(h) The minutes of the meeting should be read, corrected (if necessary), and approved by a vote of the meeting. The minutes must contain a clear statement of every item of business transacted at the meeting.... (i) Shall vote on the question of the establishment of an adjunct district in the county for free high school privileges.. 7. Business that may be transacted at either an annual or special district meeting. PAGE (a) Adjourn for the purpose of designating schoolhouse site.... 24 Transfer money from one fund of the district to another, (e) Direct by a two-thirds vote the sale of any schoolhouse, site, building, or other property belonging to the district, when no longer needed for the use of the district. 24 24 26 26 26 (f) Direct and provide for the prosecution or defense of any (g) Elect officers to fill vacancies. 1. Report taxes voted at the annual meeting. 41 39 II.-DISTRICT BOARD. 2. Have general care of the school, classify the scholars, and provide a course of study by consent and advice of county superintendent.. 37 3. Determine rates of tuition of non-resident pupils ..... 4. Suspend or expel pupils... 5. Purchase or lease site; build, hire, or purchase schoolhouse when directed by voters 6. Have care and custody of schoolhouse and other property. 7. Fill vacancy by appointment. 8. Contract with neighboring district.. 9. Provide transportation... 10. Make claim for high school tuition and report cost of attendance... 44 12 13. 11. Shall present at annual meeting statement in writing of receipts and expenditures, funds on hand and estimate for ensuing year... 43 Appoint truant officer and physician. Provide and care for outhouses.. 103, 104 14. Close school for Institute.... 1. File acceptance of office... 2. Countersign all orders and warrants. 3. Preside at district meetings.... 61 III.-MODERATOR. 4. Order arrest of disorderly person at district meeting. 5. Approve treasurer's bond... 6. Contract with teacher... 7. Shall submit to voters at annual meeting question of establishment of adjunct district in county for free high school privileges 44 IV. TREASURER. 1. File official bond within ten days after election... 2. Apply for and receive moneys from the county treasurer. 30 31 3. Pay district moneys on the order of the director, countersigned by the moderator,.... 31 PAGE 4. Record receipts and disbursements... 6. 31 31 31 31 32 ... 5. Report at annual meeting receipts and disbursements. 8. V.-DIRECTOR. 1. Report taxes voted at the annual meeting. The report must be signed by all the officers of the board, and delivered to the county clerk (a duplicate to the county superintendent), by the first Monday in July... 2. File acceptance of office... 3. Draw and sign all orders and warrants ... 25, 35 31, 34 4. Shall be clerk of district board and district meetings. 5. Record all proceedings of the district.... 32 6. Preserve copies of reports to the county superintendent 32 7. Contract with teachers, with consent and advice of the moderator and treasurer or one of them, or under their direction. 8. Notify the county superintendent of contract with teacher... 9. Take census, togother with the names of all the taxpayers in the district, within ten days before the last Monday in June.... 11. Report to the annual meeting the business transactions of the board for the past year.. 10. Present to the annual meeting an estimate of expenses and probable amount of taxes for the ensuing year.... .33, 92 34 34 27 32 33 12. Give notice of annual meeting at least fifteen days before the last Monday in June... 31 13. Report to the county superintendent within ten days after the annual meeting.. 35 14. Furnish the annual meeting a statement of the aggregate assessed valuation of the taxable property in the district.. 15. Approve monthly report of teacher 16. Report to teacher list of children between 7 and 15. 17. Require report of attendance of children. 18. Give notice to parent or guardian 19. Make complaint against parent or guardian. 20. Shall act as truant officer, when... Fill out term summary and send copy to the county superintendent.. 58 5. Must attend Institute.. 62 VII.-COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. 1. Form new districts and change district boundaries..... .13, 20, 74 16 .17, 18 18 5. Report to county clerk and county treasurer change in district boundaries, and keep in the office of the county clerk a map of the school districts of the county.... 6. Determine site for schoolhouse in new district. 7. Appoint district officers.... 8. Apply for writ of mandamus against district officers. PAGE 9. Administer oaths for the purpose of attesting school reports and the administration of the school law 10. Notify director to transfer pupils to adjoining districts, and notify the county clerk of said transfer.. 11. Examine all candidates as teachers for the public schools. 51, 52, 62 14. May act as third officer in district having but two legal voters 15. Grant certificates to teachers in such forms as shall be prescribed by the state superintendent...... 16. Receive all blanks and communications from the state superintendent, and dispose of same.. 17. Keep a record of all certificates granted and annulled by him. 18. Visit each of the schools in his county at least once in each year, and consult with teachers and district boards.. 