The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-05-28
Notice to School Patrons.

Notice to School Patrons.
It il recommended that the charter
of the Colfax High School for Males and |
Females be amended and re-adopted SO
as to read as follows:
Charter for High school and College.
ARTICLE NAME, DURATION AND
DOMICIL.
This school shall be known and is |
hereby chartered and incorporated un-
der the name and style of "Colfax 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 its Board Of Trustees, or
in his absence the secretary of the board.
is the proper person upon whom citation
or other legal process should be served:
ARTICLE 2-LOcATroN AND OBJECT.
The Colfax High School and College
shall be located in 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. (See sec. 131 school
law.)
1 ART. 3-rRUsrEEs AND ORGANIZATION.
The Colfax High School and College
shall be presided over and controlled by
a board OF seven (D Trustees, residents
of the Colfax public school district, a
majority of whom shall be parents,
guardians or tutors of children within
the public school age. Said trustees
shall be elected bi-annually on the first
Saturday in June. At the first election
in June, 1898, three trustees shall be
elected ofhold 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 Of 8 and o'clock in the after
noon Of said first Saturdays in June, at
which election all white legal voters re-
siding in the Celfax public school district
having children of schoelable 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 sue
until their successors have been elected.
Should vacancies occur in said board by
death, resignation or otherwise. said Val
cancy shall be filed by a 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; aud 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-DUTIEs AND POWERS OF
TRUSTEES.
, The Board OF trustees of this 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
Q in one person or electing them separately
who may be members of the board or not
:. as a majority of the board may deem prud
ent. The treasurer shall be required to give
!, bond IN such sum az the trustees may
Y determine to be commensurate with bis
responsibility.
;. Four members Of the Board shall con
e stitute quorum for the transaction o
any and all business. and in case of tn,
absence OF the president or secretary a
any of the meetings, the members pres
emit shall elect president Or secretar!
pro TEN, to act for said meeting, and d
. case Of the permanent vacancy Of any OF
+ flee in said board they shall have tb
% power to elect his successor for the nm
expired term of his Office, at any regula
5 meeting of the board, or at a specia
l. meeting called for the purpose. Sai'
; board shall have the right to purchase
- own and accept title 10 property, to hol'
le the Same in trust for the benefit Of tn
+ public school fund, to collect money, t
4 contract and build, to sue and be sueC
q and to manage and control all propert
. belonging to said Collar High Schoe
and College. They shall annually cleo
a principal 10 take charge Of said Schoe
1T and College; upon such terms and col
~ tracts as the Trustees and Principal ma
= agree upon. The Principal SO eIecte
y shall employ his own assistant teacher
y subject to the approval and ratificatio
>, Of the board Of trustees. The trustee
shall have the right to fix the times {
their meetings and to adopt such rule
i. and bylaws as they may deem proper.
n. Article 5-TERMs, TUITION, ETC.
- The terms of the school shall consi
~ of 8, 8, or 10 scholastic months of twent
i'd days each, the same to be divided I'M
% two sessions of 4, 5, or 6 months, as Il
:, board may determine. the first session
al commence on the LIST or ID Monday
q. September each year. The tuition fe'
"A to be graded as follows:
- Primary department, per month. 81
% Preparatory p
ut Collegiate 81
Music 3!
ARTICLE 6-DIscIPLINE AND AUTHoRIT