16 To the stokers each eight hundred dollars for the first year of service in the department and nine hundred dollars, thereafter; (Chapter 405, Laws of 1885.) To the drivers each nine hundred dollars, after the second year of service in the department; (Section 3, Chapter 336, Laws of 1889.) To the pipemen each seven hundred dollars for the first year of service in the department, and eight hundred dollars for the second, and nine hundred dollars thereafter; (Chapter 405, Laws of 1885.) To the chief of police three thousand dollars; (Chapter 56, Laws of 1880.) To the inspector of police eighteen hundred dollars; (Chapter 136, Laws of 1889.) To the captain of police fifteen hundred dollars; (Chapter 136, Laws of 1889.) To the four lieutenants of police each twelve hundred dollars; (Chapter 136, Laws of 1889.) To the detectives each one thousand dollars; To the sergeants each nine hundred dollars; In addition to his salary, as above, the city treasurer shall be allowed such sum each year, for clerk hire, as the common council shall deem to be reasonable, and shall fix or determine by resolution. All salaries of officers and others, which are not fixed absolutely by this act, shall be fixed by the common council, by ordinance, subject to the limitations herein prescribed. The salaries and allowance above mentioned, and which shall be fixed as aforesaid by the common council, shall be accepted by such officers and others, respectively, as their sole compensation for the services for which such salaries are allowed. As amended by Section 45, Chapter 324, Laws of 1882. changing the compensation of officers and men of the fire and police departments, so that the charter salaries for those departments have been greatly varied, and considerably increased. SECTION 2. All salaries paid by the said city to offi- Salaries paid cers or others shall be payable monthly, at the end of monthly. each and every month, by warrants on the city treasurer, signed by the mayor and city clerk, and countersigned by the comptroller. 16 Treasurer to keep account of fees, percentages and received. commissions City clerk and city attorney to pay every three months. SECTION 3. The city treasurer shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received by him for fees, commissions, and percentages, which he is required by section thirty-six of chapter eighteen of this act, to pay into the city treasury for the use of the city; and the city clerk and the city attorney shall each keep a like account of all moneys received by him for and in behalf of said city; and said treasurer, clerk and attorney shall each, at the end of each and every three months during his term of office, pay into the city treasury all such moneys remaining in his hands, and file a transcript of such account with the city comptroller, accompanied by his affidavit that the same is a just, true and complete account of all moneys so received by him during the three months then next preceding, and by the city treasurer's receipt showing that all such moneys have actually been paid into the city treasury; and it shall not be lawful for the Such payments mayor, city comptroller, or common council, to pass or how enforced. settle the accounts, or to order, or draw, countersign or deliver any warrant for the payment of any portion of the salary or allowance of either of said officers, after any failure by him to file such verified quarterly transscript of account with the city comptroller, or to pay such moneys into the city treasury so long as such officer shall continue to be so delinquent. SECTION 4. If either said treasurer, attorney or clerk of said city, shall wilfully neglect or violate any provision or requirement of the preceding section, or any duty therein or thereby imposed upon him, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of said county of Milwaukee not less than two months nor more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the Penalty for neglect or violation of duty. discretion of the court; and it shall be the duty of the common council to cause an action to be forthwith commenced and prosecuted to final judgment against such officer and the sureties on his official bond, if any, for the recovery of all moneys in his hands, which, by the terms of the preceding section, and the section therein referred to, he is required to pay into the city treasury. In case said common council shall neglect to cause such action to be commenced within thirty days after any delinquency shall occur in the payment of any moneys required to be paid into the city treasury by any officer under said sections, such action may be brought and prosecuted by any taxpayer of the said city, in the name and for the benefit of said city; provided, that before commencing such action, a bond to said city shall be executed and filed in the office of the city comptroller, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, with sufficient sureties approved by the judge of the circuit court of said county of Milwaukee, conditioned to pay all costs and damages. which may be recovered against said city in such action, and to indemnify the city against any and all costs, expenses and damages by reason of said action; and such action when so commenced by a taxpayer shall not be subject to the control or management of said city or of any officer thereof. City orders, how drawn and signed. CHAPTER XVII. FINANCE AND TAXATION. SECTION 1. All funds in the city treasury, except school funds and the fund created and set apart for the payment of interest and principal of the