Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-04-27
INTERESTING TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS.
The Educational Funds and their Use
Explained May Election.

Explained-Ihe May Election.
Superintendent of Public instruction
Campbell has forwarded to the Directors Of
each school district copy of an Act of the
Legislature, providing that no school district
shall forfeit or be deprived of its apportion-
ment of State and county school funds which
shall fail to maintain six months school
during the year ending June 80, 1880, by
reason of the change requiring the moneys to
be derived from poll taxes to be paid into the
State school fund instead of, as heretofore,
into the county school fund. The Act gives
District Trustees, Auditors and Superintend-
ents power to draw their orders, acquisitions,
or warrants against the August apportion-
ment of school moneys for the year 1880, in
payment for thesalarles of teachers for services
rendered prior to June 18th, and in the year
1880; and it is also made the duty of the
County Treasures of the several counties of
this State to honor and pay such warrants as
other warrants drawn upon the school fund
are paid. By the Act it is made the duty of
the County Auditors, ON or before the first
regular meeting of their respective Boards of
Supervisors in September, 1880, to certify
the total amount of the warrants issued by
him, in accordance with the Act, and the
amount certified shall be added to the other
amounts which shall be found necessary to be
raised for county school purposes, and when
so added shall be levied, assessed, collected
and paid into the county treasury to the credit
of the school fund, and shall thereafter be
used and expended as are other county school
funds.
The Superintendent in his letter says: 1t
is not the intent of the law to furnish any ad-
ditional facilities to school districts, but, as
expressed in its title, to protect them from in
Jury. Nor is it intended, on the other hand,
to be limited in its provisions to the mainten-
ance necessarily of a sac months school. 1t
is intended to enable each district to maintain
a school for the usual time, or as long as 1t
would have maintained a school but for the
change in the matter Of poll taxes
In relation to the circular letter of the 18th
inst. the Superintendent says the election is
to be held on the first Saturday of May, as
providedin Section 1893 of the new school law,
and not, as stated in the card, on the first
Monday. In answer to several inquiries re-
ceived, he adds that only one Trustee Is to
be elected, and refers to the following
opinion of the Attorney General, in which
Mr.. Hart says, relative to the number
of School Trustees which the law as
amended requires to be elected at the election
to be held in May, 1850, that the amended
law itself is so specific upon this subject that
it leaves no room for construction. 1t pro-
vides that in new districts, or in case of
vacancy, the School Trustees shall be elected,
to hold office for one, two and three years re-
spectively in all other cases one Trustee
shall be elected annually to hold office for
three years. The section upon this subject is
re-enactment of the same section as it stood
before the passage of the amendatory law.
There is nothing in this law, nor is there any
provision in the new Constitution which can
be construed to shorten existing terms Of of
fee of School Trustees"