River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1879-04-10

! trict, unless the board Of education embraces
a treasurer; and in all districts maintaining
| a graded school of not less than two depart
ments which now constitute free high school
districts, or which shall hereafter adopt said
resolution, the district board in each such dis
tfict shall be the high school board; and the
district treasurer shall be the treasurer of the
high school district.
Section 3. Section four hundred and nine
ty-three of the revised statutes is amended by
adding thereto the following words: Made
by the city superintendent or clerk OF the
board OF education.
Section 4. Section four hundred and nine
ty.four of the revised statutes is amended so
as to read as follows: Section 494 All such
high schools shall be free 10 all pupils resi-
dent in the district. Every principal Of any
high school hereafter elected or appointed
shall be a graduate of some university, col
lege or normal school, or shall pass an exami-
nation in the studies required to be taught in
any such school, and the high school boards,
or board of education having charge OF
schools shall determine, with the advice and
consent of the state superintendent the
course OF study and minimum standard of
qualification for admission to the same
Section 5. Section four hundred and nine
ty-six of the revised statutes is hereby amend
ed so as To read as follows: Section 1876. Any
high school district which shall have estab-
lished free high school, according to the
provisions OF these statutes, and shall have
maintained 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 five years after such high
school is established, one-half the amount
actually expended for instructions 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, ia cities
not under county superintendent, the presi-
dent and secretary OF the board of education,
and the treasurer shall, on or before the first
day of November report in duplicate to the
state superintendent, under their oaths, the
amount az tually 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 certificate, at
any time after the first day of December the |
same shall be paid to the district treasurer
out 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 districts, |
they shall be paid proportionally. The score |
.ary OF state shall annually include ana ap |
portion in the State tax all such sums as shall |
have been so paid, in addition to all other |
sums to be lev ed for the year.
Section 5. This act shall take effect and be /
n force from and after its passage and publ |