volume must accompany the application. Those who apply should be careful to give the express office to which the volume must be sent. Printed forms of application for first supply, additional supply, or re-supply for common district schools, or graded schools, will be mailed by the State Superintendent to school officers upon request.

When writing for application blanks, state the kind wanted. There is but one kind furnished in all cases where the application is for first supply, and where the application is for first supply, the writer should state whether or not the school is a school of but one department, or a graded school, and whether or not such school is under the township system of school government, in order that the proper blanks may be sent. A suitable place to keep the dictionary should be provided by the board. Children should not be allowed to play with the dictionary.

Part of library. Section 510. All such dictionaries heretofore or hereafter received by the several districts shall belong to the district library, but during the time a school is taught they shall be and remain in the school rooms during the hours of school, for the exclusive use of the scholars and teachers, and under the control of the teachers or principals, who shall be responsible to the districts for their loss or for any unnecessary damage they may receive.

Payment of money. Section 511. The state superintendent shall pay to the state treasurer all money received on account of dictionaries sold as aforesaid, and render an account of all dictionaries sold in his report to the governor.

Residents, who are; county's liability. Section 512. Every person of lawful school age maintained as a public charge shall, for school purposes, be deemed a resident of the district in which he lives; for every person so maintained by the county the county board shall for each year allow to the district in which such person may attend school an amount for each person so attending equal to the amount expended in that year for each pupil in such district for school purposes; and in case such person be maintained by any town, such town board shall allow a like amount to such district. Such account shall be reckoned by the district officers without reference to the number of pauper children attending such school.

Women may be officers. Section 513. Women of the age of twenty-one or more years who reside and for one year next prior to their election or appointment have resided in any school district, town, city, or county, are eligible by election or appointment to the offices of director, treasurer and clerk of such district, director and secretary of the town school board; of the town school board of such town if under the township system, member

of the school board or board of education of such city, town inspector of schools of such town, and county superintendent of such county. (1911 c. 536)

There is no such office as "town inspector of schools."

Powers of boards; application of chapter to cities and villages. Section 515. Every such board or other body aforesaid shall have all the powers and be charged with all the duties imposed by these statutes on school district boards so far as the same are not provided for or limited by the special provisions of the act of incorporation or other act under which such board or body is constituted. Every city or village not having a system of school government specially provided by law therefor shall be governed by the provisions of this chapter.

Chapter 27, W. S. is referred to by this chapter and 27 W. S. is nearly all of the school code 1.

Free public lectures. Section 515a. The board of school directors of any school district or the board of education of any city is authorized and empowered to provide for employment of competent persons to deliver lectures on the natural sciences, on historical, literary, or other educational subjects, in the public school buildings, in public library buildings or in other suitable places of said district or city, and to particularly provide for the further education of the adult persons of such community. (1911 c. 498)

Purchase of books, charts, etc. Section 515b. The said board of education shall have power to purchase the books, stationery, charts and other things necessary and expedient to successfully conduct said lectures which it shall have power to direct. (1905 c. 125)

Admission free. Section 515c. No admission fee shall be charged and at least one school building or public library building shall be designated by said board of education for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act; and said lectures shall be delivered in such school or library building between the first day of October and the 31st day of March in each year, which lectures shall be advertised in a newspaper published in said city at least one week in advance of the delivery thereof.

Appropriation to be made. Section 515d. The board of education is hereby authorized, previous to the first day of September in each year, to meet and provide the necessary appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this aet. (1905 c. 125)

CHAPTER 388, LAWS OF 1911.

AN ACT-To repeal sections 516 to 553, inclusive and to create section 516 of the statutes, relating to the township system of school government.

The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Township system abolished. Section 1. inclusive, of the statutes, are repealed.

Sections 516 to 553,

Section 2. There is

Board of supervisors to meet; notices. added to the statutes a new section to be designated and to read: Section 516. 1. Whenever the township system shall be abolished in any town, the town board of supervisors of said town shall meet for the purpose of creating and forming suitable independent districts. Such meeting shall be held between the first day of March and the first day of June, 1912. Due notice giving time and place (day and hour) of such meeting shall be given in writing to each school officer in the town, and a copy thereof shall be posted in at least four public places in each subdistrict, and another copy affixed to the outer door of each schoolhouse in the town, not less than ten, nor more than fifteen days previous to the day of meeting fixed in the notice. If one or more weekly newspapers are published in the town, publication of the notice in such paper or papers, for at least two consecutive weeks immediately preceding the meeting shall answer in place of service and posting of notices.

