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 Containing the Laws Enacted by the 
 Legislature of 1913 
 
 RELATING TO 
 
 Common Schools, Free High Schools, State Graded Schools, 
 
 The State University, County Training Schools, County 
 
 Agricultural Schools, Teachers' Institutes, Industrial 
 
 and Continuation Schools, and County 
 
 and City Superintendents 
 
 Compiled and published under the direction of 
 C. P. GABY, State Superintendent. 
 
 MADISON, WISCONSIN 
 
 DEMOCRAT PBINTINO COMPANY, SXATE PBINTEB 
 
 1913. 
 
SCHOOL LAW 
 
 SUPPLEMENT 
 
 Containing the Laws Enacted by the 
 Legislature of 1913 
 
 RELATING TO 
 
 Common Schools, Free High Schools, State Graded Schools, 
 
 The State University, County Training Schools, County 
 
 Agricultural Schools, Teachers' Institutes, Industrial 
 
 and Continuation Schools, and County 
 
 and City Superintendents 
 
 Compiled and published under the direction of 
 C. P. GABY, State Superintendent, 
 
 MADISON, WISCONSIN 
 PK?NT? N G COMPANY, STUTE PRINTER 
 1913. 
 
TO SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS 
 
 This supplement to the school code of 1911 is made neces- 
 sary because of the many laws touching upon educational mat- 
 ters enacted by the legislature of 1913. It will be noticed that 
 many of the laws in this pamphlet refer to certain sections 
 of the laws of 1911, consequently it will be necessary, to use 
 this pamphlet in some cases with the last complete edition of 
 the school code, (1911), in studying out or in attempting to 
 arrive at a satisfactory conclusion in some of these acts. 
 
 It will be seen that the legislators acted in sympathy with 
 the movement for the consolidation of school districts. One 
 chapter 380 offers a direct bonus to school districts that will 
 unite or consolidate and thereafter maintain a consolidated 
 school. Another chapter fixes a minimum wage of $40, the 
 least that can be paid to any teacher in the public schools. 
 It is probable that the legislature looked upon this measure as 
 one that would induce the consolidation of a number of small 
 districts because of the annual increased expense of mainten- 
 ance. In other words, they deemed that this act would be an 
 incentive to discontinue small district schools. There are other 
 chapters relating to qualifications of teachers that will be of 
 interest to the teaching force. Especial attention is called to 
 the chapter providing for the establishment of a teachers' 
 training department in connection with the high schools of 
 this state. 
 
 Inducements are offered for the establishment of short win- 
 ter terms of school to be maintained in connection with high 
 schools. 
 
 The state graded schools have received consideration, owing 
 to the fact that in any such school where agriculture and some 
 other industrial subject is taught efficiently, the district may 
 receive another $100 of special aid. This makes it possible for 
 
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2 TO SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS. 
 
 state graded schools of the second class to receive annually 
 $300, instead of $200 as heretofore; and state graded schools 
 of the first class to receive $400 instead of $300. 
 
 The high schools also received attention, inasmuch as a sub- 
 stantial increase of the amount of state aid has been provided 
 for them. 
 
 The attention of school district clerks is especially called to 
 chapter 448, as amended by chapter 763. The attention of 
 school district officers and electors is especially called to that 
 part of chapter 448 which goes into effect the first of January 
 1914, requiring the annual district meetings in country school 
 districts to be held on the first Monday of June. 
 
 It must be remembered that in interpreting conflicting stat- 
 utes, the rule is that the last numbered chapter in all cases 
 where there are conflicting provisions, has the right of way. 
 
 This department stands ready at all times to give informa- 
 tion concerning the 'provisions of the laws relating 1 to schools 
 and educational work generally. Electors of school districts, 
 as well as members of school boards may rest assured of the 
 coopers lion of this department in all matters pertaining to the 
 educational interests of the state. 
 
 State Superintendent. 
 
SCHOOL LAWS ENACTED BY THE 
 LEGISLATURE OF 1913. 
 
 School Boards Milwaukee Schools. Section 17. Whenever the 
 board of school directors shall deem it necessary to erect new build- 
 ings or additions to old buildings, or to purchase school sites, they 
 shall by a two-thirds vote of the members, send a communication to 
 the common council of said city, at or before the first meeting of 
 the council in November in each year, stating the amount of funds 
 so needed and the purposes for which it is proposed to use the said 
 funds, and requesting the said common council to submit to the 
 voters of said city at the next election of any sort to be held in 
 said city the question of issuing the school bonds of said city in 
 the amount and for the purpose or purposes named; and upon 
 receipt of such request from the board of school directors it shall 
 be and is hereby made the duty of the said common council to 
 cause the question of the issuance of the said bonds for the said 
 school purposes to be submitted to the voters of the said city at 
 the next regular, special or other election held in the said city. 
 The question of the issuance of the said school bonds shall be sub- 
 mitted upon a separate ballot, or in some other manner so that 
 the vote upon the issuance of said school bonds shall be taken 
 separately from any other question submitted to the voters at the 
 same 'election, and if a majority of the votes cast upon such bond 
 proposition shall be in favor of the issuance of said bonds, then 
 the common council of said city shall cause such school bonds to 
 be issued forthwith in the same manner as other bonds which have 
 been properly authorized are issued, and the proper officials of the 
 said city shall sell or dispose of the said bonds in the same man- 
 ner as other bonds are disposed of and the entire proceeds of the 
 same shall be placed in the city treasury, subject to the order of 
 the said board of school directors, for the purposes named in the 
 request for the issuance of the said bonds. Said school bonds 
 shall not bear a greater rate of interest than * * * live per 
 cent per annum, and shall be payable in twenty years from the 
 
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 date of their issue, one-twentieth of the principal to be payable 
 each year, and the said common council is hereby authorized and 
 it is made their duty to levy and collect a tax upon all properi y, 
 real and personal, in the said city subject to taxation, in the same 
 manner and at -the same time UH other taxes are levied and collected, 
 which shall be sufficient to pay the interest on all school bonds 
 outstanding, issued under the provisions of this act, and to pay 
 such part of the principal of such school bonds so issued as be- 
 comes due and payable during the next fiscal year. The amount of 
 such school bonds outstanding at any one time shall not be greater 
 than one per cent of the total assessed valuation of all property, 
 real and personal, in the said city subject to taxation, and the 
 tax levied to pay the interest on and the principal of the said school 
 bonds shall be in addition to the tax levied for general purposes 
 upon all the taxable property of said city. (11)13 c. J/) 
 This chapter relates to Milwaukee only. 
 
 Distribution of Blue Books. (Section 20.84.) (12) Of the Wis- 
 consin blue book, one copy to each state officer other than member 
 of the legislature, to each member, * * * officer, employe of the 
 next succeeding legislature, and employe of the state capitol, to each 
 charitable, penal and reformatory institution, each judge, and 
 clerk and district attorney of the United States courts within the 
 state, each senator and representative in congress and each member 
 elect as such, the state dairyman's association, the academy of 
 sciences, arts, and letters, each newspaper applying therefor whose 
 name is listed therein, and the home office of the Wisconsin Hu- 
 mane society; ten copies each to the state library, university 
 library, university law library, and the state historical society; one 
 copy each to each public library, school, academy, and college ap- 
 plying therefor; to the adjutant general for the use of the national 
 guard, fifty copies; to the county clerk of each county enough copies 
 to enable him to deliver one copy to the following officers in his 
 county: the judge and clerk of each court of record, the county 
 clerk, district attorney, county superintendent of schools, chairman 
 of the county board, and clerk of each city; and to each member 
 of the legislature two hundred and fifty copies, to be delivered to 
 himself, and to each officer of the legislature, fifty copies to be 
 delivered to himself, and to each employe of the legislature one copy. 
 (1913 c. 6) 
 
 Under this statute each public school district is entitled to 
 one copy of the Blue Book. This may be obtained without 
 cost by making application therefor to the Superintendent of 
 Public Property, Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
BLUE BOOKS HIGH SCHOOL MEETINGS. 5 
 
 Dissolution of Union High School Districts. Section 495 6m. 
 When any union free high school is established and organized, such 
 union free high school district shall not be dissolved nor shall its 
 certificate of organization be surrendered within four years from 
 the date when such district. w:t.s established and organized. (1913 
 c. V) 
 
 High School District Meetings in certain cases. Section 493c. 1. 
 The annual district meeting for the election of officers and the 
 transaction of other business of high school districts, organized 
 as provided in section 490, in cities of the fourth class containing 
 not more than 4,000 inhabitants, which include within their limits 
 the whole or a portion of two different common school districts, 
 shall be held on the last Monday in June at seven o'clock in the 
 afternoon, unless another hour be fixed by a vote recorded at a 
 previous annual or special meeting. 
 
 2. The clerk shall give at least six days previous notice of the 
 annual meeting by posting notices thereof in four or more public 
 places in the district, one of which shall be affixed to the outer 
 door of all public schoolhouses within the district; and he shall 
 give like notice for any adjourned meeting if the adjournment be 
 for more than one month; but no annual meeting shall be deemed 
 illegal for want of the notice, unless it shall appear that the omis- 
 sion to give such notice was wilful and fraudulent. 
 
 3. Special district meetings may be called by the high school 
 district board when deemed necessary, and shall be called by the 
 clerk, or in his absence by the director or treasurer on the written 
 request of ten legal voters of the district. At least six day's pre- 
 vious notice of any such special meeting shall be given by posting 
 notices, specifying particularly the business to be transacted, in four 
 or more public places in the district, one of which shall be affixed 
 to the outer door of every public schoolhouse within such high 
 school district. Any such special meeting may be adjourned and 
 like notice of such adjourned meeting shall be given. No tax, 
 loan or debt shall be voted at a special meeting unless notice there- 
 of, stating the time, place and object of such meeting and specify- 
 ing the maximum amount to be voted, be posted in six public places 
 in said district including one upon the outer door of each public 
 schoolhouse therein and published in all public newspapers in such 
 district at least six days before such meeting, or unless three-fourths 
 of the legal voters of such district shall have been notified, either 
 personally or by leaving such notice at their places of residence 
 at least six days before the time for such meeting. 
 
6 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 19ll 
 
 4. The inhabitants of any such high school district qualified by 
 by law to vote at a school district meeting, when assembled at the 
 first and at each annual meeting in their district, or at any ad- 
 journed meeting thereof in such a district, shall have all the power 
 relative to their district conferred by section 430 upon inhabitants 
 of common school districts at annual meetings relative to such 
 common school districts; but shall not be limited in the amount 
 of tax to be voted for teachers' wages by the limitation provided in 
 subdivision 6 of said section 430. 
 
 5. For the purpose of purchasing a schoolhouse site and provid- 
 ing for and aiding in the erection of high school buildings and 
 furnishing and equipping the same and maintaining a high school, 
 any such school district may, by vote of the electors at an annual 
 or special district meeting called for that purpose, authorize the 
 high school board to purchase a site for schoolhouse and to erect a 
 high school building thereon and furnish and equip the same and 
 to borrow money to an amount which shall not, in any way, exceed 
 the limitation now provided by law. 
 
 The resolution to be voted to borrow money shall be in writing 
 and shall specify the amount to be borrowed, the maximum rate of 
 interest allowed to be paid and the time and manner of payment, 
 which shall be in annual installments or otherwise, the last of which 
 shall be payable in not to exceed twenty years from the first day 
 of February next succeeding. By such resolution a tax, to be 
 annually collected, in addition to all other taxes, sufficient to pay 
 when due, the interest annually to grow due on any such loan; and 
 also to pay and discharge the principal thereof by the time the 
 same shall be due, shall be levied. Such resolution shall be read 
 to the meeting and the vote taken thereon by ballot; the ballots 
 shall be written or printed, those in favor of the loan "For the loan," 
 those opposed "Against the loan." The resolution and the vote 
 shall be recorded. If a majority of the ballots cast shall be in 
 favor of the loan, the high school board may borrow such sum of 
 any person on such terms and execute and deliver to the lender 
 such obligation therefor and such security for payment, including a 
 mortgage or pledge of real or personal property of the district, 
 subject to the direction contained in the resolution by voting, as 
 may be agreed upon, not prohibited by law; or they may issue bonds 
 of such high school district to the amount and according to the 
 directions authorized by such resolution and sell same for the pur- 
 pose of raising money for the object stated therein. Any bond or 
 other obligation so issued by any high school district board in con- 
 formity to the provisions of this act, shall be valid claims against 
 the high school district authorizing the same. 
 
CONDEMNATION OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS. 7 
 
 6. The proceeds of the sale of such bonds or obligations shall be 
 paid into the high school treasury and be expended only for the 
 purpose for which the same were voted. After any such bonds 
 or obligations have been issued, no power shall exist to rescind or 
 reconsider any such vote or obstruct the collection of such tax. 
 
 7. The purchase of the high school site and the erection of a 
 high school building, when authorized as provided in this act, shall 
 be conducted by the high school board. (1913 c. 16) 
 
 This statute applies to two or three cities only in the state. 
 
 Condemnation of School Buildings. Section 517. 1. The in- 
 spector of rural schools, the inspectors of state graded schools, and 
 the inspector of high schools of the state, in addition to their other 
 duties are hereby made inspectors of public school buildings. Said 
 inspectors shall act under the direction of the state superintendent, 
 and under such regulations as may be established by him. 
 
 2. Whenever any county or district superintendent, city superin- 
 tendent, member of a school board or board of education, or any 
 voter of a school district, or a member of a board of health, shall 
 make a complaint in writing to the state superintendent that any 
 building used for or in connection with any public school in his 
 county, district, city, village, or town, as the case may be, is in an 
 unsanitary condition, or that the conditions are such as to en- 
 danger the life and health of the children attending school, or that 
 the school house is unfit for school purposes, one of said inspectors 
 designated by the state superintendent shall personally investigate 
 and examine the premises and buildings concerning which said 
 complaint is made. 
 
 3. Upon such investigation and examination said inspector shall, 
 if conditions warrant it, make an order directing the school board, 
 the board of education, or other officer or officers having control 
 of the school district or school corporation, to repair and improve 
 such building or buildings as may be necessary, and to place said 
 buildings in a safe and sanitary condition; or if said inspector shall 
 deem the schoolhouse unfit for school purposes and not worth re- 
 pairing he shall state said fact and recite the reason therefor. 
 
 4. The said inspector shall file said order in the state superin- 
 tendent's office, and cause 'true copies thereof to be delivered, by 
 mail or otherwise, to the clerk of the district board, the clerk of 
 the board of education of the district or school corporation where 
 such schoolhouse and premises are located, and shall deliver as 
 provided herein copies of said order to the proper county, district or 
 city superintendent, and also the clerk of the town, city, or village 
 jn which the school house is located. 
 
8 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 5. The said order shall state the time in which it shall be com- 
 plied with, and shall take effect from its date, and shall continue 
 in force and full effect until reversed. The decision of the inspec- 
 tor may be appealed from to the state superintendent in the time 
 and manner now provided for taking appeals to said superintendent, 
 and the decision appealed from shall be stayed, pending such ap- 
 peal. 
 
 6. Whenever any school district, school corporation, school board, 
 or board of education, shall refuse to comply with the order of 
 said inspector within the time herein specified, such school district 
 or schodi corporation shall forfeit absolutely its apportionment of 
 the fund derived from the seven-tenths mill tax, provided for in 
 section 1072a of the statutes, and amendments thereto, and shall 
 continue to so forfeit its regular apportionment of such fund until 
 there is full compliance with the requirements of said order, unless 
 the electors of said school district shall vote to instruct the school 
 board to close the district school and provide transportation and 
 tuition for all children of school age in the district desiring to at- 
 tend school at some neighboring school or schools, as provided for 
 in section 496q of the statutes. 
 
 7. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to interfere with the 
 operation of the provision of subsection 3 of section 461 of the 
 statutes, relating to the duties of county superintedents of schools 
 or with the provisions of section 1418b of the statutes, relating to 
 the inspection and regulation of the sanitary conditions of school- 
 houses by boards of health. 
 
 Section 2. All acts, orders, and decisions rendered under the 
 provisions of and made since the passage and publication of sec- 
 tions 524m 1, 524m 2, 524m 3, 524m 4, 524m 5, 524m 6, 
 and 524m 7 of chapter 550, laws of 1909, are legalized and vali- 
 dated. (1913 c. 30) 
 
 This chapter makes it an easy matter to secure an inspection 
 of school buildings, but it is hoped that electors and members 
 of school boards will take such measures to secure convenient 
 and comfortable buildings for school purposes that the services 
 of the inspectors may be seldom demanded. 
 
 Training School for oral teachers of the deaf. Section 579p. 1. 
 The board of regents of normal schools is hereby authorized and 
 directed to establish and maintain a department in one of the nor- 
 mal schools of the state, located in a city maintaining a graded school 
 
 for the deaf, to be known as a normal training department for 
 
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 oral teachers of the deaf. 
 
 2. Candidates for admission to this course shall have completed 
 at least one year of the advanced course in a state normal school 
 
DEAF SCHOOL COUNTY TAX TOBACCO. f) 
 
 or its equivalent. Graduates from said course shall be granted a 
 diploma by the board of regents that will serve as a basis for an 
 unlimited state certificate, qualifying the holder to teach in any 
 day school for the deaf in this state, or in any public hearing school 
 of the state, below high school grade. 
 
 3. An annual appropriation of five thousand dollars or such part 
 of five thousand dollars as shall be necessary to carry on this work, 
 shall be made from the general funds of the state for the purpose 
 of maintaining this department; said appropriation to be disbursed 
 under the direction of the board of regents of normal schools. (1013 
 c. 48) 
 
 High school graduates may complete this course in two years. 
 
 A student who has completed one year of the regular advanced 
 
 normal course may graduate in one year. 
 
 The diploma of graduation from this course legally qualifies 
 
 the holder to teach in any public day school for the deaf, and in 
 
 other respects possesses the value of a diploma from the regular 
 
 normal school course except that it is not a legal qualification 
 
 to teach in a high school. 
 
 All requests for further information relating to this special 
 
 training should be directed to the president of the Milwaukee 
 
 State Normal School. 
 
 Tax to be received by school districts from county farm lands. 
 
 (Section 670) (18) To appropriate to any school district in which 
 a county farm or any part thereof is situated, an amount of money 
 for school purposes equal to the amount that would be paid as 
 school taxes upon such farm land or part thereof situated within 
 such district if such land were privately owned. The valuation of 
 such farm land shall be determined by the county board of equali- 
 zation. (1013 c. 70) 
 
 This chapter provides relief for any school district in which 
 all or any part of a county farm is situated. Taxes may now 
 be collected from the county upon the assessed valuation fixed 
 upon the farm lands by the county board of equalization. Land 
 valuations only are to be considered. Buildings and other im- 
 provements are not to be counted in making the estimate. 
 
 Use of Tobacco forbidden in certain cases. Section 4608v. 
 Every person who shall sell or give to any person under the age of 
 sixteen years, a cigar, cr tobacco in any -form, without the written 
 consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, shall be punished 
 by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dol- 
 lars for each offense, and every person under the age of sixteen 
 years who shall smoke or use cigarettes, cigars or tobacco on any 
 public road, street, alley or park or other lands used for public pur- 
 poses or in any public place of business or amusement, except when 
 in the company of a parent or guardian, shall be punished by a 
 
10 SCHOOL .LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
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 fine of not more than ten dollars or by imprisonment for not ex- 
 ceeding thirty days. (1913 c. ~8) 
 
 This measure does not apply with any more force to school 
 buildings than it does to other/ public buildings. It is, how- 
 ever, placed here in order that its provisions may be generally 
 known by children and their parents and by compliance with its 
 provisions the infliction of penalties be avoided. 
 
 Trained nurse may be employed by counties. Section 697 10m. 
 The board of supervisors of any county is authorized and empowered 
 to employ a graduate trained nurse, whose duties shall be as fol- 
 lows: To act as a consulting expert on hygiene for all schools 
 not already having medical inspection either by physician or visit- 
 ing nurse, to assist the superintendents of the poor in their care of 
 the poor in the county who are in need of her services; to give in- 
 struction to tuberculosis patients and others relative to hygienic 
 measures to be observed in preventing the spread of tuberculosis; 
 to aid in making a report of existing cases of tuberculosis; to act 
 as visiting nurse throughout the county and to perform such other 
 duties as a nurse and hygienic expert as may be assigned to her by 
 the county board. Such visiting nurse shall at the end of each 
 month make a report in writing to the county clerk, which report 
 shall show the visits made during the month then ending and the 
 requests made to her for services, and such other information as 
 the county board may from time to time require. (1913 c. 93) 
 
 This statute is entirely new. Its provisions need no explana- 
 tion. 
 
 Compensation of school district clerks. (Section 430) (18) At 
 the annual meeting only, to vote a tax to compensate the clerk, 
 treasurer and director, which in districts supporting graded and 
 high schools shall be such sums as may be voted, and in other 
 districts the compensation of the clerk shall be such sum as may 
 be voted, but shall not exceed twenty dollars per annum, provided 
 that his current annual report to the town or village clerk shall be 
 approved by the tyvcn or village clerk to whom it is rendered; and 
 the compensation of the treasurer and the director shall be such sum 
 as shall be voted, but shall not exceed ten dollars per annum. * 
 (19J3 c. 94) 
 
 This chapter is repealed by chapters 488 and 765, laws of 
 1913. 
 
 Joint county training schools. Section 411 9. Such joint 
 county training school shall choose a member of said board as 
 treasurer; provided that the person so chosen shall not be presi- 
 dent or secretary of such board. Such treasurer shall, before as- 
 
NURSETRAINING SCHOOLS LIBRARY. H 
 
 suming his office, give a bond to said board for the faithful discharge 
 of the duties of his office. Such bond shall be in the sum of fifteen 
 thousand dollars and shall have three or more sureties approved by 
 said board; or said treasurer, in lieu of said bond so signed by 
 said three sureties, may give surety bond to be approved by said 
 board, and the cost of said surety bond may be paid for out of the 
 funds of said joint training school in the discretion of the board. 
 All moneys appropriated to and expended for any such joint county 
 training school shall be expended by the board of such school and 
 shall be paid by the treasurer of said school on orders drawn by 
 the secretary and countersigned by the president. 
 
 (Section 411 7) 1. The county boards of two or more adjoin- 
 ing counties may unite in establishing and maintaining a training 
 school for teachers for the purposes and on the same general plan 
 as provided for in section 411 1 to 411 6, inclusive, of the 
 statutes, and may appropriate money for its maintenance, and 
 whenever two or more counties unite in establishing such a school, 
 the county superintendents of the counties so uniting and two 
 members in addition chosen from each such county, no member 
 of any county board being eligible thereto, shall constitute the 
 joint county training school board. * * * The members of the 
 board chosen by the county boards of supervisors shall choose one 
 of the county superintendents of the counties uniting to maintain 9 
 the school as secretary of the county training school board. (1913 
 c. 105) 
 
 The sections referred to above will be found on pages 3739 
 of the School laws for 1911. 
 
 Exchange of school library books. Section 486 1. 1. School 
 library books belonging to one school district may be loaned by the 
 school board of the district to the school board of another school 
 district for use in the school library of that district in considera- 
 tion of school library books similarly loaned in exchange therefor. 
 
 2. County or district superintendents may arrange such ex- 
 changes and loans of school library books among the school dis- 
 tricts in their jurisdiction as may be mutually agreed upon by the 
 school boards of the districts concerned,- 
 
 3. A school district receiving books from another district under 
 the provisions of this act shall be responsible for all losses sus- 
 tained on account of books lost or damaged beyond ordinary wear 
 and tear. 
 
 4. All books loaned or exchanged under the provisions of this 
 act shall be returned to the school library from which they have 
 been obtained not later than two weeks before the close of the an- 
 
12 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 nual school term of the district from which the books have been 
 received. (1913 c. 101) 
 
 The purpose of this chapter is to provide a larger amount of 
 reading for children by enlarging the use of the public school 
 libraries. 
 
 Itemized report of receipts, etc. to be published by town and 
 union high school boards. Section 496c 2. It shall be the duty 
 of the school board of every town high school, and union free high 
 school in the state, to publish, or cause to be published, or posted 
 in five prominent places, during the week preceding the annual 
 meeting, a summarized financial report of receipts and disburse- 
 ments for the preceding year for such district, and the recommend- 
 ations for the following year, in a newspaper published within the 
 town, city or village where such school is located; said report not 
 to exceed five folios, and in case there is no newspaper published 
 within such town, city or village, then such report shall be pub- 
 lished in any newspaper having a general circulation in such town, 
 city or village, and published within the county where such school 
 is located. (1913 c. 109) 
 
 This chapter does not include district free high schools. 
 
 State flag. Section 98m. 1. The Wisconsin state flag is of dark 
 blue silk/ five feet six inches fly and four feet four inches on the 
 pike; the state coat of arms embroidered on each side with silk 
 of appropriate colors and design as prescribed in section 98; the 
 edges trimmed with knotted fringe of yellow silk two and one- 
 half inches wide; the pike nine feet long including spearhead and 
 ferrule, the cord eight feet six inches long with two tassels, and 
 composed of blue and white silk strands intermixed. 
 
