Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-11

tricts or communities shall lave the
management and control Of the public
schools; they shall have the power TO
employ and dismiss teachers; but, in
cases of dismissal, teachers shall have
the right of appeal to the county judge
and state superintendent.
Sec. IS. The trustees of sChoolsshall
have the power to admit scholars over
or under scholastic age, either in or
out of the district or community, on
such terms as they may deem proper
and just, and they may suspend from
the privileges of schools any pupil
found guilty of incorrigible conduct,
but such suspension shall not extend
beyond the current term of the school,
Sec. 80. County judges, trustees and
all school officers, except teachers,
shall take oaths to faithfully and inn
partially discharge the duties of their
respective offices.
Sec. 90. White and colored chill.
drcr shall not be taught in the
same schools, but the colored children
shall receive the benefit as far rs prac-
ticable of the public school fund and the
funds set aside in any district or COM
munity for colored children shall not
be used for the education of white
children, nor shall the public school
| fund set aside in any district or com
munity for white children he used for
| the education of cOlored children.
| Three white trustees shall in all cases
| be elected or appointed for the man.
agement and control of white schools,
\ and three cOlored trustees shall be
elected or appointed in any school dis
trict for the colored schools therein
upon the written application of ten
solored residents of said district hay
| ing one or more children within the
! scholastic age, to the county Judge
one month before any annual election
| in said district for school trustees. In
case that there are not enough cNlored
| children in any school district rs laid
OIL, then two or more of said districts
may he consolidated by the trustees
| for the benefit of the cOlored school,
and each of the districts shall pay pro
rata, according to cOlored scholastic
census in each, from the district school
fund, for its support, and shall be gov
erned by the trustees of both districts.
Sec 81. When a school district or
community has no school house or not
IA sufficient number, the available pub
lie free school fund, for any one year,
to the credit of said district or COM
munity with the county treasurer,
may be used for the purpose of erect
ing house, upon the following con.
dltions:
l. a suitable piece of land shall be
donated as site, and deed therefor
executed and delivered to the county
judge, conveying said land to the
county judge and his SUCCESSORS in
Office, in trust for public free school
| purposes, which deed must be recorded
as other deeds.
,. The citizens of the district OF
community must contribute of theil
labor aud means an amount at least
equal to the school fund SO used
see 62. The trustees of such district
or community must make an applica-
ton to the county judge for the
appropriation of said fund, which
application shall give the plan and
be accompanied by list of subscrip
ton of labor and means by the mem
bers of the district or community
amounting in value to at least one-hal
OF the estimated cost of the house.
Sec So. On the receipt of such ap
plication, the county Judge shall, i
the law has been complied with, and
the house to be erected is large enough
to accommodate the pupils OF the dis
tricl or community, approve the same
and enter an order appropriating an
amount of said fund, equal to one-hal
OF the estimated cost OF said building
for the erection thereof But said an
preparation shall not be drawn from
the treasury or paid until the compile
ton of the building in accordance with
the plan and specification, and theu
only upon the warrant of the county
judge.
Sec. "a. The trustees of such
school district or community shall
contract for the erection of such build
ing, and superintend the construction
of the same, and the county Judge
shall draw his warrant or warrants
for the school fund so appropriated
only upon accounts first approved by
them.
Sec. 65. No mechanic, contractor.
material man, or other person can con.
tract for, or in any other manner have
or acquire, any lien upon the house Nd
erected, or the land upon which the
same is situated. and all contracts with
such parties shall be expressly stipu-
late for n waiver of such lien.
Sec. 0B. The available school fund
of any school district or community