IRLF 
 
GIFT OF 
 
. 
 
 SEVENTH COMPILATION 
 
 Public School Laws 
 
 OF LOUISIANA 
 
 Rules and Regulations of the State Board 
 of Education 
 
 Sanitary Regulations of the State Board 
 of Health 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Important Decisions of the Supreme Court 
 of Louisiana, Relating to Schools 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF 
 
 T, H, HARRIS, State Superintendent of Education. 
 
 BY 
 
 L, J, ALLEMAN, 
 1911 
 
Public School Laws 
 
 OF LOUISIANA 
 
 Rules and Regulations of the State Board 
 of Education 
 
 Sanitary Regulations of the State Board, 
 of Health 
 
 AND THE 
 
 Important Decisions of the Supreme Court 
 of Louisiana, Relative to Schools 
 
 SEVENTH COMPILATION 
 (Containing All Laws, Regulations, etc., Now in Force. V 
 
 PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OP 
 
 STATE SUPERINTENDENT TMJ,, HARRIS. 
 
 L. J. ALLEMAN, State Institute Conductor. 
 1911 
 
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 Gpv. J. Y. SANDERS, President Baton Rouge 
 
 STATE SUPERINTENDENT T. H. HARRIS, ex-officio Sec- 
 retary, Baton Rouge 
 
 ATTORNEY GENERAL WALTER GUION New Orleans 
 
 HON. A. BRITTIN New Orleans 
 
 HON. GEO. MONTGOMERY New Orleans 
 
 HON. S. L. LEBLANC Napoleonville 
 
 HON. D. C. SCARBOROUGH Natchitoches 
 
 HON. E. L. KIDD Ruston 
 
 HON. S. McC. LAWRASON St. Francisville 
 
 HON. S. T. WOODRING Lake Charles 
 
 MR. L. BAKER, Assistant Secretary Baton Rouge 
 
STATE CONSTITUTION OF 1898. 
 
 ARTICLES HAVING REFERENCE TO PUBLIC 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 1. (Art. 53. Limitation of Legislative Powers.) 
 
 No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, di- 
 rectly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect or denomination 
 of religion, or in aid of any priest, preacher, minister or teacher 
 thereof, as such; and no preference shall ever be given to, nor 
 any discrimination made against, any church, sect or creed of 
 religion, or any form of religious faith or worship; nor shall 
 any appropriations be made for private, charitable or benevolent 
 purposes to any person or community; provided, this shall not 
 apply to the State Asylum for the Insane and State Institution 
 for the Deaf and Dumb and State Institution for the Instruction 
 of the Blind, and the charity hospitals and public charitable 
 institutions conducted under State authority. 
 
 2. (Art. 230. Educational Institutions Exempt From Taxation.) 
 
 The following shall be exempt from taxation, and no other, 
 viz: All public property, places of religious worship, or burial, 
 all charitable institutions, all buildings and property used ex- 
 clusively for public monuments or historical collections, colleges 
 and other school purposes, the real and personal estate of any 
 library, and that of any other library association used by or 
 connected with such library, all books and philosophical appa- 
 ratus, and all paintings and statuary of any company or asso- 
 ciation kept in a public hall ; provided, the property so exempted 
 be not leased for purposes of private or corporate profit and 
 income. ****** 
 
 3. (Art. 231. Poll Tax of One DoJIar.) 
 
 The General Assembly shall levy an annual poll tax of one 
 dollar upon every male inhabitant in the State between the ages 
 of twenty-one and sixty years, for the maintenance of the public 
 schools in the parishes where collected. 
 
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4. (Art. 232. School Tax on a Vote of Property Taxpayers.) 
 
 The State tax on property for all purposes whatever, includ- 
 ing expenses of government, schools, levees and interest, "shall 
 not exceed in any one year, six mills on the dollar of its assessed 
 valuation, and, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, 
 no parish, municipal or public board tax for all purposes what- 
 soever, shall exceed in any one year ten mills on the dollar of 
 valuation; provided, that for giving additional support to public 
 schools, and for the purpose of erecting and constructing public 
 buildings, public schoolhouses, bridges, wharves, levees, sewerage 
 work and other works of permanent public improvement, the 
 title to which shall be in the public, any parish, municipal cor- 
 poration, ward or school district may levy a special tax in excess 
 of said limitation, whenever the rate of such increase and the 
 number of years it is to be levied and the purposes for which the 
 tax is intended, shall have been submitted to a vote of the prop- 
 erty taxpayers of each parish, ward or school district entitled 
 to vote under the election laws of the State, and a majority of 
 the same in numbers and in value voting at such election shall 
 have voted therefor. 
 
 5. (Art. 248. Free Schools; for Whom; Apportionment of Funds.) 
 
 There shall be free public schools for the white and colored 
 races, separately established by the General Assembly, through- 
 out the State, for the education of all the children of the State 
 between the ages of six and eighteen years ; provided, that where 
 kindergarten schools exist, children between the ages of four 
 and six may be admitted into said schools. All funds raised 
 by the State for the support of public schools, except the poll 
 tax, shall be distributed to each parish in proportion to the num- 
 ber of children therein between the ages of six and eighteen 
 years. The General Assembly, at its next session, shall provide 
 for the enumeration of educable children. 
 
 6. (Art. 249, as amended by Act 28 of 1908. State Superintendent.) 
 
 There shall be elected by the qualified electors of the State a 
 Superintendent of Public Education, who shall hold his office for 
 the term of four years, and until his successor is qualified. His 
 duties shall be prescribed by law, and he shall receive an annual 
 salary of five thousand dollars. 
 
7. (Art. 250. State Board of Education; Parish Boards and Officers.) 
 
 The General Assembly shall provide for the creation of a 
 State Board and Parish Boards of Public Education. The Parish 
 Boards shall elect a Parish Superintendent of Public Education 
 for their respective parishes, whose qualifications shall be fixed 
 by the Legislature, and who shall be ex-officio secretary of the 
 Parish Board. The salary of the Parish Superintendent shall 
 be provided for by the General Assembly, to be paid out of the 
 public school funds accruing to the respective parishes. 
 
 8. (Art. 251. French May Be Taught.) 
 
 The general exercises in the public schools shall be conducted 
 in the English language ; provided, that the French language may 
 be taught in those parishes or localities where the French lan- 
 guage predominates, if no additional expense is incurred thereby. 
 
 9. (Art. 252. Application of tfie Poll Tax.) 
 
 The funds derived from the collection of the poll tax shall 
 be applied exclusively to the maintenance of the public schools 
 as organized under this Constitution, and shall be applied ex- 
 clusively to the support of the public schools in the parish in 
 which the same shall be collected, and shall be accounted for 
 and paid by the collecting officer directly to the treasurer of 
 the local school board. 
 
 10. (Art. 253. Private and Sectarian Schools Cannot Receive Public 
 
 School Funds.) 
 
 No funds raised for the support of the public schools of the 
 State shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any 
 private or sectarian schools. 
 
 11. (Art. 254. School Funds Of What They Shall Consist.) 
 
 The school funds of the State shall consist of : 1st. Not less 
 than one and one-quarter mills of the six mills tax levied and 
 collected by the State. 2d. The proceeds of taxation for school 
 purposes as provided by this Constitution. 3d. The interest on 
 the proceeds of all public lands heretofore granted or to be 
 granted by the United States for the support of the public 
 schools, and the revenues derived from such lands as may remain 
 unsold. 4th. All funds and property, other than unimproved 
 lands, bequeathed or granted to the State, not designated for 
 any other purpose. 5th. The proceeds of vacant estates falling 
 
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 under the law to the State of Louisiana. 6th. The legislature 
 may appropriate to the same fund the proceeds of public lands 
 not designated or set apart for any other purpose, and shall 
 provide that every parish may levy a tax for the public schools 
 therein, which shall not exceed the entire State tax; provided, 
 that with such a tax the whole amount of parish taxes shall not 
 exceed the limits of parish taxation fixed by this Constitution. 
 The City of New Orleans shall make such appropriations for 
 the support, maintenance and repair of the public schools of 
 said city as it may deem proper, but not less than eight-tenths 
 of one mill for one year; and said schools shall continue to 
 receive from the Board of Liquidation of the City Debt, the 
 amounts to which they are now entitled under the Constitutional 
 amendment, adopted in the year 1892. 
 
 12. (Art. 255. State University and A. & M. College, Tulane University.) 
 
 The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
 ical College, founded upon land grants of the United States to 
 endow a seminary of learning and a college for the benefit of 
 agriculture and mechanic arts, now established and located in 
 the City of Baton Rouge, is hereby recognized ; and all revenues 
 derived and to be derived from the seminary fund, the Agricul- 
 tural and Mechanical College fund, and other funds or lands 
 donated to or to be donated by the United States to the State of 
 Louisiana for the use of a seminary of learning or of a college 
 for the benefit of agriculture or the mechanic arts, shall be ap- 
 propriated exclusively to the maintenance and support of the 
 said Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
 ical College; and the General Assembly shall make such addi- 
 tional appropriations as may be necessary for its maintenance, 
 support, and improvement, and for the establishment, in connec- 
 tion with said institution, of such additional scientific or literary 
 departments as the public necessities and the wellbeing of the 
 people of Louisiana may require. 
 
 The Tulane University of Louisiana, located in New Orleans, 
 is hereby recognized as created, and to be developed in accord- 
 ance with the provisions of the legislative act No. 43, approved 
 July 5th, 1884, and by approval of the electors, made part of 
 the Constitution of the State. 
 
 13. (Art. 256. Other State Schools.) 
 
 The Louisiana State Normal School, established and located 
 
at Natchitoches ; the Industrial Institute and College of Louisi- 
 ana, whose name is hereby changed to the Louisiana Industrial 
 Institute, established and located at Ruston; and the Southern 
 University, now established in the City of New Orleans, for the 
 education of persons of color, are hereby recognized; and the 
 General Assembly is directed to make such appropriations from 
 time to time as may be necessary for the maintenance, support 
 and improvement of these institutions ; provided, that the appro- 
 priation for the maintenance and support of the Southern Uni- 
 versity shall not exceed ten thousand dollars per annum. 
 
 14. (Art. 257. Interest Due the Townships.) 
 
 The debt due by the State to the free school fund is hereby 
 declared to be the sum of one million, one hundred and thirty 
 thousand, eight hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty-one 
 cents in principal, and shall be kept on the books of the Auditor 
 and Treasurer to the credit of the several townships entitled to 
 the same; the said principal being the proceeds of the sales of 
 lands heretofore granted by the United States for the use and 
 support of free public schools which amount shall be held by 
 the State as a loan, and shall be and remain a perpetual fund, on 
 which the. State shall pay an annual interest of four per cent, 
 and said interest shall be paid to the several townships of the 
 State entitled to the same, in accordance with the Act of Con- 
 gress, No. 68, approved February 15th, 1843. 
 
 15. (Art. 258. Debt Due Seminary Fund.) 
 
 The debt due by the State to the seminary fund is hereby 
 declared to be one hundred and thirty-six thousand dollars, being 
 the proceeds of the sale of lands heretofore granted by the 
 United States to this State for the use of a seminary of learning,, 
 and said amount shall be kept to the credit of said fund on the 
 books of the Auditor and Treasurer of the State as a perpetual 
 loan, and the State shall pay an annual interest of four per cent 
 on said amount. 
 
 16. (Art. 259. Debt Due A. and M. College.) 
 
 The debt due by the State to the Agricultural and Mechan- 
 ical College fund is hereby declared to be the sum of one hun- 
 dren and eighty-two thousand three hundred and thirteen dol- 
 lars and three cents, being the proceeds of the sale of lands and 
 
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 land scrip heretofore granted by the United States to this State 
 for the use of a college for the benefit of agricultural and 
 mechanical arts; the said amount shall be kept to the credit of 
 said fund on the books of the Auditor and Treasurer of the 
 State as a perpetual loan, and the State shall pay an annual 
 interest of five per cent on said amount. 
 
 17. (Art. 260. How Interest Shall Be Paid.) 
 
 The interest due on the free school fund, the seminary fund 
 and the Agricultural and Mechanical College fund, shall be paid 
 out of any tax that may be levied and collected for the payment 
 of the interest on the State debt. 
 
 18. (Art. 261. School Books for Indigent Pupils.) 
 
 All pupils in the primary grades in the public schools 
 throughout the Parish of Orleans, unable to provide themselves 
 with the requisite books, an affidavit to that effect having been 
 made by one of the parents of such pupils, or if such parents 
 be dead, shall be furnished with the necessary books, free of 
 expense, to be paid out of the school fund of said parish; and 
 the School Board of the Parish of Orleans is hereby directed 
 to appropriate annually not less than two thousand dollars for 
 the purpose named, provided such amount be needed. 
 
 19. (Art. 60. Establishment of Additional Educational or Charitable In- 
 
 stitutions.) 
 
 No educational or charitable institution, other than the State 
 institutions now existing, or expressly provided for in this Con- 
 stitution, shall be established by the State except upon a vote 
 of two-thirds of the members elected to each House of the Gen- 
 eral Assembly. 
 
 20. (Art. 210. Eligibility to Office.) 
 
 No person shall be eligible to any office, State, judicial, pa- 
 rochial, municipal or ward, who is not a citizen of this State, and 
 a duly qualified elector of the State, judicial district, parish, 
 municipality or ward, wherein the functions of said office are 
 to be performed. And whenever any officer, State, judicial, 
 parochial, municipal or ward, may change his residence from 
 this State, or from the district, the same shall thereby be vacated, 
 any declaration of retention of domicile to the contrary not- 
 withstanding. 
 
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 20-a. (Art. 232. Limitation of State Tax; Of Other Taxing Bodies; 
 W,hen and How Special Taxes May Be Levied.) 
 
 The State tax on property for all purposes whatever, in- 
 cluding expenses of government, schools, levees and interest, 
 shall not exceed, in any one year, six mills on the dollar of its 
 assessed valuation, and, except as otherwise provided in this 
 Constitution, no parish, municipal or public board tax for all 
 purposes whatsoever, shall exceed in any one year ten mills on 
 the dollar of valuation; provided, that for giving additional 
 support to public schools, and for the purpose of erecting and 
 constructing public buildings, public schoolhouses, bridges, 
 wharves, levees, sewerage work and other works of permanent 
 public improvement, the title to which shall be in the public, any 
 parish, municipal corporation, ward or school district may levy 
 a special tax in excess of said limitation, whenever the rate of 
 such increase and the number of years it is to be levied and the 
 purpose or purposes for which the tax is intended, shall have been 
 submitted to a vote of the property taxpayers of such parish, mu- 
 nicipality, ward or school district entitled to vote under the elec- 
 tion laws of the State, and a majority of the same in numbers, 
 and in value voting at such election shall have voted therefor. 
 
 21. (Art. 235. Inheritance Tax for Public Schools.) 
 
 The Legislature shall have power to levy, solely for the sup- 
 port of the public schools, a tax upon all inheritances, legacies 
 and donations; provided, no direct inheritance, or donation, to 
 any ascendant or descendant, below ten thousand dollars in 
 amount or value shall be so taxed; provided, further, that no 
 such tax shall exceed three per cent for direct inheritances and 
 donations to ascendants or descendants, and ten per cent for 
 collateral inheritances, and donations to collaterals or strangers; 
 provided, bequests to educational, religious or charitable institu- 
 tions shall be exempt from this tax. 
 
 22. (Art. 236.) 
 
 The tax provided for in the preceding article shall not be 
 enforced when the property donated or inherited shall have borne 
 its just proportion of taxes prior to the time of such donation 
 or inheritance. 
 
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 22-a. (Art. 281, as amended by Act 197 of 1910. School Bonds and Special 
 Taxes.) 
 
 Municipal Corporations, parishes or school, drainage, sub- 
 drainage, road, navigation, or sewerage districts, the City of 
 New Orleans excepted, hereinafter referred to as subdivisions, 
 when authorized to do so, by a vote of a majority in number 
 and amount of the property taxpayers, qualified to vote under 
 the Constitution and laws of this State, who vote at an election 
 held for that purpose, after due notice of said election has been 
 published for thirty (30) days in the official journal of the mu- 
 nicipal corporation or parishes, and where there is no official 
 journal, in a newspaper published therein, may "through their 
 respective governing authorities," incur debt and issue negotia- 
 ble bonds therefor, and each year while any bonds issued to evi- 
 dence said indebtedness are outstanding, the governing authori- 
 ties of such subdivision shall levy and collect annually, in excess 
 of all other taxes, a tax sufficient to pay the interest, annually 
 or semi-annually, and the principal falling due each year, or 
 such amount as may be required for any sinking fund provided 
 for the payment of said bonds at maturity ; provided, that such 
 special taxes, for all purposes, shall not in any year exceed ten 
 (10) mills on the dollar of the assessed valuation of the property 
 in such subdivisions. 
 
 No bonds shall be issued for any other purpose than that 
 stated in the submission of the proposition to the taxpayer, and 
 published for thirty (30) days as aforesaid, or for a greater 
 amount than therein mentioned ; nor shall such bonds be issued 
 for any other purpose than for constructing, improving and 
 maintaining public roads and highways, paving and improving 
 streets, roads and alleys, purchasing or constructing systems of 
 waterworks, sewerage, drainage, navigation, lights, public parks 
 and buildings, together with all necessary equipments and fur- 
 nishing, bridges and other works of public improvement, the 
 title to which shall rest in the subdivision creating the debt, as 
 the case may be; nor shall such bonds run for a longer period 
 than forty years (40) from their date or bear a greater rate of 
 interest than five per cent (5) per annum, or be sold for less 
 .than par. The total issue of bonds by any subdivision for all 
 purposes shall never exceed ten per centum (10) of the as- 
 sessed valuation of the property in such subdivisions. 
 
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 Municipal councils shall have authority to create within their 
 respective limits one or more sewerage districts; and nothing 
 herein contained shall prevent drainage districts from being 
 established under the laws of this State shall, in addition to the 
 powers hereinabove granted, have the further power and au- 
 thority to levy and * assess annual contributions or acreage taxes 
 on all lands situated in such districts, for the purpose of pro- 
 viding and maintaining drainage systems, not exceeding fifty 
 (50) cents per acre for a period not exceeding forty (40) years, 
 when authorized to do so by a majority in number and amount 
 of the property taxpayers of said district, qualified to vote un- 
 der the Constitution and laws of this State, who vote at an 
 election held for that purpose and in the manner provided in 
 the first part of this Article, and said drainage districts, through 
 the Boards of Commissioners thereof, when authorized as here- 
 inabove provided, "may incur debt and issue negotiable bonds 
 therefor, payable in principal and interest out of and not to ex- 
 ceed in principal and interest, the aggregate amount to be 
 raised by said annual contributions or acreage taxes during the 
 period for which the same are levied. No such drainage bonds 
 shall be issued for any other purpose than that for which said 
 contributions or acreage taxes were voted or run for a longer 
 period than forty (40) years from their date or bear a greater 
 rate of interest than five (5) per cent per annum or be sold for 
 less than par. 
 
 When the character of any land is such that it must be 
 levied and pumped in order to be drained and reclaimed, the 
 Board of Drainage Commissioners of the district in which the 
 land is situated, shall, upon the petition of not less than a ma- 
 jority in acreage of the property taxpayers, resident and non- 
 resident, in the area to be affected, ascertain the cost of drain- 
 age and reclaiming said land and incur debt against said land 
 for an amount sufficient to drain and reclaim it, and issue for 
 said debt negotiable bonds running not longer than forty (40) 
 years from their date and bearing interest at a rate not ex- 
 ceeding five (5) per centum per annum, payable annually or 
 semi-annually, which bonds shall not be sold for less than par; 
 and said Board of Drainage Commissioners shall levy annually 
 upon said land forced contributions or acreage taxes in an 
 amount sufficient to maintain the drainage of said land and to 
 
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 pay the interest, annually or semi-annually, and the principal 
 falling due each year, or such amount as may be required for 
 any sinking fund provided for the payment of said bonds at 
 maturity; provided, that such forced contribution or acreage 
 taxes, for all purposes shall never exceed Three Dollars and 
 Fifty Cents ($3.50) per acre per annum. 
 
 The police juries of the various parishes throughout the 
 State, for the purpose of constructing highways and public 
 buildings for the parish, and the governing authorities of mu- 
 nicipal corporations, for the purpose of paving or improving 
 streets or alleys, or for other municipal improvements, after 
 making provision for the payments of all statutory and ordi- 
 nary charges, may fund into bonds running for a period not ex- 
 ceeding ten (10) years, and bearing interest at a rate not ex- 
 ceeding five (5 )per centum per annum, which bonds shall not 
 be sold for less than par, the avails of the residue of the ten 
 (10) mill tax authorized by Article 232 of the Constitution of 
 Louisiana. ' ' 
 
 22-b. (Three- Mill Tax for Support of Schools. Act 257 of 1910.) 
 
 The police juries of the several parishes and boards of trus- 
 tees and municipal councils of incorporated cities and towns 
 (the Parish of Orleans excepted) shall levy, collect and turn 
 over to the parish school boards of their respective parishes for 
 the support of the public schools of their respective parishes, 
 cities or towns, the proceeds of at least three mills of the annual 
 tax which they are empowered to levy on each dollar of the 
 assessed valuation of the property thereof; provided that cities 
 and towns that are not exempted by the terms of their charters 
 from the payment of parish taxes and which are subjected to 
 the similar burdens of taxation as are the parishes shall not p?y 
 this tax, as same is included in the taxes imposed by the psrisK 
 in which the town is situated, "unless the parish boards of 
 school directors of that parish certify that the needs of the 
 schools can be met by a smaller levy of such taxes." 
 
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 ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE 
 OF LOUISIANA RELATING TO PUBLIC EDUCATION. 
 
 23. (State Board of Education and General Provisions, S. 1, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The Governor, Superintendent of Public Education and the 
 Attorney General, together with seven citizens appointed by the 
 Governor, one from each Congressional District of the State, 
 shall be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of 
 the Board of Education for the State of Louisiana, with author- 
 ity to sue and defend suits in all matters relating to the public 
 schools. The above specified seven citizens shall receive, as com- 
 pensation for their services in attending the meetings of the 
 board, their actual traveling expenses and per diem for the num- 
 ber of days that the board is in session, the same as members of 
 the State Legislature, payable on their warrants, approved by 
 the president and secretary of the board, out of the current 
 school fund. 
 
 24. (Officers; Salaries; Time of Meeting; Publication of Minutes, S. 2, 
 
 Act 167, '04.) 
 
 The Governor shall be ex-officio President, and the State 
 Superintendent, Secretary. The State Superintendent shall be 
 authorized to appoint an assistant secretary, whose salary shall 
 not exceed twelve hundred dollars ($1.200) a year, to be fixed 
 by the Board, payable monthly on the warrant of the State 
 Superintendent of Public Education. The Board shall meet 
 on or before the first Monday in December of each year, and at 
 other times when called by the State Superintendent of Public 
 Education. The acts of the Board shall be attested by the signa- 
 tures of the President and Secretary of the Board. All papers, 
 documents, and records appertaining to the Board shall be filed 
 by the Secretary in the office of the State Superintendent of 
 Public Education. The State Superintendent may publish, if 
 he sees fit, or at the request of the Board, the proceedings of 
 the State Board of Education in the official journal of the State, 
 or in an official pamphlet. 
 
 25. (May Require Reports of Parish Superintendents, S. 4, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The State Board of Education may require reports to be 
 made by the parish superintendent whenever the interest of the 
 
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 common schools indicates the necessity of other reports than 
 now required. 
 
 26. (Uniformity of Text- Books, S. 3, A. 214, '02, amended by A. 231, '08, 
 amended by A. 39, MO.) 
 
 The Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate shall 
 select and appoint seven educators of known character and abil- 
 ity in their profession, each of whom shall hold parish superin- 
 tendent's eligibility certificates, a first grade teacher's certificate, 
 or the equivalent, one to be selected from each of the seven Con- 
 gressional Districts, who, together with the State Superintendent 
 of Public Education, shall constitute the State Text-Book Com- 
 mittee. 
 
 26-b. (Compensation of Members.) 
 
 Sec. 2. The State Superintendent of Public Education shall 
 be ex-officio chairman and shall serve on the committee without 
 compensation, and the other members of said committee shall 
 be paid the sum of five dollars ($5) per diem during the time 
 they are actually away from their homes on the business of said 
 committee, and their actual traveling expenses in going to and 
 from the place of meeting, upon warrants drawn by the State 
 Superintendent of Education and approved by the Governor, 
 provided that they shall not be paid for more than twenty days' 
 service in any adoption. The term of office of the members of 
 the said committee appointed by the Governor shall be six years. 
 Five members of the said committee shall constitute a quorum 
 for the transaction of business. 
 
 26-c. (To Determine Books Giving Satisfaction.) 
 
 Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the said committee to examine 
 the merits of new public school books as they come from the 
 press and determine in every way whether the books that are in 
 use in the public schools of the State are giving satisfaction. 
 
 26-d. (Qualification and Oath.) 
 
 Sec. 4. The members of the said committee shall qualify 
 within thirty days after their appointment. Each member 
 thereof shall take and subscribe to an oath to faithfully dis- 
 charge all the duties devolving upon him as a member of said 
 committee; that he is not interested, directly or indirectly in 
 
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 any contract that may be made between the publisher or pub- 
 lishers of any text-book or text-books submitted for adoption; 
 that he will examine carefully all books submitted for adoption, 
 and will, to the best of his ability, make the wisest recommenda- 
 tions possible of any and all books to be used in the public 
 schools of the State. At the first meeting of the said committee, 
 they shall organize by selecting a secretary from among their 
 number, and he shall not receive any additional compensation. 
 
 26-e. (Meetings; Reports.) 
 
 Sec. 5. The said committee shall meet in the office of the 
 State Superintendent of Education on the second Monday in 
 January of the year in which the adoption of text-books is to be 
 made by the State Board of Education ; that they shall sit as a 
 committee to examine all text-books submitted, and in making 
 such examination said committee shall take into consideration 
 the adaptability of said books to the needs of the schools of the 
 State, their size, mechanical qualities, such as binding, type, 
 printing, paper, etc. ; illustrative material, quality and arrange- 
 ment of subject matter. Said committee shall compile and com- 
 plete their report to the State Board of Education on or before 
 the first Monday in March; said report shall be filed with the 
 State Superintendent of Education who shall cause same to be 
 given to the press of the State and a copy thereof to be for- 
 warded to the Parish Boards of School Directors for the several 
 Parishes. For the purpose of considering the report of said 
 committee and the adoption of text-books for use in the public 
 schools, the State Board of Education shall meet the second Mon- 
 day in April of each year in which an adoption is made. 
 
 26-f. (Elementary Books; How and When Adopted.) 
 
 Sec. 6. The adoption of elementary text-books and high 
 school books shall be made in periods of three years apart, and, 
 for the purpose of carrying out this provision the first adoption 
 of high school text-books shall be made in the year 1913 and the 
 first adoption of elementary text-books shall be made in the year 
 1916. In order that this provision providing for the adoption 
 of elementary text-books may be carried out, the Governor of 
 the State is hereby authorized to extend the present contracts of 
 elementary text-books for three years. 
 
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 26-g. (Subjects; Classification.) 
 
 Sec. 7. Said committee in its final report to the State Board 
 of Education shall be required to classify all books examined 
 into three classes, designated in the order of merit by first, sec- 
 ond, and third, as follows: 
 
 Elementary Text-Books : Spelling, Reading, including 
 Primer; Language Books; Louisiana History; United States 
 History; Arithmetic, Written and Mental ; Geography; Physiol- 
 ogy; Agriculture; Music; Writing; Drawing; Civics. 
 
 High School Text-Books : English, including spelling ; Eng- 
 lish Grammar ; English Classics ; Composition and Rhetoric ; 
 English and American Literature; History, including United 
 States History, Ancient, Mediasval and Modern, English and 
 Industrial History; Civics and Economics; Mathematics, in- 
 cluding Arithmetic, Written and Mental, Algebra, Plane and 
 Solid Geometry; Trigonometry; Science, including Physiology, 
 Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology, and Agriculture; Music; 
 Drawing; Commercial subjects, including Bookkeeping, Stenog- 
 raphy, Typewriting, Business Law and Geography ; Latin ; First 
 Year Latin, Caesar, Cicero, Latin Grammar, and Latin Com- 
 position; French; Elementary Course; Grammar, Prose com- 
 position, Intermediate course and Advanced course; German; 
 elementary course, Grammar, Prose composition, Intermediate 
 Course and Advanced Course. 
 
 Said committee may also recommend for adoption library 
 and reference books for use in the public schools and a series 
 of books for optional supplementary use in all schools that may 
 feel the need of more material than is contained in the regular 
 text-books, but said library, reference and supplementary books 
 shall not be used to the exclusion of the regular texts. 
 
 26-h. (Uniformity; Period of Adoption; Limitation as to Changes.) 
 
 Sec. 8. The State Board of Education shall adopt a uniform 
 series of text-books for six years and shall be limited in such 
 adoption to those recommended by the Text-Book Committee. 
 Not more than three subjects or parts of subjects of the ele- 
 mentary grades and not more than two of the following high 
 school subjects can be changed at any one adoption, to-wit: 
 Algebra, English Grammar, Composition and Rhetoric, Botany, 
 Zoology, Chemistry, Geometry, American History, Ancient His- 
 
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 tory, Mediaeval and Modern History, and of the remaining high 
 school subjects not more than five can be changed at any one 
 adoption, provided that any text-book used in the schools of this 
 State may be changed at any time upon the written application 
 of forty parish school boards, as per resolution of said boards 
 duly certified to the State Board of Education; and all con- 
 tracts for the adoption of text-books for use in the public schools 
 shall cover a period of six years. The State Board of Education 
 shall strictly enforce a uniformity of all text-books in all public 
 schools during the term of such contract. 
 
 26-i. (Details Left to State Board.) 
 
 Sec. 9. The mode of procedure for the announcement of 
 bids, awarding of contracts, location of depositories for the dis- 
 tribution of school text-books shall be left to the State Board 
 of Education. 
 
 27. (State and Parish Boards Exempt From Furnishing Bonds in Suit, 
 
 S. 4, A. 82, 73.) 
 
 In all judicial proceedings where, by law, bond and security 
 are required from litigants, the State Board of Education shall 
 be dispensed from furnishing bond or security ; and in all suits 
 in which the State or Parish board of education may be plain- 
 tiffs, defendants, intervenors, garnishees, or interested in any 
 manner whatsoever, it shall be the duty of the court before 
 whom such suits are pending, on the affidavit of the attorney rep- 
 resenting the State or parish board of education, if the case is 
 one of serious public interest and in which a speedy decision is 
 desirable, to set the cause for trial by preference, and all such 
 cases may also be fixed for trial as early as possible on motion 
 or petition of the attorney of the State or parish board of edu- 
 cation. 
 
 28. (Accepting and Regulating Donations, Act 158, '04.) 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Louisiana, That the Board of Education for the State 
 of Louisiana ; the Board of Directors of the public schools of each 
 and every parish in the State, the Parish of Orelans included, 
 shall have the power to accept and administer donations mortis 
 causa or inter vivos for any educational or literary purpose 
 whatsoever, and it shall be lawful for any one to make such a 
 donation of any description of property, and to any amount to 
 any one or more of such boards. 
 
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 29- Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the donor shall 
 have the right to prescribe the manner in which the property 
 shall be administered, and the objects to which it or any part 
 thereof, or the revenues thereof, shall be applied ; provided, how- 
 ever, that property donated, cannot be made inalienable, but 
 the donor thereof shall have the right to prescribe in what man- 
 ner, and under what circumstances, the donees shall be em- 
 powered to sell the same, or any portion thereof, or to change 
 any investments once made. 
 
 30- Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That said Board or 
 Boards shall administer the property entrusted to them in con- 
 formity with the directions contained in the act of donation, 
 and shall have all the powers needed in such administration, but 
 cannot mortgage nor encumber the donated property, except 
 as may be prescribed in the act of donation. The said Board 
 or Boards shall be entitled to no remuneration for their services, 
 unless expressly granted in the act of donation. 
 
 31 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That the provisions of 
 the laws of this State, relative to substitutions fidei commissa 
 and trusts shall not be deemed to apply or affect donations made 
 for the purposes and in the manner provided in this act, and all 
 laws or parts of laws conflicting with the provisions of this act 
 be, and the same are hereby repealed insofar as regards the 
 purposes of this act, but not otherwise. 
 
 32. (Reports of State and Parish Boards and Officers, S 1, A. 36, '94.) 
 
 In addition to the biennial reports now required by law 
 from State and district boards, the State and district officers, 
 or other persons receiving or disbursing State or district funds, 
 said boards, officers and persons shall render, in writing, to the 
 State Auditor, semi-annual itemized detailed reports, which in 
 case of the report of a board or its representatives, shall be 
 signed by the president and secretary of the board, showing the 
 several sums received and from what source, and the several 
 sums disbursed and for what purpose and to whom paid, the 
 said reports to be made on or before the first days of June or 
 December of each year; and in the event of the failure so to 
 do on the part of any board or district officer or other person 
 above named, the Auditor shall report the delinquency to the 
 Governor within fifteen days after said failure, who shall be 
 
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 authorized thereupon to remove from office the members of 
 said board, or district officer or other person as for cause, unless 
 it may be made to appear, to the satisfaction of the Governor, 
 that said failure or delinquency occurred from unavoidable or 
 excusable causes. 
 
 33. (Statements of Accounts by Officers, S. 2, A. 36, '94.) 
 
 All parish boards and parish officers having in charge the 
 reception of, or disbursement of, public funds shall make semi- 
 annual itemized, detailed accounts as required above to the 
 clerk of court of the respective parishes, under the forms, con- 
 ditions and penalties enumerated in Section 16 of this act. 
 
 34. (Penalties for Non-Compliance, S. 3, A. 36, '94.) 
 
 In case any salaried officer of the State failing to file with 
 the Auditor of Public Accounts semi-annual itemized, detailed 
 accounts, as provided in the sixteenth section of this act the 
 Auditor shall, within fifteen days thereafter, furnish to the 
 Treasurer of the State, a certificate to that effect and thereafter 
 it shall be illegal for the Auditor to audit any warrant of said 
 officer for salary, or the Treasurer to pay the same, until such 
 time as the delinquent officer shall have complied with the fore- 
 going provisions. 
 
 35-a. (Parish Board; Election of President. Act 49, '08, amending and 
 re-enacting S. 8, A. 167, '04, amending and re-enacting SS. 2, 
 8, 9, 19, 35, 44, 47 and 73 of A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The Board of School Directors in each parish shall elect from 
 among its number a president. 
 
 35-b. (Appointment of Parish Superintendent; Eligibility; Nominates 
 Teachers.) 
 
 Each Board shall elect or appoint for a term of four years 
 (see 35-f) a parish superintendent who shall be ex-offiio secre- 
 tary of the Board, and who shall nominate all teachers to be 
 employed in the public schools of the parish. He shall be a 
 man of high moral character, and a practical educator. Before 
 any person may be eligible to appointment as parish superin- 
 tendent he shall hold a certificate of eligibility issued by the 
 State Board of Education which certificate shall be revocable 
 by the State Board of Education if at any time the parish super- 
 intendent should be found incompetent, inefficient, or unworthy. 
 When such certificate is revoked the office of parish superin- 
 tendent by such act is declared vacant. 
 
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 35-c. (Visiting Trustees May Be Appointed; Duties.) 
 
 Each parish board is authorized to appoint, at its discre- 
 tion, auxiliary visiting trustees for each ward or school district, 
 or school in the parish; such trustees shall make quarterly 
 reports to the parish board of the actual condition of the schools, 
 and shall make needful suggestions in all matters relating to 
 the schools they have in charge as trustees. 
 
 35-d. (Duty of Parish Board.) 
 
 The Parish Board of Directors shall report to the State 
 Board of Education all deficiencies in the schools, or neglect 
 of duty on the part of teachers, superintendent, or other officer. 
 The members of the Parish Board shall visit and examine the 
 schools in the several school districts of the parish from time to 
 time, and they shall meet and advise with the trustees when occa- 
 sion requires, if auxiliary trustees be appointed by the Parish 
 Board. 
 
 35-e. (Miscellaneous Duties, etc.) 
 
 Upon the recommendation of the superintendent the Parish 
 Board shall determine the number of schools to be opened, the 
 location of the schoolhouses, the number of teachers to be em- 
 ployed, and their salaries ; and the School Board is entrusted 
 with seeing that the provisions of the State school laws are 
 complied with. Each Parish Board shall make such rules and 
 by-laws for its own government, not inconsistent with the State 
 school law, as it deems proper. The regular meeting of each 
 Parish Board shall be held on the first Saturday of January, 
 April, July, and October, and it may hold such special or ad- 
 journed meetings as the Board may determine or as occasion 
 may require. Each Parish School Board shall exercise proper 
 vigilance in securing for the schools of the parish all funds des- 
 tined for the support of the schools, including the State funds 
 apportioned thereto, the poll tax collectible, and all other funds. 
 The secretary shall keep a record of all transactions and pro- 
 ceedings of the Board. The Parish School Board may receive 
 land by purchase or donation for the purpose of erecting school- 
 houses, provide for and secure the erection of the same, con- 
 struct such outbuildings and enclosures as shall be conducive 
 to the protection of property and upon the recommendation of 
 the parish superintendent make repairs and provide the neces- 
 
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 sary furniture, equipment, and apparatus. All contracts for im- 
 provements shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder, 
 the Board reserving the right to reject any and all bids. The 
 Parish Board shall have power to recover for any damages that 
 may be done to the property in its charge. Upon the recom- 
 mendation of the parish superintendent, the Parish Board may, 
 by a two-thirds vote of the whole board, after due notice, change 
 the location of the schoolhouse, sell or dispose of the old site, 
 and use the proceeds thereof toward a new one. 
 
 35-f. (Parish Superintendent; When and How Elected; Term of Office, 
 A. 117 of 1910.) 
 
 Section 1. The several parish school boards throughout the 
 State shall, in July after their election in 1912, meet and elect 
 or appoint a superintendent of public schools for their parish, 
 which superintendent shall have the qualifications as provided 
 by law and who shall hold his office for four years and until his 
 successor shall have been elected or appointed and qualified. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the several super- 
 intendents throughout the State now holding office shall hold 
 their office until their successors shall have been appointed or 
 elected as provided in Section One of this Act. 
 
 36. (Removal of Members School Board, S. 6, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 For incompetency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office, 
 the Governor may remove a member or members of the parish 
 boards of school directors, subject to the ratification of the State 
 Board of Education. (See decision Supreme Court, 124 A.) 
 
 37. (Restrictions on Contracts and Debts, S. 73, A. 81, '88.) 
 
 That the different boards of directors shall not be empow- 
 ered to make contracts or debts for any one year greater than 
 the amount of revenue provided for according to this act, it 
 being the intent thereof that parties contracting with said board 
 shall take heed that due revenue shall have been provided to 
 satisfy the claim, otherwise they may lose and forfeit the same, 
 and no action or execution shall be allowed in aid thereof, and 
 that the board shall not exceed their powers in incurring the 
 debt. 
 
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 38. (Election of Parish School Boards, S. 1, A. 60, '06.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That there shall be elected by the qualified voters of each 
 police jury ward of the several parishes of the State a mem- 
 ber of the Parish School Board for each police member in said 
 ward, and in the Parish of Orleans the Parish School Board 
 shall consist of seventeen members, being one from each ward in 
 said parish, who shall be elected by the qualified voters of each 
 ward. That the first election above provided for shall take place 
 at the same time as the congressional election in 1908, and every 
 four years thereafter. That such members of the Parish School 
 Board as may be elected as above provided for shall hold their 
 office for four years, when their successors shall be elected. 
 
 39. (Compensation of School Directors, S. 2, A. 60, '06.) 
 
 Be it further enacted, etc., That the compensation of said 
 members of the school board is hereby fixed at three dollars for 
 each day that he may be required to attend the meetings of 
 the board, and five cents a mile for each mile he may travel to 
 and from the meetings of said board. Provided, that in the 
 Parish of Orleans no compensation at all shall be paid any mem- 
 ber of said board. 
 
 40. (Extending Term of Old Board Until New Board Is Elected, S. 3, 
 
 A. 60, '06.) 
 
 Be it further enacted, etc., That the Parish School Boards as 
 now constituted shall hold their office until their successors shall 
 have been eelcted as provided for in Section 1 of this act. 
 
 41. (Three Qualifications for Parish School Director, S. 4, A. 60, '06.) 
 
 Be it further enacted, etc., That the qualifications of a person 
 to be a member of a school board under this act shall be that 
 he be a qualified elector, able to read and write, and own and 
 be assessed in his own name property to the value of three hun- 
 dre dollars. 
 
 42. (Attorney of Parish Board, S. 10, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The District Attorney of the district or any other attorney 
 selected by the board, shallact as counsel for the parish board. 
 
 42-a. (District Attorneys Shall Advise and Represent School Boards 
 in All Suits, Act 96 of 1880.) 
 
 Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That the several dis- 
 trict attorneys in this State (the Parish of Orleans excepted) 
 
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 shall advise the police juries and parish school boards upon due 
 application made, and shall represent them in all suits. 
 
 Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That the district attor- 
 neys of this State (the Parish of Orleans except ed) shall receive 
 a commission of five (5) per cent on all amounts they may col- 
 lect in any suit in favor of the State, parish or school boards, and 
 the commissions, as now allowed by law, for collections on for- 
 feited bonds. (A. 96 of 1880.) 
 
 (The Attorney General on Compensation of District Attorney.) 
 
 "With reference to the question as to whether the district 
 attorney of Lafayette can 'collect fifty dollars as a fee from the 
 school board of asid parish for defending a suit brought by 
 Doctor Thomas P. Hopkins for the recovery of a certain piece 
 of ground, I beg to say that I know of no law authorizing the 
 district attorney to collect the said fee if the suit was only one 
 testing the title to a piece of property. 
 
 For the law with reference to the district attorney's fees, 
 see Act 96 of 1880, Sees. 4 and 5 ; and Act 214 of 1902, Sec. 10. 
 
 If the district attorney obtained no money judgment against 
 Doctor Hopkins, and did not collect any such money, there is no 
 fee or commissions that he could charge in the case. 
 
 In an opinion given to Mr. Charles H. O'Rourke, Chief In- 
 spector of Fertilizers, in 1905, Judge Guion said: 
 
 ** 'District Attorneys are not allowed to charge the State 
 or any department of the State government for services rendered 
 in defending suits or in bringing suits, except in cases where 
 the amounts are collected, in which event, they are entitled to 
 five per cent of the amount so collected.' : 
 
 43. (Establishment of High and Graded Schools; Family Assessment 
 Limited to $1.50, S. 11, A. 214 of 1902, as amended by A. 272, 
 1910.) 
 
 The Parish School Boards, the Parish of Orleans excepted, 
 shall have authority to establish graded schools, and to adopt 
 such a system in that connection as may be necessary to assure 
 their success. Central or high schools may be established when 
 necessary, but no such school shall be established unless the 
 amount be donated for the site, and suitable buildings are pro- 
 vided for without any expense out of the school fund. The 
 School Board shall have authority to assess and collect fifty 
 
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 cents per annum from the parent or guardian of each child 
 enrolled in the public schools of a Parish or District, to be col- 
 lected in such manner as the said Board shall determine; pro- 
 vided that no parent or guardian shall be required to pay more 
 than one dollar and fifty cents. The amount thus collected shall 
 be used in providing for the necessary fuel and other comforts 
 of the schools. 
 
 44. (Duties President Parish Board, S. 24, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The president of the parish board shall preside at all meet- 
 ings of the board, call special meetings when necessary, advise 
 with and assist the parish superintendent and directors in pro- 
 moting the success of the schools, and generally do and perform 
 all other acts and duties pertaining to his office as the president 
 of the board. All deeds and contracts for the schools, including 
 those with teachers shall be signed by him; the contracts with 
 teachers shall also be signed by the parish superintendent. (See 
 decision on president's contracts.) 
 
 45. (Contracts With Sectarian Schools Prohibited, S. 14, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The parish boards of directors of the several parishes of tnis 
 State are prohibited from entering into any contract, agree- 
 ment, understanding, or combination, tacitly or expressly, 
 directly or indirectly, with any church, monastic or other relig- 
 ious order or association of any religious sect or denomination 
 whatsoever, or with the representatives thereof, for the purpose 
 of running any public school or schools of this State, together 
 or in connection or in combination with any private or paro- 
 chial school, or other institution of learning which may be under 
 the control, authority, supervision, administration or manage- 
 ment of any church, monastic or other religious order or asso- 
 ciation of any religious sect or denomination whatsoever. 
 
 45-a. (School Boards Bodies Corporate, S. 7, A. 214, ''02.) 
 
 The several boards are constituted bodies corporate, with 
 power to sue and be sued under the name and style of the 
 "Parish Board of Directors of the Parish of - ," as the 
 case may be. Citations shall be served on the President of the 
 Board. 
 
 46. (Division of Parish Into Districts; Records, S. 15, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the parish board with the parish 
 superintendent to divide the parish into school districts of such 
 
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 proper and convenient area and shape as will best accommodate 
 the children of the parish. The parish board shall as soon as 
 practicable proceed to the work imposed upon them, and upon 
 the completion of this work they shall make a report to the 
 parish superintendent, which report shall contain the boundary 
 and description of said district, designated by number. The 
 parish superintendent shall record the same in a well-bound 
 book kept by him for that purpose, which book shall be held by 
 the parish superintendent, and be at all times open to inspec- 
 tion. Parish boards, if they deem it to the best interest of the 
 schools, may divide the parish into districts without reference 
 to the wards in the parish. 
 
