BOISE CITY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL AN ACT TO CREATE THE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT OF Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Idaho, as follows: SECTION 1. All that part of Ada county described as follows, to-wit: Commencing at a point on the north bank of Boise river, at the center of the northwest quarter of section number fourteen, in township number three north, range number two, east of the Boise meridian; Thence north to the centre of west half of section Boundary. number eleven; Thence east to the center of east half of section eleven; reserve; Thence southwesterly along said boundary to the southwest corner of Fort Boise reserve; Thence northwesterly to the northwest corner of Fort Boise reserve; Thence northeasterly along the north boundary of Fort Boise reserve to the intersection of section number one; Thence north to the corner to sections number 25, 26, 35, and 36, in township number four north, of range number two, east of the Boise meridian; Thence west to the center of the east half of sections number 28 and 33, in township number four north, of range number two, east of the Boise meridian; Thence south to the center of the northeast quarter of section number four, in township number three north, range number two, east of the Boise meridian; Same. Board of trus tees. Vacancies. Thence west to the Boise river; Thence in a southeasterly direction up Boise river, with its meanderings, to the place of beginning. Is hereby constituted an independent school district, and created a body corporate by the name of the Independent School District of Boise City, and in such name may contract, sue, and be sued, and take, hold, and convey property, real and personal. SEC. 2. There shall be in said district a board of six trustees, a majority of whom shall from time to time fill any vacancy in the board. Christopher W. Moore, Hosea B. Eastman, John Lemp, Peter J. Pefly, Charles Himrod, and Richard Z. Johnson, shall constitute such board of trustees; but if a majority of said persons shall fail to qualify and act as such trustees, or if at any time there shall be less than four trustees, the city council of Boise City shall fill the vacancies in said board; but when a majority of the board is present and acting, they may, and it is their duty to, fill any vacancy in the board; and any person appointed as aforesaid, to fill any such vacancy in the board, shall hold under such appointment until the expiration of the term to which he was appointed. The regular term of office of said trustees shall be six years, and two members of the board shall be elected, as hereinafter provided, on the first Monday of September, A. D. 1882, and two biennially thereafter; and at the regular meeting of the board in July, 1882, they shall determine, by lot, two of Term of office. their number, whose term shall expire at the regular meeting of the board after the election hereinafter provided for the first Monday of September, A. D. 1882; and two members whose term shall expire at such meeting A. D. 1884; and two whose term shall expire at such meeting A. D. 1886. Qualifications. SEC. 3. Every trustee shall be a resident free-holder within said district, and before entering upon his duties shall take and subscribe an oath faithfully to perform the duties of his trust according to law; and no trustee shall be interested in any contract let or made, by, or with, the board or any officer thereof, or in any supplies furnished to or for said district, or a surety for the performance of any contract with the said board or district, or the agent or partner of any contractor with said board or district, and no action shall be maintained or recov ery had against said board or district upon any contract or obligation in which any trustee is so interested, but the same shall be void. b ard SEC. 4. The mayor of said city shall be the presi- officers of dent of said board of trustees and shall preside at their meetings, when present, but shall have no vote, except in case of a tie, when he shall give the casting vote. The trustees may choose one of their number vice president to preside in the absence of the mayor, and shall choose one of their number, or some other competent person, clerk of the board, to act during their pleasure, and may fix his compensation; they shall also choose one of their number, or some other competent person, treasurer of the district, and fix his compensation, and the treasurer shall execute to the district an official bond, with two sufficient sureties, in such sum as shall be required by the board of trustees, conditioned faithfully to perform the duties of his trust and faithfully to account for, and pay over, as may be required by the board of trustees, all moneys that may come to his hands as such officer. duty. SEC. 5. If any trustee shall die, remove from, or cease to be a resident freeholder of the district, his office as such trustee is vacant, and shall be filled as before provided. And if any trustee shall neglect or refuse to act Neglect of as such, or shall fail, without just excuse, to attend four successive regular meetings of the board, a majority of the board, or, if there be no such majority in office, the city council may declare his office vacant and fill the vacancy as above provided. Quorum. SEC. 6. Regular meetings of the board of trustees Meetings of shall be held on the second Monday of each month, and board. special meetings may be called by the mayor or the vice president of the board, or by any two trustees, by personal notice of the time and place of such meeting to each member of the board, or, if he cannot be found, by leaving such notice at his place of residence, with some person of suitable age and discretion. Four trustees, with or without the mayor, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business, but a less number may adjourn any regular meeting