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HOUSE BILL NO. 93.
An Act to Amend the School Law of
Montana-lntroduced by White.
Be it enacted by the legislative assemb
ly of the territory of Montana:
SECTION 1. That chapter Lv of the
Fifth Division of the Revised Statues of
the school law of Montana be, and the
same is, hereby amended to read as fol
lows:
Sec. 1090. It shall be the duty of the
superintendent of public instruction to
travel in the different counties of the ter
ritory where common schools are taught,
so far as possible, without neglecting his
other official duties, during at least three
months in each year, for the purpose of
visiting schools, of consulting with county
superintendents and addressing public as
semblies on subjects pertaining to public
schools; and his necessary traveling ex
penses, not exceeding the sum of five
hundred dollars in any one year, shall be
paid out of any funds in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 1097. The county superintendent
shall have power, and it shall be his duty:
First. To visit each school in his county
at least once a year.
Second. To distribute promptly all re
ports, laws, forms, circulars and instruct
ions which he may receive for the use of
school officers and teachers from the su
perintendent of public instruction.
Third. To report to the superintendent
of public instruction annually on or before
the first day of December for the school
year ending August 31st next preceding,
such statistics as may be required of him.
Fourth. To enforce the course of study
adopted by the territorial superintendent
of public instruction.
Fifth. To enforce the rules and regula
tions required in the examination of teach
ers.
Sixth to keep on file and preserve in his
office the biennial report of the superin
tendent of public instruction.
- iSeve tlh. To keep in a good and well
bound book, to be furnished by the coun
ty commissioners, a record of his official
acts.
Eighth. To carefully preserve all re
ports of school officers and teachers, and,
at the close of his term of office, deliver to
his successor all records, books, documents
and papers belonging to the ofnce, taking
a receipt for the same, which shall be filed
in the office of the county clerk.
Sec. 1100. The county superintendent
shall have power, and it shall be his duty,
to appoint trustees to fill vacancies in any
district arising from failure to elect at the
proper time, resignation or other causes,
and in the orginization of new districts,
until the next annual district election.
Provided that when a new district is or
ganized, such trustees of the old district
as reside within the limits of the new dis
trict shall be trustees in the new district
and the vacancies in the old district shall
not be filled by appointment until the next
annual district election.
Sec. 1108. An annual meeting for the
election of 'trustee, or trustees, shall be
held in each district on the first Saturday
in April of each year at the district school
house, if there be one, and if there be
none, at a place designated by the board
of trustees. The term of all trustees now
holding office shall expire upon the elec
tion- and qualification of their successors.
The trustees shall post written notices of
election, specifying the day, time and
place of meeting, in at least three public
places in the district, one of which shall
be the school house, if there be one, at
least (15) days previous to the time of
r meeting, and in addition to posting such
written notices the trustees shall cause
the same to be published in some news
paper in the district or if there be no
newspaper in the district then in some
newspaper printed in the county. All
elections shall be held by ballot and the
trustees shall have power to-determine the
hours during which the polls shall be kept
open, having giving due notice thereof in
the posted and printed notices of election.
Every person, without regard to sex, who
is over twenty-one years of age, and a tax
able inhabitant of the district, shall be en
titled to vote. Any person offering to vote
may be challenged by any legally qualifi
ed voter of the district, and the chairman
of-the board of trustees shall thereon ad
mtinister to the person challenged, an oath
in substance as follows: "You do swear
(or affirm) that you are a citizen of the
'United States, or have declared your in
tention of becoming such, that you are
twenty-one years of age, according to the
best of your information and belief, that
you have resided in this territory at least
six months, next preceding this election,
that you are a taxable resident of this
school district, and that you have not be
fore voted this day." If the elector shall
refuse to take the oath, his vote shall be
rejected, and any person guilty of illegal
voting shall be punished as provided ,in
-the general election laws of this territory.
