Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1858-03-27

duty to purchase or lease such site for a
school house, as shall have been desig-
mated by the district, in the corporate name
thereof.
NorEs.-Every resolution passed st p
district meeting, for the purchase or lease
of school house site, or for the sale of
such site or other property belonging to
be district, or for the building, hiring, or
purchasing of school house, should be
drawn up, and accurately record
ed by the clerk; for it is from such record
ed resolutions alone, that the district board
derive their authority to enter into any
contract as the agents of the district.
By section 56, the district board have
the care and keeping Of the school house
and other property belonging to the dis
trict.
AS questions may arise as to the extent
of the power conferred by this section, and
to what uses the school house should be
confined by the district board, it is deemed
proper here to remark, that the general
principle is considered well settled, that i,
is the duty of the district board to exercise
such supervision over the school, house,
that the school may not be embarrassed, or
the property belonging to the district or
the pupils, injured.
The purpose for which the school house
was erected, must be pursued and nothing
must be suffered to interfere with it; and
when that purpose is accomplished, and
when the house is not wanted for district
purposes, it may be used, out of school
hours, for religious meetings, sunday
schools, lectures, or for any other moral
literary or useful object, adath the consent
of the district board
By the 5th and 9th subdivisions of sec
ton Ii, district meeting has power to
vote tax to keep the school house in re-
pair, and to furnish the same with neces-
sary fuel and appendages; also to vote a
tax not exceeding twenty dollars in any
one year, for the purchase of globes, black
boards, and outline maps, or any other
apparatus for illustrating the principles
Of agriculture, chemistry or the mechanic
arts,
By section 2S, the district board shall
provide the necessary appendages to the
school house, and keep the same in good
condition and repair; and they shall keep
an accurate account of all expenses incur
red by them, and present such account for
allowance at regular meeting; and the
amount of such account, as allowed BY
such meeting, may be assessed and col
lected in the same list with other district
taxes.
There seems to be some discrepancy be-
tween the provisions of the two sections a.
bove referred to- By the 18th section,
taxes are to be voted at district meeting
for the necessary appendages and repair Of
school house, and by section d, the dis
trict board are to provide all necessary APP
|pendages of school house, and keep the
same in repair, without any reference to a
tax voted for the same purpose at any dis
trict meeting; for they are required to
keep an account, &c, which; when allowed,
I is subsequently to be assessed and collected
with other district taxes. These apparent
| ly conflicting provisions, must be under
stood in this manner.
When district meeting does not raise
by tax any or a sufficient sum, to provide
the necessary appendages, and to keep the
school house in repair, the district board
are authorized to provide such appendages,
and to make such repairs and to present
their account Of the same for allowance to a
district meeting.
By section 81, the district board have
power to fill, by appointment and vacancy
that may occur in their own number.
I2l8] Form Of an appointment to fill a
20rnucu an the District ROnrd