tion of fifty thousand (50,000) or more the sum of $2,500.00; and in all cases such superintendent shall receive the expenses of necessary office stationery and postage and those incurred in attending upon meetings called by the superintendent of public instruction; claims therefor to be made by verified statements filed with the county auditor who shall draw his warrant upon the county treasurer therefor; provided, that where county superintendents are now receiving by action of the board of supervisors a sum greater than the amount fixed herein, this law shall not be construed so as to reduce said sum."

"Any increase in salaries provided for in this act shall not apply after June 30th, 1921."

The salaries of all county officials included in this act shall be paid out of the county treasurer in equal monthly installments. [38 G. A., ch. 293; 35 G. A., ch. 107, § 2; 29 G. A., ch. 124, § 1; 19 G. A., ch. 161, § 1; C., '73, § 1776; R., § 2074.]

In effect by publication April 28, 1919.

THE SYSTEM OF COMMON SCHOOLS. .

Sec. 2743. School districts-corporate powers. Each school district now existing shall continue a body politic as a school corporation, unless hereafter changed as provided by law, and as such may sue and be sued, hold property, and exercise all the powers granted by law, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all school matters over the territory therein contained. [C. '73, §§ 1713, 1716; R., §§ 2022, 2026; C. '51, § 1108.]

Sec. 2744. Names. District townships now existing shall hereafter be called school townships, subdivision of which shall be called subdistricts. School corporations shall be designated as follows: The school township of (naming civil township), in the county of (naming county), state of Iowa; or, the independent school district of (naming city, town or village, and if there are two or more districts therein, including some appropriate name or number), in the county of (naming county), state of Iowa; or, the rural independent school district of (some appropriate name or number), township of (naming township), in the county of (naming county), state of Iowa. [27 G. A., ch. 91, § 1; C. '73, § 1716; R., § 2026; C. '51, § 1108.]

Sec. 2745-a. Duty of boards of school directors-fence. It shall be the duty of all boards of school directors in school districts where the schoolhouse site adjoins the cultivated or improved lands of another to build and maintain a lawful fence between said site and cultivated or improved lands. [27 G. A., ch. 88, § 1.]

Sec. 2745-b. Rights of owner of adjoining lands. The owner of lands adjoining any schoolhouse site shall have the right to con

nect the fence on his lands with the fences around any schoolhouse site, but he shall not be liable to contribute to the maintenance of the fence around said site. [27 G. A., ch. 88, § 2.]

Sec. 2746. Annual meeting of corporation. A meeting of the voters of each school corporation shall be held annually on the second Monday in March for the transaction of the business thereof. Notice in writing of the place, day and hours during which the meeting will be in session, specifying the number of directors to be elected, and the terms thereof, and such propositions as will be submitted to and be determined by the voters, shall be posted by the secretary of the board in at least five public places in said corporation, for not less than ten days next preceding the day of the meeting. The president and secretary of the board, with one of the directors shall act as judges of the election. If any judge of election is absent at the organization of the meeting the voters present shall appoint one of their number to act in his stead. The judges of election shall issue certificates to the directors elected. [19 G. A., ch. 51; 18 G. A., ch. 7, § 1; 18 G. A., ch. 63; C. '73, §§ 1717, 1719; R., §§ 2027-8, 2031, 2033; C. '51 §§ 1111, 1114-15.]

Sec. 2747. Electors. To have the right to vote at a school meeting a person must have the same qualifications as for voting at a general election, and must be at the time an actual resident of the corporation or subdistrict. In any election hereafter held in any school corporation for the purpose of issuing bonds for school purposes or for increasing the tax levy, the right of any citizen to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex, and women may vote at such elections the same as men, under the same restrictions and qualifications as far as applicable. [25 G. A., ch. 39.]

Sec. 2748. Officers-qualifications.. A school officer or member of the board may be of either sex, and must at the time of election or appointment be a citizen and a resident of the corporation or subdistrict, and over twenty-one years of age, and, if a man, he must be a qualified voter of the corporation or subdistrict. [16 G. A., ch. 136.]

Sec. 2749. Powers. The voters assembled at the annual meeting shall have power:

1. To direct a change of text-books regularly adopted;

2. To direct the sale or make other disposition of any schoolhouse or site or other property belonging to the corporation, and the application to be made of the proceeds of such sale;

3. To determine upon added branches that shall be taught, but instruction in all branches except foreign languages shall be in English;

4. To instruct the board that school buildings may or may not be used for meetings of public interest;

5. To direct the transfer of any surplus in the schoolhouse fund to the general fund;

6. To authorize the board to obtain, at the expense of the corporation, roads for proper access to its schoolhouses;

7. To vote a schoolhouse tax, not exceeding ten mills on the dollar in any one year, for the purchase of grounds, construction of schoolhouses, the payment of debts contracted for the erection of schoolhouses, not including interest on bonds, procuring libraries for and opening roads to schoolhouses.

The board may, or, upon the written request of five voters of any rural independent district, or of ten voters of any school township, or of twenty-five voters of any city or town independent district having a population of five thousand or less, or of fifty voters of any other city or town independent district, shall, provide in the notice for the annual meeting for submitting any proposition authorized by law to the voters. All propositions shall be voted upon by ballot in substantially the following form: "Shall a change of text-books be directed?" (or other questions as the case may be); and the voter shall designate his vote by writing the word "yes" or "no" in an appropriate place on the ballot. [37 G. A., ch. 386, § 2; 21 G. A., ch. 131, § 1; 19 G. A., ch. 51; 18 G. A., ch. 63; C. '73, §§ 1717, 1807; R., §§ 2027-8, 2033; C. '51, §§ 1114, 1115.]

