard Healy, Sr .; Second Ward, H. A. Baldwin; Third Ward, Joseph Stengl; Fourth Ward, A. L. Lau- by; Fifth Ward, Charles Tuma; Sixth Ward, L. Frei- burger, Sr .- 1917-18. First Ward, R. Healy, Sr .; Sec- ond Ward, H. A. Baldwin; Third Ward, Joseph Stengl; Fourth Ward, James McKenna; Fifth Ward, Charles Tuma; Sixth Ward, Leonard Freiburger, Sr .- 1918-19. First Ward, Richard Healy, Sr .; Second Ward, H. A. Baldwin; Third Ward, Joseph Stengl; Fourth Ward, James McKenna; Fifth Ward, Charles Tuma; Sixth Ward, Leonard Freiburger, Sr .- 1919-20. First Ward, Richard Healy, Sr .; Second Ward, H. A. Baldwin; Third Ward, Joseph Stengl; Fourth Ward, James Mc- Kenna; Fifth Ward, L. D. Hartford; Sixth Ward, Leonard Freiburger, Sr .- 1920-21. First Ward, Rich- ard Healy, Sr .; Second Ward, L. A. Maier; Third Ward, James Steber; Fourth Ward, James McKenna; Fifth Ward, L. D. Hartford; Sixth Ward, Leonard Freiburger, Sr .- 1921-22.
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CHAPTER XXIV. Original Charter of the City of Antigo
Ward Boundaries-Four Wards-Elective Officers-The First Election-General Elections-Pow- ers and Duties of the Common Council-Poll Tax-Officers-Their Duties and Powers-Ordi- nances-Procedure for Violation of Ordinances-Schools-Streets-The General Charter of 1905.
The original charter of the city of Antigo is to the citizens of Antigo what the Declaration of Independ- ence is to the nation at large or what the constitution of Wisconsin is to the citizens of the state in general. The original charter of the city of Antigo is the very foundation upon which the city was created. The gov- ernment of Antigo has and continues to be, in most respects, in accord with this original document. As a matter of record the complete charter is given here- with.
THE ORIGINAL CHARTER OF THE CITY OF ANTIGO. CHAPTER I.
Section 1. All that district of territory in the Coun- ty of Langlade hereinafter described shall be a city by the name of Antigo, and the people now inhabiting and those who shall inhabit said district, shall be a municipal corporation by the name of Antigo, and shall have the general powers possessed by municipal cor- porations at common law, and in addition thereto shall have and possess the powers hereinafter specifically granted, and the authorities thereof shall have perpet- ual succession, and shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, plead- ing and being impleaded in all courts of law and equi- ty, and shall have a common seal and may change and alter the same at pleasure.
Section 2. All the district of the county included in section number twenty-nine, in township number thirty- one north, of range eleven east of the fourth principal meridian, and also the east one-half of section number thirty, in township number thirty-one north, of range eleven east of the fourth principal meridian.
CHAPTER II.
WARD BOUNDARIES.
Section 1. The city of Antigo shall be divided into four wards, as follows :
First Ward .- The first ward shall comprise all that part of section number twenty-nine aforesaid, which lies north of the center line of Fifth Avenue, prolong- ed to the east line of said section, and east of the center line of Clermont Street, prolonged to the north line of said section.
Second Ward .- The Second Ward shall comprise all of the northeast quarter of section number thirty afore- said, with all that part of section number twenty-nine
which lies north of the center line of Fifth Avenue, and west of the center line of Clermont Street, prolonged to the north line of said section.
Third Ward .- The Third Ward shall comprise all the southeast quarter of section number thirty aforesaid with all that part of section number twenty-nine, which lies north of the center line of Fifth Avenue, and west of the center line of Clermont Street.
Fourth Ward .- The Fourth Ward shall comprise all that part of section number twenty-nine aforesaid which lies south of the center line of Fifth Avenue, pro- longed to the east line of said section, and east of the center line of Clermont Street.
