The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-06-16
Tho Election of School Trustees.

The bill which recently passed the
legislature changing the method of
electing trustees Of the Union School
districts is as follows
The People of the State Of Michigan
enact:
Section 1. Sections two and four of
act number three hundred sixty-eight
of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred
seventy-one, and acts amendatory there
of, entitled "An act to incorporate the
union school district Of the city of
Owosso," are hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 2. At the annual meeting of
said district, to be held on the second
Monday in July in the year nineteen
hundred five, the qualified voters there
of shall elect by ballot two trustees for
the term of three years, who with the
four trustees holding over shall consti-
tute board Of education of six mem
bers for the said district, and annually
thereafter said district shall elect two
trustees for the term of three years,
and all trustees shall hold their Office
until their successors shall have been
elected and qualified. The manner Of
electing said trustees shall be by ballot
from two o'clock in the afternoon of the
day and at the place of holding such
annual meeting of said school district
until eight o'clock in the evening Of
said day. The two members of said
board whose term Of Office last expire
shall constitute an election board for
said district. with all the powers con-
ferred upon election boards at annual
elections held in the city of Owosso. A
ballot box for the deposit of ballots
shall be furnished by said board of
trustees; said election board shall keep
poll list of all persons voting at such
elections and shall receive the ballots
and deposit all legal ballots in the bal
lot box or boxes and Immediately after
the closing of the polls at eight o'clock
p. m. shall canvass the ballots and
certify the result when ascertained to
the presiding officer at such annual
meeting, who shall Immediately declare
the result of such election to the annual
meeting. The two persons receiving
the highest number Of votes at such
election shall be declared elected, and in
case there are more than two trustees
to be elected at any election in said
district the persons receiving the high
est number of votes to the number Of
such trustees to be elected shall be de-
clared elected.
Section 4. Said board shall have
power:
First. To appoint superintendent of
schools, and to define his powers and
duties;
Second. To hire all necessary teachers
and to fix the amount of compensation
for such services;
Third. To classify and grade the
several schools and determine the ages,
qualifications, and terms for admission
thereto, and the conditions for remain
ing therein, and which schools or de-
partments scholars shall attend
Fourth. To make such rules and by
laws as they may deem necessary for,
the preservation Of the district, for the
government Of the schools thereof, and
in reference to alllother matters con-
nected theirwithi
Fifth. To adopt courses of study and
text books;
Sixth. And to levy and collect such
sums as they may deem proper for the
tuition of each and every scholar
taught in said schools, who is not
actually resident of the district.
This act is ordered to take immediate
effect