43. School District Officers : — ^The officers of each
school district in this state are director, clerk and treasurer,
who constitute the district board. The management of schools
in cities is vested in boards of education. (Chap. 92, art. 4.)

44. School District Bonds : — For the purpose of erect-
ing or purchasing schoolhouses the board of directors are
authorized to issue the bonds of the district in an amount not
to exceed six per cent of its taxable property as shown by the
last assessment. Also for the purpose of extending the time of
payment of the bonded indebtedness of any such district, the
directors may issue bonds in a sum not to exceed such indebt-
edness. It is unlawful for any school district to create any
bonded indebtedness unless there are at least fifteen persons
between the ages of five and twenty-one actually residing
within the limits thereof, as shown by a sworn census taken by
direction of the board of directors.
206 KANSAS — DISTRICT SCHOOI, BONDS.
45. Petition and Vote Required: — No such bonds shall be
issued until the question shall have been submitted to the qual-
ified electors of the district, at an election called for that pur-
pose, and a majority of such electors shall have voted in favor
of such question; and no such election shall be ordered unless
a petition, stating the purpose for which the bonds are to be
issued, and signed by at least one-third, and in no case less
than ten of the qualified electors of the district, shall have been
presented to the district board, praying for a vote to be taken
for the issue of an amount of bonds stated in such petition.
