The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-04-12
Teachers Institutes.

1t will be seen by the following law, pass
ed by the last Legislature, that Teachers
Institutes are hereafter to be managed by
the Board of Regents of Normal Schools,
and that it is very doubtful whether the
present School Superintendent of our
county will be removed by Judge TAYLOR,
for not holding an Institute the present
year, as suggested by the Tribune and
some of its scribbling correspondents:
Section l. The board of regents of normal
schools are authorized to use sc much OF the in
come of the normal school fund, not exceeding
FIVE thousand dollars per annum, as in their
Judgment may te necessary to hold and defray
the expenses of conducting teachers institutes
in different parts of the state; and such
amount as the said board may from time to
time expend for said object, is hereby appro-
priated from said income, and shall be drawn
from the state treasury in the same manner
and under the same restrictions as money for
the support of state normal schools.
Sec O. 1t shall be the duty of said board in
the discharge of the duties imposed by this act,
in providing for holding teachers institutes to
give the preference to those sections of the
state that receive least direct benefit from the
state normal school.
Sec g. The said board in order to carry out
the objects of this act, shall have power to
make such rules and regulations as they may
deem proper, and may employ an agent, who
shall organize and conduct teachers institutes,
deliver educational addresses, and perform
such other work as the said board may require
him to do in connection with the state normal
schools, and who shall, if the said board choose,
act their secretary. The said board may
also employ other persons to aid in conducting
teachers Institutes, but no person employed
by said board, in any position or capacity con-
nected with normal schools or teachers insti-
tutes, shall act as the agent Of any author,
bookseller or publisher.
Sec. 4. The district board of any school dis
trict are hereby authorized, in their discretion,
to give to the teacher or teachers employed by
them, the whole or any part of the time spent
by such teacher or teachers in attending any
regular session or sessions of any institute in
the county embracing the school district, or
any part thereof, without dedueting anything
from his or her wages for the time so spent !:
proUided, such teacher or teachers shall furnish
to the clerk of the district a certificate of regu-
lar attendance at such institute, signed by the
person conducting the same and whenever
the report of the district-cerk shows that the
district-school has been supported for the full
term of fiYe months, required by law, including
the time spent by the teacher or teachers in
their employ in attendance at such institute,
and that the district board have given the
teacher or teachers the time Of such absence,
and have not deducted from his or their wages
far the time so spent, such district shall be in-
cluded in the annual apportionment of The in
come Of the school fund ;prorided, a,pays, that
such school-district shall have complied with
the laws in all other respects, and is entitled
to share in such apportienment.
Sec. g. 1t shall be the duty of the said board
to cooperate with the superintendent Of public
instruction, so far as practicable, in holding
and conducting teachers institutes, as provi-
ded for by this act.
Sec. 6. All other acts and amendments
thereto shall be so construed as to enable the
said bo I'd to carry out the provisions of this
act, and all acts and parts of acts conflicting
with the provisions of this act, are hereby re-
pealed.