HARVEY MORRISON,
I. P. HOLE,

J. M. DICKINSON,

for all contracts made by such local directors, when such contracts are made in accordance with the rules and regulations of said township board, or in accordance with any resolution thereof; provided, that whenever any board of education shall build, enlarge, repair or furnish a school house or houses, or make any improvement or repair provided for in this act, the cost of which will exceed five hundred dollars, except in city districts of the first and second class, in which the cost shall not exceed fifteen hundred dollars, except in cases of urgent necessity, or for the security and protection of school property, said board shall proceed as follows:

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1. Said board shall advertise for bids for the period of To advertise four weeks in some newspaper in general circulation in said for bids. discrict, and two if there are so many; and if no newspaper is published therein, then by posting up such advertisements in three public places therein, which advertisement shall be entered in full by the clerk on the record of the proceedings of said board.

2. The bids, duly sealed up, shall be filed with the clerk by Eids, how made. twelve o'clock at noon of the last day, as stated in the adver

tisement.

3. The bids shall be opened at the next meeting of the When read. board, and publicly read by the clerk and entered in full on

the records of the board.

4. Each bid shall contain the name of every person in Notice of bid. terested in the same, and shall be accompanied by a sufficient guarantee of some disinterested person, that if the bid is accepted a contract will be entered into and the performance of it properly secured.

5. If the work bid for embraces both labor and materials, each must be separately stated with the price thereof.

6. None but the lowest responsible bid shall be accepted, but the board may in their discretion, reject all the bids, or they may in their discretion, accept any bid for both labor and material, which shall be the lowest aggregate cost of such improvement or repairs.

7. Any part of a bid which is lower than the same part of any other, shall be accepted, whether the residue of the bid is higher or not, and if it is higher such residue shall be rejected.

8. The contract shall be between the board of education and the bidders; and said board shall pay the contract price for the work, when it is completed, in cash, and may pay monthly estimates as the work progresses if they deem best. 9. If two or more bids are equal in the whole or any part thereof, and are lower than any others, either may be accepted, but in no case shall the work be divided between them. 10. When there is reason to believe that there is any collusion, or combination among the bidders, or any number of them, the bids of those concerned therein shall be rejected. SEC. 56. Each board of education, at a regular or special meeting held between the third Monday in April and the first Monday in June of each year, shall determine by estimate as nearly as practicable, the entire amount of money

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Bonds may be issued by boards of city districts of the first class.

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necessary as a contingent fund to be expended for prolonging the several schools of the district for the purchase of suitable sites for school houses; for leasing, purchasing, erecting and furnishing school houses; and for all other school expenses, not exceeding seven mills on the dollar of the taxable property of the district, as valued for taxation. And any board of education of any city district of the first class are hereby authorized to issue bonds to obtain or improve public school property, and in anticipation of income from taxes for such purposes levied or to be levied, may, from time to time, as occasion shall require, issue and sell bonds, under the restrictions and bearing the rate of interest specified in section sixty-three, and shall pay such bonds and the interest thereon when due, but shall so provide that no greater amount of such bonds shall be issued in any one year than would equal the aggregate of a tax at the rate of two mills, under this section for the year next preceding such issue ; provided, that the order of such board to issue such bonds, be made only at a regular meeting thereof, and by a vote of a majority of all the members of such board, taken by yeas and nays and entered on the journal of the board.

SEC. 57. The amount so estimated the board shall certify, in writing, on or before the first Monday in June in each year, to the auditor of the county to which such district belongs, who shall thereupon assess the entire amount of such estimate upon all the taxable property of the district, and enter it upon the tax duplicate of the county, and the county treasurer shall collect the same at the same time and in the same manner as state and county taxes are collected; and when collected, he shall pay the same over to the proper school treasurer, upon a warrant from the county auditor.

SEC. 58. Said county treasurer, unless he receives a fixed salary, shall be entitled to receive one per centum on all moneys so collected by him for school purposes, and no more. SEC. 59. If any board of education shall in any one year fail to estimate and certify the levy as required in this act, or to provide sufficient school privileges for all the youth of school age in the district, or to provide for the continuance of any school in the district for at least six months in the year, or to provide for such school an equitable share of school advantages as required by this act, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the county to which such district belongs, upon being advised and satisfied thereof, to do and perform any or all of said duties and acts, in as full a manner as said board of education are by this act authorized to do and perform the same; and the members of said board board on failure causing said failure, shall be each severally liable in a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars nor less than twenty-five dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the name of the state of Ohio, upon complaint of any elector in said district, which sum shall be collected by the prosecuting attorney of said county, and when so collected shall be paid into the treasury of said county for the benefit of the school or schools of said district.