 47. (School Districts in Two Adjoining Parishes; How Laid Off, S. 16, 
 A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The parish superintendents of two adjoining parishes, where 
 the division line intersects a neighborhood whose convenience 
 requires it, may lay off a district composed of parts of both of 
 the parishes. Such districts shall be reported by the superin- 
 tendent, together with a census of the school children only as 
 belonging to the parish in which the schoolhouse may be sit- 
 uated, and reports shall be made by the assessor and parish 
 superintendent as though the district lay entirely in the parish. 
 
 48 (Option Which District School Children Shall Attend, S. 17, A. 214, 
 '02.) 
 
 Where two school districts adjoin, it shall be lawful for the 
 children in either of said districts to be taught in and at such 
 schoolhouse as shall be most convenient to them ; provided, that 
 the tuition fee shall be paid to the district in which they are 
 taught, and that no change be made without the consent of the 
 school boards of the respective parishes. 
 
 49. (Enumeration of Educable Youth, S. 1, A. 129, '98.) 
 
 The assessors of all parishes of the State, including the Board 
 of Assessors of the Parish of Orleans, shall make an enumera- 
 tion of all educable children in the State before July 1st, 1899, 
 and every four years thereafter. 
 
 50. (Assessor's Enumeration, S. 2, A. 129, '98, amended by Act 488, '08.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of Assessors and the Board of Assessors 
 of the Parish of Orleans to make a correct enumeration by giv- 
 
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 ing the name of the educable children, between the ages of six 
 and eighteen years in the respective parishes and wards by 
 race and sex. 
 
 This list of educable children shall be made in triplicate form 
 and written in ink. One list shall be furnished to the Auditor 
 of Public Accounts, one list to the State Board of Education, 
 and one list to the Board of School Directors of the parish in 
 which the enumeration is made. The said Assessors of the par- 
 ishes shall also make a separate correct enumeration of the blind 
 and deaf and dumb children between the ages of six and eighteen 
 years in their respective parishes by wards, giving the name, race 
 and sex of said children, and shall furnish to the State Board 
 of Education one separate list of said blind children and one 
 separate list of said deaf and dumb children. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Assessors and the Board of As- 
 sessors of the Parish of Orleans to swear to the correctness of 
 said lists before a competent officer, who shall attach a certificate 
 thereof on each list before filing them. 
 
 51. (Assessor's Pay for Enumemration, S. 3, A. 129, '09.) 
 
 The Parish Board of School Directors shall pay the Assessors 
 four cents for the enumeration of each educable child in their 
 respective parishes on the approval of the work of enumeration 
 by the State Board of Education, which shall be signified to the 
 Parish Boards by the Secretary of State Board under seal. In 
 the event the State Board of Education for any cause deems 
 the enumeration made incorrect or improperly made out, it shall 
 have the power and authority to order a new enumeration in 
 the parishes where the inaccuracies are found, without extra 
 compensation. 
 
 52. (Assessor's Blanks to Be Furnished by Auditor, S. 4, A. 129, '98.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts to 
 furnish blank forms ruled to set forth the required names of the 
 educable children by wards, with the race, sex and age of the 
 children, to the Assessors and the Board of the Parish of Orleans. 
 
 53. (Penalty for Neglect, S. 5, A. 29, '98.) 
 
 In case of willful negligence and refusal to comply with the 
 provisions of this act, the Governor shall have the power and 
 authority to remove any assessor or member of the Board of 
 Assessors from office for such refusal or negligence. 
 
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 54. (Oath and Bond Required, Act 19 of 1878.) 
 
 Section 1. That all State, district and parochial officers of 
 this State, whether elected or appointed, shall be required, within 
 thirty days after the receipt of their commission, to take the 
 oath of office prescribed by law, and give bond, where bond is 
 required, and cause the same to be filed in the proper office in 
 the manner required by law. 
 
 55 Sec. 2. That the failure of any officer to comply with the 
 requirements of Section 1 of this act, within .the limitations 
 therein fixed, shall operate a vacancy of such office and the 
 Governor shall proceed to fill said office by appointment, as in 
 other cases of vacancy. 
 
 56. Sec. 3. That any officer of this State, whether State, dis- 
 trict or parochial, who has heretofore been elected or appointed 
 to office, and who has failed to take the oath required by law, 
 and to give bond, where bond is required, in accordance with 
 existing laws, within thirty days from the date of the promul- 
 gation of this act, and a failure to comply with these require- 
 ments within the limitation fixed, shall operate a vacation of 
 such office, and the Governor shall fill the appointment, as in 
 other cases of vacancy. 
 
 57. (Assessor's Fee for Assessing School Taxes, S. 1, A. 213, '08.) 
 
 The tax assessors of each parish of the State ****** 
 shall receive as an annual compensation for his labors, services 
 and duties four per cent (4 per cent) of the first fifty thousand 
 dollars ($50,000.00) aggregate amount of all State, parish and 
 poll taxes assessed, and two per cent (2 per cent) on any excess 
 over fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00) ; provided that nothing 
 herein shall be so construed as to allow assessors more than two 
 per cent on special school taxes, and for his services, duties or 
 labors in assessing or extending on the rolls any and all levee 
 taxes the sum of one hundred dollars ($100), except where the 
 parish for which the assessor is elected lies in more than one 
 levee district, in which case he shall receive the sum of two per 
 cent (2 per cent) on the aggregate amount of such taxes; pro- 
 vided no assessor shall receive less than four hundred dollars 
 ($400) in any parish for each annual assessment of State, parish, 
 poll and all levee taxes. That the payment of this compensation 
 shall be distributed between the State, parish, school boards, 
 cities and towns and other taxing district or division in propor- 
 tion to the amount received by each. 
 
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 58. (Powers of the District Board in Expropriations, S. 1492, R. S.) 
 
 When land shall be required for the erection of a schoolhouse 
 or for enlarging a schoolhouse lot, and the owner refuses to sell 
 the same for a reasonable compensation, the District Board of 
 School Directors shall have the power to select and possess such 
 sites embracing space sufficiently extensive to answer the pur- 
 pose of schoolhouse and ground. 
 
 59. (Expropriation of Property for Public Schools; For Schoolhouse 
 
 Sites, Act 208 of 1906, amending and re-enacting Act 227 of 
 1902.) 
 
 Whenever the State or any political corporation of the same, 
 created for the purpose of exercising any portion of the govern- 
 mental powers, in the same, or the board of administrators or 
 directors of any charity hospital, or any board of school directors 
 thereof, or any corporation constituted under the laws of this 
 State for the construction of railroads, plank roads, turnpike 
 roads, or canals for navigation, or for the construction or opera- 
 tion of water works or sewerage to supply the public with water 
 and sewerage, (or for the piping and marketing of natural gas for 
 the purpose of supplying the public with natural gas), or for the 
 purpose of transmitting intelligence by magnetic telegraph, 
 cannot agree with the owner of the land which may be wanted for 
 its purchase, it shall be lawful for such State corporation, board 
 of administrators, directors or person to apply by petition to 
 the district court, in which the same may be situated, or if it 
 extends into two districts, to the judge of the district court in 
 which the owner resides, and if the owner does not reside in 
 either district, to either of the district courts, describing the land 
 necessary for the purposes, with a plan of the same, and a state- 
 ment of the improvement thereon, if any, and the name of the 
 owner thereof, if known at present in the State, with a prayer 
 that the land be adjudged to such State, corporation, board of 
 administrators or directors upon payment to the owner of all 
 such damages as he may sustain in consequence of the expropria- 
 tion of said land for such public works; all claims for lands or 
 damages to the owner caused by its taking or expropriation for 
 such public work shall be barred by two (2) years prescrip- 
 tion which shall commence to run from the date at which the 
 land was actually occupied and used for the construction of 
 the works. 
 
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 Section 2. Bt it further enacted, etc., That all the existing 
 laws for the forms and processes of expropriation of property 
 shall be applicable to the said act and section thus amended and 
 re-enacted. 
 
 60. (Relative to the Value of the Grounds, S. 1493, R. S.) 
 
 Should such landholder deem the sum assessed too small, he 
 shall have the right to institute suit before any proper judicial 
 tribunal for his claim; but the title shall pass from him to the 
 school corporation. 
 
 61. (Penalty for Non- Performance of Duty, S. 1300, R. S.) 
 
 A failure on the part of any district, parish or State officer 
 to perform the duty imposed upon him by any section of this 
 act, under the title, " Education," and in the manner herein 
 specified, is hereby declared a misdemeanor in office. Upon con- 
 viction thereof, such officer shall be punished by a fine of not less 
 than fifty, and not exceeding one hundred dollars, and by im- 
 prisonment in the parish prison for a term of not less than 
 thirty days and not exceeding three months. All prosecutions 
 for offenses against this section shall have precedence over all 
 cases before any justice of the peace, parish or district court. 
 
 62. (Office, Records, Vacancy, S. 26, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 A suitable office shall be provided for the State Superintend- 
 ent of Public Education at the seat of government, in which he 
 shall file, each year separately, all papers, reports and public 
 documents transmitted to him by the board and officers whose 
 duty it is to report to him, and hold the same in readiness to 
 be examined by the Governor whenever he sees proper, and by 
 any committee appointed by the General Assembly ; and he shall 
 cause to be kept a record of all matters appertaining to his 
 office. In case of vacancy in the office of Superintendent of 
 Public Education, the Governor shall fill the vacancy and sub- 
 mit the name of the appointee to the Senate for its confirma- 
 tion at the first session held after the appointment. 
 
 62-a. (Salaries, Office Expenses, Clerk, Porter, S. 27, A. 214, '02, as 
 amended by A. 28 of 1908.) 
 
 The salary of the Superintendent of Public Education shall 
 be five thousand dollars per annum, besides which he shall be 
 entitled to office fixtures, stationery, books, fuel and lights and 
 
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 everything needed to carry on the work of his office. He shall 
 have authority to appoint a clerk and a porter, and prescribe the 
 duties of each; provided, that the entire expenses of his office, 
 including salaries, postage and incidentals, shall not exceed the 
 specified appropriation therefor, payable in monthly install- 
 ments, out of the current school fund, by the Treasurer of the 
 State, upon warrants of the State Superintendent. 
 
 63. (Duties and Authority of the State Superintendent, S. 28, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The State Superintendent of Public Education shall have 
 general supervision of all parish school boards in the parishes, 
 and of all common, high and normal schools of the State, and 
 shall see that the school system of the State is carried properly 
 into effect. He shall be ex-officio a member of the board of 
 supervisors of the State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
 ical College, the State Normal School, the State Industrial School 
 at Huston, the State Industrial School at Lafayette, the Institute 
 for the Deaf and Dumb, the State Institute for the Blind, the 
 Southern University, and of all other institutions of learning 
 under the control of the State or aided in whole or in part by 
 the State. 
 
 He shall visit all the parishes of the State as often ac prac- 
 ticable, and shall give due notice of the time of his visit to the 
 parish superintendent, whose duty it shall be to meet and confer 
 with the State Superintendent on all matters connected with the 
 interests of the public schools of the parish. His expenses in- 
 curred in the discharge of his duty shall be paid out of the cur- 
 rent school fund, but shall not exceed the amount appropriated 
 per annum for the purpose. 
 
 64. By Act 163 of 1900, the State Superintendent is a member 
 of the Board of Control of the State Biologic Station. 
 
 65. (Accounts Kept by State Superintendent, S. 29, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 He shall keep an account of all orders drawn or countersigned 
 by him on the Auditor, of all returns of settlements, and make 
 note of all changes, in the appointment of school treasurers ; 
 whenever required any part of this account or note of change 
 shall be furnished by the Auditor. 
 
 66. (Biennial Report, S. 30, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 He shall biennially on or before the meeting of the General 
 Assembly, make a report of the condition and progress made 
 
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 and possible improvements to be made in the public schools; the 
 amount and condition of the school funds; how its revenues 
 during the two previous school years have been distributed; the 
 amount collected and disbursed for public school purposes from 
 local taxation, or from any other source of revenue, and how 
 the same was expended. 
 
 This report shall contain an abstract of the parish and city 
 superintendents' report. He shall communicate all facts, sta- 
 tistics and information as are of interest to the public schools. 
 He shall cause to be printed a sufficient number of copies for 
 distribution among the members of the General Assembly, the 
 State officials, parish school boards, public libraries, and super- 
 intendents of other States and Territories, and to meet all ex- 
 changes of educational reports. 
 
 67. (Suggestions to be Contained in Reports, S. 31, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The Superintendent in his report shall set forth the objects, 
 and make suggestions which may be of interest and promote the 
 success of all the institutions of learning under his supervision. 
 The superintendents of these institutions shall annually, by the 
 first of March, furnish the State Superintendent of Public Edu- 
 cation such statements of their respective institutions as may 
 be necessary to enable him to make a full and satisfactory 
 report. 
 
 68. (Copies of State Superintendent's Records Admissible in Evidence, 
 
 S. 32, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Certified copies of records and papers in his office shall in 
 all cases be evidence as admissible as the original. He is au- 
 thorized to make copies, when requested by any person so to 
 do, of any papers deposited or filed in his office, and of any act 
 or decision made by him, and certify the same, and he may 
 demand therefor payment at the rate of twenty-five cents per 
 one hundred words. 
 
 69. (Reports in Certain Cases; Conventions, S. 33, A, 214, '02.) 
 
 It is made the duty of the State Superintendent of Public 
 Education to report to the State Board of Education all neglect 
 of duty or any improper use made of school funds whenever it 
 may come to his knowledge. He shall hold annually, conven- 
 tions in the several institute districts, selecting the most conve- 
 nient and accessible points, for the purpose of consultation, ad- 
 
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 vice and instruction with parish superintendents in regard to 
 supervision and management of the public schools. 
 
 70. *(Decisions and Appeals, S. 34, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The State Superintendent shall decide all controversies or 
 disputes that may arise or exist among the directors, or between 
 the superintendents and the boards, and between the superin- 
 tendents and teachers concerning their respective rights and 
 duties. The facts of these controversies or disputes shall be 
 made known to him by written statement by the parties thereto, 
 verified by oath or affirmation, if required, and accompanied by 
 certified copies of all necessary minutes, contracts, orders, or 
 other documents. An appeal may betaken from his decision to 
 the State Board of Education, provided it be taken within fifteen 
 days after his decision shall have been made. The Attorney 
 General, when called upon by the Superintendent of Public 
 Education, shall give his opinion in regard to any controversy 
 or dispute. The Superintendent of Public Education shall, 
 whenever required, give advice, explanations, constructions, or 
 information to the district officers and superintendents, and to 
 citizens relative to the public school law, the duties of public 
 school officers, the rights and duties of parents, guardians, pupils, 
 and all officers, the management of the schools, and all other 
 questions calculated to promote the cause of education. He shall 
 perform all other duties imposed upon him by law. 
 
 72. (State Superintendent Appoints Attorneys in Certain Cases, S. 7, 
 A. 122, '74.) 
 
 The Superintendent of Public Education may appoint a per- 
 son of legal attainments in each school division (parish) of the 
 State, to examine notes due and other assets arising out of pur- 
 chase of lands granted to educational purposes ; to recover lands 
 improperly held and revenues diverted, and generally protect 
 the school interest in matters appertaining thereto. He (the 
 attorney) shall be paid a commission on moneys recovered, not 
 exceeding ten per cent, and on the value of lands and other prop- 
 erty recovered, not exceeding five per cent. 
 
 *Section 34. This department will gladly assist in every way in securing 
 uniform and satisfactory administration of school affairs. The custom of an- 
 swering proper inquiries from school officers, teachers or others, touching con- 
 structions and applications of school laws, will continue. All correspondence 
 of this kind is filed here for reference, carbon copies being taken for that 
 purpose. It is obvious that we cannot comply with requests for the return of 
 letters of inquiry with our replies. 
 
 In annpaling to the State Superintendent copies of the charges verified by 
 oath should h*> furnished the officers or persons complained against that they 
 may answer for themselves. 
 
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 73. (Pupils' Eyes to be Tested, A. 292, '08.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That the State Board of Health and Superintendent of 
 Education shall prepare or cause to be prepared, suitable test 
 cards, blanks and record books, and all other necessary appliances 
 to be used in testing the sight and hearing of pupils in the public 
 schools of the State, together with the necessary instructions for 
 the use of same; and the superintendent of Education shall 
 furnish said test cards, record books, blanks and appliances 
 together with the necessary instructions for the use to every 
 public school in the State. 
 
 74 - Section 2. The Superintendent, Principal, or teacher in 
 every school, during the month of September or during the first 
 month of school, or within thirty days after the admission of 
 any pupils entering the school late in the session, shall in each 
 year, test the sight and hearing of each and all pupils under his 
 or her charge, and shall keep a record of such examination ac- 
 cording to the instructions furnished, and shall notify in writing 
 the parent, tutor, tutrix or guardian of every pupil who shall 
 be found to have any defect of sight or hearing or any disease 
 of eyes or ears of such defect; and shall make a written report 
 of all such examinations to the State Superintendent of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 75. (Parish Superintendent Ex-Officio Secretary; Salary, S. 35, A. 167, 
 
 '04.) 
 
 The parish superintendent shall be ex-officio secretary of the 
 parish school board in each parish of the State, the Parish of 
 Orleans excepted; his salary shall be fixed by the parish school 
 board, provided, that in no case shall it be less than six hundred 
 dollars ($600.00) per annum. 
 
 76. (Visits to be Made, S. 36, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 He shall during the year visit once, at least, each school dis- 
 trict in the parish, and he shall exert his best endeavors in pro- 
 moting the cause of common school education. To this end he 
 shall faithfully carry out the requirements of the State school 
 law and the rules and regulations made for the schools by the 
 State Board of Education. 
 
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 77. (Committee for Examination of Teachers, S. 37, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The board of school directors shall elect two persons either 
 members or not members of the board at their discretion, who 
 shall assist the parish superintendent in examining applicants 
 for certificates of qualification to teach in the public schools 
 of the parish; these examiners shall mark all answer papers, 
 tabulate the result and present the same to the parish board, 
 which board shall select and appoint teachers for the schools of 
 the parish in accordance with the provisions of the law. This 
 shall be done at a special meeting of the board called for the 
 purpose, when necessary, and all elections of teachers shall be 
 carefully entered in the minutes of the proceedings. The an- 
 swer papers of all persons examined shall be kept for one year 
 in the office of the parish superintendent subject to inspec- 
 tion of the persons examined, or persons specially authorized by 
 them. 
 
 78. (Annual Report of the Parish Superintendent, S. 38, A. 214 of 1902, 
 
 as amended by A. 53 of 1910.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of each parish superintendent on or before 
 the tenth day of July of each year, to cause to be placed in the 
 hands of the Superintendent of Public Education the official 
 report of his parish schools for the previous session, showing 
 in tables an aggregate of the school districts in his parish, the 
 districts in which the schools are taught, and the length of time 
 taught, the number of children at school, the cost of tuition of 
 each child per month and for the session, the number of private 
 schools, colleges and academies taught in the parish, and the 
 length of the session of the same; the number of teachers em- 
 ployed, male, female, white and colored, the average wages of 
 male teachers, female teachers, the amount of money raised for 
 school purposes in the parish by local taxation or otherwise, and 
 for what purpose it was disbursed; the number and kind of 
 schoolhouses, the actual or approximate value of each, the 
 number built during the session preceding the report, the num- 
 ber of school libraries and the number of volumes in each and 
 the .increase during the session, and the amount received and 
 expended for them. In case of neglect or failure to make this 
 report in the time required he shall forfeit and pay the sum 
 of ten dollars per week, or fraction of a week, for the full time 
 of his delinquency; said amount to be collected by the parish 
 board for the benefit of the institute fund of the State. 
 
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 79. (Forfeited Bonds, S. 1044, R. S.) 
 
 The several district attorneys throughout the State shall be 
 entitled to demand and receive one-fifth of all sums, first deduct- 
 ing the percentage allowed by law to the sheriff for collecting 
 and paying over the same, which may be collected on forfeited 
 bonds in criminal prosecutions and misdemeanors in any court 
 of justice. 
 
 80. (Custody of Records, Papers and Documents, S. 39, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Each parish superintendent shall keep a record of all busi- 
 ness transacted by him as parish superintendent, the names, 
 numbers and description of school districts; the tabulation of 
 the reports of school principals made monthly to him by the 
 principals of the schools of is parish; and all other papers, 
 books and documents of value connected with his office; and 
 these shall be at all times subject to inspection and examination 
 by the State Superintendent of Public Education, or by any 
 school officer or other person interested in any question pertain- 
 ing to the public schools. In addition to his annual report to 
 the State Superintendent of Public Education hereinbefore pro- 
 vided for, and which shall be made in accordance with instruc- 
 tions of the State Superintendent, he shall furnish to the De- 
 partment of Education such narrative, and such information as 
 the State Superintendent may from time to time require of him. 
 
 81. (Oaths Superintendents May Administer, S. 40, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The parish superintendent may administer the oath required 
 of any of the officials of the common schools, or of any person 
 required to make oath in any matter relating thereto, except 
 to qualify directors. 
 
 82. (Office Days, S. 41, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 He shall attend at his office, at the parish seat, on the first 
 Saturday of January, April, July and October, in each year, 
 and at such other times as may be necessary for him to receive 
 the reports of teachers and others, and to transact the business 
 required of him. 
 
 83. (Make Quarterly Reports to Parish School Boards, S. 42, A. 214, '02.) 
 The parish superintendent shall make quarterly reports to 
 
 the parish board of directors upon the condition of the schools 
 under his supervision. 
 
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 Sec. 70, Act 214 of 1902, has been repealed, except that por- 
 tion which requires parish treasurer of school funds (now par- 
 ish superintendent) to make quarterly financial report to parish 
 school board ; and Act 25 of 1910 requires a copy of the same 
 to be forwarded to the Supervisor of Public Accounts. 
 
 84. (Superintendent as Secretary to Keep Minutes of All Proceedings, 
 
 S. 25, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The secretary shall keep full minutes of all proceedings of 
 the board in a book provided for the purpose, and shall do and 
 perform all other acts and duties legally pertaining to the office 
 of the secretary of the board. 
 
 85. (Register and Monthly Report, S. 60, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of parish 
 superintendents and teachers of the public schools of the State 
 to keep such school records as shall be prescribed by the State 
 Superintendent of Public Education. Prior to receiving his or 
 her monthly salary at the end of each month, each principal of 
 a school shall make to the parish superintendent a report of the 
 entire number of pupils enrolled, the number of pupils in at- 
 tendance during the month, the books used, the branches taught, 
 the number of pay pupils, and such other information as the 
 parish superintendent may deem important. If any principal 
 willfully neglects or fails to do this, the parish superintendent 
 shall withhold two dollars of the salary due for the benefit of 
 the State Institute Fund. 
 
 86. (Superintendent of Schools Made Treasurer of School Funds, S. 1, 
 
 A. 232, '08.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That Sec. 65 of Act No. 214 of 1902, be amended and re- 
 enacted so as to read as follows : 
 
 Section 65. That the Superintendent of Public Schools in 
 every parish (Parish of Orleans excepted) shall be constituted 
 the treasurer of all school funds apportioned by the State to 
 such parish, or raised, collected, or donated therein for the sup- 
 port of the free public schools; he shall receipt for all such 
 funds to the Treasurer of the State and to the collector of par- 
 ish taxes. 
 
 That the said Superintendent of Schools made treasurer of 
 school funds under the provisions of this Act, shall give bond in 
 
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 such sums as may be required by the school board of the parish ; 
 provided that said bond shall not be less than the greatest amount 
 in the hands of the treasurer during the previous year at any 
 one time, and the school boards of the several parishes shall pay 
 the premium of said bond. 
 
 That the said Superintendent of Public Schools shall receive 
 no compensation whatever for his services as school treasurer. 
 The said treasurer shall deposit the school funds in such bank or 
 banks as may be designated by the parish school board under 
 the provisions of Act No. 23 of the special session of the General 
 Assembly of 1907. 
 
 87. (Duties; Transfer of Funds; Books, Etc., S. 67, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Said Treasurer immediately upon the acceptance of his bond, 
 shall demand of his predecessor in the office of treasurer of the 
 school funds, custody of all books and papers, and of all balances 
 of school moneys in his hands as custodian of the school funds 
 of the parish. 
 
 88. (How Funds Shall be Disbursed, S. 68, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Said treasurer shall pay out the school funds entrusted to his 
 charge only on the warrant drawn by the president and coun- 
 tersigned by the secretary of the parish school board, and shall 
 state against what school district it is drawn, which warrant 
 shall be drawn by these officers only in virtue of appropriations 
 regularly made by the parish board; the parish board shall 
 make annually an estimate of the amount of revenue for the 
 year, appropriating the same as above required, and no warrant 
 beyond the amount estimated shall be drawn for any year. 
 These warrants shall be numbered and shall specify on their 
 face to whom and for what they are given, and the date of the 
 appropriation made by the school board; the treasurer shall 
 pay these warrants only to the extent of the amount to the credit 
 on his books and in the order in which they are presented, of 
 school districts in behalf of which the warrants shall have been 
 drawn, and said warrants shall be filed in his office as vouchers, 
 and with the account kept by him as treasurer of the school 
 fund, shall always be subject to examination by any one who 
 choses to examine them. 
 
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 89. (Public Officers to Furnish Certified Reports to Auditor of Public 
 
 Accounts, S. 3, A. 25, MO.) 
 
 Said Supervisor of Public Accounts shall have authority to 
 examine and audit the books and accounts of all public boards 
 and commissions, or any department of the State government, 
 and to that end shall have access to all papers, books and docu- 
 ments in all offices which he may examine or audit under the 
 provisions of this Act. All clerks of courts and other public 
 officers shall furnish certified copies of any documents or papers 
 in their possession to said Supervisor of Public Accounts when- 
 ever he shall request the same, and said certified copies shall be 
 furnished without any charge of any kind. 
 
 90. (Quarterly Statements to be Furnished Supervisor of Public Ac- 
 
 counts by Parish Superintendent and State Superintendent, S. 5, 
 A. 25, '10.) 
 
 Be it further enacted, etc., That all State boards and com- 
 missions and other public offices created by law, and all educa- 
 tional and eleemosynary institutions of this State including 
 parish school boards, road and drainage districts, shall furnish 
 to said Supervisor of Public Accounts, quarterly, in each year, 
 sworn statements of all moneys received by them, from what 
 sources, and all moneys expended by them and for what pur- 
 poses; said statements shall be accompanied by vouchers and 
 other papers necessary to prove the correctness of the same, 
 and no officer shall destroy any voucher or other paper belong- 
 ing to his office before same has been examined and passed upon 
 by said Supervisor of Public Accounts. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Supervisor of Public Accounts to 
 check said statements, and, if any irregularities exist to call the 
 attention of those responsible thereto. In case of any irregulari- 
 ties or defalcations or failure of any officer or employee to 
 comply with the provisions of this Act, it shall be the duty of 
 the Supervisor of Public Accounts to immediately notify the 
 Governor of the State. The quarterly sworn statements pro- 
 vided in this section shall be furnished the Supervisor of Public 
 Accounts between the first and fifteenth of January, April, July 
 and October of each year; the Supervisor of Public Accounts 
 shall install a system of accounting in every office, which by 
 law it is made his duty to inspect and report upon. The Super- 
 visor of Public Accounts shall return all vouchers to the re- 
 spective offices after inspection. 
 
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 91. (Form of Accounts Prescribed; Records to be Kept in Office, S. 6- 
 
 A. 25, MO.) 
 
 All public offices, boards, commissions and eleemosynary and 
 educational institutions of this State and all parochial school 
 boards, road and drainage districts, shall provide an office for 
 their secretary and treasurer where their books and records must 
 be kept. All accounts shall be kept in the form prescribed by 
 the Supervisor of Public Accounts; that any failure of any 
 officer or employee to furnish the Supervisor of Public Accounts 
 with any information requested shall immediately report to the 
 Governor of the State, who will take such action as he may deem 
 proper. The Supervisor of Public Accounts is authorized to 
 administer oaths arid the Assistant Supervisor of Public Ac- 
 counts when acting under instructions of the Supervisor of 
 Public Accounts shall have the same power and authority as is 
 granted under this Act to the Supervisor of Public Accounts, 
 except in the matter of administering oaths. 
 
 92. (Reports Filed by Supervisor; Duty of School Board Treasurer 
 
 S. 7, A. 25, '10.) 
 
 The Supervisor of Public Accounts shall make all reports 
 of his examination in duplicate, one to be filed with the Gover- 
 nor and one in the office investigated, unless otherwise provided 
 in this Act; if the report of any examination discloses any vio- 
 lation by any public officer or employee, the Supervisor of Pub- 
 lic Accounts shall furnish an additional copy to the district 
 attorney of the parish where said offense was committed. That 
 the Auditor of Public Accounts shall furnish the Supervisor of 
 Public Accounts, in writing, whenever a tax collector is delin- 
 quent, and every parish treasurer and every parish school board 
 treasurer shall notify the Supervisor of Public Accounts when- 
 ever any sheriff is delinquent in his settlement. 
 
 92-a. (Penalty for Neglect of Duty, S. 10, A. 25, '10.) 
 
 Sec. 10. That any public officer or employee in an office 
 that is subject to examination by the Supervisor of Public Ac- 
 counts who willfully neglects or fails to furnish said Super- 
 visor of Public Accounts with such papers, accounts, books, or 
 other documents which he has the right to inspect or audit un- 
 der the terms of the Act, or who shall willfully refuse or neg- 
 lect to transmit to said Supervisor of Public Accounts such 
 
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 reports, statements or accounts, or other documents, upon 
 request as provided by the terms of this Act, shall be deemed 
 guilty of a misdemeanor in office and shall, upon conviction, 
 suffer a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, nor more than 
 five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten days 
 nor more than six months, or both such fine and imprisonment 
 in the discretion of the court having jurisdiction. 
 
 92-b. (Repealing Clause, S. 11, A. 25, '10.) 
 
 Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, That Act No. 24 of the Extra 
 session of 1907 be and the same is hereby repealed, and all laws 
 and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are 
 also repealed. 
 
 93. (Fees of Tax Collectors, SS. 1, 2, A. 181, '08.) 
 
 That for all services, labors and duties performed by each 
 Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector throughout the State of 
 Louisiana as Tax Collector, Parish of Orleans excepted, he shall 
 be paid five per centum on the first seventy-five thousand dol- 
 lars, aggregate amount of all State, Parish, District, Poll, and 
 other taxes and licenses, collected by him and actually paid by 
 him into the State and Parish Treasury or to the authority 
 designated by law to receive the same; and two per centum on 
 the next forty-five thousand dollars, and one per cent on all 
 amounts over one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, pro- 
 vided that no Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector shall receive 
 for the collection of all taxes more than eight thousand dollars 
 per annum, provided further that no Sheriff and ex-officio Tax 
 Collector shall receive any compensation for the collection of 
 special school taxes except in parishes where the total amount of 
 State, Parish, Levee and Poll taxes and licenses collected do 
 not amount to $50,000. Be it further provided that in parishes 
 where the collection of State, Parish, Levee and Poll taxes and 
 licenses do not amount to $50,000 the Sheriff and ex-officio Tax 
 Collector shall receive five per cent on amount collected and 
 actually paid into the State and Parish Treasury or to the 
 authority designated to receive the same. 
 
 The payment of the compensation herein provided for the 
 Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector for the collection of Taxes 
 and Licenses shall be distributed between the State, Parish, 
 
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 School Board and other taxing districts or divisions and licenses 
 in proportion to the amount of taxes and licenses received by 
 each. 
 
 94. (Summer Normal Schools, S. 43, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Be it further enacted, etc., That whereas a majority of the 
 public school teachers of the State have not had the advantage 
 of professional training, and whereas the State should make an 
 effort to put this training within the reach of those teachers who 
 by reason of their age, their family ties and other obstacles, can- 
 not pursue the full course of the State Normal School, there 
 shall be established and maintained by the State Institute Fund, 
 in conjunction with the Peabody Institute Fund, Summer Nor- 
 mal Schools in the State, with sessions of not less than four weeks. 
 
 95. (Special One Week Institutes; Attendance; Pay; Excuse for Non- 
 
 Attendance, S. 44, A. 167, '04.) 
 
 Other institutes may be held when ordered by the State 
 Board of Education or under special laws ordering such insti- 
 tutes to be held. Every teacher of a common school must attend 
 the sessions upon penalty for non-attendance if satisfactory 
 excuse has not been rendered to the parish superintendent, of 
 forfeiting two days' pay. There shall be a vacation of the com- 
 mon schools of the parishes, to give opportunities to the teachers 
 to attend; and no reduction of the teacher's salary shall be 
 made during said vacation, provided he or she was in attend- 
 ance the full time of the session of the institute. These insti-. 
 tutes, held under this section, shall, as far as possible, be held 
 in some town centrally located, and teachers from as many par- 
 ishes as can conveniently attend shall be notified to attend. This 
 notice they shall obey, under the penalty before mentioned. 
 
 96. (Board of State Institute Managers and Institute Conductor, S. 45, 
 
 A. 214 of 1902, as amended by A. 223 of 1910.) 
 The State Superintendent of Public Education, the Pres- 
 ident of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and 
 Mechanical College, the President of the Louisiana State Nor- 
 mal School, the President of Louisiana Industrial Insti- 
 tute at Ruston, and the President of Louisiana Southwest- 
 ern Industrial Institute at Lafayette, and the Superintendent 
 of Public Education of the Parish of Orleans shall be a Board of 
 State Institute Managers and in their discretion shall select an 
 
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 experienced institute conductor, who shall have general charge 
 of the summer normal work, and whose services shall be paid 
 for out of the institute funds in such manner as shall be agreed 
 upon by the Board named in this Act. The institute conductor 
 shall be secretary of the Board. 
 
 97. (Certificates Issued; Preference to Holders of Same, S. 46, A. 214, 
 
 '02.) 
 
 The managers of the summer normal schools shall issue cer- 
 tificates of attendance to every teacher present during the whole 
 of their sessions, and the parish boards of school directors shall 
 give preference, other things being equal, to 'the holders 
 of said certificates in the selection of teachers for the public 
 schools. 
 
 98. (Institute Conductor's Report, S. 47, A. 167, '04.) 
 
 The conductors of the State (one-week) Institute shall make 
 a full report of their work giving the names of the teachers in 
 attendance, with a detailed account of all institute funds re- 
 ceived and disbursed, to the State Superintendent of Public 
 Education for publication in his biennial report to the General 
 Assembly and to the Board of the Peabody Education Fund. 
 
 99. (Monthly or Bi- Monthly Parish Institutes Compulsory, S. 1, A. 119, 
 
 1910, amending and re-enacting S. 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41 and 
 43, A. 81 of 1888.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of every parish superintendent of edu- 
 cation to conduct a teachers' institute or association on one Sat- 
 urday of every month, or, in his discretion, on a Friday and 
 Saturday of every alternate month, during the time the public 
 schools are in session in his parish, in each institute district. 
 
 100. (Attendance Obligatory; Penalties, S. 2, A. 119, 1910.) 
 
 The parish superintendent shall notify all teachers of the 
 time and place of the monthly or bi-monthly institute meetings, 
 and it shall be the duty of all teachers in the parish to attend 
 these meetings and to take such part in the exercises as the 
 superintendent may indicate. Such teachers as shall fail to be 
 present, or, being present, refuse to perform the part assigned 
 them on the program by the superintendent at such institute 
 meeting, shall forfeit one day's salary for each absence, or one 
 day's salary for each failure to perform the part assigned them 
 on the program by the superintendent. The amount so forfeited 
 
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 shall be deducted from such teachers' next monthly warrant by 
 the superintendent and by him credited to the institute fund 
 of the parish to be set aside and used exclusively for institute 
 work in the said parish. 
 
 101. (Compensation for Attendance; No Extra Compensation on School 
 
 Days, S. 3, A. 119 of 1910.) 
 
 School boards are hereby authorized and empowered to pay 
 each teacher attending an institute or association meeting two 
 dollars per day for each monthly meeting or bi-monthly meeting 
 and three cents per mile each way to and from said meetings; 
 provided that when the institute is held on regular school days 
 teachers shall only receive their regular pay as teachers for 
 such attendance. 
 
 102. (Programs and Reading Course; Penalty Imposed Upon Superin- 
 
 tendent, S. 4, A. 119 of 1910.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the State Institute Conductor to 
 formulate the programs for teachers' institutes or association 
 meetings, and it shall be the duty of the Board of State Institute 
 Managers to formulate the State Reading Course for teachers 
 yearly, and it shall be the duty of the parish superintendent to 
 consult the State Institute Conductor relative to conducting 
 teachers' institutes, and, when conducting teachers' institues or 
 associations, to follow the programs and the State Reading Course 
 for teachers so prepared, as aforesaid. The parish superintend- 
 ent shall forfeit five dollars for each institute or association he 
 fails to cause to be held, or fails to conduct, as required by this 
 Act, unless physically unable to attend, or for other valid rea- 
 sons appearing to the satisfaction of the School Board; the said 
 fine shall be collected by the School Board and credited to the 
 institute fund, as provided in Section 2 of this Act. The daily 
 session of the teachers' institute or association shall be not less 
 than five hours per day actual work. 
 
 103. (Roll Call; Annual Report, S. 5, A. 119, 1910.) 
 
 The parish superintendent, at the opening of the institute 
 meeting, shall cause a roll of teachers to be prepared, which 
 roll shall be called at least twice during each daily session of 
 the institute. He shall ascertain the number of teachers in 
 attendance and the length of time each attends, and he shall 
 carefully note the names of all absentees, and to this end he 
 
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 shall keep a record and at the end of the school session he shall 
 make an annual report to the State Institute Conductor of the 
 Institute work in his parish for the year upon blanks furnished 
 him by the State Institute Conductor for said purpose. 
 
 104. (Institute Managers; Compensation, S. 6, A. 119, MO.) 
 
 The parish superintendent shall, before the beginning of the 
 regular public school term, appoint a competent teacher of his 
 parish as institute manager for each district, if there be more 
 than one institute district in his parish ; and such institute 
 managers shall be paid three dollars per day as compensation 
 for actual services in holding such institutes, or for assisting 
 the superintendent while holding said teachers' institute. Pro- 
 vided, that when the teachers' institute is held on a regular 
 school day, the compensation of the institute managers shall 
 be their regular salary and no more. 
 
 105. (Institute Not Applicable to New Orleans, S. 7, A. 119 of 1910.) 
 
 The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the Parish of 
 Orleans, but the School Board of said parish at its election may 
 conduct such teachers' institutes provided for in this Act, in 
 the same manner and with the same power and authority as 
 hereinabove set forth. 
 
 106. (Repealing Clause, S. 8, A. 119 of 1910.) 
 
 Section 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws and 
 parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 106-a. (Local Institute Fund, S. 40, A. 81, '88.) 
 
 All institute funds shall be collected and receipted for by 
 the superintendent. He shall have a record of the amount re- 
 ceived, hand them over to the treasurer of the school board, 
 who shall keep a separate account of these funds. He shall pay 
 them out on the warrant of the superintendent, countersigned 
 by the president of the school board. These funds shall be ex- 
 pended only in the interest of the institutes. 
 
 NOTE. (This does not apply to the dollar collected for teachers' examina- 
 tion fee, which is to be sent to the State Superintendent of Education as per 
 Sec. 49, Act 167, '04, nor to fines imposed when the law stipulates that the 
 money is to be paid to the State Institute Fund.) 
 
 107. (Columbus Day, A. 56, 1910.) 
 
 The several school boards of the State of Louisiana shall 
 annually authorize, direct and instruct the parish superintendent 
 of education, or other proper authority to observe the anniver- 
 
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 sary of the date of the discovery of America by Christopher 
 Columbus, October 12, by such fitting and appropriate exercises, 
 as the said various and several school boards may determine 
 upon and select. 
 
 Sec. 2. Any failure upon the part of the said several and 
 various school boards and parish superintendents to comply 
 with the provisions of this Act, shall subject said school boards 
 and members thereof, and the parish superintendent to charges 
 of nonfeasance, and neglect of duty, which may be preferred 
 by any person, before the proper authority. 
 
 108. (Public School Officials and Teachers May Not be Agents for 
 School Supplies, A. 287, '08.) 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Louisiana, That it shall not be lawful for any school 
 official or teacher while employed in the public school to act 
 as agent for, or receive gifts, rebates, commissions or fees, directly 
 or indirectly from individuals or companies that manufacture, 
 handle or sell in the State of Louisiana any kind of school books, 
 school supplies, school furniture, or school building materials. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That any school official 
 or teacher employed in the public schools who shall violate the 
 provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and upon conviction shall ipso facto forfeit his position and the 
 proper authorities upon notice of such conviction shall at once 
 proceed to fill said position so vacated and said official or teacher 
 shall be sentenced by the court to pay a fine of not less than 
 twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or be 
 imprisoned for not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and 
 imprisonment at the discretion of the court. 
 
 108-a. (Bird Day Established, S. 14, A. 198, '06.) 
 
 Section 14. Be it further enacted, etc., That the State and 
 Parish Boards of Public Education are directed to provide for 
 the celebration, by all public schools, of "Bird Day," on May 
 fifth of each year, being the anniversary of the birth of John 
 James Audubon, the distinguished son of Louisiana. 
 
 On the recurring anniversary days, suitable exercises are to 
 be engaged in, and lessons on the economic and esthetic value of 
 the resident and migratory birds of the State are to be taught, 
 by the teachers, to their pupils. 
 
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 109. (Teachers' Examinations; Time, S. 48, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Examinations of applicants for certificates of qualifications 
 to teach in the public schools of the State shall be held on dates 
 designated by the State Board of Public Education. 
 
 110. (Examiners; Oath; Duties and Penalties for Non-Performance, 
 
 S. 50, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Before the examiners shall commence their examination of 
 applicants, they shall take an oath that they will faithfully dis- 
 charge their duties. They shall not give to any person a cer- 
 tificate before examining the candidate, touching his or her 
 qualifications to teach, and who is not qualified to teach as re- 
 quired by the public school law. They shall be satisfied that the 
 applicant is possessed of good moral character. If at any time 
 a teacher becomes incompentent, inefficient, or unworthy of the 
 endorsement given him or her, the parish superintendent may 
 revoke the same and notify the board of his action for its ap- 
 proval or disapproval. Any teacher may be discharged at any 
 time under the above provisions, but he shall be entitled to re- 
 ceive payment for services only up to the time of such dismissal. 
 
 111. (Examination Fee, S. 49, A. 214, '02, amended and re-enacted by 
 
 A. 133, '06.) 
 
 Before being examined each applicant for a certificate to 
 teach shall pay a fee of one dollar. The money so received 
 shall be forwarded to the State Superintendent of Public Edu- 
 cation by the parish superintendent, along with the names of 
 the persons by whom it has been paid. The State Superintend- 
 ent shall give to each parish superintendent a receipt for the 
 money for the benefit of the Institute Fund. A list of all 
 moneys so received shall be forwarded to the State Board of 
 Education. 
 
 112. (Additional Requirement, S. 3, A. 40, '88.) 
 
 No certificate shall be granted hereafter to any new appli- 
 cant to teach in the public schools of Louisiana, who has not 
 passed a satisfactory examination in the study of the nature 
 of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and their effects upon the 
 human system, in connection with the several divisions of the 
 subject relative to physiology and hygiene. 
 
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 113. (Third Grade Certificate, S. 51, A. 214, '02.) - 
 
 To obtain a third grade certificate the applicant must be 
 found competent to teach spelling, reading, penmanship, 
 drawing, arithmetic, English grammar, geography, the history 
 of the United States, the Constitution of the United States, the 
 Constitution of the State of Louisiana, physiology, and hygiene, 
 with special reference to the effects of stimulants and narcotics- 
 upon the human system, and the theory and art of teaching. 
 
 114. (Second Grade Certificate, S. 52, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 To obtain a second grade certificate the applicant must be 
 found competent to teach all the foregoing branches, and also- 
 grammatical analysis, physical geography and elementary alge- 
 bra. 
 
 115. (First Grade Certificate, S. 53, A. 214, '02, amended and re-enacted 
 
 by Act 133, '06.) 
 
 To obtain a first grade certificate the applicant must be 
 found competent to teach all branches required for a third grade 
 and second grade certificate, and also higher algebra, natural 
 philosophy and geometry ; provided, that graduates of all insti- 
 tutions of learning authorized to confer diplomas under the 
 laws of this State, applying in examinations for first grade 
 teacher's certificates, be credited with having passed a satis- 
 factory examination for said first grade teacher's certificate in- 
 such of the required subjects as, by the president of said insti- 
 tution, may be certified to as having been completed in the course 
 of study of the applicant, excepting theory and art of teaching 
 as it applies to the subjects required for a first grade teacher's, 
 certificate, and to general school practices. 
 
 115-a. (Institutions Authorized to Issue Diplomas by the Laws of the. 
 State.) 
 
 (Up to and including the re&ular session of 1910.) 
 (For exemptions and methods of procedure see 115.) 
 
 Centenary College, Shreveport. 
 
 Convent of Ursulines, The, New Orleans. 
 
 Holy Cross College, The, New Orleans. 
 
 Home Institute, New Orleans. 
 
 Jefferson College, Convent. 
 
 Keachie Female College, Keachie. 
 
 Leland University (colored), New Orleans. 
 
 Louisiana College, Pineville. 
 
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 Louisiana Industrial Institute, Huston. 
 
 Louisiana State University, Academic Department, Baton 
 
 Rouge. 
 
