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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 
 
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RULES FOR THE GOVERNMENT 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Board of President and Directors 
 
 AND 
 
 REGULATIONS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 REVISED BY COMMITTEE ON RULES. ORDERED PRINTED 
 APRIL 14, 1885. 
 
 ST. LOUIS: 
 NIXON-JONES PRINTING CO. 
 
 1885. 
 
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RULES 
 
 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF PRESIDENT AND DIRECTORS 
 
 ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS 
 
 ELECTION OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 RULE 1. All general elections for directors of the St. 
 Louis Public Schools shall be held in the respective wards 
 on the fourth Tuesday in October in each year, and at such 
 place or places as the Board may direct. 
 
 RULE 2. Said elections shall be conducted by two judges 
 and one clerk for each poll at which said elections are to 
 be held, to be appointed by the Board, and sworn to dis- 
 charge faithfully their duty, by some one qualified to 
 administer an oath. The certificates of the judges of the 
 election, signed by them and attested by the clerk, show- 
 ing the full return of all votes polled at such election, and 
 for whom given, shall constitute the credentials of the 
 person having the largest number of votes so returned, and 
 shall entitle him to his seat, as hereinafter provided ; the 
 Board reserving the right to declare null and void the 
 election of any director when it shall deem the same 
 illegal. 
 
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 RULE 3. It shall be the duty of the secretary, in all 
 elections, to furnish to the judges and clerk, at each of the 
 respective polls, a printed form of certificates of return, a 
 box for holding the ballots, and a book with the names of 
 the registered voters; and upon receiving the returns of 
 elections, to preserve the same until the next session of the 
 Board thereafter, and deliver them, sealed, to the presi- 
 dent. Whenever any vacanc}^ shall occur, he shall notify 
 the Board at its first session thereafter, who shall thereupon 
 order a special election to be held, and notice thereof to be 
 published in two or more of the leading newspapers of the 
 city for at least one week prior to the day on which such 
 election is to be held: Provided, always, that no special 
 election shall be held if such vacancy occur within ninety 
 days prior to the regular election for school director in the 
 ward in which such vacancy shall exist. 
 
 RULE 4. It shall be the duty of the judges and clerk to 
 fill said form of certificates of returns with the names of 
 the candidates, and the number of votes each received ; the 
 votes shall be recorded in the book furnished, and num- 
 bered a corresponding number being set opposite the 
 name of each voter, in the same manner as prescribed by 
 the present law regulating elections in St. Louis City. 
 They shall sign and seal the same, and deliver them to the 
 secretary; for which service each judge and clerk shall 
 receive such compensation as the Board may determine. 
 
 RULE 5. The returns being delivered to the president, as 
 hereinbefore provided, he shall open and read them to the 
 Board, and shall ask of each person elected the following 
 questions, which must be answered, under oath, in the 
 affirmative : 
 
 First. Are you a citizen of the United States, and 
 twenty-one years of age? 
 
 Second. Have you paid a city tax? 
 
 Third. Have you resided in the ward from which you 
 were elected, for six months next preceding your election? 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 And the following which must be answered in the nega- 
 tive, in like manner : 
 
 First. Are yon a member of the Board of Municipal 
 Assembly, or do you hold any office under the city of St. 
 Louis, to which you were either elected or appointed? 
 
 .Second. Are you, directly or indirectly, indebted to the 
 Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis Public 
 Schools? 
 
 Third. Are you, directly or indirectly, interested in 
 any real property which is leased of the Public Schools, or 
 that is claimed by them? 
 
 Fourth. Are you directly or indirectly, interested in any 
 claim held adverse to the title of the Public Schools to any 
 of the lands allotted to them or set apart for their use, or 
 to any property which is claimed by them? 
 
 All of which questions being answered, the president 
 shall submit the following proposition to a vote of the 
 Board, to wit: Has the member elect satisfactorily an- 
 swered the questions propounded? which proposition being 
 decided in the affirmative, the person so answering shall 
 take the following oath, and be deemed and declared duly 
 elected and qualified as director, and shall take his seat as a 
 member of the Board : 
 
 STATE OF MISSOURI. \_ 
 CITY OF ST. Louis. f 
 
 I solemnly swear [or affirm] that I will support the Constitution and 
 laws of the United States and of the State of Missouri, and the rules and 
 regulations of the Board of President and Directors of the St. Louis 
 Public Schools, and that I will faithfully demean myself in office as 
 school director, to the best of my knowledge and ability, so help me 
 God. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before me, this day of , 18.. 
 
 [SEAL.] 
 
 CONTESTED ELECTIONS. 
 
 RULE 6. If any party who has been an opposing candi- 
 date, shall desire to contest the election of any director be- 
 
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 fore the Board, he may do so in the manner herein 
 provided, and not otherwise : 
 
 The party contesting shall give to the opposite party a 
 notice, in writing, of his intention to contest, at least fifteen 
 days before the regular session of the Board next succeed- 
 ing the session at which such party has been qualified, and 
 file at the same time a copy of such notice with the secre- 
 tary of the Board. 
 
 The notice so given shall specify in detail the grounds on 
 which the contestant relies, and the names of all voters ob- 
 jected to, with the objections. If the disqualification of 
 the contestee is charged, it shall distinctly state wherein 
 such disqualification consists. 
 
 If the party qualified shall desire to contest any votes 
 given for the contesting party, he shall give to him a notice 
 in writing, within ten days after he is served with notice, 
 specifying such votes, and shall at the same time file a copy 
 of such notice with the secretary of the .Board. 
 
 As soon as the notice of contest is laid before the Board, 
 the president shall refer the same, without debate, to a com- 
 mittee of seven, whose duty it shall be, in conjunction with 
 the attorney, to examine into the matter, and to report at 
 the next regular session of the Board. 
 
 Either party may, on due notice to the other party, take 
 depositions as in civil cases, to be read before the com- 
 mittee, and the committee may summon and examine wit- 
 nesses, under oath, at the instance of either party; but no 
 testimony, whether by depositions or oral, shall be re- 
 ceived by the committee unless it be on a subject specified 
 in the notice of contest, or in the notice given by the party 
 qualified. 
 
 If the Board should, upon the report of the committee, 
 decide that any member whose seat is contested is not duly 
 qualified as a member of the Board, or that the irregularities 
 at the election were such as to render it invalid, it shnli be 
 the duty of the president to order a new election, which 
 
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 shall take place within three weeks from and after such 
 vote of the Board. 
 
 OFFICERS OF THE BOAKD. 
 
 RULE 7. The Board shall at the first regular session in No- 
 vember, or as soon thereafter as maybe, in each year, elect 
 a President and Vice-President from their own number, and 
 at the first regular session in May, 1882, or as soon there- 
 after as may be, and every third year thereafter, the Board 
 shall elect a Superintendent, Secretary and Treasurer, 
 each of whom shall hold his office for three years and until 
 his successor shall be duly elected and qualified, and the 
 same person may be elected to the office of Secretary and 
 Treasurer; and at the first regular session in May, 1882, or 
 as soon thereafter as may be, the Board shall elect a Bailiff 
 and Attorney, each of whom shall hold his office until the 
 second Tuesday in May, 1884; and at the first regular ses- 
 sion in May, 1884, or as soon thereafter as may be, and 
 every third year thereafter, the Board shall elect said offi- 
 cers for three years, and until their successors shall be duly 
 elected and qualified ; and at the first regular session in May, 
 1882, or as soon thereafter as may be, the Board shall elect 
 an Architect, who shall hold his office until the second Tues- 
 day of January, 1883; and at the first regular session in 
 January, 1883, or as soon thereafter as may be, and every 
 third year thereafter, the Board shall elect an Architect and 
 Superintendent of Buildings and Repairs, who shall devote 
 his time exclusively to the duties of his office, and who 
 shall hold his office for three years, and until his successor 
 shall be duly elected and qualified. 
 
 Provided, that any one of the officers of the Board may 
 be removed for cause, at any session, by a majority of all 
 the members elect of the Board; and provided further , that 
 the election of all of said officers shall be by viva voce, and 
 a majority of the votes cast shnll be necessary to elect, and 
 no election of officers shall be held, except at a regular 
 session, or an adjourned session held for that purpose. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 PRESIDENT. 
 
 KULE 8. 1. It shall be the duty of the President to pre- 
 side at all sessions of the Board, preserve order, enforce 
 the rules; sign all bonds, notes, agreements, deeds, or 
 leases, ordered to be executed by the Board; sign all war- 
 rants drawn on the Treasurer, or on the depository of the 
 funds of the Board; appoint all standing cornmitees, 
 and all special committees when not otherwise provided 
 for. The President shall also be custodian of the official 
 bonds of the officers, which shall be recorded in the re- 
 cords of the corporation, and kept at such place as the 
 Board may designate. 
 
 2. It shall be the duty of the President once every 
 year to appoint a committee of three, one of whom 
 shall be a member of the Board, and the two others 
 good accountants and citizens of the city, whose duty it 
 shall be to examine the receipts and expenditures, vouch- 
 ers, books and accounts of the Secretary and Treasurer, 
 and report the condition of the same to the Board, 
 giving the receipts and expenditures on account of each 
 fund separately. They shall also examine the books and 
 accounts of the Bailiff and Supply Agent, and report to the 
 Board their condition, and the cash received and paid into 
 the treasury by each ; and the Board shall appropriate 
 annually, to pay for such services performed, a sum not 
 exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars. 
 
 VICE-PRESIDENT. 
 
 RULE 9. In case of the resignation, absence, or other 
 cause of disability of the President, the Vice- President 
 shall do and perform all the duties of the President. In 
 case of absence or disability of both the president and 
 Vice-President, a president pro tern, shall do and perform 
 all the duties of the President. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 SECRETAKY. 
 
 RULE 10. It shall be the duty of the Secretary (in addi- 
 tion to the duties defined in Rule 3) to record the pro- 
 ceedings of the Board in a book kept for that purpose, and 
 to index the same. This index shall contain, among its 
 captions, also the following headings :- 
 
 1. Resolutions, giving current number, object, date, and 
 page of record. 
 
 '2. Reports, with separate headings for each standing 
 committee and each officer ; and one heading for special 
 committees jointly; giving current number, object, date, 
 and page of record. 
 
 3. Rules, giving current number, object, date, and page 
 of record . 
 
 4. Contracts, giving current number, subject, date, and 
 page of record. 
 
 RULE 11. The Secretary shall attest all public acts of 
 the President, affix thereto, when necessary, the seal of the 
 corporation, and prepare notices to be served on the mem- 
 bers, in due time, of all regular and special sessions of the 
 Board and the committees thereof. 
 
 RULE 12. He shall present to the chairman of each com- 
 mittee, and each officer, a written statement of the busi- 
 ness, and all applications, resolutions, and propositions 
 referred to the same, with such books, plats and docu- 
 ments in possession of the Board as the respective com- 
 mittees may from time to time direct. 
 
 RULE 13. He shall take into his possession all deeds, 
 books, letters and other papers belonging to the corporation, 
 and keep the same in good order, subject at all times to 
 the order of the Board, or the examination of any member 
 thereof, and shall lay before the Board, at each meeting, 
 all letters or other documents left with or directed to him 
 for that purpose. He shall keep the books and accounts of 
 the Public Schools in the manner designated by the Board. 
 
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 All valuable papers shall be passed from officer to officer, 
 upon receipts prepared and registered by the Secretary. 
 
