board shall proceed to obtain a suitable location, and lease, purchase or erect such buildings, and procure such furniture, apparatus, library and implements as may be necessary for the successful operation of said school and appoint a principal and such other teachers and assistants as the board may deem expedient, with salaries to be paid from time to time as it may agree and to regulate their duties, but no agreement shall be valid whereby such board shall be prevented from discharging any one in its employ upon two months' previous notice. (1907 c. 573)

Section 392q.

Course of study; how approved; fees and tuition. The course of instruction shall be two years in length and shall embrace geology, mineralogy, chemistry, assaying, mining and mining surveying and such other branches of practical and theoretical knowledge as will, in the opinion of the board, conduce to the end of enabling students of said school to obtain a knowledge of the science, art and practice of mining and the application of machinery thereto. The dean of the college of engineering of the University of Wisconsin shall be consulted concerning the course of study, and the same and all modifications thereof shall be approved by him. No student who shall have been a resident of the state for one year next preceding his admission shall be required to pay his fees or other charges for tuition or other purposes in said school, except for the cost price of materials actually consumed by such student in pursuit of any studies. The board may prescribe rates for tuition for any student who shall not have been a resident as aforesaid, which shall not be less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars per year. (1907 c. 573)

Government. Section 392r. The course of study, the terms and the hours of instruction shall be regulated by the board, who shall also have the power to make all such rules and regulations concerning the admission, control and discipline of students and other matters, as may be deemed necessary for the good government of the institution, and convenience and transaction of its business, and also to grant diplomas upon the completion of the prescribed course. (1907 c. 573)

Debts; mining; powers and restrictions. Section 392s. No debt shall be contracted beyond or apart from the actual means at the disposal of the institution. The board may dispose of or lease any property donated to the state for the purposes of said school. The board shall not enter upon the business of mining, or pursue the same, except so far as it may be deemed necessary in the course of instruction, nor shall they purchase any lands beyond what are required for the reasonable accommodation of the school. The board

shall not sell, mortgage or otherwise dispose of any real estate purchased by them or donated by the state without the express authority of the legislature.

Annual reports; collections of minerals. Section 392t. It shall be the duty of the board to provide for obtaining a complete collection of the minerals of the lead region of Wisconsin and classify the same. The board shall on or before the first day of December in each year preceding the regular session of the legislature, make a report of its proceedings to the governor, and shall transmit therewith a general report showing their receipts and expenditures during the period for which the report is made, as well as the general affairs of said school.

Section 2. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand dollars to be used by said board for the purposes of this act. (1907 c. 573)

Mining trade school; appropriation for. Section 392u. 1. There is appropriated out of any money in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum of twenty-one thousand five hundred dollars to be used by the Wisconsin Mining Trade School Board in meeting the current expenses of maintaining the Wisconsin Mining Trade school for the biennial period beginning on the first day of July, 1911, and ending on the thirtieth day of June, 1913, one-half thereof to be used in each year of such biennial period.

2. There is also appropriated out of any moneys in the general fund not otherwise appropriated, the sum of six thousand five hundred dollars to be used by the said board during the said biennial period for repairs, furniture, and supplies in and for such school.

3. The money thus appropriated shall be paid out of the state treasury upon vouchers approved and certified by the board and audited as provided by law. (1911 c. 631)

County aid. Section 392w. The county board of any county is hereby authorized to appropriate money for the equipment and maintenance of the Wisconsin Mining Trade School. The county boards of two or more counties may appropriate money for the equipment and maintenance of said school. When two or more counties unite in equipping and maintaining said school, the Wisconsin Mining Trade School board shall apportion the amount to be raised by taxation among the counties in proportion to the assessed valuation of each county as last fixed by the state board of assessment, and shall report to the county clerk of each county the apportionment so made, on or before the first Monday of November.

in each year. The amount so apportioned to each county shall be levied in the county tax for the ensuing year for the support of such school. Any such appropriation may be made by any such county at any regular annual meeting of the county board after the passage and publication of this act, which appropriation shall be available on and after the 30th day of June, 1911, and annually thereafter as provided in this section and section 392x. (1909 c. 362)

Certified report to be filed. Section 392x. On or before the 30th day of June in 1912, and annually thereafter, the Wisconsin Mining Trade School board shall file with the secretary of state a certificate showing the cost of maintaining said school, the courses of instruction taught, the character of the work done, the names of the teachers employed, and such other matters as will show that all the provisions of chapter 573, laws of 1907, have been complied with. (1911 c. 631)

