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ILLINOIS 
 
 SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 1895-1896. 
 
THE ILLINOIS SCHOOL LAW. 
 
 1889-1895. 
 
 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A 
 
 SYSTEM OF FREE SCHOOLS, 
 
 APPROVED MAY 21, 1889. 
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 INCLUDING ADDITIONAL ACTS RELATIVE TO SCHOOLS AND 
 SCHOOL OFFICERS, WITH AN APPENDIX CONTAINING ACTS 
 ESTABLISHING STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS, AND PRO- 
 VIDING FOR COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 SPRINGFIELD, ILL. 
 
 ED. F. HAUTMANN, STATE PRINTER. 
 
 1895 
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
 
 PAGE. 
 EXTRACTS PROM THE CONSTITUTION 1 
 
 ACT OP 1889. 
 
 Article I, State Superintendent of Public Instruction 3 
 
 Article II, County SuperintendentH 7 
 
 Article III, Township Trustees of Schools 14 
 
 Article IV, Township Treasurer 32 
 
 Article V, Board of Directors 40 
 
 Article VI, Board of Education 48 
 
 Article VII, Teachers 55 
 
 Article VIII, Revenue Taxation 61 
 
 Article IX, Bonds 64 
 
 Article*X, County Clerk 67 
 
 Article XI, County Board 69 
 
 Article XII, School Funds 71 
 
 Article XIII, School Lands '.. 74 
 
 Article XIV, Pines and Forfeitures 80 
 
 Article XV, Liability of School, Officers 82 
 
 Article XVI, Miscellaneous 86 
 
 ADDITIONAL ACTS PERTAINING TO THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TO SCHOOL 
 
 OFFICERS. 
 
 Members of the Board of Education Appointed 90 
 
 Study of Physiology and Hygiene i 91 
 
 Compensation of Judges and Clerks of Election in certain cases 92 
 
 Election of Boards of Education in certain cases 92 
 
 No child under 13 years of age to be hired without certificate from School Board 94 
 
 Women may vote at School Elections 95 
 
 Directors allowed to assume indebtedness created for their districts 95 
 
 Compulsory Attendance 96 
 
 Inspectors elected under certain special acts 97 
 
 Kindergarten 98 
 
 U. S. Flags 102-103 
 
 Pension and Retirement Fund in Certain Cities 99 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 Act Establishing Central Normal University, Normal 99 
 
 Act Establishing Southern Normal University, Carbondale 102 
 
 Act Establishing Eastern Normal School, Charleston 112 
 
 Act Establishing Northern Normal School, DeKalb 116 
 
 State Scholarships in Illinois University 121-122 
 
 Act for the Establishment of County Normal Schools 119 
 
 Index.. ...123-131 
 
EXTRACTS FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF ILLINOIS, 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 SECTION 1. The executive department shall consist of a 
 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of 
 Public Accounts, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion and Attorney General, who shall each, with the exception 
 of the Treasurer, hold his office for the term of four years, 
 from the second Monday of January next after his election 
 and until his successor is elected and qualified. They shall, 
 except the Lieutenant Governor, reside at the seat of govern- 
 ment during their term of office, and keep the public records, 
 books and papers there; and shall perform such duties as may 
 be prescribed by law. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall provide a thorough 
 and efficient system of free schools, whereby all children of 
 this State may receive a good common school education. 
 
 2. All lands, moneys, or other property, donated, granted 
 or received for school, college, seminary or university pur- 
 poses, and the proceeds threof, shall be faithfully applied to 
 the objects for which such gifts or grants were made. 
 
 $ 3. Neither the General Assembly nor any county, city, 
 town, township, school district, or other public corporation, 
 shall ever make any appropriation or pay from any public 
 fund whatever, anything in aid of any church or sectarian pur- 
 pose, or to help support or sustain any school, academy, 
 seminary, college, university, or other literary or scientific 
 institution, controlled by any church or sectarian denomination 
 
whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of land, money or 
 other personal property ever be made by the State or any 
 such public corporation, to any church, or for any sectarian 
 purpose. 
 
 4. No teacher, State, county, township, or district school 
 officer shall be interested in the sale, proceeds or profits of any 
 book, apparatus or furniture used, or to be used, in any school 
 in this State, with which such officer or teacher may be con- 
 nected, under such penalties as may be provided by the Gen- 
 eral Assembly. 
 
 5. There may be a county superintendent of schools in 
 each county, whose qualifications, powers, duties, compensa- 
 tion and time and manner of election, and term of office, shall 
 be prescribed by law. 
 
AN ACT 
 
 TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A SYSTEM OF 
 
 FREE SCHOOLS. 
 
 ARTICLE i. 
 
 STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 
 
 1 . Time of election and term of office. 
 
 2. Oath and bond. 
 
 a. Salary and office expenses. 
 
 4. Duties denned. 
 
 5. Powers defined. 
 
 6. Liabilities. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in 1he General Assembly: That at the election 
 to be held on Tuesday after the first Monday of November, in 
 the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, 
 and quadrennially thereafter, there shall be elected by the legal 
 voters of this State, a State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion, who shall hold his office for four years from the second 
 Monday in January next after his election, and until his suc- 
 cessor is duly elected and qualified. 
 
 S "1. Before entering upon his duties, he shall take and sub- 
 scribe the oath of oifice prescribed by the constitution, and 
 shall also execute a bond, in the penalty of twenty-five thousand 
 dollars ($25,000), payable to the people of the State of Illinois, 
 with securities to be approved by the Governor, conditioned for 
 the prompt discharge of his duties as Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, and for the faithful application and disposition, 
 according to law, of all school moneys that may come into his 
 hands by virtue of his office. Said bond and oath shall be de- 
 posited with the Secretary of State, and an action may be 
 maintained thereon by the State at any time for a breach of 
 the conditions thereof. 
 
 3. And the said State Superintendent shall receive, annu- 
 ally, such sum as may be provided by law, as a salary for the 
 >* -i-vices required under the provisions of this act, or any other 
 law that may be passed, and also all necessary contingent ex- 
 penses for books, postage and stationery pertaining to his 
 office, to be audited and paid by the State as the salaries and 
 contingent expenses of other officers are paid. 
 
4. It shall be the duty of the said State Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction 
 
 First To keep an office at the seat of government of the State. 
 
 Second To file all papers, reports and public documents 
 transmitted to him by the school officers of the several coun- 
 ties, each year separately. 
 
 Third To keep and preserve all other public documents, books 
 and papers relative to schools, coming into his hands as State 
 Superintendent, and to hold the same in readiness to be ex- 
 hibited to the Governor, or to any committee of either house 
 of the General Assembly. 
 
 Fourth To keep a fair record of all matters pertaining to 
 the business of his office. 
 
 Fifth To pay over, without delay, all sums of money which 
 may come into his hands by virtue of his office, to the officer 
 or person entitled to receive the same, in such manner as may 
 be prescribed by law. 
 
 Sixth-^-To counsel and advise in such manner as he may 
 deem most advisable, with experienced and practical school 
 teachers, as to the best manner of conducting common schools. 
 
 Seventh To supervise all the common and public schools in 
 the State. 
 
 Eighth To be the general adviser and assistant of county 
 superintendents of schools in this State. 
 
 Ninth To address circular letters to county superintendents, 
 from time to time, as he shall deem for the interests of schools, 
 giving advice as to the best manner of conducting schools, con- 
 structing school houses, furnishing the same, examining and 
 procuring competent teachers. 
 
 Tenth To, on or before the 1st day of November preceding 
 each regular session of the General Assembly, report to the 
 Governor the condition of the schools in the several counties of 
 the State; the whole number of schools which have been taught 
 in each county in each of the preceding years, commencing on 
 the 1st of July; what part of said number have been taught 
 by males exclusively, and what part by females exclusively; 
 what part of the said whole number have been taught by males 
 and females at the same time, and what part by males and 
 females at different periods; the number of scholars in attend- 
 ance at said schools; the number of persons in each county 
 under twenty-one years of age, and the number of such persons 
 between the ages of twelve and twenty-one years that are un- 
 able to read and write; the amount of township and county 
 funds; the amount of the interest of the State or common 
 school fund, and of the interests of the township and county 
 fund annually paid out; the amount raised by an ad valorem 
 tax; the whole amount annually expended for schools; the 
 number of school houses, there kind and condition; the number 
 
of townships and parts of townships in each county; the num- 
 ber and description of books and apparatus purchased for the 
 UM> of schools and school libraries under the provisions of this 
 act. the price paid for the same, the 'total amount purchased, 
 and what quantity and how distributed, the number and con- 
 dition of the libraries, together with such other information 
 and suggestions as he may deem important in relation to the 
 school laws, schools, and the means of promoting education 
 throughout the State; which report shall be laid before the 
 General .Assembly at each regular session. 
 
 Eleventh To make such rules and regulations as may be 
 necessary and expedient to carry into efficient and uniform 
 effect the provisions of this act, and of all the laws which now 
 are or may hereafter be in force for establishing and maintain- 
 ing free schools in this State. 
 
 Twelfth To be the legal adviser of all school officers, and, 
 when requested by any such school officers, to give his opinion 
 in writing upon any question arising under the school law r s of 
 
 this State. 
 
 Thirteenth To hear and determine all controversies arising 
 under the school laws of this State, coming to him by appeal 
 from a county superintendent, upon a written statement of 
 facts certified by the county superintendent. 
 
 Fourteenth To receive and. file all proper reports made to 
 him from time to time by the several county superintendents 
 of this State, as required by article II of this act. 
 
 Fifteenth To grant State certificates to such teachers as may 
 be found worthy to receive them, as provided for in section 2 
 of article VII of this act. 
 
 Sixteenth To be ex officio a member of the board of trustees 
 of the University of Illinois and of the Southern Normal Uni- 
 versity. 
 
 Seventeenth To be ex officio a member of the Board of Edu- 
 cation of the State of Illinois, and to act as secretary thereof. 
 
 Eighteenth To report to the General Assembly of Illinois,. 
 at its regular session, the condition and expenditures of the 
 Normal University, and such other information as may be 
 directed by the Board of Education of the State of Illinois or 
 by the General Assembly of this State. 
 
 Nineteenth To visit such of the charitable institutions of this 
 State as are educational in their character, and to examine 
 their facilities for instruction, and to prescribe forms for such 
 reports as he may desire from the superintendents of such 
 charitable institutions. 
 
 5. The said State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 shall be clothed with the following powers 
 
 First to direct and cause the county superintendent of any 
 county, directors or boards of trustees or township treasurer 
 
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 of any township, or other school officer, to 'withhold from any 
 officer, township, district or teacher, any part of the common 
 school, or township, or other school fund, until such officer, 
 township treasurer or teacher shall have made all schedules, 
 reports and returns required of him by this act, and until such 
 officers shall have executed and filed all official bonds and 
 accounted for all common school or township or other school 
 funds which have heretofore come into his hands, as required 
 of him by this act. 
 
 Second To require the several county superintendents of this 
 State to furnish him with such information relating to their 
 several offices as he may desire to embody in his report to the 
 General Assembly of this State. 
 
 Third To require the board of trustees of each township in 
 this State to make, at any time he may desire, a report simi- 
 lar to the report required to be made by such trustees on or 
 before the fifteenth day of July preceding each regular session 
 of the General Assembly of this State, as provided for in sec- 
 tion 28 of article III of this act. 
 
 Fourth Upon the recommendation of the county superintend- 
 ent, or for good and sufficient reasons, to remit the forfeit- 
 ure of the school fund by any township which may have failed 
 to make the reports required by law. 
 
 Fifth To determine and designate the particular statistics 
 relating to schools which the inferior officers shall report to 
 the county superintendent for the use of his office. 
 
 Sixth To authorize the several county superintendents to 
 procure such assistance as may be necessary to conduct county 
 teachers' institutes for not less than, five days in each year. 
 
 Seventh To require annual reports from the authorities of 
 incorporated towns, townships, cities or districts holding- 
 schools by authority of special charters to the same extent as 
 regular school officers are or may be required to make such reports. 
 
 Eighth To require the president, principal or other proper 
 officer of every organized university, college, seminary, acad- 
 emy or other literary institution, whether incorporated or un- 
 incorporated, or hereafter to be incorporated in this State, to 
 make out such report as he may require in order that he may 
 lay before the General Assembly a fair and full exhibit of the 
 affairs and conditions of such institutions and of the educa- 
 tional resources of the State. 
 
 Ninth To require the Auditor of Public Accounts to with- 
 hold from the county superintendent of any county the amount 
 due any such county for its share of the interest 011 State school 
 fund, or said county superintendent for his per diem compen- 
 sation, until the report provided for in section 17 of article II 
 of this act shall have been furnished as therein required. 
 
6. The said State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 shall not be interested in the sale, proceeds or profits of any 
 book, apparatus or furniture used, or to be used, in any school 
 in this State, and for offending against the provisions of this 
 section he shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction 
 shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five nor more 
 than five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned in the county 
 jail not less than one month nor more than twelve months, at 
 the discretion of the court. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS. 
 
 10. 
 H. 
 12. 
 
 13. 
 
 Time of election and term of office. 
 Oath and bond. 
 Form of bond. 
 
 Obligors bound jointly and severally. 
 Supervisors may require a new bond. 
 Office and supplies. 
 Liable to removal. (Repeal.) 
 Vacancies. 
 Time limited. 
 Assistants. 
 
 Commissions and per diem. 
 Itemized bills and warrants from Audi- 
 tor. 
 Duties defined. 
 
 14. Powers defined. 
 
 15. Record of land sales. 
 
 16. Report to county board. 
 
 17. Report to State Superintendent. 
 
 18. Collecting statistics, and suit against 
 
 trustees as individuals. 
 19. Approval *>f township treasurer's bond, 
 
 and delivery of written statement to 
 
 the township treasurer. 
 
 20. Apportionment of funds to townships. 
 21. Loaning of county fund. 
 j 22. Appeal to the State Superintendent. 
 23. Delivery of money, books, papers, etc., 
 
 to successor in office. 
 
 SECTION 1. On Tuesday next after the first Monday in No- 
 vember, A. D., 1890, and quadrennially thereafter, there shall 
 be elected by the qualified voters of every county in this State, 
 a county superintendent of schools, who shall perform the 
 duties required by law, and shall enter upon the discharge of 
 his duties on the first Monday of December after his election. 
 
 2. He shall, before entering upon his duties, take the 
 oath prescribed by the Constitution, and execute a bond pay- 
 able to the People of the State of Illinois, with two or more 
 responsible freeholders as security, to be approved by the county 
 board or by the judge and clerk of the county court, in a pen- 
 alty of noteless than .twelve thousand dollars ($12,000), to be 
 increased at the discretion of the said county board, condi- 
 tioned that he will faithfully perform all the duties of his office 
 according to the laws which are or may be in force during 
 his term of office. 
 
 3. The bond required in the foregoing section shall be in 
 the following form, viz. : 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, \ 
 
 .County, I &k 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that we, A B, 
 C D and E F, are held and firmly bound, jointly and severally, unto the 
 
 People of the State of Illinois, in the penal sum of dollars, to 
 
 the payment of which we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and admin- 
 istrators firmly by these presents. 
 
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 
 dav of , A. D. 18.... 
 
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 The condition of the above obligation is such, that if the above 
 bounden A B, County Superintendent of the county aforesaid, shall faith- 
 fully discharge all the duties of such office, according to the laws which 
 now are and may hereafter be in force, and shall deliver over to his suc- 
 cessor in office all moneys, books, papers and property in his hands, as 
 such County Superintendent, then this obligation to be void, otherwise 
 to remain in full force and virtue. 
 
 A B [Seal. 
 C D [Seal. 
 E F [Seal. 
 
 And which bond shall be filed in the office of the county 
 clerk. 
 
 4. The obligors in such bond shall be bound jointly and 
 severally, and upon it an action or actions may be maintained 
 by the board of trustees of the proper township, or any other 
 corporate body interested, for the benefit of any township or 
 fund injured by -any breach of the conditions thereof. 
 
 5. If a majority of the county board shall be satisfied, at 
 any time, that the .bond of said county superintendent is insuf- 
 ficient, it shall be the duty of such superintendent, upon 
 notice being given to him by the clerk of such board, to exe- 
 cute a new bond, conditioned and approved as the first bond: 
 Provided, that the execution of such new bond shall not affect 
 the old bond or the liability of the securities thereon. 
 
 6. It shall be the duty of the county board of the county 
 to provide the said county superintendent with a suitable office, 
 with necessary furniture and office supplies, as is done in the 
 case of other county officers. 
 
 S 7. The said county superintendent shall be liable to re- 
 moval by the county board for any palpable violation of law 
 or omission of duty. [Repealed by act approved June 15, 1893. 
 
 8. When the office of county superintendent shall become 
 vacant by death, resignation, the removal of the incumbent by 
 the county board, or otherwise, the county board shall fill the 
 vacancy by appointment, and the person so appointed shall 
 hold his office until the next election of county officers, at which 
 election the county board shall order the election of a successor. 
 
 9. In counties having not more than one hundred (100) 
 schools, the county board may limit the time of the superin- 
 tendent: Provided, that in counties not having more than fifty 
 (50) schools, the limit of time shall not be made less than one 
 hundred and fifty (150) days a year; in counties having from 
 fifty-one (51) to seventy-five (75) schools, not less than two 
 hundred (200) days a year; and in counties having from 
 seventy -six (76) to one hundred (100) schools, not less than 
 two hundred and fifty (250) days a year. 
 
 10. The county superintendent may, with the approval of 
 the county board, employ such assistant or assistants as he 
 needs for the full discharge of his duties. Such assistants shall 
 be persons of good attainments, versed in the principles and 
 
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 methods of education, familiar with public school work, and 
 competent to visit schools. Such assistants shall receive such 
 compensation as may be fixed by the county board. 
 
 11. County superintendents shall receive in full, for all 
 services rendered by them, commissions as follows: Three per 
 cent, commission upon the amount of sales of school lands, or 
 sales of land upon mortgage, or of sales of real estate taken for 
 debt, including all services therewith. Two per cent, commission 
 upon all sums distributed, paid or loaned out by them for the 
 support of schools. For all other duties required by law to be 
 performed by them, four dollars ($4) a day for such number of 
 days as shall be spent in the actual performance of their duties, 
 not exceeding the number tixed by the county boards in counties 
 in which the boards are given power to fix the number of days 
 by section 9 of this article of this -act, and one dollar ($ 1) a 
 day for expenses for the number of days actually spent in school 
 visitation. 
 
 1 The county superintendents shall present, under oath 
 or affirmation, their itemized bills for their per diem compensa- 
 tion and for the expenses allowed by this article of this act, 
 when visiting schools, together with a report of all their acts as 
 such county superintendent, or assistant, including a list of all 
 the schools visited, with the dates of visitation, to the county 
 board, at the annual meeting of such county board in Septem- 
 ber, and as near quarterly thereafter as such board may have 
 regular or special meetings, and after the bills have been audited 
 by the county board, the county clerk shall certify to such 
 audit ing upon the bills, and transmit them to the Auditor of 
 Public Accounts, who shall, upon receipt of them, remit in pay- 
 ment thereof to each superintendent his warrant upon the State 
 Treasurer for the amount certified to be due him. The said 
 Auditor, in making his warrant to any county for the amount 
 due it from the state school fund, shall deduct from it the several 
 amounts for which warrants have been issued to the county 
 superintendent of said county since the next preceding appor- 
 tionment of the state school fund. 
 
 S 18. It shall be the duty of each county superintendent of 
 schools in this State 
 
 Firsl To sell township fund lands, issue certificates of pur- 
 chase, i 'cport to the county board and State Auditor, and per- 
 form all other duties pertaining thereto, as required by article 
 XIII of this act. 
 
 Sec md To register applicants for admission to the State Nor- 
 mal Universities and to the University of Illinois, and to assist 
 in the examination of the same as directed by the State Board 
 of Education or other proper authorities. 
 
 Tliinl To visit each school in the county at least once a 
 y.'ur, and in the performance of this duty, he shall spend at 
 le ist half the time given to his office, and more, if practicable, 
 in visitmi* ungraded schools. 
 
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 Fourth To note, when visiting schools, the methods of in- 
 struction, the branches taught, the text-books used, and the 
 discipline, government and general condition of the schools. 
 
 Fifth To give to teachers and school officers such directions 
 in the science, art and methods of teaching and courses of 
 study as he may deem expedient and necessary. 
 
 Sixth To act as the official adviser and constant assistant 
 of the school officers and teachers of his county; and, in the 
 performance of this duty, he shall faithfully carry out the 
 advice and instruction of the State Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction. 
 
 Seventh To conduct, as provided for in section 10 of article 
 VII of this act, a teachers' institute, and to aid and encourage 
 the formation of other teachers' meetings, and to assist in their 
 management. 
 
 Eighth To labor in every practicable way to elevate the 
 standard of teaching, and improve the condition of the common 
 schools of his county. 
 
 Ninth To examine, at least once each year, all books, ac- 
 counts and vouchers of every township treasurer in his county, 
 and if he finds any irregularities in them, he shall at once report 
 the same in writing' to the board of trustees, whose duty it 
 shall be to take, immediately, such action as the case demands. 
 
 Tenth To examine all notes, bonds, mortgages, and other 
 evidences of indebtedness which the township treasurer holds 
 officially, and if he finds that the papers are not in proper 
 form, or that the securities are insufficient, he shall so state in 
 writing to the board of trustees. 
 
 Eleventh To give notice of the election of trustees in cases 
 such as those provided for in section 15 of article III of this act. 
 
 Twelfth To file and safely keep the poll books and returns 
 of any election required to be returned to the county superin- 
 tendent by any provision of this act. 
 
 Thirteenth To investigate and determine all matters pertain- 
 ing to the change in the boundaries of school districts, which 
 may come to him by appeal from the decision of the school 
 trustees, and to notify the township treasurer, from whom the 
 papers relating to the matter were received, of his decision of 
 the matter. 
 
 Fourteenth To give notice of the election of school directors 
 in cases such as are provided for in section 9 of article V of 
 this act.' 
 
 Fifteenth To hold meetings, at least quarterly, for the ex- 
 amination of teachers, as provided for in section 7 of article 
 VII of this act. 
 
 Sixteenth To grant certificates of qualification to such per- 
 sons as may be qualified to receive them, as provided for in 
 section 3 of article VII of this act; and to keep a record of all 
 
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 teachers to whom such certificates have been granted, as pro- 
 vided for by section 4 of article VII of this act; and to keep a 
 record of all teachers employed in teaching in his county. 
 
 Seventeenth To keep a just and true account of all moneys 
 received and all moneys paid out on account of the "institute 
 fund,'' and make report thereof to the county board, as pro- 
 vided for in section 9 of article VII of this act. 
 
 Eighteenth To present to the county board of the count}', 
 at the first regular meeting thereof, annually, the report re- 
 quired by section 3 of article XI of this act. 
 
 Nineteenth To notify presidents of boards of trustees and 
 clerks of school districts, on or before September 30th, annu- 
 ally, of the amount of money paid by him to the township 
 treasurer, and the date of such payments. 
 
 Twentieth To receive and file, on or before the 15th day 
 of July preceding each regular session of the General Assembly, 
 and at such other time as may be required by the State or 
 county superintendent, a statement from the board of trustees 
 of each township, giving such statistics and information as may 
 be called for. 
 
 14. The said county superintendent shall have power 
 
 First To require the board of trustees of each township in 
 his county to make, at any time he may desire, the report pro- 
 vided for in section 28 of article III of this act. 
 
 Second To recommend to the State Superintendent the re- 
 mission of the penalty provided for a failure by the trustees of 
 schools to make the reports provided for by law. 
 
 Third To renew teachers' certificates at their expiration by 
 his indorsement thereon. 
 
 Fourth To revoke the certificate of any teacher for immoral- 
 ity, incompetency, or other just cause. 
 
 Fifth To direct in what manner township treasurers shall 
 keep their books and accounts. 
 
 Sixth To bring suit against the county collector for a failure 
 to pay State Auditor's warrant, as provided for in section 5 of 
 article XII of this act. 
 
 Seventh To remove any school director from office for a 
 willful failure to perform the duties of his office. 
 
 Eighth To lease and sell real estate in cases provided for 
 in section 26 of article XIII of this act, in the manner therein 
 specified. 
 
 15. The said county superintendent shall provide three well 
 bound books, which shall be paid for from the county treasury. 
 These books shall be known and designated by the letters A, B, 
 C for the following purposes: In book "A" he shall record at 
 length all petitions presented to him for the sale of common 
 school lands, and the plats and certificates of valuation made by 
 
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 or under the direction of the trustees of schools, and the affida- 
 vits in relation to the same. In book "B" he shall keep an 
 account of all sales of common school lands, which account 
 shall contain the date of sale, name of purchaser, description 
 of land sold and the sum sold for. In book "C" he shall keep 
 a regular account of all moneys received for lands sold or other- 
 wise, and loaned or paid out; the persons from whom received, 
 and on what account, and showing whether it is principal or 
 interest; the person to whom loaned, the time for which the 
 loan was made, the rate of interest, the names of the securities, 
 when personal security is taken, or if real estate is taken as 
 security, a description of the real estate; and if paid out^ to 
 whom, w r hen, and on what account, and the amount paid out; 
 the list of sales and the account of each township fund to be 
 kept separate. 
 
 16. The county superintendent shall report, in writing, to 
 the county board, at their regular meeting in September of each 
 year, giving first, the balance on hand at the time of the last 
 report and a statement in detail of all receipts since that date, 
 and the sources from which they were derived; second, the 
 amount paid for expenses; third, the amount of his commis- 
 sions; fourth, the amount distributed to each of the tow r nship 
 treasurers in his county; fifth, any balance on hand. He shall 
 also present for inspection at the same time his books and 
 vouchers for all expenditures, and all notes or other evidences 
 of indebtedness which he holds officially, with the securities of 
 the same; and he shall give in writing a statement of the con- 
 dition of the county fund, of the institute fund, and of any 
 township fund of which he may have the custody. 
 
 17. On or before the 15th day of August before each 
 regular session of the General Assembly of this State, or an- 
 nually, if so required by the State Superintendent of Public In- 
 struction, the county superintendent shall communicate to said 
 State Superintendent all such information and statistics upon 
 the subject of schools in his said county as the said State Super- 
 intendent is bound to embody in his report to the Governor, 
 and such other information as the State Superintendent shall 
 require. 
 
 18. In all cases where the township board of trustees of 
 any township shall fail to prepare and forward, or cause to be 
 prepared and forwarded to the county superintendent, the in- 
 formation and statistics required of them in this act, it shall be 
 the duty of the said county superintendent to employ a compe- 
 tent person to take the enumeration and furnish such statistical 
 statement, as far as practical, to the superintendent; and such 
 person so employed shall have free access to the books and 
 papers of said township to enable him to make such statement; 
 and the township treasurer, or other officer or person in w T hose 
 custody such books and papers may be, shall permit such per- 
 son to examine such books and papers at such times and places 
 
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 as such person may desire for the purposes aforesaid; and the 
 said county superintendent shall allow, and pay to the person 
 so employed by him, for the services, such amount as he may 
 judge reasonable out of any money which is or may come into 
 said superintendent's hands, apportioned as the share of or 
 belonging to such township; and the said county superinten- 
 dent shall proceed to recover and collect the amount so allowed 
 or paid for such services, in a civil action before any justice 
 of the peace in the county, or before any court having juris- 
 diction, in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, of 
 and against the trustees of schools of said township, in their 
 individual capacity; and in such suit or suits the said county 
 superintendent and fcownship treasurer shall be competent wit- 
 nesses; and the money so recovered, when collected, shall be 
 paid over to the county superintendent for the benefit of said 
 township, to replace the money taken as aforesaid. 
 
 19. Whenever the bond of any township treasurer approved 
 by the board of trustees of schools, as required by law, shall 
 be delivered to the county superintendent, he shall carefully 
 examine the same, and if the instrument is found in all respects 
 to be according to law, and the securities good and sufficient, 
 he shall endorse his approval thereon, have it recorded in the 
 circuit clerk's office, and file the same with the papers of his 
 office; but, if said bond is in any respect defective, or if the 
 penalty is insufficient, he shall return it for correction. When 
 the bond shall have been duly received and filed, the superin- 
 tendent shall, on demand, deliver to said township treasurer a 
 written statement certifying that his bond has been approved 
 and filed, and that said township treasurer is entitled to the 
 care and custody, on demand, of all moneys, bonds, mortgages, 
 notes and securities, and all books, papers and property of 
 every description belonging to said township. 
 
 _<). Upon the* receipt of the amount due upon the Auditor's 
 warrant, the county superintendent shall apportion said amount, 
 also the interest on the county fund and the fines and forfeit- 
 ures, to the several townships and parts of townships in his 
 county, in which townships or parts of townships shools have 
 been kept in accordance with the provisions of this act, and 
 with the instructions of the State and county superintendents, 
 according to the number of children, under twenty-one years 
 of age, returned to him, and shall pay over the distributive 
 share belonging to each township and fractional township, to 
 the respective township treasurers, or other authorized person, 
 annually: Provided, that no part of the State, county or other 
 school fund shall be paid to any township treasurer or other 
 person authorized by said treasurer, unless said township treas- 
 urer has filed his bond, as required by section 1 of article IV 
 of this act, nor in case said treasurer is re-appointed by the 
 trustees, unless he shall have renewed his bond and filed the 
 same as aforesaid. 
 
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 21. The county superintendent may loan any money, not 
 interest, -belonging to the county fund, or to any township fund, 
 before the same is called for, according to law, by the town- 
 ship treasurer, at the same rate of interest, upon the same 
 security and for the same length of time as is provided by this 
 -act in relation to the township treasurers, and apportion the 
 interest as provided in the preceding section; and notes and 
 mortgages taken in the name of the "county superintendent" 
 of the proper county are hereby declared to be as valid as if 
 taken in the name of "trustees of schools" of the proper town- 
 ship, and suits may be brought in the name of "county super- 
 intendents," on all notes and mortgages heretofore or here- 
 after made payable to the county superintendents. 
 
 22. In all controversies arising under the school law, the 
 opinion and advice of the county superintendent shall first be* 
 sought, whence appeal may be taken to the State Superintend- 
 ent of Public Instruction upon a written statement of facts 
 certified by the county superintendent. 
 
 23. The county superintendent, upon his removal or resig- 
 nation, or at the expiration of his term of office (or in case 
 of his death, his representatives) shall deliver over to his suc- 
 cessor in office, on demand, all moneys, books, papers and per- 
 sonal property belonging to the office or subject to the control 
 or disposition of the county superintendent. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 TOWNSHIP TRUSTEES OF SCHOOLS. 
 
 1. School township. 
 
 2. Fractional townships consolidated. 
 
 3. School business of the township. 
 
 4. Trustees a body politic. 
 
 5. Annual election. 
 
 6. Term of office. 
 
 7. Age, residence and eligibility. 
 
 8. Notice of election, and form of election 
 
 notice. 
 9. Election in certain cases to be held on 
 
 anv Saturday, and notice to be given 
 
 by county clerk 
 10. Trustees draw lots for their terms of 
 
 office in certain cases 
 11. Judges of election. 
 12. Qualifications of voters. 
 | 13. Conduct ofelections;contesting elections; 
 
 polls may be closed at 4 p. m. 
 14. Judges may postpone election. 
 15. County superintendert to order election. 
 16. Vacancies 
 17. Tie at an election. 
 18. More than one polling place; canvassing 
 
 the returns and making out a certifi- 
 cate 
 
 19. Election when township is same as town. 
 20. Poll book; failure to deliver the same. 
 | 21. County clerks to furnish list of trustees 
 
 elected at town meetings. 
 Organization; appointment of president 
 
 and treasurer. 
 Term of office of president and treasurer; 
 
 their removal. 
 
 24. Record of proceedings. 
 
 25. Meetings of trustees and quorum. 
 
 26. Distribution to districts; basis of the 
 same. 
 
 27. Funds placed to the credit of districts. 
 
 28. Report to county superintendent; items; 
 forfeiture for failure to report. 
 
 29. Separate enumeration; statistics not 
 divisible 
 
 30. Examination of township treasurer's 
 books, etc., by trustees. 
 
 31. Gifts, grants, etc.; title of school houses. 
 
 | 32. Saleofnchool house; form of notice of 
 sale 
 
 33. Conveyance of real estate; how made 
 
 34. Township treasurer custodian of bonds; 
 power to remove or sue that official. 
 
 35. Power to purchase real estate in satis- 
 faction of judgments. 
 
 36. Power to make settlements. 
 
 37. Power to lease land, or sell at public 
 auction. 
 
 38. Township high school, and form of no- 
 tice for high school election. 
 
 39 Ballots for high school election. 
 
 40. Election for members of township board 
 of education; term of office; vacancies; 
 organization of the board, and estab- 
 lishment of the school. 
 
 41. Powers of township board of education. 
 
 42. Parts of two or more townships may 
 join in establishing a high school. 
 
 43. Discontinuance of township high school 
 
 44. Canvass of ba lots, and disposition of 
 assets. 
 
 45. Interests in school books; penalties. 
 
 46. Districts In newly organized townships. 
 
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 f 47. Changes In district boundaries. 
 
 48. Who na ay petition 
 
 $ 49. Districts having less than 100,000 inhabit- 
 ants even under special charter, may 
 vote to change boundaries. 
 
 $ 5.X Filing of the peiition; notice to the dis- 
 tricts and form of notice. 
 
 51. Territory lying in two or more town- 
 ships. 
 
 5-. Adjournment of the board. 
 
 53. Acting upon the petition 
 
 | 54. Appeal and form of notice. 
 
 55. Clerks transmit papers to the county 
 superintendent. 
 
 56. Appeal in case of territory divided by 
 county lines. 
 
 57. Filing map and list of tax-payers. 
 
 58. 
 59. 
 
 60. 
 
 63. 
 64. 
 $ 65. 
 
 66. 
 8 67. 
 
 District with a bonded debt. 
 
 Election in new districts and form of 
 
 notice 
 
 Conduct of election. 
 >!. Organization of board. 
 62. Election in districts organized by action 
 
 of the county superintendent. 
 Distribution of fnnos 
 Appraisement of property. 
 Liability ol trustees in reference to dis- 
 
 tribution of funds. 
 Liability of clerk. 
 
 District failing to have school for two 
 years 
 
 68. Dissolution of union district 
 
 69. Successors to trustees of school lands. 
 
 SECTION 1 . Each congressional township is hereby established 
 u township for school purposes. 
 
 S 2. Whenever any fractional township contains less than two 
 hundred (1 } (H)) persons under twenty-one years of age, the trustees 
 thereof, upon petition of a majority of the adult inhabitants of 
 such fractional township, may, by written agreement entered into 
 with the board of trustees of any adjacent township, consoli- 
 date the territory, school funds and other property of such 
 fractional township with such a'djacent township, and there- 
 after shall cease to exercise the functions of school trustees for 
 such fractional township; and such territory, school funds and 
 other property, aforesaid, shall thereafter be managed by the 
 board of trustees of such adjacent and consolidated township, 
 in accordance with the terms of agreement aforesaid, in the 
 same manner as is, or may be provided by law, for the man- 
 agement of territory, funds and other property of school town- 
 ships: Provided, that the said written agreement shall be duly 
 signed by a majority of the said trustees, and filed for record 
 by the said trustees in the office of the county clerk of the 
 county in which such consolidated township, or the greater 
 part thereof, is situated. [As amended June 21, 1895. 
 
 S 3. The school business of the township shall be done by 
 three trustees, to be elected by the legal voters of the town- 
 ship, as hereinafter provided for. 
 
 S 4. Said trustees shall be a body politic and corporate, by 
 the name and style of "trustees of schools of township No.... 
 range No. . . .," according to the number. The said corporation 
 shall have perpetual existence, shall have power to sue and be 
 sued, to plead and be im pleaded in all courts and places where 
 judicial proceedings are had. 
 
 r>. The election of trustees of schools shall be on the 
 second Saturday in April, annually. 
 
 6. At the first regular election of trustees, after the pas- 
 sage of this act, a successor to the trustee, whose term of 
 office then expires, shall be elected, and thereafter one trustee 
 shall be elected annually. Said trustees shall continue in 
 office three years, and until their successors are elected and 
 enter upon the duties of their office. 
 
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 7. No person shall be eligible to the office of trustee of 
 schools unless twenty- one years of age, and a resident of the 
 township. And where there are three or more school districts 
 in any township, no two trustees shall reside, when elected, in 
 the same school district, nor shall a person be eligible to the 
 office of trustee of schools and school director at the same 
 time. 
 
 8. Notice of the election of school trustee shall be given by 
 the township treasurer, upon the order of the trustees of 
 schools, by posting notices of such election, at least ten days 
 previous to the time of such election, in not less than five of 
 the most public places in said township, which notices shall 
 specify the time and place of election and the object thereof, 
 and may be in the following form, viz: 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the day of 
 
 April, A. D , an election will be held at , 
 
 between the hours of and of said day, for the purpose of elect- 
 ing school trustee for township No , range No By order 
 
 of the board of trustees of said township. 
 
 Ibwnship Trea 
 
 9. In townships where no election for school trustees has 
 heretofore been held, or in townships where, from any cause, there 
 are no trustees of schools, the election of trustees of schools 
 may be holden on any Saturday, notice thereof being given 
 as required by 'section 8 of this article. The first election in 
 such township shall be ordered by the county clerk of the 
 county, who shall cause notice to be given as aforesaid. 
 
 10. In case of an election held, as required by the preced- 
 ing section, the trustees elected, at their first meeting, shall 
 draw lots for their respective terms of office for one,* two and 
 three years; and thereafter one trustee shall be elected annu- 
 ally, at the usual time for electing trustees, to fill the vacancy 
 occurring. At all elections after said first election, the said 
 notice shall be given by the trustees of schools, through the 
 township treasurer, as in other elections for trustees. 
 
 11. The trustees of schools of incorporated townships 
 present shall act as judges, and choose a person to act as clerk 
 of said election. If the trustees (or any of them) shall fail to 
 attend, or refuse to act when present, the legal voters present 
 shall choose from their own number such additional judges as 
 may be necessary. In any township lying within the limits of 
 a city, village or incorporated town, which has adopted the 
 provisions of "An act regulating the holding of elections, and 
 declaring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated 
 towns in this State," approved June 19, 1885, the said election 
 
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 shall be held under the provisions of said act. In unincorpo- 
 rated townships, the qualified voters present shall choose, from 
 amongst themselves, the number of judges required to open 
 and conduct said election. 
 
 12. No person shall vote at any school election held under 
 the provisions of this act, unless he possesses the qualifica- 
 tions of a voter at a general election. 
 
 13. The time and manner of opening, conducting and clos- 
 ing said election, and the several liabilities appertaining to the 
 judges and clerks and to the voters, separately and collectively, 
 and the manner of contesting said election, shall be the same 
 as prescribed by the general election laws of this State defin- 
 ing the manner of electing magistrates and constables, so far 
 as applicable, subject to the provisions of this act: Provided, 
 that said election may commence, if so specified in the notice, 
 at any hour between the hours of eight (8) o'clock a. m., and 
 one (1) o'clock p. m., and the judges may close such election 
 at four (4) o'clock p. m. 
 
 14. If, upon any day appointed for the election of trustees 
 of schools, the said trustees of schools or judges shall be of 
 opinion that, on account of the small attendance of voters, the 
 public good requires it, or if the majority of the voters present 
 shall desire it, they shall postpone said election until the next 
 Saturday, at the same place and hour, at which time and 
 meeting the voters shall proceed as if it were not a postponed 
 or adjourned meeting: Provided, that if notice shall not have 
 been given of such election, as required by section 8 of this 
 article, then and in that case said election may be ordered as 
 aforesaid, and holden on any other Saturday, notice thereof 
 being given as aforesaid. 
 
 >> 15. If the township treasurer shall fail or refuse to give 
 notice of the regular election of trustees, as required by said 
 section 8 of this article, and if, in case of a vacancy, the re- 
 maining trustee or trustees shall fail or refuse to order an elec- 
 tion to fill such vacancy, as required by section 16 of this arti- 
 cle, then, and in each of such cases, it shall be the duty of 
 the county superintendent to order an election of trustees to 
 fill such vacancies as aforesaid, and all elections so ordered 
 and held shall be valid to all intents and purposes whatever. 
 
 16. When a vacancy or vacancies shall occur in the board 
 of trustees of schools, the remaining trustee or trustees shall 
 order an election to fill such vacancy, upon any Saturday, 
 notice to be given as required by said section 8 of this article. 
 
 17. In case of a tie vote at any election of trustees of 
 schools, the election shall be determined by lot, on the day of 
 the election, by judges thereof. 
 
 18. In townships where, for general elections, there are 
 more than two (2) polling places, the trustees shall give notice 
 that polls will be opened for such elections in at least two 
 
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 places; in which case at least one of said trustees shall attend 
 at each of said places, and additional judges shall be chosen as 
 provided in section eleven (11) of this article: Provided, there 
 shall be at least one polling place for each eight hundred legal 
 voters in said township. Should the polling places be in excess 
 of the number of trustees, then the voters at such polling 
 places so in excess shall select from their number the requisite 
 number of voters, who shall act as judges of said election in 
 the manner provided by said section eleven (11) for the election 
 of trustees in unincorporated townships. Said judges shall 
 return the ballots and original poll-books, with a certificate 
 thereon, showing the result of the election in said precinct, to 
 the township treasurer of the township in which said election 
 shall be held, whereupon it shall be the duty of the board of 
 trustees of said tow y nship, within five days after said election, 
 to meet and to canvass the returns from each precinct, to make 
 out a certificate showing the number of votes cast for each per- 
 son in each precinct, and in the whole township, and shall file 
 said certificate with the county superintendent of schools as 
 otherwise provided by t law. 
 
 19. In counties adopting township organization, in each 
 and every township whose boundaries coincide and are identi- 
 cal with those of the town, as established under the township 
 organization laws, the trustee or trustees shall be elected at 
 the same time and in the same manner as the town officers. In 
 all such townships, if no trustees are elected at the stated 
 town meeting, and w T hen vacancies occur in the board, an elec- 
 tion of trustee or trustees shall be ordered by the remaining 
 trustee or trustees of schools, through the township treasurer, 
 as provided for in section nine (9) of this article. 
 
