The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-04-24

the district Every principal of any high
school hereafter elected or appointed shall
be graduate of some university, college or
normal school, or shall pass an examination
in the studies required to be taught in any
such school, and the high school boards or
boards of education having charge of such
schools shall determine with the advice and
consent of the state superintendent, the
course of study and minimum standard of
qualifications for admission to the same
Section 5. Section four hundred and
ninety-six of the K. 5. is hereby amended so
as TO read as follows: Section 400 Any
high school district, which shall have estab-
lished free high school according to the
provisions of these statutes, and shall have
the same for not less than three
months in any school year, shall be entitled
TO receive from the general fund of the state,
during the first fve years after such high
school is established, one-half the amount
actually expended for instruction in the high
school of such district during. such school
year, over and above the amount required by
law, to be expended for common school pur-
poses, but not to exceed in one year five
hundred dollars to one district. To obtain
such aid, the high school board, or, in cities
not under a county superintendent the pres
ident and secretary of the board OF education,
and the trearurer shall, on or before the first
day of November, report in duplicate TO the
state superintendent, under their oaths. the
ammount actually expended for such instruc-
ton during the previous school year, specify
ing the several items thereof, with the date
and object of each, fully. Thereupon the
state superintendent shall fix the amount TO
be paid such high school district, and certify
the same TO the secretary of state, with one
of such reports annexed. On such certif-
cate, at any time after the first day of De
Cember the same shall be paid to the dstricl
treasurer ont of the state treasury; but the
whole amount SO paid shall not exceed the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars in any
one year: and if more be demanded by such
district, they shall be paid proportionately.
The secretary of state shall annually include
and apportion in the state tax all such sums
as shall have been so paid, in addition to all
other sums to be levied for the year.
Section 6. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved March 5, 1870.
CHAPTER I8o.
An act relating to ofenses against lives and
persons of individuals, and amendatory of
sections four thousand three hundred and
fifty nine of the revised statutes.
The people of the state of Wisconsin repre-
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. Section four thousand three
hundred and fifty-nine of the revised statutes
is hereby amended by adding thereto as fol-
lows: Provided, that this section shall not
apply to Rock county, so as to prohibit the
sale of petroleum fluid: nor to exclude the
sale of gasoline to be used exclusively in the
manufacture of gas, in any county in this
state.
Section ?. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved March q, 1870.
CHAPTER IS5.
An act to further protect life and limb.
The people of the state Of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section I. 1t shall be unlawful for any
boy under the age of seventeen years, in this
state, to attempt to get upon, to cling to- or
to jump or step from any railroad car or train,
while the same is in motion; provided, how
ever, that nothing in this act shall be con-
strued to apply to employees of any railroad
company.
Section 2 ANY violation of this act shall
be misdemeanor, and shall be punished by
fine of rJt less than two nor more than TWEEN
ty dollars.
Section :. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage and
publication.
Approved March 4, 1879.
CHAPTER go.
An act to provide for levying a state tax for
the year A. d. 1879
The people of the state of Wisconsin,, repre-
sented in senate and assembly do enact as
follows:
Section I. There shall be and is hereby
directed to be levied upon the taxable pro
perty of the state state tax, for the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
seventy nine, OF two hundred and forty eight
thousand dollars, in addition to the amounts
authorized to be levied by existing laws.
Said tax shall be apportioned and certified
by the secretary of state to the several Coun-
ties, and by the county clerks of the several
counties to the several towns, cities and in
corporated villages in their respective coun-
ties, and shall be collected and paid over ac-
Cording to existing laws.
Section ?. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after the first day of
July, after It's passage and publication.
Approved March 5, 1879,
CHAPTER 1916
An act to appropriate a sum of money TO car
ry out the provisions of joint resolution No. !
II y.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as |
follows:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated |
out of any money in the general fund not |
otherwise appropriated sum sufficient to !
carry out the provisions of joint resolution |
No II A., providing for the removal and |
burial of the remains of the late Hon. John |
Potter, IT,, and for necessary expenses while |
sick; also, a sufficient sum to pay for the re-
moval and burial of the remains of the late |
Geo. L. Frost, and for his necessary expens- |
es while sick.
Section ,. The superintendent of public |
property is hereby directed to audit the bills |
of such expenses and certify the correctness |
thereof to the secretary of state, who shall |
draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for !
the amount thereof and so certified bv the |
of public property.
Section ). This act shall take effect and |
be in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 4, 1879.
CHAPTER 2Ie.
An act TO amend section eight of chapter |
twenty-five of the general laws of 1870, !
entitled San act to facilitate the execution |
of the trusts assumed by the state of Wis |
consn by her acceptance of the grants of |
land made by acts of congress approved |
respectively June Sd, 1880, and MAY 9Th, |
1864, TO aid in the construction of certain !
railroads in said state"
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repre- |
sented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. Section eight OF chapter TWEEN |
tytwo of the general laws of 1870, entitled |
ian act to facilitate the execution of the |
trusts assumed by the state of Wisconsin by
her acceptance of grants of land made by
acts of congress approved respectively June
5, 1850, and May 5, 1864, to aid in the con-
struction of certain railroads in said state"