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of May and not later than the first day of June, certificates of nomination for the office to be filled. Such certificates shall contain the name of the candidate, his residence, business address and the office for which he is named, and must be signed by twenty or more qualified electors of the county rural school district.

Each elector signing a certificate of nomination, shall add to his signature, his place of residence, his business and his post office address, and shall declare that he is not joined in nominating any other person for the office to be filled. Such signatures need not all be appended to one paper.

No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than one candidate for any office to be filled, but each elector may sign as many certificates as there are officers to be elected for a particular term of office.

Sec. 20. No party designation.—In order to separate politics as far as possible from school affairs, no descriptive word, words or symbol to designate the party or principles of any nominee, shall appear on the certificate of nomination, or to be used or printed on the ballot.

Sec. 21. Withdraw from nomination.-Any person whose name has been filed as a candidate, may cause his name to be withdrawn from nomination by request in writing, signed by himself and properly acknowledged and filed with the secretary of the board at least ten days prior to the day of election; and no name so withdrawn shall be printed on the ballots to be used. A written acceptance of nomination must be filed by any person named as a candidate at least ten days prior to date of election, or such name shall be omitted from the printed ticket.

Sec. 22. Publication of nominees.-The secretary shall cause to be published in one or more county newspapers at least four days before the day of election, all nominations, certified to him, under the provisions of these rules.

Sec. 23. Ballot.—The secretary shall provide proper ballots similar in form to those authorized by law for municipal elections on which shall be printed the names of the candidates for the respective offices. The secretary shall provide the voting booths required by law in each polling place, and such supplies, poll books, stationery, etc., as may be necessary and the rotation ballots shall be as provided for by the Australian ballot system.

Sec. 24. Conduct of election.-Polling places shall be provided at school houses in the district and two judges and one clerk shall be appointed by the county school board and shall receive $1.00 apiece for their services. They shall conduct said election in accordance with the general election laws of the state as applied to municipal elections except as provided in this article.

Sec. 25. Returns of election. The returns from said election

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shall be certified by the officers in each polling place and the ballots properly sealed in the ballot boxes, together with the poll books shall be placed forthwith in the custody of the secretary of the county rural school board, who shall keep said boxes inviolate for at least thirty days after the canvass of the returns. The election officer chosen by the election board, who shall carry the ballot boxes and poll books to the office of the secretary of the county rural school board shall receive his actual expenses incurred by performing this duty.

Sec. 26. Canvass of returns.-The result of said election shall be canvassed and declared by the board of education at a meeting held the last Tuesday in June and certificates of election shall be issued by the secretary of the board to successful candidates.

Sec. 27. The county rural school board shall pay the free high school tuition for any pupil residing within the district who is over three and a half miles from a school maintained by the county rural school district in which the grades for which said pupil is eligible are maintained. Otherwise said free high school tuition is to be paid in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII, Chapter 71, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913.

Sec. 28. The board of education for the county rural school district inay borow money upon bonds which they are hereby authorized and empowered to issue, for the purpose of purchasing sites and erecting suitable school buildings and furnishing and equipping the same. Such bonds to bear interest at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable annually or semi-annually at such place as may be designated in said bonds; which loan shall be paid and reimbursed in a period not exceeding thirty years from the date of the bonds. Said bonds may be made optional on any interest paying date.

Provided, that no bonds shall be issued until a petition signed by at least one-third of the qualified voters as defined in this act of the county rural school district shall be presented to the board asking that the question of issuing such bonds be submitted in said district, which petition shall set forth the amount to be voted, which amount shall not exceed ten per cent of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of such county rural school district at the last completed assessment, the time the bonds are to run, rate of interest and purpose of issue. Upon the filing of such petition the board of education shall call an election in the district, notice of which election shall be given by at least twenty days' publication of the same in at least one newspaper published in the county and the posting of copies of the same in at least three public places in each township or precinct. The notices shall set forth the proposition in full and the time and place for holding such election in each precinct or township. The vote shall be by ballot and if the majority of all the ballots cast at such election shall be in favor of the proposition the board

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shall be empowered to issue and negotiate the bonds. The clerks and judges of the election shall be those appointed to act at the regular school election. The returns of such election to be made to the board of education and the board shall canvass and declare the result of such election. Said bonds to be signed by the president and secretary of the county rural school district and to be attested by the seal of the county, and when issued the same shall be sold in open market to the highest bidder for not less than their par value.