 20. Upon the election of trustees of schools, the judges of 
 the election shall, within ten (10) days thereafter, cause a copy 
 of the poll -book of said election to be delivered to the county 
 superintendent of the county, with a certificate thereon show- 
 ing the election of said trustees and the names of the persons 
 elected, which copy of the poll-book, with the certificate, shall 
 be filed by said superintendent, and shall be evidence of such 
 election. For a failure to deliver said copy of the poll-book 
 and certificate within the time prescribed, the judges shall be 
 liable to a penalty of not less than twenty -five dollars ($25) 
 nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), to be recovered in 
 the name of the People of the State of Illinois, by action of 
 assumpsit, before any justice of the peace of the county, which 
 penalty, when collected, shall be added to the township school 
 fund of the township. 
 
 S 21. When school trustees are elected at town meetings, as 
 provided in section nineteen (19) of this article, it shall be the 
 duty of the county clerk, as soon as the list of the names of 
 officers elected at the tow r n meetings is filed with him, to give 
 the county superintendent a list of the names of all school 
 
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 trustees elected at the town meetings of the county, and of the 
 towns for which they are elected. 
 
 22. Within ten -days after the annual election of trustees, 
 the board shall organize by appointing one of their number 
 president, and spme person who shall not be a director or 
 trustee, but w*f6 shall be a resident of the township, treasurer, 
 if ther^be a vacancy in this office, who shall be ex officio clerk 
 of trie board. 
 
 S 23. The president shall hold his office for one year, and the 
 treasurer for two years, and until their successors are appointed, 
 but either of said officers may be removed by the board for 
 good and sufficient cause. 
 
 S 24. It shall be the duty erf~ the president to preside at all 
 meetings of the board and it shall be the duty of the clerk to 
 be present at all meetings of the board, and to record in a book 
 to be provided for the purpose all of their official proceedings, 
 which book shall be a public record, open to the inspection of 
 any person interested therein. All of said proceedings when re- 
 corded shall be signed by the president and clerk. If the presi- 
 dent or clerk shall be absent or refuse to perform any of the 
 duties of his office at any meeting of the board, a president or 
 clerk pro tern, may be appointed. 
 
 25. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to hold 
 regular semi-annual meetings on the first Mondays of April and 
 October, and special meetings may be held at such other times 
 as they think proper. Special meetings of the board may be 
 called by the president or any two members thereof. At all 
 meetings two members shall be a quorum for business. 
 
 26. At the regular semi-annual meetings on the first Mon- 
 days of April and October, the trustees shall ascertain the 
 amount of state, county and township funds on hand and sub- 
 ject to distribution, and shall apportion the same as follows: 
 
 First Whatever sum may be due for the compensation and 
 the books of the treasurer, and such sum as may be deemed 
 reasonable and necessary for dividing school lands, making 
 plats, etc. 
 
 Second And the remainder of such funds shall be divided 
 among the districts, or fractions of districts, in which schools 
 have been kept in accordance with the provisions of this act 
 and the instructions of the state and county superintendents 
 during the preceding year ending June 30, in proportion to the 
 number of children under twenty -one (21) years of age in each. 
 
 27. The funds thus apportioned shall be placed on the 
 books of the treasurer to the credit of the respective districts, 
 and the same shall be paid out by the treasurer on the legal 
 orders of the directors of the proper districts in the same man- 
 ner as other funds of the district are paid out. 
 
 28. The board of trustees of each tow r nship in this State 
 shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, by the township treas- 
 
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 urer, the clerk of the board, the directors of the several districts. 
 or other person, and forwarded to the county superintendent of 
 the county in which the township lies, on or before the 15th 
 day of July, preceding each regular session of the General Assem- 
 bly of this State, and at such other times as may be required 
 by the county superintendent, or by the State Superintendent 
 of Public Instruction, a statement exhibiting the condition of 
 schools in their respective towns-hips for the preceding biennial 
 period, giving separately each year, commencing on the first of 
 July and ending on the last of June, which statement shall be 
 as follows: 
 
 First The whole number of schools which have been taught 
 in each year; what part of said number have been taught by 
 males exclusively; what part have been taught by females ex- 
 clusively; what part of said whole number have been taught by 
 males and females at the same time, and what part by males 
 and females at different periods. 
 
 Second The whole number of scholars in attendance at all 
 the schools, giving the number of males and females separately. 
 
 Third The number of male and female teachers, giving each 
 separately; the highest, lowest, and average monthly compen- 
 sation paid to male and female teachers, giving each item sepa- 
 rately. 
 
 Fourth The number of persons under twenty-one years of 
 age, making a separate enumeration of those above the age of 
 twelve years who are unable to read and write, and the cause 
 or causes of the neglect to educate them. 
 
 Fifth The amount of the principal of the township fund ; the 
 amount of interest of the township fund paid into the township 
 treasury; the amount raised by ad valorem tax, and the amount 
 of such tax received into the township treasury, and amount 
 of all other funds received into the township treasury. 
 
 Sixth Amount paid for teachers' wages; the amount paid 
 for school house lots; the amount paid for building, repairing, 
 purchasing, renting and furnishing school houses; the amount 
 paid for school apparatus, for books and other incidental ex- 
 penses for the use of school libraries; the amount paid as com- 
 pensation to township officers and others. 
 
 Seventh The whole amount of the receipts and expenditures 
 for school purposes, together with such other statistics and 
 information in regard to schools as the State Superintendent or 
 county superintendent may require. And any township from 
 which such report is not received in the manner and time re- 
 quired by law, shall forfeit its portion of the public fund for 
 the next ensuing year: Provided, that upon the recommenda- 
 tion of the county superintendent, or for good and sufficient 
 reasons, the State Superintendent may remit such forfeiture. 
 
 29. In all cases where a township is, or shall be divided 
 by a county line or lines, the board of trustees of such township 
 
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 shall make or cause to be made separate enumerations of male 
 and female persons of the ages as directed by section 28 of 
 this article, designating separately the number residing in each 
 of the counties in which such township may lie, and forward 
 each respective number to the proper county superintendent Ox 
 each of said counties; and in like manner, as far as practicable, 
 all other statistics and information enumerated and required to 
 be reported in the aforesaid section, shall be separately re- 
 ported to the several county superintendents; and all such parts 
 of said statistical information as are not susceptible of division 
 and are impracticable to be reported separately, shall be re- 
 ported to the county superintendent of the county in which 
 the sixteenth section of such township is situated. 
 
 >? 30. At each semi-annual meeting, and at such other meet- 
 ings as they may think proper, the said township board shall 
 examine all books, notes, mortgages, securities, papers, moneys 
 and effects of the corporation, and the accounts and vouchers 
 of the township treasurer, or other township school officer, and 
 shall make such order thereon for their security, preserva- 
 tion, collection, correction of errors, if any, and for their 
 proper management, as may seem to said board necessary. 
 
 31. The trustees of schools in each township in the State 
 may receive any gift, grant, donation or devise made for the 
 use of any school or schools, or library, or other school pur- 
 poses within their jurisdiction, and they shall be and are 
 hereby invested, in their corporate capacity, with the title, care 
 and custody of all school houses and school house sites: Pro- 
 vided, that the supervision and control of such school houses 
 and school house sites shall be vested in the board of direc- 
 tors of the district. 
 
 32. When, in the opinion of any board of directors, the 
 school house site or any buildings have become unnecessary or 
 unsuitable or inconvenient for a school, the board of trustees, 
 on petition of a majority of the voters of the district, shall 
 sell and convey the same in the name of the said board, after 
 giving at least twenty days' notice of such sale by posting up 
 written or printed notices thereof, particularly describing said 
 property, and the terms of sale, which notice may be in the 
 following form, viz.: 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that on the day of 
 
 A. D , the trustees of schools of township No , range No. 
 
 , will sell at public sale, on the premises hereinafter described, 
 
 between the hours of ten o'clock A. M., and three o clock p. M., the school 
 house situated on the school-house site, known as (here describe the site 
 by its number, commonly known name, or other definite description), 
 and located in the (here describe its place in the section) which sale will 
 l>e made on the following terms, to-wit: (Here insert as "one-third of 
 the purchase money cash in hand, and the balance in two equal pay- 
 ments, due in one and two years from the day of sale, with interest at 
 
 the rate of per cent, from date.") 
 
 A. B. 
 C. D. 
 E. F. 
 Trustees 
 
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 And the deed of conveyance of the property so sold shall be 
 executed by the president and clerk of said board, and the 
 proceeds of such sale shall be paid over to the township 
 treasurer, for the benefit of said district. 
 
 33. All conveyances of real estate which may be made to 
 said board, shall be made to said board in their corporate 
 name, and to their successors in office. 
 
 34. The township board shall cause all moneys for the 
 use of the townships and districts, to be paid over to the town- 
 ship treasurer, who is hereby constituted and declared to be 
 the only lawful depositary and custodian of all township and 
 district school funds. They shall have power also to remove 
 the township treasurer, at any time, for any failure or refusal 
 to execute or comply with any order or requisition of said 
 board, legally made and entered of record, or for other im- 
 proper conduct in the discharge of his duty as treasurer. They^ 
 shall also have power for any failure or refusal as aforesaid 
 to sue him upon his official bond and recover all damages sus- 
 tained by the said board in its corporate capacity, by reason, 
 of such neglect or refusal as aforesaid. 
 
 35. The township trustees are hereby vested with general 
 power and authority to purchase real estate, if in their opin- 
 ion the interests of the township fund will be promoted thereby y 
 in satisfaction of any judgment or decree wherein the said 
 board or the county superintendent are plaintiffs or complain- 
 ants; and the title of such real estate so purchased shall vest 
 in said board for the use of the inhabitants of said township, 
 for school purposes. 
 
 36. The board of trustees are hereby vested with general 
 power and authority to make all settlements with persons in- 
 debted to them in their official capacity; or to receive deeds 
 to real estate in compromise; and to cancel, in such- manner 
 as they may think proper, notes, bonds, mortgages, judgments 
 and decrees, existing or that may hereafter exist, for the 
 benefit of the township, when the interest of said township, or 
 of the fund concerned shall, in their opinion, require it; and 
 their action in the premises shall be valid and binding. 
 
 37. The board of trustees are hereby authorized to lease 
 or sell at public auction, any land that may come into their 
 possession in the manner provided for in either of the two pre- 
 ceding sections in such manner and on such terms as they 
 may deem for the interests of the townships: Provided, that 
 in all cases of sale of such land, the sale shall be either at 
 the door of the court house, where judicial sales of land are 
 usually made, or else on the premises to be sold, as the trus- 
 tees may order and direct: And, provided, that in all cases of 
 sale of land, as provided in this section, the sale shall be 
 made in the manner provided for sale of the sixteenth section 
 by section 14 of article XIII of this act. 
 
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 #K. Upon petition of not less than fifty voters of any 
 school township, filed with the township treasurer at least fif- 
 teen days preceding the regular election of trustees, it shall 
 be the duty of said treasurer to notify the voters of said town- 
 ship that an election "For" or "Against" a township high 
 school will be held at the said next regular election of trus- 
 tees, by posting notices of such election in at least ten of the 
 most public places throughout such township, for at least ten days 
 before the day of such regular election; which notices may be 
 in the following form, viz. : 
 
 ''HIGH SCHOOL ELECTION." 
 
 Notice is hereby given that on Saturday, the day of April, 
 
 A. D , an election will be held at for the 
 
 purpose of voting "For" or "Against" the proposition to establish a town- 
 ship high school for the benefit of township No range No 
 
 The polls for said election will be open at and close at 
 
 o'clock of said day. 
 
 ^ A. B.. 
 
 Township Treasurer. 
 
 Provided, that when any city in this State, having a popula- 
 tion of not less than one thousand and not over one hundred 
 thousand inhabitants, lies within two or more townships, then 
 that township in which a majority of the inhabitants of said 
 city reside shall, together with said city, constitute a school 
 township under this act for high school purposes. [As amended 
 by act approved June 19, 1891. 
 
 )>!>. Tlu> ballots for such election shall be received and 
 canvassed as in other elections, and may have thereon the 
 name of the person or persons whom the voter desires for 
 trustee or trustees. 
 
 40. If a majority of the votes at such election shall be 
 found to be in favor of establishing a township high school, it 
 shall be the duty of the trustees of the township to call a 
 special election on any Saturday within sixty days from the 
 time of the election establishing the township high school, for 
 the purpose of electing a township board of education, to con- 
 sist of five members, notice of which election shall be given 
 for the same time and in the same manner as provided for in 
 the election of township trustees. The members elected shall 
 determine by lot, at their first meeting, the length of term 
 each is to serve. Two of the members shall serve for one year 
 each, two for two years, and one for three years, from the 
 second Saturday of April next preceding their election. When- 
 ever a vacancy occurs (except by death or resignation), a suc- 
 cessor or successors shall be elected, each of whom shall serve 
 for three years, which subsequent election shall be held on the 
 same day and in the same manner as the election of township 
 trustees. In case of vacancy from other cause than the expira- 
 tion of the term of office, the board shall call an election with- 
 out delay, which election may be held on any Saturday, notice 
 of which shall be given for the same time and in the same 
 
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 manner as for the election of township trustees. Within ten 
 days after their election, the members of the township board 
 of education shall meet and organize by electing one of their 
 number president, and by electing a secretary. It shall be the 
 duty of the township board of education to establish at some 
 central point most convenient to a majority of the pupils of 
 the township, a high school for the education of the more 
 advanced pupils. 
 
 41. For the purpose of building a school house, support- 
 ing the school and paying other necessary expenses, the town-, 
 ship shall be regarded as a school district; and the township 
 board of education shall have the power and discharge the 
 duties of directors for such district in all respects. 
 
 42. In like manner the voters and trustees of two or 
 more adjoining townships, or paVfcs of townships, may co-op- 
 erate in the establishment and maintenance of a high school, 
 on such terms as they may, by written^ Agreement made and 
 signed by the boards of trustees, enter into. 
 
 43. When any township, townships or parts of townships 
 shall have organized a high school, and wish to discontinue 
 the same, upon petition "of not4ss than a majority of the 
 legal voters of said township, townships or parts of townships, 
 filed with the township treasurers of said townships at least 
 fifteen days preceding a regular election of trustees, it shall 
 be the duty of the said treasurers to notify the voters of the 
 township, townships or parts of townships, that an election 
 will be held on the day of said regular election of trustees, 
 for the purpose of voting "For" or "Against" discontinuing 
 the township high school; which notice shall be given in the 
 same manner and for the same length of time, and may be in 
 substantially the same form as the notice provided for in sec- 
 tion 38 of this article. 
 
 44. The ballots for such election shall be received and 
 canvassed in the same manner as provided for in section 39 
 of this article. If the majority of the votes at such election 
 shall be found in favor of discontinuing the high school, it 
 shall be the duty of the trustees to discontinue the same, and 
 turn all the assets of the said high school over to the school 
 fund of the township or townships interested therein, in pro- 
 portion to the assessed valuation of said townships, to be used 
 as any other township fund for school purposes. 
 
 45. No trustee of schools shall be interested in the sales, 
 proceeds or profits of any book, apparatus or furniture used, in 
 any school in this State with which such trustee may be in 
 any manner connected. For offending against the provisions 
 of this section, any such trustee shall be liable to indictment, 
 and, upon conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than 
 twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and 
 may be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one nor 
 more than twelve months, at the discretion of the court. 
 
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 46. Trustees of schools in newly organized townships 
 shall lay off the township into one or more school districts, to 
 suit the wishes or convenience of a majority of the inhabitants 
 of the township, and shall prepare or cause to be prepared a 
 map of the the township, on which map shall be designated 
 the district or districts, to be styled, when there are more districts 
 
 than one, "District No , in township No , range No. 
 
 ...., of the .... P. M. (according to the proper numbers), 
 county of , and State of Illinois." 
 
 47. In a township where such division into districts has 
 been made, the said trustees may, in their discretion, at the 
 regular meeting in April, when petitioned as hereinafter pro- 
 vided for, change such districts as lie wholly within their 
 township, so as 
 
 First To divide or consolidate districts. 
 
 Second To organize a new district out of territory belong- 
 ing to two or more districts. 
 
 Third To detach territory from one district and add the 
 same to another district adjacent thereto. 
 
 4K No change shall be made as provided for in the pre- 
 ceding section, unless petitioned for 
 
 First By a majority of the legal voters of each of the dis- 
 tricts affected by the proposed change. 
 
 Second By two-thirds (f) of the legal voters living within 
 certain territory, described in the petition, asking that said 
 territory be detached from one district and added to another. 
 
 Third By two- thirds (f ) of all the legal voters living within 
 certain territory, containing not less than ten (10) families, 
 asking that said territory may be made a new district. 
 
 S 49. In school districts having a population of not less 
 than one thousand inhabitants, whether acting under the gen- 
 eral school law or organized and acting under a special char- 
 ter, desiring a change of boundaries, the question of such 
 change may be submitted to the trustees by a vote of the peo- 
 plr. instead of by the petition provided for in the preceding 
 section; and when petitioned so to do by twenty-five legal 
 voters of the district, the school board of the district shall 
 submit the question of the change desired to the voters of saicf 
 district, at a special election called for that purpose, and held 
 at least thirty days prior to the regular April meeting of trus- 
 tees. If a majority of the votes cast at any such election shall 
 be in favor of the change proposed, then, due return of the 
 election having been made to the township treasurer, the town- 
 ship trustees shall consider and take action the same as if 
 petitioned therefor by a majority of the legal voters of such 
 district: Provided, that no question of change of boundaries 
 shall be submitted to a vote of the school district more than 
 once in any year. [As amended by act approved June 18, 
 1891. 
 
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 50. No petition shall be acted upon by the board of trus- 
 tees unless such petition shall have been filed with the clerk 
 of the said board of trustees at least twenty days before the reg- 
 ular meeting in April, nor unless a copy of the petition, 
 together with a notice in writing, signed by one or more of 
 the petitioners, shall be delivered by the petitioners, or some 
 one of them, at least ten days before the date at which th<> 
 petition is to be considered, . to the president or clerk of the 
 board of directors of each district whose boundaries will be 
 changed if the petition is granted. 
 
 Which notice may be in the following form, to- wit: 
 
 The directors in District No , in township No range "No 
 
 of the principal meridian, will take notice that the undersigned and 
 
 others have made and filed with the board of trustees of said township 
 their petition, a copy of which is herewith handed to you. 
 
 Signed 
 
 ij 51. At the said April meeting, by the concurrent action 
 of the several boards of trustees of the townships in which the 
 district or districts affected lie, each board being petitioned as 
 provided for in section 48 of this article, the same changes may 
 be made in the boundaries both of districts which lie in sepa- 
 rate townships, but adjacent to each other, and of districts 
 formed of parts of two or more townships, as are permitted to 
 be made in districts which lie w T holly in one township. 
 
 52. When, at the regular meeting of the trustees in April, 
 any petition shall come before the trustees, asking for any 
 change in boundaries, it shall be the duty of the trustees to 
 ascertain if the foregoing provisions have been strictly com- 
 plied with; and if it shall appear that they, or either of them, 
 have not been complied with, then, "in such case, the board 
 shall adjourn for not longer than four weeks, in order that the 
 foregoing provisions may be complied with, but there shall be 
 but one adjournment for such purpose. 
 
 53. If, on the day of the regular meeting, or, in case of 
 an adjournment, at the adjourned meeting, it shall appear that 
 such provisions have been complied with, then the trustees shall 
 consider the petition, and shall also hear any legal voters liv- 
 ing in the district or districts that will be affected by the 
 change if made, who may appear before them to oppose the 
 petition, and they shall grant or refuse the prayer of the peti- 
 tioners without unreasonable delay. After the trustees shall 
 consider the petition, no objection shall be thereafter raised 
 as to its form, and their action shall be prima facie evidence 
 that all the formal requirements have been complied with. 
 
 54. The petitioners, or the legal voters wlio nave appeared 
 before the trustees at the meeting when the petition was consid- 
 ered, and opposed the same, shall have the right of appeal to 
 the county superintendent of schools: Provided, that the party 
 appealing files with the clerk of the trustees a written notice 
 
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 of appeal within ten days after the final action upon the peti- 
 tion by the trustees, which notice may be in the following- 
 form, to- wit: 
 
 To the trustees of schools, township No range No of 
 
 county, Illinois: 
 
 You are hereby notified that the undersigned will appeal from your 
 
 decision, made on the day of , A. D , granting, (or 
 
 refusing) the prayer of the petition in regard to (here give substance of 
 
 the petition concerned) to the county superintendent of schools of 
 
 county, Illinois, as provided by law. 
 
 Signed 
 
 55. When an appeal is taken from the action of the trus- 
 tees to the county superintendent, the clerk of the trustees 
 shall, within five days after the written notice of the appeal 
 has been filed with him by the appellants, transmit all the 
 papers in the case, with a transcript of the records of the 
 trustees, showing their action thereon to the county superintend- 
 ent; and, in case of an appeal, the township treasurer shall be 
 required to take no further action in the matter, except upon 
 the order of the county superintendent, whose duty it shall be 
 to investigate the case upon such appeal; and if, in his opinion, 
 the change asked is for the best interest of the district or dis- 
 tricts concerned, he shall make such change or changes, but 
 if he considers the proposed change unadvisable, he shall refuse 
 to make it, and shall reverse, if need be, the action of the 
 trustees, and shall give the clerk, from whom he received the 
 paper, immediate notice of his decision; and his action shall be 
 final and binding. If the changes asked for by the petitioners 
 shall be made by the county superintendent, he shall notify, 
 in writing, the clerk by whom the papers in the case were 
 transmitted to him, of his action, and the clerk shall there- 
 upon make a record of the same, and shall, within ten days 
 thereafter, make a copy of the same, and a map of the town- 
 ship, showing the districts, and an accurate list of the tax-pay- 
 ers of the newly arranged districts, and deliver them to the 
 county clerk for filing and record by him, the same as if the 
 changes had been ordered by the trustees. 
 
 56. In all cases where the territory affected by a proposed 
 change of district boundaries is divided by a county line or lines, 
 the appeal may be taken to the county superintendent of schools 
 of any one of the counties in which said territory is partly lo- 
 cated; and upon any appeal being taken in any such case, the 
 county superintendent of schools, to whom such appeal is taken, 
 shall forthwith, give notice to the county superintendent or 
 superintendents of schools of the other county or counties, of 
 the pendency of such appeal, and of the time and place when 
 and where it will be heard; and the county superintendents of 
 schools of the counties in which the said territory is located, 
 shall meet together at such time and place, and together hear 
 
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 and determine said appeal. In case the said county superin- 
 tendents shall be unable to arrive at an agreement, then the 
 Bounty judge of the county where such appeal is pending shall 
 be called, and shall constitute one of the board of appeal, and 
 thereupon the appeal shall be heard and determined by them. 
 And the county superintendent of schools to -whom such, appeal 
 is taken shall at once notify, in writing, the clerk by whom 
 the papers; in the case were transmitted to him of the action 
 taken on s'uch appeal, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 57. Whenever change in boundaries is made by the trus- 
 tees of schools, if no appeal is taken to the county superin- 
 tendent, the clerk of the trustees shall make a complete copy 
 of the record of the action of the trustees; which copy shall 
 be certified by the president of the trustees and the clerk who 
 shall file the same, together with a map of the township, show- 
 ing the districts, and an. accurate list of the tax-payers of the 
 newly arranged districts, with the county clerk for record 
 within twenty days of the action of the trustees. 
 
 58. In case any territory shall be set off from any dis- 
 trict that has a bonded debt, the change not being petitioned 
 for by a majority of the legal voters of said district, such 
 original district shall remain liable for the payment of such 
 bonded debt as if not divided. The directors of the original 
 district having such bonded debt and of the district into which 
 the territory taken from such original district has been incor- 
 porated or formed, shall constitute a joint board for the pur- 
 pose of determining and certifying, and they shall determine 
 and certify to the county clerk the amount of tax required 
 yearly for the purpose of paying the interest and principal of 
 such bonded debt; which tax shall be extended by the county 
 clerk against all property embraced within such original dis- 
 te'ict as if it had not been divided. 
 
 * 59. When the trustees of schools shall organize a new dis- 
 trict, as hereinbefore provided for, it shall 'be the duty of the 
 clerk of the board of trustees, if no appeal is taken to the 
 county superintendent, to order, within fifteen days after the 
 aetion of the trustees, an election, to be held at some conven- 
 ient time and place, within the boundaries of such newly or- 
 ganized district, for the election of three school directors, notice 
 being given by the township treasurer, who shall post up at 
 least three notices of such election in at least three prominent 
 places in said district, at least ten days prior to the time ap- 
 pointed for holding such election, which notices shall specify 
 the place where such election is to be held, the time for open- 
 ing and closing the polls, and the object of said election, 
 "which notice may be in the following form, to-wit: 
 
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 "ELECTION NOTICE." 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that on the day of A. D. 
 
 an election will be held at for the purpose of electing 
 
 three school directors for the new district known as district No , in. 
 
 township No , range No , of the P. M., in county, 
 
 Illinois. 
 
 The polls at said election will be open at o'clock M., and close 
 
 at o'clock M. 
 
 By order of the board of trustees of said township. 
 
 Signed 
 
 Township Treasurer. 
 
 60. At the time appointed for opening the polls for said 
 election, it shall be the duty of the legal voters present, five of 
 whom shall constitute a quorum, to appoint three of their 
 number, two of whom shall act as judges, and one as clerk of 
 said election; and the election in all other respects shall be con- 
 ducted as other elections for the election of school directors. 
 
 61. Within ten days after the election, it shall be the duty 
 of the directors, elected at such election, to meet at some con- 
 venient time and place previously agreed upon by said direc- 
 tors, and organize as a district board by appointing one of 
 their number president, and another of their number clerk of 
 said board, as in other cases of the election of school directors. 
 At this first meeting of the directors, they shall draw lots for 
 their respective terms of office for one, two and three years, 
 each of which shall be considered a fractional term, ending at 
 each annual meeting according to the term drawn. 
 
 62. In case a new district is organized by the action of 
 the county superintendent, the said clerk of the board of trus- 
 tees shall, within five days after he has received notice of the 
 action of the county superintendent on the appeal, order an 
 election of directors in the new district, the same as if the 
 change had been made by the board of trustees, and such elec- 
 tion shall be held in the same manner as the election provided 
 for where the trustees have formed such new district. 
 
 63. Whenever a new district has been formed by the trus- 
 tees, or by the county superintendent, or county superintend- 
 ents, from a part of a district or from parts of two or more 
 districts, the trustees of the township or townships concerned 
 shall proceed forthwith to make a distribution of tax funds, or 
 other funds which are in the hands of the treasurer, or to which 
 the district may, at the time of such division, be entitled; so 
 that both the old and new districts shall receive parts of such 
 funds, in proportion to the amount of taxes collected next pre- 
 ceding such division from the taxable property in the territory 
 composing the several districts. If the new district be composed 
 of parts of two or more districts, the trustees shall make dis- 
 tribution of said funds -between the new district and the old 
 districts, respectively, so that the new district shall receive a 
 distribution of the funds of each of the old districts, in the 
 proportion which the amount of taxes collected from the prop- 
 
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 in the territory of the new district bears to the whole 
 taxes collected, next before the division, in the old district; and 
 the town treasurer shall forthwith place the sum so distributed 
 to the credit of the respective districts, and shall immediately 
 place the proportion of the funds to which said new district 
 may be entitled to its credit on his books, and the funds on 
 hand shall be subject at once to the order of the directors of 
 the new district, and those not on hand as soon as collected. 
 
 64. The trustees of the township or townships concerned 
 shall, at the time of the creation of a new district, or within 
 the period of thirty days thereafter, proceed to the appoint- 
 ment of three appraisers, who shall not be citizens of the town- 
 ship or townships interested. It shall be the duty of said ap- 
 praisers, within thirty days after their appointment, to appraise 
 the school property, both real and personal, of the district or 
 districts interested, at their fair cash value. Within thirty days 
 after such appraisement, the trustee or trustees of the township 
 or townships concerned shall proceed to charge the property to 
 the district in which it may be found, and to credit the other 
 district interested therein with its proportion of such valuation : 
 Provided, that the bona fide debts, if any. of the old district, 
 shall first be deducted and the balance charged and credited as 
 aforesaid and the trustees shall direct the treasurer to place 
 to the credit of the district not retaining said property, its 
 proportion of the value of said property, and of the funds then 
 on hand, or subsequently to accrue, belonging to such district 
 to which such property is charged. 
 
 65. If the trustees shall fail to observe the provisions of 
 sections 63 and 64, in reference to distribution of funds and 
 property, they shall be individually and jointly liable to the 
 district interested, in an action on the case, to the full amount 
 of the damages sustained by the district aggrieved. Where 
 trustees have heretofore failed to make distribution of property 
 to districts, as provided in said sections 63 and 64 of this 
 article, the district interested in the making of such distribu- 
 tion may, by its directors, request the trustees, in writing, to 
 proceed to make such distribution; and said trustees shall 
 proceed to make such distribution in the manner prescribed, 
 and shall be liable, as herein stated, for a neglect or failure so 
 to do. 
 
 66. The clerk of any board of trustees who shall fail, neg- 
 lect, or refuse to perform the duties imposed upon him by this 
 article of this act, or any of them, within the time and in the 
 manner prescribed, shall, for each offense, forfeit not less than 
 ten dollars ($10), nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25) of his 
 pay as clerk of the board of trustees and township treasurer, 
 which forfeiture shall be enforced by the trustees. 
 
 67. If any school district shall, for two consecutive years, 
 fail to maintain a public school, as required by law to do, it shall 
 
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 be the duty of the trustees of schools of the township, or town- 
 ships, in which such district lies, to attach the territory of such 
 district to one or more adjoining school districts; and, in case 
 said territory is added to two or more districts, to divide the 
 property of said district between the districts to which its ter- 
 ritory is added, in the manner hereinbefore provided for the 
 division of property in case a new district is organized from a 
 part of another district, and the action of the trustees in such 
 a ease shall be final and binding. And the clerk of the trustees 
 in such case shall file a copy of the record of the same, to- 
 gether with the map and list of tax-payers with the county 
 clerk as in other cases of change of district boundaries. 
 
 (is. The majority of legal voters of a district lying in two 
 or more townships may secure the dissolution of said district 
 by petitioning the several boards of trustees of said townships, 
 at their regular meeting in April, that each will add the terri- 
 tory belonging to said district, in its township, to one or more 
 adjacent districts. Upon receipt of such petition, or the returns 
 of the election (in districts containing one thousand or more 
 inhabitants) the several boards of trustees shall each make 
 such disposition of the territory of said district as lies in its 
 township, and they shall jointly make such division of property 
 of said district between the districts to w T hich its territory is 
 attached, as is hereinbefore provided in the case of the organi- 
 zation of a new district from a part of another district. The 
 action of the trustees, in accordance with such petition or elec- 
 tion, shall be final and binding; and the clerks of the several 
 boards of trustees, in such case, shall file a copy of the record 
 of the same, together with the map and lists of tax-payers, with 
 the county clerk, as in other cases of change of district bounda- 
 ries. 
 
 $ (W. The trustees of schools, elected as provided for in this 
 article, shall be the successors to the trustees of school lands, 
 appointed by the county commissioners* court, and of trustees 
 of schools elected in townships under the provisions of ''An act 
 making provisions for organizing and maintaining common 
 schools," approved February 26, 1841, and "An act to estab- 
 lish and maintain common schools," approved March 1, 1847, 
 and ''An act to establish and maintain a system of free schools," 
 approved April 1, 1872. All rights of property, and rights and 
 causes of action, existing or vested in the trustees of school 
 lands, or the trustees of schools appointed or elected as afore- 
 said, for the use of the inhabitants of the township, or any part 
 of them, shall vest in the trustees of schools, as successors, in 
 as full and complete a manner as was vested in the trustees of 
 school lands, or the trustees of schools appointed and elected 
 a> -aforesaid. 
 
ARTICLE IV. 
 
 TOWNSHIP TREASURER. 
 
 Bond; form of bond. 
 
 Treasurer's accounts; record of notes 
 
 and bonds; subject to inspection. 
 Terms of loans. 
 
 3. 
 
 4. Securities to pun to board of trustees. 
 
 5. 
 
 t 6. 
 
 Surplus district funds may be loaned. 
 Statement of loans to be delivered to 
 
 county superintendent. 
 7. Form and release of mortgage. 
 8. Action on mortgage; insurance policies. 
 $ 9. Additional security. 
 10. Preference given to debts due to school 
 
 fund. 
 11. Default in payment; penalty; action to 
 
 recover interest. 
 12. Manner of bringing suits. 
 
 14. 
 15. 
 
 16. 
 
 17. 
 
 18. 
 19. 
 
 13. Treasurer shall keep money, books and 
 
 papers, and keep funds at interest. 
 Send annual statement to trustees. 
 S 15. Annual exhibit. 
 16. Statement to districts; exhibit to be 
 
 posted. 
 
 Penalty for failure to perform require- 
 ments of the preceding sections. 
 Unpaid orders of teachers to draw in- 
 terest. 
 
 Additional duties defined 
 
 550. Treasurer liable for i'ailure to perform 
 his duties, but not liable when acting 
 under orders of board. 
 
 21. Bonds, securities, etc , to be turned over 
 to successor; penalty and judgment. 
 22. Compensation of the treasurer. 
 
 1. The township treasurer appointed by the board of 
 trustees of schools shall, before entering upon his duties, execute 
 a bond with two or more freeholders, who shall not be mem- 
 bers of the board, as securities, payable to the board of trustees 
 of the township for which he is appointed treasurer, with a 
 sufficient penalty to cover all liabilities which may be incurred, 
 conditioned faithfully to perform all the duties of township 
 
 treasurer in township No , range No , in 
 
 county according to law; which bond shall be approved by at 
 least a majority of the board, and shall be delivered by one of 
 the trustees to the county superintendent of the proper county. 
 And in all cases where such treasurer aforesaid is to have $ie 
 custody of all bonds, mortgages, moneys and effects denomi- 
 nated principal, and belonging to the township for which he is 
 appointed treasurer, the penalty of said treasurer's bonds shall 
 be twice the amount of all bonds, notes, mortgages, moneys 
 and effects; and shall provide for the faithful accounting for, 
 and turning over, of all such bonds, notes, mortgages, moneys 
 and effects as shall come into his hands while he may act as 
 such treasurer, under such appointment, to his successor, when 
 appointed and qualified, as herein provided, by giving bond. 
 The penalty of said bond shall be increased from time to time, 
 as the increase of the amount of notes, bonds, mortgages and 
 effects may require, and whenever, in the judgment of the 
 trustees or county superintendent, the security is insufficient. 
 Any and every township treasurer appointed subsequent to the 
 first, as herein provided, shall execute bond with security, as 
 is required of the first treasurer. 
 
 The bond required in this section shall- be in the following 
 form, viz.: 
 
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 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 
 County; f ss ' 
 
 Know all men by these presents, that we, A. B.. C. D. and E. F., are 
 held and firmly bound, jointly and severally, unto the board of trustees 
 
 of township , range , in said county, in the penal sum 
 
 of dollars, for the payment of which we bind ourselves, our 
 
 heirs, executors and administrators firmly by these presents. 
 
 In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 
 
 day of , A. D., 18.... The condition of the above obligation 
 
 is such that if the above bounden A. B., township treasurer of township 
 
 , range , in the county aforesaid, shall faithfully 
 
 discharge the duties of said office, according to the laws which now are 
 or may hereafter be in force, and shall deliver to his successor in office, 
 after such successor shall have fully qualified by giving bond as provided 
 by law, all moneys, books, papers, securities and property which shall 
 come into his hands or control, as such township treasurer, from the date 
 of this bond up to the time that his successor shall have duly qualified 
 as township treasurer, by giving such bond as shall be required by law, 
 then this obligation to be void; otherwise to remain in full force and 
 virtue. 
 
 Approved and accepted by: 
 
 G. H., ) A. B., (Seal.) 
 
 I. J., ^Trustees. C. D., (Seal.) 
 
 K. L., } E. K (Seal.) 
 
 2. Every township treasurer shall provide himself with two 
 well bound books, the one to be called a cash book, the other 
 a loan book. He shall charge himself in the cash book with all 
 moneys received, stating the charge, when, from whom, and on 
 what account received, and credit himself with all moneys paid 
 or loaned, stating the amount loaned, the date of the loan, the 
 rate of interest, the time when payable, the name of the securi- 
 ties; or, if real estate to be taken, a description of the same. 
 
 He shall also enter, in separate accounts, moneys received and 
 moneys paid out, charging the first to debit account, and cred- 
 iting the latter as follows, to- wit: 
 
 Ftrst The principal of the township fund, when paid in and 
 when paid out. 
 
 Second The interest of the township fund, when received and 
 when paid out. 
 
 Third The common school fund and other funds, when re- 
 ceived from the county superintendent and when paid out. 
 
 Fourth The taxes received from the county or town col- 
 lector, for what district received, and when and for what pur- 
 pose paid out. 
 
 Fifth Donations received. 
 
 Sixth Moneys coming from all other sources; and in all cases 
 entering the date when received, and when paid out. And he 
 shall also arrange and keep his books and accounts in such 
 other manner as may be directed by the State or county super- 
 intendent or the board of trustees. He shall also provide a 
 book, to be called a journal, in which he shall record, fully 
 and at length, the acts and proceedings of the board, their 
 
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 orders, by-laws and resolutions. And he shall also provide a 
 book, to be called a record, in which he shall enter a brief de- 
 scription of all notes or bonds belonging 1 to the township, and 
 upon the opposite page he shall note down when paid, or any 
 remarks to show where or in what condition it is, as in the 
 following form, viz.: 
 
 Maker's Name. Date of Note. When Due. Amount. Remarks. 
 
 January 6, 
 18..., handed 
 
 A. B., C. D., E. F. January 1, 18. . January 1, 18. . $90.00 J^fc^JJ 1 * 
 
 or January 
 6, 18.., paid. 
 
 All the books and accounts of the treasurer shall at all times 
 be subject to the inspection of the trustees, directors or other 
 person authorized by this act, or by any committee appointed 
 by the voters of the township, at the annual election of trus- 
 tees, to examine the same. 
 
 3. Township treasurers shall loan, upon the following con- 
 ditions, all moneys which shall come to their hands by virtue of 
 their office, except such as may be subject to distribution. The 
 rate of interest shall not be less than six (6) per cent., nor 
 more than eight (8) per cent, per annum,* payable annually, 
 the rate of interest to be determined by a majority of the town- 
 ship trustees at any regular or special meeting of their board. 
 No loans shall be made for less than six (6) months, nor more 
 than five (5) years. For all sums not exceeding two hundred 
 dollars ($200) loaned for not more than one year, two (2) re- 
 sponsible sureties shall be given; for all sums over two hundred 
 dollars ($200), and for all loans for more than one (1) year, 
 security shall be given by mortgage on real estate unincum- 
 bered, in value forty per cent, more than 'the amount loaned, 
 with a condition that in case additional security shall be at any 
 time required, the same shall be given to the satisfaction of the 
 board of trustees for the time being: Provided, that nothing 
 herein shall prevent the loaning of township funds to boards of 
 school directors, taking bonds therefor, as provided in section 
 1, article IX, of this act. 
 
 4. Notes, bonds, mortgages and other securities taken for 
 money or other property due, or to become due to the board 
 of trustees for the township, shall be payable to the said board 
 by their corporate name; and in such name, suits, actions and 
 complaints, and every description of legal proceedings may be 
 had for the recovery of money, the breach of contracts and for 
 every legal liability which may at any time arise or exist, or 
 upon which a right of action shall accrue to the use of such cor- 
 poration: Provided, however, that notes, bonds, mortgages 
 and other securities in which the name of the county superin- 
 tendent, or of the trustees of schools are inserted, shall be valid 
 
 * 7 per cent, is the highest rate allowed by law on loans made ou or after July 1, 1891. 
 
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 to all intents and purposes, and suit shall be brought in the 
 name of the board of trustees as aforesaid. The wife of the 
 mortgagor (if he is married) shall join in the mortgage given 
 to secure the payment of money loaned by virtue of the pro- 
 visions of this act. 
 
 5. Whenever there is a surplus fund in the treasurer's 
 hands belonging to any school district, the treasurer may loan 
 the same for the use and benefit of such district, upon the 
 written request of the directors of said district and not other- 
 wise; and all such loans shall be on the same conditions as 
 are prescribed in this article for the loaning of township funds. 
 
 6. The township treasurer shall, on or before the 30th day 
 of June, annually, prepare and deliver to the county superin- 
 tendent of his county, a statement, verified by his affidavit, 
 showing the exact condition of the township funds. Said state- 
 ment shall contain a description of the securities, bonds, mort- 
 gages and notes belonging to the township, giving names of 
 securities, dates, amount of loans, rate of interest, when due, 
 and all data by which a full understanding of the condition of 
 the funds may be obtained. The county superintendent shall 
 preserve such statement for the use of the township. 
 
 $ 7. Mortgages to secure the payment of money loaned under 
 the provisions of this act, may be in the following form, viz.: 
 
 I. A. B., of the county of , and State of , do 
 
 hereby grant, convey and transfer to the trustees of school of township 
 
 , range No , in the county of , and State 
 
 of Illinois, for the use of the inhabitants of said township, the following 
 described real estate, to-wit: (Here insert premises), which real estate I 
 
 declare to be in mortgage for the payment of dollars loaned 
 
 to me, and for the payment of all interest that may accrue thereon to be 
 
 computed at the rate of per cent, per annum until paid. And 
 
 I do hereby covenant to pay the said sum of money in years 
 
 from the date hereof, and to pay the interest on the same annually, at 
 the rate aforesaid. I further covenant that I have a good and valid title 
 to said estate, and that the same is free from all incumbrance, and that 
 I will pay all taxes and assessments which may be levied on said estate, 
 and that I will give any additional security that may at any time be re- 
 quired in writing by said board of trustees; and if said estate be sold to 
 pay said debt, or any part thereof, or for any failure or refusal to comply 
 with or perform the conditions of covenant herein contained, I will de- 
 liver immediate possession of the premises. And it is further agreed, by 
 and between the parties, in case a bill is filed in any court to foreclose 
 this mortgage for non-payment of either principal or interest, that the 
 mortgagor will pay a reasonable solicitor's fee, and the same shall be in- 
 cluded in the decree and be taxed as costs: and we, A. B., and C., wife of 
 A. B., hereby release all right to the said premises which we may have 
 by virtue of any homestead laws of this State, and in consideration of 
 the premises, C., wife of A. B., doth hereby release to said board all her 
 right and title of dower in the aforegranted premises for the purpose 
 aforesaid. 
 
 In testimony whereof, we have hereby set our hands and seals this 
 
 day of , 18.... 
 
 A. B. (Seal.) 
 C. B. (Seal.) 
 
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 Which mortgage shall be acknowledged and recorded as is re 
 quired by law for other conveyances of real estate, the mort- 
 gagor paying expenses of acknowledgment and recording. 
 
