The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-05-21

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the first meeting in such dist net.
| Sec. A. In case such notes shall not be given or
the inhabitants of a district snail neglect or refuse
TO assemble or form a district meeting when SO no
titled, or in case any school district having been
formed 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 be given by the
town supervisors, and served in the manner pre-
scribed IN the preceding section.
Zee. 5. Whenever a district meeting shall be call
ed in tue manner prescribed in the preceding sec
items OF this chapter, it shall be the duty of the
| electors of the district to assemble at the time and
place mentioned in such notice.
Sec. 8. livery school district shall be deemed du-
~ organized, when any two of the officers elected
at the first legal meeting thereof shall have con-
scented to serve Ill the offices to which they have
been respectively elected, by a written acceptance
thereof, filed with the clerk and recorded by him;
and every school district shall be considered as les
gally organized after it shall have exercised the
franchises and privileges Of a district for the term
of two years.
Sec. 7, Every school district organized in pur-
suance Of this chapter, or which has been organized
under any previous law of the state or territory of
Wisconsin, shall be- 2 body corporate, and shall
possess the usual powers OF 4 corporation for public
purposes, by the name and style of school district
number - lsuch number as shall be designated
by the town supervisors In the formation thereot,l
OF - the lame Of the town OF towns in which
the district is situated, and in that name shall sue
and be sued, and be capable of contracting and
being contracted with, and of holding such real
aud personal estate as is authorized to be purches-
ed by the provisions of this chapter, and OF selling
the same.
Qualifications Of Foters.
Sec. 8. Every person shall be entitled to vote in
any school district meeting of this state, who is
qualified to vote at a general election for state and
county officers, and who shall have resided for the
last ten days in the district where he may offer to
vote.
Sec. 9. II any person Offering to vote at p school
district meeting shall be challenged as unqualified
by any legal voter in such district, the chairman
presiding at such meeting shall declare to the per
son challenged the qualifications of a voter, and If
such person shall declare that be is a voter, and If
such challenge shall not be Withdrawn, the chair
man shall tender him the following oath or affirm
atom you do solelanly awear Ior affirm, es the
case may be, THAT you have been an actqal resident
of this school district for the last ten days, and that
you are qualified according to law to vote at this
meeting" And every person taking such oath or
| Affirmation shall be to vote on allquestlons
proposed at SUCH nesting: but if the person shall
refuse to take such CATH or ahrmatlon, hiG vote
shall be rejected.
alteration OF Districts.
Sec. 10. Whenever the town supervisors shall
contemplate an alteration OF the boundaries of Il
school district, they shall give at least five days
notice in writing to the clerk OF the district or dis
tricts to be affected thereby, stating in such notice
the tilae u4G PLACE when and where they will be
present to hear end DECIDE ppon such proposed an
teration; and it shall be the, Cuty Of such CLERK or
clerks immediately to notify the other members OF
the board.
Sec. II. In all cases where an alteration of the
boundaries of a school district shall be made, tine
town superviSCYg shall, within three days thereafter
give notice thereof by aling copy OF the order SO
altering the same, with the towh'clerk, AID with
the clerk of the district or districts affected by such
a lteratioIij aud no alteration OF any school district,
made without the consent OF a majority of the dis
triet board endorsed on such order, shall take e>
tect until three months after NOTICE given as above
specifics; nor shall any alteration OF an organized
school district be made to take effect between the
first day of December in any one year, and the lst
day OF April following.
sec. j.. When u new district is formed, in whole
or IN part, trom one or more districts possessed of
a school house or entitled to other property, the
town supervisors, at the time of forming such new
district, shall ascertain and determine the proper
lion OF the value of the school house and other pro,
perty justly due to sUch new district.
Sec Is, Such proportion shall be ascertalned q
determined, according to tic value Of the taxable
property o. lie respective parts q fsuch former dis
trict at ihe time OF the division by tbs best evidence
within the reach OF the town supervisors; and such
amount Of any debt due from the former district,
which would have been Il charge upon the Lew,
hau il remained III The former district, shall be de-
Quoted from such prop rr!ion.
