eight thousand inhabitants and less than seventy thousand inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States census, shall be vested in a board of school trustees, which shall consist of five members, elected in the manner hereinafter provided.

6490b. School trustees, qualifications, oath, compensation.-2. The members of such board of school trustees shall be at least twentyfive years of age, residents of the city, and shall have been such residents of the city for at least three years immediately preceding their election. They shall be ineligible to any elective or appointive office under such board of school trustees and under the government of such city while holding membership on said board. They shall not be interested in any contract with, or claim against the school city in which they are elected, either directly or indirently: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to prevent anyone, otherwise eligible, who is connected as officer or stockholder in financial institutions holding school fund deposits under the state depository law from holding such office as school trustee. If at any time after the election of any member of said board, he shall become interested in any such contract with, or claim against said school city, he shall thereupon be disqualified to continue as a member of said board, and a vacancy shall thereby be created. Every member of said board shall, before assuming the duties of his office, take an oath before some one qualified to administer oaths that he possesses all the qualifications required by this act, that he will honestly and faithfully discharge the duties of his office, that he will not, while serving as a member of such board, become interested directly or indirectly, in any contract with, or claim against said school city, and that he will not be influenced during his term of office, by any consideration of politics or religion, or anything except that of merit and fitness in the appointment of officers and the engagement of employes. Each member of such board of school trustees shall receive as compensation for his services herein the sum of five hundred dollars ($500) per annum.

6490c. Election of school trustees.-3. The said board of school trustees shall be elected on a general ticket for a term of four years by the voters of any such city qualified to vote at its city elections. The members of such board shall be elected at the regular city election of such civil city, and shall be taken from the city at large without reference to districts, and such election shall be held under the provisions of the general laws governing such city elections, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this act. Not later than thirty days before any election for members of the board of school trustees provided for in this act, legal voters of such city

may present names of candidates for election as members of said board of school trustees to a board of canvassers, consisting of the mayor, the clerk and the comptroller of said city in the manner following: Each candidate shall be proposed in writing by not fewer than two hundred legal voters of such city. No more than five candidates may be named in any one petition and no legal voter may sign for more than five candidates on petition or petitions for any one election. Upon the presentation of such petition to said board of canvassers, the said board of canvassers shall publish for five days the names proposed, in at least two of the daily newspapers printed and published in said city, and shall certify at the time required by law such nominations to the regular board of election commissioners for said city election, who shall prepare ballots printed on plain paper which shall contain the names of all such candidates, arranged in order to be determined according to lot by said board of canvassers. There shall be nothing on said ballot, except as otherwise provided herein, and except the names of the candidates and the offices to be filled, together with the square in front of each name and a statement at the head of the ticket of the number of trustees for whom the elector may vote. Such ballot shall be voted at said regular city election and deposited in a separate ballot box provided for the purpose. The name of any candidate shall not be thus published and placed on the official ballot by the said board of canvassers if it shall appear that he is ineligible for membership on the said board of school trustees under the provisions of section two (2) of this act. Each elector may vote for five candidates by making a cross in the square opposite the name of each candidate for whom he votes. The five candidates who have the highest number of votes shall be declared elected.

6490d. Time of election, term of office.-4. At the next general city election after the taking effect of this act, five members of the board of school trustees shall be elected to serve as herein provided, and each of said trustees shall hold office for a term of four years, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

6490e. Term of office extended.-5. School trustees holding office in such cities at the time of taking effect of this act, shall continue to hold office therein respectively as such school trustees in such cities during the terms of office for which they were so elected: Provided, however, That if the term of office of any of said school trustees so holding office at the time of taking effect of this act, shall, under the provisions of the act under and by virtue of which they were elected, expire on any day other than the day immediately preceding the first Monday in January of any year, then and in that

case, the term of office of such trustee shall be, and the same is hereby extended to the first Monday in January following the day upon which the term of office of such trustee would otherwise have expired. 6490f. Time of taking office.-6. The five trustees elected as provided by section four (4) of this act, shall take office as vacancies may occur, by reason of the expiration of the terms of office of the trustees now holding office, as provided in section five (5) herein. At each succeeding general city election, there shall be elected five school trustees, as herein provided, who shall respectively succeed the members serving as school trustees of any such city, upon the expiration of their respective terms of office. The five trustees elected at any such general city election, as provided in this act, shall take office in the order of the highest number of votes received by such trustees at said election: Provided, however, That if any of the trustees so elected at any general city election shall, at the time of his or her election, be holding the office of school trustee in such city, by virtue of any previous election or appointment, and the term of office of said trustee shall not expire until a time later than the time when said trustee should take office under his or her last election, said trustee shall not take said office in the order hereinabove provided, but shall succeed him or herself, and shall take office by virtue of such election at the expiration of his or her preceding term, and the term or terms of the remaining trustee or trustees elect shall be advanced accordingly.

