Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-03-27

president of the board shall be the chair
man and the clerk of the board secretary
of such meeting. In case either of these
officers be not present, his place shall be
ent. Three public notices of the time,
place and purposes of such meeting shall
be posted in three public places in the dis
trlct by the district clerk at least ten days
prior to such meeting. If a majority pres.
ent at such meeting shall by vote select q
school house site, or shall be in favor of the
purchase. exchange or sale of a school
house, as the case may be, the board shall
locate, purchase, exchange or sell such site
or erect, remove or sell such school house, AS
the case mayhem accordance with such vote
of such majority; PiOUidol, That it shall
require a vote of three-fourths of the vot-
erS present and voting at such meeting tC
order the removal Of a school house. and
such school house so removed cannot be
removed again within one year of the date
of such meeting.
SEC. IS. That Section SO be amended to
read as follows:
Sec. SO. If a petition signed by the per
sons charged with the support, and having
the custody and care of nine or more child,
rem of school age, all OF whom reside not
less than W. and onc-half miles from the
nearest school, be presented to the board
asking for the organization of a school fol
such children, the board shall organize
such school and employ a teacher therefor
If a suitable room for Such school can be
leased or rented at some proper location
not more than two and one-half miles dis
tant from the residence OF any one of sad
chlldren; and 1t such petition be signed by
the persons charged with the support and
having the custody and care OF twelve or
more OF such children the board shall or
ganiZe a school ana employ a teacher there
for, and If no suitable room for snch school
can be leased or rented the board shall call
a meeting of the voters of the district for
the selection and purchase Of a school
house site therefor, and tie purchase or
erection OF a school house as provided for
III Section 81 OF this act. If at such meet
ing 10 such site be selected. or if it be not
voted to erect or purchase Il SchOu! house
for such school, the board shall select and
purchase a chool house site, and erect
purchase or move thereon a school hOuSe
at a cost Of not more than seven hundred
t10Ol dollars for such school house and
furniture therefor.
SEC. 10. That Section Sc be amended to
read AS follows:
Sec. Sc. In any district containing foui
or more common schools ana having an
enumeratiUn of sixty or more persons OF
school age resulting therein, the board may
call, ana IT pctitioned 80 to do by ten or
! more voters in the district shall call /;
llNNAlllS " tilt NottlS w ltt ulStilcl III Tie
manner prescribed IN Section 81 of this act
to drternine the question Of the establish
ment Of a district high school. IT a major
ity OF the voters AZ such meeting vote in
favor of establishing such high school, the
meeting shall further proceed to select a
site therefor and to provide for the
erection or purchase OF 4 school
building, or for the necessary addition
to some school building therefor. There
upon the board shall erect or purchase a
building or make such addition for such
high school, AS voted at such meeting. and
shall establish therein q district high
school containing one or more depart
mentS, and employ a teacher or teachers
therefor. Such school shall be KEEP; in sea-
sion for such time each year, not less than
three months, As the board may determine.
The beard shall, subject to the approval Of
: the county superintendent. grade such high
school, and prescribe tine studies to be pur-
sued therein. and shall have the same man.
agement and control thereof as Of the com
MOI schools in the district. Two or more
adjacent school districts may join in the
establishment and maintenance cf such
high school, when empowered so to do by
q majority or the voters in each district at
a meeting called and held as provided for
in this section. in which case the building
and furniture occupied and used for such
high school, shall belong to the districts so
uniting. and all the costs of maintaining
such school, including wages of teachers
and all necessary supp les, shall be paid by
such districts IN proportion to the assessed
valuation OF the property in each. and the
employment of teachers therefor. and the
management. control and grading thereof
shall be vested in the joint boards of such
districts. subject to the approval of the
county superintendent of The county in
which such school is situated.
SEC. 20. That Section 81 be amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 81. The board shall cause the clerk
to make each year an enumeration OF all
unmarried persons OF SchOOl age, being
over six and under twenty years of age,
having their legal residence in the district
on the first day of December of that year,
giving the name and age in years of each
such person, and the name of the parent or
guardian having the care orcu,tOdy of such
person. Such enumeration shall be made
uDon and Ill accordance with the blanks fur
nlShed therefor by the county Supprintend-
ent and Shall be returned to the county SUI
perintendent before the Goth day of De.
cemDer. A copy of such enumeration shall
also De be Kept in the Office OF the district
clerk. The board shall also cause tine dis
trlct clerk to make out an annual school re-
port tor the year beginning January | and
ending Dtcemher3 81, containing such tinan-
clal and statistical statements and items as
Shall nt Ttqulreu by the State Superlntend-
ent of Public Instruction, upon and in ac-
c0rdance with the blanks furnished there
Tor BY the county superintendent. Such
annua. report shall be made after January
l, carefully examined and certified as cor
rect by the board at its regular meeting in
January, and transmitted to the county su-
p~erintendent before the first day of Ftbru-
airy following. A COPY of such annual re-
port shall be filed in the district clerks Of
flee.
SEC. p. That Section 1O1 be amended to
read as follows:
Sec. 10l. Every district school board
shall have power and it shall be their duty
to levy upon all the property subject to
taxation in the district a tax for school
purposes of all kinds authorized bv law,
not exceeding, i'll the aggregate. a rate of
thirty (3O) mills on the dollar in any one
year. Such tax Shall be levied by resolu-
tlon OF the board, prior to the Goth day of
july IN each year. Which resolution sinai
De entered in the record Of the proceedings
OF the board. The clerk shall Immediately
thereafter notify the county auditor in
writing of the amount OF tax SO levied, and
such notice shall be in substantially the
following form:
State of North Dakota,
County tss
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