 Newcomb College, New Orleans. 
 New Orleans University (colored), New Orleans. 
 St. Mary's Academy, New Orleans. 
 St. Mary's Dominican Academy, New Orleans. 
 Silliman Institute, Clinton. 
 
 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute, Lafayette. 
 Southern University (colored), New Orleans. 
 Straight University (colored), New Orleans. 
 Tulane University, Academic Department, -New Orleans. 
 
 116. (Certificates; License to Teach; How Long and Where, S. 54, A. 
 
 214, '02.) 
 
 A third grade certificate shall entitle the holder to teach for 
 one year; the second grade certificate shall entitle the holder 
 to teach in the public schools for three years from its date; a 
 first grade certificate shall entitle the holder to teach for five 
 years from its date. If a person pass a satisfactory examination 
 by any parish superintendent, obtain a certificate of any grade, 
 and purpose to teach in another parish, it shall be lawful for 
 the superintendent holding the papers written at the examina- 
 tion for such certificate, upon the request of any parish super- 
 intendent, to transfer such papers to him, and if found satis- 
 factory, a certificate thereon, of the proper grade, to be for the 
 same length of time as the original certificate, may be issued by 
 him to the same effect as though he had examined the applicant 
 himself. 
 
 117. (Special Certificates, S. 55, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Special certificates in studies of high grade may be issued 
 on a satisfactory examination in branches to be taught in any 
 special academic department, which certificates shall entitle their 
 holders to special appointment in a department where such 
 studies may be taught. 
 
 118. (License and Contract Necessary to Teach in Public Schools, S. 56 
 
 A. 214, '02.) 
 
 No person shall be appointed to teach without a written con- 
 tract for the scholastic year in which the school is to be taught, 
 and who shall not hold a certificate of a grade sufficiently high 
 
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 to meet the requirements of the school ; unless he or she holds a 
 certificate or diploma provided for by this Act, which exempts 
 him or her from examination. 
 
 119. (Teachers Not Affected, S. 57, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Teachers now in position and holding certificates shall not 
 be affected by the provisions of this Act, it being the intention 
 thereof to have regard to certificates to be issued in the future 
 rather than those issued in the past and held by teachers now 
 employed and giving satisfaction to their boards; but all cer- 
 tificates are revocable, and all teachers subject to examination 
 whenever they fall under the provisions of Section 50 of this 
 Act. 
 
 120. (Certificates to be Filed by the Teacher, S. 58, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 Each teacher of any school in this State supported wholly 
 or in part from public money shall, before receiving any remu- 
 neration for services rendered in said capacity, file a certificate 
 with the person by whom such payments are authorized to be 
 made to the effect that such teacher has faithfully complied with 
 all the provisions of this Act during the entire period for which 
 such payment is sought, and in the manner specified in this Act ; 
 and no money shall be paid to any teacher who has not filed such 
 a certificate. 
 
 121. (State Teacher's Certificate, A. 55, '06.) 
 
 To obtain a State teach er's certificate, the applicant must 
 be found competent to teach all of the subjects now required 
 for a first grade teacher's certificate, and also literature, cVm- 
 istry, bookkeeping, Latin, general history, botany, history of 
 education, psychology, and school administration; provided, 
 that the graduates of all institutions of learning authorized to 
 confer diplomas under the laws of this State be credited with 
 having passed a satisfactory examination for said State teacher's 
 certificate in such of the required subjects as, by the president 
 of said institution, may be certified to as having been completed 
 in the course of study of the applicant, excepting theory and ?rt 
 of teaching, history of education, phychology, and school admin- 
 istration. 
 
 122. Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That a State teacher's 
 certificate shall entitle the holder to teach in any parish of 
 
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 the State for a term of ten years, from date of said certificate, 
 after which same may be renewed by the State Board of Ex- 
 aminers. 
 
 123 - Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That the examina- 
 tion for a State teacher's certificate shall be conducted by a 
 State Board of Examiners, same to consist of the State Super- 
 intendent of Public Education, the President of the Louisiana 
 State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and 
 the President of the Louisiana State Normal School, under such 
 rules and regulations as may be adopted by the said State Board 
 of Examiners, provided that it shall be optional upon all teachers 
 to take advantage of this Act. 
 
 124. Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That the State Board 
 of Examiners shall issue State teachers' certificates as provided 
 for in this Act. 
 
 125. (Diplomas of Certain Schools Valued Same as First Grade Certifi- 
 
 cates, S. 59, A. 214, '02, as amended by Act 133, '06, as amend- 
 ed by Act 174, '08.) 
 
 The diplomas conferred by the Peabody Normal School lo- 
 cated at Nashville, Tennessee, upon graduates of that institu- 
 tion, as also diplomas conferred by the State Normal School, at 
 Natchitoches, Louisiana; as also diplomas conferred upon the 
 graduates of the City Normal School of New Orleans, Louisiana, 
 as also diplomas conferred upon the graduates of the depart- 
 ment of Philosophy and Education of the Louisiana State Uni- 
 versity and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as also diplo- 
 mas conferred upon the graduates of the Teachers' College of 
 Tulane University, as also full diplomas conferred upon grad- 
 uates completing the course in the Teachers Training Depart- 
 ment of all schools, or institutions of learning now authorized 
 by special Acts of the General Assembly to confer diplomas un- 
 der the laws of this State, that will establish a Teachers Training 
 Department following a curriculum to be established by the 
 State Board of Education, shall entitle the holders thereof to 
 a first grade certificate, valid in any town or parish in this State 
 for four years from the date of graduation, at the expiration of 
 which time certificates awarded to the graduates of the Pea- 
 body Normal School may be renewed by the State Superintendent 
 of Public Education, upon satisfactory evidence of the ability, 
 
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 progress and moral character of applicants asking for such re- 
 newal ; certificates awarded to the graduates of the State Normal 
 School may, in like manner, be renewed at the expiration of 
 four years by the Board of Administrators of the said Normal 
 School; certificates awarded to the graduates of the Depart- 
 ment of Philosophy and Education of the Louisiana State Uni- 
 versity and Agricultural and Mechanical College may, in like 
 manner, be renewed at the expiration of four years by the 
 Board of Administrators of said institution ; certificates awarded 
 to graduates of the City Normal School, of New Orleans, in like 
 manner, may be renewed at the expiration of four years by the 
 Board of Directors by whom they were originally issued; and 
 certificates awarded to graduates of all other institutions having 
 complied with the curriculum and having established a Teachers 
 Training Department as provided in this Section, may be re- 
 newed at the expiration of four years by the authority of said 
 institution having originally issued said diploma. 
 
 126. (Police Jury and Municipal Tax, A. 257 of 1910, amending the 
 
 Constitution.) 
 
 The police juries of the several parishes and boards of trus- 
 tees and municipal councils of incorporated cities and towns 
 (the Parish of Orleans excepted) shall levy, collect and turn 
 over to the parish school boards of their respective parishes for 
 the support of the public schools of their respective parishes, 
 cities or towns, the proceeds of at least three mills of the annual 
 tax which they are empowered to levy on each dollar of the 
 assessed valuation of the property thereof; provided that cities 
 and towns that are not exempted by the terms of their charters 
 from the payment of parish taxes and which are subjected to 
 the similar burdens of taxation as are the parishes shall not pay 
 this tax, as same is included in the taxes imposed by the parish 
 in which the town is situated, "unless the parish boards of school 
 directors of that parish certify that the needs of the schools can 
 be met by a smaller levy of such taxes. " 
 
 127. (Apportionment of Current School Funds, S. 62, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The State Superintendent of Public Education shall, in the 
 months of February, June and November, in each year, appor- 
 tion the funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the 
 support of the public schools of the State among all the parishes 
 
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 of the State according to the number of children between the 
 ages of six and eighteen years in each parish ; provided, that all 
 the poll tax collected in any parish shall be appropriated to said 
 parish. The amount so apportioned shall be paid by the State 
 Treasurer to the school treasurer of each parish upon the war- 
 rant of the State Superintendent of Public Education. 
 
 128. (Accounts State Treasurer Shall Keep, S. 1326, R. S.) 
 
 An account shall be opened on the books of the treasury, to be 
 called the Current School Fund; such account shall be charged 
 with the annual expenditures for the public schools and credited 
 with the net receipt for the special taxes laid by the General 
 Assembly for the support of the public schools, and with the 
 receipts from such other sources as may be designated by law. 
 It shall be the duty of the Auditor, in his annual report, to pre- 
 sent a statement of the condition of s?id fund, and an estimate 
 of the special tax needed for the support of the public schools 
 during the ensuing year beyond the receipts for said support from 
 other sources. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of 
 Public Education to furnish the Auditor with all information He 
 may require for his said report. 
 
 129. (School Fund; How Applied, S. 1327, R. S.) 
 
 The Current School Fund shall be used for the support of 
 the public schools, and the surplus of receipts over expenditure 
 for any one year, shall be appropriated to the support of public 
 schools during the ensuing year; and the Act numbered 224 of 
 eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and the Acts 180 and 265 of 
 eighteen hundred and fifty-five, which direct said surplus to be 
 funded, be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 130. (Interest on United States Deposit Funds, S. 1328, R. S.) 
 
 The interest on the United States deposit fund shall be 
 appropriated to the annual support of the public schools, pro- 
 vided by the Constitution ; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor 
 and Treasurer annually to transfer from the general fund of 
 the treasury to the current school fund the sum of twenty-eight 
 thousand seven hundred and ninety-five dollars and fourteen 
 cents, the amount of said interest. 
 
 131. (Bonds and Fines, S. 64, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 All fines imposed by the several district courts for violation 
 of law, and the amounts collected on all forfeited bonds in 
 
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 criminal cases, after deducting commissions, shall be paid over 
 by the Sheriff of the parish in which the same are imposed and 
 collected, to the treasurers of the school boards in said parishes, 
 and shall be applied to the support of the public schools as arc 
 applied the other funds levied for the purpose, the parish of 
 Orleans excepted. 
 
 132. (Special School Taxes Authorized, S. 1, A. 256 of 1910.) 
 
 Parishes, wards, cities, towns, villages, school districts, road 
 districts, drainage districts and sub-drainage districts are declared 
 to be political sub-divisions of the State, and special taxes may be 
 levied and debt incurred and negotiable bonds issued therefor as 
 hereinafter provided, except that the Parish of Orleans and the 
 City of New Orleans are exempted from the provisions of this Act. 
 The governing authority of subdivisions herein defined shall be for 
 parishes, wards and road districts within such parish, the Police 
 Jury of the Parish ; for cities, towns and villages, the municipal 
 "boards thereof ; for drainage and sub-drainage districts, the drain- 
 age commissions of the drainage district ; for school districts, the 
 school board of the Parish in which they are located, and when 
 a school district is composed of lands of more than one Parish, 
 then the school board of the Parish which furnishes the territory 
 in said school district carrying the highest assessment. 
 
 132-a. (School Board Authorized to Call Elections for Special Taxes, 
 S. 2, A. 256 of 1910.) 
 
 The Police Jury of any parish acting for the parish, a ward 
 or road district therein and the governing authorities of any 
 other subdivision as herein defined shall have authority to call 
 a special election for the purpose of submitting to the property 
 taxpayers who are authorized to vote at such election under the 
 Constitution and laws of the State of Louisiana, a proposition 
 to levy a special tax not to exceed the limit that is now or may 
 hereafter be fixed by the Constitution of Louisiana for the pur- 
 pose of giving additional aid to public lands, constructing or 
 purchasing any work of public improvement in keeping with the 
 objects and purposes for which the subdivision was created, and 
 the title to which shall vest in the public or in the subdivision in 
 which such tax is levied ; and at the same election, similarly called 
 and held, a proposition may be submitted to the property tax- 
 
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 payers as to whether or not they will incur debt and issue nego- 
 tiable bonds therefor not to exceed ten (10%) per centum of the 
 assessed value of the property for the subdivision calling said 
 election, to be issued for the purpose of purchasing or construct- 
 ing works of public improvement in keeping with the objects and 
 purposes for which the subdivision was created, and the title to 
 which shall vest in the public or subdivision levying the tax. 
 That such governing authority shall be required to call an elec- 
 tion for either of the purposes above mentioned when requested 
 to do so by the petition in writing of one-fourth of the property 
 taxpayers eligible to vote in said election. 
 
 132-b. (Resolution Calling the Election; Publication, S. 3, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 In the resolution calling the election, the rate, object and 
 purpose for which the tax is to be levied and the number of 
 years it is to run, must be stated. If the proposition is to incur 
 debt and issue negotiable bonds therefor, the object for which 
 the debt is to be incurred, the number of years it is to run and 
 the rate of interest to be paid on same, shall be stated in the 
 proposition submitted to the property taxpayers. After such 
 resolution is passed, a notice of said election shall be given, 
 embracing substantially all things that are required to be set 
 forth in the resolution, and shall set forth further that the 
 authorities ordering the election will, in open session to be held 
 at an hour and place named in such notice, proceed to open 
 the ballot boxes, examine and count the ballots in number and 
 amount, examine and canvass the returns, and declare the result 
 of the election. Such notice shall be advertised for thirty days 
 in a weekly newspaper published in the subdivision or parish 
 in which the tax is proposed to be levied, and if there is no 
 newspaper published in the parish, by posting in three public 
 places in the subdivision ordering the election. Four weeks' 
 publication in a newspaper shall constitute a publication for 
 thirty days> provided thirty days intervene from the date on 
 which the publication is first inserted and the day on which the 
 election takes place. 
 
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 133. (Who Is Entitled to Vote, S. 4, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 The property taxpayers, qualified as electors under the Con- 
 stitution and laws of this State, shall be entitled to vote at such 
 elections, the qualifications of such taxpayers as voters to be 
 those of age, residence and registration as voters; provided that 
 resident women taxpayers shall have the right to vote at all 
 such elections without registration, in person or by their agents 
 authorized in writing, which written authorization shall be at- 
 tached to such agent's ballots, respectively; provided that, when- 
 ever the limit and boundaries of any municipal corporation have 
 been extended under the laws of this State, and the assessment 
 roll that is to include the property in the extended limits has not 
 already been made for said municipal corporations, those who 
 have become property taxpayers of said municipal corporation 
 by the extension of its limits and who are qualified under the 
 Constitution and laws of this State to vote, shall be permitted 
 to vote under this Act, and that the assessment of the property 
 within such municipal corporation as extended shall, for the 
 purpose of ascertaining the assessed valuation of property herein 
 and for the purpose, of any election under this Act, be taken 
 from the last assessment roll of the parish. 
 
 133-a. (Election Held Under Supervision and at Expense of School 
 
 Board, S. 5, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 Such elections shall be conducted under the supervision and 
 at the expense of the subdivision ordering the same, the govern- 
 ing authority of which shall appoint for each polling place three 
 commissioners and one clerk of election (all of whom shall be 
 registered voters), desginate the polling places, provide the ballot 
 boxes, ballots, the necessary blanks for tally sheets, lists of voters, 
 valuations of property and compiled statement of the voters in 
 number and amount, and fix the compensation of such election 
 officers. 
 
 133-b. (Duty of Registrar of Voters, S. 6, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the registrar of voters to furnish the 
 commissioners appointed to hold such elections with the lists of 
 taxpayers entitled to vote in person or by proxy at such elections, 
 together with the valuation of each taxpayer's property as shown 
 by the assessment roll last made and filed prior to each election ; 
 provided that, when any taxpayer's name and valuation of 
 
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 property shall be omitted from such list or erroneously entered 
 thereon the commissioners of election shall have authority to 
 receive affidavits of such taxpayer's right to vote and of the 
 proper assessed valuation of his property, which affidavit shall 
 be attached to such taxpayer's ballot. 
 
 134. (Manner of Challenging Voters, S. 7, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 Whenever the vote of any taxpayer shall be challenged, the 
 commissioners of election shall receive in writing the grounds 
 of challenge, signed by the person or persons challenging such 
 vote, together with the challenged taxpayer's statement of his 
 asserted right to vote, and attach such challenge and statement 
 to his ballot. 
 
 134-a. (Form of Ballots, S. 8, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 The ballots provided for any election held under the provi- 
 sions of this Act shall be of such form as to enable the voters 
 to vote in favor or against the proposition submitted, and that 
 when more than one proposition shall be submitted at the same 
 time, they shall be so submitted as to enable one voter to vote 
 on each proposition separately. The ballots to be used at such 
 election shall be in the following form : 
 
 FOR THE LEVYING OF A TAX. 
 
 Proposition to levy a 
 
 mill (Rate) 
 
 tax on all the property subject to State taxation in 
 
 for the period 
 
 (Subdivision) 
 
 of for the purpose oi 
 
 (Term) 
 
 (Here state the purpose of the tax) 
 Taxable valuation $ 
 
 (Signature of Voter) 
 
 Yes 
 
 NOTICE TO VOTERS: To vote in favor of the proposi- 
 tion submitted upon this ballot place a cross (X) mark in the 
 square after the word "Yes;" to voteo against it place a similar 
 mark after the word "No." 
 
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 FOR THE ISSUANCE OF BONDS, 
 
 Proposition to incur debt and issue bonds oi 
 to the amount of 
 
 
 
 
 (Subdivision) 
 (Amount) 
 to run years bear* 
 
 
 
 (Term) 
 ing interest at the rate of 
 
 
 
 (Rate) 
 per centum per annum, payable for the 
 
 
 
 (Annually or semi-annually) for the purpose oi 
 (Here state the purpose of debt) 
 
 Yes 
 
 
 Taxable valuation $ 
 
 
 
 
 No 
 
 
 Signature of Voter 
 
 
 
 NOTICE TO VOTERS: To vote in favor of the proposi- 
 tion submitted upon this ballot place a cross (X) mark in the 
 square after the word "Yes;" to vote against it place a similar 
 mark after the word ' ' No. ' ' 
 
 134-b. (Manner of Selecting Substitute Commissioners, Etc., S. 9, A. 
 
 256, '10.) 
 
 Whenever any commissioner or clerk of election, appointed 
 as provided in Section five of this Act shall be unable, fail, or 
 neglect to attend or serve at the polling place designated at the 
 hour fixed for the opening of the polls, or within one hour 
 thereafter, the commissioner or commissioners present shall ap- 
 point, or in the absence of all the commissioners the voters present 
 shall elect the necessary number of commissioners and clerks, 
 who shall have the same powers, compensation and duties as 
 other commissioners and clerks, to serve in the place and stead 
 of such absent or delinquent appointees. 
 
 135. (Oath of Election Officers, S. 10, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 The commissioners and clerks of such elections, before open- 
 ing the polls, shall be sworn to perform all the duties incumbent 
 on them as such, the oath to be taken before any officer author- 
 ized to administer oaths, or by the Clerk and each commmissioner 
 
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 before any other commissioner, such commissioners of election be- 
 ing authorized to administer any oath and to receive any affidavit 
 provided for in this Act. 
 
 135-a. (Voter's Name to be Endorsed on Ballot, S. 11, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 Each voter's name shall be endorsed by his ballot; provided 
 that ballots voted by proxy shall have endorsed thereon the 
 names of both of the taxpayer and of her proxy. 
 
 NOTE. Attorney General Guion rules that persons voting for a special 
 school tax or having to vote for a proposition to fund taxes into bonds shall 
 endorse their names on the back of the tickets. The voter"s name and the 
 value of his property will appear on the face of the ticket in the blanks ar- 
 ranged for this purpose, but the voter's name should also be endorsed on the 
 back of the ticket. 
 
 135-b. (Manner of Voting, S. 12, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 The commissioners of election shall receive the ballot of each 
 voter, check his name, or that of his principal, on the list of 
 voters furnished by the registrar as having voted, enter and num- 
 ber his name, or that of his principal, on the list of taxpayers 
 voting, and immediately deposit his ballot in the ballot box, 
 reserving to each voter the right to so fold his ballot that it 
 shall not be known at the time of his voting whether he has 
 voted in favor of or against the proposition or propositions sub- 
 mitted. 
 
 136. (Time of Opening and Closing Polls, S. 13, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 The polls of election ordered and held under the provisions 
 of this shall, on the day appointed for any such election, open 
 at seven o'clock a. m. and remain open until and not later than 
 five o'clock p. m. ; provided that no election shall be vitiated by a 
 failure to open the polls at the time prescribed or by closing the 
 same before the time prescribed, unless, on a contest, it be proven 
 that voters were thereby deprived of their votes sufficient in 
 number and amount to have changed the result of such election. 
 
 136-a. (Manner of Compiling Votes, S. 14, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 That immediately after the closing of the polls, the commis- 
 sioners shall, in the presence of the bystanders proceed to open 
 the ballot boxes, count the ballots found in the box and check 
 same with the list of voters kept, then proceed to count the votes 
 in number and amount, keep in duplicate tally sheets showing 
 the votes in number in favor of and against the proposition or 
 propositions submitted and showing valuation of property in 
 
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 favor of and against same, make in duplicate compiled state- 
 ments of the vote in number and amount, both in favor of and 
 against such proposition or propositions; that after swearing to 
 the correctness of the numbered list of voters, the duplicate tally 
 sheets and duplicate compiled statements, they shall deposit the 
 ballots, the registrar's list of voters, the numbered list of tax- 
 payers voting, one duplicate tally sheet and one duplicate com- 
 piled statement, in the ballot box, immediately seal up said ballot 
 box and, within forty-eight hours after the closing of the polls, 
 deliver said sealed ballot boxes with their contents to the author- 
 ities ordering such election and shall within the same delay de- 
 liver the other duplicate tally sheet and the other duplicate com- 
 piled statement to the Clerk of the District Court of the parish 
 in which such election has been held, who shall file the same in 
 his office. 
 
 If the election commissioners on counting the ballots find 
 that they do not correspond with the list of voters, they shall 
 before counting the ballots, examine same for the purpose of 
 finding the discrepancy; and if it should be found that any bal- 
 lots have been duplicated the same shall be destroyed, or if it is 
 found that the name of the voter has been omitted from the list 
 of persons voting, same shall be added to said list. 
 
 136-b. (Returns Canvassed by Governing Authority, S. 15, A. 256, .'10.'/ 
 
 On the day and at the hour and place named in the notice 
 ordering such election, the authorities under whose orders such 
 election has been held, shall, in public session, proceed to open 
 the ballot boxes, examine and count the ballots in number and 
 amount, examine and canvass the returns and declare the results 
 of such election, which result they shall thereafter promulgate 
 by publication in one issue of the official journal, or other news- 
 paper of the parish, where there is no official journal or by post- 
 ing where no newspaper is published. 
 
 136-c. (Process Verbal Required, S. 15, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 The authority ordering the election shall keep a process verbal 
 of the manner in which the ballot boxes have been opened, the 
 returns canvassed and the result of the election ascertained and 
 shall forward a copy of said process verbal to the Secretary of 
 State, who shall record the same, another copy to the Clerk of 
 
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 the District Court who shall also record said copy in the mort- 
 gage records of the parish, and the remaining copy shall be re- 
 tained in the archives of the office of the authority ordering the 
 election. 
 
 136-d. (Returns Kept Three Months, S. 16, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 The custodian of the archives or records of the authority 
 ordering such election shall preserve, for the term of three 
 months from the date of promulgation of such election, the 
 ballots and other returns thereof. 
 
 137. (Election Incontestible After Sixty Days, S. 17, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 For a period of sixty days from the date of the promulgation 
 of the result of any such election, any person in interest shall 
 have the right to contest the legality of such election for any 
 cause; after which time no one shall have any cause of action 
 to contest the regularity, formality, or legality of said election 
 for any cause whatever. If the validity of any election held 
 tinder the provisions of this Act is not raised within sixty days 
 herein prescribed, then no governing authority of any sub- 
 division herein named, required to levy a tax or issue bonds 
 as authorized at an election or under this Act, shall be permitted 
 to refuse to perform that duty and urge as an excuse or reason 
 therefor, that some provision of the Constitution or law of 
 Louisiana has not been complied with, but it shall be conclusively 
 presumed that every legal requirement has been complied with, 
 and no court shall have authority to inquire into such matters 
 after the lapse of sixty days as herein provided. 
 
 137-a. (Majority in Number and Amount Necessary to Carry an Elec- 
 tion, S. 18, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 Any proposition submitted by the governing authority of 
 any subdivision as herein authorized either for the purpose of 
 levying a tax, incurring a debt, or issuing bonds, must be voted 
 for by a majority in number and amount of the property tax- 
 payers, qualified as electors under the Constitution and laws of 
 this State, voting at an election held for that purpose as herein 
 provided, before any such tax shall be levied, or before any debt 
 shall be incurred or bonds issued. 
 
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 137-b. (Duty of Governing Authority to Levy and Assess Special Tax, 
 S. 19, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 In the event that any election ordered and held as aforesaid 
 shall result in favor of the proposition to levy and assess special 
 taxes upon the property subject to taxation in the Subdivision, 
 the Police Jury for the Parish, Ward or Road District and the 
 Governing Authority of any other Subdivision named herein 
 shall, after the promulgation of the result of such election and 
 pursuant to the terms of the proposition submitted levy and 
 assess the said special taxes on such property; 
 
 137-c. (Tax Not to Exceed Constitutional Limitation.) 
 
 Provided that the total rate of taxation so imposed shall not 
 exceed the Constitutional limit, nor shall such tax run for a 
 greater number of years than the number named in the proposi- 
 tion submitted, nor be imposed for any other purpose than that 
 named in such proposition. 
 
 138. (Bonds; Regulations for Same, S. 20, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 In the event that any election ordered and held for the pur- 
 pose of incurring debt and issuing negotiable bonds therefor 
 shall result in favor of the proposition, the Police Juries for 
 their respective Parishes, Wards or Road Districts and the gov- 
 erning authorities of all other Subdivisions shall, after the pro- 
 mulgation of the result of such election and pursuant to the 
 terms of the proposition submitted, by resolution incur the debt 
 and issue negotiable bonds therefor, to be signed by the President 
 or Chairman and Secretary of the authority issuing the bonds, 
 provided the bonds shall be issued for no other purpose than 
 that stated in the submission of the proposition to the property 
 taxpayers, nor for a greater amount than therein mentioned, 
 nor for any other purpose than the purpose set forth in the 
 proposition submitted to the property taxpayers and as author- 
 ized by the Constitution of the State, nor run for a longer time 
 than that named in the proposition not exceeding forty years nor 
 bear a greater rate of interest than five (5) per centum per 
 annum, payable annually, nor issued for a greater amount than 
 ten per centum of the assessed value of the subdivision, including 
 any prior bond issue nor be sold by the authorities issuing same 
 for less than par. 
 
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 138-a. (Collection of Taxes Governed by General Laws, S. 23, A. 256. '10.) 
 
 All the articles and provisions of the Constitution of 1898 
 and all the laws in force or that may be hereafter enacted 
 regulating and relating to the collection of State taxes and tax 
 sales shall also apply to and regulate the collection of the special 
 taxes or forced contribution, imposed under the provisions of 
 this Act, through the officer whose duty it shall be to collect the 
 taxes and moneys due the municipal corporation, parish, or 
 drainage district, imposing such special taxes, or forced contribu- 
 tions. 
 
 138-b. (Proceeds of Bonds a Trust Fund for Payment of Interest and 
 Principal of Bonds, S. 24, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 The proceeds of the sale of all bonds issued under the pro- 
 visions of this Act shall constitute a trust fund, to be used ex- 
 clusively for the purpose or purposes for which said bonds are 
 authorized to be issued. That any income derived from the 
 particular improvement purchased or constructed, when so set 
 aside by resolution of the governing body of the subdivision, 
 shall, after the expense and cost of maintenance of said improve- 
 ments are paid, constitute a trust fund to be devoted to the pay- 
 ment of the interest on the indebtedness so contracted, and any 
 surplus, after the payment of such interest, shall be placed in 
 the sinking fund to be used in the extinguishment of the principal 
 of said obligation or bonds at maturity. 
 
 138-c. (Proceeds of Special Taxes Collected a Trust Fund, S. 25, A. 256, 
 MO.) 
 
 The proceeds of any special tax which have been voted for a 
 particular purpose as authorized by the Constitution and the 
 provisions of this Act shall constitute a trust fund to be used 
 exclusively for the objects and purposes for which the tax was 
 levied and shall from year to year as collected be kept separate 
 and used for no other purpose than the purpose for which the 
 said tax was voted. 
 
 139. (Sinking Fund to be Set Aside, S. 26, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 If the bonds to be issued are to be paid out of funds realized 
 from a tax, an acreage tax or forced contribution, which tax, 
 acreage tax or forced contribution is limited and a fixed amount 
 required to be collected each year, then the governing authority 
 
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 issuing the bonds and levying the acreage tax, shall, beginning 
 at a yearly period before the maturity of such debt or bonds, 
 which period shall never be less than one-fourth of the whole 
 term for which said debt is incurred, or said bonds are issued, set 
 aside annually, from said trust fund derived from said tax, 
 acreage tax or forced contribution, a sinking fund for the pay- 
 ment of the principal of said debt or said bonds, at least one 
 fraction of the principal of said debt, or of said bonds, said 
 fraction to be ascertained by dividing the principal of said debt 
 or of said bonds by the remaining number of whole years before 
 the maturity of said debt or bonds; and that the sinking fund 
 thus set aside shall be sacredly applied to the payment of such 
 debt and such bonds. The time from the commencement of the 
 provision of a sinking fund as herein required, until the ma- 
 turity of the said debt or of said bonds to be known as the re- 
 demption period. 
 
 139-a. (Tax to Pay Principal and Interest Must be Levied Every Year, 
 
 S. 27, A. 256, '10.) 
 
 The governing authority of a Subdivision incurring debt 
 and issuing bonds as herein contemplated, shall annually, at 
 the same time that other taxes are levied, or at any other time, in 
 addition to all other taxes now authorized by the Constitution 
 and laws of the State of Louisiana, and in addition to any special 
 tax that may be levied at any election called and held for 
 that purpose, levy a tax sufficient to pay the interest and prin- 
 cipal on said bonds becoming due the ensuing year. When a 
 period is fixed at which such bonds shall begin to mature, the 
 total amount of indebtedness shall be divided among the num- 
 ber of years in which payments are to be made and the prin- 
 cipal to be paid each year, fixed at such amount that when the 
 total annual interest is added thereto the amount to be paid each 
 year shall be as nearly equal and uniform as possible. Such tax 
 may be levied and extended upon the assessment roll at any 
 time prior to the final collection of the taxes for that particular 
 year. If the authority herein authorized to levy and assess such 
 tax should fail, neglect or refuse to do so before the completion 
 of the assessment rolls, the Auditor of Public Accounts shall be 
 authorized and it shall be his duty to name the rate of such tax 
 and order same extended upon the assessment rolls and collected. 
 
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 139-b. (Maturity of Bonds Must be Fixed, S. 28, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 Whenever a debt has been authorized to be incurred, the 
 governing authority issuing bonds to evidence such debt shall 
 fix a time certain at which the bonds shall begin to mature, 
 which shall not be longer than five years from the date of said 
 bonds. After fixing such date, then the governing authorities 
 shall fix the denomination of the bonds due each year thereafter 
 for an amount that when the annual interest is added thereto 
 the total amount to be paid, including principal and interest, 
 each year shall be as nearly equal as practicable. 
 
 140. (Bonds Shall be Registered by Secretary of State, S. 31, A. 256, MO.i 
 
 All bonds issued by any of the subdivisions of the State as 
 herein defined, shall, after the time has elapsed in which the 
 validity of such bonds can be contested, to-wit, sixty days from 
 the date of the promulgation of the result of the election, in- 
 curring the debt and ordering the issuing of such bonds, be reg- 
 istered by the Secretary of State and shall have endorsed thereon 
 the words: "This bond secured by a tax. Registered on this the 
 
 day of , 19 ," and signed by the 
 
 Secretary of State with the Great Seal of Louisiana affixed. 
 
 140-a. (Election Officers Vested With Same Authority as in General 
 
 Elections, S. 32, A. 256, MO.) 
 
 The commissioners and clerks of elections held under the 
 provisions of this Act shall have the same powers and duties in 
 conducting said elections and in preserving order at the polls. 
 as are conferred and imposed upon such officers under the 
 general election laws of this State ; and that whatever is declared 
 in the general election laws to be a felony, other crime, or mis- 
 demeanor, shall be such for any election held under the pro- 
 visions of this Act, and shall be punished in the same manner; 
 that any willful failure or neglect to comply with the require- 
 ments of this Act or any willful violation of same, by any officer, 
 agent, or employee, of any subdivision herein defined, availing 
 itself of the provisions of this Act, shall be a crime and shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor 
 more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceed- 
 ing one year, with or without hard labor, or by both such fine 
 or imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. 
 
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 141. (All Special Tax Elections Hereafter, Governed by This Act, S. 33, 
 A. 256, MO.) 
 
 Nothing in- this Act shall be held or construed to in- 
 validate, or render illegal the acts, proceedings, elections, taxes, 
 debts, bonds, ordinances, resolutions, bids, agreements, contracts 
 or obligations, done, had, held, levied, authorized to be levied, 
 incurred, authorized to be incurred, issued, authorized to be is- 
 sued, adopted, accepted, or entered into, pursuant to any article 
 of the Constitution, by any subdivision herein named (the City 
 of New Orleans excepted) prior to the passage of this Act; 
 that any provision in the charter of any municipal corporation 
 of this State (the City of New Orleans excepted) in conflict with 
 the provisions of this Act for the immediate submission of the 
 proposition herein specified to the property taxpayers of said 
 corporation in an election ordered by same under this Act and 
 for the immediate levy of said tax when duly authorized, be 
 and the same, insofar as it is in conflict therewith, is hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 141 -a. (Inheritance Tax; How Paid and Distributed, S. 3, A. 45, '04.) 
 
 In all cases where the inheritance tax appears to be due, it 
 shall be the duty of the administrator, executor, or other officer 
 in charge of the succession, or of the heir to pay over to the Tax 
 Collector of the parish where the succession is opened the full 
 amount of said inheritance tax and to present the receipt to the 
 judge before obtaining a discharge or of being put in possession 
 of the estate ; the surety on the bond of the administrator, exec- 
 utor or other officer in charge of the estate shall be liable in 
 solido with the officer for the full amount of the inheritance tax 
 such taxes shall be distributed to the several parishes in accord- 
 ance with Article 248 of the Constitution. 
 
 (NOTE. All Inheritance taxes shall be remitted to the State Treasurer, 
 who shall credit same to Current School Fund.) 
 
 141 -b. (Duty of Parish Superintendent and Parish School Board, S. 4, 
 A. 45, '04.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the parish superintendent and of the 
 president of the school board of the City of New Orleans to 
 see that this Act be carried out, and that the full amount of 
 the inheritance tax be duly collected, and it shall be the duty 
 
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 of the District Attorney for the various parishes throughout 
 the State, when called upon by the parish superintendent or 
 the president of the school board in the Parish of Orleans to 
 take proceedings to enforce the provisions of this Act. 
 
 142. (Inheritance Tax in Favor of Public Schools, A. 109, '06.) 
 
 There is now and shall hereafter be levied, solely for the 
 support of the public schools, on all inheritances, legacies and 
 other donations mortis causa to or in favor of the direct descend- 
 ants or ascendants of the decedent, a tax of two per centum, and 
 on all such inheritances or dispositions to or in favor of the 
 collateral relatives of the deceased, or strangers, a tax of five 
 per centum on the amount of the actual cash value thereof at 
 the time of the death of the decedent. 
 
 143. (When Not to be Imposed.) 
 
 Section 2. Said tax shall not be imposed in the following 
 cases : 
 
 a. On any inheritance, legacy or other donation mortis causa 
 to or in favor of any ascendant or descendant of the decedent 
 below ten thousand dollars in amount or value. 
 
 Z>. On any legacy or other donation mortis causa to or in 
 favor of any educational, religious or charitable institution. 
 
 c. When the property inherited, bequeathed or donated shall 
 have borne its just proportion of taxes prior to the time of such 
 donation, bequest or inheritance. 
 
 144. (Manner of Taking Possession of Succession.) 
 
 Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any heir, legatee or other 
 beneficiary of a donation mortis causa to take or be in possession 
 of any part of the things or property composing the inheritance, 
 legacy or other donation mortis causa, or to dispose of the 
 same or any part thereof, until he shall have obtained the author- 
 ity of the court to that effect, as hereafter provided; and in 
 case he shall so take or be in possession or shall so dispose of 
 such things or property, or any part thereof, he shall no longer 
 have the right of renouncing such inheritance or donation mortis 
 causa, and shall remain personally liable for the tax thereon; 
 but he may, without waiting for authority do such acts as may 
 seem necessary to preserve the property from waste, damage 
 or loss. 
 
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 144-a. (Duty of Executor.) 
 
 Section 4. The executor of the will of a person deceased, or 
 the administrator of his succession, shall, after payment of his 
 debts, proceed against the tax collector and all the heirs and 
 legatees of the deceased summarily, by rule before the court 
 which has jurisdiction of the succession, to fix the amount of tax 
 due by each heir or legatee, and on trial thereof the court shall 
 render judgment for the same against each heir or legatee, with 
 interest and costs, as hereinafter provided. 
 
 145. (Amount of Taxes to be Deducted by Executor.) 
 
 Section 5. The executor or administrator shall thereupon 
 pay to the tax collector the amount of tax, with interest and 
 costs, so fixed, on each inheritance, legacy or donation, out of 
 the funds comprised therein, if sufficient. Should there not be 
 sufficient funds, the court shall, on the application of the heir 
 or legatee, grant an order for the sale of the property composing 
 such inheritance, legacy or donation, or so much thereof as may 
 be necessary, for the purpose of paying such judgment. If the 
 same be not paid by the heir or legatee, or an order of sale be 
 not granted, as above provided within thirty days after the date 
 of the judgment, the court shall, on the application of the ex- 
 ecutor or administrator, grant an order of sale for the said 
 purpose, as above provided, and the executor or administrator 
 shall pay the said judgment out of the proceeds of the sale. 
 
 Such sale shall be made in such manner, and on such terms 
 and conditions as the court shall prescribe, and the expense 
 thereof shall be borne by the heir or legatee. 
 
 146. (Duty of Executor.) 
 
 Section 6. No executor or administrator shall deliver any 
 inheritance or legacy until the tax thereon shall be fixed and 
 paid, as herein provided; otherwise he, together with his surety, 
 shall be personally liable for said tax, with interest and cost. 
 And no executor or administrator shall be discharged until it is 
 .shown that all taxes under this Act, due by the heirs and legatees, 
 have been paid, or until it is judicially determined by the process 
 herein provided that no tax is due. 
 
147. (Duty of Legal Heir.) 
 
 Section 7. In all cases in which an administration is not or- 
 dered by the court, the legal or instituted heir, or universal 
 or residuary legatee, shall within six months after the death 
 of the decedent, or, should there be a will, within the same time 
 after the discovery of the same, present to the court a detailed 
 descriptive list, sworn to and subscribed by him, of all items 
 of property contained in and composing the estate of the de- 
 cedent, and therein shall state the actual cash value of each such 
 item at the time of the death of the decedent, and service thereof 
 shall be made on the tax collector who shall have the right to 
 traverse the same. Should the deceased have made special or 
 particular legacies or donations mortis causa, the legatee shall 
 also be served, and after summarily hearing the parties the court 
 shall fix the amount of tax due as aforesaid by each such heir or 
 legatee, and shall render judgment therefor, with interest and 
 costs, against each of them. 
 
 148. (Amount of Tax to be Deducted.) 
 
 Section 8. In the same manner as provided in Section 5 r 
 the heir or universal or residuary legatee shall thereupon pay or 
 take measures for the payment of the tax due on all special or 
 particular legacies or donations. 
 
 149. (Property May be Sold to Pay Taxes.) 
 
 Section 9. The heir or universal or residuary legatee may 
 likewise obtain an order for the sale of the property of his 
 inheritance or legacy, or part thereof, for the purpose of paying 
 the tax thereon. But if such tax be not paid, or such order of 
 sale be not made within thirty days after the date of the judg- 
 ment fixing the amount of the tax, a similar order for the same 
 purpose shall be granted on the application of the tax collector, 
 and thereunder any property forming part of the inheritance 
 or legacy may be sold, and the proceeds thereof shall be applied 
 to the payment of the tax with interest and costs. 
 
 150. (Duty of Heir to See That Tax is Paid.) 
 
 Section 10. The heir or residuary or universal legatee shall 
 not deliver any legacy until the tax thereon shall have been 
 fixed and paid; otherwise he shall be personally liable for the 
 said tax, with interest and costs. 
 
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 151. (Search for Will; When Made.) 
 
 Section 11. If during the six months next following the 
 death of any person leaving property, movable or immovable, 
 within this State, an administration of his succession be not 
 applied for, or his legal or instituted heir or universal or residu- 
 ary legatee do not apply to the court to be placed in possession 
 thereof, as herein provided, the court shall ex parte and on the 
 application of the tax collector grant an order directing that a 
 search be made for the will of the deceased by a notary public, 
 and in aid of the same may order that all persons having in their 
 possession or control any books, papers or documents of the 
 deceased, or any bank-box, safe deposit vault or other receptacle 
 likely or designed to contain the same, shall open such receptacle 
 and exhibit the contents thereof, as well as all other books, papers 
 and documents of the deceased, to the said notary. 
 
 152. (Court May Appoint Executor.) 
 
 Section 12. Should the said notary find any document ap- 
 pearing to be the will of the deceased, he shall take possession 
 of the same and produce it in court; and on application of the 
 tax collector, or of any party in interest, the court shall proceed 
 to the probate thereof, as now provided by law. If an executor 
 be therein appointed, the person named shall be notified, and if 
 he do not within ten days after notification accept the appoint- 
 ment, and if within the ten days next following this delay no 
 person entitled to be appointed dative testamentary executor 
 shall apply for the appointment, then the Public Administrator 
 in the Parish of Orleans, and in the other parishes the tax col- 
 lector, shall be appointed dative testamentary executor of the said 
 decedent, and the administration of his succession shall proceed 
 as herein directed and according to existing law. 
 
 153. (Procedure Where No Will is Found.) 
 
 Section 13. If the notary can find no will, he shall report 
 the fact to the court ; and thereupon the tax collector shall pro- 
 ceed against the legal heir or heirs of the deceased summarily 
 by rule to fix the amount of tax due by him or them, and each 
 of the heirs shall be ordered, within a delay to be fixed by the 
 court, which may be extended from time to time in the discre- 
 tion of the court, to make and file a detailed descriptive list, 
 
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 sworn to and subscribed by him, of all the items of property 
 contained in and composing the estate of the decedent, stating 
 therein the actual cash value of each such item at the time of the 
 death of the decedent, and the tax collector shall have a right 
 to traverse the same. On trial of the rule the court shall fix the 
 amount of tax due by each of the heirs, and shall render judg- 
 ment for the same against each of them, and in such case, as 
 well as in the cases mentioned in Section 12, shall include in 
 the costs payable by the heir or legatee a fee of not more than 
 ten per cent, on the amount of tax due by each heir or legatee 
 in favor of the attorney for the tax collector. In the same 
 manner and under the same conditions as provided in Sections 
 5 and 9 of this Act, such heirs or legatees shall have the right to 
 procure the sale of their inheritances or legacies for the pur- 
 pose of paying the tax due thereon, with interest, costs and at- 
 torneys fees; and if payment thereof be not made by the heir 
 or legatee, or if an order of sale, as above provided, be not 
 granted, within thirty days after the date of the judgment, 
 the tax collector shall be entitled to a similar order, and there- 
 under any property forming part of the inheritance or legacy 
 may be sold. 
 
 154. (Any Heir May Institute Proceedings and Receive Fee.) 
 
 Section 14. Should there be more than one legal or instituted 
 heir or universal or residuary legatee any one of them may 
 institute the proceedings provided by this Act, and the others 
 shall be made parties thereto and such heir shall be entitled to 
 recover out of the mass of the succession one reasonable attor- 
 oney's fee, besides his costs. 
 
 155. (Rights of Creditors Preserved.) 
 
 Section 15. Nothing contained in this Act shall affect the 
 rights of creditors of persons deceased or the rights of the cred- 
 itors of the heirs or legatees of such persons, as established by 
 the general law. 
 
 156. (Legacy Indivisible.) 
 
 Section 16. Each inheritance or legacy is indivisible, and 
 must be accepted or renounced for the whole; and the heir or 
 legatee shall not be entitled to be placed in possession of the 
 same, and shall be without right or capacity to alienate any 
 
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 part thereof, until the tax on the whole shall have been fixed 
 and paid, or until it shall have been judicially determined, in 
 the manner herein provided, that no part of the same is subject 
 to the tax imposed by this Act. 
 
 157. (Prohibiting Delivery of Effects Before Tax is Paid.) 
 
 Section 17. No bank, banker, trust company, warehouseman, 
 or other depository and no person or corporation or partnership 
 having on deposit or in possession or control any moneys, credits, 
 goods or other things or rights of value for a person deceased, 
 or in which he had any interest, and no corporation the stock or 
 registered bonds of which are owned by a person deceased shall 
 deliver or transfer such moneys, credits, stock, bonds, or other 
 things or rights of value to any heir or legatee of such deceased 
 person, unless the tax due thereon under this Act shall have 
 been paid, or unless it be judicially determined in the manner 
 herein prescribed that no tax is due by such heir or legatee. 
 Otherwise the person or corporation so making delivery or trans- 
 fer shall be liable for the said tax. But the order of a court 
 of competent jurisdiction, directing such delivery or transfer, 
 shall be full authority for the same. 
 
 158. (Burden of Proof.) 
 
