of, 18, recovered a judgment before the under-
signed, police justice, in and for said city, against
for the sum of
dollars, together with

dollars and
cents, costs of suit, for the violation
of section -, of chapter, of this act, or section
-, of an ordinance or by-law or regulation of said
city, describing it by its title, you are hereby com-
manded to levy distress of the goods and chattles of
said

-, excepting such as the law exempts,
and make sale thereof according to law to the amount
of said sums, together with your fees, twenty five cente
for this writ, and the same return to me in thirty days,
and for the want of such goods and chattles whereon to
levy, to take the body of said
and him con-
vey and deliver to the keeper of the common jail in
Sauk county; and said keeper is hereby commanded
to receive, keep in custody in said jail, the said

for the term of, unless the said judgment together with all the costs and fees are sooner paid, or he be discharged by due course of law.

Given under my hand this

18-.

day of

,

C. D., Police Justice. The form of commitment shall be substantially the same as that of the execution, omitting all that relates to the levy and sale and return of writ.

SECTION 10. In all cases the defendant may appeal Defendant may from such judgment, to the circuit court of the county appeal. of Sauk; provided, that such defendant, within twentyfour hours, pay to the justice his costs, and one dollar for his return, and enter into a recognizance with one or more sufficient sureties, to be approved by such justice, conditioned to appear before said court and abide the judgment of the court therein. The justice from whose judgment an appeal 'shall be taken, shall make a special return of the proceedings had before him, and shall forthwith cause the summons or warrant and return, together with the proceedings and a copy of the entries in his docket in the action, together with the recognizance, to be filed in the office of the clerk of said court; and the city may appeal from any such judgment, as in other cases before justices of the peace.

SECTION 11. Said appeal shall stand for trial by Appeal to stand

jury, unless a jury be waived in the manner provided by law, in said circuit court, and the next term thereof alter the day the judgment of the justice shall be rendered, and no notice of trial shall be required to be given to or by either party.

for trial.

SECTION 12. If the judgment of the justice shall Defendant shar

Qualification of
Judge etc.

Present ordinances to remain in force.

Rights vested.

How to serve a process.

Penalties to be

be affirmed, or if upon trial the defendant shall be convicted, the court shall inflict the penalty provided by this act, or the ordinance, resolution, by-law, or regulation under which he or they are prosecuted, and enter judgment against him or them and their sureties for such penalty, together with the costs in both courts, and enforce the same by execution as in actions of

tort.

SECTION 13. No person shall be an incompetent judge, justice, juror, or witness, by reason of his being an inhabitant of said city, in any proceeding or action in which the city shall be a party in interest.

SECTION 14. All ordinances and regulations now in force in the village of Baraboo, and not inconsistent with this act, shall remain in force until altered, modified or repealed by the common council, after this act shall take effect.

SECTION 15. All actions, rights and penalties, fines and forfeitures, in suits or otherwise, which have arisen or accumulated under the several ordinances or acts incorporating Baraboo village shall be vested in and prosecuted by the corporation hereby created.

SECTION 16. When any suit or action shall be commenced against said city, the service thereof shall be made by leaving a copy of the process of summons with the mayor or clerk of said city, and it shall be the duty of said mayor or clerk so served forthwith to inform the common council thereof, or to take such action or proceeding as by ordinance or resolution of said council may be in such cases provided.

SECTION 17. All penalties and forfeitures recorded pald into treas and collected under and by virtue of this act shall be paid into the city treasury for the use and benefit of said city.

City property exempt from execution.

SECTION 18. All fire engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders and wagons therefor, and all other apparatus and implements used to extinguish fire, and all houses or buildings owned or occupied by said city for such engines, hose carts, hooks and ladders and other apparatus and implements, shall be exempt from attachment or execution issued in any action, or on any judgment wherein the said city shall be a party.

SECTION 19. No real or personal property of any inhabitant of said city, or of any individual or corporation, shall be levied on or sold by virtue of any attachment or execution issued to collect or satisfy any contract, debt or obligation of said city or any judgment against said city.

SECTION 20. In all cases where a defendant shall Penalty. be convicted of any violation of any ordinance or police regulations of said city, the court before whom the same is tried shall have power to sentence the defendant to a term of imprisonment in the common jail of Stuk county for any period not exceeding six months.

ouers.

SECTION 21. If the mayor of the city shall at any Working pristime deem it for the interest of the city, he may employ and work the prisoners so committed outside of the jail or yard at labor on the public grounds, streets or alleys of said city, and may cause them to be secured in such a manner as in his judgment will prevent their escape, and the keeper or custodian of the common jail of said county shall, upon the order of the mayor of said city, deliver the prisoner or prisoners in such order named and described, to the keeping and custody of such person or persons in said order directed, and receive and securely confine such prisoner or prisoners, when returned by such person or persons as aforesaid, and said order shall remain good and be in force until revoked by the mayor or common council of said city.

dons.