 2. Service flags may be of bunting or other material, of such 
 size as may be required, and the coat of arms represented other- 
 wise than by embroidery, all conforming to proportionate specifi- 
 cations of subsection 1. (1913 c. Ill) 
 
 Wider use of school buildings. (Section 435d) 2. Where the 
 citizens of any community are organized into a nonpartisan, non- 
 sectarian, nonexclusive association for the presentation and dis- 
 cussion of public questions or for the promotion of public health 6r/ 
 giving instruction in any topic relating thereto or in physical culture 
 and hygiene or by the practicing of physical exercises and the pres- 
 entation and discussion of topics relating thereto, the school board 
 or other body having charge of the schoolhouses or other public prop- 
 erties which are capable of being used as meeting places for such 
 organization, when not being used for their prime purpose, shall pro- 
 
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 vide, free of charge, light, heat and janitor service, where necessary, 
 and shall make such other provisions as may be necessary for the 
 free and convenient use of such building or grounds, by such organi- 
 zation for weekly, biweekly or monthly gatherings at such times as 
 the citizens' organization shall request or designate. All such gather- 
 ings shall be free to the public. (1913 c. 123) 
 
 This enlarges section 435d, laws of 1911, by giving the usa 
 of the school building to an association_ or club interested in 
 physical culture training and the study of the laws of health. 
 
 Section repealed. Section 1. Section 450 of the statutes is re- 
 pealed. (1013 c. 129} 
 
 This section related to examinations given by county super- 
 intendents for teachers' certificates and is repealed because it 
 almost exactly duplicates section 450 1, relating to the same 
 subject and which still stands. 
 
 Examinations for teachers' certificates. (Section 450 1) 1. 
 Every applicant for a third grade certificate shall be examined in 
 orthoepy, spelling, reading, penmanship, arithmetic, elementary 
 composition and grammar, geography, the history of the United 
 States, the civil government of the United States and of the state 
 of Wisconsin, physiology and hygiene with special reference to the 
 effects of stimulants and narcotics upon the human system, school 
 management, the manual of the elementary course of study for the 
 common schools of Wisconsin, * * * the elements of agricul- 
 ture and rural economics, and after January 1, 1915, in the cata- 
 loging and use of school libraries; and in addition to passing ex- 
 aminations in the aforesaid branches, he shall have attended a pro- 
 fessional school for teachers for at least six weeks and shall have 
 received in such school standings in school management, and in the 
 methods of teaching reading and language, arithmetic and geog- 
 raphy, provided, however, that the provisions of this section rela- 
 tive to attendance at professional schools for teachers shall not 
 apply to persons who have taught successfully in the public schools 
 for at least eight months prior to July 1, 1910, nor to graduates 
 from free high school teachers' training courses which had been 
 especially approved by the state superintendent prior to July 1, 
 1910, nor to graduates from teachers' training courses equivalent 
 thereto, which, since July 1, 1910, have been, or which in the fu- 
 ture may be, adopted by any high school board or board of edu- 
 cation, and approved by the state superintendent. (1913 c. 144} 
 
 This requires that county superintendents shall examine teach- 
 ers in rural economics at all examinations held after July 1, 
 1913. "Cataloging and use of school libraries" is not required 
 until after January, 1915. 
 
14 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 
 
 Town and district school libraries. (Section 486a) 7. It shall 
 be the duty of the county or district superintendent to keep on file 
 in his office a Hist of books in the library of each school district 
 and to arrange such lists by districts and towns in numerical and 
 alphabetical order. Guided by such lists and other information 
 which may have been obtained regarding the school libraries of 
 the school districts under his supervision, the county or district 
 superintendent shall make a selection for each school district un- 
 der his supervision, the schoolhouse of which is located in his 
 superintendent district, the books to be taken from the lists pre- 
 pared by the state superintendent. It shall also be his duty to fur- 
 nish each town clerk, village clerk and clerk of cities of the fourth 
 class under his jurisdiction with a list in duplicate of the books 
 designated for each district. The county or district superintendent 
 shall also certify to the county clerk the names and numbers of 
 the books selected for each town, village or city of the fourth class 
 under his supervision, the price fixed in the list issued by the state 
 superintendent to be attached in each case and the total cost of 
 such books to be correctly summarized and indicated. City super- 
 intendents of cities of the fourth class shall in like manner certify 
 to the county clerk the cost of the books selected for the schools 
 under their jurisdiction. A duplicate copy shall be furnished to 
 the company or firm selected by the state department or commis- 
 sioned to furnish the books, periodicals, etc., for township libra- 
 ries. The company or firm shall upon receipt of the list from the 
 county, district or city superintendent fill the order for each town, 
 village or city of the fourth class, as directed, said order when so 
 filled to be sent to the town, village or city clerk. The town, village, or 
 city clerk shall * * * within ten days after the receipt of the books 
 from the company or firm compare the order so filled, with the list in 
 his possession and * * * report to the county * * * clerk stat- 
 ing what books upon the list theretofore made out by the county super- 
 intendent have been actually delivered to him in good condition. A re- 
 port shall also be sent to the county, city, or district superintendent. 
 The county clerk * * * shall within three days therafter draw an 
 order upon the county treasurer for the cost of the books so * * * 
 actually delivered in good condition to each town, village, or city. If 
 the report is unsatisfactory the proper superintendent shall forthwith 
 report the fact and the cause thereof to the company or firm supply- 
 ing the township library books. Such company or firm shall forthwith 
 take steps to rectify any error or irregularity which may have been 
 made in the filing of the order for the books in question. If the town, 
 village, or city clerk shall fail to report to the county, city, or dis- 
 trict superintendent an$ to the county clerk as provided herein within 
 
LIBRARIES fiOOKS CUPS. 15 
 
 ten days after the receipt of the books he shall be liable to a fo v - 
 feiture in the sum \of five dollars, collected as provided by law for the 
 collection of other forfeitures. 
 
 (Section 486a) 9. The express, freight and postage charges * * * 
 on books purchased under the provisions of this section shall be paid 
 by the town, village or city receiving them. (1913 c. U f 9) 
 
 This chapter makes some quite important changes in the ad- 
 ministration of the Township Library law. It is of especial in- 
 terest to town, village and county clerks. 
 
 Common drinking cups* Section 1418t. 1. It shall be unlawful 
 for any person, firm or corporation to furnish, or to permit the use 
 of, the common drinking cup on railroad trains, in railroad sta- 
 tions, in any state or other public building, on the streets or in 
 public parks, in the public, parochial or private schooils or in other 
 educational institutions, in hotels and lodging houses, theaters, 
 department stores, barber shops or in such other places or build- 
 ings in the state as the state board of health may find the use 
 therein of the common drinking cup to be inimical to the public 
 health. 
 
 2. Any person, firm or corporation, owning or having the man- 
 agement or control of such railroads, buildings, schools or educa- 
 tional institutions or of such places or buildings in which the state 
 board of health may find the use of the common drinking cup to 
 be inimical to the public health, as provided in this section, vio- 
 lating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty 
 of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished 
 by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. 
 (1913 c. 15S) 
 
 Rebindiiig school library books. Section 486k. 1. The state 
 superintendent of public instruction, the secretary of the free li- 
 brary commission, and the attorney general shall constitute a state 
 committee on the rebinding of school library books. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of said committee to make out during 
 the month of January each year an approved list of firms engaged 
 in bookbinding to which school library books may be sent for re- 
 binding under the provisions of this act. In making out said list 
 the said committee shall take into consideration convenience of lo- 
 cation of firms doing bookbinding, the character of their work, 
 their financial responsibility, and any other matter or matters hav- 
 ing a bearing on the satisfactory rebinding of school library books, 
 the cost of rebinding, and the facilities and cost of transportation 
 to and from the bindery. 
 
16 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 3. Before any bookbinding firm is placed on said approved list, 
 an agreement shall have been entered into between such firm and 
 the state committee on the rebinding of school library books as to 
 prices to be charged for the rebinding of books as provided for by 
 this act and such other matters as said committee may deem es- 
 sential to the carrying out of the intent thereof. Each such agree- 
 ment shall contain a clause authorizing said committee to drop the 
 firm from such approved list in case the terms of the agreement 
 are not complied with by the firm in question. 
 
 4. During the last month of the annual school term in every 
 school district coming under the provisions of sections 486a to 
 48 6 j, inclusive, of the statutes, known as the township library law, 
 the teacher, principal or superintendent, as the case may be, shall 
 set aside those books in the school library or libraries, which are 
 in need of rebinding, and he shall supply to the district clerk a 
 list in duplicate of the titles of the books thus set aside, also a 
 list of the approved bookbinding firms, together with such other 
 readily obtainable information regarding the books set aside as 
 may be called for by the state or county superintendent on blanks 
 which may be supplied for the purpose. Only those school library 
 books shall be set aside for rebinding whose original cost, whose 
 value as school library books, whose sanitary condition and condi- 
 tion as to wear and tear and cleanliness are such as, in the judg- 
 ment of the teacher, principal or superintendent, to justify rebind- 
 ing. 
 
 5. It shall be unlawful for the district clerk to make out an or- 
 der for the payment of the last month's salary of the teacher, prin- 
 cipal or superintendent, as the case may be, before the books for 
 rebinding, if there be any such books, shall have been set aside 
 and a list thereof has been received by him, as provided in the 
 last preceding paragraph of this section. If there are no books 
 needing rebinding, whose cost, value, and conditions justify re- 
 binding, then a written statement to that effect signed by the 
 teacher, principal or superintendent shall be substituted for said 
 list of books for rebinding otherwise to be provided. 
 
 6. At the first regular or special meeting of the school board af- 
 ter the clerk has received the said list of books needing rebinding, 
 he shall present said list to the board for its consideration and 
 the board shall' forthwith take formal action on the question of 
 having the books rebound under the provisions of this act. It 
 shall be the duty of the school board to take action not later than 
 one month after the district clerk has received said list of books 
 needing rebinding. If necessary, a special meeting shall be called 
 for the purpose. 
 
SALE OF LlQUOtl. 17 
 
 ?. Payment for the rebinding of school library books under the 
 provisions of this act shall be made from any funds in the treas- 
 ury of the school district not otherwise appropriated. The first 
 year any school district takes advantage of this act the amount ex- 
 pended for this purpose shall not exceed an amount equal to twenty 
 cents for each person of school age in the district; thereafter such 
 amount shall not exceed ten cents per person of school age per an- 
 num in any one school district. 
 
 8. Lists of approved "bookbinding firms as provided for in this act 
 shall be distributed to teachers, principals, and superintendents be- 
 tween the first day of March and the first day of May each year 
 in such manner as other publications are distributed from the 
 office of the state superintendent of public instruction. (1013 c. 116) 
 A list of book-binding firms approved by the state will be sent 
 to the county superintendents after next January. Section 4 is 
 of especial interest to school officers and teachers, inasmuch as 
 it places upon them the responsibility of determining what books 
 are in need of rebinding, what books are worth rebinding and 
 what books are not. Careful lists must be made of such books. 
 It will be noticed that the district clerk is especially authorized 
 to withhold the payment of the last month's salary of a teacher 
 or superintendent if the books which are to be rebound are not 
 properly selected, listed, etc. 
 
 Meetings of university regents. Section 380a. The meetings of 
 the board of regents of the university shall be open to the public 
 and the press and all records of such meetings and of all proceed- 
 ings of such board shall be open to inspection by the public and 
 the press at any reasonable hours thereafter; provided, that said 
 board may hold executive sessions, the findings of said executive 
 sessions to be made a part of the records of the proceedings of said 
 board. 
 
 Section 396a. The meetings of the board of regents of the nor- 
 mal schools shall be open to the public and the press and all rec- 
 ords of such meetings and of all proceedings of such board shall 
 be open to inspection by the public and the press at any reasonable 
 hours thereafter; provided, that said board may hold executive 
 sessions, the findings of said executive sessions to be made a part 
 of the records of the proceedings of said board. (1918 c. 200) 
 
 + Sale of liquor forbidden in certain cases. Section 155 7n. Every 
 keeper of any saloon, shop, or place of any nature or character 
 whatsoever for the sale of any strong, spirituous, malt, ardent, or 
 intoxicating liquor, who shall either directly or indirectly suffer 
 or permit any person of either sex under the age of twenty-one 
 years, unaccompanied by his or her parent or guardian, or suffer or 
 
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18 SCtiOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 19ll 
 
 permit any person to whom the sale of any ardent, spirituous or in* 
 ijxicating liquors \or drinks has been forbidden in the manner pro* 
 bided by law^ who is not * * * a resident, employe, or a bona fide 
 lodger or boarder on the premises of such licensed person, to linger 
 or loiter in or about any barroom or other room on such premises 
 in which intoxicating liquor is sold or dispensed, shall for every such 
 offense be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, besides 
 costs, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding sixty days; 
 and any such person so lingering or loitering, as aforesaid, who is 
 not a resident, employe, or a bona fide lodger or boarder on the prem- 
 ises, or who is not accompanied by his or her parent or guardian, 
 shall also be liable to a penalty of not more than twenty dollars, be- 
 sides costs, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days in the county 
 jail. (1913 c. 204) 
 
 While this is not properly an educational law, it is one that 
 
 should be widely known by interested parties in order that its 
 
 provisions may be complied with. 
 
 Prevention of accidents to be taught. Section 447g. 1. It shall 
 be the duty of each teacher in a public school in the state of Wis- 
 consin to devote not less than thirty minutes in each month during 
 which such school is in session to instructing the pupils thereof 
 as to ways and means of preventing accidents. 
 
 2. The state superintendent of public instruction shall prepare 
 and publish at the expense of the state a book conveniently ar- 
 ranged in chapters or lessons for the purpose of the instruction pro- 
 vided in this section and shall furnish a copy thereof to each 
 teacher required to give such instruction. 
 
 3. The members of the board of education, school directors, 
 trustees, or other bodies or persons having control of the schools 
 of a township, village or city shall cause a copy of this section to 
 be printed in the manual or handbook prepared for the guidance 
 of teachers, where such manual is in use. (1913 c. 218) 
 
 This chapter presumes that every teacher will plan to give 
 certain instruction to the pupils that shall make clear to them 
 the necessity of exercising care in the prevention of accidents. 
 Since the "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," it 
 means children shall be taught to do what they can to avoid 
 causes of accidents. This statute means that instruction shall 
 be given not only to warn the children against accidents but. 
 also instruction in what to do if an accident occurs. 
 
 Industrial schools Stout Institute. Section 553p 10. The 
 state board of industrial education shall also constitute a body 
 corporate under the name of the "Board of Trustees of the Stout 
 Institute," and shall possess all powers necessary or convenient to 
 accomplish the objects and perform the duties prescribed by law. 
 
ACCIDENTS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS. J) 
 
 In such capacity, such board shall also employ such clerks and 
 assistants as may be necessary to properly conduct its affairs. The 
 state treasurer shall be ex officio treasurer of the board, but the 
 board * * * shall appoint a suitable person to receive fees or 
 other moneys that may be due such board, * * * to account there- 
 for, and to pay * * * such moneys, within one week of their 
 receipt, to the state treasurer. Such payments shall be credited to 
 Stout institute. 
 
 4. There is annually appropriated on July first twenty thousand 
 dollars payable from any moneys in the general fund not other- 
 wise appropriated for Stout institute for current expenses. Any 
 unexpended balance shall be available in subsequent years. 
 
 5. Any unexpended balance of the sum set aside for such insti- 
 tute pursuant to chapter 616, laws of 1911, and on hand July 1, 
 1013, shall be available thereafter for such purposes. 
 
 6. There is appropriated on July 1, 1913, sixty-five thousand 
 dollars payable from any moneys in the general fund not other- 
 wise appropriated, for Stout institute for the purposes set out in 
 subdivisions (b) and (c) of subsection 9 of this section. 
 
 7. There is appropriated on March 1, 1914, seventy-five thousand 
 dollars payable from any moneys in the general fund not other- 
 wise appropriated, for Stout institute for the purposes set out in 
 subdivision (a) of subsection 9 of this section. 
 
 8. There is appropriated on July 1, 1914, one hundred twenty- 
 five thousand dollars, payable from any moneys in the general 
 fund not otherwise appropriated, for Stout institute for the pur- 
 poses set out in subdivision (a) of subsection 9 of this section. 
 
 9. The sums appropriated for Stout institute in subsections 6, 7, 
 and 8 of this section are for the following purposes: 
 
 (a) $200,000 for the erection of a building for the household 
 arts department including an auditorium and offices for the ad- 
 ministrative work in the Stout institute in Menomonie, Wisconsin. 
 
 (b) $50,000 for an addition to the present manual training 
 building in use by the institute, to provide for an extension of the 
 present heating plant by an enlargement of the existing boiler 
 room and coal storage room and by the purchase and installation 
 of the necessary additional boilers and also to provide in said ad- 
 dition, rooms necessary to accommodate classes in bricklaying and 
 cement work, plumbing, carpentry, moulding and mill work. 
 
 (c) $15,000 for the purchase of land for a campus and to pro- 
 vide for the future development of the Stout institute. 
 
 10. All moneys collected or received by each and every person 
 
20 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 for, or in behalf of Stout institute, are appropriated for such in- 
 stitute. (1013 c. 2?,!)) 
 
 The purpose of this act is to provide permanently for the 
 Stout Institute, located at Menomonie. This school is designed 
 for the purpose of training teachers to take charge of the dif- 
 ferent phases of industrial education. 
 
 Truant officers; appointment and duties. Section 439b. 1. 
 In all cities of the first class the board of education or any board 
 having similar powers, shall appoint ten or more truant officers; 
 * * * in all * * * cities * * * of the second and third 
 classes, such board shall appoint one or more truant officers, and in 
 all cities of the fourth class the chief of police and the police officers 
 may be truancy officers, whose * * * duties it shall be to see that 
 the provisions of this act are -enforced. * * * 
 
 2. When of his personal knowledge, or by report or complaint 
 from any resident of the city, or by report or complaint as pro- 
 vided herein, a truant officer believes that any child is unlawfully 
 and habitually absent from school and not otherwise receiving in- 
 struction as provided in section 439a as amended, he shall immedi- 
 ately investigate and render all service in his power, to compel 
 such child to attend some public, parochial or private school which 
 the person having control of the child shall designate, or if over 
 fourteen and under sixteen years of age, to attend school or be- 
 come regularly employed at home or elsewhere, and upon failure 
 he shall serve a written notice as required in section 4 of this act 
 and proceed as hereinafter provided against the person having 
 charge of such child. And in all * * * towns and villages 
 the sheriff of the county, his undersheriff, and deputies shall be 
 the truant officers, and it shall be the duty of all truant officers 
 named in this section to enforce the provisions of this act as pro- 
 vided herein. 
 
 Section 439cd. 1. Truant officers in cities * * * of the first, 
 second and third classes shall receive such compensation as shall be 
 fixed by the boards of education of such cities or boards having sim- 
 ilar powers. 
 
 2. The chief of police and the police officers >of cities of tJie fourth 
 class may perform- the duties of truant officers in addition to the 
 other duties devolving upon them, and shall receive no> extra or addi- 
 tional compensation therefor. 
 
 3. When the sheriff, undersheriff, and his deputies are acting as 
 truant officers as provided herein, they shall be paid the same fees 
 as provided for such officers in criminal actions brought under the 
 laws of this state, and in counties where the sheriff and deputies 
 
TRUANT OFFICERS SCHOOL LAWS. 21 
 
 are paid an annual salary no extra compensation shall be allowed. 
 (J913 c. 230) 
 
 This is a truancy law and specifies duties of various officers. 
 
 It is of especial interest to chiefs of police and police officers of 
 
 cities of the fourth class. 
 
 Loans to school districts. Section 258a. The loans provided for 
 by subdivision 5 of the preceding section may .be made for any 
 term not exceeding twenty years, may be made payable in instal- 
 ments, and be in such amounts as shall not, in connection with all 
 other indebtedness of the town, village, city or county applying 
 therefor, exceed five per centum of the average assessed valuation 
 01 the taxable property therein for the three years next preceding 
 the application for such loan; provided, that such loan may be 
 made to pay off existing indebtedness and may be paid over in in- 
 stalments as fast as such indebtedness or the evidence thereof is 
 canceled. The rate of interest on such loans shall not be less than 
 * * * four * * * per centum per annum. 
 
 Section 261. Every loan to a school district may be made for 
 such time, not exceeding fifteen years, and of such amount as to- 
 gether with all other indebtedness of such district, shall not ex- 
 ceed five per centum of the last preceding assessed valuation of the 
 property in such district, not less than two-thirds of which valu- 
 ation shall be on real estate, and not exceeding in any case twenty- 
 five thousand dollars, as may be agreed upon; the principal shall 
 be payable in equal annual instalments with interest at a uniform 
 rate of * * * four * * * per centum per annum, pay- 
 able annually. No such loan shall be made until proof be filed in 
 the office of said commissioners of the complete performance on 
 the part of such district of each and every act hereinafter required 
 to precede the same. (1913 c. 236) 
 
 The above act changes the rate of interest on loans made by 
 school districts from the trust funds from 3 % to 4 per cent per 
 annum. This chapter is of especial interest to school officers 
 and electors of school districts contemplating borrowing money 
 from the state for the purpose of erecting a school building. The 
 provisions of this and other statutes relating to borrowing money 
 should be carefully studied by school officers, and perhaps others, 
 before meetings are held for the purpose of making loans from 
 the state trust funds. The comments in the school code of 1911 
 should be carefully studied also and suitable blanks with in- 
 structions for making the application should be secured from 
 the office of the chief clerk of the land commissioners, Madison, 
 Wisconsin. There is constant irritation and annoyance in dis- 
 tricts contemplating the erection of school buildings 'arising 
 from the fact that care has not been taken, especially where spe- 
 cial meetings are called, in the matter of calling the meeting, 
 voting upon the resolutions, keeping proper minutes, in fact 
 
22 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 doing the business in an orderly manner. It may be interesting 
 to know that probably one-half of the applications filed with 
 the Land Commissioners are imperfect, and in most cases in- 
 valid, because of irregularities in the proceedings which could 
 have been easily avoided with a little care. The necessity for 
 careful study of the statutes relating to borrowing money and 
 also of the method of procedure, cannot be too carefully em- 
 phasized. 
 
 Teachers may attend county school board conventions. Section 
 459. Twenty days of teaching shall constitute a school month un- 
 less it be otherwise specified in the contract, and all legal holidays, 
 except the day of any primary election or any general election oc- 
 curring on school days shall be counted although no school be 
 taught; but school taught on legal holidays shall not be counted 
 for two school days, and no Saturday shall be counted. The board 
 may give to any teacher employed, without deduction from his 
 wages, the .whole or any part of any time spent by him in attend- 
 ing the sessions of any institute held in the county embracing any 
 part of the district, in attending a school board convention, or in 
 attending the meeting of any teachers' association, upon such 
 teacher furnishing to the clerk, to be filed by him, a certificate of 
 regular attendance on such institute, school board convention, or 
 teachers' association, signed by the person conducting the institute 
 or convention or by the secretary of the association. (1913 c. '>')-') ) 
 
 This statute provides that teachers may attend school board 
 conventions and the regular school days so employed shall be 
 counted as days taught. A meeting of the school board in order 
 to give the teacher the privilege, is necessary before the teacher 
 can lawfully attend and be entitled to wages for the time so 
 spent. 
 
 The teacher must not mark the "attendance" of pupils in the 
 school register where days are taken for the above purpose or 
 where holidays occur. 
 
 Sweeping school rooms, etc. Section 1418w. 1. It shall be un- 
 lawful for any person, firm or corporation to sweep, or permit the 
 sweeping, except when vacuum cleaners or properly filled reservoir 
 dustless brushes are used, of floors in railroad stations, in passen- 
 ger cars, in any state or public building, in the public, parochial 
 or private schools or in other educational institutions, in hotels, 
 department stores, where the public are invited, unless the floor 
 is first sprinkled with water, moist sawdust, or other substance so 
 as to prevent the raising of dust. 
 
 2. Any person, firm or corporation owning, or having the man- 
 agement or control of such railroad stations, state or public build- 
 ings, public, parochial or private schools, hotels, department stores, 
 Avliere the public are invited, who violates any of the provision?- 
 
TEACHERS SWEEPING EXAMINATIONS. 23 
 
 Of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than 
 fifty dollars. (1913 c. 274) 
 
 This is a health measure and is of more or less interest lo all. 
 
 Dissolution of union high school districts in certain cases. Sec- 
 tion 495 20. 1. The electors of the territory comprising a union 
 free high school district may, at any annual meeting or election, 
 vote upon the question of surrendering the certificate of organiza- 
 tion of the union free high school district and the dissolving of 
 the union free high school district; provided, that one-fifth of the 
 electors resident therein shall sign a petition praying for the sub- 
 mission of such question at such annual meeting or election and 
 file the same with the clerk of such union free high school district 
 at least twenty days before such annual meeting or election; and 
 provided further, that no such election shall be held within four 
 years after the date when such district was organized. 
 
 2. Upon the filing of such petition with said clerk, the clerk 
 shall at once cause ten days' notice of such purpose to be given by 
 posting at least six copies thereof in at least six different public places 
 in such tract or territory composing such union free high school 
 district or by publishing any such notice in any newspaper pub- 
 lished in said territory ten days prior to the time set for holding 
 such meeting. The vote shall be taken and conducted in the man- 
 ner prescribed by section 495 9 of the statutes for the election 
 of officers. Those ballots in favor of the surrendering of the cer- 
 tificate and dissolution of the union free high school district shall 
 be written or printed "for surrender," those opposed "against sur- 
 render," and such union free high school district shall not .be dis- 
 solved unless a majority of the electors residing in each component 
 part comprising such territory shall be in favor thereof, and such 
 dissolution shall be effective at the end of the school year in which 
 such meeting or election is held. 
 
