high school district, the aggregate result of said election and the boundaries of said proposed district. If it shall appear from such certificate that a majority of the votes cast at such election were cast in favor of the formation of such district, the board of supervisors shall make an order excluding all elementary school districts in their county taking part in said election from the high school district or districts of which they, or any of them, were a part; provided, that no order excluding territory from any union or joint union high school district shall be made if the exclusion of such territory would reduce the assessed valuation of such union or joint union high school district to three million five hundred thousand dollars or less; and provided, further, that all bonded indebtedness of the union or joint union high school district and all interest thereon shall be paid by the district which incurred the same as though such exclusion had not occurred. The order of the board of supervisors excluding such elementary school districts from a union or joint union high school district shall be entered by the clerk of the board of supervisors in his record of high school districts, and he shall also send a copy thereof to the county clerk of each county in which any part of such high school district is situated and said county clerk shall enter it in his record of high school districts. The board of supervisors, after making the order of exclusion, shall make an order establishing the union or joint union high school district asked for in the petition, and the county clerk shall record the certificate of the county superintendent of schools and the orders of the board of supervisors in full in his record of high school districts. [New section added May 27, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 1022.]

§ 1734a. Petition to annex elementary school district to high school district. Notice of hearing. Hearing. Order. Protest, etc. Whenever the principal of a high school in any high school district shall present to the high school board of such high school district a statement made under oath that the average daily attendance in such high school of pupils from three or more families whose parents reside in an elementary school district lying wholly within the county and contiguous to such high school district was an average of three or more for the two school years next preceding, which statement shall set forth the names of said pupils, the high school board of such high school district may petition the board of supervisors of the county to annex such elementary school district to such high school district. Upon presentation of such petition accompanied by the sworn statement of the high school principal concerning the attendance and residence of such pupils, and a verification thereof by the county superintendent of schools, the board of supervisors may set the same for hearing at a regular meeting thereof and shall publish in a newspaper of general circulation in the county once each week for at least two weeks prior to such hearing a notice containing a general statement of the purpose of such petition and the time and place when and where the petition will be heard, and shall require the clerk of the board of supervisors to mail a copy of such notice to each of the trustees of such school district at least ten days prior to such hearing. The board of supervisors must at the time and place mentioned in such notice hear the persons interested in the petition and unless it shall be shown that said elementary school district is already paying through the county high school tax a reasonable

amount toward the cost of such high school, shall make an order annexing such elementary school district to such high school district; provided, that if within sixty days after such order is made, a protest against such annexation signed by a majority of the electors of such elementary school district as shown by the affidavit of one of the protestants shall be filed with the board of supervisors, the board of supervisors shall rescind such order and shall cause to be levied upon the property of such elementary school district a tax which shall produce an amount computed as follows: From the entire cost of maintenance of the high school for the year, there shall be subtracted the entire income of such high school from state and county sources; the remainder shall be divided by the units of average daily attendance in said high school; and the quotient so obtained shall be multiplied by the units of average daily attendance of pupils from the aforesaid elementary school districts; said amount shall be levied and collected from such elementary school district in the usual way and shall be paid into the special fund of the high school district; provided, further, that the principal of any high school may deny admission to any student of a district lying outside the high school district if there is no room to receive such student.

Whenever the high school board of each of two or more high school districts shall, under the provisions of this section, petition the board of supervisors for the annexation of the same elementary school district, the board of supervisors shall refer the matter to the county superintendent of schools who shall make a recommendation thereon, after which the board of supervisors may in their discretion make an order annexing such elementary school district to one of the high school districts petitioning for its annexation after notice and hearing as hereinbefore provided.

Whenever an elementary school district is annexed to a high school district in accordance with the provisions of this section, the territory thus annexed to such high school district shall not be liable for any bonded indebtedness existing against the high school district, and all levies of taxes made for the payment of the same shall be upon the property of the territory of the original high school district.