 Section 18. The burden of proving facts establishing ex- 
 emption from the tax imposed by this Act is upon the person 
 claiming exemption. 
 
 159. (Jurisdiction.) 
 
 Section 19. The District Court of the last domicile of the 
 deceased, and in the Parish of Orleans the Civil District Court, 
 shall have original jurisdiction to hear and determine all the 
 proceedings provided by this Act. In the case of a non-resident 
 decedent, the District Court, or Civil District Court, of any 
 parish in which he left property, movable or immovable, shall 
 exercise such jurisdiction, and the court in which such proceed- 
 ings shall be first begun shall have exclusive original jurisdiction 
 - thereof. 
 
 160. (Unknown Heirs.) 
 
 Section 20. Non-residents and unknown heirs and legatees, 
 and those whose whereabouts are unknown, shall be represented 
 
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 by curator ad hoc appointed by the court, and all notices, cita- 
 tions and demands prescribed by this Act shall be served on such 
 officers. Though there be in any case more than one unknown 
 or absent heir or legatee, all may be repreesnted by the same 
 curator. 
 
 161. (Commissions of Tax Collectors.) 
 
 Section 21. The tax collector spoken of and intended by this 
 Act is the Sheriff and ex-officio Tax Collector of the parish in 
 which was the last residence of the decedent, or in which is situ- 
 ated property of a non-resident decedent, and in the Parish of 
 Orleans the Clerk of the Civil District Court. They shall re- 
 ceive a commission of two per cent on their collections of taxes 
 under this Act. 
 
 162. (Compensation of Attorneys.) 
 
 Section 22. In and for the Parish of Orleans the Governor 
 shall appoint by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, 
 for a term of four years, an attorney at law, whose duty it shall 
 be to advise, assist and represent the Clerk of the Civil District 
 Court in the enforcement of this Act. For his services, except 
 as provided in Sections 12 and 13, he shall receive a fee of four 
 per cent, on all taxes collected hereunder, payable out of the same 
 before transmission to the Treasury. In all other parishes of 
 the State the said duties shall be performed by the attorneys 
 appointed under existing law to assist the tax collectors in the 
 collection of delinquent licenses, and the compensation of such 
 attorney shall be as above provided. 
 
 
 
 163. (Method of Fixing Value of Annuity.) 
 
 Section 23. In fixing the value of any legacy or donation 
 mortis causa which consists in whole or in part of an annuity 
 or usufruct or right of use or habitation, the court shall consider 
 the expectancy of life of the legatee or donee according to the 
 table known as the American Experience Table of Mortality, at 
 six per cent, per annum compound interest. 
 
 164. (Delinquent Penalty.) 
 
 Section 24. Taxes hereby levied shall bear interest at the 
 rate of two per cent per month, beginning six months after the 
 death of the decedent; saving to any heir, legatee, or donee the 
 right to stop the running of interest against him by paying the 
 
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 amount of his tax with accrued interest, or by tendering the same 
 to the tax collector in the manner prescribed by the general law ; 
 provided, however, that in cases in which the settlement of the 
 succession is not unduly delayed, or in which the right of any 
 party to receive an inheritance or legacy is contested, and in all 
 cases in which the failure to pay tax on any legacy or inherit- 
 ance within the period aforesaid is not imputable to the laches 
 of the heir or legatee, the court may, in its discretion, remit such 
 interest. 
 
 165. (Costs to be Borne by the Succession.) 
 
 Section 25. The costs of all the proceedings under this Act 
 shall be borne by the mass of the succession; provided, that in 
 cases in which it seems to him equitable to do so the judge shall 
 have the power to apportion the costs among the several parties, 
 or allow any party to retain his costs out of any sum found to 
 be due by him for tax hereunder. Provided, the provisions of 
 this Act shall affect all successions not finally closed, or in which 
 the f nal account has not been filed. 
 
 166. (Assessing the Poll Tax, S. 1, A. 89, '88.) 
 
 The Tax Assessors throughout the State be and they are 
 hereby required to render to the School Boards of their respective 
 parishes, annually, by the first Saturday of October, a complete 
 schedule list, by wards, of all persons liable to pay poll tax in 
 their respective parishes. If any Assessor fails to comply with 
 the requirements of this Act, the failure shall be cause for re- 
 moval ; besides, he shall be subject to a fine of $250, for the benefit 
 of the public schools in the parish in which the delinquent officer 
 resides, and in which he is the Assessor. In the City of New 
 Orleans the Board of Assessors shall comply with the require 
 ment of this Act, and in the event of failure, shall be subject 
 to dismissal and penalty as before provided. (See Arts. 231 and 
 252, Constitution of 1898). 
 
 167. (Returns of Collections, 8. 2, A. 89, '88.) 
 
 The Sheriffs and Tax Collectors in their respective parishes, 
 shall return, by the first Saturday of February, of each and every 
 year, to the School Boards of their respective parishes, a list pred- 
 icated upon the list mentioned by wards, showing all persons Li 
 the parishes, respectively, who have paid their poll tax, as well 
 
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 as persons who have not paid the same, and shall return their 
 reasons in writing and under oath, the cause in each instance 
 of the non-payment of a poll tax, and why they have not collected 
 the tax not collected. 
 
 168. (Penalties, S. 3, A. 89, '88.) 
 
 If the said Sheriff or Tax Collector fails to show cause why 
 the said poll tax has not been collected, he shall be responsible 
 for and shall pay the poll taxes he has failed to collect, and shall 
 be held liable with his securities on his official bond for the pay- 
 ment of said tax. 
 
 169. (Rules for Non-Compliance, S. 4, A. 89, '88.> 
 
 The Sheriff can be made to show cause why the said poll tax 
 has not been collected, at chambers, before the district judge, 
 after service of rule and three days have elapsed after service. 
 
 170. (Receipt for the Poll Tax, S. 1, A. 87, '86.) 
 
 Before any persons serving as jurors or witnesses in criminal 
 cases shall receive the compensation to which they are entitled 
 for their mileage and per diem, they shall exhibit to the clerk 
 of the court a receipt for the poll tax or taxes due by them. 
 
 171. (Deduction of Witnesses' and Jurors' Compensation, for Poll Tax, 
 
 S. 2, A. 87, '86.) 
 
 On their failure to produce such receipt the clerk of court 
 or other officer, issuing certificates or warrants for their mile- 
 age and per diem, shall issue certificates or warrants for amounts 
 less the poll tax due, and shall issue the certificate or warrants 
 for amounts so reserved for poll tax, to the treasurer of the 
 school board of the parish, who shall collect same. 
 
 172. (Report by the Clerk of Court, S. 3, A. 87, '86.) 
 
 The clerk of court or other officer, issuing such certificates or 
 warrants, shall report to the tax collector of the parish the names 
 of all persons from whom he has reserved amounts for poll tax, 
 and the tax collector shall give such person credit for such poll 
 tax. 
 
 NOTE. The custom of some tax collectors of claiming and collecting com- 
 missions for the retention of polls by the Clerk of Court is without foundation 
 in law, as the tax collector in no sense collects the tax and is entitled to no 
 commission thereon. 
 
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 173. (Poll Tax Collections of Orleans, S. 1, A. 56, '94.) 
 
 The collection of poll taxes in the Parish of Orleans, to- 
 gether with all the processes, commissions and obligations inci- 
 dent thereto as now provided by law, are vested in the treasurer 
 of the City of New Orleans. 
 
 174. (Election on Sale of School Lands, S. 2958, R. S.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the parish treasurers of the several 
 parishes in this State to have taken the sense of the inhabitants 
 of the township, to which they may belong, any lands heretofore 
 reserved and appropriated by Congress for the use of schools, 
 whether or not the same shall be sold, and the proceeds invested 
 as authorized by an Act of Congress, approved February 15, 
 1843. * * Polls shall be opened and held in each town- 
 ship after advertisement, for thirty days, at three of the most 
 public places in the town, and at the courthouse door, and the 
 sense of the legal voters therein shall be taken within the usual 
 hours, and in the usual manner of holding elections, which elec- 
 tions shall be held and votes received by a member of the parish 
 school board or a justice of the peace ; and if a majority of the 
 legal voters be in favor of selling the school lands therein, the 
 same may be sold, but not otherwise. The result of all such elec- 
 tions shall be transmitted to the parish treasurer, and by him to 
 the State Superintendent. 
 
 175. (Survey, S. 2959, R. S.) 
 
 Before making sale of the school lands belonging to the State, 
 it shall be the duty of the parish treasurer, or other persons 
 whose duty it may become to superintend the sales, to cause a 
 resurvey of such lines as from any cause may have become oblit- 
 erated or uncertain; and for this purpose he is authorized to 
 employ the parish surveyor, or on his default, any competent 
 surveyor; and the lines thus surveyed shall be marked in such 
 manner as to enable those interested to make a thorough exam- 
 ination before sale, and all advertisements made for the sale of 
 such lands shall contain a full description thereof according to 
 the original survey and that required by this section. The ex- 
 penses of the survey shall be paid by the Auditor of Public Ac- 
 counts out of the proceeds of the sale of the lands on the war- 
 rants of the parish treasurer. 
 
 NOTE. The State is the trustee of these lands or of the proceeds of their 
 sale for the use of the inhabitants of the township in which they are located 
 vide, Board of School Directors vs. Ober, 32 A. 419. 
 
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 175-a. (Rights of Way May be Granted to the United State? by the 
 School Boards, A. 14, '08.) 
 
 The Parish Board of School Directors of any parish within 
 the State shall have authority by resolution duly passed by said 
 board, when in its judgment it is to the manifest interest of the 
 public in general, and in order to facilitate the construction, 
 maintenance and operation of canals, or a portion of a canal, or 
 branch of any canal, constructed by or under the authority of 
 the United States for the purpose of transportation or for pur- 
 poses of extension or improvement of the public waterways, to 
 donate to the United States of America rights of way over and 
 across any of the lands belonging to the public schools located 
 within the parish in which said board is constituted or organized, 
 which grant or donation may be made without any previous ad- 
 vertisement thereof, when authorized by a resolution of said 
 board to sign an act of conveyance evidencing such grant or 
 donation; provided, however, that the said Parish Boards of 
 School Directors shall in every case reserve the right to control, 
 occupy and use any part of said rights of way not actually 
 needed by the United States in the manner and to the same 
 extent as before conveying said rights of way, and also the right 
 to transfer, lease, quit-claim, or otherwise dispose of the said 
 rights of way and every part thereof, subject to the grant made 
 to the United States. 
 
 176. (Sale on the Order of the Auditor, S. 2960, R. S.) 
 
 If the majority of the votes taken in a township shall give 
 their assent to the. sale of the lands aforesaid, the parish treas- 
 urer shall forthwith notify the Auditor of Public Accounts of the 
 vote thus taken, and upon his order the said lands shall be sold 
 by the parish treasurer, at public auction, before the courthouse 
 door, by the sheriff or an auctioneer to be employed by the 
 treasurer at his expense, to the highest bidder, in quantities not 
 less than 40 acres, nor more than 160, after having been pre- 
 viously appraised by three sworn appraisers, selected by the 
 parish treasurer and recorder of the parish, after thirty (30) 
 days advertisement, but in no case at a less sum than the ap- 
 praised value, payable on a credit of ten years, as follows : ten 
 per cent in cash and the balance in nine annual installments, the 
 interest to be paid on the whole amount, annually, at the rate of 
 eight per cent per annum ; the notes shall be made payable to the 
 
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 Auditor of Public Accounts, secured by special mortgage on the 
 land sold, and personal security in solido, until final payment of 
 principal and interest; in event of the purchaser neglecting or 
 refusing to pay any of these installments or interest at maturity, 
 the mortgage shall be forthwith closed, and the parish treasurer 
 is hereby authorized to advertise and sell the land as before pro- 
 vided for, and further authorized and required to execute all 
 acts of sale on behalf of the State for any such lands sold, to 
 receive the cash payment and notes given for the purchase, which 
 shall be made payable to the State Treasurer, and to place 
 the same in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts for 
 collection; all cash received, either for principal or interest, 
 from said sales shall be transmitted by him to the State Treas- 
 urer, and any moneys thus received into the State Treasury 
 from sales aforesaid shall bear interest at the rate of four per 
 cent per annum, and be credited to the township to which the 
 same belongs according to the provisions of the Act of Congress. 
 The parish treasurer shall forthwith notify the State Super- 
 intendent of the results of all sales made by him. The parish 
 treasurer shall be authorized to receive the whole amount bid 
 for the lands, deducting the eight per cent interest which the 
 credits will bear. (See Supreme Court decision as to price, etc.) 
 
 NOTE. The above Act has been amended by A. 57 of '84, changing 6 per 
 cent to 4 per cent. 
 
 177. (Sale of Uninhabitable Lands, S. 1, A. 168, '94.) 
 
 All sixteenth section lands located in a township not habita- 
 ble by reason of the land being swamp or sea marsh, the school 
 board of the parish in which such lands are located may present 
 an application for sale of such sixteenth section land to the Aud- 
 itor of Public Accounts, in which they shall set forth the location 
 of the township, its character and the reason upon which a sale is 
 desired, and upon receipt of such application duly signed by the 
 president and secretary thereof, the Auditor may authorize the 
 sale, if in his judgment a sale should be made. 
 
 178. (Sale Conducted in the Same Manner as Others, S. 2, A. 168, '94.> 
 
 In case a sale is ordered as provided for in Section 1 of this 
 Act, the parish treasurer shall make such sale in the same man- 
 ner, and upon the terms and conditions as is now provided by 
 law, for the sale of sixteenth section lands; provided this Act 
 shall not apply to sixteenth sections now leased to parties for a 
 term of years. 
 
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 179. (Sale of Sections Divided by Parish Lines, A. 147, '57.) 
 
 When the sixteenth section of any township is divided by 
 a parish line, the treasurer of the parish in which a greater 
 portion of the section may lie, shall proceed to take the sense of 
 the people of the township, and to sell the same as provided by' 
 law, as if the whole section lay in his parish; provided, that 
 the same shall be advertised at the courthouses of both parishes. 
 
 180. (Treasurer's Commission, A. 33, '59.) 
 
 Parish treasurers of the several parishes shall be entitled 
 to retain out of the proceeds of the sale of sixteenth sections 
 effected by them a percentage of two and one-half on the amount 
 of said sales, to be deducted from the cash payment, and the 
 same shall be in full compensation of their services. 
 
 181. (Proceeds of Lands Accruing to Townships, S. 2963, R. S.) 
 
 All moneys that have been or may hereafter be received into 
 the State Treasury, and the interest that has or may accrue 
 thereon from the sale of sixteenth sections of school lands 
 or the school land warrants belonging to the various townships 
 in the State, shall be placed to the credit of the township, and 
 should the people of any township desire to receive for the 
 use of the schools therein, the annual interest payable by the 
 State on funds deposited to their credit, or the annual proceeds 
 of the loans, the parish treasurer shall, on the petition of five 
 legal voters in any such township, order an election to be held 
 in the township, as provided for the sale of township lands ; and 
 if a majority of any number of votes above seven be in favor of 
 receiving annually the accruing interest as aforesaid, the samj 
 shall be paid to the treasurer of the parish for the use of the 
 township or district; otherwise the interest shall be an accu- 
 mulating fund to their credit until called for. 
 
 182. (Mode of Annulling Sales, S. 2965, R. S.) 
 
 In all cases of the sale of the school lands known as sixteenth 
 sections, heretofore made, where the purchase money has not 
 been paid, the purchaser or purchasers shall have the right to 
 annul the sale upon application to the district court of the par- 
 ish where the land is situated; provided, that the judgment of 
 nullity shall be obtained at the cost of the applicant and con- 
 tradictorily with the district attorney, in conjunction with the 
 school directors of the district in which said land is situated, 
 
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 who shall be made a party defendant in such suit; provided, 
 also, that it shall appear upon the hearing that the value of the 
 land has not been impaired by any act of the purchaser; and 
 provided further, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed 
 as to entitle the said purchaser to repayment of any part of 
 the purchase money already paid. 
 
 183. (Auditor's Duty in the Collection of Notes, S. 1, A. 57, '84.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts, im- 
 mediately on the passage of this Act, to forward for collection 
 to the treasurer of the school board in their respective parishes 
 throughout the State, all the notes given for the purchase price 
 of sixteenth sections, or any part thereof, known as free school 
 lands, whenever any installment of said purchase price has 
 become due or may become due, and it shall be the duty of said 
 treasurer of the parish school board to receive and receipt for 
 same. 
 
 184. (School Board Treasurer's Duty in the Collection of Notes, S. 2, 
 
 A. 57, '84.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the treasurer of the parish school 
 board, on receipt of the notes due and given for said sixteenth 
 sections, to immediately notify the principal and his sureties, in 
 writing, of the amount of said note, principal and interest, due 
 and unpaid; provided, said lands for which said notes were 
 given are still in possession of the original purchaser, and if in 
 the possession of other parties, such possessor shall also be like- 
 wise notified of all the demands principal and interest, against, 
 said lands, and if all the demands against the same be not satis- 
 fied within thirty days from said notice, it shall be the duty of 
 the treasurer of the parish school board to turn over said notes 
 to the district attorney for said district, or other attorney selected 
 by the school board, for suit; and provided further, that said 
 notice shall serve as a bar to prescription, which shall only begin 
 to run from the service of said notice. 
 
 185. (Attorney's Duty in the Collection of Notes, S. 3, A. 57, '84.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of said attorney to proceed without 
 delay, by all necessary legal processes, and without depositing 
 clerk's or sheriff's costs, or giving security therefor, to collect 
 all such notes as may be turned over to him by said treasurer 
 of the parish school board, and given for sixteenth sections, 
 
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 known as free school lands, and if any of the conservatory writs 
 should be found to be necessary in order to aid in said collection, 
 it shall be lawful to issue the same, without giving bond as 
 required in other cases. 
 
 186. (Attorney's Compensation, S. 4, A. 57, '84.) 
 
 The said attorney shall receive ten per cent of all moneys 
 collected by him on notes given for sixteenth sections, and after 
 deducting said ten per cent he shall turn over the remainder to 
 the treasurer of the school fund for the parish in which the lands 
 are situated, and the same shall be transmitted through the 
 Auditor of Accounts, by said treasurer, to the State Treasurer; 
 and any moneys thus received into the State Treasury from 
 said collections shall bear interest at the rate of four per cent 
 per annum, and be credited to the township to which the same 
 belongs, according to the provisions of the Act of Congress. 
 
 187. (When Scrip May Issue, S. 2952, R. S.) 
 
 When such locations cannot be made, if deemed more ad- 
 vantageous to the State, the Kegister, with the assent of the 
 Federal Government, is authorized to issue scrip for such lands, 
 which scrip shall not be sold for a less amount than one dollar 
 and twenty-five cents per acre. 
 
 188. (Duty of the Auditor in Fixing Capital Due the Townships, A. 
 
 96, '86.) 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Auditoi of Public Accounts, by 
 the 1st day of January, 1887, to ascertain the amount of capital 
 that may be due the several townships from the proceeds of 
 the sales of sixteenth sections, made since the 1st of January, 
 1880, and actually paid into the State Treasury. The amount 
 thus, ascertained shall be the capital upon which interest shall 
 thereafter be allowed and paid out of the interest collected on 
 the said bonds to the townships, the sixteenth sections of which 
 have been sold since the 1st of January, 1880, and the proceeds 
 actually paid into the State Treasury, and the proceeds so paid 
 invested as required by law. 
 
 In calculating the interest due the several townships, no in- 
 terest shall be allowed for fractions of the year during which 
 the receipts shall have come into the treasury; but it shall com- 
 mence at the beginning of the first of January of the next year. 
 
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 The interest due upon the capital ascertained as aforesaid, 
 and the interest due upon subsequent sales, shall be paid to the 
 township in the manner now provided for by law. It shall be 
 the duty of the Auditor to furnish the Treasurer and Superin- 
 tendent of Public Education with a statement of the amount 
 due each township. 
 
 188-a. (Lake Beds Sold for Account of Schools, A. 124, '02.) 
 
 Section 1. Bt it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Louisiana, That all islands, other than sea marsh islands, 
 belonging to the State, as well as all other lands of the State, 
 not the property of any levee district, nor within the limits of 
 any levee district, which were formerly the beds of lakes, or 
 other bodies of water, whether navigable or unnavigable, which 
 are now, or may hereafter become dry in whole or in part by 
 reason of the recession therefrom of the waters which formerly 
 covered the same, be and the same are hereby declared to be 
 open to entry and sale for account of the State for school pur- 
 poses as hereinafter provided. 
 
 188- b. (Proceeds of Sale of All Such Lands to be Placed to the Credit 
 of General School Fund, A. 124, '02.) 
 
 Section 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That the proceeds 
 arising from the sales of said lands shall, when paid into the 
 hands of the State Treasurer, be placed by him to the credit of 
 the General School Fund of the State for the benefit of the 
 public schools of the State as now provided by law; provided 
 that in addition to the price paid the Treasurer the purchaser 
 of any of the lands described in this Act shall pay to the Reg- 
 ister the fees allowed by law. 
 
 189. (Duty of School Board When Vote is Against Sale of Lands, S. 1, 
 A. 54, '10, amending A. 129, '08, amending S. 2962 of the Revised 
 Statutes.) 
 
 Should a majority of the legal voters be against the sale of 
 the lands, then it shall be the duty of the parish board of school 
 directors of the parish in which said lands are located to secure 
 them from injury and waste and to prevent illegal possession or 
 aggression of any kind and to lease the same, or any part thereof, 
 according to the provisions of the Act of Congress aforesaid as 
 amended by Act of Congress approved June 12th, 1884, and to- 
 inform the State Superintendent thereof. 
 
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 189-a. (Advertising Lease; Security Required.) 
 
 Such lease shall only be made after due notice shall have been 
 given by advertisement, for at least thirty days, in the official 
 journal of the parish, or in any paper published regularly in the 
 parish containing the land to be leased, of the time and place 
 where the land will be offered for lease to the highest bidder. In 
 all cases ample security shall be required, not only for the punct- 
 ual payment of the rent but for the protection of the lands from 
 all kinds of waste and injury. Said parish board of school 
 directors shall have the right to reject any and all bids offered 
 for said lease, if in its judgment the bids do not reach a just and 
 fair value of the lease. 
 
 189-b. (Manner of Holding Elections on Sale of Timber; Lease of Oil 
 and Mineral Rights.) 
 
 The Parish Board of School Directors shall have the author- 
 ity, when in its judgment it is to the best interest of the schools 
 of a township, to take the sense of the legal voters residing in 
 such township relative to the sale of the timber on sixteenth 
 section school lands situated therein or the lease or sale of oil 
 and mineral rights on such land. Said vote shall be taken under 
 the direction of said board, who shall give thirty days' notice 
 thereof in the parish journal, or in any paper regularly pub- 
 lished in the parish, setting forth the time and place of the elec- 
 tion to be held. The said board shall appoint one of its mem- 
 bers to conduct the election, who shall hold open the polls and 
 allow votes to be cast within the usual hours and in the usual 
 manner of holding elections. 
 
 189-c. (Affirmative Vote to be Reported to State Superintendent and 
 Auditor of Public Accounts.) 
 
 If a majority of the votes cast are in favor of the sale of the 
 timber, or the lease or sale of oil and mineral rights, the Parish 
 Board of School Directors shall at once report the result of the 
 election to the State Superintendent of Public Education and 
 to the State Auditor of Public Accounts, and upon the order 
 of the State Auditor the said board shall proceed to sell the 
 timber or lease or sell the oil and mineral rights, either or both, 
 as the case may be, under the same formalities and requirements 
 as provided for the lease of sixteenth section school lands here- 
 mabove set forth. 
 
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 189-d. (Notes Made Payable to Auditor of Public Accounts, Secured by 
 at Least Two Solvent Sureties In Solido.) 
 
 In all cases where a sale of timber or of oil and mineral rights 
 is made under the provisions of this Act and deferred payments 
 are allowed, the notes representing such deferred payments 
 shall be made payable to the order of the Auditor of Public 
 Accounts, and their punctual payment shall be secured by at 
 least two good and solvent sureties who shall be liable "in 
 solido." 
 
 189-e. (Funds Accruing From Lease of Lands, Sale of Timber and Min- 
 eral and Oil Rights Credited to Current Fund of Parish.) 
 
 In all cases of the lease of sixteenth section school lands, or 
 of the sale of the timber thereon or of the lease or sale of oil and 
 the mineral rights thereof, the cash payment after deducting suf- 
 ficient amount to cover the actual expenses incurred by the said 
 election and making the said lease or sale, shall be credited to 
 the account of the current school fund of the parish where the 
 sixteenth section school lands are located, and notes representing 
 deferred payments shall be placed in the hands of the parish 
 school treasurer for collection, and when collected also credited 
 to the current school fund of said parish, to be used for general 
 school purposes. 
 
 189-f. (Leases or Sales of Timber, Oil and Mineral Rights Expire Auto- 
 matically After Ten Years.) 
 
 In all cases where a sale of timber or the lease of or sale of 
 the oil and mineral rights is made under the provisions of this 
 Act, the purchaser thereof or his vendees, or the lessee, shall 
 be allowed a period of not more than ten years in which to 
 remove the timber or to utilize the oil and mineral rights. 
 
 190. (Trespass on Sixteenth Section, S. 1, A. 14, '82.) 
 
 "Whoever shall cut down, or remove for sale for his own use, 
 or the use of another, any timber on any free school land in this 
 State, belonging to the State, known as sixteenth sections, shall 
 be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be 
 condemned to pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one 
 thousand dollars, and, in default of the same, be sentenced to 
 imprisonment not less than ten days nor more than one year. 
 
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 191. (Same, S. 2, A. 14, '82.) 
 
 Whoever shall knowingly use, cultivate or inclose any free 
 school land, known as sixteenth section, without authority from 
 the parish board of school directors, shall on conviction be con- 
 demned to pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one 
 thousand dollars, and in default of the same be sentenced to 
 imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than one year. 
 
 191 -a. (School Boards Authorized to Sue for Recovery of Damages and 
 Trespass on Sixteenth Sections, S. 1, A. 158, '10.) 
 
 The several school boards of the various parishes of the State 
 be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to contract 
 with and employ on the part of the State of Louisiana, attor- 
 neys at law, to recover for the State, damages for trespass to 
 the sixteenth section known as school lands the title to which 
 is still in the State, each of said Boards to have authority to 
 make said contracts for the lands situated in its own parish 
 and no others; and the several school boards shall also have 
 authority to sue for and recover the sixteenth section known 
 as school lands. 
 
 101 -b. (Compensation of District Attorney and Other Attorneys, S. 2, 
 A. 158, '10.) 
 
 The attorney or attorneys thus employed shall work in con- 
 junction with the district attorney for the parish in which the 
 land is situated ; that the compensation of the district attorneys 
 shall remain as now fixed by law; that the compensation of 
 the other attorney or attorneys employed shall be fixed by con- 
 tract between the respective school boards and the attorney or 
 attorneys employed, and shall in each case be a contingent fee, 
 conditioned upon recovery; shall in each case be a fixed per- 
 centage of the amount recovered, and shall in no case exceed 
 Iwenty-five percentage of the amount recovered; provided that 
 if more than one attorney is thus employed for the same cause, 
 the same fee shall be paid to the whole number of attorneys, as 
 if only one had been employed. 
 
 191 -c. (Manner of Bringing Suits, S. 3, A. 158, '10.) 
 
 Suit in all such cases shall be brought in the name of the 
 State of Louisiana, and the attorneys employed as aforesaid, 
 shall sue for the value of all timber cut and removed from any 
 such lands, as well as any and all other legal damages caused 
 by any such trespass. 
 
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 191 -d. (Authority Applies to Sixteenth Sections Illegally Acquired.) 
 
 The authority given by this Act shall apply to all sixteenth 
 sections donated by Congress to this State in trust for public 
 school purposes, and to which the State has never legally parted 
 with the title; and the suits herein authorized may be brought 
 against those who claimed the right to cut and remove timber 
 from any such lands, under color of title. 
 
 191 -e. (Residue of Amounts Recovered to be Paid Into State Treasury.; 
 Each and every amount recovered for the State as herein 
 provided shall, after deducting and paying the attorney's fees 
 as herein provided, and all other lawful costs and charges, be 
 paid into the State Treasury, to be kept on the books of the 
 Auditor and Treasurer, to the credit of the township in which 
 the land is situated, in the same manner as now provided by 
 law for the proceeds of the sale of such sixteenth sections. 
 
 192. (To Provide for the Sale of School Indemnity Lands, A. 217, '02.) 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the 
 State of Louisiana, That all lands now owned by, or which may 
 hereafter inure to the State from the United States Govern- 
 ment as indemnity for school lands, shall be disposed of as 
 hereinafter provided. 
 
 193 - Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Register 
 of the Land Office shall cause to be advertised for sale at public 
 auction for thirty clear days, a list of the lands to be sold, which 
 have not already been advertised, the publication to be made in 
 a newspaper published in the parish where the land to be sold 
 is situated, and no land to be sold shall be advertised in any paper 
 published outside of the parish where the same is situated. 
 194. Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Register 
 shall adjudicate said lands at public auction to the last and 
 highest bidder at his office and in case the land so offered for 
 sale fails to bring at auction the price of two dollars and fifty 
 cents ($2.50) per acre the same shall be withdrawn and shall 
 be thereafter sold by him at private sale for two dollars and fifty 
 cents per acre.. 
 
 1 95- Section 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Registor 
 shall not issue a patent to the purchaser of said land until he 
 shall have paid into the hands of the State Treasurer the pur- 
 chase price of said lands. 
 
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 196. Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That in addition 
 to the purchase price paid for said lands, the purchaser thereof 
 shall pay to the Register the same fees, as in other cases where 
 u patent is issued, and out of the purchase price so paid, the 
 Treasurer of the State shall pay the cost of advertising said 
 property and place the balance thereof to the credit of the various 
 school boards entitled to receive same 
 
 197. Section 6. Be it further enacted, etc., 'That the provi- 
 sions of this Act shall not refer nor apply to applications for the 
 entry and sale of school indemnity lands which may be pending 
 in the State Land Office at the time of the passage of this Act. 
 198 - Section 7. Be it further enacted, etc , That all laws and 
 parts of laws in conflict with or inconsistent with this Act be 
 and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 199. (Sale Which Can be Made by the Land Register, A. 315, '55.) 
 
 It shall be lawful for the Register of the State Land Office 
 to sell, at the price stipulated by law, to any board of free 
 school district directors of this State, any amount, not less than 
 five acres, of any land within their school district, donated 
 by Congress to this State, either for the use of a seminary of 
 learning, or for the purpose of internal improvement, on which 
 to erect a schoolhouse. 
 
 200. (How Located, S. 2947, R. S.) 
 
 Any land so sold shall commence in the corner of a legal 
 division or sub-division of sections; and if in a right angle, it 
 shall be run an equal distance on two sides, bounded by the line 
 of such division, and form a square including the number of 
 acres sold; if in an acute angle, it shall be bounded by said 
 division lines to such distance, and by lines in such other direc- 
 tions as the Register may deem most equitable between the land 
 so sold and that retained ; the patents" for lands so sold shall 
 issue to the free school directors and their successors, for the 
 use of their district schools, setting forth the number, and of 
 what parish. 
 
 201. (Reservation of School Lands, A. 316, '55.) 
 
 The Register of the State Land Office is required to ascer- 
 tain in what township in this State there are no reservations 
 of school sections by reason of conflicting claims or from any 
 
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 other cause, or where the reservation is less than contemplated 
 by law; and in such cases it is made his duty under the super- 
 intendence of the Governor, to apply for, and as soon as possi- 
 ble, obtain a location of any land or part of land in lieu thereof. 
 
 201 -a. (Providing for the Deposit of Public Funds, A. 25. '07, amended 
 by A. 282, '08.) 
 
 That all funds of the State of Louisiana, and of all parishes 
 and municipalities thereof, and all public boards, commissions, 
 and bodies created by or under the authority of the State or 
 any parish or municipality thereof, shall be deposited weekly 
 in the fiscal agency or agencies hereinafter mentioned. Such 
 deposits shall be made in the name of the State, or of the parish,, 
 municipality, board, commission or body having by law the 
 custody of the same. 
 
 201-b. (Fiscal Agent to be Bank Offering Highest Rate of Interest.) 
 
 The fiscal agency or agencies with whom such funds shall 
 be deposited shall be a bank or banks, chartered under the laws 
 of the State of Louisiana, or of the United States, and domi- 
 ciled in this State, offering the highest rate of interest, consist- 
 ent with the safety of such funds, upon the daily balances of 
 the deposits so to be made and giving satisfactory security here- 
 inafter mentioned. 
 
 Manner of Selecting Fiscal Agency for State, Parish, and Municipal 
 Funds.) 
 
 Such fiscal agency or agencies shall be selected as follows: 
 (1) As to funds belonging to or received in behalf of the 
 State whether by the State Treasurer, or any sheriff or tax col- 
 lector, the Board of Liquidation of the State Debt shall bien- 
 nially for thirty days beginning on the first Monday in March, 
 1908, advertise in the official journal of the State, and in one 
 newspaper published in the cities of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, 
 Shreveport, Alexandria, Monroe, Lake Charles, and New 
 Iberia; as to funds received by and in the hands of sheriffs and 
 tax collectors, said Board shall advertise for a like period in the 
 same manner in one newspaper published in the parish where 
 such collective officer exercises his office, giving notice of the time 
 and place of letting out of the State's deposits, the amount 
 of security required, and inviting banks to bid for the custody 
 thereof ; provided that as to the funds in the hands of the State 
 
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 Treasurer, said advertisement shall be first made thirty days 
 prior to the expiration of the present contract with the fiscal 
 agents of the State, and the first letting shall be for a period ex- 
 piring April, 1910. Should there be but one bank in any parish 
 authorized hereunder to bid for the funds received by or in the 
 hands of any sheriff or tax collector, said Board is authorized to 
 invite bids also from banks in contiguous parishes, when in their 
 judgment deemed proper, otherwise bidders shall be limited to 
 banks domiciled in said parish. As soon as possible after the 
 expiration of the terms of advertisement herein fixed shall have 
 expired, said Board shall meet at the capital and publicly open 
 bids and make awards of said deposits as herein required. 
 
 (2) As to funds belonging to or received in behalf of any par- 
 ish or municipality of this State, the police jury or the munici- 
 pal council shall at the same time, in the same manner and un- 
 der the same regulations and penalties, as are provided for the 
 control of the Board of Liquidation of the State Debt in refer- 
 ence to funds received by and in the hands of sheriffs or tax 
 collectors, advertise and let such funds; provided that said 
 advertisement shall be for a period of fifteen days. 
 
 201 -c. (Boadrs, Etc., Manner of Selecting Fiscal Agency.) 
 
 (3) As to funds belonging to or received by any public 
 board, commissions or body created by any special or general 
 act of the General Assembly of the State, not held in the custody 
 or possession of the State Treasurer, such board, commission or 
 body shall advertise and let the deposits to the bank or banks 
 domiciled within the territorial jurisdiction of such board, com- 
 mission or body, or in case such jurisdiction does not extend 
 over an even parish, then to any bank in the parish, in the same 
 manner, at the same time, and under the same regulations and 
 penalties as are prescribed herein for funds of parishes and 
 municipalities. 
 
 (4) As to the funds belonging to or received by any board, 
 commission or body created or controlled by any parochial or 
 municipal government, the same shall be let as a part of the 
 funds of such parish or municipality, snd any interest earned 
 thereon shall belong to the parish or municipality creating the 
 same. 
 
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 (5) As to the funds deposited in ti'.p registry of any court 
 or coming into the hands of the clerk of court or sheriff in any 
 judicial proceeding, and not belonging to such officer, the same 
 shall be deposited in the fiscal agency awarded the custody of 
 the funds of the parish, the Parish of Orleans excepted. In the 
 Parish of Orleans, such funds shall be deposited in the bank or 
 banks offering the highest rate of interest consistent with the 
 safety of such funds, and giving security therefor, under such 
 rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the judges of the 
 Civil District Court. The interest thus earned shall accrue to the 
 party or parties finally decreed to be entitled to the ownership 
 of such funds. 
 
 (All Bids to be Sealed. Same.) 
 
 Section. 3. All bids shall be sealed and indorsed on the 
 envelope ' ' Fiscal Agency Bid, ' ' and addressed to the State Aud- 
 itor or to the authority letting such deposits, as the case may be, 
 and shall be kept sealed until the meeting of the authority to 
 award said funds. 
 
 (Penalty for Breaking Seal.) 
 
 It is hereby declared a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not 
 exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000) or imprisonment not 
 exceeding one year, or both at the discretion of the court, for any 
 person prior to such meeting to break the seal of any envelope or 
 covering enclosing such bid, or to examine the contents thereof 
 
 (When the Bids of Two Banks Are Equal.) 
 
 Section 4. Where the bids of two cr more banks are equal, 
 the award shall be made to such banks iii such proportion as said 
 banks may agree upon, and if they fail to agree, then in such 
 proportion, giving each a share, as the authority letting same 
 may determine. 
 
 (Compensation Calculated on Daily Balance.) 
 
 Section 5. The compensation to be paid for deposits afore- 
 said shall be calculated on the daily balances as shown by the 
 books of the State Treasurer, or of the treasurer of the parish, 
 municipality or body, as the case may be, and shall be paid on 
 the first day of January of each year ; provided that the author- 
 ity letting the deposit may end the contract as to all or any 
 of such banks at any time, in the event that circumstances arise 
 
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 which in their opinion jeopardize the safety of such deposits, by 
 giving thirty days' notice in writing to the bank or banks holding 
 such deposits, and all such deposits shall be forthwith returned 
 by such bank or banks upon the expiration of such period. And 
 in case of such cancellation, the authority shall proceed as in case 
 of original lettings or relet the deposits theretofore deposited with 
 such bank or banks for the unexpired term of such contract. 
 
 (Security Required.) 
 
 Section 6. No funds of the State nor of any parish, munici- 
 pality, board, commission or body therein, shall be awarded to 
 any bank or banks as aforesaid or deposited therein, unless and 
 until such bank or banks shall have given the security provided 
 in this section. The successful bidder or bidders shall as security 
 for the safekeeping and return of said deposit, deposit with the 
 State Treasurer, or with the fiscal officer of the authority letting 
 such deposits, an amount of bonds of the United States or of 
 the State (except Baby Bonds) or of any parish, city, town or 
 levee district therein, equal to the estimated average deposits of 
 such authority, as determined by the record of the year pre- 
 vious, or shall have given bond with a duly authorized surety 
 company as surety conditioned for the safe keeping and return 
 of such deposits and the payment of the interest thereon in a 
 like amount ; provided that no surety company shall be accepted 
 as surety on any bond for a greater sum than ten per centum of 
 its capital and surplus; and provided further that such bank 
 or banks may deposit the bonds aforesaid for part of the se- 
 curity and give surety bond for the balance in such proportion 
 as it or they may see fit; and provided further that where such 
 deposits are divided between two or more banks, each may give 
 security for its proportion of the total security required, based 
 on the proportion of such deposits awarded to it. 
 
 (When Bonds Arte Given as Security.) 
 
 Section 7. Where any successful bidder or bidders shall elect 
 to deposit as security the bonds of any political subdivision of 
 the State, such bonds must have a market value of at least equal 
 to the par value thereof, and in case such bonds should depre- 
 ciate, in value, the authority shall have the right at any time to 
 demand additional security to make up the deficiency. If, at any 
 time, any depositary bank fail or suspend, or fail on due demand 
 
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 without just cause to pay over such funds so deposited with it, 
 the State Treasurer, on the direction of the Governor, or other 
 fiscal officer, with whom any bonds may have been deposited as 
 security, on the dierction of the authority which made such let- 
 ting, may forthwith, after ten days' advertisement in the news- 
 paper or newspapers in which proposals for bids must be adver- 
 tised for by such authority, sell such bonds, or a sufficient amount 
 thereof to cover the deposit and accrued interest thereon, by auc- 
 tion at the customary place where judicial sales are made in the 
 parish where such securities are held. In case any surety com- 
 pany given as surety should fail, cease to do business, or liquidate, 
 a new security shall be substituted within ten days from demand, 
 else the contract for such deposits shall ipso facto terminate and 
 a reletting of said deposits shall be made. 
 
 In case of any such default on the part of any fiscal agency 
 as aforesaid, when a surety bond has been given as security, 
 and the said surety company shall have failed, within thirty days 
 after demand upon it, to pay the amount of such deposit with 
 the accrued interest thereon, the State Treasurer, by direction 
 of the Governor, or the fiscal officer, on the direction of the au- 
 thority that let such deposit, as the cas^ may be, shall institute 
 suit in the name of the State or such authority, as the case may 
 be, against the principal and surety, or both of them, on such 
 bond for the recovery of the amount of such deposits and ac- 
 crued interest and a penalty of ten per centum on the amount so 
 sued for together with costs. Such suit may be brought either 
 at the designated domicile of the plaintiff or the defendant ; and 
 in case of deficiency, the same shall be secured by first lien 
 and privilege on all property and assets of said depositary. 
 
 (When State Borrows Money; Rate to be Paid.) 
 
 Section 8. In case it should become necessary for the State 
 to obtain advances of money, or for any of the other authorities 
 to borrow money in cases permitted by law, the bank or banks 
 awarded the contract as fiscal agent or agents, shall advance the 
 same at a rate of interest no greater than that allowed on the 
 said deposit ; provided, the amount so advanced shall not exceed 
 the amount on deposit to the credit of the State or such au- 
 thority. 
 
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 Section 9. "Wherever by any existing law or laws the deposit 
 of the funds of any municipality, board, commission or body with 
 any bank or banks paying the highest rate* of interest consistent 
 with the safety of such funds, and giving security therefor, is 
 provided for, such law or laws shall remain in full force and 
 effect and not be repealed or impaired hereby. Nor shall any 
 existing contracts made in pursuance of any such law or laws be 
 affected or impaired hereby. Except as in this section provided, 
 all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. 
 
 (Grants and Reservations.) 
 
 The lands granted in the States and reserved in the Territo- 
 ries for educational purposes by Acts of Congress from 1785 to 
 June 30, 1880, were: 
 
 202. (For Public or Common Schools.) 
 
 Every sixteenth section of public land in the States admitted 
 to 1848, and every sixteenth and thirty-sixth section of such land 
 in States and Territories since organized estimated at 67,893,- 
 919 acres. 
 
 203. (For Seminaries or Universities.) 
 
 The quantity of two townships, or 46,080 acres, in each 
 State or Territory containing public land, and, in some instances, 
 a greater quantity, for the support of seminaries or schools of a 
 higher grade estimated at 1,165,520 acres. 
 
 204. (For Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges.) 
 
 The grant to all the States for agricultural and mechanical 
 colleges, by Act of July 2, 1862, and its supplements of 30,000 
 acres, for each Representative and Senator in Congress to which 
 the State was entitled, of land "in place" where the State con- 
 tained a sufficient quantity of public land subject to sale at or- 
 dinary private entry at the rate of $1.25 per acre, and of scrip 
 representing an equal number of acres where the State did not 
 contain such description of land, the scrip to be sold by the 
 State and located by its assignees on any such land in other States 
 and Territories, subject to certain restrictions. Land in place, 
 1,770,000 acres ; land scrip, 7,830,000 ; total, 9,600,000 acres. 
 
 In all, 78,659,439 acres for educational purposes under the 
 heads above set out to June 30, 1880. 
 
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 The lands thus ceded to the several States were disposed of 
 or are held for disposition, and the proceeds used as perma- 
 nent endowments for common school funds. (See Reports of the 
 Commissioner of Education, Hon. John' Eaton, to June 30, 1880 ; 
 land and auditors' reports for the several land States; Kiddle 
 & Schem's Dictionary of Education; and also ninth census, 
 E. A. Walker, superintendent, for details of endowments of the 
 several States for common schools resulting from the sales of 
 United States land grants for education.) As an illustration, 
 the State of Ohio has a permanent endowment for education, 
 called the "Irreducible State Debt," the result of sale of all 
 granted lands for education, of $4,289,718.52. 
 
 (Price of Seminary Lands, S. 2954, R. S.) 
 
 The price of the seminary lands shall hereafter be fixed at 
 one dollar and twenty -five cents per acre. 
 
 205. (Disposition of Funds of Towns on the Recision of Their Charters, 
 
 S. 6, A. 173, '94.) 
 
 If after paying all the debts of said town (upon the disso- 
 lution and recision of its charter) there shall remain any balance 
 of money, the same shall be turned over to the school board of 
 the parish to be used in the education of the children of school 
 age residing within the territory covered by said town. 
 
 206. (Prescription of Debts, Etc., S. 8, A. 103, '80.) 
 
 The term of prescription of any and all debts, due to any 
 charitable institution in this State, and to any college fund, or 
 any fund of any institution of learning, or to any fund be- 
 queathed for charitable purposes of education, and of all debts 
 contracted by borrowing the whole or part of any such funds, 
 shall be thirty years ; provided, the debt is evidenced in writing. 
 
 207. (Free School Fund, S. 2957, R. S.) 
 