 3. After the dissolution of any such district, the property of 
 such dissolved district shall be disposed of and the assets and 
 debts of such dissolved district shall be apportioned and distrib- 
 uted subject to and in the manner provided by section 424 of the 
 statutes, so far as the provisions thereof can be made applicable 
 therefor. (1913 c. 292) 
 
 County teachers' examinations. (Section 461) (8) To hold 
 semiannual public examinations for county teachers' certificates at 
 two or more convenient places within the county, and to give due 
 notice of the time and places at which such examinations will be 
 
24 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 held by a publication in newspapers having a circulation within 
 the county, or by printed notice to teachers and clerks of school 
 boards within the county. Whenever, for any cause satisfactory 
 to the county superintendent, it is necessary to give a private ex- 
 amination to any person desiring a certificate, if the person be 
 found qualified, according to law, he may issue a certificate of the 
 proper grade, which shall remain in force until the next regular 
 public examination in such inspection district. (1913 c. 301) 
 
 This simply provides that superintendents shall hold teach- 
 ers' examinations in the spring and also in the summer or tail. 
 Superintendents are to exercise their discretion as to places 
 where the examinations shall be held. 
 
 Certain restrictions removed. (Section 430) (5) To vote such 
 tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient to purchase or lease a suit- 
 able site for a schoolhouse, to build, hire or purchase a schoolhouse 
 and to keep in repair and furnish th same with the -necessary fuel 
 and appendages. * * * 
 
 (6) To vote such tax as the meeting shall deem proper for the 
 payment of teachers' wages in the district. * * * (1913 c. 302) 
 
 This simply removes certain restrictions that in some cases 
 prevented the electors from voting the necessary amount I'or 
 school purposes because of insufficient population. 
 
 Division of union free high school districts in certain cases. 
 
 (Section 495 14) (9) In cases where a union f ree v high school 
 district consists of two or more entire congressional townships, and 
 the electors of such union free high school district desire to estab- 
 lish another union free high school district, the boundaries of said 
 union free high school district may be changed and another union 
 free high school district set off, provided a majority of the electors, 
 men and women, of the entire territory of said original union fiee 
 high school district shall, at an election called and held in the 
 manner now provided by the statutes for holding an election for 
 the formation of a union free high school district, vote in favor 
 of said division; the lines of division to correspond with township 
 lines. (1913 c. 315) 
 
 High school tuition fees. Section 496k. Whenever persons, not 
 residing in any free high school district and having completed the 
 course of study in the school district in which they reside, or one 
 equivalent thereto, as herein provided, enter any free high school, 
 the free high school board of that district shall be entitled and is 
 hereby authorized to charge a tuition fee for such pupils not to 
 exceed * * * one dollar per week. On or before the first day 
 of July in each year, the secretary of the free high school board 
 
TUITION WINTER TERMS. 25 
 
 shall make a sworn statement to the clerk of the city, town or 
 village from which any person may have been admitted to said free 
 high school. Said statement shall set forth the residence, name, 
 age, and date of entrance to such school, tlu- number of months' 
 attendance during the preceding school year of each person so ad- 
 mitted from such city, town or village; this statement shall show 
 the amount of tuition which, under the provisions of this act, the 
 district is entitled to receive for each person reported as having 
 been a member of the school from such city, town, or village, and 
 the aggregate sum for tuition for all persons so admitted from 
 each city, town or village, which statement shall be filed as a claim 
 against the town, city or village where such person resides, and 
 allowed as other claims are allowed. (1913 c. 325) 
 
 This chapter increases the non-resident fee for attendance upon 
 free high schools from fifty cents a week to one dollar a week; 
 said tuition to be paid by the town or village in which said pu- 
 pil resides. In levying a tax to pay this tuition, attention must 
 be given to the boundaries of the free high school district. Any 
 lands or property lying within a free high school district cannot 
 lawfully be taxed for the purpose of providing for the tuition of 
 non-resident pupils. 
 
 Winter terms for high schools. Section 494a. 1. The high 
 school boards of not exceeding ten high schools not under the su- 
 pervision of a city superintendent may each, under such condi- 
 tions and regulations as the state superintendent of schools may 
 prescribe, establish a winter term commencing between the 30th of 
 October and the 15th day of November, and continuing each year 
 for a number of weeks equal to one-half the number of weeks 
 school is maintained for the regular high school course during 
 that school year. 
 
 2. The qualifications for admission to the course of study of said 
 winter term shall be those prescribed for admission to the regular 
 high school courses; provided, that persons not possessing the 
 qualifications required for admission to the regular courses may be 
 admitted to said winter term course upon the presentation to the 
 high school principal of evidence through examination or other- 
 wise satisfactory to him of ability to carry on the work of said 
 course, and persons between the ages of sixteen and twenty years 
 so admitted shall be entitled to the privileges prescribed in sections 
 49 6 j to 4 9 60, inclusive, of the statutes, and they shall also be en- 
 titled to enter the regular high school classes upon evidence satis- 
 factory to the high school board and principal of their ability to 
 do the work of such classes. 
 
 3. The course of study for such winter term shall receive the 
 approval of the state superintendent; the additional teacher or 
 
26 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 teachers necessary to administer the said winter term course of 
 study in addition to the regular courses of the school, shall be se- 
 lected with his advice and consent, and the course of study shall 
 be administered in a manner to meet his approval. Said teacher or 
 teachers shall have the qualifications prescribed for teachers in free 
 high schools. The salary of said teacher or teachers shall not be 
 counted in apportioning the general special aid or any special aid 
 for agriculture, manual training or domestic science for a school 
 administering said winter term course under the provisions of this 
 act. 
 
 4. On the first day of July of each year the clerk of each such 
 high school board shall report to the state superintenent, in such 
 form as may be required, setting forth the facts relating to the cost 
 of maintaining the department established under this act; the 
 character of the work done; the number and names of teachers 
 employed, and the length of time it was maintained during the 
 preceding year; and upon the receipt of such report, if it shall 
 appear that the department has been maintained in a satisfactory 
 manner, according to the provisions of this section, the said super- 
 intendent shall make a certificate to that effect and file it with the 
 secretary of state. Upon receiving such certificate the secretary 
 of state shall draw his warrant upon the treasury for two-thirds 
 the amount actually expended for the salary or salaries of said ad- 
 ditional teacher or teachers during the year for which the state 
 aid is received, not, however, to exceed $500 for any one school, said 
 aid to be payable from the appropriation for winter term in high 
 schools to the treasurer of the high school district maintaining 
 the school. 
 
 Section 172 116. There is annually appropriated on July 1, 
 not to exceed five thousand dollars, payable from any moneys in 
 the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, for maintaining 
 winter terms in high schools as provided in section 494a. (1913 c. 3^6} 
 
 This chapter provides for the establishment of a new and 
 peculiar department in connection with a free high school. 
 Its purpose is to offer opportunities for persons who, owing to 
 circumstances, cannot take the regular high school work to im- 
 prove themselves along educational lines. It will be noted that 
 the teacher having charge of this school must possess high and 
 satisfactory qualifications. Graduates of country schools who can 
 only give a part of the winter to school work will find this a 
 popular, helpful and valuable department. 
 
 Schools for children who are deaf or who have defective speech. 
 
 (Section 578) 1. Upon application by the board of education of 
 any village or city, made to the state superintendent, he may grant 
 permission to such city or village to establish and maintain within 
 
DEFECTIVE SPEECH STENOGRAPHY, ETC. 27 
 
 its corporate limits one or more schools for the instruction of deaf 
 persons or persons with defective speech or unable to talk, who 
 are residents of the state. 
 
 (Section 578. 2) (2) There shall be paid out of the state 
 treasury annually in the month of July, to the treasurer of the 
 school district board or of the board of education in the city or 
 village maintaining such school or schools under the charge of 
 one or more teachers, whose qualifications shall be approved by the 
 state superintendent, the sum of one hundred fifty dollars for each 
 deaf or defective speech pupil instructed in such school or schools 
 at least nine months during the year next preceding the first day 
 of July, and a share of such sum proportionate to the term of in- 
 struction of any such pupil who shall be so instructed less than 
 nine months during such year, and the additional sum of one 
 hundred dollars for 'each deaf or defective speech pupil not resid- 
 ing in the school district where the school for the deaf or those 
 with defective speech is located, but residing in this state, who has 
 been so instructed, and who finds it necessary while attending the 
 school for the deaf or those ivith defective speech to pay for board 
 in the district maintaining such school or schools or to pay for 
 transportation to and from such school, or both, when the parents 
 of such deaf or defective speech child are unable to meet this ex- 
 pense, and a share of such one hundred fifty dollars or two hundred 
 fifty dollars as the case may be proportionate to the term of in- 
 struction of any such pupil who shall be so instructed less than 
 nine months during such year; provided, however, that no deduc- 
 tion shall be made in said appropriation in the case of any child who 
 has been absent because of illness not to exceed a mynth for any one 
 period of illness. (1013 c. 3-50) 
 
 Stenography, typewriting niul bookkeeping in high schools. Sec 
 
 tion 49 6c 3. 1. Any high school which shall establish and main- 
 tain a course or courses in stenography, typewriting and book- 
 keeping shall be entitled to and shall receive special state aid there- 
 for in like manner and under like conditions as is provided in sec- 
 tions 496b and 496c of the statutes for high schools maintaining 
 courses in manual training, domestic science or agriculture; pro- 
 vided, that the maximum which any high school may receive under 
 this section shall be three hundred fifty dollars. 
 
 2. The board of education of any such high school may restrict 
 admission to said courses }n stenography or bookkeeping to high 
 school students, and may withhold graduation or certification of 
 students from such courses until such students have completed the 
 regular high school course. 
 
28 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 3. State aid for high schools for stenography, typewriting and 
 bookkeeping shall be paid from the appropriation made for high 
 schools maintaining courses in manual training, domestic science 
 or agriculture. (1913 c. 373) 
 
 This places a department in which stenography, typewriting 
 and bookkeeping are taught in the same class with manual train- 
 ing, domestic science and agriculture departments maintained in 
 connection with a high school. The amount of state aid offered 
 for the establishment of a stenography, typewriting and book- 
 keeping department, is $350, while in the case of manual train- 
 ing, domestic science and agriculture it is but $250 when these 
 branches are maintained in connection with the high school only. 
 The law does not require or provide that stenography, etc., may 
 be taught in the grades and any special state aid received there- 
 for. 
 
 Consolidation of districts; special aid. Section 496 1. 1. 
 Whenever fifteen per cent of the electors of any rural school dis- 
 trict, and one or more contiguous school districts or subdistricts 
 within or outside of an incorporated village shall petition therefor 
 the respective school boards shall meet at a place designated by the 
 school board of the petitioning district having the largest popula- 
 tion to fix a time for an election to determine whether the district 
 schools within the districts shall be consolidated. They shall fix 
 the date of the election at not less than four nor more than eight 
 weeks from the time of their meeting and notify the district clerks 
 of the date. The district clerks of the respective districts and sub- 
 districts shall post the notices of election as notices of school dis- 
 trict meetings are posted. The elections shall be held by the school 
 officers of the respective districts by written ballots. They shall 
 report the result of the election in their respective districts to the 
 cierk of the district in which the meeting to fix the time of the 
 election is held, within three days after the election. The resp~-c- 
 tive school boards one week after the election shall meet in the 
 same manner and place as for calling the election and shall canvass 
 the returns. 
 
 2. If a majority of those of each district voting at the election 
 vote in favor of consolidating the district schools in their respec- 
 tive school districts, the territory included constitutes a consolidated 
 rural school district. 
 
 3. The school boards at the time of canvassing the returns 
 shall appoint a time and place for the first district meeting and 
 ^shall post a written notice thereof in at least three public places 
 in each of the several districts or subdistricts which compose the 
 consolidated school district. 
 
 Section 496 2. A consolidated rural school district shall be 
 deemed organized when any two of the officers elected at its first 
 
CONSOLIDATION SPECIAL AID. 29 
 
 legal meeting file with the clerk of the meeting for canvassing re- 
 turns, their written acceptances of the office to which they have 
 been respectively elected, or when it has exercised the franchises 
 and privileges of the district for the term of one year. A consoli- 
 dated rural school district lawfully organized is a body corporate 
 and possesses the usual powers of a public corporation, by the 
 
 name and style of "Consolidated Rural School District No 
 
 of " (the town or village, as the case may be, in 
 
 which the school building is located or proposed to be located). 
 Such numbers shall be designated by the board or boards in the 
 order of the formation of consolidated rural school districts. The 
 board shall make its contracts in its corporate name. 
 
 Section 496 3. When a consolidated rural school district shall 
 be lawfully organized, the school districts or subdistricts out of 
 which it shall have been formed shall cease to exist as school dis- 
 tricts or bodies corporate, and the title to all property and assets 
 of every nature of the several school districts and subdistricts out 
 of which it was organized, shall thereupon become vested in the 
 consolidated rural school district, and all valid subsisting claims 
 and obligations against and contracts of the said several school dis- 
 tricts and subdistricts shall continue to be valid claims and obli- 
 gations against them severally. All claims and obligations arising 
 after the formation of a consolidated school district shall be against 
 the consolidated school district. The consolidated rural school dis- 
 trict shall maintain and conduct the schools theretofore maintained 
 and conducted by the several districts and subdistricts, until such 
 time as the consolidated rural school district shall have purchased 
 or erected and equipped a building in which school can be conducted. 
 
 Section 496 4. The consolidated rural school district established 
 nnder sections 496 1 to 496 12, inclusive, shall have authority 
 to borrow money under the conditions specified in sections 474, 475 
 and 476 of the statutes. 
 
 Section 496 5. Consolidated rural school districts shall be en- 
 titled to and shall share in the distribution of the common school 
 fund income and other school funds, in the same manner as school 
 districts maintaining common and graded schools. In case a high 
 school is maintained, the consolidated rural school shall be entitled 
 to and share as in the case of union free high schools. 
 
 Section 496 6. Special state aid partially to defray the cost of 
 erecting and equipping a school building shall be granted to conso- 
 lidated rural school districts as follows: 
 
 (1) To a consolidated rural school district maintaining a school 
 consisting of one department formed by the uniting of two or more 
 
30 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 school districts or subdistricts, one-half the cost, not to exceed five 
 hundred dollars to any one school; 
 
 (2) To a consolidated rural school district maintaining a school 
 consisting of a graded school of two departments, formed by the 
 uniting of the schools of two or more school districts or subdis- 
 tricts, one-half the cost, not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars to 
 any one school; 
 
 (3) To a consolidated rural school district maintaining a school 
 consisting of a graded school of three departments, formed by the 
 uniting of the schools of two or more school districts or subdistricts, 
 one-half of the cost, not to exceed two thousand dollars to any one 
 school; 
 
 (4) To a consolidated rural school district maintaining a school 
 consisting of a graded school of four or more departments, formed 
 by the uniting of the schools of three or more school districts or sub- 
 districts, one-half of the cost, not to exceed three thousand dollars 
 to any one school; 
 
 (5) To a consolidated school district maintaining a school con- 
 sisting of a graded school and a high school, formed by the uniting 
 of all the districts and subdistricts of a township, one-half of the 
 cost, not to exceed five thousand dollars to any one school. 
 
 Section 496 7. All plans and expense accounts for additions to 
 school buildings, or for new buildings under sections 496 1 to 
 496 12, inclusive, shall be submitted to the state superintendent. 
 No state aid shall be granted unless the state superintendent has 
 approved the plans when thus submitted. 
 
 Section 496 8. The clerk of the school board of consolidated 
 rural school districts shall, on or before the fifteenth day of July 
 of each year, make to the state superintendent of public instruction 
 a report stating the number of departments in the school, the total 
 expense for the previous year, and such other information as the 
 state superintendent of public instruction requires. 
 
 Section 496 9. The officers of any consolidated rural school 
 district may enter into contracts for the transportation of pupils to 
 the consolidated rural schools maintained under their authority. 
 
 Section 496 10. The consolidated rural school district shall re- 
 ceive special state aid for transportation upon complying with the 
 following conditions: 
 
 (1) Transportation shall be provided for at least thirty-two 
 weeks, including legal holidays. 
 
 (2) The average daily attendance of the pupils transported from 
 any districts or subdistrict to any consolidated rural school or state 
 graded gchool or free high school district, under the provisions of 
 
CONSOLIDATION SPECIAL AID. 3! 
 
 this act shall be eighty per cent of the entire number enrolled for 
 transportation during each term of school. 
 
 (3) Each driver contracted with shall be of excellent moral 
 character, trustworthy and responsible, and shall furnish a safe 
 team with a suitable and comfortable conveyance, well supplied 
 with protections against stormy and inclement weather. 
 
 (4) The clerks of each district or subdistrict taking advantage 
 of sections 496 1 to 496 12, inclusive, shall make a special rt- 
 port to the state superintendent of public instruction showing that 
 the above conditions have been complied with. 
 
 Section 496 11. Each district taking advantage of sections 496 
 1 to 496 12, inclusive, shall receive the same apportionment 
 of the state and other taxes as provided by law, as would have been 
 received had school been maintained in the district. 
 
 Section 496 12. It shall also be lawful for the electors to au- 
 thorize the school board to enter into an agreement with the parent, 
 guardian or other person in charge of any pupil, to compensate 
 such parent, guardian or other person, for transporting any pupil 
 or pupils to and from school, and to enter into contracts for the 
 transportation to and from school of all persons of school age who 
 attend, and to levy a tax, therefor. In all cases where the distance 
 from the home of the pupil or pupils who are to be transported is 
 two miles or less by the nearest traveled highway, the sum per 
 pupil so paid shall be such as may be authorized by the electors; 
 and in all cases where the distance is more than one and less than 
 two miles, the state shall pay five cents per day, and where the 
 distance is more than two miles, ten cents per day for each pupil 
 transported regularly to and from school in some reasonable and 
 comfortable manner for a period of not less than five months. The 
 school board or the town board of school directors and the principal 
 teacher of the school in which such pupil is enrolled shall, on or 
 before the fifteenth day of July of each year, make under .oath a 
 report giving the name and showing the distance and number of 
 days each pupil was transported, the mode of transportation, and 
 the total amount claimed by the districts on account of such trans- 
 portation. 
 
 Section 172 112. There is annually appropriated on July 1, not 
 to exceed fifty thousand dollars payable from any moneys in the 
 general fund, not otherwise appropriated, for consolidated rural 
 school districts established under sections 496 1 to 496 12, in- 
 clusive, for erecting and equipping school buildings and for trans- 
 portation of pupils as provided in said sections. (1913 c. 380) 
 
 This is a chapter that should be carefully perused by all per- 
 sons interested in the consolidation of school districts. The 
 
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32 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 method of bringing it about is quite simple, depending upon pop- 
 ular election and it is hoped that the inducements offered in the 
 way of meeting the expense of erecting and equipping a school 
 building will prove a helpful factor in providing better school 
 privileges in many cases. Special aid for building paid by the 
 state is granted in a lump sum, and but once. No matter what 
 the cost of the building may be, the maximum amount to be paid 
 by the state is named in each case. For instance, if two districts 
 consolidate and maintain a state graded school of two depart- 
 ments and a building is erected and equipped at a cost of $4500, 
 the state will pay but $1500. The consolidated district must 
 bear the additional expense of $3,000. 
 
 Department of pharmacy state university. Section 3923m 12. 
 The board of regents of the state university are authorized and 
 directed to establish, equip and maintain in the department of 
 pharmacy of the state university a pharmaceutical experiment sta- 
 tion. The duties of the said station shall be. 
 
 (1) To cooperate with the bureau of plant industry of the depart- 
 ment of agriculture in the maintenance of the northern station for 
 the cultivation of medicinal plants and to disseminate such infor- 
 mation as may lead to the proper cultivation of medicinal plants 
 and the production of high grade vegetable drugs in this state; and 
 
 (2) To serve the public at large by cooperation with both 
 pharmacists and physicians in securing for the sick the best medi- 
 cines that pharmaceutical science and art can provide, and further 
 by cooperation with the sta-te board of pharmacy, the state board 
 of health, and the dairy and food commission to bring about these 
 results. 
 
 (Section 172 53.) 2. There is annually appropriated on July 1, 
 twenty-five hundred dollars, payable from any moneys in the gen- 
 eral fund, not otherwise appropriated, to the regents of the uni- 
 versity for the department of pharmacy, to carry out the provisions 
 of section 392em 12. (1913 c. 404) 
 
 Equalization of joint high school and other joint districts. (Sec- 
 tion 471) 1. The relative valuation of taxable property in the sev- 
 eral parts of any joint school district or of any joint high school dis- 
 trict, shall not be equalized except as herein provided. At any time 
 prior to the * * * fifteenth day of Octooer of any year any three 
 freeholders resident in that part of any town, city or village forming 
 a part of any joint school district, or -forming a part of any high 
 school district or if the number of freeholders in such part of any 
 town, city or village "be less than three then all of such freeholders, 
 may file with the clerk of such district a petition praying for an 
 equalization of the relative valuation of taxable property in the sev- 
 eral parts of such district. The clerk shall thereupon and prior to 
 
EQUALIZATION BOOKS CERTIFICATES 1915. 33 
 
 * * * October twenty-fifth of such year notify in writing the as- 
 sessor of every town, city and village in part embraced in such district 
 to meet as provided in subsection 2- of this section. 
 
 2. The said assessors shall meet at the district school house with 
 their respective assessment rolls * * * at the time designated in 
 such .notice for the purpose of comparing and investigating the as- 
 sessed valuation of the taxable property in the several parts of such 
 district separated by town, city or village lines and shall determine 
 whether the assessed valuation of such property on the assessment 
 rolls be just or not. 
 
 5. If the assessors cannot agree, they shall call to their aid * * * 
 the assessor of incomes of the county, whose vote shall decide the con- 
 troversy. The determination when made shall be certified in writ- 
 ing to the district clerk. (1913 c. 1,06) 
 
 This chapter amends the law relating to equalizing the assessed 
 valuation of joint school districts for school purposes. It applies 
 to high school districts as well as ordinary school districts. The 
 valuation when once equalized remains fixed until another equal- 
 ization is called for. 
 
 Ownership of school library books in certain cases. Section 
 486m. 1. County and district superintendents and city superin- 
 tendents of cities of the fourth class shall, each and severally, acces- 
 sion and care for as county, superintendent district, or city school 
 district property, free sample books which are on the list of books 
 prepared by the state superintendent as provided by section 486a 
 of the statutes and which are received by them after their election 
 or appointment and during their term of office as superintendents, 
 and they shall turn, said books and an accession list thereof over 
 to their successors in office together with similar sample books 
 and accession lists received from their predecessors in office, in like 
 manner as the law requires that other county, superintendent 
 district, or city school district property shall be cared for and turned 
 over. (1913 c. 409) 
 
 This chapter in effect makes free sample books the names of 
 which are on the school library lists county property. 
 
 Teachers certificates; qualifications for; 1915. Section 450d. 1. 
 On and after July 1, 1915 no person who shall not have taught in 
 a public school for at least one year, shall be granted a county or 
 city teacher's certificate to teach in the public schools of the state 
 of Wisconsin, unless, in addition to passing an examination in all 
 of the subjects required by law for a county or city teacher's cer- 
 tificate, he shall have completed the course of study provided for 
 the common schools of the state of Wisconsin, or one equivalent 
 thereto, or the course of study provided for a graded system of 
 
34 SCHOOL, LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 public schools containing at least eight grades, or one equivalent 
 thereto, and shall have had at least two additional years of instruc- 
 tion in training, one year of which, or its equivalent, shall have 
 been devoted to professional studies preparatory to the work of 
 teaching; provided, that graduates of four year high schools not 
 maintaining training courses as provided in subsection 3 shall be 
 required to have had, in addition to the regular work of the high 
 school, only one additional year of training in the professional 
 studies provided in subsection 2. 
 
 2. The term "professional studies," as used in this section, shall 
 be interpreted to include a thorough review of the branches required 
 by law to be taught in the common schools of the state of Wiscon- 
 sin, the study of the manual of the course of study provided for the 
 common schools, observation work, at least ten weeks of practice 
 teaching, school management, school law, and such other studies 
 as may be required by the state superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion to qualify a person to teach in the common schools; or, in lieu 
 of the foregoing, a high school training course as provided in sec- 
 tion 450 1 of the statutes. 
 
 3. The two years of additional instruction in training required 
 in subsection 1 may be obtained at a state normal school, a county 
 training school for teachers, or at a free high school having a 
 course of study established for the purpose of training teachers, as 
 provided in section 450 1 of the statutes; provided, that no course 
 for the training of teachers shall be established in a free high school 
 employing less than three teachers, including the principal, and 
 unless the teacher employed to give instruction in professional work 
 and to supervise observation work and practice teaching shall be 
 a graduate of the advanced course from a Wisconsin state normal 
 school, or its equivalent, and who shall, in addition, present evidence 
 satisfactory to the state superintendent of having had at least two 
 years' successful experience as a teacher; and, provided further, 
 that no school shall be continued on the list of schools offering 
 courses for the training of teachers unless the work done therein 
 shall meet the approval of the state superintendent. (1913 c. .'ill) 
 
 Every teacher or person intending to become a teacher should 
 become familiar with the provisions of this statute at once. 
 
 County training school certificates ; value of. Section 411 6. 
 1. Any person who shall complete in a satisfactory manner the 
 course of study prescribed for any county training school, and who 
 shall be of good moral character, shall receive a certificate signed 
 by the principal of the school and by the members of the county 
 training school board. Said certificate shall certify that the person 
 
TRAINING SCHOOL CERTIFICATES $40 PER MONTH. 35 
 
 named herein has satisfactorily completed the course of study 
 prescribed for the county training school, and is of good moral 
 character; it shall also contain a list of the standings secured by 
 the person on the completion of each of the studies pursued in the 
 school. 
 
