amount of all necessary taxes for all school purposes, which shall not exceed sixty-five dollars for each person of school age, except that where an approved high school course is maintained in such school the levy may be eighty dollars for each person of school age the amount so levied to be certified by them to the county board of supervisors on or before the first Monday of September in each year, and the board of supervisors shall levy said tax at the same time, and in the same manner that other school taxes are required to be levied. [38 G. A., H. F. 103; 31 G. A., ch. 141.]

(c) Central school-transportation. It shall be the duty of the school board of any consolidated independent school corporation and school township maintaining a central school to provide suitable transportation to and from school, for every child of school age living within said district, and outside the limits of any city, town or village but the board shall not be required to cause the vehicle of transportation to leave the public highway to receive or discharge occupants thereof. The board shall from time to time, by resolution regularly adopted, number and designate the route to be traveled by each conveyance in transporting children to and from school. The school board may require that children living an unreasonable distance from school shall be transported by the parent, or guardian, a distance of not to exceed two miles, to connect with any vehicle of transportation to and from school; or may, in the discretion of the board, contract with an adjoining school corporation for the instruction of any child living an unreasonable distance from school, and they shall allow a reasonable amount of compensation for the transportation of children to and from the point where they are taken over, or discharged from the vehicle used to convey them to and from school, or for transporting to an adjoining district. In determining what an unreasonable distance would be, consideration shall be given to the number and age of the children, the condition of the roads, and the number of miles to be traveled in going to and from school. The board shall have the right on account of inclemency of the weather to suspend the transportation of any route upon any day or days when in the judgment of the said board it would be a hardship on the children, or when the roads to be traveled are unfit or impassable.

(d) Contracts for transportation-rules and regulations. The school board of any consolidated independent school corporation shall contract with as many suitable persons as they deem necessary for the transportation of children of school age to and from school, such contract to be in writing and shall state the number of the route, the length of time contracted for, the compensation to be allowed per week of five school days, or per month of four school weeks, and may provide that two weeks' salary shall be retained by the board pending full compliance therewith by the party contracted with, and shall always provide

that any party or parties to said contract and every person in charge of vehicles conveying children to and from school, shall be at all times subject to any rules or regulations said board shall adopt for the protection of the children, or to govern the conduct of the person in charge of said conveyance.

(e) School building—tax levy-location. It shall be the duty of the school board of any consolidated independent district to provide a suitable school building within such district, and shall at any regular meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose submit the question of levying a tax for the building of any school building suitable for the needs of the district, or for the building of a superintendent's and teachers' house, or for the repairing of any school building where the cost of such repairs exceeds the sum of two thousand dollars to the qualified voters of said district, and all moneys received from such source to be placed in the schoolhouse fund of said corporation and to be used for such purposes only. In locating said building they shall take into consideration the geographical position, number and convenience of the scholars, and may submit the question of location to the voters of the district at any regular meeting or special meeting called for that purpose; providing that whenever a city, town or village containing a school population of twenty-five or more, is included within any consolidated independent district, then said building shall be located within the limits of said city, town or village, or upon lands contiguous to such limits, on such a site as the school board may determine. [37 G. A., ch. 432; 34 G. A., ch. 143; 31 G. A., ch. 141.]

(f) Dissolution-petition-election-boards of directors-division of assets and liabilities. Whenever a petition signed by onethird of the electors in a consolidated independent school corporation asking that said district be dissolved and describing the boundaries of the district or districts proposed to be organized out of the territory then included in such consolidated independent school corporation and having the approval of the county superintendent, if one county, and the superintendent of each if more than one county, and by the state superintendent of public instruction if the county superintendents do not agree, is filed with the board of said consolidated independent district, it shall be the duty of said board within ten days to call an election for which they shall give the same notices as are required in section twenty-seven hundred forty-six of the code, and twenty-seven hundred fifty of the supplement to the code, 1907, at which election all voters residing within the district shall be allowed to vote by ballot for or against such dissolution. If a majority of all votes cast at said election be in favor of dissolving the consolidated district, same shall be dissolved and the organization of a new district or districts be forthwith completed by the election of a board of directors as provided by statute; provided, however, that such dissolution shall become effective only when the reor

ganization of the territory included in the original consolidated district is completed. The assets and liabilities of any such school corporation thus dissolved shall be equitably divided as provided in section twenty-eight hundred and two of the supplement to the code, 1907.

(g) Violation of transportation rules and regulations—penalty. Any person driving, managing, or in charge of any vehicle used in transporting children to and from school in any consolidated independent school corporation who shall be found guilty of violating any of the rules and regulations adopted by the board of said school for the guidance of any person in charge of such conveyance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for the first offense shall be fined not less than five dollars or more than ten dollars and for a subsequent offense shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars or more than fifty dollars and shall be dismissed from the service. [36 G. A., ch. 342, § 1; 36 G. A., ch. 46, §1; 34 G. A., ch. 143, § 1; 31 G. A., ch. 141.]

