6. The board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund; each county, district, and city superintendent; each school district board; each high school district board; each town board of education, or other managing body, shall keep complete records of the data contained in said reports and of the statements herein before mentioned.

7. Each town, village, and city treasurer shall, between the thirtieth day of June and the tenth day of July of each year, certify under oath to the county treasurer the amount of moneys so received from such school board or other managing body, and shall forward to the county treasurer with such sworn statement the moneys so received and certified.

8. Between the fifteenth day of July and the first day of August of each year, the county treasurer shall transmit to the state treasurer all moneys which he has received in accordance with the provisions of sections 460—1 to 460—20, inclusive; and shall certify under oath to the board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund the amount so received and transmitted to the state treasurer, as herein provided.

9. [Stats. 1913; repealed by 1915 c. 609 s. 17]

9. No city, village, town, or school district shall share in any of the seven-tenths mill-tax apportionment for any year, unless it has made the report as herein provided and paid over to the state treasurer for the teachers' insurance and retirement fund such per centum, as provided in subsection 2 of section 460—8, of the total sum paid in wages to such teachers as come under the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive. [1911 c. 323; 1911 č. 664 s. 78; 1915 c. 495 s. 2; 1915 c. 609 s. 17, 18]

SECTIONS 460-10 and 460–11. [Repealed by 1915 c. 609 s. 17] Participation by teachers from schools not included. SECTION 460-12. Any teacher coming from schools not included under the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460—20, inclusive, shall pay assessments for said years of service in such schools, as provided in section 460-13, based upon his or her first annual salary in said public schools of the state, together with the regular assessments as provided in subsection 2 of section 460-8, before receiving any retirement annuity. [1911 c. 323; 1911 c. 664 s. 78]

Conditions of retirement; application for. SECTION 460-13. Any teacher who may be teaching in said public schools and who has complied with the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive, may retire and receive the annuity provided for in the following cases:

(1) After a period or periods aggregating twenty-five years of service as teacher, of which eighteen years must have been spent in the public schools of this state, provided that payments by said teacher to the fund shall have amounted to a sum as provided in section 460-8. If said payments shall not have amounted to said sum, the teacher shall pay into the fund the deficiency before receiving said annuity.

(2) After eighteen years of service as teacher in the public schools of the state, when said teacher suffers from a permanent mental or physical disability, to be determined by said board after an examination by two physicians appointed by said board, provided that payments by said teacher to the fund shall have amounted to a sum as provided in section 460-8. If said payments shall not have amounted to said sum, the teacher shall pay into the fund the deficiency before receiving the annuity. The examination fees of such physician shall be paid by said applicant.

(3) In computing the terms of service under subsections 1 and 2 of this section, a year shall be a legal school year at the time and place where said service was rendered, except that where the service was rendered in schools not included within the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive, a time less than a legal school year in this state shall not be included as a year, but only as such proportion of a year as the number of teaching weeks in each such year bears to the number of weeks required at the time to constitute a legal school year in this state.

(4) Any person who has complied with the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460—20, inclusive, and desires to retire from active service in said public schools shall apply in writing to the board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund. [1911 c. 323; 1911 c. 664 s. 78]

Annuities; refund of assessments; quarterly payments. SECTION 460-14. 1. Each teacher retiring from the service of said public schools under the provisions of subsections 1 and 2 of section 460—13 shall annually and for life be entitled to receive as annuity twelve dollars and fifty cents for each year of service as teacher; provided that said annuity shall not exceed four hundred and fifty dollars in any one year, subject, however, to all the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive.

2. The board of trustees may ratably reduce the annuities provided in sections 460--1 to 460-20, inclusive, whenever, in the judgment of the board, the condition of the fund shall require such reduction.

3. Any teacher who shall cease to teach in said public schools before receiving any benefit or annuity from the fund, shall, if application be made in writing to the board of trustees within six months after the date of his or her resignation, be entitled to the return of one-half of the amount, without interest, which shall have been paid into the fund by such teacher. If such teacher should again thereafter teach in said public schools, he or she shall, within one year from the date of his or her return to the service in said public schools, refund to said fund the amount so returned to such teacher, together with simple interest on said amount (but not to exceed four per centum per annum) for the time such amount was withdrawn from the fund.

4. The state treasurer shall pay said annuities quarterly in September, December, March and June of each year, upon the warrants of the secretary of state, issued upon certificates of the president and secretary of said board. No payments shall be made prior to September, 1912.