 2. Such * * * certificates shall qualify the holder to teach in 
 any common school in the county under the jurisdiction of the county 
 superintendent of schools in lohich the county training school is lo- 
 cated for a term of three years from the date of, its issuance; pro- 
 vided, that in case the holder of the certificate shall not have had at 
 least one year of successful experience he shall not be qualified to act 
 as principal of a second class state graded school, nor shall he be elig- 
 ible to teach in any position for which a state certificate shall be re- 
 quired by law; provided, that in case the holder thereof has never 
 taught, or cannot furnish satisfactory evidence of having successfully 
 taught for at least one school year (seven months) in the public schools 
 of this state, said certificate shall be of full force and effect for one 
 year only from its date of issue. 
 
 3. When satisfactory evidence of successful teaching for at least 
 one year (seven months) upon said training school certificate shall 
 be furnished to the county or district superintendent, said superin- 
 tendent shall remove the limitation, whereupon the training school 
 certificate shall have full force and effect for two additional years. 
 
 4. Be it further provided that in case the holder of a county 
 teacher's training school certificate shall have completed a four 
 year high school course, and shall have taught successfully for at 
 least seven school months, said certificate shall, when countersigned 
 by the county or district superintendent, legally qualify the holder 
 to teach, for a period of five years from the date when such certi- 
 ficate was granted, and shall also be a legal qualification to teach 
 in any department of any state graded school, the principalship of 
 a state graded school of the first class excepted. 
 
 * * * 5. Any school superintendent or officer authorized to grant 
 certificates to teachers in Wisconsin schools is hereby authorized, in 
 his discretion, to accept standings obtained by the completion of 
 studies in any county training school in the state, when duly certi- 
 fied by the principal of said school, in lieu of actual examination 
 by said superintendent or examiner at any time within three years 
 from the date of the certificate of completion of the course, by the 
 person desiring to have such standings accepted. (1913 c. - ! i!8) 
 
 Teachers' salary; $40 per month. Section 558. The town clerk 
 shall apportion all school money received from the state and also 
 all raised by the town, among the several districts and parts of 
 
36 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 districts within the town, in proportion to the number of persons 
 between the ages of four and twenty years residing in each, taking 
 such number from the last annual report of their respective dis- 
 trict clerks. No money shall be apportioned to any district or 
 part of a district, except as herein provided, and as provided in 
 section 554 of this chapter, by the discretion of the state superin- 
 tendent, unless the last annual report of such district, verified by the 
 affidavit of the district clerk, shadl show that all school money 
 received from the state by such district has been used in paying a 
 legally qualified teacher, at a salary of not less than forty dollars 
 per month, and that a common school has been taught in such dis- 
 trict by such teacher for at least eight months during the year end- 
 ing with the date of such report. Provided that any time which 
 such report shall show was spent by the teacher or teachers of 
 said district in attendance upon an institute in the county, and was 
 allowed by the district board without deduction from such teacher's 
 wages therefor, shall be included as a part of such eight months. 
 (1913 c. J/34) 
 
 This chapter provides that no school district shall share in the 
 regular apportionment of school funds unless the salary of the 
 teacher is at least forty dollars per month. 
 
 Annual meetings; compensation of school clerks; making annual 
 school reports, etc., etc. Section 425. The annual district meet- 
 ing i>n all school districts not containing in whole or in part an in- 
 corporated city lor village shall be held on the first Monday of * * * 
 June, but in all school districts containing in whole >or in part an in- 
 corporated city or village it shall ~be held o>n the first Monday of July 
 unless that be a legal holiday, in which case it shall be held on the 
 next day, at seven o'clock in the afternoon, unless another hour be 
 fixed by a vote recorded at the last annual meeting, and any annual 
 meeting heretofore or hereafter held shall be valid notwithstanding 
 any provision to the contrary in any special or local law. It shall 
 be the duty of the district board to meet on the Saturday immedi- 
 ately preceding the annual meeting, carefully examine the accounts 
 of the treasurer, and make up a full and itemized report of all re- 
 ceipts and expenditures since the last annual meeting, of the amount 
 in the hands of the treasurer or the amount of the deficit for which 
 the district is liable, of the amount necessary to be raised by taxes 
 for the support of the school for the ensuing year, and of the amount 
 required to pay the interest or principal of any debt, due or to be- 
 come due during such year; which report shall be submitted in writ- 
 ing at the annual meeting and recorded by the clerk at length \vitli 
 the action thereon in the proceedings of the meeting. 
 
ANNUAL MEETING REPORTS COMPENSATION. 37 
 
 (Section 430) (18) At the annual meeting only, to vote a tax to 
 compensate the * * * treasurer, and director, which in districts 
 supporting graded and high schools shall be such sums as may be 
 voted, and in other districts * * * not more than ten nor less 
 than flve dollars to each of the above officers. 
 
 (Section 461) (6) To receive * * * the reports of the district 
 clerks required to be made by law and to transmit abstracts of the 
 same to the state superintendent; * * * and to report on or be- 
 fore the fifteenth day of September tp each town, village or city cleric 
 in the territory under his jurisdiction, the number of persons of 
 school age reported to him by the district clerks as residing in the 
 >several districts or parts \of districts of the several tiwns, villages/ 
 or cities in his county or superintendent district, on the last day of 
 June in each year; and in case there are any parts of joint districts 
 lying in his county or district the schGOlh\ouses of which are situated 
 in other counties, he shall report to the county superintendent of the 
 county in which the schqolhouses >of said joint districts are located 
 the names, sex and number of persons of school age residing in the 
 parts of such joint districts as lie in his county or superintendent 
 district, and from time to time such other facts relating to education 
 in his district as the state superintendent shall require. 
 
 Section 462. It shall be the duty of the district clerk, between the 
 * * * tenth and twenty-fifth days of July in each year, to make 
 and transmit to the * * * county or city superintendent, a writ- 
 ten report * * * bearing date as of the thirtieth day of June, 
 of such year, signed by him and verified by his affidavit, showing: 
 
 First. The number, names and ages of children, male and fe- 
 male designated separately, over the age of four and under the age 
 of twenty years residing in the district, and the names of their 
 parents, guardians or other persons with whom such children re- 
 sided, respectively, on the last day of June preceding. But no 
 such children residing in, held or cared for at any charitable or 
 penal institution of this state shall be included in such enumeration 
 or report; and whenever the state superintendent shall receive in- 
 formation that any such children have been enumerated in the 
 school census of any school district included in the reports made 
 to him, on the basis of which apportionment of money from the 
 school fund income is made, he may require from the district clerk 
 or the secretary of the board of education of said district a verified 
 statement of the whole number of children of school age residing 
 in the district not excluded by the provisions of this section, in 
 such form and manner as the said superintendent may prescribe. 
 Unless the certificate herein provided for shall be made no money 
 shall be apportioned for the benefit of said school district. 
 
38 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 Second. The whole number of children, males and females des- 
 ignated separately, between the ages of four and twenty years 
 taught in the district school during the year for which such report 
 is made by teachers duly qualified. 
 
 Third. The number attending school during the year under the 
 age of four and the number over the age of twenty years. 
 
 Fourth. The whole time, in days, any common school has been 
 taught in the district, including holidays, and the whole number 
 of days such school has been taught by teachers qualified accord- 
 ing to law, including holidays, and the days the teachers may have 
 attended an institute during the year while t"he school was in ses- 
 sion for which no deduction in wages was made by the district 
 board. 
 
 Fifth. The names of all teachers employed during the year, the 
 number of days taught by each, including holidays, and the monthly 
 wages paid to each, and the time allowed any teacher for attend- 
 ance on any institute for which no wages were deducted. 
 
 Sixth. The amount of money received from the town treasurer 
 during the year, designating separately the amount received from 
 apportionment of the school fund income, the amount received 
 from tax levied by county board of supervisors, the amount received 
 from tax voted by the district, and the amount received from all 
 other sources during the year, and the manner in which the same 
 has been expended, showing separately the expenditure of school 
 money received from the state. 
 
 Seventh. Such other facts and statistics in relation to the 
 schools, public or private, in s'uch district as the state superintend- 
 ent may from time to time require. * * * The clerk of each joint 
 district shall report to the county or city superintendent, as the case 
 may be, the number of children residing in .each part of the several 
 towns, villages lor cities embraced in such joint district. He shall 
 also report the amount of the indebtedness of the district. Upon 
 filing with the county superintendent tvithin the time set by law, a 
 complete and satisfactory annual report setting forth all the fact.* 
 required by law to be reported to the dounty or city superintendent, 
 and such other information as may be called for by either the county 
 or state superintendent, the school district clerk in a sch&j-l district 
 having a school census >o/ two hundred persons or less shall be paid 
 from any moneys in the school district treasury of which he is the 
 clerk, the sum of ten dollars, and in all other districts not embrac- 
 ing in whole or i\n part an incorporated city, twenty-five 'dollars, and 
 in school districts embracing in whole or in part a city, such sum as 
 the body electing the school board of such school district may direct; 
 provided, such school clerk shall file with the district treasurer a cer- 
 
ANNUAL REPORTS COMPENSATIONS, ETC. #) 
 
 tificate signed by the county -or city suprintcndent of schools setting 
 forth that the school census for the year ioc$s properly takc^ and* 
 that all reports required by law to be made by school district clerks have 
 been filed and approved. 
 
 Section 464. 1. Each county superintendent shall, on or before the 
 fifteenth day of * * * September in each year, make and trans- 
 mit to the state superintendent a report in writing, setting forth the 
 whole number of * * * districts, the schoolhouses of which are 
 in his county or superintendent district, distinguishing those from 
 which the required reports have been made- to him by the 
 district clerks, and containing an abstract of their reports, and also 
 embracing an abstract of the annual report of the secretary of each 
 free high school in such district, * * * and such other facts and 
 statistics as may be required by the state superintendent. . 
 
 2. Each county superintendent shall also, within the time above 
 mentioned, make and deliver to the county clerk and to the county 
 treasurer a written statement of the whole number of children in 
 each town, village and city under his supervision over the age of 
 four and under the age of twenty years returned from the districts 
 which have maintained schools for * * * eight or more months 
 during the past year as appears from the reports of * * * dis- 
 trict clerks. It shall be the duty of the cownty superintendent, on 
 or before the tenth day of June in each year, t\o send to each school 
 district clerk in his district the necessary blanks upon which the 
 school census and other facts, as may be required in section 462, may 
 be reported. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent, on or 
 before the first day of Jwne in each year, to furnish each county and 
 city superintendent with the necessary blanks upon which the reports 
 called for in section 462 may be made by the several school district 
 clerks in the several counties of the state. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent, on receipt of a 
 satisfactory annual rieport within the time specified by law, to issue 
 to each county or district superintendent a certificate setting forth 
 the fact that the annual report required in this section has been 
 made, filed and approved within the time specified by law. 
 
 4. It shall be the duty of the county clerk, when presented with the 
 certificate authorized in subsection 3, immediately, without action of 
 the county board of supervisors, to draw an order on the county treas- 
 urer in fav*3r of the county superintendent for twenty-five dollars in 
 county \or superintendent districts containing fifty or less school dis- 
 tricts; fifty dollars in superintendent districts containing more than 
 fifty and less than one hundred school districts; seventy-five dollars in 
 superintendent districts containing more than <cne hundred and less 
 than one hundred and fifty school districts, and one hundred dollars 
 
40 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 in superintendent districts containing more than one hundred and 
 fifty school districts. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer to 
 pay such amounts as may be certified by the county clerk from any 
 mfrney in the general fund of the county not otherwise appropriated. 
 Section 465. * * * in all cities having a city superintendent of 
 schools and which are not under the jurisdiction of a county super- 
 intendent, such superintendent of schools shall make the annual report 
 required by * * * section 464 directly to the state superintend ent. 
 * * * (1913 c. 448) 
 
 This chapter amends chapter 94, and is itself amended by chap- 
 ter 765. It amended chapter 94 by depriving the electors of the 
 privilege of voting any compensation to the school district clerk. 
 It is amended by chapter 566 inasmuch as the provision with ref- 
 erence to holding the annual school meeting iu country districts 
 on the first Monday was impossible this year, owing to the fact 
 that the law was not passed until after the first Monday in June. 
 It was also amended by chapter 765. (See said chapter and com- 
 ments following.) Chapter 448 provides, among other things, 
 that the district clerk shall report directly to the county super- 
 intendent, and makes it the duty of the county superintendent 
 ' to notify the town, village or city clerk of the number of chil- 
 dren residing in his town, the amount of taxes levied by the 
 district and the assessed valuation of the district, in order that 
 he may make the proper apportionment of school moneys. The 
 district clerk is to receive a certain specified sum if his annual 
 report is properly made out and placed in the hands of the county 
 superintendent between the 10th and 25th days of July. 
 
 High school training department for teachers. (Section 496c) 
 4. Any board having charge of a free high school, or of a high 
 school having a course of study equivalent to the course of study 
 prescribed by the state superintendent for free high schools, in 
 counties where county training schools or joint county training 
 schools have not been established, may establish and maintain in 
 connection with such high school a teachers' training course, which 
 shall be especially approved by the state superintendent as to sub- 
 jects required to be taught, and the qualifications of teachers in 
 such course. 
 
 See chapter 555 for later measure relating to teachers' train- 
 ing course in high schools. 
 
 Public libraries and reading rooms. Section 931. The common 
 council of every city of the second, third or fourth classes, and the 
 board of trustees of every village, and the board of every town, 
 may establish, equip and maintain a public library and reading 
 room, or maintain and support any public library and reading room 
 already established therein, and may annually levy and cause to 
 be collected as other general taxes are collected, a tax upon the 
 taxable property of such city, village or town, to provide a library 
 
HIGH SCHOOL TRAINING DEPARTMENTS. 41 
 
 fund, * * * to be used exclusively to maintain such library 
 and reading room; provided that in lieu of supporting and main- 
 taining such a public library and reading room, the common coun- 
 cil of every city of the classes named, having a board of education, 
 may, when deemed best for the interests of the city, levy such tax 
 and authorize the board of education of such city to apply and ex- 
 pend the same in aid of the maintenance of any secular or non- 
 sectarian public library and reading room, free to all inhabitants 
 of such city, already established and maintained therein by any 
 society, association or corporation, and the * * * "board of edu- 
 cation shall in such cases deposit with the city clerk the vouchers 
 or Mils covering the expenditures of such library from such tax fund, 
 and the clerk shall draw orders on the treasurer, who shall pay the 
 same as provided in subsection 3 of section 933 of the statutes. 
 
 (Section 933) 3. They shall have exclusive control of the expendi- 
 tures of all moneys collected or donated for the library fund, the 
 purchase of a site and the erection of the library building thereon, 
 and the supervision, construction, furnishing, care and custody of the 
 building or rooms constructed, leased or set apart for library pur- 
 poses; and such moneys shall be drawn from the treasury * * * 
 in the manner prescribed herein. The library board shall audit and 
 approve all vouchers for the expenditures of such library and shall 
 forward the same to the city clerk with a statement thereon signed 
 by the secretary that the expenditure has been incurred and that the 
 library board has audited and approved the bill. The city clerk shall 
 thereupon draw his order upon the treasurer, and the same shall be 
 paid as other city orders are paid. 
 
 Section 935. 1. * * * On or before the first day of August of 
 each year the said board of directors shall make an annual report for 
 the year. * * * Such report shall be submitted to the * * * 
 Wisconsin free library commission and shall state the condition of 
 their trust, the various sums of money received from the library fund 
 and all other sources, and how much money has been expended, the 
 number of books and periodicals on hand, the number added during 
 the year, the number lost or missing, the number of books loaned out, 
 and the general character of such books, with such other statistics, 
 information and suggestions as they may deem of general interest. 
 * * * The said board shall also include in said annual report the 
 names of the directors whose terms expire at the time the report is 
 made. 
 
 2. Within thirty days after the conclusion of 'the fiscal year of the 
 town, city or village in which such library is located, the library board 
 shall make a report stating the condition of their trust, the various 
 sums of mloney received for the use of such library during the year, 
 
42 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 specifying separately the amounts received from appropriations, from 
 the income *of trust funds, from rentals and other revenues of the li- 
 brary, and 'from other sources. They shall also set tout separately the 
 condition of the permanent trust -funds in their control. The said re- 
 port shall state in detail the disbursements on account of such library 
 and shall contain an estimate of the needs of the library for the next 
 succeeding fiscal year. 
 
 Section 925 43. The city treasurer shall collect all city, county 
 and state taxes, receive all moneys belonging to the city or which by 
 law are directed to be paid to him, keep an accurate account of the 
 same in suitable books prepared for that purpose, and i3ay over the 
 money in his hands according to law only upon the lawful order of the 
 city council, signed by the mayor and countersigned by the clerk. He 
 shall keep a detailed account of the money received and disbursed by 
 him in such manner as the council shall direct; his books shall at all 
 reasonable times be open to inspection by any voter of the city. He 
 shall make a report to the council each month and as much oftener 
 as required, which report shall embrace a statement of the receipts 
 and disbursements in his office; and ten days preceding every annual 
 election he shall make and file in the city clerk's office a full and min- 
 ute report of all the moneys received and disbursed by him, of all 
 tax certificates, vouchers and other effects of pecuniary value in his 
 possession, and all other transactions relating to his office from the 
 date of the like report of his predecessor to the date of the report 
 required to be made by him. * * * Except as herein and other- 
 wise provided he shall have such power and authority and perform 
 such duties as treasurers in villages and towns are required to perform 
 under these statutes. He shall receive no fees or per diem except 
 the salary fixed by the council prior to his election, but all fees col- 
 lected by him shall be paid into the city treasury at the end of each 
 
 * * * day. 
 
 Section 925 119. 1. The board of education shall prior to the first 
 day of * * * October each year make an estimate of the expense 
 of the public schools for the ensuing year, including all necessary in- 
 cidental expenses and the amount thereof which it will be necessary 
 to raise by city taxation and certify the same to the city clerk who 
 shall lay the same before the common council at * * * its next 
 regular meeting. * * * It shall be the duty of the common council 
 to consider such estimate and by resolution * * * determine the 
 amount to be raised by city taxation for school purposes for the 
 ensuing year, which amount so fixed shall be included in the annual 
 budget to be raised by a tax called the city school tax, which shall 
 be collected the same as other taxes. 
 
LIBRARIES PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS, ETC. 43 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the city treasurer to * * * keep all 
 moneys raised in any way for school purposes, whether by the state, 
 the county or the city, coming into his * * * hands and to pay 
 out the same whenever the board of education shall present to the 
 city clerk a certified bill, voucher or schedule signed by its president 
 and Secretary setting forth the names of the claimants, the amounts 
 of each claim and the purpose for which expended; such city clerk 
 shall issue orders upon the city treasurer, who shall pay the amounts 
 thereof, provided that funds are on hand in the city treasury appro- 
 priated for school purposes sufficient to pay the same. 
 
 3. Provided * * * that in any city adopting this chapter, 
 if at the time of such adoption the board of education or school 
 board shall have power to levy the city school tax or the district 
 school taxes, such power shall continue unaffected by this chapter, 
 and this section shall not apply to such city nor be in force therein 
 until specially adopted by a vote of three-fourths of the members 
 o? the council. (1913 c. 490) 
 
 Professional school defined; high school training departments 
 may be maintained in certain counties. (Section 450 1) 2. In 
 this act "professional school for teachers" shall mean a state nor- 
 mal school, a county training school for teachers, any school in 
 rank above a high school, offering a course for teachers equivalent 
 to that offered in the state normal schools of Wisconsin, in counties 
 where county training schools or joint county training schools have 
 not been established, * * * a free high school which provides and 
 maintains a teachers' training course approved as to course of study 
 and qualifications of teachers, by the state superintendent, or a 
 teachers' institute maintained under such conditions and restrictions 
 as may be provided for by the board of regents of normal schools, 
 provided that such institute shall be taught by at least two teachers 
 and be of not less duration than six weeks, and shall have in con- 
 nection therewith a model or practice school. 
 
 (Section 450 1) 3. A third grade certificate shall entitle the 
 holder to teach for such period, not more than one year, as may 
 be specified therein, in the superintendent's district in which the 
 certificate is issued. A third grade certificate may be renewed if 
 the holder shall during the life of the certificate attend a profes- 
 sional school for teachers for a period of not less than six weeks 
 and shall receive in such school credits in at least two subjects 
 required for a second grade certificate. The holder of a third 
 grade certificate may also renew the same by passing an examina- 
 
44 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 tion in all the subjects required for a third grade certificate. 
 (1913 c. 491) 
 
 This act also prohibits high school teachers' training depart- 
 ments maintained in certain counties from being recognized as 
 "professional schools. See Chapter 555 laws of 1913 section 49Gb, 
 etc., page 52 of this pamphlet. 
 
 Plan of procedure in changing existing form of school govern- 
 ment in certain cities. Section 926 117o. 1. In any city of the 
 second, third or fourth class organized and operating under a spe- 
 cial charter, upon presentation, to the city clerk, of a petition 
 signed by electors thereof, qualified to vote on school matters, 
 equal in number to thirty per cent of the votes cast in any such 
 city for all candidates for state superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion at the last preceding election of such officer, requesting that 
 the board of education of such city shall be elected pursuant to 
 section 926 117p of the statutes, it shall be the duty of the city 
 council to submit such question to the electors of such city at a 
 special election, duly called, noticed and held pursuant to the pro- 
 visions of law governing special elections in such city. 
 
 2. If a majority of all the votes cast upon such question at such 
 election be in the affirmative, then the board of education shall be 
 elected in accordance with the provisions of said section 926 
 117p. 
 
 Section 926 117p. 1. When the electors have decided in the 
 affirmative under section 926 117o, the board of education shall 
 consist of seven members elected at large from the territory of 
 such city. The members of such board shall be divided as nearly 
 equal as may be into three classes. One class of three members 
 shall be elected for one year, one class of two members for two 
 years, and those of the remaining class for three years. Such 
 members shall be elected at the annual spring election held in 
 such city. The names of the candidates for such office shall be 
 printed upon a separate ballot under the title "members of the 
 board of education." 
 
 2. At the next annual spring election there shall be elected 
 seven members to constitute the board of education for such school 
 district. All qualified electors within such city shall be entitled 
 to vote for such members of the board of education at such elec- 
 tion. 
 
 3. At the first election held for the office of member of the board 
 of education, the two persons receiving the highest number of votes 
 shall be elected for three years, the two receiving the next highest 
 number of votes shall be elected for two years, and the three re- 
 ceiving the next highest number of votes shall be to elected for one 
 
CHANGING $3000 AID HUMANE EDUCATION. 45 
 
 year. Each elector voting at such first election shall be entitled 
 to vote for seven candidates. Thereafter such electors shall elect 
 at each spring election members of the board of education for the 
 term of three years. Each elector shall be entitled to vote for as 
 many candidates as there are members to be elected and the ones 
 receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected. 
 
 4. The votes cast at such election shall be canvassed and return 
 thereof certified to the common council. The common council 
 shall canvass the returns of such election and shall declare the 
 result thereof as for city officers. 
 
 5. The persons elected in accordance herewith shall constitute 
 the board of education of such school district. The term of office 
 of each such member shall commence on the first day of May fol- 
 lowing such election and each member shall hold office until his 
 successor is elected and qualified. Vacancies in such board of edu- 
 cation shall be filled by appointment by the mayor of such city 
 subject to the approval of the council. Notices of election under 
 this statute shall be given as in other elections in said city. 
 (1913 c. 494) 
 
 If the people of any city operating under a special charter de- 
 sire to change their present method of directing the school work 
 of the city, this chapter provides that method. 
 
 County training schools; aid for. (Section 411 5) 2. Upon 
 the receipt of such report, if it shall appear that the school has 
 been maintained in a satisfactory manner for a period of not less 
 than ten months during the year closing on the thirtieth day of 
 the preceding June, the said superintendent shall make a certificate 
 to that effect and file it with the secretary of state. Upon receiv- 
 ing such certificate, the secretary of state shall draw his warrant, 
 payable to the treasurer of * * * such school for * * * 
 an amount equal to the sum expended for the wages of duly approved 
 and qualified teachers employed in the school for at least ten months 
 during the school Wear, provided that a school employing two teachers 
 shall not receive to exceed $3,000 and a school employing three or more 
 teachers shall not receive to exceed $3,500 in any one school year. (1913 
 c. 
 
 Humane education. Section 553a 1. In all public schools in 
 this state it shall be the duty of each and every teacher to teach 
 morality, for the purpose of elevating and refining the character 
 of school children up to the highest plane of life; that they may 
 know how to conduct themselves as social beings in relation to 
 each other, as respects right and wrong and rectitude of life, in 
 addition to the other branches of study now prescribed, and kind- 
 
46 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 ness to and humane treatment and protection of dumb animals and 
 birds, their lives, habits, and usefulness, and the important part 
 they are intended to fulfill in the economy of nature, and such 
 studies on the subject as the board of education may adopt. 
 (1913 c. 506) 
 
 This provides some work for teachers along a new line and in 
 all grades. 
 
 Special aid to state graded schools for transportation and teach- 
 ing agriculture. Section 496f. The state superintendent is hereby 
 authorized to appoint two persons of suitable qualifications to as- 
 sist him in inspecting and supervising the state graded and free 
 high schools, and to aid him in giving information and needed as- 
 sistance to localities in organizing such schools. Such persons shall 
 be known as state school inspectors, and shall each receive an an- 
 nual salary of eighteen hundred dollars, and reimbursement for 
 all actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred, when duly 
 certified to by the state superintendent; said salary and expenses 
 to be paid monthly from the general fund, and to be deducted 
 before the apportionment is made from the annual appropriation pro- 
 vided for * * * special state aid for graded schools * * *. 
 Said state school inspectors, when not engaged in the specific duties 
 enumerated herein, may be assigned for such other duties as the state 
 superintendent may determine and designate. 
 
