Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31


shall forfeit to the board of education, for
the use of the library, the sum of five dol
lars, to be recovered in an action of debt in
some competent court: Provided, mo Rer-
son shall be compelled to serve two lns
successfully; and the said board shall ke
all necessary rules and regulations relajIEe
to its proceedings, and punish by fine, each
offense of any member of this board who
may, without sufficient cause, absent him.
self from any meeting thereof, to be col
lected as they may direct.
Sec. 5. The school inspectors, together
with the mayor and president of the coun-
Gil of said city, (who are declared to be
x-oficio school inspectors} shall be a
body corporate by the name of "The Board
of Education of the city of Saint Paul."
and in that name may be capable of sue
ing and being sued, and of holding or
selling and conveying real and personal
property, as the interest of said
common schools may require; and shall
also succeed to and be entitled to demand
all moneys and other rights belonging to
or in possession of the board of school in
spectors or any member thereof, or any
school district board,or any member there
of, Or any real and personal property, or
other rights Of any such district in said
city, and the clear proceeds of all such
property which may come into the pos
session of said board, as last aforesaid,
shall be expended and disbursed, by and
under authority of said board of education,
for the support of said schools, latter paying
all just and legal demands existing against
the several school districts heretofore ex-
listing in said city; Provided, That said
hoard cho11 not bo 1iahla tn nov oDnro
gate amount of Indebtedness against any
one district, greater than the amount re-
celved from the same by the board.
Sec. 6. The board of education five
members of which may form quorum)
may meet from time to time at such
place in said city as they
may designate. The mayor shall
be president of the board, and shall pre-
side at all meetings thereof; but in case of
his absence, or the absence of the presi-
spectors present at any meeting may
choose one of their number president pro
tempore.
Sec. 7. The board of education shall
have full power and authority, and it shall
be their duty, to purchase such school
houses, and apply for and receive from
the county treasurer, OF other officers, all
moneys appropriated for the primary
schools and district library of said city,
and designate place where the library
may be kept therein. The said board shall
also have full power and authority to make
bylaws and ordinances relative to taking
the census Of all children in said city be-
tween the ages of five and seventeen years;
relative to making all necessary reports
and transmitting the same to the proper
officers, as designated by law, so that said
city may be entitled to its proportion of
the primary school fund relative
to visitation of schools rela-
tive to the length of time
schools shall be kept, which shall not be
less than three months in each year; rela-
tive to the employment and examination
of teachers. their powers and duties; rela-
tive to anything whatever that may advance
the interests Of education, the good gov
eminent and prosperity of common schools
in said city, and the welfare of the public
concerning the same.
Sec. 8. The justice of the peace for the
city shall have jurisdiction of all suits
wherever said board may be party, and
of all prosecutions for violation of said
bylaws and ordinances.
Sec. 9. The board shall annually, in the
month of February, publish in the afore-
said newspaper of the city, statement of
the number of schools in said city, the
number CT pupils instructed therein the
year preceding, the several branches of
education pursued by them, and the expen-
ditures for all things authorized by this
act, during the preceding year.
Sec. TO- The board of education shall es-
tablish district library and for the in
crease of the same the COM
mon council are authorized an
nually to levy tax on
the real and personal property within said
city, of sum not exceeding $500, which
tax shall be levied and collected in the
same manner as the moneys raised to de-
fray the general expenses of said city.
Sec. II. The common council of said
city are hereby authorized, once in each
year, to assess and levy tax on all the
real and personal property within the said
| city, according to the city assessment roll
| of that year,which shall not exceed one dol
lar for every child in said city between the
ages of five and seventeen years, the num-
Der of children to be ascertained by the
last report on that subject in the Office OF
the clerk of said board of education, and
certified by the president thereof, and the
said tax shall be collected in the same
manner as the moneys to defray the gen
eral expenses of said city. All such mon.
eys shall be discussed and expended by
the authority of said board, for the sup
| port and maintenance of said schools, and
| for no other purpose whatever.
Sec. u. The board of education imue
diately after their organization shall pro
coed to elect suitable qualified personal
secretary and treasurer of the board, who
shall give security for the faithful dis
charge of his duties, and it shall be hi:
duty to examine all teachers and exercis,
a general supervision of schools, under thu
direction of the board Of education. As
compensation for his services he shall b,
entitled to a salary of not less than five
hundred dollars.
Sec. -. The collector of said city, wheI
be shall have paid any school moneys tx
said treasurer, or any other person, shall
take receipt therefor, and file the SAM
with the clerk of said board, stating tn,
whole amount collected and the amount re
turned by him to the common council, a
unpaid and uncolleeted.
Sec. IA. That the collectors of the cit,
of st. Paul, elected in the different ward
of said city, shall act as collectors of tn
school taY asSessed and levied in said citv