from time to time until a quorum can be obtained. The board shall make such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient and necessary for its government, and the government of its appointees and the pupils, and no meeting of the board not provided for by its rules, or by law, shall be legal, Rules. unless all the members thereof have been notified as provided for in this section. SEC. 7. For the purchase of a site and the erection of a proper union school building in said district, there shall be issued by said trustees twenty-five thousand dol tion of school building. Bonds for erec- lars of negotiable coupon bonds of said district, in sums of one hundred and five hundred dollars each, bearing interest at the rate of eight per centum per annum, payable semi-annually on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year, and twenty-five hundred dollars. of said bonds shall nature on the first day of July, 1886, and twenty-five hundred dollars thereof on the first day of July annually thereafter until all are paid; and the principal and the interest thereof shall be payable at the First National Bank of Idaho, at Boise City, or in case said bank shall not be in existence, at the office of the treasurer of said district in Boise City. Said bonds shall be issued in the corporate name of said district, sealed with its corporate seal, signed by the mayor as president of the board of trustees, and countersigned by the clerk of said board, and shall bear such vignette and devices as the trustees may direct; they shall, previous to being negotiable, be numbered consecutively and registered by the clerk of the board in a book kept by him for that purpose, which shall be a public record, noting the amount, time of payment, and rate of interest, and all of said bonds shall state on their face that they are issned under the provisions of this act. And if, during the construction of the school building hereinafter provided for, the board of trustees shall find it necessary to the completion and, furnishing of the same, and for the providing of all necessary fixtures and apparatus, they may issue an additional amount of said bonds, not exceeding ten thousand dollars additional, which shall be in all respects similar to, and shall be registered and nunbered consecutively after the first issue; and twenty-five hundred dollars thereof shall mature on the first day of July next after the last of the first issue shall have matured, and a like amount on the first day of July annually thereafter until all are paid. for use of district. SEC. 8. Said independent school district shall receive Fublic moneys from the public school moneys of Ada County, both county and Territorial, now distributed, or that may be distributed under the general school law of the Territory, in addition to the per capita share of said district, in proportion to the number of children in said district between five and twenty-one years of age, as shown by the last report of the school census marshal of said district, one equal share with the other districts of said county for every fifty children, or fraction of thirty-five children in said district between the ages aforesaid, as shown by such report, of said school moneys divided, or that may be divided, among the several organized districts of said county that have complied with the provis ions of the general school law, and said moneys shall be apportioned accordingly; and said moneys at each apportionment, after the passage of this act, shall be paid by the treasurer of Ada County to the treasurer of said district, taking his receipt therefor; Provided, that the number of school districts in the county, outside of said Number of disindependent school district, shall not be increased so coun.y. that the average number of children in said districts, of school age, shall be less than twenty-six. tricts in terest on Lond. SEC. 9. When said district shall have issued bonds under the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the board of trustees to levy and assess an annual tax on all the taxable property of said district, found upon the last completed and equalized assessment roll of Ada county, in an amount sufficient to pay the interest cou- Payment of inpons upon all the outstanding bonds, when and as fast as aid coupons shall become due according to their tenor and effect, after deducting from the the amount of such coupons growing due within the ensuing twelve months, any moneys received under the preceding section and in the treasury of the district, and not necessary, for the support and maintenance of the schools thereof; and the treasurer of said district shall collect said taxes, in cash only, as hereinafter provided, and shall pay the same into the treasury of said district to be by the treasurer applied in payment of the interest coupons of said bonds as they mature. And after the expiration of four years next after the issue of said bonds, and annually thereafter until the full payment of said bonds, the said board of trustees shall provide by taxation for, and shall collect twenty-five hundred dollars of the principal of said bonds, over and above the cost and expense of collection, which amount shall be assessed and collected the same as the tax for the payment of the interest coupons, and when collected shall be turned over to the treasurer of said school district; said money to be used only in the bonds. payment of said bonds. And the said payment shall be made by the treasurer of the district at the First National Bank of Idaho, in Boise City, or in case said bank shall not be in existence, at the office of said treasurer, in Boise City, as before provided, whenever any interest on, or any part of the principal of, said bonds shall be due and payable according to terms thereof. And the treasurer shall cancel the bonds redeemed in the presence of the board of trustees, and a minute of such cancel Payment of |