 (Section 496e) 6. Any school district which shall have main- 
 tained a graded school of the first or second class, in which spe- 
 cial instruction in agriculture and such other industrial subjects 
 as may be prescribed by the state superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion shall have been offered, shall receive in addition to the 
 amount heretofore mentioned, an appropriation of one hundred 
 dollars annually, provided that the course of study in agriculture 
 and the other industrial subjects prescribed by the state superin- 
 tendent shall have been followed, that the work shall have been 
 presented in an efficient manner by a competent teacher, and shall 
 have been approved by the state superintendent, or some member 
 of his staff. 
 
 7. Whenever two or more school districts maintaining one-de- 
 partment rural schools shall consolidate and establish and maintain 
 in such enlarged district a state graded school of either the first 
 or second class, and shall provide transportation for all persons 
 living more than two miles from such consolidated school, accord- 
 ing to the provisions of section 419e of the statutes, then there 
 shall be apportioned to such district, in addition to the apportion- 
 ments heretofore authorized, an additional sum of jone hundred 
 
SPECIAL AID FOR AGRICULTURE. 47 
 
 dollars annually, as special state aid, provided such consolidated 
 districts shall fully comply with all the provisions of the law re- 
 lating to state graded schools. 
 
 Section 172 56. There is annually appropriated on July 1, not 
 to exceed two hundred thousand dollars, payable from any moneys 
 in the general fund, not otherwise appropriated, for special state 
 aid for graded schools to carry out the provisions of sections 496d 
 to 496h, inclusive. If more state aid be demanded it shall be paid 
 proportionally. (1913 c. 513) 
 
 This chapter provides that an additional special state aid may 
 be granted to state graded schools in the amount of $100 in cases 
 where agricultural instruction is properly given. It also provides 
 an additional sum of $100 annually to encourage transportation 
 of pupils living more than two miles from the school. It is evi- 
 dent that the purpose of this statute is to encourage consolida- 
 tion of school districts and centralization of school interests and 
 to create a general interest in agriculture. 
 
 State teachers' licenses and certificates. Section 458b. The 
 state superintendent shall issue to the holder of a diploma, granted 
 by the board of regents of normal schools to any person who 
 completed the kindergarten training course established by said 
 board in any of the state normal schools, a license entitling the 
 holder to teach in any public kindergarten in this state for one 
 year. Upon the presentation of satisfactory evidence of successful 
 teaching for c\ne year in any public kindergarten in this state such 
 license may ~be renewed for one year by the state superintendent The 
 holder of such a diploma may receive an unlimited state certificate, en- 
 titling him or her to teach in any public kindergarten in this state for 
 life unless sooner revoked, upon the furnishing of evidence of good 
 moral character, and * * * two years' successful teaching after 
 graduation, in a public kindergarten in the state of Wisconsin, to- 
 gether with the certificate required in section 458b 2. 
 
 Section 458b 1. The state superintendent shall issue to the holder 
 of a diploma granted by the board of regents of normal schools to any 
 person who completes the training course for teachers of manual train- 
 ing or domestic science, established by said board in any of the 
 Wisconsin state normal schools a license entitling the holder to teach 
 manual training or domestic science for one year in any school form- 
 ing a part of the public school system. Upon the presentation of satis- 
 factory (evidence of successful teaching for one year of manual training 
 or domestic science in any school forming a part of the public school 
 system such license may be renewed for one year by the state super- 
 intendent. The holder of such diploma may receive an unlimited state 
 certificate entitling him to teach manual training or domestic science 
 in any public school in this state for life, unless sooner revoked, 
 
48 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 upon furnishing evidence of good moral character, and * * * two 
 * * * years' successful teaching of such branches, after graduation, 
 in a public school in the state of Wisconsin, together with the certi- 
 ficate required in section 458b 2. 
 
 (Section 458b 2) 1. The president of the university of Wisconsin 
 shall issue to all graduates of the regular collegiate courses of such 
 university, a certified statement showing the name of the graduate, 
 the date of graduation, the course from which graduated, and that 
 said graduate has completed the course of pedagogical instruction 
 prescribed by the university for all persons who intend to teach. This 
 certificate when presented to the state superintendent, shall entitle 
 the holder thereof to receive a license qualifying the holder to teach 
 in any public school in the state of Wisconsin for one year from the 
 date of issuance. Upon presentation of satisfactory evidence of suc- 
 cessful teaching for one year in the public schools of the state, such 
 license may be renewed for >one year by the state superintendent. 
 
 (Section 548b 2) 2. The president of each state normal school 
 shall issue to the graduates of the full course of the normal school, 
 as well as to the persons completing the elementary course, a, state- 
 ment bearing even date with the diploma or certificate, setting forth 
 the name of the person and the course from which graduated. This 
 certificate when presented to the state superintendent, shall entitle 
 the holder thereof to receive a license, qualifying the holder to teach 
 in the public schools of Wisconsin for one year from date of issuance. 
 Upon the presentation / satisfactory evidence of successful teaching 
 for one year in the public schools of the state, such license may be 
 renewed for one year by the state superintendent. 
 
 (Section 458b 2) 3. The state superintendent, upon the presen- 
 tation of a statement hereinbefore mentioned in this section, and sat- 
 isfactory evidence of good moral character, and * * * two * * * 
 years' successful teaching after graduation in the public schools of 
 the state of Wisconsin, shall issue certificates as follows: To any 
 person who shall hold a university or normal school diploma, an un- 
 limited state certificate; to any person who shall hold a normal 
 school elementary certificate, a limited state certificate, qualifying 
 the holder to teach in a public school for a period not to exceed six 
 years from the date of issuance of the normal school certificate. 
 Neither a limited state certificate, nor a license to teach based upon 
 the certificate from the elementary course of a normal school, shall 
 qualify the holder as principal of a free high school having four 
 years' course of study. 
 
 Section 458c. The holder of a diploma granted by any incor- 
 porated college or university whose regular collegiate courses ares 
 fully and fairly equivalent to corresponding courses of the Univer- 
 
TEACHERS' LICENSES TUITION IND. H. S. 49 
 
 sity of Wisconsin, or the holder of a diploma granted by a state 
 normal school whose courses of study are fully and fairly equiva- 
 lent to the courses of study in the Wisconsin normal schools, may 
 present such diploma, together with evidence of the required stand- 
 ing of the college, university or normal school granting the same, 
 to the board of examiners. The applicant shall furnish therewith 
 testimonials of good moral character * * * and of two years' 
 successful teaching in a public school after the date of said di- 
 ploma. The holder of any such diploma recommended favorably 
 by the board shall be entitled to receive an unlimited state certifi- 
 cate. The holder' of a diploma granted upon the completion of a 
 course of study accredited as herein provided, upon which a state 
 certificate has not been issued, upon the recommendation of the 
 board of examiners made in pursuance of such examination as to 
 learning, moral character and ability to teach as said board may 
 require, * * * may receive frtom the state superintendent a license 
 qualifying the holder to teach in any public school in the state for 
 one year from the date of issuance, upon the presentation of satisfac- 
 tory evidence of successful teaching for one year in the public schools 
 of the state. Such license may be renewed for one year by the state 
 superintendent. 
 
 (Section 458q) 2. The applicant shall furnish therewith testimon- 
 ials of good moral character and of * * * two years' successful 
 teaching in a kindergarten or primary grades in the public schools 
 in Wisconsin after the date of such diploma. (1913 c, 514) 
 
 This chapter requires at least two years of teaching on the 
 part of graduates of universities, colleges and normal schools 
 before the state superintendent can grant the unlimited state cer- 
 tificate. The special licenses granted are only good for one year 
 each. 
 
 Attendance and tuition of non-residents enrolled in "independent 
 high schools. Section 496 j 1. 1. The school board of board of 
 education in any incorporated city maintaining a graded system of 
 schools of at least twelve grades, but no free high school, the four 
 upper grades of which contain substantially the same amount and 
 character of work as adopted and offered in free high schools es- 
 tablished according to the provisions of section 490 of the statutes, 
 shall admit to the privileges of the four upper grades or high 
 school department of such graded system of schools, whenever the 
 facilities in the four upper grades or high school department will 
 permit, nonresident pupils, whose parents or guardians live in a 
 school district not maintaining a free high school or one equiva- 
 lent thereto, and who have completed the course of study offered 
 in the home school district which must have been at least equivalent 
 
 4 S. L. 
 
50 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 to the course of study provided for the common schools of Wiscon- 
 sin, and who hold certificates or diplomas to that effect signed by 
 the county superintendent of schools of the county in which the 
 parents or guardians reside. In such cases the school board or 
 board of education of such city school district shall be entitled, 
 and is hereby authorized and directed, to collect from the town 
 or village in which the parents or guardians of such persons re- 
 side a sum not to exceed one dollar per week as tuition, which 
 shall entitle such persons to all the privileges accorded to the 
 resident pupils of such school district and which shall be in full 
 for all charges for the schooling of such persons. In case any 
 such city school district shall not comply with the provisions of 
 this section it shall be deprived of its right to share in the appor- 
 tionment of the seven-tenths mill tax for the year in which the 
 provisions of this section were violated. 
 
 2. Said dollar per week tuition shall be collected and paid In 
 the same manner as tuition is now collected and paid to free high 
 school districts for the schooling of nonresident pupils, as pro- 
 vided in sections 49 6j to 4 9 60 of the statutes. (1913 c. 516) 
 
 This chapter puts what are styled "Independent High Schools" 
 on the same basis with district free high schools, town free high 
 schools and union free high schools in the matter of admitting 
 non-resident pupils and charging tuition. 
 
 Teachers' insurance in Milwaukee. (Section 925 xx) 3. * 
 
 Hereafter any person accepting an appointment as teacher in the 
 regular service of such city, and shall serve thereunder, shall, as a 
 part \df the consideration for his employment, be conclusively presumed 
 to have consented to serve under the provisions of this act and to have 
 'accepted the benefits conferred and assumed the liabilities imposed 
 by the same. 
 
 19. * * * 
 
 The board of school directors, or tother managing body, shall an- 
 nually pay into the annuity and retirement fund, out of the school 
 fund assessed, levied and collected annually from the taxable property 
 of the city, for g&n'eral school purposes, the sum of one per cent of 
 the gross amount thereof; provided, however, that if such sum exceeds 
 the amount paid into said fund the preceding year by the teatchers, 
 then only a sum equal to that paid in by the teachers th6 preceding 
 year shall be paid in by the board. 
 
 (Section 925 xx) 20. This act shall be construed to apply to 
 school districts existing, or hereafter to be created, within the 
 cities to which it applies where the functions of such school dis- 
 trict are exercised separate and distinct from the functions of the 
 other departments of the city government, and in such cases the 
 
STATUTES FOR MILWAUKEE. f> 1 
 
 school district treasurer, where there is one, shall perform the du- 
 ties and assume the liabilities imposed by this act on the city 
 treasurer; and where the word "city" is used in this act it shall 
 be construed to mean the school district in such city, when there 
 is one, where it manifestly appears that such construction i.s nec- 
 essary to carry into effect the spirit of this act. (1913 c. 546) 
 This chapter applies to Milwaukee only. 
 
 Borrowing money and purchasing school sites in counties having 
 a population of 150,OOD or more. Section 476a. 1. Any school 
 district may, by a vote at an annual or special meeting, authorize 
 the district board to borrow money for the purpose of refunding 
 its indebtedness. A written resolution shall be read at such meet- 
 ing specifying the amount to be borrowed, the rate of interest 
 and the amount of each instalment of principal and time when it 
 shall be paid. The last instalment shall be payable in not exceed- 
 ing twenty years from the time the indebtedness was originally 
 contracted. The vote on such resolution shall be taken by ballot, 
 and voters favoring its adoption shall cast a ballot on which shall 
 be the words "For the loan," those opposed a ballot on which shall 
 be the words "Against the loan." If a majority of the votes cast 
 are in favor of the loan the board may borrow the specified amount 
 on such terms as may be agreed upon conformably with such reso- 
 lution and not prohibited by law, and execute the bonds or other 
 obligations of the district for such sum. The district shall levy a 
 tax to be collected annually thereafter sufficient to pay the an- 
 nual interest on such loan and the instalment of the principal to 
 be paid in any year. After any such loan shall have been made 
 such vote shall not be rescinded or reconsidered, nor shall the col- 
 lection of such tax be obstructed, and the tax when collected shall 
 be applied exclusively to the payment of such indebtedness. The 
 money so borrowed shall be paid to the treasurer and shall be ex- 
 pended solely for the purpose for which it was borrowed. 
 
 2. In counties containing a population of ,cne hundred and fifty thou- 
 sand or more any school district may also authorize the district board, 
 school b'^ard, [ or 'board of education, to borrow money for the purpose 
 of purchasing or paying for a schoolhouse site, or an addition thereto, 
 to an amount not exceeding a> sum which shall ~be certified t3 by the 
 town board of the town, or the village board of the village, in which 
 such site is situated, as being necessary for that purpose, and there- 
 upon such district board, school board or board of education shall have 
 the authority to execute bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, and 
 to annually levy a tax for the repayment of such indebtedness mid 
 interest, in the manner a>nd under the restrictions provided in sections 
 475 and 476, 
 
52 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 Section 477. 1. Whenever a school district shall have desig- 
 nated, by a majority vote of the electors thereof present at an an- 
 nual meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, a 
 schoolhouse site, or an addition thereto, and shall be unable to 
 obtain the same on account of the refusal of the owner to sell or 
 lease the same for a just and reasonable compensation, or on ac- 
 count of his being a nonresident, or unknown, the district board, 
 when directed so to do by a majority vote of the electors at such 
 district meeting shall make application to the town board or 
 boards of supervisors of the town or towns interested, to locate 
 and establish the site or any addition thereto so designated; pro- 
 vided that every such schoolhouse site or any schoolhouse site 
 obtained by purchase or grant shall be located and established 
 abutting on a public highway or street, and that no schoolhouse 
 shall hereafter be erected on any site unless at the time of erec- 
 tion such site shall abut on a public highway or street. 
 
 2. Whenever any such schoolhouse site or addition thereto, so desig- 
 nated by a school district, shall lie within the limits of am, incorporated 
 village, then the application to locate and establish such site, or any 
 addition thereto, herein mentioned and described, shall be made to the 
 village board (of such village, and all subsequent proceedings described 
 in this section and in sections 478, 479, 480, 481 and 483, as being had 
 before the town boards, shall be had before the village board of said 
 village. 
 
 Section 482. No schoolhouse site shall contain more than four acres 
 unless with the consent of the owner of the land taken therefor, 
 except in counties having a population of one hundred and fifty thou- 
 sand or more. All land so taken against the will of the owner, when 
 is shall cease to be used as a school house site or addition, shall revert 
 to the original owner, his heirs or assigns; and no land shall be so 
 taken that may not be taken for highway purposes without the con- 
 sent of the owner thereof. (1913 c. 547) 
 
 High school teachers' training departments; aid for. (Section 
 49 6b) 1. Any board having charge of a free high school or of 
 a high school having a course of study equivalent to the course 
 prescribed by the state superintendent for such free high schools 
 may establish and maintain in connection with the high school 
 under its management, in counties where county training schools, 
 or joint county training schools have not been established, a teachers' 
 training course, which shall be especially approved by the state super- 
 intendent as to subjects required to be taught, and the qualifications of 
 teachers, or in connection with said high school and the * * * two 
 upper grades next below the high school, as said board shall decide, 
 
HIGH SCHOOLS TEACHERS TRAINING DEPT'S. 53 
 
 a department of manual training, or domestic economy, or agriculture, 
 or any or all of said departments. 
 
 (Section 496c) 1. Any school whose course of study or outline of 
 work in teachers' training, manual training, domestic economy, or agri- 
 culture, has been approved by the state superintendent and whose 
 teacher has been qualified may, upon application, be placed upon the 
 approved list of schools maintaining such a department or departments. 
 
 5. On the first day of July in each year the board of education of 
 the high school district, maintaining in connection with its high school 
 such a department of teachers' training, as provided in subsection 1 of 
 section 496b, shall report to the state superintendent setting forth 
 the facts relating to the cost of instruction in this department of 
 such schools, the character of the work done, the number and 
 names of teachers employed, the number of pupils enrolled in this 
 department, the number of graduates for that year, and such other 
 matters as may be required. Upon receipt of such report, if it 
 shall appear that the school has been maintained in a satisfactory 
 manner for a period of not less than nine months, during the year 
 closing the 30th day of June preceding, the state superintendent 
 shall make a certificate to that effect and file it with the secretary 
 of state. Upon receiving such certificate the secretary of state 
 shall draw his warrant, payable to the treasurer of such high 
 school district so maintaining such department in such high school, 
 for an amount equal to the sum expended for the wages of the 
 duly approved and qualified teachers employed in this department 
 of such school for at least nine months during said school year. 
 
 6. No course for the training of teachers shall be established in 
 a high school employing less than four teachers, including the 
 principal, and unless the teacher employed to give instruction in 
 professional work and practice teaching shall be a graduate of the 
 advanced course from a Wisconsin state normal school or a school 
 offering a course of study equivalent to the course of study offered 
 in the Wisconsin state normal schools, and who shall in addition 
 present evidence satisfactory to the state superintendent of having 
 at least two years of successful experience as a teacher, and who 
 shall devote her full time to the work of this department, and at 
 least ten pupils must have elected to take such training course 
 during the current year, and, provided further, that no school shall 
 be continued on the list of schools offering courses for the train- 
 ing of teachers unless the work done therein shall meet the ap- 
 proval of the state superintendent. 
 
 7. Any person who shall complete in a satisfactory manner the 
 course of study prescribed for such department in such high school, 
 
54 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 and who shall be of good moral character, shall receive a certifi- 
 cate, signed by the principal of such school and by the members of 
 the board of education, of such high school district. Said certi- 
 ficate shall certify that the person therein named has satisfactorily 
 completed the course of study prescribed for such teachers' train- 
 ing course, and is of good moral character. It shall also contain 
 a list of standings secured by the person on the completion of each 
 of the studies pursued in the school. Such certificate shall have 
 the same force and effect as is prescribed for certificates by sec- 
 tion 411 6 of the statutes relating to county training schools. 
 
 (Section 172 108) 2. There is annually appropriated on July 
 1, not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars payable from any 
 moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated as state aid 
 for teachers' training courses in high schools and graded schools. 
 (1913 c. 555) 
 
 This new statute is of large importance to boards of education 
 having high schools employing four teachers, not including the 
 teacher or teachers in the training department. This training 
 school comes under the head of a "professional school for teach- 
 ers." A department of this kind can only be established under 
 this statute in counties where there is no county training school 
 for teachers. If, however, it occurs that a teachers' training de- 
 partment has already been established and approved in connec- 
 tion with a free high school previous to the passage of this act 
 (June 20,. 2913), the maintenance and operation of said depart- 
 ment is not interfered with in any way. 
 
 Free high schools: state aid. Section 496. 1. Any free high 
 school district which shall have established not more than two free 
 high schools according to the provisions of these statutes and shall 
 have maintained the same for not less than eight months in any 
 school year, shall be entitled to receive from the general fund of 
 the state annually one-half of the amount actually expended for 
 instruction in its high school during such year over and above 
 the amount required by law to be expended for common school 
 purposes, but not to exceed in one year five hundred dollars to 
 one district; provided, that this limitation shall not apply to town 
 or union free high schools. 
 
 2. To obtain such aid, the high school board, or in cities not 
 under a county superintendent,' the president and secretary of the 
 board of education, and the treasurer shall, on or before the first 
 day of August report to the state superintendent under their oaths 
 the amount actually expended for instruction ^ in the high school 
 during the previous school year, specifying the several items 
 thereof with the date and object of each fully, whereupon the said 
 superintendent shall, on or before the first day of October, fix the 
 amount to be paid each such district and certify the same to tlie 
 

 FREE HIGH SCHOOLS STATE AID. 55 
 
 secretary of state, who shall thereupon draw his warrant on the 
 state treasurer for such amounts in favor of such districts, which 
 shall be paid at any time after the first day of October out of the 
 general fund in the state treasury; provided, that the state super- 
 intendent may refuse to certify such state aid for any free high 
 school district in which the scope and character of the work are 
 not maintained in such manner as to meet his approval or in 
 which the high school building, the outhouses and grounds or the 
 furniture and equipment are not maintained in good condition and 
 kept clean and free from any unsanitary features; or in which tile' 
 high school is not provided with sufficient equipment, including 
 globes, maps, blackboards, library, scientific apparatus, and other 
 essentials for the proper work of the school, or for failure to com- 
 ply with any of the provisions of the free high school law. He 
 may order and direct that an amount equal to the whole or part 
 of such state aid for any year shall be expended in the purchase 
 of proper equipment and in case of failure of the district to com- 
 ply with such direction, he shall withhold from the aid to that 
 district, an amount equal to the sum ordered to be expended. 
 
 3. Whenever, owing to any failure or neglect to make the re- 
 port required by law, any free high school shall fail to have ap- 
 portioned to it, its share of the state aid, the state superintendent 
 may, at the time of making the next annual apportionment, fix an 
 amount ten per centum less than the amount which said school 
 district would have been entitled to had it complied --with the pro- 
 visions of this section, and certify the same to the secretary of 
 state, and the secretary of state shall thereupon draw his warrant 
 for such amount or amounts in favor of such district. 
 
 4. Whenever a free high school shall have been so established 
 and maintained in a district composed of a town, or a town and 
 an incorporated village within the town, or two or more towns, 
 or of two or more towns and an incorporated village in one or 
 both of them, or, according to the provisions of section 495 1 of 
 the statutes, upon receiving the report provided for in subsection 
 2 of this section, it shall be the duty of the state superintendent 
 to make a separate and distinct class of schools thus established, 
 and each such school shall be entitled to receive from the general 
 fund of the state annually, one-half the amount actually expended 
 for instruction therein; and said superintendent shall fix the 
 amount to be paid to each of said high schools and certify the 
 same to the secretary of state at the time and in the manner he 
 is now required to fix and certify to him the amount to be paid to 
 high school districts; provided, that the amount so appropriated 
 to any high school having a principal and one assistant shall not 
 
66 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 exceed nine hundred dollars, and the amount so appropriated to 
 any high school having a principal and two assistants shall not 
 exceed twelve hundred dollars, and the amount so appropriated 
 to any high school having a principal^ and three or more assistants 
 shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars. 
 
 5. The secretary of state shall annually include and apportion in 
 the state tax all such sums as shall have been paid to district, 
 town, or union free high schools, in accordance with the provi- 
 sions of subsections 2, 3 and 4 of this section, which sum shall be 
 in addition to all other sums levied for the year. 
 
 Section 172 57. 1. The whole amount annually paid under 
 the provisions of subsections 2 and 3 of section 496 shall not ex- 
 ceed one hundred thousand dollars, and if more be demanded by 
 such districts they shall be paid proportionally; provided, that if 
 the whole amount authorized to be paid annually in aid of town 
 and union free high schools, as provided by subsection 4 of section 
 496 and subsection 2 of this section is not demanded or expended 
 under the provisions of those sections, then the unexpended balance 
 of the amount therein annually authorized to be paid in aid of 
 such schools may be added to the amount authorized to be paid in 
 subsections 2 and 3 of section 496 to district high schools and 
 apportioned among the free high schools provided for in subsection 
 1 of section 496. 
 
 2. The amount of any certificate referred to in subsection 4 of 
 section 496 shall be paid at any time after the first day of October, 
 out of the general fund of the state treasury, but the whole amount 
 so paid shall not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars in any one 
 year to this class of free high schools and if more is demanded by 
 such districts they shall be paid proportionally. (1913 c. 558) 
 
 This statute should be carefully studied and read by high school 
 principals, high school officers and county and city superintend- 
 ents. 
 
 State superintendent; power to appoint in certain cases. Sec- 
 tion 165c. 1. The state superintendent may appoint from time to 
 time persons to assist him in revising the courses of study for the 
 public schools, in conducting the annual conventions of county and 
 city superintendents, and in making investigations into the needs 
 and condition^ of the public schools of the state. The persons so 
 appointed for this purpose shall receive no compensation for their 
 services but shall be paid all necessary and actual expenses incur- 
 red in the performance of their duties. 
 
 2. The state superintendent is authorized to employ at his dis- 
 cretion from the eligible list prepared by the civil service commis- 
 sion, clerks and statisticans to assist him in tabulating the educa- 
 
SPECIAL ASSISTANTS SCHOOL LOANS. 57 
 
 tional statistics of the state, in summarizing the data obtained by 
 investigators appointed according to the provisions of subdivision 
 1 of this section, and in assisting in the clerical work of the ad- 
 ministration of the department of public instruction. The persons 
 so appointed shall receive compensation as may be determined by 
 the state superintendent of public instruction. 
 
