Local History Index: Government Index:
Sewer History in Waukesha County and Sussex
Transcribed and edited by Michael R. Reilly
December 20, 2005 Updated 12/20/2005
The Sewerage Bill
Some long-eared Waukesha people have discovered , as usual, a
deep-laid plan in the Assembly bill empowering villages to arrange for
constructing sewers, to enable the trustees of such villages to raise money for
the construction without a previous vote of the village electors. In
fact the bill is just as the Freeman informed its readers several week
ago.
Under its provisions Village Boards can only raise money by vote of the citizens first had at an election for that purpose. It simply gives the people of village the right to provide for getting rid of filth in such manner as they may choose subject to certain limitations, and permits the Boards to carry out the will of their constituents. This is all there is of the matter, and if the bill is passed the people of Waukesha can do just as they please about building sewers under it. Source: Waukesha Freeman, March 7, 1889, page 1.