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 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 33 books, map, globes, stationery, and other things necessary for the same, and generally to prescribe rules and regulations for the management, good government, and well ordering of said schools. Sixth. To report to the legislative assembly, at the close of each schoolyear, theamount of all expenditures on account of schools in the several districts during the previous school year, and the manner in which the same shall have been expended, specifying the portion and amount thereof expended for the services of teachers, and also to particularly set forth the number of pupils taught, their average attendance and progress, and such other statistics as the legislative assembly may require. Seventh. To select, purchase, or otherwise procure suitable sites for school-houses in each district; to adopt plans and cause such schoolhouses to be built, kept in repair, and furnished; to supply the same with necessary fuel, books, stationery, and appendages, and to defray the necessary expenses of the board; but the pay of teachers shall always have preference. Sec. 280. The cost of such school-houses shall not exceed fifteen hun- Cost or schooldred dollars, unless by private subscription, except where the number b°“¤°¤- of scholars is sufficiently large to require two schools, in which case the 25 J°¤°» N64- °· Bum may reach three thousand d011m-S, {gg. ¤. 11, v. 13, p. Sec. 281. It shall be the duty of the school-board to provide suitable 1*0 mvms forand convenient houses or rooms for holding schools for colored children, the erfucation of to employ and examine teachers therefor, and to appropriate a propor- °°]°‘°d °h'ld'°”· tion of the school-i'uuds, to be determined by the numbers of white and mo.,s.17,p, 191. colored children, between the ages of six and seventeen years, to the payment of teachers’ wages, to the building or renting of school-rooms, and other necessary expenses pertaining to said schools, to exercise a general supervision over them, to establish proper discipline, and to endeavor to promote a thorough, equitable, and practical education of colored children in said portion of the district. Sec. 282. Any white resident shall be privileged to place his or her Whore children child or ward at any one of the schools provided for the education of MW l>¤ Pwd i¤ white children in said portion of the district he or she may think proper ‘@’-fiL--..-. to select, with the consent of the school—board; and any colored resident md-:'- NBP- 191- shall have the same rights with respect to colored schools. Sec. 283. The school-board is authorized to receive any donations or Donations tor contributions that may be made for the benefit of the schools for colored °°l°¤*d ¤°h°°1¤- children by persons disposed to aid in the elevation of the colored popula- md,,,_ 11, p_ rc1_ tion in the District, and to apply the same in such manner as in their opinion shall be best calculated to eifect the object of the donors; the school-board to account for all funds so received, and to report the same to the legislative assembly. Sec. 284. The taxes assessed for school purposes in the district with- School- t oxcr, out the limits of Washington and Georgetown shall be due at the same }¤¢>Y03¤d when wltime, and be collected in the same manner and under the same regu- :fmm• awa “° lations and restrictions as prescribed by law in relation to the collection of other taxes, and when collected shall be paid to the treasurer of the ,88, lég, ‘ * PP' school-fund. [mgm.] Sec. 285. The school-board shall appottiou the school-fund, after de- Apportionment ducting such part thereof as the provisions of section two hundred and eighty-one, assign to the education of colored children among the sev- Ibid.,s.11, p. 189. eral school districts, giving each one-seventh of the whole amount then remaining, (deducting the necessary expenses of the school-board,) according to the number of children in each district between the ages of six and seventeen years. _ Sec. 286. Whenever suitable sites cannot be purchased for the erec- Ccndcmnatnéwncf tion of school-houses, the school-board shall have power to condemn and mgqpfgzofdilfggz value land suitable for that purpose, not exceeding ono_ acre for each .;_. site, by giving ten days’ notice in writing to the proprietors thereof, g{¤•};.t12ig;1189· except in cases where notice cannot be served, and in_ cases of minors, 62 __ 4 *;:;,5 P_ 423; married women, and persons non compos, and tiling with the secretary ’ ’ ’ of the District for inspection a certiiicatedescribing such lands, with 12 s rr-3