persons as reward or compensation in the performance of official duty or special services in said department; and it is hereby made the duty of the chief of police to forthwith remove any member of said department who shall fail to comply with this provision. SECTION 4. The proceeds hereafter realized from the sales of unclaimed goods and property disposed of under the provisions of chapter 8, of the laws of 1883, and the ordinances of said city, shall be paid by the chief of police to the treasurer of said association, and all money that shall be unclaimed for the space of one year shall be delivered by the chief of police to the treasurer of said association. SECTION 5. It is hereby made the duty of the clerk of the municipal court of Milwaukee county to tax witness fees in all cases in said court wherein the members of said department are witnesses for the prosecution, and he shall pay the same, when collected on the first Mondays of January, April, July and October, to the treasurer of said association. SECTION 6. All funds that shall come into the hands of the treasurer of said association by virtue of this act shall be the property of said association, and shall be held and enjoyed by and disposed of by it subject to its by-laws and regulations. 15 Proceeds, how applied. Witness fees of members of, to be paid to treasurer by clerk of municipal court. Duty of treasurer respecting funds. bond. SECTION 7. The treasurer of said association shall give a bond, Treasurer to give with at least two sureties, in the penal sum to be fixed by said association, not to be less, however, than five thousand dollars, which shall be approved by the comptroller of the city of Milwaukee before such treasurer shall enter upon the duties of his office. SECTION 8. No person shall be elected to or hold any office in said association unless he be in the active service of the police department of the city of Milwaukee, and if such active service shall be terminated while holding the office of trustee or any other office of said association his term shall thereupon cease and determine, and the members of said association who shall by the by-laws thereof be entitled to vote, shall forthwith elect his successor. The city attorney of the city of Milwaukee shall be ex-officio one of the trustees of the policemen's relief association and also a trustee of the firemen's relief association of the said city of Milwaukee. As amended by Chapter 163, Laws of 1895. Who eligible to office in associa tion. City attorney shall be ex-officio trustee. CHAPTER 202, LAWS OF 1889. AN ACT to authorize the city of Milwaukee to pension widows and children of members of the fire and police departments. SECTION 1. The common council of the city of Milwaukee is hereby authorized to pay annually to the widow and children and dependent widowed mother of any member of the fire or police departments of said city, who have been killed since the first day of February, 1889, or who may hereafter be killed in the actual Common council may pension widows, children and dependent widowed mothers 15 of members of police and fire departments killed in dis charge of duty. discharge of his duties, such sum of money as a pension for such time as it may deem proper; such sum not to exceed one-half of the annual salary drawn by said member; provided, that such pension shall cease upon the remarriage of said widow or upon other cessation of dependency of such children or widowed mother. SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage and publication. Board of fire and police commissioners to decide applications for pensions. Member of department, when retired; duty of commissioners. Pensions, who entitled to, upon death of member. CHAPTER 379, LAWS OF 1895. AN ACT to provide pensions for the members of the paid fire and police departments and to the widows and minor children of deceased members in cities having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand and over in certain cases and to repeal conflicting laws. SECTION 1. The board of fire and police commissioners in any city having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand and over and having paid fire and police departments shall hear and decide all applications for pensions under this act, and its decisions on such applications shall be final and conclusive and not subject to review, modification or reversal except by the board itself at its own discretion. The board shall cause to be kept a record of all such applications and of all its proceedings under this act. SECTION 2. If any member of the paid fire or police department of any such city shall, while engaged in the performance of his duty as such fireman or policeman, be injured and be found upon examination by a medical officer ordered by said board of fire and police commissioners to be physically or mentally permanently disabled by reason of service in such department so as to render necessary his retirement from service in such fire or police department, said board of fire and police commissioners shall retire such disabled member from service in such fire or police department, provided no such retirement on account of such disability shall occur unless said member has contracted said disability while in the service of such fire or police department. Upon such retirement the said board of fire and police commissioners shall order the payment to such disabled member of such fire or police department, monthly, by the treasurer of said city of a sum equal to one-half the monthly compensation allowed to such member as salary at the date of such retirement. SECTION 3. If any member of the paid fire or police department of such city shall, while in the performance of his duty, be killed or die as the result of an injury received in the line of his duty or any disease contracted by reason of his occupation, or if any member of such paid fire or police department, after ten years' service in such department, shall die from any cause whatever while in said service, or if any member of such paid fire or police department shall die from any cause whatever after having been retired upon a pension under any of the provisions of this act, or of chapter 287 of the laws of 1891, and shall leave a widow or minor child or minor children under 16 years of age