The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-21

| date for member of the board of edu-
cation.
Section 139 provides that the members
| of the board of education shall receive
no compensation for theft services as
members and shall not be eligible to
| the office of superintendent of schools
| during the time for which they are
| elected.
Section 40 provides the method OF
organization of the board and the cleo
ton of secretary whose term of office
shall be one year, and the election of
superintendent of public schools
| whose term of office shall be two years,
and shall begin the first day of August
of the odd numbered years.
Section 141 provides that from and after
the time this act becomes operative in any
such city the various special acts govern
ing school districts embraced within the
limits Of such city, shall be thareupon repeal
ed, and all Indebtedness whether bonded or
otherwise, and all contracts of whatever ma
ture OF such districts respectively, shall there
upon become the obligations of such cities re-
Spectively And said board of education shall
nave power to adopt such rules and reguia-
tons for its own government as it shall
deem best. not inconsistent with the intent
and provisions of this act.
Section 142 provides that as far prac-
| ticable it shall be the duty of said board
| OF education in each year to appoint not
later than June first QsO, all teachers for
the next ensuing school year, and notify each
| teacher thereof.
! Section 143 requires the board Of edu
cation to make a report to the mayor
| on or before the 1st day of May in
each year showing the number Of
| school children in attendance number
! Of teachers and other employees, etc.
Said report shall specify the monthly
! compensation that the school b a-d rec
! ommends to be paid for each of the
! teachers or class of teachers of said
/ public schools or other employees for
| the following school year. The mayor
! snail transmit the same, with his ap-
prevail or disaprOval thereof, or such
ether recommendations as he may
make in relation thereto to the common
council, which shall be convened for the
purpose of acting upon the same within
/ ten days thereafter.
Section IA gives the common council
the power to reduce the aggr gate or to-
tai amount of all salaries for the Ell
suing school year, specifying the
amount to be taken from the salaries
Of the teachers and the amount from
! other employees, but shall not have pow
er to increase the same or to fix the
amount TO be paid to any particular
! teacher or employee or to any specific
/ classes of teachers, but the board Of
/ education in these respects shall have
exclusive control.
The section also provides that the
y
Gay of September to the 1st day Of
! July. The fiscal year of the board OF
education shall begin Jan. 1 of each
year.
Section 145 empowers the board Of ed
ucation to fix the salaries of the su-
! perirtendent of schools and secretary
/ of the board and provides that these
Z salaries shall not be altered during the
term.
Section 146 provides that there shall
be sufficient school tax levied annually
! to provide among other things for the
I payment of the aggregate salaries of
teachers and employees fixed as afOre-
said.
Section 147 prescribes the powers and
! duties Of the common council in the
matter Of authorizing the board Of ed
! ucatiOn to purchase school sites and
| erect school buildings, including the
/ regulations governing proposals and
! acceptance of the same.
! Section l51 provides that the expenses
Of the operation of the public schools
OF the city shall not in any year ex-
coed the amount OF money appropriated
and set apart therefor by the common
council.
Section 1874 provides that no member. Of
! II GER or emp DYE sa tol1d Cf education and
no officer of asid civ. while acting as such.
4 snail directly or ind rect,y BE a party to or
interested or concerned in any contract or
JOB with said heard Of education or with
the city, CT in any work prosecuted by their
authority, or in the compensation to be re-
celved therefor, or in the furnishing Of sup
pres fuel or other articles purchasabIe for
the use Of said board and all contracts or
transactions prohibited aforesaid shall be
Vold. and all moneys which may be raid
thereon by said board of education or bv the
city may be recovered back. and such officer
4 snail be deemed guilty of malfeasance in the
office.
Mr.. j. II. Plummer, publisher of
( Woman's World and Jenness Miller
1 Monthly, offers 500 in prizes to the
/ persons making the largest number of
! words from the word Education" See
! his advertisement in another column.