The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-12-03
FAX. GRANT PARISH La. SATURDAY DECEMBER ). 1898



Charter for Center High School
and Academy.
Article l.-Name, Duration and Dom
/ icil.-This school shall be known and ID
hereby chartered and Incorporated Under
/ the name and style of Center High
School and Academy for Males and Fe-
males" for continuous succession and
unlimited duration. Its Domicil is fixed
at Raven Camp, Grant parish, Louisiana.
and the president of its Board of Trus-
tees, or in his absence, the secretary of
the board is the proper person on whom
citations or other legal process should
be served.
Article 2-Locdtion and Object-Cen-
tor High School and Academy shall be
located within school district No. of
Grant parish, La, and the object is to
establish a High School and Academy
under the auspices of the Second Eighth
District Association, and subject to the
State public school law for graded and
High Schools. (See sec. 131 School law.)
Article 3-Trustees and Organization.
The Center High School and Academy
shall be presided over ind controlled by
board Of fifteen (15) trustees, residents
OF public school district No. l, Grant par.
isb, Louisiana. majority of whom shall
be parents, guardians or tutors of chill
dren within the public school age. Said
trustees shall be elected biennially. on
the fourth Saturday in July. At the first
election in July, 1899, seven trustees shall
be elected to bold Office for two years, and
eight trustees shall be elected to bold
office for one year; and every year there
after seven or eight trustees Gas the case
may bel shall be elected to hold Office for
two years, and for the purpose Of electing
said trustees an election shall be held in
the Center High School and Academy
building or upon the grounds OF the
same, between the hours of IL m. and 8
o'clock in the AFTERNOON of the said fourth
Saturday in July. at which election all
colored legol voters residing in the public
school district No. /, having children OF
schoolable age, or being 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 aud act az such until their success
sors have been elected. Should vacan-
cies occur in said board by death, resig-
nation or otherwise, said vacancy shall
be filed by special election held under
the order of the president, after thirty
days notice, date, place and time of hold
ing the election to be given in said no.
tice; and should there be no president
the secretary of the board of trustees
shall order said election. The said trust
ees shall serve without remuneration.
Article 4. II Duties and P0sCers Of
Trustees.-The Board of Trustees OF
Center High School and Academy shall
meet and organize within thirty days af-
ter their election, by selecting one of
their number as president. Also they
shall EXIT asec1etSry md tFe6D0fef CON-
biuing the two ofllces in ona pesiou Or
electis4 them separately, who may be
members Of the board or not q majori-
ty of The board may deem prudent. The
treasurer shah be required to give bond
in such sum as the trustees may deter;
u ne to be commensurate withhis reepon-
sbiIity. Eight members of the board
shall constitute quorum. for the tfnssc-
ton OF any and all business, and infease
OF the absence of the president or secre-
tary at any of tho meetings. the men,
beers present shall elect a president or
secretary pro tenn to act for said meeting,
and in case of the permanent vacancy Of
any officer in said board they shall have
thepower to elect his successor for the
urexpired term of his Office at any regu-
lar meeting of the board, or at special
meeting called for the purpose. Said
board shall have the right to purchase,
own and accept titles to property, to hold
the same in trust for the benefit Of the
public school fund, to sue AMI be sued,
to collect money, to contract and build,
and to manage and control all property
belonging to said Center High School and
Academy. They shall annually elect a
principal to take charge OF said school and
academy, upon such terms and contracts
as the trustees and principal may agree
upon. HE principal go elected shall ems
ploy his own assistant teachers, subject
to the approval and ratification of the
board of trustees. The trustees shall
have the right to fix the times of their
meeting and to adopt such rules and by
laws as they may deem proper.
Article 5.-Terms, Tuition, etc.-The
terms of the school shall consist of 8, 9,
or 10 scholastic months of twenty days
each, the same to be divided into two SEES
sions Of 4. 5, or 6 mouths, as the board
may determine, the first session to CON-
mence on the LIST or End Monday of No
vember each year. Tuition fees to be
graded as follows:
Primary department, per month 8 70
Preparatory dep'tment. per month 90
Collegiate department, per month 50
Music, per month. 2 %
Article 6-DiscipIfns and Authority.
I'm all matters of discipline and govern
ment in the Center High School and
Academy where questions may arise
touching the authority OF principal and
teachers in the control Of pupils, the trus-
tees shall be called upon, and have au-
thority to decide same wherever the
teachers authority is questioned.
Article 7.-RuIes and Regulations
The trustees shall have the authority to