11th. To determine the amount of tax to be raised for the current expenses of the school for the district, and to levy the same upon the taxable property in the district: To provide for the prompt payment at maturity of the principal and interest of any indebtedness of the district, by voting from time to time, taxes upon the taxable property of the district sufficient to meet the same, making allowance for delinquency in paying any part of such taxes. 12th. To furnish the board of examiners the necessary blanks for all such certificates as the board of examination may at any time order, which certificates shall severally contain the branches fixed for the several grades of certificates. 13th. When authorized by the city council, or by a vote of the district, to make, execute and deliver for and in behalf of said district, deeds, mortgages, releases, bonds and all other instruments, relating to the real property of the district, and necessary to maintain and support the schools thereof, or to provide buildings, rooms and grounds therefor. 14th. The said board of education shall have the power, and it shall be their duty, to determine and levy the amount of tax to be raised in said district for all the necessary expenses of said school hereinbefore provided. for, in their own discretion, except the erection of school buildings and the purchase of sites therefor. They shall, during the month of July of each year, unless there are special reasons for delay, and then, so soon thereafter as is expedient, determine upon the amount of taxes to be raised for each fiscal year, not less than five, or more than ten mills on the dollar, and as soon thereafter as a certified assessment roll of the taxable property in said district can be obtained from the county auditor, and filed with the clerk of the board, fix the rate of taxation, and canse the clerk of the board to compute and specify the amount of tax due from each taxpayer in the district, in a tax list, and place the same in the hands of the tax collector of the district for collection on or before the third Monday in September of each year. The said board shall have power on the filing with the clerk of the board by the tax collector, of the delinquent tax list, and the statement of the tax collector of such, of the delinquent taxes as he deems collectible, and the amount not collectible, and before said list shall be placed in the hands of the district attorney for collection, to approve, or revise and correct the same, and by order suspend the Same. Fiscal year. Power to levy tux. commencement of ac ions for the collection of taxes reported on said revised or approved list as uncollectible, and the tax collector shall file a duplicate of sand approved or corrected list with the said attorney, as is provided herein among the duties of said collector. To keep the said schools in operation not more than nine months in each year, and shall keep an accurate account of their proceedings, and of their receipts and disbursements for school purposes, and make a report of such receipts and the source from which the same were derived, and the disbursements and objects to which the same were applied to the city council, of said city of Lewiston, at the expiration of each fiscal year of said district. 15th. Said board shall provide for the examination of all teachers employed in the schools of the district. and no teacher shall be employed in the schools of the district, who has not been duly examined and received a certificate of qualification as teacher, or by the examining officers or board of examiners, as said board of edu cation may provide: The superintendent, or board of education may, for sufficient cause, annul said certificate, and when so annulled, the teacher holding the same shall be discharged. 16th. To appoint and pay a school census marshal in accordance with the provisions of the general school law. SEC. 21. The fiscal year of said district, shall commence on the 1st day of July, and end on the 30th day of June of each year. SEC. 22. The power to levy taxes for school purposes on the taxable property within said school district, is hereby vested exclusively in the board of education, and said property shall be exempt from the levy inade for school purposes, or to be made by order of the county commissioners, from and after April 1st, 1881, and said district shall receive no part of the general property school fund so levied and collected by order of the board of county commissioners. All acts and parts of acts of the general laws of Idaho Territory, authorizing the levy of a tax for school purposes on the taxable property within said district, by the the board of county commissioners, is hereby repealed as to the said property within said district. The said district shall be entitled to receive of all other general school funds, in the proportion as other school districts in the county. SEC. 23. The records of the board of directors, dence. signed by the president, or a transcript thereof, or any Records evipart thereof, and all papers belonging to the office, or a transcript thereof certified by the clerk, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated, and all records, books and papers belonging to said board, of any legal voter or taxpayer of said district. SEC. 24. Said district shall hold in its corporate name Title to propthe title of lands and other property now owned by the erty. district within its corporate limits, or which shall hereafter be acquired for school district purposes in said district, and no property held by it for public school purposes shall be subject to taxation. schools. SEC. 25. Admission to all public schools taught in Admission to said district by authority of this act shall be free to the children of all actual residents in said district between the ages of five and twenty years, and to all other persons between the same