The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-07-29
No. SO, AL Published June 10, 1909.
CHAPTER 1913, LAWS OF 1909.

No. 81 u.s. es' Laws !a Of Is lsos 5s0'
AN ACT to create sections 495--1 to 49,
Is inclusive Of the a's.. statutes relating to
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, rep,
resented in Senate and Assembly 90
s seefion as '0 Tbsre is added to the stat
utes nineteen new sections to read Sec
ton 495-1. With the advice and consent
Of the state superintendent free high
school to be known as union free high
school may be established and maintained
in any tract of contiguous territory with
an area of not less than thirty,six square
ton lines or by lines bounding in part an
existing free high school district, or in
cases where impossible streams, lakes or
swamps render 1t impracticable 10 follow
section lines such natural boundaries may
be substituted.
No such union free high school district
at least twenty-five persons of school age
resident of such tract of territory give
evidence through examination. or otherwise.
satisfactory to the state superintendent that
they are prepared to begin high school
course.
Section 495-2. In case the tract of ter
ritory is entirely included In one town and
daries an Incorporated village, it Is hereby
made the duty Of the town board of that
town to submit the question of establish
voters Of such tract upon filing with the
chairman of said town board a petition
praying for such submission for election.
Said petition shall describe the boundaries
of the proposed union free high school dis
trict and shall be signed by at least one
fifth of the persons resident therein and
qualified to vote at any school district meet
ing. The chairman shall within ten days
after the receipt Of the petition notify the
clerk of his town, and the clerk shall cause
to be given by posting at least six copies
thereof In at least six different public places
in such tract Of territory, or by publishing
therein once each week for two weeks i'm
mediately prior to the time set for holding
the election. The election shall be con-
Quoted and the vote canvassed according
to the statutes for conducting town meet
Section 1865. In case the said tract
of territory shall lie In two or more towns
petition may be presented to the chairman
of any one Of the town boards of super
visors Of such towns, and this s, chairman a. nan
petition, notify the other chairman or chair,
men as the case may be, of the receipt or
the petition and shall set date tS. for rn meet
terested for the purpose of fixing time
and place for holding. such union free high
school election; and 1T shall be the ofiicial
duty of said chairman to meet on said date
and fix upon the time and place for holding
such election. If any chairman Is unable
to attend he shall delegate one of the other
this meeting to act in his place. The cleo
ton shall be noticed and conducted for the
entire tract of territory which Is to be in
school district by the town board of the
town in which the election Is held and in
the manner provided for above in the case
where all the territory is included in one
town.
Section 495--4. In case the tract of
territory which it is proposed to form into
a union free high school district shall con-
A11 fIan aAftf
may be presented to any town chairman as
village. 1t shall then be the duty of the
to notify each chairman Cor the village
president) of the receipt of such petition
and to fix a time and place for meeting
a day for holding the election. The cleo
tion for the village shall be held in the
village on the same day the election for
election for the territory lying outside the
village and which it Is proposed to include
in the union free high school district may
yenient place agreed upon and designated
in the notice. The election for the village
shall be noticed and conducted and the
votes canvassed in the manner provided by
statute for conducting village elections and
the election for that territory lying out
side the village limits and which it is pro-
p seseol district shall be noticed and con-
Quoted and the votes canvassed In the man
ner provided by statute for noticing and
conducting town elections. II this outlying
territory comprises parts of two or more
towns the supervisors at the meeting re-
ferred to above shall designate the town
the officers of which shall notice, control
and direct such election.
Section 1876. In all cases the vote
shall be by ballot, those ballots in favor
being written or printed ''for the union free
high school," those opposed against the
union free high schools and the question
shall not be adopted unless majority of
ritory outside of the village and a. ma
jority Of the electors voting In the village