Creation of independent districts. 2. The supervisors shall grant a public hearing and when the hearing is closed they shall at once proceed to create one or more suitable independent districts making the order to take effect on Saturday, June 22, 1912, and the date for the first district meeting shall be the first Monday in July at seven o'clock in the afternoon. When assembled at such meeting the electors shall have power to elect a clerk for one year, a treasurer for two years and a director for three years, and to transact any and all other business provided for by section 430 of the statutes. If a town operating under the township system is indebted to the state or to any individual, firm or corporation, the supervisors shall determine the amount of such indebtedness due from each new district and certify such amount to the clerk of the new district and file their determination in the office of the town clerk. It shall be the duty of the town clerk to send at once a certified statement of the indebtedness as apportioned to the different

districts, to the individual, firm or corporation, or the secretary of state, as the case may be, and it shall also be the duty of the town clerk to place in the tax roll annually, the amount of principal and interest to be collected from each district to meet its obligations.

Joint subdistricts.

3. In cases where there are joint subdistricts between two or more towns, one or both under the township system, the boundaries of such subdistrict shall not be affected by the order made to go into effect June 22, 1912. But it shall be organized as other independent districts, and shall constitute an independent joint district, the boundaries of which may be changed later by the proper authorities under the statutes providing therefor. The order creating and designating a district shall, if practicable, use the number of the subdistrict abolished and the notice to the taxable inhabitant shall be given by the supervisors of the town in which the schoolhouse is located, and if there be more than one schoolhouse, by the supervisors of the town in which the oldest schoolhouse is located.

4. It is further pro

Area of school district; school population. vided that the supervisors are not limited in determining the area of any school district formed under this act, but no school district shall be formed that does not at the time of its formation have residing within its boundaries at least fifteen persons of school age. Be it also understood that the electors of any school district shall have full power, at any annual or special district meeting, to select as many schoolhouse sites and to direct the school board to erect as many school buildings in different parts of the district as may be needed to accommodate the school population, or to provide transportation for any or all children, or children only residing more than one and one-half miles from the school.

Section 3.-This act shall take effect and be in force from and after March 1, 1912.

School buildings; plans and specifications for. Section 524i. 1. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent of public instruction to procure architects' plans and specifications for not to exceed four room school buildings, and full detail working plans therefor. Said plans and specifications shall be loaned to any district desiring to erect a new school building.

Plans to be approved by county superintendent. 2. Where the plans and specifications prepared by the state superintendent are not used, in order that the health, sight and comfort of pupils

may be properly protected, all school boards of districts in which new schoolhouses of not to exceed four rooms are to be erected shall make suitable provision for the heating, lighting and ventilating, and hygienic conditions of such buildings, and all plans and specifications for any such proposed school building shall be submitted to and approved by the county superintendent of schools in whose jurisdiction the district is located, before the same shall be accepted by the school district board of the district in which it is proposed to erect such building.

Appropriation. 3. Five hundred dollars is appropriated from the general fund, for the use of the state superintendent in procuring the plans and specifications provided in section one of this act. (1907 c. 425)

Condemnation of school buildings. Section 524m-1. The inspector of rural schools, the inspectors of state graded schools, and the inspector of high schools of the state, in addition to their other duties are hereby made inspectors of public school buildings. Said inspectors shall act under the direction of the state superintendent, and under such regulations as may be established by him. (1909 c. 550)

Complaint; by whom made. Section 524m-2. Whenever any county or district superintendent, city superintendent, member of a school board or board of education, or any voter of a school district, or a member of a board of health, shall make a complaint in writing to the state superintendent that any building used for or in connection with any public school in his county, district, city, village, or town, as the case may be, is in an unsanitary condition, or that the conditions are such as to endanger the life and health of the children attending school, or that the schoolhouse is unfit for school purposes one of said inspectors designated by the state superintendent shall personally investigate and examine the premises and buildings concerning which said complaint is made. c. 550)

(1909

Inspector to make an order. Section 524m-3. Upon such investigation and examination, said inspector shall, if conditions warrant it, make an order directing the school board, the board of education, the town board of school directors, or other officer or officers having control of the school district or school corporation, to repair and improve such building or buildings as may be necessary, and to place said buildings in a safe and sanitary condition; or if the said inspector shall deem the schoolhouse unfit for school purposes and not worth repairing he shall state said fact and recite the reason therefor. (1909 c. 550)