Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1878-01-11
Official State Department.
BY c. W. Won COELLN, STATE sUPERIN-
TENDENT.

Y.
TENDENT.
l. Unless the bylaws of the Board
decide otherwise, person is not elected
without receiving the majority of all the
votes cast. By special order of the
Board, plurality will elect.
The public records are public proper
ty, and they are open to inspection at
any time by any citizen. No public
officer can refuse examination of the
records; but he is their custodian, and
being charged with their safe-keeping,
he may maintain their possession.
3. The party doing damage to school
property is responsible for the same
The teacher is bound to exercise rea-
sonable care to protect and preserve
school property, and failing to do so
may be held liable for damages sus-
tanned.
4. The district township is bound by
the contract of a sub-director. IXXF
Iowa, p. 364
j. If the electors, at the district
township meeting on the second Monday
in March, direct that any additional
branches shall be trught in any or all of
the schools in the district township,
their action is mandatory, and the Board
are bound to endeavor in good faith to
fulfil the wishes Of the electors. Fail
ing to do so, the board can be compelled
by mondomus to show reason why they
have not complied with the requests of
the electors.
6. All residents between and q are
to be enumerated Whether student
at college is bona tide resident at that
place or not, depends upon the facts
If he has a home elsewhere, to which he
expects to return, his temporary resi-
dence at the college will not entitle him
to be numbered with the school popula-
ton.
I. At the annual meeting in March,
the electors may vote to transfer money
in the school house fund unappropriated
to the other funds, or to either. Sec
ton 1717, clause 2. Any other mingling
of funds is violation Of law.
8. If the public, with the knowledge
Of the owner of land, has claimed and
continuously exercised the right of us
ing the same for the public highway, for
a period equal to that fixed by the stat
ute for the limitations of real actions,
complete right to the highway thereby
becomes established against the owner,
unless it appears that such use was by
favor, leave to mistake xxi Io,ca, p.
ISL.
Under the Iowa statute of Gmita-
tions, ten years use of highwey by the
public, under claim of right, will bar
the owner of the soil XIX Io,ca, p.
12S.
8. During the pendency of an appeal
all matters must remain in statu quo,
and this can be enforced by writ con-
junction. Also during such time no
opinion relating to the case will be CIV
en- to interested parties by this depart
ment.
10. The approval of the teachers
contract by the president is mandatory
act, which he cannot refuse to perforns
unles the contract is drawn at variance
with instructions from the Board, or
otherwise violates law.
II. If the boundry between an inde
pendent district and district township
is the line of the civil township, it can
not be changed. But if the independ-
ent district includes portion of a civil
township, the remainder Of which con-
stitutes district township, the boun-
daries can be changed.
Des Moines, Iowa, 1877.