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


nigh school district shall be situated shall
make appropriations from the county funds
TO pay the necessary expenses of said
election, which shall be apportioned to the
sessed valuation of the property in said
rural high school district which shall be
any rural high school shall heretofore have
voted to organize under the provision of
this section, and shall not have accumu-
lated any property, nor incurred any ex-
pense or obligation, nor issued any bonds
r--other evidence of Indebtedness, such
rural high school may be disorganized
upon a petition, notice, and election pre-
sented, given and held for the disorganfza-
ton of such rural high school upon the
same terms and provisions as are herein
before prescribed in this section for the
establishing and locating thereof, except
that such petition shall pray. such notice
shall declare and such election shall be
held for the disorganization of said rural
affect any district in which a suit has
been brought concerning the organization,
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Statutes of 1918 is hereby amended so as
to read as follows Section 9349. If the
territory comprising the proposed rural
high school district shall contain any in
corporated town or city with a population
of more than 500. the election provided
called unless petitions shall be presented
to the county commissioners signed by
two-fffths of the legal electors residing in
said town or city and by two-fifths of the
legal electors residing in the territory of
side of said town or city; and when such
petitions shall be presented, the county
commissioners shall call an election as pro
in said town or city and in the territory
outside of said town or city shall be taken
school district shall not be formed in ter
ritory containing any incorporated town
or city with a population of more than 500
unless the proposition to form such Il high
school district and to establish a high
school therein shall be favored by major
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and by majority of those voting in the
territory of the proposed rural high school
district outside of said town city
Sec. 4. Section 1851 of the General
Statutes of 1913 is hereby amended so as
| to read as follows: Section 1851. The
| annual school meeting for the election of
officers shall be held at two o'clock p. m,
on the day preceding the date of the an
nual meeting of school districts. The high
| school board of each rural high-school
| district shall meet annually on the third
Monday in April at two o'clock p; m. at
| the highs school building or at such other
place as they may agree upon and shall
| make the necessary levy for taxes, not to
exceed four mills on the dollar of valuation
on all taxable property in the rural high
school district, to pay teachers, to create
certain fund to retire any Indebtedness
and pay interest on the same, to purchase
site, to build, hire, purchase a school
house, and to pay. the incidental expenses
| of said high school. The clerk of said dis
| trict shall certify the levy to the county
clerk, who shall extend the amount on the
tax roll and the county treasurer shall
collect and pay over such taxes in the
manner provided by law for school dis
tricts-
Statutes of 1915 is hereby amended so as
to read as follows: Section 1882. The
rural high school board shall have the
care and control of all property belonging
to the high school district and, except as
herein provided, shall have the powers
boards. The rural high school board shall
have authority to secure a site, selected as
provided in section = of this act, either by
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| a schOolhouse, and to hire a schoolhouse.
| school rooms, other property to be
board of any school district shall have
authority and is hereby authorized to
| lease or cause to be leased to any rural
| high school board any schoolhouse, school
rooms, or other property to be used for
high school district board shall have au-
| thority to issue the bonds of the rural
high school district for the purchase of a
! site aud for the construction of building
! or buildings for school purposes; provided,
that no bonds shall be issued unless au-
+ thorized by an election held in accordance
/ held in accordance with sections BIT and
vided that notice of all such elections in
rural high-school districts shall be given
as provided in section of this act. Elk
| cept as herein provided. the laws relating
| to the issuing of school district bonds shall
! apply to rural high-school districts formed
aced as herein proyed can not be
acquired by donation or otherwise. or by
| purchase at a reasonable price. such site
! NAV be condemned in the manner provfd-
| ed in section SOFT of the General Statutes
| of 1915 for the condemnation of sites in
| school districts. but the amount of land
in the site so condemned shall not exceed
/ ten acres and the amount of land for site
and grounds acquired by purchase without
condemnation proceedings shall not exceed
/ forty acres.
See 6. Section 1854 of the General Stat
utes of 1915 is hereby amended so as to
read as follows: Section 1854. The county
| superintendent of public instruction shall
have authority to transfer territory from
any rural high school district to any ad-
joining rural high-schooI district or to any
school district in which a four-year accred-
| tied high school is maintained, and notice
of any such transfer of territory shall be
J given as provided by law for changes in
school district boundaries. and an appeal
from the action of the county superintend-
ent to the county commissioners may be
! taken in the manner provided by law for
| an appeal in the alteration of school dis
/ trict boundaries: and county superintend-
entS of public instruction shall have the
same general supervision over rural high
schools as they have by law over district
schools, and rural high-school districts
shall be governed provided by law for
school districts except provided in this
act.
Sec. Z. Section 1855 of the General Stat
utes of 1915 is hereby amended as to
read as follows: The rural high schools
herein provided for shall follow the course
OF study prescribed for rural high schools
by the state board of education, and said
State Board of Education may extend the
course of study to include a two-year
course equivalent to the course of study
ton for the last two years in the elemen-
tary schools.
Sec. s. In any county in which the pro-
visions of chapter 39T of the Laws of 1905,
with amendments thereto, shall, at the
! time when this act takes effect or there
after, be in force. the provisions Of said