The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-05-02

ty days prior to the hearing before the iudre
of the circuit court. No county superintend-
ent shall act as an agent for any author pub
Usher or bookseller, or receive any fee or re-
ward for acting as such agent, and q violation
of this provision by any county superinrend-
ent, shall subject him to removal from office },
Sec. IL. Section 81 of the chapter aforesaid,
is hereby amended so as to read as follows =
EVERY county superintendent shall have
power, and it shall be his duty:
''First. To examine and license teachers. and
to annul certificates as hereinafter provided
Second. To visit and examine all the
schools and school districts within his iuris-
diction as often in each year as shall be prac.
tlcable to enquire into all matters relating
! to the management, the course of study and
mode of instruction, and the text books and
discipline of such schools, and the condition
of the school-houses, sites, outbuidings and
lappendages, and of the district generally; to
advise with, and counsel the district boards
in relation to their duties, and particularly in
relation to the construction, warming and
ventilation of school houses, and the improv
ing and adjoining of the school grounds con
nected Herewith, and to recommend to schoO
| officers and teachers the proper studies, disci
pline and management Of the schools.
| Third. To direct, after proper eXamina
| ton, the district board to make any alteration
and repairs which shall in his opinion be nee
essary to the health, comfort or progress O
| the pupils, and to abate any nuisance in Of
upon the premises, proUjdjng the same can bt
done at an expense not exceeding twenty-five
dollars.
Fourth. To make an order in concurrence
with the chairman of the board of supervisor
| ofthe town in which any school house is stu
ated, which is unfit for school purposes, recit
| ing the reasons, if they deem it unfit for fur
| Their use and not worth repairing, and to de
| liver the order to the clerk of the district il
which such building is situated, and to trans
I mlt one cow of said order tn the clerk of th
Itown, and another to the superintendent o
public instruction; and such order shall tax
effect from and after the date mentioned there
| in, unless for causes shown within thirty day
after said order is delivered to the distric
clerk, it shall be oVerruled by the superintend
ent of public instruction and from the tim
the said order shall take effect the distric
| shall not be entitled to share in any apprOpri
| alton of the income of the school fund for an
school kept IN said building so declared unfi
for school purposes.
| Fifth. To examine any charge atfectin!
the moral character or ability to teach of an.
| teacher within his county or district, first civ
ling such teacher reasonable notice of tn
charge, and an opportunity to defend himsel
| therefrom and if he finds the charge sus
tanned, to annul his certificate by whomsoev
Ter granted, and if the teacher so declared unfi
to teach, holds a certificate from the superin
tendent of public instruction, or a diploma 0
a state normal school, then to notify the stat
superintendent of such annulment without de
Hay.
| sixth. To report annually to the board O
supervisors OF his county the condition ant
prospects of the schools under his supervision
to receive from the town, city or village clerk
abstracts of the reports of the several distric
clerks, and to transmit the same, as requires
by law, to the state superintendent, as ais
ANNUALLY, before the first day of May, the nam
and post office address of each town clerk c
his county or district, and to report from tim
to time such other facts relating to educatiO
rs the state superintendent may require, O
the laws may prescribe.
Seventh. To organize and conduct at leas
one institute for the instruction of teachers i
each year, and to advise in all questions aris
ing under the operations of the school laws
his county or district
Sec. Is. Section 95 of the aforesaid chapte
is hereby amended, so as to read as follows
Section %. The compensation of the count
superintendent shall be fixed by the count
board Of supervisors, and shall be paid qua
terly in cash, by the county: provided, thu
for counties and districts containing more tina
ten thousand inhabitants, according to til
last proceeding census, the compensation sha
not be less than eight hundred dollars per al
mum, and for counties and districts cOntainin
more than five thousand inhabitants, shall NJ
be less than five hundred dollars per annum
and prOUided further, that the board of supe
visors shall allow for stationery, postage an
printing such amounts as the county superb
tendent shall certify to be actually necessar,
not exceeding one hundred dollars in counti(
and districts containing less than five thou
and inhabitants and two hundred dollars
counties and districts containing less tina
ten thousand inhabitants and more than fly
thousand"
Sec IA. All acts and parts of acts inconsis
ent with the provisions of this act, are hereb
repealed
Sec 15 This act shall take effect and be
force from and after its passage
Approved April 10, 1867