Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-07-08

g. No costs snail be taxed against any
/ defendant who shall not appear and con
! test in some way the claim OF the plaintiff
Approved June IS, 1909.
I No. 80, Al Published June 10. 1909
CHAPTER 493, LAWS OF 1909.
! AN ACT to create sections 405--1 to 1875
49, inclusive, of the. statutes, relating to
free high school districts.
The people of the State OF Wisconsin, rep
| resented in Senate and Assembly, do
Section /. There Is added to the stat
| utes nineteen new sections TO read: Sec
! ton 495-1. With the advice and consent
/ Of the state superintendent a free high
| school to be known as a union free high
! school may be established and maintained
! in any tract Of contiguous territory with
! an area of not less than thirty-siI square
! miles, such territory to be bounded by sec
! ton lines or by lines bounding in part an
! existing free high school district, or IN
| cnses where impossible streams, lakes or
swamps render 1t lmpracticabIe to follow
| section lines sucn natural boundaries may
/ be substituted.
| No such union fres high school district
! shall be established or maintained unless
/ ut 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 4o5-2. In case the tract of ter
ritOry IS entirely included in one town and
/ said tract does not include within It's boun-
! daries an Incorporated village, 1t is hereby
! made the duty of the town board of that
/ town to submit the question of establish
| ing such union free high school to the
| 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 orc
! 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
/ at once ten days notice of such election
| 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
| such notice in any newspaper published
/ therein once each week for two weeks In
/ medately 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
! lngs
/ of territory shall lie; in two or more towns
/ and contains no incorporated village, such
/ petition may be presented to the chairman
/ Of any one OF the town boards or super
! yisors Of such towns, and this chairman
/ shall. within FIVE days Of the receipt of said
petition. notify the other chairman or chair
/ men as the Csse mag be, OF the receipt Of
the petition and shall set date for a meet
/ ing of all the chairmen OF the towns in
terested for the purpose OF liking time
/ and place for holding such union free hlSn
( school election; and II shall be the official
! duty of said chairman to meet on said date
and fix upon the time and place for holding
/ such election. II any chairman is unable
! to attend be shall delegate one OF the other
I supervisors of his board to attend upon
/ this meeting 70 act IN his place. The cleo
| ton shall be noticed and conducted for the
! entire tract OF territory which Is TO be in
! cluded in the proposed union free high
school district by the town board of the
! The manner provided for above in the case
| where al the territory is included in one
town.
! section 495-. In case the tract of
/ territory which it IS proposed to form into
! a union free high school district shall con-
! tain an incorpC rated village the petition
may be presented to any town chairman as
| designated above, OF to the president Of the
| village It shall then be the duty OF the
Official TO whom the petition IS presented
TO notify each, chairman Tor the village
| presidentl Of the receipt or such petition
! and to tx time anG place for a meeting
! OF said officers for the purpose Of fixing
e day for holding the election. The cleo
! village on the same day the election for
I the territory lying outside is held and the
! election for the territory lying outside the
/ village and which it IS proposed TO include
/ in the union free high school district may
. be held in the village or ct any other con-
venient place agreed upon and DESIGNATED
! In the NOTICE. Tie election for the village
/ shall be noticed and conducted and the
! votes canvaSsed in the manner provided by
/ statute for conducting village elections ana
| the election for that territory lying out
side the village limits and which it IS pro
( posed TO include in the union free high
I school 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 o. two or more
towns, the Supervisors st the meeting re.
ferred TO above shall designate the town
the officers of which shall notice. control
and direct such election.
Section 4s-5 In al 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 school," and the question
shall not be adopted unless a majority OF
the electors voting In that part OF the ter
rltory outside OF the village and & ma
tos5ty CT tia electors voting In tia village
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