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THE SCHOOL LAWS 
 OF IDAHO 
 
 Enacted by 
 
 The Eleventh Session of the Legislature 
 Nineteen Hundred Eleven 
 
 Issued by the Authority of GRACE M. SHEPHERD 
 
 Superintendent o! Public Instruction 
 State of Idaho 
 
 PRESS OF 
 
 LEWISTON EVENING TELLER 
 LCWISTON, IDAHO 
 

THE SCHOOL LAWS 
 OF IDAHO 
 
 Enacted by 
 
 The Eleventh Session of the Legislature 
 Nineteen Hundred Eleven 
 
 Issued by the Authority of GRACE M. SHEPHERD 
 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 
 State of Idaho 
 
 PRESS OF 
 
 LEWISTON EVENING TELLER 
 LETWISTON, IDAHO 
 

FOREWORD. 
 
 In accordance with an Act passed by the Tenth Session of 
 the Idaho Legislature providing for a commission to revise 
 and codify the School Laws of Idaho and to present a report 
 to the Eleventh Session, Governor James H. Brady appointed 
 as commissioners, W. R. Siders, Superintendent of the Poca- 
 tello City Schools, and G. H. Black, President of the 
 Lewiston State Normal. For two years these men worked 
 assiduously studying the school laws of the different states 
 throughout the country and investigating the educational con- 
 ditions and needs within the State. 
 
 The Commission met in January, 1911, and prepared a 
 complete report, covering such amendments to the preceding 
 laws and such additions thereto as seemed for the best interests 
 of education in Idaho. With but few changes the report of 
 the Commission was adopted by the Legislature. No greater 
 compliment can be paid their work than that which is embodied 
 in the report of the National Bureau. of Education. In part 
 it is as follows : "The code reported by the State School Law 
 Commission of Idaho and enacted into law with a few minor 
 amendments must be rated as one of the most practical and 
 successful of such efforts. The framers did not make the 
 mistake of attempting too much, and proposed no radical 
 change in prevailing conditions. They prepared a complete 
 code, orderly in arrangement and harmonious in detail, based 
 upon existing laws which were more than usually defective 
 and incongruous. Changes were freely made, but those changes 
 were manifestly improvements and were not such as to arouse 
 severe antagonism and thus defeat the prime purpose of the 
 commission" 
 
 I take this means of publicly expressing the gratitude of 
 the State for the efficient and capable work of the Commis- 
 sioners. 
 
 GRACE M. SHEPHERD, 
 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
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 ARTICLE I. 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 SECTION 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, the 
 Secretary of State and the Attorney General shall constitute 
 the State Board of Education, of which the Superintendent 
 shall be president. The Board shall have power to appoint a 
 secretary. 
 
 Duties and Powers. 
 
 SECTION 3. The State Board of Education shall have duties 
 and powers subject to the provisions of this Act as hereinafter 
 provided in Sections 4-18 inclusive. 
 
 Recommend Legislation. 
 
 SECTION 4. To report and to recommend to the Governor 
 and to the Legislature, legislation needed to make the public 
 schools of this State more efficient and useful. 
 
 General Supervision. 
 
 SECTION 5. To have general supervision of the educational 
 work in institutions wholly or partly supported by the State, 
 which are not under the supervision of the public school 
 authorities. 
 
 Encourage Manual Training, Etc. 
 
 SECTION 6. To encourage and promote agricultural educa- 
 tion, manual training, domestic science, and such other voca- 
 tional and practical education as the needs of this State may 
 from time to time require. 
 
 Sanitation of School Buildings. 
 
 SECTION 7. To prescribe rules and regulations for the sani- 
 tary equipment and inspection of school buildings, and to take 
 such other action as it may deem necessary and expedient to 
 promote the physical and moral welfare of the children of 
 the public schools of this State. 
 
 Supervision of Superintendents. 
 
 SECTION 8. To have general supervision of the work of 
 the County and City Superintendents and of the public schools 
 of the State. 
 
 Note Sec. 1 of this article is a repealing clause and of no value in 
 this work. 
 
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 Course of Study. 
 
 SECTION 9. To prepare or cause to be prepared a course of 
 study for the public schools of the State and to prescribe the 
 use that shall be made of the same. 
 
 Examination Questions. 
 
 SECTION 10. To prepare or cause to be prepared examina- 
 tion questions for all classes of teachers' certificates requiring 
 written examinations. 
 
 Examining Board. 
 
 SECTION u. To appoint a sufficient number of competent 
 examiners to read and grade the papers of all applicants for 
 all classes of certificates, and to pay such examiners for such 
 services a sum not to exceed Five Dollars ($5.00) per diem, 
 together with actual mileage and expenses for all time spent 
 upon examining papers and for all time necessarily consumed 
 enroute to and from the place where the grading is done. 
 Said payments shall be made out of the funds of the State Board 
 of Education. 
 
 Record of Examinations. 
 
 SECTION 12. To keep a record of the grades made by all 
 persons taking examinations, to preserve all examination 
 papers for ninety (90) days, and to keep a record of all cer- 
 tificates granted or revoked, showing to whom issued, age of 
 grantee, date of issue, grade and duration of each certificate, 
 and, if revoked, the date and reason therefor. 
 
 Report on Examinations. 
 
 SECTION 13. To report to the County Superintendents on 
 the grades of each and every applicant for county certificates 
 from the respective counties throughout the State, such reports 
 to constitute the authority for the issuance of such county 
 teachers' certificates as are provided by law. 
 
 Institutes. 
 
 SECTION 14. To prescribe rules and regulations for the 
 holding of teachers' county and joint county institutes', said 
 institutes being convened as provided by this Act at such 
 times and places as shall be determined by the County Super- 
 intendents of the respective counties. 
 
 Officers and Meetings. 
 
 SECTION 15^ The State Board of Education shall have such 
 officers as it shall deem necessary, define their duties and elect 
 
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 them annually. It shall fix the times of its regular meetings, 
 which shall be held at least semi-annually, and the manner 
 of calling special meetings; it shall make it own by-laws and 
 all regulations deemed necessary to carry on the proper work 
 and affairs of the Board. 
 
 Office. 
 
 SECTION 16. The office of the Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction shall be the office of the State Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Place of Meeting. 
 
 SECTION 17. The regular place of meeting of the State 
 Board of Education shall be in the State Capitol, but the 
 Board may meet elsewhere when it is deemed necessary to 
 do so. 
 
 Employ Assistance. 
 
 SECTION 18. The State Board of Education shall have the 
 power to employ such assistance and to incur such other 
 expense as it finds necessary for the performance of its duties 
 within the limits of its funds and of the appropriation made 
 for its use. 
 
 ARTICLE II. 
 
 STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC 
 INSTRUCTION. 
 
 Election, Qualifications, Residence and Oath of Office. 
 
 SECTION 19. There shall be elected biennially, by the quali- 
 fied electors of the State, a State Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, who shall reside at the seat of government, and 
 shall perform such duties as are prescribed by the constitu- 
 tion and laws of the State. No person shall be a candidate 
 for the office of State Superintendent who does not hold a 
 valid State or State Life Certificate, and who is not at the 
 time of nomination actively engaged in educational work in 
 the State public schools or in the State educational institu- 
 tions. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the State 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction shall take and subscribe 
 to the oath prescribed by the constitution, and execute a bond 
 in the penal sum of Two Thousand Dollars ($2000), payable 
 to the State of Idaho, with sureties to be approved by the 
 Governor, conditioned upon the faithful performance of his 
 
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 official duties, and the delivery to his successor of all books, 
 papers, documents or other property belonging to the office. 
 Said bond and oath shall be deposited with the Secretary of 
 State. 
 
 Office, Seal, Etc. 
 
 SECTION 20. He shall have an office at the Capitol, where 
 a seal shall be kept which shall be the official seal of the State 
 Board of Education, by which all official acts may be authenti- 
 cated, and all records, books and papers pertaining to the busi- 
 ness of this office. He shall file all papers, reports and public 
 documents transmitted to him by the County Superintendents 
 of the several counties, and hold the same in readiness to be 
 exhibited to the Governor, or to any Committee of any House 
 of the Legislature, or to any citizen of the State. 
 
 Meetings With Superintendents. 
 
 SECTION 21. He shall summon the County Superintendents, 
 or the City Superintendents and District Principals of Graded 
 Schools, of each judicial district, or of two or more districts 
 combined, to meet jointly or separately at such time and 
 place as he shall appoint, giving them due notice of such 
 meeting. The object of such meetings shall be to discuss 
 school organization, school supervision, and such other mat- 
 ters as may properly come before such meetings. 
 
 The term "District Principal" means the head teacher of a 
 graded school of four or more teachers, but smaller than a 
 Class A Independent District school, whether such school 
 be maintained under Article V or under Article XIII of this 
 Act. 
 
 General Duties. 
 
 SECTION 22. (a). He shall be the executive officer of the 
 State Board of Education and shall enforce their rules and 
 regulations, and as such executive officer shall see that all 
 matters requiring the decision of the Board are promptly 
 placed before them for decision, and shall faithfully execute 
 all duties devolving upon said Board through their executive 
 officer. 
 
 (b). He shall prepare, have printed and furnished, through 
 the County Superintendents, to all officers charged with the 
 administration of the laws relating to the public schools, and 
 to teachers, such blank forms and books as are needed or 
 required to be used in the discharge of their duties. He shall 
 have the law relating to the public schools printed in pamph- 
 let form and shall supply school officers, school libraries and 
 
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 State libraries with one copy each of said pamphlets; said 
 printing to be paid for on the warrant of the Auditor out of 
 tht general fund, on bills approved by the State Board of 
 Examiners. 
 
 (c). He shall, on or before the first day of December in 
 every year preceding a regular session of the Legislature, 
 report to the Governor the condition of the public schools, the 
 amount of the State School Fund apportioned and sources 
 from which derived, with such suggestions and recommend- 
 ations relating to the affairs of his office as he may think 
 proper. 
 
 (d). It shall be his duty to visit annually such counties 
 of the State as most need his personal attention, and all 
 counties if practicable, for the purpose of inspecting the schools 
 and awakening and guiding public sentiment in relation to 
 the practical interests of education. He shall open such cor- 
 respondence as may enable him to obtain all necessary infor- 
 mation relating to the system of public education in other 
 states. 
 
 (e). All office, fuel, furniture, books, postage, stationery 
 and other contingent expenses pertaining to his office, shall 
 be furnished in the same manner as those of other departments 
 of the State government. 
 
 ARTICLE III. 
 
 BOARD OF TEXT BOOK COMMISSIONERS. 
 Constitution of Board, 
 
 SECTION 23. It shall be the duty of the State Board of 
 Education of the State of Idaho to appoint a State Board of 
 Text Book Commissioners, on or before the first day of April, 
 1907. Said Board shall consist of seven (7) members, one 
 (i) of whom shall be the State Superintendent of Public In- 
 struction, who shall be ex-orftcio chairman of the said Board, 
 and two (2) of whom shall be practical business men. Any 
 resident of the State of Idaho who has had not less than 
 five ( 5 ) years' experience as a teacher, and who, at the time 
 of receiving and holding the appointment, shall be actually 
 engaged in school work in the State of Idaho, shall be eligible 
 for appointment to membership of said State Board of Text 
 Book Commissioners as herein provided. The term of office 
 of said Board shall be six (6) years, and the State Board of 
 Education of the State of Idaho is hereby empowered to 
 fill any vacancy that may arise in said Board. Said Board 
 
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 shall have power to formulate rules for the government of 
 its own proceedings, and three (3) members shall constitute 
 a quorum ; Provided : That the restrictions relating to the 
 eligibility for appointment to membership do not include the 
 appointment of the two (2) business men. 
 
 Meetings, When and Where Held. 
 
 SECTION 24. The said. Board of Text Book Commissioners 
 shall hold its first meeting at the State Capitol, in the Senate 
 chamber, on or before the fifteenth day of April, 1907, for 
 the purpose of organization and the formulation of terms of 
 proposals and contracts for the furnishing of text books to 
 the State of Idaho. The second meeting shall be held at the 
 same place not later than the seventh day of June, 1907, for 
 the purpose of selecting and adopting a uniform series of text 
 books for use in all the public schools of the State, except- 
 ing as hereinafter provided. Any and all subsequent meetings 
 of said State Board of Text Book Commissioners shall be 
 held at a time and place designated by the State Superin- 
 tendent of Public Instruction, and the said Superintendent 
 of Public Instruction is hereby authorized to call any such 
 meeting ; Provided : That such subsequent meeting shall be 
 called only in accordance with the formal written request of 
 a majority of the members of the said State Board of Text 
 Book Commissioners. Such formal request shall set forth 
 the purpose for which such meeting shall be called. 
 
 Advertisement for Bids. 
 
 SECTION 25. Immediately following the first meeting of 
 the State Board of Text Book Commissioners, the State 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, in accordance with 
 the instructions of the said Board, advertise for at least thirty 
 (30) days in two (2) newspapers having a general circula- 
 tion throughout the State, giving notice that the said State 
 Board of Text Book Commissioners will meet as herein pro- 
 vided, and will consider said offers and proposals for supply- 
 ing the schools of the State of Idaho with a uniform series of 
 text books for use in all public schools of the State, excepting 
 as hereinafter provided, in the following branches, to-wit : 
 
 Spelling, 
 
 Arithmetic, United States History, 
 
 Physiology and Hygiene, Civil Government, 
 
 Reading, Writing, 
 
 Geography, Grammar, 
 
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 and in other branches taught in common, graded and 
 high schools of the State, as prescribed in the State Course 
 of Study of the State of Idaho. Said proposals shall be in 
 accordance with the form of proposal supplied by the State 
 Board of Text Book Commissioners, and shall name the ex- 
 change price, net wholesale price f. o. b. cars at each publisher's 
 address, and mailing price of single copies to districts or 
 individuals ; Provided : That the price so quoted on such 
 books shall not exceed the lowest price quoted to any dealer, 
 state, county, township, school district or any other individual 
 or corporation in the United States. 
 
 Adoption of Text Books; Independent School Districts. 
 
 SECTION 26. It shall be the duty of said State Board of 
 Text Book Commissioners to meet at the time and the place 
 mentioned, and to consider carefully all proposals made to 
 them in regular form for the furnishing of the said text books 
 as hereinbefore provided, and said Board shall select and 
 adopt such text books for use in all the public schools as will, 
 in their judgment, best subserve the interests and promote 
 the progress of the public schools of the State. The series 
 of text books so selected and adopted by the State Board of 
 Text Book Commissioners shall be certified to by the chair- 
 man, and said certificate, with a copy of all books named 
 therein, and the contracts for the same, shall be placed on file 
 in the ofrlce of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 vSuch certificate must contain a complete list of all books 
 adopted by the said Board, giving the price for which each 
 kind and grade of books will be furnished, and the name and 
 address of the publisher agreeing to furnish the same. The 
 said books named in said certificate shall, for a period of 
 six (6) years from and after the first day of September, 1907, 
 be used in all the public schools in the State, to the exclusion 
 of all others as texts ; Provided : That in Independent School 
 Districts in the State of Idaho, if it shall appear to the Board 
 of Trustees of such Independent School District or Districts, 
 that on account of special conditions existing in connection 
 with the adopted course of study, or the special conditions of 
 the school work or school environment, the adoption of one 
 or more additional text books differing from the generally 
 adopted list as provided elsewhere in this Article, shall be 
 to the best interest of the educational work of such Independent 
 School District, then said Board of Trustees of such Inde- 
 pendent School District may, by presenting their claim, or 
 
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 by appearing in person or through an officially chosen repre- 
 sentative, before the State Board of Text Book Commissioners 
 at a regularly called meeting, secure consideration of said 
 claim for such special adoption, and may submit special infor- 
 mation as may enable the State Board of Text Book Commis- 
 sioners to reach a conclusion concerning the merits of said 
 claim for special adoption ; and the State Board of Text Book 
 Commissioners is hereby authorized, if deemed advisable, to 
 make such special adoption for such Independent School Dis- 
 trict or Districts ; Provided, further : That in any and all such 
 cases, the decision of the State Board of Text Book Commis- 
 sioners as to such adoption shall be final, and that all text 
 books adopted in accordance with such decision shall be used 
 by such Independent School Districts for a period of six 
 (6) years from and after the first day of September, 1907, 
 to the exclusion of all other school books or texts. It shall 
 be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to 
 enforce the use of said text books in all public schools of the 
 State, and to withhold twenty-five (25) per cent of the State 
 school funds apportioned to any school district neglecting 
 or refusing to introduce and use said books as hereinbefore 
 provided. 
 
 Contracts for Books; Bond of Publishers. 
 
 SECTION 27. The said Board of Text Book Commissioners 
 shall have power to make such contracts and agreements with 
 the publishers as they shall deem necessary for the best interests 
 of the public schools of the State, and shall require all pub- 
 lishers, contracting and agreeing to furnish books adopted 
 by the said Commissioners, to furnish a good and satisfactory 
 bond in the amount of not less than Twenty-five Hundred 
 Dollars ($2500) as a guarantee of the faithful performance 
 of the conditions of the said contract. 
 
 Publishers to Furnish Lists of Books. 
 
 SECTION 28. It shall be the duty of book publishers fur- 
 nishing books to the State of Idaho under this Article to have 
 printed and to keep on hand at all times, free of charge, at 
 the office of the County Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 in each county of the State of Idaho, a sufficient number of 
 lists of the text books, adopted by the said Board, with the 
 price of each of the said books as certified to in said cer- 
 tificate; and each County Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 shall immediately forward one (i) such list to each trustee 
 and to each teacher in his or her county. 
 
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 Publishers to Keep Books on Hand. 
 
 SECTION 29. It shall be the duty of the book publishers fur- 
 nishing books to the State of Idaho under this Article, to keep 
 the books they agree to furnish on hand at all times at their 
 places of business, and at such places in the State of Idaho as 
 is hereinafter provided. 
 
 Requisition for Books. 
 
 SECTION 30. Not later than the first Monday in August 
 following the adoption, and at such times thereafter as may 
 be necessary to supply properly the schools of said districts, 
 the chairman of each of the Boards of Trustees of the schools 
 of each county which supply free text books, shall forward 
 to the County Superintendent of his county a list of the kinds 
 of books, and the number of each kind, which shall be re- 
 quired to supply the pupils of the schools of his district. Im- 
 mediately upon receipt of this requisition from the chairman 
 of the Board of Trustees, the County Superintendent shall 
 order, from the nearest depository furnishing said books, 
 the books designated therein, and upon delivery of said books 
 to the said trustee, the trustee shall cause to be issued, in regu- 
 lar form, payable to the dealer who furnishes the books, a war- 
 rant covering the value of said books as established by con- 
 tract existing between said publishers and the State Board 
 of Text Book Commissioners ; Provided : That if, from any 
 cause, the accounts are not paid within ninety (90) days, the 
 same shall draw interest at the rate of seven (7) per cent 
 per annum from the date of the shipment of the books to the 
 date of the payment. 
 
 Same: Account of Books Ordered. 
 
 SECTION 31. The clerk of each school district which sup- 
 plies free text books, and the County Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, shall keep an account of all books ordered, show- 
 ing the number of the district, the number of kinds of books, 
 the date of the order, the place from whence ordered, the date 
 and the amount of the remittance, and such others items as 
 will, in their judgment, render the whole transaction easily 
 understood. 
 
 Custody and Distribution of Books. 
 
 SECTION 32. The Clerk of the Board of Trustees is hereby 
 made the custodian of the text books belonging to the district, 
 and he shall, on the morning of the opening of school or 
 prior thereto, count out the number of the books belonging to 
 
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 the district, .noting carefully the condition of said books, and 
 placing the same in the hands of the teacher, taking a receipt 
 for the same, and at the end of the term of school the said 
 Clerk of the Board of Trustees shall receive the said books 
 from the teacher, giving his receipt for them, and any missing 
 or destroyed books shall be accounted for by the teacher; 
 Provided : That the pupil shall be responsible, through his 
 parent or guardian, to the district, if the responsibility is fixed 
 upon said pupil; and Provided, further: That no one shall 
 be* responsible for the natural wear and tear of the books. 
 In the interim of the sessions of the school the Clerk of the 
 Board of Trustees shall safely keep the books and use due 
 diligence in their preservation. 
 
 Reserve Supply of Books. 
 
 SECTION 33. It shall be the duty of the book publishers 
 furnishing books to the State of Idaho under this Article to 
 keep at all times on deposit at Boise, Pocatello, Lewiston, 
 Coeur d'Alene, all in the State of Idaho, a sufficient number 
 of the books they contract to furnish. 
 
 Expenses of Commissioners. 
 
 SECTION 34. The members of the said State Board of 
 Text Book Commissioners shall each receive his actual and 
 necessary expenses, including railway fare, while in the dis- 
 charge of his official duties, including the time actually and 
 necessarily consumed in going to and returning from the meet- 
 ing of the Board. Such claim for expenses shall be accom- 
 panied by vouchers, and upon being presented to the Board 
 in duplicate with vouchers attached, and being passed by the 
 same, the vouchers shall be signed by the Secretary of the 
 Board, countersigned by the chairman and transferred to 
 the State Auditor. The State Auditor shall present such 
 vouchers to the State Board of Examiners, who, upon finding 
 the same to be correct, shall issue warrants upon the proper 
 fund. Said fund is the "Idaho State Text Book Commission 
 Fund," of One Thousand Dollars ($1000), created and appro- 
 priated by the Act of March 14, 1907. 
 
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 ARTICLE IV. 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 Election, Residence and Term of Office. 
 
 SECTION 35. There shall be elected in each county in the 
 State of Idaho, at the general election, a Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction, who shall reside at the county seat of 
 the county in which he is elected, and who shall hold his 
 office for a term of two (2) years, from and after his taking 
 charge of the same, and until his successor has been elected 
 and qualified. 
 
 Oath, Bond, and Qualifications. 
 
 SECTION 36. Before entering upon the duties of his office, 
 the County Superintendent of Public Instruction shall take 
 and subscribe the oath prescribed by law, and execute a bond, 
 payable to the State of Idaho, with two (2) or more sureties 
 to be approved by the Board of County Commissioners, in 
 the penal sum of not less than Two Thousand Dollars ($2000), 
 conditioned upon the faithful performance of his official duties, 
 and the delivery of all moneys and property received by him 
 as such superintendent to his successor in office, which official 
 bond, together with his official oath, shall be filed in the office 
 of the County Recorder, not later than the second Monday 
 in January, next after election; Provided: That no person 
 shall be eligible to the office of County Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction unless he be a qualified elector in the 
 county from which chosen, of the age of twenty-five (25) 
 years, and a teacher in actual service of not less than two 
 (2) years' experience in Idaho, one of which must have been 
 while holding a valid certificate of a grade not lower than a 
 first grade county certificate; Provided, further.: That he 
 shall be the holder of a valid certificate not lower than a 
 first grade county certificate at the time of his election or ap- 
 pointment. 
 
 Duties. 
 
 SECTION 37. (a). The County Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction shall have charge and supervision of the public 
 schools of his county with the exception of the Class A 
 Independent School Districts, and it shall be his duty to visit 
 the other public schools in the county at least once during 
 each school year and remain at said public school at least 
 
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 one-half (J^) day; at such visits he shall carefully observe 
 the methods employed by the teacher in giving instruction 
 in the several branches taught, the manner of discipline and 
 government, the classification of the pupils, and the general 
 management of the school, and shall give the school such 
 instruction and encouragement as he deems for the best 
 interests of all concerned, and he shall make such suggestions 
 to the teacher in private as, in his judgment, will render the 
 said teacher more efficient, and promote the general educa- 
 tional interests of the district. 
 
 (b). He shall perform such other supervisory duties as 
 shall be directed by the State Board of Education. 
 
 (c). It shall be his further duty to organize a meeting of 
 the teachers of the schools under his supervision, for the 
 purpose of exchanging ideas of professional interest, for the 
 study of methods, and for general culture. 
 
 (d). The County Superintendent shall designate at least 
 five (5) days in the month when he may be found in his office. 
 
 (e). The County Superintendent shall be empowered to 
 employ such assistant or assistants as the work of his office 
 may require, said assistant or assistants to receive such 
 remuneration as may be fixed by the Board of County Com- 
 missioners, which remuneration shall be paid quarterly in the 
 same manner as the salaries of county officers are paid. The 
 County Superintendent shall keep his office open from nine 
 (9) o'clock A. M. until five (5) o'clock P. M. each week day. 
 
 Blanks and Supplies. 
 
 SECTION 38. The County Commissioners shall furnish 
 the County Superintendent of Public Instruction with an office 
 in the county seat, shall furnish him with all necessary office 
 furniture, including seal, blank books, stationery, postage, 
 expressage, all blanks necessary for his office, and all blank 
 books and blanks necessary for the use of the trustees and 
 teachers in the discharge of their respective official duties 
 within his county ; Provided : That the forms used for all 
 such blank books and records shall be such as are prescribed 
 by the State Board of Education. 
 
 Buildings, Sanitation, and Equipment of School Property. 
 
 SECTION 39. He shall have power to require the trustees 
 in any district to conform to the rules and regulations pre- 
 scribed by the State Board of Education providing for the 
 erection, equipment, sanitation and care of public school prop- 
 
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 erty ; Provided : That there is a sufficient amount of money 
 in the treasury to the credit of the district to put into effect the 
 requirements of this Section. 
 
 Records. 
 
 SECTION 40. He shall keep a complete record of all his 
 official acts; preserve all blanks, maps, charts and apparatus 
 sent him as such officer, and file all. papers, reports and state- 
 ments from teachers and school boards; keep a register of 
 all teachers employed in his county, giving name of teacher, 
 number of district, salary per month, grade of certificate, and 
 date of superintendent's visit. He shall obey the legal instruc- 
 tion of the State Board of Education. 
 
 Conduct of Teachers' Examinations; Permits. 
 
 SECTION 41. He shall hold four (4) regular examinations 
 in each year as provided in Section 89, Article 10 of this Act 
 for the purpose of examining all persons who may offer them- 
 selves as teachers in the public schools. It shall be the duty 
 of the County Superintendent to give at least fifteen (15) 
 days' notice before all regular public examinations in some 
 newspaper published in the county. He shall have authority 
 to issue permits in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Expense of Conducting Examinations. 
 
 SECTION 42. The County Superintendents shall be allowed 
 all necessary expenses incurred in holding examinations for 
 teachers and eighth grade pupils, for blanks, books, stationery, 
 pens, ink, and for assistance in grading eighth grade examina- 
 tion papers, such assistants not to exceed two (2) in number, 
 who shall receive as compensation Four Dollars ($4.00) per 
 day, such expense to be paid out of the current expense fund 
 of the county. 
 
 Annual Report; Ascertainment of District Boundaries. 
 
 SECTION 43. (a). He shall, on or before the first day of 
 October in each year, make and transmit an annual report 
 to the State Superintendent for the fiscal year ending June 
 30, next preceding, which report shall contain an abstract 
 of all reports made to him by the district clerks of the several 
 districts of the county, together with such statistics, items 
 and statements, relative to the schools of the county, as may 
 be required and prescribed by the State Superintendent. Such 
 reports shall be made upon and conform to the blanks fur- 
 nished by the State Board of Education for that purpose. 
 
