The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-11-25

the number added by purchase, gift or other
wise during the year; the number lost or
missing: the number of visitors attending;
the number OF books loaned out, and the gem
eral character and kind of such books, wi tn
such information and suggestions as il may
| deem of general interest.
| IA. The report OF the park commissioners
| shall show the condition of the parks, with
! the kind. cost and the expense OF the improve
ments, including the entire cost and expense
| of the department for the year ending Noyem-
| Der 30tn last preceding.
| Sec. 81. The following named officers of said
| city shall respectively execute TO said munich
| pal corporation bonds in the following sums
| respec ively, conditioned for the faithful dis
charge by them Of the duties OF their respective
| Offices, to wit:
The bond OF the city auditor is fixed at SiO,-
600.
The bond OF the city treasurer is fixed at
The bond of the city engineer is fixed at
| $4,000.
The bond of the city attorney is fixed at ST.
900.
The bond OF the water overseer is fixed at
So, 900.
The bond of the street superintendent is
| fixed at $1u 600
The bond of the chief of police is fixed at
| S., 1000
The bond of the health officer is fixed at
$1,000
The bond OF the city clerk is fixed at S.. 900.
Sec. IS. 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 installments,
at the end of each calender month
The mayor shall receive $4,000 per annum.
| Each councilman shall receive $1,000 per
! annum.
| The city clerk shall receive $24OO per ar
The city auditor shall receive $4,000 per
The city treasurer shall receive $24O0 per
| annum
The city engineer shall receive $4,000 per
| annum
The city attorney shall receive $4,000 per
| annum
The superintendent of buildings shall re-
ceive $500 per annum
The chief CT police shall receive $4,000 per
The health officer shall receive $4,000 per
annum.
the street superintendent shall receive
| $4,000 per annum.
| Sec SO. The government OF the school de-
partme mt OF the city shall be vested in board
OF education, to consist of seven persons to be
i elected as herein provided, to be called mem
bers of the board OF education, who shall serve
without salary.
Sec 70. The board OF education shall elect
one OF its number president, and shall hold
regular meeting at least once in each month,
and special meetings at such times as shall be
determined by rule of said board. majority
OF all the members shall constitute a quorum
for 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 public, and its re-
cords shall be open to public inspection.
Sec. II. The board of education succeeds to
Ill tne 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:
!. 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
Q. To appoint or employ and dismiss the city
school superintendent, a deputy superntend
ent, clerk and such teachers, janitors, school
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
sny person or persons employed as aforesaid
B. 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 into
| establish and regulate the grade of schools
and determine what textbooks. course of
study and mode of instruction shall be used in
d. To provide for the school department fuel
and lights, water, blanks blank books, print
ing and stationery; and to incur such other
incidental expenses as may be deemed neces-
| 8. TO build, alter. repair, rent and provide
school houses. and to furnish them with
| proper school furniture, apparatus and ap-
| planes.
| q. To take and hold in fee, or otherwise in
trust for the city, any and all real estate and
personal property that mar have been &C.
| CURED, or may hereafter be acquired for the
use and benefit of the public schools of the
| city; and to sell or exchange and to lease any
| of such prope ty; provided that the proceeds
| 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
J lots, and in front thereof to grade, sewer or
pave and repair the streets, and to construct
and repair sidewalks
8. To sue for any and all property belonging
| to or claimed by the, said board Of education,
and to prosecute and defend all actions at law
lain the 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
on or before the 18th day of July of each year.
submit in writing to the city council a 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 it
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.
IL To examine and approve, in hole or in
part in the manner provided in section 212
or to reject any such demand for good cause.
IL. TO discharge all legal membranes now
existing or which may hereafter exist upon any
school property.
age from attending the public schools.
Ia In its discretion to establish kindergar-
ten schools for the instruction of children be-
tween the ages of five and six years. and indus
trial and manual training schools or depart
ments.
49, 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.
| IL. And generally to do and perform such
| other acts as may be necessary and proper to
carry into force and effect the powers conferred
on said board, and to increase the 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
| filed or confirmed by the board of education,
nor shall any member OF the board of educa-
ton be selected 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. 70. 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 expenditure 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 appointee com
| mi ttee r AGENT of said boa I'd to bind the said