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

No. CHATTER II u.s. as'a Laws 'a o Is 1905 a'OS
AN ACT to create sections 495--1 to 495-
10, inclusive, of the statutes, relating to
free high school districts.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, rep
resented In Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section 1. There Ia added to the stat
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-six 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
swamps render 1t impracticable to follow
section lines such natural boundaries may
be substituted
No such union free high school district
at 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
course
Section 495-2. 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, it Is hereby
made the duty OF the iowa 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 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 one
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 al 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 i'm
nediately prior to the time set for holding
the election, The election shall be con-
Quoted and the vote canvassed according
to the statutes Cor conducting town meet
ings.
Section 495--3 In case the said tract
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 of super
visors Of such towns, and this chairman
shall, within Ave days of the receipt Of said
men as the case may be, OF the receipt of
the petition and shall set q date for q meet
ing of all the chairmen Of the towns In
terested for the purpose OF fixing a time
and place for holding such union free high
| school election and 1t 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 he shall delegate one OF the other
| supervisors OF his board to attend upon
| this meeting TO act In bis 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
| town in which the election is held and in
| the manner provided for above in the case
| where all the territory Ia included In one
| town.
| Section 4o5-4 In case the tract of
| territory which 1t is proposed to form into
| union free high school. district shall con-
| tain an incorporated village the petition
may be presented to any town chairman as
] designated above, or to the president of the
] village. 1t shall then be the duty of the
official to whom the petition is presented
/ to notify each chairman Tor the village
| president) OF the receipt Of such petition
| and to FIX time and place for meeting
/ Of said officers for the purpose Of fixing
| ton for the village shall be held IN the
| village on the same day the election for
| the territory lying outside IS held and the
election for the territory lying outside the
| village and which 1t Is proposed to include
| In the union free high school district may
| be held In the village or at any other con-
| venient place agreed upon and designated
| In the notice The election for the village
/ shall be noticed and conducted ana the
/ votes canvassed in the manner provided by
statute for conducting village elections ana
side the village limits and which it Is pro-
| posed to include In the union free high
| school district shall be noticed and con-
/ Quoted and the votes canvassed IN the man.
l ner provided by statute for noticing and
conducting town elections. II this outlying
1 territory comprises parts of two or more
towns, the supervisors at the meeting re-
| ferred to above shall designate the town
/ the officers of which shall notice, control
/ and direct such election
Section 1876. In all cases the vote
| shall be by ballot, those ballots In favor
being written or printed flor the union free
high school," those opposed against the
| union free high school and the question
4 shall not be adopted unless a majority of
| the electors voting in that part of the ter
/ ritory outside OF the village and q. ma
| 1ority at he electors voting In the village
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