CHAPTER III. ELECTIVE OFFICERS.
Section 1. The elective officers of the said city shall be a mayor, clerk, treasurer, assessor, one school com- missioner, and three justices of peace, from the city at large, and two aldermen, two school commissioners, one supervisor, and one street commissioner from each ward.
Section 2. All the officers elected from the city at large, except justices of the peace, shall hold their of- fices for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Justices of the peace shall hold their offices for two years.
Section 3. All the elective officers from the city at large, and the aldermen, school commissioners and su- pervisors from each ward, shall be qualified voters, electors and freeholders in said city, and the ward officers shall be freeholders in the ward where elected.
Section 4. The school commissioners from the sev- eral wards and aldermen shall hold their offices for two years, and the street commissioner and supervisor for one year.
Section 5. At the first election in said city one of the aldermen and one of the school commissioners in each ward shall be elected for one year, and one for two years, the ballots to designate the term of office of each. Thereafter at the annual municipal election each ward shall elect one alderman and one school commissioner, who shall hold their respective office for two years.
Section 6. Whenever a vacancy occurs in the office of mayor, aldermen or justices, each or such vacancy shall be filled by a new election, which shall be ordered by the common council within ten days after such va- cancy shall occur. Any vacancy happening in any of-
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fice shall be filled by the common council. The person elect to fill in any such vacancy shall hold the of- fice and discharge the duties thereof for the unexpired term, and shall be subject to the same liabilities as the person whose office he may be elected or appointed to fill.
Section 7. Every officer or agent, who shall be ap- pointed by the common council, may be summarily removed, by a vote of two-thirds of all of the members of the common council elect, and the office declared vacant. No other officer shall be removed from office, except for good cause, nor unless furnished with charges, and an opportunity given such officer to be heard in his defense. The common council shall have power to compel any and all persons in said city to ap- pear before it and testify, in any hearing or proceed- ing instituted to remove from office any officer men- tioned in this act, or any agent under said city govern- ment for any violation of duty, or of any provisions of this act, or of any ordinance, resolution rule, order, regulation, or by-law of the common council of said city, either of omission or commission and such viola- tion shall be cause for removal, and to revoke and va- cate any license granted under this act, and for that purpose said council may make its order command- ing. The person or persons therein named to appear before it and testify, which order shall be certified by the clerk of the said city, under the corporate seal thereof, and personally served on the person or persons therein named by delivering to each a true copy thereof, and for the purpose of com- pelling such appearance before it, and the giving of the testimony on such hearing or proceeding the said com- mon council is hereby vested with the same power and authority possessed by any court of record in this state, and any violation or disobedience to the com- mands or requirements of a subpoena issued out of any court of record in this state. The common council shall proceed to said hearing within ten days from the service of the charges upon the officers as charged, and may adjourn from time to time, as may be deemed necessary and if such officer neglects to ap- pear and answer to such charges, or if such charges are sustained, then the common council may, by a two- thirds vote of the whole council, remove such officer and declare such office vacant.
ELIGIBILITY TO OFFICE AND QUALIFICA- TIONS OF OFFICERS.
Section 8. No person shall be eligible to any office of said city unless he shall be a resident elector of said city, nor to any of the ward offices, unless he be a resi- dent elector and freeholder of the ward for which such officer is to be chosen, and otherwise qualified to per- form the duties of office to which he may be elected or appointed; and whenever any person, elected to any city office, shall remove from the city or any ward offi- cer shall be removed from the ward in which he holds office, he shall be deemed thereby to have vacated his office.
Section 9. Every person elected or appointed to any
office of said city or the wards thereof shall, before, he enters upon the duties thereof, take and subscribe the oath of office required by the constitution of the state, before some proper officer, and file the same with the city clerk, within ten days after notification of election.
