entitled to send its equal proportion of pupils according to the number of pupils it may have, as shown by the last report of the county superintendent of public instruction; the board of trustees shall designate such pupils as may attend subject to the proviso above; Provided, further, When the board of trustees shall deem the same expedient they may provide separate school facilities and teachers for pupils of colored or mixed blood who are otherwise qualified for admission to such high schools. Other SECTION 11. If at any time the school can accom- Pupils From modate more pupils than apply for admission from Counties. that county in which the school is situated the vacancy may be filled by applicants from other counties upon the payment of such tuition as the board of trustees may prescribe, but at no time shall such pupils continue in such school to the exclusion of such pupils residing in the county in which such school is located. Conduct and School. SECTION 12. The principal of such high school Principal to with the approval of the board of trustees, shall Govern make such rules and regulations as he may deem proper in regard to the studies and conduct and government of the pupils in such school; and if the pupils will not conform to nor obey the rules of the school, they may be suspended or expelled therefrom by the principal of said school subject to the approval of the board of trustees, provided, that the principal shall have power to temporarily suspend. May Enter Colleges. SECTION 13. Those graduating from the normal Graduates course in the county high school shall be entitled to Territorial a teacher's second grade certificate and shall be admitted to the first year of professional work at the Territorial Normal schools without further examination; and those graduating from the collegiate course shall be entitled to admission to the freshman class of the Territorial University and the Territorial Annual Re- Board of Salary of Secretary and Treasurer. Agricultural and Mechanical College without further examination. SECTION 14. The board of trustees shall annually on the first day of July of each year, make a report to the County Commissioners, which report shall specify the number of students attending the high school during the year, their sex, and the number of branches taught, the text books used, the number of teachers employed, the salaries paid and the amounts expended respectively for library, apparatus, building, and for all other purposes; also the amount of funds on hand, the debts unpaid, if any; the amounts due, if any; and all other information deemed important or expedient to report. Such report shall be printed in at least one newspaper of the county if any is published therein, and a copy of the report shall be forwarded to the Territorial Superintendent of Public Instruction. SECTION 15. The County Commissioners shall have power to fill any vacancy that may occur in the board of trustees. SECTION 16. The County Commissioners shall allow the secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees a salary not to exceed fifty dollars per annum each; the same to be audited and paid in a like manner as other claims by the said board of trustees. Said trustees shall not be entitled to or receive any other additional remuneration. SECTION 17. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 18. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. AN ACT to Provide for the Establishment of a District High School in Deer Creek, Grant County, Oklahoma. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: Township Election, SECTION 1. The township board of Dirigo town- Board to Call ship on petition of one-third of the qualified electors When; For of Township 27, Range 3 west, Indian Meridian, is Purpose. hereby authorized to call an election for the purpose of voting upon the issuing of bonds in the sum of $5,000, to be used in erecting a high school building for said Township 27, Range 3 west, to be located not more than 900 feet from the corner of Second Avenue and Main streets, in Deer Creek, Grant County, Oklahoma; Provided, That said election shall be called within thirty days after the petition is presented. And ten days notice of such election has been given by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in Dirigo Township. Directors, SECTION 2. When the bonds for the purpose herein Board of named have been voted upon and carried, the town. How Elected. ship board shall call an election to be held within ten days succeeding the bond election for the purpose of electing a board of directors for said district. SECTION 3. The board of directors shall consist of Members. three members, elected by a majority of the votes cast at the election named in the preceding section. SECTION 4. The board of directors shall meet with- Organization. in five days after they have been elected and organize by electing a president, secretary, and treasurer. SECTION 5. The duties of the board of directors Duties. shall be the same as those prescribed in the law regu lating and governing graded schools. S. L-13 Annual Laws Tax Levy. SECTION 6. After the first meeting the annual school meeting of the district shall be held the second Wednesday in June, of each year. SECTION 7. The law regulating and governing all other public schools of the Territory of this class, shall regulate and govern this school, excepting the provisions made in this Act. SECTION 8. For the maintenance of this school herein provided for, there shall be levied each year a tax not to exceed one per cent of all the taxable property in the district described, and shall be paid over to the district treasurer in the same manner as other school taxes are paid to the various district treasurers. SECTION 9. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. SECTION 10. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. Legalizing ARTICLE 3.-LEGALIZING ACTION OF SCHOOL BOARD IN SECTION. 1. Legalizing Action of School Board; Locating Site. AN ACT Entitled An Act to Legalize the Action of the School Board of School SECTION 1. That the action of the school board in School Board, establishing and maintaining a public school on the Locating Site. northeast corner of the northeast quarter of Section Nineteen (19) in school district Number Fifty (50) in Grant County is hereby legalized. SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 20th day of February, 1901. ARTICLE 4.-LEGALIZING SCHOOL DISTRICT WARRANTS. SECTION. 1. Legalizing Warrants Issued by School Board, Oklahoma AN ACT Legalizing the Warrants Issued by School District Number Eightythree, Oklahoma County. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma: SECTION 1. That all school district warrants here- Legalizing Warrants tofore issued, by the school board of the de facto School Board, school district situated at Waterloo, and numbered county. District Eighty-three, in Oklahoma County, Okla. homa Territory, upon which payment is refused only upon the ground that the Act of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma, creating said school district was invalid, are hereby declared to be legal and valid warrants and the treasurers of the counties wherein said district is located are hereby directed to pay said warrants out of any funds which have come into their hands as taxes for common school purposes from within the Territorial limits of said school district. SECTION 2. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved this 8th day of March, 1901. |