The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-11-17
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
BOARD OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
ocaIa, FIa., INov. 8. III.

Nt~t%Ae3 49, W. ~
The board of public instruction in
and for Marion county met in special
session at IL a. m. with w. ID. earn.
chairman, and B. R. Bitch. men,
Der present, and Snpt J. III. B-inson,
secretary
Request was made and granted for
a monitor at Wetumpka colored
school.
DIR. ]. e. Chace as trustee for
Ocala called and conferred with the
board. The board adjourned for
noon.
Monday Afternoon Session
The board met with all members
present and acting, Mr.. Grantham
having arrived.
Mr.. c. o.. Anderson, for the Ocala
Plumbing & Electric Co., called and
discussed with the board the matter
of the furnishing of the water meter
for the new Oca1a high school build
ms. It was ordered that the secre-
4aTy write the several original IBID
deIs on the plumbing, making re-
quest that although they had pre-
yiously stated that they did not have
their estimates and din OF remember
the particulars as to whether they
included the price of meter in their
estimates or not, that they try again
to make more definite answers.
Several patrons of the keystone
school called and requested some
means of securing water for the
school and it was agreed to have a
metal tank made and set up for
them.
The hour OF 3 p. m. having arriv-
ed and this being the date and hour
advertised by the board upon which
! to receive sealed bids for the erection
of a new school building at Citra. the
board in the presence of large num-
Der of interested contractors, the
Trustees and Hon. E. l.. Wartmann
OF Citra, and Mr.. e. C. Hosford, ar
cllitect, proceeded to open the bids
for the work. There were bids for
the general contract from Dudley &
Carlton of Plant City. w. ". Henry
Of Jacksonville, Winston & Penny of
Gainesville, P. ID. O'Dell of ocala.
gsogers- Simmons Co., of McRae, Ga.
There were also separate bids on the
plumbing from the Ocala Plumbing
& Electric Co. and III. w. Tucker of
Ocala. After the opening and read
ing of the bids in public the board
went into executive session with the
archi -ect- and Messrs. Crosby and
Driver, trustees, and Mr.. T. IL. Wart-
mann of catra, for the consideration
of the bids
AT this time the secretary opened
a communication from the state
treasurer which contained all of the
papers which had been transmitted
for the attorney general to use in
making up his opinion as to whether
to pass favorably upon the bond issue
of Citra district or not. There was
a letter from the treasurer making
quotation from a communication to
him from the attorney general in
which ne declined to pass favorably
upon the validity of the bond issue
upon the ground that the record
showed that full four weeks had not
elapsed from the time of the first
publication of the petition asking for
an election TO be called until the cleo
ton for creating the district was
called, and also upon the further
ground that the record showed that
full four weeks had not elapsed from
the time the notice calling the cleo
ton was first published until the
election was held. In each of these
particulars the attorney general toof
the position that the statutory pro
. vision that both the petition and tn:
notice of election shall 'fbe published
once week. for four CONSECUTIVE
weeks" meant that the publication
must cover the full -four weeks be
fore any action could be taken on it