servants of such officers, and any person guilty PENALTY FOR of a violation of this law shall, on conviction VIOLATION. thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court: Provided, That nothing in this act contained shall prevent a prosecution under the general statute for embezzlement, in cases where the facts warrant a prosecution under such general statute. MONEY Any officer who wilfully or corruptly draws or issues any warrant, order, or certificate for the payment of money in excess of the amount authorized by law, or for a purpose not authorized by law, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and may be punished as stated above. Indebtedness and Expenses. By wise provisions of law the expenses of districts for purchasing property, building houses, and maintaining schools is carefully restricted, so that districts may not become unduly burdened. BONDED INDEBTEDNESS. Any school district may, by a two-thirds vote of the qualified electors present at any annual meeting or a special meeting called for that purpose, borrow money, and may issue bonds of the district to pay for a school-house site or sites, and to erect and furnish school buildings. Districts having less than thirty children may have an indebtedness not to exceed three hundred dollars; districts having thirty children, five hundred dollars; districts having forty children, seven hundred and fifty dollars ;* districts having fifty children, * Amended by Act No. 190, Laws of 1899. AMOUNT. one thousand dollars; districts having seventy-five children, two thousand dollars; districts having one hundred children, three thousand dollars; districts having one hundred twenty-five children and an assessed valuation of not less than one hundred fifty thousand dollars, five thousand dollars; districts having two hundred children, eight thousand dollars; districts having three hundred children, fifteen thousand dollars; districts having four hundred children, twenty thousand dollars; districts having five hundred children, twenty-five thousand dollars; and districts having eight hundred children or more, thirty thousand dollars (4717). All children mentioned in this section must be of legal school age, and the indebtedness of a district TIME LIMIT. shall in no case extend beyond ten years for money borrowed. VOTE BY In all proceedings under this section, the director, assessor, and one person appointed by the district board constitute a board of inspection, who shall cause a poll-list to be kept and a suitable ballotbox to be used, which shall be kept open two hours. The vote must be by ballot and canvassed in the same manner as votes at township elections. AMOUNT FOR TAXATION. One of the powers of the district meeting is the voting of taxes for the building of school houses and the running expenses of school. The amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building a school house or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred shall not exceed in districts containing less than ten children of school age, two hundred fifty dollars; in districts having between ten and thirty children, five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children, one thousand dollars. No legal subdivision of land shall be taxed for building a school house, unless some portion thereof shall be within two and one-half miles of the school house site (4665). FOR GENERAL POSES. The tax authorized to be raised for general school expenses must not exceed one-half the amount SCHOOL PUR- authorized to be raised for building. In the estimates made by district boards of districts have ing less than thirty pupils, such estimate, including the district's share of the primary school interest fund and onemill tax, shall not exceed the sum of fifty dollars a month for the period during which school is held in such district. In township districts the amount voted for purchasing school lots and for erecting school houses, shall not be greater than three mills on the dollar of all the taxable valuation of the real and personal property in said township (4831). Suits and Judgments Against Districts. Justices of the peace have jurisdiction in cases against school districts, when the amount claimed or JURISDICTION. matter in controversy does not exceed one hundred dollars (4721). When any suit is bought against a school district, it must be commenced by summons, a copy of which shall be left with the assessor of the district at least eight days before the return day (4722). HOW COM- No execution shall issue on any judgment against a school district, nor shall any suit be brought thereon; NO EXECUTION. but the same shall be collected in the manner prescribed in this act (4723). Whenever any final judgment shall be obtained against a school district, the assessor of the district shall certify to the supervisor of the township and to the director of the district, the date and amount FINAL JUDG- of such judgment, with the name of the person in whose favor the same was rendered (4724). FAILURE TO MENT. If the assessor fails to certify the judgment, it is lawful for the party obtaining the same to file with the suCERTIFY JUDG- pervisor the certificate of the justice or clerk of the court, rendering the judgment showing the facts which should have been certified by the assessor (4725). The supervisor receiving either of the certificates of a judgment, shall proceed to assess upon the taxASSESSMENT able property of the district, the amount with interest from the date of the judgment to the time when the warrant for the collection will expire, placing the same on the next township assessment roll in the column for school taxes; and the same proceedings shall be had, and the same shall be collected and returned, in the same manner as other district taxes (4726). OF AMOUNT. LOCATION School House Sites. The qualified voters of any school district, when lawfully assembled, may designate by a vote of two-thirds of those present such number of sites as may be desired for school houses, and may change the same by a similar vote at any annual meeting. When no site can be established by such inhabitants, the school inspectors of the township or townships in which the district is situated determine where such site shall be; and their determination shall be certified to the director of the district and shall be final, subject to alteration afterward by the inspectors, on the written request of two-thirds of the qualified voters of the district, or by two-thirds of the qualified voters agreeing upon a site, at a district meeting lawfully called (4732). Whenever a site for a school house shall be designated, determined, or established in any manner provided by law, and such district shall be unable to agree AMOUNT TO with the owner or owners upon the compensation to be paid, or in case such district shall, by reason of any imperfection in the title to said site, arising either from break in the chain of title, tax sale, mortgages, levies, or any other cause, be unable to procure a perfect, unincumbered title, the district board of such district shall authorize one or more of its members to apply to the circuit judge, circuit court commissioner, or any justice of the peace of the city or township in which such school district is situated, for a jury to ascertain and determine the just compensation to be made for the real estate required by such school district for such site. The application must be in writing, state the necessity for using the same for school purposes, and describe the real estate in question (4729). POWER Suspension of Pupils. must District boards have authority to make and enforce suitable rules for the government and management of schools and the care of district property. Just what shall be considered suitable rules necessarily be left to the discretion of the board. Said board may authorize or order the suspension or expulsion from the school, whenever in its judgment the interests of the school demand it, of any pupil guilty of gross misdemeanor or persistent disobedience (4682) POWER MAY TO TEACHER. It will be observed that the power to suspend pupils, if possessed by the teacher, must be delegated to BE DELEGATED him by the board. It sometimes occurs that teachers feel obliged to suspend a pupil before the board can be advised with. Such suspension should be for the day only (45 Wis., 150; 32 Vt., 224; 48 Cal., 36; 133 Mass., 103). Some courts have held that, in extraordinary cases, a teacher may expel a pupil in order to maintain proper control; and that, in case the board reinstates the pupil who becomes a menace to the proper discipline of the school, |