Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-04-30
No l6.s


No. l6. 81 Published April II, 1891.
CHAPTER 22i
AN ACT 10 abolish the state board Of supervision
and the state board Of charities and reform,
and to ereae the state board of control of re
formatory. charitable and penal institutions.
and making an appropriation therefor
The people OF the state ofWisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section J. The state board of supervision of
the Wisconsin charitable reformatOry AMI penal
institutions and the state board OF charities and
reform are hereby abolished, and the said
boards shall go out of office and cease to dis
charge their respective duties on the thirteth
day Of June, 1891.
Section > The governor by and with the con-
sent of the senate, at any time after the passage
and publication OF this act. shall appoint SIX
persons citizens of Wisconsin, no two Of whom
shall be residents of the sam congressional dis
trict, a state board of control OF the Wisconsin
reformatory charitable and penal institutions,
who shall be a body corporate under and by
said name, aud shall have and possess
all the powers, and may exercise all
the functions of the two boards
abolished by section OF this act. Said board
shall devote its ntire time and attention to its
duties, as provided in chapter 20 of the revised
statutes and the acts amendatOry thereof and in
chapter Dos of the laws of 1881 aud the acts
amendatory thereof except as hereinafter pro-
yided.
Section 8. Said board shall meet and organize
on or before the thirtieth day of June next, and
first day of July next Each member of the said
board before entering upon the discharge of his
duties, shall take ana subscribe an oath to sup
0ort the constitution of the United States, and
constitution of the state of Wisconsin, and
ly and faithfully to discharge his duties
L nber of said board. to the best of his
abby; which oath shall be filed in the Office of
the secretary of state.
Section4 The members OF the said board
she'll hold Office for the term of five years except
that the members first appointed shall go out of
Office one in one, one in two one in three, one in
four and two in five years from the date of ap-
pointment, the member TO go out to be deter
mined ~ lot. Appointments to fill vacancies
occasioned by death, resignation, or removal
shall be for the unexpiFed term. Upon the ex-
piratiOn of any regular term or the occurring of
any vacancy the governor shall appoint as here
in provided
| Section s. Said board shall be provided Nth
a room in the capitol building at Madison, its
Office. and shall hold thereat regular meetings
for the transaction of business, at least once ia
I each month, and shall be furnished with all
necessary furniture and stationery by the super
intendent OF public property, and also all neces-
saTy blanks, blank books and printing by the
| commissioners of pubic printing or any officer
4 or officers upon whom the duties of such com
| miss ners may become deyolved.
| Section s. Each member of said board shall
receive a compensation of two thousand dollars
| per annun, and also all actual and necessary
| disbursements paid out in the discharge of the
duties of his office. Said board shall also have
power TO expend sum not exceeding two thou
sand dollars per annum, as salary for sacreta-y
| of said bosrd and for clerk hire. All accounts
for salary. clerk hire and disbursements pro-
| vded for in this act, shall be rendered under
oath and shall be audited and allowed by the
beard, and then drawn from the state treasury
upon the warrant of the secretary of state out OF
/ the funds appropriated to the several insti-
buttons effected by the passage of this act
and said chapter 29s, of the laws OF
1881, in relative proportions, as near as may be,
4 to the Sums appropriate TO each for current ex-
penses, aud the sums credited to each by the
secretary of state. as provided in said chapter
29S of the laws oflSSl.
Section z. All the powers and duties now
| conferred or devolved by law upon the said
state board of supervision of the Wisconsin
and upon said state board OF charities and
reform, are hereby conferred, devolved and
charged upon the state board of control of the
Wisconsin reformatory, charitable and penal
| ms itutions, hereby created. The said board
| shall make TO the governor on or before the
| first day of December ia each year, the report
required by subdivision g. of section SOS. of the
of the laws of 1881 (being subdivision DO of sec
| ton 567 a, OF the annotated statutes).
Section 8. Sections SCI, &c. 563, 564 as amended
| by chapter $50, of the laws OF 1885 and chapter
4tS of the laws OF 1887, Except that part allow
! ing subscription for copies of the proceedings
of the national COME rence of charities and cor
rections and the purchase Of books, etc.; sec
lions 2, g. 4, and {, of chapter 29S of the laws
o. 1881; chapter 29I of the laws of 1893, except
| that part requiring quarterly visits to county
| insane asylams; and all acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with this act. are hereby repea led.
Section 9. There is hereby appropriated, out
| of any money In the general fund not otherwise
appropriated, sufficient SUN of money to carry
out the purposes specified in this act.
Section 10. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
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