Show EDUCATION county pay the entire election bill The board of education met last evening at the parser school house all the members were present miss may ashworth asked lor a raise in her salary as ehe haa such a lareo grada and it requires extra work the matter was referred to tho committee on teachers and school work the board received a communication from the county of schools had been placed in the county treasur ery as the cites apportionment of the school taxes the alek made a verbal report on the bill against the county for tho use of the franklin school bouse for election purposes the county cut the bill down from 10 to 5 and the clerk would not receive the 5 warrant on motion of mr mcewan mc ewan the full bill was placed in the hands of thomas john for collection not as a member of tap school board but as an attorney the committee on finance reported that they had audited the treasurers treasur ers report for november 1896 and found it correct the following claims were allowed frank brain 8 50 sam biake Si ake irvine esons 80 provo hardware iron go L A U lumber co john richards gates furniture Fur 1445 the janitors of the and franklin house s had their salaries raised to 12 and 13 per month respectively mr pauleon of the mountain school had his salary raised fraai 50 to 55 per month for extra work the teachers salary waa advanced to them for two weeks the following communication was received from bupt supt christonsen Christo neen and referred to the committee on finance davson utah dec to the honorable board of education provo city utah I 1 respectfully direct your attention to the decision of tha supreme court in the case of lydia merall vs spencer collector of salt lake county brought to obtain an injunction prohibiting hi collection of the county school tax assessed against her property in bait lake city thia decision will require I 1 suppose the refunding of the two apportionments of the county school tax already made to provo city and the return to the taxpayers tax payers of provo all county school tax paid under the last assessment ordered by the county commissioners the state superintendent erin will be asked to detail the exact method of proceed ure which information will be communicated to you in the immediate future very truly yours D H A car of lump coal was ordered for the schools the matter of the length of the school year wai referred to the committee on teachers tea chera and school work A communication waa received from eva stewart banier for position aa teacher filed board adjourned |