stitute or teachers' association, signed by the person conducting the institute or by the secretary of the association. (1907 c. 92)

This chapter abolishes general election day (the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in every even numbered year and primary election day, the first Tuesday in September in even numbered years), as legal school holidays. Legal holidays can only be counted in favor of the teacher or the school district when they occur on school days and when school under other circumstances would be in session. The school holidays now recognized by statute are: January 1st, February 22nd, May 30th, July 4th, Labor Day-usually occurring the first Monday in September in accordance with a proclamation by the GovernorThanksgiving Day-usually the last Thursday in November-and Christmas Day. When legal holidays occur on Sunday, the following Monday is the holiday.

School boards and teachers should take notice that the teacher's month is always twenty days, unless otherwise specified in the contract; also, that no Saturdays taught, but all legal holidays occurring while school is in session are to be counted as days taught.

It is recommended that school boards exercise the power given in this section, and allow teachers to attend institutes without deducting the time. The consent of the board to attend an institute or association occurring while school is in session must be obtained from all or a majority of the board at a board meeting held under the provisions of section 432. The certificate of attendance required by the law should be surrendered to the clerk before an order for wages is drawn.

Teacher's report.

SCHOOL REGISTER.

Section 460. The teacher shall enter in the register furnished by the clerk the names, ages and studies of all scholars attending school, and daily their attendance and absence and such other facts as the county superintendent or state superintendent may require; which register the teacher shall deliver to the clerk at the close of his service or whenever it may be required for the use of the board. The teacher shall make in writing and transmit to the board or to the county superintendent a report concerning any matter relating to his school in such manner as the board or the superintendent may prescribe; and any teacher who shall wilfully neglect or refuse to make entries in the register as above required shall forfeit his wages for teaching during the time of such neglect or refusal.

It is the duty of the clerk to furnish the teacher with a register (subdivision 5, of section 446), and to call attention to the penalties of wilful neglect or refusal to comply with this requirement.

Economy will be served if bound books be procured for registers. While registers are not supplied by the state superintendent, approved registers may be obtained of firms that deal in school supplies.

The clerk should examine the register during the term to aid in securing that accuracy in the method of keeping it that will enable him to make a reliable report to the town clerk, and he

should require the teacher to return the register at the end of the term. The teacher should also fill out a condensed report at the end of each term and at the close of the school for the year. Such reports are easily furnished by the teacher and are helpful in securing accurate reports from school officers.

Special report cards devised and sent out by the state superin. tendent to the county superintendent and by the county superintendent to the teachers are to be filled out by the teacher in duplicate at the close of the last school term. The clerk will find this report helpful to him in giving the statistics relating to the school and demanded in his annual report to the town clerk, and he should not fail to demand this blank fully filled out, from the teacher as soon as the school is closed for the year.

TEACHERS' INSURANCE AND RETIREMENT FUND.

Insurance fund; how administered. Section 460-1. 1. There is created a teachers' insurance and retirement fund, which shall be managed by a board of trustees to be known as the board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund. Such board shall consist of five members. The state treasurer and the state superintendent of public instuction shall be ex-officio members of said board; three members, one of whom shall be a woman, shall be elected by the members of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund at their annual meeting as provided in subsection 2 of this section. One such elective member may be a retired member of the fund. No teacher shall be elected as a member of the board of trustees by the members of said fund, who is not a member of said fund at the time of election. The term of office of elective members of said board of trustees shall be three years, except as provided in subsection 3 of this section, and shall begin on the first day of January next succeeding after such election takes place, provided that the elective members of the first board of trustees shall assume office immediately after their election.

Trustees elected at state teachers' association. 2. At the time and place of meeting of the Wisconsin state teachers' association for the year 1911, those teachers described in and complying with section 460-8 shall be qualified to meet for the purpose of electing from such qualified teachers members of the board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund, as provided in section 460-1.

Teachers to elect board of trustees. 3. The teachers qualified, as provided in section 460-8, shall at the annual meeting for 1911 elect as members of the board of trustees, as provided in section 460-1, one male teacher for a term of one year, one male teacher for a term of two years, and one female teacher for a term of three years;

and annually thereafter, at the time and place of meeting of the Wisconsin state teachers' association, the board of trustees shall call a meeting of the members of the fund for the purpose of electing members of the board of trustees, of making the annual report of said fund, and for the transaction of such other business as may pertain to the interests of the fund,

Vacancy in board of trustees. 4. In case any vacancy occurs among the members of the board elected at the annual meeting of said members of the fund, said board shall fill said vacancies until the next annual meeting of the members of the fund, when said members at said annual meeting shall elect a trustee for the unexpired term.

Temorary board.

