The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1885-05-30

Employment IF TEACHERS for CNrrcnt
Year-IVAat B0drd IF DirectorS Uacc
Power.-The statute has appointed the
first Saturday in April in each year as the
time for the election of IA school director
In each district, and the school year com
mences at that time, An annual reorgani
cation of the board of directors is required
and the intention of the statute is that the
board organized for a given year shall ex
ercise the powers and control the schools
of their district during that year Davis v
School Directors % Ill. 203.
One of the members of board of school
directors, on the 25th of March, made d
verbal agreement with a person to employ
him to teach school in the district fol
three months from the 18th day of April
following, this agreement to be reduced tC
writing when the board should meet. On
the 9TH day Of April the director who made
this verbal agreement, and one other di.
rector, reduced the verbal agreement to
writing, and executed the same, ante dating
it to the 25th of March. The third direc-
tor had no knowledge of this arrangement
at the time it was entered into. The 9th
day of April was subsequent to the day APP
pointed by the statute for the election of a
director. But the election was not held on
that day, having been deferred to the 18th
of the month when another person was
elected in the place of the one who had
made the verbal agreement with the teach
err A majority of the new board refused
to sanction or recognize the contract, and ii
was held rightly so: that a single director
had no power TO make such contract
Moreover, the old board of directors had
no authority to employ a teacher under a
contract to be performed in the succeeding
school year. Id
Employing Teachers; Certificate Of quit
fcatt0n. The directors are expressly EN-
powered to appoint teachers and fix the
amount Of their salaries, but they cannot
employ teacher who has not, at the time
of such employment, a certificate of quail
ficatiOn as provided for by the school law,
and any contract made with a teacher not
having such certificate is void, and is sus-
ceptible of subsequent ratification Wells
v The People, II ILL., 532.
Where the school directors employed a
teacher, who did not have the necessary
certificate, to teach a school for six months
and after having taught three months, at a
StldIN III TWICE. lilt ulllpull per llDlilH He
was to receive under the first contract, II
was held, that the first contract was void
and that the new contract was an attempt
to do Indirectly what the directors had nc
power to do directly, and that, as to the in,
creased amount of salary, the second con
tract was void. Id.
ut is competent for school directors tc
agree TO pay teachers what in their opinion
their services are reasonably worth, but II
is not competent for them to 90 beyond
that, and include in such compensation an
additional sum TO compensate for some
thing else for which the law does not allow
compensation from the school fund. Id.
Collection IF Teachers lVdgeS-The prop
er remedy of school teacher to recover
his wages is an action against the school
directors of the district, and upon a recov.
cry, to take out the special execution pro
vided, and enforce it by attachment OF
mandamus. Mandamus against the town
ship treasurer is not the proper remedy
Rogers v The People, 50 III. 1j4.-Legat
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