 On payment of any school mortgage in full, it shall be the 
 duty of the trustees of schools to give a deed of release of such 
 mortgage or to enter satisfaction thereof upon the record, such 
 deed of release or satisfaction to be executed by the township 
 treasurer. 
 
 8. Upon the breach of any condition or stipulation con- 
 tained in said mortgage, an action may be maintained and dam- 
 ages recovered as upon other covenants; but mortgages made 
 in any other form to secure payment, as aforesaid, shall be 
 valid as if no form had been prescribed. In estimating the value 
 of real estate mortgaged to secure the payment of money loaned 
 under the provisions of this law, the value of improvements 
 liable to be destroyed may be included; but in any such case 
 said improvements shall be insured for, the insurable value 
 thereof in some safe and responsible insurance company or 
 companies, and the policy or policies of insurance shall be 
 transferable to the board of trustees as additional security for 
 any loan, and shall be kept so insured until the loan is paid. 
 
 9. In all cases where the board of trustees shall require 
 additional security for the payment of money loaned, and such 
 security shall not be given, the township treasurer shall cause 
 suit to be instituted for the recovery of the same, and all in- 
 terest thereon to the date of judgment: Provided, that proof 
 be made of the said requisition. 
 
 10. In the payment of debts by executors and administra- 
 tors, those due the common school or township fund shall have 
 a preference over all other debts, except" funeral expenses, the 
 widows award, and the expenses attending the last sickness, 
 not including the physician's bill. And it shall be the duty of 
 the township treasurer to attend at the office of the probate 
 judge upon the proper day, as other creditors, and have any 
 debts, as aforesaid, probated and classed, to be paid as aforesaid. 
 
 11. If default be made in the payment of interest due 
 upon money loaned by any county superintendent or township 
 treasurer, or in the payment of the principal, interest at the 
 rate of twelve per cent, per annum shall be charged upon the 
 principal and interest from the day of default, which interest 
 shall be included in the assessment of damages; or in the judg- 
 ment in the suit or action brought upon the obligation to en- 
 force payment thereof, and interest as aforesaid may be re- 
 covered in an action brought to recover interest only. The 
 said township treasurer is hereby empowered to bring appro- 
 priate actions in the name of the board of trustees, for the 
 recovery of the yearly interest, when due and unpaid, without 
 suing for the principal, in whatever form secured; and justices 
 of the peace shall have jurisdiction of such cases of all sums 
 not exceeding two hundred dollars. 
 
12. All suits brought or actions instituted under the pro- 
 visions of this act, may be brought in the name of the trustees 
 of schools of township No , range No , except as pro- 
 vided for qui tarn actions, or actions in favor of county super- 
 intendents. 
 
 3 13. The said township treasurer shall demand, receive and 
 safely keep, according to law, all moneys, books and papers of 
 every description belonging to his township. He shall keep the 
 township funds loaned at interest; and if, on the first Monday 
 in October, in any year, there shall be any interest or other 
 funds on hand which shall not be required for distribution, such 
 amount not required as aforesaid, may, if the board of trustees 
 see proper, forever be considered as principal in the funds to 
 which it belongs, and loaned as such. 
 
 14. On the first Mondays in April and October of every 
 year, the township treasurer shall lay before the board of trus- 
 tees a statement showing the amount of interest, rents, issues 
 and profits that have accrued or become due since their last 
 regular half-yearly meeting, on the township lands and town- 
 ship funds, and also the amount of state and county fund in- 
 terest on hand. He shall also lay before the said trustees all 
 books, notes, bonds, mortgages and all other evidences of in- 
 debtedness belonging to the township, for the examination of 
 the trustees; and shall make such other statement as the board 
 may require, touching the duties of his office. 
 
 ij 15. The said township treasurer shall make out annually, 
 and present io the board of trustees, at tfreir meeting succeed- 
 ing the annual election, a complete exhibit of the fiscal affairs 
 of the township, and of the several districts or parts of districts 
 in the township, showing the receipts of money, and the sources 
 from which they have been derived, and the deficit and delin- 
 quencies, if there be any, and the cause, as well as a classified 
 statement of moneys paid out, and the amount of obligations 
 remaining unpaid. 
 
 16. The township treasurer shall, within two days after 
 the first Monday in April, and on July fifteenth in each year, 
 make out for each district or part of district in the township, a 
 statement or exhibit of the exact condition of the account of 
 such district or part of district, as shown by his books on 
 April first and June thirtieth of each year; which statement or 
 exhibit shall show the balance at the time of making the last 
 exhibit, and the amount received since, up to the time of mak- 
 ing the exhibit, and when and from what source received; and it 
 shall also show the amount paid out during the same time, to 
 whom paid, and for what purpose, and shall be balanced, and the 
 balance shown. It shall be the duty of said treasurer to com- 
 ply with any lawful demand the said trustees may make as to 
 the verification of any balance reported by said treasurer to be 
 on hand. The exhibit shall be subscribed and sworn to by the 
 treasurer before any officer authorized to administer an oath, 
 and shall then, by the treasurer, be. without delay, delivered or 
 
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 transmitted by mail to the clerk of the board of directors of 
 the proper district. It shall be the duty of the said clerk, upon 
 receiving such exhibit, to enter the same upon the records of 
 the district, and, at the next annual election of directors there- 
 after, to cause a copy thereof to be posted up at the front door 
 of the building where such election is held. 
 
 17. For a failure on the part of the treasurer, clerk of any 
 board of directors, or any director, to comply with any of the 
 requirements of the preceding sections of this article, he shall 
 be liable to a penalty of not less than five dollars ($5) nor 
 more than fifty dollars ($50), to be recovered before any justice 
 of the peace of the county in which the offense is committed, 
 
 18. When any order drawn for the payment of a teacher, 
 is presented to the township treasurer for payment, and is not 
 paid for want of funds, the said treasurer shall make a written 
 statement over his signature by an endorsement on such order, 
 with date, showing such presentation and non-payment, and 
 shall make and keep a record of such endorsement. Such order 
 shall thereafter draw interest at the rate of eight per cent, per 
 annum until paid, or until the treasurer shall, in writing, 
 notify the clerk of the board of directors that he has funds to 
 pay such order; and of said notice, the said treasurer shall 
 make and keep a record; after giving said notice, he shall hold 
 the funds necessary to pay such order until it is presented for 
 payment, and such order shall draw no interest after the giv- 
 ing of said notice to said clerk of the board. 
 
 19. In addition to the foregoing requirements, it shall be 
 the duty of the said* township treasurer 
 
 Fir si To return to the county clerk of his county, on or be- 
 fore the second Monday in August in each year, the certificate 
 of tax levy made by each board of school directors in his 
 township. 
 
 Second To pay, whenever he has funds in his hands belong- 
 ing to the district, all lawful orders drawn on him by the 
 board of directors of any school district in his township. 
 
 Third To collect, from the collector of taxes of the township 
 and the county collector of taxes, the full amount of the tax 
 levies made by the several boards of directors in his township. 
 
 Fourth To examine the official record of each school district 
 in the township on the first Mondays in April and October of 
 each year. 
 
 Fifth To keep a correct account between the districts where 
 pupils are transferred by the directors from one district to an- 
 other. 
 
 Sixth To give, upon the order of the trustees of schools, 
 notice of the election of trustees, as required by law. 
 
 Seventh To give, in case of the formation of a new school 
 district, notice of the election of a board of school directors. 
 
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 Eighth To cause to be published in some newspaper pub- 
 lished in his county an annual statement of the finances of the 
 township, as required by law. 
 
 Ninth To make, whenever a change has been made in the 
 boundaries of a school district, a complete copy of the records 
 of the trustees, a map of the township showing such change of 
 boundaries, and an accurate list of the tax payers in the newly 
 arranged districts, and file the same with the county clerk 
 within twenty days of the time such change was made. 
 
 Tenth To file and safely keep all poll-books and returns of 
 elections which may be delivered to him under any provisions 
 of this act. 
 
 Eleventh To receive and safely keep all moneys, sucurities, 
 papers and effects belonging to the township or the school dis- 
 tricts, which, by law, are required to be deposited with such 
 treasurer. 
 
 20. For any failure or refusal to perform all the duties re- 
 quired of the township treasurer by law, he shall be liable to 
 the board of trustees, upon his official bond, for all damages 
 sustained, to be recovered by action of debt by said board, in 
 their corporate name, for the use of the proper township, before 
 any court having jurisdiction of the amount of damages claimed; 
 but if such treasurer, in any such failure or refusal, acted under 
 and in conformity to a requisition or order of said board, or a 
 majority of them, entered upon their journal and subscribed by 
 their president and clerk, then, and in that case, the members 
 of the board aforesaid, or those of them voting for such requi- 
 sition, or order aforesaid, and not the treasurer, shall be liable, 
 jointly and severally, to the inhabitants of the township for 
 such damages, to be recovered by an action of assumpsit in 
 the official name of the county superintendent of schools, for 
 the use of the proper townships: Provided, that said township 
 treasurer shall be liable for any part of the judgment obtained 
 against said trustees which cannot be collected on account of 
 the insolvency of such trustees. 
 
 21. Whenever a township treasurer shall resign or be re- 
 moved, and at the expiration of his term of office, he shall pay 
 over to his successor in office all money on hand, and deliver 
 over all books, notes, bonds, mortgages and all other securities 
 for money, and all papers and documents of every description 
 in which the corporation has any lawful interest whatever. 
 And in case of the death of the township treasurer, his secur- 
 ities and legal representatives shall be bound to comply with 
 the requisitions of this section, so far as the said secureties and 
 legal representatives may have the power so to do. And for a 
 failure to comply with the requisities of this section, the 
 persons neglecting or refusing shall be liable to a penalty of 
 not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than one hundred dol- 
 lars ($100) at the discretion of the court before which judgment 
 may be obtained, to be recovered in an action of debt, in the 
 
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 name of the trustees of schools, before any justice of the peace, 
 for the benefit of the school fund of such township: Provided 
 that the obtaining or payment of such judgment shall in no 
 wise discharge or diminish the obligations of the persons sign- 
 ing the official bond of such township treasurer. 
 
 22. The township treasurers shall receive in full, for all 
 services rendered by them, a compensation to be fixed, prior 
 to their election, by the board of trustees. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 I 1. Board of directors in districts with lees 
 than 1,0()0 inhabitants. 
 
 2. Board of directors a body politic. 
 
 $ 3. Eligibility of school directors. 
 
 4. Non-residence creates a vacancy. 
 
 5. Annual election and term of office. 
 
 . Election in new districts. 
 
 7. Vancancies 
 
 8. Notices of election . 
 
 $ 9. Election in certain cases ordered by 
 township treasurer or county superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 10. Judges; postponement; election on any 
 Saturday. 
 
 11. A tie vote. 
 
 12. Delivery of the poll-book, and filing the 
 same; certificate. 
 
 13. Poll-book in union district. 
 
 $ 14. Penalty for failure to deliver the poll- 
 book 
 
 15. Organization of the board. 
 
 ifi. Quorum. 
 
 17. Records. 
 
 18. Meetings. 
 
 18 Business to be done at a regular or 
 special meeting. 
 
 20. President or clerk pro tern pore. 
 
 21. Report of the organization. 
 
 22. Reports of statistics, etc 
 
 23. Not to be interested in school con- 
 
 tracts. 
 
 24 Not to be interested In sale of school 
 books, etc. 
 
 25. Liable to indictment and fine. 
 
 26. Duties defined. 
 
 27. Additional powers defined. 
 
 28. Orders on demand. 
 
 29. Orders in anticipation of taxes. 
 
 30. Liable for balance due teachers. 
 
 31. Vote of the district required to locate 
 school sites, etc. 
 
 32. dompeiisation for school site. 
 
 33. Removal by the county superintendent. 
 
 34. Funds paid out upon orders; form of 
 order . 
 
 35. Transfer of pupils: separate schedules. 
 
 36. Directors collect amount due from trans- 
 fer pupils. 
 
 SECTION 1. In all school districts having a population of less 
 than one thousand inhabitants, and not governed by any special 
 act in relation to free schools now in force, there shall be 
 elected in the manner hereinafter provided for, a board of di- 
 rectors to consist of three members. [As amended by an act 
 approved June 1, 1889. 
 
 2. The directors of each district are hereby declared a 
 body politic and corporate, by the name of "school directors of 
 
 District No , township No , range No , county 
 
 of , and State of Illinois," and by that name may 
 
 sue and be sued in all courts and places whatever. 
 
 3. Any person, male or female, married or single, of the 
 age of twenty-one years and upwards, who is a resident of the 
 school district, and who is able to read and write in the Eng- 
 lish language, shall be eligible to the office of school director: 
 Provided, that no person shall be eligible to the office of school 
 director who is at the time a member of the board of school 
 trustees. 
 
 4. If any director shall, during the term of his office, re- 
 move from the district in which he was elected, his office shall 
 
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 thereby become vacant and a new director shall be elected, as 
 in other cases of vacancy in office. 
 
 S 5. The annual election of school directors shall be on the 
 third Saturday of April, when one director shall be elected in 
 each district, who shall hold his office for three years, and until 
 his successor is elected. 
 
 S 6. In new districts, the first election of directors may be on 
 any Saturday, notice being given by the township treasurer, as 
 for the election of trustees, when three directors shall be elected, 
 who shall, at their first meeting, draw lots for their respective 
 terms of office, for one, two and three years. 
 
 ij 7. When vacancies occur, the remaining director or direct- 
 ors shall, without delay, order an election to fill such vacancies, 
 which election shall be held on Saturday. 
 
 >j s. Notices of all elections in organized districts shall be 
 given by the directors at least ten days previous to the day of 
 said election. Said notices shall be posted in at least three of 
 the most public ' places in the district, and shall specify the 
 place where such election is to be held, the time of opening and 
 closing OA the polls, and the question or questions to be voted on. 
 
 H. Should the directors fail or refuse to order any regular 
 or special election, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the 
 township treasurer to order such election, and if the township 
 treasurer fails to do so, then it shall be, the duty of the county 
 superintendent to order such election of directors within ten 
 days, in each case of such failure or refusal, and the election 
 held in pursuance of such order shall be valid, the same as if 
 ordered by the directors. 
 
 10. Two ol the directors ordering such election shall act as 
 judges, and one as clerk of such election. But if said directors 
 or any of them shall fail to order an election, to attend, or 
 shall refuse to ac\ when present, and in all unorganized districts 
 and in elections to fill vacancies, the legal voters when assem- 
 bled shall choose such additional members as may be necessary 
 to act as two judges and a clerk of said election: Provided, 
 that if upon the day appointed for said election, the said direct- 
 ors or judges shall te of opinion that, on account of the small 
 attendance of voters\ the public good requires it, or if the 
 voters present, or a majority of them, shall desire it, they shall 
 postpone said election until the next Saturday, at the same 
 place and hour, when tVe voters shall proceed as if it were not 
 an adjourned meeting: \And, provided, a/so, that if notice shall 
 not have been given as ^bove required, then said election shall 
 be ordered as aforesaid &id holden on any Saturday, notice 
 thereof being given, as aforesaid. 
 
 11. In case of a tie vo^e, the judges shall decide it by lot 
 on the day of the election. 
 
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 12. Within ten days after every election of directors, the 
 judges shall cause the poll-book to be delivered to the township 
 treasurer, with a certificate thereon showing the election of said 
 directors and the names of the persons elected; which poll-book 
 shall be filed by the township treasurer, and shall.be evidence 
 of said election. 
 
 13. In cases of a union district, made up of parts of two or 
 more townships, the poll-book shall be returned to the township 
 treasurer who receives the tax money for said district. 
 
 14. For a failure to deliver the poll-book within the time 
 prescribed, the judges shall be liable to a penalty of not less 
 than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dol- 
 lars ($100) to be recovered in the name of the People of the 
 State of Illinois, by action of assumpsit, before any justice of 
 the peace of the county, which penalty, when recovered, shall 
 be added to the township school fund of the township. 
 
 15. The directors, within ten days after the annual election 
 of the directors, shall meet and organize by appointing one of 
 their number president, and another of their number clerk of 
 such board of directors. 
 
 16. Two directors shall be a quorum for business. 
 
 17. The clerk of such board of directors shall keep a record 
 of all the official acts of the board in a well -bound book pro- 
 vided for that purpose, which record shall be signed by the presi- 
 dent and clerk, and shall be submitted to the township treasurer 
 for his inspection and approval on the first Mondays of April 
 and October, and at such other times as the township treasurer 
 may require. 
 
 18. The board of directors shall hold regular meetings at 
 such times as they may designate; and* they may hold special 
 meetings as occasion may require, at the call of the president 
 or any two members. 
 
 19. No official business shall be transacted by the board 
 except at a regular or special meeting. 
 
 20. If the president or clerk be absent from any meeting, 
 or, being present, refuses to perform his official duties, a presi- 
 dent or clerk pro tempore shall be appointed. 
 
 21. The clerk of each board of school directors shall report 
 to the township treasurer or treasurers of the proper township 
 or townships, immediately after the organization of the board, 
 the names of the president and clerk of such board. 
 
 22. On or before the seventh 'lay of July, annually, the 
 clerk of each board of directors shall report to the township 
 treasurer having the custody of the funds of such district, such 
 statistics and other information in relation to the schools of his 
 respective district as the township treasurer is required to em- 
 body in his report to the county superintendent, and the par- 
 ticular statistics to be so reported shall be determined and des- 
 
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 ignated by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, or 
 by the county superintendent. 
 
 23. No director shall be interested in any contract made 
 by the board of which he is a member. 
 
 24. No director shall be interested in the sale, proceeds or 
 profits of any book, apparatus or furniture used or to be used 
 in any school in this State with which he may be connected. 
 
 $ 25. Any person offending against the provisions of the two 
 preceding sections shall be liable to indictment, and, upon con- 
 viction, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty -five dol- 
 lars ($25) and not more than five hundred dollars ($500), and 
 may be imprisoned in the county jail not less than one nor 
 more than twelve months, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 26. It shall be the duty of the board of directors of each 
 district 
 
 First At the annual election of directors to make a detailed 
 report of their receipts and expenditures to the voters there 
 present, and transmit a copy of such report to the township 
 treasurer within five days from the time of said election. 
 
 Second To report to the county superintendent, within ten 
 days after their employment, the full names of all persons 
 employed as teachers, the date of the beginning and the end 
 of their contract. 
 
 Third To provide for the necessary revenue to maintain free 
 schools in their district in the manner provided for in article 
 VIII of this act. 
 
 Fourth When a district is composed of parts of two or more 
 townships, the directors shall determine and inform the collec- 
 tors of said townships, and the collector or collectors of the 
 county or counties in which said townships lie, in writing, 
 under their hands as directors, which of the treasurers of the 
 townships from w T hich their district is formed shall demand 
 and receive the tax money collected by the said collector as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 FiflhTo establish and keep in operation for at least one 
 hundred and ten (110) days of actual teaching, in each year, 
 without reduction by reason of closing schools on legal holi- 
 days, or for any other cause, and longer if practicable, a suffi- 
 cient number of free schools for the accommodation of all chil- 
 dren in the district over the age of six (6) and under twenty- 
 one (21) years, and shall secure for all such children the right 
 and opportunity to an equal education in such free schools. 
 
 Sixih To adopt and enforce all necessary rules and regula- 
 tions for the management and government of the schools. 
 
 Seventh To visit and inspect the schools from time to time 
 as the good of the schools may require. 
 
 E'(jkfh To appoint all teachers and fix the amount of their 
 salaries. 
 
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 Ninth The directors shall direct what branches of study shall 
 be taught, and what text books and apparatus shall be used 
 in the several schools, and strictly enforce uniformity of text 
 books therein, but shall not permit text books to be changed 
 oftener than once in four years, but shall prohibit such change.* 
 
 Tenth The directors shall have power to purchase, at the 
 expense of the district, a sufficient number of the text books 
 used to supply children whose parents are not able to buy 
 them. The text books bought for such purpose shall be loaned 
 only, and the directors shall require the teacher to see that 
 they are properly cared for and returned at the end of each 
 term of school. 
 
 Eleventh The directors shall, on or before the seventh day 
 of July, annually, deliver to the township treasurer, all teach- 
 ers' schedules made and certified as required by the provisions 
 of article VII of this act, covering all time taught during the 
 school year, ending June 30th, and the directors shall be per- 
 sonally liable to the district for any loss sustained by it, 
 through the failure of the directors to examine and so deliver 
 such schedules within the time fixed by law. 
 
 Twelfth The directors shall not pay out any public money 
 to any teacher unless such teacher shall, at the time of his or 
 her employment, hold a certificate of qualification, obtained 
 under the provisions of this act, covering the entire period of 
 his or her employment. 
 
 Thirteenth -The directors shall not pay any public funds to 
 any teacher unless such teacher shall have kept and furnished 
 schedules as required by this act, and shall have satisfactorily 
 accounted for books, apparatus and other property of the dis- 
 trict that he may have taken in charge. 
 
 Fourteenth The directors shall pay teachers' wages monthly. 
 Upon the receipt of schedules, properly certified, the directors 
 shall at once make out and deliver to the teacher an order 
 upon the township treasurer for the amount named in the 
 schedule; which order shall state the rate at which the teacher 
 is paid according to his contract, the limits of time for which 
 the order pays, and that the directors have duly certified a 
 schedule covering this time. But it shall not be lawful for the 
 directors to draw an order until they have duly certified to the 
 schedule; nor shall it be lawful for the directors, after the 
 date of filing schedules as fixed by law T , to certify any schedule 
 not delivered to them before that date by the teacher, when 
 such schedule is for time taught before the first of July pre- 
 ceding, nor to give an order in payment of the teacher's wages 
 for the time covered by such delinquent schedule. 
 
 Fifteenth At the annual election of directors, the directors 
 shall cause a copy of the township treasurer's report of the 
 
 * See act concerning alcohol and nanoricc, approved June 1. 1889. 
 
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 financial condition of the district, provided by law, to be posted 
 upon the front door of the building where such annual election 
 is held. 
 
 27. The board of school directors shall be clothed with the 
 following additional powers: 
 
 First To use any funds belonging to their district, and not 
 otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of a suitable book for 
 their records. And the said records shall be kept in a punctual, 
 orderly and reliable manner. 
 
 Second Said directors may, where they deem the amount of 
 labor done sufficient to justify it, allow the clerk of such board 
 of directors, out of any fund not otherwise appropriated, com- 
 pensation for duties actually performed. 
 
 Third They shall have the power to dismiss a teacher for incom- 
 petency, cruelty, negligence, immorality or other sufficient cause. 
 
 Fourth They shall have power to assign pupils to the several 
 schools in the district; to admit non-residents when it can be 
 done without prejudice to the rights of resident pupils; to fix 
 rates of tuition; collect and pay the same to the township! treas- 
 urer for the use of said district. 
 
 Fifth They may suspend or expel pupils who may be guilty 
 of gross disobedience or misconduct, and no action shall lie 
 against them for sucn expulsion or suspension. 
 
 Sixth They may provide that children under twelve (12) 
 years of age shall not be confined in school more than four 
 hours daily. 
 
 Seventh They may appropriate, for the purchase of libraries 
 and apparatus, any school funds remaining after all necessary 
 school expenses are paid. 
 
 Eighth When any school district owns any personal property 
 not needed for school purposes, the directors of such district 
 may sell sucn property at public or private sale, as in their 
 judgment will be for the best interest of the district, and the pro- 
 ceeds of such sale shall be paid over to the treasurer of such 
 district, for the benefit of said school district. 
 
 Ninth They may grant special holidays whenever in their 
 judgment such action is advisable: Provided, no teacher shall 
 be required to make up the time lost by the granting of such 
 holidays. 
 
 Tenth They shall have the control and supervision of all school 
 houses in their district, and may grant the temporary use of 
 school houses when not occupied by schools, for religious meet- 
 ings and Sunday schools, for evening schools and literary 
 societies, and for such other meetings as the directors may deem 
 proper. 
 
 Eleventh They shall have power to decide when the school 
 house site, or the school buildings have become unnecessary, or 
 unsuitable, or inconvenient for a school. 
 
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 Twelfth They may borrow money, and issue bonds therefor, 
 ior building school houses, purchasing sites, repairing and im- 
 proving school houses, in the way and manner provided for by 
 article IX of this act. 
 
 28. The school directors shall draw no order or warrant 
 payable on demand upon the township treasurer or against 
 any fund in his hands, unless at the time of drawing such order 
 or warrant there are sufficient funds in his hands to pay the 
 amount of the same: Provided, this section shall not apply to 
 orders issued to teachers for their wages. 
 
 29. Whenever there is no money in the treasury of any 
 school district to meet and defray the ordinary and necessary 
 expenses thereof, it shall be lawful for the board of directors to 
 provide that all orders or warrants may be drawn and issued 
 :against and in anticipation of the collection of any taxes already 
 levied by said directors for the payment of the ordinary and 
 necessary expenses of any such district, to the extent of seventy - 
 five per centum of the total amount of said tax levy: Provided, 
 that warrants drawn and issued under the provisions of this 
 section shall show upon their face that they are payable solely 
 from said taxes when collected, and not otherwise, and such 
 warrants shall be received by any collector of taxes in payment 
 of the taxes against which they are issued, and which taxes 
 against which said warrants or orders are drawn shall be set 
 apart and held for their payment. 
 
 30. The school directors shall be liable as directors for the 
 balance due teachers, and for all debts legally contracted. 
 
 31. It shall not be lawful for a board of directors to pur- 
 chase or locate a school-house site, or to purchase, build or 
 move a school house, or to levy a tax to extend schools be- 
 yond nine months without a vote of the people at an election 
 called and conducted as required by section 4 of article IX QJ 
 this act. A majority of the votes cast shall be necessary to 
 authorize the directors to act: Provided, that if no one locality 
 shall receive a majority of all the votes cast at such election, 
 the directors may, if in their judgement the public interest re- 
 site; so chosen by them shall, in such case, be legal and valid, 
 the same as if it had been determined by a majority of the 
 votes cast; and the site so selected by either of the methods 
 above provided shall be the school- house site for such district; 
 and said district shall have the right to take the same for the 
 purpose of a school -house site either with or without the own- 
 er's consent, by condemnation or otherwise. 
 
 32. In case the compensation to be paid for the school- 
 house site mentioned in the preceding section cannot for any 
 reason be agreed upon or determined between the school di- 
 rectors and the parties interested in the land taken for such 
 
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 site, then it shall be the duty of the directors of such district 
 to proceed to have such compensation determined in the man- 
 ner which may be at the time provided by law for the exercise 
 of the right of eminent domain: Provided, that no tract of 
 land lying outside of the limits of any incorporated city or 
 village, and lying within forty rods of the dwelling house of 
 the owner of the land, shall be taken for a school site without 
 the owner's consent. 
 
 33. Any director willfully failing to perform his duties as 
 director under this act, may be removed by the county superin- 
 tendent, and a new election ordered, as in other cases of vacan- 
 cies. 
 
 $ 34. All funds belonging to any school district, and coming 
 from any source, shall be paid out only on order of the board 
 of directors, signed by the president and clerk of said board, or 
 by a majority of said board. In all such orders shall be stated 
 the purpose for which or on what account such order was 
 drawn. Such order may be in the following form: 
 
 The treasurer of township No , range No , in 
 
 county, will pay to or bearer, dollars and 
 
 cents," (on his contract for repairing school house, or whatever the pur- 
 pose may be). By order of the board of directors of school district No. 
 , in said township. 
 
 A 
 
 C 
 
 35. Pupils shall not be transferred * 
 another without the written c<^~ 
 rectors of each district. ^ Tr1 ' 
 to and filed witv* ^ 
 evidence - " 
 
 -v^u. is in the 
 ^^nool is taught, the 
 separate schedules to 
 ,viio shall credit the district in which 
 and charge the other district with the 
 r Amounts certified in said separate schedules to be due. 
 . pupils are transferred from a district of another township, the 
 schedule for that district shall be delivered to the directors 
 thereof, who shall immediately draw an order on their treasurer 
 in favor of the treasurer of the township in which the school 
 was taught for the amount certified to be due in said separate 
 schedule. 
 
 36. When a school is composed in part of pupils trans- 
 ferred, as provided for in the preceding section, from other 
 townships, the duty of collecting the amount due on account of 
 such pupils shall devolve upon the directors of the district in 
 which the school was taught. 
 
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 Twelfth They may borrow money, and issue bonds therefor, 
 ior building school houses, purchasing sites, repairing and im- 
 proving school houses, in the way and manner provided for by 
 article IX of this act. 
 
 28. The school directors shall draw no order or warrant 
 payable on demand upon the township treasurer or against 
 any fund in his hands, unless at the time of drawing such order 
 or warrant there are sufficient funds in his hands to pay the 
 amount of the same: Provided, this section shall not apply to 
 orders issued to teachers for their wages. 
 
 29. Whenever there is no money in the treasury of any 
 school district to meet and defray the ordinary and necessary 
 expenses thereof, it shall be lawful for the board of directors to 
 provide that all orders or warrants may be drawn and issued 
 against and in anticipation of the collection of any taxes already 
 levied by said directors for the payment of the ordinary and 
 necessary expenses of any such district, to the extent of seventy - 
 five per centum of the total amount of said tax levy: Provided, 
 that warrants drawn and issued under the provisions of this 
 section shall show upon their face that they are payable solely 
 from said taxes when collected, and not otherwise, and such 
 warrants shall be received by any collector of taxes in payment 
 of the taxes against which they are issued, and which taxes 
 against which said warrants or orders are drawn shall be set 
 apart and held for their payment. 
 
 30. The school directors shall be liable as directors for the 
 balance due teachers, and for all debts legally contracted. 
 
 31. It shall not be lawful for a board of directors to pur- 
 chase or locate a school-house site, or to purchase, build or 
 move a school house, or to levy a tax to extend schools be- 
 yond nine months without a vote of the people at an election 
 
 ERRATUM. 
 
 On page 46, Sec. 81, Art. V., insert the following line between lines nine and ten: 
 
 "quires it, proceed to select a suitable school house site; and the' 
 
 ana saia district shall have the right to take the same for the 
 purpose of a school-house site either with or without the own- 
 er's consent, by condemnation or otherwise. 
 
 32. In case the compensation to be paid for the school- 
 house site mentioned in the preceding section cannot for any 
 reason be agreed upon or determined between the school di- 
 rectors and the parties interested in the land taken for such 
 
47 
 
 site, then it shall be the duty of the directors of such district 
 to proceed to have such compensation determined in the man- 
 ner which may be at the time provided by law for the exercise 
 of the right of eminent domain: Provided, that no tract of 
 land lying outside of the limits of any incorporated city or 
 village, and lying within forty rods of the dwelling house of 
 the owner of the land, shall be taken for a school site without 
 the owner's consent. 
 
 S 33. Any director willfully failing to perform his duties as 
 director under this act, may be removed by the county superin- 
 tendent, and a new election ordered, as in other cases of vacan- 
 cies. 
 
 S 34. All funds belonging to any school district, and coming 
 from any source, shall be paid out only on order of the board 
 of directors, signed by the president and clerk of said board, or 
 by a majority of said board. In all such orders shall be stated 
 the purpose for which or on what account such order was 
 drawn. Such order may be in the following form: 
 
 The treasurer of township No , range No , in 
 
 county, will pay to or bearer, dollars and 
 
 cents, (on his contract for repairing school house, or whatever the pur- 
 pose may be). By order of the board of directors of school district No. 
 , in said township. 
 
 A B , President. 
 
 C D , Clerk. 
 
 $ 35. Pupils shall not be transferred from one district to 
 another without the written consent of a majority of the di- 
 rectors of each district, which written consent shall be delivered 
 to and tiled with the proper township treasurer, and shall be 
 evidence of such consent. A separate schedule shall be kept for 
 each district, and in each schedule shall be certified the proper 
 amount due the teacher from that district, computed upon the 
 basis of the total number of days' attendance of all schedules. 
 If the district from which the pupils are transferred is in the 
 same township as the district in which the school is taught, the 
 directors of said district shall deliver the separate schedules to 
 their township treasurer, who shall credit the district in which 
 the school was taught, and charge the other district with the 
 respective amounts certified in said separate schedules to be due. 
 If pupils are transferred from a district of another township, the 
 schedule for that district shall be delivered to the directors 
 thereof, who shall immediately draw an order on their treasurer 
 in favor of the treasurer of the township in which the school 
 was taught for the amount certified to be due in said separate 
 schedule. 
 
 36. When a school is composed in part of pupils trans- 
 ferred, as provided for in the preceding section, from other 
 townships, the duty of collecting the amount due on account of 
 such pupils shall devolve upon the directors of the district in 
 which the school was taught. 
 
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 ARTICLE VI. 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 17. Number of members in board of educa- 
 cation of citie having over 100,000 in- 
 habitants, and manner of their appoint- 
 ment. 
 
 18. Eligibility to membership in boards of 
 education in such cities. 
 
 19. Organization; employes of the board; 
 term, etc.. 
 
 20. Records; yeas and nays. 
 
 21. Powers, with concurrence of city council J 
 defined. 
 
 22. Other powers defined. 
 
 23. Duties defined. 
 
 24. Business to be done at a regular meet- 
 ing. 
 
 25. Conveyances of real estate made to city 
 in trust. 
 
 26. School moneys held by city treasurer. 
 
 27. City not liable for excess of expenditures; 
 board not authorized to tax. 
 
 28. Powers of board not to be exercised by 
 city council. 
 
 1. Cities and villages. 
 
 2. Boards of education in all districts not 
 less than 1,000 inhabitants; number of 
 members. 
 
 3. President of the board. 
 
 <5 4. Duties and powers of the president. 
 
 is 5. Annual election of members ; term of of- 
 fice. 
 
 6. Notice of election ; form of notice. 
 
 *$ 7. Election on any Saturday. 
 
 8. Conduct of election. 
 
 9. Election of members of board of educa- 
 tion to succeed directors. 
 
 10. Powers and duties of the board defined. 
 
 8.11. Yeas and nays. 
 
 12. Business to be done at a regular or spe- 
 cial meeting. 
 
 13. . Conveyances "of real estate; how made. 
 
 14. School moneys in charge of township 
 treasurer. 
 
 15. Special acts may be relinquished; manner 
 of change and form of notice. 
 
 16. Redistricting under this act; election of 
 school boards. 
 
 SECTION 1. Incorporated cities and villages, except such as 
 now have charge and control of free schools by special acts, 
 sliall be and remain parts of the school townships in which 
 they are respectively situated, and be subject to the general 
 provisions of the school law, except as otherwise provided in 
 this article. 
 
 2. In all school districts having a population of not less 
 than one thousand and not over one hundred thousand inhabit- 
 ants, and not governed by any special act in relation to free 
 schools now in force, there shall be elected, instead of the direct- 
 ors provided by law in other districts, a board of education, 
 to consist of a president of the board of "education, six members, 
 and three additional members for every additional ten thousand 
 inhabitants. Whenever additional members of such board o2 
 education are to be elected by reason of increased population of 
 such district, such members shall be elected on the third Satur- 
 day of April succeeding the ascertaining of such increase by 
 any general or special census, and the notice of such election 
 shall designate the term for which the members are to be elected, 
 so that one-third of the board shall be elected for each year: 
 Provided, that in no case shall said board consist of more than 
 fifteen members. 
 
 3. The president of said board of education shall be elected 
 annually, at the same time the members of the board of educa- 
 tion are elected, and he shall hold his office for the term of 
 one year, and until his successor is elected and qualified. 
 
 4. The president of the board of education so elected shall 
 preside at all meetings of said board, and shall give the cast- 
 ing vote in case of a tie between the members thereof; but other- 
 wise he shall not have a vote. He shall sign all orders for the 
 
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 payment of money ordered by said board, and generally per- 
 form such duties as are imposed by law upon presidents of 
 boards of directors, or that may be imposed upon him by said 
 board of education, not in conflict with law: Provided, that in 
 the absence or inability to act as said president, said board 
 may appoint a president pro 1 em pore from their number. 
 
 g 5. The annual election of members of the board of edu- 
 cation shall be on the third Saturday in April, when one-third 
 of the members shall be elected for three years, and until their 
 successors are elected and qualified. 
 
 6. Notice of such election shall be given by the board of 
 education at least ten days previous to such election by post- 
 ing notices in at least three of the most public places in said 
 district, which shall specify the place where such election is 
 to be held, the time of opening and closing the polls and the 
 purpose for which such election is held, which notice may be 
 in the following form, to- wit: 
 
 Public notice is hereby given, that on Saturday, the day of April 
 
 A. D , an election will be held at , between the 
 
 hours of and of said day, for the purpose of electing 1 a presi- 
 dent of the board of education of district No township No , 
 
 range No , and members of the board of education of said 
 
 district. 
 
 Dated this day of , A. D 
 
 A B , President. 
 
 C D , Clerk. 
 
 $7. In case of a failure to give the notice above provided 
 for, such election may be held on any Saturday after such 
 notice has been give as aforesaid. 
 
 S s. Such election shall be conducted in the same manner, 
 and be governed by the provisions of this act relating to the 
 election of boards of directors, except as otherwise provided 
 by law. 
 
 l .. At the first election of directors succeeding the passage 
 of this act, in any district having a population of not less than 
 one thousand (1,000) inhabitants by the census of 1880, and 
 in such other districts as may hereafter be ascertained by any 
 special or general census to have a population of not less 
 than one thousand (1,000) inhabitants, at the first election of 
 directors occurring after taking such special or general census, 
 there shall be elected a board of education, who shall be the 
 successors of the directors of the district; and all rights of 
 property and all rights or causes of action existing or vested 
 in such directors, shall vest in said board of education, in as 
 full and complete a manner as was vested in the school direc- 
 tors. Such board,' at its first meeting, shall fix, by lot, the 
 terms of office of its members, so that one-third of them shall 
 serve for one year, one-third for two years, and one-third for 
 three years, and thereafter one- third shall be elected annually 
 on the third Saturday in April, to fill the vacancies occurring, 
 and to serve for the term of three years. 
 
 S. 
 
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 10. The board of education shall have all the powers of 
 school directors: and, in addition thereto and inclusive thereof, 
 they shall have the power and it shall be their duty 
 
 First To establish and support free schools not less than 
 six nor more than ten months in each year. 
 
 Second To repair and improve school houses, and furnish 
 them with the necessary fixtures, furniture, apparatus, libraries 
 and fuel. 
 
 Third To examine teachers as supplemental to any other ex- 
 amination, to employ teachers and to fix the amount of their 
 salaries. [As amended by act approved June 19, 1893. 
 
 Fourth To establish schools of different grades, and make 
 regulations for the admission of pupils into the same. 
 
 Fifth To buy or lease sites for school houses, with the nec- 
 essary grounds: Provided, it shall not be lawful for such board 
 of education to purchase or locate a school house site, or to 
 purchase, build or move a school house, unless authorized by 
 a majority of all voters voting at an election called for such 
 purpose in pursuance of a petition signed by not less than 
 five hundred (500) legal voters of such district, or by one -fifth 
 of all the legal voters of such district. 
 
 Sixth To levy a tax, annually, upon the taxable property of 
 the district, in the manner provided in article VIII of this act, 
 for the purpose of supporting and maintaining free schools in 
 accordance with the powers herein conferred: Provided, that 
 it shall not be lawful for such board of education to levy a tax 
 to extend schools beyond a period of ten months in each year, 
 except upon petition of a majority of the voters of the district: 
 And provided, further, that all taxes shall be levied under the 
 limitations relating to the percentage of the assessment, as 
 provided by section 1, article VIII of this act. 
 
 Seventh To employ, should they deem it expedient, a com- 
 petent and discreet person or persons as superintendent or 
 superintendents of schools, and fix and pay a proper salary or 
 salaries therefor, and such superintendent may be required to 
 act as principal or teacher in such schools. 
 
 Eighth To lay off and divide the district into sub-districts, 
 and from time to time alter the same, create new ones and 
 consolidate them. 
 
 Ninth To visit all the public schools as often as once a 
 month to inquire into the progress of scholars and the govern- 
 ment of the schools. 
 
 Tenth To prescribe the method and course of discipline and 
 instruction in the respective schools, and to see that they are 
 maintained and pursued in the proper manner. * 
 
 Eleventh To expel any pupil who may be guilty of gross 
 disobedience or misconduct. No action shall lie against them 
 for such expulsion. 
 
 * See act concerning alcohol and narcotics, approved Jane 1, 1889. 
 
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 Twelfth To dismiss and remove any teacher, whenever, in 
 their opinion, he or she is not qualified to teach, or whenever, 
 from any cause, the interests of the schools may, in their 
 opinion, require such removal or dismissal. 
 
 Thirteenth 'To apportion the scholars to the several schools. 
 
 Fourteenth To establish and promulgate all such by-laws, 
 rules and regulations for the government and the establish- 
 ment and maintenance of a proper and uniform system of dis- 
 cipline in the several schools, as may, in their opinion, be necessary. 
 
 Fifteenth To take charge of the school houses, furniture, 
 grounds and other property belonging to the district, and see 
 that the same are kept in good condition, and not suffered to 
 be unnecessarily injured or deteriorated. 
 
 Sixteenth 'To provide fuel and such other necessaries for the 
 schools as, in their opinion, may be required in the school 
 houses, or other property belonging to or under the control 
 of the district. 
 
 Seventeenth To appoint a secretary and provide well bound 
 books at the expense of the school tax fund, in which shall 
 be kept a faithful record of all their proceedings. 
 
 Eighteenth To annually prepare and publish in some news- 
 paper, or in pamphlet form, a report of the number of pupils 
 instructed in the year preceding, the several branches of study 
 pursued by them, of the number of persons between the ages 
 of twelve and twenty-one unable to read and write, and the 
 receipts and expenditures of each school, specifying the source 
 of such receipts and the objects of such expenditures. 
 
 11. In all questions involving the expenditure of money, 
 the yeas and nays shall be taken and entered on the records 
 of the proceedings of the board. 
 
 12. None of the powers herein conferred upon boards of 
 education shall be exercised by them, except at a regular or 
 special meeting of the board. 
 
 13. All conveyances of real estate shall be made to the 
 township trustees in trust for the use of schools, and no con- 
 veyance of any real estate or interest therein used for school 
 purposes, or held in trust for schools, shall be made, except 
 by the board of trustees, upon the written request of such 
 board of education. 
 
 S 14. All money raised by taxation for school purposes, or 
 received from the State common school fund, or from any other 
 source, for school purposes, shall be held by the township 
 treasurer as a special fund for school purposes, subject to the 
 order of the board of education, upon warrants signed by the 
 president and secretary thereof. 
 
