Powers and duties of township board. Appellants to cause. Appellants to execute bond. the several townships in which the different parts of said fractional school district are situated, who shall have power, and whose duty it shall be, acting jointly, to entertain such appeal, and review, confirm, set aside, or amend the action, order, or decision of the board of school inspectors thus appealed from; or if in their opinion the appeal is frivolous, or without sufficient cause, they may summarily dismiss the same. (§105.) SEC. 2. Said appellants shall, before taking such appeal, file statement of make out and file with the board of school inspectors, or, in case of fractional school districts, to the joint boards of school inspectors, a written statement, to be signed by said appellants, setting forth in general terms the action, order, or decision of the board or boards of school inspectors with respect to which the appellants feel themselves aggrieved, and their demand for an appeal therefrom to the township board or boards of said township, or townships, and shall also cause to be executed and signed by one of their number, and by two good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the clerk of said board or joint boards of school inspectors, or by any justice of the peace of the township, and filed with the clerk of said board or joint boards of school inspectors, a bond to the people of the State of Michigan in the penal sum of two hundred dollars, conditioned for the due prosecution of said appeal before said township board or boards, acting jointly, and also, in case of the dismissal of said appeal as frivolous, by said township board or joint boards, for the payment by said appellants of all costs occasioned to the township or townships, by reason of said appeal. Where filed. Duty of inspect is filed. board deemed in possession of case. ($106.) SEC. 3. Upon the filing of such appeal papers and bond ors when appeal with the said board or joint boards of school inspectors, the said board or joint boards of school inspectors shall, within ten days thereafter, make out and file with the clerk of said township in which the said school-house is located, a full and complete transcript of all their proceedings, actions, orders, or decisions with reference to which the appeal is taken, and of their records of the same; also, said bond and appeal papers, and all petitions and remonstrances, if any, with When township reference to the matters appealed from; and upon the filing of the same with the said township clerk, the said township board or boards shall be deemed to be in possession of the case, and if the return be deemed by them insufficient, may order a further and more comProceedings in plete return by said board or boards of school inspectors; and when such return shall by them be deemed sufficient, they shall proceed with the consideration of the appeal, at such time or times, within ten days after such return, and in such manner and under such affirmation, amendment, or reversal of the action, order, or decision of the board or boards of school inspectors appealed from, as in their judgment shall seem to be just and right; or, if they deem the appeal to be frivolous, they may summarily dismiss the same; but the decision of said board or boards of school inspectors shall not be in determining altered or reversed, unless a majority of such township board or boards, not members of said board or boards of school inspectors, See App. A., TT 12, 13. shall so determine. the appeal. When members of township board cannot act case. CHAPTER X. GRADED SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 72-78. (§107.) SECTION 1. Any school district containing more than one See App. A., ¶¶ hundred children between the ages of five and twenty years, may, by what districts a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors present at any anual meet-may organize as ing, organize as a graded school district: Provided, That the intention to take such vote shall be expressed in the notice of such annual Proviso-notice meeting. When such change in the organization of the district of meeting. shall have been voted, the voters at such annual meeting shall pro- Election of ceed immediately to elect, by ballot, from the qualified voters of the trustees, district, two trustees for the term of one year, two for a term of two years, and two for a term of three years; and annually thereafter Term of office. two trustees shall be elected, in the manner aforesaid, whose term of office shall be three years, and until their successors shall have been elected and filed their acceptances. offices to be filed. Officers to trustees. (§108.) SEC. 2. Within ten days after their election such trustees Acceptance of shall file with the director acceptances of the offices to which they see App. B., have been elected, and shall annually elect from their own number form 5. a moderator, a director, and assessor, and for cause may remove the be elected by same, and may appoint others of their own number in their places, who shall perform the duties prescribed by law for such officers in other school districts in this State, except as hereinafter provided. The trustees shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in Vacancy in their number till the next annual meeting. Whenever, in any case, board, how filled. the trustees shall fail, through disagreement or neglect, to elect the When inspectors officers named in this section, within twenty days next after the officers. annual meeting, the school inspectors of the township or city to See App. B., which such district makes its annual report shall appoint the said form 15. officers from the number of said trustees. shall appoint (8109.) SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees of any Duty of trustees. graded school district: First, To classify and grade the pupils attending