 3. The state superintendent shall certify to the secretary of 
 state the amount due any persons appointed or employed under the 
 provisions of this section for expenses or for salary as provided in 
 this section. Upon receipt of such certificate duly certified by the 
 state superintendent, the secretary -of state shall draw his warrant 
 upon the state treasurer for the amount due the persons named, 
 but in no case shall the total sum so certified in any one year ex- 
 ceed two thousand dollars. Expenses arising under this section 
 shall be charged to the appropriation for the state superintendent 
 of public instruction. (1913 c. 561) 
 
 Loans; school districts, villages, etc. Section 258a. The loans 
 provided for by subdivision 5 of the preceding section may be 
 made for any term not exceeding twenty years, may be made pay- 
 able in instalments, and be in such amounts as shall not, in 
 connection with all other indebtedness of the town, village, city or 
 county applying therefor, exceed five per centum of the average 
 assessed valuation of the taxable property therein for the three 
 years next preceding the application for such loan; provided, that 
 such loan may be made to pay off existing indebtedness and may 
 be paid over in instalments as fast as such indebtedness or the 
 evidence thereof is canceled. The rate of interest on such loans 
 shall not be less than four per centum per annum. Loans, appli* 
 cation for which shall have been filed with the commissioners of the 
 public lands prior to the passage of this section, may be made at the 
 then lawful rate of interest. 
 
 Section 261. Every loan to a school district may be made for such 
 time, not exceeding fifteen years, and of such amount as together with 
 all other indebtedness of such district, "shall not exceed five per centum 
 of the last preceding assessed valuation of the property in such dis- 
 trict, not less than two-thirds of which valuation shall be on real 
 estate, and not exceeding in any case twenty-five thousand dollars, as 
 may be agreed upon; the principal shall be payable in equal annual 
 instalments with interest at a uniform rate of four per centum per 
 annum, payable annually. No such loan shall be made until proof 
 be filed in the office of said commissioners of the complete perform- 
 ance on the part of such district of each and every act hereinafter 
 required to precede the same. Loans, application for which shall have 
 
58 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 been filed with the commissioners of the public lands prior to the pas- 
 sage of this section, may be made at the then lawful rate of interest. 
 (1913 c, 563) 
 
 The principal point in this chapter is that it increases the rate 
 per cent to be paid by school districts for loans from the trust 
 funds from 3% to 4 per cent. 
 
 Annual school district meetings. Section 425. The annual dis- 
 trict meeting in all school districts not containing in whole or in 
 part an incorporated city or village shall be held on the first Mon- 
 day in June, but in all school districts containing in whole or in 
 part an incorporated city or village it shall be held on the first 
 Monday of July, unless that be a legal holiday, in which, case it 
 shall be held on the next day at seven o'clock in the afternoon 
 unless another hour be fixed by a vote recorded at the last annual 
 meeting, and any annual meeting heretofore or hereafter held shall 
 be valid notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any special 
 or local law, provided that that part of this section fixing the date of 
 the annual school district meeting shall not become effective until the 
 third day of January, 1914. It shall be the duty of the district board 
 to meet on the Saturday immediately preceding the annual meeting, 
 carefully examine the accounts of the treasurer, and make up a full 
 and itemized report of all receipts and expenditures since the last 
 annual meeting, of the amount in the hands of the treasurer or the 
 amount of the deficit for which the district is liable, of the amount 
 necessary to be raised by taxes for the support of the school for the 
 ensuing year, and of the amount required to pay the interest or prin- 
 cipal of any debt due or to become due during such year; which re- 
 port shall be submitted in writing at the annual meeting and recorded 
 by the clerk at length with the action thereon in the proceedings of 
 the meeting. (1913 c. 566) 
 
 This amends chapter 448, which provides that the annual meet- 
 ing of common school districts should be held on the first Mon- 
 day in June, by .postponing the date when it takes effect until 
 January, 1914. 
 
 Election and salary of school directors in Milwaukee. Section 1. 
 The public schools in every city of the first class, whether organ- 
 ized under general or special charter, shall be under the general 
 management, control and supervision of a board of school directors, 
 'consisting of fifteen members from the city-at-large, selected as 
 provided in this act. No person holding any office in any political 
 organization, or any lucrative city, county or state office other 
 than a judicial office "or that of notary public, shall be eligible to 
 be a member of such board of school directors. The members of 
 every such board of school directors shall, before entering upon the 
 
ANNUAL MEETINGS DISTRICT BOUNDARIES. 59 
 
 duties of such office, take and subscribe to the oath of office pre- 
 scribed in the constitution of this state, and shall file the same, 
 duly certified by the officer administering the same, with the city 
 clerk. Each member of every such board of school directors shall be 
 paid the sum of three dollars for attendance at each regularly called 
 meeting of any sla>nding or special committee of which such director 
 may be a member and alslo the sum of three dollars for attendance at 
 each regular or duty called special meeting of the board; provded, 
 that the sum thus paid to any member of such board for attendance 
 on committee and board meetings shall not in any fiscal year exceed 
 the sum of l one hundred dollars. The amount due for attendance as 
 provided herein shall be allowed and paid monthly, in the same man- 
 ner as other claims are alloived and paid. (1913 c. 569) 
 
 Alteration of boundaries and dissolution of joint school districts. 
 Sections 422. 1. Any school district organization of any kind, 
 town free high schools and union free high schools excepted, con- 
 sisting of territory lying in two or more towns, or in one or more 
 towns and an incorporated village, or any city, shall be known and 
 designated as a joint school district. Such district shall not be 
 dissolved nor shall the boundaries thereof be changed except by 
 joint action of the boards of supervisors of the towns, parts of 
 which comprise such district, or joint action of the supervisors of 
 the town or towns and the board of trustees of the village, or the 
 joint action of the boards of supervisors of the town or towns and 
 the common council of the city in interest, such action to be taken 
 in accordance with the statutes governing and directing such action 
 and proceedings. 
 
 2. Be it also provided that the incorporation of a village or a 
 city within the boundaries of any school district shall not affect 
 the organization or in any way disturb the rights and privileges 
 of such district, except that such district shall thereafter be known 
 as a joint district. 
 
 3-. Be it further provided that the extension of the corporate 
 limits of any village or city or the change of organization from a 
 village to a city shall not in any way affect the boundaries of such 
 joint district or disturb any of the rights and privileges of the resi- 
 dents of such district. Neither shall it be unlawful to attach to 
 any village or city school district for school purposes only, part or 
 all of the territory of an outlying contiguous school district. 
 
 4. Nothing in this section shall in any way affect or change any 
 of the provisions of section 419a of the statutes, relating to the 
 alterations of the boundaries of joint school districts, or of sections 
 
gO SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 519b to 419h, inclusive, of the statutes, relating to consolidation 
 
 of several districts. (1913 c. 572) 
 
 This chapter is of especial interest to town boards of super- 
 visors and others interested in the formation of school districts or 
 the alteration of school district boundaries. 
 
 Employment of children. (Section 1728c) 1. No child under 
 the age of sixteen years shall be employed, required, permitted or 
 suffered to work at any gainful occupation other than domestic serv- 
 ice or farm labor for more than forty-eight hours in any one week, 
 nor more than eight hours in any one day, or before the hour of 
 seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of six o'clock in the 
 evening, nor more than six days in any one week. Provided that 
 employment not to exceed eight hours and thirty minutes in any one 
 day may be permitted to children o<n condition that the children s*;> 
 employed shall t>e free frpm labor after twelve o'clock on Saturday; 
 provided 'that no child so employed shall be permitted to work more 
 than forty-eight hours in any one week, including at least Jour 
 hours 'of attendance at continuation school, mir between six o'clock 
 in the evening and seven o'clock in the morning. A * * * dinner 
 period of not less than thirty minutes shall be allowed during each 
 day. During such dinner period the power shall be shut off from ma- 
 chinery operated by children, and no work shall be permitted. Pro- 
 vided, nothing in sections 1728a to 1728J, inclusive, shall be con- 
 strued to interfere with the employment of children as provided in 
 sections 1728a 1 and 1728u of the statutes. 
 
 (Section 1728c 1) 1. Whenever any * * * day continuation 
 classes, industrial school or commercial school shall be established in 
 any town, village or city in this state for minors between the ages 
 of fourteen and sixteen, working under permit as now provided by 
 law, every such child, residing withing any town, village or city in 
 which any such school is established, shall attend such school in the 
 daytime not less than five hours per week for six months in each 
 year, until such child becbmes sixteen years of age, or four hours 
 per week for eight months, as may be determined by the local board 
 of industrial education, and every employer shall allow all minor 
 employes over fourteen and under sixteen years of age a reduction 
 in hours of work not less than the number of hours the minor is by 
 this section required to attend school. 
 
 (Section 1728d) 1. It shall be the duty of the * * * indus- 
 trial commission to enforce all the provisions of the statutes regu- 
 lating or relative to child labor, and to prosecute violations of the 
 same before any justice of the peace or other court of competent jur- 
 isdiction in this state. It shall be the duty of the said * * * 
 industrial commission and truant officers, and they are hereby au- 
 
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN. 61 
 
 thorized and empowered to visit and inspect, at all reasonable times, 
 and as often as possible, all places covered by sections 1728a to 
 1728J, inclusive. The * * * industrial commission, for the pur- 
 pose of the enforcement of sections _T728a to 112SJ, inclusive, shall 
 have the power of truant officers to enforce all legal requirements 
 relating to school attendance. 
 
 (Section 2394 52) (2) To administer and enforce, so far as not 
 otherwise provided for in the statutes, the laws relating to child la- 
 bor, laundries, stores, employment of females, licensed occupations, 
 school attendance, bakeries, -employment offices, intelligence offices and 
 bureaus, manufacture of cigars, sweatshops, corn shredders, wood- 
 sawing machines, fire escapes and means of egress from buildings, 
 scaffolds, hoists, ladders and other matters relating to the erection, 
 repair, alteration or painting of buildings and structures, and all 
 other laws protecting the life, health, safety and welfare of employes 
 in employments and places of employment and frequenters of places 
 of employment. (1913 c. 584) 
 
 This act cannot properly be termed a school measure. Since it 
 has, however, to do with the employment of children, it was given 
 a place in this connection in order that its provisions may be 
 more widely known. Some reference to the compulsory attend- 
 ance law is not out of place in this connection. The sections re- 
 ferred to will be found in the edition of the complete school code 
 for 1911. 
 
 COMMENT ON SECTION 439a. 
 
 This section provides that children between 7 and 14 years of 
 age shall attend some public, parochial or private school; in Mil- 
 waukee during the entire time that the school is in session: in 
 all other cities not less than eight months and in towns and in 
 villages not less than six months 120 days (including legal hol- 
 idays). Children between 14 and 16 years of age must also at- 
 tend unless they are regularly and lawfully employed. 
 
 The above labor law indicates quite exactly what is meant by. 
 lawful employment." A child between 14 and 16 may be law- 
 fully employed as follows: 
 
 a. On a written permit obtained from the commissioner ot 
 labor, state factory inspector or an assistant factory inspector; 
 from the judge of a county court, judge of a municipal court, 
 or a judge of a juvenile court. 
 
 b. In domestic service or agricultural pursuit without per- 
 mit. 
 
 Cases where children claim to be regularly employed at home 
 or elsewhere should be investigated by the truant officer for the 
 purpose of determining whether the child is really employed in 
 good faith or is making the claim for the purpose of evading 
 school attendance. If the employment is not in good faith action 
 must be taken at once to compel the attendance of the child at 
 school. 
 
 In the city of Milwaukee the child must be enrolled in school 
 at the beginning of the school year; in other cities, towns and 
 
62 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 villages within one school month of the opening of school in the 
 fall. 
 
 The children coming under the following classes cannot be 
 compelled to attend school: 
 
 a. Children not in proper physical or mental condition, as 
 shown by the certificate of a reputable physician in general 
 practice. 
 
 b. Children residing in country districts more than two 
 miles from the school house, the distance to be measured by 
 the nearest traveled road unless transportation is furnished by 
 the district. 
 
 c. Children who can furnish evidence that they have com- 
 pleted the work of the first eight grades of the public school or 
 the equivalent thereof. 
 
 In cases where the claim is made that the child is receiving 
 instruction elsewhere than in school there should be investiga- 
 tion by some proper officer; 
 
 After a child is enrolled in the school the attendance must be 
 regular unless some satisfactory legal (reasonable) excuse for 
 absence is furnished. The law requires that the parent or guar- 
 dian shall see to it that the child shall attend school as required. 
 
 Comment on Section 439b. 
 
 This section provides for the appointment of truant officers 
 to assist in the enforcement of the law ten or more in Milwau- 
 kee and ten or more for each city of the state having a popula- 
 tion of more than two thousand. It is compulsory upon the 
 boards of education to appoint these officers. The sheriff, under- 
 sheriff and deputy are by law made truant officers for cities hav- 
 ing less than two thousand, and also in towns and villages. When 
 notice of the absence of a child from school is brought to the 
 attention of the truant officer, it is his duty to investigate the 
 case for the purpose of, determining whether such absence is or is 
 not lawful. If the absence is inexcusable he must take action 
 at once to compel the attendance of the child. 
 
 Authorizing the county board of supervisors to provide for a 
 county agricultural representative to be elected by the board of 
 regents of the state university. Section 553q 1. For the pur- 
 pose of aiding in the agricultural development of the several 
 counties in the state, any county, excepting those in which county 
 schools of agriculture are maintained, .is hereby authorized, through 
 its county board, to establish and maintain an agricultural repre- 
 sentative in accordance with the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 553q 2. It shall be the duty of such agricultural rep- 
 resentative to advise and consult with individuals in reference to 
 farming methods; to aid in the development and improvement of 
 agriculture and country life conditions; to offer courses of instruc- 
 tion to young people and adults; to aid in the formation of co- 
 operative enterprises; to promote better business methods among 
 farmers; to give such assistance as possible in the development of 
 agricultural teaching in the schools of the county, and any other 
 
UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL REPRESENTATIVE. 63 
 
 work designed to promote the agriculture or rural development of 
 the county. It shall be his duty to keep in touch with all agencies 
 in the state and elsewhere that will enable him to utilize the most 
 Improved knowledge in the furtherance of his work. 
 
 Section 553q 3. For the partial maintenance of agricultural 
 development of such county under the supervision of such agricul- 
 tural representative, authority is hereby given the county board to 
 raise, by tax levy or otherwise, for periods of not less than two 
 years each, such moneys as may be deemed sufficient to cover the 
 share of the county In such way; provided, however, that in no 
 case shall the amount appropriated by the county for this work be 
 less than one thousand dollars annually; and provided, further, 
 that such moneys shall be disbursed by the county treasurer only 
 upon orders of the county clerk which shall have been approved by 
 the county agricultural representative. 
 
 Section 553q ,4. To supplement the funds provided by the 
 county for the agricultural development, state aid, in the sum of 
 one thousand dollars annually, shall be given to each county in 
 which the county board has made the required appropriation, and 
 in which a county agricultural representative has been established. 
 Such state aid shall be expended under the direction of the board 
 of regents of the university of Wisconsin. 
 
 Section 553q 5. For the calendar year 1914, this work shall be 
 organized in not to exceed ten counties of the state and for the 
 calendar year 1915 in not to exceed sixteen counties of the state. 
 
 Section 553q 6. Immediately after the county board has voted 
 to establish the position of county agricultural representative and 
 has provided the necessary money for the share of the county there- 
 for, the county clerk shall send the application of such county to 
 the dean of the college of agriculture for the appointment and es- 
 tablishment of such county agricultural representative. All appli- 
 cations from the several counties shall be so made prior to Decem- 
 ber 10 of each year, or as soon thereafter as possible. In case the 
 applications do not exceed the maximum limit of counties that can 
 be provided for in this act, the board of regents shall select as 
 soon as possible a properly qualified person to serve in each county 
 in the capacity of county agricultural representative. If, however, 
 more applications are received than can be acted on in accordance 
 with the provisions of this act, the dean of the college of agricul- 
 ture shall recommend to the board of regents a list of counties not 
 in excess of the maximum number authorized by this act, taking 
 into consideration in making such selection the best interests of 
 the agricultural welfare of the state. 
 
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 Section 553q 7. Authority is hereby given the county training 
 school board of any county in which an agricultural representative 
 is established to enter into co-operation with the regents of the 
 university with reference to the use of the county agricultural 
 representative in connection with the agricultural instruction given 
 in said county training school subject to such rules and conditions 
 as may be mutually agreed upon between said county training 
 school board and the regents of the university. 
 
 Section 553q 8. In counties where the work of the county 
 agricultural representative is not connected with the county train- 
 ing school, the county superintendent of schools in such county 
 shall co-operate with the county agricultural representative in such 
 way as best designed to further the interest of this work in that 
 county. 
 
 (Section 172 53) 22. There is annually appropriated on Jan- 
 uary 1st, beginning January, 1914, to the regents of the university, 
 ten thousand dollars payable from any moneys in the general fund 
 not otherwise appropriated, for carrying out the provisions of sec- 
 tions 553q 1 to 553q 8, inclusive. 
 
 (Section 172 53) 23. There is annually appropriated on Jan- 
 uary 1, beginning January, 1915, to the regents of the university, 
 sixteen thousand dollars, payable from any moneys in the general 
 fund not otherwise appropriated, for carrying out the provisions 
 of sections 553q 1 to 553q 8, inclusive. 
 
 (Section 172 53 24. There is annually appropriated on Jan- 
 uary 1, beginning January, 1916, to the regents of the university, 
 payable from any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appro- 
 priated, a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of sections 
 553q 1 to 553q 8, inclusive. (1913 c. Gil) 
 
 This chapter is of especial interest to county boards of super- 
 visors in certain counties. The burden of supporting this county 
 agricultural representative is to be partly borne by the county 
 and partly by the state university. The representative is to be 
 selected by the board of regents of the university and is to be 
 recommended to said board of regents by the dean of the Col- 
 lege of Agriculture. 
 
 Admission of non-residents to high schools; tuition, etc. Sec- 
 tion 496k. Whenever persons, not residing in any free high school 
 district and having completed the course of study in the school 
 district in which * * * they reside, * * * or one equiv- 
 alent thereto, as herein provided, enter any free high school in 
 Wisconsin, or any free high school in another state, which is nearer 
 to the home of such persons than any free high school in this 
 state, offering a course of study equivalent to the course of study 
 in free high schools in Wisconsin, the free high school board of 
 
SHORT COURSE IN AGRICULTURE, ETC. 65 
 
 that district shall be entitled and is hereby authorized to charge 
 a tuition fee for such pupils not to exceed one dollar per week. 
 On or before the first day of July in each year, the secretary of the 
 free high school board shall make a sworn statement to the clerk 
 of the city, town or village from which any person may have been 
 admitted to said free high school. Said statement shall set forth 
 the residence, name, age and date of entrance to such school, and 
 the number of months attendance during the preceding school 
 year of each person so admitted from such city, town or village; 
 this statement shall show the amount of tuition which, under the 
 provisions of this act, the district is entitled to receive for each 
 person reported as having been a member of the school from such 
 city, town or village, and the aggregate sum for tuition for all per- 
 sons so admitted from each city, town or village, which statement 
 shall be filed as a claim against the town, city or village where such 
 person resides, and allowed as other claims are allowed. (1913 c. 631) 
 
 The above broadens the statute relating to admission of non- 
 resident pupils to free high schools. It must be noticed, how- 
 ever, that it does not permit a pupil to go from Wisconsin into 
 another state for the purpose of attending a high school, no mat- 
 ter what the advantages for so doing may be to the pupil, if it 
 occurs that there is a free high school located in Wisconsin that 
 is nearer to his home by regular traveled route than the one 
 located in the other state. 
 
 Agriculture and domestic science in high schools; short course. 
 
 Section 49 6c 4. 1. Any number not exceeding twenty high 
 schools offering agriculture or domestic science courses, under the 
 provisions of section 49 6d of the statutes, may each, under such 
 conditions and regulations as the state superintendent of schools 
 may prescribe, establish and maintain a sixteen weeks' course ii 
 agriculture, including rural economics, or domestic science, includ- 
 ing home economics, or both, in connection with such high school 
 commencing about November 1st, of each year for pupils over 
 fourteen years of age; provided, that this special course shall not 
 be approved for any school unless the teaching force shall be ade- 
 quate to properly administer all courses adopted and in force in 
 such school. The additional teaching force needed and all other ex- 
 pense of maintaining such courses shall be provided for in the same 
 manner as other expenses of maintaining such high school. The 
 salary of said additional teacher or teachers shall not be counted 
 in apportioning the general special aid or any special aid for ag- 
 riculture or domestic science for a school administering such six- 
 teen weeks' course in agriculture or domestic science. The tuition 
 for all pupils attending such sixteen weeks' course shall be paid by 
 
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66 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 the town at the same rate and in the same manner as is provided 
 by section 496k of the statutes, except that no diploma or certificate 
 of the county superintendent of completion of the course of study 
 in the district shall be required. 
 
 2. Any such high school so establishing and maintaining such 
 course upon complying with all the provisions of section 496c of 
 the statutes may, upon application, be placed upon an approved 
 list of schools maintaining such short course in agriculture or do- 
 mestic science. The clerk of such school board shall make report 
 to the state superintendent at the same time and in the same man- 
 ner and form as required by section 496c of the statutes. Upon 
 receipt of such report, if it appears that such course has been 
 maintained in a manner satisfactory to the state superintendent, 
 at least eighty minutes daily for said sixteen weeks, under the direct 
 instruction of a teacher holding a special license from the state 
 superintendent to teach such special subject, the state superintend- 
 ent shall make a certificate to that effect and file it with the sec- 
 retary of state. Upon receiving such certificate the secretary of 
 state shall draw his warrant for the sum of two hundred dollars 
 for each of the special courses maintained, the sum payable in 
 accordance herewith to be payable to the treasurer of the district 
 maintaining the school; provided, that the total amount expended 
 by the state for that purpose shall not exceed eight thousand dol- 
 lars in any one year. 
 
 Section 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the general funds 
 of the state the sum of eight thousand dollars annually for the pur- 
 pose of carrying out the provisions of section 496c 4. (1913 c. 63- r >) 
 This is a new and valuable measure and will appeal especially 
 to high schools in villages and the smaller cities. 
 
 The state pays the teacher a certain sum in certain cases. Sec- 
 tion 560g 1. 1. Every school district not composed wholly or in 
 part of an incorporated village or city, nor containing a state grad- 
 ed school, which shall maintain a school or schools for nine months 
 or more, and have provided the equipment required by section 560g 
 of the statutes, and which shall have an average daily attendance 
 for said nine months, of not less than twenty nor more than forty 
 pupils, shall be deemed to have maintained a school of the first 
 grade, and every school district which shall have maintained the first 
 class school provided by section 560g of the statutes, Tor nine 
 months, and shall have an average minimum daily attendance of 
 not less than fifteen nor more than twenty, and a maximum daily 
 attendance of not less than forty nor more than fifty pupils, shall 
 be deemed to have maintained a school of the second- grade. Any 
 
MAY ADD TO TEACti&R'S SALARY. 7 
 
 fechobl district which desires rural school state aid as provided by 
 this section shall make application in writing, as provided by sec- 
 tion 560j of the statutes, to the county or district superintendent, 
 specifying in addition the average daily attendance and furnishing 
 the name of the teacher and a copy of the certificate or authority 
 to teach, and the place, date and amount of her previous teaching 
 experience. 
 
 2. If the county or district superintendent and the state rural 
 school inspector, as the result of actual inspection of the school, 
 and the work of the teacher during the year for which aid is de- 
 manded shall approve of the application they shall endorse the 
 same and remit it to the state superintendent of public instruction, 
 who shall act upon the applications in the order of their receipt. 
 Thereupon the state superintendent shall fix the amount to be paid 
 each such rural school complying with the provisions of this section, 
 whose application shall have been approved by the state superin- 
 tendent, and certify the same to the secretary of state. The sec- 
 retary of state shall then draw his warrant upon the state treasurer, 
 for the several claims of said rural schools, made payable to the 
 treasurer of the district or corporation maintaining such approved 
 school, and such sums shall be approtioned by said district treasurer 
 direct to each teacher qualified as herein provided and employed 
 in such rural school, as additional compensation as follows: 
 
 a. To each first grade school as designated herein and which has 
 been taught by a graduate of the teachers' course at the university 
 of Wisconsin, a Wisconsin state normal school, or other equivalent 
 school, as determined by the state board of examiners, or the holder 
 of a life certificate, and who has had at least one year of successful 
 teaching experience, and has taught an efficient school during the 
 year for which aid is demanded, ten dollars per month for each 
 such teacher. 
 
 b. To each second grade school as designated herein and which 
 has been taught by a teacher holding a first grade certificate and 
 who has had at least one year's successful teaching experience, and 
 has taught an efficient school during the year for which aid is de- 
 manded, five dollars per month for each such teacher. 
 
 3. The state superintendent is hereby empowered to refuse the 
 additional state aid provided for herein, to any school district which 
 in his judgment has failed to comply with the provisions of this 
 section. 
 
