The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-22

IPuDl1SheQ IN Ile Topeka state journal
March %, 1911 .l
HOUSE BILL NO. 1893.
AN ACT relating to the commissioner of
the poor, amending section $3.50 of the
General Statutes of Kansas of 1909
amended by chapter 90 of the Laws of
1915, and repeating said chapter 219,
Laws 1915.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas:
eral Statutes of Kansas 1909, as amended
by chapter 219 Laws 1915, be and the same
is hereby amended to read as follows :;
The commissioner of the poor in all coun-
ties appointed by virtue of this act shall
receive an annual salary follows: In
10000 not to exceed $500, in counties hav-
ing Il population OF more than 10000 and
not more than 10000 not to exceed $1,000.
in counties having Il population OF more
than 10000 not to exceed $500, to be paid
in monthly instalIments by the county, and
may be allowed such clerical assistance as
may be found necessary in the opinion of
the board of county commissioners of such
county; provided further, that the allow
ance for clerk hire provided for in this
section shall not exceed the sum of 100000
per annum.
Sec ?. That said section $3.50 of the
General Statutes of Kansas 1909, amend
ed by chapter 219 Laws 1915, be and the
same is hereby repealed:
Sec ,. This act shall be in force and
take effect from and after its publication
in the official state paper.
1 hereby certify that the above Bill orig
January %, 1917.
Speaker of the House.
CLARENCE W MILLER,
Passed the Senate March s, 1917.
W. y. MORGAN,
President of the Senate.
E D. GEORGE,
Secretary of the Senate.
Approved March -. 1917.
ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor.
State of Kansas.
Office of Secretary of State.
I, J. t. BOTKIN. Secretary of State of
the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that
the above and foregoing is correct copy
of the original enrolled bill now on file ia
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have
hereunto subscribed my name
[SealJ and affixed my official seal
this 14th day of March, 1917.
J. It. BOTKIN. Secretary of State.
By e. A. CORNELL,
Asst. Secretary of State
Published in The Topeka State Journal,
March %, 1911
HOUSE BILL NO. $50.
AN ACT relating to rural high school dis
tricts, amending sections 9347. 934S, 9349,
1851, 1852, 1884. and $3.50 of the General
Statutes of 1915, the same being sections
/, ., 3, ), 6, S, and 9, respectively. of
chapter 81 of the Session Laws of 1915
providing that the provisions of chapter
thereto shall apply to rural high school
districts; providing for the payment to
rata part of the county bigh-school fund
previously apportioned to them; provid-
ing that township high schools previous
ly established shall hereafter be govern
ed by the laws relating to rural high
school districts; authorizing school dis
tricts to lease school property for rural
sections 9347. 934s, 9349 1851. 1852. 1854,
and $3.50 of the General Statutes of 1915,
the same being sections 1, 2, ?, 8, 6, S,
and 0, respectively. of chapter 81 of the
Session Laws of 1915. and repeating sec
tons $685. an, and $3.50 of the General
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
Section 1. Section 9347 Of the General
Statutes of 1915 is hereby amended so as
to read as follows: Section 9347. The
legal electors residing in territory contain
ing not less than sixteen square miles and
comprising one or more townships or parts
thereof shall have authority to form a rural
high school district. whose boundaries shall
have been approved by the county super
intendent of public instruction of each
county in which any part Of such proposed
district shall be. situated, or by the state
superintendent of public instruction in case
the county superintendent of two or more
of the boundaries of the proposed district,
and to establish. locate, and maintain
therein rural high school as hereinafter
Sec. 2 Section 934s of the General
Statutes of 1915 is hereby amended so as
ever a petition, signed by two-fifths of
the legal electors residing in the territory
OF the proposed rural l1Rl-SclOOl district,
to be. determined by an enumeration taken
for this purpose by any legal elector re-
siding in said territory and by him certi-
fled under oath to the county commission
ers, shall be presented to the board of
county commissioners of the county in
which lies the greatest portion of territory
boundaries of said proposed district and
the approval thereof as provided in section
of this act, and requesting said board
of county commissioners to call a special
election to vote on establishing and locat-
ing a rural high school. and, if deemed
necessary by the petitioners. to vote bonds
struction of a high-school building, the
proposed location and the amount of the
bonds proposed to be stated in the petit
ton. it shall be the duty of the board of
county commissioners forthwith to call a
special election in said proposed district
to vote on establishing and locating a
the purchase of a site and for the con-
struction of a high school building; pro-
vided, that no vote on the issuing of bonds
shall be taken unless the petition calling
for said election shall state the purpose
Z for which bonds are to be issued and the
amount of such bonds. All elections held
governed by the general election saws OF
the state when not contrary to this act
Notice of all such elections shall be given
at least twenty-one days prior to the date
of such election by posting printed or
typewriter notices on the door of each
schoolhouse. in the proposed district and
by publishing the same twice in some
newspaper published in each county in
which the proposed district or any part
elections shall not be called oftener than
once in every two years unless by petition
of more than one-half the legal voters OF
said district presented to the proper coun-
ty commissioners. The board of county
commissioners calling the election shall
appoint the judges and clerks of the cleo
sioners of the counties in which said rural