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 (b). He shall require and ascertain whether the boundaries 
 of the school districts in his county are definitely and plainly 
 described in the records of the Clerk of the Board of County 
 Commissioners, and keep in hjis office a full and correct 
 transcript of such boundaries. In case the boundaries of dis- 
 tricts are conflicting or incorrectly described, he shall report 
 such fact to the Board of County Commissioners at their 
 regular meeting in July, and such Board shall immediately 
 take such steps as are necessary to change, harmonize, and 
 clearly define them. The County Superintendent, if he deem 
 it necessary for the guidance of school census marshals, may 
 order the description of the district boundaries printed in 
 pamphlet form, to be paid out of current expense fund of 
 the county. 
 
 Appointment of Trustees for New District. 
 
 SECTION 44. The County Superintendent shall appoint 
 trustees for all newly organized school districts, who shall 
 serve until the next regular election, and shall fill all vacancies 
 that may occur in the Board of Trustees of a district by 
 reason of death, resignation or otherwise, and such appoint- 
 ment shall hold until the next regular election. 
 
 Failure to Report to State Superintendent; Penalty. 
 
 SECTION 45. If the County Superintendent fails to make 
 a full and correct report to the State Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction of all statements required by law to be made, he 
 forfeits the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100) from any 
 moneys due him from the county, and the Board of County 
 Commissioners is hereby authorized and required to deduct 
 therefrom the sum aforesaid upon information from the 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, that such reports 
 have not been made. 
 
 ARTICLE V. 
 
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 (For Independent School Districts, See Article XIII.) 
 
 SECTION 46. Each regularly organized school district in 
 this State is hereby declared to be a body corporate by the 
 
 name and style of "School District Number , in 
 
 the County of State of Idaho;'* and in that 
 
 name the trustees may sue and be sued, hold and convey prop- 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. J 9 
 
 erty for the use and benefit of such district, and make con- 
 tracts the same as municipal corporations in this State. 
 
 New Districts and Changes in Boundaries. 
 
 SECTION 47. (a). The Board of County Commissioners 
 may, at any regular meeting- of said Board, create new districts, 
 or change the boundaries of existing districts, or attach to 
 one or more districts, the territory of any district which shall 
 have lapsed for any reason. All proceedings under this 
 Section shall be commenced by petition which must be filed 
 in the office of the County Superintendent at least twenty 
 (20) days preceding the meeting of the Board of Commis- 
 sioners, at which it is to be presented. All petitions, either 
 for the formation of a new district or any other change of 
 boundaries, shall set forth in general terms the proposed 
 changes and shall be accompanied by, and refer to, a map 
 showing all existing boundaries of districts affected and all 
 proposed new boundaries which will be established by the 
 granting of such petition. 
 
 (b). A petition for a new district shall be sufficient if 
 signed by the parents or guardians of ten (10) or more chil- 
 dren of school age who are residents of the proposed new 
 district, and no further signers shall be required. In all other 
 cases excepting a proposed union of contiguous districts 
 proposing a change of boundaries of any district, the petition 
 therefor must be signed by at least two-thirds (2/3) of those 
 who are heads of families and residents of each of the districts 
 whose boundaries will be affected by the change. No such 
 change of boundaries or organization of a new district shall 
 take effect until the opening of the next school year. 
 
 (c). Two or more districts lying contiguous may, upon 
 petition of a majority of the heads of families residing in 
 each of said districts, be united to constitute one (i) district. 
 No district containing less than nine (9) square miles shall 
 be divided either for the purpose of forming a new district 
 or any other change of boundaries, except on approval of 
 the County Superintendent of schools, and a unanimous vote 
 of the Board of County Commissioners. No district shall 
 be divided and territory taken therefrom either for the for- 
 mation of a new district or for any other purpose if the re- 
 mainder of the district will contain less than fifteen (15) 
 persons of school age. No incorporated cities or towns shall 
 hereafter be divided into two (2) or more districts. 
 
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 (d). Whenever it shall appear that a pupil living in one 
 district cannot attend school in his or her own district because 
 of the distance of the school house, or for any other valid 
 reason, such pupil may attend the school in any district in 
 the county in which his or her own district is situated, upon 
 making the proper application to the County Superintendent, 
 which official shall be the judge of the necessity for making 
 such change, and the district shall receive for such pupil's 
 tuition from such pupil's district such an amount as said pupil 
 would be accredited with in his or her own district. 
 
 Notice of Proposed Changes. 
 
 SECTION 48. It shall be the duty of the County Superin- 
 tendent, upon receipt of any petition as herein provided for, 
 to give notice immediately to all parties interested, by sending 
 notice by registered mail to each of the trustees of the dis- 
 trict to be affected by such change or changes ; and by causing 
 printed notices to be posted in at least three (3) public places 
 in the district so affected, one of which shall be on the door 
 of the school house in said district, for at least one ( i ) week. 
 Such notice must state the change or changes to be made in 
 said district, that the said petition is on file in the office of 
 the County Superintendent, and that the same will be pre- 
 sented to the Board of County Commissioners at its next 
 regular meeting for final action. The Superintendent must 
 transmit the said petition to the said Board with his approval 
 or disapproval, and, if he approve the same, he may note 
 such changes in the boundaries as in his judgment shall be 
 for the best interests of all parties concerned. 
 
 Action on Petition. 
 
 SECTION 49. The Board of County Commissioners shall 
 act upon the same at its next regular meeting. If such petition 
 be granted it may be in accordance with the original prayer 
 or with such modifications as the Board may choose to make. 
 
 Joint Districts; How Formed. 
 
 SECTION 50. A Joint School District may be formed from 
 territory belonging to two (2) or more contiguous counties. 
 For the purpose of organizing a joint district the same pre- 
 liminary steps must be taken, and the same course pursued 
 in the organization of other districts as provided in Sections 
 47 and 48 of this Act. Such districts shall be designated as 
 
 "Joint District No of the Counties of ," 
 
 and be so numbered that it shall have the same number in 
 all the counties from which it was formed. The petition re- 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 quired by Section 47 shall be made to each County Superin- 
 tendent interested; Provided: That the school census, the 
 record of attendance at school, the assessing of property, the 
 collection of taxes, and all acts which, from their nature, shall 
 be separately kept, shall be kept and done, and the report 
 thereof made as if each portion of said district were an entire 
 district in the respective counties. The teacher of such joint 
 district shall not be required to hold a certificate in both 
 counties. 
 
 Apportionment for New Districts. 
 
 SECTION 51. All new districts formed of unorganized terri- 
 tory shall be entitled to their just proportion of school moneys 
 at the next apportionment, and the County Superintendent 
 shall place the same to the credit of such district ; Provided : 
 That in no case shall such district be entitled to use the same 
 unless school has commenced therein, and six (6) months 
 shall not have elapsed since the date of its organization; Pro- 
 vided, further : If any new district is organized from any part 
 of any other organized district or districts, as provided in this 
 Chapter, the County Superintendent, after having ascertained 
 the amount of moneys belonging to said old district or districts 
 and deducting said indebtedness and liabilities, must apportion 
 to said new district, exclusive of bonded indebtedness, its 
 clue per capita proportion of money or indebtedness, as the 
 case may be, from said districts from which it may be formed. 
 And, in case of joint districts, the County Superintendent 
 must apportion to such district such proportion of the school 
 money to which such district is entitled as the number of 
 school children residing in that portion of the district situated 
 in his county bears to the whole number of school census 
 children in the whole district. 
 
 Lapsed Districts. 
 
 SECTION 52. If any school district shall, for the period 
 of one ( i ) year, fail to maintain a school for at least four 
 (4) school months, or keep up its organization of officers, 
 as is required by law, or if there has been an average attend- 
 ance for three (3) consecutive months of only five (5) pupils 
 or less, such district shall lapse, and the money in the treasury 
 of the county belonging thereto shall be apportioned by the 
 County Superintendent among the other districts in the same 
 manner as other moneys are opportioned. The property of 
 any school district that shall lapse shall be sold by the County 
 Superintendent in such manner as he shall deem best. The 
 
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 proceeds of such sale, after the payment of any indebtedness 
 of said district, shall be placed to the credit of the general 
 school fund. The territory included within the boundaries of 
 the said school district shall, by order of the County Commis- 
 sioners, be attached to one ( i ) or more school districts. The 
 Board of Trustees shall have power, when the annual meeting 
 shall neglect or refuse to levy a special tax to maintain the 
 schools, to levy a special tax upon all the property in the 
 district, which when added to moneys apportioned by the 
 County Superintendent of Schools, will be sufficient to pro- 
 vide funds for the maintenance of the school as provided in 
 Section 54 of this Act. The taxes so levied are and shall be 
 a lien upon the property taxed, the same as other taxes, and 
 shall be collected in the same manner. 
 
 ARTICLE VI. 
 DISTRICT TRUSTEES. 
 
 Constitution of Board of Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 53. The Board of Trustees of each school district 
 consists of three (3) members, one (i) of whom shall be 
 elected at each regular school election for the term of three 
 years, so that but one (i) trustee shall retire in any year. 
 Each trustee shall, before entering upon the duties of his 
 office, take and subscribe the official oath, which must be 
 filed in the office of the County Superintendent. Immediately 
 after their election and qualification, they must elect from 
 their number a chairman and a clerk. 
 
 Annual School Meeting. 
 
 SECTION 54. (a). The annual school meeting for the trans- 
 action of the school district business in districts other than 
 Independent School Districts shall be held on the third Mon- 
 day in April. The Clerk of the Board of Trustees shall cause 
 notices to be posted, using blanks provided by the County 
 Superintendent for that purpose, specifying the time and place 
 of such meeting and what business shall be transacted at said 
 meeting. Said notice shall be published for two (2) issues in 
 a newspaper published nearest the place of holding said elec- 
 tion, and posted in three (3) public places in the district, one 
 (i) of which shall be the school house, if there be one, at 
 least (10) days previous to the time of the meeting. If the 
 Clerk fails to give such notice, then any two (2) legal voters 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 23 
 
 residing in the district may give such notice over their own 
 names, and such annual meeting may be held after the day 
 fixed in this Section for such annual meeting. 
 
 (b). All elections of trustees shall be by ballot; the polls 
 shall be opened by one cf the Board of Trustees, or by any 
 qualified elector if no trustee be present, at the time specified 
 in the notice. If no time is specified in the notice, then the 
 polls shall be opened at one (i o'clock) P. M. and closed 
 at five (5) o'clock P. M. of the same day. Said election 
 shall be conducted as. any other county election, except that 
 one (i) judge and one (i) clerk may constitute the Board 
 of Election, and any trustee or qualified elector may administer 
 the oath to said judge and clerk. At all elections under this 
 Article, voters must have the same qualifications as pre- 
 scribed for the general elections in this State. Said judge 
 and clerk shall make immediate return of such election to the 
 County Superintendent, which the County Superintendent 
 shall file in his office. 
 
 (c). Said annual meeting shall determine if a special tax 
 shall be leved, and the rate of the levy, which shall not exceed 
 fifteen (15) mills on each dollar of taxable property. Said 
 special tax shall be for building or repairing school property, 
 for school equipment, or for the support of the schools. Hav- 
 ing determined the rate to be levied, the meeting shall proceed 
 to ballot, on which ballot shall be written or printed, "Tax, 
 Yes," "Tax, No," and none but actual resident freeholders 
 or heads of families of said district shall vote at the election to 
 determine the special tax. A separate ballot box shall be used 
 for voting on any question of taxation or other business con- 
 cerning schools and school interests from that used in voting 
 for trustees. If a majority of the votes polled at such election 
 are in favor of the tax, the Board of Trustees shall imme- 
 diately make such levy and certify the fact, the date thereof, 
 and the rate of tax levied, the year for which levied, and the 
 number of the district, to the Clerk of the Board of County 
 Commissioners and the County Assessor, but not more than 
 one such special tax can be levied in any one ( I ) year. 
 
 (d) Said annual meeting shall determine the length of time 
 a school shall be taught in the district for the ensuing year, 
 which shall not be less than four (4) months, by a legally 
 qualified teacher in a district having less than twenty (20) 
 pupils of school age, nor less than six (6) months in districts 
 having between twenty (20) and seventy-five (75) pupils, 
 inclusive, nor less than nine (9) months in districts having 
 
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 more than seventy-five (75) pupils. They may also determine 
 and instruct the district trustees as to the length of the different 
 terms of school, and the seasons of the year in which the same 
 shall be taught; and the district officers shall see that school 
 is actually taught therein by a licensed teacher in conformity 
 to such instructions and for not less than the length of time 
 herein required. No school shall receive any of the State 
 funds unless school shall have been actually taught therein 
 for the time required by the Act; Provided: That, in case of 
 quarantine or loss of school house, such closing of school shall 
 not prevent district from drawing its proper share of the State 
 apportionment. 
 
 (e). Said annual meeting shall transact all business re- 
 quired by the notice of the meeting, and it shall be lawful to 
 transact any other business pertaining to schools and school 
 interests. 
 
 Trustees Shall Qualify. 
 
 SECTION 55. Trustees shall qualify within fifteen (15) 
 days after receiving notice of their election by taking the official 
 oath, which oath may be administered by either of the other 
 trtistees or a retiring trustee, and such oath shall be subscribed 
 and filed in the office of the County Superintendent. 
 
 Assessment and Collection of Tax. 
 
 SECTION 56. Upon receiving the statement from the trustees 
 of any school district showing special tax levied, the assessor 
 must assess upon all property in the district subject to taxation 
 the tax so levied and certified to him as aforesaid ; but for that 
 purpose he is not required to take new statements from the 
 owners of property, but his assessment of all special taxes so 
 levied may be computed and made upon the valuation of 
 property as fixed by the Board of Equalization for State and 
 county purposes, and as appears upon the assessment roll in 
 the same year; said special taxes so levied as aforesaid shall 
 become a lien upon the property so assessed from the date of 
 assessment, and shall be due and payable at the same time as 
 State and county taxes, and in all respects are to be collected 
 in the same way, except that the assessor must keep a sep- 
 arate list or assessment roll thereof, and, when paid, must be 
 named in his receipt to the taxpayer as a separate item, and he 
 must pay them to the County Treasurer as he pays other taxes ; 
 but, at the time of payment, he must specify to the Treasurer 
 what taxes they are, and take a separate receipt therefor and 
 keep separate accounts thereof. The Board of County Commis- 
 sioners shall furnish the assessor with such blanks as are 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 needed to comply with the provisions hereof. The provisions 
 of this and the preceding sections for the levy and collection 
 of taxes shall not apply to Independent Districts so established, 
 which have special laws for the collection of school taxes. 
 
 Regular Meetings of the Board. 
 
 SECTION 57. The regular meetings of the Board of Trustees 
 shall be held on the last Monday of March, June, September 
 and December. The Board may, however, hold other special 
 or adjourned meetings, as they may from time to time de- 
 termine. Any two of such trustees shall constitute a quorum 
 for the transaction of business. 
 
 General Duties of Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 58. It shall be the duty of the trustees of each 
 district: (a). To employ teachers on written contract, but 
 before such contract can be legally signed it shall be the duty 
 of the teacher to exhibit his or her certificate or permit to 
 teach to the Board of Trustees, and it shall be the duty of 
 the trustees to file a copy of such contract or permit with the 
 County Superintendent. 
 
 (b). To fix, allow and order paid the salaries and com- 
 pensation of such teachers. 
 
 (c). To fix the compensation of the Clerk of the Board. 
 
 (d). And to determine the rate of tuition of non-resident 
 pupils; Provided: That any pupil or pupils of the eighth 
 grade who are of high school qualifications of any district, 
 shall be eligible to attend any high school w r ithin his county 
 without paying tuition, but the County Superintendent shall 
 transfer from the district to which said pupil or pupils belong 
 to the district holding the high school attended, a sum of 
 money bearing the same proportion to the amount of money 
 received by the district during the year, as said pupil or pupils 
 bear to the total school census of the district in which such 
 pupil or pupils belong. 
 
 (e). The trustees shall have power to discharge any teacher 
 for neglect of duty, or for any cause that, in their opinion, 
 renders the services of such teacher unprofitable to the district ; 
 but no teacher shall be discharged before the end of his or 
 her term without a reasonable hearing. 
 
 (f). The trustees shall not contract to compel teachers to 
 make up time while attending any annual county or joint in- 
 stitute, or while attending a meeting of the State Teachers' 
 Association. 
 
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 (g). The trustees shall have charge of all school property 
 in their district and shall have power to receive in trust all 
 real estate or other property conveyed to said school district; 
 and to convey by deed, duly executed and delivered, all the 
 estate or interest of their district in any school house or site 
 directed to be sold by vote of their district. All conveyances 
 made to said Board must be made in their corporate name, 
 
 to-wit: "To Trustees of School District No 
 
 County , State of Idaho." Said trustees 
 
 have further power, when directed by a vote of their district, 
 to build or remove school houses, to purchase, receive, hold 
 and convey real and personal property for school purposes, 
 and to hold, purchase and repair school houses and to supply 
 the same with necessary furniture and to fix the location of 
 school houses subject to the rules and regulations of the State 
 Board of Education ; Provided : That all such repairs and 
 construction work shall be submitted to competitive sealed 
 bids when such work required shall exceed the sum of One 
 Hundred Dollars ($100) ; Provided, further: That a school 
 house already built shall not be removed, nor a new site for 
 a school house be designated, except when directed by a two- 
 thirds (2/3) vote of the electors of said district voting at an 
 election held for that purpose, which election may be a special 
 or a general school election ; Provided : That no trustees shall 
 be pecuniarily interested directly or indirectely in any contract 
 made by the Board of Trustees, of which he is a member, and 
 any contract made in violation of this section is null and void. 
 
 (h). The trustees of the respective districts must furnish 
 all things, not herein provided for, necessary for the comfort 
 and the use of their district, such as janitor service, fuel, im- 
 provements, maps, and apparatus, library; and for all such 
 purposes may audit and allow accounts against the school 
 fund of their district, not to exceed twenty-five (25) per cent 
 of the amount of such school fund in any one (i) year. 
 
 (i). At least three (3) per cent of the moneys annually 
 appropriated to any district other than an Independent Dis- 
 trict shall be applied by the trustees for the maintenance 
 of a school library, selections of books for which shall be 
 made from a list of books furnished to each district and com- 
 piled by the State Board of Education. The Board of Trus- 
 tees shall keep the library in a suitable case at the school 
 house; shall keep a list of all books in the library; loan the 
 books to pupils and patrons within the district for a period 
 no*: to exceed four (4) weeks at any one time; hold patrons, 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 parents or guardians to strict accountability for books loaned, 
 requiring them to replace the same in the event of loss, or 
 damage; report to the County Superintendent the number of 
 books purchased during the year, the number of books lost 
 and other information required by the County Superintendent, 
 and for the further good of the library shall make all needed 
 rules and regulations. 
 
 (j). It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Board of 
 Trustees of each district to keep a record of the transactions 
 of his district in a book furnished by the County Superinten- 
 dent, the form of which shall be prescribed by the State Board 
 of Education ; said record, so kept, shall show all the data and 
 the information required in said books to be shown by the 
 forms thereof and shall be open to the inspection of the County 
 Superintendent when visiting the district; and the trustees of 
 each district shall make a full report in writing annually, on 
 the first day of July, to the County Superintendent of their 
 county, on blanks furnished, which shall be exact copies of 
 the pages of the book herein required to t> kept, together with 
 such matters pertaining- to schools as may be required of them 
 by the State Superintendent. 
 
 It is the duty of the trustees of the respective districts, on 
 receiving a report from any teacher of the disorderly conduct 
 of any pupil, to decide how said insubordinate pupil shall be 
 punished, or whether he or she shall be dismissed from school, 
 and the teacher must enforce the decision so made. 
 
 (k). The Clerk of the Board of Trustees shall, on the first 
 Tuesday of September of each year, proceed to enumerate 
 the children of school age in his district, employing assistant 
 enumerators if necessary, and he shall not enumerate any 
 except bona fide residents thereof, and the Board of Trustees 
 shall cause a true and certified copy of said census to be trans- 
 mitted to the County Superintendent. School age, as herein 
 used, is defined as applying to all persons between the ages 
 of six (6) and twenty-one (21) years, said census to be com- 
 pleted and filed by the third Tuesday in September. For said 
 services, said clerk shall be allowed, as full compensation 
 therefor, Five Cents (50) for each child so enumerated, and 
 the chairman of the Board of Trustees shall draw his order 
 upon the county auditor, which must be countersigned by at 
 least one other member of the Board of said district, for the 
 amount so allowed, and it must be charged against and paid 
 out of the fund of said district. 
 
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 Shall Provide Flag. 
 
 SECTION 59. It shall be the duty of the trustees of every 
 school district in the State of Idaho to cause to be erected, 
 and to keep in repair, upon all public school houses, or within 
 the school house grounds surrounding such public school build- 
 ing, a good and sufficient flag staff or pole, together with all 
 necessary adjustments, and they shall provide a United States 
 flag or not less than four (4) by eight (8) feet in size, which 
 shall be floated from such flag staff or pole during the school 
 hours of such days as the trustees and teacher may determine ; 
 Provided : That the flag shall not be hoisted on any school 
 building during any day when a violent storm or inclement 
 weather would destroy or materially injure such flag. The 
 flag used by any and all such school districts, as provided for 
 in this Section, shall be paid for out of the current expense 
 fund of said district. The flags for use of public school 
 buildings are hereby declared to be necessary supplies and 
 are to be paid for from the aforesaid fund. Any person or 
 persons who shall wilfully injure, deface, or destroy any flag, 
 flag staff, or pole, or adjustment attached thereto, erected and 
 arranged for the purpose of carrying out the requirements of 
 this Section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon con- 
 viction, shall be fined not less than Five Dollars ($5.00), nor 
 more than Fifteen Dollars ($15). 
 
 Attendance of Non-Resident Pupils. 
 
 SECTION 60. Trustees may determine whether pupils out- 
 side of their counties may attend school within their districts 
 and upon what terms. 
 
 Report of Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 61. It is the duty of the Board of School Trustees 
 to make a report in writing, on the first day of July, of the 
 financial condition of their respective school districts, showing 
 the amount of money received, from what source, the amount 
 expended, and in what manner and for what purpose expended, 
 and the amount of money in the treasury of the district or to 
 the credit of the district on hand at the date of the report, the 
 said report to show in full the financial condition of the district 
 at the date thereof; Provided: That the report of any ex- 
 penditure shall contain the specific items, amounts, and names 
 to whom such expenditures were made. It is hereby made the 
 fluty of the Board of School Trustees of each district to cause 
 the said report to be published in a newspaper published near- 
 est the school house of said district and posted in three (3) 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 2 9 
 
 conspicuous places in the district, and to retain a copy of the 
 said report in the office of the Clerk of the School Board of said 
 district, where the same may be at all times open to exam- 
 ination and inspection by any person. 
 
 Trustees' Meetings. 
 
 SECTION 62. That the Board of Trustees of every com- 
 mon school district and the Board of Education of every In- 
 dependent School District are authorized to select one (i) of 
 their members to attend any meeting called by the County Su- 
 perintendent for the purpose of general instruction, and are 
 authorized to defray the expenses of such member, in an 
 amount not to exceed the sum of Three Dollars ($3.00) per 
 diem and Three Cents (3c) per mile going to and from such 
 meeting, such expense to be paid for from the general fund of 
 the district ; Provided : That such allowance shall not be for 
 more than two ( 2 ) days in any one ( I ) year. 
 
 ARTICLE VII. 
 SCHOOL FUNDS AND FINANCES. 
 
 Public School Fund. 
 
 SECTION 63. The public school fund of the State shall 
 consist of the proceeds of such lands as have hitherto been 
 granted, or may hereafter be granted, to the State by the gen- 
 eral government known as "school lands" and those granted in 
 lieu of such lands acquired by gift or grant from any person 
 or corporation under any law or grant, and of all other grants 
 of land or money made to the State for general educational 
 purposes, and all moneys accruing to the State from the estates 
 of deceased persons. 
 
 Additional School Lands. 
 
 SECTION 64. All lands, title to which is acquired by the 
 State by foreclosure or otherwise, on loans of school funds and 
 all lands which escheat to the State by virtue of Section 5717 
 of the Idaho Codes of 1909 or otherwise, shall be held and 
 treated as school lands, and may be sold and disposed of in 
 the same manner. Said lands shall be under the charge and 
 control of the State Land Board. 
 
 County School Taxes. 
 
 SECTION 65. For the purpose of establishing and main- 
 taining public schools in the several counties of the State, the 
 
30 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Beard of County Commissioners of each county shall, at the 
 time of levying the taxes for state and county purposes, levy a 
 tax of not less than five (5) mills nor more than ten (10) 
 mills on each dollar of taxable property, in their respective 
 counties, for school purposes. Said taxes must be assessed 
 and collected in each county as other taxes for state and county 
 purposes. For the further support of the public schools, there 
 shall be set apart by the County Treasurer of each county and 
 placed in the county school fund all moneys arising from fines, 
 forfeitures or breaches of any of the public penal laws of the 
 State. 
 
 Distribution of School Moneys. 
 
 SECTION 66. The income of the State School Fund and 
 taxes collected by the State for the support of the public schools 
 which shall be received up to the first day of January and the 
 first day of July of each year, shall be distributed semi-annually 
 during said months respectively in each year among the several 
 counties of the State from which reports have been received by 
 the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, as provided in 
 this Chapter, in proportion to the number of children of school 
 age, as shown by the last school census list of each county, and 
 the Superintendent, of Public Instruction shall certify such ap- 
 portionment to the State Auditor, and, upon such certificate, 
 the Auditor shall draw his warrant in favor of the county treas- 
 urer of each county, for the amount due such county. The 
 Superintendent shall also certify to the treasurer and the super- 
 intendent of each county the amount apportioned to each 
 county. 
 
 Apportionment By County Superintendent. 
 
 SECTION 67. The County Superintendent shall require 
 from the county treasurer, quarterly each year, a report of the 
 amount of money on hand to the credit of the school fund of 
 each county, not already apportioned, and the County Treas- 
 urer shall furnish such report when required. The County 
 Superintendent, upon receiving such report, shall proceed to 
 apportion the public school moneys, both county and State, 
 reported by the County Treasurer to be in the County Treas- 
 ury, among the several school districts in the following manner, 
 to-wit : 
 
 Two-thirds (2-3) of the whole amount he shall apportion 
 per capita among the several districts in proportion to the num- 
 ber of children in each district as shown by the last report of 
 the census marshall of each district; Provided: That no dis- 
 trict shall be considered as having less than twenty (20) census 
 
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 pupils. Five (5) per cent of the remaining one-third (1-3), 
 or such of the same as may be needed, he shall apportion among 
 the rural high school districts and districts organized under the 
 consolidated plan which carry high school work, in proportion 
 to the number of teachers regularly employed in such high 
 schools. The amount apportioned to any such high school shall 
 not exceed the sum of Three Hundred Dollars ($300) in any 
 school year for each teacher so employed in such high schools. 
 Fifty (50) per cent of the remainder, or so much thereof as may 
 be needed, shall be used for the relief of all districts organized 
 under Article V of this Act which are unable to maintain the 
 minimum term as provided in Article VI, Section 54 of this 
 Act, when such districts, after having levied a special tax of 
 ten (10) mills, have not sufficient funds to maintain the 
 minimum term. The County Superintendent shall be the 
 judge as to the needs of such districts. The balance of the 
 whole amount remaining after such aid has been given shall 
 be apportioned per capita among the several districts in pro- 
 portion to the number of children in each district as shown 
 by the last report of the census marshall of each district ; Pro- 
 vided : That no district shall share in any of the distribution 
 of public funds, as provided in this Section, unless said district 
 shall have complied with the provisions of this Act. Im- 
 mediately after such apportionment, the County Superintendent 
 shall certify to the County Treasurer the amounts which are 
 to be placed to the credit of each district, and notify the clerk 
 of each district of the amount placed to the credit of his dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Accounts of Treasurer With School District. 
 
