ROCK ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT AGAIN.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled 'An act to incorporate Rock Island school district.' approved Feb. 18, 1857.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the people of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the annual election of the board of education of the Rock Island school district shall hereafter be held on the fourth Tuesday of March in each year.

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No. 3. Any officer whose duty it shall be to collect the taxes levied by or payable to said board of education, shall, on the last Saturday of each month, pay to the treasurer of said board so much of said taxes, after deducting his per centage, as he has collected and not paid previous to that time; and for failure to make payments, as herein required, he shall forfeit to said board, for school purposes, his per centage for collecting the taxes so retained, and two per cent a month on the amount so retained, from the time it was due until the time it is paid.

No. 4. If there is an omission in any year to legally assess the school tax levied by said board of education upon any real estate or personal property within the limits of said district and subject to taxation, the taxes thus omitted to be legally assessed shall be added to the assessment upon the property the following year, and collected and paid into the treasury of said board.

No. 5. All prior acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed, and any act of the general assembly now in force or hereafter enacted, shall not be construed in any manner to repeal, alter or change any of the provisions of this act, unless such act shall specifically provide for such repeal, alteration or change.

No. 6. This act is declared to be a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

APPROVED Feb. 22, 1859.

ROCK ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT AGAIN.

AN ACT to amend an act to incorporate the Rock Island School District, approved Feb 18, 1857, and the several acts amendatory thereto.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the act incorporating the Rock Island School District, approved Feb. 18, 1857, be so amended that the board of education of said district shall, in addition to the powers conferred upon them by the act to which this act is an amendment, have power to borrow money at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per cent. per annum, to be exclusively expended in purchasing schoolhouse sites, erecting schoolhouses, or in repairing or improving the same, or for the payment of any indebtedness incurred for such purposes: Provided, that any indebtedness so in

curred shall be paid within five years from the date of its contraction, and shall not exceed such a sum as, in the opinion of said board, can be paid from the proceeds of special taxes, to be levied as hereinafter provided.

§ 2. The said board of education shall, in addition to powers heretofore conferred, have power to levy a special tax upon the property of said district, subject to taxation, not to exceed one per cent. in any one year, for the exclusive purpose of purchasing schoolhouse sites, erecting schoolhouses, or repairing or improving the same, or for the payment of any indebtedness incurred for such purposes. The taxes authorized for this section shall be levied, assessed, collected and paid into the treasury of the board at the same time and in the same manner as the other school taxes of the district.

§3. The annual election of the board of education of Rock Island School District shall hereafter be held on the last Tuesday of June in each year. At the next regular election for members of the board of education all vacancies then existing in said board shall be filled by election in the usual manner, and there shall also be elected two other members of said board, and thereafter said board shall consist of five members; the two members of said board whose terms of office shall not have expired at the next election, shall remain in office for one year from and after said regular elections, and the remaining three members of said board shall select by lot two of their number who shall hold office for two years from and after said election, and the one remaining shall hold office for three years; and thereafter members of the board shall be elected and hold office for three years: Provided, that in case of elections to fill vacancies occasioned by death, removal or resignation, the person elected shall only succeed to the unexpired term of the member whom he succeeds.

§ 4. The board of education shall not be required to admit into the schools any children adapted to the lowest classes in the primary rooms, except during the first week in each month.

§ 5. This act shall take effect from and after its passage, and shall be a public act; but no money shall be borrowed or tax levied under this act until after the next regular election for members of the board.

APPROVED Feb. 18, 1867.

RUSHVILLE UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN AOT to incorporate the Rushville Union School District. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all the territory now included in school district number three, in township two (2) North, range two (2) West, in the county of Schuyler, and State of Illinois, being all of sections twenty-five (25) and thirty-six (36), in said township; also, all of school district number eight (8), in township two (2) North, of range one (1) West, in said county, and being

the south half of section nineteen (19), the south west quarter of section twenty (20), the west half of section twenty-nine (29), and all of sections thirty (30) and thirty-one (31), in said township, be and the same is hereby established a common union school district, to be known as the "Rushville Union School District."

§ 2. That such other territory may be added to and form a part of such union school district as may be deemed advisable, by the consent and concurrence of the trustees of schools for the township from which any such territory is proposed to be taken, and the board of education hereinafter provided for said union school district, on the citation of a majority of legal voters residing in or upon the territory proposed to be taken.

§3. The government, care and superintendence of the schools within said district and of the funds and estate, both real and personal, belonging to or which may be hereafter acquired by or conveyed to said union district, shall be vested in a board of education of said union school district.

§ 4. The following named persons, viz: William H. Ray, Reese H. Griffith, Wheeler W. Wells, Elias D. Leach, and Thomas Wilson, shall compose the first board of education for said Union School District, until their successors shall be duly elected and qualified, as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of said persons, or majority of them, to assemble at the court house in Rushville, as soon as the trustees for said township two (2) North, range one (1) West, and of township two (2) North, range two (2) West, in said county of Schuyler, shall have agreed in uniting said districts, as hereinafter provided for, and organize as such board of education, by electing one of their number president, and one as clerk of said board. They shall appoint a treasurer of said Union School District, and shall have all the power and be governed in all other respects by the provisions of this act, so far as the same may be applicable. The said persons, or a majority of them, shall have power to fill vacancies in their number, occasioned by declination, disqualification, resignition, death or removal from said Union School District.