 The proceeds of all lands heretofore granted by the United 
 States to this State for the use or support of schools except the 
 sixteenth section in the various townships of the State specially 
 reserved by Congress for the use and benefit of the people 
 therein; and all lands which may hereafter be granted or be- 
 queathed to the State, and not specially granted or bequeathed 
 for any other purpose, which hereafter may be disposed of by 
 the State, and the ten per cent of the net proceeds of the sales 
 
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 of the public land and which have accrued and to accrue to this 
 State under the Act of Congress entitled ' ' An Act to appropriate 
 the proceeds of the public lands," and to grant pre-emption 
 rights, approved September 4, 1841; and the proceeds of the 
 estates of deceased persons, to which the State has or may become 
 entitled by law, shall be held by the State as a loan, and shall 
 be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called the Free School 
 Fund, on which the State shall pay an annual interest of six 
 per cent ; which interest, together with the interest of the Trust 
 Fund deposited with this State by the United Staes, under he 
 act of Congress approved the 23d of June, 1836, with the rents 
 of all unsold lands, except that of the sixteenth sections, shall 
 be appropriated for the support of public schools in this State; 
 and donations of all kinds which shall be made for the support of 
 schools, and such other means which the Legislature may from 
 time to time set apart for school purposes, shall form a part of 
 the fund, and shall also be a loan on which the State shall pay 
 an interest of six per cent per annum. 
 
 2 08 - It shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the State to apply 
 annually, and to receive from the General Government, the said 
 ten per cent of moneys now due and to become due to this State, 
 and to place the same, when received, to the credit of the proper 
 fund, and to report thereon to each sepsion of the General As- 
 sembly. 
 
 209. (Special Sources of Revenue.) 
 
 1. Act 85 of '94. Residue from sale of unclaimed merchan- 
 dise in warehouse. 
 
 2. Act 124 of '90. Residue from sale of unclaimed freight 
 in railroad warehouse. 
 
 3. Act 124 (Sees. 1 and 7), '02. Proceeds from sale of 
 " Islands other than sea marsh islands." 
 
 4. See S. 2957, R. S. From "Land Grants" other than the 
 sixteenth section. 
 
 5. Acts 39, 177, '02. From sale of " Internal Improvement" 
 Swamp Indemnity Lands and Certificates. 
 
 6. Act 180 of 1902. 
 
 7. All fines and forfeited bonds (par. 131). 
 
 8. See Act 27, '75. Fine for violation of laws relative to 
 inquests, etc. 
 
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 9. Recision of town charters, S. 6, A. 173 of 1894. 
 
 10. Donations, pars. 35, 205. 
 
 11. Fees, par. 43. 
 
 12. Inheritance tax, pars. 21, 22, 141-a, 165. 
 
 13. State appropriation for high and agricultural schools. 
 
 14. Special school tax. 
 
 210. (Free Passage Over Certain Streams for Pupils, S. 12, A. 214, '02.) 
 
 The free right of passage or conveyance over all public fer- 
 ries, bridges and roads which are rented out by the State or 
 parish, or over which, the State or parish exercises any control, 
 or for which license is paid or toll exacted, be and is hereby 
 granted to all children on foot attending the public schools ; and 
 no tolls or fees shall be demanded or exacted from said children 
 by the keepers or attendants of said ferries, bridges or roads in 
 their passage to and from school between the hours of 7 o'clock 
 a. m. and 9 o'clock a. m., and 4 o'clock p. m. and 6 o'clock p. m. ; 
 provided, that on Sundays and holidays no children shall have 
 the right to cross such ferries, bridges or roads on terms different 
 from those of any ordinary passenger. 
 
 211. (No School Opened With Fewer Than Ten Pupils, S. 13, A. 214, 
 
 '02.) 
 
 No school of less than ten pupils shall be opened or main- 
 tained in any locality. 
 
 212. (Branches to be Taught; French; Length of Daily Session, S. 23, 
 
 A. 124, '02, amended and re-enacted by A. 133, '06.) 
 But it further enacted, etc., That the branches of orthog- 
 raphy, reading, writing, drawing, arithmetic, geography, gram- 
 mar, United States history, the laws of health, including the evil 
 effects of alcohol and narcotics, shall be taught in every district. 
 In addition to these, such other branches shall be taught as the 
 State Board of Education and the parish school boards may re- 
 quire; provided, that these elementary branches may also be 
 taught in the French language in those localities where the 
 French language is spoken; but no additional expense shall be 
 incurred for this cause. No public school in the State shall be 
 opened later than 9 a. m. or closed earlier than 3 p. m. ; this shall 
 not be construed so as to prevent half day sessions where the 
 school accommodations are insufficient for all the pupils of the 
 district in a whole day session. Nor shall it interfere with any 
 
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 arrangements made for the conduct of the kindergarten schools ; 
 provided, that in the Parish of Orleans the Board of School 
 Directors may fix the hours of session of the public schools. A 
 school week shall consist of five days and a school month of 
 twenty days; and no teacher shall be required to teach more 
 than twenty days to be entitled to his or her salary for a school 
 month. 
 
 212-a. (Agriculture and Home Economics to be Taught in Schools, 
 A. 306, '10.) 
 
 In addition to the branches in which instruction is now given 
 in the public schools of the State of Louisiana, instruction shall 
 also be given in all the elementary and secondary schools of the 
 State in the principles of agriculture or horticulture and in 
 home and farm economy. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws or parts 
 of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the 
 same are hereby repealed. 
 
 213. (Hygiene and Temperance, S. 1, A. 40, '88.) 
 
 In addition to the branches in which instruction is now given 
 in the public schools, instruction shall also be given as to the 
 nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and special instruction 
 as to their effects upon the human system in connection with the 
 several divisions of the subject of relative physiology and hygiene, 
 and such subjects shall be taught as regularly as other branches 
 are taught in said schools. Such instruction shall be given orally 
 from a text-book in the hand of the teacher, to pupils who are 
 not able to read, and shall be given by the use of text-books in 
 the hands of the pupils in the case of those who are able to read, 
 and such instruction shall be given as aforesaid to all pupils in 
 all public schools in the State, to all the grades until completed 
 in the high schools. 
 
 213-a. (Spitting on Schoolhouse Floor Prohibited, S. 1, A. 91, '08.) 
 
 Any person who shall spit upon the floor or walls of any 
 passenger car, street car, depot or w^'ting room, courthouse, 
 churchhouse, schoolhouse, or any other public building whatever, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall 
 be fined in a sum not less than Five ($5) Dollars, nor more than 
 Twenty-five ($25) Dollars, and in default of payment of fine 
 and costs, shall be imprisoned in the parish jail for a period 
 not exceeding ten days. 
 
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 213-b. (Providing That the Doors of School Houses Shall Swing Out- 
 ward, A. 91, '08.) 
 
 Section 1. All doors for ingress and egress to public school- 
 houses, churches, courthouses, assembly rooms, halls, theatres, 
 factories with more than twenty employees and of all other 
 buildings of public resort whatever, where people are wont to 
 assemble, shall be so swung as to open outwardly from the au- 
 dience rooms, classrooms, halls, or workshops; but such doors 
 may be hung on double-jointed hinges, so as to open with equal 
 ease outwardly or inwardly. 
 
 Section 2. The provisions of this Act shall apply to all build- 
 ings and houses within its terms, erected after its passage, from 
 the date it becomes in force. As to all such buildings and houses 
 heretofore erected, said provisions shall be applied from and 
 after the expiration of six months from the date when this Act 
 becomes operative. 
 
 21 3 - c - Section 3. The president of the parish school board, the 
 deacons, the stewards or managers of any church, the presi- 
 dent of the parish police jury, or the owner of any hall, theatre, 
 or factory, failing to comply with the provisions of this Act 
 or to have same complied with as relates to any building or 
 buildings under the control of the bodies over which they pre- 
 side or of which they are a member, or to such building or build- 
 ings owned by them, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
 conviction shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars, and upon failure to pay such fine and costs 
 shall be imprisoned in the parish jail for a period not exceeding 
 ninety (90) days. 
 
 Section 4. Provided that this Act shall not apply to factories, 
 cotton seed oil mills and other like establishments where the 
 doors for the purpose of protection against fire, are so arranged 
 as to slide back and forth on rollers. 
 
 214. (Text- Books in Physiology, S. 2, A. 40, '88.) 
 
 The text-books used for the instruction required to be given 
 by the preceding section (referring to the law in regard to the 
 teaching of Hygiene and Temperance), shall give at least one- 
 fourth of their space to the consideratior. of the nature and ef- 
 fects of alcoholic drinks and narcotics: and the books used in 
 the highest grades of graded schools shall contain at least twenty 
 pages of matter relating to this subject. 
 
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 Text-books on physiology in use in the schools or at the time 
 this Act takes effect, which are not in accordance with the re- 
 quirements of this section, shall be changed for books satisfy- 
 ing the requirements of this section, except when previous con- 
 tracts as to such text-books are now in force. 
 
 216. (Exemptions From Jury Duty, S. 2, A. 89, '94.) 
 
 The following persons shall be exempted from serving as 
 jurors, but the exemption shall be personal to them, and when 
 they do not themselves claim the exemption it shall not be suf- 
 ficient cause for challenging any person exempt under the pro- 
 visions of this Act. * * * The Governor, Lieutenant Gov- 
 ernor, State Auditor, State Treasurer, Secretary of State, Su- 
 perintendent of Public Education, their clerks and employees, 
 and all public officers commissioned under the authority of the 
 United States. * * * professors and school teachers while 
 employed in teaching. * * * 
 
 216-a. (Sundry Acts on School Affairs.) 
 
 1. Centenary College of Louisiana, formerly the College of 
 Louisiana, to be investigated by a legislative committee, Act No. 
 16, '08. Suit authorized, Act 147 of 1910. 
 
 2. Giving school site to the City of Baton Rouge, Act No. 
 186, '06. 
 
 3. Authorizing the Trustees of Minden Female College to 
 transfer its property to the School Board of the Parish of 
 Webster, Act No. 214, '08. 
 
 4. Authorizing Auditor and Treasurer to invest sixteenth 
 section proceeds in levee bonds, Act No. 54, 1900, and Act No. 
 226, '02. 
 
 5. Authority of institutions of learning to confer literary 
 degrees, Act No. 96, 1900. 
 
 6. Separating the city schools of Lake Charles from the 
 Parish of Calcasieu, Act 90, '06. 
 
 216-b. (School Libraries Established, A. 202, '06.) 
 
 "Whenever the patrons and friends of. any individual school 
 or grade of the free public schools in which a library has not 
 already been established by the aid of the parish board of school 
 directors, shall raise by private subscription or otherwise and ten- 
 der to the treasurer of the parish public school funds, for the es- 
 tablishment of a library to be connected with such school or grade, 
 
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 the sum of ten dollars, and the parish treasurer has so advised 
 the secretary of the parish board of school directors, the said 
 'board at its next quarterly meeting shall appropriate from the 
 public school funds the sum of ten dollars for this purpose, 
 .and shall appoint the teacher in charge of said school or grade 
 the manager of such libraries; provided further, that at times 
 other than during the school term, the library shall be kept in 
 a locked case provided for under, this Act. 
 
 216-c. (Duty of Parish Treasurer and Secretary of School Board.) 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That as soon as the 
 .secretary of the parish board of school directors shall have re- 
 ceived notice from the treasurer of the parish public school 
 funds (and said notice should be served by the said treasurer, 
 within five days after receipt of same) that a donation for a 
 libray for a certain school or grade has been made, the secretary 
 shall inform the State Superintendent of Public Education of 
 the fact, whereupon the said State Superintendent shall furnish 
 the said secretary a list of public school library books and 
 prices therefor, said books and prices having been approved 
 lay the State Board of Education. 
 
 216-d. (Manner of Selecting Books.) 
 
 Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That within five 
 days after the parish board of school directors shall have made 
 an appropriation for a library, the president and secretary of 
 the board, with the assistance of the teacher in charge of the 
 school or grade for which the appropriation was made, shall select 
 from the aforesaid approved list of books for public school libra- 
 ries a list of books to be purchased for the said library, and shall 
 submit a list of books to be purchased to the secretary of the 
 board, who shall order the books at once, and payment for same 
 shall be made by warrant upon the treasurer of the parish public 
 school funds signed by the president and secretary of the parish 
 Aboard of school directors. 
 
 (Duty of School Board to Furnish Book Case.) 
 
 Upon application of the parish superintendent, the parish 
 l)oard of school directors shall furnish, to each library, at the 
 -expense of the public school funds, a neat bookcase, with lock 
 .and key. 
 
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 216-e. (Local Manager to Observe Rules and Regulations; Report to 
 State Superintendent.) 
 
 The local manager of every library shall carry out such 
 rules and regulations for the proper use and preservation of 
 the books as may be established by the State Superintendent of 
 Public Education, and shall on or before the tenth day of 
 January of each year make to the State Superintendent of Pub- 
 lic Education such report as he may require. 
 
 216-f. (Duty of School Board When Second Appropriation is Made After 
 One Year; Subsequent Appropriations Limited to One Par 
 Year.) 
 
 Section 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That when the pa- 
 trons and friends of any individual school or grade of the 
 public school in which a library has been established for one 
 year under the preceding sections of this Act, shall raise by 
 private subscription or otherwise and tender to the treasurer of 
 the parish school funds the sum of five dollars for the enlarge- 
 ment of the library, the parish board of school directors shall 
 appropriate from the money belonging to that school or grade 
 not less than the sum of five dollars nor more than fifteen dol- 
 lars. The money thus collected and appropriated shall be used 
 for the enlargement of libraries already established under the 
 same rules and restrictions as govern the establishment of new 
 libraries; provided that no more than one such appropriation 
 shall be made each year for each school or grade. 
 
 216-g. (Legal Ownership to Remain in Parish School Board.) 
 
 Section 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That the legal pos- 
 session and ownership of the books, cases and other append- 
 ages of the school or grade library, shall be and remain in the 
 parish board of school directors and their successors in office, 
 and that the felonious destruction or taking and carrying away 
 thereof, or any part thereof, or any books, article, apparatus or 
 furniture, from or belonging to any public schoolhouse owned 
 or used for public school purposes shall and is hereby declared 
 to be larceny, and the breaking into such schoolhouse at night, 
 with intent to commit larceny, as herein set forth, or any felony, 
 shall and is hereby declared to be burglary, and that any larceny 
 or burglary so committed shall be punished as in other cases, 
 under existing statutes. 
 
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 217. (Accountability of Pupils to Teachers; Suspensions, S. 61. A. 214, 
 '02.) 
 
 The teacher shall faithfully enforce in the school the course 
 of study and the regulations prescribed in pursuance of law; 
 and if any teacher shall willfully refuse or neglect to comply 
 with such requirements, the parish superintendent, on peti- 
 tion or complaint which shall be deemed sufficient by the 
 board, may remove or dismiss him or her. Every teacher shall 
 have the power and authority to hold every pupil to a strict 
 accountability in school for any disorderly conduct on the play- 
 grounds of the school or during intermission or recess, and to 
 suspend from school any pupil for good cause; provided, that 
 such suspension shall be reported in writing as soon as practica- 
 ble to the parish superintendent, whose decision shall be final; 
 and provided further, that in the Parish of Orleans the prin- 
 cipals of schools shall suspend and report the same to the super- 
 intendent for approval or further action. 
 
 CITY SCHOOLS 
 
 NOTE. Sec. 73 is part of Act 167, 1904. All others included between 
 Sections 71 and 81 inclusive, are parts of Act 214, '02. 
 
 218 - Section 71. Be it further enacted, etc., That all the public 
 schools of the Parish of Orleans, and the property and appur- 
 tenances thereof, and the course of study and grading thereof, 
 shall be under the direction and control of a board of directors. 
 
 219. (Organization of School Board; Duties of Secretary, S. 72, A. 214, 
 '02.) 
 
 Be it further enacted, etc., That said board of directors of 
 the public schools of the Parish of Orleans shall be a body cor- 
 porate in law, with power to sue and be sued. Eleven mem- 
 bers shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. 
 Legal process shall be served on the president; in his absence 
 or inability to act, on the vice-president. The City Attorney 
 shall act as attorney for the board. The board shall be organ- 
 ized within ten days after appointment, with a president and 
 vice-president chosen 'from among its members, and a secretary, 
 who shall not be a member of the board. In addition to the 
 duties of his office, which may be fully prescribed by the board, 
 the secretary shall make a quarterly report to the State Super- 
 intendent of Education of the cost of maintaining the city 
 
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 schools, ai\d shall keep the accounts of said board in such man- 
 ner as to be in strict accordance with such budget as it may 
 adopt, certifying to said board at each monthly meeting the ex- 
 penses of said board for each current month. Said board shall 
 have control of all buildings, records, papers, furniture and 
 property of any kind pertaining to the administration of the 
 schools, and Shu 11 have management of all the public schools 
 within the limits of the City of New Orleans. The said board 
 shall also have power to pledge its revenues for the year then 
 current, whether received from the State, parish, Board of 
 Liquidation of City Debt, or otherwise, for the purpose of 
 promptly paying its obligations, or for such other purposes as 
 to said board may seem proper. 
 
 Section 73. Be it further enacted, etc., That in addition to 
 the powers and duties hereinbefore granted to and imposed 
 upon parish boards, the powers and duties of said board of 
 directors of the Parish of Orleans shall be as follows: 
 220. First. It shall adjust and fix equitably the salaries of 
 teachers and janitors, secretary, employees, and of such assistant 
 superintendents as it may deem necessary for an efficient super- 
 vision of the schools. 
 
 221 Second. It shall limit the annual expenses of maintain- 
 ing the schools to the annual revenue, and the expense for any 
 one month shall not exceed the one-ninth part of the whole 
 amount provided for the schools. 
 
 222. Third. It shall prescribe rules for subjecting teachers or 
 candidates for teacherships to a careful competitive examination 
 on all such branches as they are expected to teach, and no per- 
 son shall be elected to a position as teacher without a favora- 
 ble report on his moral or mental qualifications by an organized 
 committee of examiners appointed by the board. Teachers reg- 
 ularly examined and elected shall not be removed from the 
 schools during the time for which employed, except on written 
 charges of immorality, neglect of duty, incompetency or malfea- 
 sance of which he has been found guilty by a majority of the 
 members of the board at a regular monthly meeting. The said 
 board may except from said examination any person who has 
 passed a satisfactory examination, as required by Act No. 23 
 of 1877, approved March twenty-sixth (26th), eighteen hundred 
 and seventy-seven (1877). 
 
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 223. Fourth. It shall elect all teachers from among the can- 
 didates holding certificates in the order of their merit, as shown 
 by the averages attained at the regular competitive examinations. 
 
 224. Fifth. All certificates shall be good for five years and 
 shall be graded by the said board; provided, teachers in service 
 shall not be required to stand future examinations. 
 
 225 - Sixth. It shall hold regular monthly meetings on a day 
 fixed by it. 
 
 226 - Seventh. It shall declare vacant the position of any of 
 its members who shall have failed to perform the duties assigned 
 to him, or who shall have absented himself from two successive 
 monthly meetings of the board without leave, or shall have been 
 guilty of any breach of decorum or of any other act inconsist- 
 ent with the dignity of a school director; and it shall report 
 each vacancy to the body by which delinquent member shall 
 have been previously elected or appointed; it shall be the duty 
 of the board of directors of city schools elected and appointed 
 under the provisions of this Act to examine and scrutinize per- 
 sonally the accounts of their predecessors, in order to find out 
 if their administration of the school funds committed to their 
 charge for disbursement has been in accordance with law, so that 
 in the future a proper administration of tho city schools may 
 be had. 
 
 227. Eighth. It may establish, when practicable, evening or 
 night schools for the instruction of such youth as are prevented 
 by their daily vocation from receiving instructions during the 
 day. 
 
 228. Ninth. It may establish, when deemed advisable, one or 
 more normal schools for professional training and improvement 
 of candidates for teacherships, including the course of instruc- 
 tion and training, lectures in the natural sciences, and on the 
 method of teaching and disciplining children, and the practical 
 exercises of non-teaching students in model classes organized for 
 that purpose by the faculty of the institution. To graduates 
 of these normal schools, also to proficient students in the city 
 high schools the board may, in its discretion, award diplomas. 
 Graduates of these normal schools may be deemed preferred 
 candidates for vacant position in the city public schools. 
 Diplomas awarded to graduates of these normal schools shall be 
 deemed equivalent to teaching certificates of the highest grade 
 
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 for public schools; provided, that the final examinations for 
 graduation from said normal school shall be conducted in the 
 same manner and include the same subjects as the public com- 
 petitive examinations required by paragraph three (3) of this 
 section. 
 
 229 - Section 75. Be it further enacted, etc., That the said board 
 is authorized to appoint for the constant supervision and period- 
 ical examinations of the public schools of the Parish of Orleans, 
 a competent and experienced educator to be designated as super- 
 intendent. He shall aid the directors in organizing the schools 
 and in improving the methods of instruction therein, in exam- 
 ining candidates for teacherships, and in conducting periodical 
 examination of pupils for promotion through the respective 
 grades of the schools, and in maintaining general uniformity and 
 discipline in the management of all the schools. He shall make 
 monthly reports on the condition and needs of the schools to his 
 board of directors at their regular monthly meetings. For the 
 information of the Common Council, the city school directors, 
 and the public generally, he shall, on or before the fifteenth day 
 of January of each year, publish a printed report, in book form, 
 showing the condition and progress, and possible improvements 
 to be made in the public schools of the city, the amount and 
 condition of the school fund., how the revenues have been dis- 
 tributed during the past year, the amount collected and disbursed 
 for common school purposes from the general current school 
 fund of the State, from local taxation or appropriation, and from 
 all other sources of revenue, and how the same was expended 
 for buildings, repairs, salaries, furniture, and apparatus, and 
 all other items of expenditure. The report will show, also, the 
 number of pupils enrolled, male, female, white and colored, the 
 number and location of school houses, the number of teachers 
 employed in the various grades, in the normal, high, grammar, 
 primary, and kindergarten schools; it shall contain, also, an 
 account of examinations held for teacherships, the number of 
 certificates of each grade awarded, the names of applicants who 
 received them, and generally all other items of information 
 which should be contained in a report i>pon the annual opera- 
 tion of the school system of a large city. Copies of this report 
 shall be forwarded, one each, to the Governor and members of 
 the State Board of Education, the State Superintendent of 
 
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 Education, the members of the Common Council of the City of 
 New Orleans, and to other officials and persons interested in the 
 welfare and progress of the city schools. Whenever notified to 
 be present, he shall attend meetings of the State Board of Edu- 
 cation. He shajl hold his office for a term of four years, subject 
 to removal by the board for incompetency, neglect of duty or 
 malfeasance, of which, after an impartial hearing by the board, 
 he shall have been adjudged guilty. He shall be ex-officio a 
 member of said board, entitled to participate in its delibera- 
 tions and debates, and in the examination of candidates for 
 teacherships ; but he shall not cast a vote in the board. 
 230. Section 76. Be it further enacted, etc., That the treas- 
 urer of the City of New Orleans shall ex-officio be the treasurer 
 of said board and shall receive all funds apportioned by the 
 State to such city, or received or collected for the support of the 
 free public schools from any and all sources. He shall give bond, 
 with good and solvent security, in the sum of ten thousand dol- 
 lars ($10,000) in favor of the president of said board and his 
 successors in office, to be accepted and approved by said board 
 and recorded in the mortgage office of the parish, and which 
 bond shall then be filed and kept on record in the office of the 
 said board. The filing of said bond, and taking and filing the 
 usual oath of office before any officer authorized to administer 
 the same, shall qualify the treasurer to act. 
 
 2 31 - Section 77. Be it further enacted, etc., That said treas- 
 urer shall hold his office for four years, or during his term of 
 office as city treasurer, unless sooner removed after due trial and 
 hearing by the said board, for neglect of duty or malfeasance 
 in office; and, in case of removal by the board, it shall elect a 
 treasurer who shall not be a member. He shall receive the sum 
 of six hundred dollars per annum for the trouble and expense 
 which may be incurred by him in the discharge of the duties 
 imposed under this Act, payable monthly. He shall keep his 
 office open at all such times as may be prescribed by said Board, 
 for the payment of pay rolls or checks in favor of teachers and 
 other employees of the board. 
 
 232 - Section 78. Be it further enacted, etc., That the mayor, 
 treasurer and comptroller of the City of New Orleans shall be 
 ex-officio members of the said board and entitled to take part 
 
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 in all the debates and deliberations in said board on the ways 
 and means of maintaining the public schools of said parish, but 
 they shall not have the right to vote. 
 
 233. Section 79. Be it further enacted, etc., That in addition 
 to the duties imposed upon the parish board of directors, it shall 
 be the duty of said board for the Parish of Orleans to present 
 to the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, on the 10th 
 day of December of each year, a full report of the condition of 
 the city schools, showing the number of teachers and other em- 
 ployees and their salaries; the number and location of school - 
 houses, with the condition thereof, and the estimated cost of 
 keeping all appurtenant grounds in good repair during the 
 ensuing year, also a detailed exhibit of all receipts and expendi- 
 tures of the board for the schools during the previous twelve 
 months; said report shall be accompanied with a statement cer- 
 tified by the officers of the board of the daily average attend- 
 ance of pupils during the annual session, and the average ex- 
 penses per capita of their instruction. 
 
 234. Section 80. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be 
 the duty of the Common Council of the City of New Orleans, in 
 making up their budget of annual expenses, to include therein 
 the amount necessary to meet the expenses of the schools, as 
 shown by the statement of the actual attendance, and the cost 
 of instruction required by the preceding section, with such 
 additional allowance for probable increased attendance and con- 
 tingent expenses as may seem just and reasonable to the City 
 Council, and to keep in good repair all schoolhouses and school 
 grounds belonging to the city. 
 
 235. Section 81. Be it further enacted, etc., That this Act shall 
 go into effect from and after its passage; and nothing in this 
 Act shall be so construed as to vacate the office of any teacher 
 until the expiration of the term for which he or she shall have 
 been appointed under existing laws, nor as requiring such per- 
 sons now teaching in the public schools of the City of New 
 Orelans to qualify in accordance with this Act, or to pass such 
 examinations as are otherwise demanded by paragraph five of 
 Section 75, and that all laws in conflict with the provisions of 
 this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed, except Acts passed 
 at the present session of the General Assembly. Provided, fur- 
 ther, that the adoption and promulgation of this Act will not 
 
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 interfere with the present organization of the New Orleans board, 
 but that said board and its members shall continue in office and 
 vacate office as now provided in Section 62 of Act 81 of 1888, as 
 if this law had not been enacted. 
 
 236. (City Council Authorized to Establish, S. 1377, R. S.) 
 
 The Common Council of the City of New Orleans are au- 
 thorized to establish one or more public schools in each district, 
 for the gratuitous education of the children residing therein; 
 to enact ordinances for the organization, government and dis- 
 cipline of the same, and to levy taxes for their support, as to 
 them may seem proper. 
 
 237. (Report to State Superintendent, S. 1378, R. S.) 
 
 The Council shall make a report annually to the Superin- 
 tendent of Public Education of the disposition of the school 
 funds, and communicate all other information respecting public 
 education which they may possess and which may be called for 
 by him. 
 
 238. (School Books for Indigent Pupils, A. 55, '02.) 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the board of directors of 
 the public schools for the Parish of Orleans shall appropriate 
 annually not less than the sum of two thousand dollars, or as 
 much thereof as may be needed for the purchase of school books 
 to be used for pupils in the primary grades of the public schools 
 of the Parish of Orleans. 
 
 239. Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That said board 
 of directors shall furnish school books to all pupils in the pri- 
 mary grades in the public schools throughout the Parish of 
 Orleans who are unable to provide themselves with the requisite 
 books. In order to obtain such books for pupils who are unable 
 to provide themselves with same, it shall be necessary for parents 
 or guardians of such children to make written application to 
 said board through the principals of school or to the Superin- 
 tendent to that effect, on forms to be provided by said board; 
 and it shall be also necessary for such parents or guardians to 
 attest said application before any public authority, authorized 
 to administer oaths, or before the said Superintendent, or be- 
 fore the principal of schools, who are hereby authorized to receive 
 and administer such attestations. 
 
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 240. (The Position of the Teacher Permanent, S. 1, A. 166, '08, amending 
 and re-enacting S. 74, A. 81, '88.) 
 
 That nothing in this Act shall be construed as to vacate the 
 office of any teacher for which he or she shall have been appointed 
 under existing laws, nor as requiring such persons now teaching 
 in the public schools of the Parish of Orleans to qualify in ac- 
 cordance with this Act, or to pass such examinations as are other- 
 wise required by paragraph 5 of Section 64 of this Act. 
 241 All teachers now employed in said public schools, and 
 those occupying positions as principals and vice-principals in 
 said schools, shall be regarded as permanent employees of said 
 Board of Directors of the Public Schools for the Parish of Or* 
 leans, and said teachers shall not be removed from office, nor said 
 principals or vice-principals deposed or removed from such posi- 
 tions, except for cause, in the manner and form as set out in para- 
 graph 3 of said Section 64 of this Act ; provided, that the mar- 
 riage of a female teacher at any time shall ipso facto vacate her 
 position. 
 
 242 - All teachers hereafter appointed in said schools, and all 
 principals and vice-principals elected by said board hereafter, 
 shall be appointed permanently and shall not be subject to re- 
 moval except for cause, and as set out in paragraph 3 of Sec- 
 tion 64 of this Act. 
 
 (LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A. AND M. COLLEGE, Act 
 47, 70; A. 14, '67; A. 96, '60; A. 121, '69; A. 228, '58; A 
 303, '67; A. 72, '69; A. 145, '76; A. 20, '75; A. 65, '77; A. 
 125, '74; A. 141, '94; A. 75, '96; A. 152, '02; A. 100, '86; 
 See Constitution, '98.) 
 
 243. (Object of the Institution, A. 145, 77.) 
 
 The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and 
 Mechanical College, as hereinafter created, shall have for its 
 object to become an institution of learning, in the broadest and 
 highest sense, where literature, science and all the arts may be 
 taught; where the principles of truth and honor may be estab- 
 lished, and a noble sense of personal and patriotic and religious 
 duty inculcated; in fine, to fit the citizen to perform justly, 
 skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and 
 public, of peace and war. 
 
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 244. (General Instruction, A. 145, '77.) 
 
 The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
 ical College, as hereinbefore created, shall provide general in- 
 struction and education in all the departments of literature, 
 science, art, and industrial and professional pursuits; and it 
 shall provide special instruction for the purpose of agriculture, 
 the mechanic arts, mining, military, science and art, civil engin- 
 eering, law, medicine, commerce and navigation. 
 
 NOTE. See L. S. U. catalogue for degrees conferred. 
 
 245. (Branches to be Taught, A. 145, '77.) 
 
 There shall be maintained in the Louisiana State University 
 and Agricultural and Mechanical College, as hereinbefore con- 
 stituted and established: 
 
 First Schools of literature, including the languages of the 
 principal nations of ancient and modern times, philosophy, logic, 
 rhetoric and elocution, history, ethics, metaphysics and such 
 other and special branches of learning as the board of super- 
 visors may determine. 
 
 Second Schools of science, including mathematics, astron- 
 omy, engineering, architecture, drawing, physics, chemistry, 
 botany, zoology, agriculture, mechanics, mining, navigation and 
 commerce and such other special branches of learning as the 
 board of supervisors may determine. 
 
 Third Schools of the useful and fine arts, and of military 
 science and art. 
 
 Fourth Schools of medicine and law. 
 
 Fifth Such other schools as the board of supervisors maj 
 establish. 
 
 246. (Affiliation With Any Incorporated Institution, A. 145, 77.) 
 
 The board of supervisors may affiliate with the Louisiana 
 State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College any 
 incorporated university or college, or school of medicine, law 
 or other special course of instruction, upon such terms as may 
 be deemed expedient; and such university, college or school 
 may retain the control of its own property, have its own board 
 of trustees, faculties and president respectively; and the stu- 
 dents of such universities, colleges -or schools recommended by 
 the respective faculties thereof, may receive from the Louisiana 
 
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 State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College tho 
 degrees of those universities, colleges or schools, and the said 
 students of learning or special schools, thus graduated, shall 
 rank as graduates of the Louisiana State University and Agri- 
 cultural and Mechanical College. 
 
 246-a. (Beneficiary Cadets.) 
 
 Each parish, as now created, or that may hereafter be cre- 
 ated in the State, shall have the right to delegate to the Louisi- 
 ana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College 
 one beneficiary cadet, and the City of New Orleans shall have 
 the right to delegate to said institution seventeen beneficiary 
 cadets; or one from each ward of said city, said beneficiaries 
 to remain at said institution four years, unless sooner grad- 
 uated or otherwise discharged; provided, that no beneficiary 
 cadet shall be permitted to resign from said institution, without 
 the consent of the board of supervisors thereof, which consent 
 shall be given only in case of urgent necessity, such as serious 
 and long protracted ill health, duly declared by the certificate 
 of the surgeon of said institution, or other competent physician, 
 be of such a nature as to render it impossible for said cadet to 
 pursue his studies with advantage. 
 
 246.-b. (Police Juries and City Councils to Elect Beneficiaries.) 
 
 The police jury of each parish and the city council of New 
 Orleans, respectively, may at a regular meeting elect the num- 
 ber of beneficiary cadets to which said parish or city is entitled 
 as aforesaid, of such age and qualifications as may be prescribed 
 by the board of supervisors for admission to the college classes 
 of said University and Agricultural and Mechanical College; 
 and shall cause the beneficiary so selected to report in person 
 at said institution on or before said 5th day of October; pro- 
 vided, that said beneficiary cadet shall be selected from the 
 number of those residents of said parish or of said city, who 
 have not themselves, nor have their parents s the means of defray- 
 ing the whole of their necessary expenses of maintenance and 
 support of said institution, which facts shall be duly certified 
 to the president of said institution, by the president of said police 
 jury, or said city council of New Orleans, as true, to the best 
 of his knowledge and belief. 
 
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 246-c. (Authority of the Police Juriss, and City Council of New Orleans 
 to Appropriate Funds for Beneficiaries.) 
 
 For maintenance and board of said beneficiaries in said insti- 
 tution, the police juries of the several parishes and the city 
 council of the City of New Orleans, be and are hereby author- 
 ized and empowered to appropriate out of their respective treas- 
 uries, a sufficient sum to defray the necessary expenses of said 
 cadets as appointed under the provisions of this act ; provided, 
 that the expense of no cadet shall exceed two hundred and fifty 
 dollars ($250) per annum; provided, that under no circum- 
 stances shall any part of this sum be paid by the State. 
 
 247. (Recognition of the Degrees Conferred, A. 93, '08.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That all diplomas or degrees, whether literary or scientific, 
 academic or professional, granted by the Board of Supervisors 
 of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechan- 
 ical College upon the recommendation of the faculty of said insti- 
 tution shall be recognized by the courts and other officials of 
 Louisiana as entitling the graduates holding said diplomas or 
 degrees to the same rights, immunities and privileges in the State 
 of Louisiana as the diplomas or degrees of any other institution 
 of learning whatsoever, 
 
 248. (Benefits of the Carnegie Fund Allowed, A. 219, '08.) 
 
 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the State 
 of Louisiana, the Senate concurring, That the Board of Super- 
 visors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and 
 Mechanical College is hereby authorized to accept the offer of 
 the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Foundation to admit 
 State universities to tLe benefits of the retiring allowance system 
 of said Foundation. 
 
 249. (Authority to Charge Tuition Fees, A. 227, '08.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That Section 1 of Act No. 152 of 1902, entitled "An Act 
 authorizing the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State 
 University and Agricultural and Mechanical College to deter- 
 mine the fees of students or cadets," shall be amended and re- 
 enacted so as to read as follows: 
 
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 Section 1. That the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana 
 State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College shall 
 have power and authority to determine what fees and other 
 charges shall be paid by students or cadets; provided, that no 
 fee for tuition shall be charged to any student or cadet who is 
 a bona fide resident of the State of Louisiana unless said student. 
 or cadet be pursuing a special graduate, or professional course 
 of study. 
 
 250. (Establishing a Chair of Forestry, A. 242, '08.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That it is hereby made the duty of the Board of Super- 
 visors of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and 
 Mechanical College at Baton Kouge, La., to establish and main- 
 tain a Chair of Forestry in said University for the purpose of 
 teaching the care, protection and conservation of the forests of 
 this State. 
 
 251. (Object; to Whom Open, S. 1, A. 73, '92.) 
 
 (STATE NORMAL SCHOOL, Act 73, '92; A. 61, '86; A. 23, '88; 
 A. 70, '02 ; A. 91, '96 ; A. 158, '02 ; A. 51, '84. See Constitu- 
 tion, '98.) 
 
 The State Normal School, located at Natchitoches, in the Par- 
 ish of Natchitoches, in conformity with Sections 4 and 8 of Act 
 No. 51 of 1884, shall have for its object to train teachers for the 
 public schools of Louisiana, and shall be open to white persons 
 of either sex or age and qualifications as may be hereinafter 
 prescribed. 
 
 252. (Departments and Classes, S. 6, A. 73, '92.) 
 
 The State Normal School shall contain two departments, the 
 Normal Department and the Practice School. The course of 
 study of the Normal Department may extend over a period of 
 four years, and shall embrace thorough instruction and training 
 in the history and science of education, the theory and practice 
 of teaching, the organization and government of schools and 
 such other branches of knowledge as may be deemed necessary to 
 fit the students for the varied work of a complete system of public 
 schools. The Practice School shall consist of such grades or 
 classes, with such course of study, as the Board of Adminis- 
 trators may deem useful in giving the Normal students the neces- 
 sary practice in the art of teaching. 
 
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 253. (Qualifications for Admission, S. 7, A. 73, '92.) 
 
 Applicants for admission to the Normal Department must 
 be at least fifteen years of age if female, and sixteen years of 
 age if male ; must give satisfactory evidence of good moral char- 
 acter and of requisite proficiency in the ordinary branches of a 
 good common school education; and must declare in writing 
 their full intention of continuing in the school until graduation, 
 unless sooner discharged, and of teaching in the public schools of 
 Louisiana for at least one year after graduation. 
 
 254. (Tuition Free, Except in Some Instances, S. 8, A. 73, '92.) 
 Tuition shall be free to all students of the Normal Depart- 
 ment who fulfill all the requirements imposed by Section 7 of 
 this Act, and to the pupils of the primary grades of the Practice 
 School. All other students shall be charged such fees for tui- 
 tion as may be prescribed by the board of administrators. 
 254-a. (Beneficiary Students to State Schools, A. 158, '02.) 
 
 Each police jury of the several parishes of the State shall 
 have the right to delegate to the Louisiana Industrial Institute 
 at Ruston, or the Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute 
 at Lafayette or the State Normal School, one (1) female student, 
 and the City of New Orleans shall have the right to delegate 
 to said institutions one female student from each ward of said 
 city, said beneficiaries to remain at said institutions until grad- 
 uated or otherwise discharged; provided no beneficiary shall be 
 permitted to resign without the consent of the board of super- 
 visors of the institute, which consent shall be given only in case 
 of urgent necessity such as serious or long protracted ill health, 
 duly declared by certificate of the physician of such institute or 
 other competent physician, to be of such nature as to render it 
 impossible for said student to pursue her studies with advantage. 
 254-b. Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the police 
 jury of each parish and the city council of New Orleans, re- 
 spectively, may at a regular meeting select said beneficiaries sub- 
 ject to and after competitive examination and of such age and 
 qualifications as is prescribed by the rules of such institutes; 
 provided, said beneficiaries shall be residents of such parish or 
 wards who have not themselves nor have their parents the means 
 of defraying the whole of the necessary expenses of maintenance 
 and support at said institute, which fact shall be duly certified 
 to by the president of the police jury or ward of said city. 
 
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 254-c. Section 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That for the main- 
 tenance and board of said beneficiaries at said institutes, the 
 police jury of the several parishes and the city council of New 
 Orleans be, and are hereby, authorized and empowered to appro- 
 priate out of their respective treasuries a sufficient sum to defray 
 the necessary expenses of said students as appointed under pro- 
 visions of this act ; provided the expense of no beneficiary shall 
 exceed two hundred and fifty dollars ($250) per annum. 
 
 255. (State Normal School Diplomas, A. 91, '96.) 
 
 The Board of Administrators of the State Normal School is 
 hereby empowered to confer diplomas upon all graduates of 
 said school. This diploma shall entitle the holder to a first grade 
 teacher's certificate without examination, and shall be valid in 
 any part of the State for four years from the date of gradua- 
 tion, after the expiration of which time it may be renewed every 
 four years, for the same period, by said Board of Administrators 
 upon satisfactory evidence of the ability, progress and moral 
 character of the teacher making application for such renewal. 
 Furthermore, the diploma of the State Normal School shall en- 
 title its holder to such degree of preference in the selection of 
 teachers for the public schools of the State as may be deemed 
 wise and expedient by the State Board of Education. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws, or parts 
 of laws, in conflict with the provisions of this Act be and the 
 same are hereby repealed. 
 
 256. (Industrial College; Object; Location; Privilege, A. 68, '94.) 
 
 (LOUISIANA INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, Act 68, '94; A. 158, '02; 
 See Constitution '98.) 
 
 An Industrial Institute and College is hereby established 
 for the education of the white children of the State of Lou- 
 isiana in the arts and sciences. Said Institute shall be known 
 as ''The Industrial Institute and College of Louisiana," and 
 shall be located at Ruston, Lincoln Parish, La., provided said 
 town and parish shall donate ten thousand dollars ($10,000) to 
 said Institute, and the same shall be organized as hereinafter 
 provided. (See Constitution '98, name.) 
 
 257. (Branches to be Taught, A. 68, '94.) 
 
 The said board of trustees shall possess all the power neces- 
 sary and proper for the accompilshment of the trust reposed in 
 
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 them, viz : The establishment of a first-class Industrial Institute 
 and College for the education of the white children of Louisiana 
 in the arts and sciences, at which such children may acquire a 
 thorough academic and literary education, together with a 
 knowledge of kindergarten instruction, of telegraphy, stenog- 
 raphy and photography, of drawing, painting, designing and 
 engraving in their industrial application; also a knowledge of 
 fancy, practical and general needle work; also a knowledge of 
 bookkeeping and agricultural and mechanical arts, together with 
 such other practical industries as from time to time may be 
 suggested to them by experience, or such as will tend to promote 
 the general objects of said Institute and College, to-wit: Fitting 
 and preparing such children, male and female, for the practical 
 industries of the age. 
 
 258. (Establishment, A. 162, '98.) 
 
 (SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, A. 162, 
 '98; A. 158, '02.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That a State Industrial Institute is hereby established 
 for the education of the white children of the State of Louisiana, 
 in the arts and sciences. 
 
 Said Institute shall be known as the ' ' Southwestern Louisiana 
 Industrial Institute," and shall be located in that parish of the 
 13th Senatorial District which will offer the best inducement 
 therefor to the Board of Trustees, said location to be made by 
 the Board to be appointed under this Act, provided that the 
 parish selected for the location of said Institution shall donate 
 not less than twenty-five acres of land and five thousand dollars 
 to said Institution, and the same shall be organized as herein- 
 after provided; provided further, that in case two or more of 
 said parishes offer the same inducements then the Board of 
 Trustees shall select, by a majority vote, the most suitable loca- 
 tion and make report thereof to the General Assembly of the 
 State of Louisiana, at its next session, together with such recom- 
 mendations as may be conducive to the best interests of said 
 institution. 
 
 259. (Branches Taught, Etc.) 
 
 The Board of Trustees shall possess all the powers necessary 
 and proper for the accomplishment of the trust reposed in them, 
 
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 viz: The establishment of a first-class Industrial Institute for 
 the education of the white children of Louisiana in the arts and 
 sciences, at which such children may acquire a thorough aca- 
 demic and literary education, together with a knowledge of kin- 
 dergarten instruction, of telegraphy, stenography and photog- 
 raphy, or drawing, painting, designing and engraving in their 
 industrial applications ; also a knowledge of fancy, practical and 
 general needle- work; also a knowledge of bookkeeping and agri- 
 cultural and mechanical art together with such other practical 
 industries as from time to time, may be suggested to them by 
 experience, or such as will tend to promote the general object 
 of said Institute, to-wit: Fitting and preparing such children,, 
 male and female, for practical industries of life. 
 
 260. (Departments of the University, S. 1353, R. S.) 
 
 (*TULANE UNIVERSITY OP LOUISIANA, A. 43, '84; A. 94, '90; 
 A. 81, '60; A. 320, '55; A. 267, '55; A. 269, '55. See Constitu- 
 tion, '98.) 
 
 The University shall be composed of the following depart- 
 ments or faculties, to-wit : Law, Medicine, the Natural Sciences, 
 Letters and College proper, or Academical Department; all of 
 which, as the resources of the University increase, shall be com- 
 pleted and the administrators, excepting the Medical Depart- 
 ment, which shall be composed of and formed by the Medical 
 College of Louisiana, as at present organized and established by 
 law; which said department, as hereafter provided for, shall 
 be engrafted on the University, and be conducted as hereafter 
 directed. 
 
 261. (Powers of the Board of Administrators, S. 1354, R. S.) 
 
 The administrators shall have the power to direct and pre- 
 scribe the course of study and the discipline to be observed in 
 the University; to appoint by ballot, or otherwise, the pres- 
 ident of the University, who shall hold his office at the pleasure 
 of the board and perform the duties of a professor; to appoint 
 professors, tutors and ushers to assist in the government and 
 instruction of the students, and such other officers as they may 
 
 "Tulane University does not belong to the free public school system of 
 Louisiana, but on account of the general benefits extended by its scholarship 
 system, its agreement with the State, its relations as the successor to the 
 "University of Louisiana," and the fact of its being the most distinguished 
 and successful of all the private educational institutions for which special 
 legislation has been enacted. Information of public interest in regard to- 
 Tulane is embraced in this compilation. 
 
