Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-05-04

OF globes, black boards, outline maps; OF
any other apparatus for illustrating thu
principles of agriculture. chemistry, or the
mechanic arts;
10Th. TO give such direction, and make
such provision as may be deemed necessa-
ry in relation 10 The prosecution or defence
of any suit or proceeding in which The dis.
trlct may be party or interested:
lllh. TO alter, repeal, and modify their
proceeding from time 10 time, as occasion
may require;
18th. No sale of any school house shall
be authorized or the site of the same
changed, or any tax voted, at any special
meeting, unless the rotice for such meeting
shall be served in tie same manner as is
provided for the first meeting of u district
after lis organization.
IL. Whenever the. time for holding
an annual meeting in any district for the
election Of district officers shall pass with
out such election held, The clerk, or in case of
his absence, either the director or treasurer
last elected, within twenty days after the time
of holding such meeting shall have passed,
may notify a special meeting for such elec-
ton in the manner prescribed in the tenth
section of this chapter; but if such meeting
shall not be notified within twenty
days as aforesaid, the town superintendent
may order any taxable inhabilart of such
district TO notify such meeting in the man.
ncr provided in this chapter for the Eorma-
lion of new district; ard the officers cho-
sen at such special meeting shall hold their
offices until the time for holding The next
annual meeting.
5 ID. No tax TO be voted by district
meeting for building, hiring or purchasing
a school house, shall exceed the sum of
three hundred dollars, unless the town su-
perlntendent of the town in which the
school house is 10 be situated, shall certify
IN writing his opinion that larger sum
ought TO be raised, and shall specify the
sum, IN which case sum, not exceeding
the sum so specified may be raised; and in
districts composed of parts of several towns,
a certificate of major part of the superin-
tendenls of said Towns shall be necessary
for such purpose.
ID. The qualified voters, al each an
nual meeting, may determine the length of
time 4 school shall bc taught in their dis
trlct the then ensuing year, which shall not
be less than three months, and whether such
school shall be taught by male or female
teacher, or both, and whether the school
TO which the district is ealitled
from the common school fund and from
the town, shall be applied TO The supper,
OF the summer or winter term of the school,
or certain portion to each, but if such
matters shall not be determined at the annu-
al meeting, the district board shall have
power, and ii shall be their duty to deter>
mine the same.
District officers and their Duties.
s Is. The officers of each school dis
trlct shall be director, treasurer and clerk,
who shall hold their respective Offices UNI
I'll the annual meeting next folio wing their
election and appointment, and until their
shall have been chosen, but moi
beyond ten days after the time for holding
the second annual meeting after their elec-
ton or appointment, without being again
elected or appointed.
Director.
Is. Ii shall De the duty Of The direc.
tor OF each district to sign, together with
the clerk, all orders drawn by the clerk up
on the treasurer of the district for moneys
collected. or received by him to be dis
burSed therein.
5 II. The director shall appear for and
on behalf of Tie district, in all suits brought
by or against The district, when no other Iii.
reclon shall be given by the qualified vot-
ers OF such district or district meeting.
Treasurer.
s Is. Ii shall be the duty of the treas
urer of each district to collect all taxes as
sesSed In pursuance Of the provisions of
this chapter in obedience TO the command
in the warrant annexed to the tax
lists; he shall also apply for and receive
from the town superintendent, all school
moneys apportioned to his district, and paw
over on the order of The clerk and director
of such district, all moneys so collected and
received by him.
10. The treasurer shall present to
the district at each annual meeting a report
IN writing; containing statement of all
moneys received by him during the pre-
ceedlng year, and of the disbursements
made by him, with the items of such dis.
bursemen.s, and exhibi, the vouchers there
for: also a statement Of all taxes assessed
upon the taxable property Of the district du-
ring tie year; the purposes for which su,h
taxes were assessed, and The amount assessed
to- each particular purpose. which report
shall! be recorded by the clerk. and if it
shall appear that any balance of moneys
is in the hands of such treasurer at the
time OF making such report, he shall i'm
pay over such balance to his
successor in Office.
20. The director and clerk shall re-
quire Of the treasurer, and the treasurer
shall execute TO the district bond in dou-
bic the amount Of moAey, as near as can
be ascerlained, 10 come in to his hands as
treasurer during the year, with sufficient
sureues, to be approved by the director and
clerk, conditioned for the faithful discharge
of the duties of his Office.
) 81. Such bond shall be filed with the
clerk, and in case of any breach of the
condition thereof, the director shall cause
a suit TO be commenced thereon in the name
of the district, and the money when col
lecled shall be applied by such director to