Year: 1870

PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.


CHAPTER 1l6.


AN ACT to authorize counties to estab.


lish and maintain high schools.


Sec. l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly Of the State Of Lova, that each
county in this State having a population
of two thousand Inhabitants, or over, as
shown by the last State or Federal CEN
sus, may establish high school on the
conditions and in the manner hereinaf-
ter prescribed, for the purpose of afford.
ed better educational advantages for
pupils more advanced than those atten-
ding district schools, and for persons
desiring to fit themselves for the voca-
ton of teaching.


s2. When one.third of the electors Of
. county. a. shown by the returns ofthe
last preceding election, shall petition
the board Of supervisors, requesting
that county high school be establish
ed in their county at the place in said
petition named, then said board shall
give twenty days notice previous to the
next general election, or previous to a
special election duty called for that
purpose, that they will submit the
question to the electors of said county
whether such high school shall be es-
tablished; at which election said electors
shall vote by ballot for or against estab-
fishing such county high school. The
notice contemplated in this section shall
be given through one or more newspa-
pers published in said county if any be
published therein, and by at least one
written or printed notice to be posted in
each township.


s3. After said election, the ballots
on said question shall be con vassed in
the same manner as in the election of
county officers, and if a majority of all
the votes cast on said question shall be
in favor of establishing said school, the
board of supervisors shall Immediately
proceed to appoint six persons, who
shall be residents of the county, but not
more than two of whom shall be from
the same township, who shall with the
county superintendent of co1rlron
schools, constitute a board of trustees
for said high school. Each of said trus-
tees, appointed as aforesaid, shall hold
his office until his successor Is elected
and qualified; and shall be required
within ten days after appointment, to
qualify, taking the oath of office, and
giving such bond as may be required
by the said board of supervisors, for the
faithful discharge of his duties.


"a. At the next general election
after said appointment, there shall be
elected in sacb county, six high school
trustees, who shall be divided into three
classes of two each; and each class to
bold their office one, two and three
years respectively, and their respective
terms TO be decided by lot. Each year
thereafter there shall be two such trus-
tees elected to succeed those whose
term Is about to expire. Said trustees
shall qualify and enter upon the duties
of their office in the same manner and
at the same tirie as other county off,
GERS.


20. The county superintendent shall
be ex-officio president Of said board Of
directors; and at their first meeting in
each year, they shall appoint from
their own number = secretary and
treasurer, who shall perform the usual
duties devolving upon such officers for
the term of one year, or until their
successors are appointed to take their
places.


as. At said meeting or at some snc-
ceeding meeting called for the purpose.
said trustees shall make an estimate of
the amount of funds needed for build
ing purposes, for payment of teachers
wages, and for contingent expenses;
and they shall present to the board of
supervisors q certified estimate of the
per centum Of tax required to raise the
amount desired for such purposes; pro-
vided, however, that in no case shall
the tax for such purpose, exceed, in any
one year, the amount of five mills on
the dollar on the taxable property of
the county, and when the tax is levied
for the payment of teachers wages and
contingent expenses only, shall not
exceed two mills on the dollar.


a.. The said tax shall be levied and
collected in the same manuer as other
county taxes, and when collected the
county treasurer shall pay the same to
the treasurer of the county high school
in the same manner that school funds
are paid to the district treasurers as re-
quired by law.


IS. The said treasurer Of the high
school shall give such additional bond
as the board Of trustees may deem sufii-
clent, and receive all moneys from the
county treasurer and from other parties
that belong to the funds of said school,
and pay the same out only by direction
of the board of trustees, upon orders
duly executed by the president, coun-