TUITION.

Every proper person of school age is entitled to attend the public school of the district in which he has legal residence, without the payment of tuition fees, but he is not entitled to attend the school of any other district on this condition. This privilege depends on legal residence, not on a parent's or guardian's ownership of property.

Persons who move into a school district temporarily, just for the purpose of receiving the benefit of the public schools of that district, are not entitled to such privilege free of charge. Only the real residents of the district can lawfully claim the right to send their children to its school without paying tuition.

District school boards are empowered to decide cases of questioned residence, for school purposes, and the decision is subject to reversal only by the courts.

A board of directors has the right to fix rates of tuition, and may require all pupils who are non-residents of the district to pay the amount fixed. The rate fixed should not be less than the pro rata cost of attendance in the room in which they are instructed. Neither should non-resident pupils be admitted when their attendance would restrict the advantages of resident pupils.

VACCINATION OF PUPILS.

The vaccination of pupils is not mentioned in the school law. Many school boards have heretofore considered, that under the direction of the State Board of Health, they had the right to make regulations admitting to school privileges only those who presented satisfactory evidence of vaccination.

The Supreme Court in Lawrence et al. School Directors v. Jennie Breen et al., 167 Ill., 67, decided that school directors have no right, either under their own rules or by order of the State Board of Health, to exclude from the public school, children refusing to be vaccinated, unless such course is necessary, or reasonably appears to be necessary, to prevent the appearance or spread of small-pox.. It would, however, seem, that when "small-pox exists in a community in the State, or is prevalent in adjoining vicinities" and it "is necessary, or reasonably appears to be necessary," a rule excluding children from school who have not been vaccinated, until such time as danger from the disease has passed, would seem to be justified on the ground of exercising proper precaution for the protection of health.

In what way can school officers secure the vaccination of school children lawfully?

School officers may use all their powers of persuasion, giving their influence in all reasonable ways to secure this result.

Can public school funds be used to pay the expenses of vaccinating pupils?

The vaccination of pupils is not a part of the work of the public school, and public school funds can not be used, lawfully, to defray its expense.

WOMEN AS VOTERS.

The legislative act, approved June 19, 1891, by which women were declared to be "entitled to vote" for "any officer of schools under the general or special school laws of this State," has been modified and defined by two decisions of the Supreme Court of Illinois:

Women may not vote for a State or county superintendent of schools.

According to the first decision, Mary A. Ahren v. William J. English, 139 Ill., 622, "the Legislature had or has no power or authority to invest her (woman) with the right to vote at an election held for a county superintendent of schools." The reason given by the court for this decision is, that the qualification of electors for offices specified in the constitution, being prescribed in that instrument, they can not be changed by the Legislature, or otherwise than by amendment of the constitution. This decision debars women (except the very few who may have the constitutional qualifications) from voting for a State or county superintendent of schools.

They may vote for all other elective school officers.

In the second decision, Mary E. Plummer v. Oscar Yost, 144 Ill., 68, it is held that women of twenty-one years of age or upwards, either native-born or naturalized citizens of the United States, who have resided in the State one year, in the county ninety days and in the school district thirty days next preceding an election for any officer of schools, can vote at that election, provided the officer to be elected is to hold a school office which is not specified in the constitution, but created by the Legislature in conformity with the power granted in the constitution. This construction allows women to vote for trustees of the University of Illinois.

In the elections in which only a part of the 'candidates named on the general ticket can be voted for by women, a separate ballot box can be provided by the judges of election to receive the ballots of women only.

The vote of a woman, except it be for a school officer, or her signature to a petition for any purpose, has no legal force.

Since the only authorization women have for voting or for exercising privileges in school affairs, not accorded them before the passage of the act of 1891, is contained in this act, and since this act does not extend their privileges beyond voting for certain officers of schools, it follows that their votes on the establishment of kindergartens or on other school questions, and their signatures to petitions for any purpose, have no legal force..

Registration of women voters.

Women voters must be registered in order to vote in cases only in which men who vote at the same election for the same officers must

be registered. Registration is not required ordinarily of the electors of township trustees or members of a general school board, but it is required of those who vote for trustees of the University of Illinois. The manner of registering women does not differ from that of registering men.

Three qualifications required.

The law requires the voter to possess three qualifications, viz: Citizenship, necessary age and residence. No preference is shown women over men in these respects; but by a statute of the United States (act approved Feb. 10, 1855) an alien-born woman becomes a citizen of the United States by reason of her marriage to a citizen of the United States. When such a woman possesses the requisite age and residence she should be allowed to vote.

CALENDAR OF SCHOOL ELECTIONS AND DUTIES OF

OFFICERS.

January, first Monday-Apportionment of Auditor.
March 1, on or before-Payment of Auditor's warrants.
On or before same day-Report of fines and forfeitures.
April 1, on or before-Collector of taxes to pay treasurer.

April first Monday-Regular meeting of trustees; treasurer's report.
Within two days after-Treasurer's statement to district school boards.
April, first Tuesday-Election of trustee when elected at town meetings.
April, second Saturday-Election of trustee in other cases.

Within ten days after-Organization of board of trustees.

April, third Saturday-Election of directors; their report to voters.

Same day-Election of members of board of education.

Within ten days after-Organization of board of directors and board of education.

June, first Saturday-University scholarship examination at the county seat by county superintendent.

June 30-Treasurer's report of notes, etc., to county superintendent.

July 7-Reports of statistics by district boards to treasurer.

On or before the same day-All schedules or statements of attendance filed with treasurer.

July 15-Trustees' report to county superintendent.

July 15-Treasurer's statement to district boards.

August, first Tuesday-District boards to certify tax levy to treasurer. August, second Monday-Same returned to county clerk by treasurer. August 15-County superintendent's report to State superintendent. September, at annual meeting-County superintendent's report to county board.

September 30, on or before-Notice of county superintendent to president of board of trustees and clerk of district board of amount of money paid by him to treasurer.

October, first Monday-Regular meeting of trustees; treasurer's report. November 1-State Superintendent's report to Governor; biennially. November, Tuesday after first Monday 1902-Election of State and county superintendents, and quadrennially thereafter.