COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS.

SECTION 2728. How established. Any county may establish a high school in the following manner: When the board of supervisors shall be presented with a petition signed by one-third of the electors of the county as shown by the returns of the last preceding election, requesting the establishment of a county high school at a place in the county named therein, it shall submit the question, together with the amount of tax to be levied to erect the necessary buildings, at the next general election to be held in the county, or at a special one called for that purpose, first giving twenty days' notice thereof in one or more newspapers published in the county, if any be published therein, and by posting such notice, written or printed, in each township of the county, at which election the vote shall be by ballot, for or against establishing the high school, and for or against the levying of the tax, the vote to be canvassed in the same manner as that for county officers. Should a majority of all the votes cast upon the question be in favor of establishing such school, and the levying of such tax, the board of supervisors shall at once appoint six trustees, residents of the county, not more than two from the same township, who, with the county superintendent of common schools as president, shall constitute a board of trustees for said high school. [27 G. A., ch. 84, § 1; C. '73, § 1697-9, 1701.]

SEC. 2729. Trustees-officers. The trustees, within ten days after appointment, shall qualify by taking the oath of civil officers, and giving bond in such sum as the board of supervisors may require, with sureties to be approved by it, and shall hold office until their successors are elected and qualified, who shall be elected at the general election following. The trustees, then elected, shall be divided into two lasses of three each, and hold their office two and four years, respectively, their several terms to be decided by lot; and in all county high schools heretofore established the terms of all trustees thereof shall expire on the first day of January, 1907, and at the general election in 1906 there shall be six trustees elected for each of said county high schools, three of whom shall be elected for two years, and three of whom for four years, and at each general election thereafter three trustees shall be elected for the term of four years; the trustees so elected to qualify in the same manner and at the same time as other county officers and all vacancies occurring to be filled by appointment by the board of supervisors, the appointee to hold the office until the next general election, and a majority of which trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. At the first meeting held in each year, the board shall appoint a secretary and treasurer from their own number, who shall perform the usual duties devolving upon like officers. The treasurer, in addition to his bond as trustee, shall give one as treasurer, in such sum and with such sureties as may be fixed by the board, and receive all moneys from all sources belonging to the funds of the school, and pay them out as directed by the board of trustees, upon orders drawn by the president and countersigned by the secretary; both of which officers shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received and paid out, and at the close of each year, and whenever required by the board, shall make a full itemized and detailed report. [31 G. A., ch. 135; C. '73, §§ 1699, 1700, 1704, 1711.]

SEC. 2730. Site-tax. As soon as convenient after the organization of the board, it shall proceed to select the best site that can be obtained without expense to the county, at the place named in the petition upon which the vote was taken, for the erection of the necessary school buildings, the title to be taken in the name of the county, and shall procure plans and specifications for the erection of such buildings, and make all necessary contracts for the erection of the same, the cost of which, when completed, shall not exceed the amount of the tax so levied therefor. They shall also annually make and certify to the board of supervisors on or before the first Monday of September of each year, an estimate of the amount of funds needed for improvements, teachers' wages and contingent expenses for the ensuing year, designating the amount for each, which, in the aggregate shall not exceed, in any one year, two mills on the dollar, upon the taxable property of the county. No expenditures for buildings or other improvements shall be made, or contract entered into therefor, by said board, involving an outlay of to exceed five hundred dollars in any one year, without the same first being submitted to the electors of the county in which said school be located, for their approval; the tax to be levied and collected in the same manner as other county taxes, and paid over by the county treasurer in the same manner as school funds are paid to district treasurers. [27 G. A., ch. 84, § 2; C. '73, §§ 1702-3, 1705.]

SEC. 2731. Buildings-management. Said board shall make no purchases, nor enter into any contracts in any year, in excess of the funds on hand and to be raised by the levy of that year. It shall employ, when suitable buildings have been furnished, a competent principal teacher to take charge of the school, and such assistant teachers as may be necessary, and fix the salaries to be paid them, and in the conduct of the school may employ advanced students to assist in the work. Annual reports shall be made by the secretary to the board of supervisors, which report shall give the number of students, with the sex of each, who have been in attendance during the year, the branches taught, the text-books used, number of teachers employed, salary paid to ea, amount expended for library, apparatus, buildings and all other expenses, the amount of funds on hand, debts contracted, and such other information as may be deemed important, and this report shall be printed in at least one newspaper in the county, if any is published therein, and a copy forwarded to the superintendent of public instruction. And for their services the trustees shall each receive the sum of two dollars per day for the time actually employed in the discharge of official duties, claims for services to be presented, audited, and paid out of the county treasury, in the same manner as other accounts against the county. [27 G. A., ch. 84, § 3; C. '73, §§ 1705-6, 1710, 1712.]

