the plaus submitted by the Territorial Board of Education, and shall not increase the total cost of site, school building and furniture more than ten per cent. beyond the estimate submitted, under any pretense or claim of necessity whatever, unless previously authorized thereto by a majority of the voters of the township. § 78. WHEN SCHOOL BOARD TO CONSTRUCT HIGH SCHOOL.] Instead of submitting the proposition for a high school to the several meetings for their consideration and action, a majority of the voters entitled to vote at any such meeting may sign and assent thereto in writing. This assent shall be signed upon and to the copy of the proposition made by the board, which shall contain all the points required in the preceding section. When such assent is duly signed the paper shall be filed with the clerk of the school township, and shall have the same authority and legal effect as an affirmative vote of the school township, provided for in the preceding section, and when the township school board has so received by vote or written assent the authority of a majority of the school voters of the township in favor of a high school they are authorized to proceed with all necessary steps to construct and maintain the same. § 79. WHEN TOWNSHIP MAY EMPLOY SUPERINTENDENT.] Any township in which there is a high school established may employ a superintendent of the schools of the township, who shall be principal of the high school, and whose duties besides those of principal shall be generally to supervise the schools of the township and advance their interest in all respects to the best of his ability, acting under any rules adopted by the township board to be approved by the Territorial Board of Education. § 80. TWO OR MORE TOWNSHIPS MAY UNITE IN CONSTRUCTION OF A HIGH SCHOOL.] Two or more school townships may unite in the construction and maintenance of a high school such as is provided for in sections eighty and eighty-one, and in the employment of a superintendent as provided for in section eighty-two. § 81. WHEN SCHOOL BOARD TO PROVIDE SCHOOL ON PETITION.] Whenever the residents of any portion of a school township having five or more pupils of school age, none of whom reside nearer than two miles from a school building, petition the township board for a school, and furnish a proper room without charge to the township in which the school may be taught, it shall be the duty of the township board to provide such petitioners with a teacher for such school. But whenever the number of resident pupils increases to ten it shall be the duty of the board to establish there a sub-district, upon the petition of the resident voters. § 82. DIRECTORS MAY PERMIT USE OF SCHOOL HOUSE FOR OTHER PROPER PURPOSES.] If a majority of the legal voters of any sub-district desire the use of the school house of such subdistrict for other purposes than common school, when unoccupied for common school purposes, the director may permit the people, under careful restrictions, to use the house for any proper purpose which will not interfere with the seating or other furniture or appendages, giving equal rights and privileges to all religious denominations or political parties; but the school house shall be opened at any time for literary or educational purposes. The seats shall not be removed from their places for any purpose or privilege granted by this section. § 83. HOW TEACHERS INSTITUTE TO BE FORMED.] At least one Saturday in each month during which the public schools may be in progress shall be devoted in each township to township institutes or model schools and normal instruction and matters relating to methods of teaching, organizing, classifying and governing shools and for the improvement of teachers, and two Saturdays may be so used at the discretion of the township board. Such institute shall be presided over by a teacher, one of the board or other person designated by the school board. Each teacher shall attend the full session of each institute in the township, contemplated herein, and participate in the duties and exercises thereof, or forfeit one day's wages for every day's absence therefrom, unless such absence is occasioned by sickness of teacher or others to whom his or her attention is due. When the county superintendent is present he may preside at and conduct such institute, and it is his duty to visit and inspect the schools of a township immediately before his meeting with such institute and then give special attention to the defects and needs of the instruction and government of the schools. The county superintendent may convene the teachers of two or more townships, where the distance is not too great, and require the presence of all the teachers of such townships at such institute as often as once a month during the progress of the schools; but he shall not require such attendance from any teacher when by distance or otherwise it would impose a hardship upon the teacher or cause such teacher to neglect his school. com § 84. BRANCHES OF EDUCATION TO BE TAUGHT.] In every common school there shall be taught to all pupils of sufficient capacity to properly attend to the same, the following branches of a mon English education: orthography, reading, writing, geography, arithmetic, English grammar, United States history, and phsiology and hygiene, with special reference to the nature and the effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics upon the human system; and no second or third grade certificate shall be granted unless the applicant be found proficient in and fully qualified to teach the above enumerated branches. In addition to the above, applicants for a first grade certificate shall pass a satisfactory examination in civil government, book-keeping, theory and practice of teaching, elements of natural philosophy, elementary geometry and algebra, and physical geography; and no first grade certificate shall be issued to any person who is under twenty years of age and who has not taught successfully twelve school months. The percentage required to pass any branch shall be prescribed by the Territorial Board of Education. $ 85. How TEACHERS EMPLOYED.] Teachers shall be employed only upon a written contract signed by the teacher and the chairman and clerk of the township school board, which shall specify the date at or about which the school shall begin, the length of time it shall continue, the wages per month, and the time of payment thereof; and said contract shall be so signed in duplicate, and one copy filed in the office of the clerk, and the other retained by the teacher. The following conditions shall be understood as forming a part of every contract, whether expressed therein or not: 1. The teacher shall not hold school upon any legal holiday, but such days shall count as part of the term, and the teachers be paid therefor, but such pay shall not be drawn for any Saturday or Sunday. 2. School shall be adjourned during any time that an institute is held in the county, to attend which the teachers have been notified by the county superintendent, and the teacher shall draw pay for and have counted as a part of the term one-half day for every day's actual attendance upon the institute as certified by the conductor of the institute or county superintendent. 