 SECTION 68. It is hereby made the duty of the County 
 Treasurer of each county to keep a separate account with each 
 school district in the county ; place to the credit of each the 
 amount of money certified to by the County Superintendent, as 
 provided in this Chapter and to pay over the money on legally 
 drawn warrants or orders of the district officers entitled to the 
 same ; Provided : That it shall be the duty of the County Su- 
 perintendent, whenever any Board of Trustees fails to comply 
 with the provisions of this Chapter, or any subsequent Act, to 
 notify the County Treasurer in writing that there has been a 
 failure upon the part of such Board of Trustees to comply with 
 the law. Whereupon it shall be the duty of the County Treas- 
 urer to withhold all moneys apportioned to the district gov- 
 erned by said Board of Trustees, until he shall have received 
 
32 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 notice from the County Superintendent that the Board govern- 
 ing said district has fully complied with the law. All moneys 
 that shall be finally forfeited by any district shall be put into 
 the general school fund of the county and be apportioned as 
 other moneys. And it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to 
 receive and hold, as special deposits, all moneys belonging to 
 the public school fund of his county, in accordance with the 
 provisions of this Chapter, and to pay them over only on war- 
 rants of the County Auditor; Provided, further: That the 
 said County Treasurer shall pay over to the Treasurer of any 
 Independent School District organized under the provisions of 
 ihi? Chapter, all moneys belonging to such district, upon the 
 presentation of an order from the Clerk of the Board of 
 Trustees of such district, signed also by the chairman thereof, 
 and countersigned by the County Superintendent and County 
 Auditor. 
 
 Duties of County Superintendent. 
 
 SECTION 69. It shall be the duty of the County Superin- 
 tendent in each county to keep a separate account with each 
 school district in his county; to place to the credit of each 
 district the amount apportioned by him as provided for in this 
 Article; to countersign all legally drawn warrants and orders 
 of the district officers entitled to draw the same; to enter the 
 same upon his books in proper form, giving date, number of 
 such warrant or order, to whom drawn, for what purpose, and 
 the amount of the same. And further, it shall be the duty of 
 the County Superintendent to collect, by process of law, all 
 penal fines not paid over by the justices of the peace, or other 
 officers required by law to pay the same into the County 
 Treasury; and the same may be collected and recovered by 
 action at law, in which the State of Idaho, by the County 
 Superintendent, is plaintiff and the officer neglecting or re- 
 fusing to pay over said moneys is defendant. 
 
 Auditor to Draw School Warrants. 
 
 SECTION 70. It shall be the duty of the County Auditor, 
 upon presentation of any order from the Clerk of the Board 
 of Trustees of any school district in his county, (said order 
 also being signed by the chairman of the said Board of Trus- 
 tees, or in his absence, by the other members of the Board) 
 to draw his warrant upon the school fund standing to the 
 credit of the said district in favor of the persons mentioned 
 in said order; Provided: That the said orders have been 
 countersigned by the County Superintendent, but in no case 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 shall he issue a warrant for a greater amount than there is 
 cash in the Treasury to the credit of said district, except as 
 provided in the four following Sections ; Provided, further : 
 That, in the case of Independent School Districts, the above 
 shall be inoperative and the warrant, of the Clerk of the Board, 
 countersigned by the chairman of the Board, or, in his absence, 
 by the other members of the Board, shall become a demand on 
 the Treasurer of the Independent School District for the 
 amount of the warrant. In no case shall a warrant be issued in 
 an Independent School District for a greater amount than there 
 is cash in the Treasury of the district, except as provided in 
 the four following Sections. 
 
 Deficiency Warrants. 
 
 SECTION 71. The Trustees of any school district may issue 
 orders for warrants for the payment of teachers for their 
 services in teaching, and for other necessary expenses con- 
 nected with the school, whether or not there is any money in 
 the treasury to the credit of the district issuing such orders 
 for warrants ; Provided : That the total amount of such orders 
 for warrants shall not exceed the income and revenue for such 
 district for such year; Provided, further: That the total 
 amount of such orders for warrants. or Independent School 
 District warrants shall not exceed ninety-five (95) per cent 
 of the income and revenue for such district for such year, until 
 such income and revenue has been paid into the Treasury to 
 the credit of the district issuing such orders for warrants. 
 
 Same: Superintendent to Countersign Orders. 
 
 SECTION 72. It shall be the duty of the County Super- 
 intendent of the county in which such orders for warrants are 
 issued to countersign all such legally drawn orders for war- 
 rants when presented to him for signature. 
 
 Same: Issuance of Warrant. 
 
 SECTION 73. On the presentation of an order for a war- 
 rant properly countersigned by the County Superintendent, 
 the County Auditor shall issue a county warrant for the same 
 as provided by law. 
 
 Same: Presentment for Payment. 
 
 SECTION 74. The person holding such warrant issued by 
 the County Auditor or Independent School District may pre- 
 sent the same to the County Treasurer or Independent School 
 District Treasurer for payment. If there is not money in the 
 treasury to the credit of the said district on which the warrant 
 
34 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 is drawn to pay such warrant, the Treasurer shall indorse on 
 the back of said warrant, "Not paid for want of funds." War- 
 rants so indorsed by the County Treasurer or Independent 
 School District Treasurer shall draw interest at the rate of 
 seven (7) per cent per annum from the date of indorsement 
 until paid ; Provided : That, when the warrants of the district 
 shall be at a discount, the warrant shall be drawn for a suf- 
 ficient amount to cover the discount. 
 
 Investment of Surplus Money. 
 
 SECTION 75. Whenever there shall have accumulated in 
 the hands of the Treasurer of any School District in the State, 
 moneys belonging to said School District to an amount in 
 excess of the amount which, in the opinion of the School 
 District Board of said District, shall be necessary for the current 
 expenses of maintaining the schools in said District, the same 
 shall be invested by the said Board in United States 
 bonds, State bonds, State warrants or county warrants, when 
 the market value thereof is not below par. And said 
 Board shall deposit said securities in some safe deposit, and 
 they shall there be kept until it shall become necessary to con- 
 vert the same into money for school district purposes, to be 
 determined by said Board. 
 
 ARTICLE VIII. 
 SCHOOL DISTRICT BONDS. 
 
 Calling Bond Elections. 
 
 SECTION 76. The Board of School Trustees of any school 
 district may, whenever a majority so decides, submit to the 
 qualified voters of the State of Idaho who are resident free 
 holders or householders of the district, and their wives who are 
 qualified electors, the question whether the Board shall be 
 authorized to issue coupon bonds to a certain amount, not to 
 exceed twelve (12) per cent of the taxable property in said 
 district, and bearing a rate of interest not exceeding six (6) 
 per cent per annum, and payable and redeemable at a certain 
 time, for the purpose of building or providing one or more 
 school houses in said district, with all necessary furniture, 
 desks, blackboards, globes, charts, outline maps, etc. And 
 the Board of School Trustees of any School District, which 
 has issued bonds for any of the purposes enumerated in this 
 Section, may submit to the electors of such district the question 
 whether the Board shall be authorized to issue coupon bonds 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 35 
 
 to refund or take up any of the bonded indebtedness of such 
 district, at a rate of interest not exceeding six (6) per cent per 
 annum. 
 
 Election; Issuance and Registration of Bonds. 
 
 SECTION 77. Such elections must be held in the manner 
 prescribed for elections in this Chapter. The ballots must 
 contain the words "Bonds, Yes" or "Bonds, No." If two- 
 thirds of the votes cast at such elections are "Bonds, Yes," 
 the Board of Trustees must issue such bonds -in such form as 
 said Board may direct; they must bear the signature of the 
 chairman of the Board of Trustees, and be countersigned by 
 the Clerk of the School District, and the coupons attached 
 to the bonds must be signed by said chairman and said Clerk; 
 and each bond so issued must be registered by the County 
 Treasurer in a book provided for that purpose, which must 
 show the number and amount of each bond and the person 
 to whom the same is issued, and the said bonds must be sold 
 by the said School Trustees as hereinafter provided. 
 
 Sale of Bonds. 
 
 SECTION 78. The School Trustees must give notice in 
 some newspaper published in the State, for a period of not 
 less than four (4) weeks, to the effect that said School Trus- 
 tees will sell said bonds, briefly describing the same, and stating 
 the time when, and the place where said sale will take place; 
 Provided : That the said bonds must not be sold for less than 
 their par value, and the Trustees are authorized to reject any 
 bids and to sell said bonds at private sale if they deem it for 
 the best interest of the district, and all moneys arising from 
 the sale of said bonds must be paid forthwith into the 
 treasury of the county in which said District may be located, 
 to the credit of said District, and the same are immediately 
 available for any of the purposes authorized by this Chapter. 
 
 Liability of School District. 
 
 SECTION 79. The faith of each School District is solemnly 
 pledged for the payment of the interest and the redemption 
 of the principal of all bonds, which are issued under this 
 Article. And for the purpose of enforcing the provisions of 
 this Article, each School District is a body corporate, and may 
 sue and be sued by or in the name of the Board of School 
 Trustees of said District. 
 
 Tax Levy to Pay Bonds ; Investment of Sinking Fund. 
 
 SECTION 80. The School Trustees of each District must 
 ascertain and levy annually the tax necessary to pay the in- 
 
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 terest as it becomes due and to create a sinking fund to redeem 
 the bonds at their maturity, and said tax is a lien upon the 
 property of said School District, and must be collected in the 
 same manner as other taxes for school purposes ; Provided : 
 That the said sinking fund may, at the discretion of the Board, 
 be loaned on first mortgage or improved farm lands, but no 
 loan shall exceed one-third (1-3) of the market value of the 
 land, exclusive of the improvements thereon, given as security 
 for such loans. The annual interest on all loans herein pro- 
 vided for shall be seven (7) per cent. Said sinking fund may 
 be invested in United States bonds, State bonds, county bonds, 
 county or State warrants, when the market value thereof is 
 not below par, at the discretion of said Board. 
 
 Redemption of Bonds. 
 
 SECTION 81. When the sum in the sinking fund equals or 
 exceeds the amount of any bond then due, the County Treas- 
 urer shall post in his office a notice that he will, within thirty 
 (30) days from the date of such notice, redeem the bonds then 
 payable, giving the number thereof, and the preference must be 
 given to the oldest issue; and if, at the expiration of the said 
 thirty (30) days, the holder or holders of said bonds shall 
 fail or neglect to present the same for payment, interest thereon 
 must cease; but the Treasurer shall, at all times thereafter, be 
 leady to redeem the same on presentation, and when any bonds 
 are so purchased or redeemed, the County Treasurer must .can- 
 cel the same by writing across the face of each bond, in red 
 ink, the word "Redeemed," and date of such redemption. 
 
 Payment of Interest on Bonds. 
 
 SECTION 82. The County Treasurer must pay out of any 
 moneys belonging to a school district, the interest upon any 
 bonds issued under this Article by such school district when 
 the same becomes due, upon the presentation at his office of 
 the proper coupon, which must show the amount due and the 
 number of the bond to which it belonged; and all coupons so 
 paid must be reported to the school trustees at the first meeting 
 thereafter. 
 
 Bonds to Be Printed. 
 
 SECTION 83. The School Trustees of any district must 
 cause to be printed or lithographed, at the lowest rates, suitable 
 bonds, with the coupons attached, when the same becomes 
 necessary, and pay therefor out of any moneys in the County 
 Treasury to the credit of the School District. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Neglect to Pay Over Money a Felony. 
 
 SECTION 84. If any of the School Trustees, other than In- 
 dependent School District Trustees having their own treasurer, 
 fraudulently fail or refuse to pay into the County Treasury the 
 money arising from the sale of any bonds provided for by this 
 Article, they are guilty of a felony. 
 
 ARTICLE IX. 
 TEACHERS. 
 
 Register and Report of Teachers. 
 
 SECTION 85. Teachers of the public schools must be fur- 
 nished with a school register by the trustees of the district, 
 for the purpose of registering the names of their pupils, and 
 their daily attendance at schools, and at the close of the term 
 said register must be delivered to the Clerk of the Board of 
 Trustees of the District. The teacher must also be furnished 
 with a blank report by said trustees, which report said teacher 
 must fill up according to the heading of the same and transmit 
 it to the County Superintendent of the county at the close of 
 the term, and no teacher shall be allowed an order in excess of 
 ninety per cent of his or her salary until said report is so made 
 out and transmitted. 
 
 General Duties of Teachers; Suspension of Pupils. 
 
 SECTION 86. (a). Every teacher in the public schools 
 may suspend, for good cause, any pupil, and report such sus- 
 pension to the Board of Trustees for review. If the action 
 of the teacher is sustained by the Board, the pupil may be 
 censured and returned to the school or expelled from school, as 
 in the judgment of the Board seems proper; but if not sus- 
 tained, the teacher may appeal to the County Superintendent, 
 whose decision shall be final. 
 
 (b). Every teacher shall make reports, in addition to those 
 mentioned elsewhere in this chapter, which may be required 
 by the State Superintendent, County Superintendent, or by 
 the school district Board of Trustees; shall use the text books 
 provided for the schools of the State; enforce the course of 
 study and the rules and the regulations prescribed by the State 
 Superintendent; hold pupils to a strict account for disorderly 
 conduct or improper language in or about the building, on 
 the play grounds, and on the way to and from school; shall 
 keep himself or herself without reproach, and endeavor to 
 
38 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 impress upon the minds of the pupils the principles of truth, 
 justice, morality, patriotism and refinement, and to avoid idle- 
 ness, falsehood, profanity, vulgarity and intemperance; give 
 attention during every school term to the cultivation of man- 
 ners, and shall, if there be a library in the school, devote not 
 less than one hour in each week to systematically reviewing 
 the works contained therein. 
 
 Teachers Must Have Certificate. 
 
 SECTION 87. No teacher shall be entitled to, or receive, any 
 compensation for the time he or she teaches in any public 
 school without a certificate valid or in force for such time in 
 the county where such school is taught, except that if a teacher's 
 certificate shall expire by its own limitation within six weeks 
 of the close of the term, such teacher may finish such term 
 without re-examination or renewal of his or her certificate. 
 
 ARTICLE X. 
 
 CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS. 
 Certificates Not Granted to Aliens. 
 
 SECTION 88. No persons shall be granted a certificate or 
 employed as teacher in any public school who is not a citizen 
 of the United States, or who has not declared his intention to 
 become such. 
 
 Time, Place, and Manner of Holding Examinations. 
 
 SECTION 89. Examinations for State and for State Life 
 Certificates shall be held upon the fourth Thursday in Feb- 
 ruary and August of each year. Examinations for County 
 Certificates shall be held upon the fourth Thursday in Feb- 
 ruary, May, August and November of each year. The ex- 
 aminations for each county shall be held in a suitable room at 
 the county seat, and such examinations shall be under the 
 charge of the County Superintendent, and shall be conducted 
 in accordance with the rules and regulations of the State 
 Board of Education. The questions used in these examinations 
 shall be such only as are sent out under seal by the State Board 
 of Education, and the questions shall be opened on the day 
 of examination in the presence of those to be examined. The 
 County Superintendent shall send all examination papers of 
 teachers to the office of the State Superintendent for grading 
 in accordance with Section XI, Article i, of this Act. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 STATE AND STATE LIFE CERTIFICATES. 
 Classes of Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 90. The certificates issued by the State Board of 
 Education shall be State Certificates, and Specialists' State 
 Certificates, each of which shall be valid for eight (8) years, 
 and State Life Certificates, valid for life, unless revoked for 
 cause; Provided: That a State Life Certificate shall lapse 
 when the holder thereof has not been actively engaged in school 
 work for five (5) consecutive years. Said State Life Cer- 
 tificate shall, in such event, be renewable at the option of the 
 State Board of Education. 
 
 State Certificate By Indorsement. 
 
 SECTION 91. (a). The State Board of Education may is- 
 sue State certificates to persons of good moral character who 
 are graduates from the advanced course (two (2) years' nor- 
 mal work above a four year high school course) of State Nor- 
 mal Schools of other states, who hold state or life certificates in 
 such states, and to graduates of any chartered college or uni- 
 versity having the power to grant degrees ; Provided : That 
 the bachelor degree of said college or university is recognized 
 for credit by the state university of its respective state ; Pro- 
 vided, further: That all applicants for certificates under this 
 Act shall have been actually engaged in teaching within two 
 (2) years of the date of making such application and shall pre- 
 sent with such application satisfactory proof of having been 
 successfully engaged in teaching for a period of not less than 
 eighteen (18) months, together with certificate of graduation 
 from such approved state normal, college or university. Such 
 certificates may be renewed by the State Board of Education 
 so long as the holder thereof is worthy, in their judgment, of 
 continuing to teach in the State. 
 
 (b). The State Board of Education may issue Specialists' 
 State Certificates, good only for special teachers of music, 
 drawing, manual training, domestic science and physical edu- 
 cation to persons of good moral character who are graduates 
 from approved schools which offer courses of not less than 
 two (2) years' work in any of the above mentioned special de- 
 partments; Provided: That all candidates for such Specialists' 
 State Certificates as above provided shall first present satis- 
 factory evidence of having completed an academic course of a 
 grade not lower than graduation from an approved high school 
 before having entered upon such special course of two (2) 
 years' work; Provided, further: That such Specialists' State 
 
4 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Certificate shall authorize the holders to teach only in the spe- 
 cial department or departments mentioned in said certificate. 
 
 University of Idaho Graduates Entitled to Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 92. Every graduate of the University of Idaho 
 receiving either the degree of the Bachelor or Arts or Bachelor 
 of Science, and the certificate of the head of the Department of 
 Education of said University that he has completed the re- 
 quired work in said department, or in lieu of said certificate, 
 has taught successfully in the public schools of the State for a 
 period of five (5) years, shall receive a State certificate from 
 the State Board of Education, if in the judgment of said Board 
 the candidate is not otherwise disqualified. 
 
 Life Certificate By Endorsement. 
 
 SECTION 93. The State Board of Education may issue a 
 life certificate to any person of good moral character who holds 
 a life, certificate from another state of approved educational 
 standing when such applicant shall present proof that he has 
 been successfully engaged in teaching for at least five (5) 
 years, two (2) of which shall have been in the State of Idaho, 
 and shall furnish satisfactory evidence of his or her ability 
 to instruct and to manage any school in the State by showing 
 that he is either professionally trained or qualified by experience 
 to do such work. 
 
 State Certificate By Examination. 
 
 SECTION 94. The State Board of Education shall issue a 
 State certificate to any person of good moral character who 
 shall pass a thorough examination in such branches as the State 
 Board of Education may direct ; Provided : That such appli- 
 cant shall present proof that he has been successfully engaged 
 in teaching for at least three (3) years, and shall furnish the 
 Board with satisfactory evidence of his ability to instruct and 
 to manage any school within the State, and shall hold at the 
 time a valid first grade county certificate. 
 
 Life Certificates By Examination. 
 
 SECTION 95. The State Board of Education shall issue a 
 State life certificate to any person or good moral character who 
 shall pass a thorough examination in such branches as the 
 Board may direct; Provided : That the applicant has been suc- 
 cessfully engaged in teaching for at least five (5) years, two 
 (2) of which shall have been in the State of Idaho, and shall 
 furnish the Board with satisfactory evidence of his ability to 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 41 
 
 instruct and to manage any school within the State, and shall 
 hold at the time a valid State certificate. 
 
 Fees for State and State Life Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 96. Every person before receiving a State Cer- 
 tificate shall pay to the State Treasurer the sum of Five Dollars 
 ($5.00), and every person before receiving a Life Certificate 
 shall pay to the State Treasurer the sum of Ten Dollars 
 ($10.00) for deposit in the State Board of Education Fund. 
 The State Board of Education shall require the receipt of the 
 said Treasurer before issuing said State Certificate or State 
 Life Certificate. The State Board of Education Fund shall be 
 used to defray any and all expenses incurred by said Board in 
 carrying out the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Revocation of State and of State Life Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 97. The State Board of Education shall have 
 power to revoke any State or State Life Certificate for any 
 cause of disqualification which would have been sufficient 
 ground for refusing to issue the same, had the cause existed 
 or been known at the time of its issue ; Provided : That before 
 revoking any such certificate, the holder thereof shall have at 
 thirty (30) days' notice to appear before the State Board of 
 Education and show cause why such revocation should not be 
 made. 
 
 Record of Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 98. The State Board of Education shall keep a 
 record of all State and State Life Certificates granted or re- 
 voked, showing to whom issued, age of grantee, date of issue, 
 grade of each certificate, and if revoked, the date and reason 
 therefor. 
 
 COUNTY CERTIFICATES. 
 Grades of Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 99. The certificates issued by the County Super- 
 intendents in accordance with Section 13, Article I, and with 
 Sections 88 and 89 of this Article shall be of three (3) grades, 
 valid in the counties in which they are issued for the term 
 hereinafter specified, unless sooner revoked: 
 
 First grade, five (5) years from the date thereof. 
 
 Second grade, three (3) years from the date thereof. 
 
 Third grade, one ( i ) year from the date thereof. 
 
 Provided : That first and second grade certificates shall 
 be good in any county in the State for the same period by the 
 
42 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 holder thereof filing a certified copy of the same with the 
 County Superintendent in the county in which he desires to 
 teach. 
 
 General Requirements. 
 
 SECTION 100. The County Superintendent shall grant cer- 
 tificates in such form as the State Board of Education shall 
 prescribe, to those persons only who shall have attained the age 
 of eighteen (18) years, who are of good moral character, and 
 who, if the applicant has taught, shall have proved his ability 
 to govern and to instruct a school. 
 
 Each applicant for a county certificate shall pay to the County 
 Superintendent the sum of One Dollar ($1.00), the same to 
 be deposited in the County Treasury to the credit of the In- 
 stitute Fund to be used in the institute work in addition to the 
 regular appropriation. 
 
 The County Superintendent, upon issuing county certificates 
 in accordance with the report of the State Board of Education 
 as provided in Section 13, Article I, shall collect and forward 
 to the State Treasurer for deposit in the State Board of Edu- 
 cation Fund the sum of Three Dollars ($3.00) for each first 
 grade teacher's certificate; the sum of Two Dollars ($2.00) 
 for each grade teacher's certificate, and One Dollar ($1.00) 
 for each third grade teacher's certificate issued. No certificate 
 shall be issued unless the applicant shall attain a general 
 average of eighty-five (85) per cent, with no subject below 
 seventy-five (75) per cent. 
 
 Third Grade Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 101. (a). Every applicant for a third grade 
 certificate shall be examined in orthoepy, spelling, reading, pen- 
 manship, arithmetic, elementary composition, grammar, geo- 
 graphy, history of the United States, the civil government of 
 the United States, and of the State of Idaho, physiology and 
 hygiene with special reference to the effects of stimulants and 
 narcotics upon the human system, school law, the manual of 
 the elementary course of study for the common schools of 
 Idaho, and the elements of agriculture ; and in addition to pass- 
 ing examinations in the aforesaid branches he shall have at- 
 tended a professional school for teachers for at least six (6) 
 weeks and shall have received in such school standings 
 in the School Laws of Idaho, in school management, 
 and in the methods of teaching reading and language, 
 arithmetic, history and geography ; Provided, however : 
 That the provisions of this Section relative to at- 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 43 
 
 tendance at professional schools for teachers shall not 
 apply to persons who have taught successfully for at least 
 eight (8) months prior to July i, 1911. 
 
 (b). In this Act "Professional School for Teachers" shall 
 mean a state normal school, a state summer normal school for 
 teachers, the department of education in the State University, 
 or, in counties remote from a state normal school or state 
 summer normal school for teachers, a teachers' normal institute 
 maintained under such conditions and restrictions as may be 
 provided by the State Board of Education ; Provided : That 
 such institute shall be taught by at least two (2) teachers and 
 be of not less duration than six (6) weeks, and shall have in 
 connection therewith a model or a practice school. 
 
 (c). A third grade certificate shall entitle the holder to 
 teach for such period, not more than one ( i ) year, as may be 
 specified therein, in the county in which the certificate is 
 issued. A third grade certificate may be renewed if the holder 
 shall, during the life of the certificate, attend a professional 
 school for teachers for a period of not less than six (6) weeks 
 and shall receive in such school credits in at least two (2) 
 subjects. The holder of a third grade certificate may also 
 renew the same by passing an examination in all the subjects 
 required for a third grade certificate. Not more than three (3) 
 grade certificates shall be granted after July i, 1911, to the 
 same person. 
 
 Second Grade Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 102. (a). An applicant to receive a second grade 
 certificate shall have taught successfully in the public schools 
 for at least eight (8) months and shall pass a satisfactory ex- 
 amination in all the branches required for a third grade cer- 
 tificate, and, in addition, in physical geography, American 
 literature, English composition, and in the cataloguing and the 
 use of school libraries. The County Superintendent may trans- 
 fer the standings of a third grade certificate in force to a second 
 grade certificate if the holder of such third grade certificate has 
 taught a school successfully for at least eight (8) months and 
 has attended, since receiving such third grade certificate, a 
 professional school for teachers for at least six (6) weeks 
 and received credits in at least two (2) subjects. 
 
 (b). A second grade certificate issued in accordance with 
 this Act or in force at the time of its enactment may be re- 
 newed if the holder thereof shall pass an examination in all 
 the subjects required for a second grade certificate. Such 
 second grade certificate may also be renewed without exami- 
 
44 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 nation provided the holder thereof has taught successfully for 
 two (2) years during- the life of such certificate and has at- 
 tended a professional school for teachers at least six (6) weeks 
 and received credits in at least two (2) subjects. Not more 
 than two (2) second grade certificates shall be granted after 
 July i, 1911, to the same person. 
 
 First Grade Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 103. (a). An applicant to receive a first grade 
 certificate shall have taught successfully for at least eight (8) 
 months in the public schools and shall pass a satisfactory ex- 
 amination in all the branches required for a second grade cer- 
 tificate and in addition in English literature, principles of 
 teaching, algebra, physics or botany, and mediaeval and modern 
 or English history. The County Superintendent may transfer 
 the standings of a second grade certificate in force to a first 
 grade certificate if the holder of such second grade certificate 
 has taught a school successfully for at least eight (8) months 
 and has attended, since receiving such second grade certificate, 
 a professional school for teachers for at least six (6) weeks and 
 received credits in at least two (2) subjects. 
 
 (b). A first grade certificate may be renewed by the 
 County Superintendent provided the holder has taught success- 
 fully for a period of five (5) years. 
 
 Special Third Grade Certificate. 
 
 SECTION 104. Whenever the supply of legally qualified 
 teachers in any county has been exhausted the County Super- 
 intendent with the approval of the State Superintendent may 
 issue special third grade certificates on examination in the 
 subjects required for such certificates to as many persons as 
 are necessary to fill the schools, provided that, not more than 
 one ( i ) such certificate shall be issued to the same person. 
 
 Permits to Teach. 
 
 SECTION 105. Whenever the supply of legally qualified 
 teachers in any county has been exhausted the County Super- 
 intendent, with the approval of the State Superintendent, may 
 endorse the certificates of teachers from other counties or other 
 states by writing thereof "Good until the next regular exami- 
 nation to be held on 191--." The teacher holding such 
 
 permit shall not teach thereon after the next regular exami- 
 nation, nor shall a second permit be issued to the same person 
 within three (3) years of the issuance of the aforesaid first 
 permit. A record of all permits shall be preserved in the office 
 of the State Superintendent. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 45 
 
 Revocation of Teachers' Certificates. 
 