Section 10. The city clerk, city treasurer, city mar- shal, justices of the peace, and such other officers as the common council may direct, shall severally, be- fore they enter upon the duties of their respective of- fices, execute to the city of Antigo, a bond, with at least two sufficient sureties, which bond shall contain such penal sum and such conditions as the common council shall prescribe. Such bonds, together with the affidavits of the sureties hereinafter provided, shall be filed with the city clerk and recorded in books in his office for that purpose.
Section 11. Sufficiency of the sureties upon bonds, provided for in the next preceding section, may be de- termined by the affidavits of the sureties, severally taken, in which affidavits it shall appear that said sure- ties, in the aggregate, are worth, in property, over and above all debts, exemptions and liabilities, the penal amount of such bond, or the common council may, in any other manner, aside from the affidavits of such sureties, determine their responsibility and sufficiency, and either accept or reject such sureties, or require other additional sureties.
Section 12. The common council shall, at any and all times, have the power to require other or addition- al official bonds, over or additional sureties thereof, at any time during the official term of any officer of said city.
Section 13. Every person elected or appointed to any office in said city, who shall neglect to take and file with the city clerk his oath of office. as herein required, or neglect to file his official bond as provid- ed by this act, or as may be required by the common council, within ten days after notification of election or appointment, such office shall be deemed vacant, and the vacancy shall be filed as provided in this act.
Section 14. No member of the council shall be ac- cepted as surety upon any bond, note or obligation made to the city.
Section 15. No alderman or member of the com- mon council, while holding office, shall be appointed to, or be competent to hold any office, of which the compensation is paid by the city.
CHAPTER IV. FIRST ELECTION.
Section 1. The first election for said city of An- tigo, for the election of city officers, shall be held in the respective wards of said city, on the first Tues- day in April, 1885, as follows :
1. The polls of the election for the first ward shall be held at the lumber office of Clithero & Strong, on Superior Street, at which election H. G. Borgman, R. H. McMullen and A. B. Millard, shall, if present, be the inspectors thereof.
2. The polls of the election for the second ward
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shall be held at Spencer's Hall on Fifth Avenue, at which election B. F. Dorr, J. E. Mullowney and J. E. Clancey shall, if present, be the inspectors thereof.
3. The polls of the election for the Third Ward shall be held at Sherman & Dawley's office, on Fifth Avenue, at which election F. M. Sherman, August Schoepke, and Gilbert Bacon shall, if present, be in- spectors thereof.
4. The polls of election for the Fourth Ward shall be held at the office of L. Mendlik, on Superior Street, at which, election L. Mendlik, James Porter, and J. Herman shall, if present, be the inspectors thereof.
Section 2. The polls shall be opened in each of said wards at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and be kept open continuously until five o'clock in the evening.
Section 3. The inspectors present at the opening of the polls shall appoint two suitable and competent persons to act as clerks of election.
Section 4. The inspectors and clerks of election in each of said wards shall take the oath of office, and in all things be governed by the several laws of the state for holding and conducting election and shall without adjournment publicly canvass the votes cast in their wards for the different offices and propositions voted for and make, sign and seal a statement in writing of the number of votes cast for each candidate and for and against any proposition voted for, and announce the result.
Section 5. H. G. Borgman, from the First Ward, B. F. Dorr, from the Second Ward, August Shoepke, from the Third Ward, and L. Mendlik from the Fourth Ward, shall constitute a city board of canvassers to canvass the vote of said election, shall meet at the office of L. Mendlik on the Thursday after election, at nine A. M. in said city, and there publicly canvass and count the votes cast in each of said wards for the officers to be elected, and shall then and there publicly announce the result of said election and issue and sign dupli- cate certificates of election, declaring and naming the persons elected to each of the offices required by this charter. One of said certificates shall be delivered to the person elected, city clerk, and the other to the clerk of the county board of supervisors of Langlade County, to be there filed and preserved in that office.
