taught in the district by a qualified teacher, the name of the teacher, the length of time taught by each teacher, and wages paid; (4) the amount of money received from the county treasurer, arising from disbursement of the state annual school fund, the amount received from district taxes, and the amount received from all other sources during the year, and the manner in which the same has been expended; (5) the amount of money raised by the district each year, and the purposes for which it was raised; (6) the kind of books used in the schools, and such other facts and statistics97 in regard to the district school as the county superintendent may require. (Laws 1889, ch. 220, sec. 2.)

SEC. 185. County Treasurers.. [7451.] All county treasurers in this state are hereby required to notify clerks of all school districts in their respective counties, by mail or otherwise, ten days prior to the time fixed by law for holding the annual district meeting, of the amount of money drawn from the treasury by the district treasurer of his district since the commencement of the past school year, and shall also state in the same notification the balance remaining on hand, if any, in the county treasury to the credit of the respective districts. .(Laws 1889, ch. 220, sec. 3.)

SEC. 186. Treasurer Pay No Money, When. [7452.] The county treasurer shall pay no money to the district treasurers of his county after the close of the school year, June 30, until after the annual district meetings of the school districts have been held. (Laws 1889, ch. 220, sec. 4.)

SEC. 187. Clerk of Joint District. [7453.] Whenever a school district shall lie partly in two or more counties, the clerk of such district in making his annual report shall carefully designate the number of children resident in the parts of the counties composing the district, and shall report to the county superintendent of public instruction of each of the counties in which such district may be partly situated. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 9.)

SEC. 188. False Report; Penalty. [7454.] Every clerk of a district who shall wilfully sign a false report to the county superintendent of his county shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine not exceeding $100, or by imprisonment not exceeding three months. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 10.)

SEC. 189. Report to County Clerk. [7455.] It shall be the duty of the several district clerks in this state to make out a certified list of all persons residing within their respective districts liable to pay taxes, and transmit the same to the county clerks of their respective counties on or before the 25th day of

97. The clerk is required to furnish such data as the county superintendent requires.

August annually, except in incorporated cities. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 11.)

SEC. 190. Penalty for Failure to Report. [7456.] Any district clerk who shall fail to report the tax voted by his district to the county clerk, as is provided by law, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty dollars; and it is hereby made the duty of the county superintendent to have the provisions of this act enforced. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 12.)

SEC. 191. Other Reports. [7457.] The district clerk shall report to the county superintendent in writing the names and post-office addresses of the district officers elect, within two weeks after the said officers shall have been elected or appointed and qualified. The clerk shall also report to the county superintendent the time of the commencement of each term of school, within two weeks from the commencement of such term. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 13.)

SEC. 192. Report of Indebtedness. [9604.] That in addition to the duties now required by law of the following officers, to wit, township clerks and clerks of incorporated cities, schooldistrict clerks and clerks of boards of education, they shall each of them make and transmit to the clerk of their respective counties, on or before the 5th day of July in each year, a complete certified statement of the floating and bonded indebtedness, with date of issuing and maturing of outstanding bonds; amount of sinking-fund, if any, for redeeming the same; and such other information as may be required by the county clerk concerning the financial condition of their respective townships, cities, or districts; and when no outstanding indebtedness exists, such fact shall be reported. (Laws 1877, ch. 90, sec. 1.)

SEC. 193. Records. [7464.] Every school-district clerk or treasurer who shall neglect or refuse to deliver to his successor in office all records, books and papers belonging to his office shall be subject to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 20.)

SEC. 194. Treasurer; Bond. [7458.] The treasurer shall execute to the district a bond in double the amount, as near as can be ascertained, to come into his hands as treasurer during the year, with sufficient securities, to be approved by the director and clerk, conditioned to the faithful discharge of the duties of said office.98 Such bond shall be justified by the affidavit of the principal and his sureties; provided, that the director of the district or the county superintendent of public instruction shall be authorized to administer the oaths in the justification of the treasurer and his sureties. And said

98. It is not proper for either the director or the clerk to become surety for the treasurer. It is not necessary that the treasurer's bondsmen be residents of the district, though they ought to reside in the county. The bond becoming insufficient from any cause, the director and clerk may require the bond to be made good.

bond shall be filed with the district clerk, and in case of the breach of any conditions thereof, the director shall cause a suit to be commenced thereon, in the name of the district, and the money collected shall be applied by such director to the use of the district, as the same should have been applied by the treasurer; and if such director shall neglect or refuse to prosecute, then any householder in the district may cause such prosecution to be instituted. (Laws 1879, ch. 156, sec. 1.)

SEC. 195. Duties. [7459.] The treasurer of each district shall pay out, on the order of the clerk, signed by the director of the district, all public moneys which shall come into his hands for the use of the district.99 (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 15.)

SEC. 196. Receive School Moneys. [7460.] The county treasurer shall pay to each district treasurer in the county all school moneys in the county treasury belonging to the district, upon the order of the director and clerk of the district; provided, that said order shall be accompanied by a certificate from the district clerk, stating that the treasurer of the district has executed and filed his bond as required by law. 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 16.)