5. In the interval of time between the passage of this act and until the elective members of the first board of trustees assume office, as provided in subsection 1 of this section, the state superintendent of public instruction and the state treasurer shall constitute a temporary board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund. Said temporary board shall account for all its transactions pertaining to the fund in the same manner as the said board of trustees. (1911 c. 323)

Trustees; how organized. tees shall crganize by the election of a president. The state treas Lier shall be ex-officio treasurer of said board, and shall receive and make payments from and account for said funds in the same manner as for other state funds. Said board may employ a secretary to be chosen for such a term as shall be determined by said board. Said secretary shall perform such duties in connection with the teachers' insurance and retirement fund as may be prescribed by the board.

Section 460-2. Said board of trus

Trustees to meet. Section 460.-3. Said board shall meet during the month of September of each year at its office at a time to be fixed by the board and at any other time on the call of the president or of any two members thereof. Said board may adopt rules for the government of its meetings and for membership in the fund payments thereto and therefrom, and for other matters which will be calculated to aid teachers in securing the benefit of the fund.

Trustees to serve without pay. Section 460-4. Members of said board shall receive no compensation except their necessary traveling expenses incurred in attending the meetings, to be paid from the teachers' insurance and retirement fund upon the certificate of the president and secretary; but if the board shall elect

one of its members secretary, such member shall receive compensation for services rendered as secretary. The secretary of said board shall receive a salary to be fixed by the board, at an amount not to exceed twelve hundred dollars per annum. The compensation of the secretary and any other necessary expenses incurred by said board in carrying out the provisions of sections 460-1 to 460-20, inclusive, shall be paid from the fund. (1911 c. 323)

Fund cared for and invested. Section 460-5. Said board shall have charge of the fund and shall invest the same under the same conditions as the trust funds of the state may be invested. (1911 c. 323)

Trustees to report annually. Section 460-6. Said board shall report annually as of the year ending the first day of September. A copy of said report shall be transmitted to the annual meeting of the members of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund and to the state superintendent of public instruction. Said superintendent shall include a copy of said report in his biennial report to the governor. (1911 c. 323)

Board not a corporation. Section 460-7. Said board shall not be a corporation, but may sue and be sued in the name of the board all actions brought by or against the board shall be prosecuted or defended, as the case may be, by the attorney general. (1911 c. 323)

Duties of school officers. Section 460-8. 1. Each school district board, each high school district board, each town board of school directors, each board of education, or other managing body, of each city, and of each school district, and of each village, and of each town operating its schools under the township system of school government, shall retain on every pay day from the salary of each teacher in their respective schools the amounts herein provided. Each teacher shall be furnished a statement by such board, showing the amount so deducted from his or her salary.

Teachers assessed. 2. Every teacher shall be assessed upon his or her salary as teacher for a period of twenty-five years as follows: one per centum per annum, but not more than fifteen dollars per year, for each of the first ten years of service as teacher; and two per centum per annum, but not more than thirty dollars per year, for each successive year of service as teacher, until said teacher shall have had a total of twenty-five years of teaching service when said assessments shall cease. The total amount paid into said fund by each teacher shall be based upon said twenty-five years of service as teacher with assessments as provided in this subsection; provided that such total amount shall not be less than the

full amount of the annuity to which such teacher shall be entitled for the first year.

Teachers to become liable. 3. In becoming a teacher in said public schools after September 1, 1911, he or she shall be conclusively deemed to undertake and agree to pay such assessments, and to have such assessments deducted from his or her salary as herein provided.

Teachers may elect to become members. 4. Any person employed as teacher in said public schools, when this act takes effect, may, at any time before September 1, 1912, elect to come within the provisions of sections 460—1 to 460—20, inclusive, by notifying in writing the board of trustees of the teachers' insurance and retirement fund.

Teacher to give notice to the trustees. 5. At the time of giving said notice to the board of trustees, as herein provided, such teacher shall notify the local school board or any other managing body in writing of his or her election to come within the provisions of this act; and shall authorize said school board, as a part of said notice, to deduct from each payment of salary due him or her a sum equal to said per centum of such payment as provided in subsection 2 of this section. (1911 c. 323)

Duties of various boards. Section 460-9. 1. Each such school district board, each high school district board, each town board of school directors, each board of education, or other managing body, shall each year, between the 20th and 30th days of June forward to the treasurer of the town, village, or city in which the schoolhouse of said teacher is located, a statement verified by the secretary or clerk thereof of the moneys so retained, in accordance with the provisions of section 460-8 together with said moneys so retained.

What the statement shall include. 2. Said statement shall also include the following: Name and monthly salary of each of said teachers; number of months of school taught by each teacher in said public schools of the district, village, or city over which said school board, or other managing body, has jurisdiction during the school year for which the statement is made; the number of months constituting a school year in such district, village, or city; the total salary of each teacher; the total amount withheld from the salary of each teacher, in accordance with the provisions of section 460-8; the total amount so withheld from the salaries of all of said teachers for the school year, next preceding; and the total number of years each teacher has taught in the public schools of the state.