 SECTION 106. The County Superintendent shall have power 
 to revoke any county certificate for neglect of duty, for in- 
 competency to instruct and govern a school, for immorality or 
 for any cause which should have been sufficient ground f;jr re- 
 fusing to issue the same, had the cause existed or been known 
 at the time of its issue; Provided: That no certificate shall 
 be revoked or annulled without a personal hearing, unless the 
 holder thereof shall, after thirty (30) days' notice, neglect 
 or refuse to appear before the Superintendent for that purpose; 
 Provided, further: The said teacher shall have the right of 
 ?ppeal to the State Superintendent, whose decision shall be 
 final ; Provided, further : That it shall be the right of any citi- 
 zen to bring to the attention of the State Board of Education 
 any case in which the County Superintendent shall neglect or 
 refuse to revoke a certificate when cognizant of the facts in the 
 case, and it shall be the duty of the State Board of Education, 
 through its executive officer, to investigate the charges, and, 
 if proved true in accordance with the reasons set forth in this 
 Section, then the State Board of Education is empowered to 
 revoke the certificate in question. 
 
 Record of Certificates. 
 
 SECTION? 107. The County Superintendent shall keep a 
 record of all certificates granted or revoked, showing to whom 
 issued, age of grantee, date of issue, grade and duration of each 
 certificate, and if revoked, the date and reason therefor. 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. 
 County Superintendent to Hold Institute. 
 
 SECTION 108. The County Superintendent of each county 
 in this State must hold annually a teachers' institute at such 
 time as he may designate, and such institute must continue in 
 session not less than five (5), nor more than fifteen (15) 
 days. He must give at least ten (10) days' notice of the time 
 and place of holding such institute by publication in some news- 
 paper published in the county, and by written notice to each 
 qualified teacher in the county ; Provided : That two or more 
 counties may unite in holding a joint institute under the joint 
 supervision of the county superintendents of such counties. 
 
46 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Teachers Must Attend Institute. 
 
 SECTION 109. Tt is the duty of all teachers engaged in the 
 county and of all persons holding certificates to attend such 
 institutes at least five (5) days, and participate in the exercises 
 thereof, and all teachers who may have charge of schools at 
 the time of holding the annual institute must adjourn their 
 schools for the time during which the institute is held ; Pro- 
 vided : That when joint institutes are held in accordance with 
 the provisions of the preceding section, it shaii be the duty 
 of all teachers in said counties, and of all persons holding cer- 
 tificates therein, to attend such joint institute at least five (5) 
 days. 
 
 Teachers of Adjourned Schools to Draw Pay. 
 
 SECTION no. All teachers who may adjourn school for 
 the purpose of attending any annual county or jcrnt institute 
 must be allowed the same pay while in actual attendance as 
 when teaching, and the County Superintendent must certify 
 to the number of days' attendance of each teacher, and the 
 trustees of the several districts must count them as so many 
 days lawfully employed. 
 
 Conduct and Expenses of Institute. 
 
 SECTION in. The County Superintendent shall procure 
 the services of one or more competent persons to assist in 
 conducting said institute; he must also provide a building, 
 lights, stationery, janitor service, and all things necessary for 
 the holding of the institute; and must present an itemized ac- 
 count of such expenses, not to exceed One Hundred Fiftv Dol- 
 lars ($150) exclusive of the amount received from fees of 
 applicants for teachers' certificates, to the auditor of his county, 
 which sum, or as much thereof as may be need^.l, is hereby 
 appropriated, and, upon the presentation of said ii^rmzed ac- 
 count, the county auditor shall issue a warrant on the current 
 expense fund in favor of the County Superintendent equal to 
 the amount of such expenses, and the county auditor shall draw 
 a warrant on the institute fund for institute fees, upon demand 
 of the County Superintendent; Provided: In case joint in- 
 stitutes are held as provided in Section 109, the County Super- 
 intendents of the counties holding such institutes shall each 
 present an itemized account of such expenses, as aforesaid, to 
 to the auditor of his county, and the expenses thereof shall be 
 borne equally by such counties, and the county auditor shall 
 issue a warrant in favor of the County Superintendent for the 
 part chargeable against such county. 
 
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 ARTICLE XII. 
 
 SUMMER NORMAL SCHOOLS. 
 Commission of Summer Normal Schools. 
 
 SECTION 112. A commission of summer normal schools is 
 hereby created, consisting of the State Superintendent, the 
 principal of the Lewiston State Normal School, and the prin- 
 cipal of the Albion State Normal School, which commission is 
 hereby authorized to establish three (3) summer normal 
 schools. One of these said schools shall be held in Pocatello, 
 one in Boise, and one either in Coeur d'Alene or in Sandpoint, 
 Idaho, as may be determined by the commission, and at such 
 places in said cities as said commission shall select. 
 
 Meetings and Officers of Commission. 
 
 SECTION 113. Said commission shall hold at least two (2) 
 regular meetings annually the first week in February and the 
 first week in October, the place to be designated by the Super- 
 intendent of Public Instruction, who shall act as chairman of 
 the commission. Special meetings may be called by the chair- 
 man or by request of a majority of the commission. The com- 
 mission shall elect a secretary from their own number at their 
 first regular meeting. 
 
 Courses of Study. 
 
 SECTION 114. Said commission shall determine the courses 
 of study, fix the credit students shall receive for work per- 
 * formed in said schools, and engage a principal and assistant 
 instructors for each of said schools, but no member of the 
 commission shall be eligible to such appointment. Only such 
 instructors shall be engaged as are qualified to give professional 
 training in the subjects which they shall be employed to teach. 
 
 Minutes and Report. 
 
 SECTION 115. The secretary shall keep an accurate record 
 of all business transacted by the commission; keep on file 
 in the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, a 
 duplicate itemized bill of all claims allowed, and make a full 
 and complete report to the State Board of Education on the 
 Erst day of November of each year, showing items allowed 
 and paid from the "Summer Normal School Fund." 
 
 Annual Term of Schools. 
 
 SECTION 116. The length of the annual term in each of 
 said schools shall be not less than six (6) weeks, the date 
 
48 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 of opening to be fixed by the Commission of Summer Nor- 
 mal Schools. 
 
 Who May Receive Instruction. 
 
 SECTION 117. Any person may receive instruction in said 
 schools who is a teacher, or expects to become a teacher, 
 in the State of Idaho, or any other person desiring such 
 instruction, by paying an enrollment fee of not less than One 
 Dollar ($1.00), and otherwise complying with the regulations 
 of the school. 
 
 Summer Normal School Fund. 
 
 SECTION 118. All funds appropriated by the State for the 
 maintenance of summer normal schools, together with en- 
 rollment fees, shall constitute a fund known as the "Summer 
 Normal School Fund." Said commission is authorized to 
 expend, in accordance with law, for the maintenance of each 
 of said schools, not to exceed One Thousand Five Hundred 
 Dollars ($1,500) per annum of the money appropriated by 
 the State. 
 
 Commission May Discontinue School. 
 
 SECTION 119. In case the annual enrollment of any one 
 of said schools shall be less than fifty (50), said commission 
 may discontinue said school. 
 
 Superintendent to Visit Schools. 
 
 SECTION 120. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent 
 of Public Instruction to visit each of said schools annually J 
 and inspect the work clone. 
 
 Use of Buildings to Be Free. 
 
 SECTION 121. No part of the money appropriated by 
 the State for the support of said schools shall be used for the 
 payment of rent, or for the use of any of the buildings in 
 which said schools may be -held. The use of said buildings 
 shall be furnished free by the locality where said schools 
 are held. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 49 
 
 ARTICLE XIII. 
 INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
 
 Organization of Districts. 
 
 SECTION 122. Whenever any school district within this 
 State, as defined by the board of county commissioners, has 
 within its limits taxable property of the amount of One 
 Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars ($150,000) or over, as 
 shown by the last assessment roll for the county, it may be 
 organized into an independent school district upon a vote of 
 one-fifth (1-5) or over of those within the district who are 
 qualified to vote at school elections, petitioning the said board 
 for the establishing of such district as an independent school 
 district; and if a greater number of qualified voters do not 
 remonstrate against such establishment, the board must clearly, 
 by its order of record, define the boundaries of such district, 
 if not already done, and within one (i) month order that 
 the question of so establishing such independent school district 
 must be submitted to a vote of all the electors of the district, 
 who, under the provisions of this Chapter, are authorized to 
 vote for the levy of taxes and issue of bonds, and must make 
 the necessary arrangements for such election, giving at least 
 twenty (20) days' notice thereof, and the time and the place 
 of holding the same. If a majority of those so voting vote in 
 favor of so organizing such independent district, said board 
 must make its order of record and declare such district 
 established, and designate it as the "Independent School Dis- 
 trict (state name and number of district), in 
 
 County, Idaho." 
 
 Corporate Powers. 
 
 SECTION 123. The district so established is constituted a 
 body corporate, and succeeds to the title of all property rights 
 and privileges, and assumes and must discharge and pay all 
 debts, obligations and duties belonging to or devolving upon 
 the old district or districts of which it is so formed and estab- 
 lished, and by its corporate name it may : 
 
 1. Make contracts, sue, and be sued. 
 
 2. Take, hold, and convey such real and personal property 
 only as is needed for actual school purposes. 
 
 3. Have a corporate seal. 
 
 4. Choose such officers as are herein provided for. 
 
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 Board of Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 124. The officers of such district shall consist of a 
 board of trustees, composed of six (6) qualified electors who 
 are resident freeholders within the district. The first board 
 of trustees must be appointed by the board of county commis- 
 sioners immediately after the district is so established and 
 shall hold their offices for terms as follows, to-wit: Two 
 (2) until the next school election under the provisions hereof; 
 two (2) for one (i) and two (2) for two (2) years after 
 such election, and until their successors are elected and quali- 
 fied. Said board so appointing must designate the term of 
 each trustee so appointed. 
 
 Election of Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 125. (a). There must be an election for two (2) 
 members of the board of trustees, to be held on the first Tues- 
 day of September following the establishment of such district, 
 and annually thereafter an election must be held to elect two 
 (2) trustees. The clerk of the board must give at least ten 
 (10) days' notice of the time and the place of such election 
 by publication in a newspaper, and by three (3) posted notices 
 in the district, and at all elections under this Article, voters 
 must have the same qualifications as prescribed for the general 
 elections in this State. At such elections, any person offering 
 lo vote may be challenged and required to take all oaths re- 
 quired for voters at the general elections in this state, and on 
 refusing to take such oath must not be allowed to vote. The 
 board of trustees may appoint for all such elections two (2) 
 judges and one (i) clerk. Voting must be by secret ballot, 
 such ballots and list of votes to be kept for sixty (60) days by 
 the secretary of said school board, and if, upon counting the 
 ballots, there is a tie arid three qualified persons have the 
 highest and an equal number of votes, the board of trustees 
 must select two (2) from the three (3), and when there is 
 a failure to elect by reason of a tie vote, the board of trustees 
 must select. 
 
 (b). If any trustee dies, removes from the district, or 
 ceases to have the qualifications for such office, or for any 
 cause his office is vacant, or he neglects or refuses to act, or 
 without excuse ceases to attend the meetings of the board for 
 four (4) successive regular meetings thereof, his office thereby 
 becomes vacant and a majority of said board of trustees may 
 appoint another qualified person to fill his unexpired term. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 51 
 
 Prohibition Against Contracts With Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 126. No trustees shall be interested directly 01 in- 
 directly in any contract let, or made by or with the board, 
 or with any officer thereof, or in any supplies furnished to or 
 for said district, or a surety for the performance of any con- 
 tract with said board or district, or the agent or partner of 
 any contractor with said board or district ; and no action can be 
 maintained or recovery had against said board or district 
 upon any contract or obligation in which any trustee is so 
 interested, but the same is void. 
 
 Qualification and Organization of Board. 
 
 SECTION 127. Each trustee shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, take and subscribe the official oath, which 
 must be filed with the County School Superintendent. Im- 
 mediately after the appointment of such trustees by the board 
 of county commissioners, as above provided, and after each 
 annual election, the trustees, or a majority thereof, shall meet 
 at the school house and organize as a board, and from their 
 number shall select a chairman, a clerk, and a treasurer, or they 
 may elect as treasurer some competent and responsible per- 
 son who is not a trustee, and said treasurer shall be required 
 to deposit the school moneys in such bank or banks as will 
 pay the highest rate of interest on daily balances, dividing the 
 money to two or more banks if the same offer the same rates of 
 interest. Said trustees of independent school districts may 
 provide pay or compensation for the clerk, but no other school 
 officer whatever shall receive any pay or compensation for 
 his time or services or in any way be allowed to make any 
 pecuniary profit or gain by reason of his office, and any school 
 officer or person who has the custody in any way of any school 
 funds shall give bonds, with at least two (2) good sureties 
 in double the amount of funds likely at any time to be in his 
 custody. 
 
 Meetings of Board. 
 
 SECTION 128. Regular meetings of the board of trustees 
 shall be held on the second Monday of each month, and special 
 meetings may be called by the chairman of the board, or by 
 any two (2) trustees, by personal notice of the time and the 
 place of such meetings to each member of the board, or, if he 
 cannot be found, by leaving such notice at his place of resi- 
 dence with some person of suitable age and discretion. Four 
 (4) trustees constitute a quorum for the transaction of any 
 business, but a less number may adjourn any regular meeting 
 
52 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 from time to time, until a quorum can be obtained, but no 
 meeting of the board not provided for by the rules or by law 
 is legal unless all the members thereof have been notified as 
 provided for in this section. 
 
 Duties and Powers of Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 129. The board of trustees of said district shall 
 have power, and it is their duty : 
 
 (a) Independent Districts (General). 
 
 1. To make such by-laws for their own government and 
 for the government of the schools of the district as they may 
 deem expedient, not inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 Chapter ; 
 
 2. To employ or discharge teachers, mechanics, and labor- 
 ers, and to fix, allow, and order paid their salaries and compen- 
 sation; and to determine the rate of tuition for non-resident 
 pupils, and to withhold the salary of a teacher when the County 
 Superintendent notifies the board that the teacher does not 
 hold a valid certificate; 
 
 3. To levy a special tax, if necessary, which, when added to 
 money apportioned by the County Superintendent of Schools, 
 will be sufficient to provide funds for the maintenance of the 
 schools for nine (9) months in each year; the special taxes 
 levied by said board of trustees for the payment of interest 
 on bonds and sinking fund, for oayment of bonds at maturity, 
 together with the levy for the maintenance of schools, shall 
 not exceed. twenty (20) mills on the Dollar; Provided: That 
 districts maintaining rural school routes may levy a tax in 
 addition to the aforesaid twenty (20) mills sufficient to main- 
 tain the said rural school routes, said tax for school routes 
 not to exceed ten (10) mills; 
 
 4. To provide furniture, fixtures, apparatus, library, and 
 everything needed in the school house or for the use of the 
 board ; 
 
 5. To rent, repair, and insure school houses and property, 
 and preserve the same for the benefit of the schools of the 
 district; 
 
 6. To build or remove school houses and buildings and to 
 purchase or sell school lots; 
 
 7. To expel pupils from school who refuse to obey the 
 rules thereof, and to exclude from school children under six 
 (6) years of age; 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 53 
 
 8. To determine the number and qualifications of teachers 
 who shall be employed, to determine if school shall be main- 
 tained for more than nine (9) months, to fix the date of the 
 beginning of the school year, to determine the length of the 
 school day, and to provide for the dismissal of primary pupils 
 before the regular time of closing school; 
 
 9. To require pupils to be furnished with proper and 
 suitable books and supplies as a condition of membership in 
 the schools; 
 
 TO. To exclude from the schools and school libraries of 
 said district all books, papers and catechisms of a sectarian 
 nature ; 
 
 11. To require teachers to conform to the law of the State 
 and regulations of the school board; 
 
 12. To protect the morals and health of the pupils while 
 at school. 
 
 (b) Independent School Districts (Class A). 
 
 When an independent school district shall employ thirty- 
 five (35) or more teachers, it shall be known as an Inde- 
 pendent District of Class A, and shall have, in addition to 
 the above enumerated powers and duties, the following spe- 
 cial powers and duties: 
 
 1. To adopt a course of study for their system of schools 
 other than the State course if they so elect, and to prescribe 
 the examinations, tests, and qualifications necessary for pupils 
 to enter the various grades of the elementary school and of 
 the high school. 
 
 2. To adopt text-books for their system of schools, and 
 to make such contracts with the publishers as shall seem for 
 the best interests of the district; Provided: That this section 
 shall not operate to destroy any contract now in force, but 
 shall operate in the selection of books for which the district 
 is not now under contract, and shall operate in the selection 
 of all books on and after September i, 1913. 
 
 3. To employ a superintendent of schools for a term not 
 to exceed three (3) years, who shall be the executive officer 
 of the board, with such powers and duties as they may pre- 
 scribe, together with such powers and duties as are now or 
 may hereafter be prescribed by the laws of the State, to fix, 
 allow and order paid his salary, and to discharge said super- 
 intendent for incompetency, immorality, or gross neglect of 
 duty. 
 
54 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Issuance of Funding Bonds. 
 
 SECTION 130. The board of trustees of any independent 
 school district, organized under any general or special law, 
 may issue negotiable coupon bonds of their district for the 
 purpose of paying, redeeming or refunding the principal of 
 ciny of the outstanding bonded indebtedness of their district, 
 whenever the same can be done to the profit or advantage of 
 the district and without the district incurring any additional 
 indebtedness or liability exceeding in any year the income or 
 revenue provided for such year. Said bonds must bear in- 
 terest at a rate not exceeding six (6) per centum per annum, 
 payable semi-annually at the office of the treasurer of the 
 district, or at such banking house in the City of New York as 
 may be designated by the board of trustees ; and the principal 
 of said bonds, or any part thereof, may, at the option of the 
 district, be paid at any time after ten (10) years, and must 
 be paid within twenty (20) years from the time they are 
 issued, and in the order in which they are issued and numbered. 
 Semi-annual interest coupons covering the interest to become 
 due must be attached to each bond ; the bonds must be signed 
 by the presiding officer of the board and attested by its sec- 
 'etary and the seal of the district, if it has a seal, and the 
 coupons must be signed and the bonds registered by the treas- 
 urer of the board. No bond shall be sold at less than its 
 par value, and the proceeds thereof must be devoted to the 
 payment, redemption, or refunding of the outstanding bonded 
 indebtedness of the district. 
 
 Dr.iginal Bond Elections. 
 
 SECTION 131. The Board of Trustees of any Independent 
 District may, whenever two-thirds (2-3) of the Board 
 so decide, submit to the qualified electors of the State of 
 Idaho, who are resident freeholders or householders of the 
 district, at an election to be held for that purpose and. to be 
 called and conducted as other school elections in said district, 
 the question whether the Board shall be authorized to issue 
 the negotiable coupon bonds of the district in an amount to 
 be mentioned in the notice of election, for the purpose of 
 providing and improving schoolhouses and grounds and furni- 
 ture, apparatus, and fixtures for said district, or for any or 
 either of said purposes; and if at such election two-thirds (2-3) 
 of the qualified electors of said district voting at said election 
 assent thereto, the Board of Trustees may issue such bonds 
 of the district to the amount and for the purpose designated 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 55 
 
 in said notice, which bonds shall be in all respects similar to, 
 and shall be signed, negotiated, registered, bear interest, and 
 be made payable as the bonds provided for in the last pre- 
 ceding section; and no bond shall be sold for less than its 
 par value, and the proceeds thereof must be devoted to the 
 purposes mentioned in said notice. 
 
 Tax Levy for Payment of Bonds. 
 
 SECTION 132. The Board of Trustees of any such district 
 that has issued bonds under either of the last two preceding 
 sections must annually levy upon all taxable property of the 
 district, in addition to other authorized taxes, a tax sufficient 
 to pay the interest on all bonds so issued as it falls due, and 
 also to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the prin- 
 cipal thereof within twenty (20) years from the time the 
 bonds are issued; which taxes shall be levied, assessed, col- 
 lected and paid over in the district, and shall be devoted to 
 the payment of the principal and the interest of said bonds 
 only; and the accumulated sinking fund may be used for the 
 redemption of said bonds at any time after ten years from the 
 date of their issue. 
 
 Application of School Law. 
 
 SECTION 133. All the provisions of this chapter provid- 
 ing for a public school system, wherein not contradictory to 
 or inconsistent with the provisions of this article, and which 
 may be made applicable to the objects thereof, are adopted 
 as a part of the law governing the establishment and man- 
 agement of Independent School Districts. All the provisions 
 of this Code applicable to Independent School Districts shall 
 also apply to Special Independent School Districts. 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 RURAL HIGH SCHOOLS. 
 Petition. 
 
 SECTION 134. That when the heads of a majority of the 
 families residing in each of tw 7 o or more regularly organized 
 school districts in this State, not having within their limits 
 an incorporated city, shall petition the board of county com- 
 missioners of their county to unite them into a rural high 
 high school district, for the purpose of maintaining a rural 
 high school therein, the said board of county commissioner; 
 
S IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 shall submit the question to a vote of the qualified electors of 
 the districts so petitioning at a special election called for that 
 purpose, within sixty days from the date of the receipt of such 
 petition; Provided: That the proposed rural high school dis- 
 trict shall not, except with the unanimous consent of the board 
 of county commissioners, embrace a greater territory than that 
 included within a six-mile radius from the proposed center of 
 the district. 
 
 Election. 
 
 SECTION 135. At the election provided for in Section 134 
 of this Act, each district shall vote separately in its own school 
 house or other place within such district designated in the 
 notice of election, and the vote in each district shall determine 
 if the district shall become united with other districts, to form 
 the aforesaid rural high school district. Three notices of elec- 
 tion shall be posted in each district ten (10) days prior to the 
 day of election, one of which notices shall be upon the door of 
 the school house. The elections shall be conducted in all re- 
 spects as provided by law for the election of school trustees, 
 and the ballots shall have printed thereon "For Rural High 
 School Yes," and "For Rural High School No" ; Provided : 
 That all elections in the several districts shall be upon the 
 same day and between the same hours. The returns of said 
 elections shall be certified by the local school board in each 
 district to the chairman of the board of county commissioners. 
 
 Trustees. 
 
 SECTION 136. (a). If, in the judgment of the county com- 
 missioners, a sufficient number of districts shall have signified 
 by their majority vote a desire to form a rural high school dis- 
 trict, the county commissioners shall form such rural high 
 school district, designating it as "Rural High School District 
 
 No. of County, Idaho", and shall so 
 
 certify to the Board of Trustees of the district at the time of 
 their appointment, and within thirty (30) days of the election 
 provided for in Section 134 of this article, shall appoint a 
 board of five ( 5 ) trustees from among the resident free holders 
 or heads of families of the said rural high school district, one 
 urtil the next election under the provisions hereof, one for two 
 (2) years, one for three (3) years, one for four (4) years, 
 and one for -five (5) years. On the first Tuesday in Septem- 
 ber of each year thereafter the qualified electors, voting at a 
 central place in the rural high school district, shall elect one 
 trustee for a term of five (5) years. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 57 
 
 (b). The said board of trustees shall subscribe the official 
 oath for school board members within ten (10) days of their 
 appointment or election and shall file the same with the County 
 Superintendent. 
 
 (c). Within ten (10) days after their election and appoint- 
 ment, the said board shall meet and organize as the Board of 
 Trustees of such rural high school district, by electing one of 
 their number president and by electing a clerk or secretary 
 who may or may not be one of their number. 
 
 (d) Provided: That in rural high school districts or- 
 ganized prior to the passage of this Act, the chairman of the 
 local boards forming such rural high school districts shall cease 
 to act as a board of trustees for such district on and after the 
 first Tuesday in September, 1911, and the commissioners shall 
 appoint, after the manner and terms aforesaid in this article, a 
 board to serve in their stead, and annually thereafter shall be 
 held an election of one ( i ) trustee and procedure had as pro- 
 vided in this section. 
 
 Meetings and Powers. 
 
 SECTION 137. The other regular meetings of the board 
 of trustees shall be held on the Tuesday following the last Sat- 
 urday in March, June, September, and December of each year. 
 The board may, however, hold special or adjourned meetings 
 as they may from time to time determine. 
 
 The Board Shall Have Power: 
 
 (a). To supervise and visit the school; 
 
 (b). To admit all children of the district above the eighth 
 grade, and to admit and provide rates of tuition for non-resi- 
 dent pupils, if they so elect; 
 
 (c). To appoint legally qualified teachers, and to fix, allow, 
 and order paid their salaries ; 
 
 (d). To fix wages, make general rules and regulations fot 
 the control of the school, suspend or expel pupils, fix the 
 term of school, which shall not be more than ten (10) months 
 nor less than seven (7) months in any one (i) year; 
 
 (e). To rent or to purchase and hold real estate for such 
 district high school, build and furnish school houses, deter- 
 mine location of grounds and buildings, which shall be as near 
 the center of the district as practicable, according to the sani- 
 tary conditions, and to receive and hold bequests and gifts for 
 the benefit of the school, and to dispose of property belonging 
 to the district, subject to the provisions hereinafter named; 
 
58 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 (f). To provide a course of study which shall be approved 
 by the State Board of Education, which course shall not con- 
 sist of more than four (4) years' work beyond the eighth 
 grade of the common schools ; such course of study shall include 
 instruction in manual training, domestic science, nature study, 
 and the elements of agriculture ; 
 
 (g). To estimate and vote the amount of tax necessary 
 to support the school, at a meeting previous to September first 
 in each year, and report the same to the Board of County Com- 
 missioners, which amount may include the cost of transpor- 
 tation of students, and the creation of a sinking fund for the 
 payment of principal and interest of bonds issued, if any, and 
 shall be spread upon the tax roll the same as other district 
 taxes, and in their discretion to issue warrants drawing legal 
 interest for current expenses, the amount of which warrants 
 shall not exceed fifty (50) per cent of the tax voted; 
 
 (h). To call special elections or meetings of the district, 
 if necessary, to vote the amount of money to be raised for the 
 purchase of grounds and erection and equipment of buildings, 
 and for such other purposes as may be necessary within the 
 authority of the provisions of this Act, or of the general school 
 laws. 
 
 Duties. 
 
 SECTION 138. The duties of the officers of the hoard shall 
 be the same as is prescribed by law for similar officers of other 
 boards of school trustees, and in addition thereto, the clerk 
 or the secretary shall certify to the County Superintendent, 
 quarterly, the number of teachers that are regularly employed 
 in said school. 
 
 Bonds. 
 
 SECTION 139. A majority of the qualified electors of such 
 rural high school district may vote bonds in any legal amount, 
 the proceeds to be spent in purchasing, building, or equipping 
 such high school and grounds. The election held for this pur- 
 pose shall be conducted in all respects as provided by the laws 
 of Idaho for similar purposes; Provided: That the bonds so 
 voted and issued shall not run longer than twenty (20) years, 
 nor draw a rate of interest higher than six (6) per cent per 
 annum. 
 
 Supervision. 
 
 SECTION 140. The high schools established under the pro- 
 visions of this Act shall be under the supervision of the State 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 59 
 
 Board of Education, and all questions of management, support, 
 and control arising under the provisions of this Act, and not 
 expressly provided for herein, shall be subject to the provisions 
 of the general laws of the State. 
 
