Year: 1867

State Of Nebraska:


Section /. Each organized county
shall be divided by the County Superin-
tendent into as many school districts as
may from time to time be found necessa.
ry: Provided, that the Superintendent
shall have power to change or modify
the lines or boundaries of any school dis.
irici at any time.


Sec. 2. Every duly organized school
district shall be body corporate and pos
sess all the usual powers of corporation
for public purposes by the name and style
Of 'school district number = of --
county ;" and in that name may sue and
be sued. purchase, hold and sell such
personal and real estate as the law al
lows.


Sec. 3. Whenever the County Super
intendent of any county shall form a new
district therein, i; shall be the duty of
the said Superintendent to deliver to a
taxable inhabitant of such district a no.
tice in writing of the formation of such
district, describing its boundaries and
specifying the time and place of holding
the first meeting which notice with the
fact of such delivery, shall be entered up
on the record by the Superintendent.


Sec. 4. The said notice shall also d.
rect such inhabitant to notify every quail
fled voter of such district, either person.
ally or by leaving a written notice at his
or her place of residence, of the time and
place of holding said meeting at least five
days before the time appointed therefor;
and it shall be the duty of such inhabi-
tant to notify the qualified voters of said
district accordingly.


Sec. 5. The said inhabitant, when
he shall have notified the qualified voters
as required in such notice, shall endorse
thereon return showing such notifica-
ton with the date or dates thereof. and
deliver such notice and return to the
chairman OF the meeting.


Sec g. The said chairman shall de-
liver such notice and return to the direc-
tor chosen at such meeting as hereinafter
provided, who shall record the same at
length in a book TO be provided by him
at the expense of the district, as part of
the records of such district.


Sec. z. Each and every sub district
now existing under provision of law shal Il
be deemed to constitute district, and
shall be controlled and governed as here
matter proTided.


Sec. 8. The qualified voters of every
new district, when assembled pursuant
10 the above mentioned notice, and all
existing districts. al their annual NEE
ungs, in the year one thousand and eight
hundred and sixty-seven, shall elect,
from the qualified voters of such district,
a moderator of three years, director
for two years, and a treasurer for one
year; and, at the expiration of their
respective terms of Office and regularly
thereafter, their several successors shall
be elected for the term of three years
each and within ten days after their
election these several officers shall file
with the director a written acceptance of
the Offices to which they shall have been
respectively elected, which shall be re.
corded by said director.


Sec. 8. Every such school district
shall be deemed duly organized when
any two of the officers elected ct the frst
meeting shall have fled their acceptances
as aforesaid.


Sec. 10. In case the inhabitants of
anv district shall fail to organize the
same in pursuance of such notice as
aforesaid, the said County Superintendent
shall give notice in the manner here.
inbefore provid ed and the same pro-
ceedings shall be had thereon as if no
previous notice had been delivered.


Sec. IL. The record made by the d.
rector as required by the sixth section Of
this act shall be prima facie evidence Of
the facts iherein set forth. and of the le-
gality of all proceedings in the organi-
cation of the district prior to the first
district meeting but nothing In this sec,
tion contained shall be so construed as
to impair the effect of the record kept
by the County Superintendent of evil
dence.


Sec IL. Every district shall in all ca
ses be presumed to have been legally or
qanized, when it shall have exercised
the franchises and privileges of district
for the term of one year.


Sec. Is. 10 all cases where the Coun-
ty superintendent of any county shall
form a school district therein and when
no election for school district officers
shall be held, and when any school dis
trict shall refuse or neglect to elect al
the proper time the necessary school dis
trict officers, it shall be the duty of the
County Superintendent Of the county in