ship system of schools they may vote upon the question at any charter or general election; such election shall be by ballot of the form above prescribed and upon like notice, and if a majority of the votes cast upon that subject shall be in favor of the adoption of said system such village shall become a part of the township system of the town in which the same is situated. Whenever any town having adopted the township system shall vote to abolish the same the town board of supervisors shall, on or before the first day of June next succeeding the date at which the vote was taken, meet and by an order made in pursuance of section 413 divide the town into suitable independent school districts, making the order to take effect on the first day of July next following. The sub-district clerks and the secretary of the town board of directors for the year preceding shall make the annual reports for the year ending on that day as required by law notwithstanding their offices have been abolished.

ESTABLISHMENT OF FREE HIGH SCHOOLS.

303. Vote on.

[Sec. 490, Statutes of 1898.] Any town, village or city, school district or sub-district which contains within its limits an incorporated village or which has a graded school of not less than two departments may establish and maintain not exceeding two high schools in the manner and with the privileges herein provided; but no such school shall be established or maintained unless twenty-five persons of school age, resident of the town, city or village, school district or sub-district, pass a satisfactory examination in the branches required to be taught in the common schools and are prepared to begin a high school course. The question of establishing such school may be submitted by the town, district, sub-district or village board or common council to the legally qualified voters at any annual or special meeting or election upon written resolution therefor proposed for adoption; provided, notice of such purpose, embodying such resolution, be given in the manner provided for notifying a special district meeting. town meeting or charter election. In the case of a sub-district the meeting may be called by the clerk thereof. The vote shall be taken by ballot and canvassed according to the statutes for conducting elections in such municipality, those ballots in favor being written or printed "for high school;"

those opposed, "against high school." If the resolution be adopted, such town, district, sub-district, village or city shall constitute a high school district. But this section shall not apply to high schools already established.

304. Vote in two or more towns, or town and village. [Sec. -491, Statutes of 1898, as amended by sec. 1, ch. 57, laws of 1899.] Two or more adjoining towns or school districts, or one or more towns or school districts and an incorporated village or city, when the same together will make a district of contiguous territory, may unite in establishing and maintaining any such high school. The resolution proposing the same shall be approved and submitted and the notice of election signed by at least a majority of the supervisors of each town, the dire tors of each school district, the common council of such city and trustees of such village, if any, and the election shall be notified and conducted in each town, school district, city or village as provided in the preceding section. Such a resolution shall not be adopted unless a majority of the votes cast in each such town, school district, city or village be in favor thereof. The votes shall be canvassed at the first election, and all subsequent elections in the several towns as at town meetings, in the several school districts as at annual school district meetings; in the city, if any, as at a charter election, and in the village, if any, as at village elections; and the supervisors of the several towns, directors of said school districts, common council of such city and trustees of such village shall, within one week after such election, meet and canvass the votes and certify the result to the town clerk of each town, the clerk of each school district, the clerk of such city and to the village clerk of such village. If such resolution be adopted the town, or towns, school district or school districts, and the city and village, so voting, shall constitute a joint high school district.

304a. When question should be submitted to vote. [Section 491c, created by ch. 174, laws of 1905.] It is hereby made the duty of the town, village, city or school district board to submit any resolution proposed in pursuance of section 491 as amended by section 1 of chapter 57 of the laws of 1899, as amended by section 1 of chapter 345 of the laws of 1903, to the voters of such town, village, city or school district upon the filing with said board of a petition in writing, praying for such

submission, signed by at least ten per cent of the qualified electors who voted at the last preceding gubernatorial election in such town, city, village or school district.

305. Tax levy authorized. [Sec. 495a, Statutes of 1898; new section, ch. 123, laws of 1903.] Section 495a. The electors of any town organized as a town free high school district are authorized at any annual town meeting or special town meeting, regularly called, to levy a tax upon the real and personal property of said town free high school district for the purpose of purchasing a site, erecting a suitable school building thereon, and furnishing said building with the necessary furniture, and heating and ventilating apparatus.

