Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-06
SCHOOL LAW.  Elections Must Now Be Held
 in March. SISTERS, COUSINS AND > AHnts are Barred. Written Con- ; tracts Required for Teachers
 Janitors and Other
 Employees.
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 Asuuch interest is felt ;n the changes made by the late legislature in the school lave, and ID response to numer. ous inquiries we herewith print House Bill 1S6, which is entitled Substitute for House Bill IS2; an act relating tC the duties of school trustees" { Be it enacted by the legislative assem- bly of the territory of Arizona. Section 1-Paragraph l530, section 5s subdivision 8, revised statutes of Ari- zona, is hereby amended to read as follows, towit:
 Eighth-To employ under a written contract teachers, jsnitors and employees of schools; to fix and order paid their compensation.
 And boards of trustees may at any time after the annual school election and qualification of new members of the school board, enter into contract for teachers, janitors and other employees for the next succeeding school year, provided further that no relation of any trustee shall be employed in the district where he is trustee, except by unani- nous consent of the trustees.
 Section 2-Section 50, paragraph 1522 chapter T, title 20, revised statutes of Arizona, is hereby amended by insert Ing the word March wherever the word June appears, and the word April wherever the word July appears, pro- vided that for the year 1895 the election of the trustees shall take place within thirty days after this act shall become a law.
 Section 3--No trustee elected under the provisions of this act shall enter in- to the duties of his office until his pre- decessor in office shall have served out the full term of his office now fixed by law.
 Section An acts or parts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
 Section 5-This act shall be in force from and after its passage.
 Approved by the governor March 21. 1895.
 For the better understanding of sec tion in the above act, which changes the date of election of trustees from June to March, and the beginning of their term of office from July to April; paragraph 1922 therein referred IS here with pu b!ished as follows;
 1922 (section 50)-On the last day of June, A. D., 1887, there shall be an election of school trustees, held in each school district in the territory, and an nually thereafter there shall be an elec- tion held on the last Saturday of June in each year, and at such election there shall be elected one trustee in each school district, who shall hold office for the term of three years from the first Saturday in July next succeeding his election. The three trustees elected on the last Saturday in June, 1887. shall hold their offices respectively as follows: One for one year, one for two years, and one for three years, from the first Satur- day in July next succeeding their cleo tion, and at their first meeting held after their election in Jnne, 1887, as pro vIded, they shall determine among them selves which one of the three shall serve one year, which one for two years and which one for three years, and they snail certify to the county school super intendent the result of their action. The election provided for in this sction must be held in the district school house. if there is one, and if there is none at place to be designated by the board of school trustees.
 It will thus be seen that the election for school trustees must be held this year on the 10th day of April, and there after on the last Saturday in March. each new trustee entering upon his duties on the first Saturday in April next ensuing.