Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-03-13
LAW OF WISCONSIN.
AN ACT concerning School Districts.
+ Published February %, 1854


AN ACT concerning School Districts
The People Of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and .dssen big, do enact as fol-
IoWS:
Section /. All taxes heretofore voted by
any school district, pursuant to the provisions
Of chapter 19 Of the revised statutes, or OF the
act approved March 29th, 1853, entitled ian
act to amend chapter nineteen of the revised
statutes Of this state" are hereby declared le-
gal for all purposes; and at any time WITHIN
three months after this act shall take effect, a.
nv ant heretofore issued for the collection
Of any such tax to the district treasurer may
be renewed for thirty days, and may thereafter
be again renewed, with the consent OF the pro-
per town superintendent; or the district clerk
NAV 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 L.
sued: and at any time within three months al
ter this act shall take effect, it 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 and to col
lect all such taxes mentioned in this section a:
are provided in said chapter nineteen, which
for that purpose is hereby revived and deciar-
ed to be in full force as the same was at the
date aforesaid, any law to the contrary not
withstaEding. The tax list in every such case
shall be based upon, 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 prio
to the time when the original warrant for tn
collection of such tax was issued, or shall b.
Issued.
Sec. 2. In all cases where warrant TO
the collection of any such tax as is mentioned
in the preceding section has been issued, anC
any person or persons shall have paid, or shall
have collected from his, her or their property
the whole or any portion Of the tax therein
appearing as assessed against him, her, Of
them, or upon any property belonging to such
person or persons, the amount so paid or col
lected shall be credited to him, her or them
by the treasurer of the school district upor
being requested by such person or persons
and upon the production of proper evidence Of
such payment. The affidavit or receipt of {
former treasurer or personal knowledge of tht
acting treasurer Of such payment, shall b
good evidence under the provisions of this sec
ton. A credit made upon request as hereir
before provided, shall operate as and is hereby
declared to be perpetual bar TO any and al
actions heretofore or which may hereafter bC
commenced by the person or persons thus
credited, and the same may be pleaded pui,
dariea continuance, or otherwise, as the case
may require; and the same may be pleaded
singly, or with any other proper plea to such
action or actions,
Sec. 3, Hereafter, the clerk Of each schoo
district shall on or before the last Monday o.
November III each year, deliver TO the towr
clerk of the town in which the district is sit
uated 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 dis
trict tax therein; or in case of JOINT district,
he shall deliver 20 the town clerk Of each town
in which any part of the district is situated a
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 school district tax in
that part of the district, which proportion
shall be ascertained from the valuations con-
tanned in the last assessment rolls of the re-
spectlve towns /; and to enable the district clerk
to ascertain the same, the town clerk of each
such town shall on demand, at any time a fter
he has received the equalizetl assessment roll
Of his town deliver to the district clerk of
any such Joint district, certified state
ment of the valuation of real and person
al property in that part of such district ly-
from said assessment roll
Sec. A. The town clerk shall assess such
tax, or the due proportion thereof, upon the
real and personal property liable thereto, pla-
eng the same in separate column in the next
assessment roll of his town, delivered to the
town treasurer for collection whenever such
certificate of the district clerk shall be re-
ceived by him in time therefor, although after
the last Monday of November. And il for a.
ny reason such tax shall not be assessed in the
next assessment roll after the tax is voted, it
shall be assessed in that of the next succeed
ing year. The tax shall, in all respects, be
collected or returned delinquent like other tax
es, and when collected the money shall be paid
over to the town superintendent and by him to
the district treasurer, like other school mon
les.
Sec. 5. After three months from the pas
sage of this act, the town clerk shall not be
required to make out transcripts of the assess
ment roll for school districts; and sections
two, three and four Of the act entitled :sAn
Act to amend chapter nineteen of the Revised
Statutes Of this State" approved March 80,
1853, are hereby repealed.
Sec. =. This act shall be published in the
Weekly Argus and Democrat, printed at Mad
ison, Immediately after its passage, and shall
thereupon take effect. The secretary of state
shall also forthwith cause 1t to be published in
each weekly newspaper printed in this state.
and shall audit the accounts therefor as provi-
ded in chapter one hundred and four OF the
general statutes Of 1853.
F. w. HORN,