Independent State Boards, Departments and Commissions Relating to Public Education in Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction State Board of Examiners The Regents of the University of Wisconsin State Board of Vocational Education State Teachers' Annuity Board The Public Library Certification Board STATE BOARD State Superintendent The Regents of the University College of Education Geological and Natural History Survey County Schools of Agriculture and Domestic Economy 72 County Boards of Education to Take the Place of 7200 District Boards County Superintendent of Schools PART III XXV BRIEF SUMMARIES OF LAWS RELATING TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF THE TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN AND THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN FROM 1836 to 1923 1836. No. 29. An Act to prevent trespass on school lands. This act declared that if any person trespassed upon the school lands or on the 16th section, by cutting down, destroying or hauling from off the same, any timber or wood of any kind, mineral, stone, or stone coal, he was to "forfeit and pay," for every such offense, the sum of not less than 20 dollars. This amount was to be "recovered" before any justice of the peace upon complaint of any citizen or resident of the county, and the fine was to be appropriated to the use of the school within the township where such trespass was committed. 1836. No. 36. An Act to establish a university. This act provided for the establishment of a university at Belmont, in the county of Iowa, "for the purpose of educating youth, the style, name, and title whereof, shall be the 'Wisconsin University'." The university was to be managed by a board of trustees appointed by the legislative assembly. The trustees were declared to be a body politic and corporate. They could accept grants of money or land, but were to use them only for educational purposes in connection with the university. They were authorized to appoint a president, professors, instructors and other officers and to remove them when they thought it necessary. 1837. No. 3. An Act to establish the Wisconsin University of Green Bay. According to the preamble introducing this act, the buildings used for the mission school for the education of Indian children, established by the missionary society of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the |