 Segregation. 
 
 SECTION 141. When two-thirds of those who are heads of 
 families and residents of any regularly organized school dis- 
 trict joined to a rural high school district shall present a peti- 
 tion to the board of county commissioners showing that it is 
 to the best interests of the said regularly organized school 
 district to be segregated from the rural high school to which 
 said regularly organized district is joined, it shall be lawful for 
 the said board, if they unanimously agree, to segregate said 
 petitioning sub-district from said rural high school district. 
 Any regularly organized school district so segregated shall 
 forfeit its rights to any portion of the moneys of and to any 
 claims upon the property of the said rural high school district; 
 Provided : That the aforesaid petition shall be filed in the office 
 of the County Superintendent fifteen (15) days prior to the 
 quarterly meeting of the board of county commissioners. 
 
 ARTICLE XV. 
 PREVENTION OF DISEASE. 
 
 SECTION 142. The owner, or agent of the owner of a house 
 in which a person resides who has smallpox, diptheria, scarlet 
 fever, or any other contagious or infectious disease, dangerous 
 to the public health, and the physician called to attend the per- 
 son or persons so affected shall, within twenty- four (24) hours 
 after becoming cognizant of the fact, give notice thereof to the 
 clerk of the board of trustees of the school district in which 
 said person so afflicted resides, and said person so afflicted 
 shall be kept away and apart from all other persons except 
 those whose presence may be necessary to the physical or 
 spiritual wellbeing of such person or persons. 
 
 Exclusion of Pupils From Infected Households. 
 
 SECTION 143. The school trustees of the various school 
 districts in the State shall not allow any pupil to attend the 
 public schools while any member of the household to which 
 such pupil belongs is sick of smallpox, diptheria, scarlet fever, 
 or other contagious or infectious disease, dangerous to the 
 
60 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 public health, or during the period of two (2) weeks after the 
 death, recovery, or removal of such sick person ; and any pupil 
 coming from such household shall be required to present to 
 the teacher of the school the pupil desires to attend, a cer- 
 tificate from the attending physician of the facts necessary to 
 entitle him to admission in accordance with the above regu- 
 lations. 
 
 Disinfection of Textbooks. 
 
 SECTION 144. Whenever any text book or books belonging 
 to any school district shall be in the house during the time 
 that pupils residing in such house are prevented from attend- 
 ing the public school in accordance with the provisions of this 
 Article, such book or books shall not be returned to such public 
 school until the same shall have been thoroughly disinfected 
 under the direction of the attending physician, who shall certify 
 the same to the teacher of said school, or to the clerk of the 
 board of trustees in case the school is not in session at such 
 time. 
 
 Violation of Article a Misdemeanor. 
 
 SECTION 145. Any school trustee or other person violating 
 any of the provisions of this article shall be deemed guilty of 
 a misdemeanor. 
 
 ARTICLE XVI. 
 COMPULSORY EDUCATION. 
 
 The Law. 
 
 SECTION 146. The compulsory education law shall be the 
 provisions of Section 160, of Article XVII of this Act. To 
 render the same more effective, the following is prescribed : 
 
 Publish Law. 
 
 SECTION 147. It shall be the duty of the County Super- 
 intendent to publish this law for four (4) weeks in at least 
 two (2) newspapers in the county before the opening of school 
 in September. The County Superintendent shall also have the 
 law printed on large sheets of board and shall cause the same 
 to be placarded wherever necessary. 
 
 Census List. 
 
 SECTION 148. It. shall be the duty of the clerk of the board 
 of school trustees of each district, on or before the third Mon- 
 
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 day in September, to furnish or cause to be furnished to the 
 head teacher of the schools in his district a list of all the chil- 
 dren in the school district between the ages of eight (8) and 
 eighteen (18) years, said list to be taken from the report of 
 the school's census marshal for the current year. 
 
 Duty of Teachers. 
 
 SECTION 149. It shall be the duty of the head teacher of 
 each district to check or cause to be checked the enrollment of 
 the school against the report furnished by the clerk as afore- 
 said, and to report to the County Superintendent all pupils not 
 in attendance who are within the ages of eight (8) and eigh- 
 teen (18) and who have no release from school. 
 
 (b). At the beginning of each month thereafter it shall 
 be the duty of such head teacher to report to the County Super- 
 intendent, the names of all children between eight (8) and 
 eighteen (18) not bearing releases who failed to attend school 
 during the preceding month. It shall be the duty of the County 
 Superintendent to refuse to countersign the teachers' warrants 
 until such reports are made as herein provided ; Provided : 
 That districts having a Superintendent of Schools shall not re- 
 port to the County Superintendent but shall proceed through 
 their District Superintendent in the same manner as herein 
 provided for County Superintendents. 
 
 Duty of County Superintendents. 
 
 SECTION 150. Upon the receipt of such report the County 
 Superintendent shall promptly give to the probation officer the 
 names of all pupils who do not bear releases from school is- 
 sued by proper authority. 
 
 Duty of Probation Officers. 
 
 SECTION 151. The probation officer shall serve due notice 
 upon the parents and guardians to place such children 
 in school. If said children are not placed within school within 
 a reasonable time and are not entitled to bear a release, then 
 the child and the parent or guardian shall be proceeded against 
 as provided in the laws for the correction of delinquent chil- 
 dren. It shall be the duty of the probation officer to prefer 
 such complaints. 
 
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 ARTICLE XVII. 
 
 PROCEEDINGS FOR THE CORRECTION OF DELIN- 
 QUENT CHILDREN. 
 
 Delinquent Child Defined. 
 
 SECTION 152. This Act shall apply only to children under 
 the age of eighteen (18) years not inmates of a state institu- 
 tion, or any institution incorporated under the laws of the 
 State, for the care and correction of delinquent children. The 
 record of the census made by the clerk of the school district 
 where any child was last enumerated shall be prima facie evi- 
 dence of the age of such child for the purposes of this Act. 
 The words "delinquent child" shall include any child under the 
 age of eighteen (18) years who violates any law of this State, 
 or any city or village ordinance ; or who is incorrigible or who 
 knowingly associates with thieves, vicious, or immoral persons ; 
 or who is growing up in idleness or crime, or who knowingly 
 visits or enters a house of illfame ; or who knowingly patronizes 
 or visits any policy shop or where gambling device is, or 
 shall be operated; or who patronizes or visits any pool room 
 or bucket shop, or who wanders the streets in the night time 
 without being on any lawful business or occupation; or who 
 habitually wanders about any railroad yard or tracks, or who 
 jumps or hooks on to any moving train, or enters any car or 
 engine without lawful authority; or who habitually uses vile, 
 obscene, vulgar, profane, or indecent language, or is guilty of 
 immoral conduct in public places or about any school house. 
 Any child committing any of the acts herein mentioned shall 
 be deemed a juvenile delinquent person, and shall be proceeded 
 against as such in the manner hereinafter provided. A dis- 
 position of any child under this Chapter, or any evidence 
 given in such cause shall not, in any civil, criminal or other 
 cause or proceeding whatever in any court, be lawful or proper 
 evidence against such child for any purpose whatever, except- 
 ing in subsequent cases against the same chilj under this 
 Chapter. The word "child" or "children" may mean one or 
 more children, or the word "parent" or "parents" may mean 
 one or both parents when consistent with the intent of this 
 Chapter. 
 
 Jurisdiction of Probate Court; Records and Reports. 
 
 SECTION 153. The Probate Courts of the several counties 
 in this State shall have jurisdiction in all cases coining within 
 
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 the terms and provisions of this Chapter. Record hocks shall 
 be kept by the Court for all cases coming within the pro- 
 visions of this Chapter to be known as "The Juvenile Record", 
 and the docket or calendar of the Court upon which there shall 
 appear the case or cases under the provisions of this Chapter 
 shall be known as "The Juvenile Docket." Beuveen the firs 1 - 
 and thirtieth days of October of each year tbe Court shall 
 submit to the Governor a report in writing, upon blanks to be 
 furnished by the State, showing the number and disposition of 
 delinquent children brought before such Court, together with 
 such other useful information regarding such cases, and the 
 parentage of such children, as may be reasonably obtained at 
 the trials thereof ; Provided : That the name or identity of any 
 such child or parent shall not be disclosed in such report, and 
 that such report shall not be published at State expense. 
 
 Information or Complaint. 
 
 SECTION 154. All proceedings under this Chapter shall be 
 by information or sworn complaint to be filed by the prose- 
 cuting attorney of the county as in other cases ur.der the gen- 
 eral laws of the State. In any such information or com- 
 plaint filed under this Chapter, the act or acts claimed to have 
 been committed by the child proceeded against shall in a gen- 
 eral w r ay be stated therein as constituting such child a juvenile 
 delinquent child or person. When the information or com- 
 plaint so states a cause of delinquency under the provisions of 
 this Chapter, that the Court may understand it, all irregulari- 
 ties or defects of form therein must be disregarded and all 
 technical pleas or objections thereto must be summarily dis- 
 posed of by the Court, and the Court's ruling thereon shall be 
 final. It shall be unlawful for any officer or person to charge 
 or collect any fees, or for any county or state to pay any fees 
 foi any service performed by any officer or person under the 
 provisions of this Chapter. 
 
 Issuance of Warrant; Imprisonment to Be Avoided. 
 
 SECTION 155. Upon the filing of an information under this 
 chapter, a warrant or capias may issue as in other cases, but in- 
 carceration of the child proceeded against thereunder shall be 
 made or had, unless, in the opinion of the Judge of the Court, 
 or in the absence of the judge from the county seat, then in 
 the opinion of the sheriff of the county, it shall be necessary 
 to insure its attendance in court at such times as shall be re- 
 quired. In order to avoid such incarceration, if practicable, it 
 shall be the duty of the sheriff of the county, or his deputy 
 
64 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 or representative, to serve a notice of the proceedings upon at 
 least one (i) parent of the child, if living and known, or its 
 legal guardian, or if his or her whereabouts or residence is 
 not known, or if neither parent or guardian shall be in this 
 State, then some relative living in the county, if any there be 
 whose whereabouts are known, and such judge or sheriff may 
 accept the verbal or written promise of such person so notified, 
 or of any other proper person, to be responsible for the pres- 
 ence of the child at the hearing in such case, or at any other 
 time to which the same may be adjourned or continued by the 
 court. In case such child shall fail to appear at such time or 
 times as the court may require, the person or persons responsi- 
 ble for its appearance as herein provided for, unless in the opin- 
 ion of the court there shall be reasonable cause for such failure 
 of such child to appear as herein provided for, may be pro- 
 ceeded against as in cases of contempt of court and punished 
 accordingly; and where any such child shall have failed to 
 appear, as required by the court or its officers, any warrants, 
 capias, or alias capias issued in such case may be executed as in 
 other cases; Provided, however: That no child under fourteen 
 (14) years of age shall, under any circumstance, be incarce- 
 rated in any common jail, cell or lock-up, but a suitable room in 
 the county building or court house must be provided wherein 
 the sheriff may safely keep such child. Any such child so in- 
 formed against shall also have the right now given by law 
 to any person to give bond or other security for its appearance 
 at the trial of such case, and the court may, in any such case, 
 appoint counsel to appear and defend on behalf of any such 
 child, who must serve without compensation from the county 
 or state. 
 
 Arrested Child to Be Taken Before Probate Court. 
 
 SECTION 156. When any child under the age of eighteen 
 (18) years is arrested, with or without warrant, except when 
 the charge against such child is a felony, such child shall, in- 
 stead of being taken before a justice of the peace or police 
 magistrate, be taken directly before the probate court; or if 
 the child is taken before a justice of the peace or police magis- 
 trate, upon complaint sworn out in such court or for any other 
 reason, it shall be the duty of such justice of the peace or 
 police magistrate to transfer the case to such probate court, and 
 of the officers having the child in charge, to take the child be- 
 fore that court, and in any such case the court may proceed to 
 hear and dispose of the case in the same manner as if such 
 
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 child had been brought before the court upon information origi- 
 nally filed as herein provided. 
 
 Commitment of Child. 
 
 SECTION 157. In any case of a delinquent child coming under 
 the provisions of this chapter, the court may continue the hear- 
 ing from time to time, and may commit the child to the care of 
 the sheriff, and may allow said child to remain in its own 
 home, subject to the sheriff, such child to report to the court 
 or sheriff as often as may be required, and subject to be re- 
 turned to the court for further proceedings whenever such 
 action may appear necessary, or the Court may cause the child 
 to be placed in a suitable family home, subject to the friendly 
 supervision of the sheriff, and the further order of the Court; 
 or it may authorize the child to be boarded out in some suitable 
 family home, in case provision is made by voluntary contri- 
 bution or otherwise for the payment of the board of such 
 child, until suitable provision be made for the child in a home 
 without such payment, or the Court may commit such child to 
 the Idaho Industrial Training School; or the Court may com- 
 mit the child to any institution within the county, incorporated 
 under the laws of this state, that may care for children or to 
 any state institution which may now or hereafter be established 
 for the care of boys or girls. In no case shall a child pro- 
 ceeded against under the provisions of this chapter be com- 
 mitted beyond the age of twenty-one (21 ) . A child committed 
 to any such institution shall be subject to the control of the 
 board of managers and the said board shall have power to 
 parole such child on such conditions as it may prescribe, and 
 the Court shall, on the recommendation of the board, have 
 power to discharge such child from custody, whenever, in 
 the judgment of the court, his or her reformation is complete; 
 cr the court may commit the child to the care and custody of 
 some association or society that will receive it, embracing 
 within its objects the care of neglected or delinquent children, 
 and which has been duly credited as herein provided ; Provided, 
 That when the Court shall commit a child to any person or 
 association or institution of any kind other than some institu- 
 tion existing under the authority and laws of this State, it 
 must not be at the expense of the state, and in all such cases 
 the Court may require a proper bond of the party or institution 
 receiving the custody of such child, for its proper care, support 
 and education. 
 
66 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Supervision of Institution Receiving Children. 
 
 SECTION 158. All institutions or associations, other than 
 Slate institutions, receiving children under this chapter, shall 
 be subject to the same visitation, inspection, and supervision 
 as are public charitable institutions of this State, and it shall 
 be the duty of the Governor to pass annually upon the fitness 
 of any institution or association which may receive, or desire to 
 receive any child or children under the provisions of this chap- 
 ter; and every such institution or association shall, at such 
 times as said Governor shall direct, make a report to him, 
 showing its condition, management, and competency to care 
 adequately for such children as are, or may be, committed 
 to it, and such other facts as said Governor may require, and 
 upon said Governor's being satisfied that any such institution 
 or association is competent, and has adequate facilities to care 
 for such children, he shall issue to the same a certificate to that 
 effect, which certificate shall continue in force for one year 
 unless sooner revoked by said Governor, the Court or the Judge 
 thereof may, at any time, require from any such institution or 
 association receiving or desiring to receive children under the 
 provisions of this chapter, such report, information, and state- 
 ments as the Court or Judge shall deem proper and necessary 
 for his action, and the court shall in no case commit a child 
 or children to any association or institution whose standing, 
 conduct, or care of children, or ability to care for the same, is 
 not satisfactory to the court. 
 
 Encouraging Delinquency a Misdemeanor. 
 
 SECTION 159. In all cases where any child shall be a de- 
 liquent child, a juvenile delinquent person, or a juvenile dis- 
 orderly person, as defined by this Act, the parent or parents, 
 legal guardian, or person having the custody of such child, or 
 any other person responsible for, or by any act encouraging, 
 causing, or contributing to the delinquency of such child, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction 
 thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed Three Hundred 
 Dollars ($300), or imprisonment in the county jail for a 
 period of not exceeding six months, or shall suffer both fine 
 imprisonment. The Court may impose conditions upon any 
 person found guilty under this Act, and so long as such person 
 shall comply therewith to the satisfaction of the court, the 
 sentence imposed may be suspended. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 7 
 
 Children to Attend School. 
 
 SECTION 160. In all school districts of this State, all 
 parents, guardians, and other persons having care of children 
 shall instruct them, or cause them to be instructed, in reading, 
 writing, spelling, English grammar, geography and arithmetic. 
 In such districts, every parent, guardian, or other person 
 having charge of any child between the ages of eight (8) 
 and eighteen (18) years, shall send such child to a public, 
 private, or parochial school for the entire school year during 
 which the public schools are in session in such district; Pro- 
 vided, however : That this chapter shall not apply to children 
 over fourteen (14) years of age, where such child shall have 
 completed the. eighth (8) grade, or may be eligible to enter 
 any high school in such district, or where its help is necessary 
 for its own use or its parents' support, or where for good cause 
 shown it would be for the best interest of such child to be re- 
 lieved from the provisions of this chapter; Provided, further, 
 that if a reputable physician within the district shall certify in 
 writing- that the child's bodily or mental condition does not 
 permit its attendance at school, such child shall be exempt dur- 
 ing such period of disability from the requirements of this 
 chapter. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of the 
 school district, if there be such superintendent, and if not, then 
 the county superintendent of schools, to hear and determine 
 all applications of children desiring, for any of the causes 
 mentioned here,- to be exempted from the provisions of this 
 chapter, and if upon such application such superintendent hear- 
 ing the same shall be of the opinion that such child for any 
 reason is entitled to be exempted as aforesaid, then such super- 
 intendent shall issue a written permit to such child, stating 
 therein his reason for such exemption. An appeal may be 
 taken from the decision of such superintendent so passing upon 
 such application, to the probate court of the county in which 
 such district lies, upon such child making such application and 
 filing the same with the clerk or judge of said court, within 
 ten days after its refusal by such superintendent, for which no 
 fee to exceed the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) shall be charged, 
 and the decision of the probate court shall be final. An appli- 
 cation for release from the provisions of -this chapter shall not 
 be renewed oftener than once in three months. 
 
 Juvenile Disorderly Persons Defined. 
 
 SECTION 161. Every child within the provisions of this 
 chapter who does not attend school, as provided in the preced- 
 
68 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 ing section, or who is in attendance at any public, private, or 
 parochial school, and is vicious, incorrigible, or immoral in con- 
 duct, or who is an habitual truant from school, or who habit- 
 ually wanders about the streets and public places during school 
 hours without lawful occupation or employment, or who 
 habitually wanders about the streets in the night time, having 
 no employment or lawful occupation, shall be deemed a juvenile 
 disorderly person, and be subject to the provisions of this 
 chapter. 
 
 Same: Complaint; Hearing and Commitment. 
 
 SECTION 162. When a child shall be a juvenile disorderly 
 person within the meaning of this chapter, the truant officer, 
 or any school teacher, or other reputable person may make com- 
 plaint in the probate Court of the county in which such child 
 resides. The probate Court shall hear and determine such com- 
 plaint, and if it is determined that such child is a juvenile dis- 
 orderly person within the meaning of this chapter, he or she 
 shall be committed to a children's home, if eligible, or to the 
 Idaho Industrial Training School, or to some other training 
 school, taking into account the years of the child with refer- 
 ence to the institution selected. Any child committed to a 
 children's home, on its being shown to the Judge of said Court 
 that it is incorrigible and vicious, may be transferred to the 
 Industrial School or other proper institution. No child com- 
 mitted to any reformatory shall be detained beyond his major- 
 ity, and may be discharged sooner, or paroled by the trustees or 
 board of control under rules and restrictions applicable to other 
 inmates. Any order of commitment may be suspended by the 
 judge of the probate court during such time as the child may 
 regularly attend school and properly conduct itself. The 
 expense of the transportation of the child to the juvenile 
 reformatory shall be paid by the county from which the child 
 is committed. 
 
 Probation Officers; Appointment and Duties. 
 
 SECTION 163. The Probate Courts of the several counties 
 in this State shall have authority to appoint or designate one 
 or more discreet persons of good moral character to serve as 
 probation officers during the pleasure of the court; said pro- 
 bation officers having authority to act only upon the request 
 and under the direction of the Probate Court, and to receive 
 such compensation for services actually performed as the Pro- 
 bate Court shall deem just and proper. The number of paid 
 probation officers appointed and designated by the court shall 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 6 9 
 
 be as follows : In counties in which the last school census shows 
 a school population of over five thousand (5,000) not to exceed 
 two (2) probation officers; in all other counties not to exceed 
 one (i) probation officer. In case a probation officer shall 
 be appointed, it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Court, 
 if practicable, to notify said probation officer when any child 
 is to be brought before the court; it shall be the duty of said 
 probation officer to make investigation of such case ; to be pres- 
 ent in court to represent the interests of the child when the 
 case is heard; to furnish to the court such information and as- 
 sistance as the court or judge may require; and to take charge 
 of any child before and after the trial as may be directed by the 
 court or the judge. Probation officers provided for by this 
 chapter are hereby vested with all power and authority of 
 sheriffs, constables, and police officers to make arrests and per- 
 form other duties incident to their offices as probation officers. 
 
 School Trustees to Report Delinquents. 
 
 SECTION 164. It shall be the duty of the board of trustee* 
 of each school district to report to the county school superin- 
 tendent all cases of truancy, delinquency, and incorrigibility 
 which arise within their respective districts, and such county 
 school superintendent shall immediately report such cases to 
 the judge of the probate court. 
 
 Review of Orders of Probate Judge. 
 
 SECTION 165. All orders or final judgments made by any 
 Probate Court or the Judge thereof under this chapter, may be 
 reviewed upon questions of law only. 
 
 ARTICLE XVIII. 
 CHILD LABOR ACT. 
 Section on Employment of Children Under Fourteen. 
 
 SECTION 166. No child under fourteen (14) years of age 
 shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in or in con- 
 nection with any mine, factory, workshop, mercantile establish- 
 ment, store, telegraph or telephone office, laundry, restaurant, 
 hotel, apartment house, or in the distribution or transmission 
 of merchandise or messages. It shall be unlawful for any 
 person, firm, or corporation to employ any child under fourteen 
 (14) years of age in any such business or service whatever 
 during the hours in which the public schools of the district in 
 which the child resides are in session, or before the hour of 
 
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 six (6) o'clock in the morning, or after the hour of nine (9) 
 o'clock in the evening; Provided, That any such child over 
 the age of twelve (12) years may be employed at any of the 
 occupations mentioned in this Act during the regular vacations 
 of two weeks or more of the public schools of the district in 
 which such child resides. 
 
 Same: Children Under Sixteen; Educational Requirements. 
 
 SECTION 167. No minor who is under sixteen (16) years 
 of age shall be employed or permitted to work at any gainful 
 occupation during the hours that the public schools of the 
 school district in which he resides are in session, unless he can 
 read at sight and write legibly simple sentences in the English 
 language, and has received instruction in spelling, English 
 grammar, and geography and is familiar with the fundamental 
 operations of arithmetic up to and including fractions, or has 
 similar attainments in another language. 
 
 Employers to Keep Record of Minor Employees. 
 
 SECTION 168. Everv person, firm, corporation, agent, or 
 officer of a firm or corporation employing or permitting minors 
 under sixteen (16) years of age and over fourteen (14) years 
 of age to work in any mine, factory, workshop, mercantile 
 establishment, store, telegraph or telephone office, laundry, 
 restaurant, hotel, apartment house, or in the distribution or 
 transmission of merchandise or messages, shall keep a record 
 of the names, ages, and place of residence of such minors. 
 
 Working Hours for Children Under Sixteen. 
 
 SECTION 169. No person under the age of sixteen (16) 
 years shall be employed or suffered or permitted to work at 
 any gainful occupation more than fifty-four (54) hours in any 
 one (i) week, nor more than nine (9) hours in any one (i) 
 day; nor before the hour of six (6) o'clock in the morning nor 
 after the hour of nine (9) o'clock in the evening. 
 
 Penalty for Violation of This Article. 
 
 SECTION 170. Whoever employs a child under sixteen 
 years of age, and whoever having under his control a child 
 under such age permits such child to be employed in violation 
 of Sections i and 2 of this Act shall, for such offense, be fined 
 not more than Fifty Dollars ($50), and whoever continues 
 to employ any child in the violation of either of said sections 
 of this Act after being notified by a truant officer, probation 
 officer, or school authority shall, for every day thereafter that 
 
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 such employment continues, be fined not less than Five Dollars 
 ($5.00) nor more than Twenty Dollars ($20). A failure to 
 produce to a truant officer, policeman, probation officer, or 
 school authority, the age record required by this Act shall be 
 prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any person 
 whose age record is not produced. Any parent, guardian, or 
 custodian of a minor under sixteen (16) years of age who 
 knowingly swears falsely as to the age of such child for the 
 purpose of obtaining an age record is guilty of perjury. 
 
 Prohibition Against Theatrical Employment of Children. 
 
 SECTION 171. Any person, whether as parent, relative, 
 guardian, employer or otherwise, having the care, custody or 
 control of any child under the age of sixteen years, who ex- 
 hibits, uses or employs in any manner or under any pretense, 
 sells, apprentices, gives away, lets out, or disposes of such child 
 to any person, under any name, title, or pretense, for or in any 
 business, exhibition or vocation, injurious to the health or 
 dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or in or for the 
 vocation, occupation, service, or purpose of singing, playing 
 on musical instruments, rope or wire walking-, dancing, begging 
 or peddling, or as gymnast, acrobat, or contortionist, or rider, 
 or in any place whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent, or 
 immoral purpose, exhibition, or practice whatsoever, or for or 
 in any mendicant, or wandering business whatsoever, or who 
 causes, procures, or encourages such child to engage therein, is 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable by a fine of not less 
 than Fifty Dollars ($50) nor more than Two Hundred and 
 Fifty Dollars ($250), or by imprisonment in the county jail 
 for a term not exceeding six (6) months or by both such fine 
 and imprisonment. Every person who takes, receives, hires, em- 
 ploys, uses, exhibits, or has in custody any child under the age 
 and for any of the purposes mentioned in this section is guilty 
 of a like offense and punishable by like imprisonment. Nothing 
 in this section contained applies to or affects the employment or 
 use of any such child as a singer or musician in any church, 
 school, or academy, or the teaching or learning of the science 
 or practice of music. 
 
 Employment of Minors in Saloons, Etc. 
 
 SECTION 172. Any person whether as parent, guardian, em- 
 ployer, or otherwise, and any firm or corporation, who as em- 
 ployer or otherwise, shall send, direct, or cause to be sent or 
 directed any minor, to any saloon, gambling house, house of 
 prostitution or other immoral place; or who shall employ any 
 
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 minor to serve intoxicating liquors to customers, or who shall 
 employ a minor in handling intoxicating liquor or packages 
 containing such liquors in a brewery, bottling establishment or 
 other place where such liquors are prepared for sale or offered 
 for sale, shall, for each offense, be punished by a fine of not 
 less than Fifty Dollars ($50) or imprisonment for not less than 
 two (2) months or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
 
 Probation Officers and School Trustees to Bring Complaint 
 
 SECTION 173. The probation officer, or in counties where 
 there is no probation officer, one or more of the school trustees 
 shall visit the various places of employment mentioned in sec- 
 tions 1 66 and 172 of this Act and ascertain whether any minors 
 are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this Act, 
 and they shall bring complaint for offenses under this Act to 
 the attention of the prosecuting attorney for prosecution, but 
 nothing herein shall be held to prohibit any reputable citizen 
 from bringing complaint for violations of this Act. All offenses 
 under this Act shall be prosecuted in the probate court. 
 
 ARTICLE XIX. 
 
 STATE LIBRARY COMMISSION. 
 Constitution of Commission. 
 
