Year: 1872

SEC. II. Ii a. district meeting be held
ami levy Il tax on all the taxable property
in the district, the property Of non resi-
dents shall be assessed in equal proportion
with the rest by the directors OF the dis
trict. ,. efs, .+t ~lga- ...-


SEC. Is. The directors may add such
per centun, not exceeding five, as they
may deem requisite, to remunerate the
clerk for his services as collector, but the
amount shall be specified and added us u
separate item in the schedule or account of
taxes so levied or assessed, and when any
person shall pay the same within ten days
after the notice of such tax is made pub
lie by the clerk, in accordance with the
fourth clause of section ten, of chapter
three, the per centage shall lie deducted,
but in all other cases it shall be collected
Sec. 10. There shall be an annual
meeting held in each district upon the first
Friday 10 November, and notice of all an.
nual nor special meetings shall be in writ
ing, signed by the directors or the clerk
of the district, and shall state the object
for which the meeting is called, and shall
be- posted up in three public places in the
district at least ten days previous to hold
ing such meeting.


SEC. 20 Every inhabitant over the
age of twenty-one years who shall have
resided in any school district for three
months Immediately proceeding any dis
trict meeting, or who shall have Paid or be
liable to pay any tax except road tax in
said district, shall be legal voter at any
school meeting, aud no other person shall
be allowed to vote, and in the selection OF
a site for school house, for raising tax,
no person shall be allowed to vote except
persons liable to pay school tax.


Sec. 2l. Any school meeting shall
have power to adjourn from day to day as
occasion may require.


SEC. %. A school meeting, legally
called, shall have power by avo,e of ma.
jority present, to levy a tax on all taxable
property within the district.


SEC. %. The tax payers may. with the
consent of the directors of their district,
perform by labor their portion of taxation
for the erection of school houses aud shall
be so returned by the clerk of said district.


Sec. "a. No person shall be disquali.
fed for the Office of county superintendent,
district director or clerk, on account OF
holding any other Office within the Terri.
tory at the same time.


Sec. 25. 1t shall be the duties of the
directors to appoint suitable person fol-
librarian when the district shall have pro.
cured library.


Sec. 2G. School supefintendcuts, di.
rectors and clerks shall be competent to
administer oaths or aiiirmatons in any case
occurring under the provisions of this act.


SEC. y. Where, in any county, any Of
the moneys mentioned in chapter two,
section three Of this act, are by existing
laws set apart to any other fund or for any
other purpose, this act shall not be so con-
strued as to affect the disposition uf said
funds so set apart


Sec. 29. Failure Of clerk to make
out his report in proper time shall not
work a forfeiture of the apportionmcnt to
his district, if the report shall reach the
superintendent before he appor,ions TIE
fund.


SEC. 90. No order Of the superintend-
ent shall be drawn upon the county ,rea-
surer in favor of any district which fails to
have or keep up its organization. and any
district having been for three years re o =
nized as an organized district by the in
habitants of the same and by the supern.
tendent, shall, so long as it complies with
the forms of law, be to all intents, for the
purposes of this act, legal district.


SEC. 30. Any person or persons asking
any action of the superintendent which
shall effect the boundaries Of any district,
shall notify the clerk of said district, in
writing, of his intention to ask for the same,
stating what action is or will be asked, and
the time (not less than ten days. when the
same will be heard, and shall file a certi-
fed copy ofthe said writing with the super
intendeut.
SEC. 81. When satisfied such notice
has been given, the superintendent shall
proceed to examine the case, unless for
good cause further time is asked by either
party. or iu the absence ofeither party ho
may consider substantial justice cannot be
done, in which case he must set some future
time for its consideration.


CHAPTER VI.


SEC. l. All guardians, parents and
other persons in this Territory having, or
who may hereafter have, the immediate
custody of any child or children between
the ages of eight and sixteen yesrs, shall
send the same to school at least three
months in each year said child or children
may remain under their supervision Pro
piied, That ifthe person or persons hav-
ing the custody Of said child or children
shall no, be able to pay for lis or their
education as provided iu this section, aud
shall satisfy the school directors of that
fact, such child or children shall be admit
ted free of cost.


SEQ. =. All time lost TO any child or
children in consequence of school not
being taught the required length Of time,
or from any other good reason, shall be
made up the ensuing year or so soou as
such disability is removed aud school is