Section 6. The town clerk of the town of Antigo shall give notice of said first election by publication thereof in two newspapers published in the city of Antigo, for two weeks next preceding the holding thereof, and the inspectors named in this act shall post, or cause to be posted, in three public places in each ward, a notice of the time and place of holding said election, at least ten days before election.
CHAPTER V. GENERAL ELECTIONS.
Section 1. The annual municipal election of said city shall be held on the first Tuesday of April, in each year, for which purpose one place in each ward shall be procured and designated as election polls, by the aldermen of the proper ward, and notice shall be given by the said aldermen for at least ten days prior
to said election by publication in two newspapers, if there be so many printed in said city, and by posting the same in three conspicuous places in each ward, which notices shall be signed by the aldermen of the ward in which the same are to be posted, and shall des- ignate the time and place where the polls will be open- ed.
Section 2. All male inhabitants of said city, who shall have resided therein for thirty days next pre- ceding any election therein, and who are otherwise qualified to vote under the general laws of the state, shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the ward in which he lives.
Section 3. The aldermen in each ward and the su- pervisor therein, shall be the inspectors of all elec- tions held in said city, and at the opening of the polls therein, at the general or special election the inspectors present shall appoint the clerk or clerks of election.
Section 4. All general or special elections held in said city shall be held and conducted, and the votes canvassed, sealed and returned in all respects under and in accordance with the general laws of the state. And the inspectors and clerks of said elections shall possess the same powers and authority as are prescrib- ed by the general laws of the state in regard to elec- tions.
Section 5. The polls of election in each ward, shall be kept open from nine o'clock in the morning until five o'clock in the evening, without intermission or ad- journment, and when the polls shall have been closed, the inspectors, without adjourning, shall canvass the votes received at such polls, and make returns thereof in writing, duly signed, stating therein the number of votes received for each person for a designated office, and the whole number of votes received, and such re- turns shall be by them delivered together, with the oaths of the inspectors and clerks, and the polls lists kept by them to the city clerk, to be filed in his office within twenty-four hours after closing the polls.
Section 6. All elections shall be by ballot; a plural- ity of votes shall constitute an election and the names of all officers voted for shall be upon the ballot.
Section 7. Except as herein otherwise provided, so far as the same are applicable, all of the laws relat- ing to general elections, as to the qualifications of elec- tors, the manner in which election shall be conducted, the making of poll lists, and returns, and the punish- ment of illegal or fraudulent voting, or attempting to vote and for fraudulent or illegal returns and any other fraud or wrong designated under the general election laws, shall apply to all elections provided for by this act.
Section 8. On Thursday next after the elections herein provided for in each year, at 7.30 o'clock P. M., the common council shall meet at the council rooms in said city and the returns of the inspectors of the vari- ous wards shall be produced by the city clerk where- upon the common council shall forthwith canvass and returns determine and declare, by the greater number of votes appearing by said returns to have been cast at said election, who are elected for each of the city
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and ward offices as were voted for, or any other or either of them, and the council shall thereupon cause a report of such determination to be made and entered upon the minutes of said determination, the city clerk shall cause certificates of election to be served upon the persons so declared to be elected personally, or by depositing the same, enclosed in an envelope, with the postage paid and properly directed, provided, that the city clerk shall at the same time certify to the clerk of the circuit court the names of the persons so elected justices of the peace, and all officers authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgements of in- struments in writing and the terms for which they were respectively elected when they have qualified.
Section 9. When two or more candidates for an elective office, shall receive an equal number of votes for the same office, the election shall be determined by casting lots, in the presence of the common council at such time and in such manner as said council may di- rect.
Section 10. Every justice of the peace elected or appointed by virtue of this act, shall file such oath of office and bond necessary to qualify, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of such office, as is prescribed by the general statutes for such officers in the several towns.
Section 11. Upon the filing the oath of office and the filing and approval by the common council of any kind by any officer of the city, as in this act required, the city clerk shall, upon demand, execute and deliver to the persons so entitled a certificate of his election and qualifications to the office to which he has been elected or appointed.