 15. Any city, incorporated town, township or district in 
 which free schools are now managed under any special act, 
 may, by vote of its electors, cease to control such schools under 
 
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 such special act, and become part of the school township in 
 which it is situated, and subject to the control of the trustees 
 thereof, under and according to the provisions of this act. 
 
 Upon petition of fifty voters of such city, town, township or 
 district, presented to the board having control and manage- 
 ment of schools in such city, town, township or district, it shall 
 be the duty of such board, at the next ensuing election to be 
 held in such city, town or township or district, to cause to be 
 submitted to the voters thereof, giving not less than fifteen 
 days' notice thereof, by posting not less than five notices in the 
 most public places in such city, town, township or district, 
 the question of "Organization under the Free School Law;" 
 which notice may be in the following form, to- wit: 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that on the day of A. D. 
 
 an election will be held at , between the hours of 
 
 M. and M. of said day, for the purpose of deciding the ques- 
 tion of "Organization under the Free School Law." 
 
 16. If it shall appear, on a convass of the returns of such 
 election, that a majority of the votes cast at such election are 
 "For Organization under the Free School Law," then at the next 
 ensuing regular meeting of the board of trustees of the town- 
 ship or townships in which such city, incorporated town, town 
 ship or district is situated, said trustees shall proceed to re- 
 district the township or townships as aforesaid, in such manner 
 as shall suit the wishes and convenience of a majority of the 
 inhabitants in x their respective townships, and to make a divi- 
 sion of funds and other property in the manner provided for 
 by section 63 of article III of this act, and on any Saturday 
 thereafter there shall be elected, in each of the new districts 
 so formed, a director, directors or board of education, as the 
 case may be, in the manner provided for in section 6 of article 
 V of this act. and thereafter such districts shall proceed as 
 other districts under this act; but all subsequent elections of 
 directors or boards of education shall be conducted as provided 
 in sections 5 and 8 of article V of this act. * 
 
 17. In cities having a population exceeding one hundred 
 thousand inhabitants, from and after this act shall take effect, 
 the board of education shall consist of twenty-one members, 
 to be appointed by the mayor, by and with the advice and con- 
 sent of the common council, seven of whom shall be appointed 
 for the term of one year, seven for the term of two years, 
 and seven for the term of three years: Provided, however, that 
 in such cities wherein there is now a board of education, hold- 
 ing their office by appointment, such officers shall continue in 
 office until the time at which their terms would have expired 
 under the law in force at the time of their appointment. At 
 the expiration of the term of any members of said board, their 
 successors shall be appointed in like manner and shall hold 
 their office for the term of three years. Any vacancy which 
 may occur shall be filled by the appointment of the mayor, 
 
 * See further provision in act approved June 2, 1891. 
 
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 with the approval of the common council, for the unexpired 
 term: And, provided, further, that from and after this act shall 
 take effect there shall be appointed by the mayor, by and with 
 the advice and consent of the common council, six members, 
 two of whom shall be appointed for the term of one year, two 
 for the term of two years, and two for the term of three years. 
 [As amended by act approved June 22, 1891. 
 
 is. Any person having resided in any such city more than 
 five years next preceding his appointment, shall be eligible to 
 membership of such board of education. 
 
 19. The said board of education shall appoint a president 
 and secretary, the president to be appointed from their own 
 number, and shall appoint such other officers and employes as 
 such board shall deem necessary, and shall prescribe their duties 
 and compensation and terms of office. 
 
 >j 20. The said board shall provide well-bound books, at the 
 expense of the school tax fund, in w r hich shall be kept a faithful 
 record of all their proceedings. The yeas and nays shall be 
 taken and entered on the records of the proceedings of the 
 board upon all questions involving the expenditure of money. 
 
 21. The said board of education shall have charge and con- 
 trol of the public schools in such citie.s, and shall have power, 
 with the concurrence of the city council 
 
 First To erect or purchase buildings suitable for school - 
 houses, and keep the same in repair. 
 
 Second To buy or lease sites for school-houses, with the nec- 
 essary grounds. 
 
 Third To issue bonds for the purpose of building, furnishing 
 and repairing school houses, for purchasing sites for the same, 
 and to provide for the payment of said bonds; to borrow 
 money for school purposes upon the credit of the city. 
 
 22. The said board of education shall have power 
 
 First To furnish schools with the necessary fixtures, furni- 
 ture and apparatus. 
 
 Second To maintain, support and establish schools, and sup- 
 ply the inadequacy of the school funds for the salaries of school 
 teachers from school taxes. 
 
 Third To hire buildings or rooms for the use of the board. 
 Fourth To hire buildings or rooms for the use of schools. 
 
 Fifth To employ teachers and fix the amount of their com- 
 pensation. 
 
 Sixth To prescribe the school books to be used, and the 
 studies in the different schools.* 
 
 Seventh To lay off and divide the city into school districts, 
 and from time to time to alter the same and create new ones, 
 as circumstances may require, and generally to have and pos- 
 
 8ee act concerning alcohol and narcotics, approved June 1, 18s9. 
 
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 sess all the rights, powers and authority required for the proper 
 management of schools, with power to enact such ordinances 
 as may be deemed necessary and expedient for such purpose. 
 
 Eighth To expel any pupil who may be guilty of gross dis- 
 obedience or misconduct. 
 
 Ninth To dismiss and remove any teacher whenever, in their 
 opinion, he or she is not qualified to teach, or whenever, from 
 any cause, the interests of the school may, in their opinion, re- 
 quire such removal or dismission. 
 
 Tenth To apportion the scholars to the several schools. 
 
 Eleventh To lease school property, and to loan moneys be- 
 longing to the school fund. 
 
 23. It shall be the duty of such board of education 
 
 First To take the entire superintendence and control of the 
 schools in such cities. 
 
 Second To examine all persons offering themselves as can- 
 didates for teachers, and when found well qualified, to give 
 them certificates gratuitously. 
 
 Third To visit all the public schools as often as once a month. 
 
 Fourth To establish all such by-laws, rules and regulations 
 for the government and for the establishment and maintenance 
 of a proper and uniform system of discipline in the several 
 schools as may, in their opinion, be necessary. 
 
 Fifth To determine from time to time, how many and what 
 class of teachers may be employed in each of the public schools, 
 and employ such teachers and fix their compensation. 
 
 Sixth To take charge of the school-houses, furniture, grounds 
 and other property belonging to the school districts, and see 
 that the same are kept in good condition, and not suffered to 
 be unnecessarily injured or deteriorated. 
 
 Seventh To provide fuel and such other necessaries for the 
 schools as, in their opinion, may be required in the school 
 houses, or other property belonging to the said districts. 
 
 Eighth To inquire into the progress of scholars and the 
 government of the schools. 
 
 Ninth To prescribe the method and course of discipline and 
 instruction in the respective schools, and to see that they are 
 maintained and pursued in the proper manner. 
 
 Tenth To prescribe what studies shall be taught, and what 
 books and apparatus shall be used. 
 
 Eleventh To report to the city council, from time to time, 
 any suggestions they may deem expedient or requisite in rela- 
 tion to the schools and the school fund, or the management 
 thereof, and generally to recommend the establishment of new 
 schools and districts. 
 
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 Twelfth To prepare and publish an annual report, which 
 shall include the receipts and expenditures of each school, speci- 
 fying the source of such receipts and the object of such expendi- 
 tures. 
 
 Thirteenth To communicate to the city council, from time to 
 time, such information within their possession as may be re- 
 quired. 
 
 -4. None of the powers herein conferred upon the board of 
 education of such cities shall be exercised by them except at a 
 regular meeting of such board. 
 
 $ 25. All conveyances of real estate shall be made to the city 
 in trust, for the use of schools, and no sale of real estate or 
 interest therein, used for school purposes, or held in trust for 
 schools, shall be made except by the city council, upon the writ- 
 ten request of such board of education. 
 
 g 26. All moneys raised by taxation for school purposes or 
 received from the State common school fund, or from any other 
 source for school purposes, shall be held by the city treasurer as 
 a special fund for school purposes, subject to the order of the 
 board of education, upon warrants to be countersigned by the 
 mayor and city clerk. 
 
 5 27. Said board of education shall not add to the expendi- 
 tures for school purposes anything over and above the amount 
 that shall be received from the State common school fund, the 
 rental of school lands or property, and the amount annually 
 appropriated for such purposes. If said board shall so add to 
 such expenditure the city shall not, in jny case, be liable 
 therefor. And nothing herein contained shall be construed so 
 as to authorize any such board of education to levy or collect 
 any tax upon the demand, or under the direction of such board 
 of education. 
 
 28. All schools in such cities shall be governed as herein- 
 before stated, and no power given to the board of education 
 
 shall be exercised by the city council of such city. 
 
 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 1. Age and qualifications; graduates of 
 
 county normal schools, 
 
 2. State certificates. 
 
 3. First and second grade certificates; sub- 
 
 jects for examination: renewal and revo- 
 cation; form of certificate. 
 
 4. Uncord by county superintendent. 
 
 5. Hunt have a certificate. 
 
 6. Subjects to be taught. 
 
 7. Examinations by county superintendent. 
 
 8. frwe to be charged. 
 
 9. Moneys thus received paid to county 
 
 treasurer. 
 
 10. Annual institute. 
 
 I 11. No deduction of wages when attending 
 institutes held on t>chool days. 
 
 12. Responsible for the property of the dis- 
 trict. 
 
 13. Must keep registers; form of register. 
 
 14. Schedule?, or statements of attendance to 
 be made; form of schedule. 
 
 15. Schedules to be delivered to directors; 
 certificate of directors. 
 
 16. Teacher's wages payable monthly; un- 
 oaid orders to draw interest. 
 
 18. School month; holidays. 
 
 SECTION 1. No teacher shall be authorized to teach a common 
 school under the provisions of this act who is not of good moral 
 
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 character, at least eighteen years. of age, if a male, or seventeen 
 years of age, if a female, and who does not possess a certificate 
 of qualifications as hereinafter provided for : Provided, that in 
 any county in which a county normal school is established, un- 
 der the control of a county board of education, the diplomas 
 of graduates in said normal school shall, when directed by said 
 board, be taken by the county superintendent as sufficient evi- 
 dence of qualification to entitle the holder to a first grade cer- 
 tificate; but such diplomas shall not be sufficient after two years 
 from such graduation. 
 
 2. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction is hereby 
 authorized to grant State certificates to such teachers as may 
 be found worthy to receive them; such certificates shall be of 
 two grades, and both shall be valid in every county and school dis- 
 trict in the State. The higher grade shall be valid during the 
 lifetime of the holder, and the -lower grade shall be valid for 
 five years. But State certificates shall only be granted upon 
 public examination, of which due notice shall be given, in such 
 branches and upon such terms and by such examiners as the 
 State Superintendent and the principals of the State universities 
 may prescribe. Said certificates may be revoked by the State 
 Superintendent upon proof of immoral or unprofessional con- 
 duct.* [As amended by an act approved April 28, 1893. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to 
 grant certificates to such persons as may, upon due examina- 
 tion, be found qualified. Said certificates shall be of two grades: 
 those of the first grade shall be valid in the county for two 
 years, and shall certify that the person to whom such certifi- 
 cate is given is of 4 good moral character, and is qualified to 
 teach orthography, reading in English, penmanship, arithmetic, 
 English grammar, modern geography, the elements of the 
 natural sciences, the history of the United States, physiology 
 and the laws of health. Certificates of the second grade shall 
 be valid for one year, and shall certify that the person to whom 
 such certificate is given is of good moral character, and is quali- 
 fied to teach orthography, reading in c English, penmanship, 
 arithmetic, English grammar, modern geography, and the his- 
 tory of the United States:* Provided, that teachers exclusively 
 teaching music, drawing, penmanship, book-keeping, German 
 or any other special study shall not be required to be examined 
 except in reference to such special study; and, in such cases, it 
 shall not be lawful to employ such teachers to teach any branch 
 of study except such as they have been examined upon and 
 which shall be stated in the certificate. The county superin- 
 ten(Jent may, in his option, renew said certificates at their ex- 
 piration by his endorsement thereon, and may revoke the same 
 at any time for immorality, incompetency, or other just cause. 
 Said certificates may be in the following form, viz. : 
 
 * See act concerning alcohol and narcotics, approved June 1, 1889. 
 
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 . .... Illinois, A. D 
 
 The undersigned, having examined in orthography, reading' 
 
 in English, penmanship, arithmetic, English grammar, modern geography, 
 the history of the United States, and methods of teaching, and being- 
 
 satisfied that is of good moral character, hereby certifies that/ 
 
 , .qualifications in the above branches are such as to entitle 
 
 to this certificate, being of the. grade, and valid 
 
 in said county for year from the date hereof, renewable at 
 
 the option of the county superintendent by his endorsement thereon. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal at the date aforesaid. 
 
 A. B., 
 County Superintendent of Schools. 
 
 [As amended by an act approved June 21, 1895.] 
 
 4. Each county superintendent shall also keep a record, in 
 a book provided for that purpose, of all teachers to whom he 
 grants certificates Said record shall show the date and grade 
 of each certificate and all renewals granted, and the name, age 
 and nativity of each teacher ; and shall give the names of male 
 and female teachers separately. Said record may be as follows, 
 viz. : 
 
 Name. Age. Nativity. Date. Grade. Experience. Graduated. 
 
 Chas. 25 Illinois. March 1, 1888. 1. Has taught State Normal 
 Thompson. 5 years. University 
 
 5. No teacher shall be entitled to any portion of the com- 
 mon school or township fund, or other public fund, or be em- 
 ployed to teach any school under the provisions of this act, 
 who shall not, at the time he enters upon his duties as such 
 teacher, have a certificate of qualification obtained under the 
 provisions of this act from the superintendent. of the State, or 
 the county superintendent of the county in which the school is 
 located, entitling him to teach. [As amended by act approved 
 June 19, 1893.] 
 
 6, Every school established under the provisions of this 
 act shall be for instruction in the branches of education pre- 
 scribed in the qualifications for teachers, and in such other 
 branches, including vocal music and drawing, as the director s r 
 or the voters of the district at the annual election of director s r 
 may prescribe. 
 
 7. It shall be the duty of the county superintendents to 
 hold meetings, at least quarterly, and oftener if necessary, for 
 the examination of teachers, on such days and in such places 
 in the respective counties, as will, in their opinion, accommo- 
 date the greatest number of persons desiring such examination. 
 Notice of such meetings shall be published a sufficient length 
 of time, in at least one newspaper of general circulation, the 
 expense of such publication to be paid out of the school fund. 
 
 8. The county superintendent shall in all cases require the 
 payment of a fee of one dollar from every applicant for ex- 
 amination for a teacher's certificate, and for each renewal of 
 such a certificate he shall require the payment of a fee of one 
 dollar. 
 
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 9. All moneys so received from applicants for teachers* 
 certificates, and from the registration fees hereinafter provided 
 for, the said county superintendent shall transmit monthly to 
 the county treasurer, to be by him held and designated as the 
 institute fund, and with such fund the county superintendent 
 shall give the treasurer a list of the names of the persons pay- 
 ing such fees. Said fund shall be paid out by the county treas- 
 urer only upon the order of the county superintendent, and only 
 to defray the expenses of the teachers' institutes, which the 
 county superintendent is, by the following sections, authorized 
 to hold. The county superintendent shall take vouchers for all 
 payments made out of the institute fund, and he shall render 
 an account of such disbursements, with vouchers for the same, 
 to the county board at their regular meeting in September an- 
 nually. 
 
 10. The county superintendent shall hold, annually, a 
 teachers' institute, continuing in session not less than five days, 
 for the instruction of teachers and those who may desire to 
 teach; and, with the concurrence of the State Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction, procure such assistance as may be necessary 
 to conduct said institute at such time as the schools of the 
 county are generally closed: Prov ded, that two or more ad- 
 joining counties may hold an institute together. At every such 
 institute, instruction shall be free to such as hold certificates 
 good in the county (or counties where two or more join to hold 
 an institute) in which the institute is held ; but the county sup- 
 erintendent shall require all others attending to pay him a reg- 
 istration fee of one dollar, except those who have paid him an 
 examination fee as required "by section 8 of this article, and 
 failed to receive a certificate. 
 
 11. The time, not exceeding three days in any one term, 
 or five days in any one school year, during term time, actually 
 spent by a teacher of any public school in this State in attend 
 ance upon a teachers' institute, held under the direction of the 
 county superintendent of schools, shall be considered time law- 
 fully expended by such teacher in the service of the district 
 where such teacher is employed, and no deduction of wages 
 shall be made for such absences. And it shall be the duty of 
 the school officers and boards of education to allow teachers to 
 vdose their schools for such attendance upon such institute. 
 
 12. It shall be the duty of every teacher employed in the 
 public schools of the State to see that the school property of 
 the district, placed under his care and control, is not unneces- 
 sarily damaged or destroyed. And no teacher shall be paid any 
 part of the school funds, unless he shall have kept and furnished 
 schedules (when required by law) as hereinafter directed, and 
 shall also have satisfactorily accounted for all books, appa- 
 ratus and other property belonging to the district, which he 
 may have taken in charge. 
 
 13. Teachers shall keep correct daily registers of their 
 schools, which shall exhibit the name, age. and attendance of 
 
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 each pupil, the day of the week, the month and the year. Said 
 registers shall be as nearly as may be, in the following form, 
 the absence of each scholar being signified by a mark, the 
 presence by a blank, viz: 
 
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 Said register shall be furnished to the teachers by the school 
 directors, and each teacher shall, at the end of his term of school, 
 return his register to the clerk of the school board of the dis- 
 trict. And no teacher shall be paid any part of the public 
 funds unless he shall have accurately kept and returned the 
 register as aforesaid. 
 
 S 14. In all districts- controlled by a board of directors, 
 teachers shall make schedules of the names of all scholars under 
 twenty-one (21) years of age attending school, in the form pre- 
 scribed by this act, and when scholars reside in two (2) or more 
 districts, townships or counties, separate schedules shall be kept 
 for each district, township or county. Boards of education may 
 require teachers under their control to make schedules as herein 
 directed, or to make statements certifying the number of days' 
 attendance for each month, as shown by their registers, which 
 statements shall be certified to by the board of education, and 
 be subject to the same requirements concerning payment of 
 teacher's salary and filing as those made by this act concerning" 
 schedules. The schedules to be made and returned by the teacher 
 shall be, as near as circumstances will permit, in the following 
 form. viz. : 
 
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 Schedule of common school kept by at , in 
 
 district No , township No , range ~No of the- 
 
 principal meridian, in the county of in the State 
 
 of Illinois. Names and ages of scholars residing in district No 
 
 in township No north, range west, county/ 
 
 who have attended in my school during the time beginning the 
 
 day of , 18 and ending the day of , 18 r 
 
 during which time the school was in session school days. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Ages. 
 
 Days 
 attended. 
 
 John Smith . . 
 
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 Isaac Meifler. 
 
 13 
 
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 Sarah Danforth 
 
 16 
 
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 18 
 
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 Females! 
 
 Total. 
 
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 And said teacher shall add up the whole number of days' at- 
 tendance of each scholar, and make out the grand total num- 
 ber of days attendance. He shall also note the whole number 
 of scholars, giving the males and females separately; the aver- 
 age daily attendance, and shall set the age of each pupil op- 
 posite the name of such pupil, as in the form above prescribed, 
 and shall attach thereto his certificate, which shall be in the 
 following form, viz. : 
 
 I certify that the foregoing schedule of scholars attending my school 
 as therein named, and residing as specified in said schedule, to the best 
 of my knowledge and belief, is correct. 
 
 A B , Teacher. 
 
 15. When the teacher shall have completed his or her 
 schedule or schedules as provided in the foregoing section, he 
 or she shall deliver it to some one of the directors, who shall, 
 if requested, give the teacher a receipt for the same. And it 
 shall be the duty of the said director, in connection with at 
 least one other director of the board, to carefully examine such 
 schedule or schedules, and after correcting all errors, if any, if 
 they shall find such schedule to have been kept according ta 
 law, they shall certify to the same as near as practicable, in 
 the following form. viz. : 
 
 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 
 County. 
 
 We, the undersigned directors of district No , township No. 
 
 , range No , in the county aforesaid, certify that we have 
 
 carefully examined the foregoing schedule and find the same to be correct, 
 and that the school was conducted according to law; that the teacher is- 
 
 paid as per contract dollars per ; that the sum of 
 
 dollars is now due for services for the month ending ; 
 
 ss. 
 
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 that said teacher has a legal certificate of grade, and that tlie 
 
 property of said district in charge of such teacher has been satisfactorily 
 accounted for. 
 Witness our hands this day of , A. D 
 
 Directors. 
 
 16. Teachers' wages are hereby declared due and payable 
 monthly, and upon certifying to the schedule or statement, as 
 hereinbefore provided for, the directors, or board of education, 
 may at once make out and deliver to the teacher an order upon 
 the township treasurer for the amount named in the schedule 
 or statement; which order shall state the rate at which the 
 teacher is paid according to his contract, the limits of the 
 time for which the order pays, and that the directors have 
 duly certified a schedule covering the time specified in such 
 order: Provided, that in case said order shall be presented to 
 the township treasurer and not paid for want of funds, said 
 treasurer shall certify on the back of such order the date of 
 presentation as required by section 18 of article IV of this act, 
 and thereafter such order shall bear interest at the rate of 
 eight per cent, per annum until paid, or until the said treasurer 
 shall notify the clerk of the board of directors issuing such 
 order that he has funds with which to pay the same. 
 
 17. The school month shall be the same as the calendar 
 month, but teachers shall not be required to teach upon Satur- 
 days, Sundays, legal holidays, these being New Year's, Fourth 
 of July, Christmas and Thanksgiving, and fast days appointed 
 by the national or state authority; nor shall they be required 
 to make up the time lost by closing school upon such days or 
 upon such special holidays as may be granted the schools by 
 the board of directors. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 
 REVENUE-TAXATION. 
 
 1. Power to tax: limitations. 
 
 $ 2. Certificate of tax levy; time of return; 
 form. 
 
 3. Eeturn of certificate to county clerk ; map 
 filed. 
 
 4. District in two counties. 
 
 E.. Taxes computed by county clerk. 
 
 fi. Assessors to designate the district. 
 
 7. County clerk to copy numbers of dis- 
 tricts; tax to be uniform. 
 
 8. Certificate of amount due each district. 
 
 9. Collector to pay township treasurer. 
 
 10. Districts lying in two townships. 
 
 11. Penalty for failure to pay. 
 
 12. Blank books and notices. 
 
 13. Failure to file certificate does not vitiate 
 the assessment. 
 
 SECTION 1. For the purpose of establishing and supporting 
 free schools, for not less than five nor more than nine months 
 in each year, and defraying all the expenses of the same of 
 every description; for the purpose of repairing and improving 
 
-school houses, of procuring furniture, fuel, libraries and appa- 
 ratus, and for all other necessary incidental expenses in each 
 district, village or city, anything in any special charter to the 
 contrary notwithstanding, the directors of such district, and the 
 authorities of such village or city shall be authorized to levy a 
 tax annually upon all the taxable property of the district. 
 village or city, not to exceed two per cent, for educational, and 
 three per cent, for building purposes (except to pay indebted 
 ness contracted previous to the passage of this act,) the valu- 
 ation to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and 
 county taxes. 
 
 2. The directors of each district shall ascertain, as near as 
 practicable, annually, how much money must be raised by spe- 
 cial tax for school purposes during the ensuing year, which 
 amount shall be certified and returned to the township treas- 
 urer on or before the first Tuesday in August, annually. The 
 certificate of the directors may be in the following form, viz. : 
 
 We hereby certify that we require the sum of dollars, to be 
 
 ( levied as a special tax for school purposes, and dollars for build- 
 ing purposes, on the taxable property of our district, for the year A.. 
 
 D 
 
 Given under our hands this day of A. D 
 
 A. B., 1 Directors district No , township 
 
 G. D., } No , range No , county 
 
 E. F., J of , State of Illinois. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of township treasurer to return 
 the certificate mentioned in the foregoing section to the county 
 clerk, on or before the second Monday of August, and when- 
 ever the boundaries of the districts of the townships shall have 
 been changed, the township treasurer shall return to the county 
 clerk, with the certificates, a map of the township, showing 
 such changes, and certified as required by the provisions of 
 this act. 
 
 4. When a district lies partly in two or more counties, 
 the directors thereof shall ascertain as nearly as practicable die 
 amount to be raised by special tax for school purposes, and 
 shall prepare one certificate thereof for each county in which 
 such district may lie, and deliver all of the said certificates to 
 the township treasurer, who receives the tax money of such dis- 
 trict, who shall return one each of such certificates to the county 
 clerk of each county within which such district shall lie. On the 
 first Monday of October, or as soon thereafter as may be prac- 
 ticable, annually, the county clerk of each of such counties shall 
 ascertain the total equalized valuation of all the taxable prop- 
 erty in that part of such district as shall lie in his county, and 
 certify the amount thereof to the county clerk of each of the 
 other counties in which such district may lie; and from the ag- 
 gregate of such equalized valuation and from the certificate of 
 the amount so required to be levied, such clerks shall ascertain 
 
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 the rate per cent, required to produce in such district the 
 amount of such levy, and at that rate shall extend the special 
 tax to be levied for school purposes in that part of such dis- 
 trict lying in their respective counties. [As amended by act 
 approved June 17, 1891. 
 
 5. According to the amount certified, as aforesaid, the 
 county clerk, when making out the tax books for the collector, 
 shall compute each taxable person's tax, in said district, upon 
 the total amount of taxable property, as equalized by the 
 State Board of Equalization for that year, lying and being in 
 said district, whether belonging to residents or non-residents, 
 and also each and every tract of land assessed by the assessor, 
 which lies, or the largest part of which lies, in said district 
 The said county clerk shall cause each person's tax, so com- 
 puted, to be set upon the tax book to be delivered to the col- 
 lector for that year, in a separate column, against each tax- 
 payer's name or parcel of taxable property, as it appears in 
 said collector's books, to be collected in the same manner and 
 at the same time and by the same persons as State and county 
 taxes are collected. 
 
 6. It shall be the duty of assessors, when making assess- 
 ments of personal property, to designate the number of the 
 school district in which each person so assessed resides; which 
 designation shall be made by writing the number of such dis- 
 trict opposite each person's assessment of personal property, 
 in a column provided for that purpose, in the assessment roll 
 returned by the assessor to the county clerk. 
 
 7. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to copy said 
 numbers of school districts, so returned by the assessor, into 
 the collector's book and to extend the school tax on each per- 
 son's assessment of personal property, according to the rate 
 required by the amount designated by the directors of the 
 school district in which such person resides. The computations 
 of each person's tax and the levy made by the clerk, as afore- 
 said, shall be final and conclusive: Provided, the rate shall be 
 uniform and shall not exceed that required by the amount cer- 
 tified by the board of directors. 
 
 8. The county clerk before delivering the tax book to the 
 collector, shall make out and send by mail, to each township 
 treasurer in the county, a certificate of the amount due each 
 district or fraction of a district in his township, of said tax so 
 levied and placed upon the tax books. 
 
 9. On or before the first day of April next, after the delivery 
 of the tax books containing the computation and levy of the 
 said taxes, or so soon thereafter as the township treasurer shall 
 present the said certificate of the amount of the said tax, and 
 make a demand therefor, the said collector shall pay to said 
 township treasurer the full amount of said tax so certified by 
 the county clerk, or in case any part thereof remains uncollected, 
 
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 said collector shall, in addition to the amount collected, deliver 
 to said township treasurer a statement of the uncollected taxes 
 for each district of such township, taking of the township treas- 
 urer his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be evidence as well 
 in favor of the collector as against the township treasurer. 
 The said treasurer shall enter the amount collected in his books 
 under the proper heads, and pay the same out as provided for 
 by this act. 
 
 10. When a district is composed of parts of two or more 
 townships, the directors shall determine and inform the collect- 
 ors of said townships, and the collector or collectors of the 
 county or counties in which said townships lie, in writing, under 
 their hands as directors, which of the treasurers of the town- 
 ships, from which their district is formed, shall demand and re- 
 ceive the tax money collected by the said collectors as aforesaid. 
 
 11. If any collector shall fail to pay the amount of said 
 tax, or any part thereof, as required by the provisions of sec- 
 tion nine (9) of this article, of this act, it shall be competent 
 for the township treasurer, or other authorized person, to pro- 
 ceed against said collector and his securities in any action of 
 debt upon his official bond, in any court of competent jurisdic- 
 tion. And the said collector so in default shall pay twelve per 
 centum upon the amount due, to be assessed as damages, which 
 shall be included in the judgment rendered against him: Pro- 
 vided, no collector shall be liable for such part of said tax as 
 he shall be able to make appear he could not have collected by 
 law, until he has collected or may be able to so collect such 
 amount. 
 
 12. It is hereby made the duty of the proper officers in 
 preparing blank books and notices for the use of assessors to 
 provide columns and blanks for the use of assessors, so that 
 they may designate the number of the school district, as pro- 
 vided for in section six (6) of this article of this act. 
 
 13. A failure by the directors to file their certificates, or 
 of the township treasurer to return the same to the county 
 clerk in the time required by this act, shall not vitiate the 
 assessment, but the same shall be as legal and valid as if 
 completed in the time required by law. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 
 BONDS. 
 
 1. Vote necessary to borrow money; limit 
 of sum borrowed. 
 
 2. Registry of bonds 
 
 3. Money paid into school treasury of town- 
 ship; cancellation of bonds. 
 
 4. Election for borrowing money; form of 
 notice. 
 
 Judges. 
 
 Poll book returned; penalty for failure to 
 
 return poll book. 
 Refunding school district bonds. 
 
 SECTION 1. For the purpose of building school houses or pur- 
 chasing school sites, or for repairing and improving the same, the 
 
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 directors of any school district, when authorized by a majority of 
 all the votes cast at an election called for that purpose, may 
 borrow money, issuing bonds signed by not less than two mem- 
 bers of said board of directors, in sums of not less than one 
 hundred dollars ($100), and 'bearing interest at a rate not ex- 
 ceeding eight per centum per annum : * Provided, that the sum 
 borrowed in any one year shall not exceed five per cent, (in- 
 cluding existing indebtedness) of the taxable property of the 
 district, to be ascertained by the last assessment for State and 
 county taxes previous to the incurring of such indebtedness. 
 
 ^.11 bonds authorized to be issued by virtue of the fore- 
 going section before being so issued, negotiated and sold, shall 
 be registered, numbered and countersigned by the school treas- 
 urer of the township wherein the school house of such district 
 is, or is to be located. Such register shall be made in a "bond 
 register" book to be kept for that purpose, and in this register 
 shall first be entered the record of the election authorizing the 
 directors to borrow money, and then a description of the bonds 
 issued by virtue of such authority as to number, date, to whom 
 issued, amount, rate of interest and when due. 
 
 3. All moneys borrowed under the authority granted by 
 this article of this act, shall be paid into the school treasury of 
 the township wherein the bonds issued therefor are required to 
 be registered, and, upon receiving such moneys, the treasurer 
 shall deliver the bond or bonds issued therefor to the parties 
 entitled to receive the same, and shall credit the funds received 
 to the district issuing the bonds. The treasurer of said township 
 shall enter in the said "bond register" the exact amount re- 
 ceived for each and every bond issued. And when any such 
 bonds are paid, the said township treasurer shall cancel the 
 same and shall enter in the said "bond register," against the 
 
 record of such bonds, the words, "paid and cancelled the 
 
 day of , A. D., ," filling the blanks with the day 
 
 month and year corresponding with the date of such payment. 
 
 4. Whenever it is desired to hold an election for the pur- 
 pose of borrowing money, as provided for in this article of this 
 act, the directors of the district in which such election is to be 
 held, shall give at least ten days' notice of the holding of such 
 election, by posting notices in at least three of the most public 
 places in such district. Such notices shall specify the place 
 where such election is to be held, the time of opening and clos- 
 ing the polls, and the question or proposition to be voted upon, 
 which notice may be substantially in the following form, viz. : 
 
 NOTICE OF ELECTION. 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that on the day of 
 
 A. D , an election will be held at school district 
 
 No , in township No , range No. ..-..., of the principal meridian 
 
 * 7 per cent, ie the highest rate allowed by law on loans made on or after July 1, 1891. 
 
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 in county, Illinois, for the purpose of voting "For" or 
 
 "Against" the proposition to issue the bonds of said school district No.. 
 
 to the amount of dollars due (here insert the times 
 
 of payment, giving the amount falling due each year, if the bonds mature 
 
 at different dates), which bonds are to bear interest at the rate of 
 
 per cent, per annum, payable annually. 
 
 The polls of said election will be opened at o clock M.. and will 
 
 remain open until o'clock M. 
 
 Dated this day of ...., A. D 
 
 A. B., 
 C. D., 
 E. F. ? 
 
 Directors. 
 
 $ 5. At such election two of the directors of such district 
 shall act as judges and one of said directors shall act as clerk. 
 In case either or any of said directors shall fail, from any 
 cause, to be present or to act at such election, at the time of 
 opening the polls thereof, the legal voters assembled shall 
 choose, from their number, persons to act as such two judges, 
 and a clerk of said election. The said judges and the said clerk 
 shall take and subscribe the oath required of judges and clerks 
 of an election held for State or county officers, and such oath 
 may be administered in the same manner as is or may be pro- 
 vided by law for administering the oath to judges and clerks 
 at a State or county election. At such election all votes shall 
 be by ballot. In districts which have adopted the provisions 
 of, "An act regulating the holding of elections, and declaring 
 the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated towns in 
 this State," approved June 19, 1885, the said election shall be 
 held under the provisions of said act. 
 
 6. Within ten days after every such election, the judges 
 shall cause the poll- book to be returned to the township treas- 
 urer, who is required to register such bonds, with a certificate 
 thereon showing the result of such election, which poll-book 
 shall be filed and safely kept by the said township treasurer, 
 and shall be evidence of such election. For a failure to return 
 such poll-book to such treasurer within the time prescribed, the 
 judges of said election shall severally be liable to a penalty of 
 not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hun- 
 dred dollars ($100), to be recovered in a suit in the name of the 
 People of the State of Illinois, before any justice of the peace, 
 and, when collected, shall be added to the township school 
 fund of the township in which said treasurer resides. 
 
 7. In all cases where any school district has heretofore 
 issued or may hereafter issue bonds, or other evidences of in- 
 debtedness, for money on account of any public school building, 
 or other public improvement, or for any other purposes which 
 are now binding and subsisting legal obligations against said 
 school district, and remaining outstanding, and which are proper- 
 ly authorized by law, the proper authorities of such school dis- 
 trict may, upon the surrender of any such bonds or other evidences 
 of indebtedness, or any number thereof, issue in place or in lieu 
 
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 thereof, or to take up the same, to the holders or owners of 
 the same, or to other persons for money with which to take up 
 the same, new bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, in such 
 form, for such amount, upon such time, not exceeding the term 
 of twenty (20) years, and drawing such rate of interest not ex- 
 ceeding eight (8) per centum per annum,* as may be determined 
 upon; and such new bonds or other evidences of indebtedness 
 so issued shall show, on their face, that they are issued under 
 this act: Provided, that the issue of such new bonds in lieu of 
 such indebtedness shall first be authorized by a vote of the legal 
 voters of such school district voting at an election called and 
 conducted as other elections provided for by this article of this 
 act: And, provided, further, that such bonds or other evidences 
 of indebtedness shall not be issued so as to increase the aggre- 
 gate indebtedness of such school district beyond five (5) per 
 centum on the value of the taxable property therein, to be as- 
 certained by the last assessment for State and county taxes, 
 prior to the issuing of such bonds or other evidences of indebt- 
 edness. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 COUNTY CLERK. 
 
 I- 
 
 * s. 
 
 To furnish to county superintendent a 
 
 list of trustees elected. 
 To file papers relating to changes in 
 
 c.istrict boundaries ; penalty for failure 
 
 to do so. 
 To furnish certificate of equalised value 
 
 of taxable property in case of district 
 
 in two counties. 
 To furnish certificate of equalized value 
 
 of taxable property to any district. 
 
 5. To compute tax; to copy the numbers of 
 districts; to extend tax and to send 
 certificate of amount due each district, 
 etc. 
 
 6. To certify to bills of county superin- 
 tendents, and transmit them to State 
 Auditor. 
 
 7. To record land sales reported by county 
 superintendent. 
 
 SECTION 1. In all cases where, by any provision of laws, the 
 returns of any election for school trustees are made to the 
 county clerk of any county, it shall be the duty of the county 
 clerk, within ten days after such returns have been made to 
 him, as aforesaid, to furnish to the county superintendent of 
 schools a list of all such trustees so returned to him, and the 
 township from which the same have been so returned. 
 
 2. Whenever any change shall be made in the boundaries 
 of any school district, and a written statement or record of 
 such change shall be delivered to the county clerk of such county, 
 it shall be the duty of said county clerk to file such statement 
 or record, and all papers relating thereto, and duly record the 
 same in the records of his office; and in case of neglect or 
 failure so to do, the said county clerk shall be liable to a pen- 
 alty of twenty -five dollars ($25), to be recovered by an action of 
 debt before any justice of the peace, at the suit of the county 
 superintendent, for the benefit of the school fund of the said 
 county. 
 
 * 7 percent, is the highest rate allowed by law, on loans made on or after July 1. 1891. 
 
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 3. Whenever any school district lies partly in two or more 
 counties, it shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county 
 in which any part of such district lies to furnish, upon request, 
 to the directors of such district a certificate showing the last 
 ascertained equalized value of the taxable property in that part 
 of such district lying in such county. 
 
 4. It shall be the duty of the county clerk to furnish to 
 the directors of any school district, or to the board of educa- 
 tion in districts having a board of education, upon request, a 
 certificate showing the last ascertained equalized value of the 
 taxable property of such district, as the same appears of record 
 in his office. 
 
 5. It shall be the duty of the county clerk, when making 
 out the tax books for the collector, to compute each taxable 
 person's tax in each school district, upon the total amount of 
 taxable property, as equalized by the State Board of Equaliza- 
 tion for that year, lying and being in such district, whether be- 
 longing to residents or non-residents, and also each and every 
 tract of land assessed by the assessor which lies, or the largest 
 part of which lies, in such district. Such computation shall be 
 made so as to realize the amount of money required to be 
 raised in such district, as shown and set forth in the certificate 
 of tax levy, made out by the directors of such district, and 
 filed with the township treasurer, as required by the provisions 
 of this act. The said county clerk shall cause each person's tax, 
 so computed, to be set upon the tax book to be delivered to 
 the collector for that year, in a separate column against each 
 tax payer's name, or parcel of taxable property, as it appears 
 in said collector's books, to be collected in the same manner, 
 and at the same time, and by the same person, as State and 
 county taxes are collected. In making up the tax books to be 
 delivered to the collectors of taxes, the county clerk shall copy 
 into such tax books the number of the school district set 
 opposite to each person's assessment of personal property by 
 the assessor making the assessment of such person, and to ex- 
 tend the school tax on each person's assessment of personal 
 property, according to the rate required by the amount des- 
 ignated by the directors of the school district in which such 
 person resides, as shown by said certificate of tax levy. The 
 computation of each person's tax and the levy made by the 
 clerk, as aforesaid, shall be final and conclusive: Provided, that 
 the rate shall be uniform, and shall not exceed that required 
 by the amount certified by the board of directors. The said 
 county clerk, before delivering the tax book to the collector, 
 shall make out and send by mail to each township treasurer of 
 the county a certificate of the amount due each district, or 
 fraction of a district, in his township, of said tax so levied and 
 placed upon the tax books. - 
 
 6. Whenever the county board of any county shall have 
 audited the itemized bills of the county superintendents of 
 
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 schools or their assistants, as required by the provisions of 
 this act, it shall be the duty of the county clerk of such county 
 to certify to such act, and transmit the said bills to the Auditor 
 of Public Accounts, who shall, upon the receipt of them, remit, 
 in payment thereof to each superintendent, his warrant upon 
 the State Treasurer for the amount certified to be due him; 
 and the Auditor, in making his warrant to any county for the 
 amount due from the state school fund, shall deduct from it 
 the several amounts for which warrants have been issued to 
 the county superintendent of said county since the next pre- 
 ceding apportionment of the state school fund. 
 
 7. The county clerk of each county shall preserve and 
 record in a well- bound book to be kept for that purpose, the 
 report of the county superintendent, made' to the county board 
 at the first regular term of such board in each year, relating 
 to the sale of school lands, the amount of money received, paid, 
 loaned out and on hand, belonging to each township fund in 
 his control, and the statement copied from the loan book of 
 such county superintendent, showing all the facts in regard to 
 loans, which are required to be stated on the loan book. 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 COUNTY BOARD. 
 
 1. Powers of the county boara defined. I 3. Statement of land sales by the county 
 
 2. Duties of the county board defined. board. 
 
 SECTION 1. The county board of each county of this State 
 shall have power 
 
 First To approve the bond of the county superintendent of 
 schools. 
 
 Second To increase the penalty of the bond of the county 
 superintendent of schools beyond twelve thousand dollars 
 (*12,000) if, in the discretion of said county board, such bond 
 should be so increased. 
 
 Third To remove the county superintendent of schools from 
 office for any palpable violation of law or omission of duty.* 
 
 Fourth To require the county superintendent of schools, 
 after notice given, to execute a new bond, conditioned and ap- 
 proved as the first bond, whenever in the discretion of the 
 county board such new bond is necessary: Provided, however, 
 that the execution of such new bond shall not affect the old 
 bend or the liability of the security thereof. 
 
 Fifth To require the county superintendent of schools to 
 make the reports to such board provided for by law, and to 
 remove him from office in case of neglect or refusal so to do. 
 
 Sixth In counties having not more than one hundred (100) 
 schools, the board may limit the time pf the superintendent of 
 schools: Provided, that in the counties having not more than 
 
 * This grant of power it not annulled by the repeal of section 7, article II. 
 
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 fifty (50) schools the limit of time shall not be less than one 
 hundred and fifty (150) days a year; in counties having from 
 fifty-one (51) to seventy-five (75) schools, not less than two 
 hundred (200) days a year; and in counties having from sev- 
 enty-six (76) to one hundred (100) schools, not less than two 
 hundred and fifty (250) days. 
 
 Seventh Said county board shall authorize the county super- 
 intendent of schools to employ such assistants as he needs for 
 the full discharge of his duties, and said county board shall fix 
 the compensation to be paid therefor, which compensation shall 
 be paid out of the county treasury. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the county board of each county 
 of this State 
 
 First To provide for the county superintendent of schools a 
 suitable office with necessary furniture and office supplies as is 
 done in the case of other county officers. 
 
