Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

N0' t cHA F! SIS. LAWS OF 1918.
AN ACT-To repeal sections 491a, 49lb
and 496 of the statutes, and to create
section 1876 and section 172-57 of the
statutes, relating to the amount of aid
to be paid to free high schools, and
making an appropriation therefor.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
REPRESENTED in Senate and Assembly, DO
enact as follows;
Section /. Sections 49la, 491b and 49o
of the statutes are repealed.
Section 2. There are added to the stat
utes two new sections to read; Secton
1896 1. Any free high school district
which shall have established not more
than two free high schools according TO
the provisions of these statutes ana snan
have maintained the same for not less
than eight months in any school year,
shall be entitled to receive from the gem
eral fund Of the state annually one-halr
Of the amount actually expended 1or IN
struction in it's high school during sucn
wear over and above the amount required
by law to be expended for common schooi
purposes, but not to exceed IN one year
five hundred dollars to one district; pro-
vided, that this limitation shall not apply
to town or union free high schools
g. To obtain such aid, the high schooL
board, or in cities not under county SUI
perintendent, the president and secretary
of the board Of education and the treas
urer SHALL on or before the first DAY oy
under their oaths the amount actually
expended for instruction In the hlgh
school during the previous school year,
specifying the several items thereof Win
the date and object of each fully, Where-
upon the said superintendent shall, on or
before the first day Of October, fix the
amount to be paid each Such district ana
certify the same to the secretary or state,
who shall thereupon draw his Warrant ON
the state treasurer for such amounts IN
- OF which
paid at any time after the f1rst DAY OF
October out of the general fund In the
state treasury; provided, that the state
superintendent may refuse to certify such
state aid for any free high school dis
trict in which the scope and character OF
the work are not maintained in such man
ner as to meet his approval or IN WHICH
the high school building, the outhouses
and grounds or the furniture and equip
ment are not maintained In good condition
and kept clean and free from any unsan-
itary features or in which the h>gh school
is not provided Wths sufficient equip
ment, including globes, maps, piacn as
boards, library, scientific apparatus, and
other essentials for the proper work OF
the school. or for failure to comply VIVA
any of the provisions Of the free nlSt
school law. He may order ana dlrect thas
an amount equal to the whole or part OF
such state aid for any year shall be ex'
pended in the purchase of proper equip
ment and in case Of failure OF the as
trict to comply with Sucn ulrcClloA, ho
shall withhold from the aid to that d1s-
trict, an amount equal to the sum ordered
to be expended.
8. Whenever, owing to any failure or
neglect to make the report required by
law, any free high school shall fail to have
apportioned to it, it's share Of the state
aid the state superintendent may, at the
time of making the next annual apportlon-
ment, fix an amount ten per centum less
than the amount which said school district
would have been entitled to had 1t COM
piled with the provisions of this section.
and certify the same to the secretary or
state. and the secretary of state shall
thereupon draw his warrant for such
amount or amounts in favor of such dis
trict.
4. Whenever free high school shalt
have been so established and maintained
in a district composed Of town, or g.
town and an incorporated village within
the town, or two or more towns, or OF
two or more towns and an incorporated
village in one or both Of them. or, ac-
cording to the provisions of section 1875
/ Of the statutes, upon receiving the re-.
port provided form subsection = OF THIS
section, it shall be the duty Of the state
superintendent to make separate an9