3. Statements of the receipts and disbursements of all school moneys.

4. Plans for the improvement and better management and organization of all common and other schools.

5. A statement of his official visits to educational institutions of any kind, and of the work done by the different inspectors and officers provided for by law, and employed by him in the performance of the duties of the office, for the biennial period. 6. All such other matters relating to his office and the school system of the state, as he shall deem expedient to publish.

Teachers' institutes. 12. To exercise supervision over the teachers' institutes held in the different counties of the state, and with the advice and consent of the institute committee of the board of regents of normal schools, publish from time to time a syllabus and outline of work suitable to be done therein.

Annual convention. 13. To hold at least one convention annually at a convenient and accessible point in the state, for the purpose of consulting and advising with the county superintend ents in regard to the supervision and management of the public schools.

Other duties. 14. To perform all other duties imposed upon him by law.

Annual salary. SECTION 3. The state superintendent shall receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars.

Conflicting laws repealed. SECTION 4. Section 164 and 166, chapter 11, of the statues of 1898, and all other acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SECTION 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.

Approved March 27, 1903.

No. 148, S.]

[Published March 30, 1903.

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CHAPTER 38.

AN ACT granting to the United States jurisdiction over certain lands in Brown county.

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

Jurisdiction, except for service of civil and criminal process. SECTION 1. The consent of the state of Wisconsin is hereby given to the purchase, by the United States, of any tract or tracts of land in the city of Green Bay, and county of Brown, within the state, for the site of and the erection of a federal building under the provisions of an act of congress, approved June 6, 1902, entitled: "An act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes," and the state hereby cedes to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over such tract or tracts of land as shall be purchased for the purposes aforesaid, so long as the same shall be or remain the property of the United States, for all purposes except the service of civil or criminal process therein.

Land exempt from taxes. SECTION 2. That the lands, aforesaid, when so purchased, shall thereafter be exempt from all taxes and assessments levied, or imposed under authority of the state, so long as the same shall remain the property of the United States.

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

Approved March 27, 1903.

No. 548, A.]

[Published March 30, 1903.

CHAPTER 39.

AN ACT amendatory of section 1010, chapter 46, of the statutes of 1898, relating to the statistics of farm products; and section 335e, chapter 20, relating to publication of reports.

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

Statistics of farm products. SECTION 1. Section 1010, chapter 46, of the statutes of 1898 is hereby amended by inserting in the fourth line thereof, the words "sugar beets and other" after the word "potatoes" therein; in the fifteenth line of same section, insert after the words "milch cows, number and value" the words "other cattle than milch cows, number and value." In fifteenth and sixteenth lines strike out "of butter and cheese and number of pounds manufactured, of each preceding year" and insert in lieu thereof "horses of all ages, number and value; sheep and lambs, number and value; swine, four months old or over, number and value."

In line twenty-three of same section, strike out the words "secretary of state," and insert in lieu thereof the words "secretary of the state board of agriculture." In last line of section, after the word "county" add "and the number and value of animals."

Add to said section "The secretary of the state board of agriculture shall tabulate and publish such statistical reports, each year, in the annual report of such board of agriculture."

Section 335e, chapter 20 of the statutes of 1898, is hereby amended by striking out, in the fifth line thereof the words "four hundred," and inserting, in lieu thereof, the words "four hundred and fifty." So that when so amended the respective sections shall read as follows:

"Section 1010. It shall be the duty of the assessor of each town, village or city, at the time of making the annual assessment of property, to collect statistics in relation to the principal farm products as follows, to-wit: Of wheat, corn, oats, barley, rye, flaxseed, potatoes, sugarbeets, and other root crops, and cranberries; the number of acres devoted to the cultivation of each respectively for the current year, and also the number of bushels of each respectively raised in the preceding year, except

sugar beets, which shall be given in tons; of apples, the number of acres in orchard, the number of trees of bearing age the current year, and also the number of bushels raised the preceding years; of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, currant, and grapes, the number of acres of each the current year, and the number of bushels or pounds of each raised in the preceding year; of hops, tobacco, and flax fibre, the number of acres the current year, the number of pounds raised the preceding year; of cultivated grasses, the number of acres the current year, the number of tons raised the preceding year; of growing timber, the number of acres; of milch cows, the number and value; other cattle than milch cows, number and value; horses of all ages, number and value; sheep and lambs, number and value; swine, four months old or over, number and value; of clover and timothy, the number of acres of each harvested for seed the preceding year, and the number of bushels of each obtained therefrom.

And said assessor shall make duplicate certificates of such statistics, one of which he shall file in the office of the town clerk of his town, and the other with the clerk of his county, on or before the fifteenth day of August of the same year.

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The county clerk shall on or before the fifteenth day of August of each year, forward to the secretary of the state board of agriculture to be bept in his office, a certificate of the gate number of acres and the amount of yield of each of said products, in his county, and the number and value of animals, as ascertained and compiled from the certificates of said assessor; and the secretary of the state board of agriculture shall tabulate and publish such statistical reports, each year, in the annual report of such board of agriculture."

Printing for board of agriculture. "Section 335e. There shall be printed annually five thousand copies of the report of the state board of agriculture, all of which shall be bound in cloth, and shall contain such matter pertaining to the agricul tural industries of the state as shall be deemed important; provided the whole number of printed pages shall not exceed four hundred and fifty."

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

Approved March 27, 1903.

No. 537, A.]

[Published March 30, 1903.

CHAPTER 40.

AN ACT to amend chapter 249 of the laws of 1880, relating to the house of correction of Milwaukee county.

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

Maintenance and expense of. SECTION 1. Section one of chapter 249, laws of 1880, is hereby amended by striking out the words "the city of Milwaukee" where the same occur in the fourteenth line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the' words: “each village or city in Milwaukee county;" and by striking out the words "the said city of Milwaukee," where the same occur in the nineteenth line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof the words "such village or city," so that said section, when amended shall read as follows:

Section 1. Section six of chapter three hundred and eighteen of the private and local laws of 1855, as amended by section one of chapter one hundred and eighty-nine of the general laws of 1865, as amended by chapter 249 of the laws of 1880, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. The expenses of maintaining said house of correction over and above. all receipts for the labor of persons confined therein, and for the support of prisoners therein, whose support is not chargeable to said county of Milwaukee, shall be audited and paid by the said board of supervisors, yearly, at its annual meeting, and shall be raised, levied and collected as part of the ordinary expenses of said county of Milwaukee; and each village or city in Milwaukee county shall, on the first Monday of January in each and every year, pay to the county of Milwaukee the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per week per capita, for each and every person confined in the house of correction for the violation of any of the ordinances of such city or village during the preceding year.

SECTION 2.

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

Approved March 27, 1903.