surviving him, said board of fire and police commissioners shall direct the payment by the treasurer of said city of the following sums monthly, to-wit: to such widow, while unmarried, thirty dollars; to the guardian of such minor child or children, six dollars for each of said children while under the age of sixteen years; provided, however, that there shall not be paid to a family of a deceased member a total pension exceeding one-half the amount of the monthly salary of such deceased member at the time of his decease, or, if retired upon a pension under any of the provisions of this act, or of said chapter 287, of the laws of 1891, a sum not exceeding one-half the amount of the monthly salary of such retired member at the date of his retirement; but nothing in this act shall warrant the payment of any pension to the widow of any member or retired member of such fire or police department after she shall have re-married. SECTION 4. Any member of the paid fire or police department of such city after becoming fifty years of age and having served twenty-two years or more in such fire or police department, of which the last five years of service shall have been continuous, may make application to be retired from such fire or police department, such application to be decided by the board of fire and police commissioners in accordance with the authority conferred upon it by this act; or such member may be retired from such fire or police department, without any application, by the board of fire and police commissioners whenever in its judgment advisable; and in either case the said board of fire and police commissioners shall order and direct that such person shall be paid a monthly pension equal to one-half the amount of salary attached to the rank which he may have held in such fire or police department at the date of such retirement, to be paid by the treasurer of such city; and the said board upon the recommendation of the chief officer of such fire or police department shall have the power to assign members of the fire or police department retired and drawing pensions under this act or under said chapter 287, of the laws of 1891, to the performance of light duties in such fire or police department in case of extraordinary emergencies. Pensions, 15 Widow not entitled to pension after re-marriage. When member of department may retire. SECTION 5. Any persons now drawing pensions under any of Persons drawing the provisions of chapter 287, of the laws of 1891, entitled An pensions to be act to create a pension fund for members of fire and police depart-paid by city ments in certain cities of Wisconsin," shall continue to receive treasurer. monthly the same sums as they are now receiving under any of the provisions of said chapter 287; but such sums shall be paid to them hereafter by the treasurers of such cities in the same manner and under the same provisions of law which govern the payment of pensions under the present act and not otherwise. SECTION 6. The pensions provided for in this act shall be paid monthly, on the first day of the month, in the same manner and under the same provisions of law which govern the payment of the salaries of active members of such fire and police departments so far as the same may be applicable, and the provisions of any law or ordinance for monthly pay-rolls in such fire or police Pension to be paid monthly. 15 Old board to report and thereafter cease to exist. departments shall apply to the persons and pensions provided for in this act. SECTION 7. The board of trustees of the firemen's and policemen's pension fund heretofore organized under the provisions of chapter 287, of the laws of 1891, in any city having a population of one hundred and fifty thousand and over, and having a board of fire and police commissioners, shall immediately upon the passage and publication of this act make report to the common council of said city of the condition of such pension fund, and any funds remaining in the possession or under the control of any such board of trustees, or of its treasurer, shall be transferred to the treasurer of such city and be by him turned into the general fund of such city, and thereupon such board of trustees shall cease to exist in such city. SECTION 8. The provisions of any act or law or ordinance now in force or effect so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Salaries of city officials. CHAPTER XVI. SALARIES. SECTION 1. Salaries shall be paid to the several and respective officers of the said city mentioned in this section, for all services during the time of their service, at the following rates per annum, to-wit: To the mayor four thousand dollars; To the city treasurer five thousand dollars; To the comptroller four thousand dollars; To the deputy comptroller twenty-two hundred dollars; To the city attorney four thousand dollars; To the assistant city attorney twenty-four hundred dollars. (Chapter 36, Laws of 1889.) To the city clerk two thousand five hundred dollars; To the deputy city clerk eighteen hundred dollars; To the tax commissioner twenty-five hundred dollars; (Chapter 323, Laws of 1889.) To the assessors each seven hundred and twenty dollars; (Chapter 489, Laws of 1887.) To the chief engineer of the fire department three thousand dollars. (Chapter 419, Laws of 1885.) To the first and second assistant engineers of the fire department eighteen hundred dollars; (Chapter 136, Laws of 1889.) To the third assistant engineer of the fire department fifteen hundred dollars; (Chapter 336, Laws of 1887.) To the assistant superintendent of fire alarm telegraph fifteen hundred dollars. (Chapter 136, Laws of 1889.) To the superintendent of machinery and apparatus fifteen hundred dollars; (Chapter 136, Laws of 1889.) To the secretary of the fire department twelve hundred. dollars; (Chapter 136, Laws of 1889.) To the chief operator of fire alarm telegraph eight hundred dollars; (Chapter 336, Laws of 1887.) To the assistant operators of fire alarm telegraph seven hundred dollars; (Chapter 336, Laws of 1887.) To the foreman of each company twelve hundred dollars; (Chapter 405, Laws of 1885.) To the first pipeman each nine hundred dollars; (Chapter 405, Laws of 1885.) To the firemen each eight hundred dollars; To the engineers of fire steamers each twelve hundred dollars; 16 |