Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-08-08
Published July IL, 1907.
2 6n2. LAWS OF 1907.

No. 149. 81 Published July IL, 1907.
CHAPTER sos, LAWS OF 1907.
AN zCT. TO amend sections 496b and 1860
of the statutes, and to create section
456c-1 OF the statutes, relating to man
ual training in schools.
The people of the State Of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section l. Section 496b of the statutes
is amended TO read: Section 496b. Amy
board having charge of free high school or
of a high school having a course of study
equivalent to the course or courses pre-
Scribed by the state superintendent for such
schools may establish and maintain a de-
partment of manual training in connection
with the high school under its management,
or in connection with said high school and
the three upper grades next below the high
school, as said board shall decide. The
expense OF maintaining such department
shall be provided for in the same manner
as other expenses of maintaining
such schools, and such department shall
be under the management, direction and
control of such board. The state super
intendent shall, so far as his other duties
may warrant, give such information ana
assistance as may seem necessary in organ
zing and maintaining such departments,
ana in arranging schemes and outlines OF
work and with the aid of the inspector OF
high schools, and when occasion shall re-
quire it, with the aid of the inspectors
Of graded schools. shall have the general
supervision of all manual training depart
mentS established under this section and
make such recommendations relating to
their management as he may deem neces-
sary, and make such report thereon as
shall give full information concerning their
number, character and efficiency. The state
superintendent shall establish a standard
of qualification for all teachers In such
department, and may grant special certih-
Gates to such applicants as are fully quail
fed to instruct in special lines or manual
work. which certificates shall be In Sucn
form and for such time as ne may pre-
ghn md CHI oil no rHn 6 az
the holders thereof to teach in any manual
training department.
Section 2. Section 1850 of the statutes
as amended by chapter 273 Of the laws or
1899, is amended to read: Section 496c.
Any school whose course or study
or outline Of work in manual training has
been approved by the state superintendent,
and whose teacher has been qualified may,
upon application. be placed upon an ap-
proved list of schools maintaining manual
training departments. schooI once en-,
tered upon such list may remain there and
be entitled to state aid so long as the
scope and character of it's work are main
tanned in such manner as to meet the ap-
prevail Of such superintendent: On the
first day Of July in each year the clerk or
each school board maintaining a school on
the approved list or the city superintendent
of any city where such an approved schOoI
is maintained shall report to the state
superintendent in such form as may be re-
uuired setting forth the facts relating TO
the cost of maintaining the manual train
ing department thereof, the character or
the work done, the number and names OF
teachers employed, and the length OF time
such department was maintained curing the
preceding year. And upon the receipt OF
such report, if 1t shall appear that the de-
partment has been maintained in a salts
factory manner for period OF not less
than six months during the year, the said
superintendent shall make a certificate to
that effect and file it with the secretary OF
state Upon receiving such certlhcate the
secretary of state shall draw his warrant
hole T7a
for instruction in the manual training
course during the year for which the state
aid is received not however, to exceed three
hundred and fifty dollars II the manuaI
training department shall have been main
tained in connection with the high school
and the three upper grades next below the
dred and fifty dollars if the manual train
ing department shall have been connected
with only the high school. The sum pay
able in accordance herewith TO De payaDIe
TO the treasurer of the district or corpora
ton maintaining the school provided, that
the total amount expended for such purpose
shall not exceed twenty-five InOu-
sand dollars in any year.
Section 8. There Is added to the statutes
a new section to read: Section 406c-1. BY
and with the advice and consent OF the
state superintendent Of public instruction,
the district board or boards of education
of two or three school districts each or
which maintains a free high school, may
unite in engaging the services OF a suitable
teacher or teachers of manual training for
the purpose of giving instruction IN manual
training in the school of the districts so
uniting. Each of the school districts so
uniting shall pay such share of the salary
of the instructor or instructors or manual
training as shall be propOrtionate to the
time devoted to instruction in manual train
ing in che schools of each of said districts.
Each school district included in such agree
ment and giving instruction in manual
training in accordance with the provisions
of this chapter shall receive the state aid
provided for in this chapter.
Section T. This act shall take effect and
be i'm force from and after its passage and
publication.
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