It is the duty of the superintendent of schools of said San Miguel county, on or before the tenth day of January of each year, to certify to said county treasurer the number of children of school age residing in each of the school districts within the Las Vegas grant, and said treasurer shall thereupon place to the credit of each of said school districts the amount to which it may be entitled under said apportionment, to be drawn out and expended as other moneys of said school district.

If at any time said district court and said board of trustees shall deem it necessary, expedient and proper, they may expend such sums of money as they may consider necessary and proper, of the interest derived from said permanent fund and such parts, portions and amounts of said permanent fund, or any other fund under the control of said board of trustees in improving and repairing the public school buildings in the town of Las Vegas, or in constructing such public school building or buildings within the said town of Las Vegas, as in their judgment they may deem necessary and proper; provided, however, that no improvements or repairs to the public school buildings of the town of Las Vegas shall be made, nor shall any public school building or public school buildings be constructed within the said town of Las Vegas, unless the board of education of the town of Las Vegas, New Mexico, agree and consent thereto; and

provided further, that before any improvements or repairs to the school buildings in the town of Las Vegas are made, or any new building or buildings are constructed, that the said board of trustees of the town of Las Vegas administering the Las Vegas grant, if said expenditure exceeds the sum of three hundred dollars [($300)], be required to advertise the said work for at least twenty days in some newspaper published in the English language within the said county of San Miguel before the letting of the said work, and let the said work to the lowest responsible bidder, which bidder shall be required to enter into a good and sufficient bond for double the amount of the contract price, for the faithful performance of said contract for said work.

History: Laws 1909, ch. 103, § 4; 1913, ch. 86, § 3; Code 1915, § 855; C.S. 1929, § 29-614; Laws 1933, ch. 182, § 1; 1941 Comp., § 9-613; 1953 Comp., § 8-6-13.

Bracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.

Compiler's notes. — While the title of Laws 1933, ch. 182, purported to amend 29-614, 1929 Comp., which was 855, 1915 Code, the act contained no preliminary clause stating that the section "be and is hereby amended to read as follows."