Disorderly persons at district

taken into custody.

turbing meeting.

vote has been taken shall be deemed to be made when offering to vote, and treated in the same manner.

($26.) SEC. 19. If at any district meeting any person shall conduct meetings to be himself in a disorderly manner, and, after notice from the moderator or person presiding, shall persist therein, the moderator or person presiding may order him to withdraw from the meeting, and on his refusal, may order any constable, or other person or persons, to take Penalty for dis. him into custody until the meeting shall be adjourned; and any person who shall refuse to withdraw from such meeting on being so ordered as herein provided, and also any person who shall willfully disturb such meeting by rude and indecent behavior, or by profane or indecent discourse, or in any other way make such disturbance, shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not less than two nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days; and any justice of the peace, recorder, or police justice of the township, ward, or city where such offense shall be committed, shall have jurisdiction to try and determine the

Who shall have jurisdiction in trial.

Powers of voters at district meetings.

To appoint tem

same.

($27.) SEC. 20. The qualified voters in any school district when lawfully assembled at the first and at each annual meeting, or at an adjournment thereof, or at any special meeting lawfully called, except as hereinafter provided, shall have power:

First, At the first meeting and at any meeting after the organiporary officers. zation of the district, in the absence of the moderator, to appoint a chairman for the time being, and in the absence of the director to appoint some person to act in his stead, who shall keep a minute of the proceedings of such meeting and certify the same to the director, to be by him entered in the records of the district;

May adjourn.
To elect officers.
See §§ 28, 107.

To designate

Second, To adjourn from time to time as occasion may require;
Third, To elect district officers as hereinafter provided;

Fourth, To designate, as hereinafter provided, a site or such numsites for school ber of sites as may be desired for school-houses, and to change the same when necessary;

houses.

See § 89.

To direct purchase, etc., of

Fifth, To direct the purchasing or leasing of a site or sites, lawsite, and build. fully determined upon; the building, hiring, or purchasing of a ing school-house. school-house or houses, or the enlarging of a site or sites previously

To vote tax for building, etc.

Limit of tax.

See § 78.

When land not taxable.

established;

Sixth, To vote such tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient, to purchase or lease a site or sites, or to build, hire or purchase a schoolhouse or houses; but the amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building a school-house or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred, shall not exceed in districts containing less than ten children between the ages of five and twenty years, two hundred and fifty dollars; in districts having between ten and thirty children of like age, it shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children of like age, it shall not exceed one thousand dollars. No legal subdivisions [subdivision] of land shall be taxed for building a school-house unless some portion thereof shall be within two and one-half miles of said school-house site;

certain purposes.

Seventh, To impose such tax as shall be necessary to keep their To vote tax for school-house or houses in repair, and to provide the necessary appendages and school apparatus, and in districts having district See App. A., libraries, for the support of the same, and to pay and discharge any TT 46-50. debts or liabilities of the district lawfully incurred, and also to pay for the services of any district officer. The tax herein authorized

to be voted shall not exceed one-half the amount which the district Limit of tax. is authorized to raise for building school-houses;

Eighth, To authorize and direct the sale of any school-house, site, To direct sale of building or other property belonging to the district, when the same certain property. shall no longer be needed for the use of the district;

to suits.

Ninth, To give such directions and make such provisions as they Direct in regard shall deem necessary in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party, or interested;

Tenth, To appoint, as in their discretion it may be necessary, a May appoint building committee to perform such duties in supervising the work building comof building a school-house as they by vote may direct;

mittee.

ing to determine

Eleventh, At the first and the annual meetings only, to determine At annual meetthe length of time a school shall be taught in their district during limit of school. the ensuing year, which shall not be less than nine months in districts having eight hundred children over five and under twenty years of age, and not less than five months in districts having from thirty to eight hundred children of like ages, nor less than three months in all other districts, on pain of forfeiture of their share of Forfeiture of the one-mill tax and primary school interest fund; but in case such matters shall not be determined at the first or annual meetings, the district board shall determine the same; and in case the district When district fails to vote for at least the minimum length required herein, the mine length of district board shall make provisions for said minimum length of school. school;

public moneys.

board to deter.

to certain pur

Twelfth, To appropriate any surplus moneys arising from the May appropriate one-mill tax, after having maintained a school in the district at surplus mill. tax least eight months in the school year, for the purpose of purchasing poses. and enlarging school sites, or for building or repairing school-houses, or for purchasing books for library, globes, maps, and other school apparatus, or for any incidental expenses of the school.

