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questions that will advance the best interests of the county public schools.

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Makes apportionment of school funds.

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5. Makes an annual financial report to county court.

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Makes an annual report to Superintendent of Public Instruc

Examines teachers and issues certificates.

May revoke certificates obtained by fraud, etc.

9. Is chairman of board of county examiners.

10. Holds an annual institute for the teachers under his supervision.

11. Visits schools annually.

12. Holds local institutes.

13. Hears, examines and decides appeals from district officers, teachers and others.

14. Receives reports from district officers and teachers.

15. May arrange a course of study for county schools.

16. Has an advisory power in the location of school houses, selection of teachers, etc.

17. Is ex-officio chairman of board of arbitrators for division of school property.

18. Is ex-officio member State board of examiners.

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2. They are elected by the legal voters in the district and serve for three years.

3. They employ teachers and assist them in the government of the school.

4. They audit all claims against the district and draw all orders.

5. They locate, establish and provide schools.

6. They may levy taxes for buildings, furniture, school sites, apparatus, etc.

7. Examine and correct assessment rolls.

8. They may levy rate bills under conditions.

9. They have entire control of the district schools within certain limits.

10. They must enter into a written contract in employing teachers.

11. They have power to locate school houses.

12. They must prosecute any person for wilfully injuring school property.

13. They issue calls for regular and special meetings.

14. They can dismiss teachers only for good cause shown, and the teacher may take an appeal.

15. Two directors constitute a quorum.

F-District Clerks.

1. There is one for each district.

2. They are elected by the people and serve one year.

3. They must give bonds.

4. The clerk is custodian of all school funds.

5. The clerk is ex-officio treasurer and pays all warrants. 6. They make out assessment rolls and collect taxes.

7. They make an annual census of the district.

8. They must keep correct accounts of all meetings and other business.

9. They must make annual reports to the county superintendent. 10. They receive, examine, approve and file teachers' reports.

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THOMAS VAN SCOY, A. M., D. D., Willamette University

B. J. HAWTHORNE, A. M., State University.

J. F. ELLIS, A. M., D. D., Pacific University.

J. E. PAYTON, A. M., ex-County Superintendent.
T. H. CRAWFORD, A. M., Principal Park School.
I. W. PRATT, A. M., Principal Harrison School
J. W. MERRITT, A. M., ex-Principal Public Schools.
D. V. S. REID, A. M., ex-County Superintendent.
J. B. HORNER, A. M., Principal Public Schools.
FRANK RIGLER, A. M., Principal Public Schools

Salem Eugene City Forest Grove Baker City Portland Portland

Jacksonville

Albany Roseburg Oregon City

MEETINGS.

Semi-annual meetings have been held by the board as required by section 16, title II, of the school laws.

SPECIAL MEETINGS.

In addition to the regular meetings of the board held on the first Mondays in January and July of each year, ninety-five special meetings have been held to December 1, 1888. These special meetings were held in the interests of educational work generally and the management and discipline of public schools in various parts of the State. Many questions and appeals have been referred to the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State board of education for decisions.

SCHOOL DECISIONS.

During the past two years one hundred and thirty-five decisions have been rendered upon the following points appealed to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for settlement: Accounts of district clerks; adjournment of special meetings; ages of school pupils: apparatus, purchase of; apportionment of school funds; assistant teacher's salary; assignment of pupils; attendance of children; alteration in district boundaries; annulment of certificates; appendages to school houses: acceptance of office-school directors; appointLents to office-school clerks; assessment of taxes; bonds of district clerks; boards of directors-election and terms of office of; boards of directors-powers and duties of; boards of directors-vacancies in, how filled: boundaries of school district-alteration, etc.; boards of directors-rules and regulations of, must provide sufficient schools, may enforce rules relative to contagious diseases, vaccination, etc., may suspend or expel pupils, may enforce attendance, may establish schools of higher grade; compulsory attendance; corporal punishment; county superintendents-may license teachers, apportionment of school moneys to joint districts, appointment of assistant +xaminers, to fix and alter district boundaries, to decide appeals, examinations-power to grant, to grade schools, to hold institutes, may revise apportionment of school funds, delivery of books, etc., to successor in office, report to county court, may advise teachers and school officers, must hear and decide appeals; compensation of school clerks; consolidation of school districts; contracts of school boards;

corporate powers of school districts; contracts with teachers; course of study in mixed schools--who may determine; criminal offencedisturbing school meetings; certificates-when renewable; chairman board of directors-who may serve; contracts-must be made at regular meeting of board of directors; county examiners-who eligible as examiners, term of, qualifications of, compensation of; course of study in graded schools-how and by whom adopted; dismissal of teachers-how and for what causes; division of school property; election of school directors; enumeration of school children; epidemic-during prevalence of, how long shall schools be closed; examination of teachers; expulsion of pupils how long and in what eases; fees for certificates-how applied; formation of districts-who may petition; form for proceedings in holding specia meetings, in building school-houses; fuel for school-houses-how paid for; graded schools-how and by whom established; holidays what are legal holidays; incidental expenses of schools-how paid; indebtedness of districts-how and to what amount incurred joint meetings of school boards-powers of; jurisdiction of county superintendent in locating school-houses; judgments against school districts-how obtained; joint districts-how established, duties of directors of, funds of, how apportioned; leasing school lands and school sites; levy of tax for school purposes, when made and for what objects, when and how submitted to voters, amount of levy: location of school-houses--who may determine; liabilities of district officers; loans of district school funds-not legal: loss of funds by district clerks-how recovered; lost time by teachers- what constitutes and how made up; making fires by teacher not compulsory— same as to pupils; mandamus-writ of, to compel directors to acthow secured; meetings of directors, how often; notice of district meetings, how long posted; petitions for changing district boundaries-errors in; petitions-remonstrances against, when received: polls, how long open; postponement of election-by whom; official bonds of district clerk; organization of board of directors in new districts; orders on district clerk-by whom ordered and drawn: proceedings against school districts for removal of officers-how conducted; proceedings against directors in locating school houseshow secured; pupils in school entitled to equal privileges-janitor work not required of, religious freedom allowed, conduct of away from school premises; qualifications of teachers, of legal voters: quorum at school meetings; regulations for government of schools; removals from districts vacates offices; repairs on school-houseshow paid for; residents of districts-rights of; revocation of teach

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