funded debt of said city, shall be under the control of the common council and shall be drawn out upon the order of the mayor and clerk, duly authorized by vote of the common council and countersigned by the city comptroller, except in the cases in this section mentioned, to-wit: The common council may provide by ordinance for the Monthly pay-rolls. payment of such persons as may be employed by the board of public works and by the fire and police departments or by the common council in the service of the city, upon monthly pay-rolls, and shall prescribe the form of such pay-rolls and the manner in which the same shall be certified, audited, approved, and payment made 17 thereon; provided, that such pay-rolls shall in all cases be certified by the board of public works or chiefs of the fire and police departments as the case may be, and countersigned by the city comptroller. All orders drawn upon the treasury shall specify the purposes for which Orders to specify. they were drawn and shall be drawn payable generally out of any funds in the treasury belonging to the city. and not otherwise appropriated, and all such orders shall be received in payment of any tax or assessment levied by the authority of the city, except the tax for interest and the sinking fund. All orders shall be payable to the Orders order of the person in whose favor they may be drawn and shall be transferable by indorsement. Certificates issued in payment for work done or improvements made chargeable specially to lots, parts of lots or parcels of land shall be receivable for the special taxes levied therefor upon such lots, parts of lots or parcels of land respectively. As amended by Chapter 144, Laws of 1875, also amended by Chapter 19, Laws of 1889. transferable. Certificates receiv able for special taxes. CHAPTER 170, LAWS OF 1889. Amendment to The provisions of chapter 19, of the laws of Wisconsin, of the year 1889, shall not apply to the funds appropriated to the public chapter 19, laws library and public museum of the city of Milwaukee, the trustees of which institution shall have charge of the funds thereof to the same extent as if said chapter had never been enacted. 1889. Levy for general city fund. SECTION 2. The common council of said city shall have power to levy annually, for the general city fund, exclusive of the amounts required for the support of schools, and for the payment of interest and principal on the funded debt of the city, and other special funds authorized by law, a sum not exceeding six mills on the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in said city subject to taxation; also for contingent fund a sum not exceeding one-half of one Contingent fund. mill on the dollar of such assessed valuation; also for a sewerage fund in each sewerage district, a sum not exceeding one and one-half mills upon the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in such sewerage district subject to taxation; also for the special sewerage fund for said city, a sum not exceeding one mill upon the dollar of the total assessed valuation Special sewerage of property, real and personal, in said city, subject to fund. 17 Ward fund. School fund. Levy not to exceed estimates. taxation; also, for a fund for ward purposes in each ward, a further sum not exceeding six mills upon the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in such ward, subject to taxation; and also for the support of all the public schools in said city, including the high school, for the next fiscal year, a further sum not exceeding three and one-half mills upon the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in said city subject to taxation; provided, however, whenever the comptroller and board of public works, to meet current and necessary ward expenses, shall deem it necessary or expedient for the common council to levy a larger amount than six mills upon the dollar as aforesaid, in any ward for a ward fund as aforesaid, and shall so certify to the common council on or before the first day of July in any year, it shall be competent for the common council to levy for a ward fund in any such ward, in any such year, a percentage upon the dollar of the total assessed valuation of all property, real and personal, in such ward subject to taxation, not exceeding ten mills; provided, also, that the percentage which shall be levied in each ward for ward purposes shall in no case exceed the amount estimated and required by the comptroller and board of public works; and, provided further, that the aggregate amount of general taxes for all purposes levied by the common council and collected upon the city tax roll for municipal purposes under this section inclusive of taxes, for the support of the public library and the public museum and for the payment of principal and interest of the funded debt of the city, but not inclusive of the tax for the support of schools, shall not, in the whole, for any one year, exceed fourteen (14) mills on the dollar of the total valuation of property, real and personal, in said city subject to taxation; and also provided, that it shall not be lawful for the county board of supervisors of Milwaukee county, in determining the amount to be raised by tax in the city of Milwaukee for the support of common schools therein, for any year, to fix an amount greater than the amount apportioned to said city in the last apportionment of the income of the school fund of the state. As amended by Chapter 310, Laws of 1883. SECTION 3. It shall be the duty of the common council, before the first day of February in each year, to |