Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-09
MINERAL POINT, AUG. 30, 1875.
To the Hon. Mayor, City Council
and Electors of the city Of Mineral

Il OyW,
Gentlemen Il take the privilege
of calling your attention to the act,
to authorize the establishment and
aid in the maintenance OF free high
schools throughout the state OF Wis
consin. | will only submit the Sec
tons and parts of sections as relate
to the establishment of free high
school in the city of Mineral Point.
Edward Soaring, Supt. Public In
struction, says: 'The designs of
the law is to create new free high
schools and aid those already per-
forming well the work designated
and called for by the new law, but
state bounty to the latter is simply
giving them what they have already
earned and deserved" He also says:
at is expected that the local author
tiles will, in all cases, employ the
state bounty either to create a new
or to improve what already exists,
if not already up to the proper
standard" 1t is my opinion, gem
tlemen, that we should reorganize
our present existing high school,
which is not in well organized
condition, under this new law; by
so doing we can obtain aid from the
State to the amount of five hundred
dollars, without mourning any addi-
tional expense.
This matter should be attended
to Immediately in order to obtain
this aid from the State, and, there
fore, suggest that special meeting
be called by the proper authorities,
and that, if possible, we come i'll
possession Of the benefits of the
ae1c lar
The people of the State of Wis
consis, represented in the Senate
and Assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION /.
Any city in this State may estab-
lish and maintain free high school
whenever a majority Of the legal
voters voting upon that question at
any regular annual meeting thereof,
or at any special meeting legally
called and held for that purpose,
shall determine SO to do. The vote
upon the question of establishing
high school in a city, shall be can
vassed and determined in the same
manner as now provided 10y law for
canvassing and determining votes
upon other questions relating to
such municipalities, and special
meetings for consideration of this
matter shall be called and held as
the city charter may provide.
SECTION D.
Whenever any incorporated city,
in which the management of its
schools is committed to a board Of
education, shall determine to estab-
lish and maintain q free high school
under the provisions of this act, the
immediate supervision and manage
meut of such high school shall be
vested IN such board of education,
and such board shall have the same
power and authority in relation to
such high school as is vested in
high school boards created by this
act in other places.
SECTION T..
When any free high school shall
have been established and main
tanned by this act for at least thir-
teen weeks in any one year, such
high school district, on complying
Ing with the conditions herein set
forth, shall be entitled to receive
from the State one-half the amount
expended for instruction in said
school, not, however, exceeding five
hundred dollars in any one year to
any one school, or to any one city
Procidaa FURTHER, That no city
shall be entitled to such aid unless
the appropriation and expenditure
for the high school on the part of
the city has been exclusive of the
amounts required by law to be ex-
pended for common school purposes.
Such State aid shall be paid from
the State Treasury ON and after the
first day of December Of such year.
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