5. Payments from the fund shall be made from the income thereof and in addition thereto, when necessary, from the principal of moneys received under sections 460–8 and 460—9, and under the state tax provided for in section 172–73. [1911 c. 323; 1911 c. 664 s. 78; 1915 c. 609 s. 16]

Leave of absence for one year allowed. SECTION 460-15. One year's leave or leaves of absence granted by the proper authorities of any of said public schools to any teacher under the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive, shall be computed as a part of said twenty-five years of service; provided, that the payments to said fund shall be continued during said leave of absence, and shall equal the assessment paid by such teacher for the year next preceding the period or periods of absence respectively. Not more than one full school year's leave or leaves of absence in the aggregate shall be computed as a part of said twenty-five years of service of said teacher; and in case of absence of less than a school year, only the time covered by such absence shall be so computed. [1911 c. 323; 1911 c. 664 s. 78]

Resumption of active duty and suspension of annuity. SECTION 460-16. Any person retiring under sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive, may again enter upon the work of teaching in said public schools; during said term of teaching the annuity paid to such person shall cease. Said annuity shall again be paid to said person upon his or her further retirement. [1911 c. 323; 1911 c. 664 s. 78]

Annuities are exempt and inalienable. SECTION 460-17. The annuities so created shall not be subject to attachment, garnishment, execution, or other seizure on process, nor shall they be subject to sale, assignment, pledge, mortgage, or other alienation. [1911 c. 323]

Office of board in capitol. SECTION 460-18. A suitable office in the capitol with suitable furniture and office supplies shall be furnished the board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund. [1911 c. 323]

Definition of "teacher." SECTION 460-19. The term "teacher" as used in sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive, shall include all persons legally employed in teaching in the public schools of the state of Wisconsin outside of cities of the first class, and all persons legally or officially employed or engaged in superintending, supervising or inspecting such public schools. [1911 c. 323; 1911 c. 664 s. 78; 1915 c. 495 s. 3; 1915 c. 604 s. 13]

Cities of first class excepted. SECTION 460-20. Sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive, shall not apply to cities of the first class. [1911 c. 323; 1911 c. 664 s. 78]

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

His duties. SECTION 461. It shall be the duty of every county superintendent. (1) To examine and license teachers in his district and to annul certificates as provided by law.

(2) To visit and examine each district and all the schools in his district at least once in each year and as much oftener as may be necessary; to inquire into all matters relating to the management, course of study, mode of instruction, textbooks and discipline of such schools and the condition of the schoolhouse, sites and outbuildings and appendages and of the district generally; to advise with and counsel the district boards in relation to their duties, and particularly in relation to the construction, warming and ventilation of schoolhouses and the improving and adorning of the school grounds, and to recommend

to the school officers and teachers the proper studies, discipline and management of schools.

(3) To direct, after proper examination, the district board to make any alteration and repairs which shall, in his opinion, be necessary to the health, comfort and progress of the pupils, and to abate any nuisance in or upon the premises, provided the same can be done at an expense not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

(4) To make an order in concurrence with the chairman of the town board in which any schoolhouse is situated which they shall deem unfit for school purposes and not worth repairing, declaring such fact and reciting the reason therefor. They shall deliver such order to the clerk of the district and transmit forthwith a copy thereof to the clerk of the town and also to the state superintendent. Such order shall take effect from its date unless within thirty days after it is delivered to the district clerk the same shall be reversed by the state superintendent for cause shown; and from the time said order shall take effect the district shall not share in any apportionment of the school fund income for any school kept in any building so declared to be unfit for school purposes.

(5) To report annually to the board of supervisors of his county the condition of the schools under his supervision.

(6) To receive the reports of the district clerks required to be made by law and to transmit abstracts of the same to the state superintendent; and to report on or before the fifteenth day of September to each town, village or city clerk in the territory under his jurisdiction, the number of persons of school age reported to him by the district clerks as residing in the several districts or parts of districts of the several towns, villages or cities in his county or superintendent district, on the last day of June in each year; and in case there are any parts of joint districts lying in his county or district the schoolhouses of which are situated in other counties, he shall report to the county superintendent of the county in which the schoolhouses of said joint districts are located the names, sex and number of persons of school age residing in the parts of such joint districts as lie in his county or superintendent district, and from time to time such other facts relating to education in his district as the state superintendent shall require.

(7) To organize and conduct at least one institute for the instruction of teachers in each year, and to advise in all questions arising under the operations of the school laws in his district.

