duties of his office, execute and deliver to said board of education a bond, in such penalty and with such sureties as said board may require, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. In case such bond shall not be Bonds to be given within ten days after receiving such notice, such office shall thereby become vacant, and said board shall thereupon make an appointment to supply such vacancy, as often as it may occur.

given.

Notice of elections.

Vacancies

7. Notice for annual elections and all other meetings of said district, shall be given by said board of education at least two weeks before such election or meeting, by publishing such notice once in each week in each of the newspapers printed and published in said village of Lyons, and by posting the same in at least five of the most public places in said district.

§8. In case of a vacancy in any office mentioned in this how filled. act, occasioned by death, refusal to serve, removal, or any other cause other than the expiration of the term of office, of persons elected, said board may make an appointment to fill such vacancy. The officer so appointed shall hold his office for the unexpired term of the person to supply whose place he shall be appointed, and until his successor shall be elected and enter upon the duties of his office.

Corporation.

Powers and duties.

9. Said board of education shall be a corporate body for the purposes and in relation to all the powers and duties conferred on them by virtue of the provisions of this act, and also by virtue of the provisions of an act entitled "An act in relation to school district number six, in the town of Lyons, Wayne county," passed April nineteenth, eighteen hundred fifty-five, all of which said act, inconsistent with this act, is hereby repealed. A majority of the said board shall form a quorum.

§ 10. Said board of education shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties in respect to said school district, that the trustees of common schools now possess or are subject to, not inconsistent with this act, and such other powers and duties as are given or imposed by this act. The clerk, collector and librarian of said district, shall possess all the powers and be subject to all the duties in respect to said district, that like officers of common schools now possess, or are subject to, not inconsistent with this act, and such other powers and duties as are given or imposed by this act. The offices of trustees, clerk, collector and librarian, in said district, at the time of the passage of this act,

shall be abolished from and after the time the said union school shall go into operation under this act, excepting so far as it shall be necessary for said trustees and collector to collect any tax heretofore voted, levied or assessed in said district, or any rate bill or tax for exemptions, necessary to be raised for the payment of teachers' wages, that shall have accrued at the time of the passage of this act, or at the time said school shall go into operation under this act, or for any arrearages for taxes or rate bills or other matters, the said trustees and collector are hereby authorized and required to continue their terms of office respectively, for the purpose of collecting such, or any tax and rate bill, or either; and if not already assessed and warrants issued, as required by law, time is hereby given them for that purpose, and closing up such arrearages as herein stated, and for such purposes only said trustees and collector shall have all the powers and be subject to all the duties and liabilities that like officers now possess and are subject to.

§ 11. Said board of education shall, at its first meeting, First meet. and annually thereafter, at their meeting held next after the ing first day of January in each year, appoint one of their number president and another secretary. In the absence of either such officers, at any regular meeting of the board, a president or a secretary may be appointed for the time being.

proceedings.

§ 12. The secretary shall keep a record of the proceed- Record of ings of said board of education, which record, or a transcript therefrom, certified by the president and secretary, shall be received in all the courts as presumptive evidence of the facts therein set forth.

§ 13. Each member of said board of education, and Oath of ofevery other officer of said school district, before entering fice. upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed by the constitution of this state, and file the same, or a certificate thereof, signed by the officer administering the same, with the secretary of the said board; but no fee or compensation shall be taken or demanded for administering such oath.

§14. The said board of education shall have power, and it shall be their duty:

school lot,

First. To have the custody and safe keeping of the school Custody of lot and buildings belonging to said district, and to fence and &c. improve the same, as they may think proper.

Second. Upon such lot to alter, improve and repair the school

Alteration.

&c.

School ap. paratus.

To employ teachers.

Teachers' wages.

Grades es tablished.

Rate of tui-
tion
ixed.

Exemption.

Rate bill when and

building and out houses thereon, and to build, enlarge, repair and improve out houses and appurtenances thereon, as they may deem advisable.

Third. To purchase, exchange, improve and repair school apparatus, books, furniture and appendages; to provide fuel for the said school, and defray their contingent expenses, and the expenses of the library and the salary of the librarian.

Fourth. To have the custody and safe keeping of the apparatus, books, furniture and appendages, and see that the ordinances and by-laws of said board in relation thereto be observed and enforced.

Fifth. To contract with and employ all teachers in the said school under their charge, and, also, a janitor and librarian, and, at their pleasure to remove them.

Sixth. To pay the wages of such teachers out of the public money and tuition fees to be received by them according to the provisions of this act, so far as the same shall be sufficient; and the deficiency, if any, out of the moneys to be raised as provided for by this act.

