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Show make Its recommendation at the next meeting. Tho report of Mr. Plngreo. chairman of the finance committee, was as follows: fol-lows: Received from the state auditor, au-ditor, the first apportionment apportion-ment of state school tax for tho year 100S 121,081.00 From tho First National Bank of Ogden, interest on bond recoipts to Jan. 26. 1909 154.17 From Ivy Williams, clerk, on sale of High school text books and refund on repairs re-pairs on Mound Fort school houeo 4 14. $4 j Total $2 1.650.00 Cash on hand with treasur - . or at dato $101.493 56 Warrants paid for officers and janitor-i for tho month of January of this year $ 1,195.50 j Warrants to pay four High I school teachers for Jauu- i ary 545.25 j Interest to be paid on bonds jf $75,000 for six months 1.500.00 The committee on buildings reporter that Mr. Butler, who has the contract for hauling the children to the Mound Fort school, , was willing to furnish additional accommodation for the children chil-dren at a salary of $75 a month. The matter was taken under advisement. The matter of auditing the accounts of the board from August, 1907, was referred to the finance committee, and that committee was authorized to select the aviditors. A motion made by Pingree that the clerk of the board be required to furnish, fur-nish, an itemized report eacn month, regarding the expenditures of eacn school of the city, together with tne attendance at each school, and that such report be made a part of tno minutes of the board, was carried. President Browning voting against it. The motion also provided that t:io salary of the clerk be raised from $75 to $S0. Pingree made tho motion on the grounds that it would oe well for the board to be advised each memtn " regarding the expenditures of eacn particular school per capita. The motion carried, with It the exaction that the exact number of students enrolled en-rolled in each school each month should be given and that the report should be made a part of the minutes of the boanl. Tho supply committee recommended the expenditure of $422. ror text books. The recommendation was adopted. ad-opted. ! Superintendent Allison reported 90 i new students in the High scnool. the additional enrollment coming from , the graduations from the eighth gra.de. The regular bills for tho current I month were considered and allowed, j The matter of employing an inbtruc-I inbtruc-I tor in mechanical plain crawrng at a ! salary of $25 per month, was referred to tho teachers' committee. MEETING OF SCHOOL BOARD REPORT OF FINANCE COMMITTEE COMMIT-TEE MADE BY CHAIRMAN. I i Attorney's Salary Fixed Supt. Allison Alli-son Reports Addition of Ninety Pupils to High School. All the members of the board of education were present at the regular meeting last evening, Mr. Tlngree nav ing returned from his trip easL The minutes of the first meeting or tne year, which stood unapproved because of a disagreement as to whether, as stated in the minutes, the board tbould be bound by the decision of tao attorney for the board regarding the matter of electing' a secretary and treasurer, at the time of the organization organiza-tion of the new board. The minutes in question were re-read, tne vote ror their approval or disapproval resulting result-ing in the affirmative. Coulter and Pingree voted against the approval of the minutes on the grounds that they did not understand that the decision of the attorney in the matter should , be final. President Browning, Williams Wil-liams and Farr voted for approval, so the opinion of the attorney, C. . C. I Richards, Esq, which was presented j at the meeting last night. Is final and i the board will be bound by the same. From the beginning Cornier and Pingree Pin-gree contended that at- t:ic organlza- tlon of the new board a secretary and treasurer should be elected, the otner members. Browning. .Farr and Williams Wil-liams holding that those officers had been elected for two year.-?, only a year prior to tho organisation or trie new board, ant that their term or or-fice or-fice having nci expired, tneie was no vacancy. The opinion of the attorney was to the effect 'that there was no vacancy in the offices or secretary and treasurer, hence an election or euch ofllces this year was not necessary. neces-sary. Mr. Richards, In his opinion, which was a rather lengthy one, stated that since 189S these officers had been elected every two years, and that under, un-der, the statutes, he considered the present officers were incumbents and that their term of office would not expire ex-pire until January 1, 131P. It seems that the selection of a legat advisor for the board has not been indulged in-dulged in by the board ror a number of years,' and that at no i:me has there been a fixed salary for him. To make a change in this line or procedure. pro-cedure. Dr. Coulter moved that tne attorney's salary be fixed at $100 per annum, which was unanimously carried,. car-ried,. The matter of selecting a legal advisor was reforTed to the judiciary committee, which will ne required to |