 RULE 14. He shall make out all accounts for moneys 
 due this corporation, and deliver and charge the same to 
 the Bailiff, and furnish to the Board, at each regular session, 
 a statement of receipts and expenditures. He shall deposit 
 daily, in the bank designated by the Board as the repository 
 of its funds, all moneys collected or received by him for 
 the Board. He shall, at the end of each fiscal year, make 
 out a report of the financial condition of the Board, together 
 with a statement of the lands in its possession, whether held 
 in fee simple or under lease ; how disposed of, either by 
 leasing or for school-house sites; the quantity of land un- 
 leased, and where located. 
 
 The Secretary shall coverall moneys lying unclaimed for 
 more than six months preceding, into the general fund, 
 upon the first days of August and February of each year. 
 
 EULE 15. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to possess 
 himself of the necessary knowledge in relation to the real 
 estate owned by this Board, as to its location, condition, 
 and value; and he shall possess himself of such other in- 
 formation as shall be useful to the Board, or to any person 
 having business with the corporation. He shall keep the 
 plats of all the real estate of the Public Schools, represent- 
 ing upon these plats the actual condition of the real estate. 
 He shall also keep a complete register of such real estate, 
 in book form, giving the full description and designation of 
 all lots and parcels of land, with the date and amount of 
 the last valuation placed upon the same, stating the names 
 of lessees where property is leased, or of schools and build- 
 ings where so occupied. 
 
 RULE 16. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to provide 
 a suitable stamp, and to stamp upon all vouchers which 
 shall have been approved by the Board the fact and date of 
 such approval. The rent-roll shall show date and amount 
 paid. 
 
 RULE 17. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to give 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 11 
 
 the necessary information to all parties desirous of pur- 
 chasing or leasing lots; and he shall negotiate with such 
 parties according to the instructions of the Committee on 
 Lands and Leasing, and report to the committee the result 
 of his negotiations. He shall keep a complete lease-record, 
 posted up to date, and shall report every month to the 
 Lands and Leasing Committee what leases, if any, have 
 expired . 
 
 RULE 18. The Secretary shall be authorized to appoint, 
 subject to the approval of the Board, a clerk to assist him 
 in the discharge of his duties during his period of office, at 
 such compensation as may be fixed by the Board. 
 
 RULE 19. The Secretary shall devote himself exclusively 
 to the business of his office. 
 
 RULE 20. He shall give bond, in the sum of fifty thou- 
 sand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties, with 
 such security as shall be approved by the Board ; and if 
 the same person shall be elected Secretary and Treasurer, 
 the bond shall be so drawn as to secure the faithful dis- 
 charge of his duties as Treasurer as well as Secretary. 
 
 TREASURER. 
 
 RULE 21. It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to receive 
 and keep the money and money obligations of this corpor- 
 ation, and to draw out the money deposited in the desig- 
 nated depository of the Board, on checks signed by the 
 President and countersigned by the Treasurer. 
 
 RULE 22. He shall keep a correct and comprehensive 
 account of all moneys received and disbursed, in a book to 
 be kept by him for that purpose, subject to the inspection 
 of any member of the Board. He shall render a state- 
 ment to the Board monthly, and oftener if required. 
 
 RULE 23. He shall give bond, in the sum of five hun- 
 dred thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of his 
 duties, with such security as shall be approved by the 
 Board: Provided, that in case the same person shall be 
 
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 elected Treasurer and Secretary, no additional bond shall 
 be required of him as Treasurer. 
 
 ATTORNEY. 
 
 RULE 24. It shall be the duty of the Attorney to take 
 charge of the legal business of the Board in all the courts 
 of the State and of the United States (his expenses and 
 extra compensation being allowed by the Board when he 
 is required to go out of the city of St. Louis), and to make 
 a report to the Board semi-annually, on the second Tues- 
 day of March and September, of the state of their business 
 in the courts ; and he shall enumerate in such report all 
 undecided claims of the Board, and also report the disposal 
 of such as had been acted upon during the last half-year. 
 He shall attend the sessions of the Board, and give his 
 written opinion on all legal questions referred to him by 
 the Board, or by standing committees; draw all legal in- 
 struments, leases, and other conveyances of the Board, 
 and pay all moneys collected by him for the Board to the 
 Secretary of the Board. 
 
 RULE 25. He shall give bond, in the sum of ten thou- 
 sand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties, with 
 such security us shall be approved by the Board. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
 RULE 26. The Superintendent shall devote himself ex- 
 clusively to the duties of his office, and shall immediately 
 after his election or re-election nominate to the Teacher's 
 Committee a head clerk and two assistant clerks for his 
 office whose nomination the committee shall be required to 
 report to the Board for confirmation or otherwise. The 
 compensation of the clerks shall be fixed by the Board. 
 
 RULE 27. He shall exercise a general supervision over 
 the Public Schools of the city, and to this end shall visit 
 each school at least once in every six months, examine into 
 
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 their condition and progress, and see that all the rules 
 prescribed for their government are faithfully observed. 
 
 RULE 28. He shall inform himself regarding the progress 
 of instruction and discipline in schools in other places, and 
 from time to time suggest appropriate means for the ad- 
 vancement of the Public Schools in this city. 
 
 RULE 29. He shall report, in writing at the end of every 
 quarter, or whenever required by the Board, giving a de- 
 tailed statement of the condition and prospects of the 
 Schools, and recommending such measures for their im- 
 provement as he may deem advisable. Such report shall 
 give the list of Schools, and for each School the average 
 number of pupils belonging, the number of pupils per 
 English teacher, the number of suspensions, and the 
 number of cases of corporal punishment. In the month 
 of November the superintendent shall|report an estimate of 
 the probable increase of pupils for whom seats will need to 
 be provided before the month of September of the ensuing 
 year, specifying, as nearly as may be, the localities in which 
 the school accommodations are inadequate to the wants of 
 the community. He shall make his annual report on or 
 before the first meeting in November following the close of 
 the scholastic year. 
 
 RULE 30. In the event of the building or altering of 
 school houses, he shall communicate to the Board such 
 information on the subject as he may possess, and shall 
 suggest such plans for the same as he may consider most 
 economical, and best for the health and convenience of the 
 pupils arid teachers. 
 
 RULE 31. He shall make investigations as to the condition 
 and number of children in the city who are not receiving 
 the benefits of education, and shall endeavor to ascertain 
 the reasons, and suggest the remedies. 
 
 RULE 32. He shall attend all sessions of the Board, and, 
 when requested, those of the standing committees. 
 
 RULE 33. He, or one of his assistants, shall be present 
 at the office of the Board every day between the hours of 
 
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 four and five o'clock, p. M., to attend to such office business 
 as pertains to his department, provided, however, that he 
 shall be present himself at the above mentioned time on 
 three days of the week. 
 
 RULE 34. He shall prepare the forms for the necessary 
 school registers, books of record, and blanks for the use 
 of teachers. 
 
 RULE 35. He shall supervise and certify to the semi- 
 quarterly pay-rolls of the teachers, as returned by the prin- 
 cipals of the several schools. 
 
 RULE 36. The Assistant Superintendents shall aid the 
 Superintendent in performing the work devolving upon him 
 by the rules and regulations of the Board; and they shall, 
 further, occupy their whole time, during the sessions of the 
 schools, in visiting the various departments of the same, 
 except when required by the Superintendent to assist him 
 in the performance of other duties. They shall, fur- 
 ther, report to the Superintendent weekly, or oftener, 
 giving the details of their observations in the schools, 
 and recommending such measures as they deem conducive 
 to the interests of the same. 
 
 BAILIFF. 
 
 RULE 37. It shall be the duty of the Bailiff to take charge 
 of and protect the real estate held by the Board from any 
 trespass, wrong, or injury; to prevent any person from 
 taking possession of said real estate without permission of 
 the Board ; to inform the Board, from time to time, when 
 anv person shall be in the adverse possession of any of said 
 real estate, and order such person away from the same. 
 
 RULE 38. He shall exercise a general supervision over 
 the tenants of the Board, collect all bills placed in his 
 hands by the Secretary, and report the names of all delin- 
 quents to the Leasing Committee, and shall continue to re- 
 port the same until all delinquents have paid up, or are 
 released by the Board, or otherwise disposed of. All rents 
 
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 and other moneys collected or received by said Bailiff shall 
 be paid to the Secretary of the Board daily. 
 
 The Bailiff shall balance accounts with the Secretary on 
 the first day of each month, and file with him a list of rent- 
 bills paid during the month previous. 
 
 EULE 39. The Bailiff shall act as the clerk of the Audit- 
 ing Committee; shall attend its sessions, and perform all 
 duties designated by that committee. 
 
 He shall receive and register, for the inspection and ex- 
 amination of the Auditing Committee, all accounts and bills 
 presented against the Board; and in the register of bills, 
 he shall, for each bill, refer to the proper record, authority, 
 or rule, upon which such bill is based, giving, in every in- 
 stance, date, page, and time of record, or page and number 
 of rules, 
 
 The Bailiff shall also act as sergeant-at-arms at the ses- 
 sions of the Board. 
 
 It shall be the duty of the Bailiff to examine, from time 
 to time, the condition of all property owned by or mort- 
 gaged to the Board, and see that all taxes are paid thereon 
 when due, and that the interests of the Board are fully pro- 
 tected therein. He shall also investigate all sources of 
 revenue of the Board, and report thereon from time to time. 
 He shall report to the January meeting of the Board all 
 property on which taxes are delinquent. 
 
 RULE 40. He shall attend to any other business or order 
 of the Board which is not required to be attended to by 
 any other officer thereof, except as herein otherwise pro- 
 vided. 
 
 RULE 41. He shall be present at the office of the Board 
 every day, from eleven o'clock A. M. to one o'clock p. M. 
 
 RULE 42. No act, contract, transaction, or proceeding 
 of said Bailiff, except his receipt for rent, shall bind the 
 Board, or injure or prejudice any right, title, or interest of, 
 in, or to any property held by the Board. 
 
 RULE 43. Said Bailiff shall give bond, payable to this 
 
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 corporation, with such security as shall be approved by the 
 Board, in the sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned that 
 he will deliver to and pay over to this corporation, and 
 account for all money, books, papers, maps, evidences 
 of debt, and other property and effects of this Board that 
 may come into his possession or control, and that he will in 
 all things faithfully discharge his duties as such bailiff. 
 
 ARCHITECT. 
 
 RULE 44. 1. It shall be the duty of the Architect to draft 
 all necessary plans, specifications, contracts, etc., that may 
 be required for the execution of all new buildings, repairs, 
 and improvements that may be decided upon by the Board 
 or the Building Committee. 
 
 2. He shall take charge of the execution of all such 
 work connected with the schools and school property, and 
 superintend it, from its inception to its final completion. 
 
 3. He shall submit to the committee all estimates of 
 costs for all work that may be ordered, and also prepare 
 all accounts for the approval of the Building Committee. 
 
 4. He shall act as Secretary of the Building Committee, 
 and shall keep a faithful and accurate account of all the 
 proceedings of the committee, and a record of all accounts 
 of repairs, expenses, etc., for the information of the Build- 
 ing Committee, and for the purposes of reports, etc. 
 
 5. He shall be allowed such assistance for drafting, 
 local superintendence, and clerical duties, as in the judg- 
 ment of the Building Committee is deemed necessary. 
 
 6. He shall have general charge and supervision over 
 all school buildings and premises, the yards, outhouses, 
 etc., and also of the furniture, heating apparatus, etc. 
 
 7. He shall have supervision of all school property 
 yielding revenue, that may require repairs. 
 
 8. He shall report all repairs of schools or school prop 
 erty to the Building Committee, and execute the work as 
 ordered by the Building Committee. 
 
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 9. He shall have general supervision over janitors, see- 
 ing that their duties are properly attended to. 
 