 Second When the office of county superintendent of schools 
 shall become vacant by death, resignation, removal or other- 
 wise, to fill the same by appointment. And the person so ap- 
 pointed shall hold his office until the next election of county 
 officers, at which election the said board shall order the elec- 
 tion of a successor. 
 
 Third To examine and approve or reject the report of the 
 county superintendent of schools made to such board, and the 
 notes and securities taken by such superintendent for school 
 funds. 
 
 Fourth At the regular meeting in September, and as near 
 quarterly thereafter, as such board may have regular or special 
 meetings, to audit the itemized bills of the county superintend- 
 ent, and of his assistants, for their per diem compensation and 
 expenses allowed by law for visiting schools. 
 
 3. At the first regular term of the county board, in each 
 year, the county superintendent shall present to the county 
 board of his county 
 
 First A statement showing the sales of school lands made 
 subsequent to the first regular term of the previous year, which 
 shall be a true copy of the sale book (book B). 
 
 Second Statements of the amount of money received, paid, 
 loaned out and in hand, belonging to each township or fund 
 under his control, the statement of each fund to be separate. 
 
 Third Statements copied from his loan book (book C), show- 
 ing all the facts in regard to loans which are required to be 
 stated on the loan book. 
 
 All of which the county board shall thereupon examine and 
 compare with the vouchers, and the said county board, or so 
 many of them as may be present at the meeting of 'fche board, 
 shall be liable individually to the fund injured and to the securi- 
 
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 ties of the county superintendent, in case judgment be recovered 
 of the said securities, for all damages occasioned by a neglect 
 of the duties or any of them, required of said board by this 
 section: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed 
 to exempt the securities of said county superintendent from any 
 liability as such securities, but they shall still be liable to the 
 fund injured the same as if the members of the county board 
 were not liable to them for neglect of their duty. 
 
 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 SCHOOL FUNDS. 
 
 1. To consist of a two-mill tax; interest of 
 
 school fund proper and of surplus 
 revenue. 
 
 2. State to nay interest. 
 
 3. Dividend to counties made by State Au- 
 
 ditor. 
 
 4. Warrants issued by the State Auditor, 
 
 and received from the collectors by 
 State Treasurers. 
 
 5. County superintendent to proceed against 
 collector on his refusal to pay. 
 
 6. Proceeds of the sale of sixteenth section, 
 etc , constitute principal of township 
 fund, etc. : interest distributed. 
 
 7. Moneys paid out upon orders. 
 
 8. Form of orders; filing of orders. 
 
 9. Union districts; receipts to be taken. 
 
 10. Loans in districts under a special char- 
 ter. 
 
 SECTION 1. The common school fund of this State shall con- 
 sist of the proceeds of a two- mill tax to be levied upon each 
 dollar's valuation of the property in the State, annually, until 
 otherwise provided by law; the interest on what is known as 
 the school fund proper; being three per cent, upon the proceeds 
 of the sales of the public lands in the State, one- sixth part ex- 
 cepted, and the interest on what is known as the surplus rev- 
 enue, distributed by act of congress and made a part of the 
 common school fund by act of the legislature, March 4, 1837. 
 
 2. The State shall pay the interest mentioned in the pre- 
 ceding section at the rate of six per cent, per annum, annually, 
 to be paid into, and become a part of, said school fund. 
 
 3. On the first Monday in January in each and every year 
 next after taking the census of the State, by federal or state 
 authority, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall ascertain the 
 number of children in each county in the State, under twenty- 
 one years of age, and shall thereupon make a dividend to each 
 county of the sum from the tax levied and collected under the 
 provisions of the first section of this article of this act, and of 
 the interest due on the school fund proper and surplus revenue, 
 in proportion to the number of children in each county under 
 the age aforesaid, and issue his warrant to the superintendent 
 of schools of each county upon the collector thereof. Upon pres- 
 entation of said warrant by the county superintendent to the 
 collector of his county, said collector or the treasurer shall pay 
 over to the county superintendent the amount of said warrant 
 out of the first funds which may be collected by him and not 
 otherwise appropriated by law, taking said superintendent's 
 receipt therefor. 
 
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 4. The said warrants issued by the Auditor of Public Ac- 
 counts for the school fund tax, and for the interest of the school 
 fund proper and surplus revenue, shall be received by the State 
 Treasurer in payment of amounts due the State from county 
 collectors; and on presentation by the State Treasurer of said 
 warrants to said Auditor, he shall issue his warrant to said 
 Treasurer of the school fund, for the amount of the school fund 
 tax warrants, and on the revenue fund for the amount of the 
 warrants for interest on the school fund proper and surplus 
 revenue. Dividends shall be made as aforesaid, according to the 
 proportions ascertained to be due to each county annually, 
 thereafter, until another census shall have been taken, and then 
 dividends shall be made and continued as aforesaid, according 
 to the last census. 
 
 5. If any collector shall fail or refuse to pay the amount of 
 : the aforesaid Auditor's warrant, or any part thereof, by the first 
 day of, March annually, or as soon thereafter as it may be pre- 
 sented, it shall be competent for the county superintendent to 
 proceed against said collector and his securities in an action of 
 debt, in any court having competent jurisdiction, and the said 
 collector shall pay interest at the rate of twelve per centum per 
 annum, to be assessed as damages, upon the amount due. and 
 which interest shall be included in the judgment obtained against 
 him: Provided, that if it satisfactorily appears to the court 
 that on said first day of March, or. on the day of presentation 
 for payment thereafter, that said collector had not, as yet, col- 
 lected funds sufficient to pay said warrant, said interest shall 
 not 'be allowed upon said warrant. 
 
 6. All bonds, notes, mortgages, moneys and effects which 
 have heretofore accrued or may hereafter accrue from the sale of 
 the sixteenth section of the common school lands of any town- 
 ship or county, or from the sale of any real estate or other 
 property taken on any judgment or for any debt due to the 
 principal of any township or county fund, and all other funds 
 of every description which have been or may hereafter be carried 
 to and made part of the principal of any township or county 
 fund, by any law which has heretofore been, is now T or may 
 hereafter be enacted, are hereby declared to be and shall forever 
 constitute the principal of the township or county fund, re- 
 spectively; and no part thereof shall ever be distributed or ex- 
 pended for any purpose whatever, but the same shall be loaned 
 out and held to use, rent or profit, as provided by law. But 
 the interest, rents, issues and profits, arising and accruing from 
 the principal of said township or county fund, shall be dis- 
 tributed in the manner and at the times as provided by this 
 act; nor shall any part of such interest, rents, issues and profits 
 be carried to the principal of the respective funds, except it ap- 
 pear on the first Monday in October in any year, that there is 
 rent, interest or other funds on hand which are not required for 
 distribution, such amount not required, as aforesaid, may, if th6 
 
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 board of trustees see proper, forever be considered as princi- 
 pal in the funds to which it belongs and loaned as such. 
 
 7. School funds collected from special taxes, levied by 
 order of school directors, or from the sale of property belong- 
 ing to any district, shall be paid out only on the order of the 
 proper board of directors; and all other moneys or school funds 
 liable to distribution, paid into the township treasury, or com- 
 ing into the hands of the township treasurer, shall, after said 
 funds have been apportioned by. the township trustees, 'as re- 
 quired in section 26 of article III of this act, be paid out only 
 on the order of the proper board of directorSj signed by the 
 president and clerk of said board, or by a majority of said 
 board. For all payments made, receipts shall be taken and 
 filed by said board of directors. 
 
 H. In all such orders shall be stated the purpose for 
 which or on what account drawn. Said orders may be in the 
 following form, viz. : 
 
 The treasurer of township No , range No ., in. ..... ...county, 
 
 will pay to or order, dollars and ..... , cents (on his -con- 
 tract for repairing school house, or whatever the case may be). 
 
 By order of the board of directors of school district No. $ in -said 
 
 township. 
 
 A. B., President. 
 C. D., Clerk. 
 
 Which order, together with the receipt of the person to whom 
 paid, shall be filed in the office of the township treasurer: 
 Proridedj that when an order is paid in full, such order, if 
 properly endorsed by the person in whose favor it was drawn, 
 and his assigns, if any, shall be a sufficient receipt for the 
 purposes of this section. 
 
 S 9. When a district is composed of parts of two or more 
 townships, the township treasurer or treasurers who do not 
 receive the tax money of said district, shall, when they hold 
 any funds belonging to said district, notify the directors there- 
 of of the amount of such funds, and the directors shall there- 
 upon give the treasurer who receives the tax money of said 
 district an order for such funds, and upon receipt thereof he 
 shall hold them, to be paid out as aforesaid. 
 
 10. In all cases where school funds are held by any per- 
 son or persons in an official capacity, by virtue of any special 
 charter defining the manner of loaning the same, such money 
 may be loaned upon the same terms and conditions as are pro- 
 vided by this act, or may hereafter be provided, by the school 
 laws of this State, for loaning the school funds of counties or 
 townships. 
 
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 ARTICLE XIII. 
 
 SCHOOL LANDS. 
 
 1. Section sixteen 
 
 2. Business relating to school lands, where 
 
 transacted. 
 
 3. Renting and sale of school lands. 
 
 4. Right of way and depot grounds for 
 
 ui-e of railroads. 
 .*. Trespass on school land; penalty. 
 
 6. Trespasser liable to indictment. 
 
 7. Penalties and fines to be paid to town- 
 
 ship treasurer. 
 
 8. Petition for sale. 
 
 9. Fractional township. 
 
 10. Divided into lots by trustees. 
 
 11. Making of a plat. 
 
 12. Size of lots, roads and streets. 
 
 13. Valuation plats aud certificate given to 
 
 county superintendent. 
 14. Advertising the sale; form of notice. 
 
 15. Place of sale. 
 
 16. Terms of sale; amount of bid borrowed. 
 
 17. Manner of sale. 
 
 18. Payment; land resold: suit instituted. 
 
 19. Unsold land afterwards subject to sale. 
 
 20. Re valuation of unsold land ; no petition 
 required. 
 
 21. Certificate of purchase. 
 
 22. Statement of sales by county superin- 
 tendent. 
 
 \ 23. Transcript sent to Auditor. 
 
 24. Patents; certificates of sale; evidence of 
 sale. 
 
 $ 25. Duplicates of certificates of purchase. 
 
 26. Real estate taken for debt, sold by 
 county superintendent. 
 
 27. Trustees may dedicate land for streets. 
 
 SECTION 1. Section number sixteen (16) in every township 
 granted to the State by the United States for the use of 
 schools, and such sections and parts of section as have been or 
 may be granted, as aforesaid, in lieu of all or part of section 
 number sixteen (16), and also the lands which have been or 
 may be selected and granted as aforesaid, for the use of schools,, 
 to the inhabitants of fractional townships in which there is no- 
 section number sixteen (16), or where such section shall not 
 contain the proper proportion for .the use of schools in such 
 fractional township, shall be held as common school lands; 
 and the provisions of this act referring to common school lands 
 shall be deemed to apply to the lands aforesaid. 
 
 2. All the business of such townships, so far as relates to- 
 common school lands, shall be transacted in that county which 
 contains all or a greater portion of said lands. 
 
 3. It shall be lawful for the trustees of schools in town- 
 ships in which section number sixteen (16), or any other lands 
 granted in lieu thereof, remain unsold or which has title to 
 any other school lands whatsoever, to rent or lease the same 
 for an annual rent to be paid in money to the treasurer, by a 
 written contract made by the president and clerk, under the 
 direction of the board, with lessee or lessees, which contract 
 shall be filed with the records of the board, and a copy of the 
 same transmitted to the county superintendent. In case of any 
 default in the payment of the rent, the said board of trustees 
 shall at once proceed to collect the same by distress, or other- 
 wise, as may be provided by law for the collection of rents by 
 landlords. No lease taken under the provisions of this act, 
 shall be for a longer period than five years, except where such 
 lands are leased for the purpose of having permanent improve- 
 ments made thereon, as may be the case in cities aud villages: 
 Provided^,t$$ ! t the provisions- of this section shall not apply 
 to cities having a population of over one hundred thousand 
 (100,000) inhabitants. 
 
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 4. The trustees of schools of any township concerned, are 
 hereby authorized and empowered in their corporate capacity, 
 to sell and convey to any railroad company which may con- 
 struct a railroad across any of the public school lands of such 
 township, the right of way and necessary depot grounds. All 
 moneys received by such trustees for any right of way or depot 
 grounds so sold, shall be turned over by such trustees to the 
 township treasurer of the township for the benefit of the town- 
 ship school fund. 
 
 5. If any person shall, without being duly authorized, cut v 
 fell, box, bore, destroy or carry away any tree, sapling or log 
 standing or being upon any school lands, such person shall for- 
 feit and pay, for every tree, sapling or log so felled, boxed,, 
 bored, destroyed or carried away, the sum of eight dollars ($8), 
 which penalty shall be recovered with costs of suit, by an action 
 of debt or assumpsit, before any justice of the peace having jur- 
 isdiction of the amount claimed, or in the county or circuit 
 court, either in the corporate name of the board of trustees of 
 the township to which the land belongs, or by qui tarn action, 
 in the name of any person who will first sue for the same, one- 
 half of the judgment for the use of the person suing and the 
 other half for the use of the township aforesaid. When two or 
 more persons shall be concerned in the same trespass, they shall 
 be jointly and severally liable for the penalty herein imposed. 
 
 6. Every trespasser upon common school lands, shall be 
 liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall be fined in three 
 times the amount of the injury occasioned by said trespass, and 
 shall stand committed as in other cases of misdemeanor. 
 
 7. All penalties and fines collected under the provisions of 
 the foregoing sections shall be paid to the township treasurer, 
 and be added to the principal of the township fund. 
 
 8 When the inhabitants of any township or fractional 
 township shall desire the sale of the common school lands of the 
 township or fractional township, they shall present a petition to 
 the county superintendent of the county in which the school 
 lands of the township, or the greater part thereof, lie, for the 
 sale thereof; which petition shall be signed by at least two- thirds 
 of the legal voters of the township, or fractional township. The 
 signing of the petition must be done in the presence of two adult 
 citizens of the township, after the true meaning and purpose 
 thereof have been explained; and, when signed, an affidavit must 
 be affixed thereto by the two citizens witnessing the signing, in the 
 manner aforesaid, which affidavit shall state the number of in- 
 habitants in the township, or fractional township, of and over 
 twenty-one years of age, and said petition, so proved, shall be 
 delivered to the county superintendent for his action thereon: 
 Provider', no whole section shall be sold in any township con- 
 taining less than two hundred inhabitants; and common school 
 land:; in fractional townships may be sold when the number of 
 inhabitants and the number of acres are in the ratio of two 
 hundred to six hundred and forty, but not before. 
 
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 9. Any fractional township not having the requisite num- 
 ber of inhabitants to petition for the sale of the school lands 
 therein, as provided in section 8 of this article of this act, which 
 has not heretofore been united with any other township, for 
 school purposes, and which does not contain a sufficient num- 
 ber of inhabitants to maintain a free school, is hereby attached 
 to the adjacent congressional township having the longest ter- 
 ritorial line bordering on such fractional township, for school 
 purposes, and all the provisions of this act shall apply to such 
 united townships, the same as though they were one and the 
 same township. 
 
 10. When the petition and affidavits are delivered to the 
 county superintendent, as aforesaid, he shall notify the trus- 
 tees of said township thereof, and said ' trustees shall immedi- 
 ately proceed to divide the land into tracts or lots, of such 
 form and quantity as will produce the largest amount of money. 
 
 11. ' After making the division required by the foregoing- 
 section, said trustees shall cause a correct plat of the same to 
 be made, representing all divisions, with each lot numbered and 
 defined, so that its boundaries may be forever ascertained. 
 
 12. In subdividing said common school lands for sale, no 
 lot shall contain more than 80 acres, and the division may be 
 made into town or village lots, with roads, streets or alleys 
 between them and through the same; and all such divisions, 
 with all similar divisions hereafter made, are hereby declared 
 legal, and all such roads, streets and alleys, .public highways. 
 
 13. After such division into lots has been made and platted, 
 the trustees of schools shall fix a value on each lot, having re- 
 gard to the terms of sale, certify to the correctness of the plat, 
 stating the value of each lot per acre, or per lot if less than 
 one acre, and referring to and describing the lot in the certifi- 
 cate, so as fully and clearly to distinguish, and identify each 
 lot; which plats and certificate shall be delivered to the county 
 superintendent, and shall govern him in advertising and selling 
 such lands. 
 
 14. Upon the reception by the county superintendent of the 
 plat and certificate of valuation from the trustees, he shall pro- 
 ceed to advertise the said land for sale in lots as divided and 
 laid off by said trustees, by posting notices thereof in at least 
 six (6) public places in the county, forty days before the day 
 of sale, describing the land and stating the time, place and 
 terms of sale; and if any newspaper is published in said county, 
 said advertisement shall be printed therein, for four weeks before 
 the day of sale; if no newspaper is published in said county, 
 then such land may be sold under the notice aforesaid, which 
 notice may be in the following form, viz. : 
 
 SALE OF SCHOOL LAND. 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that on the day of A. D. 
 
 18 , between the hours of ten o'clock A. M. and six o'clock P. M., the 
 
 undersigned superintendent of schools of county, will sell at 
 
public yendue to the highest bidder, at the door of the court 
 
 house, in , (or on the premises) the following described real 
 
 estate, the same being a part of the school lands of township No 
 
 range No , as divided and platted by the trustees of schools of 
 
 said township, to-wit: (Here insert full and complete description of said 
 premises). Said lands will be sold for cash in hand with the privilege to 
 any purchaser of borrowing from the undersigned, the whole or any part 
 of the amount of his bid, for not less than one nor more than five years, 
 upon his paying interest and giving security as required in case of a loan 
 obtained from the township school fund. 
 
 Dated this day of A. D.. 
 
 County Superintendent, 
 
 County. 
 
 15. The place of selling common school lands shall be at 
 the court house of the county in which the lands are situated; 
 or the trustees of schools may direct the sale to be made on 
 the premises. 
 
 16. The terms of selling common school lands shall be to 
 the highest bidder for cash, with the privilege to each pur- 
 chaser of borrowing from the county superintendent the amount 
 or any part of the amount of his bid, for any period of not less 
 than one year nor more than five years, upon his paying inter- 
 est and giving security, as in case of money loaned by a town- 
 ship treasurer as provided in this act. 
 
 1 7. Upon the day appointed for such sale, the county super- 
 intendent shall proceed to make sales as follows, viz. : He shall 
 begin at the lowest numbered lot and proceed regularly to the 
 highest numbered, till all are sold or offered. No lot shall be 
 sold for less than its valuation by the trustees. Said sale shall 
 be made between the hours of ten o'clock A. M. and six o'clock 
 P. M., and may continue from day to day. The lots shall be 
 cried separately, and each lot cried long enough to enable any 
 person present to bid who desires to bid. 
 
 18. Upon closing the sales each day, the purchasers shall 
 each pay, or secure the payment of the purchase money, accord- 
 ing to the terms of sale; or in case of his failure to do so by 
 ten o'clock the succeeding day, the lot purchased shall again be 
 offered at public sale, on the same terms as before, and if the 
 valuation or more shall be bid, shall be stricken off ; but if the 
 valuation be not bid, the lot shall be set down as not sold. 
 If the sale is or is not made, the former purchaser shall be re- 
 quired to pay the difference between his bid and the valuation 
 of the lot, and in case of his failing to make such payment, the 
 county superintendent may forthwith institute an action of debt 
 or assumpsit in his name, as superintendent, for the use of the 
 inhabitants of the township where the land lies, for the required 
 sum; and upon making proof, shall be entitled to judgment, 
 with costs of suit; which, when collected, shall be added to the 
 principal of the township fund. If the sum claimed does not ex- 
 ceed two hundred dollars, the suit may be commenced before a 
 
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 justice of the peace; if the sum demanded exceeds two hundred 
 dollars, then suit may be brought in the circuit court of any 
 county wherein the party may be found. 
 
 19. All lands not sold at public sale, as herein provided 
 for, shall be subject to sale at any time thereafter, at the valua- 
 tion; and the county superintendents are authorized and re- 
 quired, when in their power, to sell all such lands at private 
 sale, upon the terms at which they were offered at public sale. 
 
 20. In all cases where common school lands have been 
 heretofore valued, and have remained unsold for two years, 
 .after having been offered for sale, or shall hereafter remain 
 unsold for that length of time, after being valued and offered 
 for sale, in conformity to this act, the trustees of schools where 
 such lands are situated may vacate the valuation thereof by 
 an order to be entered in book A of the county superintendent, 
 and cause a new valuation to be made, if, in their opinion, the 
 interests of the township will be promoted thereby. They shall 
 make said second valuation in the same manner as the first 
 was made, and shall deliver to the county superintendent a plat 
 of such second valuation, with the order of vacation, to be 
 entered, as aforesaid; whereupon, said county superintendent 
 shall proceed to sell said lands in all respects, as if no former 
 valuation had been made: Provided, that the second valuation 
 may be made by the trustees of schools, without petition, as 
 provided in this act for the first valuation. 
 
 21. Upon the completion of every sale by the purchaser, 
 the county superintendent shall enter the same in book B, and 
 shall deliver to the purchaser a certificate of purchase, stating 
 therein the name and residence of the purchaser, describing the 
 land and the price paid therefor, which certificate shall be 
 evidence of the facts therein stated. 
 
 22. At the first regular term of the county board in each 
 year, the county superintendent shall present to the county board 
 of his county, a statement showing the sales of school lands 
 made subsequent to the first regular term of the previous year, 
 which shall be a true copy of the sale book (book B). 
 
 23. The county superintendent shall, also at the time afore- 
 said, transmit to the Auditor of Public Accounts a full and 
 exact transcript from book B of all the sales made subsequent 
 to each report. The statement required to be presented to the 
 county board shall be preserved and copied by the clerk of 
 said board into a well-bound book kept for that purpose; and the 
 list transmitted to the Auditor shall be filed, copied and pre- 
 served in like manner. 
 
 24. Every purchaser of common school lands shall be en- 
 titled to a patent from the State, conveying and assuring the 
 title. Patents shall be made out by the Auditor, from returns 
 made to him by the county superintendent. They shall contain 
 a description of the land granted, and shall be in the name of 
 and signed by the Governor, countersigned by the Auditor, with 
 
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 the great seal of the State affixed thereto by the Secretary of 
 State, and shall operate to vest in the purchaser a perfect 
 title in fee simple. When patents are executed as herein required, 
 the Auditor shall note on the list of sales the date of each pa- 
 tent, in such manner as to perpetuate the evidence of its date 
 and delivery, and thereupon transmit the same to the county 
 superintendent of the proper county, to be by him delivered to 
 the patentee, his heirs or assigns upon the return of the origi- 
 nal certificate of purchase, which certificate, when returned, shall 
 be filed and preserved by the county superintendent; and all such 
 patents, heretofore or hereafter so issued, by the State for 
 school lands, or duly certified copies thereof from any record 
 legally made, shall, after the lapse of ten years from the date 
 of such patent, and such sale having been acquiesced in for ten 
 years by the inhabitants of the township in which the land so 
 conveyed may be situated, be conclusive evidence as to the 
 legality of the sale, and that the title to such land was, at the 
 date of the patent, legally vested in the patentee. 
 
 25. Purchasers of common school lands, and their heirs and 
 assigns, may obtain duplicate copies of their certificates of pur- 
 chase and patents, upon filing affidavit with the county super- 
 intendent in respect to certificates, and with the Auditor in 
 respect to patents, proving the loss or destruction of the 
 originals; and such copies shall have the force and effect of 
 originals. 
 
 26. When any real estate shall have been taken for any 
 debts due to any school fund, the title to which real estate has 
 become vested in any county superintendent for the use of the 
 inhabitants of one or more townships or of the county, the 
 county superintendent may lease or sell such real estate for the 
 benefit of such township or townships, or of the county, as pro 
 vided for in section 37 of article III of this act, regulating the 
 leasing and sales of lands by school trustees : Provided, that in 
 case the real estate be held for the benefit of any township or 
 townships, it shall not be sold except upon the written request 
 of the school trustees of said township or townships. The said 
 county superintendent is hereby authorized to execute convey- 
 ances of such real estate to the purchasers when so sold. 
 
 g 27. The trustees of schools in any township are hereby 
 authorized and empowered, in their corporate capacity, to lay 
 out and dedicate to the public use, for street and highway pur- 
 poses, so much of the common school lands, which is unim- 
 proved or unoccupied with buildings, as may be necessary 
 to open or extend any street or highway which may be or- 
 dered opened or extended by the municipal authorities, which 
 are by law empowered to open or extend streets or highways 
 in the territory where said school lands are located: Provided, 
 that said trustees of schools shall be of the opinion that the 
 benefits to accrue from the opening or extending of said street 
 or highway, to the remainder of said common school lands, will 
 compensate for the strip so dedicated: And, provided further, 
 
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 that it shall not be lawful for any street or other railroad to 
 lay down railroad' tracks on any strip of the common school 
 lands so dedicated, or use the same or any part of the common 
 school lands for railroad or street railroad purposes, except 
 upon the purchase or lease of the same from the proper authori- 
 ties, or upon the payment to the school fund of said township 
 of the value of such use or land taken, the same as if no street 
 or highway had been laid out thereon, to be determined by pro- 
 ceedings under an act entitled "An act to provide for the ex- 
 ercise of the right of eminent domain," approved April 10, 1872, 
 and all amendments thereto: And, provided further, that this 
 section shall not in any way affect existing leases or contracts 
 for the lease or purchase of common school lands. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 FINES AND FORFEITURES. 
 
 1. Paid to county superintendent. 
 
 2. Duties of state's attorneys. 
 
 3. Duties of justices of the peace. 
 
 4. Report of fines; affidavit; penalty for 
 
 failure to report. 
 
 5. Penalty for failure to pay over fines 
 collected. 
 
 6. Power of the county court to examine 
 records of delinquent officers; penalty 
 for failure to furnish papers, etc. 
 
 SECTION 1. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed or in- 
 curred in any of the courts of record, or before any justice of 
 the peace of the State, except fines, forfeitures and penalties 
 incurred or imposed in incorporated towns or cities for the vio- 
 lation of the by-laws or ordinances thereof, shall, when col- 
 lected, be paid to the county superintendent of schools of the 
 county wherein such fines, penalties or forfeitures have been 
 imposed or incurred, and the said county superintendent of 
 schools shall give his receipt therefor to the person from whom 
 such fine, forfeiture or penalty was received. The said county 
 superintendent shall annually distribute such fines, penalties 
 or forfeitures in the same manner as the common school funds 
 of the State are distributed. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the state's attorneys of the sev- 
 eral counties to enforce the collection of all fines, forfeitures 
 and penalties imposed or incurred in the courts of record of 
 their respective counties, and to pay the same over to the 
 county superintendent of the county wherein the same have 
 been imposed or incurred, retaining therefrom the fees and 
 commissions allowed them by law. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the justices of the peace to en- 
 force the collection of all fines imposed by them, by any lawful 
 means; and, when collected, the same shall be paid, by the jus- 
 tice collecting the same, to the county superintendent of the 
 county in which the same was imposed. 
 
 4. Clerks of courts of record, state's attorneys and all 
 justices of the peace shall report, under oath, to the county cour,t 
 of their respective counties, by the first of March, annually, the 
 amount of such fines, penalties and forfeitures, imposed or in-. 
 
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 curred in their respective courts, and the amount of such fines, 
 forfeitures and penalties collected by them, giving each article 
 separately, and if any such officer has collected no such fines, 
 penalties or forfeitures, he shall make affidavit to such fact, 
 and file the same with the county superintendent. The judges 
 of the county court shall inspect the said reports, and may 
 hear evidence thereon, and, if found correct and truthful, shall 
 enter an order approving such report, and that any moneys in 
 the hands of such officers so reporting shall be paid over to the 
 superintendent of schools. If the court shall not approve of 
 such report, he may order a new one to be made, and, upon failure 
 to comply with the order of the court, or to make a satisfactory 
 report, the court may state an account and enter an order 
 to pay over as above provided. The court, for all purposes for 
 carrying out the provisions of this section, shall have power to 
 examine books and papers, as provided hereinafter in section 6 
 of this article, and shall have power to issue subpoenas for both 
 books and persons: Provided, that no report shall be approved 
 until the court shall have given the superintendent five (5) days' 
 notice of the same, and he shall be allowed to inspect said re- 
 port, and he shall be heard by the court upon the same if he 
 desire; and the officers charged with the collection thereof (the 
 said clerks, State's attorneys and justices of the peace), for a 
 failure to make such a report, shall be liable to a fine of twenty- 
 five dollars ($25) for each offense, said fine to be recovered in 
 a civil action, before any court, at the suit of the county super- 
 intendent of schools of the proper county. 
 
 5. For a failure to pay any fine, forfeiture or penalty, on 
 demand, to the person who is by law authorized to receive the 
 same, the officer or person having collected the same, or having 
 the same in his possession or control, shall forfeit and pay 
 double the amount of such fine, penalty or forfeiture as afore- 
 said, to be recovered before any court having jurisdiction thereof, 
 in a qui tarn action, one-half to be paid to the informer, and 
 one -half to the school fund of the proper county. 
 
 6. In case that any clerk of a court of record, State's at- 
 torney or justice of the peace shall fail to make the report pro- 
 vided for in section 4 of this article, the county court shall have 
 power, and it is hereby made the duty of the judge of said 
 court, to examine all records pertaining to the office of such 
 delinquent officer, and enforce the payment of whatever sum 
 may be found due the school fund from such delinquent officer. 
 For the purpose of making such examination, the said county 
 court shall have the right to call for any paper or papers, 
 docket, fee-book, or other record belonging to the office of such 
 delinquent officer; and in case such delinquent officer fails or 
 refuses to furnish such paper, docket, fee -book, or other record, 
 for the inspection or use of such county court, he shall forfeit, 
 and pay to the school fund, the sum of one hundred dollars 
 ($100), to be recovered in an action of debt or assumpsit, 
 
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 before any court of this State having jurisdiction of the actions 
 of debt and assumpsit, and such penalty, when collected, shall 
 be paid into the school fund of the proper county. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 
 FJ ABILITY OF SCHOOL OFFICERS. 
 
 8. Real estate of school officers holden. 
 
 9. Failure of trustees to make returns of 
 children. 
 
 10. Failure of school officers to furnish sta- 
 tistics. 
 
 11. School officers responsible for loss of 
 funds. 
 
 12. Forbidden to pervert funds to sectarian 
 purposes. 
 
 13. Interest in sale of school books, etc.. for- 
 bidden. 
 
 14. Penalty for excluding colored children 
 from school. 
 
 1. Of trustees for failure to take action re- 
 garding the insufficiency of township 
 securities. 
 
 2. Of judges of election for failure to deliver 
 poll-book and certificates. 
 
 3. Of boards of directors for failure to de- 
 liver schedules. 
 
 4. Of township treasurer for failure to per- 
 form his duties 
 
 5. Of the bondsmen or legal representatives 
 of township treasurer to turn over 
 bonds, etc., to successor. 
 
 6. Liable to indictment and imprisonment 
 for conversion of funds. 
 
 7. Trustees liable for securities of township 
 treasurer; exception. 
 
 SECTION 1. Whenever the county superintendent of schools of 
 any county shall notify the board of trustees of any township, 
 in writing, that the notes, bonds, mortgages, or other evidences 
 of indebtedness which have been taken officially by the township 
 treasurer, are not in proper form, or that the securities which 
 the said township treasurer has taken are insufficient, it shall 
 be the duty of the said board of trustees at once to take such 
 action as may be necessary to save and protect the property 
 or funds of the districts and the township; and for a failure or 
 refusal to take such action within twenty (20) days after such 
 notice, the members of the board, each in his individual capac- 
 ity, shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five (25) 
 nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), to be recovered be- 
 fore any justice of the peace, on information, in the name of 
 the People of the State of Illinois (provided such insufficiency 
 is proven), and, when- collected, the said fine shall be paid to 
 the county superintendent of the proper county, for the use of 
 schools. And the payment of this fine shall not relieve the 
 board of trustees from any civil liability they may have incurred 
 from such neglect of duty. 
 
 2. If the judges of any school election called for any legal 
 purpose shall fail or neglect to deliver a copy of the poll-book 
 of any such election, with a certificate thereon showing the re- 
 sult of such election, to the officer provided by law to whom 
 such return shall be made, within ten days after such election 
 shall have been held, the said judges of election shall be sever- 
 ally liable to a penalty of not less than twenty-five dollars 
 ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), to be recov- 
 ered in the name of the People of the State of Illinois, by an 
 
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 action of debt before any justice of the peace of the county; 
 which penalty, when collected, shall be paid into the school 
 fund of the township in which such election was held. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the board of directors of every 
 school district in this State, to deliver to the township treas- 
 urer all teachers' schedules made and certified as required by 
 law, and covering all time taught during the school year end- 
 ing June 30th, on or before the 7th day of July, annually; and 
 the directors shall be personally liable to the district for any 
 and all loss sustained by it through their failure to examine 
 and deliver to the said township treasurer all such schedules 
 within the said time. 
 
 4. For any failure or refusal to perform all the duties re- 
 quired of the township treasurer by law, he shall be liable to 
 the board of trustees, upon his official bond, for all damages 
 sustained by reason of such failure or refusal, to be recovered 
 by action of debt by said board, in their corporate name, for 
 the use of the proper township, before any court having juris- 
 diction of the amount of damages claimed; but if the said 
 treasurer, in any such failure or refusal, acted under and in 
 conformity to a requisition or order of said board, or a major- 
 ity of them, entered upon their journal and subscribed by their 
 president and clerk, then, in that case, the members of said 
 board aforesaid, or those of them voting for such requisition or 
 order aforesaid, and not the said township treasurer, shall be 
 liable, jointly and severally, to the inhabitants of the township 
 for all such damages, to be recovered by an action of assump- 
 sit in a suit brought in the official name of the county super- 
 intendent of schools, for the use of the proper township: Pro- 
 vided, said treasurer shall be liable for any loss not collected 1 
 by reason of the insolvency of said trustees. 
 
 5. When a township treasurer shall resign or be removed, 
 and at the expiration of his term of office, he shall pay over 
 to his successor in office, when appointed, all money on hand, 
 and deliver over all books, notes, bonds, mortgages, and all 
 other securities for money, and all papers and documents of 
 every description in which the corporation has any interest what- 
 ever; and in case of the death of the township treasurer, his se- 
 curities and legal representatives shall be bound to comply with 
 the requisitions of this section so far as the said securities and 
 legal representatives may have the power so to do. And for 
 any failure to comply with the requisitions of this section, the 
 persons neglecting or refusing shall be liable to a penalty of 
 not less than ten (10) nor more than one hundred dollars 
 ($100), at the discretion of the court before which, judgment 
 may be obtained, to be recovered in an action of debt before 
 any justice of the peace, for the benefit of the school fund of such 
 township: Provided, that the obtaining or payment of such 
 judgment shall in no wise discharge or diminish the obliga- 
 tion of the persons signing the official bond of such township 
 treasurer. 
 
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 6. If any county superintendent, trustee of schools, town- 
 ship treasurer, director or any other person entrusted with the 
 care, control, management or disposition of any school, college ,. 
 seminary or township fund for the use of any county, town- 
 ship, district or school, shall convert such funds, or any part 
 thereof, to his own use, he shall be liable to indictment; and 
 upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less 
 than double the amount of money converted to his own use, 
 and imprisoned in the county jail not less than one nor more 
 than twelve months, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 7. Trustees of schools shall be liable, jointly and several- 
 ly, for the sufficiency of securities taken from township treas- 
 urers; and in case of judgment against any treasurer and his 
 securities for or on account of any default of such treasurer on 
 which the money shall not be made for want of sufficient prop- 
 erty whereon to levy execution, action on the case may be main- 
 tained against said trustees, jointly and severally, and the 
 amount not collected on said judgment shall be recovered with 
 costs of suit from such trustees: Provided, that if said trustees 
 can show, satisfactorily, that the security taken from the 
 treasurer, as aforesaid, was, at the time of said taking, good 
 and sufficient, they shall not be liable as aforesaid. 
 
 8. The real estate of county superintendents, of township 
 treasurers, and all other school officers, and of the securities 
 of each of them shall be bound for the satisfaction "and pay- 
 ment of all claims and demands against said superintendents 
 and treasurers, and other school officers as such from the date 
 of issuing process against them, in actions or suits brought to 
 recover such claims or demands until satisfaction thereof be 
 obtained; and no sale or alienation of real estate, by any super- 
 intendent, treasurer or other officer or 'security aforesaid, shall 
 defeat the lien created by this section; but all and singular 
 such real estate held, owned or claimed, as aforesaid, shall be 
 liable to be sold in satisfaction of any judgment which may be 
 obtained in such actions or suits. 
 
 9. Trustees of schools, or either of them, failing or re- 
 fusing to make returns of children in their township according 
 to the provisions of this act, or if either of them shall know- 
 ingly make a false return, the party so offending shall be 
 liable to a penalty of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more 
 than one hundred dollars ($100), to be recovered by an action 
 of assumpsit, before any justice of the peace of the county; 
 which penalty, when collected, shall be added to the township 
 school fund of the township in which said trustees reside. 
 
 10. If any county superintendent, director or trustee, or 
 either of them, or other officer whose duty it is, shall negligently 
 or willfully fail or refuse to make, furnish or communicate the 
 statistics and information, or shall fail to discharge the duties 
 enjoined upon them or either of them, at the time and in the 
 
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 "manner required by the provisions of this act, such delinquent 
 or party offending shall be liable to a fine of not less than 
 twenty-five dollars ($25), to be recovered before any justice of 
 the peace at the suit of any person, on information in the 
 name of the People of the State of Illinois, and when collected, 
 the said fine shall be paid to the county superintendent of the 
 proper county for the use of the school fund. 
 
 11. County superintendents, trustees of schools, directors 
 and township treasurers, or either of them, or any other officer 
 having charge of school funds or property, shall be pecuniarily 
 responsible for all losses sustained by any county, township or 
 school fund, by reason of any failure on his or their part to 
 perform the duties required of him or them by the provisions 
 of this act; or by any rule or regulation authorized to be made 
 by the provisions of this act; and each and every one of the 
 officers aforesaid shall be liable for any such loss sustained as 
 aforesaid, and the amount of such loss may be recovered in a 
 civil action brought in any court having jurisdiction thereof, at 
 the suit of the State of Illinois, for the use of the county, 
 township or fund injured; the amount of the judgment obtained 
 in such suit shall, when collected, be paid to the proper officer 
 for the benefit of the said county, township or fund injured. 
 
 12. No county, city, town, township, school district or 
 other public corporation shall ever make any appropriation, or 
 pay from any school fund whatever, anything in aid of any 
 church or sectarian purpose, or to help support or sustain any 
 school, academy, seminary, college, university or other literary 
 or scientific institution controlled by any church or sectarian 
 denomination whatever; nor shall any grant or donation of 
 money, or other personal property, ever be made by any such 
 corporation to any church or for any sectarian purpose; and 
 any officer or other person having under his charge or direction 
 school funds or property, who shall pervert the same in the 
 manner forbidden in this section, shall be liable to indictment, 
 and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less 
 than double the value of the property so perverted, and im- 
 prisoned in the county jail not less than one (1) nor more than 
 twelve (12) months, at the discretion of the court. 
 
 13. No teacher, state, county, township or district school 
 officer shall be interested in the sale, proceeds or profits of any 
 book, apparatus or furniture used, or to be used, in any school 
 in this State with which such officer or teacher may be con- 
 nected; and for offending against the provisions of this section 
 such teacher, state, county, township or district school officer 
 shall be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall be fined 
 in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than 
 five hundred dollars ($500), and may be imprisoned in the 
 Bounty jail not less than one (1) month nor more than twelve 
 (12) months, at the discretion of the court. 
 
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 14. Any school officer or officers, or any other person, who 
 shall exclude or aid in ;the exclusion from the public schools, of 
 any child who is entitled to the benefits of such school, on ac- 
 count of such child's color, shall be fined, upon ponviction, in 
 any sum not , less than five dollars ($5), nor more than one 
 hundred dollars ($100) each, for every such offense. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 5. 
 
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 Costs of suits not to be charged to 
 
 school fund. 
 
 Eligibility of women to school offices. 
 Bonds of women holding school offices. 
 Colored children may not be excluded 
 
 from school. 
 Penalty for preventing children from 
 
 attending school. 
 
 Payment ot funds to township treasurer. 
 Reports and rate of taxation under spe- 
 cial charters. 
 
 10. 
 
 Educational institutions to report to 
 State Superintendent. 
 
 Judgment and executions against boards 
 of trustees and directors. 
 
 No compensation allowed to trustees, 
 directors, etc.; exemption from road 
 labor, etc. 
 
 School officers to hold until their suc- 
 cessors are qualified. 
 
 Former acts repealed. 
 
 Emergency clause. 
 
 SECTION 1. No justice of the peace, constable, clerk of any 
 court, sheriff or coroner shall charge any costs in any suit 
 where any school officer, school corporation or any agent of any 
 school fund, suing for the recovery of the same, or any interest 
 due thereon, is plaintiff and shall be unsuccessful in such suit; 
 nor where the costs can not be recovered from the defendant 
 by reason of the insolvency of such defendant. 
 
 2. Any woman, married or single, of the age of twenty- 
 one years and upwards, and possessing the qualifications pre- 
 scribed for the office, shall be eligible to any office under the 
 general or special school laws of this State. 
 
 3. Any woman elected or appointed to any office under the 
 provisions of this act, before she enters upon the discharge of 
 the duties of the office, shall qualify and give the bond required 
 by law (if a bond is required), and such bond shall be binding 
 upon her and her securities. 
 
 4. All boards of school directors, boards of education, or 
 school officers, whose duty it now is, or may be hereafter to 
 provide, in their respective jurisdictions, schools for the educa- 
 tion of all children between the ages of six and twenty-one 
 years, are prohibited from the excluding, directly or indirectly, 
 any such child from such school on account of the color of 
 such child. 
 
 5. Any person who shall, by threats, menace or intimida- 
 tion, prevent any child entitled to attend a public school in this 
 State from attending such school shall, upon conviction, be 
 fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25.00). 
 
 6. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer s y county 
 superintendents of schools, township collectors, and all other 
 
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 persons paying money into the hands of township school treas- 
 urers, for school purposes, on or before the 30th day of Septem- 
 ber of each year, to notify in writing the presidents of boards 
 of school trustees, and the clerks of the boards of school direc- 
 tors, of the amount paid into the township treasurer's hands, 
 and the date of payment. 
 