19. Promote the improvement of the schools in his county by public lectures, teachers' institutes, etc.. 20. Examine district reports and return same for correction when necessary. 21. Report to the state superintendent when required, and be subject to rules and instructions prescribed by the state superintendent... 22. Notify the district officers of report due and not received.... 23. Report to the superintendent of the institute for the blind and to the superintendent of the institute for the deaf and dumb.... 24. Must attend normal institute in his district.... 25. Apportion state school funds to the districts of his county within twenty days after warrant is received from state auditor. 26. Appoint appraisers of schoolhouse site, condemned 27. Assist in appraisal of claims or assets in division of districts within metropolitan cities.. 112 28. File official bond of $3,000. (See sections 5 and 19, chapter 10, Compiled Statutes of Nebraska.) 29. Issue students' certificates for free high school privileges.. 30. Notify teachers of institute.. 31. Notify school boards to close school during institute. 32. Certify vote of adjunct district, if affirmative, to county clerk.. The Provisions of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska Relative to Education. ARTICLE VIII.-EDUCATION. SECTION 1.-Board of educational lands and funds.-The governor, secretary of state, treasurer, attorney general, and commissioner of public lands and buildings shall, under the direction of the legislature, constitute a board of commissioners for the sale, leasing, and general management of all lands, and funds set apart for educational purposes, and for the investment of school funds in such manner as may be prescribed by law. SEC. 2.-Property, how used.—All lands, money, or other property, granted or bequeathed, or in any manner conveyed to this state for educational purposes, shall be used and expended in accordance with the terms of such grant, bequest, or convey ance. SEC. 3.-Permanent school fund.-The following are hereby declared to be perpetual funds for common school purposes, of which the annual interest or income only can be appropriated, to-wit: First-Such per centum as has been or may hereafter be granted by congress on the sale of lands in this state. Second All moneys arising from the sale or leasing of sections number sixteen and thirty-six in each township in this state, and the lands selected or that may be selected in lieu thereof. Third The proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted to this state, where, by the terms and conditions of such grant, the same are not to be otherwise appropriated. Fourth-The net proceeds of lands and other property and effects that may come to the state, by escheat or forfeiture, or SEC. 1. Authority to invest a portion of the fund cannot be conferred by legislative enactment upon the treasurer. 40 Neb., 298, SEC. 8. Cited 5 Neb., 203. from unclaimed dividends, or distributive shares of the estates of deceased persons. Fifth-All moneys, stocks, bonds, lands, and other property now belonging to the common school fund. SEC. 4.-Temporary school fund.-All other grants, gifts, and devises that have been or may hereafter be made to this state, and not otherwise appropriated by the terms of the grant, gift, or devise, the interest arising from all the funds mentioned in the preceding section, together with all the rents of the unsold school lands, and such other means as the legislature may provide, shall be exclusively applied to the support and maintenance of common schools in each school district in the state. SEC. 5.-Fines and licenses.-All fines, penalties, and license moneys arising under the general laws of the state shall belong and be paid over to the counties respectively where the same may be levied or imposed, and all fines, penalties, and license moneys arising under the rules, by-laws, or ordinances of cities, villages, towns, precincts, or other municipal subdivisions less than a county, shall belong and be paid over to the same respectively. All such fines, penalties, and license moneys shall be appropriated exclusively to the use and support of common schools in the respective subdivisions where the same may accrue. SEO. 6.-Common schools.-The legislature shall provide for the free instruction, in the common schools of this state, of all persons between the ages of five and twenty-one years. SEO. 7.-Distribution of income.-Provisions shall be made by general law for an equitable distribution of the income of the fund set apart for the support of the common schools among the several school districts of the state, and no appropriation shall be made from said fund to any district for the year in which school is not maintained at least three months. SEO. 8.-Educational lands-Price.-University, agricultural college, common school, or other lands, which are now held, or may hereafter be acquired by the state for educational purposes, shall not be sold for less than seven dollars per acre, nor less than the appraised value. SEC. 4. 5 Neb., 103, 206. 15 Id., 610. 16 Id., 680. SEC. 5. 5 Neb., 310, 516. 8 Id., 31, 162. 9 Id., 184, 352, 404. 11 Id., 557. 14 Id., 479. 17 Id., 224. 27 Id., 64. 28 Id., 254. 29 Id., 288, 348. Where a liquor license has been issued and is thereafter canceled without fault of the licensee, he is entitled to a repayment pro tanto of the sum paid for the unexpired time. 51 Neb. 858. SEC. 7. 5 Neb., 104. |