The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-09-06

N&CdHCicS5 QTONllSQ, THE leTI1S Oh OIAlCc
of trustees SO appointed shall expire at
the regular election for school trus-
tees and that the trustees elected to fill
vacancies shall be elected for the unex-
pired term.
4. And be it enacted, That section
thirty1one of said act be n II hereby
amended so as to read as follows
II. And be it enacted, That an annual
meeting for the election for school truss,
tees shall be held in each district, on
the third Tuesday in March, at the school
mousse or IN such other convenient pubic
place within the district as may be Sc
lected by the board of education, and
notices thereof, Specifying the day, time,
object and place OF such meeting shall be
posted on each school house within the
district, and at such other public places
as shall be deemed necessary, at least
ten lays before the date of such meeting;
priyided, that not less than seven notices
shall be posted in each district, and that
a copy of such notice shall be printed in
such papers published in the county as
are designated, for the time being, to
print the pamphlet laws, in the last issue
of such papers printed prior to the third
the legal voters of the district, and%a
plurality of votes shall elect; and no per-
son shall be eligible to the office of<trus-
tee unless he or she is above twenty-one
years OF age, rs a resident of/the dis
trict and can read and write; Sny district
clerk who shall fail to post and cause to
be printed notices of thseefection OF truss
tees, as required by this section, shall
gay a fine of twenty dollars, to be re-
covered in an action Of debt in the court
for the trial of small causes, by any per-
son resident of said school district. p
5. And be it enacted, That section
thirty-four of said act be and is hereby
amended so as to read as foloWs:
"a. And be it enacted, That each board
of education created under the provis-
ions of this act shall organize within ten
days after the annual election, by the cleo
ton of one of its member as president,
and one of its members as district clerk,
and shah have the power to fix the COM
ure 10 organize, the county s~uperinten-
dent shall appoint such president and dis
trict clerk
8. And be ~itenaeted. That section thirty
nine of said act be and is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
80. And be it enacted, That the board Of
e~ducation shall have power, and it shall
be its ufy:
1. To employ and dismiss teachers, jan
itors, mechanics and laborers, and to fix,
alter and order paid their salaries and
compensations;
II. To make and enforce rules and reg
ulations. not in conflict with the general
regulations of the state board of educa-
ton, for the government of schools, pu-
III. To erect, enlarge or improve school
buildings and grounds, and purchase,
lease, mortgage or sell school lots or
school buildings; to borrow with or with
out mortgage, and to raise money by tax
alton for any such purpose or to pay
debts incurred therefor, or for the cur
rent GAD6ISeS OIL the SCHOOL,, DTOF1QeQ,
that for any such acts they shall nave the
previous authority of a vote of the dis
trict;N
". To rent. furnish and repair school
buildings, n to keep the same insured;
v. To purchase personal property, and
to receive, lease and hold in fee, in trust
for the district, any and all real or per-
soral property for the benefit of the
schools thereof;
VI. To enforce the regulations pre-
scribed by the state board of education,
and, in connection with the county sup
erintendent, to prescribe the course Of
study to be pursued. and a uniform Sc
ries of text books 10 beused in the school
or schools under their charge;
VII. To suspend or expel pupils from
school;
VIII. To provide text books and other
necessary school supplies and loan the
same free to all the pupils in the schools
under their control;
TX. To call a special meeting of the le-
gal voters of the district at any time
the interests of the school nay require it,
which meeting shall be called in the man
ner provided in section eiShty-six of his
act, and no business shall be transacted
at such special meetings except such as
has been set forht in the notices by which
said meeting was called;
x. To call a special meeting of the legal
voters of such district whenever one
fourth of such legal voters shall request
them by petition so to do; and in the no.
tees calling such special meeting shall be
inserted the purpose OF purposes named
in said petition, SO far as the same are in
conflict with the school laws of this state;
XI. To permit a school house to be used
for other than school urposes whe a
majority of the trustees shall consent
thereto at a regularly called meeting of
the board of education;
XII. To make an annual report, on or
before the first day of August, to the
county superintendent, in the manner and
form prescribed by the state superinten-
dent of public instruction.
7. And be it enacted That section forty
seven of said act be and is hereby amend-
ed so as to read as follows:
n. And be it enacted, That for the pur-
pose of maintaining free public schools
threr shall be assessed, levied and coll
lected annually upon the taxable real and
personal property in this state, as exhib-
tied by the latest abstract of ratables
from the several counties. made oct by
the several boards of assessors and fled
in the Office of the comptroller of the
treasury, a State shcoo tax equal to five
dollars for each child in this State be-
tween the ages of five and eighteen years
as exhibited by the next preceding school
census, which tax shall be assessed.
levied and collected at the same time
and in the same manner in which other
taxes are assessed, levied and collected.
S. And be it enacted, That section
eighty-one of said act be IN is hereby
amended SO as to read as follows:
81. And be it enacted, That 1t shall
be the duty of the county superintend-
ent of each county, on or before the
III NCS VI way " dDDbIllOl all
nually, to the districts of his county
the state school moneys, together with
the interest of the surplus revenue be-
longing to said county, in the following
maner:F
I. He shall apportion to each district
a sum equal to two hundred dollars for
each teacher employed in the public
schools of such district for the full
time for which the schools in such dis
trict were maintained during the year
next preceding such apportionment;
II. He shall apportion to each district
of the remainder Of the school
moneys belongings to his county on the
basis of the aggregate days attendance
registers as aseertained from the last
published report of the state superin-
iii. He shall ~apportion to each district
longing to his county or the basis OF
the last published school census.
g. And be it enacted, That section
.eighty-three of aid act be and the same
is hereby amended so as to read as fol-
lows:
IS. And be it enacted, That the county
collector of each county snail receive
a%nnronria ton belonging to his county,
and shall pay out the same to the coll
lectors of the several TOWNSHIPS and
boroughs, and to the city treasurers or
his county, only on the orders OF the
county superintendent. gqs
And be it enacted That section
eighty-four of said act be and the same
is hereby amends so as to read as fol-
lows:
81. And be it enacted. That it hsall be
the duty Of the township collector to
receive and hold in trust all fisschool
moneys belonging to the township
whether received from the state,9ap-
preparation, from district tax oriffrom