The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1905-07-14
INDEPEADN NJ DISTRICT
Prospects are bat One Will be
Form in Ely.
To Comprise Q ~ the City Limits
of We Benefit.

The discussion IS to the formation
of an independenE school district to
comprise the city of Ely has been
general this weelSand the pros and
cons have been tilfeshed quite sufic-
iently. What VIII become of the
proposition is as ret hard to deter
mine but from theopinions given the
prospects are thatthe matter of form
ing an Independents district will ma
terialize.
Some are of theopinion that an in
dependent district composed Of the
city would be to expensive as the cut
ting loose from the outside townships
would raise the school taxes for the
city much higher than at present.
Others figure tina the cutting loose
from the township of Morse and sew
eral other TOWNSHIPS at present COM
prised in DistricfNo. II would be Of
considerable ben3it as the outside
districts are getting more expensive
every year, while taxable improve
ments are not Increasing in proper
tion to the expenS IS.
There probably Pill be some discus
sion of the maEer at the annual
meeting Saturday evening. The laws
regarding the for paation of an indie
pendent district &e given below and
are as follows:
il Any city, town school district or
any two or mo- school districts
where each consiS& in whole or in part
of portions Of theSame incorporated
city, now or hereM ter organized, may
be organized intoHnd established as
an independent So ool district In the
manner and with tle' powers herein
/ after specified; MDvided first, that
i this title shall nokhpply to any town
ship or school dis let containing less
than five hundred inhabitants unless
said school distriQ or school districts
consist in whole q in part of one in
corporated city, tNtlsor village; pro-
j yided. seaond. .--tiAs the territorial
limits OF no inderefdent school dist
riot hereafter organized shall exceed
six miles square: except that all the
territory within the limits of any city
| in the state may be iRclnded in and
constitute one school district.
In order to such organization, writ
ten notices shall be posted in three of
the most public placesein the contem-
plated district, signed by at least six
| resident freeholders OF the same, re-
questing the qualified electors of said
district to assemble oRa specified day,
at some suitable placeiin said district,
fe, be named in said notices, then and
there to vote by ballot for or against
organization underthis chapter, which
notices shall be posted at least ten
days next prior to said meeting.
The electors assembled at said time
and place, shall proceed to appoint a
chairman, assistant chairman and,
clerk, who shall be judges of said ell
ection. The electors in favor of orr
ganization under this chapter for said
district, shall write upon their bal
lots. .Independent district-Y es;"
and those opposed thereto, ''Inde
pendent district-No.9
In case majority OF votes are cast
in favor of organization under this
provision for indepenHent districts,
the electors of said district shall as
semble at the place wtere such votes
were cast within twenty days there
after, of which at least ten days
previous notice shall be given by said
chairman and clerk the manner afore-
said, and shall then and there choose
| by ballot six directors, who shall hold
their Office until their successors are
elected and qualified las hereinafter
provided: on the Third Saturday in
July. occurring more than twenty
DAYS after the organization of such
district. there shall be chosen in the
same manner six directors, two of
whom shall serve for one year, two for
two years, and two for three years.
and until their successors are elected
and qualified, the timethat each shall
serve to be designatedson the ballot;
and annually thereafter, on the third
Saturdayin July, there shall be chosen
two directors, whose terms of office
shall be three years, and until their
successors are elected and qualified.
Said directors and their successors
in office, shall be body corporate by
the name of 1.-THE board Of education
of. $1,000" 1.-THE name of the city,
town, village or township, and as
such, and by such name, shall have
perpetual succession, and shall receive
all moneys and other property belong
ing to or accruing to said district, or
to said city, town, village or town
ship, or any part of the same, for the
use or benefit of the public schools
therein, and succeed to all rights and
be subject to all tile liabilities of the
same. and the said bOaf1f shall be cap
able of contracting AID being con-.
tracted with, suing aud being sued,
and shall also be capable OF receiving
any gift, grant, bequest or devise made
for the use of the public schools in
said city, town, village. township or
district under any law OF this state
for the use of the public.schoels there
in, land the samel shall be paid TO tile
treasurer of said board of education.
Said board shall, within ten days
after their election as aforesaid, and
annually thereafter, on the tirstSatnr-.
day in August, meet and organize by
I