The trustees shall be judges and inspec
tors of election, and if they are not pres
ent at the time for opening the polls, the
electors presentLmay.appoint the officers
of election. A poll and tally list shall be
kept by the clerk of the board of trustees,
and with the exceptions mentioned in this
section, the election shall be conducted as
far as practicable in the form and manner
of the general election. Anyone of the
old trustees shall have power to adminis
ter to any trustee-elect the oath of office,
and the clerk of election shall is ue the
certificate of election to any trustee-elect,
who shall forward it to the county super
intendent of public schools.
Sec. 1112. It shall be the duty of the
district clerk to record all proceedings of
the board of trustees in a suitable book; to
record in the same book the proceedings
of the annual school meetings, or of special
school meetings, and to keep an accurate
and detailed account of all receipts and
expenditures of school moneys. At each
annual school meeting the district clerk
shall present his recora book for inspec
tion, and shall make a statement of the
financial condition of the district. Provid
ed, that the district record book shall be
open to the public at all times. The dis
trict clerk shall report annually, during
the month of September of each year, for
the school year next preceding to the
county superintendent, in the manner and
form, and on the blanks prescribed by the
superintendent of public instruction, and
for making said annual report on or before
the specified time, he shall be paid the
sum of five dollars, and for each day's neg
lect after the time specified by law for
rendering said report, the sum of five dol
lars shall be deducted by the county su
perintendent from the moneys apportion
ed to said district, and return the same to
the general school fund of the county. It
shall also be the duty of the district clerk
to give written notice to the county super
intendent of the. time of opening of the
school in his district, the length of term,
and the names of the teachers thereof.
lie shall also report directly to the super
intendent of publie instruction, whenever
required, the text-books used in the
schools.
Sec. 1113. Every board of trustees,
unless otherwise especially provided by
law, shall have power, and it shall be their
duty:
First. To employ, and, for sufficient
cause, dismiss teachers, mechanics, and la
borers, and to fix, alter, allow, and ordered
paid their salaries and compensation.
Second. To enforce the general regula
tions of the territorial superintendent of
public instruction for the government of
schools, pupils and teachers, and to en
force the course of study adopted in pur
suance (t territorial law.
Third. To provide and pay for school
furniture and apparatus, and such other
articles, materials and supplies as may be
necessary for school use or for the use of
the school board.
Fourth. To suspend or expel pupils
from school, and in cities or larger towns
to exclude from school children under six
years of age, where the interest of the
school require such exclusion.
Fifth. To rent, furnish. repair and in
sure school houses.
Sixth. To build or remove &ctol,l
houses, and purchase or sell school lh;.,
when the trustees may be directed by a
vote of the district so to do.
Seventh. To purchase personal proper
ty, and to receive, lease, and to hold in
fee, in trust for their district, town, or city,
any and all real or personal property for
the benefit of the schools thereof.
Eighth. To provide books for inligent
children on the written st:atement of the
teacher that the parents of such children
are not able to purchase them.
INinth. To require all pupils to be fur
nished with suitable books, as a condition
of : Aembership in the school.
Soenth. To exclude from school and
school libraries all books, tracts, papers, or
catechisms of a sectarian or political char
acter.
Eleventh. To require every teacher to
keep a school register.
Twelfth. To require teachers to make
such annual reports as may be required by
the superintendent of public instruction.
Thirteenth. To appoint a district clerk
and fix his compensation.
Fourteenth. To provide evening
schools for persons above the age of 14
years.
Sec. 1136. County .-iool mono-s may
be used by the county s.: perinte:d, ent and
trustees for the various purposes as a au
thorized and provided in this article, and
for no other purpose, except that in any
district, any surplus in the general school
fund to the credit of said district, after
providing ! r the expenres of not less than
eight mon as school, inly, on a: vote of
the qualified electors of said district, be
used for the purposes of building and im
provement.
Sec. 1149. F. First, grade certificates
shall continue in force three years, and
shall be granted to persons who have had -
not less than twelve months successful ex
perience in teaching. Second grade cer
tificates shall continue in force two years,
and third grade certificates one year.
Certificates of the first and second grades 4
granted in any county shall be valid in any
other county of the territory on being reg
istered with the superintendent of that
county, and may be renewed by any couan
ty superintendent by his endorsement
thereon.
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