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No. 616, A.]

[Published April 21, 1903.

CHAPTER 86.

AN ACT amending section 578, of the statutes of 1898, relat ing to instruction of deaf mutes in villages and cities, and the organization of schools therefor.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

Board of education to take charge of deaf mute instruction; state aid. SECTION 1. Section 578, statutes of 1898, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Upon application by the board of education of any village or city, made to the state superintendent, he may, by and with the consent of the state board of control, grant permission to such city or village to establish and maintain within its corporate limits one or more schools for the instruction of deaf mutes who are residents of this state. The board of education of any village or city which shall maintain one or more such schools, shall, through its clerk or secretary, report to such superintendent and board annually, and oftener if they so direct, such facts in relation to such school or schools as they may require. There shall be paid out of the state treasury annually, in the month of July, to the treasurer of every such city or village maintaining such school or schools under the charge of one or more teachers, whose qualifications shall be approved by the state superintendent, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars for each deaf mute pupil instructed in such school or schools at least nine months during the year next preceding the first day of July, and a share of such sum proportionate to the term of instruction of any such pupil as shall be so instructed less than nine months during such year.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 20, 1903.

No. 513, A.]

[Published April 21, 1903.

CHAPTER 87.

AN ACT amendatory of section 919c of the statutes of 1898, relating to borrowing money or levying a tax upon the taxable, real and personal property in any village for the construction and maintenance of sewers and drains.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

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Borrowing money and raising tax. SECTION 1. 919e of the statutes of 1898 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 919c. The president and trustees may, for the purpose of the construction of main sewers and other parts of the work chargeable to the general sewer fund provided for in this act, levy a tax on the taxable real and personal property in such village not to exceed in any one year one half of one per centum of its assessed valuation, or said president and trustees may borrow money, to the amount of one per centum of the assessed valuation of the real and personal proprty in such village, and issue negotiable corporate bonds therefor in the manner provided in section 942 and 943 of the statutes of 1898. The proceeds of such tax when collected or the ale of said bonds shall be devoted and appropriated exclusively to the construction and maintenance of sewers and drains as in this act provided and shall be known as the general sewer fund. The village treasurer shall not pay out any of said fund for any purpose other than the construction and maintenance of sewers and drains as in this act provided.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 20, 1903.

No. 481, A.]

[Published April 21, 1903.

CHAPTER SS.

AN ACT to amend section 925-186 of the statutes of 1598 relating to legalizing special assessments for street improvements and providing for re-assessments of special taxes in certain cases in all cities of the first and second class in this state.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

Bids, advertisements for; contracts legalized; powers conferred. SECTION 1. Section 925-186 of the Wisconsin statutes for the year 1898 is hereby amended, so as to read as follows:

"Section 925-186. When any of the works before mentioned shall have been ordered to be done and the plans for the same, containing a description of the work, the materials to be used and such other matters as will give an intelligent idea of the work required, shall have been filed with the city clerk, where the same can be inspected by persons desiring to bid on such work, the board of public works shall advertise in the of ficial paper of the city for bids for doing such work for such length of time as it may think the interest of the city demands, not less than once a week for four successive weeks. The board shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, a printed form for the contract, with sureties required, and furnish the same to all persons desiring to bid, and shall not consider any bid unless accompanied by a contract with sureties as prescribed by the form so furnished, completed, with the exception of the signatures on the part of the city. The notice published shall inform bidders fully of this requirement. In every city, whether operating under a general or special charter, no spe cial assessment or certificate thereef or tax sale certificate based thereon shall be held to be invalid for the reason that any contract which has been heretofore or may hereafter be let contains, on the part of the contractor, a guaranty or any provision to keep the work done under such contract in good order or repair for a limited number of years, when such guaranty or provision was inserted therein for the purpose of insuring

the proper performance of such work in the first instance. All such provisions in contracts for doing public work, inserted for the purpose aforesaid, are hereby legalized, and all such provisions shall be deemed prima facie to have been inserted for that purpose, unless the time during which the contractor is required to keep the work in good order or repair shall exceed five years. Right and authority is hereby given to such cities to insert in contracts for the pavement of streets with asphalt the provision that the person, firm or corporation entering into any contract with such cities for the paving of its streets with asphalt shall in said contract agree with such city to permit such city to reserve and keep in its possession an amount equal to ten per cent of the total contract price for such work as a guaranty for the performance of the conditions contained in such Contract; and further to furnish such city at the time of the making of such contract with a bond or undertaking in the sum equal to twenty-five per cent of the contract price of such work, conditioned for the faithful performance of all conditions and covenants contained in such contract and particularly the provisions contained in such contract with reference to the keeping in good order and repair for a definite number of years the paving work done. Such bond or undertaking shall be executed by said person, firm or corporation and by some surety or guaranty company on their behalf."

SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts contravening the visions of this act are hereby repealed.

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SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved April 20, 1903.

No. 276, A.]

[Published April 21, 1903.

CHAPTER 89.

AN ACT to reimburse the normal school fund for certain money lost on a special loan to the Eau Claire light guard company to provide an armory.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

$1,000 appropriated. SECTION 1.

There is hereby appro

priated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars to the normal school fund.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved April 20, 1903.

No. 67, S.]

[Published April 21, 1903.

CHAPTER 90.

AN ACT to change the method of selecting grand jurors, and to provide for the attendance of a stenographic reporter at the sessions of grand juries, his oath, and a penalty for the violation thereof, and also amending section 2536 of the statutes of 1898.

The people of the state of Wisconsin represented in senate and assembly do enact as follows:

Grand jurors, by whom selected. SECTION 1. All persons hereafter to serve as grand jurors shall be selected by the jury commissioners now authorized by law to select petit jurors.

List of jurors, how prepared. SECTION 2. On or before the last Monday of November in each year said commissioners

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