 10. He shall keep such record of their work as may be 
 useful for the information of the Building Committee. 
 
 11. He shall keep office hours at the Polytechnic office, 
 from 4: SO o'clock to 6 p. M. 
 
 12. He shall report to the Board at each regular meeting 
 all expenditures, on account of repairs, incurred during the 
 month. 
 
 13. He shall turn over at the termination of his office 
 the superintendence of all buildings and improvements 
 then in process of erection or construction, to his successor 
 in office, and shall deliver all duplicate plans, specifications 
 and contracts to the chairman of the Building Committee 
 without delay. 
 
 14. It shall be the duty of the Architect to prepare 
 vouchers for all bills for repairs and work done, and for all 
 articles and material furnished, authorized by himself or 
 the Building Committee, if he shall find them correct, and 
 if approved by the Building Committee, and the Auditing 
 Committee, and ordered paid by the Board, they shall be pre- 
 sented to the Secretary for payment, and when paid the Sec- 
 tary shall take a receipt on the vouchers from the parties in 
 whose favor the bills may be allowed ; and the vouchers, 
 bills, and receipts shall remain on file in the Secretary's 
 office ; and the Architect shall make, or cause to be made, 
 duplicates of all such bills and vouchers, and file the same 
 in his office, subject to be referred to by the Building Com- 
 mittee, or any member of the Board. 
 
 15. He shall be present at all meetings of the Auditing 
 Committee held for the purpose of auditing bills, and shall 
 give such information relating to the same as may be 
 required by said committee. 
 
 RULE 45. For the faithful performance of his duties, as 
 above specified, he shall give bond in the sum of ten thou- 
 sand dollars, with securities approved by the Board. 
 
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 COMMITTEES AND THEIR DUTIES. 
 
 RULE 46. The President shall appoint, at the regular 
 session in November, or as soon thereafter as may be, the 
 following standing committees, of each of which be shall 
 be a member ex officio^ viz. : 
 
 1. Auditing Committee, consisting of three members. 
 
 2. Teachers Committee, consisting of seven members. 
 
 3. Committee on Lands and Leasing, consisting of seven 
 members. 
 
 4. Committee on Supplies, consisting of seven members. 
 
 5. Committee on Course of Study, consisting of seven 
 members. 
 
 6. Building Committee, consisting of seven members. 
 
 7. Committee on Ways and Means, consisting of seven 
 members. 
 
 8. Committee on Salaries, consisting of five members. 
 
 9. Library Committee, consisting of seven members. 
 
 10. Committee on Eules, consisting of five members. 
 EULE 47. The Teachers Committee, Committee on Lands 
 
 and Leasing, Committee on Supplies, and Building Com- 
 mittee, shall consist of one member from each district, the 
 districts to be composed as follows: The Eleventh, Twenty- 
 second, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-fifth Wards shall 
 constitute the First District ; the Ninth, Twenty-first, Twenty- 
 sixth and Twenty-seventh Wards, the Second District; the 
 Fifth, Seventh, Thirteenth, and Nineteenth Wards, the 
 Third District ; the First, Third, Fifteenth, and Seven- 
 teenth Wards, the Fourth District ; the Second, Tenth, 
 Eighteenth, and Twenty-eighth Wards, the Fifth District; 
 the Fourth, Twelfth, Fourteenth, and Twentieth Wards, 
 the Sixth District ; and the Sixth, Eighth, Sixteenth, and 
 Twenty-third Wards, the Seventh District. Four members 
 of any one of said committees shall constitute a quorum for 
 the transaction of business. The Library Committee shall 
 
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 consist of seven members of the Board, besides the Presi- 
 dent and Vice-President, and the same shall be ex officio 
 members of the Board of Managers of the Public Library. 
 RULE 48. Every standing committee of the Board shall 
 keep a record of its proceedings, which shall be kept at the 
 office of the Board, subject to the inspection of all members. 
 All committees shall cause the reports of their actions taken 
 , before the Friday last preceding the regular meeting of the 
 Board, to be printed, and copies of the same to be mailed 
 to all members of the Board on or before the Saturday last 
 preceding such regular meeting; provided, however, that 
 any committee may meet after the Thursday last preceding 
 a regular meeting and report their action to the Board, 
 without having previously sent printed copies of the report 
 of the actions of such meetings to the members. No report 
 purporting to be the regular action of the committee shall be 
 presented to the Board, unless acted upon and signed by a 
 majority of the committee. It shall be the privilege of 
 every member of this Board to be present at any and all 
 committee meetings; and, for this purpose, members of 
 this Board may require the usual notification of the secre- 
 retary ; but at the committee meetings, only the members of 
 the committee shall be entitled to vote ; nor shall any other 
 person speak in the committee to any question, unless in- 
 vited for that specific purpose by a unanimous vote of the 
 committee. Meetings of all committees (except the 
 Teachers Committee) shall be public; provided, that any 
 committee may go into executive session ; and provided, 
 further, that by a unanimous vote of the Teachers Commit- 
 tee, persons other than members of the Board may be ad- 
 mitted to the sessions of that committee. Members who 
 fail to attend three consecutive meetings of any committee, 
 shall lose their membership in such committee, unless they 
 have been prevented from attending by sickness or absence 
 from the city. In such cases the President shall make a 
 new appointment. 
 
20 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 AUDITING COMMITTEE. 
 
 RULE 49. It shall be the duty of the Auditing Committee 
 to examine monthly, or oftener if required, every bill or 
 claim presented to the Board for payment ; to examine the 
 Treasurer's and Secretary's books and accounts, and report 
 thereon at the first regular sessions in August, November, 
 February and May, and oftener if required ; and said re- 
 ports shall state in detail the condition of each appropria- 
 tion, to wit : the original appropriation, and the unexpended 
 balance remaining to the credit of the same ; and no claim 
 of any amount for money due from the Board is to be paid 
 or settled until the same has been examined by them and 
 submitted to the Board for its action thereon ; and no offi- 
 cer connected with this Board shall pay any money (or sign 
 any check, warrant or bond in lieu thereof), on any demand, 
 until it has been approved as above stated; but this section 
 shall not extend to contracts expressly made by the Board, 
 nor to salaries, nor to bills amounting to less than one hun- 
 dred dollars, ordered by the Building Committee for re- 
 pairs, nor to bills of ten dollars and under, which are to be 
 paid out of the contingent fund; but all bills paid on ac- 
 count of contracts, salaries, and from the contingent fund, 
 shall be placed monthly before the Auditing Committee, 
 and examined by the same, and reported on at the next reg- 
 ular session of the Board. All certificates of committees 
 on bills originating in contracts shall designate the contract 
 under which they originate, and refer to the. date of record 
 on which the same was approved by the Board. 
 
 Provided, that no payment on any account (except sums 
 of five dollars or under out of the contingent fund), shall 
 be paid by any officer, until the account or claim has been 
 examined by the bailiff and duly certified by him. 
 
 RULE 50. 1. All bills which are presented for auditing or 
 payment, to committees or officers of the Board, must be 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 21 
 
 attached to a printed blank, which shall contain on the in- 
 side, the date of presentation, name of the party to whom 
 payment is due, designation of merchandise or kind of ser- 
 vice rendered, the amount due, in numbers and words, the 
 certificate of correctness of the proper authority, and a 
 blank receipt, to be filled out and signed upon payment. 
 The outside of each blank shall be appropriately headed as 
 " St. Louis Public School Voucher," with the proper blank 
 place marked for the year, the number of the voucher, 
 the name of the receiver, the amount, and the signature of 
 the chairman of the Auditing Committee. 
 
 2. All bills presented for auditing shall be countersigned 
 by the proper committee or authority which gave the order 
 for the same. 
 
 3. All bills audited shall be countersigned and marked 
 with the current number by the Auditing Committee, com- 
 mencing each year with No. 1. 
 
 4. Separate bills shall be rendered for the furniture, re- 
 pairs, and current expenses for each school. 
 
 TEACHERS COMMITTEE. 
 
 RULE 51. The Teachers Committee shall have supervision 
 of the examination of all applicants for situations as teachers, 
 and keep a book of "record for the same for the inspection of 
 of the Board. 
 
 RULE 52. They shall adopt such rules in regard to the 
 examination of teachers as they may deem proper. 
 
 RULE 53. They shall, in connection with the superintend- 
 ent, make nominations to fill new situations, whenever 
 they occur, subject to the approval of the Board. 
 
 RULE 54. They shall have the power to transfer teachers, 
 to suspend them, and to make temporary appointments in 
 case of vacancies occurring; but such action shall be reported 
 to the Board for its final decision. 
 
 RULE 55. They shall constitute the standing committee 
 on the Normal School, and shall visit the same as often as 
 practicable, note the methods of discipline and instruction, 
 
22 KULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 and the progress of the students, and report, at the close of 
 the fourth quarter, the members recommended for gradua- 
 tion. They shall cause the withdrawal from the Normal 
 School of all pupils who do not, after a reasonable trial > 
 manifest such qualities as will render them successful 
 teachers. 
 
 EULE 56. They shall visit the High School as often as 
 practicable, examine into the discipline and mode of in- 
 struction of each teacher, note the progress made by the 
 several classes, and report to the Board, at the close of the 
 second and fourth quarters, the names of the pupils recom- 
 mended for graduation. 
 
 RULE 57. They shall, in connection with the Superin- 
 tendent, take charge of the O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute 
 and the Evening Schools, and recommend suitable teachers 
 for the same. They shall visit said Institute and schools 
 as often as practicable, and report to the Board, from time 
 to time, the registration of pupils, the character of attend- 
 ance, and such other information as may furnish the 
 Board with a correct view of the condition and usefulness 
 of the same. 
 
 RULE 58. The Teachers Committee shall nominate to the 
 Board, at the first regular session in June, 1882, or as soon 
 thereafter as may be, and every third year thereafter, two 
 assistant superintendents, one of whom shall be proficient 
 in the German language. They shall also report the Super- 
 intendent's nominations of a head clerk and two assistant 
 clerks for the Superintendent' s office, at the first regular meet- 
 ing of the Board succeeding the election or re-election of the 
 Superintendent. The head clerk of the Superintendent's 
 office shall act as secretary of the Teachers, Rules and 
 Course of Study Committees, and of all joint committees 
 in which either of the above committees is a party. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON LANDS AND LEASING. 
 
 RULE 59. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Lands 
 and Leasing to consider and report on all claims to real 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 23 
 
 estate in which the Board is interested, and on such other 
 matters pertaining to hinds and leases as may be referred to 
 said committee. 
 
 RULE 60. The Committee on Lands and Leasing shall 
 have a general supervision over all the lands belonging to 
 the Board ; and all matters relating to the leasing of prop- 
 erty shall be referred: to them, and it shall be their duty to 
 report thereon as soon as practicable. They shall also ap- 
 point an appraiser whenever necessary. 
 
 RULE 61. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Lands 
 and Leasing, in the month of March in each year, to cause 
 a valuation to be made of the real estate of the Board held 
 for revenue purposes, and to cause the Bailiff to place a 
 notice on each parcel of unleased land, that the same is 
 offered for sale or lease. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON SUPPLIES. 
 
 RULE 62. It shall be the duty of the Committe on Sup- 
 plies to exercise a general supervision over the purchase, 
 distribution, and consumption of supplies used in the 
 schools. 
 
