Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1854-03-09
[BY AUTHORITY
Published Februory 50, 1854 I
AN ACT concerning School Districts.

AN ACT concerning School Districts.
The People ofthe State of Wisconsin, represented
Senate end assembly do enact foilosrs
Section 1. All taxes heretofore voted by any
school district pursuant to the provisions of chap
ter Of the revised statutes or of The act approx
ed March goth, 1883 entitled ian act TO amend
chapter nineteen of the revised statutes of this
state" hereby declared legal for all purposes
and at any time within three months after this act
shall take effect any warrant heretofore issued for
the collection of any such to the district treas
urer may be renewed for thirty days, and may
thereafter be again renewed with the consent of
the proper town superintendent the district
clerk may issue new warrant and tax list for the
collection thereof in cases where warrant may
have already been issued therefor, either TO the
district treasurer or town treasurer, on which the
taxes have not been fully collected, and in cases
where no warrant has been issued and at any tune
within three months after this shall take effect,
il shall be lawful for any school district, at any
special meeting legally called TO vote a tax for
any purpose authorized by law; and the same
proceedings shall be had upon all such warrants
ard to collect all such taxes mentioned in this sec
ton as are provided in said chapter nineteen, which
for that purpose is hereby revived and declared to
be in full force as the was at the date atore
said, any law to the contrary notwithstanding
$1,000
on, and as far as practicable correspond with, the
assessment roll or rolls of the town or towns in
which the district lies and which were equalized
last and next prior to the time when the original
warrant for the collection of such tax was issued
shall be issued.
Sec. 2. In all cases where warrant for the
collection of any such tax is mentioned III the
preceding section has been issued, and any person
or persons shall have paid or shall have had col
lected from his, her their property the whole or
any portion of the tax therein appearing as assess
ed against him, her. or them. upon any property
belonging to such person or persons. the amount
SO paid or collected shall be credited TO him. her
or them, by the treasurer of the school district
upon being requested by such person or persons,
and upon the production of proper evidence OF snch
payment. The affidavit receipt OF a former
treasurer personal knowledge OF the acting
treasurer of such payment, shall be good evidence
under the provisions of this section. credit
made upon request as herein before provided, shall
operate as and is hereby declared to be perpetual
bar to any and all actions heretofore which
may hereafter be commenced by the person or
persons thus credited, and the same may be pleaded
pas darien continuance, or otherwise, as the case
may require; and the same may be pleaded sing
y, or with any other proper plea to such action
or actions.
Sec g. Hereafter, the clerk of each school dis
trict shall on before the last Monday of Novem-
Der in each year, deliver to the town clerk of the
town in which the district rs situated certificate,
verified by his affidavit, showing the amount OF
the tax voted at the last preceding annual meeting,
and list of all persons and corporations liable to
school district tax therein; in case OF joint
district, he shall deliver TO the town clerk o. each
town IN which any part of the district Is situated
certificate so verified showing the proportion OF
the tax to be assessed in that part of the district
within such town, and the persons and corporations
liable TO a school district tax in that part OF the
district which proportion shall be ascertaIned
from the valuations contained in the last assess
ment rolls of the respective towns and TO enable
the district clerk to ascertain the same, the town
clerk of each such town shall on demand. at any
time after he has received the equazed assess
ment roll of his deliver to the district clerk
of any such joint district, certified statement OF
the valuation of real and personal property IN
that part of such district lying within his town,
as the same appears from SAID assessment roll
Sec 4. The town clerk shall assess such tax
the due proportion thereof upon the real and
personal property liable thereto placing the same
in a separate column in the next assessment roll
of his town. delivered to the town treasurer for col
lection whenever such certificate of the district
clerk shall be received by him in time therefor al
though after the last Monday of November. And
if for any such shall not be assessed in
the next assessment roll after the tax is voted, it
shall be assessed in that of the next succeeding
year The tax shall, in all respects, be collected
or returned delinquent like other taxes and when
collected, the money shall be paid over to the
town superintendent and by him to the district
treasurer, like other school monies.
Sec 5. After three months rom the passage
OF this act the town clerk shall not be required to
make out transcripts of the assessment roll for
school districts; and sections two three and four
of the act entitled 'An Act to amend chapter nine
teen of the Revised Statutes of this State ap
proved March %, 1853, are hereby repealed.
Sec. 6. This act shall be published in the
Weekly Argus and Democrat, printed at Madison
Immediately after its passage, and shall thereupor
take effect. The Secretary of State shall also
forthwith cause it to be published in each weekly
newspaper printed in this State, and shall audit
the accounts therefor provided in chapter one
hundred and four of the general statutes of 1853.
F. W. HORN,
Speaker of the Assembly.
J. T. LEWIS,
Lieut.. Gov, and President of Senate.
Approved, Feb. %, 1854.
VIM. A. BARSTOW.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
SEcRETARY's OFFICE.
l. ALEXANDER T. GRAY, Secretary of State
of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby certify that
the foregoing act has been compared with the
original enrolled act in this Office, and that it APP
pears to be a true copy thereof, and of the whole
of such original.
In witness whereof 1 have hereunto SET
my hand, and affixed the great seal OF
L. S. the State at the Capitol in Madison
this twenty -seventh day of February
A. d. 1854.
ALEXANDER T. GRAY,
Secretary of State.
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