school in such To classify district, and cause them to be taught in such schools or departments pupils. as they may deem expedient; Second, To establish in such district a high school when ordered To establish by a vote of the district at an annual meeting, and to determine the high school, etc. qualifications for admission to such school, and the fees to be paid for tuition in any branches taught therein; accounts. Third, To audit and order the payment of all accounts of the To audit and director for incidental or other expenses incurred by him in the dis- pay director's charge of his duties; but no more than fifty dollars shall be expended by the director in any one year for repairs of the buildings or appurtenances of the district property without the authority of the board of trustees; See § 40. Fourth, To employ all qualified teachers necessary for the several To employ schools, and to determine the amount of their compensation, and teachers. to require the director and moderator to make contracts with the See App. B., same on behalf of the district, in accordance with the provisions of form 26. law concerning contracts with teachers; Fifth, To employ such officers and servants as may be necessary See App. A., ¶¶ 38-45. To employ officers, etc. Other duties. Consent of trus- change in bound. aries of district. Such districts not restricted in size. Township libraries to be maintained. library. for the management of the schools and school property, and prescribe their duties and fix their compensation; Sixth, To perform such other duties as are required of district boards in other school districts. (§110.) SEC. 4. No alteration shall be made in the boundaries of any graded school district, without the consent of a majority of the trustees of said district, which consent shall be spread upon the records of the district, and placed on file in the office of the clerk of the board of school inspectors of the township or city to which the reports of said district are made; and graded school districts shall not be restricted to nine sections of land. CHAPTER XI. LIBRARIES. ($111.) SECTION 1. A township library shall be maintained in each organized township, which shall be the property of the township, and shall not be subject to sale or alienation from any cause whatever. All actions relating to such library, or for the recovery of any penalties lawfully established in relation thereto, shall be brought in the name of the township. Who are entitled ($112.) SEC. 2. All persons who are residents of the township shall to privileges of be entitled to the privileges of the township library, subject to such rules and regulations as may be lawfully established in relation thereto: Provided, That persons residing within the boundaries of any school district in which a district library has been established shall be entitled to the privileges of such district library only. Proviso. Inspectors to have charge. See App. B., form 18. See App. A., ¶¶ 79-81. Inspectors accountable for care, etc., of library. Powers of inspectors. See App. C. Where library to be kept. Librarian. What districts may establish libraries. (8113.) SEC. 3. The township board of school inspectors shall have charge of the township library, and shall apply for and receive from the township treasurer all moneys appropriated for the township library of their township, and shall purchase the books and procure the necessary appendages for such library. (8114.) SEC. 4. Said board shall be held accountable for the proper care and preservation of the township library, and shall have power to provide for the safe keeping of the same, to prescribe the time for taking and returning books, to assess and collect fines and penalties for the loss or injury of said books, and to establish all other needful rules and regulations for the management of the library, as said board shall deem proper, or the superintendent of public instruction may advise. (§115.) SEC. 5. The board of school inspectors shall cause the township library to be kept at some central or eligible place in the township, which it shall determine; and such board shall also appoint a librarian, to have the care and superintendence of said library, who shall be responsible to the board of school inspectors. for the impartial enforcement of all rules and regulations lawfully established in relation to said library. (§116.) SEC. 6. Any school district having a school census of not less than one hundred children, by a two-thirds vote, at any annual meeting, may establisn a district library, and such district shall be entitled to its just proportion of books from the library of any township in which it is wholly or partly situated, to be added to the district library, and also to its equitable share of any library moneys remaining unexpended in any such township or townships at the time of the establishment of such district library, or that shall thereafter be raised by tax in such township or townships, or that shall thereafter be apportioned to the township to the inspectors of which the annual report of its director is made. district library. (§117.) SEC. 7. The district board of any school district in which a District board district library may be established in accordance with the provisions to have charge of of this act shall have charge of such library; and the duties and responsibilities of said district board in relation to the district library, and all moneys raised or apportioned for its support, shall be the same as those of the board of school inspectors are to the township library. statistics to State (8118.) SEC. 8. The school inspectors shall give in their annual Inspectors to report to the superintendent of public instruction, such facts and report library statistics relative to the management of the township library and superintendent. the library moneys, as the superintendent of public instruction shall direct; and