§ 5. The persons composing said board of education, provided for in the fourth section of this act, shall hold their offices as follows: two of them until the first Tuesday in June, 1870; two until the first Tuesday in June, 1871 and the fifth until the first Tuesday in June, 1872. The respective terms of office of the members of said board, appointed and provided for, as aforesaid, shall be determined by them at their first meeting by casting lots.

§ 6. On the first Tuesday of June, 1870, and the first Tuesday in June annually thereafter, an election shall be held to elect successors to the members to whose term of office are then expiring and to fill all vacancies, if any, occurring in said board during the preceding year. The persons elected at such annual elections shall hold their office for three years or until the expiration of the expired terms which they have been elected to fill, as the case may be.

§ 7. The said board of education, or the remaining members thereof, shall have power to fill, until the ensuing annual election in

said Union School District, all vacancies in said board, occasioned by death, resignation, disqualification, failure to elect or removal from said district, and to fill, by appointment, vacancies among the officers of said board, occasioned by any of the causes aforesaid. The members of said board and the treasurer appointed by them shall, previous to entering upon their official duties, take an oath, in addition to those prescribed by the Constitution of this State, faithfully and impartially to discharge the duties of their respective offices to the best of their abilities.

§ 8. Notice of such annual elections shall be given by the clerk of said board, by posting written or printed notices of the time, place and object of such elections, in three of the most public places in said district, at least ten days before such elections are held, or by publishing a similar notice in some newspaper published in said district, by one insertion, at least one week previous to said day of election. Said election shall be held at the court house, in said town of Rushville, and shall be by ballot. The president of said board and two members thereof, to be elected by said board, shall be judges, and the clerk of said board shall be clerk of such elections; but if any of said officers shall fail to attend or refuse to act, the electors assembled shall, viva voce, choose three judges and clerk of such election. A poll book shall be kept by the clerk, registering the names of the voters; and the persons receiving the highest numbers of votes shall be declared elected. In case of a tie in any election, the judges of the election shall decide the same, by casting lots on the day of the election. Elections shall be opened at the hour of ten o'clock, a. m., and close at five o'clock, p. m. The judges and clerk shall certify to the board of education the names of the members so elected members of said board, the term for which they were elected, and the number of votes each person voted for received, and shall return their certificate and said poll book to the said board within ten days after such election.

§ 9. Said board of education is hereby created a body corporate and politic, by the name of "The Board of Education of Rushville Union School District;" and, by that name, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in all courts and places, contract and be contracted with, and have perpetual succession, and a common seal, and the same alter or change at pleasure. Said board may exercise, in furtherance of the objects contemplated by this act, all the powers conferred on school trustees of townships or board of directors of school districts by any law now in force or that hereafter may be enacted. Said board shall have power to receive and hold, in their corporate name, all the real or personal property that may be conveyed, given or devised to it, for said district, and in their said corporate name to dispose of and convey the same, for the benefit of said district. All conveyances of real estate made by said board shall be executed and acknowledged by the president of said board and attested by the corporate seal, and by the signature of said clerk: Provided, that all such conveyances shall be authorized by a resolution of said board: And, provided, further, that all sales and conveyances of school houses and buildings and grounds

appurtenant thereto, shall be first determined by a majority of the votes cast by the electors of said district, upon the submission of said board of the question of such sale, at an annual election, due notice having been first given, as provided in section eight of this act.

§ 10. Said board of education shall have the following additional powers:

First-It shall have power to establish, maintain and regulate such school or schools, with the necessary departments, as in their judgment the interest of said district may require.

Second-To prescribe, by regulations, the qualifications for admission into said schools and their respective departments of persons residing in said district, free of charge for tuition therein, and also to provide for the admission into the same of persons without said district, upon such terms and payment for tuition as said board shall establish.

Third-To have the custody and control of all school property within and belonging to said district.

Fourth-To erect, hire or purchase buildings, suitable for the purposes of such schools and their necessary departments.

Fifth-To buy or lease sites for such schools and their departments, with the necessary grounds therefor.

Sixth-To purchase, lease, control, adorn and improve play grounds or parks adjacent to such schools or their departments.

Seventh-To furnish said schools and their departments with all necessary fixtures, furniture, books, apparatus and libraries, and to provide for the proper care, protection and maintenance of the same. Eighth-To employ teachers, determine their duties and fix the compensation to be allowed them, from time to time, and at regular or special meeting of said board to dismiss such teachers, or any of them, for gross immorality, incompetency or other adequate cause; and of the sufficiency of any of such causes said board of education shall be the sole judges.

Ninth-To direct what studies and branches of learning shall be taught and what text books shall be used in said schools and their several departments.

Tenth-To establish departments or grades in said schools, and to make all necessary rules and regulations for the admission and advancement of applicants and pupils, and for the government of said schools and its departments; to suspend or expel pupils guilty of refractory, disobedient or immoral conduct or possessed of or afflicted with any infectious or contagious disease.

Eleventh-To appoint agents and servants, to execute any matter conducive to the interest of said school district, consistent with this act, and for their services to pay them such compensation as said board shall fix.

Twelfth-For the purpose of building all the necessary school buildings, and repairing the same, or making, from time to time, additions thereto, and purchasing real estate for such buildings, libraries, apparatus and all other objects contemplated by this act, or for the payment of indebtedness contracted therefor, it shall be lawful for said board to borrow money, at a rate of interest not exceeding