Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-04-08

r,.n.onts of the state of Wisconsin, represented
IN senate and assembly, do enact az Ioliows:
ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
s.;on l. The board OF supervisors in each town
8 ;, this state shall have power to form and alter
school districts ia the manner set for
Sec 2 The formation of school district shall
he nv written order of the board of supervisors,
describing the territory embraced in such district
yhich order shall be filed with the ;c~p clerk, and
twenty DAYS thereafter, to deliver to table IN
babitant of the district notice in writing, DE,
scribipg its boundaries and appointing q unie auo
place for the first district meeting =,
60 . Tha -snnervisors shall, such notice, d.
rect such inhabitant TO notify every 4ue 1o.el
of tSe district either personally or oy ieafiug
% ..e u'st, ~ his place residence, Of the
time and Mace OF such meeting, at ieles i've oays
before the time apponte,a 20 notify ta vntars
surb ais.r;et agreeably % the requirements OF
sal notice and endorse ehelepn a return contain,
inc tha nanas OF the persons by him notified and
- s -. ard return shall be recorded part
of rhe record OF the first meeting IN such district
II case such notice shall not be gwen,
- Infants of district shall elect
fuss To assemble form district meeting when SO
notified or in any school district having been
formad or organized shall afterwards be dissolved,
so that no competent authority shall exist therein
TO call a special district meeting in the manner
hereinafter provided, notice shall De gwen by the
town SUPERVISORS, and served In the manner pre-
scrbed in the preceding section.
Sec. 5, Whenever district meeting snail De
called in the manner prescribed IN the preceding
sections of this chapter it shaisbe the duty OF the
electors cf ts district to assemble at the time ana
sec. 6. Every school district shall be desmed
duly organized when any two OF the ohcers elected
at the fret legal meeting thereof sha. have con-
sented to serve in the offices to winch they have
been respectively elected, by written acceptance
thereof, hled with the clerk and recorded by him.
every school district shall be considered as le
gaIIy organized, after it shall have exercised the
franchises and privileges of district fer the term
Sec. Z. Every school district organized in pur-
susnce of this chapter, or which has been organ
lied under any previous law OF the state or terrto
~ ~ N al a a a
shall possess the usual powers OF corporation for
public purposes, by the name and style of school
district number - (such number as shall be
designated by the town supervisors the formation
thereby of - (ths name OF the town or towns in
which the district is stuated) and in that name
shall sue and be sued, and be capable of contract
ang and being contracted with, ana OF hoIdlng such
real and personal estate as is authorized to be pur
chased by the provisions OF this chapter, and of
ling the same.
QUALIFICATIONS OF VOTERS
Sec g. Every person shall be entitled to vote
in any scnool district meeting OF this state who
quaihed 10 vote at general election for and
county officers, and who shall have resided for the
last days in the district where he may offer to
vote. -
Sec. g. II any person Offering to vote at a school
district meeting shall be challenged unqualified
BY any legal voter in such district, tho Chairman
presiding at such meeting shals deelars the per
ON challenged the qualifications of a voter, and
II such person shall declare that be is voter,
If such chs lenge shall not be withdrawn, tbs
chairman shall tender him the following oath or
affirmation: az You do oIeLlnly swear Cor affirm,
he case may Del that you nave been an actual
idsnt of this school district for the last days.
and that you qualified according to law to vote
at this meeting" And every person taking such
oath or Affirmation, shall be permitted to vote all
questions proposed at such citing; but If the per-
son shall refuse to take such oath Affirmation his
vote shall be rejected.
