The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-06-18

Street, Chicago.
Charter for High school and College.
Adopted juno 4. 1898.
ARTICLE NAME, DURATION AND
DOMICIL.
This school shall be known and is
hereby chartered and incorporated I'M
der the name and style of SColfax High
School and College for Males and Fee
males" for continuous succession and
unlimited duration. Its domicil is fixed
at Colfax, Grant parish, Louisiana, and
the president of it's Board Of Trustees, OF
in his absence the secretary of the board,
is the proper person upon whom citation
or other legal process should be served.
ARTICLE 2-LocATfoN AND OBJECT.
The Colfax High School and College
shall be located ia the town OF Colfax,
Louisiana, or within one half % mile Of
its corporate limits, and the object is to
establish high school and college under
the State public school law for graded
and high schools. tSee sec. l3l school
law.)
ART. 3-rRUsTEEs AND ORGANIZATION.
The Colfax High School and College
shall be presided over and controlled by
board Of seven (D Trustees, residents
of the Colfax public school district, q
majority of whom shall be parents,
guardians or tutors of children within
| the public school age. Said trustees
shall be elected biennially on the first
| Saturday in June. At the first election
! in June, 1888, three trustees shall be
| elected to hold Office for four years, and
| four trustees shall be elected to hold for
two years; and every two years thereaf-
| ter three or four trustees las the case
may bel shall be elected to hold for four
years; and for the purpose OF electing
SAID trustees an election shall be held in
the High School and College building or
upon the grounds Of the same, between
the hours uf 8 and s O'Clock in the after
noon of said first Saturdays in June, at
| which election all white legal voters re-
siding in the Colfax public school district
having children Of scho0lable age, or be-
| ing the guardians or tutors of children
Of public school age, shall have the right
to vote; provided, that all trustees duly
elected shall hold Office and act as such
until their successors have been elected.
Should vacancies occur in said board by
death, res,gnation or otherwise, said va
cancy shall be filed by special election
held under the order Of the president,
after twenty days notice. date. place and
time Of holding the election to be given
in SAID notice; and should there be no
president the secretary of the board Of
trustees shall order said election. The
said trustees shall serve without remun-
Grafton.
ARTICLE 4-DUrIEs AND POWERS OF
|
i The Board Of trustees Of tnis High
School and College shall meet and organ
ize within thirty days after their election
by selecting one of their number rs pres
ident. Also they shall elect secretary
} and treasurer, combining the two offices
in one person or electing them separately
who may be members of the board or not
. as majority of the board may deem prud
| ent. The treasurer shall be required to give
bond IN such sum az the trustees may
, determine to be commensurate with hi
responsibility.
Il Four members OF the Board shall con
stitute quorum for the transaction O
any and all business. and in case OF tn
, absence of the president or secretary a
t any of the meetings, the members pres
{ emit shall elect president or secretar.
r pro TEN, to act for said meeting, and Il
case of the permanent vacancy OF any OF
flee in said board they shall have th
Q power to elect his successor for the nm
expired term Of his office, at any reguia
3 meeting of the board, or at a specia
! meeting called for the purpose. Sal
! board shall have the right to purchase
1 own and accept title to- property to hol
4 the same in trust for the benefit of tn
g. ~ -
! contract and build, to sue and be suet
: and to manage and control all propert
belonging to said Colfax High Schot
8 and College: They shall annually cleo
! q principal to take charge OF said Scho<
d; tracts as the Trustees and Principal ma
/ sgree upon The Principal 90 electe
y shall employ his own assistant teacher
, subject to the approval and .ratifcatio
of the board OF trustees. The trustee
shall have the right to fix the times {
their meetings and to adopt such ruiz
: and bylaws as they may deem proper.
. ARr1ME 5-TERMs, TUITION, ETC.
3 The terms OF the school shall consi
o of 8, s. or 10 scholastic months OF tweni
p days each, the same to be divided I'M
e two sessions OF 4, s, or 6 months, as Il
q board may determine, the first session
g. commence on the LIST or I'd Monday
q September each year. The tuition To-
y to be graded as follows:
. Primary department. per month. g
q Prpatstory z.
Z. Collegiate -
4 Music 81
I. ARzIcLE 6-DIscIPLINE AND AUrHoHrT