Seventh-To furnish said high school and its departments with necessary fixtures, furniture, books, apparatus and libraries, and to provide for the proper care, protection and maintenance of the same. Eighth-To employ teachers, determine their duties and fix the compensation to be allowed them from time to time, and at any regular or special meeting, all the members of said board being present at such special meeting, to dismiss such teachers or any of them, for gross immorality, incompetency, or other adequate cause.

Ninth To direct what studies and branches of learning shall be taught, and what text books shall be used in said high school and its several departments.

Tenth-To establish departments or different grades in said high school, and to make all necessary rules and regulations for the admission and advancement of applicants and pupils, and for the government of said high school and its departments; to suspend or expel pupils guilty of refactory, disobedient or immoral conduct, or possessed of any infectious or contagious disease.

Eleventh-To appoint agents and servants to execute any matter conducive to the interests of said high school district, consistent with this act, and for their services to pay them such reasonable compensation as said board shall fix.

Twelfth-For the purpose of building a high school and other school buildings, and additions thereto, for the use of said high school district, and of repairing and improving the same, and purchasing real estate for such buildings, libraries, apparatus and other objects contemplated by this act, or of paying indebtedness contracted therefor, it shall be lawful for said board to borrow money, at a rate of interest not exceeding 10 per cent per annum, and to issue bonds therefor in sums of not less than one hundred dollars, which bonds shall be signed by the president and attested by the clerk and seal of said board.

§ 10. Said board of education shall have full power, and it shall be its duty, to determine the amount of money needed to maintain said high school and its departments, and to pay all expenses of said district, of every description, for each school year, and to determine the amount of money needed at any time for the purpose of purchasing, leasing or improving grounds for said high school objects, or of purchasing, leasing, building, finishing, repairing, improving or extending their said high school houses, or of procuring furniture, libraries and apparatus, or of paying the indebtedness of said high school district. Said board shall have power and authority to levy taxes upon all the taxable real and personal property in said district, for the purpose of raising said amounts of money so determined by it. Said board shall designate the amount of money required for the maintenance and expenses of said high school and its departments for each school year, as aforesaid, "school tax;" and the amount required for any other purposes specified in this section, said board shall designate "school house tax." It shall be the duty of said board to ascertain, at any meeting prior to the second Monday of September, annually, the rate per cent upon the assessment of real and personal

property in said high school district for State and other purposes for that year, needed to be levied to raise the amount of “school tax” determined upon, and what rate per cent upon the same will be needed to raise the amount of "school house tax" determined upon; which rate or rates shall be certified by the president and attested by the clerk of said board, and returned to the clerk of the county court of said Bureau county on or before the second Monday of September, annually. The certificate or certificates so made may be in the following form, as near as may be:

The Board of Education of the Princeton High School District requires the rate of... ..per cent. on the dollar to be levied on the taxable property of said district, for the year.. for the purpose of school tax, (or school house tax, as the case may be.)

Dated this..

Attest:

..day of..
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It shall be the duty of said county court to extend the tax or taxes so certified to him in one column, under the name of "high school tax," according to said rate or rates upon the book for that year of the collector of taxes for the territory embraced in said high school district; and the said taxes shall be collected as other taxes are or may be, and, when collected, shall be paid over, on demand, to the treasurer of said district. The said county clerk and collector shall receive for their services the same compensation as now is or may be provided for extending and collecting district school taxes. however, provided that the rate to be levied in any one year for school tax shall not exceed three per cent. on the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the said district, and that the rate to be levied in any one year for school house tax shall not exceed five per cent. on said valuation.

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§ 11. Said Board of Education shall hold regular meetings once each month, at such time and place as shall be designated by the rules of said board. Said board shall make, from time to time, all needful rules and regulations for its own government and that of all officers, teachers and agents appointed by said board, and for the custody, control, care and management of the school's fund and property belonging at any time to said district.

§ 12. Said board, shall, annually, at its stated meeting in July, elect a president and a clerk, both of whom shall be members of said board, and who shall hold their offices for one year. Said board shall also, at said meeting, appoint a treasurer of said high school district, who shall not be a member of said board, and who shall hold his office during the pleasure of said board. The president shall preside at all meetings, and perform all other duties required by the rules of said board. The clerk shall record the proceedings of all meetings, the result of all elections held under this act, and the rules and regulations of said board. The said record shall be signed by the president and attested by the clerk; and the same or certified copies thereof, under the hand of said clerk and the seal of said board, shall be prima facie evidence of the proceedings of said board in all courts

and places. Said board may adjourn from time to time, and the president or any two members thereof, may call special meetings, at such times and in such manner as the rules of said board shall provide. Three members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In the absence of the president or clerk, the board may appoint a president or clerk pro tem.

§ 13. Said Board of Education may make such rules concerning the duties of the treasurer and the disposition of the funds and other property in his custody, as are not inconsistent with this act.