(8) To hold semiannual public examinations for county teachers' certificates at two or more convenient places within the county, and to give due notice of the time and places at which such examinations will be held by a publication in newspapers having a circulation within the county, or by printed notice to teachers and clerks of school boards within the county. Whenever, for any cause satisfactory to the county superintendent, it is necessary to give a private examination to any person desiring a certificate, if the person be found qualified, according to law, he may issue a certificate of the proper grade, which shall remain in force until the next regular public examination in such inspection district. (9) The county or district superintendent of schools shall annually call and hold at least one school board convention for his superintendent district, at the county seat or some other convenient place, for the purpose of consultation, advice, and instruction upon matters pertaining to the management of the schools. The county superintendent may determine the number of days each convention shall be in session, provided no convention shall be held for more than two consecutive days. Each district clerk shall, and the director and treasurer may, attend such convention. Each member present shall be allowed two dollars for each day's attendance at the convention, provided his certificate of attendance shall show that he was present at each session of the convention, and mileage at the rate of three cents per mile each way, going and returning to and from said meeting, said sum to be paid from any moneys in the school district treasury not otherwise appropriated. Such per diem and mileage shall be in full payment of all expenses incurred by each member while in attendance at the convention. The county superintendent shall keep a record of the attendance of all members at each morning, afternoon or evening session of the convention during the days the convention shall be in session, and shall issue to each member in attendance a certificate setting forth the actual attendance of each of said members, which shall be filed with the second district clerk and serve as a basis or evidence for drawing the necessary warrant upon the district treasury. [1863 c. 155 s. 92–94; 1867 c. 111 s. 12; R. S. 1878 s. 461; 1880 c. 155; 1881 c. 272; Ann. Stats. 1889 s. 461; 1897 c. 354; Stats. 1898 s. 461; 1901 c. 290 s. 1; 1905 c. 105 s. 1; Supl. 1906 s. 461; 1907 c. 118; 1909 c. 222; 1913 c. 301, 448]

Attendance on convention. SECTION 461a. The county superintendent shall attend annually at least one convention of county superintendents called and held by the state superintendent for the purpose of consultation, advice and instruction upon matters per

taining to supervision and management of public schools. His necessary actual expenses for traveling from his residence to the place of holding the nearest and most accessible convention and returning thereto and for board and lodging while in actual attendance thereon shall be paid by the county, and bills for such expenses shall be audited and allowed by the several county boards upon the presentation of the same with the certificate of the state superintendent attached thereto showing that the claimant attended such convention for the number of days specified in the bill; provided, not more than one such account shall be paid in each year. [1885 c. 65 s. 2, 3; Ann. Stats. 1889 s. 461a; 1897 c. 354; Stats. 1898 s. 461a]

SECTION 4616. [Repealed by 1915 c. 531]

Residence and office. SECTION 461c. When a county seat is located in an independent city having a separate superintendent of schools or a county shall be divided into two superintendent districts, the county superintendent may reside in such county seat and keep an office in the public building or other place provided therefor by the county. [1887. c. 80; Ann. Stats. 1889 s. 461c; 1897 c. 354; Stats. 1898 s. 461c]

Eligibility. SECTION 461cc. A person shall not be ineligible to the office of county superintendent of schools on account of residence in cities of the third and fourth class within the territorial limits of any such district. [1905 c. 46 s. 1; Supl. 1906 s. 461cc; 1907 c. 118]

SECTION 461d. [Repealed by 1915 c. 531]

Superintendent's report. SECTION 461e. The county superintendent shall annually make and file with the county clerk a statement, verified by his affidavit, giving the names of all persons examined by him since the beginning of his term or since the date of his last statement, together with the dates when such persons were examined. He shall also embody in such statement the names of all persons to whom certificates have been issued upon papers written in another superintendent's district and the dates when such certificates were issued, and also the names of all graduates of high schools whose diplomas he has countersigned, together with the dates of countersigning. At the expiration of his term of office he shall file with the county clerk a similar sworn statement, covering the time from the close of his last regular series of examinations to the close of his term, and shall embody in such statement a summary, giving the number of persons in each of the three classes herein named and of all the persons so reported by him to the county clerk during his term of office. [1895 c. 331 s. 5; 1897 c. 354 s. 461e sub. 5; Stats. 1898 s. 461g; 1905 c. 52]

Institute instructors. SECTION 461f. No money shall be paid for services rendered as an instructor in any institute to any person unless he holds a certificate signed by the state superintendent certifying that the committee on institutes of the board of regents of normal schools approves of said person as a competent institute instructor. Nor shall any person be employed by any county superintendent as institute conductor or lecturer who is engaged in publishing textbooks or dealing in school supplies, or who is an agent or employe of any individual or company thus engaged, or who is proprietor or manager of or in any way pecuniarily interested in any teachers' employment agency or bureau; nor shall the committee on teachers' institutes of the board of regents of normal schools approve any such person for service in institutes provided for in section 461f, nor shall any such person be employed as instructor or lecturer in any institute supported in whole or in part by the state. [1897 c. 354 s. 461e sub. 4, 6; Stats. 1898 s. 461i; 1905 c. 52]

