Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-21

/ tilted at once by the election officers 10 the
clerk OF each town ana the village con-
F. cerned and II the question be adopted, the
result shall also be certified 10 the state
superintendent by the CLERK OF each mpnici.
! palty interested. such certificate TO be niea
with tie state superintendent within SIX
J days after the election, and such tract OF
/, territory shall upon approval of the state
| superintendent constitute union free hlsh
I, school district.
Section 495-7 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
/ establishment of high school according
/ to the provisions of this act shall annui
| the organization of the existing free hlgh
school district.
school district shall be director treasa er,
! Gnd clerk who shall have the same au-
! thorty, 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
| seEool 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
! 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
| and plurality of the votes cast shall be
/, sufficient to elect. In case an Incorporated
| village shall be included in the proposed
{, union free high school district the officers
| of the election in the outside territory snail
| 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.
! shall be counted as 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
| ton of officers and the transaction of other
! business shall be held on the third Wednes-
day in March, unless that be a legal hoL-
next day. -
/ The election of district officers shall be
| held In some convenient room In the union
| free high school building, If there be such
| building, and il not, then in some other
| convenient room determined upon by the
| board and specified in the notice; II the
| notice does not so specify it shall be I'M
| derstood that the building in which the
/! last annual meeting was held shall be the
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
| liked DV law Tor DOIQlnS Tue auuual lltc
| high school district. meeting and shall be
| closed at seven o'clock of the same day
| The time OF opening and closing the polls
| tion, shall be specified In the notice of such
| election or meeting. but failure to 80
specify the time Of h n ana hape tSe
| annual meeting or election Is to be held and
| conducted shall not yitiate 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
School OIL AS soon as the meeting, is regu,
| larry organized the result Of the election OF
| officers shall be declared.
| The officers conducting the election snail
! consist Of the union free high school dis,
/ trict clerk and two other persons selected
| by the school district board. If an in
| trict one officer shall be selected from the
/ 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 tine the Ell e.ee q On III.
| inspectors clerks of election shall be
| such sum as may be agreed upon by the
district board not to exceed s two t doaia rs
/ conducting this election, said compensation
! to be paid from any funds in the treasury
/ Of the school district not otherwise appro-
| priated.
Section 1910 1t shall be the duty
| of the district board to meet on the Sat
| urday Immediately preceding the annual
| meeting, carefully examine the accounts Of
1 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 liable, Of the amount necessary to be
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.
ao nr Tns seF no sea Of s t
| 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
| building, If there be one In the district,
| and he shall give. like notice for any adj
| journed meeting II the adjournment be for
| 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 495-12. Special meetings shall
| be called by the clerk or in his absence by
| the director or treasurer on the written
| request Of twenty legal voters of the dis
| trict, and notices thereof specifying par
| ticulariy the business to be transacted shall
| be posted in the manner prescribed for call
|
| when lawfully assembled at special meet
| ing shall have power to transact the same
! business as at the first or annual meeting
| except the election of officers: But no more
I 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
| 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
1 objects meeting.
| the amount proposed to be voted at least
| six days before the time appointed there
| for, exclusive of the day on which the
| meeting is to be held.
Section 1913. Every resident elector
| of the district shall be entitled to vote in
any annual meeting provided such eleetor
| next preceding any meeting.
| Section 495--14 The inhabitants of any
| school district qualified by law to vote at
| q high school district meeting when as
! ing In their district at any adjournment
| thereof, shall have power:
"a To appoint chairman for the time
being, and in absence of the clerk to APP
| point some person TO act in bis 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
! 49, TO vote such tax as the meeting
! shall deem sufficient to purchase or lease
| suitable site for school house, to build.
keep in repair and furnish the same with
/ necessary furniture and ventilating and
heating apparatus, and to provide for the
equipment and maintenance OF the union
| al To authorize and direct the sale of
| any union free high school house, site or
| high school district when the same shall
/ be no longer needed for use In the dis