 7. This act shall not be so construed as to repeal or 
 cliange, in any respect, any special acts in relation to schools 
 in cities having less than 100,000 inhabitants, or incorporated 
 towns, townships or districts (except that in every such city, 
 town, township or district the limit of taxation for educational 
 and building purposes shall be the same as that fixed in section 
 one, article eight, of this act); and except that it shall be the 
 duty of the several boards of education or other officers of any 
 city or incorporated town, township or district, having in charge 
 schools under the provision of any of said special acts, or of 
 any ordinance of any city or incorporated town, on or before 
 the 15th day of July preceding each session of the General As- 
 sembly of this State, or annually, if required so to do by the 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, to make out and 
 render a statement of all such statistics and other information 
 in regard to schools and the enumeration of persons, as- is re- 
 quired to be communicated by township boards of trustees or 
 directors, under the provisions of this act, or so much thereof 
 as may be applicable to said city or incorporated town, to the 
 county superintendent of the county where such city or incor- 
 porated town is situated, or of the county in which the larger 
 part of such city or incorporated town is situated; nor shall it 
 be lawful for the county superintendent, or any other officer or 
 person to pay over any portion of the common school fund to 
 any local treasurer, school agent, clerk, board of education, or 
 other officer or person of any township, city or incorporated 
 town, unless a report of the number of persons and other sta- 
 tistics relative to schools, and a statement of such other infor- 
 mation as is required by the board of trustees or of directors, 
 as aforesaid, and of other school officers and teachers, under the 
 provisions of this act, shall have been filed at the time or times 
 aforesaid, specified in this section, with the superintendent of 
 the proper county, as aforesaid. [As amended by act approved 
 and in force March 31, 1891. 
 
 8. It shall be the duty of the president, principal, or other 
 proper officer of every organized university, college, seminary, 
 academy, or other literary institution, heretofore incorporated, 
 or hereafter to be incorporated in this State, to make out, or 
 cause to be made out and forwarded to the office of the State 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before the first day 
 of August in each year, a report setting forth the amount and 
 estimated value of real estate owned by the corporation, the 
 amount of other funds and endowments, and the yearly income 
 from all sources, the number of instructors, the number of 
 students in the different classes, the studies pursued and the 
 
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 books used, the course of instruction, the terms of tuition, and 
 such other matters as may be specially requested by said Super- 
 intendent, or as may be deemed proper by the president or prin- 
 cipal of such institution to enable the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction to lay before the Legislature a fair and full exhibit 
 of the affairs and conditions of said institutions, and of the 
 educational resources of the State. 
 
 9. If judgment shall be obtained against any township board 
 of trustees or school directors, the party entitled to the benefit 
 of such judgment may have execution therefor, as follows, to-wit: 
 It shall be lawful for the court in which such judgment shall be 
 obtained, or to which such judgment may be removed by 
 transcript or appeal from a justice of the peace, or other court, 
 to issue thence a writ commanding the directors, trustees and 
 treasurer of such township, to cause the amount thereof, with 
 interest and costs, to be paid to the party entitled to the bene- 
 fit of such judgment; out of any moneys unappropriated of said 
 township or district, or if there be no such moneys, out of the 
 first moneys applicable to the payment of the kind of services 
 or indebtedness for which such judgment shall be obtained, 
 which shall be received for the use of such township or district 
 and to enforce obedience to such writ by attachment, or by 
 mandamus, requiring such board to levy a tax for the payment 
 of such judgment; and all legal processes, as well as writs to 
 enforce payment, shall be served either on the president or clerk 
 of the board. 
 
 10. Trustees of schools, school directors, members of boards 
 of education, or other school officers performing like duties, 
 shall receive no pecuniary compensation, but they shall be ex- 
 empt from road labor and from military duty during their term 
 of office. 
 
 11. All school officers elected in pursuance of any general 
 law now in force shall hold their respective offices until their 
 successors are elected and qualified under the provisions of this 
 act. 
 
 12. "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free 
 schools," approved April 1, 1872; "An Act to protect colored 
 children in their rights to attend public schools," approved 
 March 24, 1874; "An Act to amend section fifty (50) of an act 
 entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of free 
 schools,' approved April 1, 1872," approved March 30, 1874; 
 "An Act to amend sections 24 and 33 of an act entitled 'An 
 Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' ap- 
 proved April 1, 1872," approved May 23, 1877; "An Act to 
 amend section 47 of an act to establish and maintain a sys- 
 tem of free schools, approved April 1, 1872," approved May 11, 
 1877; "An act regulating the renting and sale of school lands," 
 approved May 25, 1877; "An act to amend section 33 of an 
 act entitled 'An act to amend sections 24 and 33 of an act 
 entitled "An Act to establish and maintain a system of free 
 
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 schools,"' approved April 1, 1872, approved May 23, 1877, in 
 force July 1, 1877," approved May 31, 1879; "An Act to 
 amend an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a sys- 
 tem of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, and section forty- 
 seven (47) of said act as amended by an act approved May 
 11. 1877," approved June 3, 1879; "An Act to amend sections 
 eleven (11), twenty-seven (27), thirty-three (33), thirty-four 
 (34), forty-eight (48), fifty-three (53), fifty-four (54) and fifty- 
 seven (57) of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain 
 a system of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, and in force 
 July 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved June 3, 1879, 
 and in force July 1, 1879," approved May 31, 1881; "An Act 
 to amend section fifty one (51) of an act entitled 'An Act to 
 establish and,. maintain a system of free schools,' approved April 
 1, 1872, hflforce July 1, 1872, ^n^ amended by an act approved 
 June 3, 1879, in force July 1, 1879," approved June 23, 1883; 
 "An Act regulating the loaning 1 of school funds," approved and 
 in force March 20, 1883; "An Act to amend sections thirteen 
 (13), twenty (20) and seventy-one (71) of an act entitled 'An 
 Act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' ap- 
 proved April 1, 1872, and in force July 1, 1872, and amended 
 by an act approved June 3, 1879," approved June 26, 1885; 
 "An Act to amend sections fifty-seven (57) and fifty-eight (58) 
 of an act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system 
 of free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, and amended by an act 
 approved April 1, 1872, and amended by an act approved June 
 3, 1879, and in force July 1, 1879, and further amended by an 
 act approved May 31, 1881, and in force July 1, 1881," ap- 
 proved June 30, 1885; "An Act to amend section one (1) of 
 an act entitled 'An Act regulating the renting and sale of school 
 lands,' approved May 25, 1877, in force July 1, 1877," approved 
 June 29, 1885; "An Act to amend section thirty- three (33) of 
 an Act entitled 'An Act to establish and maintain a system of 
 free schools,' approved April 1, 1872, in force July 1, 1872, as 
 amended by an act approved May 23, 1877, in force July 1, 
 1877, as amended by act approved June 3, 1879, in force July 
 1. 1879, as amended by act approved May 31, 1881, in force 
 July 1, 1881," approved June 4,' 1'877; "An Act to provide for 
 the election of presidents of boards of education in school dis- 
 tricts," approved June 17, 1887; "An Act to empower trustees 
 of schools to lay out and dedicate common school lands for 
 street and highway purposes," approved June 3, 1887; "An Act 
 to regulate the attendance of teachers upon teachers' institutes," 
 approved June 14, 1887; "An Act to empower township trustees 
 to sell and convey right of way and depot grounds for the use 
 of railroads crossing school lands," approved April 13, 1875; 
 "An Act to regulate the payment of moneys into the hands of 
 township school treasurers," approved May 30, 1881; and all 
 other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, and all 
 general school laws in this State, are hereby repealed. 
 
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 13. Whereas, an emergency exists, requiring this act to take 
 immediate effect, therefore be it enacted that this act shall take 
 effect from and after its passage. 
 
 APPROVED May 21, 1889, 
 
 ADDITIONAL FACTS PERTAINING TO THE PUBLIC 
 SCHOOLS AND TO SCHOOL OFFICERS. 
 
 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPOINTED. 
 
 An Act to provide for 1he appointment of School Directors and 
 members of the Board of Education, in certain cases, approved 
 May 29, 1879, in force July 1, 1879. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly: That in all cases whereby 
 [where, by] the provisions of any general or special law of this 
 State heretofore passed, the members of the common council of 
 any city having been made ex officio school directors, or members 
 of the board of education in and for the school district of which 
 the said city shall constitute the whole or a part, the said 
 school directors or members of the board of education shall 
 hereafter be appointed as hereinafter provided. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the mayor of said city, at the 
 first regular meeting of the city council after each annual mu- 
 nicipal election, and after his installation into office, to nomi- 
 nate and place before the council, for confirmation as school 
 directors or members of the board o f education, as the case may 
 be, one person from each ward of said city to serve for two 
 years, and one person from the city at large to serve for one 
 year, and if the persons so appointed shall be confirmed by a 
 majority vote of the city council, to be entered of record, the 
 persons so appointed, together with such persons theretofore 
 appointed under the provisions of the act, to which this is an 
 amendment, whose terms of service shall not expire within one 
 year, shall constitute the board of education or school directors 
 for such district: Provided, that the person appointed from the 
 city at large for one year shall be president of said board of 
 education or school directors, but shall have no vote in such 
 board excepting incase of a tie: And, provided, further, that the 
 term of office of all persons heretofore appointed under the pro- 
 visions of the act to which this is an amendment, whose term 
 of office expires within one year, shall terminate at the first 
 regular meeting of the city council af te r the annual meeting, 
 and upon the appointment and con firmation of their suc- 
 cessors. [As amended by act approved and in force May 28, 
 1889. 
 
 3. The said persons shall, as soon as practicable -after their 
 appointment, organize by electing one of their number secre- 
 tary, who shall hold his office for one year. All rights, powers 
 
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 and duties heretofore exercised by and devolved upon the mem- 
 bers of the city council, as ex officio members of the board of 
 education, or school directors, shall devolve upon and be exer- 
 cised by the members of the board of education and school di- 
 rectors appointed under the provisions of this act. [As amend- 
 ed by act approved and in force May 28, 1889. 
 
 4. In all school districts to which this act shall apply, the 
 boards of education or school directors shall annually, before 
 the first day of August, certify to the city council, under the 
 hands and seals of the president and secretary of the board 
 the amount of money required to be raised by taxation for 
 school purposes in said district for the ensuing year, and the 
 said city council shall thereupon cause the said amount to be 
 levied and collected in the same manner now provided by law 
 for the levy and collection of taxes for school purposes in such 
 district, but the amount to be so levied and collected shall not 
 exceed the amount now allowed to be collected for school pur- 
 poses by the general school laws of this State; and when such 
 taxes have been collected and paid over to the treasurer of such 
 city or school district, as may be provided by the terms of the 
 act under which such district has been organized, such funds 
 shall be paid out only on the order of the board of education 
 or the school directors, signed by the president and secretary 
 of such board. 
 
 APPROVED May 29, 1879. 
 
 AN ACT relating to the study of Physiology and Hygiene in the 
 
 Public Schools. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That the proper le- 
 gal school authorities shall have power, and it shall be their 
 duty, to have all pupils of suitable age in schools of Illinois, 
 supported by public money or under State control, instructed 
 in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects 
 of alcoholic beverages, stimulants and narcotics on the human 
 system. 
 
 2. No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach 
 in the public schools of Illinois, after July, 1890, who has not 
 passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, 
 with special reference to the effects of alcoholic beverages, 
 stimulants and narcotics on the human system. 
 
 APPROVED June 1, 1889. 
 
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 COMPENSATION OF JUDGES AND CLERKS OF ELECTION IN CER- 
 TAIN CASES.* 
 
 An act to provide for the compensation of Judges and Clerks 
 of Election at elections at which Trustees of Schools and 
 School Directors are elected under the provisions of an act 
 entitled "An act to regulate the holding of elections and de- 
 claring the result thereof in cities, villages and incorporated 
 towns in this State" approved June 19, 1885. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That at all elections 
 held under the provisions of an act entitled "An Act to regulate 
 the holding of elections and declaring the result thereof in cities, 
 villages, and incorporated towns in this State," approved June 
 19, 1885, and those amendatory and supplemental thereto, at 
 Tvhich any trustee of school may have been heretofore or shall 
 hereafter be elected, the expenses of such election shall be paid 
 out of the treasury of such city, village and incorporated town. 
 
 2. That all elections held under the provisions of said acts, 
 at which a school director is elected, the expenses of such elec- 
 tion shall be paid out of any funds belonging or appertaining 
 to the district for which such director is elected. 
 
 3. The corporate authorities of cities, villages, incor- 
 porated towns and school districts are hereby authorized and 
 empowered to levy taxes for the purpose of paying such election 
 expenses 
 
 APPROVED June 3, 1889. 
 
 ELECTION OF BOARDS OF EDUCATION IN 
 CERTAIN CASES. 
 
 1. Cities, towns and townships, in which 
 schools are managed under special 
 acts, may elect boards of education. 
 
 f 2. Question to be submitted to vote, upon pe- 
 tition of 50 voters. 
 
 3. Repeals all acts in conflict. 
 
 4. Emergency. 
 
 AN ACT to give cities, incorporated towns, townships and dis- 
 tricts in which free schools are now managed under special 
 acts, authority to elect boards of education haviny the same 
 powers as boards of education now elected under the general 
 free school laws of this State. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That any city, in- 
 corporated town, township or district having a population of 
 
 * This relates to the judges and clerks of elections appointed by the board of election commia - 
 -eionere, and not to the officers of school elections generally. 
 
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 not less than one thousand and not over twenty thousand in- 
 habitants, in which free schools are now managed under any 
 special act, may, by vote of its electors, determine to elect, in- 
 stead of the directors or other governing or managing board,, 
 now provided for by such special act, a board of education 
 which shall be elected at the time and in the manner and have 
 the powers now conferred by law upon boards of education of 
 districts not governed by any special act. 
 
 2. Upon petition of fifty voters of such city, town, town- 
 ship or district, presented to the board having the control and 
 management of schools in such city, town, township or district, 
 it shall be the duty of such board, at the next ensuing election 
 to be held in such city, town, township or district, to cause to 
 be submitted to the voters thereof, giving not less than fifteen 
 days' notice thereof, by posting not less than five notices in the 
 most public places in such city, town, township or district, the 
 question of "electing a board of education having the powers 
 conferred upon such boards in districts organized under the free 
 school laws," which notice may be in the following form, to- wit: 
 
 Public notice is hereby given that on the day of , A. 
 
 1 ) , an election will be held at , between the hours 
 
 of m. and m. of said day, for the purpose of deciding the 
 
 question of "electing a board of education having the powers conferred 
 upon such boards in districts organized under the free school law." 
 
 If it shall appear, upon a canvass of the returns of such elec- 
 tion, that a majority of the votes cast at such election are "for 
 electing a board of education having the powers conferred upon 
 such boards in districts organized under the free school law," 
 then at the time of the next regular election for boards of edu- 
 cation under the free school law, there shall be elected a board 
 of education for such district; and should there not be sufficient 
 time' to give the notice required by law for such election, then 
 such election may be held on any Saturday thereafter, but all 
 subsequent elections shall be held at the time provided by the 
 free school law. 
 
 >$ 8. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 4. Whereas, an emergency exists requiring this act to take 
 immediate effect, therefore be it enacted that this act shall be 
 in force from and after its passage. 
 
 APPROVED June 2. 1891. 
 
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 CHILD LABOR 
 
 EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE PROHIBITED. 
 
 Prohibits any person, firm or corpora- 
 tion from employing any child under 
 13 years of age, except as provided in 
 this act. 
 
 Certificate of the school board authoriz- 
 ing employment. 
 
 3. No certificate shall be issued unless the 
 child has attended school at least 8 
 weeks in the current school year. 
 
 4. No child shall be employed for more than 
 one day without such certificate. 
 
 5. Penalties for violation of this act. 
 
 AN ACT to prevent child labor. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be un- 
 lawful for any person, firm or corporation to employ or hire 
 any child under thirteen years of age except as hereinafter pro- 
 vided. 
 
 2. In case it shall be made to appear to the board of edu- 
 cation or of school directors that the labor or services of any 
 child constitutes and is the means of support of an aged or 
 infirm relative, and that such relative is, in whole or in part, 
 dependent upon such child, then the board of education or 
 school directors shall issue to such child a certificate authoriz- 
 ing the employment of such child; such certificate shall state 
 the name, residence and age of such child, and a record thereof 
 shall be kept by the board of education or school directors in 
 a book kept for that purpose. 
 
 3. No such certificate shall be granted to any child unless 
 it shall be shown to the board of education or school directors 
 [of the district] in which such child resides, that such child has 
 attended some public or private day school for at least eight 
 (8) weeks in the current school year. 
 
 4. No person, firm or corporation shall employ any child 
 under the age of thirteen years, in any store, shop, factory or 
 manufacturing establishment, by the day, or any period of 
 time greater than one day, unless such certificate be furnished, 
 nor shall he permit any such child to work in his employ with- 
 out such certificate. He or they shall be authorized to retain 
 the certificate of any such child employed by him, which shall 
 be evidence admissible in any court. 
 
 5. Any person, firm or corporation who violates the pro- 
 visions of this act, and any father, guardian or person having 
 control of any child under the age of thirteen years, who 
 willingly permits or consents to the employment of such child 
 without such certificate as is prescribed by section three of this 
 act shall, for every offense, be fined in a sum not less than ten 
 nor more than fifty dollars, for the use of public schools of the 
 city or district in which such child resides. And every day 
 of the employment of any such child shall be deemed a sep- 
 arate offense. 
 
 APPROVED June 17, 1891. 
 
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 WOMEN MAY VOTE AT SCHOOL ELECTIONS. 
 
 
 Confers the right of suffrage upon women 
 21 years of age and over who may vote 
 at elections for school officers. Regis- 
 tration. 
 
 Shall be permitted to vote for school offi- 
 cers at any election. Ballots, at general 
 elections, to be put into separate boxes. 
 
 AN ACT to entitle women to vote at any election held for the pur- 
 pose of choosing any officer under the general or special school 
 laws of this State. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: Any woman of the 
 age of twenty-one years and upwards, belonging to either of 
 the classes mentioned in article 7 of the Constitution of the 
 State of Illinois, who shall have resided in this State one year, 
 in the county ninety days, and in the election district thirty 
 days preceding any election held for the purpose of choosing 
 any officer of schools under the general or special school laws 
 of this State, shall be entitled to vote at such election in the 
 school district of which she shall at the time have been for 
 thirty days a resident: Provided, any woman so desirous of 
 voting at any such election shall have been registered in the 
 same manner as is provided for the registration of male voters. 
 
 2. Whenever the election of public school officers shall occur 
 at the same election at which other public officers are elected, 
 the ballot offered by any woman entitled to vote under this act 
 shall not contain the name of any person to be voted for at 
 such election, except such officers of public schools, and such 
 ballots shall all be deposited in a separate ballot-box, but can- 
 vassed with other ballots cast for school officers at such election. 
 
 APPROVED June 19, 1891. 
 
 EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS. 
 
 $ 1. Authorizes the directors of any school district, created by special act, the limits of which are 
 co extensive with a city, to assume and pay any existing indebtedness. 
 
 AN ACT to allow directors of schools under special laws to assume 
 and provide for indebtedness heretofore created by the authorities 
 of a city for school purposes. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly: That whenever any city in 
 this State is by special law made a school district, or when- 
 ever any school district created by special law shall be co- 
 terminous with any city, the directors of such district shall 
 have the power, at the request of the city council, to assume 
 and provide for, by borrowing and taxation, any indebtedness 
 now existing, created by the authorities of the city for school 
 purposes. 
 
 APPROVED June 22, 1891. 
 
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 COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE. 
 
 1. Requires that children between the ages of 
 7 and 14 years shall attend school at 
 least 16 weeks in each year unless ex- 
 empt. 
 
 2. Penalties for violation of this act. 
 
 3. 
 
 Appointment of truant officers. Hearing 
 of charges for non-attendance. 
 
 4. Recovery of fines and penalties. 
 5. Penalties for evasion of this act. 
 
 AN ACT concerning the education of children. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly That every person 
 having control of any child between the ages of seven (7) and 
 fourteen (14) years, shall annually cause such child to attend 
 for at least sixteen (16) weeeks, twelve weeks of which attend- 
 ance shall be consecutive, some public or private day school: 
 Provided, that this act shall not apply in any case where the 
 child has been or is being otherwise instructed for a like period 
 of time in the elementary branches of education, or whose 
 physical or mental condition renders his or her attendance im- 
 practicable or inexpedient, or who is excused for sufficient rea- 
 sons by any competent court of record. 
 
 2. . For every willful neglect of such duty as prescribed by 
 section one (1) of this act, the person so offending shall forfeit 
 to the use of the public schools of the city, town or district in 
 which such child resides, a sum not less than one dollar ($1) 
 nor more than twenty dollars ($20), and costs of suit. 
 
 3. The board of education in cities, towns, villages and 
 school districts, and the board of school directors in school 
 districts may, at their discretion, appoint one or more proper 
 persons, whose duty it shall be to report all violations of this 
 act in writing to such board of education or board of direct- 
 ors, whose duty it shall be, when in their opinion the evidence 
 renders such action necessary, to notify in writing the parent 
 or guardian that such complaint has been made, and if cause 
 be not shown within five (5) days, to at once proceed against 
 the responsible person as is hereby provided. It shall also be 
 the duty of said board of education in cities, towns, villages 
 and school districts and boards of school directors in school 
 districts, to appoint one of their number, who shall be a dis- 
 creet and proper person, whose duty it shall be to hear excuses 
 and reasons of parents or guardians for the non-attendance of 
 children at school and to report in writing to said boards of 
 education or boards of directors at the next regular or special 
 meeting the names, ages and postoffice addresses of all per- 
 sons prosecuted under the provisions of this act. The persons 
 appointed as such officers shall be entitled to such compensa- 
 tion for services under this act as shall be determined by the 
 boards appointing them, and which compensation shall be paid 
 out of the distributable school fund. 
 
 4. Any fine and penalty mentioned in this act may be sued 
 for and recovered before any court of record or justice of the 
 
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 peace of the proper county in the name of the People of the 
 State of Illinois for the use of the public schools of the city, 
 town, village or district in which said child resides. 
 
 5. Any person having control of a child, who, with intent 
 to evade the provisions of this act, shall make a willfulfly] 
 false statement concerning the age of such child or the time 
 such child has attended school, shall for such offense forfeit a 
 sum of not less than $3 nor more than $20, for the use of pub- 
 schools for such city, town, village or district. 
 
 APPROVED June 19, 1893. 
 
 INSPECTORS ELECTED UNDER CERTAIN SPECIAL ACTS. 
 
 Certain districts, containing over 20,000 
 and less than 100,000 inhabitants, hav- 
 ing special charter*, though divided 
 for the election of school inspectors, are 
 made undivided districts with added 
 powers for the control and management 
 of schools. 
 
 2. Moneys raised by taxation, how drawn 
 
 and applied. 
 { 8. Record of the proceedings of boards of 
 
 inspectors. 
 4. Emergency. 
 
 AN ACT extending 1he powers of boards of school inspectors 
 elected under certain special acts 
 
 SECTION 1. Beit enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly: That in all cities in this 
 State having over 20,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants 
 whose schools are now operated under special law, and where, 
 by such special law, territory outside of the city limits is added 
 to the territory within the city for school purposes, and where 
 such school district or districts is not co-extensive with the 
 township in which such city is situated, and where, by such 
 special law, boards of school inspectors consisting of six mem- 
 bers (three in each . of two districts) are elected, the provisions 
 of any such special law dividing such territory into two dis- 
 tricts shall be held to be only for the purpose of electing mem- 
 bers of the board of school inspectors, and for all other pur- 
 poses the territory in two such districts shall be held to be in- 
 cluded in one school organization, and the board of school in- 
 spectors, in addition to the other powers given by such special 
 law, and general school laws, shall have power to employ 
 teachers, janitors and such other employes as such board shall 
 deem necessary, and to fix the amount of their condensation; 
 to repair and to improve school houses and to furnish them 
 with the necessary supplies, fixtures, apparatus, libraries and 
 fuel, and it shall be the duty of such board to take the entire 
 supervision and control of the schools in such district or dis- 
 tricts. 
 
 S.-. All money necessary for the purposes mentioned in 
 section one of this act shall be raised as now provided by law, 
 not to exceed the amount by law limited, and shall be held by 
 the treasurer as a special fund for school purposes, subject to 
 the order of school inspectors, upon warrants to be counter- 
 signed by the mayor and city clerk. 
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 3. The said board shall provide well-bound books at the 
 expense of the school tax fund, in which shall be kept a faith- 
 ful record of all of its proceedings. The yeas and nays shall 
 be taken and entered on the record of the proceedings of the 
 board upon all questions involving the expenditure of money. 
 
 4. Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore this act shall 
 take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 APPROVED June 19, 1893. 
 
 SCHOOL INSPECTORS. 
 
 1. Increasing number of school inspectors, 2. Emergency, 
 elected under special acts; from six to 
 seven members. 
 
 AN ACT increasing the number of school inspectors, elected under 
 special acts, from six to seven members. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That in all cities in 
 this State having over 10,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants, 
 whose schools are now operated under special law, and where r 
 by such special law, boards of school inspectors consisting of 
 six members (three in each of two districts) are elected, such 
 board shall hereafter consist of seven members; and at the time 
 other members of such boards are elected in April, 1895, and 
 each three years thereafter, such additional member shall be 
 elected for a term of three years, by all the voters entitled to 
 vote at school elections of the entire school territory embraced 
 in said two districts; and whenever such additional member is 
 to be elected, he shall be designated and voted for as "mem- 
 ber of board of school inspectors at large.'* 
 
 2. Whereas, an emergency exists, therefore this act shall 
 take effect and be in force from and after its passage. 
 
 APPROVED March 6, 1895. 
 
 KINDERGARTEN SCHOOLS. 
 
 1. School districts, upon authorization by 2. Teachers' certificates, 
 a majority of votes cast at an elec 
 tion for that purpose, to establish kin- 
 dergarten schools. 
 
 AN ACT authorizing school districts managed by boards of edu- 
 cation and directors to establish and maintain kindergarten 
 schools. Approved April 17, 1895, in force July 1, 1895. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly: That in addition toother 
 grades or departments now established and maintained in the 
 public schools of the State, any school district managed by a 
 board of education or a board of directors is hereby empowered, 
 when authorized by a majority of all the votes cast at an elec- 
 tion for that purpose, such election to be called and held in 
 
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 accordance with the provisions of Article IX of an act entitled 
 "An act to establish and maintain a system of free schools,' 7 
 approved and in force May 21, 1889, to establish in connection 
 with the public schools of such district, a kindergarten or 
 kindergartens for the instruction of children between the ages 
 of four and six years, to be paid for in the same manner as 
 other grades and departments now established and maintained 
 in the public schools of such district. No money accruing to- 
 such district from the school tax fund of the State shall be 
 used to defray the tuition or other expenses of such kinder- 
 garten, but the same shall be defrayed from the local tax and 
 the special school revenue of said district. 
 
 2. All teachers in kindergartens established under this act 
 shall hold a certificate issued as provided by law, certifying 
 that the holder thereof has been examined upon kindergarten 
 principles, and is competent to teach the same. 
 
 APPROVED April 17, 1895. 
 
 TEACHERS' PENSION AND RETIREMENT FUND. 
 
 5. Powers of trustee. 
 
 6. Special fund How created How and> 
 
 when drawn. 
 
 7. Custodian of fund. 
 
 8. Removals Contributions refunded to- 
 
 teachers. 
 
 1. Teachers and employes' pension and re- 
 tirement fund in certain cities -How 
 created. 
 
 2. Board of trustees Administration and 
 investment of fund. 
 
 3. Retirement. 
 
 4. Annuity. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for the formation and disbursement of a pub- 
 lic school teachers and public school employes' pension and 
 retirement fund in cities having a population exceeding one 
 hundred thousand inhabitants. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People in 1he State of Illi- 
 nois represented in the General Assembly: That the board of 
 education in cities having a population exceeding one hundred 
 thousand inhabitant sj shall have power, and it shall be the 
 duty of said board, to create a public school teachers and pub- 
 lic school employes' pension and retirement fund, and for that 
 purpose set apart the following moneys, to- wit: 
 
 1. An amount not exceeding one per cent, per annum of 
 the respective salaries paid to teachers and school employes 
 elected by such board of education, which amount shall be de- 
 ducted in equal installments from said salaries at the regular 
 times for the payment of such salaries. 
 
 2. All moneys received from donations, legacies, gifts, be- 
 quests, or otherwise, on account of said fund. 
 
 3. All moneys which may be derived from any and all 1 
 sources: Provided, however, that no taxes shall ever be levied 
 or an appropriation of public money be made for said fund 
 except as herein provided. 
 
 2. The board of education together with the superintend- 
 ent of schools, and two representatives to be selected annually 
 
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 by the teachers and employes of the public schools under con- 
 trol of said board shall form a board of trustees, a majority 
 of whom shall determine the amount to be deducted from the 
 salaries paid to teachers and employes as aforesaid, and shall 
 have charge of, and administer said fund, and shall have power 
 to invest the same as shall be deemed most beneficial to said 
 fund, in the same manner and subject to the same terms and 
 conditions as township treasurers are permitted to invest 
 school funds in article four (4) of an act entitled "An act to 
 establish and maintain a system of free schools," in force 
 May 4, 1889, and shall have power to make payments from said 
 fund of annuities granted in pursuance of this act, and shall 
 from time to time make and establish such rules and regula- 
 tions for the administration of said fund as they shall deem 
 best. 
 
 3. Said board of education shall have power, by a major- 
 ity vote of all its members to retire any female teacher or other 
 female school employe who shall have taught in public schools 
 or rendered service therein for a period aggregating twenty 
 years; and any male teacher or male school employe who shall 
 have taught or rendered service for a period aggregating 
 twenty-five years, and such teacher or school employe also 
 shall have the right after said term of service to retire and 
 become a beneficiary under this act: Provided, however, that 
 three -fifths of said term of service shall have been rendered 
 by said beneficiary within the limits of the municipality where 
 said board of education has jurisdiction. 
 
 4. Each teacher and school employ^ so retired or retiring 
 shall thereafter be entitled to receive as an annuity one-half of 
 the annual salary paid to said teacher or employ^ at the date 
 of such retirement, said annuity to be paid monthly during the 
 school year: Provided, however, that such annuity shall not ex- 
 ceed the sum of six hundred dollars ($600), which shall be paid 
 by said board of education out of the fund created in accord- 
 ance with this act in the manner provided by law for the pay- 
 ment of salaries. 
 
 5. Said board of trustees is hereby given the power to 
 use both the principal and the income of said fund for the pay- 
 ment of annuities hereinbefore mentioned, and shall have power 
 to reduce, from time to time, the amount of all annuities: 
 Provided, that such reduction shall be at the same rate in all 
 cases 
 
 6. The president and secretary of such board of education 
 shall certify monthly to the city treasurer all amounts deducted 
 from the salaries of teachers, special teachers, principals and 
 employes of the board of education in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of this act, which amounts as well as all other moneys 
 contributed to said fund, shall be set apart and held by said 
 treasurer as a special fund for the purposes hereinbefore 
 specified, subject to the order of said board of education, super- 
 
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 intendent of schools, and two representatives, as aforesaid, and 
 shall be paid out upon warrants signed by the president and sec- 
 retary of said board of education. 
 
 7. The city treasurer shall be custodian of said pension 
 fund, and shall secure and safely keep the same subject to the 
 control and direction of said board of trustees, and shall keep 
 his books and accounts concerning said fund in such manner as 
 may be prescribed by the said board. And said books and ac- 
 counts shall always be subject to the inspection of the said 
 board or any member thereof. 
 
 The treasurer shall, within ten days after his election or 
 appointment, execute a bond to the city, with good and suffi- 
 cient securities, in such penal sum as the said board shall di- 
 rect, to be approved by the said board, conditioned for the 
 faithful performance of the duties of his office, and that he will 
 safely keep, and well and truly account for all moneys and 
 profits which may come into his hands as such treasurer, and 
 that on the expiration of his term of office he will surrender 
 and deliver over to his successor all unexpended moneys and 
 all property which may have come into his hand as treasurer 
 of such fund. Such bond shall be filed in the office of the clerk 
 of such city, and in case of a breach of the same or the con- 
 ditions thereof, suit may be brought on the same in the name 
 of said city for the use of said board of trustees or of any 
 person or persons injured by such breach. 
 
 S 8. No teacher or other school employ^ who has been or who 
 shall have been elected by said board of education shall be re- 
 moved or discharged except for cause upon written charges, 
 which shall be investigated and determined by the said board 
 of education whose action and decision in the matter shall be 
 final. 
 
 If at any time a teacher or school employ 6 who is willing 
 to continue is not re-employed or is disch arged before the time 
 when he or she would under the provisions of this act be en 
 titled to a pension, then such teacher or school employ 6 shall 
 be paid back at once all the money, with interest, he or she 
 may have contributed under the law. 
 
 APPROVED May 21, 1895. 
 
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 UNITED STATES FLAGS TO BE PLACED ON SCHOOL 
 
 HOUSES. 
 
 f 1. To be upon all public school houses or I 2. Expenses How paid, 
 within the school grounds. | | 3. Penalty. 
 
 AN ACT to require the United States flag to be placed upon all 
 public buildings in Illinois, or upon* a flag pole erected within 
 the school grounds surrounding such school buildings. Became 
 a law June 26, 1895. In force July 1, 1895. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That the directors 
 or board of education of every school district in the State of 
 Illinois shall have power, and it is hereby made their duty, to 
 cause to be erected and to keep in repair upon all public school 
 houses, or within the school grounds surrounding suchQ public 
 school buildings which may be in their respective school dis- 
 tricts, a good and sufficient flag- staff or pole, together with all 
 necessary adjustments, and that they shall provide a United 
 States flag of suitable proportions, which shall be floated from 
 such flag staff or pole during the school hours of such days as 
 the school may be in session, and as a majority of the pupils 
 attending said school may determine: Provided, that the flag 
 shall not be hoisted during any day when a violent storm or 
 inclement weather would destroy or materially injure such flag. 
 
 2. Such flag-staff or pole, adjustments and repairs and all 
 necessary flags shall be paid for from any school moneys not 
 otherwise appropriated, which may be in the hands of the 
 township treasurer for the use of any school district in which 
 such expenditures have been made. 
 
 3. Any person or persons who shall willfully injure, de- 
 face or destroy any flag, flag-staff or pole, or adjustments at- 
 tached thereto,- erected and arranged for the purpose of carry- 
 ing out the requirements of this act, shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less 
 than one (1) doliar nor more than fifteen (15) dollars. 
 
 This bill, having remained with the Oovernor for the period of ten days {Sundays excepted) 
 after the adjournment, of the General Assembly, a,nd h not having filfid it with his objections 
 thereto m the office of the Secretary of State, it becomes a law in like manner as if he had signed it. 
 
 Witness my hand this ^bth day of June, A. D. 1895. 
 
 W. H. IllNRICHSBN, 
 
 Secr&tary of State. 
 
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 UNITED STATES FLAGS TO BE PLACED ON PUBLIC 
 
 BUILDINGS. 
 
 4. Penalty. 
 
 5. Prosecutions under this act. 
 
 1. On school houses, colleges and educa- 
 tional institutions. 
 
 f 2. County boardjs to provide flags. 
 
 $ 3. On penal, reformatory and State charita- 
 ble institutions. 
 
 AN ACT to provide for placing United States national flags on 
 school houses, court houses and other public buildings in this 
 State. Became a law June 26, 1895. In force July 1, 1895. 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the 
 duty of all school directors and boards of education of all pub- 
 lic schools in the State, and trustees and boards of directors 
 of all colleges and educational institutions of every description 
 in this State, whether State, county, municipal, district, sectar- 
 ian or private, to provide United States' national flags of not 
 less than four by eight feet in size, and cause the same to be 
 unfurled and kept floating from, a suitable flag-staff to be placed 
 on the top of all public school houses, college buildings, and 
 all buildings used for educational purposes in this State, 
 whether the same be conducted by the State, or by county, 
 township, municipal, district, sectarian, corporation or private 
 authority, on each and every day when such schools, colleges 
 and educational institutions are in session, from nine o'clock 
 a. m. to four o'clock p. m., in each and every year. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors in 
 counties under township organization, and the board of com- 
 missioners in counties not under township organization, to pro- 
 vide United States national flags of not less than four by eight 
 feet in size, to be unfurled and kept floating from a suitable 
 flag-staff to be placed on the top of the court house in their 
 respective counties, and it is hereby made the duty of the 
 sheriff of each and every county in the State to see that the 
 flag so provided shall be hoisted on its flag -staff above the 
 court house and kept floating from eight o'clock a. m. to five 
 o'clock p. m. on each and every day of the year. 
 
 3. The commissioners and trustees of all penal and re- 
 formatory and State charitable institutions of this State shall 
 provide United States' national flags of not less than ten by 
 twenty feet in size, and cause the same to be unfurled and 
 kept floating above the said penal and reformatory and State 
 charitable institutions or on a suitable flag-pole in each and 
 every day in the year, from eight o'clock a. m. to five o'clock 
 
 E. m. : Provided, that the flags used by any and all of the 
 tate institutions, as provided for in this act, shall be paid for 
 out of the funds appropriated for the running expenses of said 
 institutions, the same as other necessary supplies are bought 
 and paid for: And, provided furthe", that flags for use over 
 public school buildings and court houses are hereby declared 
 to be necessary supplies and may be paid for out of the pub- 
 lic funds of the respective school districts and counties. 
 
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 4. If any of the persons named in this act, whose duty it- 
 shall be to provide flags for and have the same placed in po- 
 sition over the several buildings, as provided for in this act, 
 shall refuse or neglect to so provide flags and have "them 
 placed in position as required by this act; or if he sheriff of 
 any county in this State shall refuse or neglect to place the 
 flag so provided in position over the court house of the county 
 in which he is sheriff, shall, each and every one of them, be 
 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof be 
 fined not less than three nor more than ten dollars and costs 
 of suit for each and every day that they shall so neglect or 
 refuse to comply with the provisions of this act. 
 
 5. Prosecutions under this act shall be by complaint or 
 information, and be tried by any court of competent jurisdic- 
 tion under the same rules as other misdemeanors: Provided, 
 that fines collected under this act shall be paid into the school 
 fund of the district and into the county treasury of the county 
 wherein this act has been violated: And, provided, furfhvr, that 
 States' Attorneys shall be entitled to a fee of five dollars for 
 each conviction under this act, to be collected as part of the 
 costs of the suit; except where an appeal is taken from the 
 justice's court to county or circuit court, then in that case the 
 State's Attorney shall be entitled to ten dollars for each con- 
 viction, to be collected as part of the costs of the suit. 
 
 This bill, having remained with the Governor for a period of ten days (Sundays excep ted) 
 after the adjournment of the General Assembly, and he not having filed it with his objections 
 thereto in the office of the Secretary of State, it becomes a law in like manner as if he had signed it. 
 Witness my hand this 2oth day of June, A. D. 1895. 
 
 W. H. HINRICHSEN, 
 
 Secretary of Sta'e. 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
 [Containing acts establishing State Normal Schools, providing for County Normal Schools an<f 
 providing for State Scholarships in the University of Illinois.] 
 
 CENTRAL ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL UNIVERSITY, NORMAL. 
 
 AN ACT for the establishment and maintenance of a Normal 
 
 University. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacfed by the People of the Slate of Illi- 
 nois, represenfed in the General Assembly: That C. B. Denio, of 
 Jo Daviess county, Simeon Wright, of Lee county, Daniel Wil- 
 kins, of McLean county, C. E. Hovey, of Peoria county, George 
 P. Rex, of Pike county, Samuel W. Moulton, of Shelby county,. 
 John Gillespie, of Jasper county, George Bunsen, of St. Clair 
 county, Wesley Sloan of Pope county, Ninian W. Edwards, of 
 Sangamon county, John Eden, of Moultrie county, Flavel 
 Mosley, of Cook county, William H. Wells, of Cook county, Al- 
 bert R. Shannon, of White county, and the Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction, ex-officio, with their associates, who shall be 
 elected as herein provided, and their successors are hereby cre- 
 ated a body corporate and politic, to be styled. "The Board of 
 Education of the State of Illinois," and by that name and style 
 shall have perpetual succession, and have power to contract and 
 be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be im- 
 pleaded, to acquire, hold and convey real and personal property; 
 to have and use a common seal, and to alter the same at pleas- 
 ure; to make and establish by-laws and alter or repeal the same 
 as they shall deem necessary for the government of the normal 
 university hereby authorized to be established, or any of its de- 
 partments, officers, students or employes, not in conflict with 
 the constitution and laws of this State or of the United States; 
 and to have and exercise all powers, and be subje ct to all duties- 
 usual and incident to trustees of corporations. 
 
 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, by virtue of his 
 office, shall be a member and secretary of said board, and shall 
 report to the legislature at its regular sessions the condition. 
 
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 and expenditures of said normal university, and communi- 
 cate such further information as the said board of education or 
 the legislature may direct. 
 
 3. No member of the board of education shall receive any 
 compensation for attendance on the meetings of the board, ex- 
 cept his necessary traveling expenses; which shall be paid in the 
 ,same manner as the instructors employed in the said normal 
 university shall be paid. At all the stated and other meetings 
 of the board, called by the president or secretary, or any five 
 members of the board, five members shall constitute a quorum, 
 provided all shall have been duly notified. 
 
 4. The objects of the said normal university shall be to 
 qualify teachers for the common schools of this State, by im- 
 parting instruction in the art of teaching, and all branches of 
 study which pertain to a common school education; in the ele- 
 ments of the natural sciences, including agricultural chemistry, 
 animal and vegetable physiology; in the fundamental laws of 
 the United States and the State of Illinois, in regard to the 
 rights and duties of citizens, and such other studies as the 
 board of education may, from time to time, prescribe. 
 
 5. The board of education shall hold its first meeting at 
 the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on the 
 iirst Tuesday in May next, at which meeting they shall appoint 
 an agent, fixing his compensation, who shall visit the cities, 
 villages and other places in the State, which may be deemed 
 eligible for the purpose, to receive donations and proposals for 
 the establishment and maintenance of the normal university. 
 The board shall have power, and it shall be their duty, to fix 
 the permanent location of said normal university, at the place 
 where the most favorable inducements are offered for that pur- 
 pose: Provided, that such location shall not be difficult of 
 access, or detrimental to the welfare and prosperity of said 
 normal university. 
 