 . RULE 63. In the month of May, of each year, they shall 
 advertise for one week in one daily morning newspaper of 
 the city, printed in the English language, for bids for the 
 various supplies needed during the next scholastic year, 
 stating in detail the amount and kind of articles required, 
 the time of delivery, and the time when such bids will be 
 opened. Such bids may be called under the name of the 
 article, when the same has an established name in trade, 
 or in conformity with samples selected and open for inspec- 
 tion at the office of the Board, or with accompanying 
 samples, as the Committee on Supplies may determine. 
 Bids shall be made separately for each article, nor shall any 
 combination bid be entertained. All bids shall be opened 
 by the committee when in session, and the awards shall be 
 immediately made, article by article, to the lowest bidder; 
 and be subject to the approval of the Board ; and whenever 
 
24 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 supplies needed at any other time of the year shall exceed 
 in value three hundred dollars, they shall be procured by 
 the Supply Committee in the above specified manner. In 
 case of failure to receive satisfactory bids, the committee 
 shall continue to advertise, from time to time, until such 
 demands are satisfied. All persons proposing to furnish 
 supplies to the Board, of any kind, at a given price, shall 
 accompany their bid 01 bids with a bond, executed by two 
 or more persons, in such amounts as may be required by 
 the Committee on Supplies, as security for the faithful 
 performance of any contract which shall be awarded to 
 them pursuant to said proposals. Said bond shall be filed 
 with the contract so awarded. 
 
 Any bidder desiring to bid for the furnishing of supplies 
 and not wishing to give bond, shall accompany his bid with 
 a certified check, payable to the order of the Board, to an 
 amount equal to one-fourth the value of the gross amount 
 of the articles bid for, which check shall be returned to 
 him as soon as the bid is awarded, provided his proposal is 
 rejected; but in case of the awarding of any contract to 
 him, then the check, or as much as will equal one-fourth of 
 the contract awarded, shall be retained in the hands of the 
 Board, as long as the committee deem it necessary, as 
 security for the faithful carrying out of said contract ; 
 and should he fail in so doing, then the check shall be 
 forfeited to the Board as damages. 
 
 RULE 64. The Supply Committee shall nominate to the 
 Board at the first regular session in June, 1882, or as soon 
 thereafter as may be, and every third year thereafter, a 
 Supply Agent and Supply Clerk who shall hold their office 
 for three years, and until their successors shall be duly 
 appointed and qualified. 
 
 RULE 65. It shall be their duty to supervise the printing 
 of all reports, forms, blanks, etc,, required by the various 
 departments of the schools under the Board, to secure 
 bids for such work, and to make contracts for the same, 
 under the sanction of the Board. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 25 
 
 DUTIES OF SUPPLY AGENT. 
 
 RULE 66. 1. It shall be the duty of the supply agent to 
 take charge of the supplies and text books, furniture and 
 all other personal property of the Board, and attend to 
 the distribution of the same, under the supervision of the 
 appropriate committee, and shall be secretary of the Com- 
 mittee on Supplies. 
 
 2. He shall make all purchases required upon proper 
 requisition, which shall be approved by the committee, 
 and accompany the bill, and be filed with the vouchers cer- 
 tifying to the correctness of the same as to receipt and 
 value. 
 
 3. He shall keep two separate and distinct accounts, as 
 follows: 1. Supplies (comprising text-books for indigent 
 pupils, apparatus, and special items), for the general use 
 of the schools. 2. Text-books for sale (including all 
 all text-books, slates, and such other articles as the Com- 
 mittee on Supplies may elect), to be sold for cash to the 
 patrons of the schools, at first cost, with the necessary ex- 
 pense of handling added, and shall daily turn over all 
 moneys received to the Treasurer, taking due receipt 
 therefor. 
 
 4. He shall keep an account in detail of the supplies is- 
 sued to the several schools upon the regular order of the 
 Principal or teacher in charge thereof, showing quantity 
 and value issued, and report to the Board at its regular 
 meetings in February and August. He shall also keep an 
 aggregate stock book, which shall exhibit the total re- 
 ceipts and disbursements for any given month in the 
 school year. 
 
 5. After the close of each school year, the Supply 
 Agent shall cause an inventory to be taken of all furniture 
 and effects, and other supplies in the Schools, and preserve 
 the same in a well bound book for reference. 
 
26 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 6. He shall keep an account of text-books for sale, 
 furnished the Principals in a separate book, and shall re- 
 quire of them a semi-quarterly statement of amounts re- 
 ceived, sold, and remaining on hand. He shall also receive 
 all moneys for text-books sold, from Principals and pupils, 
 and keep a correct account of the same in a separate 
 book. 
 
 7. For the faithful discharge of his duties he shall give 
 a. bond for five thousand dollars, with two or more securi- 
 ties, to be approved by the Board. 
 
 8. The Supply Agent, under the supervision of the Sup- 
 ply Committee, shall be the Purchasing Agent, through 
 whom all articles needed by the Public Schools or the 
 Board, committees or authorized officers, shall be purchased, 
 and it shall be his duty, upon the requisition of the Board 
 Committee or duly authorized officers, to purchase, under 
 such rules as may be prescribed by the Board, such articles 
 as may be specified in such requisition. 
 
 9. It shall be the duty of the Supply Agent to pre- 
 pare vouchers for all bills of supplies, and for all articles 
 and material furnished, authorized by the Supply Commit- 
 tee, if he shall find them correct ; and if approved by the 
 Supply Committee, and the Auditing Committee, and or- 
 dered paid by the Board, they shall be presented to the 
 Secretary for payment, and when paid, the Secretary shall 
 take a receipt on the vouchers from the parties in whose 
 favor the bills may be allowed, and the vouchers, bills, and 
 receipts shall remain on file in the Secretary's office ; and the 
 Supply Agent shall make or cause to be made, duplicates of 
 all such bills and vouchers, and file the same in the office of 
 the supply department, for reference thereto by the Supply 
 Committee or any member of the Board. 
 
 10. He shall be present at all meetings of the Auditing 
 Committee, held for the purpose of auditing bills, and shall 
 give such information relating to the same, as may be re- 
 quired by said committee. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 27 
 
 COMMITTEE ON COURSE O*F STUDY. 
 
 RULE. 67. The Committee on Course of Study shall have, 
 in connection with the Superintendent, the general direction 
 of the course of study, and the selection of text-books and 
 apparatus to be used in the Public Schools, subject always to 
 the sanction of the Board. Any change proposed in the 
 course of study, or any proposition for the introduction of 
 a new text-book, or publication, or any revised or amended 
 edition of one already in use, shall be referred to this com- 
 mittee for consideration and report. Such reports shall 
 state the reason for or against the introduction of the-same: 
 provided, that whenever a new text-book or copy-book for 
 the use of scholars is recommended by the committee, for 
 introduction in the District Schools, the Superintendent shall 
 furnish every member of the Board with a copy of the book, 
 and the statement of the price of the same. A copy of 
 the book shall also be furnished to the St. Louis Public 
 Library. 
 
 RULE 68. Changes in text-books shall only be made dur- 
 ing the months of March, April, or May, at a regular or 
 special meeting, in pursuance of a resolution introduced at 
 the preceding regular meeting of the Board, and shall only 
 take effect with the commencement of the ensuing scholastic 
 
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 year : provided^ that a change of text-books for the Nor- 
 mal and High Schools may be made at any meeting of the 
 Board, when recommended by the Committee on Course 
 of Study, and that such a change may take effect at any 
 time. 
 
 RULE 69. Changes in text-books shall only be made on 
 consultation with the Superintendent, and, for the District 
 Schools, only on the basis of an even exchange for all books 
 in the hands of the pupils and those on hand in the Supply 
 Department. The publishing house getting the contract to 
 furnish the new book is to exchange all books on hand with- 
 out any expense whatever to the Board, or the patrons of 
 the Public Schools. 
 
28 KULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 BUILDING COMMITTEE. 
 
 RULE 70. It shall be the duty of the Building Committee 
 to take charge of all buildings, furniture, heating appara- 
 tus, and fixtures, and, whenever any new building is wanted, 
 suggest the best plan therefor. 
 
 All work on new buildings, and all repairs and additions 
 costing more than three hundred dollars, shall be let by 
 contract to the lowest and best bidder. No bid exceeding 
 one thousand dollars shall be entertained unless accom- 
 panied by a deposit of two hundred dollars, which shall be 
 declared forfeited if the accepted party fails to respond to 
 the award. All 1 bids for new buildings, and for additions 
 to old ones, shall be invited through the press of the city, 
 at least seven days before the same are to be opened ; and 
 the committee shall cause to be p'repared two bulletin 
 boards, one of which shall be placed in the Acrhitect's office, 
 and the other in the Mechanic's Exchange, upon which they 
 shall cause to be posted a notice of all work for which bids 
 are demanded under this rule. All bids shall be opened by 
 the committee when in session, and the award or rejection 
 shall immediately be made, and be final as far as the Build- 
 ing Committee is concerned. The committee shall report 
 at the first session of the Board in the month of January, 
 such plans for the erection and enlargement of school- 
 houses* as the Board may have resolved upon, in conse- 
 quence of the November report of the Superintendent, in 
 order to meet the increased demand for school room by the 
 month of September of the next scholastic year. 
 
 RULE 71. They shall, in the month of May, and oftener 
 if required, examine into the state of the buildings belong- 
 ing to this Board, and report what fixtures, painting, 
 repairs, and alterations may be required, and furnish an 
 estimate of the cost of the same ; and any repairs, the cost 
 of which exceeds one hundred dollars, shall not be allowed 
 without the sanction of the Board; but said committee 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 29 
 
 shall be empowered to order repairs whenever the same are 
 necessary for the protection of the property of the Board. 
 
 EULE 72. It shall be the duty of the Building Committee, 
 in conjunction with the Architect, to make all necessary 
 arrangements for the care of the school buildings and pre- 
 mises, and to appoint all janitors and engineers required by 
 the Board, or to dismiss the same whenever, in their opinion, 
 the interests of the schools require it, subject, however, to 
 the approval of the Board. They shall have power and au- 
 thority to prescribe, regulate, and alter the duties of said 
 employes. 
 
 RULE 73. It shall be the duty of this committee to 
 inspect, as often as practicable, the several school-houses, 
 and note their condition in respect to cleanliness, ventila- 
 tion, heating, and general sanitary regulations, and to 
 recommend to the Board from time to time, such measures 
 as they deem conducive to the welfare of the schools. 
 
 COMMITTEE OF WAYS AND MEANS. 
 
 RULE 74. The Ways and Means Committee shall report 
 to the Board during the month of May of each year, an esti- 
 mate of the revenues available for current expenses for the 
 succeeding fiscal year, and shall at the same time recom- 
 mend to the Board appropriations to be made for the 
 expenditures of such year in accordance with those esti- 
 mates. The amount appropriated for teachers' salaries 
 shall be referred to the Joint Committee of Salaries and 
 Teachers ; the amount appropriated for engineers' and jani- 
 tors' salaries shall be referred to the Joint Committee of 
 Salaries and Building ; the amount appropriated to salaries 
 and officers and their clerks, shall be referred to the Joint 
 Committee of Salaries and Ways and Means ; said commit- 
 tees to report in the month of June. 
 
 The aggregate appropriations for the succeeding fiscal 
 year shall not exceed the income provided for that year. 
 
 RULE 75. A general account shall be kept by the Secre- 
 
30 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 tary, crediting the estimated revenues for each year, and 
 charging the appropriations made by the Board. A special 
 special account shall be kept with each appropriation, and 
 the liabilities created against same, charged therein, so that 
 the unexpended balance, if any, may be ascertained at a 
 glance. No liability shall be created by the Board or any 
 committee, unless an appropriation therefor shall have there- 
 tofore been made. 
 
 RULE 76. They shall report, in the month of January, the 
 amount of money available for improvements and additional 
 school accommodations during the current year. 
 
 RULE 77. All resolutions involving an expenditure above 
 five hundred dollars, and which are not covered by previous 
 estimates, shall be referred to this committee. 
 
