Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-21
No. 81. a. published May g. 1909.
CHAPTER 88. LAWS OF 1909

AN ACT to amend sections 775a, 775b,
to create section 775f Of the statutes. re-
lating to the organization of new towns.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented In Senate and Assembly, do
Section / Sections 775a. 775b, 775c,
100. and 755e OF the statutes are amended
government f township 1 Situated aad within
county and being part of any town or
towns; which township has at
five 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
.ganized into a town upon compliance with
the following three sections No person
shall be deemed a 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
ification of the petition prescribed By sec
ton 775b.
Section 775b. A petition signed by a
majority of the resident electors and ma
jority Of the resident freeholders and home
organized shall be presented TO the circuit
court, or judge thereof, of the county In
which such territory is located; such petit
tion shall accurately describe such terri
tory, naming the town or towns of which it
Is part; shall contain 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-
ceding assessment and shall be verified by
fudge make sus an
order liking the time and place for the
hearing of said petition. before the circuit
dng n that copy iSa e aeq Of
the town or towns Of which such territory
Is a part at least fifteen days before the
hearing be published once week for three
weeks in a newspaper designated as most
terFyor 70 to be pe organned
Section 775c Any elector or tax payer
of such territory or any town Of which
such territory Is Part may appear at the the
shall be tried as an issue Of fact by the
court, No formal answer to the petition
be he fo na snd 9aF a ans
question of fact; such reference shall be
deemed compulsory reference and the fees
and expenses of the referee shall be fixed
and paid in the manner provided In section
2030 of the statutes by the town board OF
the new town and the town board Of the old
town.
Section 775d. The court shall. file find
ings of fact at the close Of such hearing
and If It shall appear that the
of 5hs ts and ehap
ter have been substantially complied with
shall enter an order creating
such territory into a town, CIV
Ing it the name proposed in the petition
and providing for the place of holding the
first annual meeting; provided that the
remaining territory in any existing town
shall not be less than thtrty-six
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
preceding assessment.
Section Use. The credits and indebted
ness az between the towns SO created and
the town or towns Of which it was formerly
q part shall be apportioned according to the
Section 2. There is added to the stat
utes a new section to read: Section 77of.
Whenever the remaining territory OF any
town out of which a new town Is organized,
shall be divided into two detached parts
By the organization of the new town, that
part thereof with the least number of resi-
dent electors shall be attached to and be-
come a part of the new town.
Section g. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved May 8. 1909.