SEC. 2732. Regulations. The principal of any such high school, with the approval of the board of trustees, shall make such rules and regulations as is deemed proper in regard to the studies, conduct and government of the pupils; and any pupil who will not conform to and obey such rules may be suspended or expelled therefrom by the board of trustees. Said board of trustees shall make all necessary rules and regulations in regard to the age and grade of attainments necessary to

entitle pupils to admission into the school, and shall, on or before the tenth day of July of each year make an apportionment between the different school corporations of the county, of the pupils that shall attend said school, and shall apportion to each of said school corporations its proportionate number, based upon the number of pupils that can be reasonably accommodated in said school, and the number of pupils of school age, actual residents of such school corporations, as shown by the county superintendent's report last filed with the county auditor, of said county; said apportionment shall be published in the official papers of such county, to be paid for, as other county printing; pupils from the said school corporations to the number so designated in such apportionment, shall be entitled to admission into said school, tuition free, and none others, and it shall be unlawful to accredit pupils so attending to any other school corporation, than the one in which they are enumerated for school purposes. Should there be more applicants for such admission from any school corporation than its proportionate number, so determined, then the board of directors of such school corporation shall designate which of said applicants shall be entitled to so attend. If the school shall be capable of accommodating more pupils than those attending under such apportionment, others may be admitted by the board of trustees, preference at all times being given to pupils desiring such admission, who are residents of the county. The board of trustees shall fix reasonable tuition for such pupils. If such pupils are residents of the county the school corporation from which they attend shall pay their tuition out of its contingent fund. The principal of such high school shall report to the said board of trustees under oath, at the close of each term the names and number of pupils attending such school during said term, from what school corporation they attended, and the amount of tuition, if any, paid by each, the same to be included in the annual report of the secretary of the board of trustees to the board of supervisors, provided for in section twenty-seven hundred and thirty-one (2731) of the code. The tuition so paid to be turned over to the treasurer of the board of trustees to be used in paying the expenses of said school under the direction of said board. [27 G. A., ch. 84, § 4; C. '73, § 1709.]

SEC. 2733. Petitions to abolish-election. Whenever citizens of any county having a county high school desire to abolish the same or to dispose of any part of the buildings or property thereof, they may petition the board of supervisors at any regular session thereof in relation thereto, and sections three hundred and ninety-seven (397), three hundred and ninety-eight (398), three hundred and ninety-nine (399) and four hundred (400) of the code shall apply to and govern the whole matter, including the manner of presenting and determining the sufficiency of such petitions and remonstrances thereto so far as applicable. If an election is ordered the same shall be held at the time of the general election or at a special election called for that purpose and the proposition shall be submitted and the election conducted in the manner provided in title six (6) of the code. If any proposition as herein provided be legally submitted and adopted, the board of supervisors is hereby empowered to carry the same into effect. [27 G. A., ch. 84, § 5; C. '73, §§ 1707-8.]

INDEX TO LAWS.

ACCOUNTS, by educational board of examiners, 2633; by trustees normal school,
2680; by county high school, 2729; of applicants examined, 2734-p; of regis-
tration fees, 2734-q; of institute fund, 2738; kept by secretary, 2761; kept
by treasurer, 2768; audited by board, 2780; for attendance, certified to
county auditor, 2803; kept by county auditor, 2808; of bonds sold, kept by
treasurer, 2812-f; kept by county board of education, 2833.

ACRE, site taken by condemnation, may or may not exceed, 2814.
ADJOURNMENT, less number of board than quorum may adjourn, 2771.
ADVERTISEMENT, proposals to build of $300 and over, must be invited by, 2779;
before text-books are adopted, 2828.

AFFIDAVIT, of appeal, of what it consists, 2818; is basis of appeal, 2818; must
be filed within thirty days, 2818; shall set forth error complained of in a
plain and concise manner, 2818.

AGE, of voter at school meeting, 2748; for enumeration, 2764; for free attend-
ance, 2773; of scholars in attendance kept, 2789; of scholar, 2804; of per-
sons when compelled to attend school, 2823-a.

AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, see State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts.
ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND NARCOTICS, effects of, taught in normal school, 2677;
examination of teacher must include, 2734-d; county superintendent must
report manner and extent of instruction in effects of, 2739; law with
regard to teaching effects of, must be enforced, 2740; instruction as to
effects of, must be given all scholars, 2775.