6490g. Vacancies, how filled.-7. If a vacancy shall occur in the office of school trustee in any such city by reason of death, resignation, disqualification or otherwise, except expiration of term, the remaining trustees shall, at their next regular meeting, or at a special meeting called for that purpose, elect a successor to fill such vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term.

6490h. Repeal.-8. An act entitled "An act concerning boards of school trustees in cities having a population of more than fifty-five thousand inhabitants and less than sixty-three thousand inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States census, and declaring an emergency," approved March 4, 1911, also an act entitled "An act providing for the government of school cities in cities having a population of more than sixty-three thousand (63,000) inhabitants and less than sixty-nine thousand (69,000) inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States census, making the general school laws of the state applicable thereto, providing for the election of school trustees, prescribing their duties and declaring an emergency," approved February 19, 1913, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

This section repeals sections 6504f to 6504m inclusive Revision of 1914, Acts

1911, p. 358, and also repeals sections 6504n to 6504t inclusive Revision of 1914, Acts 1913, p. 24. Section 7, Acts 1921, p. 120, also repeals sections 6504n to 6504t inclusive Revision of 1914.

Section 9 of the above act provides that the act shall be in force and effect from and after its passage.

[Acts 1921, p. 120. In force May 31, 1921.]

64901. Schools in cities of 86,000 to 100,000.-1. The government of the common schools in cities having a population of more than eighty-six thousand (86,000) inhabitants and less than one hundred thousand (100,000) inhabitants, according to the last preceding United States census, shall be vested in a board of school trustees, which shall consist of seven members, who shall be appointed by the mayor as hereinafter provided, and not more than four of them shall be adherents of the same political party.

6490j. School city.-2. Such cities are hereby declared to be and are made school corporations for school purposes, separate and distinct from the civil corporations of the same cities, and shall be known and designated as the school city of (naming the city); and the several boards of school trustees of such cities shall represent and be vested with all the authority and powers of school cities, and with the management and control of the common schools thereof.

6490k. School laws applicable.-3. The general school laws of this state and all laws and parts of laws applicable to the general system of common schools in cities, and not inconsistent therewith, shall be in full force in such cities; and such boards of school trustees shall also have and exercise all the powers heretofore and hereafter conferred upon the school trustees of the same or other cities of the state.

64901. School board, qualifications of members.-4. The members of such board of school trustess shall be at least twenty-five years of age, residents of the city, and shall have been such residents of the city for at least three years immediately preceding their election. They shall be ineligible to any elective or appointive office under such board of school trustees and under the government of such city while holding membership on said board. They shall not be interested in any contract with, or claim against the school city in which they are elected, either directly or indirectly: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to prevent any person, otherwise eligible, who is connected as officer or stockholder, with any financial institutions holding school fund deposits under the state depository law from holding such office as school trustee. If at any time after the election of any member of said board, he shall become interested in any such contract with, or claim against said school city, he shall

thereupon be disqualified to continue as a member of said board, and a vacancy shall thereby be created. Every member of said board shall, before assuming the duties of his office, take an oath before some one qualified to administer oaths that he possesses all the qualifications required by this act, that he will honestly and faithfully discharge the duties of his office, that he will not, while serving as a member of such board, become interested directly or indirectly, in any contract with, or claim against, said school city, and that he will not be influenced during his term of office, by any consideration of politics or religion, or anything except that of merit and fitness in the appointment of officers and the engagement of employes. Each member of such board of school trustees shall serve without compensation.

6490m. Members appointed by mayor, terms, bonds.-5. The members of such board of school trustees shall be appointed by the mayor as follows: On or before the fifteenth day of July, 1921, the mayor of such city shall appoint one school trustee who shall hold office for a term of one year from the first day of the next succeeding August; two school trustees who shall hold office for a term of two years from the first day of the next succeeding August; two school trusttes who shall hold office for a term of three years from the first day of the next succeeding August; and two school trustees who shall hold office for a term of four years from the first day of the next succeeding August. Thereafter all appointments shall be made for a term of four years. On or before the fifteenth day of July, 1922, and annually thereafter, the mayor shall appoint a school trustee or school trustees to succeed the school trustee or school trustees whose terms are about to expire, and who shall serve for a term of four years, from the first day of the next succeeding August. Such trustees so appointed shall meet within five days after the first day of August, 1921, and annually thereafter, and organize by electing one of their number president, one secretary, and one treasurer. The treasurer, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall execute a bond to the acceptance of the county auditor, in the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), conditioned as an ordinary official bond, with a reliable surety company or at least two sufficient freehold sureties, who shall not be members of such board, as surety or suretics on such bond. The president and secretary shall each give bond, with like surety or sureties, to be approved by the county auditor, in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000): Provided, That such boards of school trustees may purchase said bonds from some reliable surety company, and pay for them out of the special school revenue of their respective cities. In the event that any vacancy shall occur