Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-07-15
NO. T., ST. Published Mar. 20, 1909.
CHAPTER Is. LAWS OF 1909.


AN ACT to detach certain territory from
the town Of Wheaton in Chippewa
county and to create the town CT How
ard, to provide for town meetings there
i'll and for a final settlement between
said towns
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly, DO
section se:tI a /. Ali that part and portion of
the present town of Wheaton in the
county Of Chippewa in the state Of Wis
government township twenty nine (29),
north, of range. ten (10(, vest, in the county
of Chippewa, state of Wisconsin, is hereby
set off and detached from the town Of
Wheaton, aforesaid in the county and state
aforesaid, and is hereby duly created and
organized as distinct and separate town
to be known and designated as the town Of
Howard.
Section 2. The qualified electors Of said
town of Howard shall meet at the Nor
wegian schoolhouse situated on the south
east quarter il section thirty three in
township twenty mine. (29), north, of range
ten 40, west, in said town of Howard on
the date appointed by law for the hold
ing of annual town meetings and the cleo
tion of town officers in said state.
Section 3. The qualified electors of said
town of Howard shall, at such town meet
ing held as provided in section of this
act III the manner provided by law elect
and Tor the purpose or sueh election j the
shall, between the hours of nine ami eleven
o'clock in the forenoon of said day. choose
three OF Clelf NUMBER TO acG as inspectors
of said election, and such inspectors shan,
before entering upon their respective du-
ties, severally, take and subscribe their
usual oath of office and file the same with
thei: reports, and such Inspectors shall,
respectively, canvass and return the votes
cast at such election in all respects, as
provided by law for inspectors ut annual
town meetings. A town clerk and also all
necessary clerks of election shall be APP
pointed by said inspectors. or a majority
thereof to assist said inspectors in con
Quoting said town meeting, and in can
wasting and returning the Votes cast Vt
such election; and the qualified electors so
assembled at the place aforesaid may vote
and the votes cast for such officers shall be
counted canvassed, and returned in the
same manner and shall have the same
effect ~as If the said town were fully and
completely organized.
Section A. When said town meeting
shall have been held as herein provided
the town officers required by law duly
elected, the said town of Howard shall be
deemed to be and shall be duly organized
and shall be subject to all the liabilities
of other towns in the state OF Wisconsin :
and after said first town meeting all an
nual town meetings shall be held on the
day provided by law for the holding of
town meetings in other towns in the state
of Wisconsin.
Section ). A notice Of said first meeting
shall be given by the posting of 4 copy
Of this act in ut least five public places in
the said new town OF Howard at least ten
days before the time OF holding said first
town meeting by any duly qualified elector
IT said new town. who shall make 4 proper
affidavit OF such posting and file the same
on the day Of the said first town meeting
with the inspectors chosen at said first
town meeting to conduct the same.
Section 6. The credits and Indebtedness
as between the town of Howard, hereby
created, and the town Of Wheaton shall be