 Section 172 55. 1. The whole amount annually paid under the 
 provisions of section 560g 1 shall not exceed twenty thousand 
 dollars, and if more be demanded by said rural schools, it shall be 
 
 
68 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, i9ll 
 
 paid proportionately. Any unexpended balance shall revert to the 
 general fund. (191.', c. <i.H>j 
 
 This is a new statute and brings the state into close relation 
 with school teachers having charge of certain one-room schools 
 equipped, attended and conducted in a certain manner. To the 
 casual reader it will doubtless be somewhat difficult of interpre- 
 tation, owing to the use of the word "minimum." The conditions 
 are as follows. 
 
 a. A one-room school with the building in good repair, prop- 
 erly seated, heated, lighted, ventilated and kept in good condition 
 at all times and maintained for not less than nine months during 
 the year. 
 
 b. The teacher must hold a first grade county superintendent 
 certificate or be a graduate of the Teachers' Training Course of- 
 fered in the State University, a graduate of a state normal school 
 or of some course of study equivalent to that required for grad- 
 uation from a state normal school, or the holder of a life state 
 certificate and who has had at least one year of successful ex- 
 perience in teaching. 
 
 c. The school must be efficient during the year for which state 
 aid is demanded. 
 
 d. Satisfactory evidence to the effect that the teaching has 
 been efficient and the law fully complied with must be filed with 
 the state superintendent. 
 
 e. A school of the second grade requires that the teacher shall 
 hold at least a first grade county certificate and shall have an 
 average daily attendance of not less than 15 or more than 20, 
 or not less than 40 or more than 50. The school of the first 
 grade requires that the teacher shall hold some form of state li- 
 cense or state certificate, shall be maintained and efficiently 
 taught for not less than nine months and shall have an average 
 daily attendance of not less than 20 nor more than 40. 
 
 f. When the required conditions are met, the state will, upon 
 receipt of a satisfactory report required at the end of the year, 
 pay to the teacher of a school of the first grade the sum of $10 
 per month, or at least $90 in addition to the salary paid by the 
 district under her contract. 
 
 g. When the required conditions are met, the state will, upon 
 receipt of a satisfactory report required at the end of the year, 
 pay to the teacher of a school of the second grade the sum of 
 $5 per month, or at least $45 in addition to the salary paid by the 
 district under her contract. 
 
 The purpose of this law is to encourage school district boards 
 to secure first-class teachers and to encourage teachers to secure 
 higher qualifications in order that they may avail themselves of 
 its provisions. It is not intended to relieve the district in any 
 way from the burden of taxation necessary to maintain a high 
 class school. It aims to secure regular attendance on the part 
 of pupils and interest on the part of the parents and school officers, 
 and efficient work from the teacher. It applies to one room schools 
 only. 
 
 Certain applications for loans validated. (Section 430) (5a). 
 Applications for loans to school districts duly authorized prior to 
 the passage of subdivision 5, section 430 of the statutes (Chapter 
 302, Laws 1913) are hereby validated and relieved of the restrictive 
 
UNIVERSITY SOILS LABORATORY. 69 
 
 provision relating to population and to powers of supervisors in 
 
 force at that time, (1913 c. 61,1) 
 
 Chapter 302. laws of 1913, removed certain restrictions hereto- 
 fore existing in subdivision 5 of section 430 of the statutes. This 
 latter subdivision restricted the amount of indebtedness that 
 could be voted upon a district by fixing a certain required nuw- 
 ber of people residing in the district. Owing to the present cost 
 of building, districts found themselves handicapped in securing 
 suitable buildings for school purposes. The old statute also re- 
 quired the cooperation of the town board of supervisors in cer- 
 tain cases. This provision, as well as the provision relating to 
 school population, is removed. 
 
 State soils laboratory. Section 392em 8a. 1. The regents of 
 the state university shall establish a state soils laboratory in connec- 
 tion with the college of agriculture. 
 
 2. So far as possible the state soils laboratory shall make use of 
 the rooms, apparatus and supplies of the department of soils of the 
 college of agriculture and of the services of the instructional labo- 
 ratory and the field staff of the department. When necessary to the 
 proper carrying out of the provision of this section, to secure the use 
 of accommodations, apparatus and supplies other than those available 
 in the department of soils or to secure the services of university or 
 other state employees not employed in the department of soils, the 
 regents shall cause to be made such arrangements as may be nec- 
 essary to provide the accommodations, apparatus, supplies or services 
 required. 
 
 3. It shall be the purpose and the duty of the state soils laboratory 
 to make field examinations and laboratory analyses of the soil of 
 any land in this state and to certify to the results of such examina- 
 tions and analyses upon the request of the owner or the occupant 
 of the land and the payment by him of the fee or fees hereinafter 
 prescribed. 
 
 4. For services rendered under this section the state soils lab- 
 oratory shall charge the person requesting such services a fee which 
 shall be calculated as follows: 
 
 (1) For the field examination and the chemical analysis of the 
 soil of any tract of land not exceeding one hundred sixty acres in 
 area, when requested by one person, five dollars. 
 
 (2) When the tract of land exceeds one hundred and sixty acres, 
 for each additional one hundred and sixty acres or part thereof, 
 or for each additional field examination and chemical analysis of 
 the soil, when requested by one person, three dollars. 
 
 (3) Whenever five or more residents in any organized town shall 
 request such field examination or chemical analysis, or both, of 
 land owned by such persons in such town, the charge to each per- 
 
70 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 son, for the service stated in subdivision (1) of this subsection, 
 shall be three dollars and for the service stated in subdivision (2) 
 of this subsection shall be two dollars; and the soils laboratory 
 shall upon the request of such persons for whom such examinations 
 and analyses are made, and without additional charge, send a, 
 representative to such community, who shall give a full and com- 
 plete explanation of such examination and analysis, the purposes for 
 which such soils may be used and the manner in which such lands 
 may be improved. 
 
 5. The state soils laboratory shall make an annual report of its 
 work to the dean of the college of agriculture, and the dean of the 
 college of agriculture shall include these reports verbatim or in 
 summarized form in his biennial report to the regents of the uni- 
 versity in such manner as to show: 
 
 (1) The number of requests made for the services of the labor- 
 atory; 
 
 (2) The number of requests complied with; 
 
 (3) The fees received by the laboratory; 
 
 (4) The expense of conducting the laboratory; and 
 
 (5) Such other facts as may be necessary in judging of the 
 value of the work done by the laboratory. 
 
 (Section 172 53) 25. There is annually appropriated on July 
 1, two thousand dollars, payable from any moneys in the general 
 fund not otherwise appropriated, to the agricultural college income 
 fund for the state soils laboratory to carry into effect the provi- 
 sions of section 392em 8a. 
 
 26. All moneys received by the state soils laboratory in carry- 
 ing out the provisions of section 392em 8a, shall be paid within 
 one week of receipt into the agricultural college income fund of 
 the state treasury and all moneys so deposited are appropriated 
 for said laboratory to carry into effect the provisions of section 
 392em 8 a. (1913 c. 646) 
 
 The above statute will be of interest to persons interested in 
 agriculture or the purchase of land who desire to have a prelim- 
 inary examination made for the purpose of ascertaining the char- 
 acter of the soil. 
 
 Truant officers; duties; penalties. Section 439cd. 1. Truant 
 officers in cities of the first, second and third classes shall receive 
 such compensation as shall be fixed by the boards of education of 
 such cities or boards having similar powers. 
 
 2. The chief of police and the police officers of cities of the 
 fourth class may perform the duties of truant officers in addition 
 to the other duties devolving upon them, and shall receive no extra 
 or additional compensation therefor. 
 
TRUANT OFFICERSDUTIES PENALTIES. 71 
 
 3. When the sheriff, undersheriff and his deputies are acting as 
 truant officers as provided herein, they shall be paid the same 
 fees as provided for such officers in criminal actions brought under 
 the laws of this state, and in counties where the sheriff and dep- 
 uties are paid an annual salary they shall receive their actual and 
 necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties as 
 truant officers, but no extra compensation shall be allowed. 
 
 Section 439ce. Each county and city superintendent of schools 
 shall report to the * * * industrial commission and to the 
 proper truant officer within ten days after the close of each month 
 commencing with the month of * * * October and conclud- 
 ing with the month of * * * May in each year, the name of 
 each child residing in the county, district, or' city under his super- 
 vision who during said month has not complied with the provisions 
 of section * * * 43 9a * * * of the statutes, and the 
 name and postoffice address of the parent or guardian of such 
 child. If any county or city superintendent has no names of de- 
 linquent children to report for any month as provided in this sec- 
 tion, it shall be the duty of such superintendent promptly to notify 
 the industrial commission of that fact. It shall be the duty of 
 each county and city superintendent of schools to require suitable 
 monthly reports from the teachers under his jurisdiction in order 
 to assist each superintendent in preparing the aforesaid reports. 
 Immediately upon serving the notice as provided in sections 439b 
 and 439cc of the statutes upon the parent or guardian of any child, 
 it shall be the duty of the truant officer to notify the teacher of 
 such child of such service. The return of the child to school shall 
 be promptly reported by the teacher to the truant officer and su- 
 perintendent. It shall be the duty of each truant officer to make 
 a report each month to the industrial commission, showing the 
 action taken by him in the cases of delinquency reported to him 
 by the superintendent. Blanks for reports by superintendents to 
 the industrial commission and to the truant officer shall be fur- 
 nished by the industrial commission. 
 
 Section 439cf. Any superintendent of schools or any truant offi- 
 cer who violates or fails to comply with any of the provisions of 
 sections 439b, 439cb, 439cc, and 439ce of the statutes shall be 
 subject to a forfeiture of not less than five nor more than twenty- 
 five dollars for each such offense, which on complaint of the in- 
 dustrial commission may be recovered against such superintendent 
 or truant officer in an action in debt brought by the attorney gen- 
 eral before any court of competent jurisdiction. (1913 c. 650) 
 
 This law is of direct interest to all truant and school officers. 
 Although a statute to be enforced under the direction of the in- 
 dustrial commission, it is given a place here for the sake of 
 greater publicity. 
 
72 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 Special aid for manual training, domestic economy, or agricul- 
 ture. (Section 496c) 3. Upon receiving such certificate the sec- 
 retary of state shall draw his warrant for one-half the amount ac- 
 tually expended for instruction in each department established un- 
 der sections 496b and 496c during the year for which the state aid 
 is received, not, however, to exceed three hundred and fifty dol- 
 lars for each department established under sections 496b and 496c 
 and 496c 3 which shall have been maintained in connection with 
 the high school and the * * * two upper grades next below 
 the high school, but not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars 
 for each department established under sections 496b and 496c 
 which shall have been connected with only- the high school. Pro- 
 vided, however, that no one school district shall receive aid in any 
 one year for more than three such departments. The sum payable 
 in accordance herewith to be payable to the treasurer of the dis- 
 trict or corporation maintaining the school for the year ending June 
 30, 1913, and thereafter; provided, that the total amount expended 
 for such purpose shall not exceed * * * one hundred thousand 
 dollars in any year which is hereby appropriated from any moneys 
 in the general fund not otherwise appropriated. (1913 c. 656) 
 
 State geological and natural history survey. Section 3921- 1. 
 1. The geological and natural history survey is directed to exam- 
 ine the the lands of the northern part of the stat<3 and classify 
 them in accordance with their mineral content and geological and 
 other evidences of the presence of mineral. The classification 
 shall be made in a manner to be agreed upon by the state tax com- 
 mission and said survey, and as rapidly as the classification of 
 each separate township is completed, the detailed report of such 
 township shall be furnished to the tax commission. 
 
 2. The said geological and natural history survey is authorized 
 to enter upon any and all lands for the purpose of making a geo- 
 logical examination thereof by persons competent to make such 
 examination, and to require the owner or lessor of such lands to 
 open to their inspection for the purposes of this act all records re- 
 lating to the presence of minerals and furnish for inspection copies 
 of such maps and plats as may be in his possession. 
 
 3. Said geological and natural history survey is directed to ex- 
 amine the mines and explored mineral lands of the state by per- 
 sons competent to make such examinations and make an accurate 
 determination of the amount of ore therein, the expense of mining, 
 the probable life of the mine, and such other factors as may be 
 necessary, in the judgment of the state tax commission and the 
 geological and natural history survey, for a proper valuation 
 
SPECIAL AID- MANUAL, TRAINING, ETC. 73 
 
 thereGi. For the purpose of this investigation all books, inven- 
 tories, waybills, maps, plats, correspondence, and memoranda re- 
 lating to or used in the transaction of the business of any person, 
 co-partnership or corporation owning or operating any such mine 
 or explored mineral land, shall on demand by the geological and 
 natural history survey, or its authorized representative, be open to 
 its or his inspection or examination. Any such person, co-partner- 
 ship or corporation owning or operating any mine or explored min- 
 eral lands shall furnish for inspection to the geological and nat- 
 ural history survey, upon request, copies of all maps and plats that 
 relate to the workings of his or its mine or mines and to his or 
 its explored mineral lands. 
 
 4. Said geological and natural history survey is further directed 
 to investigate the water powers of the state by carefully gauging 
 the flow of the streams, by making surveys of the profiles of the 
 streams, by a study of the effect of the drainage of lands upon 
 the flow of streams, and by such other investigations as may prove 
 necessary and expedient. 
 
 5. Any officer, agent, clerk or employe of said survey or said 
 tax commission who shall divulge or make known to any person 
 except the officers of said survey or said tax commission, in any 
 manner, directly or indirectly, any information whatsoever given 
 to him ip. the discharge of his duties under subsections 2 and 3 
 of this section, which information shall have been given him with 
 the request that it be not divulged, upon conviction thereof, shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than 
 five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for 
 not less than one month nor more than six months, or by im- 
 prisonment in the state prison for not more than two years in the 
 discretion of the court; provided, that nothing herein contained 
 shall prevent the use for assessment purposes of any information 
 obtained under the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 172 24. 3. There is appropriated on July 1, 1913, 
 and on July 1, 1914, the sum of twenty-eight thousand dollars 
 payable from any moneys in the general fund not otherwise ap- 
 propriated for the geological and natural history survey, to carry 
 into effect the provisions of sections 3921 1, 392k 1 and sub- 
 section 2 of section 3921. Of the above appropriation two thou- 
 sand dollars shall be set aside each year for soil survey as provided 
 for in section 392k 1. (1913 c. 672) 
 
 Industrial school appropriation. (Section 553p 6) 1. Not 
 more than ten thousand dollars shall be appropriated from the 
 "state funds for the purposes of sections 553p 1 to 553p 9, in- 
 
74 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1!)13. 
 
 elusive, and section 553p 15 * * * in any one city, town, 
 or village, and state aid shall not be given to more than * * * 
 forty-five schools established under , said sections. 
 
 Section 3. There is added for the year ending June 30, 1913, 
 to the sum which was appropriated by chapter 616, laws of 1911, 
 for the payment of state aid to continuation schools, out of any 
 money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum 
 of thirty-seven thousand dollars, making the total amount available 
 for payment of state aid to continuation schools organized and 
 maintained according to the provisions of chapter 616, laws of 
 1911, for the year ending June 30, 1913, the sum of sixty-two 
 thousand dollars. 
 
 (Section 172 49) 1. There is annually appropriated on July 
 first, to the state board of industrial education out of any money 
 in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, a sum not to ex- 
 ceed one hundred fifty thousand dollars, to carry into effect the 
 provisions of sections 553p 1 and 553p 3 to 553p 9, inclusive, 
 and section 553p 15. No part of this appropriation shall be avail- 
 able as state aid to continuation schools for the school year end- 
 ing June 30, 1913. (1913 c. 677) 
 
 Section 553p 1 to 553p 9 will be found under the heads of 
 Industrial, Commercial, Continuation and Evening Schools: 
 Board of Industrial Education, etc. Pages 243 to 250 of the school 
 code, Edition 1911. The law relating to state industrial education 
 was passed by the legislature of that year. 
 
 County schools of agriculture; $15,000 for school building. Sec- 
 tion 553 2. 1. The county board of any county may acquire by 
 purchase, gift or bequest, land for a county school of agriculture. 
 
 2. Immediately after the county board votes to acquire or accept 
 land for the purpose of a county school of agriculture, the county 
 clerk shall, notify the dean of the college of agriculture. 
 
 3. Within thirty days after the receipt of the notification, the 
 dean of the college of agriculture, the secretary of state and the 
 state superintendent of education, acting as a committee, shall 
 inspect the proposed site in person or by deputy to determine the 
 size and appropriateness. If the site is approved by them state 
 aid shall be granted for the maintenance of the school under the 
 following conditions: 
 
 (a) The county board of education shall control the county ag- 
 ricultural schools established under this act. State aid shall be 
 granted only on compliance with the rules as to reports and char- 
 acter of work applying to agricultural schools. 
 
 (b) Any school established under this act whose course of study 
 and the qualifications of whose teachers are approved by the state 
 
SCHObLS $15,OM tfott BUlLbiNCL 73 
 
 Superintendent and the dean of the college of agriculture, may, 
 upon application, be placed upon an approved list of county schools 
 of agriculture and domestic economy to be known as the "special 
 state aid list for county schools of agriculture." Not more than 
 three schools shall be added to such list in any one year. 
 
 (c) Not more than one school shall be established in any sen- 
 atorial district, unless on the first day of September of any year, 
 there are no approved applications for such schools from counties 
 in senatorial districts in which there are no county schools of ag- 
 riculture. 
 
 4. State aid to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars shall be 
 paid to a county establishing a school under this act, but coun- 
 ties may appropriate additional money for the organization, equip- 
 ment and maintenance of the school, and state aid shall be paid 
 only when it is proved to the satisfaction of the state superintend- 
 ent that the money has been expended properly in the building of 
 the school. The application for and payment of state aid under 
 this section shall be made in the manner provided in section 5531 
 of the statutes, but no application shall be received before Jan- 
 uary 1, 1914. 
 
 5. Every county agricultural school shall receive from moneys 
 appropriated for this purpose state aid annually as follows: If 
 average daily attendance is (a) one hundred or less, six thousand 
 dollars; (b) between one hundred and one hundred and fifty, seven 
 thousand; (c) if over one hundred and fifty, eight thousand dollars. 
 
 6. State aid granted under this act does not prejudice the right 
 of the school to any other state aid to which it is entitled,. 
 
 (Section 172 63) 4. There is annually appropriated not to 
 exceed forty-five thousand dollars, payable from any moneys in the 
 general fund received from state railroad taxes, not otherwise ap- 
 propriated, as state aid for county agricultural school buildings 
 as provided in section 5531 2. ' 
 
 5. There is annually appropriated such sums as may be neces- 
 sary, payable from any moneys in the general fund not otherwise 
 appropriated, as state aid for maintenance of general instruction 
 in the county agricultural schools as provided in section 5531 2. 
 (WI3 c.l 11) 
 
 This chapter is of special interest to boards of supervisors in 
 counties where county schools of agriculture and domestic science 
 are to be established. 
 
 County board of education. Section 702 1. There is hereby 
 created a board of education for each county in the state of Wis- 
 consin, to be known as the county board of education, consisting 
 of five members to be chosen as hereinafter provided: 
 
7$ SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 Section 702 2. The county board of education district shall 
 include the entire county, excepting only such portion thereof as 
 is included within any city having a board of education, a super- 
 intendent of schools, or other board or officer vested with power 
 to examine and license teachers and supervise and manage the 
 schools therein, and in counties now having more than one super- 
 intendent district each such district shall constitute a county board 
 of education district. The electors of such city shall have no vote 
 in electing the county board of education, and the county super- 
 visors from such city shall have no voice in any matter relating 
 to said board or the members thereof, nor shall any tax be levied 
 in such city to pay any part of the expense, compensation or al- 
 lowances of such board, the members thereof or the county super- 
 intendent or assistant county superintendent or the clerk for the 
 superintendent, or examiners for common school diplomas. 
 
 Section 702 3. Any person resident within the county board 
 of education district, qualified to vote at elections pertaining to 
 school matters, shall be eligible to membership on said board. 
 
 Section 702 4. At the regular spring election to be held on 
 the first Tuesday of April, 1914, there shall be elected in each 
 county board of education district five members of such county 
 board of education. At the first meeting after the said election 
 the members of such board shall cast lots to determine who shall 
 serve for a term of one year, who for a term of two years, who for 
 a term of three years, who for a term of four years, and who for 
 a term of five years, respectively. Except as to those members 
 whose first term shall be fixed by lot, as aforesaid, at one, two, 
 three, four and five years, the terms of office of each member of 
 such board shall be five years and until his successor is elected 
 and qualified, and one member shall be elected each year follow- 
 ing the year 1914. 
 
 Section 702 5. Every person residing within the county board 
 of education district qualified to vote at elections pertaining to 
 school matters shall be qualified electors at ejections for members 
 of the county board of education. 
 
 Section 702 6. The candidates to be voted for as members of 
 the county board of education shall be nominated as provided in 
 section 30 of the statutes, and such election shall be noticed and 
 held and returns thereof made in the manner now provided by law 
 for the election of county judicial officers. 
 
 Section 702 7. Vacancies occurring in the county board of 
 education shall be filled by the board. The members so elected to 
 fill such vacancies shall serve until the next regular election, at 
 
COUNTY BOARD OP EDUCATION. 77 
 
 which time the vacancies shall be filled for the unexpired term 
 in the same manner a,s is provided herein for the election of the 
 members of such board for the full term. 
 
 Section 7028. On the first Tuesday in May, after the election 
 in April, 1914, and annually thereafter, such board shall meet at 
 the county seat and organize by electing one of the members as 
 president. Such president shall serve for one year and until his 
 successor shall be chosen and shall have qualified. A majority of 
 the board shall constitute a quorum. The clerk for the county 
 superintendent whose appointment is hereinafter provided shall be 
 ex officio secretary of the board, but in case no such clerk is serv- 
 ing them the county board of education shall elect one of its mem- 
 bers secretary. 
 
 Section 702 9. The regular meetings of the county board of 
 education shall be held on the first Tuesday in May and on the 
 last Friday in October of each year. Special meetings shall be 
 called by the secretary upon the order of the president or upon the 
 order of any two other members of the board by giving at least 
 six days' written notice by mail of the time and place of such meet- 
 ing to each member of the board and to the county superintend- 
 ent of schools. All meetings shall be held at the county seat, ex- 
 cept that by the unanimous consent of all the members of the 
 board meetings may be held elsewhere in the county. All mem- 
 bers of the county board of education shall be allowed and paid 
 the per diem and mileage as provided in section 695 of the stat- 
 utes for members of the county board of supervisors; but no mem- 
 ber of said board shall receive compensation for his extra services 
 as member of such board for more than fifteen days in any one 
 year, provided the limitation of the number of days for which the 
 member of the county board of education may receive compensa- 
 tion shall not include the numbers of days necessarily spent in 
 performing the duties as outlined in subdivision (3) of section 
 70210. 
 
 Section 702 10. The powers and duties of the said board of 
 education shall be as follows: 
 
 (1) The county board of education may appoint at least one 
 assistant superintendent from a list of three persons submitted by 
 the county superintendent in all cases where there are more than 
 one hundred schools in the county board of education district. 
 The qualifications of such assistant superintendents shall be the 
 same as is now required by law of county superintendents; the 
 term of office shall be two years, and the compensation of said 
 assistant superintendents shall be fixed by the county board of edu- 
 
 
78 scttooL LAW SuPtLtiMfiN't, i9iS. 
 
 cation. Any person appointed as assistant* county superintend- 
 ent of schools shall have power to perform, under the direction and 
 supervision of the county superintendent of schools, all the duties 
 now imposed by law on the county superintendent except licensing 
 teachers and annulling certificates. Said assistant superintendent 
 shall be subject to removal by the board. 
 
 (2) The county board of education, upon the nomination of the 
 county superintendent, may appoint a clerk, subject to removal 
 by the board, for the county superintendent of schools., fix his sal- 
 ary, and define his powers and duties. 
 
 (3) The county board of education shall have full power and au- 
 thority to form, organize, alter or consolidate school districts, and 
 shall be vested exclusively with all the power and authority now 
 exercised by town boards, village boards of trustees and city coun- 
 cils, in the formation and organization of districts, and in the con- 
 solidation and alteration of them, with the right of appeal by any 
 person aggrieved thereby to the state superintendent from its de- 
 cision as now provided by law. In case it becomes necessary to 
 organize, alter, or consolidate school districts affecting cities un- 
 der city superintendents, or adjoining county or counties over 
 which the county superintendent shall have no jurisdiction, then 
 and in that case the city council, or county board of education of 
 such adjoining county or counties, shall have a voice and vote in 
 such organization, alteration or consolidation, as is now provided 
 by law for the formation of joint school districts. The said county 
 board of education in exercising its authority as granted in this 
 section shall follow the procedure as now provided in the law for 
 the organization, alteration or consolidation of school districts. 
 The county board of education shall have discretionary power to 
 authorize parents or guardians living nearer to a school in an ad- 
 joining district, to send their children to the nearer school. In 
 such cases it shall be the duty of the school board of the district 
 in which the parents or guardians of the children live to pay the 
 district where the children attend tuition at the rate not to ex- 
 ceed the maximum fixed by law. 
 
 (4) The county board of education may appoint, upon the nom- 
 ination of the county superintendent, a board of examiners, not 
 to exceed five persons, for the common school diplomas, prescribe 
 its duties, fix the compensation of its members as hereinafter pro- 
 vided, and may limit the number of days in any year for which 
 any member of said board of examiners may receive compensation. 
 
 (5) Each member of the county board of education shall devote 
 not less than two days in each year to visiting and inspecting rural 
 
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 schools, but no member shall receive a per diem for more than 
 five days of such visitation and inspection. Each member shall 
 attend at least one of the annual meetings of the school board 
 conventions of the county. 
 
 (6) The county board of education shall, on or before August 
 15th, make and transmit to the state superintendent of public in- 
 struction an annual report date^ June 30 of each year showing 
 such facts regarding the business and educational administration 
 of the schools within the county board of education district as he 
 shall require. 
 
 (7) The county superintendent and his assistants shall make 
 such reports to the county board of education as it may deem nec- 
 essary. 
 
 (8) It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to attend 
 the meetings, unless excused by the board, and to act as an ad- 
 visory member of such board. Said superintendent when in attend- 
 ance at such meetings shall have all the privileges of members of 
 the board excepting the right to vote. 
 
 (9) The county board of education shall fix the salary of the 
 county superintendent of schools, but in no case shall it be less 
 than one thousand dollars, excluding traveling expenses and ex- 
 penses for printing, postage, and stationery. 
 
