5949. County treasurer's fees.

The treasurer of the county shall receive the same compensation for the collection of such special taxes as he does for other school taxes.

5950. Refunding bonds-when issued-interest-redemption.

That when the bonded indebtedness of any school district in this state has matured, or may hereafter mature, or has or may hereafter become redeemable at the pleasure of the district, and there shall not be funds in the treasury of such school district available for that purpose with which to redeem or pay such bonds, it shall be lawful for the board of directors of such school district to issue and sell new bonds, equal to the sum necessary and not otherwise provided for the payment of the bonds then matured or those then redeemable at the pleasure of such school district, and such bonds thus issued shall not be sold at a less price than their par value; Provided, It shall be lawful for the board of directors of any school district having a bonded indebtedness, to refund the same, at any time, with the consent of the bond owners, in bonds bearing a less rate of interest than the bonds so refunded and running for a longer time, which said bonds thus issued shall be exchanged at not less than par for the bonds outstanding.

Provided, further, That all bonds issued under this section shall bear interest at such rate as said school board may determine, not to exceed 8 per cent, per annum, and shall be redeemable at the pleasure of the district board, in not to exceed ten years and payable in not to exceed twenty years from the date thereof, and the date after which bonds are redeemable shall be plainly written or printed on the face thereof.

5951. What laws apply to issue and payment.

All the provisions of the laws of the state of Colorado, now existing, relating to the duties of district and county officers in the issue and payment of district bonds, and relating to the assessment and collection of taxes for the payment of the interest and principal of school district bonds, shall be held to apply equally and in like manner to all matters pertaining to the issue and payment of bonds issued under the provisions of this

act, except that the time when taxes shall be levied and collected for the payment of the principal of said bonds shall be as hereinafter provided.

5952. County board levy tax-treasurer collect.

At the time provided by law for the levying of county taxes in the year next preceding the date at which the first installment of said bonds shall mature, and every year thereafter until the whole amount of said bonds shall be redeemed, the board of county commissioners of any county in which bonds shall have been issued under the provisions of this act shall levy a tax sufficient to pay not less than ten per centum nor more than twenty per centum of the principal of said bonds, and the county treasurer shall collect the same as other taxes are collected, and shall pay the amount so collected to the district treasurer as is now provided by law.

5953. Vote on refunding bonds.

Provided, however, That no bonds shall be issued under the provisions of this act until the question of refunding shall first have been submitted to and approved by the qualified voters of the district as is now or may be provided by law, except that the electors shall vote "For refunding" or "Against refunding," instead of "For the bonds" or "Against the bonds."

5954.

SPECIAL DISTRICT MEETINGS.

Meetings in districts of third class,

In any district of the third class the board of directors may at any time call a special meeting of the electors of such district for any of the purposes specified in section sixty-two (62) of this act, and it shall be their duty to call such meeting, if petitioned so to do by ten (10) legal voters of the district. Notices, specifying the time, place and object of such meeting, shall be posted in three (3) public places, one of which shall be at the place of meeting, at least twenty (20) days prior to the time of holding such meeting.

[Section 62 above referred to is section 5955.]

5955. Powers of meeting.

The qualified electors of districts of the third class, when assembled at any regular or special meeting, shall have power:

First-To appoint a chairman and secretary in the absence of the regular officers.

Second-To adjourn from time to time, as occasion may

require.

Third-To fix the site for each school house, taking into consideration in doing so the wants and necessities of the people of each portion of the district.

Fourth-To order such tax on taxable property of the district as the meeting shall deem sufficient for any of the following purposes: To pay teachers; to purchase or lease a suitable site for a school house or school houses; to build, rent or purchase a school house or school houses; and to keep in repair and furnish the same with the necessary fuel and appendages; for procuring libraries for the schools, books and stationery for the use of the board and district meetings, and to defray all other contingent expenses of the district.

Fifth-To direct the sale or other disposition to be made of any school house, or the site thereof, and of such other property, real or personal, as may belong to the district, and to direct the manner in which the proceeds arising therefrom shall be applied.