Sec. 29. Whenever the county board of education shall, not earlier than six months nor later than forty (40) days prior to any regular annual school election, receive a petition signed by at least thirty (30) per cent of the legal school electors of the district residing within at least two-thirds of the townships included within the county rural school district, asking that the county school district of..... ........county be discontinued and that the county be reorganized under the old district system as provided in Article III, Chapter 71, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913, the county board of education shall and is hereby directed to submit the question to the voters at the next succeeding biennial school election. The board shall give proper notice as provided in this act. The qualified electors shall vote by ballot for or against the discontinuance of the county rural school district. The question shall be printed at the bottom of the regular ballot and shall be substantially in the following form:

"For the discontinuance of the county school district of ...county, Nebraska, and the division thereof into districts organized under Article III, Chapter 71, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913, according to the provisions of law.

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The electors favoring the discontinuance of such county rural school districts shall mark in the square after "yes," those opposed to the discontinuance of such county rural school districts in the square after "No." Such votes shall be counted and the returns and canvass made at the regular biennial school elections.

Sec. 30. If the majority of the electors voting at such election cast their votes in favor of discontinuing the county rural school district, the county rural school board of education shall by an order duly entered upon its records so declare the fact, and shall also designate the boundaries for all new districts to be organized under Article III, Chapter 71, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913, as a result of said discontinuance of the county rural school

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district and they shall call for an election of officers in each of said new districts, said elections to be held in accordance with the provisions of Article III, Chapter 71, Revised Statutes of Nebraska for 1913. And said county school board shall wind up the business affairs of the district on the first Monday of July succeeding the vote to discontinue the county rural school district, at which time they shall convey title to all lands and buildings vested in said county school district to the separate districts in which said lands and buildings are situated, and shall distribute all funds, except sinking funds collected for the payment of any bonds, and all other property in their possession as follows: Three-fourths of said property or funds among the various districts pro rata in accordance with the last school census of said districts; and one fourth equally among said districts. Any bonded indebtedness shall be paid by the county treasurer from the funds created by any tax levied for that purpose prior to the discontinuance of the county rural school district, and from the proceeds of the tax levy assessed evenly over all the districts formed from the discontinued county rural school districts, said tax to be levied by the board of county commissioners or supervisors as said levy is required to pay the bonds when they mature; any unbonded indebtedness shall be paid in the same manner.

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Chapter 8.

BONDS AND INDEBTEDNESS OF COUNTIES AND MUNICIPALITIES.

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ARTICLE I.

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

Sec. 5. Interest coupons-detached when.—Whenever a bond of any county, city, town, township, precinct, village, school district, or other municipality, shall be presented to the auditor of public accounts for registration, the auditor shall examine the interest coupons thereto attached, and shall detach as many of them as shall mature before the first taxes levied to meet the same shall become due and collectible, and stamp said coupons "Detached by the Auditor of Public Accounts," and send to the treasurer of the county from which said coupons were issued.

ARTICLE III.

COMPROMISE OF INDEBTEDNESS.

400 Sec. 36. Compromise of indebtedness.-That any county, precinct, township, or town, city, village, or school district is hereby authorized and required to compromise its indebtedness in the manner hereinafter provided.

401 Sec. 37. How made. Whenever the county board of any county, the city council of any city, the board of trustees of any village, or the school board of any school district shall be satisfied by petitions or otherwise that any such county, precinct, township, or town, city, village, or school district is unable to pay in full its indebtedness, and two-thirds of the resident freeholders of such county, precinct, township, or town, city, village, or school district shall by petition ask that such county, precinct, township, or town, city, village, or school district, compromise such indebtedness, they are hereby required to enter into negotiations with the owner or owners, holder or holders of any such indebtedness of whatever form for scaling, discounting, or compromising the same.

402. Sec. 38. Bonds, how issued. Whenever satisfactory arrangements are made with the owner or owners, holder or holders, or any of them, of such ndebtedness, for the payment of the same, the county board, for and on behalf of any such county, precinct, township or town, or the city council of any

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