Sec. IA. The supervisors shall certify to the dis.
trict clerk Of The dist let retaining the school house
OF other property. the amount dScertalned by them
as the proportion to be paid to The new district, x
such amount shall be embodied il the statement of
taxes required by sec 81 of this chapter, to be
made by he district clerk to the town clerk, on the
18th VI 0uday IN November IN each year, and when
collected snail be paid 10 the treasurer of the new
district, 10 De applied towards procuring a school
house tor such district; aud the money SO paid 10
new district snail be allowed TO the credit of the
taxable property taken from the former district, in
reduction Of any tax that may be imposed on said
taxable property IN the new district tor the build
ing of II school house; pr0Ulded, that III case the
new district shall have raised a tax and erected or
provided tor itself a school house, before the former
district shall have raised and paid over to the treas
urer OF the new district the amount in this section
provided TO be raised and paid over, it shall be the
duty OF the treasurer OF the new district in whose
hands SAID amount SO PAID over may at any time
remain, to pay over on demand, the sum so paid to
hun; or his predecessor, by the former district, to
the individuals to whose credit the same would
have gone had said sum been raised and paid over
by the former district before the said school house
was erected or provided by the new district; and
should such treasurer refuse, on demand by any
party entitled thereto, to pay over to him his just
proportion of said amount, tine same may be cOl-
lected in a suit at law by said party, upon the Off
cial bond of such treasurer.
Sec. 10. Whenever it shall be necessary to form
a district from two or more adjoining towns, the
supervisors Of such adjoining towns shall meet to
gelher and form such district., and deliver the nos
tee OF formation to a taXaole lnhabltant of such
district. whose duty 1t shall be to serve such notice
as provided i'll the third section Of this chapter, and
any district SO formed may be altered or regulated
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. is. Whenever any district shall become dis
organized by the operation of the law in relation to
the alteration OF districts, the su pervisors shall take
charge OF the property belonging TO the district at
the time OF its REORGANIZATION, dispose of the same
by grant or otherwise, and apply the proceeds to
the discharge OF its debts, paying over the balance
II any, to the tTeasurers OF the districts to which
the Territory has been attached, i'll proportion to
the valuation of the property so attached to each,
as appears from the last assessment roll Of the
town
District Meetings..
Sec. II Tie annual meeting of each school
district shall be held on the last Monday of Sep
TENDER III each year. The hour of each meeting
shall be seven o'clock in the afternoon, unless
otherwise provided by Il vote of the district, duly
recorded, at the last previous annual meeting
pr0rtdtd, that at the annual meeting OF any school
! district beld utter the passage Of tins act,a ma jOr-
ity Of the electors OF said district, may determine
that the annual meeting OF such district shall be
held u pom the Monday ut August, IN each year;
said determination to take effect when a copy OF
the proceeding OF said annual meeting shall have
been fl ed with the town clerk OF the town i'll which
said district, or (u case of Joint district) i'll which
the schOo! house vi such district is situated, and
to remain in form until rescinded by the vote OF d
majority of the electors of said district the meet
me held in pursuance Of such determination to
be deemed the legal annual meeting of said dis
trict, the same as If held upon the last Monday OF
September in each year.
Sec. is. No annual meeting shall be deemed
illegal Tor want OF due notice, unless it shall ap>
pear that the omission 10 give notice was wilitul
and fraudulent.
Sec. 10, The inhabitants qualified by law to
vote at d school district meeting, when assembled
at the first and each annual meeting in their dis
trict shall have power
list. 70 appoint a chairman for the time be-
ing,
Ind. To adjourn from time TO time as occasion
may require.
Sd. 70 choose a director, treasurer and clerk.
4th. To designate q site Tor a district school
house.
9th. To vote such tax on the taxable property