Whenever an elementary school district is annexed under the provisions of this section to any high school district having the same boundaries as a single elementary school district, except a city high school district, such high school district shall thereafter constitute a union high school district, and shall be governed by a high school board elected according to the provisions of sections one thousand seven hundred thirty and one thousand seven hundred thirty-one of the Political Code. From and after the organization of the first high school board in any union high school district formed as herein before provided, all property belonging to the original high school district, shall be and become the property of the union high school district so formed.

Whenever one or more elementary school districts are annexed under the provisions of this act to a city high school district, such annexation shall be for high school purposes only. Such territory shall be deemed a part of said city for the purpose of holding the general municipal election at which any member of the board of education is to be elected, and shall form one or more election precincts, as may be determined by the legislative authority of said city, the qualified

such report has been filed as required by this section. approved May 21, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 806.]

[Amendment

This section was also amended in 1917. See Stats. 1917, p. 1327.

§ 1743a. Report of high school principal. Salary withheld if report not filed. [Repealed May 29, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 1327.]

§ 1746. When two-thirds favor bonds. Limit on amount of bonds. Form of bonds. Where payable. Sale at par. Advertisement of sale. If it appears that two-thirds of the votes cast at said election were cast in favor of issuing such bonds, then such high school board shall cause an entry of that fact to be made upon its minutes, and shall certify to the board of supervisors of the county whose superintendent of schools has jurisdiction of said high school district all of the proceedings had in the premises, and thereupon said board of supervisors shall be and it is hereby authorized and directed to issue the bonds of such high school district, in accordance with such proceedings, payable out of the interest and sinking fund of such high school district, naming the same; provided, that the total amount of bonds so issued shall not exceed five per cent of the taxable property of the high school district as shown by the last equalized assessment of the county or counties in which such district is located. The board of supervisors, by an order entered upon its minutes, shall prescribe the form of said bonds and of the interest coupons attached thereto, if any, and must fix the time when the whole or any part of the principal of said bonds shall be payable, which shall not be more than forty years from the date thereof. If the notice calling the election shall have provided that the bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable in gold coin of the United States, the bonds shall be made payable in such gold coin, as to principal and interest. If the notice calling the election shall have provided that the bonds and the interest thereon shall be payable in lawful money of the United States, the bonds shall be made payable in lawful money of the United States as to principal and interest. If the notice shall have made no such specific provisions, the board of supervisors shall have power in the order prescribing the form of the bonds either to make the bonds payable in gold coin of the United States as to principal and interest, or to make them payable in lawful money of the United States as to principal and interest. Said board of supervisors may make the principal and interest of said bonds payable at the office of the treasurer of the county, or at such other place within the United States as the board may designate, or at such treasurer's office or such other designated place, at the option of the bondholder; which place of payment shall be specified in the bonds; and this provision shall apply to all such bonds not yet issued when this section takes effect, regardless of the time when the election therefor was held. The expense of paying such principal and interest elsewhere than at the office of the treasurer shall be a charge against the high school district funds, to be paid out of the tax for the payment of the bonds. Such bonds must be sold at the times and in the amounts prescribed by the board of supervisors, but for not less than par, and the proceeds of the sale thereof must be deposited in the county treasury to the credit of the building fund of the said high school district, and be drawn out for the purposes aforesaid as other high school moneys are

drawn out. Before selling said bonds, or any part thereof, the board of supervisors must advertise for bids therefor for at least two weeks in some daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation published in the county, or if there is no such newspaper published in the county, in some such newspaper published in some other county in the state. If satisfactory bids are received, the bonds offered for sale must be awarded to the highest bidder. If no bids are received, or the board determines that the bids received are not satisfactory as to price or responsibility of the bidders, the board may reject all bids received, if any, and either readvertise or sell said bonds at private sale. [Amendment approved May 9, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 439.]

