Proviso, limit.

Claims.

Reports.

When general laws to govern.

Acts repealed.

Referendum.

When submitted.

in the power of the board, which estimate shall specify the amounts required for the different objects, and to report the same as the regular school tax levy for such district to the proper assessing officer or officers, who shall apportion the school taxes in the district in the same manner as the other taxes of the city, village or township are apportioned, and the amount so apportioned shall be assessed, levied, collected and returned for each portion of the district in the same manner as the taxes of the city, village or township including such portion of the district: Provided, That no greater sum than twelve mills on the dollar shall be levied in any one year for all purposes within the power of the board; and provided in all school districts hereunder in cities having a board of estimates the amount shall be approved by such board of estimates before levy shall be made;

(p) To certify to the treasurer of the district for payment out of the school funds thereof all claims and demands against the board or district, which shall be allowed by the board under such rules and regulations as it may establish;

(q) To print and publish immediately after each meeting in such manner as the board shall decide all proceedings of the board at such meeting and to make and publish annually, at the end of the fiscal year, in some daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation in said district, either separately or in connection with the report or reports of the city, village or township in which the said district or the greater part thereof is situated, a complete report of all its receipts and expenditures;

(r) And in general to do anything not inconsistent with this act which is necessary for the proper establishment, maintenance, management and carrying on of the public schools of such district.

(341) SEC. 24. In all matters pertaining to the public schools not provided for in this act the general school laws of the state shall govern and be in effect.

(342) SEC. 25. From and after the time when this act shall go into effect according to its terms all acts or parts of acts whether local, special or general, in any wise contravening any of the provisions of this act shall be repealed.

(343) SEC. 26. The foregoing provisions of this act shall not take effect in any school district having a population which brings it within the classification provided for by this act until approved by a majority of the school electors of such district voting thereon at an election at which the question of the adoption of this act for that district is properly submitted. At some regular annual school election within three calendar years after the passage of this act, in each school district having a population of five hundred or more and less than seventy-five thousand, ascertained in the manner hereinbefore provided, the question of the adoption of this act for said district shall be submitted by the proper

officers to the school electors of said district. In each district which shall thereafter attain a population of five hundred or more and less than seventy-five thousand ascertained in the same manner, the question of the adoption of this act for such district shall be submitted to the school electors thereof at the annual school election following the attainment of such a population, ascertained as hereinbefore provided. In any district having the population described the Resubmission. question of the adoption of this act for such district shall be resubmitted to the school electors thereof at the next annual election whenever a petition asking for such resubmission at the next annual election of the district, signed by at least fifteen per cent of the school electors thereof, shall be filed with the election commissioners of the district at least thirty days before such meeting or election. The vote Form of upon the question shall be by ballot which shall be in substantially the following form:

"Vote on proposition to adopt the act classifying school districts having a population of five hundred or more and less than seventy-five thousand, as districts of the third and fourth classes, and providing for the government, control and administration of such school districts and the schools there

in.

"Make a cross in the appropriate square below.

"Shall the act classifying school districts having a population of five hundred or more and less than seventy-five thousand as districts of the third and fourth classes, and providing for the government, control and administration of such school districts and the schools therein be adopted. "Yes ().

"No ()."

ballot.

furnished.

vassed, etc.

Such ballots shall be furnished by the board of education How of any district in which the vote is taken, and shall be deposited in a ballot box provided for that purpose in each voting precinct of the district. Such ballots shall be cast, How canand canvassed and the results of the election certified in each school district in the same manner as are ballots on any school question submitted to the school electors of such district. If the majority of the qualified school electors of any district vote in favor of the adoption of this act, then the provisions hereof shall be in full force and effect in such district and not otherwise.

tinued in

(344) SEC. 27. The laws governing the public schools in Laws conany district having the population provided for herein in force. force therein at the time of the adoption of this act by the electors of such district shall continue in force and the board of education of said district as provided for in such laws shall continue to act as the board of education therefor, until a new board shall be elected and organized as Until new herein provided, after which time the board of education as heretofore constituted in such district shall turn over to the

board elected,

new board of education, elected under this act, all the property, books, records, material, money and effects belonging to such school district, and thereafter the board provided for by this act and its successors shall be responsible there

for.

TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.

An Act to provide for the better support of teachers' institutes, and to repeal sections three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, three thousand seven hundred and ninety, and three thousand seven hundred and ninety-one of the compiled laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

Boards to collect fees from applicants for certificates.

When to be collected by

[Act 53, P. A. 1877.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(345) § 5970. SECTION 1. That all boards or officers, authorized by law to examine applicants for certificates of qualification as teachers, shall collect, at the time of examintion, from each male applicant for a certificate, an annual fee of one dollar, and from each female applicant for a certificate, an annual fee of fifty cents, and the director and director, etc., secretary of any school board that shall employ any teacher who has not paid the fee hereinbefore provided, shall collect, at the time of making contract, from each male teacher so employed, an annual fee of one dollar, and from each female teacher so employed, an annual fee of fifty cents. All persons paying a fee as required by this section, shall be given a receipt for the same, and no person shall be required to pay said fee more than once in any school year.

of school board.

