Year: 1866




tisements of the same, at one public
place, at least, in each district, sta
ting fully the times and places of
holding; and the object Of said cleo
tion.


SIC, Q, The County Judge shall
appoint Il suitable person in each
district, to preside at the election in
his district who shall make his re-
turns within ten days to said county
Judge, said election being governed
in all other respects by the laws
regulating elections; aud he shall
order new elections TO be held until
Trustees are elected, and school
houses are ocated. The Trustees
so elected shall hold Office until the
first of August, 1868, but thereafter
shall be elected annually; they hall
select from their number chair
man, who shall, when necessary, call
n meeting of the Trustees. preside
at their deliberations, and perform
such other duties as may hereafter
be assigned him. Said Trustees
shall be bodies corporate and poll.
tic, by the corporate names of The
Trustees of Common School District
No. -" Cfilling the blank with
the number of the district and for
the purposes for which they are Gre
ated, may sue and be sued, hold and
dispose of property, and do such
acts and things as are incident and
necessary to the performance Of
their duties.


SEC. 8. 1t shall be the duty Of
the District Trustees to fix the time
and place for holding an election in
theirrcspective districts, for the loca-
tion or select n of school houses
within theirrcspectivo districts, and
to appoint presiding officer. That
the chairman of the Board of Trus-
tees shall cause written notices of
said election to be posted up for at
least five days next preceding the
election, in three public places in
each school district. That the re-
turns of said election shall be made
within five days, to the chairman
of said board, who shall examine the
same, in the presence of his co-trus
tees; and a majority of the votes
polled in district, shall be necessa-
ry to the permanent location of a
school house; and no change of the
location of school house thus leca-
ted, shall be made, except by a ma
iority of two thirds Of those voting
in such election, taken after due no
tice as above provided.


e SEC. 4. The Police Court shall
distribute the funds to which each
district may be entitled, to the dis
trict Trustees of the same, which
may be applied to the erection of
good and substantial school houses,
or to the payment of tuition, as
majority Of the Trustees may de-
termine. --s.. .4..


Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty ofthe
School Trustees, for each district,
as early as practicable after their
election, by giving due notice, to call
meeting of all the patrons of. the
school in the district, and a MAORI
ty of those present shall indicate to
the Trustees the length of time du-
ring the year they desire school,
the kind of teacher they want, and
the amount of salary they are will
ling to pay. 1t shalljbe the duty of
said Trustees to observe, as far as
possible, such instructions, to en-
ploy teachers of suitable moral char
acter and qualifications, to visit from
time to time, the district school, or
schools, under their charge, to expel
u pupil for miseonduct, to examine
all complaints between teachemand
pupil Of a serious character, to dis
charge teacher for iucapacity, or
improper conduct, and generally to
exercise supervision over the affairs
of the school within their district
SEC. 6. Itshall be the duty ofthe
chairman of the Board of Trustees
for each school district, to present,
at least once a year, his application
to the County Judge of his county,
for such amount of the public school
fund as his district may be entitled
to receive, according to the number
of children between the ages pre-
lscribed, within his district, and the
said County Judge, having duly in
formed himself that the same is cor
rect. shall draw upon the County
Treasurer an order. under his hand
and seal of the Police Court, for the
amount so due, and applied for.


Sec. Z. No county shall be enti-
tied to receive its portion of the
school fund, until after return of
its scholastic population.


SEC. 8. Nothing in this Act shall
prevent the Trustees of any school
district, after being instructed by a
majority of the patrons of schools in
such district, from employing the
Teacher of a primary department
in any college, or academy, and con-
verLing such primary department
into a common school for such dis
trict. iH1


SEC. 9. 1t shall be the duty of
the Assessor and Collector of each
county in the State, during each and
every year hereafter, to make out a
list of all the free white population
in his county, between the ages of
six and eighteen years, and trans
nit the same, under his official sig
nature, to the County Clerk of the
county, and certified copy to the
Treasurer of the State, on or before
the first day OF July in each and ev-
cry year.