Wisconsin Code § 61.51

Auditing accounts
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(1) No account or demand
against the village shall be paid until it has been audited and allowed and an order drawn on the treasurer therefor. Every such
account shall be made out in items. After auditing, which, at the
option of the board, may be done by the village manager or such
other officer as may be designated, the board shall cause to be endorsed by the clerk, over the clerk’s hand on each account, the
words “allowed” or “disallowed,” as the fact is, adding the
amount allowed, if any, and specifying the items or parts of items
disallowed, if disallowed in part only. The minutes of the proceedings of the board, or a statement attached thereto, shall show
to whom and for what purpose every such account was allowed
and the amount. Every such account or demand allowed in whole
or in part shall be filed by the clerk, and those of each year consecutively numbered, and have endorsed the number of the order
on the treasurer issued in payment, and the clerk shall take a receipt thereon for such order.
(2) Payment of regular wages or salaries may be by payroll,
verified by the proper official, and filed in time for payment on
the regular pay day and such payments heretofore made are
validated.
(3) The fiscal year in each village shall be the calendar year.
(4) Section 893.80 shall be applicable to villages.

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