Receipt.

Disposition of fees.

ACT VALID: This act does not conflict with Const., Art. X, section 1, on the ground that the fees are specific taxes; nor on the ground that the fees are not uniform. This section is not defective, incomplete, ineffectual and is valid.-Hammond v. School Board, 109/676.

(346) § 5971. SEC. 2. All such fees, collected by the director or secretary of any school board, shall be paid over to the secretary of the county board of school examiners of the county in which they were collected, on or before the fifteenth day of March, June, September and December, accompanied by a list of those persons from whom they were collected, and all of such fees, together with all those that shall be collected by the county board of school examiners, shall be paid over by the secretary of said board of school examiners to the treasurer of the county in which they were collected, on or before the last day of March, June, September and December, in each year, accompanied by a complete list of all persons from whom said fees were collected, and a like

list, accompanied by a statement from the county treasurer that said fees have been paid to him, shall be sent by said secretary to the superintendent of public instruction. All moneys paid over to the county treasurer, as provided by this act, shall be set apart as a teacher's institute fund, to be used as hereinafter provided.

county

(347) § 5972. SEC. 3. The superintendent of public in- Annual struction shall annually appoint a time and place in each or- institute. ganized county for holding a teachers' institute, make suitable arrangements therefor, and give due notice thereof: Provided, That in organized counties having less than one Proviso, when optional thousand children between the ages of five and twenty years, with superthe holding of such institute shall be optional with the said intendent. superintendent, unless requested to hold such institute by fifteen teachers of the county in which such institute is to be held: Provided, however, That if there shall not be a suffi- Proviso. cient number of teachers in any county to make such request, then teachers of adjoining counties who desire to attend such institute may unite in the required application to said superintendent: Provided, also, That the said superintendent Proviso. may, in his discretion, hold an institute for the benefit of two or more adjoining counties, and draw the institute fund from each of the counties thus benefited, as hereinafter provided. (348) 5973. SEC. 4. The superintendent of public in- In case of § inability struction, in case of inability personally to conduct any insti- superity of tute, or to make the necessary arrangements for holding the tendent. same, is hereby authorized to appoint some suitable person for that purpose, who shall be subject to the direction of said superintendent. Every teacher attending any institute held Certificates of in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be given by the superintendent of public instruction, or by the duly appointed conductor, a certificate setting forth at what sessions of said institute such teacher shall have been in attendance, and any teacher who shall have closed his or her school, Teachers at"tending not in order to attend said institute, shall not forfeit his or her to forfeit wages as teacher, during such time as he or she shall have wages. been in attendance at said institute, and the certificate hereinbefore provided shall be evidence of such attendance.

attendance.

institute,

(349) § 5974. SEC. 5. For the purpose of defraying the Expense of expenses of rooms, fires, lights, or other necessary charges, how paid. and for procuring teachers and lecturers, the said superintendent, or the person duly authorized by him to conduct said institute, may demand of the county clerk of each county for the benefit of which the institute is held, who shall thereupon draw an order on the county treasurer of his county for such sum, not exceeding the amount of the institute fund in the county treasury, as may be necessary to defray the expenses of said institute; and the treasurer of said county is hereby required to pay over to said superintendent or duly appointed institute conductor, from the institute fund in his hands, the amount of said order.

May draw on state

treasurer.

Yearly state institute.

Proviso.

Vouchers for payments.

(350) § 5975. SEC. 6. In case the institute fund in any county shall be insufficient to defray the necessary expenses of any institute held under the provisions of this act, the auditor general shall, upon the certificate of the superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute and that the county institute fund is insufficient to meet the expenses thereof, draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such additional sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute, which sum shall not exceed one hundred dollars for each institute, and shall be paid out of the general fund.

Am. 1899, Act 64.

(351) § 5976. SEC. 7. The superintendent is authorized to hold once in each year, an institute for the state at large, to be denominated a state institute, and for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of such institute, the auditor general shall on the certificate of said superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute, draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute, which sum shall not exceed four hundred dollars and shall be paid out of the general fund: Provided, That not more than three thousand dollars shall be drawn from the treasury or any greater liability incurred in any one year to meet the provisions of this act.

Am. Id.

(352) § 5977. SEC. 8. The superintendent of public instruction, or the conductor of the institute by him appointed, drawing money from the county treasurer, under section five of this act, shall, at the close of each institute, furnish to the county treasurer, vouchers for all payments from the same in accordance with this act, and he shall return to the county treasurer whatever of the amount that may remain unexpended, to be replaced in the institute fund.

Information bureau, establish

ing of.

BUREAU OF INFORMATION.

An Act to provide for the establishment in the office of the superintendent of public instruction of a bureau of information for the benefit of school officers, superintendents and teachers.

[Act 251, P. A. 1907.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(353) § 5825. SECTION 1. The superintendent of public instruction shall establish and maintain in his office a bureau of information wherein teachers desiring employment may