 6. The board of education shall appoint a principal, lecturer 
 on scientific subjects, instructors and instructresses, together 
 with such other officers as shall be required in the said normal 
 university; fix their respective salaries and prescribe their several 
 duties. They shall also have power to remove any of them for 
 proper cause, after having given ten days' notice of any charge, 
 which may be duly presented, and reasonable opportunity for 
 defense. They shall also prescribe the text books, apparatus 
 and furniture to be used in the university, and provide the 
 same; and shall make all regulations necessary for its manage- 
 ment. And the board shall have power to recognize auxiliary 
 institutions when deemed practicable: Provided^ that such 
 auxiliary institutions shall not receive any appropriation from 
 the treasury, or the seminary or university fund. 
 
 7. Each county in the State shall be entitled to gratui- 
 tous instruction for *one pupil in said normal university; and 
 
 * Made two by act approved February 14, 15161. 
 
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 each representative district shall be entitled to gratuitous in- 
 struction for a number of pupils equal to the number of repre- 
 sentatives in said district, to be chosen in the following manner: 
 The school commissioner [county superintendent | in each county 
 shall receive and register the names of all applicants for admis- 
 sion in said normal university, and shall present the same to 
 the county court, or, in counties acting under township organi- 
 zation, to the board of supervisors, which said county court or 
 board of supervisors, as the case may be, shall, together with 
 the county commissioner, examine all applicants so presented, 
 in such a manner as the board of education may direct, and 
 from the number of such as shall be found to possess the requi- 
 site qualifications, such pupils shall be selected by lot; and in 
 representative districts composed of more than one county, the 
 school commissioner and the county judge, or the school com- 
 missioner and chairman of the board of supervisors, in counties 
 acting under township organization, as the case may be, of the 
 several counties composing such representative district, shall 
 meet at the clerk's office of the county court of the oldest 
 county, and from the applicants so presented to the county 
 court, or board of supervisors, of the several counties repre- 
 sented, and found to possess the requisite qualifications, shall 
 select by lot the number of pupils to which said district is en- 
 titled. The board of education shall have the discretionary 
 power, if any candidate does not sign and file with the secre- 
 tary of the board a declaration that he or she shall teach in 
 the public schools within the State, in case that engagements 
 can be secured by reasonable efforts, to require such candidate 
 to provide for the payment of such fees for tuition as the board 
 may prescribe. 
 
 $ 8. The interest of the university and seminary fund, or such 
 part thereof as may be found necessary, shall be and is hereby 
 appropriated for the maintenance of said normal university, and 
 shall be paid on the order of the board of education from the 
 treasury of the State; but in no case shall any part of the in- 
 terest of said fund be applied to the purchase of sites, or for 
 buildings for said university. 
 
 9. The board shall have power to appropriate the one 
 thousand dollars received from the Messrs. Merriam, of Spring- 
 field, Massachusetts, by the late Superintendent, to the purchase 
 of apparatus for the use of the normal university, when estab- 
 lished, and hereafter all gifts, grants and demises which may 
 be made to the said normal university shall be applied in 
 accordance with the wishes of the doners of the same. 
 
 10. The board of corporators herein named, and their suc- 
 cessors, shall each of them hold their office for the term of six 
 years: Provided, that at the first meeting of said board, the 
 said corporators shall determine by lot, so that one-third shall 
 hold their office for two years, one -third for four years and one- 
 third for six years. The Governor, by and with the advice and 
 
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 consent of the Senate, shall fill all vacancies which shall, at 
 any time, occur in said board, by appointment of suitable per- 
 sons to fill the same. 
 
 11. At the first meeting of the board, and at each biennial 
 meeting thereafter, it shall be the duty of said board to elect 
 one of their number president, who shall serve until the next 
 biennial meeting of the board, and until his successor is elected. 
 
 12. At each biennial meeting, it shall be the duty of the 
 board to appoint a treasurer, who shall not be a member of 
 the board, and who shall give bond w r ith such security as the 
 board may direct, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the 
 duties of his office. 
 
 13. This act shall take effect on and after its passage, and 
 be published and distributed as an appendix to the school law, 
 
 APPROVED February 18, 1857. 
 
 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS NORMAL UNIVERSITY, CARBONDALE. 
 
 AN ACT to establish and maintain the Southern Illinois Normal 
 
 University. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the General Assembly: That a body politic 
 and corporate is hereby created, by the name of the Southern 
 Illinois Normal University, to have perpetual succession, with 
 power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, 
 to plead and be impleaded, to receive, by any legal mode of 
 transfer or conveyance, property of any description, and to have, 
 hold and enjoy the same, with the rents and profits thereof, 
 and to sell and convey the same; also, to make and use a cor- 
 porate seal with power to break or change the same, and to 
 adopt by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of its 
 members, officers, agents and employes: Provided, such by-laws 
 shall not conflict w r ith the Constitution of the United States or 
 of this State. 
 
 2. The objects of the said South ern Illinois Normal Univer- 
 sity shall be to qualify teachers for the common schools of this 
 State by imparting instruction in the art of teaching in all 
 branches of study which pertain to a common school education, 
 in the elements of the natural sciences, including agricultural 
 chemistry, animal and vegetable physiology, in the fundamental 
 laws of the United States, and of the State of Illinois, in regard 
 to the rights and duties of citizens, and such other studies as 
 the board of education may, from time to time, prescribe. 
 
 3. The powers of the said corporation shall be vested in, 
 and its duties performed by, a board of trustees, not exceeding 
 five in number, to be appointed as hereinafter provided. 
 
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 4. Upon the passage of this act, the Governor shall nom- 
 inate and, by and with the advice of the Senate, appoint five 
 citizens of the State as trustees of said institution, two of whom 
 shall serve for two years, and three for four years, and until their 
 successors are appointed and enter on duty, and successors in 
 each class shall be appointed in like manner for four years: 
 Provided, that in case of a vacancy by death or otherwise, 
 the Governor shall appoint a successor for the remainder of 
 the term vacated: Provided, that not more than two members 
 of said board shall be residents of any one county. 
 
 5. The said trustees shall hold their first meeting at Cen- 
 tralia, within one month after the passage of this act, at which 
 meeting they shall elect one of their body as president and an- 
 other as secretary; and cause a regular record to be made and 
 kept of all their proceedings. The said board shall also, when- 
 ever his services shall be required, appoint a treasurer, not a 
 member of the board, who shall give bonds to the People of the 
 State of Illinois in double the amount of the largest sum likely 
 to come into his hands, the penalty to be fixed by the board, 
 conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as treasurer, 
 with two or more securities; the treasurer may also be required 
 to executed bonds from time to time as the board may direct. 
 
 6. The treasurer shall keep an accurate account of all 
 moneys received and paid out; the account for articles and 
 supplies of every kind purchased shall be kept and reported, 
 so as to show the kind, quantity and cost thereof. 
 
 7. No member, officer, agent or employ^ of the board 
 shall be a party to or interested in any contract for materials, 
 supplies or cervices other than such as pertain to their posi- 
 tions and duties. 
 
 jj *. Accounts of this institution shall be stated and settled 
 annually with the Auditor of Public Accounts, or with such 
 person or persons as may be designated by law for that pur- 
 pose. And the trustees shall, ten days previous to each regu- 
 lar session of the General Assembly, submit to the Governor 
 a report of all their actions and proceedings in the execution 
 of their trust, with a statement of all accounts connected their- 
 with, to be by the Governor laid before the General Assembly. 
 
 9. The said board shall meet quarterly at such places or 
 place as may be agreed on, and, until the buildings are com- 
 pleted, as much oftener as may be necessary; and thereafter 
 the meetings shall be at the university. 
 
 10. The trustees shall, as soon as practicable, advertise 
 for proposals from localities desiring to secure the location of 
 said normal university, and shall receive, for not less than 
 three months from the date of their first advertisement, pro- 
 posals for points situated as hereinafter mentioned, to donate 
 lands, buildings, bonds, moneys, or other valuable considera- 
 tion, to the State in aid of the foundation and support of said 
 university; and shall, at a time previously fixed by advertise- 
 
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 ment, open and examine such proposals, and locate the insti- 
 tution at such point as shall, all things considered, offer the 
 most advantageous conditions. The land shall be selected 
 south of the railroad, or within six miles north of said road, 
 passing from St. Louis to Terre Haute, known as the Alton 
 and Terre Haute railroad, with a view of obtaining a good 
 supply of water and other conveniences for the use of the 
 institution. 
 
 11. Upon the selection and securing of the land aforesaid, 
 the trustees shall proceed to contract for the erection of build- 
 ings in which to furnish educational facilities for such number 
 of students as hereinafter provided for, together with the out- 
 houses required for use, also for the improvement of the land 
 so as to make it available for it he use of the institution. The 
 buildings shall not be more than two stories in height, and 
 be constructed upon the most approved plan for use, shall 
 front to the east, and shall be of sufficient capacity to accom- 
 modate not exceeding three hundred students, with the officers 
 and necessary attendants. The outside walls to be of hewn 
 stone or brick, partition walls of brick, roofs of slate, and the 
 whole buildings made fire-proof, and so constructed as to bo- 
 warmed in the most healthy and economical manner, with 
 ample ventilation in all its parts. The out- houses shall be so- 
 placed and constructed as to avoid all danger to the main 
 buildings from fire originating in any one of them. The board 
 shall appoint an honest, competent superintendent of the 
 buildings and improvements aforesaid, whose duty shall be to 
 be always present during the progress of the work, and see 
 that every stone, brick and piece of timber used is sound and 
 properly placed, and whose right it shall be to require con- 
 tractors and their employes to conform to his directions in 
 executing their contracts; Provided, however, that said board 
 of trustees may appoint any one of their number such super- 
 intendent: And, provided, further, that the buildings aforesaid 
 may be erected and improvements made under the direction of 
 the board and its superintendent, without letting the same to 
 contractors. 
 
 12. The said board of trustees shall appoint instructors 
 and instructresses, together with such other officers as may 
 be required in the said normal university; fix their respective 
 salaries and prescribe their several duties. They shall also 
 have power to remove any of them for proper cause after 
 having given ten days' notice of any charge which may be 
 duly presented, and reasonable opportunity of defense. They 
 shall also prescribe the text books, apparatus and furniture to 
 be used in the university and provide the same, and shall 
 make all regulations necessary for its management. 
 
 13. All the counties shall be entitled to gratuitous instruc- 
 tion for two pupils for each county in said normal university, 
 and each representative district shall be entitled to gratuitous in- 
 
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 struction for a number of pupils equal to the number of repre- 
 sentatives in said district, to be chosen in the following manner: 
 The superintendent of schools in each county shall receive and 
 register the names of all applicants for admission in said nor- 
 mal university, and shall present the same to the county court, 
 or, in counties acting under township organization, to the board 
 of supervisors, which said county court or board of supervis- 
 ors, as the case may be, shall, together with the superintend- 
 ent of schools, examine all applicants so presented, in such 
 manner as the board of trustees may direct; and from the num- 
 ber of such as shall be found to possess the requisite qualifi- 
 cations, such pupils shall be selected by lot, and in represent- 
 ative districts composed of more than one county, the superin- 
 tendent of schools and county judge, or the superintendent of 
 schools and chairman of the board of supervisors hi counties 
 acting under township organization, as the case may be, of the 
 several counties composing such representative district, shall 
 meet at the clerk's office of the county court of the oldest 
 county, and from the applicants so presented to the county 
 court or board of supervisors of the several counties repre- 
 sented, and found to possess the requisite qualifications, shall 
 select by lot the number of pupils to which said district is en- 
 titled. The board of trustees shall have discretionary power, 
 if any candidate does not sign and file with the secretary of 
 the board a declaration that he or she will teach in the public 
 schools within the State not less than three years, in case that 
 engagements can be secured by reasonable efforts, to require 
 [the] candidate to provide for the payment of such fees for 
 tuition as the board may prescribe. 
 
 14. To enable the board of trustees to erect the buildings 
 and make the improvements preparatory to the reception of 
 pupils in said institution, and to supply the necessary furni- 
 ture for the same, the sum of seventy-five thousand dollars is 
 hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury, payable on the 
 orders of said board, as required for use, in sums not exceed- 
 ing ten thousand dollars per month. The first payment to be 
 made on the first day of June next, and subsequent payments 
 monthly thereafter, but each successive order for subsequent 
 payments shall be accompanied by an account sustained by 
 vouchers, showing, to the satisfaction of the Auditor, the ex- 
 penditure of the previous payment. 
 
 15. The expense of building, improving, repairing and 
 .supplying fuel and furniture, and the salaries or compensation 
 of the trustees, superintendent, assistants, agents and employes, 
 shall be a charge upon the State Treasury; all other expenses 
 shall be chargeable against pupils, and the trustees shall regu- 
 late the charges accordingly. 
 
 16. If the buildings and improvements herein provided for 
 shall be ready for the reception of pupils before the next reg- 
 ular session of the General Assembly, the Governor is author- 
 ized to make orders on the Auditor, directing him to issue war- 
 
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 rants at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year for amounts 
 sufficient to pay the expenses chargeable against the State, and 
 the Auditor shall issue warrants accordingly, which shall be 
 paid by the Treasurer. 
 
 17. Trustees of this institution shall receive their personal 
 and traveling expenses, and the Auditor is hereby authorized 
 to issue his warrants quarterly, upon taking the affidavit of 
 the trustees as to the actual time employed, and their per- 
 sonal and traveling expenses. 
 
 18. This act shall take effect and be in force from and 
 after its passage. 
 
 APPROVED March 9, 1869. 
 
 EASTERN ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, CHARLESTON. 
 
 AN [ACT] to establish and maintain the Eastern Illinois State 
 
 Normal School. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illi- 
 nois, represented in the Greneral Assembly: That a body politic 
 and corporate is hereby created, by the -name of the Eastern 
 Illinois State Normal School, to have perpetual succession, with 
 power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, 
 to plead and be impleaded, to receive by any legal mode or 
 transfer or conveyance property of any description, and to have 
 and hold and enjoy the same; also to make and use a corporate 
 seal with power to break or change the same, and adopt by- 
 laws, rules and regulations for the government of its members, 
 official agents and employes: Provided, such by-laws shall not 
 conflict with the Constitution of the United States or of this 
 State. 
 
 2. The object of the said Eastern Illinois State Normal 
 School shall be to qualify teachers for the common schools of 
 this State by imparting instructions in the art of teaching in 
 all branches of study which pertain to a common school educa- 
 tion; in the elements of the natural and of the physical sciences; 
 in the fundamental laws of the United States and of the State 
 of Illinois, in regard to the rights and duties of citizens. 
 
 3. The powers of the said corporation shall be vested [inj, 
 and its duties performed by, a board of trustees, not exceeding 
 five in number, to be appointed as hereinafter provided. 
 
 4. Upon the passage of this act, the Governor shall nom- 
 inate, and, by and with the advice of the Senate, appoint five 
 citizens who shall be residents of the State outside of the ter- 
 ritory within which this school is to be located, as trustees of 
 said institution, two of whom shall serve for two years and 
 three for four years, and until their successors are appointed 
 and enter on duty; and successors in each class shall be ap- 
 
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 pointed in like manner for four years: Provided, that in case 
 of a vacancy by death or otherwise, the Governor shall appoint 
 a successor for the remainder of the term vacated: Provided, 
 that no two members of said board shall be residents of any 
 one county or in one senatorial district. The Superintendent 
 of Public Instruction shall be a trustee of said school, ex-officio. 
 
 5. The said trustees shall hold their first meeting at .... 
 within one month from the time this act goes into effect, at 
 which meeting they shall elect one of their body as president 
 and another as secretary, and cause a regular record to be made 
 and kept of all their proceedings. The said board shall also, 
 whenever his services shall be required, appoint a treasurer, 
 not a member of the board, who shall give bonds to the Peo- 
 ple of the State of Illinois in double the amount of the 
 largest sum likely to come into his hands, the penalty to be 
 fixed by the board, conditioned for the faithful discharge of 
 his duties as treasurer, with two or more securities; the treas- 
 urer may also be required to execute bonds from time to time 
 as the board may direct. 
 
 IK The treasurer shall keep an accurate account of all 
 moneys received and paid out; the account for articles and sup- 
 plies of every kind purchased shall be kept and reported, so 
 as to show the kind, quantity and cost thereof. 
 
 7. No member, officer, agent or employe of the board shall 
 be a party to, or interested in, any contract for materials or 
 supplies. 
 
 8. Accounts of this institution shall be stated and settled 
 annually with the Auditor of Public Accounts, or with such 
 person or persons as may be designated by law for that pur- 
 pose. And the trustees shall, ten days previous to each regu- 
 lar session of the General Assembly, submit to the Governor 
 a report of all their actions and proceedings in the execution 
 of their trust, with a statement of all accounts connected 
 therewith, to be by the Governor laid before the General 
 Assembly. 
 
 9. The said board shall meet quarterly at such place or 
 places as may be agreed on, and, until the buildings are com- 
 pleted, as much oftener as may be necessary, and thereafter 
 the meetings shall be at the school. 
 
 10. The trustees shall, as soon as practicable after their 
 appointment, arrange to receive from the localities desiring to 
 secure the location of said school, proposals for donation of a 
 site, of not less than forty acres of ground, and other valuable 
 considerations, and shall locate the same in the place offering 
 the most advantageous conditions, all things considered, in 
 that portion of the State lying north of the Baltimore & Ohio 
 Southwestern Railroad, and south of the Wabash Railroad, and 
 east of the main line of the Illinois Central Railroad, and the 
 
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 counties through which said roads run, with a view of obtain- 
 ing a good water supply and other conveniences for the use 
 of the institution. 
 
 11. Upon the selection and securing of the land aforesaid, 
 the trustees shall proceed to secure plans, and to contract for 
 the erection of buildings in which to furnish educational facil- 
 ities for such number of students as hereinafter provided for, 
 together with the out-houses required for use; also for the im- 
 provement of the land so as to make it available for the use 
 of the institution. - The buildings shall not be more than two 
 stories in height, and be constructed upon the most approved 
 plans for use, and shall be of sufficient capacity to accommodate 
 not less than one thousand students, with the officers and neces- 
 sary attendants. The outside walls to be of hewn stone or brick, 
 partition walls of brick, or equally good fire-proof material; roof 
 of slate, and the whole buildings made fire resisting, and so con- 
 structed as to be warmed in the most healthful and economical 
 manner, with ample ventilation in all its parts, The out-houses 
 shall be so placed and constructed as to avoid all danger to the 
 main buildings from fire originating in any one of them. The board 
 shall appoint a trustworthy and competent superintendent of the 
 buildings and improvements aforesaid, whose duty it shall be to 
 be always present during the progress of the work, and see that 
 every brick, stone and piece of timber used is sound and properly 
 placed, and whose right it shall be to require contractors and 
 their employes to conform to his directions in executing their 
 contracts: Provided, however, that said board of trustees shall 
 not appoint any one of their number such superintendent: And, 
 provided, further, that the buildings aforesaid may be erected and 
 improvements made under the direction of the board and super- 
 intendent, without letting the same to contractors. 
 
 12. The said board of trustees shall appoint instructors, to- 
 gether with such other officers as may be required in the said 
 normal schools, fix their respective salaries and prescribe their 
 several duties. They shall also have power to remove any of 
 them for proper cause after having given ten days' notice of any 
 charge which may be duly presented, and reasonable opportunity 
 of defense. They shall also prescribe the text-books, apparatus 
 and furniture to be used in the school, and provide the same, and 
 shall make all regulations necessary for this management. 
 
 13. All the counties of the State shall be entitled to 
 gratuitous instruction for two pupils for each county in said 
 normal school, and each representative district shall be entitled 
 to gratuitous instruction for a number of pupils equal to the 
 number of representatives in said district, to be chosen in the 
 following manner: The superintendent of schools in each county 
 shall receive and register the names of all applicants for admis- 
 sion in said normal school, and shall present the same to the 
 county court, or in counties acting under township organization, 
 to the board of supervisors, as the case may be, shall, together 
 
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 with the superintendent of schools, examine all applicants so pre- 
 sented, in such manner as the board of trustees may direct; and 
 from the number of such as shall be found to possess the requisite 
 qualifications, such pupils shall be selected by lot; and in 
 representative districts composed of more than one county, the 
 superintendent of schools and county judge, or the superintend- 
 ent of schools and the chairman of the board of supervisors in 
 counties acting under township organization, as the case may be, 
 of the several counties composing such representative district, 
 shall meet at the clerk's office of the county court of the oldest 
 county, and from the applicants so presented to the county court 
 or board of supervisors of the several counties represented, and 
 found to possess the requisite qualifications, shall select by lot 
 the pupils to which said district is entitled. The board of trus- 
 tees shall have discretionary power, if any candidate does not 
 sign and file with the secretary of the board a declaration that he 
 or she will teach in the public schools within the State not less 
 than three years, in case that engagements can be secured by 
 reasonable efforts, to require the candidate to provide for the pay- 
 ment of such fees for buition, as the board may prescribe. 
 
 g 14. To enable the board of trustees to erect the build- 
 ings and make the improvements preparatory to the reception 
 of pupils in said institution, to supply the necessary furniture 
 for the same, and for the first year's instruction, the sum 
 of fifty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of the 
 State Treasury, payable on the orders of said board, as re- 
 quired for use, in sums not exceeding ten thousand dollars per 
 month; the first payment to be made on the first day of July, 
 1*<6, and subsequent payments shall be accompanied by an ac- 
 count, sustained by vouchers, showing to the satisfaction of the 
 Auditor and with the approval of the Governor, the expenditure 
 of the previous payment. 
 
 15. The expense of the building, improving, repairing 
 and supplying fuel and furniture, and the necessary appliances 
 and apparatus for conducting said school, and the salaries or 
 compensation of trustees, superintendent, assistants, agents 
 and employes, shall be a charge upon the State Treasury; 
 all other expenses shall be chargeable against pupils and the 
 trustees shall regulate the charges accordingly. 
 
 16. If the buildings and improvements herein provided 
 'for shall be ready for the reception of pupils before the next 
 regular session of the the General Assembly, the Governor is 
 authorized to make orders on the Auditor, directing him to 
 issue warrants at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year 
 for amounts sufficient to pay expenses chargeable against the 
 State out of the above named appropriation of fifty thousand 
 dollars, and the Auditor shall issue warrants accordingly, which 
 shall be paid by the Treasurer. 
 
 17. The trustees of the institution shall receive their per- 
 sonal and traveling expenses, and the Auditor is hereby author- 
 
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 ized to issue warrants quarterly, upon taking the affidavit of 
 the trustees as to the actual time employed, and their personal 
 and traveling expenses. 
 
 APPROVED May 22, 1895. 
 
 NORTHERN ILLINOIS STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, DEKALB. 
 
 AN ACT to establish and to maintain the Northern Illinois State 
 
 Normal School. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly: That a body politic and 
 corporate is hereby created, by the name of the Northern Illi- 
 nois State Normal School, to have perpetual succession, with 
 power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, 
 to plead and be impleaded, to receive by any legal mode or 
 transfer or conveyance property of any description, and to 
 have and hold and enjoy the same; also to make and use a 
 corporate seal with power to break or change the same, and 
 adopt by-laws, rules and regulations for the government of 
 its members, official agents and employes: Provided, such by- 
 laws shall not conflict with the Constitution of the United 
 States or of this State. 
 
 2. The object of the said Northern Illinois State Normal 
 School shall be to qualify teachers for the common schools of 
 this State by imparting instruction in the art of teaching in 
 all branches of study which pertain to a common school educa- 
 tion, in the elements of the natural and of the physical sciences, 
 in the* fundamental laws of the United States and of the State of 
 Illinois, in regard to the rights and duties of citizens. 
 
 3. The powers of the said corporation shall be vested in, and 
 its duties performed by, a board of trustees, not exceeding five 
 in number, to be appointed as hereinafter provided. 
 
 4. Upon the passage of this act, the Governor shall nomi- 
 nate, and by and with the advice of the Senate, appoint five 
 citizens of the State as trustees of said institution, two of 
 whom shall serve for two years, and three for four years, and 
 until their successors are appointed and enter on duty, and 
 successors in each class shall be appointed in like manner for 
 four years: Provided, that in case of a vacancy by death or 
 otherwise, the Governor shall appoint a successor for the 
 remainder of the term vacated: Provided, that *no two mem- 
 bers of said board shall be residents of any one county, or in 
 one congressional district. The Superintendent of Public In- 
 struction shall be a trustee of this school, ex-officio. 
 
 5. The said trustees shall hold their first meeting at 
 ..... . . .within one month from the time this act goes into effect, 
 
 at which meeting they shall elect one of their body as president 
 
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 and another as secretary, and cause a regular record to be made 
 and kept of all their proceedings. The said board shall also, 
 whenever his services shall be required, appoint a treasurer, not 
 a member of the board, who shall give bonds to the People of 
 the State of Illinois in double the amount of the largest sum 
 likely to come into his hands, the penalty to be fixed by the 
 board, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as 
 treasurer, with two or more securities; the treasurer may also 
 be required to execute bonds from time to time as the board may 
 direct. 
 
 6. The treasurer shall keep an accurate account of all 
 moneys received and paid out; the account for articles and sup- 
 plies of every kind purchased shall be kept and reported, so as 
 to show the kind, quantity and cost thereof. 
 
 7. No member, officer, agen t or employe of the board shall 
 I)*- a party to or interested in any contract for materials or 
 
 supplies. 
 
 *. Accounts of this institution shall be stated and settled 
 annually with the Auditor of Public Accounts, or with such 
 person or persons as may be designated by law for that pur- 
 pose. And the trustees shall, ten days previous to each regu- 
 lar session of the General Assembly, submit to the Governor 
 a report of all their actions and proceedings in the execution 
 of their trust, with a statement of all accounts connected there- 
 with, to be by the Governor laid before the General Assembly. 
 
 it. The said board shall meet quarterly at such place or 
 places as may be agree i on. and, until the buildings are com- 
 plete :1, as much oftener as may be necessary, and thereafter 
 the meetings shall be at the school. 
 
 1.0. The trustees, shall, as soon as practicable after their 
 appointment, arrange to receive from the localities desiring to 
 secure the location of said school, proposals for the donation 
 of a site, of not less than forty acres of ground, and other 
 valuable considerations, and shall locate the same in the place 
 offering the most advantageous conditions, all things considered, 
 as nearly central as possible in that portion of the State, 
 lying north of the main line of the C., R. I. & P. R. R., with 
 a view of obt lining a good water supply and other conveniences 
 for the use of the institution. 
 
 11. Upon the selection and securing the land aforesaid, 
 the trustees shall proceed to secure plans and to contrp.ct for 
 the erection of buildings in which to furnish educational 
 facilities for such number of stulents as hereinaftar provided 
 for, together with the outhouses require! for use, also for the 
 improvement of the land so as to make it available for the use 
 of the institution. The building shall not be more than two 
 stories in height, and be constructed upon the most approved 
 plan for use, and shall be of sufficient capacity to accommodate 
 not less than one thousand students, with the officers and 
 necessary attendants. Tne outside walls to be of hewn stone 
 
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 or brick, partition walls of brick, or equally good fire-proof 
 material; roof of slate, and the whole buildings made fire-resist- 
 ing, and so constructed as to be warmed in the most healthful 
 and economical manner, with ample ventilation in all its parts. 
 The out -houses shall be so placed and constructed as to avoid 
 all danger to the main buildings from fire originating in any 
 one of them. The board shall appoint a trustworthy and com- 
 petent superintendent of the buildings and improvements afore- 
 said, whose duty it shall be to be always present during the 
 progress of the work, and see that every brick, stone and piece 
 of timber used is sound and properly placed, and whose right 
 it shall be to require contractors and their employes to conform to 
 his directions in executing their contracts: Provided, however, 
 that said board of trustees shall not appoint any one of their 
 number such superintendent: And, provided, Jurlher, that the 
 buildings aforesaid may be erected and improvements made 
 under the the direction of the board and superintendent, with- 
 out letting the same to contractors. 
 
 12. The said board of trustees shall appoint instructors, 
 together with such other officers as may be required in the 
 said normal schools, fix their respective salaries and prescribe 
 their several duties. They shall also have power to remove 
 any of them for proper cause after having given ten days notice of 
 any charge which may be duly presented, and reasonable 
 opportunity of defense. They shall also prescribe the text- 
 books, apparatus and furniture to be used in the school and 
 provide the same, and shall make all regulations necessary for 
 this management. 
 
 13. All the counties of the State shall be entitled to gra- 
 tuitous instruction for two pupils for each county in said normal 
 school, and each representative district shall be entitled to 
 gratuitous instruction for a number of pupils equal to the num- 
 ber of representatives in said district, to be chosen in the fol- 
 lowing manner: The superintendent of schools in each county 
 shall receive and register the names of all applicants for ad- 
 mission in said normal school and shall present the same to 
 the county court, or in counties acting under township organi- 
 zation, to the board of supervisors, as the case may be, shall, 
 together with the superintendent of schools, examine all appli- 
 cants so presented, in such manner as the board of trustees 
 may direct, and from the number of such as shall be found to 
 possess the requisite qualifications, such pupils shall be selected 
 by lot, and in representative districts composed of more than 
 one county, the superintendent of schools and county judge, 
 or the superintendent of schools and the chairman of the board 
 of supervisors in the counties acting under township organization, 
 as the case may be, of the several counties composing such rep- 
 resentative district, shall meet at the clerk's office of the county 
 court of the oldest county, and from the applicants so presented 
 to the county court or board of supervisors of the several 
 counties represented, and found to possess the requisite quali- 
 
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 fications, shall select by lot <the pupils to which said district is 
 entitled. The board of trustees shall have discretionary power, 
 if any candidate does not sign and file with the the secretary 
 of the board a declaration that he or she will teach in the pub- 
 lic schools within the State not less than three years, in case 
 that engagements can be secured by reasonable efforts, to re- 
 quire the candidate to provide for the payment of such fees for 
 tuition as the board may prescribe. 
 
 14. To enable the board of trustees to erect the buildings 
 and make the improvement preparatory to the reception of pupils 
 in said institution, to supply the necessary furniture for the 
 same, and for the first year's instruction, the sum of fifty thou- 
 sand dollars is hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury, 
 payable on the orders of said board, as required for use, in 
 sums not exceeding ten thousand dollars per month, the first 
 payment to be made on the first day of July, 1896, and subsequent 
 payments shall be accompanied by an account, sustained by 
 vouchers, showing to the satisfaction of the Auditor the expendi- 
 ture of the previous payment, and approved by the Governor. 
 
 15. The expense of the building, improving, repairing and 
 supplying fuel and furniture, and the necessary appliances and 
 apparatus for conducting said school, and the salaries or compen- 
 sation of the trustees, superintendent, assistants, agents and em - 
 ploye*s, shall be a charge upon the State Treasury; all other ex- 
 penses shall be chargeable against pupils, and the trustees shall 
 regulate the charges accordingly. 
 
 16. If the buildings and improvements herein provided 
 for shall be ready for the reception of pupils before the next 
 regular session of the General Assembly, the Governor is author- 
 ized to make orders on the Auditor, directing him to issue war- 
 rants at the end of each quarter of the fiscal year for amounts 
 suificient to pay expenses chargeable against the State out of the 
 above named appropriation of fifty thousand dollars, and the 
 Auditor shall issue warrants accordingly, which shall be paid by 
 the Treasurer. 
 
 17. The trustees of this institution shall receive their per- 
 sonal and traveling expenses, and the Auditor is hereby author- 
 ized to issue warrants quarterly, upon taking the affidavit of the 
 trustees as to the actual time employed, and their personal and 
 traveling expenses. 
 
 APPROVED May 22, 1895. 
 
 COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 AN ACT io enable counties 1o establish county normal schools. 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, 
 represented in the General Assembly: That in each county adopt- 
 ing township organization, the board of supervisors, and in 
 other counties the county court, may establish a county nor- 
 mal school for the purpose of fitting teachers for the common 
 
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 schools. That they shall be authorized to levy taxes and ap- 
 propriate moneys for the support of said schools, and also for 
 the purchase of necessary grounds and buildings, furniture, 
 apparatus, etc., and to hold .and acquire, by gift or purchase, 
 either from individuals or corporations, any real estate, build- 
 ings or other property, for the use of said schools, said taxes 
 to be levied and collected as all other county taxes: Provided, 
 that in counties not under township organization, county courts 
 shall not be authorized to proceed under the provisions of this 
 act until the subject shall have been submitted to a vote of 
 the people, at a general election, and it shall appear that a 
 majority of all the votes cast on the subject, at said election, 
 shall be in favor of the establishment of a county normal school. 
 The ballots used in voting on this subject may read "For a 
 county normal school," or "Against a county normal school." 
 
 2. The management and control of said school shall be in a 
 county board of education, consisting of not less than five or 
 more than eight persons, of which board the chairman of the 
 board of supervisors or the judge of the county court, as the case 
 may be, and the county superintendent of schools, shall be ex 
 officio members. The other members shall be chosen by the 
 board of supervisors or county court, and shall hold their offices 
 for the term of three years. But at the first election one-tjiird 
 shall be chosen for one year, one- third for two years, and one- 
 third for three years, and thereafter one third shall be elected 
 annually. Said election shall be held at the annual meeting of 
 the board of supervisors in September, or at the September term 
 of the county court, as the case may be. 
 
 3. Said board of education shall have power to hire teach- 
 ers, and to make and enforce all needful rules and regulations 
 for the management of said schools. A majority of said board 
 shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a 
 meeting of said board may be called at any time by the president 
 or secretary, or by any three of the members thereof. Said 
 board shall proceed to organize, within twenty days after their 
 appointment, by electing a president, who shall hold his office 
 for one year, and until his successor shall be appointed. The 
 county superintendent shall be, ex officio, secretary of the board. 
 Said board shall make to the board of supervisors, at their an- 
 nual meeting in September, or to the county court at the Sep- 
 tember term, as the case may be, a full report of the condition 
 and expenditures of said county normal school, together with an 
 estimate of the expenses of said school for the ensuing year. 
 
 4. Two or more counties may unite in establishing a normal 
 school, in which case the per cent, of tax levied for the support 
 of said school shall be the same in each county. 
 
 5. In all counties that have already established normal 
 schools, the action of the board of supervisors in so doing, and 
 all appropriations made by them for their support, are hereby 
 legalized, and said board of supervisors are hereby authorized 
 
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 and empowered to make further appropriations for the support 
 of such schools already established, until such schools shall have 
 been established under the previous sections of this act. 
 
 6. No member of the aforesaid county board of education 
 shall be entitled to compensation for services rendered as a mem- 
 ber of such board. 
 
 7. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. 
 APPROVED March 15, 1869. 
 
 THE ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY. 
 
 AN ACT io provide for Stale scholarships in the University of 
 lllwoip, and the manner of awarding 1he same. Approved 
 June 24, 1895. In force July 1, 1895. 
 
 SECTION 1. Be it enacled by Ihe People of the Stale of Illinois, 
 represented m the General Assembly: That to equalize the ad- 
 A^antages of the University of Illinois ' to all parts of the State, 
 there shall be awarded annually, as hereinafter provided, to 
 each county of the State one State scholarship, which shall 
 entitle the holder thereof, who shall be a resident of the 
 senatorial district to which he is accredited, to instruction in 
 any or all departments of said University of Illinois for a term 
 of four years, free from any charge for tuition or any inci- 
 dental charge, unless such incidental charges shall have been 
 made for materials used or for damages needlessly done to 
 property of the University: Provided, that in counties having 
 two or more senatorial districts, there shall be aw r arded an- 
 nually one additional scholarship for each 'of said senatorial 
 districts. 
 
 2. A competitive examination under the direction of the 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be held at the 
 county court house in each county of the State upon the first 
 Saturday of June in each and every year by the county super- 
 intendent of schools, upon such branches of study as said 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction and the President of said 
 University may deem best. 
 
 3. Questions for such examinations shall be prepared and 
 furnished by the President of the University to the Superintend- 
 ent of Public Instruction, who shall attend to the printing and 
 distribution thereof to the several county superintendents of 
 schools prior to such examinations. 
 
 4. In case any candidate who shall be awarded a scholar- 
 ship shall fail to pass the entrance examination to the Uni- 
 versity, or shall fail to claim the privileges of such scholarship, 
 or, having claimed the privileges, shall be expelled, or for any 
 reason shall abandon his right to, or vacate, such scholarship, 
 either before or after entering thereupon, then the candidate 
 certified to be next entitled in the same county shall become 
 
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 entitled to the same. In case any scholarship belonging to 
 any county shall not be claimed by any candidate resident in 
 that county, the Superintendent of . Public Instruction may fill 
 the same by - appointing some candidate first entitled to a 
 vacancy in some other county, after notice has been served 
 upon the county superintendent of said first mentioned county. 
 
 5. The county superintendents shall, within ten days after 
 such examination, make and file in the office of the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction certificates, in which they shall 
 name all the candidates examined, and specify the order of 
 their excellence; and such candidates shall, in the order of 
 their excellence, become entitled to the scholarships belonging 
 to their respective counties. The examination papers handed 
 in by each candidate shall also be filed with the certificate of 
 examination. 
 
 6. Candidates, to be eligible to said scholarship, shall be 
 at least sixteen years of age, and shall have been bona fide 
 residents of their respective counties for at least one year imme- 
 diately preceding the examination. 
 
 7. Any student holding a State scholarship, and who shall 
 make it appear to the satisfaction of the President of the Uni- 
 versity that he requires leave of absence for the purpose of 
 earning funds to defray his expenses while in attendance, 
 may, in the discretion of the President, be granted such a 
 leave of absence, and may be allowed a period not exceeding 
 six years from commencement thereof for the completion of 
 his course at said University. 
 
 8. Notices of the time and place of the examination shall 
 be given in the schools having pupils eligible thereto prior to 
 the first day of January in each year. The Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction shall attend to the giving of the notices 
 hereinbefore provided for. He may, in his discretion, direct 
 that the examination in any county may be held at some other 
 time and place than that hereinbefore specified. He shall keep 
 full records in his department of the reports of the different 
 examiners, showing the age, post-office address and standing 
 of each candidate, and shall notify candidates of their rights 
 under this act. He is hereby charged with the general super- 
 vision and direction of all matters in connection with the fill- 
 ing of such scholarships. He shall determine any controversy 
 which may arise under this act. 
 
 9. Students enjoying the privileges of State scholarships 
 shall, in common with other -students of said University, be 
 subject to all the examinations, rules and requirements of the 
 board of trustees and faculty, except as herein provided. 
 
 10. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to pre- 
 vent the board of trustees of said University from granting 
 such other free scholarships as in their discretion may be 
 deemed best 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 PAGE. 
 Accounts of county superintendent, how 
 
 kept 11 
 
 of township treasurer, examined by 
 
 county superintendent 10 
 
 same, how kept 33 
 
 same, subject to inspection 34 
 
 of township treasurer with school dis- 
 tricts 37 
 
 same, semi-annual statement of. 37 
 
 Actions, civil 
 
 against collector of taxes 11,64 
 
 against county board 70 
 
 against persons failing to pay over 
 
 fines and forfeitures 81 
 
 against purchaser of school lands 77 
 
 against school officers 83,84 
 
 against townnhtp treasurer... 3U,83 
 
 against township trustees .. . 13,18,30,83,84 
 against trespassers on school lands ... 75 
 
 to recover interest 36 
 
 to recover on mortgages 36 
 
 to recover on notes, etc., belonging to 
 
 the scho6l fund 34,36 
 
 Actions, criminal 
 
 against school officers 84 
 
 against persons preventing colored 
 
 children from attending school 86 
 
 against trespassers on school lands ... 75 
 
 Acts, official, to be recorded 19, 42,51 
 
 repealed 88 
 
 special, may be relinquished 31 
 
 Administrators to give preference to debts 
 
 due the school fund 36 
 
 Advertisements of sale of school houses or 
 
 site 21 
 
 of sale of school lands 22, 76 
 
 Advice given to school officers by State 
 
 Superintendent 5 
 
 to school officers and teachers by coun- 
 ty superintendents 10 
 
 Age of persons enumerated in school cen- 
 sus 20 
 
 in statiat'cs of illiteracy 20 
 
 of school children 43 
 
 taken as basis of apportionment of 
 
 funds 13,19,71 
 
 Apparatus, school may be purchased 45 
 
 may not be sold by school teacher or 
 
 officer 7,43,85 
 
 Appeal from county superintendent to 
 
 State Superintendent 14 
 
 from trustees to county superinten- 
 dent 26,27 
 
 Apportionment of funds by Auditor 71 
 
 by countv superintendent 13 
 
 by township trustees 19 
 
 Appraisal and distribution of district.- 
 property, when a new district is 
 
 formed 29,30 
 
 of school lands 76 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Appraisers, how appointed 30 
 
 Assessor to note number of districts, in as- 
 sessing personal property 63 
 
 Assistant of county superintendent 8 
 
 his compensation 9 
 
 Attachment, writ of, etc 34 
 
 Attorneys, State's, duties of, with regard 
 
 to liens and forfeitures 80 
 
 Auditor, State, to apportion public funds 71 
 to withhold funds at request of State 
 
 Superintendent 6 
 
 to file transcript of land sales. 78 
 
 to issue patents for school lands 78 
 
 to issue warrant for pay o.' county 
 
 superintendent 9,69 
 
 when patents ai lost to issue dupli- 
 cates . 79 
 
 Board of directors 40 
 
 Poard of Education of the State of Illi- 
 nois, the 5,99- 
 
 Board of Education of the township See 
 "Township Board of Education.'" 
 
 Board of Education 48 
 
 appointed when 52,90 
 
 elected when 48, 9? 
 
 funds withheld from 87 
 
 in cities of 1,000, powers and duties of.. 50 
 in cities of 100,000, powers and duties 
 
 of 53 
 
 in cities with special school charters.. .. 92 
 
 term of office of 48, 90 
 
 to make reports 51 
 
 to appoint a truant officer to enforce 
 
 compulsory law 96 
 
 Bond- 
 official, county superintendent's 7 
 
 approval of 7 
 
 custodian of. 8 
 
 form of 7,3 
 
 insufficiency of 8 
 
 State Superintendent's, approval of 
 
 custodian of. 3 
 
 township treasurer's, approved by 
 
 county superintendent 13 
 
 same, by trustees 32 
 
 custodian of 13 
 
 form of 33 
 
 insufficiency of 13 
 
 same, trustees liable for 84 
 
 Bonded debt, how disposed of in case of 
 
 change of district lines 28 
 
 Bonds 64 
 
 original issue of . .. 65 v 
 
 same, amount limited -. .. 65 
 
 same, registry of 65 
 
 refunding without registration with 
 
 Auditor 66 
 
 vote of people for the issue necessary, .. 65 
 
124 
 
 Books. See "Text books' 1 . PAGE. 
 