Superintendent's duty as to deaf and blind children. SECTION 461g. It shall be the duty of each county and city superintendent of schools to send to the superintendent of the state school for the deaf at Delavan and to the superintendent of the state school for the blind at Janesville the address of parents with the name and age of each deaf or blind child known to be in his county or city, and to inform parents, guardians and custodians of deaf mutes and blind children in his county or city respecting the several schools for deaf mutes and the blind in the state and the conditions of admission to them; and for this purpose the superintendents of such institutions shall provide each such superintendent with sufficient printed information and with the names and residences of all deaf mutes and blind children known to be in his county or city. And each such superintendent with sufficient printed information and with the names and residences of the city board of education a statement of the number of deaf mutes and of blind children of school age in such county or city then receiving an education, or the number of each not receiving an education, and of the number of personal visits he has made during the year upon the parents, guardians or custodians of such children to induce them to give such children a proper education. [1891 c. 331 s. 3; 1897 c. 354 s. 461f; Stats. 1898 s. 461k, 572, 577, 4972 sub. 14; 1905 c. 52]

SECTION 461h. [Repealed by 1913 c. 773 s. 21]

SECTIONS 461i to 461k, inclusive. [Repealed by 1905 c. 52]

Examinations for superintendent's certificates. SECTION 4617. The board of examiners for state certificates shall, at the time of holding the regular examinations provided for by law, examine all applicants for the county superintendent's certificate herein provided for, upon the branches upon which examination is now required for a first grade county certificate, and also upon school law and the organization, management and supervision of district schools. Such board shall, in addition to the examination provided for by law, hold in the month of July in each year three such examinations simultaneously at three different points in the state, to be determined by the state superintendent, which shall be chosen with reference to the accommodation of applicants in different parts of the state. Each of the three examinations shall be held under the supervision of a member of the board of examiners, but the scope and character of the examination shall be previously determined by the board of examiners and the state superintendent. Printed questions shall be prepared on each subject upon which the applicant is required to be examined, and the board of examiners shall examine the papers written by applicants and file all papers so written in the office of the state superintendent. All persons passing such examination to the satisfaction of such board, and who shall furnish satisfactory testimonials of moral character to the board, shall, upon its recommendation, receive from the state superintendent the county superintendent's certificate, which, together with the eight months' experience in teaching in the public schools provided for in section 702a, shall constitute a legal qualification to hold the office of county superintendent of schools. It shall also legally qualify the holder to teach in any public school in the state for which a first grade county certificate is a legal qualification. Such certificate shall remain in force until revoked by the state superintendent according to law. The provisions of law for payment of expenses and per diem of members of the board of examiners while conducting examinations for state certificates shall extend to the examinations herein provided for. [1895 c. 333 s. 2, 4, 6; 1897 c. 354 s. 461g sub. 2–4, 6; Stats. 1898 s. 4611]

County institute fund. SECTION 461m. The teachers' county institute appropriation shall be used under the direction of the county or district superintendent in defraying the necessary expenses of conducting annually one or more teachers' institutes for the instruction of the teachers of his county or district in school management, in methods of teaching, and in the branches taught in the common schools, and in compensation for lectures at such institutes when said lectures are given by other than the conductors or the county or district superintendent. [1905 c. 476; Supl. 1906 s. 461m; 1907 c. 118; 1913 c. 772 s. 123]

Institute conductors' certificates. SECTION 461n. No money shall be paid by the county or district superintendent of schools for the services of any instructor or lecturer or to any person from the appropriation for county institutes, unless said person is the holder of a certificate signed by the state superintendent certifying that the committee on institutes of the board of regents of normal schools approve of such person as a competent institute conductor. [1905 c. 476 s. 2; Supl. 1906 s. 461n; 1907 c. 118; 1913 c. 772 s. 123] Distribution of fund. SECTION 461o. The appropriation referred to in section 461m shall be distributed among the counties of the state in just proportion to the number of teachers actually required and employed in the territory under the supervision of the county or district superintendent in giving instruction in the schools of said county or superintendent district for a term of not less than seven months during each year, unless failure to maintain such school or schools for such term shall have been caused by the destruction of the schoolhouse or by the order of the school district board, or the local or state board of health, on account of the prevalence of a contagious disease. [1905 c. 476 s. 3; Supl. 1906 s. 461o; 1907 c. 118; 1913 c. 772 s. 123]

Statement of number of teachers; county apportionment. SECTION 461p. The county or district superintendent of schools shall between the first and tenth days of July in each year make a statement upon oath to the state superintendent, giving the exact number of teachers in all the public schools of his district when they are all in session. When the sworn statements from all the county or superintendent districts have been received it shall be the duty of the state superintendent to apportion the appropriation mentioned in section 461m among the different counties of the state in proportion to the number of legally qualified teachers actually engaged in teaching under the provisions and restrictions of this chapter, and certify said sum to the secretary of state, who shall thereupon draw his orders upon the state treasury in favor of the different county or district superintendents for the sum so certified. [1905 c. 476 s. 4; Supl, 1906 s. 461p; 1907 c. 118; 1913 c. 772 s. 123]

Account of expenditures. SECTION 461q. The county or district superintendent shall keep an itemized account of all the expenditures made from the appropriation in his super