 (10) The county board of education is hereby authorized to ex- 
 ercise all the powers and privileges conferred by law upon the 
 county training school board by sections 411 1 to 411 11, in- 
 clusive, of the statutes, and upon the county school board by sec- 
 tions 553c to 553m, inclusive, of the statutes, if the county board 
 of supervisors shall so determine. 
 
 (11) At the regular meetings in May and October the county 
 board of education shall audit and allow the county superintendent 
 and his assistant or assistants traveling expenses, and expenses of 
 postage, printing and office supplies, as shall be incurred in the 
 discharge of their duties, but the county board of education shall 
 have power to limit annually or semi-annually the amount that 
 shall be expended for such purposes; and at such meetings shall 
 audit and allow to the members of the board of examiners for 
 common school diplomas, if such have been appointed, a per diem 
 of three dollars and mileage at the rate of six cents per mile for 
 travel necessarily performed in the discharge of their duty; and 
 also at said meetings shall audit and allow the per diem and mile- 
 age allowed to the members of the board by section 702 9. 
 
 (12) The county board of education shall provide for the pay- 
 ment of the salaries of the county superintendent, and his assist- 
 ant or assistants in twelve equal instalments. 
 
80 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1912. 
 
 (13) The county board of education shall, at its meeting to bu 
 held on the last Friday in October of each year, determine the 
 amount of money which will be necessary for the purpose of carry- 
 ing out the provisions of sections 702 1 to 702 12, inclusive, 
 for the ensuing year. On or before the first Monday in November, 
 in each year, the county board of education shall report the total 
 amount required to the county clerk who shall report the same to 
 the county board of supervisors at its annual meeting in November, 
 and such amount shall be levied in the county tax and collected as 
 other taxes, and shall be set aside by the county treasurer as a sep- 
 arate fund to be paid out by him upon the orders of the county 
 clerk issued in accordance with schedules submitted to him by the 
 county board of education, which schedules shall give the names 
 of persons, the amounts due each and the purposes for which is- 
 sued. 
 
 (14) It shall be the duty of the county board of education, on 
 or before the last Friday in October of each year, to file with the 
 county board of supervisors an itemized statement of the receipts 
 and disbursements of all funds coming under its jurisdiction for 
 the preceding school year ending the thirtieth day of June. The 
 report when filed shall be published in the proceedings of the 
 county board 6f supervisors and shall be filed with the county clerk. 
 
 Section 702 11. State aid in the sum of five hundred dollars 
 shall be .granted each county board of education district each year, 
 but such aid shall be granted only after the state superintendent 
 shall have certified to the secretary of state that the annual re- 
 port of the county board of education has been received and ac- 
 cepted by the state superintendent of. public instruction; and that 
 the county superintendent of schools shall have furnished the state 
 superintendent his annual report at the time required by law, and 
 not later than the thirtieth day of June each year, such other facts 
 concerning the schools in his county as may have been required 
 by the state superintendent, and shall have forwarded such com- 
 munications, bulletins and publications to the school district offi- 
 cers or the teachers of the schools in the county as may have been 
 requested by the state superintendent or as may be required by 
 law. Upon the receipt of such certificate from the state superin- 
 tendent, the secretary of state shal) draw his warrant for five hun- 
 dred dollars on the state treasurer in favor of the county treasurer 
 of the county containing the county board of education district 
 and said sum shall be forwarded to be placed in the separate fund 
 created by subdivision (13) of section 702 10, but the state su- 
 perintendent or the governor may at any time cause to be made 
 
HOLIDAYS CLERK'S COMPENSATION. 81 
 
 an audit of all the school accounts kept by the county board of 
 education of any county board of education district in the state. 
 
 Sectin 702 12. The law now in force and effect relating to 
 the election, qualifications, powers and duties of the county super- 
 intendent of schools shall be in full force and effect and in no 
 way repealed or modified by sections 702 1 to 702 12, inclusive, 
 save as herein specifically set forth in said sections. 
 
 Section 702 13. There is annually appropriated out of any 
 money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum suffi- 
 cient to carry out the provisions of section 702 11 of the statutes. 
 (191S c. 751) 
 
 The above provides a method of administration of school af- 
 fairs in each county that is entirely new in this state. The elec- 
 tors must next April select irom among the residents of the county 
 five persons, to be elected by the electors, men and women, of the 
 county at the time and places of holding the regular town meet- 
 ings on the first Tuesday in April. The statute is plain in de- 
 claring certain duties that may be performed by this board. It 
 is also clear that the duties of the board as a board may be 
 larger and more comprehensive in those counties where there is 
 a county training school for teachers and a county school of ag- 
 riculture than in other counties where these institutions do not 
 exist. It will be noted that whether or not their duties are en- 
 larged in such counties depends upon the action of the county 
 board of supervisors. 
 
 Washington's and Lincoln's birthday observance. Section 2577. 
 The first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the 
 fourth day of July, the twenty-fifth day of December, the thirtieth 
 day of May, the day appointed by the governor as labor day, or by 
 him or the president of the United States as a day of public thanks- 
 giving in each year, and the day of holding the general election 
 are legal holidays; and whenever * * * any of said days shall 
 fall on Sunday the succeeding Monday * * * shall be the legal 
 holiday; provided, however, that appropriate special exercises may 
 be held in all schools for one-half day on February 12 and on 
 February 22. (19 IS c. 761) 
 
 This chapter does not make February 12th Lincoln's birthday 
 a legal holiday. 
 
 Compensation to district clerk. (Section 462) Seventh. Such 
 other facts and statistics in relation to the schools, public or private, 
 in such district as the state superintendent may from time to time 
 require. The clerk of each joint district shall report to the county 
 or city superintendent, as the case may be, the number of children 
 residing in each part of the several towns, villages or cities, em- 
 braced in such joint districts. He shall also report the amount of 
 
82 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1911 
 
 the indebtedness of the district. Upon filing with the county sii* 
 perintendent within the time set by law, a complete and satisfactory 
 annual report setting forth all the facts required by law to be re- 
 ported to the county or city superintendent, and such other infor- 
 mation as may be called for by either the county or * * * city 
 superintendent, the school district clerk in a school district main- 
 taining one or more schools in one or more separate school buildings 
 and not containing an incorporated village or city, and having a 
 school census of * * * one hundred persons or less shall be 
 paid from any moneys in the general fund of the school district 
 treasury of which he is clerk, the sum of ten dollars for each one 
 room school maintained by the district; provided, such schools are 
 more than a mile and a half apart, the distance to be measured by 
 the nearest traveled highway. In a school district maintaining one 
 or more separate schools in separate buildings and not containing 
 an incorporated village or city and having a school census of more 
 than one hundred persons and less than two hundred persons, twenty 
 dollars for the first school and an additional ten dollars -for each 
 separate school maintained in a separate building by the district, 
 provided, that such schools are more than a mile and a half apart, 
 the distance to be measured by the nearest traveled highway. In 
 a school district maintaining one or more separate schools in sepa- 
 rate buildings, and not containing an incorporated village or city 
 and having a school census of more than two hundred persons and 
 less than three hundred persons, thirty dollars for the first school 
 and an additional ten dollars for each separate school maintained 
 in a separate building by the district; provided, that such schools 
 are more than a mile and a half apart, the distance to be measured 
 by the nearest traveled highway: * * * and in school dis- 
 tricts having a school census of more than three hundred persons 
 of school age, or containing an incorporated village or city, such 
 sum as the body electing the school board of such school district 
 may direct; provided, such school clerk shall file with the district 
 treasurer a certificate signed by the county or city superintendent 
 of schools setting forth that the school census for the year was 
 properly taken, and that all reports required by law to be made by 
 school district clerks have been filed and approved. (1913 c. 76, r >) 
 
 The provisions of this chapter render void all previous provi- 
 sions of the statutes fixing the compensation of school district 
 clerks. The electors or board of education in districts where 
 there is an incorporated village or a school census of more than 
 300 persons, are privileged to fix the amount of compensation 
 which shall be paid to the district clerk for his services. In all 
 other districts, however, the compensation is fixed by the above 
 statute. In cases where the school population is more than 300 
 or an incorporated village or a city comprise part or all of the 
 
COUNTY INSTITUTES. 88 
 
 district, the district clerk should, when sending his report to the 
 county superintendent, attach thereto a sworn statement of the 
 amount of compensation voted to him by the electors or by 'the 
 board of education. This is necessary in order that the superin- 
 tendent may know what sum to place in the certificate which he 
 returns with his approval of the annual report. 
 
 Teachers' county institutes. Section 461m. * * * The 
 teachers' county institute appropriation * * * shall be used 
 under the direction of the county or district superintendent in 
 defraying the necessary expenses of conducting annually one or 
 more teachers' institutes for the instruction of the teachers of his 
 county or district in school management, in methods of teaching, 
 and in branches taught in the common schools, and in compensa- 
 tion for lectures at such institutes when said lectures are given by 
 other than the conductors or the county or district superintendent. 
 
 Section 4 6 In. No money shall be paid by the county or district 
 superintendent of schools for the services of any instructor or lec- 
 turer or to any person from * * * the appropriation for county 
 institutes, * * * unless said person is the holder of a certifi- 
 cate signed by the state superintendent certifying that the committee 
 on institutes of the board of regents of normal schools approve of 
 such person as a competent institute conductor. 
 
 Section 461o. The appropriation referred to in * * * sec- 
 tion 461m shall be distributed among the counties of the state in 
 just proportion to the number of teachers actually required and em- 
 ployed in the territory under the supervision of the county or dis- 
 trict superintendent in giving instruction in the schools of said 
 county or superintendent district for a term of not less than seven 
 months during each year, unless failure to maintain such school or 
 schools for such term shall have been caused by the destruction of 
 the schoolhouse or by the order of the school district board, or 
 the local or state board of health, on account of the prevalence of a 
 contagious disease. 
 
 Section 461p. The county or district superintendent of schools 
 shall between the first and tenth days of July in each year make 
 a statement upon oath to the state superintendent, giving the exact 
 number of teachers in all the public schools of his district when 
 they are all in session. When the sworn statements from all the 
 county or superintendent districts have been received it shall be 
 the duty of the state superintendent to apportion the appropriation 
 * * * mentioned in section 461m * * * among the dif- 
 ferent counties of the state in proportion to the number of legally 
 qualified teachers actually engaged in teaching under the provisions 
 and restrictions of this chapter, and certify said sum to the sec- 
 
84' SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 retary of state, who shall thereupon draw his orders upon the state 
 treasury in favor of the different county or district superintendents 
 for the sum so certified. 
 
 Section 461q. The county or district superintendent shall keep 
 an itemized account of all the expenditures made from the appro- 
 priation * * * in his superintendent district, said account to 
 accompany the statement provided for in section 461p. (1913 c. 722) 
 
 The above is a part of chapter 772 and is placed here in order 
 that its provisions may be convenient for the direction of county 
 superintendents. 
 
BOARD OF HEALTH RULES. 5 
 
 RUJLES RELATING TO THE SANITARY CARE OF SCHOOLS 
 
 Under the authority granted by section 1408 of the statutes, 
 authorizing the state board of health to adopt and enforce rules 
 for the proper sanitary care of schoolhouses and the premises 
 connected therewith, the state board of health hereby publishes and 
 declares the following rules to be of general application through- 
 out the state. These rules were officially adopted by the state board 
 of health on January 29, 1913. 
 
 Rule 17. All teachers, school authorities and health officers 
 having jurisdiction shall not permit the attendance in any private, 
 parochial or public school of any pupil afflicted with a severe cough, 
 a severe cold, itch, lice or other vermin, or any contagious skin dis- 
 ease, or who is filthy in body or clothing, or who has any of the follow- 
 ing dangerous contagious or infectious diseases, to-wit: Diphtheria, 
 smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, whooping-cough, chicken-pox, 
 mumps, pulmonary tuberculosis, Asiatic cholera (cholerine), yellow 
 fever, typhus fever, bubonic plague, cerebro-spinal meningitis or 
 acute anterior poliomyelitis. The teachers in all schools shall, with- 
 out delay, send home any pupil who is obviously sick even if the 
 ailment is unknown, and said teacher shall inform the parents or 
 guardians of said pupil and also the local health officer as speedily 
 as possible, and .said health officer shall examine into the case and 
 take such action as is reasonable and necessary for the benefit of 
 the pupils and to prevent the spread of infection. 
 
 Rule 18. Parents, guardians or other persons having control of 
 any child who is .sick in any way, or who is afflicted with any dis- 
 ease listed in Rule 17, shall not be permit said child to attend any 
 public, private or parochial school or to be present in any public 
 place. 
 
 Rule 19. School teachers, pupils or other persons shall not be 
 admitted to any public, private or parochial school who have come 
 from, or who reside in any house or building which harbors, or 
 is infested with any disease listed in Rule 17, or who have recently 
 been afflicted with such diseases, unless they have the written per- 
 mission of the local health officer having jurisdiction. 
 
 Rule 20. Schoolhouses shall have in each class-room at least 
 fifteen square feet of floor space and not less than two hundred 
 
86 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 cubic feet of air space per pupil, and shall provide for an approved 
 system of indirect heating and ventilation, by means of which each 
 class-room shall be supplied with fresh air at the rate of not less 
 than thirty cubic feet per minute for each pupil, and warmed to 
 maintain an average temperature of 70 degrees Fahr. during the 
 coldest weather. 
 
 Rule 21. Local health officers having jurisdiction shall dismiss 
 forthwith any school-room in which at least 200 cubic feet of air 
 space is not supplied to each pupil. The school authorities shall, 
 without delay, make provisions for the pupils in accordance with 
 the requirements stated in Rule 20. 
 
 Rule 22. Proper ventilation must be provided in all school-rooms 
 and when ventilation ducts do not exist, or are inadequate, it shall 
 be the duty of the teacher to flood the school-room with fresh air 
 by opening windows and doors at recess and noon time and also 
 whenever the air becomes close and foul. Pupils should be given 
 gymnastic exercises during the time the windows are open in cold 
 weather. 
 
 When windows are the only means of ventilation, they should be 
 so constructed as to admit of ready adjustment both at the top and 
 bottom, and some device shall be provided to protect the pupils 
 from currents of cold air. The top of the windows shall be as near 
 the ceiling as the mechanical construction of the building will allow. 
 
 Rule 23. It shall be unlawful for any school board, board of 
 school directors, board of education, or other school officials, in 
 Wisconsin, to use a common heating stove for the purpose of heat- 
 ing any school-room, unless each such stove shall be in part en- 
 closed within a shield or jacket made of galvanized iron or other 
 suitable material, and of such height and so placed as to protect 
 all pupils while seated at their desks from direct rays of heat. 
 
 Rule 24. Light shall be admitted from the left or from the left 
 and rear of class-rooms. The glass area of windows shall equal at 
 least one-fifth of the floor area of the school-room, and no pupil 
 shall be farther removed from the principal source of light than 
 twenty-five feet. 
 
 Rule 25. All floors must be thoroughly swept, or cleaned by a 
 vacuum cleaner each day, either after the close of school or in the 
 afternoon, or one hour before the opening of school in the morning. 
 Before sweeping is started the floors must be sprinkled with water, 
 moist sawdust, or other substance so as to prevent the raising of 
 dust. 
 
BOARD OF HEALTH RULES. 87 
 
 Rule 26. All schoolhouses must be supplied with pure drinking 
 water. If the drinking water is obtained from wells, satisfactory 
 troughs and drains must be provided so as to carry away the 
 waste water and prevent the creation of mud-holes near the open- 
 ing of the well. When water is not supplied at the pump, from 
 water faucets, or from sanitary flowing drinking fountains, covered 
 tanks or covered coolers, with free flowing faucets, must be supplied. 
 All drinking fountains should be constructed of smooth glass or 
 pressed metal. 
 
 Rule 27. Water closets, dry closets and outhouses shall be kept 
 clean and sanitary at all times. Water closets and dry closets, 
 when provided, shall be efficient in every particular, and when said 
 closets are not provided, then good fly-tight, well ventilated out- 
 houses for both sexes, separated by closely built fences, shall be 
 provided. Good dry walks shall lead to all outhouses, and closely 
 built screens, or shields shall ,be built in front of them. Outhouses 
 for males shall have urinals arranged with stalls, and with con- 
 duits of galvanized iron, or other impervious material, draining 
 into a sewer, vault, or other suitable place. 
 
 Rule 28. Health officers shall enforce these rules, and promptly 
 enter prosecution for any violation thereof. 
 
 NOTE. In order to comply with the provisions of Rule 20, 
 regarding heating and ventilation, the state board of health makes 
 the following recommendations with reference to the installation 
 of heating and ventilating systems in new buildings or in buildings 
 
 P-vhere a change must be made in the system: 
 1. In a gravity system of ventilation in connection with a furnace 
 or steam plant the flues for admitting fresh air to the room must 
 have a horizontal area of not less than one square foot for each 
 nine persons that the room will accommodate. 
 
 2. The flues for a fan system of ventilation shall have a hori- 
 zontal area of not less than one square foot for each fifteen persons 
 that the room will accommodate. The ventilation of school build- 
 ings by this system must be so designed that the air pressure in 
 any class-room will be in excess of that of the outside air. 
 
 3. The introduction of cold air from the outside of the building 
 at the base of a direct radiator known as the "direct indirect" 
 system of ventilation must not be used. 
 
 4. One or two room buildings, heated by hot air, stoves, or fur- 
 naces, should have a cold air intake, the cross section of which is 
 
8 SCHOOL LAW SUPPLEMENT, 1913. 
 
 equal to 0.004 of the floor area of the room or rooms heated. The 
 vent flues should have a net area equal to that of the cold air intake. 
 
 The above rules formulated by the State Board of Health rank 
 equally with statutes passed by the state legislature. They are 
 printed in this connection for the purpose of giving general in- 
 formation to school officers and possibly to teachers and others, 
 enabling them to understand what are the powers and duties of 
 local health officers, members of school boards, teachers and parents, 
 to be performed in connection with the schools. The State Board 
 of Health proposes to publish the above regulations and a number 
 of others in pamphlet form, to be placed in the hands of the teach- 
 ers, by the county superintendent. These rules are especially valu- 
 able and should at once be read and studied by school officers and 
 teachers whether in city or village or country districts. 
 
 TO THE READER 
 
 In reading or studying the laws in this pamphlet it must be clearly 
 understood that in all cases where the provisions of a later act are 
 in conflict with provisions of an earlier act the provisions of the 
 later act must be considered as repealing the conflicting provisions 
 of the earlier act: 
 
 That practically all the sections referred to and not printed in 
 this pamphlet can be found arranged in numerical order in the 
 school code of 1911; 
 
 That the code of 1911 or the Revised Wisconsin Statutes for 
 1911 should be consulted and read in certain cases in order that 
 some of the laws in this pamphlet be clearly understood: 
 
 That this pamphlet is school district property to be cared for 
 by the clerk and may be loaned to any elector in the district; 
 
 That the office of the State Superintendent at Madison is at all 
 times ready and willing to answer questions relating to schools and 
 school law and to cooperate with the local authorities in all ways 
 possible to advance the educational interests of the community 
 and the state. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page 
 
 ACCIDENTS prevention of 18 
 
 AID 
 
 agriculture and domestic science short course 65-66 
 
 consolidation of districts transportation 31 
 
 county board of education 75-80 
 
 county institutes 
 
 county schools of agriculture for building 74 
 
 county training schools 10, 45 
 
 day school for deaf and defective speech children 
 
 free high schools 54-56 
 
 high school stenography, typewriting, etc 
 
 high school training department 
 
 high school winter term ' 26 
 
 industrial schools 74 
 
 manual training, domestic economy, in high schools 72 
 
 state graded schools agriculture and transportation 46 
 
 to counties for agricultural representative 63 
 
 to county board of education 80 
 
 to teachers in certain cases 66-68 
 
 ALTERATION OF DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AND DISSOLU- 
 TION OP JOINT DISTRICTS 59 
 
 BLUE BOOKS , 4 
 
 CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES 
 
 from county training school 34 
 
 from high school training departments 54 
 
 state teachers 47-49 
 
 CHANGING FORM OF SCHOOL GOVERNMENT IN CERTAIN 
 
 CASES 44 
 
 CHILD LABOR LAW 60-62 
 
 COMPENSATION 
 
 county board of education members 79 
 
 county superintendents 39 
 
 district clerks 36, 82 
 
 district treasurers and directors 10, 37 
 
 Milwaukee school directors 58 
 
 teachers 35 
 
 truant officers 20, 71 
 
90 INDEX. 
 
 Pagb 
 
 CONDEMNATION OP SCHOOL BUILDINGS 7 
 
 CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS 28, 31 
 
 appropriation for 31 
 
 special aid for buildings 28-31 
 
 transportation 30-31 
 
 CITIES 
 
 form of government how changed 44 
 
 COUNTY SUPERVISORS 
 
 to provide for county agricultural representative 62-64 
 
 may acquire land for county school of agriculture 74, 75 
 
 may make application for state aid to erect building 74, 75 
 
 may confer authority upon the county board of education to 
 
 take charge of the county training school for teachers. . . 79 
 
 COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOLS JOINT 10 
 
 COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS 
 
 certificates value of 34 
 
 aid for 45 
 
 DAY SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF 26 
 
 DAY SCHOOLS FOR DEFECTIVE SPEECH CHILDREN 26 
 
 DISSOLUTION OF UNION FREE HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICTS. . 5, 23 
 
 DRINKING CUPS 15 
 
 EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN 60-62 
 
 EQUALIZATION OF TAXES JOINT DISTRICTS 32 
 
 EXAMINATIONS 
 
 teachers branches examined in 13 
 
 teachers county superintendent to hold 23 
 
 HIGH SCHOOLS 
 
 aid for agriculture, etc 65-66 
 
 meetings 
 
 stenography, typewriting and bookkeeping 27 
 
 training department for teachers 40-43 
 
 tuition 24, 49, 64 
 
 winter term 25 
 
 HOLIDAYS Washington's and Lincoln's birthday observance. . 81 
 
 HUMANE EDUCATION 45 
 
 INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS STOUT INSTITUTE 18-20 
 
 appropriation 73-74 
 
INDEX. 91 
 
 Page 
 LIBRARY BOOKS 
 
 exchange of 
 
 ownership of in certain cases 
 
 to be rebound 15 
 
 LIQUOR SALE OF FORBIDDEN 17 
 
 LOANS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS 21, 57, 68 
 
 MILWAUKEE SCHOOL BOARD 
 
 may make application to borrow money (Milwaukee county) 51 
 Milwaukee Board of Directors to put money into Milwaukee 
 
 Teachers' Insurance fund 50 
 
 salaries of school board members 58 
 
 NORMAL REGENTS MEETING OF 17 
 
 PENALTIES 
 
 superintendent : 
 
 truant officers 71 
 
 PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL DEFINED 43 
 
 READING ROOM PUBLIC LIBRARIES 40-43 
 
 REPORTS 
 
 by town and union free high schoolboards 12 
 
 SCHOOL BOARDS 
 
 may establish courses in agriculture and domestic science in 
 
 high schools 65 
 
 may establish teachers' training departments in high schools 40, 52 
 may provide for agriculture and domestic science in state 
 
 graded schools 46 
 
 must provide suitable outbuildings 87 
 
 to allow use of school buildings 12 
 
 to allow teachers to attend conventions 22 
 
 to apply for special aid for manual training, domestic sci- 
 ence, etc 72 
 
 to apply for state aid 54 
 
 to aopoint truant officers . . . 20 
 
 to charge high school tuition 24, 50 
 
 to furnish ' sweeping compound 22 
 
 to have library books rebound 15-17 
 
 to make contract with parents for transportation of children 31 
 
 to pay teachers at least $40 per month 35 
 
 to pay high school tuition in other states 64 
 
 to provide for course in stenography, etc., in high schools.. 27 
 
 to provide for election to consolidate school districts 28 
 
 to publish reports for town and union high schools 12 
 
 to suspend pupils unclean or affected by contagious disease. . 85 
 
 SCHOOL BUILDINGS USE OF BY ASSOCIATIONS 12 
 
 STATE FLAG . 12 
 
92 INDEX. 
 
 STATE GRADED SCHOOLS 
 
 special aid lor agriculture and transportation 46 
 
 STATE SUPERINTENDENT 56 
 
 STATE UNIVERSITY 
 
 geological survey 72 
 
 meetings of board of regents . 17 
 
 pharmacy department 32 
 
 state soils laboratory 69 
 
 TAX FROM COUNTY FARM LANDS 9 
 
 TEACHERS' INSURANCE MILWAUKEE , 50 
 
 TEACHERS' SALARY 35, 66 
 
 TOBACCO USE OF FORBIDDEN 9 
 
 TOWN AND DISTRICT LIBRARIES 
 
 books to be rebound 15 
 
 county clerk to draw orders for payment to firm furnishing 
 
 books 14 
 
 county superintendent to certify to county clerk 14 
 
 county superintendent to keep list of books 14 
 
 TOWN BOARD OF SUPERVISORS 
 
 to act in altering boundaries of school districts 59 
 
 TRAINED NURSE COUNTIES MAY APPOINT 10 
 
 TRAINING SCHOOL FOR ORAL TEACHERS OF THE DEAF. . . 8 
 
 TUITION NONRESIDENTS 
 
 free high schools 24, 64 
 
 independent high schools 49 
 
 UNION FREE HIGH SCHOOLS DISTRICTS DIVISION OF. ... 24 
 
 UNIVERSITY REGENTS MEETING OF 17 
 
 to elect county agricultural representative 62-64 
 
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