 RULE 78. They shall, in connection with the President, 
 under the direction of the Board, make such loans as may 
 be necessary to meet the current expenses or maturing ob- 
 ligations of the Board, and shall from time to time report 
 on its financial condition. All bonds of officers shall be 
 referred to this committee for report. 
 
 RULE 79. They shall, at the close of each fiscal year, ex- 
 amine the books of the Board, and recommend such change 
 of system in the keeping of the accounts and records as 
 they may deem advisable. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON SALARIES. 
 
 RULE 80. It shall be the duty of the Committee on 
 Salaries to consider and report, as hereafter provided, 
 upon all matters relating to salaries of employes of the 
 Board. 
 
 1. In the annual adjustment of salaries, the Committee on 
 Salaries shall act in conjunction with the Teachers Commit- 
 tee in regard to the salaries of teachers ; as to the salaries 
 of engineers and janitors, in conjunction with the Building 
 Committee ; as to the salaries of officers and their clerks, in 
 conjunction with the Committee on Ways and Means. The 
 schedules of salaries to be paid during the following fiscal 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 31 
 
 year shall be reported to the Board, in the month of June of 
 each year, by the Joint Committee on Salaries and Teachers, 
 the Joint Committee on Salaries and Building, and the 
 Joint Committee on Salaries and Ways and Means. 
 
 2. After the adoption of the schedule of salaries, no 
 changes shall be made in the salaries of officers and clerks 
 during the succeeding fiscal year. Upon all changes pro- 
 posed during the fiscal year in the salaries of individual teach- 
 ers, or engineers and janitors, after the adoption of the salary 
 schedule, the Committee on Salary shall act in conjunction 
 with the Teachers and BuildingCommittees respectively ; but 
 no such change shall be made without the concurrence of 
 two-thirds of all the members of the Board. 
 
 LIBRARY COMMITTEE 
 
 RULE 81. It shall be the duty of the Library Committee 
 to represent the Board in the Board of Managers of the St. 
 Louis Public Library, and to report their transactions and 
 recommendations. They shall also report such nominations 
 as such Board of Managers may make for offices of emol- 
 ument under them, and the proposed salaries of such offi- 
 cers, for approval and confirmation by this Board ; and, if 
 the Board shall not confirm such nominations, the Library 
 Board shall have the privilege of making new nominations 
 at the next regular meeting of the Board; but, if it should 
 fail so to do, or if such nominations should not be approved 
 by the Board, then the election of such officers and the de- 
 termination of their salaries, shall be made directly by the 
 School Board. The Library Committee shall take into con- 
 sideration all matters pertaining to the library, and devise 
 means for increasing the usefulness of the same in the 
 schools, and in the community at large, and report the same 
 to the Board quarterly. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON RULES. 
 
 RULE 82. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Rules 
 to consider and report on all matters pertaining to the 
 
32 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 change or alteration of the rules for the government of the 
 Board, or of the schools under their charge; and all propo- 
 sitions made with a view to the amendment of the rules, or 
 to the introduction of new regulations, shall be referred to 
 this committee for report. 
 
 RULE 83. They shall, from time to time, whenever the 
 rules are to be published in the annual report, prepare such 
 revisions and modifications of rules and regulations as they 
 find necessary, for the proper codification of the same, and 
 submit them to the Board for action. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 RULE 84. 1. The Principal of the Normal School, the 
 Principal and Assistant Principals of the High Schools, shall, 
 in conjunction with the Superintendent and Assistant Super- 
 intendents, constitute a Committee of Examiners, and shall 
 select from their number a chairman and secretary. It 
 shall be the duty of this committee to examine applicants 
 for situations as teachers in the Normal, High and District 
 Schools, and to keep a record of all such examinations, and 
 to report the result of the same to the Teachers Committee, 
 in accordance with such regulations as said committee may 
 prescribe. 
 
 2. There shall be two grades of examinations of appli- 
 cants for the position of teacher in the schools, viz. : one 
 for the position of principal of a District School, or assist- 
 ant in the Normal and High Schools, and one for the posi- 
 tion of assistant in the District Schools. 
 
 3. The examination of applicants for the position of prin- 
 cipal of a District School, or assistant in the Normal and 
 High Schools, shall be held regularly each year, beginning 
 on the second Monday of January and July, and shall 
 continue from day to day until completed. The Committee 
 of Examiners may, for sufficient reasons, hold special 
 examinations of applicants for the position of principal of 
 a District School or assistant in the Normal and High 
 Schools. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 33 
 
 4. The Examining Committee for Kindergarten directors 
 and paid assistants, shall consist of the Kindergarten Super- 
 visors and Kindergarten Normal Instructors. 
 
 5. The examination of applicants for the position of 
 assistant in the District Schools, and of director and paid 
 assistant in the Kindergartens, shall be held at such time as 
 may be decided upon by the Board. 
 
 RULE 85. All officers of the Board, at the expiration of 
 their term of service, or on being removed, shall respectively 
 deliver over to their successors in office all books, papers, 
 and money that may be in their hands belonging to this 
 corporation. 
 
 RULE 86. The non-attendance of any member, for two 
 consecutive regular sessions, of which the usual notice has 
 been served upon him, may be construed by the Board as 
 a resignation of his seat, unless he is prevented from 
 attending by sickness or absence from the city, or for a 
 reason satisfactory to the Board, and a new election shall 
 be ordered, as in cases of resignation. 
 
 RULE 87. No member of the Board of President and 
 Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, or any officer or 
 employe of the Board, shall be directly or indirectly inter- 
 ested in contracts for building or repairing school-houses, 
 or in furnishing supplies to the schools, or to the Board ; 
 and whenever, in the judgment of the President, reliable 
 information shall have been received that any director has 
 become so interested, he shall notify the Board of such 
 fact, and convene it, as soon as practicable, to hear and 
 determine, the same ; and if, by a two-thirds vote of the 
 Board, he be found so interested, his seat shall be declared 
 vacant, and the President shall issue a proclamation for an 
 election to fill the vacancy. 
 
 RULE 88. Any employe of the Board who shall be- 
 come interested in any contracts, etc., as mentioned in 
 Rule 87, shall be immediately dismissed from the service of 
 the Board. 
 
 RULE 89. Whenever a report of any committee of this 
 
34 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 Board shall recommend the appointment or dismissal of 
 any teacher, or other employe of the Board, or the pur- 
 chase of any school site, or the erection of any school 
 building, or the sale or lease of any real estate of the Board, 
 or any action involving an appropriation of money, or levy 
 of tax, such recommendation shall not be acted upon at the 
 meeting to which the report is made, but shall be de- 
 ferred to the next succeeding regular or adjourned meeting 
 of the Board : Provided, that this rule may be suspended, 
 and such recommendation acted upon at the same meeting 
 to which the report is made, by a two-thirds vote of the 
 members present, on call of yeas and nays; and, provided, 
 also, that this rule shall not be construed as repealing or 
 changing the existing provisions for auditing bills, now 
 contained in Rule 50. 
 
 RULE 90. It shall be the duty of the President of this 
 Board, each year, immediately after the selection of the 
 depository of the school moneys for the succeeding year, 
 to notify the treasurer of the State of Missouri, and the 
 collector of the city of St. Louis, to make all payments of 
 money apportioned, belonging, or distributed to this Board, 
 and which it is their duty under the law to pay to this 
 Board, only to such depository; and said officers shall, 
 upon making such deposits, take from said depository 
 duplicate receipts therefor, one of which shall be retained 
 by the officer making the deposit, and the other forwarded 
 by him immediately to the Secretary of this Board. 
 
 RULE 91. Teachers' salaries shall be paid in the following 
 manner: At the time of each semi-quarterly payment, the, 
 the President and Treasurer shall draw a check upon the 
 selected depository of the Board, in favor of the Secretary, 
 for the total amount due teachers, as shown by the pay-roll, 
 certified by the Superintendent, which check shall have 
 indorsed upon its face the words, " Payable only for 
 teachers' salaries; " and said check shall be held by said 
 depository, and the amount thereof paid out only for 
 teachers' salaries, upon checks given to the several teachers 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 35 
 
 therefor and signed by the Secretary of the Board. Said 
 checks shall have upon their face the words, " For salary 
 due on on teachers' semi-quarterly pay-roll." Other em- 
 ployes of the Board shall be paid monthly by the Secretary. 
 RULE 92. It shall be the duty of the President of the Board 
 and the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means, dur- 
 ing the first ten days of June, in each year, to advertise for 
 five days in the official paper of the Board, soliciting bids from 
 banking institutions, for the current deposits of the Board, 
 said bids to specify the rate of interest to be allowed the 
 Board on such deposits, and the nature of the security 
 offered ; the advertisement to specify that approved security 
 to the amount of $500,000 will be required from the suc- 
 cessful bidder. The following shall be the form of the con- 
 tract to l>e entered into by and between the Board and such 
 succesful bidder: 
 
 This contract made and entered into this day of A. 
 
 D. 18 , by and between the Board of President and Directors of the 
 
 St. Louis Public Schools, party of the first part, and , 
 
 a banking institution doing business in the city of St. Louis, State of 
 Missouri, party of the second part, witnesseth : Said party of the first 
 part agrees to deposit with said party of the second part, for one year, 
 
 commencing 18 , all its current funds, the same to be 
 
 drawn out as needed by it, upon its checks, signed by its President and 
 Treasurer, except checks for the teachers' salaries, which shall be drawn 
 as provided in Rule 91 of the rules of said party of the first part; and 
 said party of the second party agrees to receive said deposits, and to 
 pay out the same upon checks signed as aforesaid, and to pay to said 
 party of the first part interest on the daily balances remaining on deposit 
 
 at the rate of per cent per annum, to be settled monthly, and added 
 
 to the balance on hand at the end of each month; and said party of the 
 second part further agrees to collect all checks coming into the hands of 
 the said party of the first part, or its Secretary or Treasurer, without 
 cost to the said party of the first part, and to furnish said party of the 
 first part such New York exchange as may be necessary, at par. 
 
 It is further agreed, that to secure the performance of this contract 
 on its part, and to secure the repayment to said party of the first part, or 
 to its order, of all sums deposited by said party of the first part with 
 said party of the second part, said party of the second part will deposit 
 
 with [some designated agent], at the risk and 
 
 expense of said party of the second part, bonds or securities equal in 
 
36 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 value to the amount from time to time on deposit with said party of the 
 second part. 
 
 Said bonds, so deposited as security, shall consist of some one or more 
 of the following designated classes of securities, to wit: Bonds of the 
 United States, bonds of the State of Missouri, bonds of the city of St. 
 Louis, bonds of the said The Board of President and Directors of the St. 
 Louis Public Schools. 
 
 Whenever the balance of the funds of the party of the first part, on 
 deposit with said party of the second part, shall exceed the market value 
 of the bonds deposited with [the designated agent] by the amount of 
 twenty-five thousand dollars, said party of the second part shall deposit 
 with [the designated agent] additional bonds, of one or more of the 
 classes above designated, to such an amount as will make the market 
 value of such bonds equal to such balance. And as long as said addi- 
 tional deposit of securities is not made, such party of the first part may 
 refuse to make any further deposits with .said party of the second part. 
 And whenever the market value of the bonds held as aforesaid by [the 
 - designated agent] shall exceed such balance by the amount of twenty- 
 five thousand dollars, said party of the second part shall be allowed to 
 withdraw from [the designated agent] bonds to a sufficient amount to 
 reduce their total market value to the amount of such balance; and such 
 withdrawal of bonds shall be made upon a written order, signed by the 
 President and Treasurer of the party of the first part, which shall be sent 
 to said [the designated agent] by mail or telegraph, at the option of 
 said party of the second part. 
 
