St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1917-08-11
MEETING OF THE
PARISH SCHOOL
BOARD HELD
AUGUST 3
Contracts Given Out For
Painting School
Houses.
EuDGET ADOPTED FOR
THE COMING YEAR.
Official Printing Is Given
TO The st. Tammany
Farmer.
Gov ngton, La, August 3, 1917.

Gov ngtOn, La, August 3, 1917.
| The St. Tar.Ess1r Parish Scl.ol
I'D met in sleeia. sessioa O.: the
..eve date "! a lie follow n meln-
ass present: Geo. H. Dutsch, first
ward; T. j. OKeefe, second ward /;
n. II. FltzSimons, third ward; H. H.
Levy, fourth ward; w. H. Kahl, fifth
ward; Dave Evans, sixth ward; J.
II. Robert, eighth ward; G. E. Mil
lar, tenth ward. Absent: c. M.
Liddle, ninth ward, and B. w. Todd
seventh ward.
The Superintendent read the fol-
lowing report:
Covington, La, Aug. 3, 1917.
The Honorable President and Mem
bers Of the Parish School Board
Covington.
Gentlemen:-WOrk upon the ad-
dition to the Audubon school is near
ly completed and will he ready for
the third teacher by the time that
1.-THE school will open.
In accordance with your instruc-
tions at your last meeting ] have
asked the two papers published in
this parish to bid upon the contract
to do our official printing and have
bids to be opened by you today. In
order that we might be positive re-
garding the legal side of this mat
ter l have secured an opinion from
Supt. T. H. Harris and Mr.. A. D.
Schwartz as to which law this award
should be made, and offer the fol-
lowing letters as their opinions:
Baton Rouge, La, July 10, 1917.
|Supt. Elmer E. Lyon, Covington, La.
My Dear Mr.. Lyon:-Yours of the
18th instant is received.
Act 134 of 1910 is the law under
which the parish school boards elect
their official journals. This bill
outlines the specific manner of pay
ing for the services rendered by the
Official journal; feel sure, however,
that school board has authority to
employ journal on a fiat rate, IL
lit can he demonstrated that the fiat
rate will save the board money.
Yours sincerely.
T. H. HARRIS.
Covington, La, Aug. 1. 1917.
Mr.. E. E. Lyon, Supt. Of Education,
Covington, La.
Dear Sir:-In reply to your re-
quest for information relative to
whether Act 134 OF 1910 or Act 141
|of 1913, known as the Public Print
ing Act, controls the question of the
publicat tion OF the, official proceed
|ings Of the school board, write to
state that while Act II of 1914 in
reality amends Section 20 Of Act 141
|of 1912, Act 134 of 1910, so far as
school boards are concerned, has
never been repealed as a whole, and
it appears in Marr's latest edition Of
Statutes as being still in force. 1t
is my opinion, therefore, that any
agreement which the board makes
under provisions of Act 1874 of 1910
relative. to the publication of their
official proceedings will be legal and
valid.
Very truly yours,
ADRIAN d: SCHWARTZ.
The committee appointed by you
at a recent meeting to investigate
the matter of purchasing building
at Slidell to be used for additional
school accommodations there has re-
ported through Mr.. J. A. Salmen
that they recommend the purchase
on long time payments the house
near the school. This was once used
as boarding house. have asked
Mr.. Chas. Jenkins to go to Slidell
and get a drawing of the building
and to plan whether we can get four
rooms of suitable size and to have
light so arranged as to have the
proper amount of3alieht. You are
aware that all plans tsr school
houses must receive th4AGproval Of
the State Superintendea6nd in Or
der to get this appfgta we must
have palms drawn SO a. TO show what
we are going to hare when the house
is made over. As.
The matter of good title to this
property has been taken up with Mr..
Schwartz, by Mr.. Liddle, and the
following letter explains his opinion.
Covington, La, July 20, 1917.
Covington, La.
Dear Mr.. Liddle-I have looked
into the question Of the Bauer title.
The only point which | can discover
so far as any question Of the title
Of the lots are considered, Is that
Charles Bauer, a minor emancipated
by notarial act, was not properly
represented in court.
Before l would recommend the
title to-the property | would sug-
that .qait-casm deed be obtained
from Charles Bauer, who l under