ANNUAL MEETING, held second Monday in March, 2746; officers of, 2746; voters
at, 2747; powers of, 2749; voting at, must be by ballot, 2749; in independent
districts, 2754; notice of, 2746; vote of, must be executed by board, 2778;
statement of receipts and expenditures to be presented at, by board, 2780;
vote tax to pay judgment indebtedness, 2811; may authorize change of
text-books, 2749, paragraph 1, 2829; may vote free text-books, 2836; may
discontinue loaning of text-books, 2837.

APPARATUS, value of, reported to governor, 2625; amount expended for, in
county high school reported, 2731; value of, reported by secretary, 2765;
may be purchased with contingent fund, 2783.

APPEAL, from decision by county superintendent, 2623; who may take, 2818;
affidavit is basis of, 2818; county superintendent to notify secretary, 2819;
secretary to send up transcript, 2819; time of hearing fixed, 2819; inter-
ested persons notified, 2819; testimony heard and decision rendered, 2819;
decision final unless appealed from, 2819; to superintendent public instruc-
tion, 2820; judgment for money not to be rendered, 2820; county superin-
tendent issues subpoenas, 2821; compels attendance of witnesses, 2821;
compensation of witnesses in, 2821; costs of, may be paid, 2821; transcript
of costs filed with clerk of court, 2821.

APPOINTMENT, of deputy, by superintendent public instruction, 2621; of teach-
ers' normal institute, 2622; of two members board educational examiners,
by governor, 2628; of assistant examiners, 2629; to fill vacancies in trus-
tees, county high school, 2729; of deputy, by county superintendent, 2734-b;
of assistants at examination, 2734-c; of judges of election at annual meet-
ing, 2746; qualifications of persons for, as school officer or member of
board, 2748; of chairman and secretary for subdistrict meeting, 2751; of
judges of election in districts of 5,000 or over, divided into election pre-
cincts, 2756; no teacher or other employe of the board eligible as secretary
in independent districts, 2757; by board to fill vacancy in its member-
ship, 2758; to fill vacancies, must be by ballot, 2771; of temporary president
or secretary, 2772.

APPORTIONMENT, see semi-annual apportionment.

APPRAISERS, see referees.

ARBITRATORS, when boards cannot agree on division of assets and liabilities,
may be selected, 2802; decision of, made in writing, 2802; appeal from
decision of, to district court, 2802.

ASSETS AND LIABILITIES, boards shall make equitable division of, 2802.
ATTENDANCE, at normal school, 2676; at county high school, 2733; school for,
determined by board, 2773; every school free to actual residents, 2773;
in other districts, 2774; expenses of transportation paid, 2774; register of,
2789; in another district, 2803; age for, 2804; of non-residents, 2804; com-
pulsory, 2823-a.

AUDITOR, see county auditor.

AUDITOR OF STATE, issues warrant for subscription to educational school paper,
2624; receives report of enumeration from superintendent public instruction,
2625; issues warrant for each institute, 2626; issues warrant for salaries
and expenses, 2627; issues warrants for compensation board educational
examiners, 2634-a; issues warrants for compensation officers board trustees
normal school, 2681.

BALLOT, director for subdistrict elected by, 2751; directors elected by, 2754;
election in districts of 5,000 or more divided into precincts, must be by,
2755; officers of board elected by, 2757; vacancies among officers or members
of board, filled by, 2771; vote on formation of independent school district
taken by, 2794; vote for rural independent school district organization taken
by, 2797; vote to unite independent districts, taken by, 2799; vote to unite
rural independent school districts into school townships taken by, 2800;
vote to authorize free text-books taken by, 2837; vote to organize consoli-
dated independent districts, taken by, 2794-a.

BALLOT BOX, provided for each precinct in independent school districts of 5,000
and over, divided into election precincts, 2756.

BARBED WIRE, county superintendent shall see that provisions relating to use
of, are observed and enforced, 2740; shall not be used to inclose school
building or grounds, 2817; not used within ten feet of schoolhouse site,
2817; penalty for use of, 2817.

BEQUESTS, may be accepted by school corporations, 740, page 117.

BIBLE, shall not be excluded from any school, 2805; no child required to read,
contrary to wishes of parent or guardian, 2805.

BLIND PERSONS, of school age, reported to College for the Blind, 2739; of school
age, reported to county superintendent, 2765.

BOARD OF DIRECTORS, County superintendent not to be a member of, 2734; term
of, 2745; qualifications for member of, 2748; number of, in school town-
ships, 2752; number of, in independent districts, 2754; election of, in school
townships, 2751-2752; election of, in independent districts, 2754-2756; meet-
ings of, 2757; election of officers, 2757; qualification of members, 2758;