 The said [the agent designated] shall hold the bonds which may at any 
 time be deposited with it, under the foregoing provisions and stipula- 
 tions, as the agent of, and in trust for, both parties to this contract. In 
 case said party of the second part shall, at any time, make default in 
 payment of any check or checks of the party of the first part, drawn and 
 signed as aforesaid, against a balance actually on deposit with said party 
 of the second part, and not exceeding in the aggregate the amount of said 
 balance, said [the agent designated] shall, upon being thereto requested, 
 in writing, by the President and Treasurer cf said party of the first part, 
 immediately dispose of so many of the bonds of said party of the second 
 part, held by it for the purposes aforesaid, as may be sufficient to realize 
 a sum equal to that named in such check or checks, and shall, out of the 
 proceeds pay to said party of the first part the amount of such check or 
 checks, and shall take and hold said check as a voucher therefor. 
 
 At the end of one year from the day of 18 , said party 
 
 of the second part shall pay over to said party of the first part, upon its 
 check, signed as aforesaid, any balance remaining on deposit with it, and 
 belonging to said party of the first part; and, upon said payment being 
 made, the President and Treasurer of said party of the first part shall 
 deliver to said party of the second part a receipt and quittance in full, 
 and an order upon said [the designated agent] for the release of the 
 securities aforesaid; and upon the delivery of said order, said [the desig- 
 

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 nated agent] shall deliver over to the said party of the second part, 
 and all bonds then remaining in its possession and belonging to said party 
 of the second part, and the proceeds of any bonds sold by it under the 
 foregoing provisions, and not used for the payment of the check of said 
 party of the first part. 
 
 In witness whereof, said parties have caused these presents to be 
 signed in duplicate by their respective Presidents, and duly counter- 
 signed by the requisite officers, and have caused their respective corpor- 
 ate seals to be affixed, the day and year first aforesaid. 
 
 Said [the designated agent] agrees to receive and hold the bonds re- 
 ferred to in the foregoing contract, for the purposes, and under the pro- 
 visions and stipulations therein mentioned and contained, and to render 
 to each of said parties a statement, in writing, of the bonds so held by 
 it, when, and as often as any change of the same is made, under the pro- 
 visions of said contract. 
 
 RULE 93. Every proposition for new school accommoda- 
 tions, either by the purchase of a school site, or the erec- 
 tion of school buildings, shall be referred to the Committee 
 of Teachers and Ways and Means who shall jointly consider 
 and report upon the necessity for such new accommoda- 
 tions, and in their report shall make appropriations for any 
 purchase or building recommended ; and every such report 
 recommending such purchase or buildings shall contain the 
 indorsement ot the superintendent that the same is re- 
 quired for school accommodations, and such report shall 
 also state the present and prospective condition of the funds 
 provided by the Board, and available for building purposes. 
 If such report, adopted by the Board, recommend the pur- 
 chase of a school site for any locality, the matter shall 
 thereupon be referred to the Lands and Leasing Committee 
 to select a suitable site. If such report recommend the 
 erection of a new building on any site owned by the Board, 
 the Building Committee shall thereupon proceed to prepare 
 plans and specifications, which shall be submitted to the 
 joint Committee of Building and Teachers, and upon ap- 
 proval, the Building Committee shall advertise for esti- 
 mates therefor ; provided, that in all cases where the Build- 
 ing Committee reports for approval the awarding of any 
 such contract, such report shall contain a clear and concise 
 
38 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 statement of the general features of the plan of such 
 building. 
 
 SESSIONS OF THE BOARD AND RULES OF ORDER. 
 
 RULE 100. The stated sessions of the Board shall be 
 held at the office of the corporation, on the second Tuesday 
 in each and every month, at the hour of 7:30 p. M., in 
 November, December, January, February, and March ; 
 and at the hour of 8 P. M., in all other months. 
 
 RULE 101. The President, or any three of members of 
 the Board, may call special sessions by giving three days' 
 notice in writing, to the other members ot the Board, and 
 stating the object of said call ; but no business other than 
 the special business for which it has been called, shall be 
 transacted at such session. 
 
 RULE 102. At all sessions of the Board, a majority of 
 the whole number elected shall constitute a quorum to 
 do business, but any smaller number may adjourn from 
 day to day, and compel the attendance of absent mem- 
 bers. 
 
 RULE 103. The President, upon taking the chair, shall 
 call the members to order, on the appearance of a quorum. 
 The order of business of every session, except when other- 
 wise directed, shall be a follows: 
 
 1. Reading of record of last session. 
 
 2. Reading of letters and communications. 
 
 3. Reading of motions or resolutions, for reference with- 
 out debate. 
 
 4. Reports from Secretary, Treasurer, Attorney, Super- 
 indent, Architect and Bailiff. 
 
 5. Reports from Standing Committees. 
 
 6. Reports -from Special Committee. 
 
 7. Unfinished business of committees, laid over under 
 the rules of the Board, shall be acted on immediately pre- 
 ceding the reading of the respective reports, at the meeting 
 to which such unfinished business was deferred. 
 
 8. New business. 
 
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 RULE 104. All special committees shall be called upon 
 for report by the President when their report is due, 
 and any special Committee failing to report at such time, 
 or in the next two sessions following thereafter, shall be 
 considered discharged, unless extension of time is 
 granted . 
 
 RULE 105. No person, other than a member or officer 
 of the Board, shall, unless by permission, be allowed to 
 make any communication to the Board, except in writing, 
 and such permission must be unanimous. 
 
 RULE 106. No motion shall be subject to debate until it 
 has been seconded, and stated by the chair. It shall be re- 
 duced to writing, at the request of any member of the 
 Board. When a motion has been made and seconded, the 
 same may be withdrawn by the mover at any time before 
 a vote has been taken on the same. 
 
 RULE 107. When a question is before the Board, no mo- 
 tion shall be received : except to adjourn, to lay on the table, 
 to close the debate, to refer, to postpone indefinitely, to 
 postpone to a certain time, or to amend; and the motions 
 shall take precedence in the order above named ; the first, 
 second, and third shall be decided without debate, and the 
 third by a two-thirds vote. Whenever the motion to close 
 the debate prevails, the mover of the proposition, or, in 
 case of a report, the chairman of the committee from which 
 the report comes, shall have the privilege to address the 
 Board; and, after his remarks, no more debate shall be in 
 order. Any member may call for a division of the ques- 
 tion when the same admits of it. The laying of a motion 
 on the table shall be construed as only affecting such mo- 
 tion, and not any other to which it may be subsidiary. 
 
 RULE 108. When the Board has decided to close the de- 
 bate, the vote shall be taken first on the amendments that 
 maybe pending, and next also on the main question. 
 
 RULE 109. The President shall decide all questions of 
 order, subject to an appeal to the Board by any member. 
 
40 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 .Incase of appeal, the question shall be : Shall the decis- 
 ion of the chair be sustained? and, until it is decided, all 
 debate upon the pending question shall be suspended. But 
 decisions of the chair may be debated when they refer to 
 the interpretation of rules or parliamentary law. 
 
 RULE 110. The reconsideration of a vote may be moved 
 at the same session at which the vote was taken, by any 
 member who voted with the majority; but such motion 
 shall be decided at that or the next regular session, and a 
 matter thus finally decided shall not be revived within a 
 period of three months, unless by a consent of a two-thirds 
 majority of the Board. 
 
 RULE 111. Every member present shall vote on all ques- 
 tions, unless excused by the Board. 
 
 RULE 112. The yeas and nays shall be called, and entered 
 on the record, on all questions requiring for decision a vote 
 greater than a majority of the members present, and on all 
 other questions, whenever demanded by two members of 
 the Board ; and every member shall have the privilege of 
 having his vote and reasons therefor recorded on any and 
 every question, if he so desires. 
 
 RULE 113. No member shall be allowed to give his vote 
 on any question after the result has been announced by the 
 Chair, unless by unanimous consent ; but any member may, 
 after the announcement of the result of a vote by the chair, 
 and before the statement of a new question, call for a 
 division. 
 
 RULE 114. When a member is about to speak on any 
 question, he shall arise and address himself to the President, 
 confine himself strictly to the point in debate, and avoid 
 personalities. 
 
 RULK 115. No member shall speak more than five min- 
 utes at any one time on any motion under discussion, nor 
 more than once until all other members choosing to speak 
 shall have spoken, nor more than twice to the same ques- 
 tion, without consent of the Board, nor more than three 
 minutes in explaining his vote. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 41 
 
 RULE 116. No member shall be interrupted whilst 
 speaking, unless by a call to order. If a member be called 
 to order, he shall immediately take his seat until the point 
 is decided by the chair. 
 
 RULE 117. No member shall leave the Board before the 
 close of the session, without permission of the President. 
 
 RULE 118. All resolutions and orders of the Board con- 
 trary to, or inconsistent with, any of the foregoing rules are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 RULE 119. None of the foregoing rules shall be repealed 
 or altered unless two-thirds of all the directors vote for the 
 repeal or alteration, nor unless upon motion made in 
 writing, for that purpose, at the previous meeting of the 
 Board ; but a rule of order may be suspended for the time 
 being, by a three-fourths vote of all the members present. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 
 
 ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 RULE 130 COURSE OF STUDY. 
 
 SECTION I. In the schools under the control of the Board, 
 all lessons shall be taught with a careful reference to the 
 capacity of the child, and in the order of their immediate 
 usefulness. Each lesson shall be taught in such a manner 
 as to develop in a child the capacity of reasoning, to wit: 
 in the several steps of attention, perception, comprehen- 
 sion, definition, deduction, and application. The teacher 
 shall encourage questions, and take all pains to avoid words 
 and sentences not understood by the child ; all objects of 
 instruction shall be illustrated, as far as possible, by natural 
 things; next, by models, pictures, or diagrams; and, in 
 case of topics not relating directly to nature, the theme 
 should be made clear by application to practical examples, 
 real events, and the institutions of society ; and all teachers 
 shall require from their pupils frequent reproductions of 
 past lessons, such reproductions to be oral or in writing, 
 and, whenever practicable, by draught and tabular views 
 indicating the analysis of the subject. 
 
 SEC. II. There shall be four courses of study : 
 
 1. The Normal School course. 
 
 2. The High School course. 
 
 3. The District School course. 
 
 4. The O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute course. 
 
 (42) 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 43 
 
 SEC. III. The course of study in the Normal School shall 
 consist of a General Course limited to two and one-half 
 years, and a Special Course for graduates of the Central 
 High School limited to a year and a half. 
 
 The General Course shall embrace the following studies : 
 
 Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Reading and Elocu- 
 tion, Composition, Course of Reading, English Literature, 
 Latin or German, Hygiene, Natural Science, especially in 
 connection with the Course of Study in the District Schools, 
 Vocal Music, Drawing and Penmanship, Mental Philosophy, 
 Theory and Art of Teaching, and History of Education. 
 
 The Special Course shall include the following studies: 
 
 Arithmetic, Geography, Grammar, Reading Composi- 
 tion, Hygiene, Natural Science, especially in connection 
 with the Course of Study in the District Schools, Vocal 
 Music, Drawing, Penmanship, Mental Philosophy, Theory 
 and Art of Teaching, and History of Education. 
 
 SEC. IV. The High School course of study shall cover a 
 period of four years, and shall constitute a general and a 
 classical course, as at present arranged, subject to such 
 modifications as the Board shall direct. 
 
 It shall embrace the following studies: Arithmetic, Alge- 
 bra, Latin, Drawing, Geometry, Greek, Physiology, Uni- 
 versal History, English Literature, English and American 
 History, Constitution of the United States, Vocal Music, 
 Rhetoricals, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Book-keeping, 
 Short-hand, Trigonometry, Surveying, Geology, Zoology, 
 Shakespeare, History of Art, French, German, and Mental 
 and Moral Philosophy, arranged so as to form a general 
 and a classical course, as hereinafter provided. [See Rule 
 141, Sec. 2.] 
 