the district board of any school district having a library, shall cause to be given in the annual report of the director to the board of school inspectors, like facts and statistics relative to the district library, which items shall also be included by the said inspectors in their annual report. or illegal use of forfeiture of (§119.) SEC. 9. In case the board of school inspectors of any town- Failure to report ship, or the district board of any school district, shall fail to make moneys to cause the report required by the preceding section, or in case it shall appear moneys there. from the reports so made that any township or school district has after." failed to use the library money in strict accordance with the provisions of law, such township or district shall forfeit its share of the library moneys that are apportioned, and the same shall be apportioned to the several other townships and districts in the county as hereinafter provided: Provided, That in townships where the Proviso, boards thereof shall determine and report to the superintendent that the public will be better served by using the said money for general school purposes, no such forfeiture shall occur. tendent to pro filed and copy (8120.) SEC. 10. The superintendent of public instruction shall State superinannually and previous to the tenth day of May, transmit to the clerk vide county clerk of each county a statement of the townships in his county that are with statement. entitled to receive library moneys, giving the number of children in each of such townships between the ages of five and twenty years, as shall appear from the reports of the boards of school inspectors for the school year last ending; said clerk shall file such statement Statement to be in his office, and shall forth with furnish a copy thereof to the county given to county treasurer. (§121.) SEC. 11. The clear proceeds of all fines for any breach of the Apportionment penal laws of this State and for penalties, or upon any recognizances in criminal proceedings, and all equivalents for exemptions [exemption] from military duty when collected in any county and paid See App. A,¶ 81. into the county treasury, together with all moneys heretofore collected and paid into said treasury on account of such fines or equivalents, and not already appropriated [apportioned], shall be treasurer. of proceeds of penal fines. How applied. Proviso. Voters may levy tax for support of libraries. How tax to be reported, assessed, and collected. District board may give or sell books to township library. State board of education to make list of books. same. State superintendent to fur apportioned by the county treasurer before the first day of June in each year, among the several townships in the county, according to the number of children therein, between the ages of five and twenty years, as shown by the statement of the superintendent of public instruction provided for in the preceding section, which money shall be exclusively applied to the support of the township and district libraries, and to no other purpose: Provided, That from and after January first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, such money may be used for general school purposes in any township wherein the township board thereof shall so determine. (§122.) SEC. 12. The qualified voters of each township shall have power, at any annual township meeting, to vote a tax for the support of libraries established in accordance with the provisions of this act, and the qualified voters of any school district, in which a district library shall be established, shall have power, at any annual meeting of such district, to vote a district tax for the support of said district library. When any tax authorized by this section shall have been voted, it shall be reported to the supervisor, levied, and collected in the same manner as other township and school district taxes. ($123,) SEC. 13. The district board of any school district may donate or sell any library book or books belonging to such district to the board of school inspectors of the township or townships in which said district is wholly or partly situated, which book or books shall thereafter form a part of the township library. (§124.) SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the State board of education to make a list of books that are not sectarian or partisan in character, and which are suitable for township and district libraries, which list it may from time to time revise and amend; to advertise for To contract for proposals for furnishing the same, and to contract with the lowest responsible bidder to furnish such books to the townships or districts ordering them, in suitable binding and at stipulated prices; said contract to be made biennially, and the advertisements for proposals to be inserted in at least two papers of the largest circulation in the State for one month before making the contract. Previous nish list to offi. to the first day of January in each year, the superintendent of pubcers in charge of lic instruction shall send to the clerk of each township and the director of each district having a district library, a list of the books contracted for, with the prices of the same, from which list the township board of school inspectors, or district board, may annually, or oftener, select and purchase books for the township or district libraries, to the full amount of library moneys in their hands: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent any board of school inspectors or district board from purchasing such other books not of a sectarian character as they may desire. libraries. Proviso. Election of school examiners. CHAPTER XII. EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS AND SUPERVISION OF SCHOOLS. (8125.) SECTION 1. The chairmen of the boards of school inspectors of the several townships in each county shall meet at the office |