The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-03
A Bill Relating to the Public Schools
in the City Of Manitowoc.

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enact as Jollous.
Section l Each ward IN the City of
Manltowoc is hereby created school dis
trict, ard the officers Of such school dis
trlct shall be elected and hold their re-
spectlve Offices as now provided by law;
provided, that the present incumbents
shall hoidtheir respective Offices for the
term they were elected, and until their
successors shall have been elected and
qualified
Sec. The said school boards shall
have all the power and authority and
shall be under all restrictions as school
boards In any town, under the laws as
they are now or may be enacted. And
the tax for the support of such ward
schools shall be levied, collected and APP
piled as other taxes for the support of
common schools.
Sec. 8 All parts of school districts,
which are joint, in the town of Manito-
woe, and the City of Manitowoc and
are situated in the town of Manitowoc.
are hereby set off from the districts in
such wards they heretofore belonged to,
and shall De attached to such school dis
tr1cts in the town Of Mauitowoc, or form
a separate school district, as the board
of supervisors in such town of Manitowoc
may determine. and any part of school
districts joint in the town of Manitowoc.
and the City of Manitowoc, situated
within the limits Of the City of Manito-
VOC, are hereby detached from such dis
trlcts as they may have heretofore be-
longed, and shall be attached to the
school district OF the proper ward Of
said City of NJ nitowoc.
Sec. 4 A fair division Of the property
OF such school districts, now being joint
in the town of Manitowoc and the City
shall be made in the same way and man
ner as provided by law in case of divis-
ion OF joint school districts in towns, and
the Foard of Alderman of the City of
Manltowoc shall, for the purpose Of such
settlement, have the same ri ghts. powers
and privileges as a town Board Of Super
yisors.
Sec. 5 The members of the school
boards OF the different wards Of school
districts shall ex-ofiicio be members of
and constitute the board of education Of
the. City of Manitowoc, aud shall elect
one Of their number president of such
board. They shall also have the power
or appoint a clerk and a superintendent of
schools /; provided, that the city clerk
may be elected as such clerk, and if so
elected shall receive no extra pay for his
services as clerk of the board Of education
and provided further, that the superin-
tendent Of schools for the county Of
Manitowoc shall be ex-officio the super
of schools in the City of Mani
towoc until the first Monday in January,
a. d. 1872, and shall receive no pay
from such City, but shall only be entitled
to the salary as now established by the
county Board of Supervisors of the
county Of Manitowoc. H.
Sec. The property in the City of
ManItowoc shall, from and after the first
Monday in January, A. D. 1872, not be
liable to taxation for the salary or Office
expenses of the county superintendent of
schools, nor shall the inhabitants of said
City vote for such county superintendent
of schools from and after the passage of
this act, but nothing in this act contain
ed shall be so construed as to prevent
the people of the county of Manltowoc
to elect school superintendent who re-
sides in the City of Manitowoc or &c
prevent such county superintendent to
have and hold his Office in said City of
Sec. The Board of education may,
with the consent of the Board of Alder
man, fix and establish the salary of the
clerk Of said Board of Education and of
the City Superintendent of schools, but no
pay or salary shall be given to the mem
bers and the said Board for their SER
vices as such members; and the said
Board Of Education shall have the gen.
eral supervision of the public schools In
SAID City, and may recommend to the
Board of Alderman of said City such
in regard to public schools as
they may think proper, but the final de-
cision shall in all cases be reserved to the
Board Of Alderman.
Sec Whenever the Board of Edu-
cation may think proper. they may re-
to the Board Of Alderman
such plans for establishing a high school
to be established, and may order such
amount of taxes for the support of such
high school to be levied, assessed, and
collected as may be deemed sufficient for
the purpose of such high school, and
whenever such high school shall be es
tablished then the Board of Education
shall have the full supervision and con-
troll of the same in the same way as now,
or hereafter to be, provided by law for
the government of union high schools
provided that all taxes for the support Of
such high school shall be levied upon
of such school board)
by the Board of Alderman, to be levied,
assessed and collected as other taxes for
City purposes.
!Sec. 9 The Board of Alderman may,
upon recommendation of the Board of
determine upon the site for
such high school, and buy, rent, lease
or acquire such property and erect such
buildings as may be found necessary for
the purpose of such high school.
See. The teachers of such high school
shall be appointed by the Board of Edu-
cation, but no teacher shall be appointed
who shall not have received and fled
with the Clerk of srid Board, first or
second grade certificate, but if more than
one teacher shall be employed, the prin-
cipal shall have frst-class certificate,
or a certificate from the State superin-
tendent ofpublic instruction or board of
examination, as now or may be provided
by law,
Sec. H. The Board of Education may
meet from time to time as they may
deem necessary, and the Clerk of said
Board shall keep record of their pro-
ceedings. Two thirds of The members
elect shall be quorum Cor the transac-
ton Of business, and the Board may
make snch rules and regulations for the
government Of such Board as may be
thought propers and change them from
time to time as necessity may require
All contracts entered into shall be sign
ed by the President and Clerk Of said
Board
Sec. II. 1t shall be legal for two or
more wards, with the consent of the
Board of Education, to keep and main
tain only one school for such two or