The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-29


the same from such sale at any time within six
months after such notice by paying the sum for
which such land was Sold and all costs and PEN
o,s TOT OF on account OF nonpaylnent of the
moneys Tor which it was sold with interest to the
time of such payment to the state treasurer and all
sums so paid after satisfying the sum due the state
ana Tor interest and penalty thereon and costs and
charges shall be returned paid to the parties
TITLED thereto according to their interests in said
lands, and the title of the purchaser of any such
lanas shat not become absolute until the time for
such redemption shall have expired
Sec Z This act shall lake effect, and be in force
from ana after ITS passage and publication.
| Approved March 5, 1875. -
r. Published March %. 1851
! T CHAPTER 1913.
! An AoT to authorize the establishment and aid in
the maintenance of free high schools.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin, represented
in Senate and Assembly, dn enact as follows
Section l. Any town, incorporated village or city
IN this state, may establish and maintain not eX-
ceeding two free high schools whenever majority
OF the legal voters voting upon that question at any
| regular annual meeting thereof, or at any special
meeting legally called and held for that purpose,
| shall determine so to do. The vote upon the ques
| ton of establishing such high school schools,
snail be taken viva voce, or by ballot may be de-
termined by the proper authorities for calling and
conducting such annual meeting and the manner
| of taking such vote shall be specified in the no.
| tees OF such meeting Thereat such vote is to be
taken. Provided that whenever it is determined by
the notice thereof shall specify the hour of the day
at which such vote shall be taken. And provided,
further, That the electors of any town, or incor-
porated city or village, may, at the time appointed
to take such vote viva yece, order and determine
/ that such vote shall be taken by ballot and when
such order shall be thus made, the vote shall be
4 taken by ballot. The vote upon the question of
establishing high schools in towns. Incorporated
villages and cities shall be cansassed and deter
| mined in the same manner as now provided by
law for canyassing and determining votes upon
other questions relating to such municipalities and
special meetings for consideration of this matter
shall be called and held in the same manner now
! provided by law for calling and holding special
| meetings for other purposes
Sec92. Two or more adjoining towns may unite
in establishing and maintaining free high school
and the vote to thus unite shall be taken in each
town separately as hereinbefore provided So long
any town shall decline to avail itself of the provis-
ions OF this act any school district or two more
adjoining districts, whether located wholly in
or in different towns. may establish and maintain
free high school, and the vote upon the establish
ment OF such high school shall be taken in each
district separately, at an annual special meeting
| thereof, called and held in the manner now pro-
| yided by law for calling and holding annual or
| special school district meetings Provided, That
no more than two such free high schools shall be
| established IN any town. And provided further,
That whenever any school district districts in
cluded in towns uniting to estrblish and maintain
free high school, shall, by itself themselves,
| establish and maintain free high school in any
town where such school exists, such district shall
be exempt from liability to taxation tor the support
of the high schools maintained by the several towns
IN which such school district districts may be in
| cluded. ts4 .s e..-s t s
Sec. 3. Towns, cities and villages shall receive in
| trust and faithfully expend, donations and be-
quests made to aid in the maintenance of free high
schools and shall receive state aid in such cases.