§ 1747. Taxation for bonds of high school district. When district is in more than one county. The board of supervisors of the county whose superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over any high school district must annually, at the time of making the levy of taxes for county purposes, levy a tax for that year upon the taxable property in such high school district for the interest and redemption of all outstanding bonds of such district, and said tax must not be less than sufficient to pay the interest of said bonds for that year, and such a portion of the principal as is to become due during such year, and in any event must be high enough to raise annually, for the first half of the term said bonds have to run, a sufficient sum to pay the interest thereon; and during the balance of the term high enough to pay such annual interest, and to pay annually a proportion of the principal of said bonds, equal to a sum produced by taking the whole amount of said bonds outstanding and divid ing it by the number of years said bonds then have to run; and all taxes so levied, when collected, shall as herein provided be paid into the county treasury of the county whose superintendent of schools has jurisdietion over the high school district in behalf of which such tax was levied to the credit of the bond interest and sinking fund of such high school district, and be used for the payment of the principal and interest on said bonds and for no other purpose. The principal and interest on said bonds shall be paid by the county treasurer of the county aforesaid at the place required by the terms of such bonds, upon presentation and surrender of warrants drawn by the county auditor in payment thereof after he has canceled the bonds and coupons, or upon the receipt of the registered owner if such bonds are registered, after a proper warrant has been drawn by the auditor therefor, out of the fund provided for their payment.

In case of a high school district situated in two or more counties, the assessor of each of such counties must annually, as soon as the county assessments have been equalized by the state board of equalization certify to the board of supervisors of each of the counties in which any portion of such high school district is situated, the assessed value of all taxable property in such county situated in such high school district, and the said tax shall be so levied according to the ratio which the assessed value of the property in such high school district in any county bears to the total assessed value of the property in such district, each board of supervisors to levy upon the property in such high school distriet and within their own county, such rate of tax as will be sufficient to raise not less than the amount needed to pay the interest and such

portion of the principal of such bonds as is to become due during such year. Said tax shall be entered upon the assessment-roll and collected in the same manner as other school taxes are entered and collected and when collected paid into the treasury of such county and it shall then be the duty of the treasurer of any such county other than the one whose superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over such high school, on written demand of the treasurer of the county whose superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over such high school to pay the sums collected on account of such tax into the treasury of the county whose superintendent of schools has jurisdiction over such high school. Wherever money has been raised for the payment of principal or interest of outstanding bonds of any high school district and the same is at the time this section takes effect in the treasury 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. [Amendment approved May 21, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 792.]

§ 1750a. Intermediate school courses. Election. Ballots. Daily attendance. Lapsing of course. Estimated expenses. The high school board of any high school district or the trustees of any county high school, may prescribe intermediate school courses, and admit thereto pupils who have completed the sixth year of the elementary school; provided, that no intermediate school course shall be prescribed in any county, union or joint union high school district, unless a majority of the trustees of the elementary school districts comprising such high school district shall approve the organization of such course in writing, and shall file a statement of such approval with the high school board, or unless, at an election called for that purpose in the same manner as the election for the formation of the high school district, a majority of the qualified electors voting thereat shall vote in favor of such intermediate school course. The ballots used at such election shall contain the words "Intermediate school course-Yes" and "Intermediate school course-No." The result of said election shall be determined and certified to the superintendent of schools as provided in case of the election for the formation of the district. The first two years of such intermediate school course shall include instruction in the school studies generally taught in the seventh and eighth grades of the elementary school, and may include such other studies, including secondary, vocational and industrial subjects, as said high school board may prescribe. The average daily attendance of all pupils from each district, enrolled in the first two years of such intermediate school course, shall be kept separate and shall be credited to the common school district in which the various pupils reside; provided, that when any intermediate school course is first established under the provisions of this section, the course of study therefor shall be adopted between the first day of July and the date of the opening of school for the current school year.

Whenever the average daily attendance of pupils enrolled in the first two years of the intermediate school course of a district is less than twenty-five for any school year, such intermediate school course shall be deemed to have lapsed.

The high school board of any high school district maintaining an intermediate school course, may include in the annual estimate of expenses of such high school district filed with the county superintendent of