SECTION 22. The common council may, by a two- May grant par thirds vote thereof, grant pardons or commutations after conviction, for all offenses against the ordinances, by-laws or regulations of the city, on such conditions as they may deem proper.

CHAPTER VIII.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

SECTION 1. All the district of country within the School dis

corporate limits of the city of Baraboo, shall be known and designated as school district number one of the city of Baraboo, for all purposes; provided, that the common council shall have power to change, alter and define, or divide into two or more districts as it may deem expedient.

tricts.

missioners.

SECTION 2. The common council of the city of School comBaraboo shall, at its regular meeting in May, 1882, elect four school commissioners, two to serve two years, and two to serve one year, and thereafter annually, two such commissioners to serve two years. The terms of said commissioners shall commence on the first Monday of July in each year.

SECTION 3. The school commissioners hereafter shall form elected under the provisions of the foregoing section, tour shall form the board of education of the city of Bara

Superinten

dent of schoole.

Duties of president.

boo, and a majority of said board shall form a quorum for the transaction of business. It shall be the duty of the common council to supply by appointment any vacancy which may occur from time to time in the number of said school commissioners by resignation or otherwise.

SECTION 4. Said board of education shall annually elect a city superintendent of schools, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday of July, and said superintendent shall continue in office for one year and until his successor is elected, unless sooner removed by a majority vote of the board of education for misconduct or other sufficient cause.

SECTION 5. The board of education shall, at its first regular meeting, on the first Monday in July of each year, elect one of its members president, who shall preside at all meetings of the board, and preserve order and decorum thereat, and decide all questions of order subject to appeal to the board. He shall countersign all orders drawn by the clerk for the payment of teachers' and janitors' wages, and all other incidental and necessary expenses of said board of education, including superintendent's salary, and in all suits brought by or against the school district, he shall appear in behalf of the district, unless some other provision is made by the board of education. He shall declare all votes taken on questions coming before the board; provided, that on all questions requiring appropriations of money, or the adoption of new text-books, the votes shall be taken by ayes and noes, and recorded in the minutes of the meeting. The city clerk shall be clerk of said board, shall attend all meetings of the same, and keep full minutes of all proceedings thereat.

When meetings shall be held.

SECTION 6. The board of education shall have at least one regular meeting in each month, at such time and place as may be designated by it; and it may have special meetings at such other times as it may deem necessary, or when called together by the presi dent; but no such special meeting shall be legal unless each member of the board shall have first been served with notice in writing of the time and place of such meeting.

Salary of superintendent.

SECTION 7. The city superintendent of schools shall receive an annual salary, to be paid quarterly, the amount of which shall be determined from year to year by the common council; but the members of said board of education shall receive no compensation for their services as such.

SECTION 8. The duties and the powers of the board of education shall be as follows:

1st. To elect at its regular meeting in July in each When elected. year, a city superintendent of schools; but if such elec tion shall not then be had, the said superintendent shall be elected at some regular meeting thereafter.

2d. To decide upon the number of teachers to be Number and employed, the grade of school to be kept by each, and grade of teachthe amount of salary to be paid each, and to hire and make contracts with teachers; and before any teacher shall enter upon his or her duties as such, he or she shall enter into a written contract, which contract shall be signed by such teacher and by the clerk of said board of education, or by some member thereof designated for that purpose by resolution of said board. Such contract shall be made in duplicate, and one copy thereof filed with the clerk and the other copy delivered to the teacher.

3d. To arrange and determine terms and vacations Terms and va in all public schools; to establish uniformity in the cations. school system, and to require and secure uniformity in text-books, and to adopt and reject text books at will. 4th. To establish rules and regulations for schools, not in conflict with the constitution or laws of this state; and shall have full control over all schools and school districts within said city, except as herein provided.

Establish rules.

tracts.

5th. To make contracts for fuel, stationery and articles Make conof furniture required for the use of the schools; to make all necessary repairs in school houses, lighting fires, sweeping school rooms, etc., and such contracts, when executed, shall be paid by orders drawn on the city treasury, payable out of the school fund, which orders shall be signed by the president of the board of education and countersigned by the clerk of said board.

6th. The said board shall annually, on or before the submit a statefirst day of October in each year, submit a statement ment. to the mayor and council, showing the amount of teachers' wages that have accrued and become due during the year, and the amount of all other indebted. ness accruing on contract or otherwise, that has been made by order of the board, and for that purpose it shall cause entries to be made in a book or books to be provided by the city, of all contracts made by the teachers, and the amount of salary to be paid, and all other expenditures made or authorized by said board at the time the same shall be made or authorized by said board, which book or books shall be subject to inspection in the same manner as the records of the