The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-05-06
Published March 80, 18TH
CHAPTER 176-GENERAL.

CHAPTER 176-GENERAL.
AN ACT to amend section 25 of chapter 100 of the
general laws of 1869, entitled can act to provide
for the assessment of property for taxation, and
the levy of taxes thereon"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section /. Section twenty-five of chapter one
hundred and thirty of the general laws of 1868, is
hereby amended by adding thereto as follows 'prO-
Uided further that the said board of review shall and
may, when they deem the valuation of any property
assessed too high too low the assessment roll
raise lower the same, the may be, whether
the person assessed appear before them or not and
they may also place upon the said roll any property
that they may know to be left off said roll by mis-
take otherwise, and the to the person
to whom in right it should be assessed: and pro-
Uided further that in all cases, if said board shall
raise the amount of such assessment any proper
ty, the owner thereof, if resident of such town,
such owner may be heard before such board, in re-
lation to the value thereof.
Sec. q This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved March "a, 1871.
Published March 81, 1S71.l
CHAPTER 169-GENERAL.
AN ACT to amend chapter 155 of the general laws of
1863 entitled act to codfy the laws of this state
relating to common schools.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section l. Section forty-two of said chapter 1856
is hereby amended so as to read as follows: i" Sec
The clerk shall contract with and hire duly
qualified teachers for and in the name of the dis
trict, which contract shall be in writing and shall
have the consent of the director or treasurer, or
both, Endorsed thereon, and shall specify the wages
per week, month year. agreed upon by the par
ties, and said contract so completed, shall be filed
in the Office of the district clerk, with copy of the
certificate of the teacher employed attached there
to- and copy of such contract shall be furnished by
the clerk to the teacher: prOUided, that majority
of the board may, by order fled with the clerk,
or memorandum in the district record book, said
n memorandum EuhScrihpl them
fix the time when the several terms of the school or
any of said shall open; and if the clerk shall
fail to hire q suitable teacher before the term fix
ed, then the district board shall hire and contract
with qualified teacher and majority of the board
shall constitute quorum for the transaction of
business"
Sec. 2. Subsection second of section 43 of said
chapter 155 is hereby amended by adding thereto the
following words. ''also the number of children at
tending school during any part of the year. between
the ages of four and seven seven and Fifteen fifteen
and twenty, respectively; and to this end he shall
require and instruct the teachers to enter the ages
of all children attending school in the register; he
shall also ascertain and report the whole number of
children between the several ages named, residing
in the district the last day of August previous
making such report"
Sec g. Section so of said chapter 155 is hereby
amended by adding thereto the following words: "In
case a vacancy shall occur in joint district, and
shall not be filed by the district board, the clerk of
the in which the school house is situated shall
fill said vacancy, but his appointment shall be in
dorsed by the clerks of the other town towns
bracing part of said joint district
Sec 4. Section 63 of said chapter 155 shall be
amended so as to read as follows: ''The town clerk
shall said tax, or the due proportion thereof
upon the real and personal properly liable thereto
placing the same III separate column in the next
assessment rol of his town. delivered to the town
treasurer for collection. Whenever such certificate
of the district clerk shall be received by him in
time therefor although after the first Monday of No
vember and if for any such tax shall not be
assessed in the next assessment roll after the tax is