COMPILED BY KLOPP & BARTLETT CO., OMAHA meeting in a majority of the school districts so united, or if but two districts, in each. Notice of such acceptance, by the president of the high school district to the moderator of the common school district, shall operate as official proclamation of the incorporation of the common school district in and part of the high school district.-Emergency. 6806 Sec. 107. Trustees-government.—The moderators for the time being of the several school districts so joined for high school purposes, provided the number of such districts shall exceed two, shall be the trustees and governing body of such high school district. If the number of such districts shall be two only, the trustees shall annually choose a third person, having the qualifications of a member of the school board in one or the other of the respective school districts, to be a trustee of such high school district, who shall within ten days after his election file with such trustees or one of them a written acceptance of the office. The trustee shall annually, subsequent to the annual meetings of the school district so united for high school purposes, elect from their number a chairman and a clerk and shall at the same time elect a treasurer who may or may not be one of their number. They shall also have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in their number or in any of the offices till the same can be regularly filled.-Emergency. 6807 Sec. 108. Same—lease or purchase of building.—The trustees shall have all the power of school boards of school districts in this state with reference to the lease, purchase, acquisition or disposition of buildings, sites and property for school purposes: Provided, where the provisions of law require the consent or authority or direction of the school district, the trustees may be authorized by the votes of meetings of a majority of the districts so united, or if the districts are two only, of each of them.—Emergency. 6808 Sec. 109. Powers and duties of officers.-The powers and duties of the chairman, clerk and treasurer respectively of such board of trustees shall be the same as near as may be, as those of the moderator, director and treasurer respectively of a school district, as fixed in Article Four of this chapter except that no census of such high school district shall be required to be taken, and that contracts with teachers shall require the sanction of a majority of the trustees.-Emergency. 6809 Sec. 110. Trustees establish and maintain high school. -The trustees shall establish and maintain a high school in the district at such place as they may deem most expedient, and to that end shall, with the advice and approval of the county superintendent, have authority to determine the qualifications for admission to such high school, to employ all necessary teachers, to prescribe courses of study and text books, to determine the rate of tuition to be paid by non-resident pupils attending any such COMPILED BY KLOPP & BARTLETT CO.. OMAHA. high school, and to make such rules and regulations as they may think needful for the government of such school and for the preservation of the property of such high school district: Provided the course of study shall conform to the general course of study and graduation prescribed by the state superintendent of public instruction, which he is hereby authorized to prescribe for all high schools maintained under the provisions of this article.— Emergency. con 6810 Sec. 111. (a) Expense of maintaining.—The expenses of maintaining such high schools shall be borne by the several school districts united for the purpose, in proportion to their assessed valuation. To that end, the trustees shall, prior to each annual school district meeting, prepare an estimate of the sums required for the maintenance of the high school during the coming year, and the share to be borne by each school district, and the number of mills necessary to be levied in each of the districts so united to meet its share, and shall further certify the estimate, the amount of the share and the amount of the required levy to each of the district meetings. In case the meetings in a majority of the districts so united, or in case there are but two in each, shall reject such estimates, the trustees shall at once give ten days' notice, by posting the same upon the door of such schoolhouse in each of the districts and in three other of the most spicuous places in each district, of a meeting of all the qualified voters of each of the districts so united for high school purposes, at some accessible place within the limits of the high school districts, for the purpose of settling the amount required to maintain such high school, the share of each district, and the number of mills required to be levied. At such meeting the chairman of the board of trustees shall preside and the clerk shall record its proceedings. The meeting shall fix, by a majority vote of the qualified voters of the several districts present, the amount necessary to be raised, the share of each district and the levy necessary in each district to meet such share, and the clerk shall thereupon forthwith certify the number of mills so fixed upon to be levied in each district to the county board. In case, however, the estimates so prepared by the trustees shall not be acted upon at the district meeting or shall not be rejected as above provided, then the trustees shall certify the same as by them originally fixed to the county board; the tax so fixed shall be levied in each school district by the county board and collected as other county taxes, and the proceeds thereof shall be turned over to the treasurer of such high school district, except the principal sum of bonds for the erection of a building, as hereinafter provided, shall in no year be suffered to exceed seventy-five per cent of the aggregate expense of maintaining all the common schools of the districts so united for high school purposes. (b) All rural high school districts which are now or hereafter established with suitable grounds and a two room school building COMPILED BY KLOPP & BARTLETT CO., OMAHA. and the necessary departments and equipment for teaching agriculture and home economics or other industrial and vocational subjects and employing teachers holding a certificate showing their qualifications to teach said subjects, and in which said subjects are provided as a part of the regular course in such schools, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and paid from the state treasury, from moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $100 toward the equipment required, and the further sum of $150 annually. (c) All rural high school districts which are now or hereafter established with suitable grounds and a three room building and the necessary departments and equipment for teaching agriculture and home economics or other suitable and vocational subjects and employing teachers holding certificates showing their qualifications to teach said subjects, and in which said subjects are provided as a part of the regular course in such schools, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and paid from the state treasury, from moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $150 toward the equipment required and the further sum of $200 annually. (d) All rural high school districts which are now or hereafter established with suitable grounds and a four or more room school building and the necessary departments and equipments for teaching agriculture and home economics or suitable vocational subjects and employing teachers holding certificates showing their qualifications to teach said subjects, and in which said subjects are provided as a part of the regular course in such school, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and paid from the state treasury, from moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $250 toward the equipment required and the further sum of $300 annually.Emergency. 