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establish and maintain kindergartens and manual training schools in connection with the public school.

§ 95. Said board shall, at the end of each scholastic year, prepare, and cause to be published, a printed statement, showing the number of pupils in each school, with the general and educational progress made therein, the amount, character and condition of all funds and other property belonging to said schools, together with such information as may be proper or necessary for the benefit of said schools and the general public.

§ 96. Said board shall, within thirty days prior to the time prescribed for the levy to be made in the charter of cities of the fourth class, approximately ascertain the amount of money necessary to be used to defray the expenses of maintaining the schools, improving or constructing buildings, et cetera, thereof and any liquidation of the liabilities during the current fiscal year, and report the same, together with the estimated amount to be received from the common school fund of the State, interest on bonds, endowments, et cetera, to the city auditor or clerk, who shall thereupon report the same to the city council, and the said city council shall make the necessary levy, and collect the tax to provide suitable school buildings, and to defray the general expenses necessary for school purposes: Provided, That the levy for any one year shall not exceed fifty cents on each one hundred dollars of value of taxable property in the city as returned by the board of equalization. Said tax shall be paid to the board or authorized agent of same as fast as collected.

§ 97. Said board of education shall provide and maintain, out of the funds levied or otherwise provided for the purpose, suitable buildings, teachers, and other employes, sufficient for the education of all children of the city between six and twenty years of age, and shall provide separate buildings and schools for the education of white and black pupils; and no white child shall be allowed to attend any colored school, nor shall any colored child be allowed to attend any white school.

§ 98. The trustees shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, take oath, or make affirmation, as prescribed by law.

§ 99. No member of the board of education shall be or become, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract, agreement or trade, touching the building of schoolhouses, repairing of school property, or use his official position to secure the patronage of the teachers or employes of the schools. No member of the board of education shall receive any salary for his services as such.

§ 100. Said board of education shall elect its own treasurer, and fix bond of same, who shall keep a distinct account. of all moneys belonging unto, or which may hereafter be dedicated to, or set apart for, public schools, and shall only pay out or deliver any of said funds upon the warrant of the board of education, countersigned by the secretary, and approved by the president of the board of education, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed by said board.

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§ 101. Said board of education shall have exclusive control of all school funds of the city, from whatever source the same may be derived, including the pro rata of the city from the common school fund of the State. It shall have the right to receive all fines, forfeitures and taxes that may inure to the benefit of the public schools of the city. It shall have power to expend all moneys in the interest of the public schools of the city, and the warrants of the board of education, countersigned by the secretary and approved by the president of the board, shall be honored by the treasurer to the amount of the school funds in his custody.

§ 102. All indebtedness, bonded or otherwise, and all liabilities and contracts of the school board, existing at the time this law takes effect, and all taxes, funds, sinking funds or other resources that have been pledged or set apart for the payment or the principal and interest thereof, shall continue unimpaired, and remain of the same force and effect as though the same had been authorized and contracted by the express provisions of this law.

§ 103. No money shall be drawn from the funds, unless same shall have been appropriated by order of the board of education, and no appropriation of money shall be made to the paid out of said school funds, unless the money shall actually be in the treasury to meet the draft.

§ 104. Said board of education shall elect from its own number a president, for the term of two years, and may prescribe who shall preside in his absence, and make all necessary rules, prescribing the duties of the presiding officer and the government of itself; and said board shall also elect a secretary, at a salary not exceeding one hundred dollars per annum, whose duty it shall be to keep a record of the proceedings of regular and special meetings, countersign all warrants and contracts, and whose term of office shall be two years.

§ 105. Said board of education shall have the power and right to establish and maintain a public school library, out of any funds coming into its hands, except that received by taxation, or from the State funds, and also to purchase text-books for indigent children of the city, and to otherwise expend such Said board of edumoneys in the interest of public schools. cation shall have the power and right to make rules and regulations governing said school library.

§ 106. Said board shall have power to admit to said school pupils from beyond the limits of the city, and may collect therefrom tuition fees for the benefit of the schools of the city, making deduction of taxes for school purposes on property in said city paid by parents of said children; and no children of persons residing beyond said limits shall be admitted as pupils in any of said schools, except on payment of such tuition fees as said board may require.

§ 107. Any city of the fourth class, in which said system of public schools shall be established and maintained, shall constitute one common school district, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall pay every year, out of the common school fund of the State to the white board of education, the same amount per capita, for each white child of pupil age in said district, and to the colored board of education the same amount per capita, for each colored child of pupil age in said district, as he shall pay to each child of pupil age in other school districts in the State. Whenever the board of council of any city of this class shall determine, by ordinance, to establish and maintain a system of public schools therein, under the provisions of the act mentioned in the title of this act, or in case there was a failure at the last election provided for'in said act to elect a board of education in any city of the fourth

120 PROHIBITING OFFICERS BECOMING INTERESTED IN CONTRACTS. class, the board of council shall have the power and authority to appoint trustees for such school to serve until the election and qualification of trustees as provided in section eighty-nine of said act, as amended herein.

Act approved June 28, 1893.

[NOTE Cities of the Fifth and Sixth Classes are provided for in the General School Law. Acts of Assembly, 1893, Chapter 260.]

V.

PROVISION PROHIBITING SCHOOL OFFICERS BECOMING
INTERESTED IN CONTRACTS IN BUILDING
SCHOOL HOUSES.

An act to regulate the building of schoolhouses in this Commonwealth:

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth:

§ 1. That no county superintendent, board of education, or member thereof, or trustee of any sub-district, shall directly or indirectly, become interested in any contract for building or repairing schoolhouses in his or their district; and any county superintendent, member of such board, or any trustee violating this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars.

§ 2. That no schoolhouse shall be erected in any sub-district, or county in the commonwealth unless the plan thereof shall have been submitted to the county superintendent, and approved by him, and it is hereby made his duty to acquaint himself with the principles of schoolhouse architecture, and in all his plans for such structures, to have due regard to economy, convenience, health and durability of structure.

Approved March 11, 1898.

VI. A TAX TO REIMBURSE TRUSTEES.

AN ACT to provide for the levy and collection of a tax in certain common school districts to pay off indebtedness incurred by the trustees of such school districts in erecting and furnishing schoolhouses.

Whereas, The trustees of some of the common school districts in this State have borrowed money, and have expended the same in erecting and furnishing schoolhouses in their respective districts; and whereas, the present rate of taxation authorized by law is wholly insufficient to pay off and discharge such indebtedness so incurred within a reasonable time; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That the trustees of all common school districts in this State, in which said trustees have heretofore borrowed or furnished money, and have expended the same in erecting and furnishing schoolhouses in their respective districts, and where the indebtedness so incurred remains unpaid, and the present rate of taxation authorized by law is insufficient to raise a sum in said districts sufficient to pay off and discharge said indebtedness within two years, the said trustees are authorized and empowered to order a tax, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property in their respective districts, each and every year hereafter, until a sum sufficient has been raised to pay off and discharge such indebtedness so incurred.

§ 2. Said tax should be levied and collected as provided by law for the levy and collections of the present school tax; Provided, That no tax shall be levied or collected from the property of colored persons to pay any indebtedness incurred for the benefit of schools for white children.

Approved July 1, 1893.