school district may be entitled, and execute and deliver to said board of education the necessary deeds and conveyances for the shares of real estate due said district under such divisions; which funds and other personal property, real estate, notes, bonds and obligations shall be and remain under the full and entire control and power of the said board of education, for the use and benefit of said district, subject only to the provisions of the general school laws of this State defining the powers and duties of trustees of schools.

§ 8. The board of education of said district shall prepare or cause to be prepared by the treasurer or clerk of the board or other persons and furnished to the superintendent of schools of Edgar county [on] or before the first Monday of October, annually, a report, containing the same facts and statistics as are required to be embraced in the reports of the township treasurers to the county superintendent of schools by the general school laws of the State of Illinois; and the said superintendent or other proper officer shall pay to the treasurer of said district its proportion of the school, college, and seminary fund, of the two mill tax, interest, fines and other moneys or special taxes distributed according to the laws in force, for each apportionment or distribution, treating such district for this purpose the same as a township.

§ 9. The said board of education shall establish and maintain a sufficient number of free schools for the education of every person residing in said district over the age of six years and under the age of twenty-one years, and shall make the necessary provisions for continuing such schools in operation not less than eight nor more than ten months in each year; and, for the purpose of more successfully accomplishing this end, said board shall have power:

First-To rent, lease or purchase grounds and sites for school buildings.

Second-To hire, purchase or erect, in accordance with the provisions of this act, houses and buildings for school purposes, and to keep the same in proper repair.

Third-To furnish the schools in said district with all the necessary fixtures, furniture and apparatus.

Fourth-To establish in said district as many primary schools and those of higher grades as said board shall deem proper; to determine the branches or studies to be taught in each department or grade, and to prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the admission of pupils into the same, and for the promotion from one grade or department to another, and also to determine the text books to be used therein.

Fifth-To hire and appoint all the teachers of said schools, establish rules respecting their qualifications, and how the same shall be determined, fix the amount of the salary or compensation of each teacher, and may dismiss any teacher at any time for good cause: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to supersede the necessity of every teacher first procuring a certificate from the county superintendent of schools, as is now required by the general school laws of this State.

Sixth-To lay off and subdivide said district into as many subdivisions, for school purposes, as circumstances and the interest of schools therein may seem to require, and from time to time to change the same or create new ones.

Seventh-To appoint three persons, whose duty it shall be to conduct all examination of pupils for admission to any department or grade of said schools or for promotion therein, and to appoint other officers, committees or agents, as they shall deem best or most conducive to the interests of said schools.

Eighth-To suspend or expel pupils for disobedient, refractory, or incorrigibly bad conduct, or for a failure to comply with all the rules and regulations adopted by the board for the government of said schools.

Ninth-To enforce and exercise all rightful authority necessary for the proper management of schools and school funds and the carrying out of the true spirit and intent of this act and that may be necessary to establish and perfect a good and thorough system of graded free schools in said district.

§ 10. The said board, in addition to the powers now given by law to school directors and the powers herein granted, shall possess all the powers and privileges of trustees of townships, for school purposes, and shall be recognized and regarded by the county superintendent of schools, county clerk and all other officers of this State as possessing all the powers, privileges and rights of trustees of congressional townships of this State, and are hereby required to perform for said district all the duties of such trustees as well as those of directors, not inconsistent with this act.

§ 11. It shall be the duty of the board of education, and they shall have full power, to determine the amount of money needed and to be levied and raised for school purposes for each year, over and above the amount derived from the school funds heretofore enumerated or from other sources, and to levy the same, annually, upon the taxable property of said district, and have it collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected; which levy or tax shall not in any one year exceed two per centum of the assessed valuation of all the property in said district subject to taxation therein.

§ 12. Said board may, also, at any time when they may deem it necessary, borrow any sum or sums of money, for a time not exceeding one year, and at a rate of interest not exceeding ten per centum, per annum, to be expended for general school purposes, for purchasing school house sites and for repairing and improving school buildings: Provided, that the total amount so borrowed and unpaid at any one time shall not exceed one per centum of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of said district.

§ 13. That when said board shall deem it necessary to purchase or erect a school house or school houses or other necessary buildings, for the use of said district, they shall call a meeting of the legal voters of said district, by giving at least ten days' notice of the time and place and object of said meeting, by posting up or causing to be posted up at least three written or printed notices in three of the most public

places in said district; and the president of said board, or in his absence, one of the other members shall act as chairman of said meeting, and after appointing some one of their number clerk, may determine by a majority vote, upon the erection of a school house or school houses or other buildings and the amount of money to be raised for that purpose said voting to be by ballot, and to be conducted in the same manner that other school elections are conducted; which money, so voted, shall be levied by said board in such amounts as the board shall deem best, and shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes for school purposes are collected: Provided, that said levy shall not exceed for any one year three per centum of the assessed value of the taxable property of said district; and the said board of education, for the purpose of raising the money so voted, may issue bonds, which shall be executed by the president and clerk, in sums not less than $100 each, bearing interest not exceeding ten per centum, per annum, and running for such times as said board may deem necessary such times to be stated in the bonds so issued: Provided, further, that such time shall not exceed five years.