ACCEPTANCE OF DONATIONS AND LEGACIES FOR CARE OF CEMETERIES.

305a. Vote upon question. [Sec. 1, ch. 179, laws of 1905.] Any town, village or city within this state may vote to receive and hold in trust money, the income of which is to be used for the care and improvement of cemeteries and of private lots, and their appurtenances located within such cemeteries.

305b. Vote how taken. [Section 2, ch. 179, laws of 1905.] Such vote shall be taken in towns by the electors thereof, at an annual town meeting, and in villages and cities by an ordinance, duly adopted by their governing bodies at some regular meeting thereof, and to be approved by the president of the village or mayor of the city, as the case may be.

PART XVI.

INDIAN RESERVATIONS.

Duty of county board, 306.
Petition for election officers, 307.
Election of election officers, 308.

Oath of office of election officers, 309.
Powers and duties of, 310.

Vacancies, how filled, 311.

Rights of electors, 312.

Compensation of election officers, 313.
Election laws made applicable to, 314.

306. Duty of county board. [Sec. 1, ch. 338, laws of 1901.] It is hereby made the duty of the county board of every county within whose boundaries there is located an Indian reservation, or any part thereof, where the inhabitants of said reservation, or any part of them, have been declared to be citizens of the United States, to create by resolution to be adopted and filed in the office of the county clerk, on or before December 1, 1901, at least one election district on such reservation.

State jurisdiction. The criminal law of the state applies to Indians on their reservations within the state: State v. Doxtater, 47 Wis. 278; State v. Harris, id. 298. See note to Sec. 8, Art. VII, Constitution, p. 106, Statutes of 1898.

It has been held in Minnesota that the statutes thereof concerning elections extend over the White Earth Indian reservation, and that election districts may be established therein upon petition to the proper authorities by the requisite number of legal voters: Hankey v. Bowman, 84 N. W. Rep. 1002.

307. Petition for election officers; county judge to appoint. [Sec. 2, ch. 338, laws of 1901.] Upon the written petition of twenty-five qualified electors from such an election district, recommending the names of qualified electors, of such district for

appointment as election officers of such district, the county judge of the county in which such district is situated, on or before the first day of August, 1902, shall appoint from the persons so recommended, three election inspectors, two clerks and two ballot clerks who shall hold their respective offices until their successors are duly elected, and have qualified, as hereinafter provided. Not more than two inspectors and one each of the clerks, shall belong to the same political party; such county judge shall file in the office of the county clerk, a certificate of such appointment and shall also forthwith deliver to each such appointee, or mail to him at his usual post office address, a written notice of such appointment.

308. Election of election officers. [Sec. 3, ch. 338, laws of 1901.] At the general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, A. D. 1902, and biennially thereafter, the qualified electors of said districts shall elect in the same manner as town officers are elected in fully organized towns, three election inspectors, two election clerks and two ballot clerks who shall be qualified electors of such district and who when they shall have qualified as by law required, shall act in place of those appointed by the county judge pursuant to this act. A certificate of their election, signed by the inspectors and clerks acting at such election, shall be filed in the office of the county clerk within thirty days after such election and a duplicate thereof delivered to, or left at the residence of the officers so elected within twenty days after such election. Such officers shall hold their respective offices for the term of two years and until their successors shall be elected and qualified.

309. Oath of office of election officers. [Sec. 4, ch. 338, laws of 1901.] Every such election officer, within thirty days after receiving notice of his election or appointment as herein before provided, shall file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which his district is located, his oath of office as prescribed in section 48, chapter 5, of Wisconsin statutes of 1898, and every such election officer who shall be chosen to fill a vacancy as hereinafter provided, shall take such oath before entering upon the discharge of his duties, and file the same in writing with the county clerk within twenty days thereafter.

310. Powers and duties of. [Sec. 5, ch. 338, laws of 1901.] The election officers, by this act provided for, shall have all the