Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-06

| of taxes voted to be raised for the sup
port of such high school and for that
| purpose to equalize the assessment of real and
personal property made by the different town
assessors. and determine the amount to be raised
by each town, village school district uniting
! in the support of free high school, and certify
the same to the Town or Village Clerk, whose duty
1t is to assess the tax upon the taxable property
| therein.
! SEC. 4. Whenever any town or towns village,
or village and town, schooI district districts
| shall determine TO establish and maintain free
high school under the provisions OF this act, the
! immediate supervision and management of such
free high school shall be vested in board known
! as the High School Board which shall be COM
| posed OF three members chosen by convention
of the district officers of all the school districts
composing the high school district, said conven-
| ton and election to be held at such time and
| place as may be agreed upon by majority of the
SAID school Officers, notice of which meeting,
| signed by said majority, or by some person au-
| thOrlzed by them so to do shall be given 80 the
| Clerk Of each school district interested, whose
duty it shall be TO notify the other members Ofthe
Board OF which he is a member: PrOUided, That
when single school district shall establish a
high school in accordance with the provisions of
this act the District Board of said district shall
| constitute the High School Board The term of
! Office of the members of the High School Board
shall be three years except that at the first election
| of members of such Board they shall be elected
respectively for One two and three years. Vacan-
Cies occurring in the Board shall be filed in the
| same manner as now provided by law for filling
vacancies i'll school district boards: PrOUjded
| That when two or more towns unite to form a
of the county in which the high school is located
ST all fill any vacancy that may have existed for
more than ten DAYS.
SEC. S. Whenever any Incorporated city, in
which the management of its schoolsls commit
ted to Board of Education. shall determine to
tablish and maintain free high school, under the
provisions of this act, the immediate supervision
and management Cfsuch high school shall be vest
| ed in such Board of Education, and such Board
shall have the same power and authority in rela-
ton to such high school as is vested in High
School boards created hV no
places.
sec. 6. The High School Board shall choose
from their number President and Secre-
tary, but when all the members of the Board
shall be agreed thereto the Secretary chosen may
be person not member of said Board When the
high school district shall comprise more than a
single school district the Treasurer Of the High
School Board shall not be a member thereof. but
the Treasurer of the town wherein the high school
is located shall be eC-OffCiO the Treasurer of the
digh School Board.
SEC. Z. The High School Boards created by this
act are hereby invested with the same power
and authority, in connection with the high
schools herein authorized to be established as
are possessed by District Boards in connec-
ton with the public schools of the State and
the duties OF such High School Boards and the
officers thereof shall be the same as are now i'm
posed by law upon said SchOo District Boards
and the officers thereof, so far as the same
applicable and they shall be subject to the same
provisions of law for neglect malfeasance,
with such restrictions and additions pro-
vided for in this act.
School Boards herein provided for annually. on
before the second Monday in July, in all cases
where two or more towns or two or more school
districts constitute the territory uniting in the
support of a free high school, where single
town school district empowers them so TO do,
or where no other provision is made for that pur
pose, to hold meeting and determine upon the
amount necessary to be raised by tax for the sup
port of such high school for the year and if such
sch Dol is maintained by portions of more than
one town to determine what proportion of such
amount shall be raised in that part of such high
school district situated in each town; and when
such determination is made, the Clerk of said High
School Board shall certify to the Town Clerks of
the towns wherein such territory is situated the
amount to be raised in their several towns respect
lively, designating by school districts the taxable
property upon which such amount is to be
sessed and the said Town Clerks shall assess and
the Town Treasurer shall collect, the same in the
same manner as school district taxes
sessed and collected; and such taxes, when col
lected shall be paid upon demand to the Treas
urer of the High School Board entitled to receive
the same and by him be paid out upon orders
drawn by the Secretary of the High School Board,
countersigned by the President thereof, III pursu-
ance of the vote of the said High School Board,
and In no other manner.
SEC. 9. The High School Boards shall have
the custody and control of all the property be-
longing to such high school districts, shall make
all needful rules and regulations for the manage
ment of high schools, determine, with the ad-
vice and consent of the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction, the textbooks, course of
study and minimum standard OF qualification for
admission to the same, and establish rates of
tuition for which non-residents of said high
school district may be admitted thereto
SEC 10. The Secretary of every High School
Board shall annually, at the time required
by law for Town Clerks to report to County
superintendent, report to the County Super
intendent of the county district in which
furnished by the State Superintendent OF
Public Instruction for that purpose. such
facts relating to such high school
said State Superintendent may require, which
shall include the number of weeks such high
school has been maintained, the whole amount
expended for its support, the amount paid foi in
struction therein, the number of pupils attending
the same, and also the average attendance. And
the several County and City Superintendent of
the State shall include such reports in their re-
ports to the State Superintendent, in such form
as he may require.
SEC. IL Free high schools established and
maintained under the provisions of this act shall
be subject to the laws of the State relating to the
common schools as far applicable, except as
herein provided. Any town may from year to year
authorize its High School Board to contract with
and pay the Trustees of any academy or college,
having preparatory departmental said town, for
the tuition OF scholars within such town, in the
studies contemplated in this act, under the stand
ard of scholarship hereinbefore provided to be
tablished; and the expenditure of any town for
tuition in such academy or college shall be sub
ject to the conditions, and shall entitle said
town to the same aid from the state, as If said
town had made such expenditure for a free high
school Any high school district may make use
of any school-house or other building within its
boundaries for high school purposes, in whole or
part, adding thereto and equipping the same as
may be necessary: P7OUidfd, Such use be with the
| consent of the District Board of said district.
SEC. II. When any free high school shall
| have been established and maintained as provid-
ed by this act. for at least thirteen weeks in any
one year, such high school district, complying
with the conditions herein set forth, shallbe en-
| Titled to receive from the State one-half the
amount actually expended Tor instruction in said
school, not, however exceeding $500 in any one
year, 10 any one school. to the two schools of
| one town, incorporated village or city: Pr0Dided
hO1CeUer, That high school district of larger
population than 5000 shall be entitled to receive
at the rate of 500 additional for each additional
| 5000 population: And pr0Uided fp9tber, That no
| high school district, town, incorporated village
| or city shall be entitled to such aid I'M
| less the appropriation and expenditure fol
| the high school or schools, on the part Of such
district, town, village city has been exclusive
of the amounts required by law to be expended
| for common school purposes Such State aid
shall be paid from the State Treasury on and aft
| er the first daY of December of such year.
| SEC. Is. 1t shall be the duty of the Superin-
| tendent of Public Instruction carefully to ex-
| anime the reports made to him annually by Coun-
| " and City Superintendents. relating to high
| schools established and maintained under the
provisions of this act and the reports relative TO
| the amount paid by towns to academies and col
leges for tuition of pupils therein under the
| provisions of this act, and after fully
| satisfying himself with relation thereto
he shall make certificate to the Sec
| refary of State showing what towns or districts