school building, or for the necessary addition to some school building therefor. Thereupon the board shall erect or purchase a building or make such addition for such high school, as voted at such meeting, and shall establish therein a district high school containing one or more departments, and employ a teacher or teachers therefor. Such school shall be kept in session for such time each year, not less than three months as the board may determine. The board shall, subject to the approval of the county superintendent, grade such high school, and prescribe the studies to be pursued therein, and shall have the same management and control thereof as of the common schools in the district. Two or more adjacent school districts may join in the establishment and maintenance of such high school, when empowered so to do by a majority of the voters in each district at a meeting called and held as provided for in this section, in which case the building and furniture occupied and used for such high school, shall belong to the districts so uniting, and all the cost of maintaining such school, including wages of teachers, and all necessary supplies shall be paid by such districts in proportion to the assessed valuation of the property in each, and the employment of teachers therefor, and the management, control and grading thereof, shall be vested in the joint boards of such districts, subject to the approval of the county superintendent of the county in which such school is situated.
§ 87. SCHOOL CENSUS-ANNUAL SCHOOL REPORT.] The board shall cause the clerk to make each year an enumeration of all unmarried persons over six and under twenty years of age having their legal residence in the district on the first day of December of that year, giving the name and age in years of each such person and the name of the parent or guardian having the care or custody of such person. Such enumeration shall te made upon and in accordance with the blanks therefor furnished by the county superintendent and shall be returned to the county superintendent before the 20th day of December. A copy of such enumeration shall also be kept in the office of the district clerk. The board shall also cause the district clerk to make out an annual school report for the year beginning January 1 and ending December 31, containing such financial and statistical statements and items as shall be required by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, upon and in accordance with the blanks furnished therefor by the county superintendent. Such annual report shall be mađe after January 1, carefully examined and certified as correct by the board at its regular meeting in January, and transmitted to the county superintendent before the first day of February following. A copy of such annual report shall be filed in the district clerk's office. Five (5) dollars of the compensation of the clerk shall be withheld from him until said annual report shall have been made, approved and transmitted as is herein required.
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