Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-08-13
No. 81 A Published Nav G. 1909
CHAPTER 80. LAWS OF 1909

AN ACT to amend sections 775a, 775b,
7T5c, 775d and T75e, of the statutes, and
to create section 775f of the statutes. re-
lating to the organization of new towns.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
Section l.: Sections 775a. 775b, rise,
775d and 775e Of the :. statutes are amended
government township situated within
county f0mns a ana being part Of any town or
least fifty resident electors at least twenty
live Of whom are freeholders or homestead
ers, and an assessed valuation of at least
one hundred thousand dollars according to
the last preceding assessment, may be or
gained into town upon compliance with
the following three sections. No person
shall be deemed 8 resident elector within
the meaning of this act unless he shall
have resided within such territory for at
least one year prior to the date of the YER
itcation Of the petition prescribed by sec
Section 775b. petition signed by
majority Of the resident electors and ma
steaders of the territory proposed to be SO
organized shall be presented to the circuit
court, or a judge thereof. of the county in
which such territory is located such petit
ton shall accurately describe such terri
tory, naming the town or towns of which it
is a part; shall coptain the names of the
resident electors; the assessed valuation Of
such territory, and the proposed name of
the new town, that the remaining territory
in such, town is not less than thirty-six
square miles in extent, and has not less
than fifty resident electors and an assessed
valuation of not less than one hundred
thousand dollars according to the last pre-
at least three signers. The court or such
judge shall thereupon make an
order fixing the time and place for the
hearing of said petition before the circuit
court Of such county and direc-
ting that copy Of such petition ion a and or r.
the town or towns of which such territory
is part at least fifteen days before the
herring and that notice of such
hearing be published once week for three
weeks in a newspaper designated as most
likely to give notice to the people of the
territory proposed to be so organized.
of such territory or any town Of WHICH
suct> territory is a part may appeal at the
hearing Of such petition and the matter
shall be tried as an issue Of fact by the
court. No formal answer to thet petition
need be filed. The court may adjourn the
hearing from time to time and refer any
deemed compulsory reference and the fees
and expenses of the referee shall be fixed
and paid in the manner provided in section
2930 of the statutes by the town board or
the new town and the town board Of the old
town. $50
ings of fact at the close Of such hearing
and if it shall appear that the
allegations of the petition are true and all
ter have been substantially complied with
shall enter an order creating
such territory into town, Civ
ing it the name proposed in the petition
and providing for the place of holding the
first annual meeting provided that to the
shall not be less than thirty-slx
square miles in extent and shall have not
less than fifty resident electors and an as
sessed valuation of not less than one hun
dred thousand dollars according to the last
Section 775e. The credits and Indebted
ness as between the towns so created and
the town or towns Of which it was formerly
a part shall be apportioned according to the
- provisions Of section 672.
Section 2. There Is added to the stat
utes q new section to read: Section 775f.
Whenever the remaining territory of any
town out Of which a new town Is organized etL
BY the organization of the new town, that
part thereof with the least number Of resi- 81
dent electors shall be attached to and be-
come a part of the new town.
Section 8. This act shall take erect ana
be in force from and after Its passage and
publication.
Approved May s, 1909.