The herald., 1894-12-04

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 gen.
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 PARIS, with
the kind. cost and the expense OF the imp ove-
ments, including the entire cost and expense
of the department for tho year ending Novem-
Sec GI the following named on GERS of said
city shall respectively execute to said mupici-
pal corporation bonds in the following sums
respectively, condtio oned for the faithful dis
charge by them OF the duties of their respec tive
Offices, to wit:
The bond OF the city auditor is fixed at sio,.
600
The bond of the city treasurer is fixed at
$15OOOO.
The bond Of the city engineer is fixed at
$4,000.
The bond OF the city attorney is fixed at $5,-
600
The bond of the water overseer is nxed at
$1,000
The bond Of the street superintendent is
fixf at $4,000.
The bond of the chief of police is fixed at
$4,000.
The bond Of the health officer il fixed at
$4,000.
The bond of the city clerk is fixed at S5, ,Ooo
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 inslallments,
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 $24o0 per an.
nun.
The city auditor shall receive S24oo per
annum.
The city treasurer shall receive $2Aoo Per
annum.
The city engineer shall receive $4,000 per
annun.
The city attorney shall receive $4,000 per
annum.
The superintendent OF buildings shall re-
ceive $500 per annum.
The chief Of police shall receive $4,000 per
The health officer shall receive $4,000 per
annum.
The street superintendent shall receive
Sec SO. The government of the school de-
partme mt of the city shall be vested in q board
OF education, to consist of seven persons to be
elected as herein provided, to be called mem
bers OF the board oi 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,
and special meetings at such times as shall be
determined by rule OF said board A majority
for the transaction of business, but a 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
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:
!. 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-
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 s,laries or wages,
and 20 withhold for good and suffi aient cause.
the whole or any part of the salary or wages OF
any person or persons employed as aforesaid.
g. 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
effect the laws relating to education; also to
establish and regulate the grade of schools,
and determine what Textbooks, course, oi
study ana mode of instruction shall be used in
said schools.
A. To provide for the school department fuel
and lights, water, blanks blank books. print
incidental expenses as may be deemed neces-
sary by said board.
g. To build. alter. repair, rent and provide
proper school furniture, apparatus and ap-
planes.
g. To take and hold in fee. or otherwise, in
JFuSJ lOT tnt Clly, dHy anu I'LL Todl eStht te ana
personal property that may have been ac
qured, or NAV hereafter be acquired for the
use ami benefit of the public schools of the
city; and to sell or exchange and to lease any
of such p7ope ty; provided that the proceeds
of any such sale or exchange shall be exclu
sively applied to the purchase of other lots, Oh
the erection of school houses.
z. To grade, fence and improve all school
lots, and in front thereof to grade, sewer OF
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
or in equity necessary to recover and main
,ain tn full enjoyment and possession OF said
property, and TO require the services of the
city attorney free OF charge, in all such cases.
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 careful
estimate of the whole amount of money to be
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
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
sh all be paid into the school fund
10. To establish regulations for the just and
equitable disbursement OF all moneys belong.
Ing TO tnc SCHOOL IunQ.
II. To examine aud approve, in whole or in
part, in the manner provided in sectont2l2.
every demand payable out of the school fund,
existing or which may hereafter exist upon any
school property.
age from attending tue public schools.
a. In it's discretion to establish kindergar
ten schools for the instruction Of children be
tween the ages OF five and six years, and indus
al nd ma training gahoola mr. dana art
ments.
Is. To receive and manage property or money
acquired by bequest or donation In trust fol
the benefit of any school, educational purpose
Is. And generally to do and perform suct
other acts as may be necessary and proper tt
carry into force and effect the powers conferred
on said board, and to increase the efficiency O
the public schools in said city.
II. No member of the board of education
shall, during the term for which he shall hay
been elected. be eligible to any office to b'
filed or confirmed by the board OF education
nor shall any member OF the board OF educa
occur in any office when such vacancy is to b
! filed or confirmed by the board Of education.
| Sec. 72. All contracts for building shall bt
| given 10 the lowest bidder thereof, offerini
adequate security, to be determined by th
| board after due public notice. published TO
| not less than ten days in the official newspape
of the city. 1t shall be the duty. of the boar
| to furnish all necessary supplies for the publ
! schools. All supplies, books, stationery, fuel
| printing, goods, material merchandise. re
| pairing and every other article and thing sur
| piled to or done for the public schools, or an
| OF them, when the expenditure to be incurred
| on account of such matter may exceed thre
( hundred dollars, shall be done or furnished b
|. contract let to the lowest bidder after like pull
| lie advertisement; provided, that the board 9
education may reject any and all bids unde
| this section
Provided that the board OF education ma
| by requisition authorize any appointee, CON
| mittee or agent OF said board to bind the sal
board for the payment OF any sum OF none