3. Teachers shall receive into their schools pupils transferred thereto by order of the township board, or admitted by its authority. 4. The teacher is to send the notice, keep the proper entries in the register, and make the reports as and when required by law; and the school corporation shall promptly furnish, without cost to the teacher, blank forms for such reports, and furnish for use proper registers, prepared so that the required facts and statistics can be kept in an orderly manner, and the township clerk shall attend to the distribution of such registers and blanks. § 86. TEACHERS TO REPORT ΤΟ SUPERINTENDENT.] Every teacher of a common school under this law shall at the expiration of each term immediately make out full duplicate reports, and deliver one copy thereof to the school clerk and one to the county superintendent. Said reports shall show the names, ages and sex of all pupils admitted during such term, the branches taught, the studies pursued by each pupil, the text books used, the number of days taught, the number of days each pupil was present, the average daily attendance, the dates when school began and ended, the number of visits made to the school by the county superintendent, the salary per month, and information concerning the school and property, with any other matters required in the blanks furnished by the educational department, and until such report shall have been so filed with the clerk the teacher shall not receive more than ninety per cent. of his wages. § 87. NOTICE OF OPENING AND CLOSING OF SCHOOL.] Every ́teacher, on commencing a term of school, shall give written notice to the county superintendent of the time and place of beginning such school, and the probable time when it will end. § 88 ALL REPORTS AND PROCEEDINGS TO BE KEPT IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE.] All reports and records of school officers and proceedings of all school meetings shall be kept in the English language, and if any money belonging to any school township shall be expended in supporting a school in which the English language shall not be taught exclusively the county superintendent or any tax payer of the school corporation, may in a civil action, in the name of the corporation, recover for the corporation all such money from the officer or officers so expending it, or ordering its expenditure. § 89 PENALTY FOR WILFULLY DISTURBING PUBLIC SCHOOL.] Every person, whether a pupil or not, who shall wilfully molest or disturb a public school when in session, or who shall wilfully interfere with and interrupt the proper order or management of a public school, by acts of violence, boisterous conduct or threatening language, so as to prevent the teacher or any pupil from performing his duty, or who in the presence of the school or school children upbraid, insult or threaten the teacher, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding $25 or by punishment in the county jail not more than ten days, or both such fine and imprisonment. § 90 SCHOOL BOARD MAY TAKE REAL PROPERTY FOR SCHOOL PURPOSES.] The school board of any school township may take in the corporate name thereof, any real property, not exceeding two acres in area, chosen as a site for a school house by the township school board; and may hold and use such tract for school purposes only. Should the owner of such real property refuse or neglect to grant and convey such site, the county clerk of the county in which the real property is situated shall, upon the written application of the township school board, after serving ten days notice to the opposite party, appoint three resident free holders of the county as appraisers, who shall be sworn to faithfully [perform] their duties. Said appraisers shall assess the damages the owner of such tract will sustain by taking the same for school purposes and said appraisers shall directly file their report with the county clerk, giving an exact description of the tract taken for the site and the amount of damages so assessed. If the owner of said property be a non-resident, or absent, or cannot be found, said notice shall be served by publication in some newspaper published in the county not less than once each week for four successive weeks. Such notice shall contain a description of the tract to be taken, the name of the owner thereof, the purpose for which it is to be taken and the date when the appraisers herein before mentioned will be appointed. If said school board deposit in the name of the school township, with the county treasurer to the credit of the owner of the tract taken, the amount of money so assessed as damages, they shall then be authorized to permanently use said premises for school purposes; Provided, That no site except in a village, town or city, shall be thus taken within forty rods of any residence, the owner of which objects to its being placed nearer and in no case in any orchard, garden or public park. If the site so selected be not used for the purpose for which it is taken for two successive years it shall revert to the original owner or his assigns upon repayment of the sum originally paid by the corporation, together with a reasonable consideration for the improvements. § 91 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT TO MAKE REPORT.] The county superintendent of each county shall make full and complete report to the superintendent of public instruction on or before the first day of September in each year, of the school statistics of the preceding school year, showing for each school corporation in the county the following facts and statistics: The number, name or other proper designation of the school corporation. The number of graded schools. The number of ungraded schools. The average number of days school was taught. The number of teachers employed, males, females and total. The average compensation paid teachers per month, males and females separately. The number of persons resident, between the ages of seven and twenty years (excluding those married) showing males, and females and total. The number enrolled in the schools. The per cent. of attendance of those enrolled. The average cost of tuition per month for each pupil. The number of school houses erected during the year. The number of school houses for graded and for ungraded schools. The total value of school houses, including sites and furniture. The total sittings in school houses. The total par amount of bonds outstanding. The average rate of interest paid thereon. The total amount paid to and due the officers of school corporations for services during the year. The total amount paid the county superintendent for services, including expenses, during the year. The following financial report: RECEIPTS. 1. The total amount on hand at beginning of the year. 3. The amount received by apportionment. 4. The amount received from sale of bonds. 5. The amount received from all other sources. The total school receipts. |