6811 Sec. 112. Bonds when issued. When authorized by a two-thirds majority vote of all qualified voters present at an annual or special meeting in a majority of the school districts so united, or if there be but two districts so united, in each, the trustees may issue and negotiate the bonds of such high school district for the purpose of raising money to provide for the erection and furnishing of the improvement of a high school building. The bonds so issued shall not when added to the aggregate of the bonded indebtedness of the several school districts so united for high school purposes exceed ten per cent of the aggregate assessed valuation of the several school districts as shown by the last preceding assessment.-Emergency. 6812 Sec. 113. Provision and terms.-The bonds shall conform to, and their payment, cancellation, refunding and the application of the proceeds thereof, shall be governed by and as provided for in several provisions of Article VIII of Chapter 8 of the Revised Statutes. -Emergency. SECTION COMPILED BY KLOPP & BARTLETT CO., OMAHA. ARTICLE VIII. FREE HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION. SECTION 6813. High school grade defined-course of 6816. District board deliver estimate of levy study-rules of admission. 6814. Tuition charges. 6815. Application of parent or guardianestimate of County Supt.-levy. to County Clerk. 6813 Sec. 114. High school grade defined—course of study-rules of admission.—Provision is hereby made for four years of free public high school education for all the youth of this state whose parents or guardians live in public school districts which maintain less than a four-year high school course of study, on the following conditions, to wit: First-For the purposes of this act all grades above the eighth grade in any public school district of this state shall be deemed high school grades. The course of study for the first eight grades shall be the course of study prescribed by the state superintendent of public instruction or a course of study approved by him, and the course of study for the high school grades shall be the Nebraska High School Manual issued jointly by the University of Nebraska and the state superintendent of public instruction or a course of study approved by the state superintendent of public instruction. Second-Every pupil to be entitled under the provisions of this article to free public high school education in the ninth grade of any public school district maintaining such grade must have a certificate signed by the county superintendent of the proper county that he has completed the course of study prescribed by the state superintendent for work below the ninth grade as set forth in the first condition of this section and that he is unable to secure ninth grade work in the public school district of his residence. Third-Every pupil to be entitled under the provisions of this article to free public high school education in the tenth grade of any public school district maintaining such grade must have a certificate signed by the county superintendent of the proper county that he has completed the course of study for the ninth grade as set forth in the first condition of this section and that he is unable to secure tenth grade work in the public school district of his residence. Fourth-Every pupil to be entitled under the provisions of this article to free public high school education in the eleventh grade of any public school district maintaining such grade must have a certificate signed by the county superintendent of the proper county that he has completed the course of study for the tenth grade as set forth in the first condition of this section and that he is unable to secure eleventh grade work in the public school district of his residence. Fifth--Every pupil to be entitled under the provision of this article to free public high school education in the twelfth grade of any public school district maintaining such grade must have a certificate signed by the county superintendent of the proper county that he has completed the course of study for COMPILED BY KLOPP & BARTLETT CO., OMAHA. the eleventh grade as set forth in the first condition of this section and that he is unable to secure twelfth grade work in the public school district of his residence. Sixth-Every non-resident pupil attending any public school under the provisions of this article shall have the same rights and shall be subject to the same rules and restrictions which govern resident pupils attending such public school. Any public school district unable to furnish accommodations to non-resident pupils without constructing or renting additional buildings, hiring extra teachers, or for other reasonable cause, may refuse admission to any or all such non-resident pupils. 6814 Sec. 115. Tuition charges.-Every public school district granting free public high school education to non-resident pupils under the provisions of this act shall receive the sum of one dollar for each week's attendance by each non-resident pupil from the public school district in which the parent or guardian of such non-resident pupil maintains his legal residence. Such public school district is hereby made liable for the payment of such tuition. Provided, however, that if such school district in which the parent or guardian of such non-resident pupil maintains his legal residence is not able to maintain nine months of school out of its own resources after levying the full amount of taxes it is permitted by law to levy for school purposes, together with the apportionment from the state school fund, then and in that case, said district shall not be liable for such tuition. 6815 Sec. 116. Application of parent or guardian-estimate of county superintendent-Levy-The parent or guardian of any pupil desiring to take advantage of the provisions of this article for free high school education shall make application, in writing, to the county superintendent of the proper county on or before the second Monday in June of each year. Such application must show the number of the public school district in which such parent or guardian maintains his legal residence, the number of pupils for whom free high school education is desired, and the high school grade which cach pupil is to enter. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to make and deliver to the director or the secretary of the board of education of such public school district on or before the annual meeting of each year an itemized estimate of the amount necessary to pay the tuition of all pupils in that district entitled to and for whom proper application has been made for free high school education as in this article provided. Such estmate shall show definitely the number of pupils for whom proper application has been made for free high school education and the grade each pupil is to enter. The director or secretary of the board of education of such public school district shall include said estimate for free high school education in his itemized estimate which he is required to present at each annual school district meeting as provided in section 41, of this chapter. The legal voters at the annual school district meeting each year shall determine the amount of money required for free high school education during the coming school year as in this article provided, which shall be an amount sufficient to provide free high school education in accordance with the estimate furnished the annual school dis |