(Laws

SEC. 197. District Taxes. [7461.] Where a school district tax has been voted, and from the fault or negligence of any officer, or any other cause, has not been levied and collected in any year, the same shall be added to and collected with the taxes of the year following; and the county treasurer shall pay over to the treasurers of the respective school districts all taxes he may have collected for the said districts, on the order of the district clerk, countersigned by the director, subject to the proviso contained in section 52 of this act.100 (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 17.)

SEC. 198. Records and Reports. [7462.] The treasurer shall keep a book in which he shall enter all the moneys received and disbursed by him, specifying particularly the sources from which money has been received and the person or persons to whom and the objects for which the same has been paid out. He shall present to the district, at each annual meeting, a report in writing, containing a statement of all moneys received by him from the county treasurer during the year; also, all moneys collected by him during the year from assessments in the district, and of the disbursements made by him, with the items of such disbursements, and exhibit the vouchers therefor, which report shall be recorded by the district clerk; and at the close of his term of office shall settle with the dis

99. Registration. When a warrant is presented and not paid for want of funds, it is the duty of the treasurer to register the same, and, when the proper funds are received, to pay said warrant, and all others which have been similarly presented, in the regular order of registration.

100. Section 196 of this book.

trict board, and shall hand over to his successor said book, and all receipts, vouchers, orders and papers coming into his hands as treasurer of the district, together with all the moneys remaining in his hands as such treasurer. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 18.)

SEC. 199. Prosecution for Failure. [7463.] If any district treasurer shall refuse or neglect to pay over any money in his hands belonging to the district, it shall be the duty of his successor in office to prosecute without delay the official bond of such treasurer, for the recovery of such money.101 (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 19.)

SEC. 200. Powers of Board. [7465.] The district board shall purchase or lease such a site for a schoolhouse as shall have been designated by the voters at a district meeting, in the corporate name thereof, and shall build, hire or purchase such schoolhouse as the voters of the district in a district meeting shall have agreed upon, out of the funds provided for that purpose, and make sale of any schoolhouse site or other property of the district, and, if necessary, execute a conveyance of the same in the name of their office, when lawfully directed by the voters of such district at any regular or special meeting, and shall carry into effect all lawful orders of the district. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 21.)

SEC. 201. School Property. [7466.] The district board shall have the care and keeping of the schoolhouse and other property belonging to the district. They shall have power to make such rules and regulations relating to the district library as they may deem proper, and to appoint some suitable person to act as librarian, and to take charge of the school apparatus belonging to the district. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 22.)

SEC. 202. Use of Schoolhouse. [7476.] The district board shall have the care and keeping of the schoolhouse and other property belonging to the district. They are hereby authorized to open the schoolhouse for the use of religious, political, literary, scientific, mechanical or agricultural societies102 belonging in their district, for the purpose of holding the business or public meetings of said societies, under such regulations as the school board may adopt.103 (Laws 1876, ch. 125, sec. 1.) SEC. 203. Removal of Schoolhouse, etc. [7475.] That whenever a scholhouse or other improvements have been made upon

101. See section 193 of this book for penalty for refusing or neglecting to turn over all records to successor.

102. The law restricts the board to the several societies named in the above election. The board cannot legally open the schoolhouse for uses other than the above, aside from the use of the schoolhouse for all business connected directly with the schools of the district.

103. This section does not mean that school boards must open the schoolhouse for the purposes mentioned, but that they may, if they think it best to do so.

the claim of any settler upon any of the public, Indian or railroad lands within this state, to which the said settler had no title, it shall be lawful for the school directors of the proper school district to remove the said schoolhouse or other improvements from the said claim at any time within one year from the time that the settler in any given case may acquire a title to his said claim; provided, that if the said settler, in any given case, shall convey to said board of school directors one acre of the land upon which said schoolhouse or other improvements are situated, the same shall not be removed; and provided further, that if any schoohouse shall have been built of stone, brick, or frame, costing not less than $500, the probate judge of the county shall appoint three disinterested persons, who shall appraise and condemn one acre of such land upon which said improvements shall have been located; and it shall be the duty of the school director of such district to pay the owner of such land the value of such land as found by said appraisers. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 32.)

SEC. 204. Non-resident Pupils. [7467.] The district board shall have power to admit scholars from adjoining districts. (Laws 1876, ch. 122, art. 4, sec. 23.)

SEC. 205. Discontinue Schools. [7412.] In any school district, if in the judgment of the district board, the county superintendent concurring, the number of children in said district and the distance of same from the schoolhouse would not warrant the continuance of the school in said district, it shall then be lawful for the district, at its annual or special meeting called for the purpose hereinafter stated, and called in accordance with the law providing for special meetings in school districts, to make provision for the sending of the children of such district to such other school or schools as may seem in their judgment best, and for such purpose the school board is authorized to issue the warrants of said district in payment of expenses and tuition of such children; provided, such expense and tuition shall not exceed ten dollars per month for each child nor forty-five dollars in any one month for all of said children that may be sent to other schools; and provided further, that such discontinuance of the school in said district shall not bar the district from its share of the state school fund, if said children are continued in the school or schools of other districts the full time required by law for the maintenance of school in the districts. (Laws 1905, ch. 386, sec. 1.)

SEC. 206. Send Children to Other Districts. [7413.] If in any school district there are children for whom it will be more convenient, by reason of distance from the school of the district where they live, to attend school in another district, the annual school meeting may make an order sending such chil