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Special district school tax,

levied,

and how collected.

dental expenses and necessary repairs; and also an estimate of the amount of public money, both State and county, to which each district will be entitled during the year, and the amount necessary to be raised in each school district to support a school eight months.

1846. The Board of Supervisors in each county when to be must, after receiving the assessment roll from the County Assessor, and must, at the time of levying other taxes in each year, levy a special school tax upon the property in each school district in which there is a deficiency, for an amount which, together with the State and county money to be received, is sufficient to maintain the school (or schools) for eight months during the year; and such tax must be equalized and collected in the manner provided for equalizing and collecting State and county taxes. The Collector must pay over the money so collected to the County Treas urer, who must place it to the credit of the respective districts from which it is collected, as a special deposit, and pay it out on the warrant of the School Superintendent, in the manner provided for the payment of State and county school moneys.

When the Supervisors fail to levy tax Auditor

must.

Certain districts

from.

NOTE.-See Sec. 425, Penal Code Cal.

1847. If the Supervisors fail to levy the tax as herein provided, then the Auditor must, and add it to the assessment roll.

1848. Any school district whose taxable property exempted does not exceed seventy-five thousand dollars, and which does not contain more than twenty-five children between the ages of five and fifteen years, must, on a proper showing of the facts, be exempted from the special taxation provided for in the two preceding sections.

ARTICLE XX.

GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATIVE TO SCHOOL FUNDS AND TAXES.

SECTION 1857. No compensation allowed to certain officer for collecting, etc., school moneys.

1858. Apportionment of State and County School Fund,

how made.

1859. Same.

1860. Same.

1861. What State School Fund may be used for.

1857. No Tax Collector or County Treasurer must charge or receive any fees or compensation whatever for collecting, receiving, keeping, or disbursing any school moneys; but the whole moneys collected must be paid to the County Treasurer.

NOTE.-See Sec. 425, Penal Code Cal.

1858. All State school moneys apportioned by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and all county school moneys apportioned by School Superintendents, must be apportioned to the several school districts and

cities in proportion to the number of school children between five and fifteen years of age, as shown by the returns of the School Census Marshals for the next preceding school year; but Indian children who are living not under the guardianship of white persons, and Mongolian children, must not be included in the apportionment.

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1859. No school district is entitled to receive any Same. apportionment of State or county school moneys which has not maintained a public school for at least three months during the then next preceding school year; but

any new district formed by the division of an old one is entitled to its apportionment when the time that school was maintained in the old district before division, and in the new district after division, is equal to at least three months. Any school district which

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What State
School
Fund may

be used for.

neglects or refuses to adopt and use the State series of text books required by law, is not a school district within the meaning of this Article.

1860. No school district is entitled to receive any apportionment of State or county school moneys unless the teachers employed in the schools of such district hold legal certificates of fitness for teaching, in full force and effect.

1861. The State School Fund, excepting as otherwise provided in this Chapter, must be used for no other purpose than the payment of teachers.

ARTICLE XXI.

Applicants

must

present evidence of character.

Appeals

from orders

revoking certificates

MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

SECTION 1871. Applicants for diplomas or certificates must present evidence of character.

1872. Appeals from orders revoking certificates or diplomas.

1873. School officers may administer oaths.

1874. Books once adopted must be continued four years.

1875. Penalties for neglect to use books adopted.

1876. Certain persons not to be interested in contracts.

1877. Printing and binding, by whom to be done.
1878. School year, commencement of.

1871. Applicants for diplomas or certificates must produce satisfactory evidence of good moral character.

1872. When a State certificate or diploma is revoked, the holder may appeal to the State Board of or diplomas Education; and when any other certificate is revoked he may appeal to the State Board of Examination.

School officers may

oaths.

1873. Every officer charged with the performance administer of duties under the provisions of this Chapter may administer and certify oaths relating to offices or official matters concerning public schools.

1874. Any books once adopted as part of a uniform series must be continued in use for not less than

four years.

Books once adopted must be

continued four years.

for neglect

books

1875. If any city or district refuse or neglect to Penalties use the books that may be prescribed, or use any to use other text books in any of the prescribed studies, the adopted. Superintendent of Public Instruction must withhold from such city, town, or district twenty-five per cent of all State school moneys to which it may be entitled until it comply; and any moneys so withheld must be apportioned by the Superintendent at the next annual apportionment in the same manner as other school moneys in the Treasury.

1876. No School Trustee or member of any Board of Education must be interested in any contract made by the Board of which he is a member; and any contract made in violation of this provision is void.

1877. All printing or binding required under this Chapter must be executed by the State Printer in the form and manner and at the prices of other State printing, and be paid for in like manner.

Certain not to be

persons

interested in contracts

and

Printing binding,

by whom

to be done.

1878. The school year begins on the first day of School July, and ends on the last day of June.

NOTE.-This Chapter is founded upon the statute of 1870, p. 824. Slight changes have been made in the subject matter of that statute; but it has been pruned of redundant matter and logically arranged.

year,

commencement of.

TITLE IV.

STATE MILITIA.

CHAPTER I. Enrolled Militia.
II. National Guard.

III. Calling and drafting the Militia into
actual service.

IV. Courts Martial and of Inquiry.
V. Board of Military Auditors.
VI. Adjutant General.

Who are

subject to

duty.

CHAPTER I.

ENROLLED MILITIA.

SECTION 1895. Who are subject to military duty.

1896. Who are exempt from military duty.

1897. Assessor to enroll persons subject to military duty. Tax Collector to make enrollment in San Francisco.

1898. Penalty for neglect or refusal to make return.

1899. Boards of Equalization to correct the roll.

1900. Copies to be forwarded to Brigadier General.

1901. Compensation of Assessors.

1902. Muster roll to be made by Brigadier General.

1895. Every able-bodied male inhabitant of this military State, except Mongolians and Indians, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five years, not exempt by law, is subject to military duty. But no alien is obliged to serve or bear arms against the State to. which his allegiance is due.

NOTE.-Const., Art. I, Sec. 12. The military to be subordinate to the civil power. No standing army except in time of war, and no appropriation therefor to be for a longer period than two years. Sec. 15. No person shall be imprisoned for a militia fine in time of peace. Art. II, Sec. 3. An elector is not required to perform military duty on day of election except in time of war or public danger. Art. V, Sec. 5. Gov

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