the same extent and on the same conditions as if
such schools had been established and maintained
by taxation. Towns cities and villages school dis
tr1cts and counties, in case all the towns of any
| county unite in the establishment of one high
school shall have power to levy and collect taxes for
the establishment and maintenance of free high
schools IN the same manner they are now by law
authorized to levy and collect taxes for other pur-
poses to determine the length of time such free
high school shall be maintained during the year,
and the amount that shall be expended in their es-
| Enlistment, equipment and management: to au-
thorze the high school board hereinafter provided
for to locate the free high school permanently or
to provide that the terms of said high school be
held alternately in such school districts embraced
in the territory uniting in its support it may des-
ignate; to authorize the said high school board to
secure by purchase, lease, otherwise, the neces
Bary pulongs, furniture, apparatus and text books
for the use OF such schools to hire and contract
with properly qualified teachers; to apportion
equ1ably, the aggregate amount of taxes voted to
be raised for the support of such high school and
for that purpose to equaze the assessment of real
and personal property made by the different town
assessors, and determine the amount to be raised
by each town, village or school district uniting in
the support of free high school; and certify the
same to the town or village clerk whose duty is to
assess the tax upon the taxable property therein,
4. towns. or
village and town, school district or districts shall
determine to establish and maintain free high
school under the provisions Of this act the ilnme-
date supervision and management of such free
nigh school shall be vested in board known as the
high school board, which shall be COMPOSED of
three members chosen by a convention of the
district officers OF all the school districts
composing the high school district said con-
vention and election to be held at such time
and place as may be agreed upon bya majority of
the SAID school officers, notice Of which meeting
signed by said majority, or by person author
1zed by them 80 to do, shall be given to the clerk Of
each school district interested, whose duty it shall
be to notify the other members of the board of
which he Is q member. Provided, That when a
single school district shall establish high school in
accordance with the provisions of this act the dis
trct board of said district shall constitute the hia
school board The term of Office of the members
OF the nigh school board shall be three years, ex-
cept that at the first election of members of such
board, they shall be elected respectively for one
TWO ana three years. Vacancies occurring in the
board shall be filled in the same manner as now
provided by law for filling vacancies in school dis
trict boards. Provided, That when two or more
towns unite TO form high school district the
county superintendent of the county in which the
high school is located shall fill any vacancy that
may nave existed Tor more than ten DAYS
Sec. 5. Whenever any incorporated citv in which
the management OF its schools is committed to
board of education, shall determine to establish
and maintain free high school, under the provis-
ions of this act, the immediate supervision and
management of such high school shall be vested in
such board of education, and such board shall have
the same power and authority in relation to such
high school as is vested in high school boards Gre
ated by this act in other places.
Sec. 6. The high school board shall choose from
their own number president and secretary but
when all the members of the board shall be agreed
thereto, the secretary chosen may be person not
member of said board. When the high school dis
trlct shall comprise more than single school dis
trct, the treasurer of the high school board sball
not be member thereof, but the treasurer of the
town wherein tho high school is located shall he e
offciO the treasurer of the high school board
Sec. 2! The high school boards created by this
act are hereby invested with the same rover and
authority in connection with the high schools mere
IN authorized to be established as are now possess
ed by district boards in connection with the publie
schools of the state, and the duties of such hicb
school boards and the officers thereof shall he tHe
same as are now imposed by law upon said school
district boards and the officers thereof so far az t
same are applicable and they shall be subject to the
same provisions of law fer neglect OF nalfeasanca
with such restrictions and additions as are pro-
vided for in this act
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of the high school
boards, herein provided for annually, on or before
the second Monday in July, in all cases where two
or more towns, or two or school districts con-
stute the territory uniting in the support of free
hlgn school, or where single town or school dis
trlct empowers them so to do, or where no other
provision is made for that purpose, to hold meet
ing and determine upon the amount necessary to
be raised by tax for the support of such high school
Tor the year; and If such school is maintained by
portions of more than one town, to determine what
proportion of such amount shall be raised in that
part Of such high school district situated in each
town; and when such determination is made the
clerk of said high school board shall certify to the
town clerks of the towns wherein such territory is
situated, the amount to be raised in their several
towns respectively, designating by high school dis
tr1cts the taxable property upon which such amount
il to be assessed; and the SAID town clerks shall
assess, and the town treasurer shall collect the
same in the as school district taxes
are now assessed and collected; and such taxes
when collected, shall be paid upon demand to the
treasurer of the high school board entitled to re-
ceye the same, ana by him be paid out upon orders
countersigned by the president thereof in pursu-
ance of the vote of the laid high school board ard
in no other manner.