Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-07-08
AppiQVeu Ju4le I. IHUN,
No 653, Al Published juno 1909
CHAPTER 265, LAWS OF 1a0a.

Approved June l. 1000.
CHAPTER 255, LAWS or 1909,
AN ACT to amend section 1S41b Of tia
statutes, relating TO road engines
The people of the State Of Wisconsin rapvs>
scented in Senate and Assembly. DO enact
Section / Section 1870 OF the statutes
Is amended to read: Section 194Ib. l.
The owner or owners or any steam engine.
or any person who propels or causes such
an engine to be propelled or otherwia0
moved or used along or upon any public
highway in any town shall be liable for all
damages that may be caused thereby to
such highway, or any sluicewny, culvert or
bridge thereon, or to any person or cor
poration by reason of the propeling or
any such highway In the following cases
"a When such engine with its equip
ments and attachments and whatever 1t
may be moving upon tho highway shall
weigh more than ten tons exclusive OF the
animals by which it Ia moved, II II Is 50
moved.
(2) When any such engine shall be set
mp or used within the limits of any such
highway, for any other purpose than to
be propelled or otherwise moved along or
(8) When any such engine shall be left
unattended within the limits of any such
highway.
such highway, whether standing or moving
and the person In charge shall not signal
and stop 1t when 1t Is approa ched within
hfteon rods In either direction by any
team or any person riding or driving any
animal and desiring to pass such engine,
or when the person or persons In charge OF
such engine shall neglect or refuse to rem
der all proper assistance within their power
to enable such team or persons to pass In
safety.
(55 When the person In charge Of any
steam engine shall neglect to span any
bridge or culvert, before crossing the same,
with hardwood planka, at least two inches
R4wE~ r1.r Ia Ia
sound planks Of like width at least three
inches thick, so that the engine wheels shall
rest thereon in crossing such bridge or cul-
>. The amount recovered by any town
under the provisions of this section, shall,
when collected, be credited to the town
highway fund.
g. Any person in charge OF any steam
engine having mud luggs on the drive
wheels thereof. who shall neglect TO span
any bridge culyert before crossing tho
same with plRnks of the kind and In tho
manner as provided In paragraph Of
subsection l Of this section shall be guilty
shall DO punished by fine OF not less than
five nor more than twenty-five dollars or by
Imprisonment In the county jail not exceed
ing twenty days.
Section q This act shall take effect and
DO In force from and after itS passage and
publication.
Approved June l. 1909.
No, 472, A. Published June 3. 1909.
CHAPTER 256, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to create section 4G1s Of the stat.
utes defining The term schools" IS used
in section 461r.
The people Of the State OF Wisconsin, repre-
sented In Senate and Assembly, do enact
as follows:
Section l. There is added to tho atatutos
Il new section TO read Section 461a The
singular form of the word Schools as used
IN section 461r shall relate to a public
school only and shall be construed to be a
collective body Of pupils assembled Ii, IL
room which Is wholly or principally under
the control, management, direction and In
structton or n legally qualified teacher who
Is made wholly or chiefly responsible for
the control, management, direction and IN
struction Of such pupils and whose duty It
Is to keep q complete and special register
for such room or department.
Section 2. This act shall take effect ana
be In force from and after It's passage and
Approved June /. 1909.
CHAPTER 257, LAWS OF 1909.
AN ACT to amend section 491b OF the stat
utes, relating to free high schools
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
5ented in Senate and Assembly, do enact
Section |, Section 401b Of tho statutea
liz amended to read Section 40ib.
J. Upon receiving the reports and ap-
pended certificate provided for IN section
496t II shall be the duty Of the state super
lntendcnt to make a separate and distinct
class or 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
ceive from the general fund OF the state
annually, one-haR the amount actually ex-
pended for instruction therein and gaid
superintendent shall fl the amount to be-
paid to each Of said high schools and certi-
~ the same TO the Sc cretbFy Of state at the
time and in the manner he Is now required
to tx and certify to him the amount to be-
paid TO high school districts; provided that
the amount 80 appropriated 10 any high
school having a principal and one assistant
shall not exceed nine hundred dollars, and
the amount SO appropriated to any high
school having a principal and two assist
ants shall not exceed twelve hundred dol
lars, and the amount 50 appropriated tn
any high school having principal and
three or more assistants shall not exceed
fifteen hundred dollars.
2 The amount OF any ouch certificate
shall be paid at any time after the frat
day Of December, out OF the state treasury
to the district treasurer; but the whola
sand dollars In any one year to thls class
NJ free high schools and II more Ia de-
manded by such districts they shall DO paid
proportionaliy.
Q. The secretary Of state shall annually
include and apportion In the state tax all
such sums as shall have been so paid. In
addition to the amount authorized to be
paid In aid OF free high schools by sec
ton 436 and In addition TO all other sums
leYied for the year.
Section 2 This act shall take effect
and be IN force from and altar July erBt,
Approved June /, 1900.
No. 544 Al Published June g. 1909.
CHAPTER 253 LAWS OF 1909,