eight months, and not less than five months in all other districts on the pain of forfeiture of their share of the primary school interest fund; but in case the people do not determine the length of the school year, then the district board shall determine the same, and in case the board or the district fix the length of the school year and later in the year it is found desirable to increase the length of said school year, such action may be taken at a properly called special school meeting, or the board may take such action on petition of a maProviso, may jority of the resident qualified voters: Provided, That each school district may at an annual meeting vote to discontinue school in the district for the ensuing year and determine that the children resident therein shall be sent to another school or schools, and when such action has been taken the school board shall have authority to use any funds, except library funds, in the hands of the treasurer to pay the tuition and transportation of all such children, and if necessary vote a tax for such purpose.

discontinue

school.

Tuition and transportation.

Vacancies, how filled.

CHAPTER III.

SEC. 3. In case any one of the district offices becomes vacant, the two remaining officers shall immediately fill such vacancy; or in case two of the offices become vacant, the remaining officer shall immediately call a special meeting of the district to fill such vacancies; in case any vacancy is not filled as herein provided within twenty days after it shall have occurred, or in case all the offices in a district shall become vacant, the township board of the township to which the annual reports of such district are made shall fill such Term of office. vacancies. Any person elected or appointed to fill a vacancy

Who eligible to election or appointment.

Proviso,

husband and wife.

Duty of board

to vote money.

in a district office shall hold such office until the next succeeding annual meeting, at which time the voters of the district shall fill such office for the unexpired portion of the term.

SEC. 4. Any qualified voter in a school district whose name appears upon the assessment roll and who is the owner in his own right of the property so assessed shall be eligible to election or appointment to office in such school district: Provided, That where a husband and wife own property jointly, regardless of the name which appears upon the assessment roll, if otherwise qualified, each shall be eligible to election or appointment to school office.

SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the district board to estimate and vote the amount of money necessary to be raised in addition to other school funds for the entire support of the schools, for the purposes of teachers' wages, water supply, and such other expenses as are incidental and necessary in order that the schools may be properly conducted, for deficiencies in such funds for the preceding year, if any, and for the services of

how

unused

district officers. All primary money and mill tax shall be Teachers' accounted for under the title of "Teachers' wages fund." All wages fund, taxes voted for teachers' wages, incidentals and deficiencies accounted. and services of officers, when collected and received, shall be accounted for under the title of the general fund: Provided, Proviso, That if at the close of the school year there is an unused sur- surplus. plus of one mill tax raised for that year, the board shall have authority to transfer such surplus to the general fund: Pro- Further vided further, That the tax for the services of district officers proviso. herein provided for, in districts having less than fifty children, shall not exceed twenty-five dollars, and in districts having between fifty and one hundred children the tax shall

not exceed fifty dollars. When the taxes herein provided for Taxes, how have been estimated and voted by the district board they shall reported. be reported for assessment and collection the same as other district taxes. When any tax has been estimated and voted Amount may by the district board or by the district under the provisions borrow in of law and the money is needed before it can be collected, the district board may borrow on the strength of such tax a sum not exceeding the total of such tax.

anticipation.

SEC. 25. It shall be the duty of the treasurer of each school Duty of district:

treasurer.

First, To execute to the district and file with the director, To execute within ten days after his election or appointment, a bond in bond. the full amount of money to come into his hands during each year of his term of office, as near as the same can be ascertained, with two or more sureties, each of whom shall be required to justify in writing and under oath to the amount for which he is holden in said bond; or the treasurer may furnish the bond of some surety company authorized to do business in this State. The premium on said surety bond, if pur- Premium, chased, shall be paid by the district; the form of the bond, etc. form of bond, the penalty and sufficiency of the sureties to be subject to the approval of the moderator and director, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties and the proper application of all moneys that shall come into his hands by virtue of his office. Said bond shall be filed with the director, and Filing of bond. none of the books or money of the district shall be placed in the hands of the treasurer until his bond has been so approved and filed, and in case of any breach of the conditions thereof the moderator shall cause a suit to be commenced thereon in the name of the district, and any moneys collected thereon shall be paid into the township treasury subject to the order of the district officers, and shall be applied to the same purposes as the moneys lost should have been applied by the treasurer: Provided, That if the treasurer shall deposit the money Proviso, in any bank or trust company authorized to do business in depositing of this State, such deposit shall be made in his name as treas where credited. urer of the district, and any and all interest paid by such bank or company on such deposits shall be accounted for by

the treasurer to the district and credited to the general fund;

funds, interest

To pay orders.

Receipts and disbursements.

Yearly report.

To appear for district.

Settlement

with board.

Second, To pay all orders of the director, when lawfully drawn and countersigned by the moderator, out of any moneys in his hands belonging to the fund upon which such orders may be drawn;

Third, To keep a book in which all moneys received and disbursed shall be entered, the sources from which the same have been received, and the persons to whom and the objects for which the same have been paid;

Fourth, To present to the district board at the close of the school year a report in writing, containing a statement of all moneys received during the preceding year and of each item of disbursements made, and exhibit the voucher therefor;

Fifth, To appear for and on behalf of the district in all suits brought by or against the same when no other directions shall be given by the qualified voters in district meeting, except in suits in which he is interested adversely to the district, and in all such cases the moderator shall appear for such district if no other directions be given as aforesaid;

Sixth, At the close of his term of office to settle with the district board and deliver to his successor in office all books, vouchers, orders, documents and papers belonging to the office of treasurer, together with all district moneys remaining on hand;

Seventh, To perform such other duties as are or shall be by law required of the treasurer.