Sixth-To transact generally such business as may tend to promote the cause of education, in accordance with the provisions of this act.

Seventh-To adopt any rules of order for the government of district meetings, not incompatible with the provisions of this act, and to alter and change the same from time to time, as occasion may require.

UNION HIGH SCHOOLS.

5956. Meeting to establish-notice-high school committee-secretarytreasurer-admission of pupils.

Whenever the school boards of two (2) or more contiguous school districts shall each deem it advisable to establish a union high school, the county superintendent shall, at the request of two (2) of the secretaries of the boards, call a meeting of the boards interested by giving personal notice to each member, which meeting shall elect by ballot from among the members of said boards, if a majority of the members of each board are present, a committee of three (3), to be known as the high school committee of such union school. The county superintendent shall be, ex-officio, an additional member of said committee and shall preside at the meetings thereof. There shall be elected a secretary of such committee, and if need be a treasurer. In any case in which the county seat of any county shall be all included

in one school district the board of such school district shall have the same powers of establishing and organizing a high school as are hereby given to the boards of two or more contiguous school districts, and in such case the high school committee shall be the board of such school district, or such three members as they may select. High schools formed under the provisions of this section shall be open to all children from all districts of the county in which they are so formed, provided such children are qualified as hereinafter provided.

5961. High school committee-term-vacancies.

The members of said high school committee shall hold the office for and during the term they are members of their respective boards. All vacancies in said committee, other than such as are caused by the expiration of the term of office, shall be filled by the school board of which the person so vacating was a member. The secretary shall be elected annually, and may receive such compensation as the committee shall deem proper to allow.

5961a. High school committee-meetings.

The regular meetings of the high school committee shall be held on the first Saturday of March, June, September and December of each year, and special meetings may be held at any time upon the call of the county superintendent, or two (2) members of the committee. [M. A. S., 3999.

5966. Maintenance of high school.

After the first establishment of such a high school, it shall be maintained until the then next regular apportionment of the county school fund, as follows: Each district which shall have any children attending such high school shall draw from its school fund, and cause to be placed to the credit of the high school fund, such part of the whole expenses as shall be proportioned to the number of pupils attendant at such high school from such district, provided it is with the approval of the directors of said district. After the first year, or part of a year, so as above provided for, the said high school shall, so far as practicable, be rated as a separate district. It shall be entitled to draw from the general state and county funds its quota for attendance, as provided by section seventy-two (72) of this act, and the deficit shall be made up from the several district funds in proportion to the number of pupils from each district who attended said high school during the then past year.

[Section 72 referred to above is section 5890.]

[See 5977 p.]

5969. Term of session of school-qualification of pupils.

The high school may be maintained during forty (40) weeks in each year, and shall be free to all children in the county who are qualified for admission according to the requirements prescribed by the committee, and all children in the county who are so qualified, and who can pass the examination prescribed by the committee, shall be entitled as of right to attend said high school.

[See section 5977.]

5971. Every district contributing has voice in election.

Every district in the county which contributes to the support and patronage of said high school shall, by its board. of directors, be entitled to a voice in the election of members of the committee.

5972. When high school districts may be organized in fourth and fifth class counties.

In all counties of the fourth and fifth classes, all school districts lying adjacent to an incorporated town or city may be organized into a union high school district.

5973. How supported-buildings.

The county commissioners of each of said counties are required to levy a tax of not less than one or more than three mills upon all taxable property in such high school districts. when the same shall have been organized, for the support of such school. Such levy shall be made annually after the organization of the said district shall have been made, at the same time that other taxes are levied.

It shall be the duty of the school district in which such school or incorporated town is incorporated to provide, at its own expense, a suitable building for the use of such union high school.

[Partly repealed by 5977 p.]

5974. Addition of outlying districts—attaching district in adjacent county.

Any outlying school district not contiguous to such city or incorporated town may, by a majority vote of the duly qualified electors of such district, be added to any such union high school district within the county; and where it is more convenient for the pupils of any school district to attend school in a union high school of another county, such district may be attached, by such vote, to the union high school district of an adjacent county.