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 deem necessary; they being removable at the pleasure of the 
 board. They shall fix the salaries of the president, professors 
 and tutors, in the Academic Department, and fill vacancies in 
 the professorships. Vacancies in the Law or Medical Depart- 
 ments shall be filled from persons first recommended to the admin- 
 istrators by the faculty of the department in which a vacancy 
 may happen. No professor, tutor, or other assistant officer shall 
 be an administrator of the University. 
 
 262. (By- Laws and Regulations, S. 1358, R. S.) 
 
 They shall have power to make all ordinances and by-laws 
 which to them shall seem expedient for carrying into effect the 
 design contemplated by the establishment of this University, 
 not inconsistent with the Constitution of the United States and 
 of this State, nor with the provisions of their charter. They 
 shall not make the religious tenets of any person a condition of 
 the admission to any privilege or office in the University, nor 
 shall any course of religious instruction be taught or allowed of 
 a sectarian charatcer and tendency. 
 
 263. (Literary Honors and Degrees, S. 1359, R. 8.) 
 
 They shall have the right of conferring under their common 
 seal, on any person whom they may think worthy thereof, all 
 literary honors and degrees known and usually granted by any 
 university or college in the United States or elsewhere. The 
 degree of Bachelor of Law, and Doctor of Medicine, granted by 
 them, shall authorize the person on whom it is conferred to prac- 
 tice law, physics and surgery in this State. 
 
 264. (Department of Law, S. 1360, R. S.) 
 
 The Department of Law shall consist of three or more pro- 
 fessors, who shall be required to give a full course of lectures on 
 international, constitutional, maritime, commercial and munici- 
 pal or civil law, and instruction in the practice thereof. 
 
 265. (Access of the Medical Department to the Charity Hospital, S. 1370, 
 
 R. S.) 
 
 The Medical Department of the University shall at all times 
 have free access to the Charity Hospital of New Orleans, for 
 the purpose of affording their students practical illustrations of 
 the subjects they teach. 
 
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 265-a. (Scholarships to be Granted.) 
 
 In consideration of the vesting of the administration of the 
 University of Louisiana in the said Administrators of the "Tu- 
 lane Education Fund," of the transfer of the rights, powers, 
 privileges, franchises and immunities of the said university to 
 said administrators and of the exemption from all taxation as 
 herein above provided, the said administrators hereby agree and 
 bind themselves, with the revenues and income of the property 
 heretofore given them by Paul Tulane, Esq., as well as from the 
 revenues of all other property, real, personal, or mixed, here- 
 after to be held, owned or controlled by them, for the purposes 
 of education, to develop, foster, and maintain, to the best of 
 their ability and judgment, the University of Louisiana, here- 
 after to be known as "Tulane University of Louisiana," and 
 upon the adoption of the constitutional amendment aforesaid, 
 to perpetually use the powers conferred by this act, and all 
 powers vested in them, for the purpose of creating and main- 
 taining in the City of New Orleans a great university, devoted 
 to the intellectual, moral and industrial education and advance- 
 ment of the youth of this State, under the terms of the donation 
 of Paul Tulane, and the previous provisions of this act. The 
 said board further agree and bind themselves to waive all legal 
 claim upon the State of Louisiana for any appropriation, as 
 provided in the Constitution of this State, in favor of the Uni- 
 versity of Louisiana. Besides the waiver of the claim, as afore- 
 said, as an additional consideration between the parties of this 
 act, the said board agrees to give continuously, in the academic 
 department, free tuition to one student from each senatorial 
 and from each representative district or parish, to be nominated 
 by its member in the General Assembly from among the ~bona 
 fide citizens and residents of his district or parish, who shall 
 comply with the requirements for admission established by said 
 board. The meaning of this provision being that each member 
 of the General Assembly, whether Senator or Representative, 
 shall have the right of appointing one student, in accordance 
 with the foregoing provisons. The free tuition herein provided 
 for shall continue until each student has graduated from the 
 academic department, unless his scholarship has ceased from 
 other cause. "Whenever a scholarship becomes vacant, from any 
 cause, the Senator or Representative who appointed the pre- 
 
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 vious student, or his successor, shall, in the manner prescribed 
 by this section, immediately name a successor. 
 
 266. (Establishment.) 
 
 (SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY, A. 87, '80; A. 90, '88. See Con- 
 stitution, '98.) 
 
 There shall be established in the City of New Orleans a 
 University for the education of persons of color, to be named 
 and entitled the "Southern University." 
 
 267. (Faculty, Degrees, Departments, and Courses.) 
 
 There shall be established by said board of trustees a fac- 
 ulty of arts and letters, which shall be competent to instruct in 
 every branch of liberal education, and under rules of, and in 
 concurrence with, the board of trustees, to graduate students 
 and grant all degrees appertaining to letters and arts known to 
 universities and colleges in Europe and America, on persons 
 competent and deserving the same. 
 
 There may also be established by said board of trustees a de- 
 partment of law and medicine. The department of law shall con- 
 sist of three (3) or more learned professors, learned and skilled in 
 the practice of law in this State, who shall be required to give a 
 full course of lectures on international, constitutional, commer- 
 cial and municipal or civil law and instruction in the practice 
 thereof. The medical department of the university shall consist 
 of not less than three professors. They shall be appointed by 
 the board of trustees from regular practicing physicians of the 
 State. The degree of bachelor of law and doctor of medicine, 
 granted by them, shall authorize the person upon whom it is 
 conferred to practice physics and surgery in this State. 
 
 268. (Establishment of the Institution.) 
 
 (LOUISIANA STATE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND, A. 92, '71 ; A. 
 49, '88; A. 145, '98, amended by A. 238, '08; A. 166, '98; A. 
 196, '02.) 
 
 There shall be established and maintained, in the town of 
 Baton Rouge, an institution for the education of the blind, to be 
 known as the "Louisiana State School for the Blind." 
 
 269. (Objects of the Institution.) 
 
 They shall receive, instruct and support in the Institution 
 all persons blind, or of such defective vision as not to be able 
 
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 to acquire an education in the ordinary schools, between the 
 ages of seven and twenty-two years, of sound mind and proper 
 health of body, and residents of the State. Such persons shall 
 receive instructions and be provided with board, lodging, medi- 
 cine and medical attendance at the expense of the institution 
 and if in such indigent circumstances as to render it necessary, 
 shall also be furnished with clothing and traveling expenses to 
 and from the Institution upon a certificate to that effect from 
 the president of the police jury of the parish, or the mayor of 
 the city or town, in which they reside. 
 
 270. (How Long Pupils May Remain.) 
 
 Persons admitted as pupils under fourteen years of age may 
 continue in the Institution ten years; if over fourteen and un- 
 der seventeen years of age, they may continue eight years; and 
 if over seventeen years of age, they may continue five years; 
 provided the board may in any case extend the term two years. 
 
 271. (Institution for the Exclusive Use of the Deaf and Dumb.) 
 
 (LOUISIANA STATE SCHOOL FOB THE DEAF, A. 88, '71 ; A. 166, 
 '98, amended by Act 239, '08; A. 196, '02. See Constitution '98.) 
 
 The institution heretofore known as the Louisiana Institution 
 for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, located at Baton Rouge, 
 in this State, be and the same is hereby reorganized by the pro- 
 visions of this act for the exclusive benefit of the deaf and dumb. 
 
 That there shall be established and maintained, in the town of 
 Baton Rouge, an institution for the education of the deaf and 
 dumb, to be known as the " Louisiana State School for the 
 Deaf." 
 
 272. (Admission of Pupils, A. 166, '98.) 
 
 They shall receive, instruct and support in the institution all 
 persons deaf and dumb, or of such defective speech or hearing as 
 not to be able to acquire an education in the ordinary schools, 
 between the ages of eight and twenty-two years, of sound mind 
 and proper health of body, and residents of the State. Such 
 persons shall receive instruction and be provided with board, 
 lodging, medicine and medical attendance at the expense of the 
 Institution, and if in such indigent circumstances as to render 
 it necessary, shall also be furnished with clothing and traveling 
 expenses to and from the Institution, upon a certificate to that 
 
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 effect from the president of the Police Jury of the parish, or 
 the mayor of the city, or town, in which they reside. 
 
 273. (Age of Admission.) 
 
 The persons admitted as pupils under fourteen years of age, 
 may continue in the institution ten years; if over fourteen and 
 under seventeen years of age, they may continue eight years; 
 if over seventeen years of age, they may continue five years; 
 provided, the board may in any case extend the term two years. 
 
 274. (Branches Taught.) 
 
 The institution shall provide all the requisite facilities for 
 acquiring a good literary education, instruction in hygiene and 
 physical culture and an industrial department in which instruc- 
 tion shall be given in such trades as may be best suited to render 
 the pupils self-sustaining citizens. 
 
 275. (Gambling Prohibited Near Certain Schools, S. 1, A. 58, '08.) 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That gambling with cards, dice and all manner of bank- 
 ing games of gambling in any form whatsoever for money or 
 any representative of money within five (5) miles of the Har- 
 risonburg High School, located in Catahoula parish, Louisiana, 
 be and the same is hereby prohibited. 
 
 Under acts having the same purpose in view as the section 
 above quoted, gambling has been prohibited near the following 
 schools : 
 
 Bernice .' 3 miles, Act 57, '04 
 
 DeRidder 4 " " 166, '04 
 
 Eros 5 " " 104, '06 
 
 Farmerville 5 " " 72, '06 
 
 Leesville 5 " " 114, '06 
 
 Grand Cane 3 " " 32, '06 
 
 Hickory Grove 3 " " 33, '06 
 
 Logansport 3 " " 31, '06 
 
 Marion 3 " " 102, '06 
 
 Haynesville 5 " " 33, '08 
 
 Athens 5 " " 34, '08 
 
 Homer 5 " " 36, '08 
 
 Harrisonburg 5 " " 58, '08 
 
 Gonzales High School, Ascension Parish. . . 3 " " 209, '10 
 
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 Bienville High School, Bienville Parish. . . 5 " " 182, '10 
 
 Briceland High School, Bienville Parish ... 5 " " 181, '10 
 
 Gibsland High School, Bienville Parish. . . 5 " ' " 178, '10 
 
 Kinder High School, Calcasieu Parish. . . . 5 " " 62, '10 
 
 Singer High School, Calcasieu Parish 5 " " 5, '10 
 
 Columbia High School, Caldwell Parish. . . 5 " " 201, '10 
 
 Oak Grove High School, DeSoto Parish. . . 3 " " 130, '10 
 
 Dubach High School, Lincoln Parish 5 " " 4, '10 
 
 Huston High School, Lincoln Parish 5 " " 4, '10 
 
 Goldona High School, Natchitoches Parish . 5 ' ' " 65, '10 
 Marthaville High School, Natchitoches 
 
 Parish 5 " " 305, '10 
 
 Hornbeck High School, Vernon Parish.... 5 " " 281, '10 
 
 Orange Graded School, Vernon Parish. ... 5 " " 230, '10 
 
 Pitkin Graded School, Vernon Parish 5 " " 255, '10 
 
 Sunny Hill Graded School, Washington 
 
 Parish 3 " " 72, '10 
 
 Oak Grove Graded School, "West Carroll 
 
 Parish 3 " " 202, '10 
 
 Atlanta Graded School, Winn Parish 3 " " 200, '10 
 
 Dodson Graded School, Winn Parish 3 " " 138, '10 
 
 Winnfield 5 " " 123, '08 
 
 Merryville 5 " " 218, '08 
 
 Jena 5 " " 237, '08 
 
 Hornbeck 5 " " 257, '08 
 
 Mansfield 5 " " 273, '08 
 
 276. (Sales of Liquors Prohibited Near Certain Schools, S. 1, A. 121, '08.) 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lou- 
 isiana, That the sale, either wholesale or retail of spirituous, 
 vinous or intoxicating liquor except for medicinal, mechanical, 
 scientific, or sacramental purposes, within (5) miles of the 
 Mansfield High School located at Mansfield, DeSoto Parish, 
 Louisiana, be, and the same is hereby prohibited. 
 
 Under Acts having same purpose in view as section above 
 quoted, the sale of liquors is prohibited near the following 
 schools : 
 
 Harrisonburg 5 miles, Act 19, '98 
 
 Gibsland 3 " " 58, '98 
 
 Winnsboro.. 5 " " 71, '98 
 
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 Louisiana Industrial Institute 5 " " 74, '98 
 
 Colfax 5 " " 140, '98 
 
 Henry 1 " li 141, '98 
 
 Fort Jesup 5 " " 174, '98 
 
 Amite City 5 " " 102, '98 
 
 Montgomery 5 " " 86, '98 
 
 St. Amant 5 " " 205, '02 
 
 Gonzales 5 " "~205, '02 
 
 Bienville 5 " li 157, '02 
 
 Hammond 4 " " 137, '02 
 
 Junction City 5 " " 228, '02 
 
 Leesville 5 " il 207, '02 
 
 Minden 5 ". " 219, '02 
 
 Greensburg 5 il " 20, '02 
 
 Pearlington 5 " " 142, '02 
 
 Logtown 5 " " 142, '02 
 
 Denham Springs 5 " " 62, '04 
 
 Georgetown 5 " " 92, '04 
 
 Bernice 3 " " 34, '04 
 
 French Settlement 4 " " 53, '04 
 
 DeBidder 4 u " 160, '04 
 
 Sunny Hill Graded School 3 " " 73, '10 
 
 Kernan... 4 " " 13, '04 
 
 Farmerville 5 " " 76, '06 
 
 Franklinton 5 " " 111, '06 
 
 Gorman 5 " " 153, '06 
 
 Kentwood 4 " li 142, '06 
 
 Lottie 1%" " 181, '06 
 
 Marion 3 " " 89, '06 
 
 Plain Dealing 5 '" " 106, '06 
 
 Verda 5 <{ <( 127, '06 
 
 Many 5 " li 105, '06 
 
 Benton 5 c< <{ 46, '08 
 
 Haughton 5 " " 47, '08 
 
 Mansfield 5 " " 121, '08 
 
 Louisiana State Normal School 6 " " 193, '08 
 
 Hornbeck 5 " " 256, '08 
 
 Jonesville 1 " " 259, '08 
 
 Eros 5 " " 290, '08 
 
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 Orange 5 " " 302, '08 
 
 Ponchatoula 4 " " 278, '10 
 
 Colfax 5 " " 313, '10 
 
 SYLLABI OF IMPORTANT SCHOOL DECISIONS OF 
 THE SUPREME COURT. 
 
 277. (Levying Taxes for Schools.) 
 
 The board of directors for the Public Schools of New Orleans 
 have the control of school funds placed to their charge for the 
 maintenance of the schools. It devolves upon this board to com- 
 pel corporations to comply with their ordinances levying taxes 
 for the schools, if they fail to comply with their obligation in 
 this respect. 
 
 277-a. (Boards Have Authority to Institute or Defend Suits.) 
 
 The board of directors have authority to stand in judgment ; 
 to institute or defend suits. The creditor of the school board 
 has no right of action against the City of New Orleans to com- 
 pel the city to recognize the validity of his claim. 
 
 277- b. (Certificates of Indebtedness.) 
 
 School certificates of indebtedness issued by the board of 
 directors of the public schools for the years 1874, 1875 and 
 1876, are not debts of the City of New Orleans, and actions for 
 the purpose of having them recognized as valid claims can be 
 maintained against the school board, as it is authorized to pass 
 on the validity of the evidence of indebtedness of every one who 
 alleges that he is a creditor 
 
 The City of New Orleans turns over amounts collected for 
 schools to the treasurer of the school board. This officer notes 
 the taxes of different years and applies the amount to the pay- 
 ment of certificates from the taxes of these years from which the 
 creditors are entitled to payment. (Fisher et al. vs. School 
 Directors, 184, 44th Ann.) 
 
 The payment of school certificates, issued by the city council 
 of New Orleans, out of the proceeds of the bond issue author- 
 ized by Acts 1890, p. 144, No. 110, was subject to the prior 
 vested rights of creditors of the city, and, if the fund was in- 
 sufficient to pay both, the remedy of the certificate holders is 
 legislative and not judicial. (State ex rel. "Wilder vs. Board of 
 Liquidation of the City Debt, 115th Ann., 471.) 
 
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 278. (Ex Contractu Obligation.) 
 
 The obligation of the Treasurer of the School Board of Union 
 Parish to account for funds received by him, is ex contracts 
 and fiduciary in its character, and is only barred by the prescrip- 
 tion of ten years. (32d Ann., 793, Board of School Directors 
 of Union Parish vs. J. E. Trimble. "> 
 
 279. (Free School Bonds.) 
 
 The sale of bonds constituting a part of the "free school 
 fund/' made in virtue of Act No. 81 of 1872, was utterly null 
 and void, and conferred no title on the purchaser, and no future 
 assignee of the purchaser, who took the bonds in good faith, for 
 value, and before their maturity, could acquire a title to them. 
 
 Bonds that are a part of the assets of the "free school fund" 
 are consigned by law to the custody of the Secretary of State 
 and Auditor of Public Accounts, and those officers have a right 
 to claim their possession in whatever hands they may be found. 
 And this right is not affected by the prescription of three years. 
 (31st Ann., 115, Sun Mutual Insurance Company vs. Board of 
 Liquidation, Secretary of State and Auditor, Intervenors. ) 
 
 280. (Recovery of Funds.) 
 
 Where a mistake has been made by the State Treasurer in 
 announcing to the State Superintendent of Public Education the 
 amount of funds for apportionment among the educable chil- 
 dren of the State, but before the apportionment could be can- 
 celed the school directors of Orleans had received their quota 
 under it, whfcn the true sum has been ascertained and announced 
 to the superintendent, and a revised apportionment is to be made, 
 it is proper that the superintendent should take into account, 
 when apportioning to Orleans, the sum already improperly paid 
 to her under the mistake, and which payment has been made 
 in consequence of that mistake. (36th Ann., 214, The State ex 
 rel. Board of School Directors, etc., vs. E. H. Fay, Superintend- 
 ent, etc.) 
 
 A school board organized according to law has a right to stand 
 in court to claim from another school board likewise constituted, 
 school funds which should have been paid to it by the State 
 authorities and which were illegally paid out to the latter. A 
 receipt therefor would exonerate the debtor board. 
 
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 If the funds are not in kind in the possession of said board, 
 but can be traced to property in which they have been invested 
 by such board, the property itself can be recovered in place of 
 the funds which it represents. 
 
 An action to recover under such circumstances is not barred 
 by the prescription of five years or less. (36th Ann., 806, School 
 Board vs. School Board.) 
 
 280-a. (School Boards Not Required to Apportion School Funds.) 
 
 The repeal (of Sec. 7, Act 81 of 1888, providing for the ap- 
 portionment of school funds) is express, because Act 214 of 
 1902 repeals all laws in conflict; and this provision for appor- 
 tionment is in conflict with the provisions making it obligatory 
 upon the School Boards to "determine the number of schools 
 to be opened, the location of the schoolhouses, the number of 
 teachers to be employed, and their salaries." The latter pro- 
 vision invests the School Board with absolute discretion in the 
 matter of what number of schools there shall be, and what 
 number of teachers and what their salaries shall be. For the 
 exercise of this discretion, a discretionary control of the school 
 funds is absolutely necessary; because schools cannot be estab- 
 lished and maintained without funds. Discretionary control of 
 the one, necessarily carries with it discretionary control of the 
 other. (State ex rel. J. "W. Martin et al. vs. Webster Parish 
 School Board. May 23, 1910.) 
 
 281. (Sale of Warrants.) 
 
 Under the authority of the Board of School Directors of a 
 parish, the treasurer of the board may make a valid sale of the 
 warrants of the State which represent that portion of the interest 
 on the free school fund due to said parish. (31st Ann., 158, 
 Board of School Directors of Concordia Parish vs. Hernandez.) 
 
 281 -b. (School Lands, Tender, Etc.) 
 
 The residents and alleged taxpayers in a township in whom 
 is vested the title of the sixteenth section for the maintenance 
 of the schools, have the right to invoke an interposition of the 
 court to annul the sale of this section. 
 
 Tender as a prerequisite to the suit cannot be required. The 
 price was not received by the plaintiffs. No title passed to the 
 adjudicatee of the property. 
 
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 The amount should be returned by the authority by which it 
 was received. In the meantime plaintiffs can prosecute their 
 suit to have the sale annulled. 
 
 The general government donated the sixteenth sections to the 
 townships and authorized their sale, with the consent of the 
 inhabitants residing within their respective limits. The legisla- 
 tive department of the State in compliance with the conditions 
 of the grant, adopted laws requiring elections to be held to ascer- 
 tain the will of the majority of their voters residing within the 
 townships and providing certain prerequisites for the sale. An 
 election not having been held in the township, the return of the 
 election not being sustained at all, the adjudication made was 
 null. 
 
 The sixteenth section offered for sale should bring its ap- 
 praised value, which may not be less than $1.25 per acre. (44th 
 Ann., 365, Telle et al. vs. School Board et al.) 
 
 "The minimum price of school lands is one dollar and a 
 quarter per acre." (School Directors vs. Coleman, 14th Ann., 
 186.) 
 
 282. (Suretyships.) 
 
 Where the sureties on a five- thousand-dollar bond are jointly 
 sued for an amount aggregating two thousand dollars, this court 
 will have jurisdiction, although the demand against each surety 
 is less than $500. (31st Ann., 279, State ex rel. School Board, 
 Parish of St. Tammany vs. Cousin, et al.) 
 
 "Where the plaintiff who sues the sureties on an official bond 
 alleges the hopeless insolvency of the principal, the sureties will 
 not deprive themselves of the right of discussion, to which they 
 are entitled under the law, by pleading an exception that admits 
 the truth of the averment of insolvency. Ib. 
 
 When the principal and sureties on an official bond are sued 
 together, the judgment is res adjudicata as to the sureties, and 
 within the limit of the amount for which they are held under 
 the terms of their bond, they are bound to make good the entire 
 judgment against the principal, including the penalty. (4th 
 Ann., 705, Eastin and Breaux vs. Board of School Directors.) 
 
 283. (Treasurer and Sureties.) 
 
 "Principal and sureties are not protected by urging that the 
 treasurer has not taken the oath of office. It is presumed that 
 
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 lie has taken the oath when he has discharged for some time 
 the functions of his office." 
 
 "The sureties by signing the bond admitted the capacity of 
 the principal." 
 
 1 ' The rights of the sureties as against their principal not hav- 
 ing been impaired, they cannot complain of his acts, his omission 
 or commission. (School Directors vs. Judice and others, 30th 
 Ann., 897.) 
 
 The parish treasurer having defaulted, judgment is obtained 
 against him, and the court holds as against his sureties that the 
 judgment against the principal is res adjudicata, as to the sure- 
 ties, and within the limit of the amount for which they signed 
 and obligated themselves as sureties. They are bound to make 
 good the entire judgment against the principal, including the 
 penalty 
 
 "The sureties are liable for the five per cent per month pen- 
 alty imposed upon a defaulting treasurer." (7th Ann., 131; 
 10th Ann., 492; 14th Ann., 679; Hazard Eastin et al. vs. 
 School Directors, 40th Ann., 706.) 
 
 284. (Suits by State Superintendent.) 
 
 "Se has no authority to appear in person, nor to be repre- 
 sented by counsel of his own selection. In any suit in which 
 he may be a party, he must be represented by the Attorney Gen- 
 eral or District Attorney." (Fay vs. Burke, Treasurer, 35th 
 Ann., 369.) 
 
 285. (Discipline.) 
 
 Moderate restraint and correction of a pupil by a teacher is 
 not an offense, but is authorized by law, and the authority of 
 the teacher is not limited to the time the pupil is at the school- 
 room or under the actual control of the teacher. (Bolding vs. 
 Texas, 4 S. W., 579.) 
 
 "The teacher is loco parentis, and authority is necessarily 
 surrendered to him for proper government of the school. ' ' (Mor- 
 row vs. "Wood, American Law Register, N. S. X. 3, 692.) 
 
 Relative to punishment, the calm and honest judgment of the 
 teacher, as to the requirement, should have great weight in mat- 
 ters of discipline as in the case of a parent under similar circum- 
 stances. (American Law Register, Van Vacter vs. State; July 
 number, 1888. Discipline in School.) 
 
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 It is the duty of a teacher to maintain proper discipline m. 
 school, and the extent of his authority in that direction is dis- 
 cussed. (Law Register, N. S. Vol. XIII, p. 716.) 
 
 286. (Branches of Studies.) 
 
 Certain studies are required to be taught in the public schools 
 by statute. The rights of one pupil must be so exercised un- 
 doubtedly as not to prejudice the equal rights of others. (Mor- 
 row vs. Wood, 13 American Law Register, p. 694.) 
 
 NOTE. The State Board of Education has adopted certain studies to be 
 taught in the free public schools. The local boards have the authority of car- 
 rying out the rules and regulations of the State Board. The studies are subject 
 to their control, also all questions relating to grading of schools, and to the 
 schools tne pupils should attend when there are several schools in the same 
 town or locality. In this, however, due regard should be had for the wishes 
 of the parents, but the parish board is the authority, subject to such appeal 
 as the law provides. 
 
 287. (School Property Exempt From Seizure.) 
 
 Property dedicated to the use, and belonging to public 
 schools, or employed by municipal corporations for the pur- 
 pose, shall be exempt from seizure. (R. S. 1320.) 
 
 288. (Sixteenth Sections, and Court Decisions Respecting Them.) 
 
 Under the general laws, and where the township is surveyed 
 in square sections, every sixteenth section is reserved as school 
 land, in fractional or irregular townships on water courses, 
 the Secretary of the Treasury is required by law to select and 
 designate the school lands. (Board vs. Rollins, 33 Ann., 424; 
 Bres vs. Louviere, 37 Ann., 736.^ 
 
 By issuing an indemnity school warrant the State parts with 
 what title in the public domain it could by location have secured. 
 The divestiture is complete when the location is approved, and on 
 return and surrender the Governor issues a patent. 
 
 NOTE. Whenever the township is not surveyed in square sections, but is 
 a fractional or irregular township on a water course, or for other cause is 
 fractional or irregular, the school authorities should see that the selection is 
 legal, or that, proper selection and location are made. 
 
 (Board Without Authority to Sue for Revendication of School Lands.) 
 
 The board of school directors of a parish are without author- 
 ity to bring suit for the revendication of land donated by Con- 
 gress to the State for public school purposes, and sold under 
 a law of the State, unless empowered to do so by a legislative 
 act. (Board of School Directors of Concordia vs. Ober, 32d 
 Ann., 417.) 
 
 (NOTE. Act No. 158 of 1910 has given boards authority to bring suit. 
 See 189-a of this compilation.) 
 
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 (School Boards Not Authorized to Sell or Lease Timber at Pri- 
 vate Sale.) 
 
 Under Rev. Stat. 1870, paragraphs 2958, 2959, 2960, 2962, 
 parish school boards have no power whatever to sell or lease at 
 private sale timber on the sixteenth section ; a conditional power 
 to lease only being conferred by section 2962. (Stat ex rel. 
 Hopkins vs. Stark, llth Ann., 954.) 
 
 NOTE. Act No. 54 of 1910, Regular Session, amended Sec. 2962 of R. S. 
 See Comp. School Laws, 7th Comp., par. 189. 
 
 289. (One of the Powers of the Examining Committee.) 
 
 Committees have a right to refuse to examine a teacher as to 
 literary qualifications if they are dissatisfied with his moral 
 character. (Case of Layton E. Seames School Committee of 
 Conventry . ) 
 
 290. (Privileged Communications.) 
 
 A communication representing that a certain person was of 
 bad moral character and wholly unfit to teach and have the care 
 of a school made to the proper authority for the sole purpose 
 of preventing the issue to the person so charged of a license 
 to teach school, is held to be a privileged communication and not 
 actionable. (Wiman vs. Mabee, 45 Michigan, 484.) 
 
 An action will not lie on a communication relating to personal 
 character, if made in gootf faith and for an honest purpose by 
 persons concerned and to the proper person. 
 
 Nor will it lie when such a communication is untrue, if it is 
 not maliciously made. 
 
 291. (An Excerpt From Blackstone.) 
 
 The last duty of parents to their children is that of giving 
 them an education, suitable to their situation in life; a duty 
 pointed out by reason of the greatest importance. 
 
 "For, as Puffendorf well observed, it is not easy to imagine 
 or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit 
 upon his child in bringing him into the world, if he afterwards 
 entirely neglects to culture his education, and suffers him to 
 grow up like a mere beast to lead a life useless to others and 
 shameles to himself." 
 
 "Yet the municipal laws of most countries seem to be defect- 
 ive on this point, by not constraining the parent to bestow a 
 proper education upon his children." 
 
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 "Perhaps they thought it punishment enough to leave the 
 parent, who neglected the instruction of his family, to labor 
 under those griefs and inconveniences which his family so un- 
 instructed will be sure to bring upon him." 
 
 292. (Discharge of an Officer.) 
 
 "To obtain his discharge, an officer should obtain a clear 
 receipt from the board of school directors, in so far as he has 
 incurred any responsibility as an officer in which the said 
 board is concerned." (33d Ann., 709; State ex rel. vs. Sheriff.) 
 
 293. (Rate of Compensation to Teachers.) 
 
 The compensation of teachers not being fixed by statute, 
 they must be paid either according to their contract with the 
 School Board or upon a quantum meruit. (Offut vs. Bour- 
 geois, 13th Ann., 607.) 
 
 294. (Illegal Charges.) 
 
 "The School Board cannot allow charges in violation of the 
 law. Their action is ultra, and is not susceptible of ratification 
 Settlement made is not conclusive." (School Board vs. Trim- 
 ble, 32d Ann., 1073.) 
 
 295. (Rules and Regulations.) 
 
 "The various School Boards and other educational authori- 
 ties of the State have, when the statutes are construed in con- 
 nection with the incidental powers, which the law gives all cor- 
 porations, the power to adopt rules and regulations for the 
 schools under their control." (Fertelle vs. Mischerer, 11 N. 
 E., 605 Indiana.) 
 
 296. (Police Jury Tax for School Purposes.) 
 
 "Act 64, of 1906, in limiting taxation, 'for ordinary paro- 
 chial purposes' to eight mills, has no application to ta,xes levied 
 for school purposes, and a police jury may levy taxes, for or- 
 dinary parochial purposes, up to the limit so fixed, provided 
 the aggregate rate, including the tax levied for school purposes, 
 does not exceed the ten mills limit, ' for all purposes, whatsoever, ' 
 fixed by article 232 of the Constitution." (John B. Murphy 
 et al. vs. The Police Jury* St. Mary Parish, Louisiana.) 
 
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 296-a. (District Attorneys Not Entitled to 20 Per Cent Commirsion 
 on Fines.) 
 
 Syllabus: Whilst it is well settled that repeals by im- 
 plication are not favored, it is equally well settled that, in deter- 
 mining whether one law conflicts with another, it is necessary 
 to consider the purposes of both, and if it appears that the pur- 
 pose of the law last enacted is to cover the whole subject matter 
 dealt with by and to modify or supersede those previously en- 
 acted, their modification or supersession results and must be 
 declared. 
 
 2. The purpose of Act No. 96 of 1880 was to deal with the 
 whole subject of the duties and compensation of district attor- 
 neys, and whilst there may have been some provisions of the then 
 existing law which escaped its operation, it so modified and 
 superseded that law as to preclude any recovery by the district 
 attorneys of the one-fifth part of the fines imposed, after deduct- 
 ing the commission of the sheriff, in addition to the fee pro- 
 vided by section 3 of said act. 
 
 3. Articles 125 and 180 of the Constitution, whether taken 
 separately or together, are not susceptible of the construction 
 that they intend to allow district attorneys to collect commis- 
 sions, as contradistinguished from fees, or fees, save as pro- 
 vided for by the Constitution itself. 
 
 It is therefore ordered, adjudged and decreed, that the judg 
 ment of the Court of Appeal which is here made the subject of 
 review be annulled ; that the judgment of the District Court, 
 which was thereby affirmed, be likewise annulled, avoided and 
 reversed, and that relator's demand be rejected and tkis pro- 
 ceeding dismissed at his cost. (State ex rel. Edwin Broussard, 
 District Attorney, vs. George Henderson, Sheriff, 120 Ann., 535.) 
 
 296-b. (Municipal Corporations Are Liable for Amounts Budgeted for 
 Any Purpose.) 
 
 The amount placed on the budget for the annual expenses of 
 a municipal corporation, when collected by the taxes levied for 
 such expenses, must be applied to the purposes specified in the 
 budget, and the corporation will be liable for any diversion of 
 such amounts. (36th Ann., 636.)" 
 
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 (Prescription of One Year Does Not Release Corporation. From Lia- 
 bility.) 
 
 Funds raised by taxation for such purposes are trust funds, 
 and the prescription of one year will not protect the corpora- 
 tion from liability for the taxes thus collected. (School Directors 
 vs. City of Shreveport, 47 Ann., 1310.) 
 
 296-c. (Estimate Furnished by School Board Not Controlling on City.) 
 
 Estimate furnished to the City of New Orleans by the school 
 board of the amount needed to meet expenses of the school for 
 the year was not controlling on the city, except to the minimum 
 amount provided by Laws 1873, p. 73, No. 36. (State ex rel. 
 Fisher vs. City of New Orleans, 121st Ann., 762.) 
 
 296-d. (Election of Superintendent by One Body Binding on Successors.) 
 
 Where the successor of a parish superintendent of education 
 has been elected under Acts 1902, p. 406, No. 214, paragraph 8, 
 as amended by Acts 1908, p. 49, No. 49, the parish board of 
 school directors as subsequently constituted is without authority 
 to elect another person for such term. (State ex rel. Wilson 
 vs. Hardin, 123d Ann., 736.) (See Appointment of Supt., Laws 
 1910.) 
 
 296-e. (Taxes Collected for School Purposes Must Be Turned Over to 
 School Board.) 
 
 Taxes collected for school purposes should be turned over 
 to the school board from time to time as received. (Parish 
 Board of School Directors of Iberia Parish vs. Police Jury of 
 Iberia Parish, 123d Ann., 416.) 
 
 (Property Exempt From Taxation by Constitution Also Exempt From 
 Special School Tax.) 
 
 The special school tax authorized by Constitution Art. 232. 
 is not a special assessment, and property exempt from taxation 
 by the Constitution is not subject to it. (Louisiana & N. W. R. 
 R. Co. vs. State Board of Appraisers, 120th Ann., 471.) 
 
 (Contest of Elections Barred After Three Months.) 
 
 An action to contest an election on the question of issuing 
 bonds for school purposes held barred for three months after 
 promulgation of the result by Act No. 106 of 1892. (Folse vs. 
 Police Jury, 125th Ann., 603.) (See also S. 17, Act 256 of 1910.) 
 
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 The court held to have erred in disposing of the case on its 
 merits on a trial of exceptions. (Folse vs. Police Jury, 125th 
 Ann., 603.) 
 
 (Special Taxes May be Voted on the Assessment of Current Year at 
 Any Time.) 
 
 Special school taxes may be voted and levied at any time 
 on the assessment of the current year. (Argyle Planting & Mfg. 
 Co. vs. Connely, 125th Ann., 685.) 
 
 (Contests of Special Tax Elections Under Constitution of 1879 Are 
 Valid Under Constitution of 1898.) 
 
 Act No. 106 of 1892, providing for the contest of special 
 tax elections under Constitution of 1879, Art. 209, held to appJy 
 to similar elections under Constitution of 1898, Art 232. (Wagg- 
 ner vs. Police Jury Parish of Jefferson, ;L25th Ann., 863.) 
 
 (Bond Issues Authorized by Art. 281 Do Not Apply to Special Tax Elec- 
 tions Under Art. 232.) 
 
 Constitution of 1898, Art. 281, authorizing municipal corpo- 
 rations to issue bonds after an election for the purpose, held 
 not to apply to special tax elections under Art. 232. (Waggner 
 vs. Police Jury Parish of Jefferson, 125th Ann., 863.) 
 
 The three months' prescription provided by Act. No. 106 
 of 1892, held to cure all irregularities and illegalities in special 
 tax election proceedings. (Waggner vs. Police Jury Parish of 
 Jefferson, 125th Ann., 863.) 
 
 (Members of Partnership Entitled to Vote Upon Firm's Assessment in 
 Special Tax Elections.) 
 
 Individual members of a partnership held entitled to vote 
 upon the firm's assessment in a special tax election held under 
 Constitution Art. 232. (Smith vs. Parish Board of School 
 Directors, 125th Ann., 987.) 
 
 (Persons Not Entitled to Vote Upon Assessment of Property Sold.) 
 
 A person appearing as owner of property on the assessment 
 rolls, but who has sold it when an election was held under 
 Constitution Art. 232, held not entitled to vote thereat. (Smith 
 vs. Parish Board of School Directors, 125th Ann., 987.) 
 
 (Special Tax Not Set Aside by Legal Votes Cast Without Proper Evi- 
 dence.) 
 
 A special tax election under Constitution Art. 232, held not 
 to be set aside because the commissioner of election received votes 
 
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 without proper evidence, where such votes were legal. ( Smith vs. 
 Parish Board of School Directors, 125th Ann., 987.) 
 
 (Contest of Special Tax Election.) 
 
 A person contesting the result of an election held under 
 Constitution Art, 232, on specific grounds, held limited to those 
 grounds. (Smith vs. Parish Board of School Directors, 125th 
 Ann., 987.) 
 
 (Right of Widows to Vote Community Property.) 
 
 To entitle widows to vote at a special tax election held under 
 Constitution Art. 232, as owners of community property, their 
 rights must clearly appear by judgment or order of court 
 (Smith vs. Parish Board of School Directors, 125th Ann., 987.) 
 
 (School Houses, as Such, Built by Means of Special Tax, Can Not b 
 Converted Into Theatre.) 
 
 Citizens who have voted to tax themselves for a specific work 
 of public improvement, the value of which is fixed at $20,000, 
 have a standing in court to complain that the property acquired 
 is not being used for the purpose contemplated, and this court, 
 in such a case, has jurisdiction of the appeal. Where a vote 
 has been taken upon a proposition to impose a tax to build a 
 schoolhouse, and has been favorably acted on, and a building 
 has been constructed with the proceeds of bonds predicated upon 
 such a tax, it would be a breach of faith to allow such building 
 to be converted into a theatre, or to be used for the purpose of 
 giving theatrical performances, as a business, whether in com- 
 bination with its use for school purposes or otherwise. It is, 
 however, within the discretion of the municipal authorities hav- 
 ing control of the property to make such casual and incidental 
 use of it as may not be inconsistent with, or prejudicial to, the 
 main purpose for which it was acquired; and changed condi- 
 tions, in the future, may justify its use for some other purpose. 
 (Sugar vs. City of Monroe, 108th Ann., 677.) 
 
 (On the Manner of Endorsing Ballots in Special Tax Elections.) 
 
 Under Constitution Art. 232, and Acts 1898, p. 200, No. 131, 
 where, at an election to determine as to the levying of special 
 taxes for school purposes, it appears that the votes of all the 
 electors in favor of the tax were fixed as to the amounts by one 
 or more of the commissioners, aided by third persons, after the 
 
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 ballots had been cast, and out of the presence of the voters, and 
 that those who voted against the tax expressed the amounts , 
 voted by them on their ballots, and the amounts so voted and 
 ballots exceeded those cast in favor of the tax, the proposition 
 to levy the tax is defeated. (Bennett vs. Staples, 110th Ann., 
 847.) 
 
 (Amount of Tax Not Necessary in Petition.) 
 
 That a petition for a special election in a school district for 
 the levy of taxes did not set out the amount of the tax does not 
 render the election invalid in view of Acts 1904, p. 317, No. 145, 
 providing for the ratification of all petitions of property tax- 
 payers for the levy of special taxes, under Constitution of 1898, 
 Art. 232. (Baueum vs. Police Jury of Claiborne Parish, 119th 
 Ann., 532.) 
 
 (Purpose of Tax Must Be Submitted to Voters.) 
 
 Under Constitution Art. 232, the purpose for which a special 
 tax is intended must be submitted to a vote of the property tax- 
 payers entitled to vote under the election laws of the State. 
 (Gruner vs. Police Jury of Claiborne Parish, 119th Ann., 551.) 
 
 (Poll Tax Receipts for Two Years Previous to Year of Election Neces- 
 sary to Vote at Special Tax Elections.) 
 
 Under Constitution Art. 232, a voter at a special election must 
 have paid his poll tax for the two years preceding. (Gruner vs. 
 Police Jury of Claiborne Parish, 119th Ann., 551.) 
 
 (Restrictions of Art. 270 Relating to Quasi-Public Improvements Do 
 Not Apply to Art. 232 Authorizing Special School Taxes.) 
 
 The provisions of Constitution of 1898, Art. 270, as to elec- 
 tions in connection with quasi public improvements, have no 
 application to special tax elections held under article 232 for 
 voting taxes in aid of public schools. (Flores vs. Police Jury 
 of DeSoto Parish, 116th Ann., 428.) 
 
 (Assessment Roll Used in Special Tax Elections.) 
 
 In a special election voting a special tax in aid of public 
 schools, under Constitution of 1898, Art. 232, the names of the 
 taxpayers and the valuations of property were properly taken 
 from the current assessment of the year. (Flores vs. Police 
 Jury of DeSoto Parish, 116th Ann., 428.) 
 
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 (Irregularities Not Affecting the Fairness of Elections Do Not Set Aside 
 
 the Tax Voted.) 
 
 A special election for voting a special tax in aid of public 
 schools will not be set aside for irregularities not affecting the 
 fairness of the election. (Flores vs. Police Jury of DeSoto 
 Parish, 116th Ann., 428.) 
 
 296-f. (Removal of Members of School Board.) 
 
 Under Acts 1902, p. 408, No. 214, paragraph 6, a removal 
 of members of the parish board of school directors for "the 
 deplorable condition of the school affairs of the parish" held 
 unauthorized. (State ex rel, Muller vs. Cyr, 124 Ann., 603.) 
 
 (Removal of School Directors by State Board of Education Held Not 
 Removal by Governor.) 
 
 Under Acts 1902, p. 408, No. 214, paragraph 6, the removal 
 of school directors by the State Board of Education, held not a 
 removal by the Governor; his mere approval of the action of 
 the board of which he was a member not satisfying the statute. 
 (State ex rel. Muller vs. Cyr, 124th Ann., 603.) 
 
 (Removal of School Board.) 
 
 Where a parish school board was removed by the Gover- 
 nor and a new board appointed, the old board could not be 
 dispossessed of their office by the exercise of such power of 
 removal, but only by an intrusion into office suit. (Jackson vs. 
 Powell, 119th Ann., 882.) 
 
 Members of a parish school board sought to be removed by 
 the Governor held entitled to protect their possession of their 
 office by injunction. (Jackson vs. Powell, 119th Ann., 882.) 
 
 296-g. (School Districts.) 
 
 In considering the question of whether compliance with sec- 
 tion 11 of Act 81 of 1888 (identical with S. 15, A. 214 of 1902), 
 requiring school boards to divide their parishes into school dis- 
 tricts, was sufficiently formal, regard must be had to the con- 
 nection in which the question is mooted, whether in connection 
 with the mere distribution of school funds, or in connection 
 with the exercise of the taxing power, a much less strict com- 
 pliance being sufficient in the former than in the latter case. 
 Kesidents of a school district who do not show that their own 
 children are incommoded, or that their taxes are increased, by 
 the manner in which the boundaries of a school district have 
 
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 been fixed, are without interest and therefore without right to 
 resist a tax levied in the district, on the ground that the bound- 
 aries have not been so fixed as to accommodate the children of 
 the parish. (Burnham et als. vs. Police Jury of Claiborne Parish, 
 107th Ann., 513.) 
 
 296-h. (Chairman of Local Committee Responsible to School Board. 
 
 A chairman of a local committee appointed by a parish 
 school board held responsible to the board for unsuitable brick 
 contracted for, under Civil Code, Arts. 3002, 3003. (Par- 
 ish Board of School Directors vs. Alexander, 125th Ann., 808.) 
 
 RESOLUTIONS AND RULINGS OF THE STATE BOARD 
 OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Moreauville 
 
 Morgan City 
 
 Napoleonville 
 
 Newellton 
 
 New Iberia 
 
 Oakdale 
 
 Oak Grove 
 
 Opelousas 
 
 Patterson 
 
 Pelican 
 
 Plain Dealing 
 
 Pleasant Hill 
 
 Rayville 
 
 Robeline 
 
 Shreveport 
 
 SJidell 
 
 Spring Hill 
 
 Stonewall 
 
 St. Francisville 
 
 St. Joseph 
 
 St. Martinville 
 
 Tallulah 
 
 Verda 
 
 Yidalia 
 
 297. (Approved High 
 
 Schools of Louisiana.) 
 
 Abbeville 
 
 Gibsland 
 
 Alexandria 
 
 Grand Cane 
 
 Amite 
 
 Grand Prairie 
 
 Arcadia 
 
 Gretna 
 
 Athens 
 
 Gueydan 
 
 Bastrop 
 
 Hammond 
 
 Baton Rouge 
 
 Harrisonburg 
 
 Baywood 
 
 Haughton 
 
 Bellevue 
 
 Haynesville 
 
 Benton 
 
 Hornbeck 
 
 Bernice 
 
 Houma 
 
 Bienville 
 
 Independence 
 
 Boyce 
 
 Iota 
 
 Breaux Bridge 
 
 Jeanerette 
 
 Bunkie 
 
 Jena 
 
 Campti 
 
 Jennings 
 
 Central 
 
 Lake Arthur 
 
 Cheneyville 
 
 Lake Charles 
 
 Clinton 
 
 Lake Providence 
 
 Colfax 
 
 Lecompte 
 
 Columbia 
 
 Leesville 
 
 Coushatta 
 
 Logansport 
 
 Crowley 
 
 Longstreet 
 
 Denham Springs 
 
 Lutcher 
 
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 DeRidder Mansfield Ville Platte 
 
 Dodson Many Vinton 
 
 Donaldsonville Marion Wallace 
 
 Dutchtown Marksville Washington 
 
 Eros Marthaville Welsh 
 
 Eunice Melville Winnfield 
 
 Evergreen Merryville Winnsboro' 
 
 Farmerville Minden White Castle 
 
 .Franklin Monroe 
 
 298. (Regulations for the Establishment of High Schools.) 
 
