The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-15
Anendment. 70 eohoo, -, .,

Ansndmsnts 70 school IassS.
The following are the amendments TO !!
the school laws passed at the Last session
Of the legislature:
The first election to organize school |
township shall be ordered by the board
Of county commissioners, and the notices
shall be made, signed and posted BY tho
proper officers Of the county the same %
provided by law for general elections;
but no school township shall be organic
ed until the county board are satisfied
that 1t has at least $S,O00 of taxable prop
erty and not less than twenty children
Of school age within it. All subsequent
selections shall be called by the township
school board, who shall cause not less
than five notices thereof to be posted in
Ave Of the most public places in the
township not less than ten days before
the election which notices shall be ugn-
ed by the clerk or in his absence by the
director.
IL. No township shall hereafter be
organized with an area of more than
ninety square miles or land sections.
! 8. School townships may or may not
conform in respect to their boundaries
to those of civil townships and may or
may not bear the same name.
~. School township boards NAV levy
the annual school taxes at any time after
the assessment is made prior to August
18th IN any year.
! s. No warrant shall be issued except
for an Indebtedness incurred prior to
its issue.
&c. School houses may be located
nearer than one mile to the township
boundary when public convenience re-
quires that it be 80 done.
~. In every public school the teach
er shall give instruction orally upon the
subjects of temperance, physiology and
hygiene.
e3 8. All school corporations and dis
tricts in all the counties in the territory
shall keep open and maintain public
schools not less than six months each
school year where said corporation or
district contains twenty or more pupils
and the levy allowed by law upon the
assessed valuation is sufficient for that
purpose.
90. All boards of education, ,ndepen.
dent school districts and other school
boards shall make regular annual re.
ports to the county superintendent who
shall in turn report to the territorial sup.
erintendent. This provision shall apply
to all graded and high schools.
10. The boards of education of all
school townships and independent
school districts may pay their members
for actual services rendered, not more
than thirty dollars per annum. and not
more than two dollars day for services
duly rendered in connection with their
official duties.
II. The territorial superintendent
of public instruction shall cause to be
printed in pamphlet form sufficient
number of copies of tho laws relating
to public schools for distribution among
the school boards of the various school
corporations and districts of the terri.
tory, aud there is hereby appropriated
out of the territorial treasury a sum
sufficient to pay all the necessary cost Of
printing, binding and distribution Of
the same, and the accounts therefor
shall be certified by the territorial sup.
erintendent to be true, correct and just,
and shall be paid to the proper persons
by warrants of the territorial auditor
upon the territorial treasurer.
}, 3 -. No county superintendent shall
be interested directly or indirectly in
, the sale or purchase of any school cup.
plies or school bonds, but may advise
school officers as to their duties regard
ing the purchase of such supplies or sale
of such bonds.
IS. Township officers shall belong to
different schools. except where there
are less than three schools in tho town.
ship.
u 3 IA. All those counties having the
district school system in force shall be
governed by chapter Forty of the Politi.
cal Code Of 1877 in every case where the
acts of the fifteenth legislative assembly
shall be found inconsistent for the gov.
eminent of the same, and the fees of the
district officer shall in all cases be gov.
erned by the district as provided in said
chapter Forty, regulating the government
of school districts and for the purposes Of
carrying out the provisions of this sec
ton said chapter Forty of the political
code of 1877 is hereby revived and made
of full force and effect SO far as it relates
to counties excepted from the operations
Of the school township system.
Is. This act shall take effect and be
enforced from and after its passage and
approval.
Approved March, 18th, 1885.
U. 8. land Office. Grand Forks, D. T. March s, 1885
Notice is hereby given that the following.nam-
ed settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim and that said
proof will be made before the Judge, or in his
absence the clerk Of the District court Of Pembins
Co, d. l., at Pembtna, D. Z, on June 20th, 1885,
VIE: James Greenwood