Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-06-08
Laws Of Wisconsin.
Fra .get relating TO Common schools.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate aud assembly, do enact as folloics
Districts.

oecuon L. whenever a school district shall be
formed IN any town, it shall be the duty of the
town superintendent, within twenty days thereafter
to prepare notice in writing of the formation of
such district, describing its boundaries and an
pointing time and place for the first district meet
ing and to deliver such notice TO taxable nllab-
liant of the district
Sec. 2. The town superintendent shall in such
notice, direct such lnhabitant to notify every quail
flied voter of the district either personally or bv
leaving a written notice at his place of residence
OF the time and place of such meeting ar least five
days before the time appointed therefor and it
shall be the duty OF such nhabitant TO notify the
voters Of such district, agreeably to the REQUIRE
ment OF said notice, and endorse thereon return
containing the names of the persons by him mott
fed and said notice and return shall be recorded
as part of the record of the first meeting in such
district
Sec g. In such notice shall not be given
or the inhabitants of the district shall refuse or
neglect to assemble, or form district meeting,
when SO notified; or in case any school district
having been formed and organized shall afterwards
bd dissolved, that competent authority shall
exist therein to call special district meeting in
the manner hereinafter provided, notice shall be
given by the town superintendent. and served in
the manner prescribed in the preceding section
! Sec. 4. Whenever district meeting shall be
called in the manner prescribed In the preceding
sections OF this chapter 1t shall be the duty OF the
electors of the district to assemble at the time and
place mentioned in such notice
Sec 5. Every male inhabitant twent y-one wears
of age and upward, who shall reside in any school
district at the time OF holding any district meeting
therein, shall be entitled to vote at such meeting.
| Sec. If any person offering to vote at d school
district meeting, shall be challenged unqualified
by any legal voter in such district, the chairman
presiding at such meeting shall declare to the per-
son challenged the qualifications of voter, and if
such person shall declare that he is voter, and if
such challenge shall not be withdrawn, the chair
man shall tender him the following oath or affir
nation You do solenniy swear or affirm, that
you an actual resident of this school district
and that you qualified according TO law to vote
at this meeting" Any person taking such oath
or affirmation shall be permitted TO vote on all
questions proposed at such meeting; but if any
person shall refuse TO take such oath affirmation,
| his vote shall be rejected.
See. 7. Every school district shall be deemed
daily organized, when any two of the officers elect
! ed at the first legal meeting thereof, shall have
| consented to serve for the offices to which they
have been respectively elected by written accept
ance thereof filed with and recorded by the clerk
and every school district shall be considered as le
gaIly organized after il shall have exercised the
franchises and privileges of district for the term
of two years
Sec S. Every school district organized in pursJ-
ance of this chapter, or which has been organized
under any previous law of the state, territoy of
! Wisconsin, shall be a body corporate, and shall
possess the usual powers Of a corporation for pub
lie purposes. by the name and stvle Of School
District number (sdch number as shall be desgna-
ted by the town superintendent IN the formation
thereby of the name of the town or towns in
which the district is stuae) and in that shall
sue and be sued and be capable of contracting and
being contracted with, and OF holding such real
and personal estate as is authorized to be purcha
sed by the prov sions of this chapter and of selling
the same.
Sec. Q. The annual meeting of such school dis
trict shall be held on the last Monday of Septem-
Der in each year the hour of such meeting shall
be two o clock in the afternoon, unless otherwise
provided by the district and special district meet
ngs may be called by the clerk, or in his absense
bv the director or treasurer the written request
Of any five legal voters of the district.
Sec 10. No annual meeting shall be deemed
Illegal for want of due notice, unless it shall appear
that the omission to give such notice was wilful
and fraudulent
Sec IL The inhabitants qualified by law to
vote at school district meeting, when assembled
at the first meeting in their district, or when law
fully assembled at any other district meeting, shall
have power
LIST. To appoint chairman for the time being;
2d. To adjourn from time to time, as occasion
may require;
Sd To choose director, treasurer and clerk,
at their first, and each annual meeting;
4th To designate site for district school house;
9Th. To vote such tax on the taxable proper
ty of the district the meeting shall deem suff-
Gent to purchase lease asutabe site for school
house, and 10 build, hire or purchase such school
house, and furnish the same with the necessary fu-
ell and appendages;
9Th To vote tax on the taxable property of
the district Of such sum the meeting shall deem
proper, for the pay of teachers wages IN the
district;
7th To authorize and direct the sale of any
school house, site or other property belonging to
the district, when the shall be no longer need
full for the use of the district.
Sth To impose such tax as may be necessary
to discharge any debts liabilities of the district
lawfully Incurred;
9Th To vote tax not exceeding twenty dol
lars ia any one year, for the purchase of globes
blackboards, outline maps; or any other appara-
tus for illustrating the principles of agriculture
chemistry, or the mechanic arts;
! 10Th To give such direction, and make such
provision as may be deemed necessary, IN relation
to the prosecution defense of any salt or pro
ceeding IN which the district may be party OF
interested
18th. To alter, repeal, and modify their pro-
ceedings from time to time as occasion may require
!, 18th. No sale of any school house shall be au
tboriZed or the site of the same changed, or any
: tax voted at any special meeting unless the notice
: for such meeting shall be served in the same man
ner as is provided for the first meeting of dis
: trict after its organization.
Sec. u. Whenever the time for holding an an
nual meeting in any district for the election of dis
trct officers shall pass without such election being
held the clerk, or in Of his absence, either tht
director or treasurer last elected, within twenty
It days after the time of holding such meeting shall
have passed, may notify special meeting for sucf
e election in the prescribed in the 10th sec
n ton OF this chapters but ifsach meeting shall no
be notified within twenty days as aforesaid, tn
town superintendent may order any taxable inhab
liant of such district to notify such meeting in tn
:. manner provided in this chapter for the formation
D cf new district; ard the officers chosen at sue
special meeting shall hold their Offices until tn