The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-15

superintendent by the clerk Of each munici-
pality interested, such certificate to he filed
with the state superintendent within six
days after the election, and such tract of
territory shall upon approval of the state
superintendent constitute a union free high
school district.
Section ia5-7 If an existing free high
school district is Included In the tract or
territory embraced in the proposed union
free high school district, the formation of
the union free high school district and the
to the provisions of this net shall annuI
the organization of the existing free high
school district
Section 1875. The officers of such high
school district shall be director, treasui err,
and clerk, who shall have the same au-
thority, be charged with the same duties
and be under the same liabilities as like
officers OF other free high school districts.
The term Of each shall be three years, be-
ginning with the annual union free high
school district meeting held on the third
Monday IN March, and each officer elected
shall continue IN office until his successor
shall have been chosen; provided that at
the first election the clerk shall be chosen
for one year, the treasurer for two years.
and the. director for three years, and all of
said officers may be chosen at the same
election at which the question of establish
ing union free high school is submitted
In such cases separate ballot box shall
be provided for the election of officers,
and plurality of the votes cast shall be
village shall be included in the proposed
union free high school district the officers
Of the election in the outside territory shall
meet at once after the polls are closed, in
the Office of the village clerk and the votes
for sad officers in the outside territory and
in the village shall be counted as a joint
vote, and plurality of the votes cast shall
be sufficient to elect.
The time until the first annual meeting
shall be counted the first year in de-
termining the term OF Office. Thereafter
officers shall be elected annually In place
Of those whose terms expire at the annual
meeting Of such union free high school dis
trict.
Section 495-9 The annual union free
high school district meeting for the cleo
business shall be held on the third Wednes-
day In March, unless that be legal holt
day, In which case 1t shall be held the
next day.
The election OF district officers shall be
held in some convenient room in the union
free high school building, lie there be such
building and If not, then in some other
convenient room determined upon by the
board and specified in the notice. If the
notice does not SO specify it shall be I'M
derstood that the building in which the
last annual meeting Yves held shall be the
building designated
The election of officers shall be by bal
lot and suitable ballot boxes shall be pro-
vided therefor. The polls shall be opened
at one O'Clock in the afternoon of the day
QXeQ Dy law LOF HOluluS the dEuudI lfee
high school district meeting and shall be
closed at seven O'Clock Of the same day
The time Of opening and closing the polls
as well as the place of holding the cleo
ton. shall be specified In the notice OF such
election or meeting but a failure to SO
specify the time of opening and closing the
polls and designating the place where the
annual meeting or election is to be held and
conducted shall not vitiate such election.
Immediately after the polls are closed
and the ballots counted the electors shall
organize for the purpose of conducting the
regular and usual business, other than the
election of officers, necessary for carrying
on and maintaining the union free high
school. AS soon as the meeting is regu-
larly organized the result of the election of
officers shall be declared
The officers conducting the election shall
consist of the union free high school dis
trict clerk and two other persons selected
by the school district board. 1t an in
corporated village is comprised In the dis
village and one from the territory lying
outside of the village and included in the
union free high school district The in
spectors and clerks Of this election shall
make and keep a list of all the electors,
men and women, voting at the election
The amount Of compensation paid to the
inspectors or clerks Of election shall be
such sum as may be agreed upon by the
district board, not to exceed two dollars
for each inspector engaged and acting. in
conducting this election. said compensation
to be paid from any funds in the treasury
of the school district not otherwise appro-
priated a8ta
Section 495-1O 1t sfell be the duty
of the district board to / ret on the Sat
urday Immediately preceding the annual
meeting, carefully examine the accounts of
the treasurer and make up full and item
lied report of all receipts and expenditures
since the last annual meeting, of the amount
in the hands of the treasurer or the amount
Of the deficit, If any, for which the district
is JiohIo Of he ny1nf to No
raised by taxes for the report, of the school
for the ensuing year, and of the amount
required to pay the interest or principal of
any debt due or to become due during the
year; which report shall be submitted in
writing at the annual meeting and recorded
by the clerk at length with the action
thereon In the proceedings of the meeting.
At sse as} sa o1 nr The eeF poe shall If s S
annual meetings by posting notices there
for In six or more public places in the
district, one Of which shall be affixed to
the outer door of the union free high school
and he shall give like notice for any adj
jOurned meeting II the adjournment be for
more than one month ; but no annual meet
ing shall be deemed illegal for want Of
due notice, unless it shall appear that the
omission to give such notice was wilful and
fraudulent
Section 4o5--12. Special meetings shall
be called by the clerk or In his absence by
request of twenty legal voters of the dis
trict, and notices thereof specifying par
ticularly the business to be transacted shall
be posted in the manner prescribed for call
ing the annual meeting and the electors
when lawfully assembled at special meet
ing shall have power to transact the same
business as at the first annual meeting
except the election of officers. But no more
than one such special meeting to consider
the same subject shall be held in the dis
trict In the same school year. No tax or
loan or debt shall be voted at a special
meeting unless three fourths Of the legal
voters shall have been notified either per-
sonally or by written notice left at their
places of residence, stating the time, place
and objects of the meeting, and specifying
the amount proposed to be voted at least
six days before the time appointed there
for exclusive Of the Gay on which the
meeting Is to be held.
Section 495-1S. Every resident elector
of the district shall be entitled to vote in
any annual meeting, provided such elector
has resided therein for at least thirty days
next preceding any meeting.
Section 1914. The Inhabitants Of any
school district qualified by law to vote at
high school district meeting when as
sernbled at the first and each annual meet
ing in their district or at any adjournment
thereof, shall have power:
ID To appoint a chairman for the time
being, and in absence of the clerk to ap-
point some person to act In his stead, and
the person so appointed shall certify the
proceedings OF SucH meeting TO the district
clerk, who shall enter the same in the rec
ords of the district and file and preserve
the certificate of such temporary clerk
(2) To adjourn from time to time as
occasion may require.
t3) To vote such tax as the meeting
shall deem sufficient to purchase or lease
suitable site for school house to build,
hire, or purchase school house and to
keep in repair and furnish the same with
necessary furniture and ventilating and
heating apparatus, and to provide for the
free high school.
{4) To authorize and direct the sale of
any union free high school house, site or
other property belonging to the union free