Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1894-03-23

trustees by the Board of County
Commissioners, as above provided,
and after each biennial election,
the trustees, or a majority thereof,
must meet at the school house and
organize as board, and from their
number must select chairman, a
clerk and treasurer, or they may
elect as treasurer some compe-
tent and responsible person who is
not a trustee. No school officer
whatever must receive any pay or
compensation for his time or SER
vices or in any way be allowed to
make any pecuniary profit or gain
by reason of his office; and any
school officer or person who has
the custody in any way of any
school funds must give bonds; with
at least two good sureties, in
double the amount Of funds likely
at any time to be in his custody.
SEC. S3.-Regular meetings of
the Board of Trustees must be
held on the second Monday of each
month, and special meetings may
be called by the chairman of the
board, or, if he cannot be found, by
leaving such notice at his place of
residence with some person of suit
able age and discretion. Four
trustees constitute quorum for
the transaction of any business,
but less number may adjourn
any regular meeting from time to
time, until a quorum can be
obtained; but no meeting of the
board, not provided for by the
rules or by law, is legal unless all
members thereof have been noti-
fed as provided for in this section.
SEC. S4.-The Board of Trustees
of said district must have power to
and it is their duty:
FIRST. To make such bylaws
for their own government and for
the government of the schools of
the district as they may deem ex-
pedient, not inconsistent with the
provisions of this chapter.
SECOND. To employ or discharge
teachers, mechanics and laborers,
and to fix, allow and order paid
their salaries and compensation;
and to determine the rates of Tut
ion for nonresident pupils.
THIRD. To levy special tax il
f necessary, which when added to
: moneys apportioned by the County
, Superintendent of Schools, will be
sufficient to provide funds for the
| maintenance of the schools for nine
months in each year; the special
: taxes so levied by said Board O.
Trustees for the payment of inter
est on bonds and sinking fund, fol
payment of bonds at maturity, to-
gether with the levy for the main
J tenance of schools, shall not exceed
ten mills on the dollar.
FOURTH To provide furniture
fixtures and apparatus, and fol
| everything needed in the schoo
: house or for the use of the board.
, FIFTH. TO rent, repair and in
9 sure school houses and property
Y and preserve the same for tn,
+ benefits of the schools of the dis
| trict.
: SIXTH. TO build or remov
t houses and buildings, and to pur
: chase or sell school lots.
0 SEVENTH. To suspend or expe
a pupils from school who refuse t,
e obey the rules thereof, and to ex
1 clude from school, children unde
: six years of age.
0 EIGHTH. To determine the mum
Der and qualification of teacher
n who shall be employed and tn
g length of time the school shall b
n kept, to fix the time for opening o
: closing of school, and for the dis
h missal of primary pupils before TIL
+ regular time of closing school.
t NINTH. To require pupils to b
G furnished with the proper an,
y suitable books as a condition c
# membership in the schools.
a TENTH. To exclude from tn
L schools and school libraries of sal
l district all books, tracts, paper
S and cate chisms of scctaria
S nature.
i ELEVENTH. To require teacher
Y to conform to the law and til
Q regulations of the board.
| TWELFTH. To protect the MOI
/ ais and the health of the pupil
: while at school.
t Sec. S5.-All the provisions {
e this act providing for u publ
T. school system wherein not contra
i dictory to or inconsistent with tn
: provisions of this chapter, an
$ which may be made applicable t
d the objects thereof, are adopted a
4 part of the law governing the es
d Enlistment, and management c
n independent school districts.
a SEC. S6.-An act entitled "A
c Act to establish and maintain
It system of free schools" which be
: came a law March 6, 1891, and a
IS acts and parts of acts in confiC
h with this act are hereby repealed.
q SEC. S7.-Whereas an emergenc
> exists, this act shall be in fore