 For a school to be recognized as a high school the following 
 requirements are necessary: 
 
 1. Title to the property on which the school is located must 
 be vested in the parish board of education. 
 
 2. The parish board of education must pass a resolution 
 establishing such a school as a high school. 
 
 3. All the schools in the parish where the high school is 
 desired to be established must run for seven months. 
 
 4. The course of study must, taken with the lower grades, 
 cover eleven years. (There must be an eleventh-year class.) 
 
 5. Copy of the title to the property, copy of the resolution 
 passed by the Parish Board, certificate that the schools of the 
 parish are run for seven months (except where a sufficient spe- 
 cial tax has been voted for maintenance of said school), and 
 copy of resolution of Parish Board to the State Board of Educa- 
 tion asking that such school be made a high school, must be for- 
 warded to the State Board of Education for their consideration 
 and approval or disapproval. 
 
 6. Resolved: That an "Approved High School" shall fol- 
 low the State Course of Study. 
 
 7. Resolved: That the minimum length of session for such 
 school shall be nine months. 
 
 8. Resolved : That the minimum length of recitation periods 
 for high school subjects shall be forty minutes. 
 
 9. Resolved : That the teaching force shall be adequate, and 
 shall in every case consist of at least two teachers, each of whom 
 shall be engaged exclusively in work above the seventh grade. 
 
 10. Resolved : That the principal of such school shall devote 
 at least two recitation periods a day to supervision. 
 
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 11. Resolved: That the inductive sciences, physics, chem- 
 istry, and biology shall be taught by the individual laboratory 
 method, the apparatus to cost not less than $300: $150 for 
 physics; $75 for chemistry; $75 for biology. All apparatus 
 shall be kept in cases provided with glass doors. 
 
 12. Resolved: That lists of such apparatus purchased shall 
 be submitted to the State Board of Education for approval. 
 
 13. No high school shall be approved or maintained with an 
 attendance of fewer than twenty students in the high school 
 department, provided that this ruling shall not prevent each 
 parish from maintaining at least one high school. 
 
 14. No school shall be approved in which the work of the 
 most advanced class is deficient in more than one subject. (To 
 meet this requirement, it is practically essential that the biolog- 
 ical laboratory and a school library be installed in a school one 
 session in advance of that in which the school seeks to be ap- 
 proved. Students in most advanced class may, however, when 
 possible, make up deficiencies during the summer.) 
 
 15. Application for approval as a high school shall be made 
 to the State Board of Education no later than April 1, of each 
 year, in advance of the school session in which the school desires 
 recognition. 
 
 16. No teacher holding lower than a first grade certificate 
 shall be employed in State approved high schools. 
 
 17. Buildings for high schools shall be suitable ; that is, 
 proper classroom space and furnishings shall be provided for 
 the work of these schools. 
 
 18. New schools submitting before October 1, of each year, 
 sufficient data showing that the foregoing requirements are being 
 complied with shall receive their pro rata amount of the State 
 appropriation for "Approved High Schools." 
 
 Recommendation. 
 
 High schools shall be taught by college trained teachers, 
 and teachers in high schools who do not hold college degrees 
 should be working towards a degree. (February 17, 1911.) 
 
 299. (Compulsory Examinations.) 
 
 Resolved: That while it is the sense of this board that the 
 provisions contained in Section 57 of Act 214 of 1902 are still 
 in force, that none the less the parish superintendent has the 
 
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 right of requiring teachers whom he deems incompetent and 
 Inefficient and whom he has the power to remove under the 
 50th section of said Act, to be examined with a view of testing 
 their qualifications and fitness. (April 1, 1891.) 
 
 300. (Examinations; Time; Directions, Etc.) 
 
 Be it resolved: (a) That the examination for public school 
 tecahers' certificates shall be held during the months of June 
 and December of each year, and at no other time during the 
 year. (August 11, 1904.) 
 
 (b) That the State Superintendent of Public Education pre- 
 pare a set of questions covering all the subjects required by 
 law, and furnish to the superintendent of each parish, a suffi- 
 cient number of copies of these official question lists for use in 
 the examinations, and that no other questions shall be used in 
 said examinations ; said questions to be sent out from the super- 
 intendent 's office so as to reach the several parishes simulta- 
 neously, and to be used only once, and only on the dates named 
 above. 
 
 (c) That the value of each question be indicated by the 
 State Superintendent, and that a list of answers showing what 
 would be a fair amount of information to be elicited by each 
 question, be prepared by the superintendent and furnished to 
 examining board of each parish board, for the purpose of estab- 
 lishing a uniform value to the certificates granted in each parish. 
 
 (d) That the same question lists be used in examinations of 
 teachers for all grades of certificates, the several grades of certifi- 
 cates being graded according to the percentages made by the 
 candidates. 
 
 (e) That the superintendent 6f each parish furnish to the 
 State Superintendent within two weeks after each examination, 
 a list of all persons examined, with their postoffice addresses, 
 the grade received and the grade of certificate granted to each 
 candidate. (See law relating to remittances of $1.) 
 
 N. B. Examiners will please mark each answer on the scale 
 of 10 for perfect. (August 20, 1892.) 
 
 301. (High Schools.) 
 
 Resolved : That the State Board of Education call the atten- 
 tion of the parish boards to the necessity of establishing high 
 schools wherever the grade of students justifies it, as the State 
 
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 Board of Education believes that the establishment of a number 
 of high schools in the State will contribute powerfully to build 
 up both the public school system and colleges and universities. 
 (August 19, 1892.) 
 
 302. (Collection of Poll Tax.) 
 
 Resolved : That the State Board urge the parish school boards 
 to insist upon a full and complete collection of the poll tax, and 
 upon failure of the sheriff to report as the law directs that suits 
 be instituted against the tax collector for entire amount of tlw 
 roll as the law directs in Sections 2 and 3 of Act 89, approved 
 July 2, 1888. (August 19, 1892.) 
 
 303. (Normal and Other Graduates.) 
 
 Resolved : That the several parish boards, committees on 
 teachers, and parish superintendents throughout the State are 
 urged to use their best endeavors to secure the services of com- 
 petent teachers; that many graduates of our State Normal 
 School and of other colleges entitled to a preference in the em- 
 ployment of teachers, desire positions in our schools, many of 
 whom have applied to our State Superintendent for employment, 
 who will furnish their names and addresses on application, and 
 we urge the local authorities to secure the services of such teach- 
 ers as the best means of advancing the educational interest of 
 the children of the State. (August 19, 1892.^ 
 
 304. (Penalty for Not Recognizing Normal Graduates.) 
 
 Resolved: That the State Superintendent of Public Educa- 
 tion be and is hereby ordered and directed to report to the Gov- 
 ernor any school board or members of' school boards who fail 
 to give preference to graduates of the State Normal School or 
 other schools and colleges of good standing as directed by reso- 
 lution of this board passed August 19, 1892, or who fail to re- 
 move their parish superintendents who are inefficient, unfaithful 
 or negligent in the discharge of their duties, and the Governor 
 is hereby requested to remove such boards or members, subject 
 to the ratification of this board as approved by Section 2 of Act 
 29, of 1892. (October 19, 1892.) 
 
 305. (Neglect of Duty to be Reported.) 
 
 Resolved : That it is necessary, that the parish school boards 
 and the parish school superintendents shall rigidly adhere to 
 the laws governing the public schools, and where any neglect or 
 
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 violation of laws by any parish superintendent, or any of the pro- 
 visions of such public school laws, shall come to the knowledge 
 of the State Superintendent of Public Education, he shall at 
 once report the facts to the Governor of the State, with tre 
 request that he remove such delinquent under the provisions of 
 Section 2 of Act 29 of 1892, amending and re-enacting Section 
 8 of Act 81 of 1888. (October 19, 1894.) 
 
 306. (Uniformity of Text- Books.) 
 
 Whereas, the law provides under Section 3, of Act 81 of 
 1888, that a uniform series of text-books shall be used in the 
 public schools, and 
 
 Whereas, this requirement has the merit of system and is in 
 line with strict economy, and its wisdom has been thoroughly 
 established by experience, therefore 
 
 Be it resolved : That it shall be the duty of the superintend- 
 ents in the several parishes to see that this rule is faithfully en- 
 forced and that the text-boks adopted or recommended by this 
 board, and none others, are used in the public schools throughout 
 the State. 
 
 Resolved further : That a breach of the law requiring the use 
 of uniform text-books as above stated, after notice by the parish 
 superintendent, shall be deemed sufficient grounds for the sum- 
 mary dismissal of any teacher in the public schools. (June 29, 
 1897.) (Amended by law of 1910.) 
 
 307. (Regulating the Price of School Books.) 
 
 Whereas, complaint has been made that some of the local 
 dealers in school books in the country have been charging more 
 than the contract price for text-books selected for use in the 
 public schools, therefore 
 
 Be it resolved : That it shall be the duty of the parish super- 
 intendents in the several parishes to post in a conspicuous place 
 in the schoolrooms printed schedules of prices at which it has 
 been agreed to furnish the books, and the patrons of the schools 
 shall be notified by him that they can obtain from the publishers 
 through the parish superintendents, for cash, at these prices, 
 in case any additional charges are made by local dealers. 
 
 Resolved further: That the State Superintendent of Public 
 Education shall forward to the parish superintendents these 
 printed price lists. (October 19, 1894.) 
 
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 308. (Superintendents Enforce Use of Text- Books.) 
 
 Resolved: That it shall be the duty of the parish superin- 
 tendents in the several parishes to see that the laws and resolu- 
 tions relative to the State adoption of text-books are faithfully 
 enforced, and that the text-books adopted or recommended by 
 the State Board of Education, and no others, are used in the 
 public schools throughout the State. (March 20, 1905.) 
 
 308-a. (Regulating Sale of School Books.) 
 
 Be it resolved : That the Depositories appointed by this board 
 are prohibited from in any way invalidating by their actions the 
 contracts entered into by the board and the several publishing 
 houses. (October 19, 1894.) 
 
 309. (Members of School Board Not to Teach in Their Parish.) 
 
 Be it resolved, That it is the sense of this board that persons 
 engaged in teaching in the parish public or private schools of 
 Louisiana shall not be selected or appointed to membership on 
 the parish school board of the parish in which they are engaged 
 in teaching; and, be it further resolved, that a member of a 
 parish school board now teaching, or accepting the appointment 
 as teacher, in the said parish public or private schools of Lou- 
 isiana, shall resign his position as a member of the parish school 
 board of the parish in which he has accepted an appointment 
 as teacher aforesaid. (August 11, 1904.) 
 
 310. (Qualifications of the Parish Superintendent.) 
 
 Be it resolved : That the attention of parish school boards is 
 directed to Section 8, Act 167 of 1904, wherein the qualifications 
 of parish superintendents are stated, to-wit: "He shall be a 
 person of high moral character, and a practical educator. " 
 Boards shall strictly conform to the purpose and intent of these 
 qualifications to the end that the best practical school supervision, 
 as well as the services of a competent secretary of the board, 
 may be guaranteed in the person of parish school superintendent. 
 (August 11, 1904.) 
 
 311. (Teachers' Certificates; Subjects Required.) 
 
 Resolved : That the State Superintendent shall be guided by 
 the following regulations when preparing questions for teachers' 
 examinations : 
 
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 To .obtain a third grade certificate the applicant must average 
 75 per cent or more and not fall below 40 per cent in any subject 
 required for a third grade certificate. Applicants for a third 
 grade certificate shall be examined in the following studies: 
 (1) Spelling, (2) Reading, (3) Penmanship and Drawing, (4) 
 Arithmetic, (5) English Grammar, (6) Geography, (7) U. S. 
 History, (8) Constitutions of Louisiana and of the United States, 
 (9) Physiology and Hygiene, (10) Theory and Art of Teaching. 
 
 Applicants who hold third grade certificates and who apply 
 for second grade certificates shall be examined in the following 
 subjects and shall be required to make an average of not less 
 than 80 per cent, and no certificate shall be granted where a 
 grade in any subject is below 50 per cent: (1) Grammatical 
 Analysis, (2) Physical and Political Geography, (3) Elementary 
 Algebra, (4) Theory and Art of Teaching, (5) Arithmetic, (6) 
 United States History, (7) Agriculture (Elementary Science), 
 (8) Reading, (9) Constitutions of Louisiana and the United 
 States, (10) Spelling.. 
 
 To obtain a second grade certificate, applicants holding no 
 certificates shall be examined in the following additional subjects : 
 Penmanship and Drawing, Physiology and Hygiene. 
 
 Applicants holding second grade certificates, when applying 
 for a first grade certificate, shall be examiend in the following 
 subjects: They shall be required to make an average of not 
 less than 85 per cent, and they shall not fall below 50 per cent 
 in any subject: (1) Higher Algebra, (2) Physics, (3) Geom- 
 etry, (4) Penmanship and Drawing, (5) Theory and Art of 
 Teaching, (6) English Grammar and Composition, (7) Arith- 
 metic (Written and Mental), (8) Political and Physical Geog- 
 raphy, (9) U. S. History, (10) Agriculture (Elementary 
 Science). 
 
 (a) An applicant for a first grade certificate who holds a 
 third grade certificate 'must in addition to the first grade sub- 
 jects take the following second grade subjects: Reading, Con- 
 stitutions of Louisiana and the United States, Spelling. 
 
 (b) An applicant for a first grade certificate who holds no 
 certificate nor is a graduate of an institution authorized to issue 
 diplomas must in addition to the first grade subjects take up 
 the following third grade subject : Physiology and Hygiene ; 
 
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 and also the following second grade subjects: Constitutions of 
 Louisiana and the United States, Spelling. 
 (Resolution of January 7, 1910.) 
 
 312. (Parish Superintendents Not to Engage in Teaching.) 
 
 Be it resolved: That no parish school superintendent shall 
 engage in teaching in any of the parish public schools under his 
 supervision during his term of office as superintendent. This 
 resolution is not to be construed so as to prevent a parish 
 superintendent from being the supervising principal of any of 
 his parish high schools. (August 11, 1904.) 
 
 313. (Requirements, Etc., Approved Elementary Schools.) 
 
 All public schools of the State, below the grade of State 
 Approved High Schools, meeting the following requirements, 
 shall be placed on the State List of Elementary Schools, and 
 shall be entitled to such privileges and advantages as are here- 
 inafter stated : 
 
 Requirements: 
 
 These schools shall be classed as (1) Ungraded, Class D, (2) 
 Graded, Class C, (3) Graded, Class B, and (4) Graded, Class A. 
 
 The minimum^ teacher limit for State recognition for each 
 class shall be as follows: 
 
 (1) One teacher; (2) two teachers; (3) three teachers ; (4) 
 four teachers. 
 
 The maximum grade enrollment limit for State recognition 
 for each class shall be as follows: 
 
 (1) Five grades; (2) seven grades; (3) nine grades; (4) 
 ten grades. 
 
 Satisfactory evidence must also be furnished the Supervisor 
 of Elementary Schools in the following particulars: 
 
 1. That title to the school property is vested in the Parish 
 School Board. 
 
 2. That the school will maintain at least an eight month's 
 session. 
 
 3. That the school building is adequate in size, comfortable 
 and sanitary. 
 
 4. That the equipment in the way of furniture, library, 
 laboratory, blackboard, tools, etc., is sufficient to enable teachers 
 to do good work. 
 
 5. That the teachers employed are fully competent. 
 
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 6. That the course of study will be or is being carried out 
 in a satisfactory manner. 
 
 The continuation on the State approved list of the names of 
 such schols as may qualify, from year to year, is also dependent 
 upon their meeting such additional requirements as may be 
 added to the foregoing from time to time. 
 
 Privileges and Advantages: 
 
 1. Names of approved schools will be published from time 
 to time. 
 
 2. Pupils in good class standing from any grade of any such 
 approved school shall be entitled to enter the same grade of any 
 approved high schools of the State without examination. 
 
 3. It shall be the duty of the Supervisor of Elementary 
 Schools to visit such approved schools as often as he may find 
 it possible to do so. 
 
 4. Pupils completing the highest authorized grade of any 
 and all such approved elementary schools of each parish shall 
 annually be publicly presented, at some convenient and central 
 point, with certificates of completion of such grades by some 
 duly authorized representative of the State Department of Edu- 
 cation, the same to have the seal of the State Department of 
 Education. 
 
 5. All such approved schools shall share in any appropria- 
 tion that may be made by the General Assembly in the future 
 for the aid of elementary approved schools. 
 
 (Resolution of August 1, 1910.) 
 
 313-a. (Persons Under 18 Years of Age Not Allowed to Teach.) 
 
 Eesolved : That no teacher under eighteen years of age shall 
 be employed in the public schools of Louisiana. This regula- 
 tion shall become effective beginning with the session of 1911-12. 
 (August 1, 1910.) 
 
 313-b. (State Approved Agricultural Schools.) 
 
 Ebenezer Graded School, Acadia Parish; Oak Grove High 
 School, Ascension Parish; Marksville High School, Avoyelles 
 Parish; Merryville High School, Calcasieu Parish; Arizona 
 Graded School, Claiborne Parish; Stonewall High School, De- 
 Soto Parish; Verda High School, Grant Parish; Eros High 
 School, Jackson Parish; Calhoun Graded School, Ouachita Par- 
 ish; Grand Prairie High School, St. Landry Parish; St. Mar- 
 
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 tinville High School, St. Martin Parish; Chesbrough Graded 
 School, Tangipahoa Parish; Gueydan High School, Vermilion 
 Parish; Bellevue High School, Vernon Parish; Rio Graded 
 School, Washington Parish; Minden High School, Webster Par- 
 ish; Dodson High School, Winn Parish. (App. February 17, 
 1911.) 
 
 The State Superintendent was authorized to distribute among 
 these schools the agricultural appropriation of $25,000 ; $1,000 
 to be sent immediately to each school upon the approved list, 
 and the remaining $4-70 due each school to be sent out as soon 
 as the agricultural inspector shall visit all of the institutions 
 and report that they are meeting in every respect the require- 
 ments fixed by the State Board. (February 17, 1911.) 
 
 314. (Declaration of Independence.) 
 
 Be it resolved : That a committee be appointed for the pur- 
 pose of having printed in some suitable and durable form the 
 Declaration of Independence, to be suspended from the walls of 
 every public school upon the 22d day of February, annually, 
 throughout the State; and for this occasion a program of ad- 
 dresses and patriotic songs shall be arranged and carried out 
 by the principals or teachers in charge of the schools. (July 
 25, 1901.) 
 
 315. (State Teachers' Association.) 
 
 Be it resolved : That the State Board of Education regards 
 the State Teachers' Association as a valuable means of improve* 
 ment of the public school teachers of the State and regrets to 
 learn that only a small per cent of our corps are on the rolls; 
 therefore, the State Board advises the parish superintendents 
 to use their efforts to secure a large attendance of teachers at 
 the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association, as well 
 as the monthly meetings of their parish teachers' association. 
 (August 15, 1903 ^ 
 
 316. (Establishment of High Schools.) 
 
 Be it resolved: That it is declared to be the policy of the 
 State Board of Education that hereafter no high school be au- 
 thori/ed or established in any parish until it is shown that tlu> 
 common schools of said parish have been kept open for not less- 
 than seven months in the year. (August 15, 1903.) 
 
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 317. (High School Diplomas.) 
 
 Bo it resolved: That the State Superintendent of Public 
 Education be authorized to prepare a form of Diploma for high 
 schools to be signed by the State Superintendent, parish super- 
 intendent, and principal of the school from which it is issued, 
 said diplomas to be granted graduates of high schools of the 
 State. (August 15, 1903.^ 
 
 318. (Special School Tax.) 
 
 Be it resolved : That this board hereby testifies its high ap- 
 preciation of the philanthropy and patriotism of those inhab- 
 itants of the State who have availed themselves of the invitation 
 of the State Constitution of 1898 by uniting in special school 
 districts and voluntarily taxing themselves for the support and 
 improvement of the public schools in their localities; and this 
 board further urges all the citizens of the State to imitate the 
 noble example thus furnished. (August 15, 1903.) 
 
 319. (Summer School Credits.) 
 
 Resolved: That the State Superintendent of Education is 
 hereby empowered to extend valid teachers' certificates of all 
 teachers (they applying to him) hereafter attending the State 
 Summer Schools and doing satisfactory work therein, as follows : 
 
 Teachers who shall attend one of the State Summer Schools 
 for nine weeks and complete the work successfully shall be enti- 
 tled to have any valid teacher's certificate which they might 
 hold, whether State, first, second, or third grade, extended for 
 a period of one year, provided the extension is made within 
 one year. (March 17, 1909.) 
 
 32 - Eesolved: That applicants for teachers' certificates attend- 
 ing one of the State Summer Schools for nine weeks and com- 
 pleting the work successfully, shall be entitled to have a credit 
 of fifteen per cent added to the general average made in exam- 
 ination, irrespective of the grade of certificate applied for, 
 whether State, first, second, or third grade. (March 17, 1909.) 
 
 321. (Recommending Recognitipn of Summer Work.) 
 
 The State Board of Education recommends raising the sal- 
 ary, by five dollars, of those teachers who attend a Summer 
 School and receive a Certificate of Credits. (Resolution of State 
 Board of Education, January 22, 1909.) 
 
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 322. (Preference Given Summer School Students.) 
 
 The managers of the Summer Normal Schools shall issue 
 Certificates of Attendance to every teacher present during the 
 whole of their sessions, and the parish boards of school directors 
 shall give preference, other things being equal, to the holders 
 of said certificates in the selection of teachers for the public 
 schools. (La. Statute, S. 46, Act 214 of 1902.) 
 
 323. (All Teachers in High Schools Required to Hold First Grade Cer- 
 
 tificates.) 
 
 Resolved: That beginning with the session of 1910-11 no 
 teacher holding lower than a first grade certificate shall be em- 
 ployed in the State Approved High Schools. This regulation 
 shall apply to grade teachers as well as to teachers in high school 
 department.s (January 7, 1910.) 
 
 324. (Requirements for Agricultural Departments.) 
 
 That agricultural departments in the public schools of Lou- 
 isiana which shall share in the State appropriation to agricul- 
 tural schools shall be governed by the following requirements: 
 
 1. The school must have a demonstration farm of as much 
 as five acres, in one body, and an option on an additional five 
 acres which may be secured in the event it should be needed. 
 
 2. The demonstration farm must have around it a fence that 
 is proof against rabbits, chickens and stock. 
 
 3. There must be a barn with as many as five stalls for 
 horses and cattle; a weevil-proof grain bin containing as much 
 as 1,500 cubic feet ; a fertilizer room ; a hay loft, and a tool room. 
 (Plans of suitable barns will be furnished on application.) 
 
 4. Apparatus for teaching the sciences: (a) If the Agri- 
 cultural Department is in a State Approved High School, there 
 must be $100 worth of apparatus selected especially for the 
 teaching of agriculture, and, in addition to this, the school must 
 have the apparatus required of all Approved High Schools, (b) 
 If the school is not an Approved High School, it must have as 
 much as $100 worth of apparatus for agricultural teaching. 
 Should there be classes in the school through the ninth grade, 
 there must be as much as $76 worth of additional apparatus; 
 if there are classes in the tenth grade, there must be as much 
 as $150 worth of apparatus in addition to the two amounts 
 named above. 
 
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 5. Tools: The school must have as much as $40 worth of 
 tools, (b) Implements: The school must own as much as $140 
 worth of farm implements. (List of tools, apparatus, and imple- 
 ments may be secured on application.) (c) The school must own 
 a horse or a mule, (d) The school must have an appropriation 
 of $250, which may be used as the local authorities think best 
 in promoting the work in agriculture. 
 
 6. The school must . employ a teacher of agriculture satis- 
 factory to the Department of Education. He must be a grad- 
 uate of an agricultural college, and he should have had some 
 practical experience in farming. He must not be the principal 
 of the school. He must be employed for twelve months in the 
 year, and he must not be required to teach any class in the 
 school outside of the department of agriculture, with the excep- 
 tion that he may be permitted to do all the work in Botany 
 and Zoology if these subjects are given an agricultural turn. 
 
 7. The maximum number of agricultural departments to 
 be established for the session 1910-11 and to share in the State 
 appropriation is fixed at twenty. 
 
 8. Before any agricultural department shall be approved by 
 this Board and permitted to share in the appropriation, Mr. 
 V. L. Roy, Inspector of Agricultural Education, shall visit the 
 school making the application and shall submit to the State 
 Board a report to the effect that the school has met all the re 
 quirements outlined above. 
 
 9. All schools making application for agricultural depart- 
 ments and wishing to share in the agricultural appropriation 
 must meet the above requirements and receive the approval of 
 the Inspector of Agricultural Schools by September 1, 1910. 
 
 (Resolution of August 1, 1910.) 
 
 325. (Inheritance Tax.) 
 
 Resolved: That the State Superintendent of Public Educa- 
 tion be directed to call the attention of the several district attor- 
 neys througout the State to the provisions of .Act 45 of 1904, 
 and request that same be strictly enforced by them. 
 
 Resolved, further, That they be specially requested to collect 
 all such amounts as may have become due under that Act and 
 which have not yet been collected. (March 24, 1905.) 
 
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 326. (Parish Treasurer's Record With Sheriff.) 
 
 Resolved: That the several parish school boards shall be 
 directed to procure a suitable book in which the parish treasurer 
 shall keep an account with the sheriff of his parish, charging him 
 with all fees and forfeits as shown by the minutes of the court, 
 and from which he shall make his settlements from time to time, 
 crediting the said sheriff with such fines as are uncollectible. 
 (January 9, 1905.) 
 
 327. (Arbor Day Established.) 
 
 Be it resolved: That the State Board of Education hereby 
 designates the second Friday in January as Arbor Day, a day 
 on which those in charge of the public schools and institutions 
 of learning under State control or State patronage, shall, for 
 at least two hours, give information to the pupils and students 
 concerning the value and interest of forestry, the duty of pupils 
 to protect the song-birds, and to encourage and assist in plant- 
 ing of forest trees. 
 
 Be it further resolved: That the State Superintendent of 
 Public Education is hereby directed to prescribe from time to 
 time, a program of exercises and instruction in the subjects 
 hereinbefore mentioned, which shall be adopted and observed 
 by the public school authorities on Arbor Day, said program to 
 be issued to the parish superintendents, and upon receipt of 
 copies of such program, sufficient in number to supply all the 
 schools under their supervision, the superintendents aforesaid 
 shall promptly provide each of the schools under their charge 
 with a copy, and cause same to be observed. (November, 24, 
 1905.) 
 
 328. (Superintendent's License.) 
 
 Resolutions adopted by the State Board of Education at a 
 regular meeting held in Baton Rouge, on July 20, 1908, concern- 
 ing applicants for parish superintendencies, under Act 49 of 
 1908: 
 
 Resolved, That any person who is now holding the position of 
 parish superintendent, by virtue of this fact shall be entitled to 
 a certificate of eligibility, and that said certificate shall issue 
 without further examination, upon proper application. 
 
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 Resolved, That any applicant for a certificate of eligibility to 
 the office of parish superintendent shall report at the office of 
 State Superintendent of Education at Baton Rouge, at 9 o'clock 
 a. m., on August 29, 1908, and take the examination hereinafter 
 provided. 
 
 Resolved, That if any applicant for certificate of eligibility 
 prefer to do so, he may appear for examination before the parish 
 superintendent and the examining committee of the parish, at 
 the parish seat of any parish on August 29, 1908, at 9 a. m., 
 and the parish superintendent shall open the sealed questions 
 furnished by the State Board of Education in the presence of at 
 least one other member of the examining committee and all the 
 applicants. The examination shall be then held, and, imme- 
 diately thereafter, the questions and answers sealed shall be 
 forwarded to the Secretary of the State Board of Education 
 at Baton Rouge. 
 
 Resolved, That the applicants shall be examined on the fol- 
 lowing subjects: School Supervision, School Administration, 
 and the Theory and Art of Teaching. 
 
 Resolved, That all persons applying for a certificate of eligi- 
 bility must comply with the provisions and qualifications as set 
 forth in Act No. 49 of 1908. 
 
 329 - Resolved, That a committee of five be appointed by the 
 President of the State Board of Education, whose duty it shall 
 be to prepare all questions as above provided, to examine all 
 applicants, and answer papers returned from the parishes, and 
 report to this Board at a meeting to be held on September 11, 
 1908. Following is the committee appointed by the President of 
 the Board: State Superintendent J. B. Aswell, State Institute 
 Conductor L. J. Alleman, President T. D. Boyd, Col. J. W. 
 Nicholson and Prof. J. W. Heckert. 
 
 33 - Resolved, That in the opinion of this Board, parish super- 
 intendents to be efficient under Act No. 49 of 1908, should devote 
 their entire time to the schools of their respective parishes. 
 (July 20, 1908.) 
 
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 SANITARY REGULATIONS OF THE LOUISIANA STATE 
 
 BOARD OF HEALTH, CONCERNING HYGIENE 
 
 AND SANITATION OF SCHOOLS. 
 
 SANITARY CODE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, SECTION 250. 
 
 NOTE. By Act 192 of 1898 the State Board of Health is authorized to 
 enact regulations which are binding upon the public. 
 
 331. (Parish Board and Superintendent to Enforce Rules and Regula- 
 
 tions.) 
 
 The parish or municipal school board, and the parish super- 
 intendent of schools, shall be held responsible for the execution 
 and enforcement of the following rules and regulations, and all 
 other health laws governing the hygiene of the schoolroom and the 
 premises of the schools under their respective jurisdictions. 
 
 331 -a. (Plans for Schoolhouses to be submitted to State Superintendent, 
 Parish Superintendent and Parish Health Officer.) 
 
 Plans and specifications for every schoolhouse hereafter 
 erected in the State must be submitted to the parish superin- 
 tendent of schools, and to the State Superintendent of Educa- 
 tion, and also to the parish health officer, that it may be deter- 
 mined whether every hygienic or necessary provision is made, 
 especially with reference to ventilation, light and protection 
 against fire. 
 
 332. (Regulating Ventilation and Light.) 
 
 Every schoolhouse, public or private, or other building used 
 for school purposes, shall be ventilated in such manner as to 
 afford eighteen hundred cubic feet of air per hour for each 
 adult, and a proportionate amount for each child, and shall 
 contain not less than two hundred cubic feet of air space for 
 each child to be taught therein. Windows and transoms shall 
 be so constructed that windows may be lowered from the top 
 and transoms opened. Every schoolhouse must be lighted in 
 such a manner as to minimize the eye strain. Each room must 
 contain of actual surface of glass in the windows not less than 
 one-seventh of the floor space. 
 
 333. (Regulating the Swinging of Doors.) 
 
 All doors except those which slide into wall pockets shall 
 open outward, and all partition doors shall be hung on double- 
 action hinges. 
 
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 334. (Governing the Treatment and Sweeping of Floors and Wiping of 
 
 Furniture, Etc.) 
 
 The floors of every school must be treated with some antiseptic 
 floor dressing. Applications to be at sufficiently frequent inter- 
 .vals to keep down effectually the dust; floors to be scrubbed 
 thoroughly before each application. Floor dressing for use in 
 the schools must be approved by the State analyst. 
 
 The floors of every school must be swept daily, sweeping 
 to be done after all pupils have left the building. All windows 
 must be thrown open and schoolhouse thoroughly aired after 
 cleaning. 
 
 All desks, wainscoating, window sills and baseboards in 
 every schoolhouse in the State must be wiped off daily with a 
 cloth moistened with 1-2000 bichloride of mercury, or 3 per 
 cent carbolic acid solution. 
 
 335. (Spitting on Floors Strictly Prohibited.) 
 
 Spitting on floors, walls, etc., must be strictly probated 
 and anti-spitting placards placed in every room. 
 
 336. (Teachers Must Furnish Health Certificates.) 
 
 No person suffering from any communicable disease shall 
 be employed as teacher or janitor in any public school in this 
 State. At the opening of each annual term teachers must fur- 
 nish a health certificate from a registered physician, addressed 
 to the parish superintendent of schools, certifying that they are 
 not suffering from tuberculosis or other communicable disease. 
 
 337. (Vaccination Required of Pupils.) 
 
 No one shall be entered as a pupil in the public schools of 
 this State without first having presented to the principal in 
 charge a certificate from a registered physician of Louisiana, 
 certifying that within the preceding five years the applicant 
 was successfully vaccinated. 
 
 Three unsuccessful attempts at vaccination with a proven 
 virus shall be accepted as an immunity for a period of one year. 
 
 Pupils are required, at the end of each five years, to renew 
 their vaccination certificates. 
 
 338. (Pupils Suffering With Communicable Disease to be Excluded.) 
 
 No pupil suffering from any communicable disease shall be 
 permitted to attend the public schools of this State. The prin- 
 cipal or the teacher has the right to exclude any child from the 
 
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 schools whom they suspect of suffering from any communicable 
 disease, pending examination and report of a registered phy- 
 sician. 
 
 339. (Schoolhouses to be Disinfected.) 
 
 All schoolrooms in the State must be disinfected before the 
 beginning of each school session, with the formaldehyde-per- 
 manganate of potash mixture as indicated in the bulletin of 
 disinfection. 
 
 340. (On Appearance of Communicable Diseases, Schools Must be 
 
 Closed.) 
 
 On the appearance in a school of any communicable disease, 
 either among the pupils, teachers or attendants, the school shall 
 be closed immediately and fumigated before reopening. 
 
 341. (School Premises Shall Be Drained.) 
 
 The school premises shall be thoroughly drained and no 
 stagnant water permitted to collect. In towns with a drainage 
 system or where an outflow is possible, the school site and the 
 entire area of the ground shall be properly drained, so as to 
 reduce the ground water level, and the drainage effected in 
 uch manner as not to contaminate with its effluvia any well, 
 cistern or other source of drinking water. 
 
 342. (Abundant Supply of Pure Drinking Water.) 
 
 Every school must be supplied with an abundance of pure 
 drinking water for drinking purposes. Where water is used 
 from surface wells, said wells must be located at least 100 feet 
 from any closet. 
 
 343. (Open Receptacles for Water and Common Cups Prohibited.) 
 
 The use of open receptacles for drinking water in schools, 
 and also of dippers or cups for common drinking purposes, is 
 prohibited. The school authorities must supply for holding 
 drinking water covered containers with faucets, which containers 
 must be scoured daily when in use. All teachers and pupils 
 must provide themselves with individual drinking cups or 
 glasses. In towns or cities where there is a public water supply 
 a sanitary drinking fountain shall be installed. 
 
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 344. (Garbage Can Required; Emptied Daily.) 
 
 Every school in this State must have a sufficient number of 
 trash or garbage cans for the convenience of the pupils, teachers 
 and employees, and said trash or garbage cans must be kept 
 closed, and emptied daily. 
 
 345. (Stiles Sanitary Closet Compulsory.) 
 
 The urinals and water closets must be connected with the 
 sewerage system, where one exists, when within 1,000 feet there- 
 from. Where no sewerage system exists, all schools must have 
 a Stiles sanitary closet (plans and specifications will be furnished 
 by the State Board of Health upon request), cess-pool or septic 
 tank. Where the Stiles sanitary closet is used the inner surface 
 of the container must be treated with crude petroleum at least 
 once a week. All closets mast be scrubbed once a week and kept 
 in a sanitary condition at all times. 
 
 346. (Lecturers for State Institutions and Teachers' Institutes.) 
 
 The State Board of Health will, when desired by the State 
 Institutions of learning, or the State Pedagogical Institutes, or 
 the Agricultural Institutes, send 3, lecturer to deliver a series of 
 lectures on : 
 
 1. Personal hygiene. 
 
 2. School hygiene. 
 
 3. Principles and practice of physical training. 
 
 4. Drug and alcohol addictions. 
 
 5. Contagious and infectious diseases ; cause and prevention. 
 
 6. Hygiene of the home and farm. 
 
 347. (Parish Superintendents' Monthly Report to State Board of Health.) 
 
 The principal of each school in the State, except in cities 
 where there is employed a regular medical inspector, shall make 
 a monthly report to the parish superintendent of schools on the 
 sanitary condition of the school building and surroundings, also 
 the physical condition of the school children. Blank reports for 
 this purpose will be furnished by the Louisiana State Board of 
 Health. Parish superintendents of schools shall forward these 
 reports to the Louisiana State Board of Health within ten days 
 after their receipt by him. 
 
I N DEX 
 
 Section 
 Authorized High Schools: 
 
 Appropriations for. (See last appropriation bill.) 
 
 Diplomas 317 
 
 How established 43, 301 
 
 Rules regulating same 298, 301, 316 
 
 Sites to be provided, how 43 
 
 List of approved 297 
 
 Assessor, Parish: 
 
 Enumeration of children 50 
 
 deaf and dumb 50 
 
 Lists to be made 50 
 
 Oath as to correctness 50 
 
 Compensation for 51 
 
 Blanks furnished by Auditor 52 
 
 Penalty for non-compliance 53 
 
 Oath of office 54, 55, 56 
 
 Poll Tax Lists furnished school board 166 
 
 Penalty for failure to comply 166 
 
 Compensation for making lists 57 
 
 School Taxes Fees for assessing 57 
 
 2% on special school taxes 57 
 
 Attorneys and Courts: 
 
 District Attorney, counsel for parish board 42 
 
 Compensation 42-a 
 
 Other attorneys may be selected 42 
 
 Collection of school land notes 184, 185, 18ti 
 
 Inheritance tax, compensation 162 
 
 Specially charged as to inheritance tax 325 
 
 Reclamation of 16th sections, etc 191-a, 191-b 
 
 Not allowed commissions on fines 296-a 
 
 Special attorney may be appointed by State Superin- 
 tendent 72 
 
 Supreme Court Jurisdiction of 282 
 
 Decisions of. ( See ' ' Supreme Court. ' ' ) 
 
 School suits have preference in trials, when 27 
 
 Certified copies of records of State Superintendent 
 
 admissible in evidence 68 
 
160 
 
 Section 
 Auditor of Public Accounts, State: 
 
 Blanks furnished for enumeration of children 52 
 
 Estimates taxes needed for public schools 128 
 
 Exempt from jury duty 216 
 
 Furnishes information to State Superintendent 65 
 
 Duty in connection with special taxes 139-a 
 
 State Superintendent, furnishes information to 128 
 
 Oath of office. - 54, 55, 56 
 
 Reports Neglect to Governor 32 
 
 On condition of school fund 128 
 
 School lands For duties in connection with see 
 
 "School Lands." 
 Trial for failure to perform duty 61 
 
 Beneficiary Students: 
 
 See "State Institutions," also, for Tulane University, 
 
 Act 43, Sec. 6, of 1884, and 265-a 
 
 Board of School Directors: 
 
 See "Parish School Board." 
 
 City Schools: Lake Charles and New Orleans: 
 
 Lake Charles 216-a-6 
 
 New Orleans Appropriations by City Coun- 
 cil, funds 11, 234, 236 
 
 Children, enumeration of 49, 50 
 
 Of the poor, books for 18, 238, 239 
 
 Certificates good for five years 224 
 
 Diplomas of City Normal 228 
 
 Debts ; limitations to contractions of 37 
 
 Prescription of 206 
 
 Donations 28, 29 
 
 Funds from Board of Liquidation 11 
 
 School hours 212 
 
 Indebtedness, certificates of 277-b 
 
 Inheritance tax 141-a, 165 
 
 Institutes, may be conducted 105 
 
 Pupils may be suspended by principal 217 
 
 Indigent; see "Children of the Poor." 
 Reports to Council 233 
 
 to State Superintendent 237 
 
161 
 
 Section 
 
 Revenues 11, 234, 236, 173, 219, 221 
 
 Schools night 227 
 
 Normal 228 
 
 School Board, appoints superintendent 229 
 
 Accounts of predecessors 226 
 
 Members Judges of its own 226 
 
 No compensation 39 
 
 Qualifications 41 
 
 Monthly meetings 225 
 
 Penalty for absence . . . ., 226 
 
 Organization 219 
 
 -Poll tax 166, 173 
 
 Teachers elected by school board 223 
 
 in service, exempt from examination 224 
 
 may be discharged 222 
 
 Certificate and contract required 118 
 
 Position permanent 240, 241, 242 
 
 Text-books. (See "Text-books.") 
 
 Treasurer, reports 90, 89, 230, 231 
 
 Certificates, Teachers: 
 
 See "Examination and Certificates." 
 
 Committees: 
 
 On examination of teachers, par- 
 ish certificates 77, 109, 110, 111, 112, 300 
 
 Examination papers to be kept one year 77 
 
 compulsory 299 
 
 Applicants may be refused 289 
 
 -fee HI 
 
 governed by rule of State Board. 109, 300 
 
 On examination of teachers, State certificates 123 
 
 On examination of parish superintendents 329 
 
 On Text-books, Act 39 of 1910. 
 
 Donations: 
 
 Authorized 28 
 
 Accepting 28, 31 
 
 Conditions donor may impose 29 
 
 Duties of school boards 30' 
 
 Fidei Commissa 31 
 
 Not inalienable . . 29' 
 
162 
 
 Section 
 Examinations and Certificates: 
 
 Third Grade Valid for one year 116 
 
 Credits for Summer School work 319, 322 
 
 Required subjects 311, 112 
 
 Second Grade Required subjects 311, 112 
 
 Credits for Summer School work 319, 322 
 
 Certificate valid for three years 116 
 
 First Grade Required subjects 311, 112 
 
 Certificates valid for five years 116 
 
 Credits for Summer School work 319, 322 
 
 State Certificate Subjects required 112, 121, 123, 124 
 
 Examining committee 123 
 
 Summer School credits 319, 322 
 
 Valid for ten years 122 
 
 Superintendent's Certificate Subjects required 328 
 
 Examination, where held 328 
 
 Revocable , . 35-b 
 
 Qualifications 35-b 
 
 Eligibility 20 
 
 Special Certificates, subjects of high grade 117 
 
 Two certificates may be issued on one examination. . . . 116 
 
 Certificates and contracts necessary to teach 118 
 
 Certificates revocable 119 
 
 to be filed : . 120 
 
 Examining committees. ( See ' ' Committees. ' ' ) 
 
 Right of applicants to examine papers 77 
 
 Graduates of Certain Institutions: 
 
 See ''State Institutions" and "Institutions." 
 
 Institutions: 
 
 State. (See "State Institutions.") 
 
 Authorized to grant diplomas 115, 115-a, 125, 228 
 
 Graduates of certain, exempt from ex- 
 amination 115, 115-a, 125, 228 
 
 Institutes and Summer Schools: 
 Institutes: 
 
 State Board of Managers 96, 102 
 
 One-Week When held 95 
 
 Attendance compulsory 95 
 
163 
 
 Section 
 
 Pay for attendance . 95 
 
 Orleans exempt 105 
 
 Reports 98 
 
 Parish Teachers' Institutes: 
 
 Duty of Parish Superintendent 
 
 To hold monthly or bi-monthly meetings. . 99 
 
 To notify teachers 100 
 
 To consult with State Institute Conductor. 102 
 
 To follow programs * 102 
 
 To call roll twice per day :. 103 
 
 To keep records, etc 103 
 
 To report to Institute Conductor 103 
 
 Penalty for failure to comply 102 
 
 Institute managers may be appointed 104 
 
 Compensation 104 
 
 Attendance compulsory, fines, compensa- 
 tion 100,101 
 
 Assignments and fines 100 
 
 Fines applied to local institute fund 100 
 
 Duty of Institute Conductor to formulate pro- 
 grams 102 
 
 Institute board adopts Reading Course 102 
 
 Length of daily sessions .- 102 
 
 Orleans excepted 105 
 
 Funds 
 
 Fines imposed upon parish superintendent 
 
 (State) 78 
 
 Parish 102 
 
 Fines, teachers and principals (parish) 95, 100 
 
 Handling of (local) 106-a 
 
 Summer Schools: 
 
 Shall be held 94 
 
 Credits and extensions of certificates 97, 319, 320 
 
 Recognition of, recommended 321 
 
 Preference given students of 322 
 
164 
 
 Section 
 Parent, The: 
 
 Books. ( See " Text-books. ' ' ) 
 
 Children Duty of parents to , 291 
 
 Report on eyes and ears of 74 
 
 Fee for enrollment 43 
 
 Libraries for schools 216-b-f 
 
 Resolution of commendation, etc 318 
 
 Studies, wishes of parents regarding 286 
 
 Parish School Board: 
 
 Accepting and regulating donations. ... 28, 29, 30, 31, 35-e 
 Attorney for, optional with board compensation . . 42, 42-a 
 
 District, not allowed commissions on fines 296-a 
 
 Compensation, recovery school lands 191-b 
 
 Compensation, collection 16th section 
 
 notes 184-186 
 
 Compensation, for services rendered board 42-a 
 
 Compensation, inheritance tax 162 
 
 Compensation, forfeited bonds 79 
 
 Special attorney may be appointed by State Su- 
 perintendent 72 
 
 Authorities and duties 35 to 35-f, 43, 46, 77, 45, 45-a 
 
 Trial for failure to perform 36 
 
 See decision of Supreme Court 296-f 
 
 Bird Day 108-a 
 
 Board of examiners, appointment of 77 
 
 Bodies corporate 45-a 
 
 Bonds Manner of issuing school, see ' ' School Funds. ' ' 
 
 Exempt from furnishing, in suits 27 
 
 Premium on treasurer's, paid by board 86 
 
 Forfeited, compensation of district attorney ... 79 
 
 Constitutional provision for 7 
 
 By-laws and rules, how enacted 35-e 
 
 Contracts and debts 10, 35, 37, 45 
 
 Contracts with sectarian schools prohibited 10, 45 
 
 Contracts shall be by competitive bid 35-e 
 
 Contracts with private schools prohibited 10, 45 
 
 Controversies, decided by State Superintendent 70 
 
165 
 
 Section 
 
 Days special school : 
 
 Arbor 327 
 
 -Bird , 108-a 
 
 Columbus 107 
 
 Washington's Birthday (Independence) 314 
 
 Debts. (See ''Contracts and Debts," above.) 
 Donations. (See "Accepting and Regulating Dona- 
 tions," this caption.) 
 