CHAPTER III.

DISTRICT BOARD AND OFFICERS.

trict officers.

See §§ 139, 146.

($28.) SECTION 1. At the first meeting in each school district there Election of disshall be elected by ballot a moderator for the term of three years, a director for two years, and an assessor for one year; and on the expiration of their respective terms of office, and regularly thereafter at the annual meetings, their several successors shall be elected in like manner for a term of three years each. The time intervening between the first meeting in any school district and the first annual Term of office. meeting thereafter shall be reckoned as one year.

(§29.) SEC. 2. A school district office shall become vacant upon When district. the occurrence of any of the following events:

come vacant.

Vacancies in offices, how filled.

See App. B., forms 14, 15.

First, The death of the incumbent;
Second, His resignation;

Third, His removal from office;

Fourth, His removal from the district;

Fifth, His conviction of any infamous crime;

Sixth, His election or appointment being declared void by a competent tribunal;

Seventh, His neglect to file his acceptance of office, or to give or renew any official bond, according to law.

(§30.) SEC. 3. In case any one of the district offices becomes vacant, the two remaining officers shall immediately fill such vacancy; or in case two of the offices become vacant, the remaining officer shall immediately call a special meeting of the district to fill such vacancies; in case any vacancy is not filled as herein provided within twenty days after it shall have occurred, or in case all the offices in a district shall become vacant, the board of school inspectors of the township to which the annual reports of such district are made Term of office of shall fill such vacancies. Any person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy in a district office shall hold such office until the next succeeding annual meeting, at which time the voters of the district shall fill such office for the unexpired portion of the term.

appointed officer.

Who are eligible to hold office.

Acceptance of

(§31.) SEC. 4. Any qualified voter in a school district who has property liable to assessment for school taxes shall be eligible to election or appointment to office in such school district, unless such person be an alien.

(§32.) SEC. 5. Within ten days after their election or appointment, offices to be filed. the several officers of each school district shall file with the director written acceptances of the offices to which they have been respectively elected or appointed, and such acceptances shall be entered in the records of the district by said director.

See App. B., form 5.

District board,

when meetings

(§33.) SEC. 6. The moderator, director, and assessor shall constiof may be called. tute the district board. Meetings of the board may be called by any member thereof by serving on the other members a written notice of the time and place of such meeting at least twenty-four hours before such meeting is to take place; and no act authorized to be done by meeting to valid the district board shall be valid unless voted at a meeting of the board. A majority of the members of the board at a meeting thereof shall be necessary for the transaction of business.

Necessity of

action by board.

Quorum of board.

Board to purchase record books, etc.

See App. A., ¶ 52.

Board to pur

chase, etc., site,

school-house.

See App. A., ¶¶ 61-71.

(834.) SEC. 7. The said district board shall purchase a record book and such other books, blanks, and stationery as may be necessary to keep a record of the proceedings of the district meetings and of meetings of the board, the accounts of the assessor, and for doing the business of the district in an orderly manner.

($35.) SEC. 8. The district board shall purchase or lease, in the corand build, etc., porate name of the district, such sites for school-houses as shall have been lawfully designated, and shall build, hire, or purchase such school-houses as may be necessary out of the fund provided for that purpose, and make sale of any site or other property of the district Necessity of title when lawfully directed by the qualified voters; but no district in before building any case shall build a stone or brick school-house upon any site without having first obtained a title in fee to the same, or a lease

or lease to site

school-house.

for ninety-nine years; nor shall any district build a frame schoolhouse on any site for which they have not a title in fee or a lease see App. B., for fifty years, without securing the privilege of removing the said forms 23, 24, 25. school-house when lawfully directed so to do by the qualified voters

of the district at any annual or special meeting when lawfully convened.

tax for support

(§36.) SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the district board to estimate Board to estimate the amount necessary to be raised, in addition to other school funds, of schools. for the entire support of such schools, including teachers' wages, fuel, and other incidental expenses, and for deficiencies of the previous year for such purposes. But in districts having less than Limit of tax in thirty scholars, such estimate, including the district's share of the certain cases. primary school interest fund and one-mill tax, shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars a month for the period during which school is held in such district; and when such amount has been estimated and voted by the district board, it shall be reported for assessment and collection, the same as other district taxes. When a tax has when board may been estimated and voted by the district board under the provisions of this section, and is needed before it can be collected, the district board may borrow to an amount not exceeding the amount of said tax.

