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In answering some of the following questions the studen will be obliged to consult Miller's Compiled Laws, Reports of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the Legislative Manual.

1. By whom are school districts formed and numbered?

2. What are specific taxes?

3. What is meant by a fractional district?

4. How are vacancies in State offices filled?

5. How is the primary school fund raised?

6. About how much money is apportioned in each year among the school districts of the State?

7. Should all instruction in our public schools be given in the English language?

8. What is done with lands which escheat to the State from a defect of heirs?

9. How many months of school must be maintained during a school year to entitle districts to primary school money?

10. How many members compose the board of regents of the State university?

11. What is the length of a regent's term of office?

12. Who is the president of the university?

13. Is the president of the university a member of the board of regents?

14. Of how many members is the State board of education composed? 15. What is the length of the term of office of a member of the board of education?

16. What is the salary of the superintendent of public instruction? 17. Of what State boards is the superintendent a member?

18. What provision was made in the constitution for the establishment of an agricultural college?

19. Mention some of the duties of the superintendent of public instruction.

of the corporation are similar to those organized under the general law of the State. This law is printed in full in the General School Law for 1899.

[Act No. 44]

PRINTING OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.

Sections eleven, thirty, and thirty-two of this act are of interest to school officers and teachers. Section eleven refers to the report of the superintendent of public instruction, and provides that there shall be printed one copy for each school library of the State, one to each superintendent of public instruction, State university and State normal school in the United States, one for each living ex-superintendent and ex-deputy superintendent in this State, one for each commissioner and school examiner, each city superinendent of schools and two hundred copies for deposit with the secretary of State for future distribution.

The superintendent of public instruction may in his discretion order three hundred copies in addition to the above. The report is limited to three hundred pages and the amount expended for cuts and illustrations must not exceed fifty dollars. Section thirty provides a Legislative Manual (Red Book) for each district school, each graded and city school, each library other than school library and to each county commissioner of schools.

Section thirty-two makes it the duty of the county commissioners of schools to distribute the Legislative Manual to all the schools in their respective counties, and also to see that the same are kept for the use of the schools.

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50. Mention some of the information that must be contained in the inspector's annual reports.

51. Give some of the school duties of the township clerk.

52. How is the number of meetings of the board of inspectors limited?

53. What compensation is allowed to school inspectors?

54. What yearly salary does the clerk of the Upper Peninsula township district receive?

55. What is the maximum size of primary school districts?

56. Have the inspectors authority to change the boundaries of a school district which has been organized by special legislative enactment?

57. By whom are changes in the boundaries of fractional districts made?

58. When may a school district be said to be legally organized?

59. How many days' notice must be given of a meeting to change boundaries of a school district?

60. How many notices must be posted for change of boundaries? 61. How may two or more primary districts be consolidated? 62. How may a district be divided into two or more districts? 63. Have the inspectors the right to destroy a district by detaching its territory?

64. How may a primary district organize into a graded district?

65. Under what conditions may inspectors make an alteration in the boundaries of a graded district?

66. How may two primary districts organize into one graded district? 67. May a graded district change to a primary district?

68. How many township school districts are there in Michigan?

69. How many primary districts?

70. How many graded districts?

71. In the Upper Peninsula how are township districts organized?

72. Of how many members is a township board of education composed?

73. Mention several of the advantages of the township system over the district system.

74. What are some of the reasons why the township should not be the unit in school matters.

75. Has the township system been successfully tried in other States? If so, where?

76. Is the township system unpopular in States where it has been established? If so, in what States?

77.

What is the date of the annual school meeting?

78. When and how are the members of township boards of education elected?

79.

What is the time of taking the annual census of school children in all the districts of the State?

80. How may special school meetings be called?

81. How many days' notice must be given for all district meetings? 82. Has the district board the authority to determine the number of months of school to be taught in the district during the year?

83. Can a board of supervisors legally appoint one of its own number as member of the board of examiners?

84.

What must be included in all notices of special school meetings? 85. What is the date of the annual school meeting in township districts of the Upper Peninsula ?

86. Have the voters or the district board the authority to determine whether the school shall be taught by a male or a female teacher?

87. Have the voters or the district board the authority to determine the maximum salary that shall be paid to teachers?

88. Have the voters or the district board the authority to admit nonresident pupils ?

89. Who selects school house sites, the school board or the voters? 90. What is the highest amount of money for sites or building purposes that can be raised by taxation in any one year in districts having ten children of school age? Thirty children? Five hundred children? 91. How is the tax for repairs and apparatus limited?

92. What is the minimum number of months required to be taught in districts having 800 children?

93. What is the minimum number of months required in all districts? 94. What is the penalty on districts whose officers do not provide for the required number of months of school?

95. For what purposes may the surplus of the one-mill tax be appropriated?

96.

Who are legal voters at school meetings?

97. In what districts are women barred from voting?

98.

tricts?

How many trustees in the district board of graded school dis

99. How many children of school age must a district contain to be organized into a graded district?

100. How many votes at a district meeting are required to change to a graded district?

101. How may a person who is not a legally qualified voter in the district be prevented from voting, if he offers to do so?

102. If a vote is not taken by ballot, how may voters be challenged? 103. How may a disorderly person be expelled from a district meeting?

104. What penalty may be inflicted upon a person for disturbing a district meeting?

105. What officers are elected at the first school meeting of a newly organized school district?

106. What is the length of the term of office of school officers? 107. Are school officers legally elected, if chosen in any other way than by ballot?

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108. Is a plurality vote sufficient to elect a school officer? How may meetings of the district board be called? What persons are eligible to hold a district office? 111. Within what time and in what manner must district officers accept their offices?

112. State seven ways by which a district office may become vacant?

113. Does the temporary absence of a district officer from a district create a vacancy?

114. When one of the district offices becomes vacant, how may such vacancy be filled?

115. When two of the district offices become vacant, how filled? 116. How are vacancies filled after an office has been vacant more than twenty days?

117. How long does a person who is elected to fill a vacancy serve? 118. How are vacancies in the board of education of graded or township districts filled?

119. Upon what condition may a district board borrow money? 120. When must the report of the district board to the township clerk be made?

121. How is district taxation in districts having less than thirty children limited?

122. Who has the authority to admit or exclude public meetings from the school house, the school board or the voters?

123. Who determines the kind of text-books that shall be used in the district?

124. How long do text-books once adopted continue to be the legal text-books of the district?

125. How may indigent children be supplied with text-books?

126. For what reason may pupils be expelled or suspended from school?

127. What tuition may be charged to non-resident pupils ? 128. What is the minimum legal size of school flags ?

129. How are the executive officers of a graded district chosen? 130. How are the township district trustees chosen and how long do they serve?

131. Who acts as president of the township school board? As clerk? 132. What bond is required of the treasurer of township school districts?

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