Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-03-06

EO1ES.-IDlS acceptance iIiSt NC uicu
with, and recorded by the clerk Of the dis.
trict. 1t must be preserved in the Office of
the clerk, and also copied into the book
where the proceedings of district meetings
are recorded.
By the 9Th section of the act, any school
district is declared to be body Corporate
with the usual powers of a corporation for
public purposes by the name and style, for
Example of school district No. 5, Of the
town of Madison" By such name the
district is to be known in all its proceed
ings and by no other; and district officers,
who are the official agents of the district
corporation, must remember to use the
corporate mamie and style of the district,i.
all contracts entered into, by them, as such
agents, or they may make themselves per
|sonally liabls.
District Meetings.
The time Of the annual meeting in each
school district is fixed by law on the last
Monday of September in each year, at
two o'clock in the afternoon, but the hour
of the meeting may be changed by vote
of the district.
Special district meetings may be called
by the clerk, or in his absence by the di
rector or treasurer, on the written request
of any five legal voters of the distfict.--
In a subsequent section of the act, it is
made the duty Of the district clerk to give
at least six days notice of all annual and
special district meetings, by posting up
notices of the same in 70 4r or more public
places in the district. A similar notice
notice must also be given for an adjourned
district meeting, when the meeting shall
have been adjourned for a longer period
than one month.
The form of these notices will be given
under the provisions Of the act relating
to the duties Of the district clerk. b
No annual meeting shall be deemed H.
| legal for want of due notice, unless it shall
appear, that the district clerk has willfulIy
| and fraudulently omitted to give such no.
,ice according to the directions of the
act. - .o
1t is not apprehsnded that there will be
much difficulty in distinguishing between
pardonable omission, and one that is
wilfu and fraudulent -
The powers conferred upon the qualified
voters when legally assembled in district
meeting, are distinctly specified in the l1th
section of the act. It would seem from
the third subdivision Of section ii that the
power to elect district officers was limited
to the first meeting and the succeeding an
nual meetings, and that such officers could
not be elected at special meeting. But
by reference to the 18th section, it will be
pe- ceivei that if the time for holding an
annual meeting in any district for the cleo
ton of district officers, shall pass wi bout
such election being held, the clerk, or in
case of his absence, either the director or
treasurer last elected, within twenty days
after the time for holding such annual
meeting shall have passed, may notify a
special meeting for such election, in the
manner prescribed in the 9th section Of
the act. That is, the clerk, in such case,
or in his absence, the director or treasurer
may call special meeting for the election
Of officers, on the written request OF live le-
gal voters, by posting up the usual notices
IN the district, according to the provisions
of the goth section. ad IS
| But if such meeting shall not be notifiesi
| nv one of the district officers specified, with
| in twenty days after the time for the an
nual meeting has passed, then, the town
superintendent may proceed to call a as
trict meeting for the election Of officers Il
the manner prescribed in the lst and ID
sections Of the act.
At the first meeting in district, and
At the annual meetings thereafter, the
qualified voters have power to vote .ax
upon the taxable property # the district,
sufficient to build, hire, or purchase
school house; and to purchase or lease a
suitable site for the same.
But if special meeting is called fr
the purpose Of voting tax upon the proT-
erty Of the district, OF for selling the scho
house, or changing the site for the sare,
! the no.;co for e,ch meeting must be seryd