The Development of County Government in WisconsinUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1924 - 530 pages |
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Page 99 - No county, city, township, school district, or other municipal corporation shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount, including existing indebtedness, in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be ascertained by the last assessment for state and county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness.
Page 71 - With scarcely an exception, all the powers and functions of the county organization have a direct, and exclusive reference to the general policy of the State, and are, in fact, but a branch of the general administration of that policy.
Page 71 - Counties are at most but local organizations, which, for the purposes of civil administration, are invested with a few functions characteristic of a corporate existence. They are local subdivisions of the State, created by the sovereign power of the State, of its own sovereign will, without the particular solicitation, consent, or concurrent action of the people who inhabit them.
Page 26 - No county with an area of nine hundred square miles or less shall be divided or have any part stricken therefrom without submitting the question to a vote of the people of the county, nor uniess a majority of all the legal voters of the county voting on the question shall vote for the same.
Page 47 - The Legislature may confer upon the boards of supervisors of the several counties of the State, .such further powers of local legislation and administration, as they shall from time to time prescribe.
Page 71 - A municipal corporation proper is created mainly for the interest, advantage and convenience of the locality and its people ; a county organization is created almost exclusively with a view to the policy of the state at large...
Page 95 - No municipal corporation shall take private property for public use against the consent of the owner, without the necessity thereof being first established by the verdict of a jury.
Page 29 - No county seat shall be removed until the point to which it is proposed to be removed shall be fixed...
Page 93 - ... to make such contracts and to do such other acts as are necessary and proper to the exercise of the powers and privileges granted and the performance of the duties charged upon it by law, and shall so continue until altered by law.
Page 9 - Governor shall appoint such magistrates and other civil officers in each county or township as he shall find necessary for the preservation of peace and good order in the same.