 Damages, authorized to recover 35-e, 191-a-b-e 
 
 Districts, division of parish into 46 
 
 In two adjoining parishes 47 
 
 Optional which children shall attend 48 
 
 Duty of school board and superintendent 46 
 
 Records of, kept in permanent form 46 
 
 Records open for inspection 46 
 
 Duties. (See "Authorities and Duties," also "Mem- 
 bers," this caption.) 
 Expropriation of lands for school purposes. ... 58, 59, 60 
 
 Enumeration of educables 49, 50, 51 
 
 Establishment of high and graded schools 43, 301 
 
 Exempt from furnishing bonds in suits 27 
 
 Funds Must exercise due vigilance in securing 35-e 
 
 Manner prescribed for depositing 201-a 
 
 Annual estimate to be made 88 
 
 (See also "School Funds.") 
 
 Fees for incidental expenses authorized 43 
 
 Illegal charges cannot be allowed 294 
 
 Information and advice furnished by State Superin- 
 tendent 70 
 
 Lands Donation and purchase of 35-e 
 
 Expropriation* for school purposes 58, 59, 60 
 
 (See also "School Lands"; "Donations.") 
 
 Laws, duty to see they are complied with 35-e 
 
 Libraries shall be supported 216-b-f-d-g 
 
 Local boards. (See "Trustees," this caption.) 
 
 Members Number on board ; term of office 38, 40 
 
 Eligibility and qualifications 20, 41 
 
 Compensation 39 
 
 Election of . . 7, 38 
 
166 
 
 Section 
 
 Removal by Governor 36 
 
 (See also "Supreme Court Decisions.") 296-f 
 
 May not engage in teaching 309 
 
 May not act as agents 108 
 
 Failure to perform duties 36, 61, 304, 305 
 
 Oath of office 54, 55, 56 
 
 Meetings, regular, adjourned and called 85-e 
 
 Penalties for not recognizing Normal graduates, State 
 Normal School 304 
 
 Officers Certified reports to Supervisor of Public 
 Accounts 89 
 
 Poll tax ; recommendation of State Board 302 
 
 (See also "School Funds.") 
 
 Parish Superintendent Appointment of 7, 35-b-f 
 
 Eligibility and qualifications 20, 35-b, 330 
 
 Removal of 35-b 
 
 Term of office 35, 35-b, 35-f 
 
 Fines against, collected by board 78, 102 
 
 Salary 7, 75 
 
 Recommends establishment of schools 35-e 
 
 Nominates all teachers 35-b 
 
 Premium on bond paid by board 86 
 
 May remove teachers, when 110 
 
 Board must provide office for 91 
 
 Neglect of duty reported to State Board 35-d 
 
 President Duties 44, 88 
 
 Election of 35-a 
 
 Member library committee 216-d 
 
 Warrants drawn by him 88 
 
 Duty in connection with schoolhouse doors. . 213-c-b 
 Penalty for neglect 213-c 
 
 Reports of parish board 33, 35-d 
 
 Revenues. (See "Funds," above; also "School 
 Funds.") 
 
 Schools Number and location 35-e 
 
 School districts 46, 47, 48 
 
 How locations may be changed 35-e 
 
 Sale of liquor prohibited near certain 276 
 
 Gambling prohibited near certain 275 
 
167 
 
 Section 
 
 Establishment of graded and high ......... 43, 301 
 
 School months established by law ............ 212 
 
 School boards shall visit .................... 35-d 
 
 Rules and regulations governing ............. 35-e 
 
 Religious, may not receive parish funds ...... 45 
 
 Private, may not receive parish funds ........ 45 
 
 Old sites, manner of selling .................. 35-e 
 
 Incidental fees may be charged .............. 43 
 
 Subjects to be taught in ................ 212, 213 
 
 Which schools pupils may attend ............. 48 
 
 Lenth of daily session ................... ... 212 
 
 Minimum number of pupils, to open ......... 211 
 
 May expropriate lands, etc., for ....... 58, 59 
 
 Schoolhouses Doors must swing outward ......... . 213-b 
 
 Erection and furnishing .................... 35-e 
 
 Changing location of ; how .................. 35-e 
 
 (See also " Bonds" and " Special Taxes.") 
 
 May expropriate sites for ................... 59 
 
 School Lands Duty in connection with ......... 189, 191-a 
 
 (See li School Lands.") 
 School Property Authority and duties 
 
 with reference to same ....... 35-e, 189, 190, 191, 288 
 
 Care and improvement of ................... 35-e 
 
 Contracts in connection with ................ 35-e 
 
 State Board of Health Duty to enforce regulations of 331 
 State Superintendent Furnishes information upon 
 
 request .............................. ........ 70 
 
 Report to ...................... , .......... 35-d 
 
 Has general supervision over boards .......... 63 
 
 _ Over common, high and normal schools ....... 63 
 
 Appoints special attorneys .................. 72 
 
 Inheritance, attention called to .............. 325 
 
 Duty in connection with ................ 141-b 
 
 (See also "School Funds.") 
 Three-mill police jury appropriation ......... 22-b 
 
 Teachers Minimum age 18 years .................. 313-a 
 
 Employment and salary .................... 35-e 
 
168 
 
 Section 
 
 Nominated by parish superintendent 35-b 
 
 Certificates and contracts obligatory 118 
 
 Preference given State Normal graduates 303, 304 
 
 Summer School attendants 97 
 
 Not required to teach more than twenty days 
 
 for school month 212 
 
 Committee on examination of 77 
 
 Revoking certificates of 110 
 
 Exempt from examination in certain 
 
 cases 115, 115-a, 125 
 
 Trustees Auxiliary visiting may be appointed 35-c 
 
 Duties : visit schools ; report to board 35-c 
 
 meet and advise with board 35-c 
 
 Text-Books. (See " Text-Books.") 
 
 Parish Superintendent of Schools: 
 
 Accounts, form of, prescribed by Supervisor 91 
 
 Advises and confers with State Superintendent 63 
 
 Appointment of 7, 35-b, 35-f 
 
 Association, State Teachers', duty 315 
 
 Agent for school supplies, may not act as 108 
 
 Bond, premium paid by board 54, 55, 56, 86 
 
 Certificate of eligibility required 35-b 
 
 Revocable 35-b 
 
 Committee on examination 329 
 
 Eligibility and qualifications 20, 35-b, 310, 328 
 
 Duty To devote entire time to schools 330, 
 
 To keep records prescribed 85 
 
 To hold institutes 99 
 
 To enforce uniformity of text-books 306 
 
 To enforce use of text-books 308 
 
 To meet and confer with State Superintendent . 63 
 
 To visit schools 76 
 
 In connection with school libraries 216-b 
 
 To adhere rigidly to school laws 305 
 
 To enforce sanitary regulations 331 
 
 Penalties for failure to perform 61, 304, 305 
 
 In connection with Normal graduates 303 
 
 Inheritance tax 141-b 
 
 Eligibility and qualifications 20, 35-b, 310, 328 
 
 Efficiency defined 330 
 
169 
 
 Section 
 
 Ex-Officio 
 
 Secretary to school board 7, 35-b, 75 
 
 To keep minutes, etc 35-e, 84 
 
 To keep records, etc 46, 80 
 
 Member of parish examining committee 77 
 
 Duties in connection with 77 
 
 Examination fee Ill 
 
 Right to test all teachers 299 
 
 Examinations, etc 300 
 
 Treasurer of school funds 86 
 
 Bond required 54, 55, 56, 86 
 
 No compensation as such 86 
 
 Accounts, open for inspection 88 
 
 with sheriff 326 
 
 Duties Collection of notes 184, 185 
 
 Custodian of books, etc 87 
 
 To make reports 89, 90 
 
 To keep record of fines and forfeitures 326 
 Funds Deposited in banks ; bonds . 86, 201-a-b-c 
 
 How disbursed 88 
 
 Limits in issuance of warrants 88 
 
 Institute 106-a 
 
 Examination fee Ill 
 
 Receives State apportionment 127 
 
 Sale of warrants 281 
 
 Reports Annual and special 78 
 
 Quarterly 83, 89, 90 
 
 Penalty for neglect . 92-a 
 
 School Lands 174-201 
 
 Collection of notes 184, 185, 186 
 
 Interest from State 181 
 
 Transmits 16th section moneys to 
 
 State Auditor 186 
 
 Oath Of office 54, 55, 56 
 
 May administer, to persons 81 
 
 Cannot qualify directors 81 
 
 Office Board required to furnish 91 
 
 Oath of. (See "Oath," above.) 
 
 Accounts and records kept in 91 
 
170 
 
 Section 
 
 Pupils Judgment of, final in suspension 217 
 
 Testing eyes of 74 
 
 Qualifications and eligibility 20, 35-b, 310, 328 
 
 Records Of business transacted 80 
 
 Of school districts 80 
 
 Reports of principals 80, 85 
 
 Open to inspection at all times 80 
 
 Penalty for failure to comply 85 
 
 Removal from office ; vacancy 35-b, 56 
 
 Reports Monthly, to State Board of Health 347 
 
 To State Superintendent 78 
 
 Special, to State Superintendent 80 
 
 Special, to State Board of Education 25 
 
 Annual, to State Institute Conductor 103 
 
 Semi-annual, to Clerk of Court 33 
 
 Quarterly, to parish board 83 
 
 To Supervisor of Public Accounts 89, 90 
 
 Salary 7, 75, 86 
 
 Schools Districts, determined 46 
 
 in two adjacent parishes 47, 48 
 
 Records open for inspection 46 
 
 Shall be visited, when 76 
 
 Recommends establishment of 35-e 
 
 Recommends selling old sites . '. 35-e 
 
 Recommends change of location 35-e 
 
 Recommends repairs, etc., for houses 35-e 
 
 Recommends plans for houses 331-a 
 
 Teachers Minimum age 18 years 313-a 
 
 Number appointed ; salaries paid 35-e 
 
 Nominated by superintendent 35-b 
 
 May be removed for failure, etc 217 
 
 May revoke license, or certificate 110, 119, 299 
 
 May suspend pupils ; how 217 
 
 Shall file reports, etc 85, 120 
 
 Penalty 85, 120 
 
 Contracts signed by superintendent 44 
 
 Certificates may be issued on examinations 
 
 held in other parishes 116 
 
 Teaching ; may not engage in 312 
 
171 
 
 Section 
 Police Jury: 
 
 May levy ten mills ; when 296, 22-a 
 
 Residue of ten-mill tax may be funded for building 
 
 schoolhouses 22-a 
 
 Taxes Duty to levy, when voted 138 
 
 Which may be levied ; which shall be levied. 126, 22-b 
 
 Pupil, The: 
 
 Accountability of, to teacher 217 
 
 Books Legal cost of 26 
 
 For indigent. (See "City Schools.") 
 
 Having communicable diseases excluded 338 
 
 Discipline of 285, 286 
 
 Duty of parents to children 291 
 
 Enumeration of children of school age 50 
 
 of blind and deaf, separate 50 
 
 Eyes and ears tested 73, 74 
 
 Fee may be collected 43 
 
 Ferries, etc., free passage over certain 210 
 
 Free public schools for all children 5 
 
 Minimum number of, for establishing schools 211 
 
 Suspension of, judgment of superintendent final .... 217 
 
 Which school pupils may attend 48 
 
 Register of the Land Office: 
 
 (See "School Funds.") 
 
 Revenues: 
 
 (See "School Funds.") 
 
 Schools: 
 
 Agricultural, requirements 324 
 
 List of State Approved 313-b 
 
 Branches taught in 8, 212, 212-a, 213, 286 
 
 Contracts with sectarian and private, prohibited .... 10, 45 
 
 Communicable disease ; when found in 338, 340 
 
 Closets, Stile's sanitary, to be used 345 
 
 Districts Formation of 46, 296-g 
 
 Formation from parts of parishes 47 
 
 Records for districts kept, etc 46 
 
 open for inspection 46 
 
 Adjoining ; which pupils may attend 48 
 
172 
 
 Section 
 
 Doors of schoolhouses, must be swung outward . . 213-b, 333 
 
 Elementary approved, requirements for 313 
 
 Expropriation of lands for use of 58, 59, 60 
 
 Free public, for all children 5 
 
 French ; when it may be taught 8, 212 
 
 Gambling near certain, prohibited 275 
 
 Garbage can, required at all 344 
 
 General exercises of, shall be in English 8 
 
 High Schools 
 
 State approved 297 
 
 Diplomas 317 
 
 Established by parish boards 43, 298, 31 6 
 
 Rules and regulations governing. . . . 298, 301, 316 
 
 Sites and buildings ; how approved 43 
 
 Support. (See last appropriation bill.) 
 
 (See also regulations of State Board of Educa- 
 tion. ) 
 Teachers, shall hold first grade 
 
 certificates 298-16-18, 323 
 
 Hours to be kept open 212 
 
 Libraries 216-b-c-d-e : f-g 
 
 Liquor, sale of prohibited near certain 276 
 
 Month, fixed by law as twenty days 212 
 
 Premises, shall be drained 341 
 
 Private, contracts with prohibited 10, 45 
 
 Property Exempt from seizure 287 
 
 In charge of parish board 35-e 
 
 May be expropriated 58, 59, 60 
 
 Religious, contracts with prohibited 10, 45 
 
 Sale of liquor prohibited near certain 276 
 
 Schoolhouses Doors shall swing outward 213-b, 333 
 
 Penalty on president of school board 213-c 
 
 Must be disinfected, opening of session 339 
 
 Plans for, approved by parish superintendent. 331-a 
 
 Ventilation and light, regulations for 332 
 
 Sweeping of floors, regulations 334 
 
 Sites for, may be expropriated 58, 59 
 
 Spitting on floors and walls of, pro- 
 hibited 213-a, 335 
 
 Site may be changed ; how 35-e 
 
 State Board of Health regulations 331-347 
 
173 
 
 Section 
 
 Special days to be observed in 
 
 Arbor Day 327 
 
 Bird Day 108-a 
 
 Columbus Day 107 
 
 -Washington's Birthday 314 
 
 Summer Schools. (See ''Institutes" and "Summer 
 Schools.") 
 
 Teachers. (See "The Teachers.") 
 
 Water Abundant supply to be provided 342 
 
 Open receptacles for, prohibited 343 
 
 Common drinking cup prohibited 34<> 
 
 School Board: 
 
 (See "Parish School Board.") 
 
 School Funds: 
 
 Constitutional provision - 1.1 
 
 Assessors ' fees 51, 57 
 
 Apportionment by parish not required 280-a 
 
 Apportionment of State 5, 127 
 
 Received by school treasurer 127 
 
 Erroneous, may be rectified 280 
 
 Bonds. (See "Special Tax," this caption.) 
 (See also "Police Jury.") 
 
 Care of, entrusted to parish board 35-e 
 
 Charges in violation of law, prohibited 294 
 
 Councils, town and city, shall levy three mills. . . 22-b, 126 
 
 Current, how expended 88, 129 
 
 Debts, limitation fixed by law 37 
 
 Deposited with highest bidder 201-a-b-e 
 
 Duty of parish board to look after 35-e 
 
 Donations 35-e, 205 
 
 Estimates of, to be made annually 88 
 
 Fees from pupils 43 
 
 Fines imposed by district courts paid into 131, 209 
 
 District attorney not allowed commission on. . 296-a 
 
 Sheriff's commission 10% 1035 R. S. 
 
 Forfeited bonds paid into 131 
 
 Sheriff's commission 10% 1035 R. S. 
 
 District attorney's commission 20% 1044 R. S. 
 
174 
 
 Section 
 
 Fiscal agent; regulations governing 201-b-c 
 
 Free school bonds ; sale of null and void 279 
 
 High schools, may not be established with 43 
 
 How expended 88 
 
 Inheritance tax Constitutional provision 21, 22 
 
 How paid and distributed 141-a 
 
 Duty of parish superintendent and school board 141-b 
 
 For support of public schools 142 
 
 Property exempt from 143 
 
 Manner of taking possession of succession . 144, 157 
 
 Duty of executor 144-a, 146 
 
 Amount of taxes deducted by 145, 148 
 
 Court may appoint 152 
 
 Duty of legal heir 147, 150 
 
 Any heir may institute proceedings 154 
 
 Unknown heirs 160 
 
 Property may be sold to pay taxes 149 
 
 Will; search for 151 
 
 "When none is found 153 
 
 Right of creditors preserved 155 
 
 Commission of tax collector 161 
 
 Compensation of attorneys 162 
 
 Method of fixing value of legacy 163 
 
 Penalty for delinquency. 164 
 
 Cost borne by succession 165 
 
 Police Jury 
 
 May levy ten mills by appropriating two for 
 schools 296 
 
 May levy ten mills, when two are funded into 
 
 bonds for building schoolhouses' 22-a 
 
 Shall appropriate three mills ; when 22-b, 126 
 
 Poll tax Constitutional provisions 3, 9 
 
 Returns of collections 166 
 
 Collection from jurors and witnesses 170-172 
 
 Collection urged by State Board 302 
 
 (See also " Assessor" and "Tax Collector.") 
 
 Private and church scjiools, may not receive 10, 45 
 
 Parish treasurer of. (See "Parish Superintendent.") 
 School lands (16th sections). (See "School Lands.") 
 
175 
 
 Section 
 
 State, debts due from 
 
 Agricultural and mechanical fund 16 
 
 Free school fund 11, 14, 17, 207 
 
 Seminary fund 15 
 
 Inheritance tax 21, 141-a to 146 
 
 Interest on U. S. deposit fund 130, 188 
 
 Special sources provided by law 205, 209, 131 
 
 State appropriation for approved high schools 
 
 State appropriation for approved agricultural schools 
 NOTE. The above two items vary from year, to year. 
 
 Special School Tax 
 
 Bonds Issued by "governing authority". . . . 138 
 
 Limited to forty years 22-a 
 
 10% assessed valuation '. 22-a 
 
 5% rate of interest 22-a 
 
 10 mills special tax 22-a, 137-c 
 
 Purpose named in petition 138 
 
 Incontestible after 60 days 140 
 
 Signed by president of school board 138 
 
 Signed by secretary of board 138 
 
 Proceeds of, a trust fund 138-b 
 
 Sinking fund for payment of bonds. . . . . 139 
 Tax sufficient to pay principal and in- 
 terest -. 139-a 
 
 Time at which bonds begin to mature .... 139-b 
 
 Denomination of bonds 139-b 
 
 -Registered by Secretary of State after 60 
 
 days 140 
 
 Proceeds, special tax a trust fund 138-c 
 
 Duty of Auditor of Public Accounts 139-a 
 
 Penalty for willful failure or neglect .... 140-a 
 
 Former acts not invalidated 141 
 
 Recommended by State Board 318 
 
 Parish school board may call elections for. . . . 132-a 
 
 Shall call elections ; when 132-a 
 
 "Governing authority" defined. 22-a, 132 
 
 Resolution calling election. 132-b 
 
 Notice of election 132-b 
 
 Counting ballots; when and how. . . 132-b, 136-b 
 
176 
 
 Section 
 
 Expense of election; how paid 133-a 
 
 Appointment of commissioners 133-a 
 
 Form of ballot D34-a 
 
 Concerning voters and voting. 133, 133-b, 135-a, 135-b 
 On manner of voting. (See "Supreme Court 
 
 Decisions.") 
 Majority in number and amount necessary. . . . 137-a 
 
 Time of opening and closing polls 136 
 
 Duties of commissioners 135-b, 136, 136-a 
 
 Proces verbal sent Secretary of State 136-a 
 
 Promulgation and records of election filed. . . 136-d 
 
 Contests limited to 60 days 137 
 
 "Governing authority" to assess and levy tax. 137-b 
 Treasurer. (See "Parish Superintendent.") 
 
 School Lands: 
 
 Attorney for recovery of 191-a-b 
 
 for recovery of damages 191-a 
 
 for collections of notes 184, 185, 186 
 
 Special, appointed by State Superintendent ... 72 
 
 Disposition of funds recovered 191-e 
 
 Auditor of Public Accounts 
 
 Duties 61 
 
 Collection of notes 183 
 
 Custodian of free school bonds 279 
 
 Authorized to invest free school funds in levee 
 
 bonds 216-a-4 
 
 Sale of lands by 189-a-b-c-d, 175-177 
 
 of timber by 189-b 
 
 Survey to be paid by him 175 
 
 Fixes capital due townships 188 
 
 Furnishes statement of same to State Superin- 
 tendent 188 
 
 Transfers interest on U. S. deposit fund to cur- 
 rent school fund 130 
 
 Interest due townships 14 
 
 Decisions of Supreme Court concerning 281-288 
 
177 
 
 Section 
 Indemnity Lands 
 
 To provide for sale of 192 
 
 Manner of advertising 193 
 
 Sale of ; minimum price 1 94 
 
 Manner of issuing patent to purchaser 195 
 
 Application for entry and sale exempt; when. 197 
 
 Duty of State Treasurer in sale of 196 
 
 School- warrant 288 
 
 Lease of 
 
 Duty of school board to lease ; when 189 
 
 to inform State Superintendent 189 
 
 Thirty days' notice necessary 189-a 
 
 Security required for rent 189-a 
 
 against injury and waste 189-a 
 
 Parish boards authorized to reject bids 189-a 
 
 Lease of oil and mineral rights . 189-b 
 
 How vote is taken 189-b 
 
 Notice required 189-b 
 
 Result sent State Auditor and State Su- 
 perintendent 189-c 
 
 Notice sent to Auditor 189-e 
 
 Manner of making lease 189-a-d 
 
 Notes made payable to Auditor of Public 
 
 Accounts 189-d 
 
 Two solvent endorsers in solido necessary. 189-d 
 
 Disposition of amount from lease 189-e 
 
 Expenses of election and sale deducted. . . .189-e 
 
 Trespass Penalty 191-a, 190, 191 
 
 Lessees of oil and mineral rights limited to ten 
 
 years 189-f 
 
 Purchasers of timber must remove same within 
 
 ten years. 189-f 
 
 Parish treasurer of school funds. (See "Parish Su- 
 perintendent.") 
 
 Origin of . . . . 202 
 
 Right of way to U. S. Government 175-a 
 
 Registrar of Land Office : His duties in connection 
 with indemnity lands 
 
 -Advertises sale of 192, 193 
 
 Disposition of proceeds of sale 195 
 
178 
 
 Section 
 
 Sees that reservations of school lands are made 
 
 for each township 201 
 
 -Manner and place of sale. . . . 194, 195, 196, 197, 198 
 May sell sites to school boards ; how 199, 200 
 
 Sale of 
 
 Annulling; mode of 191-a-b, 182, 281 
 
 Election on 174, 178, 281 
 
 State Auditor, on the order of 176 
 
 -How sold 176 
 
 Disposition when vote is against sale 189 
 
 Notes to be collected 184, 185, 186 
 
 Proceeds ; disposition of 186 
 
 Method of procedure in 176, 178, 281 
 
 Survey required before 175 
 
 How paid 175 
 
 Parish treasurer; duty. (See "Parish Su- 
 perintendent.") 
 
 Timber 189-b 
 
 Uninhabitable lands 177 
 
 How conducted 178 
 
 Eights of inhabitants and taxpayers of town- 
 ship 281 
 
 When lands are divided by parish lines 179 
 
 Trespass on 
 
 Penalty for 190, 191 
 
 School board empowered to recover damages. . 191-a 
 
 to recover lands 191-a, 281-b 
 
 Compensation of attorney 191-b 
 
 Manner of bringing suit 191-c 
 
 Sixteenth sections illegally acquired 191-d 
 
 Residue of amount recovered paid State 
 
 Treasurer 191-c 
 
 Warrants ; sale of 281 
 
 Treasurer, State; duties 
 
 Applies to general government for 10%, etc. . 208 
 
 Invests 16th section money in levee bonds. ... 7 
 
 Account of current school fund kept 128 
 
179 
 
 Section 
 
 Keceives proceeds sale school indemnity 
 
 lands 195, 196 
 
 Interest due townships 14 
 
 Transfers funds 130 
 
 Exempt from jury duty 216 
 
 Sheriff: 
 
 (See "Tax Collector.") 
 
 Special School Tax: 
 
 (See "School Funds." 
 
 State Auditor: 
 
 (See "School Funds," also "Auditor of Public Ac- 
 counts.") 
 
 State Board of Education: 
 
 Agricultural Departments Requirements 324 
 
 Assessor Reports on enumeration of educable chil- 
 dren 50 
 
 Reports, separately, blind and deaf 50 
 
 Penalty for neglect , 51 
 
 Appointed by the Governor 23 
 
 Created by General Assembly under authority of Con- 
 stitution 7 
 
 Donations ^May be received 28 
 
 Cannot be mortgaged, except when 30 
 
 Donor may prescribe manner of administering . 29 
 
 Cannot be made inalienable 29 
 
 Boards not entitled to compensation for ad- 
 ministering 30 
 
 Elementary Schools, State Approved 313 
 
 Exempt from giving bond and security in suits ...... 27 
 
 High Schools Importance of 301 
 
 Agricultural departments ; requirements 324 
 
 Rules and regulations governing. 31 6, 298, 298-a, 301 
 
 List of approved 297 
 
 Diplomas 317 
 
 Teachers, must hold first grade certificates .... 323 
 
180 
 
 Section 
 
 Highest authority 
 
 in cases of removal of school board 
 
 members 36, 305 
 
 in appeals from decision of State Superintend- 
 ent 70 
 
 Important resolutions of 299 to 330* 
 
 Meetings Called by State Superintendent 24 
 
 Members Compensation 23 
 
 Eligibility 20 
 
 Oath of office 54, 55, 56 
 
 Governor ex-officio member 2& 
 
 State Superintendent ex-officio member 23 
 
 Attorney General ex-officio member 25 
 
 State Superintendent ex-officio secretary 24 
 
 appoints assistant secretary 24 
 
 Normal graduates ; preference urged 303 
 
 Office ; how provided 24 
 
 Parish school boards may be removed by Governor .... 36 
 
 Parish superintendents, efficiency denned 330 
 
 Penalty for non-compliance 61 
 
 Poll tax collection urged 302 
 
 Reports 
 
 Special, may require of parish superintendents. 25 
 
 Made to State Auditor 32 
 
 Penalty 32 
 
 From text-book committee. 26-e, 26-g 
 
 Resolutions 297 to 330 
 
 Schools 
 
 Agricultural 324 
 
 May modify subjects taught in 212 
 
 Curriculum for training department 125 
 
 Suits, in court given preference ; when 27 
 
 Special tax recommended 318 
 
 Teachers 
 
 Rules for examination of 109, 300, 311 
 
 Fees forwarded to State Board Ill 
 
 Increase of salary recommended for Summer 
 School work. . . 3211 
 
181 
 
 Section 
 
 Text-books. (See " Text-books.") 
 
 Uniform adoption, six years 26-h, 306 
 
 Approves and fixes prices 26-h, 26-i 
 
 Mode of adopting and distributing 26 
 
 Limited to report of text-book committee 26-h 
 
 as to subjects changed 26-h 
 
 Report of committee 26-e, 26- g 
 
 Where considered 26-e 
 
 State Board of Health: 
 
 Sanitary regulations 331-347 
 
 State Institutions: 
 
 Louisiana Industrial Institute and College 
 
 Aim , 256 
 
 Beneficiaries : one female from each parish .... 254-a 
 one female from each ward of New Orleans 254-a 
 
 Qualifications, etc 254-b 
 
 Appropriations, council of New Orleans 
 
 and police juries ' 254-c 
 
 Branches taught 257 
 
 Graduates; recognition given in examinations 
 
 for teachers' certificates 115-a 
 
 State Superintendent ; report to 67 
 
 ex-officio member board of supervisors 63 
 
 Support. (See last appropriation bill.) 13 
 
 President, member of State Institute Board of 
 Managers 96 
 
 State School for the Blind 
 
 -Establishment and object 268, 269 
 
 Pupils ; how long may remain 270 
 
 furnished board and lodging free, etc 269 
 
 Report, annual 67 
 
 State Superintendent member board of super- 
 visors 3 
 
 State School for the Deaf 
 
 Pupils Admission 272 
 
 -Age 273 
 
 Branches taught 274 
 
 Free lodging, board, etc 272 
 
182 
 
 Section 
 
 Report, annual, to State Superintendent 67 
 
 Reorganization 271 
 
 State Superintendent, ex-officio, member of 
 board 63 
 
 State Normal School : Acts 51 of '84, 73 of '92, 61 of 
 '86, 23 of '88, 70 of '02, 91 of '96, 158 of '02, 51 of 
 '84; Constitution of 1898. 
 
 Aim 251 
 
 Beneficiaries: one female from each parish .... 254-a 
 one female from each ward of New Orleans 254-a 
 Qualifications and manner of selecting .... 254-b 
 
 Appropriation for support 254-c 
 
 Departments, normal and practice 252 
 
 -Diplomas 125, 255 
 
 Graduates, preference given to 125, 303, 304 
 
 President, member State Board of Examiners. 123 
 member State Board of Institute Managers 96 
 
 State Superintendent, annual report to 67 
 
 ex-officio member board of supervisors .... 63 
 
 Support (see last appropriation bill) 13 
 
 Tuition....... 254 
 
 State University and A. and M. College, Louisiana: 
 Acts 47 of 1870, 14 of 1867, 96 of 1860, 121 of 1869, 
 228 of 1858, 303 -of 1867, 72 of 1869, 145 of 1876, 
 20 of 1875, 65 of 1877, 125 of 1874, 141 of 1894, 
 75 of 1896, 152 of 1902, 100 of 1886 ; Constitution 
 of 1898. 
 
 Aim 243 
 
 Affiliation 246 
 
 Beneficiary cadets; qualifications; selection 
 
 of 246-a-b 
 
 Police juries and city councils may appro- 
 priate for 246-c 
 
 Degrees and diplomas 247 
 
 Recognition given to 115, 115-a, 121, 125 
 
 Departments 244, 245 
 
 Forestry 250 
 
 Graduates. (See "Degrees and Diplomas," 
 above. ) 
 
183 
 
 Section 
 
 Lands A. and M. College. 204 
 
 Seminary 203 
 
 President member State Board of Examiners . . 123 
 Pensions for professors, Carnegie Foundation. 248 
 State Superintendent, ex-offieio member board 
 
 of supervisors 63 
 
 Annual report to 67 
 
 Support. (See last appropriation bill.) 
 
 Interest on Seminary fund 12,15 
 
 Interest on A. and M. fund 12, 16 
 
 Maintained by General Assembly. ....... 12 
 
 Tuition fees authorized 254, 249 
 
 Southern University, New Orleans: 
 
 Graduates, recognition given to 115, 115-a, 121 
 
 Organization and purpose. 266, 267 
 
 State Superintendent, annual report to 67 
 
 ex-officio member board of supervisors ... 63 
 Support (see last appropriation bill) 13 
 
 Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute: Act 
 162 of 1898, Act 158 of 1902. 
 Aim. (See Act 162 of 1898.) 
 
 Beneficiaries : one female from each parish .... 254-a 
 one female from each ward of New Orleans 254-a 
 
 Qualifications 254-b 
 
 Appropriations by police juries and the 
 
 city council of New Orleans 254-c 
 
 Graduates ; recognition given to .... 115, 115-a, 121 
 
 State Superintendent, annual report to 67 
 
 ex-officio member board of supervisors .... 63 
 
 State Superintendent of Education: 
 
 Annual convention of parish superintendents 69 
 
 Appeals and decisions 70 
 
 Apportions State funds 127 
 
 Appoints assistant secretary of State Board 24 
 
 Attorney, special, may be appointed by him 72 
 
 Attorney General, renders opinions on request 70 
 
 represents State Superintendent in court 284 
 
 Auditor, may require special reports f com 128 
 
184 
 
 Section 
 
 furnishes State Superintendent with a state- 
 ment of capital and interest due townships . . 188 
 
 Clerical force, office expense, etc 62-a 
 
 Decisions and appeals 70 
 
 Duty ; trial for neglect of 61 
 
 Elected by the people 6 
 
 Eligibility 20 
 
 Examination of teachers 300 
 
 Exempt from jury duty 216 
 
 Ex-officio member 
 
 of State Board of Education 24 
 
 of boards of supervisors, State schools 63 
 
 of Board of State Institute Managers 96 
 
 of State Board of Examiners 123 
 
 of Gulf Biologic Station 64 
 
 of Text-Book Committee 26-b 
 
 Secretary, State Board of Education fc 24 
 
 Funds ; apportions State 127 
 
 erroneous, may be corrected 280 
 
 misappropriation, reported to him 69 
 
 Examination fees received by him Ill, 300 
 
 Inheritance tax, duty in connection with 325 
 
 Information and advice furnished by him 70 
 
 Oath of office. \ 54, 55, 56 
 
 " Office, office force, records, vacancy 62, 62-a 
 
 Parishes, visits to 63 
 
 Parish boards, has general supervision over 63 
 
 Parish superintendent 
 
 Advises and assists, notifies of visits 63, 305 
 
 Furnishes information to 70 
 
 Annual report from 78 
 
 Special reports from 80 
 
 Special to State Board of Education ......... 25 
 
 Pupils Provides for examination of eyes, etc., of . . . 73 
 
 Records to be kept 62, 65 
 
 to be furnished to Auditor .* 65 
 
 furnished Supervisor of Public Accounts 90-b 
 
 Certified copies of, admissible in evidence 68 
 
185 
 
 Section 
 
 Beports 
 
 Biennial, required 66, 67 
 
 Semi-annual, to State Auditor, required 32 
 
 Penalty for failure to comply 32 
 
 To State Board 69 
 
 Quarterly, to Supervisor of Public Accounts 90-a, 92-b 
 Special reports may be required of parish su- 
 perintendents 80 
 
 Salary 6, 62-a 
 
 Special attorneys may be appointed by him ; when . . 72 
 
 State Board of Education 
 
 Calls meetings of 24 
 
 Decisions subject to approval of 70 
 
 Executive officer of 24 
 
 Ex-officio member of 23 
 
 Improper use of funds, to be reported to 69 
 
 May publish proceedings of 24 
 
 Appeals to, from decisions of State Superin- 
 tendent. 70 
 
 Suitable room and office fixtures provided 62 
 
 Suits ; no authority to appear in person 284 
 
 Schools Has general supervision of 63, 305 
 
 Libraries ; reports ; rules and regulations . . . 216-c-e 
 
 Special school days 107, 108-a, 327, 314 
 
 High school diplomas signed by him 317 
 
 Schoolhouses : plans for, submitted to 331 
 
 Text-books 
 
 Ex-officio chairman of committee 26-b 
 
 No compensation for services 26-b 
 
 Price list and terms of 307 
 
 for library books 216-c 
 
 Vacancy in office of, filled by Governor 62 
 
 State Treasurer: 
 
 (See "School Lands/') 
 
 Summer Schools: , 
 
 (See /'Institutes and Summer Schools.") 
 
186 
 
 Section 
 Supervisor of Public Accounts: 
 
 Oaths, authorized to administer 91 
 
 Office must be provided for secretary and treasurer of 
 
 all boards, etc 91 
 
 Books and records kept therein 91 
 
 Officers, all public, required to report quarterly. .... 89 
 
 Quarterly sworn statements required 90 
 
 Penalty for neglect of duty 92-a 
 
 Prescribes forms of accounts , 91 
 
 Duty of school treasurer as to delinquent tax collector. 92 
 
 Supreme Court, Decisions Of: 
 
 Apportionment, errors in, may be corrected 280 
 
 Boards have authority to institute or defend suits . . . 277-a 
 
 Bonds Free school, sale illegal 279 
 
 Bonds issued under Art. 281 do not apply to 
 
 Art. 232 296-c 
 
 Branches of study 286 
 
 Budgets made by municipal corporations binding. . . 296-b 
 
 Certificates of indebtedness 277-b 
 
 Charges in violation of law not allowed 294 
 
 Children; duty of parents to educate (excerpt from 
 
 Gladstone) 291 
 
 Committee on examination ; powers 289 
 
 Communication relating to moral character not action- 
 
 "able 290 . 
 
 Districts, school 296-g 
 
 Officer, discharge of 292 
 
 Pupil ; moderate correction authorized by law 285 
 
 Police jury tax; may be 10 mills, when (see also 22-a) 296 
 School lands Right of residents of township to sue 
 
 for recovery of 281-b 
 
 Sale of warrants 281 
 
 In irregular townships, 16th section 288 
 
 Indemnity school warrants 288-b 
 
 School board without authority to sue for re- 
 
 vendication of 288 
 
 - School boards without authority to sell or lease 
 
 timber at private sale. 281 
 
 School property, exempt from seizure 287 
 
187 
 
 Section 
 
 State Superintendent, represented by Attorney Gen- 
 eral 284 
 
 Sureties 282, 283 
 
 Taxes For schools (city) 277 
 
 Parish, may be ten mills when two are ordered 
 
 for schools 296 
 
 For school purposes 296-e 
 
 Teachers, rate of compensation 293 
 
 Treasurer, must account for funds 278 
 
 may sell warrants 281 
 
 and sureties 283 
 
 District attorney, not entitled to commission on for- 
 feited bonds 296-a 
 
 Municipal corporations, liable for budgets made 296-b 
 
 Prescription of one year no protection 296-b 
 
 Property exempt from special taxes ;".:.. 296-e 
 
 School board 
 
 without authority to sue for revendication of 
 
 school lands 288 
 
 Removal 296-f 
 
 Removal by State Board not removal by Gov- 
 ernor 296-f 
 
 Removal by State Board 296-f 
 
 Not required to apportion parish funds 280-a 
 
 Cannot allow illegal charges 294 
 
 Power to adopt rules and regulations 295 
 
 Estimates by, not binding on city 296-c 
 
 Must be given taxes for schools 296-e 
 
 Chairman of local committee responsible to. . . 29 6- j 
 
 Special taxes 
 
 Property exempt by Constitution also exempt 
 
 from 296-e 
 
 Contests barred after three months 296-e 
 
 May be voted on current assessment of year 
 
 at any time 296-e 
 
 .Contests under Constitution of 1879 valid 296-e 
 
 Bonds authorized under Art. 281 do not ap- 
 ply to Art. 232 296-e 
 
 Members of partnerships entitled to vote 296-e 
 
188 
 
 Section 
 
 Persons not entitled to vote on property sold. . 296 -e 
 Not set aside by legal votes cast without proper 
 
 evidence 296-e 
 
 Contest on specific grounds limited to these 
 
 grounds 296-e 
 
 Right of widows to vote ; when 296-e 
 
 Schoolhouses built by, not subject to use as 
 
 theatres 296-e 
 
 On manner of endorsing ballots 296-e 
 
 Amount of tax not necessary in petition 296-e 
 
 Purpose of tax must be submitted to voters. . . 296-e 
 Poll tax for two years previous to election nec- 
 essary 296-e 
 
 Restrictions of Art. 270 do not apply to Art. 
 
 232. 296-e 
 
 Assessment roll of current year may be used. . . 296-e 
 Irregularities not affecting fairness of election 
 
 do not set aside tax voted 296-e 
 
 Superintendent, election of, binding 296-d 
 
 ax Collector, Sheriff: 
 
 Bonds and fines, commission ; see ' ' School Funds. ' ' 
 
 Duty of school treasurer, when delinquent 92 
 
 Taxes 
 
 Commission for collecting 93 
 
 No commission on special taxes, except when. . 93 
 
 Inheritance 145 
 
 Administrator, proceeds, against tax col- 
 lector 144-a 
 
 pays tax collector 145 
 
 liable for tax. 146 
 
 Service made on tax collector 147, 148 
 
 Property may be sold ; when 149 
 
 Legacy not delivered before payment 150 
 
 Applies for order to search for will 151 
 
 Commission 161 
 
 Probation on application of tax collector . . 152 
 
 When no will is found 153 
 
 Bears interest at rate of 2% a month 164 
 
 Attorney to assist tax collector 162 
 
 Compensation 162 
 
189 
 
 Section 
 Poll: 
 
 duty in collection of 167, 169 
 
 Penalty for neglect 168, 169 
 
 Compensation for 93 
 
 Duty when polls are collected by clerk of 
 court 172 
 
 Taxes: 
 
 (See " School Funds. ") 
 
 
 Text -Books: 
 
 Committee on selection of 
 
 appointed by the Governor 26 
 
 Members, serve six years . , 26-b 
 
 - -Compensation 26-b 
 
 Duties 26, 26-d 
 
 Eligibility 26 
 
 Oath and qualification 26-d 
 
 Secretary 26-d 
 
 Meetings held ; when and where 26-e 
 
 -Report 26-e 26-g 
 
 Elementary books ; when adopted 26-f 
 
 Subjects 26-g 
 
 High school books ; when adopted 26-f 
 
 Subjects 26-g 
 
 Manner of making report 26-e, 26-g 
 
 Library and reference books 26-g 
 
 State Board ; limited to recommendations of . . . 26-h 
 
 Limited as to subjects changed 26-h 
 
 Uniformity, strictly enforced 26-h 
 
 Details of adoption left to 26-i 
 
 Meeting of 26-e 
 
 Limitation of subjects, adopted at any one 
 
 time 26-h 
 
 Details of distribution, etc 26-i 
 
 Depositories may not evade contracts 308-a 
 
 Regulating the price 307 
 
 Uniformity enforced 306, 308 
 
190 
 
 Section 
 Teacher: 
 
 Age limit, minimum, effective 1911-12 313-a 
 
 Agent ; may not act as, for school supplies 108 
 
 Associations : State Teachers' 315 
 
 Parish Teachers'. (See "Institutes and Sum- 
 mer Schools.") 
 Certificates. (See ''Examination and Certificates.") 
 
 Teachers', may be revoked 110, 119, 299 
 
 and contracts necessary to teach 118 
 
 Must be of sufficiently high grade 118 
 
 Health, must be furnished 336 
 
 Compensation of 35-e, 293 
 
 Discharge may result from incompetency 110,119 
 
 Examinations : ( See ' ' Examination and Certificates. ' ' ) 
 
 held under rules of State Board. 109, 300, 311 
 
 fees ; sent to State Superintendent for institute 
 
 fund Ill 
 
 right to examine 77 
 
 papers shall be kept one year 77 
 
 Exempt from jury duty. 216 
 
 High schools ; required to hold first-grade certificates . 323 
 
 Institutes attendance compulsory 100 
 
 Penalty for failure to attend 100 
 
 Compensation while attending 101 
 
 (See "Institutes and Summer Schools.") 
 
 Laws and regulations, must be enforced 217, 285 
 
 Libraries; manager of ; duties in connection with. 21 6-b-d-e 
 
 License and contract necessary to teach 118 
 
 Summer School credits. (See "Institutes and Sum- 
 mer Schools.") 
 
 School month, twenty days 212 
 
 Parish superintendent, nominates 35-b 
 
 notifies of time and place of institutes 100 
 
 Certificate may be revoked by 229, 110, 119, 
 
 Judgment final in suspension of pupils ........ 217 
 
 Contracts signed by 44 
 
 Two certificates may be issued on one exam- 
 ination 116 
 
 Pupils, accountable for disorderly conduct 217, 285 
 
191 
 
 Section 
 
 Suspension, subject to approval of parish su- 
 perintendent 217 
 
 - Testing the eyes and ears of 74 
 
 Fees authorized by law 43 
 
 Records shall be kept 85 
 
 Reports, monthly, prior to receiving pay 85, 120, 217 
 
 Special school days, to be observed: 
 
 Arbor Day 327 
 
 -Bird Day 108-a 
 
 Columbus Day , . 107 
 
 Washington's Birthday 314 
 
 Text-books ; uniformity must be enforced 306 
 
 Treasurer, Parish, of School Funds: 
 
 (See "Parish Superintendent") 
 
 Treasuer, State: 
 
 (See "School Lands.") 
 
 Trustees: 
 
 (See "Parish School Board.") 
 
 Tulane University: 
 
 Acts 43 of '84. 94 of '90, 81 of '60, 320 of '55, 267 of 
 '55, 269 of '55. 
 
 Recognized as created ,.,..... 12 
 
 To* be developed in accordance with A. 43 of 1884 12 
 
 Departments of the University 260 
 
 Powers of the Board of Administrators 261 
 
 By-laws and regulations 262 
 
 Literary honors and degrees 263 
 
 Department of law 264 
 
 Medical department, access to Charity Hospital 265 
 
 Scholarships to be granted; consideration 265-a 
 

 
 
 
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