 Boundaries, district. See "District boun- 
 daries " 
 
 Branches of study determined by direct- 
 ors 44,53,54,57 
 
 by voters 57 
 
 See also "Teacher's certificate." 
 
 Census of children under 21 taken by 
 
 county superintendent 12, 13 
 
 by directors 42 
 
 by trustees 20 
 
 State basis of apportionment, by Auditor 71 
 Certificate of amount of tax due each 
 
 district 62 
 
 of tax levy 62 
 
 how made when district lies in two 
 
 or more counties 62 
 
 Certificate of licensure, teachers 54,56 
 
 age of applicants 57 
 
 essential that the tearher have one 
 good for the entire term of his con- 
 tract 44,57 
 
 issued by county superintendents 56 
 
 same, examinations for 56 
 
 same, form of 57 
 
 same, fee for 67 
 
 same, grades of 56 
 
 same, qualifications for 56 
 
 same, record of. 57 
 
 same, renewal of 57 
 
 same, revocation of 56 
 
 issued by State Superintendent 56 
 
 same, examination for 56 
 
 same, revocation of 56 
 
 Certificate of purchase See "Common 
 school lamis " 
 
 Changes of text books 44 
 
 Charitable institutions. State educational, 
 
 visited b.v State Superintendent 5 
 
 to make report . .. 6 
 
 Children, all to receive a good common 
 
 school educat'on 1,43 
 
 scoured the right to instruction in the 
 branches of un elementary educa- 
 tion 96 
 
 colored, rights 01 in public schools 86 
 
 illiterate, number of reported 4,20 
 
 number of in public schools, re- 
 ported 4,20,42 
 
 number of under 2!, basis of appor- 
 tionment 13,19,71 
 
 number of under 21. reported 4,20,42 
 
 penalty for employing, when under 13.. 94 
 
 penalty for failure to report 84 
 
 penalty for falne report 84 
 
 under 13, unlawful to hire. 94 
 
 Churches to receive no appropriation from 
 
 scho-lfund 85 
 
 Cities and towns 
 
 of 1,000 inhabitants 49 
 
 of 100, 000 inhabitants 52 
 
 to forfeit funds, when 87 
 
 with special charters 51,52,87 
 
 same, modified... 61,87,90,91 
 
 Clerk oi board of directors, appointed 42 
 
 compensation of 45 
 
 to enter treasurer's exhibit on records.. 38 
 
 to keep a record .... 42 
 
 same, to submit to treasurer 42 
 
 to post exhibit of treasurer at annual 
 
 election.... 44 
 
 to report to township treasurer 42 
 
 board of trustees See "Township 
 
 treasurer." 
 Clerks of courts of record to report and pay 
 
 over fines and forfeitures 80 
 
 Collectors of taxes ; 
 
 liability of, lor non-payment of district 
 
 taxes collected 64 
 
 Collectors of taxes PAGE. 
 to give notice to directors and trus- 
 tees 86,87 
 
 to pay amount of Auditor's warrant to 
 
 county superintendent 71 
 
 to pay amount of district taxes col- 
 lected to township treasurer 63 
 
 to state to township treasurer amount 
 
 of district taxes uncollected 64 
 
 Colleges, etc., to report. .. 87 
 
 Colored children in public schools 86 
 
 Common school lands (16th section)... 74 
 
 business with regard thereto, where 
 
 transacted 74 
 
 certificate of purchase of 78 
 
 same, filed with county superintend- 
 ent 78,79 
 
 same, duplicate of. . 79 
 
 patents, conveying title to 78 
 
 same, duplicates ... 79 
 
 payment to secure purchase 77 
 
 same, failure to make 77 
 
 rental of. 74 
 
 right of way over, granted 75 
 
 sale of 75 
 
 same, advertisement of 76,77 
 
 same, at'private sale 78 
 
 same, made by county superintendent.. 78 
 
 same, manner of 78 
 
 same, petition for 75 
 
 same, in fractional townships 75 
 
 same, notice of, given trustees 76 
 
 same, place of r t 
 
 same, terms of 77 
 
 sale of at subsequent time 78 
 
 statement ot sales of, to county board 78 
 
 same, examined and recorded. 78 
 
 same, transcript of, filer! with Auditor.. 78 
 
 trustees to divide into lots and plat ... 76 
 
 tovaluelots 76 
 
 to re-value lots . 78 
 
 See alno "Real estate " 
 
 Compensation of school officers 88 
 
 of assistants of county superintendent. 9 
 
 of clerk of board of directors 45 
 
 of county superintendent 9 
 
 of townsh p treasurer 40 
 
 Compulsory attendance 96 
 
 Condemnation of land for school site 46 
 
 Consolidation of districts. See "District 
 
 boundaries " 
 of townships. See "Township '' 
 
 Constitution of Illinois, 1870, Art. V, Sec. 
 
 1, and Art. VIII of 1 
 
 Contracts made by boards of trustees and 
 directors, members not to be inter- 
 
 estelin 43,85 
 
 made with teachers, conditions of va- 
 lidity of 55,56 
 
 Control of school houses 45 
 
 Controversies arininy: under school law 14 
 
 appeal of, to State Superintendent ..... 5 
 
 Conveyance of real estate by county super- 
 intendent ! 11,79 
 
 by trustees 22,76 
 
 to cities in trust 55 
 
 Corporation, board of education, a 49 
 
 board of directors, a 40 
 
 board of trustees, a . , 15 
 
 not to make sectarian grants 1,85 
 
 Costs not chargeable to school officers, 
 
 when 86 
 
 County board 69 
 
 bills of county superintendent to be 
 
 audited by 9,70 
 
 bond of county superintendent ap- 
 proved b.v 
 
 examination of report of land sales by 9,70 
 liability of, for failure to make examin- 
 ation 70,71 
 
PAGE. 
 bond of county eu- 
 
 County board 
 may require nt- 
 perintendent . 
 
 must furnish office and supplies 70 
 
 removal of county superintendent by 
 vacancy in ollice of county superin- 
 tendent 70 
 
 County clerk 67 
 
 election of 1 rustees, ordered by 16 
 
 list of trustees furnished county super- 
 intendent by 18,67 
 
 map of to wnehip, filed by 27 
 
 tax-payers, list of, filed by 27,67 
 
 to compute district taxes 68 
 
 to certify to same to township treas- 
 urers 68 
 
 to record statement of land sales 69 
 
 to transmit county superintendent's 
 
 bill to State Auditor 69 
 
 County fund 
 
 consists of what 71 
 
 loaned by county superintendent 14 
 
 County superintendent of schools 7 
 
 accounts of township treasurer, exam- 
 ined by 10 
 
 adviser of school teachers and officers . . 10 
 appeal from, to State Superintendent .. 14 
 
 appeal to, Irom action of trustees 10 
 
 apportionment of funds by 13 
 
 same, of interest on county fund 13 
 
 assistant of 8 
 
 bond of 7 
 
 bond of township treasurer, approved 
 
 and held by 13 
 
 may demand that same be increased. .. 32 
 
 certificate, teacher's, may grant 10,56 
 
 same, may renew or revoke 11,56 
 
 same, to make record of 10,57 
 
 compensation of 8,9 
 
 controversies under school law, referred 
 
 to 7. 14 
 
 county funds, loaned by 13 
 
 directors, may order election ol 41 
 
 same, may remove 11,47 
 
 election of 7 
 
 examination of teachers, to make 10,56 
 
 examination of treasurer's accounts, 
 
 etc ,to make 10 
 
 fines and forfeitures, duties of, concern- 
 ing 13,80 
 
 funds, withheld by 13,87 
 
 may be chosen 2 
 
 notes, etc., taken by , 14 
 
 oath of office, taken by 7 
 
 office for 8 
 
 office turned over to successor by 14 
 
 qualifications of 2 
 
 real estate, may sell and convey, and 
 
 lease 11,79 
 
 records, kept by 11 
 
 removal of, by county board 69 
 
 report of, to county board 11,78 
 
 same, to State Superintendent 12 
 
 same, to trustees, on treasurer's ac- 
 counts, etc 10 
 
 sale of common school lands by. See 
 "Common school lands. 1 ' 
 
 schools visited by 9 
 
 statistics of townships. may makeup.. 12 
 same, cost of may collect from trus- 
 tees 13 
 
 supplies for 8 
 
 teachers examined by. 10,56 
 
 teachers' institutes conducted by 10, 58 
 
 treasurer's accounts examined by 10 
 
 treasurer's bonds approved and held 
 
 by ;.... 13 
 
 trustees, election of, ordered by J . 10 
 
 vacancy in office of, how filled 8 
 
 County treasurer to give notice to directors 
 
 and trustees 86 
 
 PAGE. 
 Debt,bonded, how disposed of in case of 
 
 change of district lines ....; 28 
 
 Debts of old districts 1 o be deducted 30 
 
 due school funds, preferred claims 36 
 
 same, may be compromised by trus- 
 tees 22 
 
 Default in payment of loans or interest 
 
 thereon 36 
 
 penalty for same 36 
 
 Demands against school officers, lien for, 
 
 upon real estate 84 
 
 Diploma of county normal school some- 
 times qualification for first grade 
 
 certificate 56 
 
 Directors of schools, a body politic and 
 
 corporate 40 
 
 boards of, elected 40 
 
 apparatus purchased by, when 45 
 
 Directors of schools- 
 bonds issued by 46, 64 
 
 bonds refunded by . 66 
 
 blanches of study prescribed by .44,54 
 
 certificate of tax levy -made by 62 
 
 same, when to return 62 
 
 same, when district is in two or moreCTD 
 
 counties 62 
 
 clerk of,see "Clerk." 
 
 dismissal of teacher 45 
 
 duties of, with regard to the schools.. 43, 45 
 
 election of 40 
 
 same, notices of 41 
 
 same, ordered by county superintend- 
 ent 41 
 
 same, ordered by township treasurer. .. 41. 
 
 election of, on Saturday 41 
 
 same, postponed 41 
 
 elections to choose school sites, etc, 
 
 called by 46, 65 
 
 exclusion of colored children from 
 
 schools by, prohibited 86 
 
 exhibit by township treasurer to . . 37 
 
 same, posted by, at annual election 38 
 
 interest in contract made by the board, 
 
 prohibited to '43 
 
 same, in sales of books, etc., used in 
 
 the district, prohibited to 2,43,85 
 
 interest on teachers" orders, to pay 
 
 when 38,fil 
 
 judges of distiict elections 41 
 
 judgments and executions against 88 
 
 for conversion of school fund 84 
 
 for lailure to discharge duties of 
 
 office 83,84,85 
 
 for failure to make returns, or for 
 making false returns of statistics.. 84 
 
 for loss of school funds 85 
 
 for perversion of school funds to 
 
 sectarian purposes 85 
 
 to district 83 
 
 liable 46,47,83,84,85 
 
 libraries and apparatus purchased by, 
 
 when 45 
 
 may assume indebtedness created for 
 
 distiict 95 
 
 may borrow money, when 65 
 
 may compensate cierk 45 
 
 may not be trustees 40 
 
 meeting of 42 
 
 names of teachers reported to county 
 
 superintendent by 43 
 
 non-residence of members of, consti- 
 tutes vacancy 40 
 
 official business of, how transacted 42 
 
 orders drawn by 44,46,47 
 
 same, may not be drawn when 44,46 
 
 organization 42 
 
 poll-book, returned by 42 
 
 power of, to tax 61,62 
 
 same, limitations 62,64,65 
 
 powers of, limited;.. 62 
 
126 
 
 Directors of schools PAGE. 
 
 president of board 42 
 
 property of district, personal, sale of, 
 
 by 45 
 
 pupils transferred by 47 
 
 same, amount due on account of, col- 
 lected by 47 
 
 qualifications of 40 
 
 quorum of 42 
 
 records kept by 42 
 
 records, submitted to treasurer 42 
 
 removal of 47 
 
 reports to treasurer 42 
 
 schedules, certified by 44,60 
 
 same, delivered to township treasurer 
 
 by 44 
 
 same, delivery of limited 44 
 
 same, receipted for 60 
 
 schedules, separate, delivered by, 
 
 when 47,59 
 
 school house controlled by 45 
 
 same, use of for meetings granted by . . . 45 
 
 school house site, located by, when 46 
 
 teachers, employment of, by 43 
 
 same, how limited 44, 57 
 
 teachers, payment of,by 44 
 
 same, how limited 44 
 
 term of oflBce 41 
 
 tie at election of 41 
 
 to notify collector of taxes to whom to 
 pay the money belonging to a union 
 
 district 43,64 
 
 "transfer of pupils by 47 
 
 truant officer appointed by 96 
 
 vacancy in office of, how filled 41 
 
 women may be elected 40,86 
 
 District, boundaries of, how changed 25,52 
 
 township a, for high school 23,24 
 
 Districting of newly organized township... 25 
 
 Districts, changes of 25 
 
 dissolved, when 30 
 
 divided by county lines, taxation in .... 62 
 
 elections in 28,42,48 
 
 elections to vote on change 25 
 
 formation of .'. .. 25 
 
 funds of, held by township treasurer 22 
 
 indebtedness created for, may be as- 
 sumed 95 
 
 list of taxpayers in, to be filed 27 
 
 maps of, made and filed 27 
 
 property of, held by trustees 21 
 
 same, when divided 30 
 
 taxes of. See "Taxes/' 
 
 with 1, 000 inhabitants 48 
 
 with 100,000 inhabitants 52 
 
 See "Union Districts. 11 
 
 Division of property of a district 30 
 
 Donations, etc., for school purposes 1,21. 
 
 same, for sectarian purposes, prohib- 
 ited 1,85 
 
 Education, good common school, to be af- 
 forded all children 1 
 
 elementary, secured to children 96 
 
 Effects of alcohol and narcotics 91 
 
 Elections. See "State Superintendent;" 
 
 "County Superintendent; 1 ' ''Directors 
 
 of Schools;" "Township Trustees;" 
 
 "Boards of Education.' 1 
 
 to purchase, move or build a school 
 
 house 46 
 
 Eligibility to office, to board of educa- 
 tion 53 
 
 to board of directors 40 
 
 to board of trustees 16 
 
 to township treasurership 19 
 
 Eligibility of women to office under school 
 
 laws 40,86 
 
 Enumeration of children. See "Census." 
 
 separate, made when 20 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Examination of books, accounts, etc , of 
 county superintendent by county 
 
 board 12,70 
 
 of directors by township treasurer 42 
 
 of treasurer by county superintend- 
 ent 10 
 
 same, by trustees 21 
 
 Examination of teachers by county super- 
 intendent 10,56 
 
 for State certificates 5,56 
 
 Execution issued against directors and 
 
 trustees 88 
 
 Executors to give preference to school 
 
 debts 36 
 
 Exemption from road labor and military 
 
 duty 88 
 
 Expulsion.of pupils by directors 45 
 
 False returns of children 84 
 
 Fines. See "Penalties.' 1 
 
 Fines and forfeitures 80 
 
 Flags on school houses 102,103,104 
 
 Forfeiture of funds by townships 20 
 
 Form of bond of county superintendent. .. 
 
 of bond of township treasurer 33 
 
 of notice to districts affected by 
 
 changes proposed 26 
 
 of mortgage 35 
 
 of orders by directors 47 
 
 of register 59 
 
 of schedule and certificates thereto 60 
 
 of school orders ..47,73 
 
 of tax certificates 62 
 
 of teacher's certificates and record 57 
 
 of treasurer's record of notes 34 
 
 Fractional townships. See Townships 
 fractional." 
 
 Free schools established 1 
 
 Fund, school, county, consists of what 7 
 
 interest on, distributed 13,72 
 
 principal of, loaned 14 
 
 real estate belonging to 79 
 
 Fund, school, State, consists of what 71 
 
 distributed 71 
 
 Funds, school, township, consist of 
 
 what 72 
 
 interest distributed 72 
 
 principal loaned 34,72 
 
 real estate belonging to 21,72 
 
 Funds. See "Apportionment of funds." 
 
 forfeiture of 20 
 
 withheld by county superintendent 13,87 
 same, by order of State Superintend- 
 ent 6 
 
 Funds, school district, custodian of S 
 
 how paid out 73 
 
 surplus loaned 35 
 
 union district's collected in one treas- 
 urer's hands - 43,64 
 
 Furniture, school, sale of by school officers 
 
 prohibited 2,85 
 
 purchase of. 62 
 
 General Assembly to establish free 
 
 schools 1 
 
 Governor to approve State Superintend- 
 ent's bond 
 
 Graduates of county normal schools 56 
 
 High school, township. See "Township 
 
 high school." 
 Holidays 61 
 
 Illinois State Normal University 99 
 
 Illiteracy, report of 4,20 
 
 Imprisonment of school officers 84,85 
 
127 
 
 PAGE. 
 Indebtedness created for certain districts 
 
 may be assumed by directors ....... 95 
 
 previous, tax to pay, not limited ....... 62 
 
 refunded ................................ 66,67 
 
 Indictment of school officers ............... 84,85 
 
 of trespasser ............................. 75 
 
 Informer to receive half ..................... 75 
 
 Institutes, superintendents to assist in ____ 10,58 
 
 fees for .................................. 58 
 
 teachers may attend without deduction 
 of wages ............................... 58 
 
 Institutions of learning to report ........... 87 
 
 Insurance of improvements on real estate 
 
 Interest, action to recover .................. 37 
 
 added to principal .................. 37,72,73 
 
 diHtributed ...... ....................... 37,72 
 
 on teacher's orders unpaid ............. 61 
 
 same, how stopped ..................... 61 
 
 penalty lor default in payment of ....... 36 
 
 rates on bonds ......................... 65,67 
 
 rates on loans ........................... 34 
 
 State to pay ............................. 71 
 
 Judges of elections of directors ............. 41 
 
 delivery of poll-book by ................. 42 
 
 Judges of elections of tru-tees ............... 16 
 
 delivery of poll-book by. ............... 18 
 
 Judgment's against school officers ......... . 88 
 
 [ZH against purchasers of school lands ..... 77 
 
 Justices, duties of, concerning fines and for- 
 
 feitures ................................ 80 
 
 Kindergarten schools .................... 98,99 
 
 Lands See "Common School Lands" and 
 "Real Estate." 
 
 Levy of taxes See "Taxes." 
 
 Liability of school officers ................... 82 
 
 Libraries, school, provisions for ........... 45,50 
 
 Lien on real estate of school officers from 
 
 date of issuing process ................ 84 
 
 Limit of indebtedness, bonds, etc .......... 65,67 
 
 of tuxaMon ............................. 62,65 
 
 Loans of county funds ...................... 14 
 
 of district funds, surplus ................ 35 
 
 of township fund ....................... 34, 35 
 
 Loss of funds, liability for .................. 85 
 
 Mandamus, writ of .......................... 88 
 
 Map of township ............................ 39 
 
 filed in twenty days by township treas- 
 
 urer ................................... 39 
 
 Meetings, of directors ....................... 42 
 
 of trustees ................ . .............. 19 
 
 in school houses ......................... 45 
 
 Miscellaneous ................................ 86 
 
 Month, 'School ............................... 61 
 
 Mortgages 
 
 form for ................................ 35 
 
 in name of county superintendent ..... 14,34 
 
 in name of trustees ..................... 22,34 
 
 Normal schools, county, act establishing... 119 
 State, acts establishing ............... 106, 119 
 
 Notes, etc., in name of county superintend- 
 
 ent ..................................... 14 
 
 same, examined by county board ...... 70 
 
 in name of trustees ...................... 34 
 
 same, examined bv county superintend- 
 ent ..................................... 10 
 
 by trustees .............................. 21 
 
 same, list of given county superintend- 
 ent, annually .......................... 35 
 
 Notice of elections, district ........... 29,41,49,65 
 
 same, township ...................... 16,17,23 
 
 same, city, etc , to organize under gen- 
 eral law, school ______ ................. 52,93 
 
 of examinations of teachers by county 
 
 57 
 
 PAGE. 
 Notice of examination of teachers 
 
 by State Superintendent 56 
 
 of sale of common school lands 76 
 
 of sale of real estate 21 
 
 Oath, official, county superintendent's 7 
 
 State Superintendent's 3 
 
 Office ot county superintendent 8 
 
 Office of State Superintendent, where kept.. 4 
 
 Office supplies 8 
 
 Officers, school, exempt from road labor 
 
 and military daty 88 
 
 liabilities of, See "Penalties." 
 
 lien on real estate of 84 
 
 to receive advice 4,10 
 
 Orders, school, form of 47,73 
 
 when against uncollected taxes 46 
 
 teachers, substance of 61,73 
 
 same, draw interest, when 61 
 
 same, to be drawn when 61 
 
 treasurers to file 73 
 
 Organization of board of directors 42 
 
 of board of trustees 19 
 
 of cities, etc., under general law 48,52 
 
 Parents must send children to school 96 
 
 Patents issued to purchasers of school 
 
 lands 78,79 
 
 same, dup icates of 79 
 
 Penalties, who subject to 
 
 any person for preventing colored chil- 
 dren from attending school 86 
 
 for trespass on school lands 75 
 
 any school officer, for causing loss of 
 
 school funds 85 
 
 for neglect of duty 5,84,85 
 
 any school officer, or any other person 
 for con version or perversion of school 
 
 funds. 84,85 
 
 borrower of school funds, for failure to 
 
 pay interest or principal :6 
 
 cities, for failure to make report 87 
 
 collectors of taxes, for refusal to pay ..64,72 
 county board, for neglect of duty to ex- 
 amine report of land sales 70, 71 
 
 clerks of courts of record, state's attor- 
 neys and justices, for failure to report 
 and to collect and pay over fines and 
 
 forfeitures 80,81 
 
 directors. See "Directors liable. 11 
 parents, for keeping children from 
 
 school ..... 94,96 
 
 parents, employers, etc, for the hiring 
 
 of children under 13 years of age 94 
 
 purchaser of school lands for not secur- 
 ing payment 77 
 
 townships, for failure in delivering re- 
 ports 20 
 
 teachers, for not making schedules 58 
 
 treasurers See "Treasurers liable." 
 trustees. See "Trustees liable " 
 See also, "Removal from office. 11 
 
 Permits to transfer pupils 47 
 
 to be filed 47 
 
 Perversion of funds to sectarian uses 85 
 
 penally for 85 
 
 Petition for change of district lines 25 
 
 same, to be filed twenty days 26 
 
 same, notice of to districts 26 
 
 for or against township high school 23 
 
 for sale of school house 21 
 
 for organization under the general 
 
 law 52,93 
 
 for purchase of school sites, etc 50 
 
 for sale of school lands 75 
 
 Plat of common school lands 76 
 
128 
 
 PAGE. 
 Poll-book, election of director, return of. . . 42 
 
 same, penalty for failure 42 
 
 election of trustees, return of 18 
 
 same, penalty fcr failure 18 
 
 Polling places, more than one, when 17 
 
 Polls, election of directors, opened and 
 
 closed 17,41 
 
 election of trustees 17 
 
 Poor children, books for 44 
 
 Postponement of election 17,41 
 
 President board of directors 42 
 
 pro tempore, may be appointed 42 
 
 of board of trustees 19 
 
 pro tempore may be appointed 19 
 
 Proceedings, official, to be recorded 19,42 
 
 Property of districts, divided in case of 
 
 change of district boundaries 29 
 
 teachers to account for 58 
 
 Publication of statement by township 
 
 treasurer 37,38,39 
 
 Pupils, age of 43 
 
 age and name noted on register 58, 59 
 
 same, on schedule 59,60 
 
 assigned to the several schools 45 
 
 attendance of, noted 59,60 
 
 suspension and expulsion of. 45 
 
 transferred 47 
 
 same, separate schedules of, when 47 
 
 under 12. in school four hours a day 45 
 
 Purchaser of common school lands 77 
 
 may borrow amount of bid 77 
 
 must secure payment of bid 77 
 
 to receive certi flcates of purchase 79 
 
 to receive patents 78 
 
 when to receive duplicates 79 
 
 Qualifications, for office county superin- 
 tendent 2 
 
 directors 40 
 
 treasurer 19 
 
 trustees 16 
 
 of teachers .-. 56_ 
 
 of voters 7 
 
 of worn en as school officers , . 40, 86 
 
 Quorum of directors 42 
 
 of trustees. .. . 19 
 
 Rate of interest See "Interest " 
 
 Real estate held by county superintend- 
 ent 11,79 
 
 by trubtees 22 
 
 leased 11,22.74 
 
 lien on, belonging to school officers 84 
 
 released 36 
 
 right of way over, granted 79 
 
 security for loan* 34,35 
 
 same, how valued 34 
 
 taken for indebtedness by county super- 
 intendent 11,75 
 
 by trustees 22 
 
 See also "Common school lands." 
 
 Receipts for schedule* 60 
 
 treasurer to take and file 73 
 
 Records of county superintendents 10,57,78 
 
 same, examined by county board 12, 78 
 
 ofdirectors 42 
 
 same, submitted to township treasurer. 42 
 
 of sale of common school lands 78 
 
 same, examined by county board 70 
 
 same, transcript of, filed with Audi- 
 tor 78 
 
 of State Superin ten dent 4 
 
 of teachers' certificates granted by 
 
 county superintendent 57 
 
 of treasurer 33,34 
 
 same, examined by county superintend- 
 ent 10 
 
 same, open for inspection 19,34 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Records of county superintendents- 
 same, submitted to trustees 37 
 
 of trustees 19 
 
 same, open for inspection 19,34 
 
 Registers, books furnished by directors 59 
 
 same, returned by teachers at close of 
 
 term 59 
 
 form of 59 
 
 to be kept by teachers 58,59 
 
 Registration fee 58 
 
 Relinqulshmeut of special charter 52 
 
 Removal from district or township, effect 
 
 of 40 
 
 from office 
 
 of county superintendent 69 
 
 ofdirectors 47 
 
 of president of board of trustees 19 
 
 of teachers 45, 51 
 
 of treasurers 19 
 
 Repeal of former acts 88 
 
 Reports of cities ana towns h7 
 
 of collector of taxes to township treas- 
 urer H3,64 
 
 to trustees and directors 80,87 
 
 of county superintendent to county 
 
 board, annual 12 
 
 game, of land tales to county board. ..11,70 
 
 same, to Auditor 9, 78 
 
 same, of condition of schools to State 
 
 Superintendent 1 
 
 ofdirectors to township treasurer 42 
 
 same, to county superintendent 43 
 
 same, to voters atauuual meeting- 43 
 
 of fines and forfeitures 80 
 
 of institutions of learning 87 
 
 of rentals to connty superiu teudeut .... 74 
 of (State Superintendent to Governor... 4 
 Of statistics. See "Statistics. 1 ' 
 of treasurer to trustees, annual and 
 
 semi-annual 37 
 
 of trustees to county superintendent.. . . 19 
 
 same, items of 20 
 
 penalties for failure to make. See "Pen- 
 
 alties'' 84 
 
 Revenue and taxation 61 
 
 Rules and regulations made by board of 
 
 education 51 
 
 by directors 4 
 
 by State Superintendent 5 
 
 Salary of State Superintendent 3 
 
 Sale of common school lands. See "School 
 
 lands '" 
 of real estate See "Real estate." 
 
 of school books, etc., limitations 2,85 
 
 of school house and site 21 
 
 of school property 45 
 
 Schedules, certificates upon, form.. 59, W 
 
 delivery of to directors 60 
 
 to township treasurer 44 
 
 form of 60 
 
 receipt for, given to teacher 60 
 
 teacher to keep 59 
 
 Scholars. See "Pupils " 
 
 School, any gift, etc., to 1,21 
 
 School books See "Text books." 
 
 School books, apparatus and furniture, 
 school officers not to be interested in 
 when 2,43,85 
 
 School directors. See "Directors." 
 
 School districts. See "Districts.' 1 
 
 School elections. See "Elections." 
 
 School funds 71 
 
 School houses, building of, tax for lim- 
 ited 61,62 
 
 same, vote necessary to authorize 46 
 
 controlled by directors 45 
 
 meetings in . 45 
 
 repairing and improving 46,53,61 
 
 site of 46 
 
 title to, in trustees -^ 21 
 
129 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 School Inspectors 97,98 
 
 School lands 74 
 
 School libraries 45,62 
 
 School month 61 
 
 School officers- 
 exempted from rond labor and military 
 
 duty 88 
 
 legal advisers of 4,10 
 
 liable for conversion of school funds.. .. f 
 
 for exclusion of colored children 86 
 
 for failure to return, or false return of 
 
 statistics 8 
 
 for loss of school funds 85 
 
 for perversion of same 85 
 
 lien on real estate of 84 
 
 selling school books, etc., by, prohibited 
 
 when -2,85 
 
 See also "Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 
 struction and other officers." 
 School orders See "Orders."' 
 School site. See "Site. 11 
 School Superintendent. See"Supt." 
 School tax. See "Taxes." 
 School trustees. See "Trustees of Schools " 
 
 School visitation 9,43,50 
 
 School teachers. See "Teachers. 11 
 
 School year 43,44 
 
 Schools, branches of study in, how deter- 
 mined 44,50,57 
 
 high. See "Township high schools." 
 
 manasement of 24.48,50,555 
 
 normal 99,102,106 
 
 supervision of 4, 9 
 
 support of 43,50 
 
 term, in cities 50 
 
 same, in 'districts 43,4fi 
 
 same, may be extended how 46 
 
 visitation of 9,43 
 
 Secretary of State to hold State Superin- 
 tendent's bond 3 
 
 Sectarian purposes, perversion of funds to, 
 
 prohibited : 1,86 
 
 Security on bonds. See "Bonds, official." 
 
 personal, on loans 34 
 
 renl estate, on loans 3 
 
 same, improvement* on. to be valued . S 
 
 Settlement, trustees may make 22 
 
 Site, Bchool house, choice of 46, P3 
 
 same, when made by directors 46 
 
 nale of 21 
 
 condemnation of land for 46,47 
 
 title held bv trustees 21 
 
 Sixteenth section, constitutes [[common 
 
 school lands 74 
 
 other sections in lieu of 74 
 
 Southern Illinois Normal University I p 2 
 
 Special acts mny be relinquished 51.52,93 
 
 modified in certain cases 62,87,90 
 
 not repealed. 
 
 state to pay interest 71 
 
 State's attorney.lt See "Attorneys." 
 
 State certificates 5,56 
 
 charitable institutions, superintendent 
 
 of. to report 6 
 
 State charitable institutions, visited by 
 
 State Superintendent 5 
 
 State funds 71 
 
 State normal schools 99,102 
 
 Slate superintendent. See "Superintendent 
 
 of Public Instruction." 
 
 Statements, made by tea-hers 59 
 
 Statistic-, not divisible, how reported 20,21 
 
 See "Reports." 
 Sufficiency of treasurer's securities, trustees 
 
 responsible for 84 
 
 Suits See "Actions. 11 
 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction 3 
 
 adviser of county superintendents 
 
 bond of 3 
 
 PAGE. 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 
 certificates. State teachers' granted and 
 
 revoked by 5,56 
 
 election of 3 
 
 forfeitures remitted by H 
 
 funds withheld by 6 
 
 not to be interested in the sale of school 
 
 books, etc 2,85 
 
 oa th of office of 3 
 
 office of. at seat of government 4 
 
 same, expense of. 3 
 
 papers, etc., filed and preserved by 4 
 
 record k pt by 4 
 
 report of, to the Governor 4 
 
 rules to enforce the school law, ma !e 
 
 by 5 
 
 salary of. determined by law 3 
 
 term of office of 3 
 
 to advise school officers 5 
 
 to counsel and advise with teachers 4 
 
 to have supervision of the public 
 
 schools .... 4 
 
 to visit State charitable institutions ... 5 
 Superintendents of State charitable institu- 
 tions to report to State Superintend- 
 ent 5 
 
 Superintendents of schools, appointed 
 
 when 50 
 
 Sureties See "Bonds, official.' 1 
 
 Suupensi on of pupils 45 
 
 Taxes, school, collection of 63 
 
 computation of. basis of 62 
 
 same, made by county clerk 62)63 
 
 collector of, to pay how, in case of union 
 
 districts 64 
 
 same, to pay township treasurer 63 
 
 same, failure to pay 64 
 
 levy of, form of certificate 62 
 
 same, when returned 62 
 
 m list be uniform 63 
 
 power to levy, granted board of edu- 
 cation in cities and villages 5i),Hl,62 
 
 to directors 46,62 
 
 same, limited 46,62 
 
 same, in satisfaction and judgment 88 
 
 Taxpayers, list of filed 28 
 
 Teachers, appointment of 43,50,53 
 
 cannot be paid, when 44, 57,58,59 
 
 cannot be employed, when 57 
 
 dismissal of 45,51 
 
 examination of 50,56,57 
 
 funds withheld from 6 
 
 must have certificate 44,57 
 
 names of. reported to county t-upt 43 
 
 not to teach on holidays HI 
 
 pension fund 99,100,101 
 
 registers to be kept by 58,59 
 
 same, returned to directors 59 
 
 schedule to he kept by 59 
 
 same, certified 60 
 
 same, uupaid, balance of to draw inter- 
 est 61 
 
 statements m ade by 59 
 
 wages of, due when... 61 
 
 teachers, certificates of 56 
 
 Teachers' institutes held by county superin- 
 tendent 10,58 
 
 fees for 57 
 
 teachers may attend without deduction 
 of wages 58 
 
 Term of office of boards of education 23,49 
 
 of county superintendent 
 
 ofdirectors 41 
 
 of State Superintendent 
 
 of treasurer 1 
 
 of trustees 15 
 
 Terms of loaninsr school funds 8 
 
 of sale of school lands 77 
 
 98 
 
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 Text books prescribed by directors 44 
 
 same, to be uniform 44 
 
 same, not to be changed oltener than 
 
 once in four years 44 
 
 same, for poor children 44 
 
 same, not to be sold by school officers. .2,85 ' 
 
 Tie vote, how decided 17,41 
 
 Title to real estate 
 
 to school houses and lots 21 
 
 to common school lauds, from the 
 State 74,78 
 
 Town meeting, election of trustees at 18 
 
 Towns and cities. See "Cities and Towns."/ 
 
 Township, school business of, done by trus- 
 tees 15 
 
 congressional, made a school township. 15 
 
 divided by county lines 20 
 
 same, tax in 62 
 
 fractional, consolidated with adjacent, 
 
 when 15, 76 
 
 fund of. See "Fund." 
 
 funds apportioned to 13 
 
 same, forfeiture of 6,20 
 
 made a district to support a high 
 
 school 23,24 
 
 may unite with another or with parts of 
 
 oth rs for the same purpose 23,24 
 
 newly organized, dintricted 25 
 
 same, map of 25 
 
 redistricted 52 
 
 school section belonging to 74 
 
 Township board of education 23 
 
 term of office. 23 
 
 duties 24 
 
 Township high school, how discontinued.. . 24 
 
 same, disposition of property 24 
 
 how established 23 
 
 how supported 24 
 
 Township treasurer 32 
 
 accounts of how kept >.. 33 
 
 appointment of 19 
 
 same, who eligible to 19r 
 
 bond official, approved 13,32 
 
 same, recorded 13 
 
 delivered to county superintendent. 13,3'2 
 
 form of 'i 
 
 increased when , 32 
 
 books and accounts of, examined by 
 
 county superintendent 10 
 
 by trustees 21,37 
 
 same, subject to inspection 19,31 
 
 same, submitted to trustees 37 
 
 certificate of amount or taxes due sent 
 
 to, by county clerk 68 
 
 certificate of tax levy returned by, to 
 
 county clerk 38 
 
 clerks of trustees, to be 19 
 
 compensation of 40 
 
 county superintendent may direct in 
 
 case of change of district lines 27 
 
 custodian, only lesjal, of funds of boards 
 
 of education, when 51 
 
 of district funds 22 
 
 of township funds 37 
 
 debts due township probated by 36 
 
 district funds paid oat by, how 47 
 
 district records exam ined by 38 
 
 election of trustees, called by 38 
 
 duties of, as to transfer of pupils 38,47 
 
 same, of directors . 47 
 
 interest paid teachers by, when 38 
 
 liable in a civil action 
 
 for failure or refusal to perform legal 
 duties 39,83 
 
 same, when not liable 39,83 
 
 for failure to publish annual statement 39 
 
 for failure to turn over books, etc., to 
 his successor 83 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Township treasurer- 
 liable in a criminal action 
 
 for loss of school lunds 85 
 
 for conversion of school funds b4 
 
 for failure to repoit statistics, or for 
 
 fa'se return of same 84,85 
 
 for perversion of school funds to a sec- 
 tarian use 85 
 
 for being interested in the sale of 
 
 school books, etc 2,85 
 
 lien on real estate of 84 
 
 list of taxpayers made and filed by 39 
 
 maps made and filed by 39 
 
 money paid to, by tax collector 63 
 
 moneys, bonds, etc., delivered to, on 
 certified statement of county superin- 
 tendent 13 
 
 not to be interested in the sale of school 
 
 books, etc., when 2,85 
 
 notes, bonds, etc., held by, examined by 
 
 county superintendent 10 
 
 same, list of, given to county superin- 
 tendent annually 35 
 
 same, submitted to trustees 37 
 
 cash held by. verified by trustees 37 
 
 official term of. two years 19 
 
 poll-book of district election filed with. 42 
 
 removed by trustees, when 22 
 
 responsible for losses, when .. 85 
 
 State and county funds paid to, by 
 
 county superintendent 13 
 
 Statement to directors, made by under 
 
 oath semi-aunually 37,38 
 
 staiement to trustees 37 
 
 sued by trustees, when 22 
 
 suit brought by, against tax-collector. . 64 
 
 same, to recover interest 36 
 
 same, when additional security is not 
 
 given 3-5 
 
 surplus of district funds, loaned by 35 
 
 to make teachers' orders interest bear- 
 ing when not paid on presentation ..38,61 
 
 same, to record 38 
 
 to file orders paid 73 
 
 to notify clerks of directors when he 
 has funds to pay unpaid teachers' or- 
 ders 38,61 
 
 same, to record 38 
 
 to hold funds to pay t-ame 38 
 
 to take and file receipts for money paid. 73 
 
 to publish statement annually J 
 
 to turn over office, etc , to his successor 3 
 
 same, in case of his death 39 
 
 township fund loaned by 34 
 
 Trees, cut, etc., on school lands 75 
 
 Trespassers on school lands 75 
 
 liable to fine and commitment 71 
 
 Truant officer '. 96 
 
 to report offenders 96 
 
 Trustees of school lands 31 
 
 Trustees of schools 14 
 
 accounts, etc., of treasurers examined 
 
 by 21,37 
 
 apportionment of funds by 19 
 
 body politic and corporate, a 15 
 
 boundaries of districts changed by 
 
 at April meetings 25 
 
 bonded debt, how disposed of..., .. .. 28 
 
 funds divided 29 
 
 liability for failure to divide funds .... 30 
 
 property appraised 30 
 
 debts deducted from the same 30 
 
 remainder of same divided 30 
 
 same, appeal from action of trustees.. . 27 
 
 how taken 26 
 
 who may appeal. 26 
 
 same, election ordered in new district 
 
 by. ^ 28 
 
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 Trustees of schools 
 
 same, new map and list of tax payers 
 tiled by, within ten days, with county 
 
 clerk 27 
 
 clerk appointed by, who is also treas- 
 urer 19 
 
 name pro temporr. 19 
 
 debt, due school fund compromised by . . 22 
 
 election of. conducted how... 17 
 
 same, contested how 17 
 
 same, held for first time 16 
 
 same, notices of 16 
 
 same, ordered by township treasurer. 16 
 
 same, polls opened and closed when.. 17 
 
 same, postponed 17 
 
 same, tie, how determined 17 
 
 same, time of 15,16 
 
 same, voters at, qualifications of 17 
 
 election of, at town meetings 18 
 
 eligible to office of trustee, who are 16 
 
 gilts, grants, etc , received by 21 
 
 judges of election 16 
 
 liable in a civil action 
 for failure to act upon notice of 
 
 county superintendent 11,84 
 
 for failure to distribute property in 
 
 case of a division of a district 80 
 
 for failure to return poll-pook 18 
 
 for failure to return statistics, or for 
 
 false return of same 12,84 
 
 for loss of school mnds 85 
 
 for insufficiency of treasurer's securi- 
 ties 84 
 
 liable in a criminal notion 
 for being interested in sale of school 
 
 books, etc 2,85 
 
 for conversion of school funds 84 
 
 for perversion of lunds to a sectarian 
 
 use 85 
 
 list of, furnished county superintend- 
 ents by county clerk J8 
 
 map of townships, made by 28 
 
 meetings of, regular and special 19 
 
 organization of board of 19 
 
 president appointed 19 
 
 same pro tempore 19 
 
 quorum of 19 
 
 real estate, leased by 22,74 
 
 purchaseu by 22 
 
 sold by 22 
 
 report to county superintendent 19,20 
 
 same, items 20 
 
 school house and site sold by 21 
 
 same, title to, held by 21 
 
 PAGE. 
 
 Trustees of schools- 
 separate enumeration made by, when. .20,21 
 successors to "Trustees of school 
 
 lands" 31 
 
 term of office 16 
 
 title to school house and site held by .. . 21 
 
 townships laid off into districts by 25 
 
 treasurer appointed by 19 
 
 same, removed by 22 
 
 same, sued by 22 
 
 treasurer's accounts, etc., examined by. 21 
 
 vacancy in office, how filled 17 
 
 Union school -district diasol ved, how 31 
 
 funds of, put 'in hands of one treas- 
 urer ." 43,64,73 
 
 Use of school houses for meetings 45 
 
 U. S. flags on school houses 102, 103, 104 
 
 Vacancies in office of board of education... 49, 52 
 
 of county superintendent 8 
 
 of directors 41 
 
 of trustees 17 
 
 Validity of teachers' certificates 56 
 
 Valuation of common school lands 76 
 
 Visitation of schools 9,43,50 
 
 Vote of the people required to borrow 
 
 money , 65 
 
 to establish or discontinue a township 
 
 hign school 23,24 
 
 to levy a tax to extend a district>chool 
 
 beyond nine months 46 
 
 Vote, etc. 
 
 to locate a school house 46 
 
 exception to the same 46 
 
 to refund bonds or outstanding indebt- 
 edness 66,67 
 
 to purchase or build'a school bouse. ..61,46 
 
 Voters of districts may add higher branches 57 
 
 qualifications of 17 
 
 Warrants, Auditor to issue to county super- 
 intendent 9,71 
 
 paid by county collector 71 
 
 return by same 72 
 
 refusing to pay penalty for 72 
 
 See also "Orders." 
 
 Women may be school officers 86 
 
 qualifications 40,8<i 
 
 to give bond and qualify as required by 
 
 law 86 
 
 may vote 96 
 
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