The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23

EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
In response to a question the depart
ment of education rules that school trus'
tees have control of all school property in
their respective districts or communities
may make sale, lease, rent, ETC., subject to
the approval of the commissioners court.
This being the case, if the commissioners
court approves, the trustees may move a
school house to a more central and con-
venient location in the school district or
community, provided that the lot or prop
erty upon which it is placed be decided to
the state, and the removal be effected with,
out cost to the public school fund.
The following is the law touching school
houses:
When school district or community
has no school house, or not a sufficient
number, or when the school houses are in
need of repairs or furniture, so much of
the available public free school fund to the
credit of such district or community for
any one year, as the county Judge may
deem expedient or necessary, may be used
for erecting, repairing or furnishing a
house or houses, as the case may be; pro-
vided, that where house is to be erected
the citizens of the district or community
must contribute of their labor, or means,
or both, an amount equal to one-third of
the school fund go used. suitable pie ce
of land shall be donated as site, and a
deed therefor shall be executed and de-
livered, conveying a good and sufficient
title, in fee simple, in and to such land, to
the county judge and his successors in
Office, in trust for public free school pur-
poses, which deed must be recorded as
other deeds; and provided further, that
districts which may hereafter tax them
selves may be allowed to use the money
raised by such taxation for the purpose
of purchasing, repairing, charging,
erecting or furnishing school buildings,
or to purchase building sites, but the title
to all real estate so purchased shall be
taken and recorded as herein above pro-
vided.
The trustees of the district or commu-
nifty must make an application to the
county judge for any appropriation for
the purposes named in the preceding sec
ton before making sny contract with any
teacher for the year in which such appro-
priation is desired, which application
shall be accompanied with plans and
specifications of the house or houses
sought to be erected, with statement of
the estimated cost, or in case of desired
repairs or furniture, det6iled statement
of the repairs or furniture desired, to-
gether with an estimate OF the cost of the
same.
After receipt of such application, the
county judge, if it appears to his salts
faction that the house to be erected is
necessary, and adapted to the needs of
the pupils of the district or community,
or that the repairs or furniture desired is
necessary, and that the requirements of
law have been complied with, shall make
an order appropriating such an amount
of the school fund to the credit of such
district or community for that year as he
may deem expedient, necessary and
proper for the purposes specified IN such
application; but in making any such ap-
for district the scholastic in
terests of the districts as a whole shall be
considered, and no part of such an appro-
priation shall be drawn from the treas
ury or paid until the completion of the
building or repairs, according to con-
tract, plans and specifications, or in case
of furniture, until the delivery thereof
may have made, and then only upon the
of the county judge.
The trustees of such school district or
shall contract for the erection
of such building and superintend the con-
5truction of the same, and the county
Judge shall draw his warrant or warrants
upon the school fund 80 appropriated
only upon accounts first approved by
hem.
No mechanic, contractor, material man
)r Cther person can contract for, or in any
other manner have or acquire any lien
upon the house SO erected, or the land
upon which the same is situated, and all
contracts with such parties shall expressly
,tlpulate for waiver of such lien.
So much of the available school fund of
my school district or community for any
one year as the county judge may deem
necessary and proper, may be
lsed in the purchase of suitable school
upon the terms and conditions
herein before specified.
The trustees of any school district or
community upon the order of the county
court, approving the
erms thereof, when deemed advisable, may
make sale of any property belonging to
aid school district or community, and
lpply the proceeds to the purchase of
grounds, or to the building or
'epairing of school houses.
The trustees of any school district or
community not having school house
nay rent or lease suitable house, instead
If building or purchasing one, if deemed
advisable by them; the rent shall be paid
oy the county treasurer, out of the avail
sble school fund to the credit of the dis
riot and community, upon the warrant OF
The trustees approved by the county
Judge.
All school houses erected, grounds pur-
chased or leased for a school district or
and all other property be-
onging thereto, shall be under the control
If the district trustees of such community |
,r district.
A school house constructed in part by |
subscription by colored parents
,r guardians, and for colored schC oil dis
riot or community, shall not be used
Without the consent of the colored dis
riot or immunity assisting in its cree
ion, for the education of white children
ind like rnle shall protect the use of
school houses erected in part by voluntary |
of white parents or guard
ans, for the benefit of white children.
Is Consumption Incurable?