ages who may be in good faith living in said district, and have not come into the same for the purpose of attending school. Persons non-resident within said district may be admitted to said schools on reasonable terms, at the discretion of the board of education. The board of education may suspend or expel pupils for insubordination, immorality or infectious diseases. SEC. 26. The board of education may prosecute any Actions, actions in their official capacity, in the following cases: 1st. On a contract made with them in their official capacity; 2d. To enforce a liability, or a duty enjoined by law in favor of officers, or board, or district; 3d. To recover a penalty or forfeiture given to school Loard or district; 4th. To recover damages for an injury to their official rights or property, or to the property of the district; 5th. An action may be brought again t members of the board in their official capacity, either upon contract made by such board in their official capacity and within the scope of their authority, or for an injury to the rights of the plaintiffs arising from some act or omission of such board, or of the district. The actions authorizel by this section may be brought by or against said members of said board, upon a cause of action which accrued within the time of their predecessors, as well as within their own tern of oflice; and, when brought, may be continued by or against the successors in office of the parties whose names may for that purpose be submitted in the action; 6th. In legal proceedings against the directors in their official capacity, all processes and papers may be served on any one of them, and the party served shall notify the others of the fact of such service. 7th. When a judgment is recovered against any the directors in any action prosecuted by or against them, in their name of office, no execution shall issue on said judgment, but the same, if for the recovery of money, shall, unless reversed or stayed on appeal, be paid by the treasurer of the district upon demand, and the delivery to him of the certified copy of the docket of the judg ment, if there is sufficient money of said district in his hands not otherwise appropriated. If there are no funds in his hands in the treasury available for the payment of said judgment, the board of education, on the filing of a certified copy of said judgment with the clerk of the board, shall include the amount of said judgment in the amount of tax to be raised by the next levy, and cause the same to be levied and collected as in other cases, and the judgment paid. SEC. 27. All acts and parts of acts of the general laws of Idaho Territory in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 28. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved December 30, 1880. BRIDGE ACROSS PAYETTE RIVER. Ridge commissioners. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE BUILDING OF A BRIDGE ACROSS Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Terri- SECTION 1. The County Commissioners of Ada County are hereby authorized and empowered, and it is made their duty to appoint five individuals, three of whom shall be residents of Ada County, and two of whom shall be residents of Washington County, and all of whom shall be owners of real estate in said counties, and who shall be styled Bridge Commissioners. It shall be the duty of said bridge Commissioners to locate and construct a bridge at or as near Hunt's Ferry Location of as possible, and it shall in no case be one-half mile above bridge. or below said ferry. It shall be their further duty to determine on the plans and specifications for such bridge, and to let the contract for the building of said bridge, Contract. and all necessary embankments or work connected therewith, to the lowest responsible bidder, in such manner and under such regulations as said bridge Commissioners shall agree upon. It shall be the further duty of said Bridge Commissioners to contract with the individuals to whom such contract shall be let, in the name of Ada and Washington Counties, and it shall be at the option of said Bridge Commissioners to require security of any contractor for the faithful performance of his contract. And it shall be the further duty of said Bridge Commissioners to inspect said work from time to time Inspection of during its progress, and when any part thereof has been work. faithfully completed according to the terms of the contract, to receive the same. It shall also be the duty of said Bridge Commissioners to make a full report as to the location selected, and as to the plans and specifications adopted, and of the performance and acceptance of any work, to the board of County Commissioners of Ada and Washington Counties, which report shall be duly filed Reports of with the clerks of said boards. Also all contracts en- commissioners tered into and all bonds taken, shall be filed with the clerks of the board of County Commissioners of Ada and Washington Counties; Provided, that no contract for building said bridge shall be taken by either of the persons appointed as such Bridge Commissioners. SEC. 2. The board of County Commissioners of Ada County are required to fill any vacancy that may occur, Vacancies in from any cause, in the number of said Bridge Commis- board. sioners, until the final completion and acceptance of said bridge. Said Bridge Commissioners shall receive such compensation as shall be allowed by the board of County Compensation Commissioners of their respective counties, to be paid as other current expenses of the county are paid. of board. SEC. 3. For the purpose of raising money for the building of the bridge required by this act, it is made the duty of the County Commissioners of Ada and Washington Counties to issue bonds not to exceed five thousand dol- Bonds. lars, in sums of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, bearing interest at the rate |