 SEC. V. The District School course of study shall be 
 divided into eight grades, each grade included an average 
 year's work, as nearly as may be, and the whole to consti- 
 tute a thorough course in the following branches: Reading, 
 Spelling, Writing, Drawing, Vocal Music, Descriptive and 
 Physical Geography, Mental and Written Arithmetic, English 
 
44 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 Grammar, History and Constitution of the United States, 
 Language Lessons, Composition, and outlines of Physics 
 and Natural History. German shall be elective in such Dis- 
 trict Schools as are designated by the Board from time to 
 time. But no pupil shall be allowed to commence the study 
 of German above the lowest grade, unless he is able to 
 pass a satisfactory examination in the work of previous 
 grades, and no pupil shall be allowed to discontinue the 
 study of German after having selected the same, except 
 with the consent of the Superintendent. 
 
 SEC. VI. The O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute shall in- 
 clude : first, an elementary course in the ordinary branches 
 Reading, Writing, Orthography, Arithmetic and Business 
 Forms conducted in such schools as the Board shall es- 
 tablish from year to year, for the benefit of such of the in- 
 dustrial population of the city as have no facilities for 
 availing themselves of the day-schools ; secondly, a higher 
 course, including the following studies: Drawing, Higher 
 Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Natural Philosophy, En- 
 glish Language, and Book-keeping, and such other branches 
 of technological instruction as may be required by a suffi- 
 cient number of pupils to form a class. 
 
 RULE 131 CLASSES OF SCHOOLS. 
 
 SEC. I. The Normal School course shall be conducted in 
 connection with a " School of Practice," established for the 
 training of teachers for the St. Louis Public Schools. 
 
 SEC. II. The High School course shall include the last 
 four grades of the Public School course, and shall be con- 
 ducted in the Central High School, and in its branch estab- 
 lished at the Polytechnic Building, for the instruction of the 
 pupils in the first year of the High School course. This 
 Branch High School shall be under the control and manage- 
 ment of the principal of the Central High School, and the 
 person having immediate charge of the branch shall be 
 known as assistant-principal of the High School. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 45 
 
 SEC. III. The District Schools shall be divided into seven 
 classes as follows : 
 
 1. First-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 eighteen or more regular assistants, by the quotas of pupils 
 defined in Rule 132. 
 
 2. Second-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 thirteen, and not more than seventeen asistants. 
 
 3. Third-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 ten, and not more than twelve assistants. 
 
 4. Fourth-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 eight or nine assistants. 
 
 5. Fifth-class schools to include all schools entitled to five, 
 six, or seven assistants. 
 
 6. Sixth-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 four or five teachers. 
 
 7. Seventh-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 less than four teachers. 
 
 Whenever supervisory control over other schools of lower 
 grade is assigned to the principal of a second-class or a 
 third-class school, the class of such school shall then be de- 
 termined by the number of assistants to which it is entitled, 
 including the assistants, other than principals not in charge 
 of rooms in the schools supervised. 
 
 In all cases in the classification or schools, one assistant 
 shall be counted for each room used for kindergarten 
 
 o 
 
 instruction. 
 
 SEC. IV. Schools in sparsely settled districts, where it is 
 necessary to assign pupils of more than two grades to one 
 room, shall be classed as follows : 
 
 1. Third-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 four or more assistants. 
 
 2. Fourth-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 three or four teachers. 
 
 3. Fifth-class schools to include all schools entitled to 
 two teachers. 
 
 4. Sixth-class schools to included all schools having but 
 one teacher. 
 
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 SEC. V. The classification of schools shall be fixed from 
 to time by the Board, in accordance with the above pro- 
 visions, upon recommendation of the Joint Committee on 
 Salaries and Teachers. 
 
 SEC. VI. In District Schools (except in sparsely settled 
 districts) twenty pupils shall constitute the minimum for 
 the first or highest class in school, and likewise for the 
 second class and the third, respectively, below the first 
 class: and in case there should be in any school an interval 
 greater than twenty weeks between the first or highest class, 
 and the second class, or between the second and the third 
 class, it shall be the duty of the superindendent to examine 
 and transfer all properly qualified pupils above said interval 
 to the most conveniently located schools having the proper 
 quotas of pupils of the same grade, so as to leave said 
 school with classes of proper quota, and with intervals of 
 of not more than twenty weeks between them. 
 
 RULE 132. CORPS OF TEACHERS TO EACH SCHOOL. 
 
 SEC. I. In the assignment of teachers, there shall be an 
 average of at least one assistant for each twenty pupils in 
 the Normal School, one assistant to each thirty pupils in 
 the High School, one assistant to each fifty pupils in the 
 fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth years, and one to each sixty 
 pupils in the first, second, third and fourth years in the 
 District School course. 
 
 In the schools classified in accordance with the provisions 
 of Section IV., Rule 131, an assistant shall be allowed for 
 each forty pupils additional, after the number has reached 
 forty. 
 
 In each case enumerated there may be allowed an addi- 
 tional assistant in case of an additional number of pupils 
 greater than one-halt' the quota defined in this rule. 
 
 SEC. II. In a kindergarten, sixty pupils shall entitle the 
 director to one paid assistant, and an additional paid assist- 
 ant for each thirty pupils over sixty. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 47 
 
 SEC. III. In the graded District Schools (not including 
 the schools located in sparsely settled districts, which are 
 from that fact unable to secure proper classification), no 
 class shall be formed tor an optional study unless said class 
 shall have at least fifteen pupils. 
 
 SEC. IV. In colored schools, having eight rooms or more, 
 fifty pupils shall constitute the proper quota for a teacher. 
 All other colored schools shall be governed by the rules 
 applying to schools situated in sparsely settled districts, 
 according to Sec. I. of this Rule. 
 
 SEC. V. The organization of each first-class school shall 
 be as follows: 
 
 One Principal, 
 
 One Head Assistant, ^ 
 
 One First Assistant, V Grammar Department 
 
 One Second Assistant, j 
 
 One Second Assistant, ) 
 
 [ Primary Department. 
 Two First Assistants, j 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 
 When a first-class school occupies two twelve-room build- 
 ings, or two or more buildings not located on the same 
 block, an additional Head Assistant and First Assistant may 
 be assigned to the school. 
 
 SEC. VI. The organization of each second-class school 
 shall be as follows: 
 One Principal, 
 
 One First Assistant, 
 
 . , > Grammar Department. 
 
 One Second Assistant, J 
 
 One Second Assistant, ) 
 
 ,, . > Primary Department. 
 
 One First Assistant. j 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 An additional Second Assistant (Primary) may be 
 allowed whenever the school contains over fourteen rooms. 
 SEC. VII. The organization of each third-class school 
 shall be : 
 
 One Principal, 
 
 One First Assistant, Grammar Department. 
 
48 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 One Second Assistant, ) ^ . 
 
 V Primary Department. 
 One First Assistant, ) 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 An additional Second Assistant (Grammar Department) 
 may be allowed whenever the school contains twelve 
 rooms. 
 
 SEC. VIII. Fourth-class schools shall have: 
 
 One Principal, 
 
 One First Assistant, 
 
 One Second Assistant (Primary), 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 SEC. IX. Fifth-class schools shall have: 
 
 One Principal, 
 
 One Second Assistant (Primary), 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 SEC. X. Sixth-class schools shall have : 
 
 One Principal, 
 
 One Second Assistant (Primary), 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 SEC. XI. Seventh-class schools shall have: 
 
 One Principal, 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 SEC. XII. The organization of schools classified in ac- 
 cordance with the provisions of Section IV., Rule 131, 
 shall be as follows : 
 
 1. Third-class schools shall have: 
 One Principal, 
 
 One Second Assistant, 
 
 One First Assistant (Primary), 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 An additional First Assistant (Grammar Department) 
 may be assigned when the school contains six or more 
 rooms. 
 
 2. Fourth-class schools shall have: 
 One Principal, 
 
 One Second Assistant (Primary), 
 
 And Third Assistants for the remainder of the corps. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 49 
 
 3. Fifth-class schools shall have: 
 One Principal! 
 
 One Third Assistant. 
 
 4. Sixth-class schools shall have: 
 One Principal. 
 
 SEC. XIII. Whenever the class of a second-class school 
 or a third-class school is raised by assigning supervisory 
 control over other schools to the Principal of the same, 
 the organization of such school shall not be affected by the 
 change in class except in the following cases : 
 
 1. Whenever the school is raised to a first-class school, a 
 Head Assistant may be assigned. 
 
 2. When a school classified as third-class, under the pro- 
 visions of Section 4, Eule 131, and containing six or more 
 rooms, is raised to a second-class school, a Head Assistant 
 shall be assigned in place of the First Assistant, Grammar 
 Department. 
 
 SEC. XIV. When there are four special German teachers 
 in the corps of one school, there shall be one Head Assist- 
 ant, one Second Assistant, and two Third Assistants. 
 When there are three special German Teachers, there 
 shall be one Head Assistant and two third Assistants. 
 When there are two special German Teachers, there shall 
 be one First Assistant and one Third Assistant ; and when 
 there is but one special German Teacher, the same shall be 
 a First Assistant ; provided, that in schools where there are 
 German-English Teachers, two such teachers shall be 
 reckoned equivalent to one German Teacher in determining 
 the organization of the corps. 
 
 RULE 133. TEACHERS 
 
 SEC. I. The teachers reappointed at the close of a scho- 
 lastic year, sh^ll hold their positions for one year, it being, 
 however, provided that any teacher may at any time dur- 
 ing the year for which said reappointment has been made, 
 be removed by a vote of the majority of the Board ; and it 
 
50 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 being further provided, that the Board distinctly reserve to 
 to themselves the right of discontinuing the services of any 
 and all of the teachers at any time, should they deem such 
 an action expedient. Any teacher appointed to a position 
 shall hold position for that scholastic year, subject, how- 
 ever, to the above mentioned provisions governing teachers 
 reappointed at the close of a scholastic year. 
 
 SEC. II. They are required to be at their respective 
 rooms fifteen minutes before the time for opening each 
 session, and any teacher failing to comply with this rule 
 shall be reported by the principal as tardy. 
 
 SEC. III. They shall open school punctually at the ap- 
 pointed time, devote themselves during school hours ex- 
 clusively to the instruction of their pupils, maintain good 
 order, and strictly adhere to the course of study and use of 
 the text-books prescribed by the Board. 
 
 SEC. IV. It shall be their duty to practice such discipline 
 in their schools as would be exercised by a kind and judi- 
 cious parent in his family, always firm and vigilant, but 
 prudent. They shall endeavor, on all proper occasions, to 
 impress upon the minds of their pupils the principles of 
 morality and virtue, a sacred regard for truth, love to God, 
 love to man, sobriety, industry and frugality. But no 
 teacher shall exercise any sectarian influence in the schools. 
 
 SEC. V. They shall see that the pupils under their charge 
 distinctly understand and faithfully observe all the rules 
 relating to pupils. 
 
 SEC. VI. They shall not allow any agent or other person 
 to exhibit in the schools any books or articles of apparatus ; 
 nor shall they allow the distribution of any advertising 
 matter whatever in the building or about the premises. 
 They shall not allow any contribution for any purpose 
 whatever to be taken up in any school ; nor shall they re- 
 ceive any presents whatever from the pupils under their 
 charge. 
 