Section 12. In addition to the amount herein lim- ited for taxes for general city purposes special taxes may be levied for the purchase of fire engines, ceme- tery grounds, public square and other objects of public utility; but no such tax shall be levied, unless the same shall first be recommended by the common coun- cil and afterwards submitted to a vote of the people, and approved by them. Whenever the council shall recommend such a tax, it shall specify the amount to be raised and the object thereof and cause notice there- of, and of the time and the place of voting thereon, to be published in the same manner as in case of the an- nual city election.
Section 13. At such special elections so called, no such special tax shall be raised or levied unless the whole number of votes cast shall equal two-thirds of the whole number of votes cast in said city at the last preceding municipal election; nor unless two-thirds of the votes cast at such special election shall have been cast in favor of the tax so voted for.
Section 14. At each special election no person shall be entitled to vote unless he be a freeholder in said city.
CHAPTER VI.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.
Section 1. The municipal government of said cor- poration shall consist of a common council, composed
of the mayor and the two aldermen from each ward. The common council shall annually meet on the first Monday after the annual municipal election, at 7 o'clock P. M. and at such other times, not less than once in each month, as it shall by resolution appoint. The mayor, or in his absence or inability to act, the presi- dent of the council, for any good reason, may call spe- cial meetings by notice to each of the members, to be served personally, or left at their usual place of abode by the city clerk. The common council at any regu- lar or special meeting shall have power to adjourn the same to such time as it may deem proper.
Section 2. It shall be the duty of the common council at said first meeting to elect by ballot, one of its members president of the council.
Section 3. The mayor, when present, shall preside at all meetings of the common council, and in his ab- sence or inability so to do the president of the com- mon council shall preside.
Section 4. In the absence of the mayor, and presi- dent of the common council, the aldermen present, if there be a quorum shall elect one of its members as president protem, of the common council who shall have and possess all the powers of mayor while so pre- siding.
Section 5. In the proceedings of the common coun- cil each member present, including the mayor, shall be entitled to a vote; but no appropriations nor appoint- ments to office, shall be made except by the vote of a majority of all the members elect.
Section 6. The common council shall determine the rules of its proceedings not inconsistent with any of the provisions of this act. A majority of the mem- bers elect shall constitute a quorum for the transac- tion of business, and may compel the attendance of absent members, and in case of the refusal of absent members to attend for three successive meetings, the common council may declare the office of the member so refusing, vacant.
Section 7. If required by one member present at any meeting of the common council, the vote upon any ordinance, resolution, or question pending before each meeting, except the appointment of officers, shall, when taken, be taken, by the yeas and nays of all the mem- bers present, and a record of such vote shall be entered at large in the minutes of the common council.
Section 8. The common council shall have the pow- er, from time to time, to require other and further du- ties to be performed by any officer, whose duties are herein prescribed, and to prescribe the duties of such other officers as may be appointed, whose duties are not herein prescribed.
Section 9. The common council shall have the gen- eral control of all the property, both real and personal, belonging to the city.
Section 10. The common council shall also have power to organize a board of health, and to provide measures for the preservation of health of the inhabi- tants of said city, and to prevent the spread of in- fection or pestilential diseases therein. The board of health shall consist of the junior alderman of each
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ward, the mayor, who shall be its president; each mem- ber of the board of health shall have power and per- form such duties as the common council, by ordinances or otherwise, shall direct. The city clerk shall be ex- official clerk of the board of health. The common council may, by ordinances, authorize the board of health, or any member thereof, to make and enforce such orders, rules and regulations not inconsistent with the charter of any ordinance of said city as they shall deem most effectual for the preservation of the public health; but no order, rule or regulation of said board, imposing a penalty, shall take effect and be in force until the same shall have been published in a news- paper published in said city, as required for the publi- cation of ordinances.
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