Aid from city; reimbursement; payment, etc. Section 392y. Any city wherein a mining trade school is located may appropriate annually for equipping and maintaining said school or may appropriate annually for the purpose of reimbursing any county or counties which have appropriated money for the equipment and maintenance of such school a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars in any one year. In case no county board shall appropriate any money as provided in section 392w, then any city within which is located a mining trade school may appropriate annually not to exceed three thousand dollars for the equipment and maintenance of said school. In such case the, Wisconsin Mining Trade School board shall on or before the 30th day of September, 1911, and on the 30th day of each month thereafter, file with the secretary of state a certificate showing the cost of maintaining said school, the courses of instruction taught, the character of the work done, the names of the teachers employed, the equipment purchased, and such other matters as will show that all the provisions of chapter 573, laws of 1907, have been complied with. Upon receipt of such certificate, the secretary of state shall draw his warrant, payable to the treasurer of such city maintaining such school, for a sum equal to twothirds of the amount actually expended for maintaining and equipping such school during the month, provided that the amount so appropriated by the state shall not exceed six thousand dollars in the aggregate for any one year. (1909 c. 362)

Appropriation. Section 392z. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum sufficient to carry out the provisions of this act. (1909 c. 362)

STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.

(Chapter 26 of Wisconsin Statutes of 1898.)

Regents; their terms and vacancies. Section 393. For the government of the normal schools established, and which may hereafter be established, and for the performance of the duties prescribed to them, there is constituted a board of eleven regents, called "The Board of Regents of Normal Schools," composed of the state superintendent, as ex-officio regent, and of ten appointed regents, at least one of whom shall be a woman; the term of office of the appointed regents commencing with the first Monday of February in the year in which appointed, shall be five years and until the appointment and qualification of their respective successors; except that the regents first appointed under this act shall be divided into five classes of two each, and the term of office of said classes so first appointed shall be respectively one, two, three, four and five years and until their successors shall be appointed and qualified, and their successors in office shall continue so divided into five classes of two each, so that the term of office of two regents shall expire each year. The governor shall fill all vacancies by appointment, and in case of a vacancy before the expiration of a term, the appointment shall be for the residue of the term only. (1905 c.

168)

Powers of regents. Section 394. The board of regents and their successors in office are constituted a body corporate by the name aforesaid; and may purchase, have, hold, control, possess and enjoy, in trust for the state, for educational purposes solely, any lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods and chattels of any nature which may be necessary and required for the purposes, objects and uses of the state normal schools authorized by law and none other, with full power to sell or dispose of such personal property or any part thereof when in their judgment it shall be for the interest of the state; and shall possess all other powers necessary or convenient to accomplish the objects and perform the duties prescribed by law.

The board of regents shall not sell, mortgage or dispose of in any way any real estate, nor borrow money without the express authority of the legislature; nor shall they contract indebtedness nor incur liabilities to exceed, at any time, in the aggregate, the amount of money which, under the provisions of law, shall then be at their disposal in the hands of the state treasurer; nor shall said board ever reduce the amount so at their disposal below the aggregate amount of their indebtedness or liability except in payment of such indebtedness or liability.

Proceeds of sales; to what applied. The proceeds of the sale of any real or personal estate shall be paid by them into the treasury, and shall become a part of the income of the normal school fund. The entire income of the normal school fund shall be placed at the disposal of the board of regents of the normal schools by transfer to the treasurer of said board, and shall be distinct and independent from the accounts of the state, and be applied for the support of normal schools as provided by law.

Officers of board. Section 395. The officers of the board shall be a president, vice-president and secretary; they shall severally hold their offices for the term of one year, and until their successors are elected, and shall perform the duties incident to their several offices, and such as are prescribed by the board. The state treasurer shall be, ex-officio, the treasurer of the board, but the board may appoint suitable persons to receive any tuition fees or other moneys that may be due from any student or other person, and pay the same to the treasurer. (1905 c. 168)

Meetings; quorum. Section 396. The said board shall hold an annual meeting at the capitol on the second Wednesday in July in each year or at such time as they may designate. Special meetings may be called by the governor or by the president of the board on a petition signed for that purpose by any three regents. A majority of the regents shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi ness; but a less number may adjourn from time to time.

Removal of regents; disqualification of officers, etc. Section 397. Any regent may be removed from office for cause upon reasonable notice by a vote of two-thirds of all the regents. No regent or officer, trustee or person appointed or employed in any position or capacity connected with normal schools or normal institutes shall at anytime act as agent of any author or publisher of or dealer in school books, maps or charts, or school library books, or school furniture or apparatus, or become interested directly or indirectly in the publication, manufacture or sale of any such as agent