borrow money.

district taxes to

(§37.) SEC. 10. The district board shall, between the first and third Board to report Mondays in September in each year, make out and deliver to the township clerk. township clerk of each township in which any part of the district is situated, a report in writing under their hands of all taxes voted by See App. B., the district during the preceding year, and of all taxes which said board is authorized to impose, to be levied on the taxable property of the district.

form 12.

moneys accord

(838.) SEC. 11. The district board shall apply and pay over all Board to apply school moneys belonging to the district, in accordance with the pro- ing to law. visions of law regulating the same, and no money raised by district tax shall be used for any other purpose than that for which it was raised, without a consenting vote of two-thirds of the tax-paying voters of the district; and no moneys received from the primary school interest fund, nor from the one-mill tax except as provided by law shall be appropriated to any other use than the payment of teachers' wages, and no part thereof shall be paid to any teacher who shall not have received a certificate of qualification from proper legal authority before the commencement of his school. No school district shall apply any of the moneys received by it from the pri- Sectarian schools mary school interest fund, or from any and all other sources, for lic moneys. the support and maintenance of any school of a sectarian character, whether the same be under the control of any religious society, or made sectarian by the school district board.

barred from pub

annual reports.

(§39.) SEC. 12. Said board shall present to the district, at each Board to make annual meeting, a report in writing, containing an accurate statement of all moneys of the district received by them, or any of them, during the preceding year, and of the disbursements made by them, shall the items of such receipts and disbursements. Such report with also contain a statement of all taxes assessed upon the taxable Contents of. property of the district during the preceding year, the purposes for

Board to hire teachers.

See App. B., forms 26, 27. Contracts.

to be kept.

See § 146.

Contract to be filed.

which such taxes were assessed, and the amount assessed for each particular purpose, and said report shall be entered by the director in the records of the district.

(§40.) SEC. 13. The district board shall hire and contract with such duly qualified teachers as may be required; and all contracts shall be in writing and signed by a majority of the board on behalf of the district. Said contracts shall specify the wages agreed upon and shall School register require the teacher to keep a correct list of the pupils, and the age of each, attending the school, and the number of days each pupil is present, and to furnish the director with a correct copy of the same at the close of the school. Said contract shall be filed with the director, and a duplicate copy of the contract shall be furnished to the teacher. No contract with any person not holding a legal certificate of qualification then authorizing such person to teach shall be valid, and all such contracts shall terminate, if the certificate shall expire by limitation and shall not immediately be renewed, or if it shall be suspended or revoked by proper legal authority. A school month within the meaning of the school laws shall consist of four weeks of five days in each week, unless otherwise specified in the teacher's contract.

Teacher must have legal certificate.

See App, A.,
TT 38-45.

School month defined.

Care and use of school-house.

(841.) SEC. 14. the district board shall have the care and custody of the school-house and other property of the district, except so far as the same shall by vote of the district be specially confided to the custody of the director, including all books purchased for the use of indigent pupils, and shall open the school-house for public meetings unless by a vote at a district meeting it shall be determined otherwise: Provided, That said board may exclude such public meetings at cer. meetings during the five school days of each week of any and all school terms, or such parts thereof as in their discretion they may deem for the best interest of the schools.

Board may ex. clude public

tain times.

Board to specify studies and specify textbooks.

Record to be made.

Purchase of books for poor children.

Board to estab

(§42.) SEC. 15. The district board shall specify the studies to be pursued in the schools of the district, and prescribe the text books to be used, which shall be uniform in each subject that may be taught; but text-books once adopted under the provisions of this act shall not be changed within five years, except by the consent of a majority of the qualified voters of the district present at an annual meeting. Each school board making a selection of text-books under this act shall make a record thereof in their proceedings.

(843.) SEC. 16. The district board may purchase at the expense of the district, such ;text-books as may be necessary for the use of children when parents are not able to furnish the same, and they shall include the amount of such purchase in the report to the township clerk or clerks, to be levied in like manner as other district taxes.

(844.) SEC. 17. The district board shall have the general care of lish rules for school. the school, and shall make and enforce suitable rules and regulations See App. A., for its government and management, and for the preservation of T 43. May suspend or the property of the district. Said board may authorize or order the suspension or expulsion from the school, whenever in its judgment the interests of the school demand it, of any pupil guilty of gross misdemeanor or persistent disobedience. Any person who shall

expel disorderly pupils.