River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-07-15
10 200, A. fPwblished juno 10. 1909.
CHAPTER 213. LAWS OF 1909.


CHAPTER S13, LAWS OF 1909.
An ACT TO amend section $500 and 553l
or the statutes, relating to county schools
OF agriculture and domestic science.
Ene people OF the State of Wisconsin. repre-
scented In Senate and Assembly, do enact
asetion i. Sections $3.50 and s5si Of the
663c. 1. The county board of any county
Ii hereby authorized to appropriate money
for the organization, equipment, and main
and domestic economy. The county boards
or two or more counties may unite in estab-
fishing such a school, and may appropriate
money for its organization, equipment. and
maintenance.
2: Immediately after the county board
or county boards shall vote to establish a
economy, the county clerk or clerks of such
county or counties, shall notify the dean
OF the college Of agriculture of such vote
Tor the establishment Of such school.
the state superintendent Of public instruc-
ton, and the president of the board of agri-
culture, acting as a committee for such pur-
pose, shall decide upon and notify the
county board or boards as to the proper To-
cation for such county school Of agriculture
and domestic economy and the county school
Of agriculture and domestic economy shall
be located at such place as Is determined
upon by such committee
Section 553l. l. Any school established
under the provisions Of this act. whose
course Of study and qualifications Of whose
teachers have been approved by the state
superintendent and the dean of the college
of agriculture may, upon application, be
placed upon an approved list Of county
schools OF agriculture and domestic econ
oIny. school once entered upon such list
may remain listed and be entitled to state
aid SO long as the scope and character OF
It's work are maintained in such manner as
to the sf b the s5s not
upon said list more than ten
schools.
!, O. On the first day Of July In each year,
the secretary Of each county school board
maintaining school on the approved list,
shall report to the state superintendent,
setting forth the facts relating to the cost
OF maintaining the school, the character Of
the work done, the number and names Of
teachers employed and such other matters
as may be required by the county board or
the state superintendent Upon the receipt
Of such report, II it shall appear that the
school has been maintained in a satisfac
tory manner for a period of not less than
eight months, during the year closing on
the thirtieth day Of the preceding June. the
said superintendent shall make certificate
to that effect and file it with the secretary
3. Upon receiving such certificate, the
secretary Of state shall draw his warrant,
payable to the treasurer of the county
maintaining such school, for a sum equal to
two-thirds the amount actually expended
for maintaining such school during the
year; provided, that the total amounts so
apportioned shall not exceed four thousand
dollars to any one school in any one year
when more than one county has contributed
to the support of the school. the secretary
Of state shall draw his warrant payable to
the treasurer Of each county for such por-
ton of the state aid as the amount contrib
uted by his county is part of the total
amount contributed by all the counties for
the support of the school for the preceding
year. The secretary of state shall annually
include and apportion in the state tax such
sum as shall have been SO paid.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and
after
publication.
Approved June g. 1909