 SECTION 174. The Attorney General, Secretary of State, 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the President 
 of the State University, ex-officio, are hereby constituted a 
 State Library Commission, of which the Attorney General shall 
 be chairman, and the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion secretary. 
 
 Management of Traveling Library. 
 
 SECTION 175. Said commission shall have the manage- 
 ment of the traveling library or libraries belonging to the State, 
 and shall make such rules governing the use of the same, and 
 of the books and property pertaining thereto, as it may deem 
 necessary. Said commission shall cause said books to be dis- 
 tributed throughout the State, and at suitable intervals change 
 such distribution in such manner as to secure the use and en- 
 joyment of said books to the people of the State. The Com- 
 mission shall have power to employ a qualified librarian whose 
 duties shall be defined by the said commission. It shall co- 
 operate with the management of public schools and other free 
 libraries within the State, and adopt such means as shall pro- 
 
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 !.:iote their establishment. Said commission may receive do- 
 nations of money, books, or other property, real or personal, 
 for the benefit of such traveling library or libraries, the title 
 to which property shall rest in the State of Idaho, to be held 
 and controlled by said commission. Said commission shall re- 
 port annually to the Governor, with such recommendations as 
 it may deem proper. 
 
 Accounts of Commission. 
 
 SECTION 176. The secretary of said commission shall keep 
 a full report of the proceedings of said commission, and ac- 
 curate accounts of expenses incurred by it in carrying out the 
 provisions of this chapter. The chairman of said commission 
 may issue certificates, countersigned by the secretary, for all 
 claims against said commission, incurred in the management of 
 said traveling library or libraries, and in carrying out the 
 objects of this chapter, which claims, when approved by the 
 Board of Examiners, shall be paid by warrants drawn upon the 
 fund in the State Treasury provided for such purpose. 
 
 ARTICLE XX. 
 PUBLIC LIBRARIES. 
 
 Cities May Establish Libraries. 
 
 SECTION 177. The common council of every city and of 
 every village of the State of Idaho shall have power to establish 
 a public library and reading room, and for such purpose may 
 annually levy, and cause to be collected, as other taxes are, 
 a tax not exceeding one ( I ) mill on the Dollar of the taxable 
 property of such city or village, to constitute a library fund, 
 which shall be kept by the Treasurer separate and apart from 
 other moneys of the city or village, and be used exclusively for 
 the purchase of books, periodicals, necessary furniture and fix- 
 tures, and whatever is required for the maintenance of such 
 library and reading room. 
 
 School District Libraries; Election. 
 
 SECTION 178. The trustees of a school district in which 
 is situated no incorporated town or village, on the petition of 
 twenty (20) electors thereof, shall, upon four (4) weeks' 
 notice published in some newspaper of general circulation pub- 
 lished in the county wherein such district is situated, submit 
 to the electors thereof, at the first election held therein for the 
 
74 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 purpose of electing a member or members of the board of trus- 
 tees, following the publication of the said notice, the question 
 whether there shall be a public library established in such school 
 district for the use and benefit of the citizens thereof. Those 
 voting at such election in favor of such library shall put upon 
 their ballots the words, ''Public Library Yes," and those vot- 
 ing thereat against such library the words "Public Library- 
 No." If a majority of the electors voting at such election shall 
 vote in favor thereof, the trustees aforesaid have authority, 
 annually, to levy upon all the taxable property in such school 
 district a tax not exceeding one ( i ) mill on the Dollar valu- 
 ation thereof, to be applied to the establishment and main- 
 tenance of a library as aforesaid, and the procuring of suit- 
 able rooms for the same. All boards of school trustees, acting 
 under the provisions of this section, shall perform the same 
 duties required of, and have the same power and authority 
 granted to, the common council of a city or a village by the pro- 
 visions of this chapter under like conditions, and the treasurer 
 of such board of trustees shall perform the duties of treasurer 
 for the public library. 
 
 Directors of Library. 
 
 SECTION 179. For the government of such library and 
 reading room there shall be a board of five (5) directors ap- 
 pointed by the council of such city or village from among the 
 citizens thereof at large, and not more than one ( i ) member of 
 the council of such city or village shall, at any time, be a mem- 
 ber of said board. Such directors shall hold their office for 
 three (3) years from the date of appointment, and until their 
 successors are appointed, but upon their first appointment they 
 shall divide themselves at their first meeting, by lot, into three 
 (3) classes: Two (2) members shall form the first class and 
 shall serve for one ( i ) year from the date of appointment ; two 
 members shall form the second class and shall serve for two 
 (2) years from the date of appointment; and one (i) member 
 shall form the third class and shall serve for three (3) years 
 from the date of appointment. All vacancies shall be immedi- 
 ately reported to the proper council by the directors, and shall 
 be rilled by appointment in the same manner as appointments 
 are originally made. Appointments to complete an unexpired 
 term shall be for the residue of the term only. No compensation 
 shall be paid or allowed to any director in any manner what- 
 soever. 
 
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 Organization and Powers of Directors. 
 
 SECTION 180. Said directors shall, immediately after their 
 appointment, meet and organize by the election of one (i) 
 of their number president, and by the election of such other 
 officers as they may deem necessary. They shall make and adopt 
 such by-laws, rules, and regulations for their own guidance 
 and for the government cf the library and reading room as may 
 be expedient. They shall have the exclusive control of the ex- 
 penditure of all moneys collected for the library fund, and the 
 supervision, care, and custody of the room or buildings con- 
 structed, leased, or set apart for that purpose; and such money 
 shall be drawn from the treasury by the proper officers, upon 
 properly authenticated vouchers of the board of directors, with- 
 out otherwise being audited. They may, with the approval 
 of the common council, lease and occupy, or purchase or erect 
 on purchased ground, an appropriate building; Provided: 
 That not more than one-half (1-2) of the income in any one 
 (i) year can be set apart in said year for such purchase or 
 building. They may appoint a librarian and assistants, and 
 prescribe rules for their conduct. 
 
 Libraries to Be Free. 
 
 SECTION 181. Every library and reading room established 
 under this chapter shall be forever free for the use of the in- 
 habitants of the city, village, or school district where located, 
 always subject to such reasonable rules and regulations as the 
 library board may find necessary to adopt and publish in order 
 to render the use of the library and reading room of the great- 
 est benefit to the greatest number, and they may exclude and 
 cut off from the use of said library and reading room any and 
 all persons who shall wilfully violate such rules. 
 
 Report of Directors. 
 
 SECTION 182. The said board of directors shall make an 
 annual itemized report to the State Library Commission on 
 June Thirtieth of each year, stating the condition of their 
 trust, the various sums of money received from the library 
 fund and from all sources, and how much has been expended, 
 the number of books and periodicals on hand, and the number 
 added by purchase, gift, or otherwise during the year, the 
 number lost or missing, the number of books loaned out, and 
 the general character of such books, with such other statistics, 
 information, and suggestions as they may deem of general in- 
 terest, and the State Library Commission may require. 
 
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 Donations to Library. 
 
 SECTION 183. All persons desirous of making donations of 
 money, personal property, or real estate for the benefit of 
 such library shall have the right to vest the title to the same 
 in the board of directors created under this chapter, to be held 
 and controlled by said Board, when accepted according to 
 the terms of the deed or gift, devise, or bequest of such prop- 
 erty; and as to such property the said Board shall be held and 
 considered to be the special trustees. 
 
 Taxes for Existing Libraries; Definitions. 
 
 SECTION 184. In case a free subscription library has been 
 established in any city or incorporated village, and duly in- 
 corporated and organized, the council may levy a tax for its 
 support, as provided in this Chapter, without change in the 
 organization of such library association; Provided: It be- 
 comes a free library. The sums so raised shall be duly paid 
 to the officer duly authorized to receive the same, and shall 
 be under the control of said library association ; Provided : 
 That if at any time the said library association ceases to exist, 
 or for any reason fails to provide a free circulating library 
 as required by the provisions of this Chapter, the books and 
 other property accumulated from the proceeds of the levy 
 herein authorized shall become the property of the city or 
 village, and be subject to the control of the council as herein 
 provided. 
 
 In this Chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, 
 "library'' includes libraries with branches, loans, reference, 
 traveling and reading room departments, lectures and 
 museums; "city" includes towns and villages; "council" means 
 the legislative body of an incorporated city, town, or village; 
 "mayor" means the chief executive officer of an incorporated 
 city ; town, or village. 
 
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 ARTICLE XXI. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. 
 School Month Defined. 
 
 SECTION 185. A school month is four (4) weeks, of five 
 (5) school days. 
 
 Sectarian and Partisan Instruction Forbidden. 
 
 SECTION 186. No books, papers, tracts or documents of a 
 political, sectarian, or denominational character shall be used 
 or introduced in any school established under the provisions of 
 this Chapter, and any and every political, sectarian, or denomi- 
 national doctrine is hereby expressly forbidden to be taught 
 therein; nor shall any teacher or any district receive any of 
 the public school moneys in which the schools have not been 
 taught in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter. 
 
 Eighth Grade Examinations. 
 
 SECTION 187. It shall be the duty of the State Superintend- 
 ent of Public Instruction to prepare, or cause to be prepared, 
 eighth grade examination questions to be used by the county 
 superintendents of the several counties of the State in the ex- 
 amination of applicants for eighth grade diplomas, and to 
 prescribe the rules and regulations for conducting all such 
 examinations. All pupils shall be required to take such eighth 
 grade examination, which may be taken entire, at the 
 close of the eighth grade work, or the examination in 
 each required subject may be taken in the grade in which 
 the subject is completed, and only those pupils shall 
 be entitled to pass who shall obtain a general average of not 
 less than eighty-five (85) per cent, and not falling below 
 seventy (70) per cent in any branch. All pupils passing 
 such examination shall be granted a diploma by the county 
 superintendent of public instruction. No pupil shall be per- 
 mitted to enter the first year of any High School in the State 
 of Idaho who has not passed the eight grade examination satis- 
 factorily and obtained his or her diploma ; Provided : That 
 Class A, Independent School Districts shall be exempted from 
 the provisions of this Section. 
 
 Arbor Day. 
 
 SECTION 188. It shall be the duty of the county superin- 
 tendent to set apart one (i) day in the proper time in each 
 year between the first day of April and the first day of May, 
 
78 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 to be known as Arbor Day. He shall, by written or printed 
 notice, notify the clerk of each school district in his county 01 
 the day so set apart at least twenty (20) days prior to said 
 day. It shall be the duty of the authorities of every public 
 school in this State to assemble the pupils in their charge on 
 that day in the school building, or elsewhere, as they may 
 deem proper, and to provide for and conduct, under the gen- 
 eral supervision of the county superintendent of public instruc- 
 tion, such exercises as shall tend to encourage the planting, 
 protection and preservation of trees and shrubs, and an ac- 
 quaintance with the best methods to be adopted to accomplish 
 such results. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 shall have power to prescribe, from time to time, in writing, a 
 course of exercises and instruction in the subjects hereinbe- 
 fore mentioned, which shall be adopted and observed by the 
 school authorities on Arbor Day, and upon receipt of copies of 
 such course, sufficient in number to supply all the schools 
 under his supervision, the county superintendent of public in- 
 struction shall promptly provide each of the schools under his 
 charge with a copy and cause it to be adopted and observed. 
 
 Establishment of Kindergartens. 
 
 SECTION 189. The school board of any school district in 
 the State is hereby empowered to establish and maintain free 
 kindergartens in connection with the public schools of each 
 district for the instruction of children between the ages of 
 three (3) and six (6), residing in said district, and shall 
 establish such courses of training, study, and discipline, and 
 such rules and regulations governing such preparatory or 
 kindergarten schools, as said board may deem best; Provided: 
 That nothing in this section shall be construed to change the 
 law relating to the taking of the census of the school popula- 
 tion, or the apportionment of State and county school funds 
 among the several counties and districts in this State; Pro- 
 vided, further: That the cost of establishing and maintaining 
 such kindergartens shall be paid from the special school fund 
 of said districts, and the said kindergartens shall be a part 
 of the public school system, and governed, as far as practicable, 
 in the same manner and by the same officers as is now, or 
 hereafter may be, provided by law for the government of other 
 public schools of the State; Provided, further: That all teach- 
 ers employed in these schools shall have a diploma, from some 
 reputable kindergarten training school, or shall be licensed 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 79 
 
 in accordance with the rules and regulations established by the 
 State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 Physiology and Hygiene. 
 
 SECTION 190. (a). That physiology and hygiene, which 
 shall, in each division of the subject so pursued, include spe- 
 cial reference to the nature of alcoholic drinks, stimulants, 
 and narcotics and their effects upon the human system, and 
 which shall be included in the branches of study required by 
 law to be taught in the common schools of this State, shall 
 be introduced and studied in a regular branch during each 
 school term, or during such portion of each school term as 
 may be necessary to enable all pupils to pass prescribed ex- 
 aminations in the text books on said study, furnished the 
 respective grades and corresponding classes in ungraded 
 schools, in all departments of the common schools of the State, 
 in State reformatories and in all educational institutions sup- 
 ported wholly or in part by appropriations by the State. 
 
 (b). It shall be the duty of the boards of trustees of the 
 several' school districts in this State to provide the best authori- 
 tative text books that can be obtained on said study, and also 
 to provide needed facilities, and to arrange definite time and 
 place for this branch in the regular course of study. The 
 text books in the pupils' hands shall be graded in accordance 
 with their respective school grades, and correspondingly in 
 ungraded schools, and in the lower grades where text books 
 011 said subject are not in the hands of pupils, oral instruction 
 in this subject shall be given by teachers using illustrations, 
 charts, and standard text books adapted to such oral instruc- 
 tion, and the same test shall be required in this branch for 
 promotion as in other studies. 
 
 SECTION 191. In all teachers' training classes in the normal 
 schools of this State, and in teachers' institutes, adequate 
 time and attention shall be given to instruction in the best 
 methods of teaching this branch, and a competent lecturer on 
 this subject shall be secured for teachers' institutes and asso- 
 ciations. 
 
 SECTION 192. The superintendents of State reformatories 
 shall make suitable provision for the teaching of this branch 
 in said reformatories. 
 
 SECTION 193. On satisfactory evidence that any teacher has 
 wilfully refused or neglected to teach this subject as herein 
 provided, the State or county superintendent shall revoke the 
 
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 certificate of such teacher. Such revocation not to be made, 
 however, without thirty (30) days' notice to such teacher 
 and the consideration of such evidence as may be produced in 
 his support. 
 
 ARTICLE XXII. 
 REPEALING CONFLICTS. 
 
 SECTION 194. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with 
 this Act are hereby repealed. 
 
 SECTION 195. This Act is intended to constitute a complete 
 cede and system for the government and regulation of the 
 common schools of Idaho, and is intended to be complete in 
 itself, without reference to or aid from other laws; and all 
 Acts or parts of Acts which modify or tend to modify this 
 Act or any part thereof shall be disregarded by the Courts in 
 the construction of this Act. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 8l 
 
 IDAHO REVISED CODES, VOL. I. 
 
 STATE INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 STATE UNIVERSITY. 
 University Established. 
 
 SEC. 485. There is hereby established in this State, at 
 the town of Moscow, in the County of Latah, an institution of 
 learning, by the name and style of "The University of Idaho." 
 
 Board of Regents. 
 
 SEC. 486. The government of the University shall vest 
 in a board of regents, to consist of five members chosen from 
 the State at large, which board the Governor shall nominate, 
 and, with the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint. The 
 said board shall be non-partisan; no more than three of the 
 members shall be of the same political party. The terms of 
 office of said regents shall be six years from the first Monday 
 in February in the year in which appointed. Two members 
 shall be appointed each odd numbered year; Provided, That 
 the present members of said board shall hold office for the 
 remainder of their respective terms. The Governor shall have 
 power to fill vacancies in the board by appointment, which 
 appointment shall be valid until the last day of the regular 
 session of the Legislature following such appointment. 
 
 Executive Committee of Board. 
 
 SEC. 487. The president and secretary ex-officio, and 
 one member of the board to be appointed by the president there- 
 of, shall constitute an executive committee of said board, whose 
 duties shall be prescribed by the by-laws of the board. 
 
 General Duties of the Board. 
 
 SEC. 488. The board of regents and their successors in 
 office, shall constitute a body corporate, by the name of 
 "The Regents of the University of Idaho," and shall possess 
 all the powers necessary or convenient to accomplish the ob- 
 jects and perform the duties prescribed by law, and shall have 
 the custody of the books, records, buildings and other property 
 of said University. The board shall elect a president, secretary 
 
82 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 and treasurer, who shall perform such duties as shall be pre- 
 scribed by the by-laws of the board. The secretary shall keep 
 a faithful record of all the transactions of the board and of the 
 executive committee thereof. The treasurer shall perform all 
 the duties of such office, subject to such regulations as the 
 board may adopt, and for the faithful discharge of all his 
 duties shall execute a bond in such sum as the board may 
 direct. 
 
 Meetings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 489. The time of the election of the president, secre- 
 tary and treasurer of said board, and the duration of their 
 respective terms of office and the times for holding the regular 
 annual meeting and such other meetings as may be required, 
 and the manner of notifying the same, shall be determined by 
 the by-laws of the board. A majority of the board shall con- 
 stitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less 
 number may adjourn from time to time. 
 
 Pov/ers of Board; Sectarian Tests Prohibited. 
 
 SEC. 490. The board of regents shall enact laws for the 
 government of the University in all its branches, elect a 
 president and the requisite number of professors, instructors, 
 officers and employes, and fix the salaries and the term of 
 office of each, and determine the moral and educational 
 qualifications of the applicants for admission to the various 
 courses of instruction; but no instruction either sectarian in 
 religion or partisan in politics shall ever be allowed in any 
 department of the University, and no sectarian or partisan test 
 shall ever be allowed or exercised in the appointment of regents 
 or in the election of professors, teachers, or other officers of 
 the University, or in the admission of students thereto, or for 
 any purpose whatever. The board of regents shall have power 
 to remove the president or any professor, instructor or officer 
 of the University, when, in their judgment, the interests of the 
 University require it. The board may prescribe rules and regu- 
 lations for the management of the libraries, cabinet, museum, 
 laboratories and all other property of the University and of its 
 several departments, and for the care and preservation thereof, 
 with penalties and forfeitures, by way of damages for their 
 violation, which may be sued for and collected in the name of 
 the board before any court having jurisdiction of such action. 
 
 Same: Erection of Buildings. 
 
 SEC. 491. The board of regents are authorized to ex- 
 pend such portion of the income of the University fund as 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 8 3 
 
 they may deem expedient for the erection of suitable buildings 
 and the purchase of apparatus, a library, cabinets and additions 
 thereto. 
 
 Duties of Treasurer. 
 
 SEC. 492. The treasurer of said board shall, out of any 
 moneys in his hands belonging to said board, pay all orders 
 drawn upon him by the president and secretary thereof, when 
 accompanied by vouchers fully explaining the character of the 
 expenditure, and the books and accounts of the treasurer shall 
 at all times be opened to the inspection of the board. The 
 treasurer shall make an annual report to the president of the 
 board of all transactions connected with the duties of his office. 
 
 Report of Regents. 
 
 SEC. 493. At the close of each fiscal year, the regents, 
 through their president, shall make a report in detail to the 
 Governor, exhibiting the progress, conditions and wants of the 
 University, the courses of study, the number of professors and 
 students, the amount of receipts and disbursements, together 
 with the nature, costs and results of all important investiga- 
 tions and experiments, and such other information as they may 
 deem important. 
 
 Expenses of Regents. 
 
 SEC. 494. The regents shall receive the actual amount 
 of their expenses in traveling to and from, and in attendance 
 upon, all meetings of the board, or incurred in the performance 
 of any duty in pursuance of any direction of the board. Ac- 
 counts of such expenses shall be duly authenticated and audited 
 by the board and be paid on their order by the treasurer out of 
 any fund belonging to the University not otherwise appro- 
 priated ; no regent shall receive any pay, mileage or per diem, 
 except as above prescribed/ 
 
 Powers of President and Faculty. 
 
 SEC. 495. The president of the University shall be presi- 
 dent of the faculty, or of the several faculties as they may 
 be hereafter established, and the executive head of the instruc- 
 tional force in all its departments. As such, he shall have au- 
 thority, subject to the board of regents, to give general direc- 
 tion to the instruction and scientific investigation of the Uni- 
 versity, and so long as the interests of the institution require it, 
 he shall be charged with the duties of one of the professorships. 
 The immediate government of the University shall be in- 
 
8 4 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 trusted to the faculty, but the regents shall have the power 
 to regulate the courses of instruction, and prescribe the books 
 or works to be used in the several courses, and also to confer 
 such degrees and grant such diplomas as are usual in Uni- 
 versities, or as they shall deem appropriate, and to confer upon 
 the faculty, by by-laws, the power to suspend or expel students 
 for misconduct or other cause prescribed by such by-laws. 
 
 Departments of University. 
 
 SEC. 496. The object of the University of Idaho shall 
 be to provide the means of acquiring a thorough knowledge of 
 the various branches of learning connected with scientific, 
 industrial and professional pursuits, and to this end it shall 
 consist of the following colleges or departments, to-wit : 
 
 1. The College or Department of Arts. 
 
 2. The College or Department of Letters. 
 
 3. The professional or other colleges or departments, as 
 may from time to time be added thereto or connected therewith. 
 
 Same. 
 
 SEC. 497. The college or department of arts shall em- 
 brace courses of instruction in mathematical, physical and 
 natural sciences, with their application to the industrial arts, 
 such as agriculture, mechanics, engineering, mining and met- 
 allurgy, manufactures, architecture and commerce, and such 
 branches included in the college of letters as shall be necessary 
 to a proper fitness of the pupils in the scientific and practical 
 courses for their chosen pursuits; and as soon as the income 
 of the University will allow, in such order as the wants of the 
 public shall seem to require, the said courses in the sciences 
 and their application to the practical arts shall be expanded into 
 distinct colleges of the University, each with its own faculty 
 and appropriate title. The college of letters shall be co-existent 
 with the college of arts and shall embrace a liberal course of 
 instruction in language, literature and philosophy f together 
 with such courses in the college of arts as the regents of the 
 University shall prescribe. 
 
 Woman Students Admitted. 
 
 SEC. 498. The University sh$all be open to female as 
 well as male students, under such regulations and restrictions 
 as the board of regents may deem proper. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 85 
 
 Tuition Not Required. 
 
 SEC. 499. No student who shall have been a resident of 
 the State for one year next preceding his admission shall be 
 required to pay any fees for tuition in the University, except- 
 ing in a professional department and for extra studies. The 
 regents may prescribe rates of tuition for any pupil in .a 
 professional department, or who shall not have been a resident 
 as aforesaid, and for teaching extra studies. 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 LEWISTON NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 Establishment of School. 
 
 SEC. 500. A normal school for the State of Idaho is 
 hereby established in the City of Lewiston, in the County of 
 Nez Perce, to be called the Lewiston State Normal School, 
 the purpose of which shall be training and educating teachers 
 in the art of instruction and governing in the public schools 
 of this State, and teaching the various branches that pertain 
 to a common school education. 
 
 Constitution of Board of Trustees. 
 
 SEC. 501. The said Lewiston State Normal School shall be 
 under the direction of a board of trustees to be known as "The 
 Board of Trustees of the Lewiston State Normal School." 
 The said board of trustees shall consist of seven members, one 
 of whom shall be the State Superintendent of Public Instruc- 
 tion ex-officio. The remaining six members shall be the pres- 
 ent trustees, who shall hold office for the term for which they 
 were appointed in the same manner as if these Codes had not 
 been enacted. Their successors shall be appointed for the term 
 of. six years by the Governor of the State of Idaho, by and 
 with the advice and consent of the Senate, the terms of two 
 of said appointed trustees expiring on the twenty-seventh day 
 uf January of every odd numbered year. The Governor shall 
 fill by appointment all vacancies that may, from any cause, 
 occur in said board of trustees. Before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, each of said trustees shall take and sub- 
 scribe an oath or affirmation, before some person duly au- 
 thorized to administer the same, that he will support the Con- 
 stitution of the United States and of the State of Idaho, and 
 will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the 
 
86 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 office of trustee of the Lewiston State Normal School, which 
 oath or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the secretary 
 of State. 
 
 Meetings, Officers, and Proceedings of Board. 
 % SEC. 502. The said board of trustees may conduct its pro- 
 ceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper dis- 
 patch of business. A majority of the board of trustees shall 
 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less 
 number may adjourn from time to time. No member of said 
 board of trustees shall participate in any proceeding in which 
 he has any pecuniary interest. Every vote and official act 
 of the said board of trustees shall be entered of record. Said 
 board of trustees shall have an official ' seal, which shall be 
 judicially noticed. Said board of trustees may sue and be sued. 
 No vacancy in the board of trustees shall impair the right of 
 the remaining trustees to exercise all the powers of the said 
 board of trustees. At their first meeting, and annually there- 
 after, the said board of trustees shall elect from their number 
 a president and a secretary. The State Teasurer shall be ex- 
 officio treasurer of said board of trustees. It shall be the duty 
 of the secretary to keep an exact and detailed account of the 
 doings of said board, and an itemized account of all expendi- 
 tures authorized by said board. 
 
 General Powers and Duties of Board. 
 
 SEC. 503. The said board of trustees are hereby author- 
 ized, and it is made their duty, to take and at all times to have 
 general supervision and control of all buildings and property 
 appertaining to said Normal School; and to have general 
 charge and control of the construction of all buildings to be 
 built. They shall have power to let contracts for building 
 and completion of any such buildings and the entire super- 
 vision of their construction. 
 
 Same: Control of Funds. 
 
 SEC. 504. One-half of all funds appropriated for the use 
 and benefit of normal schools in the State of Idaho, from every 
 source, including sales of land donated by the government of 
 the United States to the State of Idaho, for the establishment 
 and maintenance of State normal schools, shall be under the 
 direction and control of the said board of trustees subject to 
 the provisions herein contained. The treasurer of the board 
 shall pay out of such funds all orders or drafts for money 
 to be expended under the provisions of this chapter Such 
 
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 orders or drafts shall be drawn by the State Auditor on cer- 
 tificates of the secretary, countersigned by the president, of 
 the said board of trustees. No such certificates shall be given 
 except upon accounts audited and allowed by the said board; 
 Provided, Not more than fifty thousand acres of said lands shall 
 ever be sold for said purpose of establishing and maintaining 
 the Lewiston State Normal School, and said board of trustees 
 shall never use more of said funds than necessary for the pur- 
 pose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter. 
 
 Meetings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 505. The board of trustees shall hold two regular 
 meetings annually, at the said City of Lewiston, but special 
 meetings may be called by the president of the board by sending 
 written notice, at least ten days before such meeting, to each 
 member. 
 
 Election of Principal. 
 
 SEC. 506. The board of trustees shall have power to elect 
 a principal and all other teachers that may be deemed necessary, 
 to fix salaries of the same and to prescribe their duties. They 
 shall have power to remove either the principal, assistant or 
 teachers, and appoint others in their stead. 
 
 Course of Study, Certificates and Diplomas. 
 
 SEC. 507. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to 
 prescribe the course of study and the time and standard of 
 graduation, and to issue such certificates and diplomas as 
 may from time to time be deemed suitable. These certificates 
 and diplomas shall entitle the holder to teach in the public 
 schools of any county in this State for the time and in the 
 grade specified in the certificate or diploma. 
 
 Text Books, Supplies and Apparatus. 
 
