Sec. 5. Upon the day set, or upon such other day to which the hearing may be adjourned, the board of county commissioners must hear the said recommendations and objections, if any; at which hearing the fullest latitude must be given for the purpose of getting all the facts before the board so it may determine the question in such manner as to permit the establishment of high schools at such place or places within the county as will best accommodate the prospective students at such high schools.

Sec. 6. After a full hearing of the question the board of county commissioners shall enter an order, either continuing the county as one high school district, or sub-diviidng the county into two or more high school districts. If the county is sub-divided it shall be done in such manner that two or more common school districts shall constitute one high school district. Provided, that no common school district now maintaining a high school shall be annexed to another school district now maintaining a high school without the approval of a majority of the registered voters expressed at a meeting to be called for that purpose. If, in creating such high school district, any common school district having a school population of over five hundred which is now maintaining a high school, is so situated that it would in the opinion of the board of county commissioners, not be desirable to include such district in any high school district, then such district may remain separate from any high school district, and a high school may be maintained therein under the provisions of sec. 14 of this act; said district shall not be annexed to another high school district except by a majority of its qualified electors. Each high school district shall be named, and by such name shall constitute a body corporate.

Sec. 7. The board of control of each high school district shall be designated as the board of education. It shall be composed of the county superintendent of schools, and any. member of the board of trustees of each common school district within the high school district, who shall be elected by the board of trustees of such common school district.

Sec. 8. The board of education shall meet and organize by the election of one of its members as president, and another as vice-president. It shall also elect a clerk and a treasurer. The clerk and treasurer shall each give a bond in such sum as shall be fixed by the board of education. The duties of the president of the board shall be as defined in Section 1891x15; and the duties of the clerk shall be as defined in Section 1891x17; and the duties of the treasurer shall be as defined in Section 189x18, of the Compiled Laws of Utah, 1907.

Sec. 9. Immediately after the the establishment of each high school district the board of education shall call an election by giving at least twenty days notice thereof, for the purpose of submitting to the qualified electors of such high school district the following questions:

1. Shall the high school district establish and maintain one or more high schools within the district? If more than one high school is to be established and maintained, then the proposed number must be stated.

2. At what place or places in the high school district shall high schools be established and maintained?

Sec. 10. Notice of such election shall be given by posting at least five notices in each common school district within the high school district. At such election, as well as at all elections held in high school districts, the board of trustees of the common school districts shall act as judges of election, and at the conclusion of such election shall immediately canvass the votes cast at the election and certify the results thereof to the board of education of the high school district. At such election the polls shall remain open from 2 o'clock p. m. until 6 o'clock p. m.

Sec. 11. If, at such elections, a majority of the qualified electors shall have voted in favor of the establishment and maintenance of one or more high schools in such district, then the board of education shall establish such high school or schools, and are authorized to levy a tax on all taxable property in the district for the support thereof, in any amount not exceeding five mills on the dollar.

Sec. 12. The board of education shall have the power and authority to purchase and sell schoolhouse sites and improvements thereon; to construct and erect school buildings, and to furnish the same; to establish and maintain high schools at such places as they may be authorized by a vote of the qualified electors of the district; to establish and support school libraries; to purchase all necessary high school apparatus, books, and school supplies; to levy annually upon all the taxable property in the district a tax not exceeding five mills on the dollar, or such other or further tax as shall have been authorized by a vote of the qualified electors of the district at an election regularly called; to provide for the transportation of such students as reside too far from the high school to walk thereto; to do all things needful for the maintenance and success of the high school; and adopt by-laws and rules for the procedure of the board, and make and enforce all needful rules for the control and maintenance of high schools in the district, or to admit students from other high school districts upon such terms as may be equitable and just.

Sec. 13. The board of education shall, on or before the first day of May of each year, certify to the county officers charged with the assessment and collection of taxes for general county purposes, the amount of taxes levied upon the taxable property within the high school district for the current year; and such officers shall assess and collect the taxes so levied at the time and in the manner that other taxes are assessed and collected.

Sec. 14. If any common school district having a school population of over five hundred shall not be included within a high school district, such district may establish and maintain a high school in which pupils may be instructed in branches prescribed for a high school course.

Sec. 15. The state board of education shall prescribe the course of study for all high schools established under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 16. The state text book commission shall adopt the text books to be used in such high schools.

Sec. 17. The board of education may, when in its judgment it is advisable, or shall, when petitioned by ten per cent of the resident tax payers of the school district, as appears by the county assessment roll of the preceding year, call an election within the high school district and submit- to the qualified electors of the district whether bonds of such district shall be issued and sold for the purpose of raising money for purchasing high school sites, for building or purchasing one or more schoolhouses, and supplying the same with furniture and necessary apparatus.

Sec. 18. Such election shall be called and conducted and a canvass made in accordance with the provisions of sections 1883 to 1887, both inclusive, of the Compiled Laws of Utah, 1907.

Sec. 19. If the majority of the qualified electors voting at such election shall have voted in favor of the issuance of said bonds, then the board of education shall have the authority to negotiate and sell such bonds for not less than their par value. The proceeds thereof shall be used exclusively for the purpose for which the said bonds were issued.

Sec. 20. The board of education in its annual estimate and levy provided for in this act, shall include an amount sufficient to pay the interest as the same accrues on all outstanding bonds issued by the board, and also, after five years, a further annual tax for a sinking fund sufficient in amount to pay such bonds at maturity, and for no other purpose. Whenever there may be sufficient funds in the said fund to pay one or more of said bonds, the board of education may purchase such bonds at the market price thereof.

Sec. 21. Bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be a lien upon the property of the high school district issuing them, and when the board of education neglects or refuses to levy a tax in accordance with law to meet the outstanding bonds or the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of the county within which such high school district is situated shall levy such tax and apply the money thus collected to the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon due.

Sec. 22. If one or more buildings shall be erected im any such high school district, the same must be done in accordance with the provisions of section 1891x42 of the Compiled Laws of Utah, 1907.

Sec. 23. That Chapter 7, Title 66, Compiled Laws of Utah, 1907, be and the same is hereby repealed.

CHAPTER 29.

Session Laws, 1911.

Section 1. That there is hereby levied and directed to be assessed and collected annually a State tax of one-half mill on each dollar of valuation of the taxable property in the State, for high school purposes; and the assessment and collection of said tax must be performed in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be apportioned to the several cities and school districts: maintaining high schools as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 2. On the first Monday in October of each year the board of education or school board of any city or school district in which a high school is established shall notify in writing the state board of education of the establishment of such high school and the intention of such city or district to claim the benefits of the high school fund.

Sec. 3. The state board of education shall by rule fix the standard upon which, and the period during the year that, high schools in this state shall be maintained in order to obtain any part of the high school fund. Such rule shall be fixed on or before the first day of May, 1911; and thereafter if such rule be amended, the amendment shall take effect on the first day of July at least one year after the date of its adoption. A copy of such rule or amendment shall be furnished to each city or district establishing high schools immediately after its adoption.