The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-24

I the number added by purchase, gift or other
wise during the year; the number lost o
missing; the number of visitors attending
crai character and kind OF such books, will
such information and suggestions as 1t maj
deem of general interest.
II. The report of the park commissioner.
shall show the condition of the parss. witt
the kind. cost and the expense OF the imp owe
ments, including the entire cost and expense
OF the department for the year ending Novem
Der S0th last preceding
Sec 81. The following named officer of sale
city shall respectively execute to said inunc
pal corporation bonds in the following sum.
respec lively. conditioned for the faithful dis
charge by them of the duties of their respective
offices, to wit:
600. w
The bond of the city treasurer is fixed at
$4,000
The bond of the city engineer is fixed al
$4,000.
The bond OF the city attorney is fixed a. 3d..
The bond of the water overseer is fixed al
So, 200.
The bond Of the street superintendent is
fix, at $40 900.
The bond of the chief of police is fixed at
SO, 900.
The bond OF the health officer is fixed at
$,,o1O.
Sec. 65. The officers of The city shall receive
IN full compensation for all services of every
kind whatever rendered by them the follow
ing salaries, payable in monthly ms. ailments,
at the end OF each calender month:
The mayor shall receive $4,000 per annum.
Each councilman shall receive $1,000 per
annum. 1ft
The city clerk shall receive s24oO per au-
mum.
The city auditor shall receive $,4O0 per
annum
The city treasurer shall receive $24O0 per
aunum.
The city engineer shall receive $4,000 per
Gnnum.
The city attorney shall receive $4,000 per
annum.
The Superintendent of buildings shall re-
ceive 81 500 per annum.
The chief Of police shall receive $4,000 per
annum. s.-
The health officer shall receive $4,000 per
annum
The street superintendent shall receive
S22ooo Per aiiiijiii
Sec So The government of the school de.
partm mt of the city shall be vested in a board
OF education, to consist of seven persons to be
elected as herein provided. to be called mem
bers OF the board OF education, who shall serve
without salary.
Sec. 20. The board of education shall elect
one, of its number President, and shall hold
regular meeting at least once in each month,
ana special meetings at such times as shall be
terinined by a rule OF said board A ma jority
OF all the members shall constitute quorum
r the transaction OF business, but smaller
number may adjourn from time to time. The
board may determine the rules of its proceed
;ngs. Its sessions shall be pnblic. and its ie
cords shall be open to public inspection.
sec. n. The board of education succeeds to
all the property rights and to the obligations
OF the board of education OF the city of Los
Angeles heretofore existing, and it shall have
sole power:
l.. To establish and maintain public schools.
including high schools, to change, consolidate
and discontinue the same, and to establish
school districts and to fix and alter the
boundaries thereof.
2. To appoint or employ and dismiss the city
school superintendent, deputy superintend-
n al CT mi hnr 10 nj col,n
census marshals. mechanics. laborers and
other emp oyees as may be necessary to carry
into effect the powers and duties of the board;
to fix, alter and allow their salaries or wages
and 20 withhold for good and sufficient cause,
the whole or any part OF the salary or wages of
any person or persons employed as aforesaid
3. To make, establish and enforce all neces
sary and proper rules and regulations for the
government of public schools, the teachers
thereof, pupils therein, and for carrying'tnto
effect the laws relating to education; also to
establish and regulate the grade of schools,
and determine what textbooks. course OF
study AMI mode OF instruc ton shall be used in
said schools
4. TO provide for the school department fuel
and lights, water, blanks blank books. print
ing ana stationery; and to incur such other
incidental expenses as may be deemed neces
sary by said board
$. To build alter repair, rent and provide
school houses, and to flu nish them with
proper school furniture, apparatus and ap-
planes.
6. To take and hold in fee. or otherwise, In
trust for the city, any and all real estate and
personal property that may have been &C.
quired, or may hereafter be acquired, for the
use ami benehI or the pubic schools of the
city; and to sell or exchange and to lease any
OF any such sale or exchange shall be exclu-
sively applied to the purchase of other lots, or
the erection of school houses
z. To grade, fence and improve all school
lots, and in front thereof to grade, sewer or
pave and repair the streets, and to construct
and repair sidewalks.
To for oil W, yxaIn r,,,~
to or claimed by the said board of education,
and to prosecute and defend all actions at law
or in equity necessary to recover and main
lain tbs full enjoyment and possession of said
property, and to require the services of the
city attorney, free Of charge, in all such cases.
.. To determine annually the amount of
money required for the support of the public
schools and for carrying into effect all the pro-
visions OF law in reference thereto; and, in
pursuance of this provision, the board SHALL
on or before the 18th day OF July OF each year,
submit in writing to the city council careful
estimate of the whole amount of money to be
received from the state and county and the
amount required from the city for the above
purposes, and the city council shall, in each
year, fix the percentage of taxes to be levied
and collec ed for school purposes; provided,
that the amount to be thus levied for school
purposes shall not exceed twenty cents on
each one hundred dollars valuation upon the
assessment 70 |, and that when collected 1t
shall be paid into the school fund
10. To establish regulations for the just and
equitable disbursement of all moneys belong
ing to the school fund.
II. To examine aud approve, in whole or in
part, in the manner provided in section 212,
every demand payable out of the school fund,
or to reject anv such demand for good cause.
IL. 10 discharge all legal membranes now
existing or which may hereafter exist upon any
school property.
- To prohibit any child under six years of
age from attending the public schools
ID. In its discretion to establish kindergar-
ten schools for the instruction of children be-
tween the ages of five and six years, and indus
al nd m a gahOnlq n de ri.
ments.
Is. To receive and manage property or money
acquired by bequest or donation In trust for
the benefit of any school, educational purpose,
or school property.
rs. And generally to do and perform such
other acts as may be necessary and proper to
on said board. and to increase ths efficiency of
the public schools in said city.
II. No member of the board OF education
SHALL during the term for which he shall have
been elected. be eligible to any office to be
filled or confirmed by the board OF education,
nor shall any member OF the board Of educa-
ton be sci cted to fill any vacancy that may
occur in any office when such vacancy is to be
filled or confirmed by the board OF education.
Sec. ~. All contracts for building shall be
given 10 the lowest bidder thereof. offering
adequate security, to be determined by the
board after due public notice, published for
not less than ten days in the official newspaper
of the city. 1t shall be the duty of the board
to furnish all necessary supplies for the public
schools All supplies, books, stationery, fuel,
printing, goods, material, merchandise. re-
pairing and every other article and thing sup
Piled to or done for the public schools, or any
of them, when the expe Iditure to be incurred
on account OF such matter may exceed three
hundred dollars, shall be done or furnished by
contract let to the lowest bidder after like pub
lie advertisement; provided. that the board of
education may reject any and all bids under
this section
Provided, that the board of education may
by requisition authorize any appoin,ee, com
mittee agent OF said board to bind the said
DO .rd for the payment of any sum OF money