 SEC. 508. The board of trustees shall prescribe the text 
 books, apparatus, and furniture, and provide the same, to- 
 gether with all necessary stationery for the use of pupils. 
 
 Training or Model Schools. 
 
 SEC. 509. The board of trustees shall, when deemed ex- 
 pedient, establish and maintain a training or model school or 
 schools, in which the pupils of the normal school shall be 
 required to instruct classes under the supervision and direction 
 of experienced teachers. 
 
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 Admission of Pupils. 
 
 SEC. 510. The^board of trustees shall ordain such rules 
 and regulations for the admission of pupils to said Normal 
 School as they shall deem necessary and proper. All classes 
 may be admitted into the said normal school who are admitted 
 without restriction into the public schools of the State; Pro- 
 vided, The applicant, if a male, must be not less than sixteen 
 years of age, or if a female, not less than fifteen years of age. 
 Applicants must also present letters of recommendation from 
 the county superintendent of public instruction of the county 
 in which they reside, certifying to their good moral character 
 and their fitness to enter the Normal School. Before enter- 
 ing all applicants must sign the following declaration: "We 
 hereby declare that our purpose in entering the Lewiston 
 State Normal School is to fit ourselves for the profession of 
 teaching, and that it is our intention to engage in teaching 
 in the public schools of this State." 
 
 Same: Pupils From Other States. 
 
 SEC. 511. Pupils from other States and Territories may 
 be admitted to all the privileges of the said Normal School, 
 on presenting letters of recommendation from the Executive 
 or State School Superintendent thereof, and the payment of 
 one hundred dollars. Pupils from other states shall not be re- 
 quired to sign the declaration named in the foregoing section. 
 
 Scientific Lectures. 
 
 SEC. 512. Lectures in chemistry, comparative anatomy, 
 agricultural chemistry, and any other science or any other 
 branch of literature that the board of trustees may direct, may 
 be delivered to those attending such school, in such manner and 
 on such conditions as the board of trustees may prescribe. 
 
 Expenses of Trustees. 
 
 SEC. 513. The actual and necessary personal expenses in- 
 curred by the members of the board of trustees, in carrying 
 out the provisions of this chapter, shall be paid, on the proper 
 certificate, out of any funds belonging to said Normal School 
 in the hands of the treasurer. 
 
 Government of School and Pupils. 
 
 SEC. 514. The board of trustees, in their regulations, and 
 the principal and assistants in their supervision and govern- 
 ment of the said school, shall exercise a watchful guardianship 
 over the morals of the pupils at all times during their attend- 
 ance upon the same, but no religious or sectarian tests shall be 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 8 9 
 
 applied in the selection of teachers, and none shall be adopted 
 in said school. 
 
 Report of Trustees. 
 
 SEC. 515. The president and secretary of the board of 
 trustees shall, on or before the first day of December of each 
 year, transmit to the Governor of the State, a full report of 
 the doings of the said board of trustees, the progress and con- 
 dition of the said Normal School, together with a full report 
 of the expenditures of the same for the previous year, setting 
 forth each item in full, and the date thereof, and such recom- 
 mendations as they deem proper for the good of said Normal 
 School. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 ALBION NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 Establishment of School. 
 
 SEC. 516. A Normal School for the State of Idaho is 
 hereby established at or near the Town of Albion, in the 
 County of Cassia, to be called the Albion State Normal School, 
 the purpose of which will be training and educating teachers 
 in the art of instruction and governing in the public schools 
 of the State, and teaching the various branches that pertain 
 to a good common school education. 
 
 Constitution of Board of Trustees. 
 
 SEC. 517. The Albion State Normal School shall be under 
 the direction of non-partisan board of trustees, consisting of 
 six members exclusive of the State Superintendent of Public 
 Instruction, who is ex-officio a member of said board no 
 more than four of whom shall be of the same political party. 
 Said board shall be known as the "Board of Trustees of the 
 Albion State Normal School." The board of trustees as at 
 present constituted shall continue to hold office during the 
 respective terms of the members thereof, and their successors 
 shall be appointed for the term of six years from and after the 
 fifth day of March, by the Governor of the State of Idaho, 
 by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and in 
 such a manner that two trustees shall be appointed each odd 
 numbered year. It shall be the duty of the Governor to fill, 
 by appointment, all vacancies that may from any cause occur 
 in said board of trustees. Before entering upon the duties of 
 their office, each of the trustees provided for in this chapter 
 
QO IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation that he will 
 support the Constitution of the United States, and the Con- 
 stitution and Laws of the State of Idaho, and will faithfully 
 and impartially discharge the duties of said office, which oath 
 or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the secretary of 
 State. 
 
 Title to Property. 
 
 SEC. 518. All the rights, powers, duties, and title to real 
 estate or personal property belonging to or vested in said 
 Normal School are hereby vested in the trustees of said school 
 herein provided for. 
 
 Proceedings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 519. The said board of trustees may conduct its pro- 
 ceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper 
 dispatch of business. A majority of the board of trustees shall 
 constitute a quorum from time to time. No member of said 
 board of trustees shall participate in any proceeding in which 
 he has any pecuniary interest. Every vote and official act 
 of the sai'd board of trustees shall be entered of record. 
 Said board of trustees shall have an official seal, 
 which shall be judicially noticed. Said board of trustees may 
 sue and be sued. No vacancy in the board of trustees shall 
 impair the right of the remaining trustees to exercise all the 
 powers of the said board of trustees. At their first meeting, 
 and annually thereafter, the said board of trustees shall elect 
 from their number a president and secretary. The State Treas- 
 urer shall be ex-officio treasurer of said board of trustees. 
 It shall be the duty of the secretary to keep an exact and de- 
 tailed account of the doings of said board, and an itemized 
 account of all expenditures by said board. 
 
 Control of Buildings. 
 
 SEC. 520. The said board of trustees are hereby author- 
 ized, and it is made their duty, to take and at all times to have 
 general supervision and control of all buildings and property 
 appertaining to said Normal School, and to have general 
 charge and control of the construction of all buildings to. be 
 built. They shall have power to let contracts for building and 
 completion of any such buildings, and the entire supervision 
 of their construction. 
 
 Control of Funds. 
 
 SEC. 521. All funds appropriated for the use and benefit 
 of said Normal School, from every source, including the pro 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWb. 91 
 
 rata share of the available proceeds of sales of lands granted 
 by the Government of the United States to the State of Idaho 
 for the establishment and maintenance of State Normal Schools 
 due to said Normal School, shall be under the direction and 
 control of the said board of trustees subject to the provisions 
 herein contained. The treasurer of the board of trustees shall 
 pay out of such funds all orders or drafts for money to be 
 expended under the provisions of this chapter. Such orders 
 or drafts shall be drawn by the State Auditor on certificates 
 of the secretary, countersigned by the president of said board 
 of trustees and approved by the State Board of Examiners. 
 No such certificates shall be given except on accounts audited 
 and allowed by said board of trustees. 
 
 Meetings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 522. The board of trustees shall hold two regular 
 meetings annually, at the said Town of Albion, but special 
 meetings may be called by the president of the board by send- 
 ing notice of at least ten days to each member. 
 
 Election and Removal of Principal and Teachers. 
 
 SEC. 523. The board of trustees shall have power to elect 
 a principal and all other teachers that may be deemed necessary, 
 to fix the salaries of the same and to prescribe their duties. 
 They shall have power to remove either the principal, assistant, 
 or teachers, and appoint others in their stead. 
 
 Course of Study, Certificates and Diplomas. 
 
 SEC. 524. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees 
 to prescribe the course of study, and the time, and standard, 
 of graduation, and to issue such certificates and diplomas as 
 may from time to time be deemed suitable. These certificates 
 and diplomas shall entitle the holders to teach in the public 
 schools in any county in this State for the time and in the 
 grade specified in the certificate or diploma. 
 
 Text Books, Apparatus and Furniture. 
 
 SEC. 525. The board of trustees shall prescribe the text 
 books, apparatus, and furniture, and provide the same, to- 
 gether with all necessary stationery for the use of pupils. 
 
 Training or Model Schools. 
 
 SEC. 526. The board of trustees shall, when deemed ex- 
 pedient, establish and maintain a training or model school or 
 schools in which the pupils of the Normal School shall be 
 
92 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 required to instruct classes, under the supervision and direction 
 of experienced teachers. 
 
 Admission of Pupils. 
 
 SEC. 527. The board of trustees shall ordain such rules 
 and regulations for the admission of pupils to said Normal 
 School as they shall deem necessary and proper. All 
 classes may be admitted into the said Normal School 
 who are admitted without restriction into the public 
 schools of the State; Provided, The applicant, if a male, 
 must be not less than sixteen years of age, or if a female, not 
 less than fifteen years of age. Applicants must also present 
 letters of recommendation from the county superintendent of 
 public instruction, of the county in which they reside, certifying 
 to their good moral character and their fitness to enter the 
 Normal School. Before entering, all applicants must sign the 
 following declaration : "We hereby declare that our purpose 
 in entering the Albion State Normal School is to fit ourselves 
 for the profession of teaching, and that it is our intention to 
 engage in teaching in the public schools of this State." 
 
 Same : Pupils From Other States. 
 
 SEC. 528. Pupils from other States and Territories may 
 be admitted to all the privileges of said Normal School on 
 presenting letters of recommendation from the Executive, or 
 State School Superintendent thereof, and paying such tuition 
 fee as the board of trustees may prescribe. Each of such pupils 
 must sign the following declaration: "I hereby declare that 
 my purpose in entering the Albion State Normal School is to 
 fit myself for the profession of teaching." 
 
 Lecture Courses. 
 
 SEC. 529. Lectures in chemistry, comparative anatomy, 
 the mechanical arts, agricultural chemistry, and any other 
 science, or any other branch of literature that the board of 
 trustees may direct, may be delivered to those attending such 
 school,- in such manner and on such conditions as the board of 
 trustees may prescribe. 
 
 Expenses of Board. 
 
 SEC. 530. The actual and necessary personal expenses in- 
 curred by the members of said board of trustees in carrying 
 out the provisions of this chapter shall be paid on the proper 
 certificate out of any funds belonging to said Normal School, 
 in the hands of the treasurer. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 93 
 
 Report to Governor. 
 
 SEC. 531. The president and secretary of the said board 
 trustees shall, on the first days of January and July of each 
 year, transmit to the Governor of the State a full report of the 
 doings of the said board of trustees and the progress and con- 
 dition of the said Normal School, together with a full report 
 of the expenditures of the same for the previous six months, 
 setting forth each item in full, and the date thereof, and such 
 recommendations as they deem proper for the good of said 
 Normal School. 
 
 Supervision of Pupils. 
 
 SEC. 532. The board of trustees in their regulations, and 
 the principal and assistant in their supervision and government 
 of the said school, shall exercise a watchful guardianship over 
 the morals of the pupils at all times during their attendance 
 upon the same, but no religious or sectarian test shall be ap- 
 plied in the selection of teachers, and none shall be adopted in 
 the said school. 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 ACADEMY OF IDAHO. 
 
 Establishment of Academy. 
 
 SEC. 545. A school which shall be called the Academy of 
 Idaho, is hereby established at the City of Pocatello, Idaho, 
 the purpose of which shall be the teaching of all branches com- 
 monly taught in academies, including also the various studies 
 pertaining to a good common school education, and such spe- 
 cial courses as are usually taught in business colleges. 
 
 Board of Trustees. Constitution. 
 
 SEC. 546. A non-partisan board of trustees to be known 
 as the "Board of Trustees of the Academy of Idaho," con- 
 sisting of six members, no more than three of whom shall be 
 of the same political party, is hereby created for the manage- 
 ment and control of said Academy. Said trustees shall be aj*- 
 pomted by the Governor by and with the advice and consent 
 of the Senate for terms of six years, and until their successors 
 are appointed and qualified ; Provided, That two members of 
 said board shall be appointed each odd numbered year, and the 
 present trustees shall hold office to the expiration of the terms 
 for which they were appointed, in the same manner as if these 
 
94 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Codes had not been enacted. It shall be the duty of the Gov- 
 ernor to fill by appointment all vacancies that may from any 
 cause occur in the board of trustees. Before entering upon the 
 duties of their office, each of said trustees shall take and sub- 
 scribe an oath or affirmation that he will suport the Consti- 
 tution of the United States, and the Constitution and 
 laws of the State of Idaho, and will faithfully and 
 impartially discharge the duties of said office, which oath, or 
 affirmation shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. 
 
 Same : Title to Property. 
 
 SEC. 547. All rights in and title to real estate or personal 
 property belonging to or vested in said Academy are hereby 
 vested in said board of trustees. 
 
 Same: Proceedings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 548. The said board of trustees may conduct its pro- 
 ceedings in such manner as will best conduce to the proper 
 dispatch of business. A majority of the board of 
 trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 
 of business, but a smaller number may adjourn from 
 time to time. No member of said board of trustees 
 shall participate in any proceedings in which he has 
 any pecuniary interest. Every vote and official act of 
 said board of trustees shall be entered of record. Said board of 
 trustees shall have an official seal which shall be- judicially 
 noticed. Said board of trustees may sue and be sued. No 
 vacancy in the board of trustees shall impair the right of 
 the remaining trustees to exercise all the powers of said board 
 of trustees. At their first meeting and annually thereafter, 
 the said board shall elect from their number a president and a 
 secretary. The State Treasurer shall be ex-officio treasurer of 
 said board of trustees. It shall be the duty of the secretary to 
 keep an exact and detailed account of the doings of said board, 
 and an itemized account of all the expenditures authorized by 
 said board. 
 
 Control of Board Over Buildings. 
 
 SEC. 549. The said board of trustees are hereby author- 
 ized, and it is made their duty, to take and at all times to have 
 general supervision and control of all buildings and property 
 appertaining to said Academy, and to have general charge and 
 control of the construction of all buildings to be built. They 
 shall have power to let contracts for building any such build- 
 ings, and also the entire supervision of their construction. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 95 
 
 Appropriation of Lands to Academy. 
 
 SEC. 550. Forty thousand acres of the lands granted to the 
 State of Idaho by an act of Congress, entitled "An act to pro- 
 vide for the admission of the State of Idaho into the Union," 
 approved July 3, 1890, "for other State charitable, educational, 
 penal and reformatory institutions," are hereby appropriated 
 and set apart for the exclusive use and benefit of said Acad- 
 emy, said lands to be held, disposed of, and the proceeds thereof 
 used and applied for the benefit of said Academy, subject to 
 the provisions of said admission bill and of the Constitution 
 of the State of Idaho, and, so far as may be practicable, in 
 conformity with the established procedure of holding, disposing 
 of, and applying the proceeds of the sales of lands granted for 
 the establishment and maintenance of State Normal Schools in 
 Idaho. 
 
 Funds; Allowance of Bills. 
 
 SEC. 551. All funds appropriated for the use and benefit 
 of said Academy, from every source, including the available 
 proceeds from the sales of said lands, and the sale of bonds 
 provided for said Academy, shall be under the control and 
 direction of said board of trustees, subject to the provisions 
 herein contained. The treasurer of the board of trustees shall 
 pay out of such funds all orders or drafts for money to be ex- 
 pended under the provisions of this chapter. Such orders or 
 drafts shall be drawn by the State Auditor upon certificates of 
 the secretary countersigned by the president of said board of 
 trustees, and approved by the State Board of Examiners. No 
 such certificates shall be given except on accounts audited and 
 allowed by said board of trustees. 
 
 Meetings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 552. The board of trustees shall hold two regular 
 meetings annually, at the City of Pocatello, but special meet- 
 ings may be called by the president of the board by sending 
 written notice of at least ten days to each member. 
 
 Teachers, Course of Study and Text Books. 
 
 SEC. 553. The board of trustees shall have power to elect 
 a principal and all other teachers that may be deemed necessary, 
 to fix the salaries of the same, and to prescribe their duties. 
 They shall have power to remove the principal or teachers and 
 appoint others in their stead. It shall be the duty of the 
 board of trustees to prescribe the course of study and the time 
 and standard of graduation, and to issue such certificates of 
 
96 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 graduation and diplomas as may from time to time be deemed 
 suitable. The board of trustees shall prescribe the text books, 
 and shall provide such suitable apparatus and furniture from 
 time to time as they may deem necessary; Provided, That for 
 Ihe purpose of prescribing a course of study, but for that pur- 
 pose only, the president of the State University and the State 
 Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be ex-officio mem- 
 bers of the board of trustees. 
 
 Rules for Admission of Pupils. 
 
 SEC. 554. The board of trustees shall ordain such rules 
 and regulations for the admission of pupils to said Academy 
 as they shall deem necessary and proper. Pupils from other 
 States and Territories may be admitted to all the privileges of 
 such Academy upon paying such reasonable tuition fee as the 
 trustees may prescribe. 
 
 Allowance of Expenses to Board. 
 
 SEC. 555. The actual and necessary personal expenses in- 
 curred by the members of said board of trustees in carrying out 
 the provisions of this chapter shall be paid, on the proper cer- 
 tificate, out of any funds belonging to said Academy in the 
 hands of the treasurer. 
 
 Report to Governor. 
 
 SEC. 556. The president and secretary of said board of 
 trustees shall, on the first days of January and July of each 
 year, transmit to the Governor of the State a full report of 
 the doings of the said board of trustees, the progress and con- 
 dition of said Academy, together with a full report of the ex- 
 penditures of the same for the previous six months, setting 
 forth each item in full, and the date thereof, and such recom- 
 mendations as they deem proper for the good of said Academy. 
 
 Guardianship Over Pupils. 
 
 SEC. 557. The board of trustees in their regulations, and 
 the principal and assistants in their supervision and govern- 
 ment of said school, shall exercise a watchful guardianship over 
 the morals of the pupils at all times during their attendance 
 upon the same, but no religious or sectarian test shall be applied 
 in the selection of teachers, and none shall be adopted in said 
 school. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 97 
 
 PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 SCHOOL FOR DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND. 
 Board of Education May Make Arrangements. 
 
 SEC. 800. The State Board of Education is hereby em- 
 powered and authorized to make the necessary arrangements 
 for the education of the deaf, dumb and blind of this State, 
 including the providing of a suitable building therefor, and 
 equipping the same so far as may be necessary, including also 
 the arranging for the conveyance of the scholars to and from 
 the school, at the expense of the State, and including the hiring 
 of a superintendent, instructors and employes, and the fixing of 
 their compensation, and such other matters as may be necessary 
 to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter; Provided, 
 however. That the State Board of Education may, if it be- 
 comes necessary, enter into contract with one or more of the 
 adjacent States or Territories (having an institution for the 
 education of the deaf, dumb and blind) for the education of 
 the deaf, dumb and blind of the State of Idaho, upon the 
 most economical terms possible; Provided, however, That 
 if it should become necessary to make any such contract, no 
 more than three hundred dollars per year shall be paid for each 
 scholar's instruction and board, including board during vaca- 
 tion. 
 
 Examination of Applicants. 
 
 SEC. 80 1. The State Board of Education is authorized to 
 provide for the careful examination of all applicants for ad- 
 mission to the school to be provided by the said board, and the 
 expenses of the said examinations, and for other expenses in 
 connection with the education of the deaf, dumb, and blind, 
 under the authority conferred by this chapter, shall be paid 
 out of the State Treasury, as provided by law. 
 
 Definition of Deaf and Blind. 
 
 SEC. 802. All children between the ages of six and twenty- 
 one years, who are too deaf or too blind to be educated in our 
 public schools, shall be deemed deaf and blind for the purposes 
 of this chapter. 
 
98 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Census of Deaf, Dumb and Blind. 
 
 SEC. 803. It shall be the duty of the Board of Education to 
 ascertain the number of deaf, dumb and blind persons in the 
 State, as defined by the preceding section, and, as soon as 
 practicable thereafter, to take the necessary steps for their 
 education, as provided for in this chapter. 
 
 Same: Duty of District Census Marshals. 
 
 SEC. 804. It is hereby made the duty of the census marshal 
 of each school district in the State of Idaho, when he shall 
 enumerate the children of school age in his district, to care- 
 fully ascertain what children in that district are deaf and blind, 
 as defined in Section 802, and he shall note the name, age and 
 sex of such child or children, also the name of parents or 
 guardian or other person having the legal or actual charge of 
 such child or children, and shall report the same to the county 
 superintendent of public instruction, and said county superin- 
 tendent of public instruction shall immediately report the same 
 to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 INDUSTRIAL TRAINING SCHOOL. 
 GOVERNMENT OF SCHOOL. 
 
 Establishment. 
 
 SEC. 805. A State Industrial Training School is hereby 
 established at the town of St. Anthony, in Fremont County, 
 State of Idaho, to be called the "Idaho Industrial Training 
 School." The purpose of such school shall be the care, pro- 
 tection, training and education of delinquent, dependent and 
 neglected children, and to provide for the care, control and dis- 
 charge of juvenile offenders. 
 
 Board of Trustees. 
 
 SEC. 806. A board of trustees is hereby created to be 
 known as the board of trustees of the Idaho Industrial Train- 
 ing School, consisting of four members. All of said members 
 shall be appointed; two shall be men and two shall be women. 
 No more than two shall belong to one political party, and no 
 more than one shall be appointed from any one county, and 
 two shall be interested in humanitarian work. Said board 
 of trustees shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 99 
 
 by the Senate for the term of four years, and until their suc- 
 cessors are appointed and qualified ; Provided, That of the first 
 board appointed, two shall hold office for two years and two 
 for four years, and the Governor and State Superintendent of 
 Public Instruction shall be ex-officio members of the board of 
 trustees. It shall be the duty of the Governor to fill by ap- 
 pointment all vacancies that may from any cause occur in the 
 board of trustees; Provided, That he shall appoint the new 
 member from the political party of the retiring member. 
 
 Before entering upon the discharge of the duties of their 
 respective offices, each member shall take and subscribe an oath, 
 or affirmation, that he or she will support the Constitution of 
 the United States and the Constitution of the State of Idaho, 
 and will faithfully discharge the duties of said office, which 
 oath or affirmation shall be filed with the Secretary of State. 
 
 Proceedings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 807. The said board of trustees shall conduct its pro- 
 ceedings in such a manner as will best conduce to the proper 
 dispatch of business. A majority of the board of trustees shall 
 constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a 
 smaller number may adjourn from time to time. No member 
 of said board of trustees shall participate in any proceedings in 
 which he or she has a personal or pecuniary interest. Every 
 vote and official act of said board of trustees shall be entered 
 on record. 
 
 Said board of trustees shall have an official seal, which shall 
 be judicially noticed. Said board of trustees may sue and be 
 sued, and may take, in the name of the State, and hold in trust 
 for the school, any and all money, real estate or personal prop- 
 erty that may be bequeathed to said school. 
 
 Officers of Board. 
 
 SEC. 808. At their first meeting and biennially thereafter, 
 the said board of trustees shall elect a president and secretary. 
 The State Treasurer shall be ex-officio treasurer of said board 
 of trustees. It shall be the duty of the secretary of said board 
 to keep an exact and detailed account of the doings of said 
 board and an itemized account of all expenditures by said 
 board. 
 
 General Powers of Board. 
 
 SEC. 809. The said board of trustees are hereby authorized, 
 and it is made their duty, to take and at all times to have 
 
100 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 general supervision and control of all buildings to be con- 
 structed. They shall have power to let contracts for the erec- 
 tion of all buildings, and also the entire supervision of their 
 construction. All buildings for housing the pupils shall be 
 on "Cottage plan." For the better grading of inmates, each 
 cottage shall accommodate not more than twenty-five persons. 
 
 Meetings of Board. 
 
 SEC. 8 10. Said board of trustees shall hold two meetings 
 at said school, annually, but special meetings may be called by 
 the president of the board, by sending written notices of at 
 least ten days to each member. The actual and necessary per- 
 sonal expenses for mileage and board incurred by the members 
 of said board of trustees in carrying out the provisions of this 
 chapter, shall be paid, on proper certificates, out of any funds 
 belonging to said school in the hands of the treasurer. 
 
 Control of Funds. 
 
 SEC. 811. All funds appropriated for the use and benefit 
 of said school from every source, including the available in- 
 .terest arising from investment of the proceeds of the sale of 
 lands set apart as hereinafter provided for, shall be under the 
 control and direction of said board of trustees, subject to the 
 provisions herein contained. The treasurer of the board of 
 trustees shall pay out of such funds all orders or drafts for 
 money to be expended under provisions of this chapter. Such 
 orders or drafts shall be drawn by the State Auditor upon cer- 
 tificates of the secretary, countersigned by the president of 
 the. board of trustees, and shall be approved by the State Board 
 of Examiners. No such certificates shall be given except on 
 accounts audited and allowed by said board of trustees. 
 
 Appointment and Removal of Superintendent. 
 
 SEC. 812. The board of trustees shall appoint a superin- 
 tendent who shall be especially fitted for the position, and shall 
 be a person experienced in such work as is intended to be 
 carried on in this school. He shall be retained as long as his 
 work is bringing good results, irrespective of political affili- 
 ations. The superintendent shall, before entering upon the 
 duties of his office, give a good and sufficient bond, to be ap- 
 proved by the board of trustees, conditioned for the faithful 
 discharge of his duties. The superintendent may be removed 
 by the board of trustees for neglect of duty, improper conduct, 
 malfeasance in office, incompetency, or whenever the interests 
 of the school shall be best subserved thereby. The board of 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. IO1 
 
 tiustees shall, on recommendation of the superintendent, ap- 
 point an assistant superintendent, who may be removed by the 
 superintendent. 
 
 Appointment and Qualifications of Teachers. 
 
 SEC. 813. All officers, teachers and employes shall be ap- 
 pointed by the superintendent, by and with the advice and con- 
 sent of the board of trustees; and such officers, teachers and 
 employes may be removed by the superintendent whenever the 
 interests of the school will be best subserved thereby. All 
 teachers, except specialists, shall hold first-class certificates from 
 the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Specialists 
 shall hold diplomas from some accredited school in their spe- 
 ciality. 
 
 Trustees to Prescribe Regulations and Fix Salaries. 
 
 SEC. 814. The superintendent shall conduct the said school 
 under rules, and regulations prescribed by the board of trus- 
 tees, and said board of trustees shall fix the salaries of all 
 officers and teachers, and the wages of all employes. 
 
 Reports of Superintendent. 
 
 SEC. 815. The superintendent shall, at the close of each 
 month, present to the board of trustees a written report, show- 
 ing the general condition of the schol, the number of inmates 
 in attendance, the number of tickets of leave granted and such 
 other information, together with such suggestions and recom- 
 mendations, as may be to the best interests of the school. He 
 shall have charge of all property belonging to the school, and 
 shall keep an account of all monthly expenditures, and the re- 
 ceipts shall be certified to the president of the board with the 
 social condition of each inmate at the time of committal. 
 
 Religious Services. 
 
 SEC. 8 1 6. The superintendent shall provide for the hold- 
 ing of religious services on the Sabbath day for the inmates of 
 said school, but no sectarian views shall control the services. 
 
 State Superintendent to Prescribe Studies. 
 
 SEC. 817. The State Superintendent of Public Instruction 
 shall prepare courses of study for all grades in the school. 
 
 School Constitutes an Independent District. 
 
 SEC. 8 1 8. The said school with all appurtenances thereto 
 shall be and it is hereby declared to be, an independent school 
 district, and it shall not be taxed for other school purposes. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Reports to Governor. 
 
