Andrus v. Parish Board of Directors

Citations

• 108 La. 386

Syllabus

<p>Syllabus.</p> <p>1. The law, as contained in Sections 7 and 10 of Act 81 of 1888, Is to be construed as meaning that the Parish Boards of School Directors shall distribute the school funds to the several districts in their respective parishes ratably, in proportion to the number of persons in such districts between the ages of six and eighteen years; provided, that such boards, with the sanction of the State Board of Education, and when suitable sites and buildings have been otherwise supplied, may establish such central, or high, schools as may be necessary, and, for their maintenance, may draw upon the general school funds before apportioning the same to the several districts.</p> <p>2. Where a particular school district has been apportioned less than its share of the fund, it is entitled to be made good by deduction, in the nest apportionment, the amount of the deficit from the amounts which would otherwise be apportioned to those districts which have received the excess.</p> <p>8. It is the duty of the Parish Board to limit itsélf, in the matter of incurring debt, to the revenné of the calendar ygar in which the debt is contracted, and to so keep its aecáíinte that the revenues of different years may be distinguished as^spasate funds.</p> <p>Í: Disbursements by the treasurer of the school fund eft a parish Otherwise tian on warrants drawn by the president and countersigned by the secretary of tbe Parish Board of School Directors are positively prohibited by law.</p>