Sec. 2750. Special meeting. The board of directors may call a special meeting of the voters of any school corporation by giving notice in the same manner as for the annual meeting, which shall have the powers given to a regular meeting with reference to the sale of school property and the application to be made of the proceeds, and to vote a schoolhouse tax for the purchase of a site and the construction of a necessary schoolhouse, and for obtaining roads thereto. [28 G. A., ch. 104, § 1; 24 G. A., ch. 21; 18 G. A., ch. 84.]

Sec. 2751. Subdistrict meeting. The meeting of the voters of each subdistrict of a school township shall be held annually on the first Monday in March, and shall not organize earlier than nine o'clock a. m., nor adjourn before twelve o'clock m. Notice in writing of the time and place of such meeting and the amount of schoolhouse tax to be voted shall be given by its director, or if there is none by the school township secretary, by posting in three public places in the subdistrict for five days next preceding the same. The voters shall select a chairman and secretary of the meeting who shall act as judges of election, and shall also elect a director for the subdistrict by ballot. The vote shall be canvassed by the judges of election, and the person receiving the

highest vote shall be declared elected. [22 G. A., ch. 51; 18 G. A., ch. 7, § 1; C. '73, §§ 1718-19, 1789; R., §§ 2030-1; C. '51, § 1111.]

Sec. 2752. Number of directors. The board of directors of a school township shall be composed of one director from each subdistrict. But when there is an even number of subdistricts another director shall be elected at large by all the voters of the school township. When the school township is not divided into subdistricts, a board of three directors shall be elected at large, on the second Monday in March, by all the voters of the school township. [27 G. A., ch. 92, § 1; 15 G. A., ch. 27; C. '73, §§ 17201; R., §§ 2031, 2035, 2075-6; C. '51, §§ 1112, 1721.]

Sec. 2753. Special schoolhouse tax. At the annual subdistrict meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, the voters may vote to raise a greater amount of schoolhouse tax than that voted by the voters of the school township, ten days' previous notice having been given, but the amount so voted, including the amount voted by the school township, shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of fifteen mills on the dollar. The sum thus voted shall be certified forthwith by the secretary of said subdistrict meeting to the secretary of the school township, and shall be levied by the board of supervisors only on the property within the subdistrict. [C. '73, § 1778; R., §§ 2033-4, 2037, 2088.]

Sec. 2754. Elections in independent districts tie vote-nomination-ballot. At the annual meeting in all independent districts members of the board shall be chosen by ballot. In any district including all or part of a city of the first class, or a city under special charter, the board shall consist of seven members, three of whom shall be chosen on the second Monday in March, 1898, two on the second Monday in March, 1899, and two on the second Monday in March, 1900. In all other independent city, town or village districts, and in all rural independent districts. where the board now consists of six members the board shall consist of five members, one of whom shall be chosen on the second Monday in March, 1898, two on the second Monday in March, 1899, and two on the second Monday in March, 1900. In all. independent city, town, or village districts where the board now consists of three members such board shall hereafter consist of five members, three of whom shall be elected on the second Monday in March, 1898, one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. In all other rural independent districts the board shall consist of three members, one of whom shall be chosen on the second Monday in March, 1898, and one each year thereafter. In districts composed in whole or in part of cities or towns, a treasurer shall be chosen in like manner, whose term shall begin on the first day of July, unless that date falls on Sunday, in which case, on the day following, and continue for two years, or until

his successor is elected and qualified. The term of office of the incumbent treasurer in said districts shall expire on the third Monday in March, 1898. In such districts the polls must remain open not less than five hours and in rural independent districts and school townships not less than two hours. In each case the polls shall open at one o'clock p. m., except as provided in section twenty-seven hundred and fifty-six of this chapter. A tie vote for any elective school office shall be publicly determined by lot forthwith, under the direction of the judges.

The names of all persons nominated as candidates for office in all independent city or town districts shall be filed with the secretary of the school board not later than seven days previous to the day on which the annual school election is to be held, each candidate to be nominated by a petition signed by not less than ten qualified electors of the district. The secretary of the school board shall cause to be printed, ballots upon which shall appear in alphabetical order the names of all candidates for each office, filed as herein provided, and a blank line for each such officer to be elected, there shall be at the left of each name and each blank line a square and there shall also be a direction to the voter as to the number of candidates to be voted for at said school election. Ballots shall be printed upon plain substantial paper of uniform quality and shall have no party designation or mark whatever. The secretary of the board shall cause to be delivered at the several polling places a sufficient number of ballots. In all other respects the said school election in independent city or town districts shall be conducted under the general election laws of the state of Iowa, so far as same may be applicable. [35 G. A., ch. 245, § 1; 31 G. A., ch. 136, § 2; 27 G. A., ch. 93, § 1; 27 G. A., ch. 91, § 2; 22 G. A., ch. 51; 18 G. A., ch. 7, § 2; C. '73, §§ 1789, 1808.]

Sec. 2755. Election precincts-register of voters-notice. That section two thousand seven hundred fifty-five (2755) supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

Each school corporation having five thousand or more inhabitants may be divided into such number of precincts as the board of directors shall determine, in each of which a poll shall be held at a convenient place, fixed by the board of directors, for the reception of the ballots of voters residing in such precinct. The clerk of the city shall furnish to the board of directors the last registers of elections, and these registers shall be used at and have the same force and effect at school elections held under this section in reception of votes thereat, as at general elections. The board of directors of such school corporation, on or before the last Monday preceding such election shall appoint two suitable persons to be registrars in each of the election precincts of such school corporation for the registration of voters therein, who