The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1898-11-26
Charter for Center High School
and Academy.

anu ACADEMY.
Article 1.--Ndme, Duration and Dom
! icil.-This school shall be known and is
hereby chartered and incorporated under
, the name and style of Center High
School and Academy for Mules 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-Location and Object. Gen.
ter High School and Academy shall be
located within school district No. of
Grant parish, La, and the object is to
establish 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. l31 School law
Article 3-Trnstees and Organisation.
The Center High School and academy
shall be presided over end controlled by
board OF fifteen Q5) trustees, residents
OF public school district No. !, Grant par
ish, 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 hold Office for two years, and
eight trustees shall be elected to hold
Office for one year; and every year there
after seven or eight trustees Gas the case
may beg shall be elected to hold Office for
two years, and for the purpose of eIecting
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 5
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 and act as 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
tice; and should there be no president
the secretary of the board of trustees
shall order said election. The said trust
ees shalt serve without remuneration.
Article 4. = Duties and P0acers OF
Trustees.-The Board of Trustees OF
Center High School and Academy shall
meet and organize within thirty days az
| ter their election. by selecting one of
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| shall elect secretary and treasurer CON-
bining the two Offices in one person or
electing them separately, who may be
| members of the board or nor as majori-
ty OF the board may deem prudent The
treasurer shall be required to give bond
in such sum as the trustees may deter
m ne to be commemorate withhis respon-
| slbility. Eight members of the board
shall constitute a quorum. for the trasac-
ton OF any and all business, and in case
OF the absence Of the president or secre-
tary at any OF the meetings. the men,
bers 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 bis 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 an 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 80 elected shall en-
pioy 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.-Ternas, Tuition, etc.--The
terms of the school shall consist OF 8, 8,
or 10 scholastic months Of twenty days
each, the same TO be dividedIBto two SEES
sions Of 4. 5. or 6 months, as the board
may determine. the first session to COM
mence on the LIST or 2pd Monday of No
vember each year. Tuition fees to be
graded as follows:
Primary department, per month. 8 rs
Preparatory dep'tment, per month / co
Collegiate department., per month 81
Mnsic, per month ....-...-..... 2 0C
Article 6.-Discipline and Authority
lin 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 tc
adopt and enforce all bylaws, rules and
regulations that they may think necessar,
4 to maintain order and correct depost-