Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1842-03-22
Law of Wisconsin.
AN ACT,

of Common Schools.
SECTION 1. 1t shall be the duty of the Commits
soners of Common Schools, in each town
list. To divide their town into convenient num-
Der of school districts, and to regulate and alter
such districts, as is hereinafter provided;
End. To setof by itself any ghborhood in their
town, adjoining any other state, where it has been
usual or shall be found convenient for such neigh
borhood to send their children school in such ad
joining state;
Sd. To describe the number of school districts
and to deliver the description and number thereof
in writing together with map of such school dis
trict, to the town clerk Immediately after the for
nation or alteration thereof;
4th. To deliver to such town clerk description
of each neighborhood adjoining to any other state,
set off by itself;
9Th. To apporton the school moneys raised by
their respective towns in each year, among the Sc
veral school districts, parts of districts, and neigh
borhoods separately set off, within their towns, in
proportion to the number of children residing in
EACH between the ages of four and sixteen years.
inclusive, as the same shall appear from the last an
nual reports of their respective trustees; but in APP
portionng the same for the first time, it shall be
done upon report of the number of children of
those ages ascerained by themselves.
SEC. 2. The school commissioners shall keep
book, in which shall be entered each school dis
trict, the same being entered in numerical order,
IN the form of account current with the town;
and after making such apportionment as is provided
for in the last section they shall credit each dis
trict their proportion of the money raised for the
support of schools.
SEC. 3. The commissioners shall have power to
for and collect in their of office, all penal
ties and torfelturcs imposed In this apart lst' Of
this act, which shall be incurred by any officer, or
inhahtant of their town. of any particular dis
trict; and after deductng their and expenses,
they shall pay the the treasurer for the sup
port of schools, and which shall be apportioned
among the districts Of the town and expended as
before provided.
SEC. 4. Whenever it shall be necessary or con-
venient to form district out of two more ad-
joining towns, and whether the same may be in one
county, or in separate adjoining counties, the com
missioners from each of such adjoining towns, or
the major part of them, may form, regulate and al
ter such districts, and perform all the duties to-
wards the same that school commissioners per-
form towards school districts.
SEC. 5. The school commissioners shall not draw
their order upon the treasurer for any money for the
payment of any teacher who shall not have been APP
probatcd teach school is hereinafter provided
And it is hereby provided, that in money shall
be drawn for the payment of such unlicensed
teacher, the school commissioners or such of them
shall draw order for the same, shall be per-
sonally liable to action of damages for the re-
covery of the same, together with fifty per centum
in addition to the drawn, to be recovered by
an action of debt, for the benefit of such district
and recoverable by an action brought by the trus-
tees of such district.
SEC g. If after the annual reports from the dis
trlcts shall have been received, and before the APP
portonment of the school moneys shall have been
made by the commissioners, district shall be al
tered, or a new district formed in the town. so as
to render apportonment, founded solely on the
annual report, unjust, between two more dis
tricts of the town, the commissioners shall make
apportionment among such districts, according to
the number of children in each of the ages before
mentioned, ascertaining that number by the best ev
idence within their power.
SIC 7. She school commissioners shall meet an
nually on the third Monday in April, at the town
clerks office in their respective towns, for the pur
pose of apportionng the moneys raised for the sup
port of schools for the ensuing year, among the Sc
veral school districts; and they hereby prohibit
ted from granting any portion of such moneys to
any school district, whose trustees shall not have
made the necessary returns to the clerks office
is provided by law and all such districts shall be
excluded in their apportiOnment of the money.
SEC. s. Il shall be the duty Of the commissioners
of common schools in each town, before the first
day of November, in each year, to make and trans
nit TO the Secretary of the Territory, report OF
the schools in their respective towns, stating
LIST. The whole number of school districts in their
respective towns
2nd. The whole number of scholars, male and
female;
3D. The whole number of teachers, male and fe-
male;
4th, The length of time which all the schools
have been kept, stating what portion by male and
what by female teachers;
9th The amount of money raised by tax for
school purposes, and the amount by special provi-
sion or subscription, showing the total amount
9th. The whole amount of money paid for school
purposes, distinguishing between the amount paid
to teachers and the amount paid for board, fuel,
and other incidental expenses, according to the fol-
lowing form: