SECTION 12. The said high schools shall be public Teachers. schools of Milwaukee, and as such shall be under the same supervision and control, except as herein provided, as other public schools of said city. The said board shall have power, and it shall be their duty to employ a principal and such other teachers as may be necessary for each of said high schools. The president of the board shall annually appoint a committee of said board of high schools, which, together with the superintendent, who shall be a member of said committee, shall employ or appoint all teachers in said high schools, subject to the approval of the board.

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SECTION 13. The course of study in the high schools Course of study. shall be liberal, and shall embrace such studies as the said school board may deem proper; and the said board shall have power to grant diplomas and to confer degrees in testimony of scholarship and literary acquirements.

SECTION 14. The said school board shall have power Management of to make rules and regulations for the government of high schools. teachers and students of said high schools, to prescribe terms of admission, to determine the text books to be used, to fix the number of classes and the conditions of graduation, and all other matters relating to the management of said high schools; provided, that no rule, order or regulation made by said board shall be valid, if inconsistent with the laws of this state.

SECTION 15. In case of the absence or inability from any cause, of the officers, appointed by said school board to perform the duties of their respective offices, said board may appoint some suitable person to act in their place and stead during their absence or inability, and such person shall have and possess the same power or authority as the officer whose place he is appointed temporarily to fill.

SECTION 16. The school board shall report to the common council of said city at or before the first meeting of the council in January in each year, the amount of money required for the support of all the public schools in said city, including the high schools for the next fiscal year.

Support of the public schools.

And it shall be the duty of said common council to Tax shall be levied. levy and collect a tax, in addition to the tax to be levied

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School moneys

shall not be used for any other purpose.

School moneyshow disbursed.

School board to report annually.

for general city purposes upon all the taxable property of the said city, at the same time and in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected by law, which, with the other funds provided for the same purpose, shall be equal to the amount of money required by said school board for the support of said schools; provided, that the said common council may, by the votes of two-thirds of all the members elect, levy a tax for a greater or less amount for such purpose.

The said tax and the entire school fund of the city shall not be used or appropriated directly or indirectly for any other purpose than the payment of the salaries of the superintendent of schools, the secretary of the board and the teachers, and such other employes as the board may deem necessary, and the necessary and current expenses of schools, including the purchase of school supplies, apparatus, and fuel, and the ordinary and necessary repairs of school furniture.

SECTION 17. All moneys received by or raised in the city of Milwaukee for school purposes shall be paid over to the city treasurer, to be disbursed by him on the orders of the president and secretary of the school, board countersigned by the city comptroller; provided, that the president, instead of signing each order, may certify upon the pay-rolls furnished by the secretary to the comptroller to the fact that the amounts therein are correct as allowed by the school board.

Orders drawn upon city treasurer by the president and secretary of the school board, and payable out of school fund, for amounts duly allowed by the board, are evidences of indebtedness, for which an action will lie against the city.

Terry vs. Milwaukee, 15 Wis., 543.

SECTION 18. The school board shall be governed in all things by the school laws of the state, except as they are altered or modified by this act. They shall report to the common council annually the general proceedings and acts of said board, the number and condition of the public schools kept in said city during the year, the time they have severally been taught, the number and names of teachers, and the amount of salary of each; the number of children taught in said schools, respectively; the result of the annual enumeration required by law; the extent of school accommodations in the several schools;

the amount of school moneys raised or received during the year, distinguishing the amount received from the state fund from the amounts derived from taxes levied by the county board of supervisors and by the common council respectively, and the accounts allowed by them against the school fund in detail, together with such other information as they may deem useful, or as the common council may require. A copy of said report shall be transmitted to the state superintendent of public instruction, and a like copy to the librarian of the state historical society at Madison.

The entire chapter relating to public schools is Chapter 386, Laws of 1891.

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CHAPTER 73, LAWS OF 1891.

184, laws of 1874.

AN ACT to amend Section 10, of Chapter 12, of Chapter 184, of Amends chapter the Laws of 1874, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and amend the charter of the city of Milwaukee, approved February 20, 1852, and the several acts amendatory thereof," and the several acts amendatory thereof.

SECTION 1. All claims and demands against the city or the school board, before they are allowed by the school board, shall be audited and adjusted by the comptroller and immediately after the allowance by the school board of any claim or account, it shall be the duty of the secretary of said board to furnish to the comptroller a complete list of the same, stating the character of the material or service for which the same were rendered; and before a warrant shall be issued therefor, it shall be the duty of the comptroller to countersign same. And the said secretary shall also make and file with the said comptroller, quarterly statements of the condition of the fund for the support of schools and of the financial transactions of the school board during the three months next preceding such statement, so that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: Section 10. It shall be the duty of the secretary of the school board, within ten days after the annual appointment of teachers and other salaried employes, to report to and file with the city comptroller, a duly certified list of the teachers and employes so appointed, with the salary allowed to each, and a statement of the time or times fixed for the payment thereof. He shall also, as often as any action shall be taken by said school board changing the salaries of either of the officers of said board, or of any of such teachers or employes, or making a new election or appointment to any position entitling the person appointed to receive a stated salary, immediately after such action is had, in like manner file with the comptroller a certified statement and list of all changes and appointments. All claims and demands against the city or school board before they are allowed by the school board shall be audited and adjusted by the comptroller and immediately after the allowance by the school board of

Secretary of school

board to file with comptroller certified list of teachers with salary; comptroller to audit all claims before allowance and countersign warrants.

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any claim or account it shall be the duty of the secretary of said board to furnish to the comptroller a complete list of the same stating the character of the materials and services for which the same were rendered; and before a warrant shall be issued therefor it shall be the duty of the comptroller to countersign the same. And the said secretary shall also make and file with the said comptroller quarterly statements of the condition of the fund for the support of schools and of the financial transactions of the school board during the three months next preceding such state

ments.

Amends chapter 184, laws of 1874.

School board authorized to organize and establish

additional public schools; janitor having charge of steam boiler to pass examination.

CHAPTER 141, LAWS OF 1891.

AN ACT to amend Section 3, of Chapter 12, of Chapter 184, laws of 1874, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the charter of the city of Milwaukee and the several acts amendatory thereof."

SECTION 1. Section 3. The school board of the city of Milwaukee is hereby authorized and required, subject to the approval of the common council, to establish and organize so many public or common schools in addition to those already established in said city as may be necessary for the accommodation of the children of the city, entitled by the constitution and laws of the state to instruction therein, and the common council shall erect, purchase, hire or lease buildings and furniture and lots for the accommodation of such schools and of the high school of said city; and shall improve and enlarge such school buildings. The school board shall have power to establish and define, from time to time, the boundaries of all common school districts in the city in such a manner as they may deem best calculated to promote the interest of the schools. No janitor having charge of any steam boiler in any school building shall hereafter be employed or retained in the employ of the school board of the city of Milwaukee, unless he has a certificate signed by the board of public works of said city, signifying that he has passed a sufficient examination therefor.

Duties of commissioner of health.

Powers of commissioner of health.

CHAPTER XIII.

BOARD OF HEALTH.

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of health to examine into and consider all measures necessary to the preservation of the public health in the city of Milwaukee, and to see that all ordinances and regulations in relation thereto be observed and enforced. As amended by Chapter 470, Laws of 1885.

SECTION 2. The commissioner of health shall have power to appoint, subject to confirmation by said. common council, such assistants, clerks, agents and

workmen as may be necessary for the proper discharge of his duties, and they shall receive such salary or compensation for their services as the said common council may fix. The said commissioner of health shall also have power to appoint from time to time, as they may be needed, temporary special assistants for the purpose of maintaining quarantine, under his direction over houses and premises in the city in which are persons affected with the small-pox or any other pestilential, contagious or infectious disease, subject to quarantine under the ordinances of the city. He shall also have power to cause all children attending private schools in the city, who shall not have been previously vaccinated, for the prevention of small-pox, to be so vaccinated, and to cause such children, upon refusal to be vaccinated, to be excluded from such private schools.

As amended by Chapter 470, Laws of 1885.

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SECTION 3. The said commissioner of health, or any Further power of person under him, have authority to enter into and commissioner. examine at any time, all buildings, lots and places of all descriptions within the city, for the purpose of ascertaining the condition thereof so far as the public health may be affected thereby.

As amended by Chapter 470, Laws of 1885.

SECTION 4. The commissioner of health shall give such directions and adopt all such measures for cleansing and purifying all such buildings, lots and other places, and for causing the removal therefrom of any wells, cisterns, privy-vaults, urinals, sinks, slop-hoppers, defective plumbing or any sewer connection and of nauseous substances producing a disagreeable smell or tending to cause sickness or disease, as in his opinion may be deemed necessary; and he may do or cause to be done whatever in his judgment shall be needful to carry out such measures for the preservation of the public health. Any person who shall disobey any order of the commissioner of health, which shall have been personally served upon him requiring him to abate or remove any nuisance or to cleanse or purify any premises owned or occupied by him. in the manner or at the time described in the order shall on complaint of the commissioner of health or any persons serving such order before the municipal court of said

Commissioner of health to cause places to be cleaned.

unwholesome