other taxes and paid into the county treasury. If any town, city or village shall fail to raise and pay over such money to the county the county board shall have authority to compel such payment.

(10) On the first day of January of each year the county treasurer shall certify under oath, in duplicate, to the secretary of state and the state board of control the amount paid out by such county during the preceding year for aid under this section, and if the board of control shall approve the same and shall cause its approval to be indorsed by the president and secretary of said board on the certificate received by the secretary of state, the secretary of state shall credit onethird of the amount so certified to be due such county on the state taxes next due therefrom, and the state treasurer shall credit such county with said one-third of such amount in his annual settlement with said county for taxes due the state; provided, that the amount paid by the state to any county in any one year shall not exceed a sum equal to one dollar for each thirty inhabitants thereof; provided, further, that if the total amount paid by all the counties under this section as certified by the county treasurer shall exceed the sum appropriated by subsection 13 of section 20.17, the secretary of state and the state treasurer shall prorate the said sum among the various counties according to the amounts paid out. [Stats. 1917 s. 573f; 1919 c. 251; 1919 c. 308; 1919 c. 466; 1919 c. 614 s. 45.]

48.34 Earnings of self-supporting minors. During any time when, by reason of abandonment, drunkenness or profligacy, a parent of a minor shall neglect or refuse to provide for his support, or for his support and education, the earnings of such minor shall be his sole property as against such parent or any creditor of such parent. [Stats. 1917 s. 2344a; 1919 c. 614 s. 46]

49.01 Municipalities must support the poor. Every town, village and city shall relieve and support all poor and indigent persons lawfully settled therein whenever they shall stand in need thereof, except as hereinafter provided. The town board, village trustees, or common council, respectively, in each town, village, or city, shall have the oversight and care of all such poor persons and indigents so long as they remain public charges; and shall see that they are properly relieved and taken care of in the manner required in this chapter. [Stats. 1917 s. 1499, 1501; 1919 c. 345 s. 2.]

49.02 Legal settlements. Legal settlements may be acquired in any town, village, or city so as to oblige such municipality to relieve and support the persons acquiring the same in case they are poor and stand in need of relief as follows:

(1) A married woman shall always follow and have the settlement of her husband if he have any within the state; otherwise her own at the time of marriage, and if she then had any settlement it shall not be lost or suspended by the `marriage; and in case the wife shall be removed to the place of her settlement and the husband shall want relief he shall receive it in the place where his wife shall have her settlement.

(2) Legitimate children shall follow and have the settlement of their father if he have any within the state until they gain a settlement of their own; but if the father have no settlement they shall in like manner follow and have the settlement of their mother if she have any.

(3) Illegitimate children shall follow and have the settlement of their mother at the time of their birth if she then have any within the state; but neither legitimate or illegitimate children shall gain a settlement by birth in the place where they were born unless their parent or parents had a settlement therein at the time.

(4) Every person of full age who shall have resided in any town, village, or city in this state one whole year shall thereby gain a settlement therein; but no residence of a person in any town, village, or city while supported therein as a pauper shall operate to give such person a settlement therein.

(5) Every minor whose parent and every married woman whose husband has no settlement in this state, who shall have resided one whole year in any town, village, or city in this state, shall thereby gain a settlement therein.

(6) Every minor who shall be bound as an apprentice to any person shall, immediately upon such binding, if done in good faith, thereby gain a settlement where his or her master or mistress has a settlement.

(7) Every settlement when once legally acquired shall continue until it be lost or defeated by acquiring a new one in this state or by voluntary and uninterrupted absence from the town, village, or city in which such legal settlement shall have been gained for one whole year or upward: and upon acquiring a new settlement or upon the happening of such voluntary and uninterrupted absence all former settlements shall be defeated and lost.

(8) Whenever any territory shall be organized into or attached to any town, village, or city, every person having a legal settlement in such territory, and who actually dwells or has his home, or if absent, had his last dwelling place or home therein, shall thereafter have a legal settlement in such new town, village, or city or in the town, village, or city to which such territory is so attached, as the case may be. The organization into or attachment to any town, village, or city of any territory shall not prevent any person from acquiring a legal settlement therein within the time and by the means by which he would have gained it there if no such new town, village, or city had been organized or such territory had not been attached. [Stats. 1917 s. 1500; 1919 c. 345 s. 3.]

49.03 Local relief of transient paupers. (1) When any person not having a legal settlement therein shall be taken sick, lame, or otherwise disabled in any town, city or village, or from any other cause shall be in need of relief as a poor person and shall not have money or property to pay his board, maintenance, attendance and medical aid, the town board, village board or common council shall provide such assistance to such persons as it may deem just and necessary, and if he