 SEC. 819. The president and secretary of the board of 
 trustees shall, on the first day of January and July of each year, 
 transmit to the Governor of the State a full written report of 
 the doings of said board of trustees, the progress and con- 
 dition of said school, together with a full report of the expendi- 
 tures and receipts for the previous six months, setting forth 
 each item in full with the date thereof, and such recommend- 
 ations as they deem proper for the good of the school. They 
 shall submit, on the first day of December of each biennial 
 year, a printed report of all proceedings for the last biennial 
 period. Provided, Failure to file a printed report as required 
 shall mean forfeiture of bond. 
 
 School to Be Non-Sectarian. 
 
 SEC. 820. The board of trustees, in their regulations, and 
 the superintendent and assistants, shall exercise a watchful 
 guardianship over the morals of the pupils at all times during 
 their attendance upon the same, but no religious or sectarian 
 test shall be applied in the selection of teachers, and none shall 
 be adopted in the school. 
 
 Land to Be Set Aside for School. 
 
 SEC. 821. The State Board of Land Commissioners are 
 hereby directed, and it is made their duty, to set aside forty 
 thousand acres of land granted to the State of Idaho by the 
 act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for the admission 
 of the State of Idaho into the Union," approved July 3rd, 1890, 
 for other State charitable, educational or penal and reformatory 
 purposes, for the exclusive use and benefit of said school. Said 
 lands shall be held and disposed of, and the proceeds thereof 
 used and applied, for the benefit of said school, subject to the 
 provisions of said admission act and the Constitution of the 
 State of Idaho, and, so far as may be practicable, in conformity 
 with the established procedure of holding, disposing of and 
 applying the proceeds of lands granted to the common schools 
 of the State of Idaho. The State Board of Land Commis- 
 sioners are directed to set aside forty thousand acres of land, 
 if selected, and if not selected, to use the utmost dispatch in 
 selecting and setting aside the same. The State Board of Land 
 Commissioners are hereby directed to provide separate record 
 books, in proper form, to be known as "Idaho Industrial Train- 
 ing School Records," in which shall be kept all records of 
 matters relating to said lands. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. IO 3 
 
 Courses of Study. 
 
 SEC. 822. All juveniles sent to the Idaho Industrial Train- 
 ing- School shall be taught the common school branches, as 
 taught in the common schools of Idaho, together with such in- 
 dustrial and manual training in the boys' department, and 
 domestic sciences in the girls' department, that the boys and 
 girls shall be enabled to earn a living after being discharged 
 therefrom. 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 INDEX 
 
 Section Page 
 
 Academy of Idaho 93 
 
 Albion Normal School 89 
 
 Apportionment by County Superintendent ._ 67 30 
 
 Apportionment for New District 5 1 2I 
 
 Apportionment, State 66 30 
 
 Arbor Day 188 77 
 
 Assessment and Collection of Tax 56 24 
 
 Board of Education, State, Article I 
 
 Course of Study 9 
 
 Employ Assistance 18 7 
 
 Examining Board n 6 
 
 Examination Questions -^ 10 6 
 
 Encourage Manual Training j/- 6 5 
 
 General Supervision 5 
 
 Institutes 14 " 
 
 Officers and Meetings 15 6 
 
 Office 16 7 
 
 Place of Meeting 17 7 
 
 Record of Examinations 12 6 
 
 Report on Examinations 13 6 
 
 Sanitation of School Buildings 7 5 
 
 Supervision of Superintendent 8 5 
 
 Beard of Textbook Commissioners 9 
 
 Adoption of Textbooks 26 n 
 
 Advertisement for Bids H-- 25 10 
 
 Contracts for Books, Bond of Publisher 27 12 
 
 Custody and Distribution of Books 32 13 
 
 Expenses of Commissioners 34 14 
 
 Independent School Districts Have Special Powers 26 n 
 
 Meetings, When and Where Held 24 10 
 
 Persons Constituting Board__ 23 9 
 
 Publishers to Keep Books on Hands 29 13 
 
 Publishers to Furnish Lists of Books 28 12 
 
 Reserve Supply of Books 33 14 
 
 Requisition for Books 30 13 
 
 Same: Account of Books Ordered 31 13 
 
 Board, Regular Meetings of 57 25 
 
 Bonds for Rural High Schools _ 139 58 
 
 Bonds, School District 34 
 
 Bonds to be Printed__ 83 36 
 
 Elections, How Called 76 34 
 
 Elections, How Held 77 35 
 
 Investment of Sinking Funds " - 80 35 
 
 Independent School District Bonds 130, 131, 132 54~5 
 
 Issuance and Registration of Bonds 77 35 
 
 Liability of School District 79 35 
 
 Neglect to Pay Over Money a Felony _ 84 37 
 
 Payment of Interest on Bonds____ 82 36 
 
 Redemption of Bonds 81 36 
 
 Sale of Bonds 78 35 
 
 Tax Levy to Pay Bonds 80 35 
 
106 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Section Page 
 Blank Forms, Blank Books Furnished Through 
 
 County Superintendent 22(b),38 8, 16 
 
 Blind, Deaf, and Dumb, School for 97 
 
 Bonds in Independent Districts, see Independent 
 School Districts. 
 
 Census, School ' 58 (k) 27 
 
 Census, Shall Be Furnished Head Teacher of 
 
 Each District 148 60 
 
 Certificate, Teachers Must Have 87 38 
 
 Certificates, All Classes of (see Certification of 
 Teachers). 
 
 Certification of Teachers. Article X 38 
 
 Certificates Not Granted to Aliens _ 88 38 
 
 Time, Place, and Manner of Holding Examinations 89 38 
 
 State and State Life Certificates 90-98 39 
 
 Classes of Certificates 90 39 
 
 Fees for State and State Life Certificates 96 41 
 
 Life Certificates by Examination 95 40 
 
 Life Certificates by Endorsement _ 93 40 
 
 Record of Certificates 98 41 
 
 Revocation of State and of State Life Certificates 97 41 
 
 State Certificate by Endorsement 91 (a) 39 
 
 Specialists State Certificates 91 (b) 39 
 
 State Certificate by Examination 94 40 
 
 University of Idaho Graduates Entitled to 
 
 Certificate 92 40 
 
 County Certificates 99-107 41 
 
 First Grade Certificates 103 44 
 
 Grades of Certificates 99 41 
 
 General Requirements loo 42 
 
 Permit to Teach , 105 44 
 
 Professional School for Teachers- 101 (b) 43 
 
 Record of Certificates 103 . 44 
 
 Revocation of Teachers' Certificates 106 45 
 
 Second Grade Certificates 102 43 
 
 Special Third Grade Certificates 104 44 
 
 Third Grade Certificates 101 (a), (c) 42-3 
 
 Child Labor Act, Article XVIII.- 69 
 
 Employers to Keep Record of Minor Employees 168 70 
 
 Employment of Minors in Saloons, etc 172 71 
 
 Penalty for Violation of This Article 170 70 
 
 Probation Officers and School Trustees to 
 
 Bring Complaint 173 7 2 
 
 Prohibition Against Theatrical Employment 
 
 of Children 171 71 
 
 Restrictions on Employment of Children 
 
 Under Fourteen (14) 166 69 
 
 Same : Children Under Sixteen ; Educational 
 
 Requirements __ 167 7o 
 
 Working Hours for Children Under Sixteen 169 70 
 
 Clerk, Compensation of 58 (c) 25 
 
 Clerk in Independent District, Compensation for 127 51 
 
 Code, School Given Preference in Courts, Article 
 
 XXII. 80 
 
 Collection and Assessment of Tax 56 24 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. I0 7 
 
 Section Page 
 
 Compulsory Education, Article XVI 60 
 
 County Superintendent to Report Delinquents 150 61 
 
 Duty of Probation Officer 151 61 
 
 Furnish Census List to Teacher 148 60 
 
 Publish Law 147 60 
 
 The Law 146 60 
 
 Compulsory Education Law 160 67 
 
 Conflicts, Repealed,. Article XXII 22 
 
 Contracts for all Repairs and Construction Exceed- 
 ing One Hundred Dollars ($100) 58 (g) 26 
 
 Contagious or Infectious Diseases 59 
 
 Shall Be Reported to Clerk of Board 142 59 
 
 Pupils Shall Be Excluded From School 143 59 
 
 Textbooks and Clothing Shall Be Disinfected___i44 60 
 
 Contract With Teachers 58 (a) 25 
 
 Course of Study, State, Teachers Shall Enforce 86 (b) 37 
 
 County Superintendent (See Superintendent). 
 
 Course of Study 9 6 
 
 Deaf. Dumb, and Blind, School for 97 
 
 Delinquent Child, Proceedings for the Correction 
 
 of, Article XVII 97 
 
 Arrested Child to Be Taken Before Probate Court_is6 64 
 Child to Attend School (The Compulsory 
 
 Education, Sec. 160) 160 67 
 
 Commitment of Child 157 65 
 
 Delinquent Child Denned 152 62 
 
 Encouraging Delinquency a Misdemeanor 159 66 
 
 Imprisonment to Be Avoided 155 63 
 
 Information or Complaint 154 63 
 
 Issuance of Warrant 155 63 
 
 Jurisdiction of Probate Court _ 153 62 
 
 Juvenile Disorderly Person Denned 161 67 
 
 Same: Complaint, Hearing, and Commitment 162 68 
 
 Probation Officers, Appointment and Duties 163 68 
 
 School Trustees to Report Delinquents 164 69 
 
 Review of Orders of Probate Court 165 69 
 
 Supervision of Institution Receiving Children 158 66 
 
 Depositing School Moneys in Independent Districts_i27 51 
 
 Depositories for Textbooks 33 14 
 
 Discharge of Teachers 58 (e) 25 
 
 Disease, Prevention of, Article XV 59 
 
 Districts (See School Districts). 
 Districts, Independent School 
 
 (See Independent School Districts.) 
 
 Districts, Lapsed 52 21 
 
 Districts, New, and Change in Boundaries 47 19 
 
 District Trustees, Article VI., Appointed for 
 
 New Districts 44 18 
 
 Annual School Meeting 54 22 
 
 Assessment and Collection of Tax_ __ 56 24 
 
 Election of Trustees 54 (b) 23 
 
 How Constituted , __ 53 22 
 
 Length of School Term 54 (d) 23 
 
 Levy of Special Tax 54 (c) 23 
 
IQ 8 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Section Page 
 
 Notice of Annual School Meeting 54 ^a) 22 
 
 Trustees Shall Qualify 55 24 
 
 Regular Meetings of the Board 57 25 
 
 General Duties 58 25 
 
 All Work Exceeding One Hundred Dollars 
 
 Shall Be Contracted 58 (g) 26 
 
 Discharge of Teachers 58 (e) 25 
 
 Disorderly Pupils 58 (j) 27 
 
 Clerk to Keep Record 58 (j) 27 
 
 Employ Teachers on Contract 58 (a) 25 
 
 Fix, Allow, and Order Paid Salaries of 
 
 Teachers 58 (b) 25 
 
 Fix Compensation of Clerk _ 58 (c) 
 
 Money for School Libraries 58 (i) 26 
 
 Pupils From Other Counties 60 28 
 
 Report of Trustees 61 28 
 
 School Census 58 (i) '^6 
 
 Shall Provide Flag 59 28 
 
 Shall Ascertain if Minors are Employed 
 
 Contrary to Law 173 72 
 
 Shall Report Delinquents to County Super- 
 intendent 164 69 
 
 Shall Not Require Teachers to Make Up 
 
 Institute Time 58 (f) 25 
 
 Trustees Shall Furnish all Things Necessary 58 (h) 26 
 
 Trustees Have Charge of all School 
 
 Property __ 58 (g) 26 
 
 Trustees' Meetings 62 29 
 
 Tuition of High School Pupils 58 (d) 25 
 
 Tuition of Non-Resident Pupils 58 (d) 25 
 
 "District Principal" Defined 21 8 
 
 Duties of County Superintendent (See Super- 
 intendent, County). 
 
 Dumb, Deaf, and Blind School for 97 
 
 Education, State Board, Article I . 5 
 
 Eighth Grade Examinations 187 77 
 
 Elections, Bond 
 
 How Called 76 34 
 
 How Held 77 35 
 
 Election of Trustees 
 
 In Common School Districts 54 (b) 23 
 
 In Independent School Districts.. 125 (a) 50 
 
 Examinations for Teachers' Certificates (See 
 Certification of Teachers). - 
 
 Examinations 
 
 Conduct of, by County Superintendent 41 17 
 
 Examinations, Questions 10 6 
 
 Examining Board n 6 
 
 Expenses of Conducting Examinations 42 17 
 
 Record of Examinations 12 6 
 
 Report of Examinations 13 o 
 
 Examination, Eighth Grade 187 77 
 
 Funds and Finances (See School Funds and Finances) 
 
 Flag, to Be Provided 59 28 
 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. IO 9 
 
 Section Page 
 
 High Schools, Rural (See Rural High Schools) 
 
 Hygiene and Physiology 190-193 79 
 
 Independent School Districts. Article XIII - 49 
 
 Board of Trustees 124 50 
 
 Compensation for the Clerk 127 51 
 
 Corporate Powers 123 49 
 
 Election of Trustees 125 (a) 50 
 
 Meetings of the Board 128 5* 
 
 Organization __- 122 49 
 
 Qualification and Organization of Board 127 51 
 
 School Moneys Shall Be Deposited on Interest 127 51 
 
 Treasurer's Bond 127 51 
 
 Trustees Shall Not Be Interested In Contracts 126 51 
 
 Vacancies on Board of Trustees 125 (b) 50 
 
 Duties and Powers 129 (a) =j 
 
 To Make By-Laws 129, Para, i 52 
 
 To Levy a Special Tax 129, Para. 3 52 
 
 To Provide Furniture, Fixtures, Apparatus, 
 
 Library, Etc. 129, Para. 4 5_ 
 
 To Rent, Repair. Insure, and Preserve Property.129. Para. 5 52 
 To Build, to Remove, to Purchase, to Sell 
 
 School Property 129, Para. 6 52 
 
 To Expel Pupils 1 129, Para. 7 52 
 
 To Exclude Children Under Six 129, Para. 7 53 
 
 To Determine the Number and Qualifications 
 
 of Teachers 129, Para. 8 5;, 
 
 Employees 129, Para. 2 =j 
 
 To Determine Length of School Day 129, (a) Para. 8 53 
 
 To Provide for Early Dismissal of Primary 
 
 Pupils , 129, Para. 8 53 
 
 To Require Pupils to Have Books and Supplies_i29. Para. 9 53 
 
 To Exclude Everything of a Sectarian Nature 129, Para. 10 53 
 
 To Require Teachers to Conform to Law 129, Para. II 53 
 
 To Require Teachers to Conform to Regula- 
 tions of Board 129, Para, n 53 
 
 Independent School Districts, Class A 
 
 Class A District. Defined 129 (b) 5,; 
 
 To Adopt Course of Study 129, Para, i 53 
 
 To Adopt Textbooks 129, Para. 2 53 
 
 To Employ a Superintendent of Schools 129, Para. 3 53 
 
 To Prescribe Examinations and Tests 129, Para, i 53 
 
 Exempted from State Eighth Grade Examinations- 187 77 
 Superintendent Shall Report Delinquents to 
 
 Probation Officer 149 (b) 61 
 
 Issuance of Funding Bonds 130 54 
 
 Original Bond Election 131 54 
 
 lax Levy for Payment of Bonds 132 55 
 
 General School Law Applies to Independent 
 
 Districts ; 133 55 
 
 Incorrigible Children (See Delinquent Children). 
 
 Industrial Training School oS 
 
 Institutes 14 6 
 
 Institutes for Teachers (See Teachers' Institutes). 
 
 Institutes. County, Conduct and Expense of II 6 
 
 Interest, Payment of. on Bonds 82 36 
 
 Insubordinate Children (See Delinquent Children). 
 
110 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Section Page 
 
 Investment of Surplus Money 75 34 
 
 Joint Districts, How Formed 50 20 
 
 Juvenile Offenders (See Delinquent Children). 
 
 Lapsed Districts 52 21 
 
 Lewiston Normal School 85 
 
 Library Commission, State, Article XIX 72 
 
 Accounts of Commission 176 73 
 
 Constitution of Commission 174 72 
 
 Management of Traveling Library 175 72 
 
 Library, Public, Article XX 73 
 
 Citizens May Establish Library 177 73 
 
 Directors of Library 179 74 
 
 Donations to Library 183 76 
 
 Libraries to Be Free 181 75 
 
 Library Defined 184 76 
 
 Organization and Powers of Directors 180 75 
 
 Report of Directors , 182 75 
 
 School District Libraries: Election 178 73 
 
 Taxes for Existing Libraries .184 76 
 
 Libraries, 3% of Annual Appropriations 58 (i) 26 
 
 Meetings, Annual School 54 22 
 
 Meetings for County Teachers 37 (c) 16 
 
 Meetings of Board in Independent Districts 128 5i 
 
 Meetings of all Trustees of County 62 29 
 
 Meetings, Regular, of the Board 57 25 
 
 Morals and Manners to Be Taught 86 (b) 37 
 
 Normal School, Albion 89 
 
 Normal School, Lewiston. 85 
 
 Normal Schools, Summer, Article XII 47 
 
 Normal Schools, Professional Schools 101 (b) 43 
 
 Non-Resident Pupils, Tuition of 58 (d) 25 
 
 Notice of Proposed Changes in District Boundaries. 48 20 
 
 Notice of Annual School Meeting 54 (a) 22 
 
 Partisan and Sectarian Instruction Forbidden 186 77 
 
 Permits to Teach 41 17 
 
 Petition for Change of District Boundaries, 
 
 Action on 49 2o 
 
 Physiology and Hygiene 
 Authoritative Textbooks and Needed Facilities 
 
 Shall Be Provided '. 190 (b) 79 
 
 Certificate Revoked If Teacher Refuses or 
 
 Neglects to Teach ' 193 79 
 
 Instruction Shall Be Given in the State Re- 
 formatories 192 79 
 
 Instruction Shall Be Given in Normal School 
 
 and Institutes 191 79 
 
 What Shall Be Taught 190 (a) 79 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Section 
 Prevention of Disease, Article XV 
 
 Contagious Diseases Reported to the Clerk of the 
 Board 142 
 
 Pupils Excluded From School 143 
 
 Textbooks, Disinfected 144 
 
 Violation of Article a Misdemeanor 145 
 
 Principal, District Denned 21 
 
 Probation Officer 
 
 Duty to Place Children in School ---151 
 
 Appointment and Duties .163 
 
 Shall Ascertain if Minors are Employed 
 
 Contrary to Law 173 
 
 Professional School for Teachers 101 (b) 
 
 Public Libraries (See Library. Public). 
 
 Pupils, Conduct at School and on Way to and 
 
 From School - 86 (b) 
 
 Pupils, From Other Counties 60 
 
 Pupils, Insubordinate , 58 (k) 
 
 Pupils, Suspension of 86 (a) 
 
 Qualification of Trustees 55 
 
 Records to Be Kept by Clerk 58 (j) 
 
 Reformatory (See Industrial Training School). 
 
 Report of Trustees - 61 
 
 Report, Annual, by County Superintendent 43 (a) 
 
 Reports, Teachers Shall Make 86 (b) 
 
 Reports and Records 85 
 
 Rules and Regulations of State Superintendent, 
 
 Teachers Shall Enforce 86 (b) 
 
 Rural High Schools, Article XIV 
 
 Appointment of New Trustees 136 (a) 
 
 Bonds 139 
 
 Disorganizing of Old Board .136 (a) 
 
 Duties of Board 138 
 
 Election . 135 
 
 Election of Trustees 136 (a) 
 
 Meetings of Board 137 
 
 Organization of Trustees 136 (c) 
 
 Petition for Organization 134 
 
 Powers of Board 137 
 
 Qualifications of Trustees 136 (b) 
 
 Segregation of Bonds , 141 
 
 Supervision of Bonds 140 
 
 Salaries of Teachers, Fixed, Allowed, and Paid- 58 (b) 
 
 Sanitation of School Buildings 7, 39 
 
 Sectarian and Partisan Instruction Forbidden 186 
 
 School Buildings, Sanitation of 7, 39 
 
 School Census 58 (k) 
 
 School for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind 
 
 School Districts, Independent (See Independent 
 School Districts). 
 
112 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Section Page 
 
 School Districts, Article V 18 
 
 Action on Petition 49 20 
 
 Apportionment for New District 51 21 
 
 Body Corporate 46 18 
 
 Joint Districts, How Formed 50 20 
 
 Lapsed Districts 52 21 
 
 New Districts, and Change in Boundaries 47 19 
 
 Notice of Proposed Changes 48 20 
 
 School District Boundaries 43 (b) 18 
 
 School District Bonds (See Bonds). 
 
 School Laws Furnished Through County 
 
 Superintendent 22 (b) 8 
 
 School Meeting, Annual 54 22 
 
 School Month, Denned 185 69 
 
 School Funds and Finances, Article VII 29 
 
 Additional School Land 64 29 
 
 Apportionment by County Superintendent 67 30 
 
 Accounts of Treasurer With School District 68 31 
 
 Auditor to Draw School Warrants 70 32 
 
 County, School Taxes 65 2.9 
 
 Discharge of School Moneys 66 30 
 
 Duties of County Superintendent 69 32 
 
 Deficiency Warrants 71-74 33 
 
 How Fund Is Constituted 63 29 
 
 Independent School Warrants Not Countersigned. 70 32 
 
 Investment of Surplus Money ' 75 34 
 
 School Term, Length of 54 ( d ) 2 3 
 
 Sinking Fund, Investment of 80 35 
 
 Special Tax, Levy of ^ 54 (c) 24 
 
 State Board Education, Article I 5 
 
 State Board Education 
 
 Shall Supervise Rural High Schools 140 
 
 State Superintendent 
 
 Election Qualifications, Residence, and Oaith 
 
 of Office 19 7 
 
 Executive Officer of the State Board of 
 
 Education 22 (a) 
 
 Furnish Blank Forms, Books, and School Laws__ 22 (b) 
 
 Meetings With Superintendents 21 
 
 Office and Seal 20 8 
 
 Report to the Governor 22 (c) 9 
 
 Supplies Furnished for State Superintendent 22 (e) 9 
 
 Visit and Inspect School 22 (d) 9 
 
 Shall Visit Summer Normal Schools 120 48 
 
 Superintendents, Supervision of 8 5 
 
 Supervision by Board of Education 5 5 
 
 Supervision of Superintendents 8 5 
 
 Supplies Shall Be Furnished 58 (h) 26 
 
 State University 81 
 
 Summer Normal Schools, Article XII 47 
 
 Annual Term of Schools 116 47 
 
 Commission in Charge 112 47 
 
 Courses of Study 114 47 
 
 Commission May Discontinue Schools 119 48 
 
 Minutes and Report 115 47 
 
 Meetings and Officers of Commission 113 47 
 
 Superintendent to Visit Schools 120 48 
 
IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Section Page 
 
 Summer Normal School Fund 118 48 
 
 Use of Buildings to Be Free 121 48 
 
 Who May Receive Instruction 117 48 
 
 Superintendent, County, Article IV 15 
 
 Appointment of Trustees for New Districts 44 18 
 
 Annual Report 43 (a) 17 
 
 Blanks and Supplies 38 16 
 
 Boundaries of School Districts 43 (b) 18 
 
 Buildings, Sanitation and Equipment of School 
 
 Property _ 39 16 
 
 Conduct of Teachers' Examinations 41 17 
 
 Election, Residence, and Term of Office 35 15 
 
 Expenses of Conducting Examinations 42 17 
 
 Failure to Report to Slate Superintendent, Penalty 45 18 
 
 Oath, Bond, and Qualifications 36 15 
 
 Office Assistance 37 (e) 16 
 
 Office Duties 37 (d) 16 
 
 Permits to Teach 41 17 
 
 Records 40 17 
 
 Sunervision of Public Schools Excepting 
 
 Class A Independent School Districts 37 (a), (b) 15 
 
 Teachers' Meetings 37 (c) 16 
 
 Shall Hold Institute,.- 108 45 
 
 Duty to Keep Record of Warrants 69 32 
 
 Shall Report Delinquents to Probate Court 164 69 
 
 Shall Report Delinquents to Probation Officer 150 61 
 
 Tax, Assessment and Collection of 56 2 4 
 
 Tr.xes. County School 65 29 
 
 Tax Levy to Pay Bonds .- 80 35 
 
 Tax, Special Levy oi - 54 (c) 23 
 
 Teachers, Article IX 37 
 
 Enforce State Course of Study 86 (b) 37 
 
 Enforce Rules and Regulations Prescribed by 
 
 State 86 (b) 37 
 
 Make Reports 86 (b) 37 
 
 Duty of Teacher to Report Pupils Not in At- 
 tendance 149 61 
 
 Discharge of 58 (e) 25 
 
 Employed on Contracts 58 (a) 25 
 
 Require Proper Conduct and Language in 
 Building, on Playgrounds, on Way to and 
 
 From School 86 (b) 37 
 
 Shall Keep Himself Without Reproach 86 (b) 37 
 
 Shall Teach Morality 86 (b) 37 
 
 Shall Teach Manners 86 (b) 37 
 
 Shall Teach General Literature 86 (b) 37 
 
 Shall Attend Institute 109 46 
 
 Teachers Must Have Certificate 87 38 
 
 Suspension of Pupils 86 (a) 37 
 
 Use State Textbooks 86 (b) 37 
 
 When Paid for Institute Attendance.- no 46 
 
 Teachers, Certification of (See Certification of 
 
 Teachers- 
 Teachers' Institutes, Article XI 45 
 
 Conduct and Expenses of Institute.. in 46 
 
 Held by County Superintendent 108 45 
 
 Teachers Shall Attend Institute 109 46 
 
 Teachers of Adjourned Schools to Draw Pay no 46 
 
H4 IDAHO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Section Page 
 
 Teachers Paid for Attending Institute 58 (f) 25 
 
 Term, School, Length of 54 (d) 23 
 
 Textbook Commissioners (See Board of Text- 
 book Commissioners). 
 
 Textbooks (See Board of Textbook Commis- 
 sioners).) 
 
 Textbooks, State, Teachers Shall Use 86 (b) 37 
 
 Independent District, When Excepted___ 26 n 
 
 Textbooks Shall Be Disinfected, When 144 60 
 
 Training Schools for Teachers 101 (b) 43 
 
 Traveling Library, Management of 175 72 
 
 Trustees, County, Meetings of 62 29 
 
 Treasurer County, Accounts With Districts 68 31 
 
 Treasurer of Independent Districts 
 
 Official Bond 127 51 
 
 Shall Deposit Moneys --127 51 
 
 Trustees, District (See District Trustees.) 
 Trustees for Rural High Schools (See Rural 
 
 High Schools). 
 Trustees of Independent Districts 
 
 Board of .- 124 5o 
 
 Election of 1125 (a) 50 
 
 Shall Not Be Interested in Contracts 126 
 
 Qualifications of Board 127 5 1 
 
 Vacancies on Board 125 (b) 50 
 
 Trustees' Report -61 
 
 Trustees Shall Qualify 55 2 4 
 
 Tuition of High School Pupils 58 (d) 
 
 Tuition of Non-Resident Pupils 58 (d) 
 
 University, State , Si 
 
 Visit County Schools, Duty of State Superin- 
 tendent - 22 (d) 9 
 
 Warrants, Deficiency -71-74 33 
 
 Warrants, Independent, not Countersigned 70 32 
 
 Warrants, Duty of Auditor to Draw 70 32 
 
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