ALTERATION DISTRICTS.
sec. TO- Whenever the town supervisors shall
contemplate an alteration o: the boundaries of a
school district, they shall give at least five days'
in writing the clerk of tire district or dis
n no End arAhv Gta
the time and place when and where they will be
present to hear and decide upon such proposed
alterationj and it shall be the duty of such clerk
% clerks immediately 20 notify the other members
OF the board
Sec. II. In all where alteration of the
boundaries OF school district shall lie made, tho
towns SHALL within thrse thereafter
give notice thereof, by filing copy of :he order so
altering the same, with the town clerk, and with
the clerk of the district districts affected by such
alteration; and alteration OF any district
INSIDE without The consent of the majority of the
district board endorsed on such order shall take
effect until three months after notice given as
above specified; nor shall any alteration Of an
organized school district be made TO take effect
between the first day of December in any year,
and the first day of April following.
Sec l.. When new district is formed. in whole
or in part, from more districts possessed
school hou.e or entitled to other property, the
town supervisors, at the time OF forming such new
district, shall ascertain and determine the proper
ton OF the value of tue school house aud other
property justly due TO such new district
Sec. H. Such proportion shall be aseertaiued
and determined, according to the value of the tax
sbie property OF the respective parts such former
district at the time of the division by the evil
dence within the reach of the town supervisors
and such amount CT any debt due from the former
district which would tase been a charge upon the
new, had it remained in the former district shall be
deducted from such proportion.
Sec. Ii The supervisors shall certify to the dis
trict clerk of the district retaining the school house
other property, the amount ascertained by them
as the proportion 70 be paid TO the district and
such amount shall be embodied in the statement OF
taxes required BY section sxtytwo of this chapter,
20 be made by the district clerk the town clerk
on the fourth Monday in November in each year,
and when collected shall be paid to the treasurer of
ths district, 70 be applied towards procuring 8
school house for such district and the money so
paid the d.tr shall be allowed to the credit
Of the taxable property taken from the former dis
rriCt, in reduction OF any that may be imposed
said taxable property in the new district for the
building OF a school house D~5rided, that in case
the district shall have raised and erected
provided for itself school house, before the
former district shall have raised and paid to
the Of the district the amount in this
provided to be raised aud paid over shall
be ths duty OF the treasurer OF the district, in
whose hands said amount so PAID over may at any
time remain, 10 pay over, demand, the so
paid him. his predecessor by the former district,
TO the individuals to whose credit the same would
have gone had said been raised and paid over
by the district before the said school house
erected provided by the new district and
should such treasurer refuse, demand by any
party entitled thereto, to pay him his just
proportion of said amount, the may be col
lected IN suit at law by said party, upon the
Official bond Of such treasurer
Sec. 10. Whenever it shall be necessary to form
n towns.
supervisors OF such adjoining towns shall meet
gether and form such district, and deliver the
tie of formation to taxable inhsbitant of such
district. whose duty il shall be TO such notice
provided in the third section of this chapter
any district formed be alt cred reg
by the joint action of the supervisors OF all the
towns forming such districts. in the same manner
that other districts are altered and regulated.
Sec IL. Whenever any district shall become
dlsorganzed by the operation of the law in relation
70 the alteration of districts, the supervisors sha
take charge OF the property belonging the dis
trict at the time Of its d}sorganiZation dispose
the same by grant OF otherwise, and apply the pro
eeeds TO the discharge Of its debts paying over the
balance, if any, 10 the treasurers OF the districts t.
which the territory has been attached, in propor-
zion to che valuation of the property so attached
to each, aPpetrs from the last ssulent roll
of the town.
DISTRICT MEETINGS.
Sec. Il. The annual meeting OF each school
district shall be held the last Monday of Sep
ember in each year. The hour of such meeting
shall be o'clock in the afternoon unl 9th
erwis- provided by vote of the district. duly re-
corded, :he last previous annual meeting: pro-
uide2, that at the annual meeting of a2y school
district held after the passage OF this act u MAORI
ty Of the electors of said district, may determine
that the annual meeting of such district shsll be
held upon the last Monday Of Aug ust, in each year.
said determination take effect VIII = copy
proceedings OF said ual msetiE. shall have be
1led wi tn the clerk of the town in which said
district, Of joint distriet) in which the
school house oIsuch district IS situated aud
main in force until rescinded BY the vote of