Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06

nDroved May 9, 1901.
No. 258. 81 LPqPltshed May IA, 1901.
CHAPTER 345.
AN ACT to amend sections asia, 491b, stat
utes of 1898, as amended by chapter 214,
laws Of 1889, relating to free high schools.
The people Of the State of Wisconsin rep
resented III senate and assembly do enact
as follows:
Section l. Section 491a is hereby amend
ed so as to read as follows: Section asia.
Whenever free high school shall have
been established and maintained as provid-
ed in sections 400 and 491 for at least three
months, and the proper board shall have
made the report required by section 496 in
order to obtain the aid furnished by the
state in maintaining free high schools, they
shall append thereto a certificate that such
school is established and maintained in u
district composed of a town; of a town and
an incorporated village within the town;
of two or more towns or of two or more
towns and an incorporated village in one
in each of them.
Section 2 Section 491b is hereby amend
ed by striking out after the word main
tained' in the fourth line the following
words: Gin towns or In towns and villages
where no graded school exists" and insert
Ing in lieu thereof the words: Sin the dis
trlcts designated in section 491a as amend
ed by this act" so that when amended
said section shall read as follows: Sec
ton 491b. Upon receiving the reports and
appended certificate provided for in section
496, it shall be the duty of the state super
intendent to make q separate and distinct
class Of the schools thus established and
maintained in the districts designated in
section 491a as amended by this act and
each such school shall be entitled to receive
from the general fund of the state, annu-
ally, one-half the amount actually eXpend-
eu for instruction therein; and said super
intendent shall fix the amount to be paid
to each Of said high schools and certify the
same to the secretary of state at the time
and in the manner he is now required to
fix and certify to him the amount to be
paid to high school districts On such
certificate at any time after the first day
of December, the same shall be paid to
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ury; but the whole amount so paid shall
not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in
any one year to this class Of free high
schools, and If more is demanded by such
districts they shall be paid propOrtionally.
The secretary of state shall annually In
cIude and apportion in the state tax all
such sums shall have been so paid, in
addition to the amount authorized to be
paid in aid of free high schools by section
1876 and In addition to all other sums to be
levied for the year.
Section g. Section 496 statutes, as amend
ca by chapter PA, laws Of 1899, is hereby
amended by striking out after the word
schools where it first occurs In the last
sentence of section one of said chapter 214
laws of 1899, the following words: "in
towns having graded schools by section
491b, and inserting in lieu thereof the
words: AS provided by section 491b. as
amended by this act" 50 that said section
Section 1876. Any high school district
which shall have established free high
school according to the provisions of these
same for not less than three months in any
school year, shall be entitled to receive
from the general fund of the state annu-
ally one.half Of the amount actually ex-
pended for instruction in its high school
during such year over and above the
amount required by law to be expended for
common school purposes, but not to ex-
coed in one year five hundred dollars to one
district: provided, this limitation shall not
apply to the class Of high schools desig-
mated in section 49la, as amended by this
act. To obtain such aid the high school
board, or in cities not under a county su-
perintendent, the president and secretary of
the board Of education and the treasurer,
snail Ca before the first day Of NOvem-
Der, report in duplicate to the state super
actually expended for instruction during
the previous school year, specifying the
several items thereof, with the date and
the object of each fully. Thereupon said
superintendent shall fix the amount to be
paid such district and certify the same to
the secretary Of state with one Of such re-
ports annexed; provided, the state super
intendent may withhold such certificate
from any district for reasons based upon
failure to comply with the law relating to
free high schools which reason he shall
transmit to the school board thereof on or
before the thirteenth day of the next sue
ceeding June. On such certificate, at any
time after the first day Of December, the
certified amount shall be paid to the dis
trfct treasurer out of the state treasury
The secretary of state shall annually In
clude and apportion in the state tax all
such sums as shall have been so paid.
free high school shall fail to have appor-
toned to it its share of state aid, the state
superintendent may, after the time herein
before fixed for such apportionment by
him, fix an amount ten per centum less
than the amount which such school
would have been entitled to had It COM
pied with the provisions of this section,
and certify the same to the, secretary of
state with the report Of such district
nexed thereto, and the secretary of state
shall thereupon draw his warrant for such
amount or amounts in favor Of such dis
trict The whole amount annually paid
under the provisions of this section Shall
not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars,
and If more be demanded by such districts
they shall be paid proportionaly; provided
that if the whole amount authorized to be
paid annually in aid of free high schools
as provided by section 491b as amended by
this act, is not demanded or expended I'M
der the provisions of that section then the
UneXpended balance Of the amount there
in annually authorized to be paid in aid of
such schools may be added to and appor-
toned among the free high schools provid-
ed for in sections 400 and 491; but no
more than one hundred thousand dollars
shall be apportioned to both classes of
schools IN any one year.