Sec. 2794-b. State aid to consolidated schools-equipment and maintenance-two-room building agriculture and home economics. That all consolidated schools organized in accordance with the provisions of the code supplement section twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-a as amended by chapter one hundred fortythree of the acts of the thirty-fourth general assembly which are now or hereafter established with suitable grounds and a tworoom school building and the necessary departments and equipment for teaching agriculture and home economics, or other industrial and vocational subjects, and employing teachers holding a certificate showing their qualifications to teach said subjects, and in which said subjects are provided as a part of the regular course in such schools, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and paid from the state treasury from moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of two hundred fifty dollars towards the equipment required, and the further sum of two hundred dollars annually. [35 G. A., ch. 250, § 1.]

Sec. 2794-c. Same-three-room building-manual training. That all such schools established with a three-room school building and suitable grounds and the necessary departments and equipment for teaching agriculture, home economics and manual training, or other industrial and vocational subjects, and employing teachers holding a certificate showing their qualification to teach said subjects, and in which said subjects are provided as a part of the regular course in such schools, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and paid from the state treasury from moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred fifty dollars towards the equipment required and the further sum of five hundred dollars annually. [35 G. A., ch. 250, § 2.]

Sec. 2794-d. Same-four-room building. That all such schools established with four rooms or more and suitable grounds and the necessary departments and equipment for teaching agriculture, home economics and manual training, or other industrial and vocational subjects, and employing teachers holding a certificate showing their qualifications to teach said subjects, and in which said subjects are provided as a part of the regular course in such schools, subject to the approval of the superintendent of public instruction, shall be awarded and paid from the state treasury from moneys not otherwise appropriated the sum of five hundred dollars towards the equipment required, and the further sum of seven hundred fifty dollars annually. [35 G. A., ch. 250, $ 3.]

Sec. 2794-e. Report by secretary-requisition-warrant. The secretary of each school corporation shall, at the close of each school year, report to the superintendent of public instruction as said officer may require; upon receipt of a satisfactory report, the superintendent of public instruction shall issue a requisition upon the auditor of state for the amount due such school corporation for said year; whereupon the auditor of state shall draw a warrant on the state treasury payable to such school corporation for the amount of said requisition, and forward the same to the secretary of such school corporation. [35 G. A., ch. 250, § 4.]

Sec. 2794-f. No additional aid for normal course in high school. No consolidated school having a high school department shall receive additional aid for maintaining the normal training course in high schools as provided in chapter one hundred thirty-one, acts of the thirty-fourth general assembly. [35 G. A., ch. 250, § 5.1

Sec. 2794-g. Annual appropriation. That the law as it appears in section twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-g, supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

"For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated annually out of any money in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. In the event the foregoing appropriation shall be insufficient in any year to pay in full the state aid to which the schools described in sections twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-b (2794-b), twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-c (2794-c), and twenty-seven hundred ninety-four-d (2794-d), supplement to the code, 1913, the said appropriation shall be distributed among the several schools pro rata in proportion to the amount they would have received had said appropriation been sufficient to pay in full the amounts provided for in said section. [38 G. A., ch. 291; 36 G. A., S. F. 282, § 1; 35 G. A., ch. 250, § 6.]

Amendment of 38 G. A. in effect by publication April, 1919.

Sec. 2795. Organization. If the proposition to establish an independent district carries, then the same board shall give the usual notice for a meeting to choose a board of directors. Two directors shall be chosen to serve until the next annual meeting, two until the second, and one until the third annual meeting thereafter. The board shall organize by the election of officers in the usual manner. [15 G. A., ch. 27; C. '73, § 1802; R., §§ 2099, 2100, 2106.]

Sec. 2796. Taxes certified and levied. The organization of such independent district shall be effected on or before the first day of August of the year in which it is attempted, and, when completed, all taxes certified for the school township or townships of which the independent district formed a part shall be void so far as the property within the limits of the independent district is concerned, and the board of such independent district shall fix the amount of all necessary taxes for school purposes, including schoolhouse taxes, at a meeting called for such purpose at any time before the third Monday of August, which shall be certified to the board of supervisors on or before the first Monday of September, and it shall levy said tax at the same time and in the same manner that other school taxes are required to be levied. [C. '73, § 1804.]

Sec. 2797. Rural independent districts. At any time before the first day of August, upon the written request of one-third of the legal voters in each subdistrict of any school township, the board shall call a meeting of the voters of the subdistrict, giving at least thirty days' notice thereof by posting three notices in each subdistrict in each school township, at which meeting the voters shall vote by ballot for or against rural independent district organization. If a majority of the votes cast in each subdistrict shall be favorable to such independent organization, then each subdistrict shall become a rural independent district, and the board of the school township shall then call a meeting in each rural independent district for the choice of three directors, to serve one, two and three years, respectively, and the organization of the said rural independent district shall be completed. [22 G. A., ch. 61.]

Sec. 2798. Subdivision of independent districts. Independent districts may subdivide for the purpose of forming two or more independent districts or have territory detached to be annexed with other territory in the formation of an independent district or districts, the board of directors of the original independent districts to establish the boundaries of the districts thus formed, such new districts to contain not less than four government sections of land each; but in case a stream or other obstacle shall debar a number of children of school privileges, an independent district may be thus organized containing less territory; or, if