of any other county than that prescribed by this section for the custody of such funds, the same shall at once be paid into the proper county treasury as above provided. History: Enacted March 19, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 490. In effect on the first day of July, 1909. § 1748. CANCELLATION OF BONDS. Whenever any bonds authorized under the provisions of sections seventeen hundred forty-five and seventeen hundred forty-six shall remain unsold for the period of six months after having been offered for sale in the manner prescribed by the board of supervisors, the high school board of the high school district, for and on account of which such bonds were issued, may petition the board of supervisors to whom the proceedings were certified to cause such unsold bonds to be withdrawn from the market and canceled. Upon receiving such petition, signed by a majority of the members of said high school board, the said board of supervisors shall fix a time for hearing the same, which shall not be more than thirty days thereafter, and shall cause a notice, stating the time and place of hearing, and the object of the petition in general terms, to be published for ten days prior to the day of hearing, in some newspaper published in said high school district, if there is one, and if there is no newspaper published in said high school district, then in a newspaper published at the county seat of the county. At the time and place designated in the notice for hearing said petition, or at any subsequent time to which said hearing may be postponed, the said board of supervisors shall hear any reasons that may be submitted for or against the granting of the petition, and if said board shall deem it for the best interests of the high school district named in the petition, that such unsold bonds be canceled, said board shall make and enter an order in the minutes of its proceedings that said unsold bonds be canceled; and thereupon said bonds and the vote by which they were authorized to be issued shall cease to be of any validity whatever. History: Enacted March 19, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 491. In effect on the first day of July, 1909. § 1749. ISSUANCE OF BONDS FOR COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS. In counties where county high schools have been established under the provisions of this article, the board of supervisors may, when in their judgment it is advisable, and must upon a petition of a majority of the heads of families, according to the number of heads of families residing in the county, shown by the last preceding school census of the county, call an election and submit to the electors of the county the question whether the bonds of such county shall be issued and sold for the purpose of raising money for purchasing high school lots, for building or purchasing one or more high school buildings, or making alterations or additions to high school buildings, for repairing, restoring or rebuilding any high school building damaged, injured or destroyed by fire or other public calamity, for insuring high school buildings, for supplying high school buildings with furniture and necessary apparatus, for improving the grounds, or for any or all of said purposes. The conduct of said election and the issue, sale and payment of said bonds shall be in the manner prescribed by section four thousand and eighty-eight of this code. History: Enacted March 19, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 492. In effect on the first day of July, 1909. § 1750. COURSE OF STUDY. The course of study for every high school shall be prepared by the high school board, or trustees having control thereof, and except in incorporated cities and towns, having boards of education, shall be subject to the approval of the county board of education. Said course of study for county high schools shall embrace a period not less than three years, and for all other high schools shall embrace a period of not less than four years; and every high school shall prescribe at least one course of study that will prepare graduates therein for admission into the state university. The high school board of trustees may prescribe an additional course or additional courses of study, subject to approval as hereinbefore provided. Within ninety days after the taking effect of this act the clerk or secretary of the high school board of each district shall certify to the superintendent of schools having jurisdiction over such high school, the list of all text-books previously adopted by order of said board or then in use in said high school and no change shall thereafter be made in said list of books, provided, that the high school board may at a regular meeting adopt for a period of not less than four years such additional or other text-books as they may deem best from a list of books prepared and recommended annually in the month of June by the state board of education. The order of adoption shall be entered upon the minutes of the board and a certified copy thereof shall be at once transmitted by the clerk or secretary of the high school board to the superintendent of schools having jurisdiction over such high school. The board of trustees shall enter into a written contract with the publisher of the