Seventh. To divide said school into four grades, according to the branches of instruction pursued therein; commencing with the primary departments or grades, designating the same by numbers first, second, third and fourth; concluding with the academical department.

Eighth. To fix the rate of tuition in said school, subject to the limitations and restrictions hereinafter contained; and to designate some person or persons to whom the same may be paid, previous to issuing the warrant for the collection thereof; and by resolution of said board, to be recorded by the secretary, to exempt from the payment of the whole or any part of the tuition fees, such persons as they may deem entitled to such exemption, from indigence; but no deduction for tuition fees shall be made by said board of education for the non-attendance of any pupil at said school after the time of the commencement of such pupil in any quarter until the close thereof, unless the same shall be satisfactorily excused to said board of education, within five days after the close of such quarter.

Ninth. After the close of each quarter of said school, to how made. make out a rate bill, containing the name of each person liable to pay tuition fees for tuition in said school, who shall not have paid the same prior to the making out such rate bill, according to the provisions of the last preceding subdivision

of this section, for the amount for which such person is liable, adding thereto a sum not exceeding five cents on each dollar, for collection fees (which fees shall be fixed by said board at the time of making out every rate bill), to annex thereto a warrant for the collection thereof, to be signed by the president of said board, or a majority of the members collection. thereof, and deliver the same to the collector, who shall execute the same in the same manner as collectors of school districts are by law authorized and required to execute like warrants; and for this purpose the jurisdiction of said board of education and of said collector shall be the same as trustees and collectors of common schools now possess.

ence, &c.

Tenth. To have in all respects the superintendence, supervision, management and control of the school mentioned or Superintendcontemplated in and by the provisions of this act; to prescribe the course of studies therein; the books to be used; and establish an uniformity in respect to such course of studies and books; from time to time to adopt, alter, modify and repeal, as they may deem expedient, rules, regulations and ordinances for the organization, government and instruction of such school, for the reception of pupils and their transfer from one department or grade to another; for the promotion of its good order, prosperity and public utility; for the protection, safe keeping and preservation of said school house, out houses, lot and appurtenances, and all other property connected with or appertaining to such school.

be published.

Eleventh. To cause such rules, regulations, ordinances and Rules,&c., to by-laws to be published in such manner and form as they may deem best calculated to give general information. The matters contained in subdivisions one, two and three of this section, shall not embrace any outlays beyond the sum or sums voted in each year by said district to be raised by tax

therein..

Twelfth. Said board of education shall in all respects be subject to the visitation and control of the superintendent of common schools of said town and superintendent of public instruction of said state, in the like manner as the common schools of this state now are.

Supervision.

Thirteenth. Said board of education are empowered to es- Classical de tablish, organize and maintain a classical department in the partment. school under their charge in said district, agreeably to an act passed April nineteen, eighteen hundred and fifty five, entitled "An act in relation to school district number six, in

Literature fund.

Deficiency

the town of Lyons, Wayne county." And the said regents are hereby authorized and required, at their next apportionment of the literature fund, to add to the portion to which this school may be entitled, such sum as said school would have been entitled the previous year, had they made their annual report in season; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall affect the rights and duties of said board of education, granted or imposed by this act or the statutes of this state relating to common schools.

§ 15. Said board of education shall have power, and it how raised. shall be their duty to raise from time to time, by tax, upon the real and personal property within the bounds of said district, which shall be liable to taxation for the ordinary taxes of said village or for town or county taxes or charges, such sum as may be determined by resolution of said board to be necessary to meet any deficiency for fuel, for the payment of teachers' wages, salary of janitor and librarian, and for text books for exempts as, contemplated by this act, without a vote of the district, and also such other sum or sums of money as shall, or may at any time be voted by said district, for any purpose connected with the subject of education in said district, to provide for which, power shall be given to said board, by the provisions of this act, the laws relating to common schools, or the rules and regulations of the department of public instruction of said state. Said board shall, at each annual meeting, submit an estimate of the amount of money which will, in their opinion, be needed for all the purposes of education and other purposes provided for by this act (except to meet deficiency for the payment of teachers' wages, and purchase of text books for exempts, over and above the moneys to be received from the town superintendent, tuition fees and literature fund), to be voted at such meeting, and shall cause the sum or sums so voted at such meeting, to be raised by one assessment and warrant, with power of renewal, as hereby granted to trustees. Such assessment may be made and levied and warrant issued in any one year as often as such tax shall be voted. Taxes to meet any deficiency for the payment of teachers' wages and the purchase of text books for exempts may be assessed, levied and collected by said board of education, in the same manner that taxes are assessed, levied and collected, as in this act provided, whenever the same shall be deemed necessary by said board. The taxable inhabitants of said district are hereby autho