Altering boundaries of

districts.

Proviso, appeal.

CHAPTER X.

SEC. 4. No alterations shall be made in the boundaries of graded school any graded school district without the consent of a majority of the trustees of said district, which consent shall be spread upon the record of the district, and placed on file in the office of the clerk of the township or city to which the reports of said district are made: Provided, however, That any three or more taxpaying electors having children between the ages of five and twelve years, residing one and one-half miles or more from a schoolhouse in such district, feeling themselves aggrieved by any action, order or decision of the board of trustees with reference to the alteration of said school district affecting their interests, may, at any time within sixty days from the time of such action on the part of said board of trustees, appeal from such action, order or decision of such board of school trustees to the judge of probate of the county in which such schoolhouse is situated, in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as appeals from the action of the township board, as provided by chapter nine of this act. Said appellants shall file a bond with said judge of probate, with sufficient sureties to be approved by said judge of probate, in the penal sum of not exceeding two hundred dollars in the discretion of the court, indemnifying said school district of any and all

Bond,

amount of, where filed.

probate to

costs made on such appeal in case the appellants shall not prevail therein. Whereupon said judge of probate shall be Judge of empowered to entertain such appeal, and review, confirm or review set aside or amend the action of the board of trustees appealed from.

action.

school

districts may

board,

SEC. 5. Whenever two or more contiguous districts, having Graded together more than one hundred children between the ages of district. five and twenty years, after having published in the notices of certain the annual meetings of each district the intention to take such unite for. action, shall severally, by a vote of a majority of the qualified voters attending the annual meetings in said districts, determine to unite for the purpose of establishing a graded school district under the provisions of this chapter, the township Township board of the township or townships in which such districts duty of. may be situated shall, on being properly notified of such vote, proceed to unite such districts, and shall appoint as soon as practicable a time and place for a meeting of the new district, and shall require three notices of the same to be posted in each Notices, posting of. of the districts so united at least five days before the time of such meeting, and at such meeting the district shall elect a board of trustees, as provided in section one of this chapter, Board of and may do whatever business may be done at any annual trustees, meeting.

election of.

school

change to.

SEC. 6. Whenever the trustees of any organized graded Primary school district shall be presented twenty days before the an- districts, nual meeting thereof with a petition signed by ten voters of when may said district, stating that it is the desire of said petitioners that at the annual meeting of said school district there shall be submitted to said annual meeting the proposition to change from a graded school district to one or more primary school districts, the said trustees shall, in their notice of such annual meeting, state that the proposition set forth in said petition will be presented to said meeting, and if two-thirds of the qualified voters present at said meeting shall vote to change to one or more primary school districts such change shall be made, and it shall be the duty of the township board of the Township township or townships in which such district is situated, upon duty of. being duly notified of such vote, to proceed to change or divide such district as determined by such annual meeting, and they shall provide for the holding of the first meeting in the, or each of the, proposed primary school districts in First the same manner as is provided for by law for the organiza- meeting. tion of primary school districts, and whenever a fractional Fractional graded school district shall be so changed, the township boards districts. of the respective townships where such graded school district is situated shall organize the said district into one or more primary school districts, as provided for by law.

Approved May 12, 1909.

board,

Citizens,

who subject to military duty.

Persons exempted.

Unorganized militia, when subject to duty.

How

mustered in.

Supervisors, when to

names.

[No. 84.]

AN ACT to increase the efficiency of the military establishment of the State of Michigan, to make an appropriation therefor, and to repeal all former acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. All able-bodied male citizens of Michigan, including those of foreign birth who have declared their intention to become citizens of the United States, residing therein, of the age of eighteen years and under the age of forty-five years and not exempted by the laws of the United States or of this State, shall constitute the militia and be subject to military duty. In addition to the persons exempted by the laws of the United States, the following persons shall be exempted from military duty, namely: Officers of the State government; judges of the supreme court, circuit and district courts; members of the legislature; officers and guards of the State prisons, houses of correction and other State institutions; keepers of poorhouses, officers, attendants and assistants; firemen after seven years' service as such; officers who have held commissions in the regular or volunteer army or navy of the United States; commissioned officers of the militia of this State who have served in said militia fully uniformed and equipped according to law and regulations for the term of six years and who have resigned after such service, or have been honorably discharged; all county officers, except notaries public; all teachers engaged in public institutions and public schools and ministers of the gospel. The unorganized militia shall not be subject to actual duty, except when called into service of the State or United States in case of war, rebellion, invasion, the prevention of invasion, the suppression of riots, tumults and breaches of the peace, or to aid civil officers in the execution of the law and the service of process, in which case they, or as many of them as the necessity requires, may be ordered out for actual service by draft or otherwise as the Governor may direct. The portion of the militia ordered out or accepted shall be mustered into service for such period as may be required, and the commanding officer may assign them to the existing organized militia or organize them, as the exigency of the occasion may require.

SEC. 2. The officers acting as supervisors of every townreturn list of ship, ward or city shall immediately, upon an order from the Governor of this State to that effect, return a list of the names of all persons who are liable to perform military duty residing in their township, ward or city, to the county clerk, who shall, within twenty days after the receipt of such re