3. The number attending private schools.

4. Such other facts as may be required by law or by the county superintendent.

Such report shall include a list stating the names, ages, postoffice addresses, and the names of the parents or guardians, of all persons over the age of five and under the age of thirty years residing in such school district too deaf, too dumb, or too blind to receive an education in the public schools.

1827. Setting out shade trees. It shall be the duty of the district board to cause to be set out and properly protected as many shade trees as the size, location, and arrangement of the school lot will justify, and such expense shall be paid from the special school fund. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to see that this requirement is complied with.

1828. Records and reports of board. Compensation. It shall be the duty of the district board to keep an accurate journal of its proceedings, an account of all moneys paid to the treasurer and of all moneys paid on orders drawn on the treasurer, and prepare and cause to be presented to the voters at the regular annual meeting held on the second Monday in July, of each year, a statement, under oath, showing: First, the moneys on hand at the date of the last annual report, the moneys received by the treasurer since such report and from what sources received; second, the amount of sinking fund and how invested; third, the amounts paid out, to whom and for what paid; fourth, the balance of school money in the hands of the treasurer; fifth, the number, date, and amount of every bond issued or redeemed under the authority given in this title, and the amount received or paid therefor, to which statement shall be added a report showing the management and condition of the schools in the district during the preceding year.

File report with county superintendent.

A copy of such statement and report, together with such other reports as may be required by the State Superintendent,

and for which blank forms have been provided, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of July of each year, be filed with the county superintendent.

Vouchers. Compensation of trustees.

They shall also present with their statement to the superintendent, vouchers for all moneys paid out; Provided, that trustees shall each receive such compensation for their services as may be voted at such meeting.

1829. Physiology and hygiene. It shall be the duty of all boards of education and trustees in charge of schools and educational institutions supported in whole or in part by public funds to make provision for systematic and regular instruction in physiology and hygiene, including special reference to the effects of stimulants and narcotics upon the human system.

CHAPTER 7.

HIGH SCHOOLS.

1830. When trustees may provide high schools. Pupils. The trustees of any school district having a population of over one thousand, when authorized by a majority vote of the property taxpayers resident in the district present at an annual or at a special meeting called for the purpose, may establish and maintain a high school, in which pupils may be instructed in higher branches of education than those usually taught in the district schools, and pupils over eighteen years of age may be admitted to and instructed in such schools on such terms as to tuition and otherwise as the trustees may prescribe.

1831. Districts may unite to maintain high school. Election. Taxation. Two or more contiguous school districts may unite and form a high school district in the manner following: At the written request of the respective boards of trustees of the constituent school districts, or of any ten legal voters resid

ing in each of said disricts, it shall be the duty of the county superintendent of schools to give at least ten days' notice of a time and places for meetings of such electors residing in such districts as have the qualifications prescribed in section eighteen hundred and eight, by posting written notices in at least five public places in each of said districts, at which meetings the said electors shall vote by ballot for or against the organization of a high school district; and if a majority of the votes cast at the election in each district are in favor of forming a high school district as aforesaid, then the county superintendent of schools shall give similar notice of meetings of the qualified electors of each of the districts comprising such high school district, for the purpose of electing two high school trustees for said high school district from each of said constituent school districts and for the purpose of deciding whether or not a special tax shall be voted for the purpose of providing and maintaining a high school within such district. The rate of taxation to be voted upon shall be proposed by the county superintendent of schools, and shall be stated in the notice of the meetings; provided further, that a county district of the first class shall constitute a high school district, and its Board. of Education shall be endowed with all powers and duties as provided in Section 1833, Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898.

1832. Organization and term of high school board. Vacancy. The trustees so elected and the county superintendent of schools shall constitute the board of trustees of such high school district, and the county superintendent shall be exofficio president of the board. The trustees elected as hereinbefore provided shall serve until the next school election within their districts, at which time their successors shall be elected to serve for the term of two years and until their successors are elected. A vacancy in the board shall be immediately filled by the remaining trustees by the appointment of some qualified elector of the district in which the vacancy occurred, and such appointee shall serve until the next school election and until his sucessor is elected.

1833. Powers and duties of high school trustees. Taxes.

The provisions of this title respecting the powers and duties of trustees of school districts shall, as far as conformable with this chapter, apply to, govern and control the board of trustees of such high school district.

Taxes.

They may order to be raised annually on the taxable property of the district a tax of one-half of one per cent for the support of the high school; and a special tax, not to exceed two per cent per annum may be levied by a majority vote of the qualified electors of the high school district at a special meeting called for that purpose in the manner prescribed for the calling of meetings for a like purpose in the case of other school districts. All taxes levied and assessed under the pro⚫visions of this and the next preceding sections shall become due and delinquent at the same time and be assessed and collected by the same officers, and in the same manner, and attach to and become a lien on the real and personal estate assessed as other school taxes levied and assessed under the provisions of this title.

1834. Bonds of high school district. Whenever the qualified electors of a duly organized high school district, at any regular or special meeting called and held for the purpose, shall determine to issue bonds of such high school district for the purpose of building and furnishing schoolhouses, purchasing grounds on which to locate the same, or to fund or refund any outside indebtedness, the trustees may issue such bonds in accordance with the provisions of chapter fourteen of this title.

1835. Majority vote necessary to elect, etc. At all elections for the purpose of electing trustees or determining whether a tax shall be levied or bonds shall be issued, a majority of the qualified votes cast shall be necessary to elect trustees or to authorize such levy or bond issue.

1836. Judges of election. The trustees of the several school districts comprised within the high school district shall

act as judges at all elections held within and for the high school district, and shall canvass and certify the result thereof, as in other cases.

1837. Term of high school. Admission of pupils. The high school may be maintained during forty weeks in each year, and may be free to all children of school age residing in the high school district having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the board, or the board may collect such tuition from pupils as it may deem just.

CHAPTER 8.

TEACHERS.

1838. Notice of opening and closing school. Every teacher on commencing a term of school shall give written notice to the county superintendent of the time and place of beginning such school and the time it will probably close. If such school is to be suspended for more than one week at any one time in said term, the teacher shall notify the county superintendent of such proposed suspension.

1839. No compensation to teacher who has no certificate. No teacher shall be entitled to any compensation for teaching in any district school unless he is the holder of a certificate, valid and in orce in the county where such school is taught; Provided, that if a teacher's certificate shall expire by its own. limitation within six weeks of the close of the term, the holder may finish such term without re-examination or renewal of certificate; Provided, further, that teachers of special subjects. and substitutes employed temporarily may be paid, though they hold no certificates.

1840. Teacher's certificate to be recorded. Every teacher, before assuming charge of a school, shall present to the county superintendent his or her certificate, who shall record in a book provided for that purpose, the name of the holder, the grade of the certificate, and the date of its expiration.