§ 14. The treasurer of said high school district shall execute, within ten days from his appointment, a bond, with two or more good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by said board, which bond shall be filed and recorded by the clerk, shall be made payable to said board in a penalty to be fixed by said board, and conditioned that he will safely keep, and, from time to time, pay over, upon the order of said board, all moneys and effects which shall come into his hands or under his control as such treasurer, and will deliver over to his successor in office, all books, papers, securities, property and moneys remaining in his hands, and belonging to said district, and will faithfully discharge the duties of his office according to law, and the rules made by said board from time to time. It shall be the duty of said treasurer to receive and keep all moneys due and payable to said district. He shall keep an accurate account of all moneys received and paid out by him, in a record to be kept for that purpose, and shall pay out no moneys or other effects excepting on the order of said board. He shall retain vouchers for all moneys so paid out, and shall receive from all moneys paid out on such orders, a fee, to be fixed by said board, not exceeding two per cent. He shall settle his accounts with said board at the August meeting in each year, and shall produce his books and papers to said board whenever required so to do. All orders on said treasurer shall state for what purpose issued, shall be signed by the president, and registered and attested by the clerk of said board.

§ 15. No person shall be eligible to serve as a member of said board, or to vote at any election provided for in this act, or to act as judge or clerk of such election, unless he shall be a resident of said district, and have the qualifications of an elector at township elections.

§ 16. The said Board of Education is hereby made the successors in office of the directors of the high school district, organized in the said township of Princeton, and known by the name of "The High School District of Princeton;" which said last named district is hereby merged in the high school district created by this act. All high school buildings, property and real estate belonging to said high school district of Princeton, are hereby conveyed to and vested in said Board of Education and its successors in office, in fee simple, for the purposes contemplated by this act. It is hereby made the duty of the trustees of schools of said township to execute and deliver to said Board of Education, all conveyances requisite to perfect, in said Board of Education, the title to all real estate now held in trust by said trustees for said high school district of Princeton.

§ 17. The said Board of Education shall have the power, and is hereby directed, to ratify, assume and carry out all contracts made and entered into by said directors, on behalf of said district, for building and other school objects, and, for the purpose of executing such contracts, shall levy taxes aud issue bonds as provided in this act.

§ 18. Nothing in this act shall be construed as affecting the present organization of the common school districts in said township, or the control and conduct of the same under the general laws of this State.

§ 19. This act shall be deemed a public act, and shall be in force. from and after its passage.

APPROVED February 5, 1867.

ROCKFORD SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to reduce the charter of the city of Rockford and the sev eral acts amendatory thereof into one act, and to revise and amend the same.

SECTION 1. The council shall have power—

First-To lay off and divide the city into school districts, alter the same and create new ones.

Second-To purchase or lease sites for school houses, with necessary grounds.

Third-To erect, hire or purchase buildings suitable for school houses, and keep the same in repair.

Fourth-To furnish schools with the necessary fixtures, furniture, libraries and apparatus.

Fifth-To establish, support and maintain public schools.
Sixth-To hire teachers and fix their compensation.

Seventh-To prescribe the studies to be taught in the different schools, and the school books to be used.

Eighth-To appoint a board of school inspectors, not exceeding five in number, and to prescribe the powers and duties of such inspectors.

Ninth-To cause the public moneys for the support of schools, to which the said city or the schools therein, may be entitled, to be paid into the city treasury, and to direct the expenditure thereof.

Tenth-To supply the inadequacy of such moneys for the payment of teachers, by a school tax.

Eleventh-To levy and collect taxes for that purpose, and for building of school houses, and repairing the same, and for other purposes mentioned in this article. The said taxes to be called school taxes, and the funds thereof shall be kept a separate fund.

APPROVED Feb. 15, 1865.

ROCK ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to incorporate Rock Island School District.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all of fractional town

ship number eighteen North, of range number two West of the fourth principal meridian is hereby constituted a school district to be known as Rock Island School District.

§ 1. The government of said district for school purposes shall be vested in a board of five persons, to be styled the board of education of Rock Island School District, and to be elected, qualified and organized as hereinafter provided.

§ 3. There shall be elected by the qualified voters of said district, on the first Tuesday of April next, five persons who shall constitute said board, and hold their office for two years until their successors shall be elected and qualified; except that at their first meeting after said election they shall be divided by lot into two classes: two of them to be of the first class and three of them second class, and the seats of the first class shall be vacated at the expiration of one year, when there shall be an election of two members of the board, of the first class; and thereafter on the first Tuesday of April, annually, there shall be an election of said classes alternately. The meetings for said elections shall be notitied by the mayor of the city of Rock Island, by giving at least ten days' notice of the time and place, or places of said elections, by publishing a notice thereof in one or more of the newspapers of said city, and the poll books shall be opened and kept, the votes canvassed and returns made, and all other proceedings had in the same manner as in elections of mayor and aldermen in the city of Rock Island: Provided, that it shall not be necessary to open the polls at more than one place, unless the mayor shall deem it expedient to open them in each ward of said city. In case of a tie in any election, the same shall be decided by lot, by the judges of election, on the day of election. If between the times of the annual elections any vacancy shall occur in the said board by death, resignation or removal from the limits of said district, the remaining members shall fill the vacancy by appointment; and the person so appointed shall hold the office until the next annual election, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified. The members of said board shall sev, erally take an oath to discharge the duties of their office to the best of their knowledge and ability.

§ 4. The said board of education shall be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the board of education of Rock Island School District, and may have a common seal, and change the same at pleasure; and as such may contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in and before any tribunal having competent jurisdiction.

§ 5. It shall be the duty of said board to hold quarterly sessions on the second Tuesday of April, July, October and January of each year; and they may meet by adjournment at such other times as they may think proper, and the president of the board, or any two members thereof, may call a special meeting of the board by giving a verbal notice of the time and place and object thereof, or leaving a written notice thereof at the residences of all the other members of the board; and at all meetings a majority of the board shall be a

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