Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-01-15

An Act to Amend Chapter Four Hun
dred' and Sixteen Of the Private and
Special Laws of 1907 Relating to the
Board of Education in the City Of
Augusta
BE 1T ENACTED BY THE PEG
PIE OF THE STATE OF MAINE AS
FOLLOWS:
Section l. For the purpose of MAX
ing needed changes in Chapter four
hundred and sixteen of the Private and
Special Laws of 1907, entitled AN Act
to Establish a Board of Education in
the City of Augusta and to Provide for
a Uniform System Of Schools Therein,
and acts additional thereto and amend
atory thereof, and revising and further
amending the same, said original act
after the enactment clause, is hereby
so revised and further amended as to
read as follows:
Section 1. The Board Of Education
in the City of Augusta shall consist of
| five persons, one of whom shall be
woman and one of whom shall be the
mayor of said city. and all of said
members, excepting said mayor, shall
; be appointed by said mayor, each for
term of two years after the year
nineteen hundred and eighteen. No
more than two of said members ap-
pointed by said mayor shall be mem
bers of the same political party. The
first appointments under this act shall
be so made as to take effect on the
first day of January, 1918, at which
time two of said members shall be APP
pointed for the term of one year and
two for the term of two years Two
members OF sai0 board shall thereafter
he appointed by said mayor on the first
daN of January of each year, for the
term of two years. All vacancies oc-
curing in said Board shall be filled by
appointments by the mayor for the un-
expired term
Section .. The Board Of Education,
constituted as hereinbefore provided.
shall perform all the duties and be in
vested with all the rights and powers
Of experimenting school committees of
towns. including the right to direct the
expenditure of all moneys appropriated
for the use of schools. The Board shall
elect chairman annually, and appoint
some suitable person, not a member of
tho Board, superintendent of schools,
and may adopt such rules and regu-
lations for the management of the
schools and the conduct OF the business
Of tie Board as are not inconsistent
with the laws of this state. The super
intendent shall he the secretary and
executive agent of the Board. which
shall fix his salary, to be paid from the
city treasury as salaries of teachers are
paid. and may remove him and appoint
a successor. The members of the Board
shall receive no compensation for their
services as such. The members APP
pointed by the mayor shall not be
members of the city council.
Section 3. Said Board of Education
shall submit on the third Monday Of
January of each year a report of the
affairs and condition Of the city schools
for the year ending on the thirty-first
day of December next preceding, to-
gether with an estimate of the amount
needed for school purposes for the
city. Said city council shall hereby
have the power to raise for the sup
port of the public schools in said city
for the current year ending on the
thirty-first day of December such sum,
not less than the amount required by
the general laws of the State, as it
may deem necessary for that purpose
which amount shall be included with
and assessed like other city taxes.
Said city council shall also have the