§ 14. All persons over the age of six years and under the age of twenty-one years, residing in said district, shall be admitted into said. schools free: Provided, said board may, at their option, have power to charge and collect a reasonable tuition fee from each pupil who pursues the study of any other language therein than the English or German; and said board shall have power to admit persons who do not reside in said district or who are over twenty-one years of age into such schools, upon such terms as they may deem proper; but nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent persons from being suspended, expelled or kept out of said schools altogether, for reasons hereinafter mentioned.

§ 15. It shall be the duty of the president and clerk to sign all papers and documents of said board, and the same are hereby declared legal and binding, when so signed.

§ 16. The treasurer appointed by the said board of education shall before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond, with two or more freeholders, who shall not be members of the board, as securities, payable to the board of education of Paris Union School District, with a sufficient penalty to cover all liabilities which may be incurred. conditioned faithfully to perform all the duties of treasurer of said board according to law. Said bond to be approved by a majority of the board, and to be delivered by a member of the board to the county superintendent of schools of Edgar county. The penalty of said treasurer's bond shall be twice the amount of all moneys, notes, bonds, mortgages and effects liable to pass through his hands, or be in his custody during any one year; and said bond shall be in the form prescribed for township treasurer's bond by the general school laws of this State.

§ 17. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of said board to loan that part of the funds belonging to said district derived from the township funds and denominated principal, in the manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by the general school laws of this State for

the government of township treasurers in the loaning of township funds; and no part of said principal shall ever be apportioned or paid out in any manner that shall cause a decrease or diminution of the amount of the same. Said treasurer shall be allowed to retain a commission of one per centum and no more, on all funds paid out or loaned by him, for the benefit of said district; he shall deliver to his successor in office all books, moneys, papers and other property appertaining to said office, when ordered so to do by the said board of education.

§ 18. Neither the treasurer nor any member of the board shall receive any compensation for his attendance at the meetings of the same, nor for the performance of the ordinary duties of members of said board, but for extraordinary services a reasonable compensation may be allowed, the board to determine what are extraordinary services and what is a reasonable compensation therefor.

§ 19. The treasurer shall, as often as required by the board, make due and full report to them-which report shall be open to the inspection of any citizen of said district - of the financial condition thereof, giving the amount of money on hand and from what sources derived, the amounts paid out since the last report and for what purposes, and such other items as the said board or general school laws of this State may require.

§ 20. For any neglect or failure, (except through sickness of himself or family) by the treasurer or any member of the board to fulfill and perform all the duties required of (or) imposed upon him by any of the provisions of this act, he shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars for each default, to be recovered by an action of debt, at the suit of any person who may complain, one half of said fine to go to the informer, and the other half to be paid into the treasury of said district.

§ 21. The present directors of the districts from which territory is taken for the formation of the Paris Union School District shall be directors of said districts from the taking effect of this act until the proper organization of said board of education is effected thereunder.

§ 22. This act is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall take effect and be in force from and after the fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundered and sixty-nine. APPROVED March 26, 1869.

PEKIN SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AN ACT to Establish School Districts in the City of Pekin, in Tazewell county.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That all the territory within the limits of the City of Pekin, Tazewell county, Illinois, according to its present or future boundaries, is hereby erected into a common school district, to be known as "The Pekin School District."

§ 2. All school lands, school funds, and other real or personal estate, notes, bonds or obligations, belonging to township number twenty-five, range five, and township number twenty-four, range five West of the third principal meridian, Tazewell county, Illinois, held or owned for school purposes, (shall be divided) between the City of Pekin and the portion of the township without the same, in proportion and in the manner following: The school trustees of said townships shall, within thirty days after the first election contemplated by this act, appoint three commissioners, who are freeholders; one a resident of said city, and the others, one from each of said townships without the city; who, after being sworn to discharge their duties, shall ascertain the whole number of white persons under the age of twenty-one years, residing in the said city, and in the townships without the city, and thereupon the said trustees shall divide and apportion said funds, real and personal estate, notes, bonds and obligations of said townships, according to the number of white persons under the age of twenty-one years residing in said townships. Said trustees shall have power to supply any vacancy occurring among said commissioners.

§ 3. The public schools of said district shall be under the exclusive management and control of a board of school inspectors, each of whom, with the treasurer and secretary of said board, shall be sworn to discharge their duties with fidelity.

§ 4. Said board shall have exclusive control over the school lands, funds, and other means of said districts, for school purposes, and shall have full power to do all acts and things, in relation thereto, to promote the end herein designed, and may sell and lease said lands, and other lands and property which may have been or may hereafter be donated, purchased or designed for school purposes in said district, on such terms, for cash and credit, and at such times, as they may deem proper.

§ 5. There shall be elected in the city of Pekin, by the qualified voters of said city, nine inspectors of schools; and from and after the first election, three shall be elected annually, who shall hold their offices for three years, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. That (at) the first election for school inspectors, to be held on the third Monday of the month of April, nine inspectors shall be chosen, who, at their first meeting, shall determine, by lot, which three of them shall hold their offices for the respective terms of one, two, and three years; and the persons so elected, and their successors in office, are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of "The Board of School Inspectors of the City of Pekin;" and they shall have a perpetual existence, and, by said name, shall have power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all courts and places where judicial proceedings are had; may purchase, receive and hold real and personal property within the limits of the city of Pekin; and, on the sale of any real estate, may, by resolution of said board, to be entered on the minutes of their proceedings by the secretary of the board, empower the president of the board to convey such real estate, by a good and sufficient deed, under his hand and private seal, to the purchaser or purchasers; and such deed, duly