text-books so adopted for their use during such period. The high school board of any high school district, or trustees of any county high school may prescribe post-graduate courses of study for the graduates of such high school, or other high schools, which courses of study shall approximate the studies prescribed in the first two years of university courses. The high school board of any high school district, or trustees of any county high school wherein such postgraduate courses of study are taught may charge tuition for pupils living without the boundaries of the district or county wherein such courses are taught. History: Enacted March 19, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 492. In effect on the first day of July, 1909. § 1751. ADMISSION OF PUPILS TO HIGH SCHOOLS. Any graduate of the elementary schools of this state and any other person who furnishes to the principal of the high school he desires to attend, and to the superintendent having jurisdiction over such high school satisfactory evidence of his fitness for high school work, may attend any high school in this state; provided, that any person residing in a high school district may attend the high school in another high school district only upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the high school boards of the two districts, or if such boards fail to agree, on such terms as the superintendent of schools having jurisdiction by the provisions of this article over the high school he desires to attend may prescribe. [Repealing clause, and Saving clause. See parágraphs following § 1763, post.] [In force when. See sec. 4, following § 1763, post.] History: Enacted March 19, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 493. In effect on the first day of July, 1909. ARTICLE XV. [A new article is hereby added to the Political Code, to be numbered article XV of chapter III of title III of part III of said code, and to read as follows: In force on and after July 1, 1909. The original article XV, comprising §§ 1741-1758, relating to the state board of examination, was enacted March 12, 1872, and after various amendments and repeals (see Code Amdts. 1873-4, pp. 84, 100-102; 1875, p. 28; 1877-8, p. 29) was repealed April 7, 1880, Code Amdts. 1880 (Pol. pt.), p. 47, and March 23, 1893, Stats. and Amdts. 1893, p. 276.]: § 1755. § 1756. HIGH SCHOOL TAXES AND FUNDS. Estimate of tax for building, etc. Estimate of tax for maintenance. § 1757. Levy of taxes for building and maintenance. § 1758. § 1759. § 1760. § 1761. § 1762. § 1763. Estimate of tax for education of non-resident pupils. Levy of tax for state high school fund. Apportionment of same. Warrants on same. Disbursement of high school funds. [Sec. 3. Repealing clause.] [Sec. 3. Saving clause.] [Sec. 4. In force when.] § 1755. ESTIMATE OF TAX FOR BUILDING, ETC. It shall be the duty of every high school board to make and file with the board of supervisors of each county in which any part of their high school district is situated, on or before the first Monday of September next succeeding the formation of said district, an estimate of the cost of purchasing a suitable lot, of procuring plans and specifications and erecting a suitable building, of supplying the same with furniture and necessary apparatus, and of fencing and ornamenting the grounds, for the accommodation of the school, unless such high school board shall have secured or leased temporary quarters for the use of such high school, as provided in section seventeen hundred forty-one, or unless bonds shall have been voted for said purposes. If such high school board shall have secured or leased such temporary quarters, they shall, on or before the first Monday of September next before the termination of such lease or arrangement, either make another arrangement for temporary quarters, as provided in section seventeen hundred forty-one, or make and file with the board, or boards of supervisors aforesaid an estimate of the cost of purchasing a suitable lot, of procuring plans and specifications, and of erecting a suitable building, of supplying the same with furniture and necessary apparatus, and of fencing and ornamenting the grounds for the accommodation of the school, unless bonds shall have been voted for said purposes. Every county board of education acting as trustees of a county high school, shall make and file with the board of supervisors of their county the estimates required by this section. Should the trustees of any county high school, or the high school board of any high school district, fail to make the estimate provided for in this section, it shall be the duty of the superintendent of schools of such county, or having jurisdiction over such high school district, to make and file such estimate on or before the second Monday of September. History: Enacted March 19, 1909, Stats. and Amdts. 1909, p. 493. In effect on the first day of July, 1909. § 1756. ESTIMATE OF TAX FOR MAINTENANCE. It shall be the duty of every high school board to make and file with the board of supervisors of each county in which any part of their high school district is situated, on or before the first Monday of September of each year, an estimate of the amount of money required for maintaining the high school Kerr's Pol. C.-21 641 |