convicted in the justice's court of any offense of the provisions of this act, may appeal therefrom, as provided by law in criminal cases.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 11, 1869.

CHAPTER 179.

[Published March 16, 1869.]

AN ACT fixing the compensation of town assessors.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate

and assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Town assessors shall be entitled to Compensation three dollars per day and at the same rate for parts of

a day, for all services actually performed by them in

the discharge of the duties of their office.

fixed.

SECTION 2. Section 112 of chapter 15 of the revised Amended. statutes, and all other [acts] and parts of acts conflict

ing with the provisions of this act, are hereby amended

to correspond with the provisions of this act.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 11, 1869.

Time fixed.

CHAPTER 180.

[Published March 23, 1869.]

AN ACT to regulate and fix the time for holding the regular terms of the circuit court in the county of Jefferson.

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

SECTION 1. The regular terms of the circuit court, provided by law to be held in and for the county of Jefferson, on the second Tuesday after the first Monday of February aud September in each year, shall hereafter be held on the first Monday of February and the first Monday of September of each year.

SECTION 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 11, 1869.

Section 6 amended.

CHAPTER 181.

[Published March 23, 1869.]

AN ACT to amend chapter 158 of the general laws of 1867, in relation to insurance companies doing business in the city of Milwaukee.

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

SECTION 1. Section 6 of chapter 158 of the general laws of 1867, entitled "an act to regulate insurance companies, organized under law enacted by the legis lature of the state of Wisconsin," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 6. The payment of the sum provided in the fifth section of this act shall be in lieu of all taxes for any purpose authorized by the laws of this state, except taxes upon real estate,

and the receipt of the state treasurer in the possession of the officers of any insurance company, shall operate as a license to such company to transact the businesa of insurance until the last day of January next succeeding the payment of the sum named in such receipt.

amended.

SECTION 2. Section 7 of said chapter 158 is hereby Section 7 amended so as to read as follows: Section 7. The property except real estate, of all insurance companies now organized, or which may be hereafter organized in this state, shall be exempt from taxation for all purposes.

SECTION 3. The 14th subdivision of section 2 of Section 2 amended. chapter 130 of the general laws of 1868, entitled "an act to provide for the assessment of property for taxation and the levy of taxes thereon," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 14th. All the property except real estate of all insurance companies now organized. or which may hereafter be organized in this state.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. Approved March 11, 1869.

CHAPTER 182.

[Published March 17, 1869.]

AN ACT to establish a township system of school government.

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

district.

SECTION 1. Each town which is now or may here- Each town conafter be organized in this state, is hereby declared and stituted one constituted one school district for all the purposes of this act, and the several school districts and parts of joint districts which are now or may hereafter be established in the several organized towns, shall be styled and known as subdistricts.

tricts formed.

SECTION 2. New subdistricts may be formed and How subdisthe boundaries of any subdistrict may be altered by

Town board of directors.

Powers of the board.

Shall have custody of school houses, etc.

Annual meeting of board.

Special meetings.

Officers of the board.

the town board of directors at any regular meeting of said board: provided, that the formation, and alteration of joint subdistricts shall be by the concurrent action of the boards of directors or all the towns embraced in part in such subdistricts.

SECTION 3. The clerks of the several subdistricts in any organized town, together with the clerks of the joint subdistricts, the school houses of which are situated in such town, shall constitute the town board of school directors.

SECTION 4. The said board shall be a body corporate, and shall possess the usual powers of a corporation for public purposes, by the name and style of "the board of school directors of the town of "(the name of the town to which the board belongs), and in that name shall sue and be sued, and be capable of contracting and being contracted with and of holding real and personal estate and of selling the same, as authorized by the provisions of this act

SECTION 5. The board of directors in each town are hereby invested in their corporate capacity, with the title, care and custody of all school houses, school house sites, furniture, apparatus and other property of all kinds belonging to the sub school districts therein, with full power to control the same, in such manner as will best subserve the interests of the schools in such town.

SECTION 6. The said board shall meet annually upon the first Monday in October in each year, at or as near as may be, the place where the last annual election was held. The second regular meeting of the board shall be held on the third Monday of March in each year. The hour of meeting shall be ten o'clock in the forenoon.

SECTION 7. Special meetings may be called by the president and secretary upon the application of onethird of the members of the board. Such meetings shall be called by notifying each member of the board personally, or by leaving a written notice at his place of residence or business, stating the time, place and objects of the meeting, at least five days before the time appointed therefor.

SECTION 8. The members of the board, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum, assembled at the first and each succeeding annual meeting, shall elect from their number a president and vice president, and

a secretary, who may or may not be one of their number: provided, he shall be a resident of the town to which the board belongs.

SECTION 9. The board of each town shall have May purchase, hire and repair power to purchase or hire houses and rooms for the use school houses. of schools and to fence and improve the same as they may deem proper, and upon such sites, to build, enlarge, alter, improve and repair school houses, outhouses or any other buildings for school purposes, as they may deem advisable; and also, whenever in the opinion of the board any school house or school house site is no longer needed for school purposes, the same may be sold and conveyed in the corporate name of the board, such conveyance to be executed by the president and secretary of the board.

ey necessary.

SECTION 10. It shall be the duty of the board at Shall estimate the regular meeting in March, to estimate and deter- amount of monmine the amount of money which will be necessary for the support of schools, and for the building and repairing of school houses in the town for the year ensuing.

schools in sub

SECTION 11. It shall be the duty of the board to shall establish establish and maintain such and so many schools in the and maintain several subdistricts under their charge as they may districts. deem requisite and expedient: provided, that there shall be at least one common school in each subdistrict, and that all such schools shall be kept each year not lessthan five months. The board shall have in all respects the supervision and management of all the schools, with full power to adopt, enforce, modify and repeal, from time to time, all rules and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this state necessary for their organization, gradation and control, and for the instruction given by them in the different branches of education taught therein, and to establish and enforce proper penalties for the violation of such rules.

conferred upon

SECTION 12. All the powers conferred upon school Powers of disdistrict boards by the provisions of chapter 155 of the strict boards general laws of 1863 and the acts amendatory thereto, town boards. excepting those the exercise of which would conflict with the provisions of this chapter are hereby conferred upon the town boards of directors provided for in this act.

SECTION 13. The president, vice president and sec- Executive comretary of the town board of directors shall constitute powers and

mittee-their

duties.