The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-25
Changes in Educational Laws.
WARRANTS AND BONDS.

>age and approval.
SCHOOL TOWNSHIP oRGANIltrIpN.
An act To amend chapter Il Of the
! session laws of lSS3, entitled Educa-
ton
Belt enacted by the legislative assem-
| bly, Of the territory Of Dakota,
S.ctiunl The first election to organ
jIca school township Shall ~ ordered
boy tuc board of county commissioners.
and the notices shall hc made, signed
and posted by the proper officer of the
county, the same ms provided by law for
general elections, but no school township
shall be organized until the county
boa,d are satisfied that il has at least
eight thousand dollars Of taxable prop
erty and not less than twenty children
Of school age resident within It. All
subsequent elections shall bc called by
| the township board who shall cause not
less than five notices thereof To be post
od IN five of the most conspicuous plac-
e. in the township. not les, than ten
days before the election, which notices
Shall bc signed by the clerk, or IN his
absence hy the director.
Section >. No township shall heroaf-
ter be- organized with an area Of more
7 than ninety square miles or land see
d .ious.
Section 3. School townships may or
may not conform in their boundaries
to those Of civil townships, and may or
may not bear the same name
Section t. School township boards
may levy the annual school taxes at
any time after the assessment is made
PRIOR To August 10Th III any year.
Section D. No warrants shall bc is
sued except for an Indebtedness incur
red prior to It's issue.
Section Il. School houses may be
located nearer than one mile to the
township boundaries, when public con
venicnce requires that 1t be so done
Sectlon7. In every public school the
teacher shall give instruction orally
upon the subjects of temperance, phys
iology and hygiene.
Section :. All school corporations
and districts in all the counties Of the
territory shall keep open and maintain
! public schools for not less than six
months each school year, where said
corporation or district contains twenty
or more pupils, aud the levy allowed by
/ law upon the ASSESSED valuation is suii-
cient for that purpose.
Section 9. All boards Of education
in independent school districts and 9th
cr school boards shall make regular All
nnal reports TO the county supcrintend-
ent who shall in time report 10 the ter
ritorial superintendent This provision
shall apply to all graded and high
schools.
Sec 10. The boards Of education of
all school townships and indcpCnd ent
school districts may pay their members
/ for actual services rendered not more
/ than thirty dollars per annum and not
more than two dollar, per day for ser
vices duly rendered in connection with
official duties.
See II. The territorial supcrintcpd.
cnt OF public instruction shall cause to
be printed in pamphlet form sufficient
number Of copies of the laws relating
to public schools, for distribution among
/ the school boards Of the various school
corporations and districts Of the territory
and there is hereby appropriated ont of
/ the territorial treasury sum sufficient
! 10 pay all the necessary cost Of printing,
binding and distribution Of the same,
and the accounts therefor shall be ccrti-
! fed 10y the territorial superintendent to
he truc, correct and just, and shall be
paid to the proper persons by warrants
of the territorial auditor upon tic terri
torlal treasurer.
Sec. l.. No county superintendent
shall bc interested, directly or indirectly,
supplies or school bonds, but may ad.
wise school officers rs To their duties
regarding the purchase Of such supplies
or the sale of such bonds.
Sec. l3. Township officers shall be
long to different schools, except where
there are less than three schools in the
township.
Sec. II. All those counties having
the school district system in force shall
be governed by chapter forty of the
political code Of l>77 in every case
where the acts Of the fifteenth lcgi,la-
tive assembly shall he found lnconsist-
cnt for the government OF the same
and the fees Of the district officers shall
/ III dl C't9tN NC SbNciitt ny VIC hiNli ~
us provided in chapter forty, regulating
the government Of school districts and
for the purposes Of carrying ont the pro.
visions Of this section, >aid chapter forty
Of the political code of lS77 is hereby
revised and made Of full force and ci-
, feet 50 fa. rs it relates to counties ex-
cepted from the operations Of the school
township system.
Sec. l.. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after its pas
sage and approval
Approved March Is. 1898.