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SEC. 60. So much of the fund raised by local levy as may Township levy, be set apart for the continuation of the schools after the state funds have been exhausted, shall be so apportioned that the schools in all the sub-districts of the township shall be continued the same length of time each year. In case this fund be apportioned by any township board in a manner not satisfactory to the local directors of any sub-district, or a majority of them, said local directors may give notice thereof to the county commissioners of the proper county, who, at their first regular meeting for the transaction of business after such notice shall have been given, shall revise said apportionmeut, and the funds aforesaid shall be apportioned in the manner determined by said county commissioners.

May appeal to commissioners.

direct a levy in certain cases.

SEC. 61. Whenever the board of education of any school Voters may district, except a city district of the first class, shall determine that it is necessary for the proper accommodation of the schools of such school district, to purchase a site and erect a school house thereon, or to do either, and such board shall be of opinion that the purchase of such site and the erection and furnishing of such house, or either of said purposes, will Arnended require a greater tax upon the property of such school district, than such board is authorized by this act to levy, and that to provide the means therefor it will be necessary to

ble cost of such site and house, or of either, and at a general election or special election called for that purpose, of the qualified electors of the district over which such board has jurisdiction, giving ten days' notice by posting in five of the most public places in said district, notices stating the time, place and object of said election, and submit to said voters at such election the question of levying taxes for said purposes, or either of them, and the further questions whether the levy for such purpose shall be made from year to year thereafter, and what amount shall be levied in each year until the actual cost of such site and the erection of said house, or of either. shall be raised.

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SEC. 62. And if a majority of the qualified voters at such Levy and col election shall vote in favor of levying taxes for said purposes, or either of them, of continuing the levy from year to year thereafter, and for the amount to be levied each year for the purpose or purposes aforesaid, said board of education shall certify the same, annually, to the county auditor of the proper county, who shall place the same upon the tax duplicate in the same manner that other taxes certified by such board of education are required to be placed on such tax duplicate. In case any part of the district is situated in an adjoining county, the levy in such part shall be certified, collected, and paid over as provided for in section thirty-five for levies made by the board of education.

SEC. 63. To enable such boards of education to anticipate the moneys to be raised by taxation, as provided for in the preceding section, and to purchase such site and erect such school-house, or to do either, they are hereby authorized to borrow the sum of money necessary for such purposes, or of

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either, not exceeding the amount so authorized to be levied, and to issue bonds therefor, payable as indicated by the vote provided for in section sixty-one of this act, after a certain day to be named therein, bearing interest payable semi-annaally, at a rate specified therein, not exceeding eight per cen. tum per annum; the bonds to be issued by such board under this act, shall be in such sums as the board may determine, be numbered consecutively, made payable to the bearer, bear date the day of sale thereof, and be signed by such board officially, and the clerk of the board shall keep a record of the number, date, amount, and rate of interest of each bond sold, and the sum for which each bond was sold, and the name of the person to whom sold, and the time when payable, which record shall at all reasonable times be open to the inspection of the public. The bonds so issued shall in no case be sold for a less sum than their par value, nor bear interest until the purchase money for the same shall have been paid by the purchaser thereof.

SEC. 64. The board of education of any school district may contract with the board of any adjacent district for the admission of pupils into any school in such adjacent districts, and the expense so incurred shall be paid out of the school funds of the district sending such pupils.

SEC. 65. In every case where it may be necessary to procure or enlarge a school-house site, and the board of education of any school district and the owner of such proposed site or addition shall be unable from any cause to agree upon the sale and the purchase thereof, the board shall make out an accurate survey and description of the parcel of land which the said board of education may desire to appropriate for school-house purposes, and file the same with the probate judge of the proper county, and thereupon the same proceed. ings of appropriation shall be had which are provided for by chapter forty-seven of an act entitled an act to provide for the organization and government of municipal corporations, passed May 6, 1869. (O. L., volume 66, page 234.)

SEC. 66. The board of education of each district, except in city districts of the first class, are hereby authorized to require the clerk of said board annually, ten days prior to the election for members of said board, to make out and post up at the place or places of holding such election, or publish in some newspaper of general circulation in their district, an itemized statement of all moneys received and disbursed by said board within the school year last preceding.

SEC. 67. It shall be unlawful for any member of any board of education organized under any law of this state, to tled to compen receive any compensation for his services as a member of said board, except as clerk of the board, or to apply any money coming into his hands for the benefit of schools to his own use; and any person violating either of the provisions of this section shall be prosecuted therefor, and punished as for obtaining money under false pretenses; and all moneys collected under the provisions of this section, shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which the action shall have originated, for the use of common schools in said district.