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Title: The Wisconsin blue book
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Wisconsin. Office of the Secretary of State. Legislative manual of the State of Wisconsin Wisconsin. Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin Industrial Commission of Wisconsin Wisconsin. State Printing Board Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Library Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Reference Bureau Wisconsin. Blue book of the State of Wisconsin
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Publisher: Madison
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Patzer, Manitowoc: Mrs. Mary D. Bradford,Kenosha. Oshkosh—J. W. Stearns, Madison; H. B. Hitbbell, Beaver Dam; I. N. Stewart, Appleton.Platteville-J. J. Blaisdell, Beloit; E. A. Birge, Madison; Mrs. L. R. Gott, Viroqua.River Falls—C. H. Sylvester, Whitewater; A. F. North, Pewaukee; H. A. Simonds,Stevens Point. Whtewater—John F. Burke, Milwaukee; Miss L. E. Stearns, Milwaukee; J. W. Living-ston, Sparta. Iteuular meetings of the board at Room No. 7 in the Capitol, at 10 oclock a. m. on theflrsl Wednesdays i July and in February. HISTORY OF NORMAL SCHOOLS T!i • constitution of the state, adopted 1818, provides, that the revenue of the schoolfund shall be exclusively applied to the following objects: •k: . l o i ii support and maintenance of common schools, in each school district, andtlr- p.irvhase of suitable libraries ami appurtenances therefor. 31 residue shall be appropriated for the support oi academies ami norm;)! Mfboolf. and suitable libraries and appurtenances therefor
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STATE INSTITUTIONS. 473 No advantage of these provisions for the endowment of normal schools was taken until1857, when an act was passed, (chapter 82), providing that the income of twenty-five percent, of the gross proceeds -rising from the sale of swamp and overflowed lands11 shouldbe apportioned for the support of normal institutes and academies, under the supervisionand direction of a board of regents of normal schools, who were to be appointed in pur-suance of the provisions of that act. Under this law, the income placed at the disposal ofthe board was distributed for several years to such colleges, academies and high schools asmaintained a normal class, and in proportion to the number of pupils in the class whopassed satisfactory examinations conducted by an agent of the board. In 1865, the legislature (chapter 53?) divided the swamp lands and swamp land fund into■two equal parts, one to constitute the normal school fund and the other to be denominatedthe drainage fund. It was

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