Nebraska advertiser., 1870-03-17
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To Correct Clerical Errors in Sections Twenty.
nine (2Sl, thirty-three (3S), f~Orty-sIx G6),
fifty $50, Rfty-tWO (5s), Rfty-sight (5s),
seTenty-three (73), seVenty-fOur ga, and
seVenty-eight as, OF An Act, entitled san
Act to Establish . System Of Public I~nstruc-
tiOn for the State Of Nebraska approved Feb
ruary 10, 1869.
WHEREAS, Clerical errors were made by the
Enrolling Clerk in Sections %, %, 46, 80,
So, 81, 73, "A and IS, of an act entitled IAN
Act to Establish a System Of Public In
struction for the State OF Nebraska" APP
proved on the 18th OF February, 1869;
therefore
Be 1t Enacted 6y the Legislature of
the State of Nebraska, that said Sec
tons be corrected so as to read as
JOUOWs:
SECTION %. The said qualified
voters shall also have power at any
regular or special meeting, to direct
purchasing or leasing any appropriate
site, and the building, hiring or pur-
chasing of a school house, and the
amount of fuel to be furnished for the
succeeding year and to levy a tax on
the property of the district for the
paymtnt of the same.
Sec. 80. They may also determine,
at each annual meeting, the length Of
time a school shall be taught in the
district, the ensuing year, which to
entitle the district TO any portion of
the State Fund, shall not be less than
three months in districts which have
less than seventy-five pupils, nor less
than six months in districts that have
between seventy-five and two hun
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in districts where there are more than
two hundred pupils and whether by
male or female teachers, or by both,
and whether the money apportioned
for the support of the school therein
shall be applied to the winter or
summer term, or a certain portion to
each.
SEC. 46. Within ten days next pre-
viOus to the annual district meeting
the director shall take the census of
his district, and make n list in writ
ing, of the names of all the children
belonging thereto, between the ages
of five and twenty-One years. In case
of the absence or inability Of the di-
rector, such census shall be taken by
the moderator or. treasurer, or such
person as they may appoint and a
copy of such list, verified by the oath
of the person taking such census, by
affidavit appended to or endorsed
thereon, setting forth that it is q cor
rect list of the names of all the chill
dren belonging to the district between
the ages of five and twenty-one years,
shall be returned with the annual re-
port to the county superintendent.
SEC. so. He shall present at each
annual meeting an estimate of the
expenses necessary to beincurred dur
ing the ensuing year for such purpose
and for payment of the services of
any district officers, and such amount,
when voted by such annual meeting,
shall be assessed and collected in the
same manner as other district taxes
but no tax for these purposes shall be
voted at q special meeting, unless a
notice of the same shall be expressed
in the notice of such meeting.
SEC. 50. He shall draw and sign all
orders upon the treasurer for all
moneys to be disbursed by the dis
trict. and all warrants upon the cOun-
ty treasurer for monies raised for dis
trict purposes or apportioned to the
district by the county superintendent,
and present the same to the modera-
tor, to be cOuntersigned by him.
SEC. So. They shall purchase or
lease such site for a school house as
shall have been designated by the
district, in the corporate name there, f,
and shall build, hire or purchase, such
school house out of the funds provided
for that purpose, and shall make sale
and conveyance of any site OF other
property of the district, when law
fully directed by the qualified. voters
at any annual or special meeting.
Provided, That the district shall
not in any case build a stone or brick
school house upon any site without
having first obtained a title in fee,
without the privilege to remove the
same, when lawfully directed so to
do by the qualified voters of the dis
trict at any annual or special meeting.
Provided also, That the qualified
voters of the district may appoint q
building committee to take charge of
the work of building such school
house.
Sec. 70. The State Treasurer shall,
semi-Rnnually, on or before the third
Monday in May and the first Monday
in December, make out acOmplete ex-
hibit of all monies belonging to the
school, funds of the State, as returned
to him from the several counties, to-
gether with the amount derived from
other sources, and deliver the same
duly certified to the State Superinten-
dent, and within twenty days there
after. the State Superintendent shall
make the appOrtionment of said funds
to such counties according to the pro
rata of the enumeration of scholars,
in each county, last returned from the
county superintendent, and certify
the appOrtionment of each to the
county superintendent of the proper
county, and to the State Auditor, who
shall draw a warrant on the State
in favor of the various coun-
ties for the amount so specified by the
State Superintendent, and the several
county superintendent shall immedi-
and within twenty days after
receiving said appOrtionment, appOr-
the amount of funds so certified
ls belonging to the general school
fund for his county as follows, to sOif :
One-fOurth of the whole to be distrib-
1ted equally to the several districts in
the county, and the remaining three
fouFths Of the whole to be distributed
the several districts In his county
pro rata, according to the enumera-
ion of scholars last returned by the
directors of the various districts, and
no district, city or village which shall
rave failed TO make and return such