Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-03-04

payers and residents of the terri
tory proposed to be incorporated.
Stats. Sec. $50.
Seventh; At the time fixed in
the notice the court shall hear all
parties interested for or against
such application who shall appear,
and may adjourn such hearing and
direct resurvey to be made or an
other census taken. Stats. Sec. 800.
Eighth: The court, after such
hearing, if it be satisfied that all
the requirements of the statutes
have been complied with, etc,
shall make an order declaring that
such territory, the boundaries of
which shall therein be set forth bv
courses and distances, shall be an
incorporated village if the electors
therein shall assent thereto.
The statute also provides for the
manner of holding an election to
vote upon the question as to wheth-
er such territory shall be incorpor-
ated as village or not, but it is
not necessary to set out at length
the provisions thereof.
1t will be seen by the foregoing
that the first step to be taken to-
wards incorporation is to decide
upon what territory is to be includ-
ed within the limits of the propos-
ed village. This being done, the
next step will be to have an accur-
ate survey and map made of the
territory and an accurate census
taken.
1t is hardly necessary to say that
in making the survey, map and tax
ing the census all the requirements
of the statute must be strictly com
piled with, otherwise the court will
not acquire jurisdiction. AS is said
in New York case, Proceedings
for the incorporation of villages be-
ing entirely statutory, a strict rule
of construction applies to them.
Any substantial omission in such
proceedings will be fatal to the jur-
isdiction.
Our court has passed on the sta
tute under consideration and held
the same valid and constitutional
The court intimates, however, in
the opinion that the statute did not
authorize the incorporation of large
tracts of rural territory having no
natural connection with any village
and no adaptability to village pur-
poses. This is to be borne in mind
in deciding on the territory propos-
ed to be included within the pro-
posed village.
The question was asked me as to
what effect incorporation would
have on the school district as now
constituted.
1t seems that the legislature had
this same question in mind and
provided for it.
Section 422, sub. div. of the
statutes makes the following pro-
vision:
Be it also provided that the in
corporation of village or a city
within the boundaries of any school
district shall not affect the organ-
zation or IN any way disturb the
rights and privileges of such dis
trict, except that such district shall
thereafter be known as a joint dis
trict.
At the meeting last Friday even
ing the general committee was in
creased to seven. Those nov On
the committee are: Chas. Bonino,
chairman, B. Houlehan, J c. Flan-
agan, Ed. Hagen, w. H. Lucia, J,
F Sullivan and B. A. Morgan.
We understand the committee has
already made arrangements to en-
gage a surveyor and to have a cen
sus taken of the territory 10 be in
corporated. The finance committee
has also got busy and is meeting
with good success.
High School Attendance Is Growing.
The three years from 1872 to 19-
IS tell a story of ren arkable growth