Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-02-01

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shall be used in the schools.
9. Prepare Reports. To prepare
and forward the report required by law
and perform all required. duties concerns
ing them.
10. Make Rules For Care OF School
Property. 10 make.such rules as may
Unnecessary and proper for the protec-
tion, safe.keeping. care: and %preserva-
zion of school houses. lots, sites, appur-
tenances, books and ali other school
property. - ~,
II. Procure Books. etc. To pur-
chase, sell. exchange improGe and re-
pair school apparatus. books for needy
pupils. furniture. and appendages for
ae school: and if they deem advisable
to purchase class and text books and
stationery and other necessary articles
required by pupilsin their school work.
and sell and rent them to the pupils in
the school under their control and
management.
II. Taxes. To levy upon all the
property subject to taxation in the
township a tax for school purposes of
all kinds authorized by law. not exceed
ing a rate of three per cent, or thirty
mills OF the dollar, in any one year.
SEC. IS. Members of School Town
ship Boards iIIow Chosen. When
there are three or more schools in any
school township, but a single member
Of the township school board shall at
anytime be elected, appointed Or other
wise chosen, or shall qualify and hold
office as n of the board. from The
same school or the territory thereof
and when there are.two schools but
one shall so hold FROM each and
the other shall be chosen or appointed
from the territory not included Thy any
school and when there is but one
school established in d township but
one member shall be chosen therefrom
and the remaining members from the
the territory not so included. When
an officer is elected or appointed con-
trary to the provisions of this section
such election or appointment is void,
and it shall not affect the title to Office
or the right to act of the officers who
were previously elected and qualified.
The object of this communication is
to inform the masses, Of the almost I'M
limited power of a school board, and to
urge upon the electors the necessity of
a personal interest, to the end that COM
petent and unselish lnen be elected to
govern the most important branch of
our organization: viz, our school sNs-
TEN:
Recollect that no two members Of the
| school board can be elected from the
same part of the township. They must
represent different localities.
TOWNSHIP BOARDS How ORGANIZED.
SEC. "a. The clerk of every school
township, and every board of election,
and school corporation shall make, Or
cause to be made, each year, an ieunm-
Grafton of all the children who are res
ident with the limits of the corpora
ton on the first day of June, who are
over seven and under twenty years of
age, but shall exclude from such enum-
ination all such persons who are mar
ried.
The clerk Of the school township, in
making such enumeration shall first, in
a column, list the names of parents,
guardians or heads of families, having
charge Of such child or children, but
only one in each case first the
father If living, then the mother if he
is not living and the same in other cas-
es; opposite each name in appropriate
columns, he shall enter the names of
all the children under the charge of
the person SO named, the males in one
column and the fsmales in another col
umn.
Upon taking the first enumeration
he shall ask each person SO having
children III charge to which school he
or she desires to be attached within
the township, and the school selected
shall lie set down by it's number in a
proper column. AL such persons so Sc
lecting a particular school shall be
considered as forming and belonging to
the particular school so selected, and
they shall not be allowed to attach
themselves to any other school without
permission of the township board, up
on showing cause for the change.
SEC. 66. Who 10 BE Voters etc.1-
The persons so selecting and listed as
belonging to, and forminga particular
school who are pareIits, guardians or
other persons having III charge chill
dren Of school age, shall be the voters
at the school injecting, and such voters
or patrons Of Il school and the children
belonging to the school, shall be known
as a school under the number assigned
it by the school board Of the township.
All persons who are included within