 SEC. VII. They shall attend carefully to the ventilation 
 and temperature of their school-rooms. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 51 
 
 SEC. VIII. Any teacher obliged to be absent from school 
 on account of sickness, or other necessity, shall cause im- 
 mediate notice of such absence to be given to the principal. 
 
 SEC. IX. The teachers may, for the purpose of observ- 
 ing the modes of discipline and instruction, visit the schools 
 with the corsent, and under the direction of the principal. 
 
 SEC. X. No teacher shall resign without giving two 
 weeks' written notice to the Superintendent, in default of 
 which all compensation for that length of time may be for- 
 feited. 
 
 SEC. XI. All the teachers in the employ of the Board 
 shall meet in general association on such Saturdavs as 
 the Superintendent may direct, for the purpose receiv- 
 ing communications from the Superintendent, and in order 
 to promote the interest of the schools by the discussion of 
 matters pertaining to the profession of teaching generally. 
 The arrangement of the plan for conducting the exer- 
 cises shall be provided for by Superintendent. Besides 
 this general association of teachers, special meetings of the 
 whole corps, or of any portion thereof, may be called to- 
 gether by the Superintendent, whenever deemed of impor- 
 tance to the interests of the schools. 
 
 SEC. XII. The salary of teachers shall be deducted pro 
 rata for absence, except in case of sickness of teachers, 
 when half-pay shall be allowed ; provided, however, that 
 no deduction shall be made for two days' absence during 
 the half-quarter, caused by death in the family, and that 
 said half-pay shall not extend for a longer period than five 
 weeks. For the purposes contemplated in this rule, 
 teacher shall be considered by the principal as absent, 
 whose attendance at school shall not continue for at least 
 one-half the regular session. 
 
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 SEC. XIII. In case of the absence of a principal of 
 a first, second, or third-class school, the teacher next in 
 rank shall assume charge, unless otherwise provided, and 
 the same shall receive as additional compensation for such 
 extra responsibility, a sum equal to one-half of the regular 
 
52 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 salary of such teacher; it being, however, provided that 
 no extra compensation shall be allowed whenever the ab- 
 sence of the principal continues for less than five consecu- 
 tive weeks. 
 
 SEC. XIV. Any principal or teacher appointed after the 
 beginning of the second quarter of the scholastic year, shall 
 not receive any increase of salary the next succeeding year, 
 by reason of the annual increase of salaries provided for 
 in the schedule of salaries; but the time of service in a 
 position of substitute shall be reckoned the same as that 
 of a regular appointment in determining salaries. Any 
 principal or teacher who shall be absent more than one 
 quarter in the aggregate, during the year, shall not receive 
 any increase of salary the next succeeding year, by reason of 
 the annual increase of salaries provided for in the schedule of 
 salaries ; but, in estimating the time absent, under this rule, 
 an absence in the aggregate, during the year, of not more 
 than five weeks on account of sickness, shall not be reck- 
 oned. 
 
 SEC. XY. Teachers who have a leave of absence must 
 notify the Superintendent of their intention to return, at 
 least two weeks before the expiration of the time specified 
 in their leave of absence, otherwise a position will not be 
 held for them. 
 
 RULE 134 DISCIPLINE. 
 
 SEC. I. All teachers are required to maintain strict order 
 and discipline in their schools and class-rooms at all times. 
 Any neglect ot" this requirement will be considered good 
 cause for dismissal. In maintaining order, teachers are 
 hereby authorized to employ any proper means which may 
 be necessary to secure compliance with all reasonable com- 
 mands to the pupils, and in the use of which they will re- 
 ceive the full countenance and support of the Board. 
 
 SEC. II. All teachers will be held to a strict account- 
 ability as to the manner in which they shall use the au- 
 thority herein delegated; and, upon complaint of severity 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 53 
 
 of punishment, each case shall be adjudged upon its own 
 merits, the teacher being subject to instant dismission if 
 the Board decide it to be demanded by the circumstances. 
 
 SEC. III. Each teacher in the employ of the Board shall 
 file with the Superintendent, at the close of each quarter of 
 the scholastic year, a list of all cases of corporal punish- 
 ment inflicted by said teacher during the quarter, giving 
 da.te, name of pupil, and cause of punishment. 
 
 SEC. IV. The teachers who are most successful in con- 
 trolling their pupils without the use of corporal punishment, 
 other qualifications being sufficient, shall be awarded by the 
 Board a higher degree*of appreciation, and receive the 
 preference over all others in promotions and appoint- 
 ments. 
 
 SEC. V. The greatest possible care shall be exercised in 
 the management of pupils, and therefore every case requiring 
 corporal punishment shall first be referred to the principal 
 for consideration and approval. 
 
 RULE 135 VOCAL MUSIC. 
 
 There shall be given two lessons in music per week in the 
 Normal School, two to the High School, and one to each first- 
 class District School. The music teachers and the Superin- 
 tendent, on consultation with the principals, shall arrange 
 the time at which the music lessons shall be given at the 
 different schools. During the time the school is under the 
 instruction of the music teacher, the discipline of the school 
 shall continue under the charge of the regular teachers, 
 who shall be present while the instruction is given, and 
 shall arrange the scholars, for that purpose, in such man- 
 ner ns the teacher of music may desire. 
 
 RULE 136 SCHOOL MEMBERSHIP. 
 
 SECTION I. In all cases of absence of pupils from school, 
 whether with intention of returning or not, and whether the 
 
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 absence be occasioned by sickness or other causes, includ- 
 ing even the suspension of the pupil, and excepting only 
 the case of transfer to some other school in the city, the 
 pupil's name shall be kept on the roll as " belonging," for 
 three days, and dropped on the beginning of the fourth day, 
 in case the pupil does not return. 
 
 SEC. II. For the purpose contemplated in the foregoing 
 rule, any pupil shall be considered as absent whole attend- 
 ance at school shall not continue for at least one-half of the 
 regular school session of the half day. 
 
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 RULE 137 PRINCIPAL TEACHERS. 
 
 SECTION I. The principal teachers shall keep a register, 
 in which they shall record the name, age, birthplace, resi- 
 dence, and date of admission of each pupil for the first time 
 entered in the public schools, ;md also the name and occu- 
 pation of the parent or guardian. 
 
 SEC. II. They shall also make a daily record of the pupils 
 admitted, present, 'absent, or tardy, and at the close of each 
 quarter furnish the Superintendent with the required re- 
 ports, according to prescribed forms. They shall, further, 
 make out and certify to the semi-quarterly pay-rolls of the 
 teachers of their respective schools, and obtain from the 
 Secretary of the Board the checks for the salaries of their 
 respective corps of assistants, and deliver the same, taking 
 receipts therefor on the regular pay-roll. 
 
 SEC. III. The principal shall have a general supervision 
 of the grounds, buildings, and appurtenances of the school, 
 shall be held responsible for any want of neatness and clean- 
 liness on the premises, and shall report to the Building and 
 Teachers Committees, in writing, any neglect on the part 
 of the janitor to take proper care of the building and prem- 
 ises; whenever any repairs are needed, he shall give notice 
 thereof in writing to the Architect. 
 
 SEC. IV. The principals shall be at their respective 
 schools thirty minutes before the time of opening each 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 55 
 
 morning session. They shall assemble at the office of the 
 Superintendent for the purpose of consultation at such times 
 as the Superintendent may direct. 
 
 SEC. V. The principal shall, within one week after the 
 commencement of each quarter, furnish the Superintendent 
 with a programme of the daily exercises in the several rooms 
 of his school. 
 
 SEC. VI. Each principal shall examine the classes of his 
 assistants as often as practicable, without neglecting other 
 duties. 
 
 SEC. VII. The principals are directed to arrange the 
 details for the internal government of their schools, 
 according to their best judgment : Provided, such arrange- 
 ments are not inconsistent with these rules, the resolutions 
 of the Board, or with'the instructions of the Superintendent. 
 
 SEC. VIII. For the reception of pupils arriving at 
 unseasonable hours, the principal shall cause at least one 
 room to be opened as early as eight o'clock, A. M. which 
 shall be under proper supervision as may be approved by 
 the Superintendent. In no case shall the children be 
 excluded from the building during the intermission at noon. 
 
 RULE 138 LOCAL SUPERVISION. 
 
 SECTION I. The principal of the High School shall have 
 under his immediate charge the pupils of the High School, 
 and all promotions from class to class in the High School 
 course shall be under his direction. Examinations for 
 pi emotion from class to class, and for graduation, shall be 
 conducted in writing, and the questions therefor shall be 
 prepared by the principal of the High School. The per- 
 centages shall be made out by the corps of teachers of the 
 class to which the promotion is to be made. The percent- 
 ages of applicants for admission to the junior class of the 
 High School course shall be made out by the corps of 
 teachers of that class, and the results transmitted to the 
 Teachers Committee. 
 
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 SEC. II. Principals who are assigned supervisory control 
 over other schools of lower grade, shall have the same 
 authority over matters pertaining to instruction and the 
 promotion of pupils in the school supervised, as they have 
 in the schools under their immediate charge ; they shall 
 visit the schools assigned to their supervision at least once 
 per week, confer with the principals thereof, examine all 
 classes for promotion from grade to grade, or from one 
 book to another; they shall report to the Superintendent at 
 the close of each quarter, in accordance with prescribed 
 forms : 
 
 (a.) Their general condition. 
 
 (b. The efficiency of the principal in general manage- 
 ment, instruction, and discipline. 
 
 (c.) The efficiency of each teacher in instruction and 
 discipline. 
 
 (d.) What classes they examined, and their condition; 
 also the dates of the examinations. 
 
 (e.) What classes they approved for promotion from 
 grade to grade, or from one book to another. 
 
 (/. ) Any irregularity in the observance of the rules of 
 the Board which they found. 
 
 (g.) Date and the amonnt of time actually consumed in 
 the school at each visit. 
 
 (h.) The efficiency of the janitor in attending to the 
 school building and the premises. 
 
 (i.) They shall also report regarding the schools under 
 their immediate charge, the efficiency of each teacher in 
 instruction and discipline, and such suggestions as they 
 deem of interest. 
 
 SEC. III. All principals of such District Schools as are 
 not under the supervision of other principals, shall make 
 quarterly reports to the Superintendent in accordance with 
 above prescribed forms, embodying in the same full informa- 
 tion regarding the progress of classes in their schools, and 
 the measures taken by them to render more efficient the work 
 of the assistants under their charge. They shall also report 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 57 
 
 in regard to the efficiency of their janitors in attending to 
 the school building and the premises. 
 
 SEC. IV. It shall be their duty to meet the Superintend- 
 ent weekly, if required, to consult measures for the im- 
 provement of the schools. 
 
 SEC. V. They shall conduct not less than two, nor more 
 than four, of the daily recitations of the classes under their 
 immediate charge. 
 
 SEC. VI. They shall report to the Teachers Committee, 
 whenever required, the standing and general efficiency of 
 each teacher under their supervision, as regards instruction 
 and discipline. 
 
 RULE 139 ADMISSION, ATTENDANCE, STUDIES OF PUPILS. 
 
 SEC I. No child shall be for the first time received into 
 the Public Schools unless accompanied by the parent or 
 guardian, who shall give satisfactory evidence that said 
 child is of the age required for admission, as provided in 
 Section III., and has been vaccinated. 
 
 SEC. II. Pupils who have lived outside the city, whether 
 they be residents of Missouri or Illinois, shall be admitted 
 to such schools as are not crowded, upon payment of tuition, 
 which tuition shall be at the rate of twenty dollars in the 
 District School, and fifty dollars in the High School course, 
 per year, payable quarterly in advance. 
 
 SEC. III. Children shall be received into the Kindergar- 
 ten a half day only at the age of six years. In those schools 
 to which Kindergartens are attached, no pupil shall be ad- 
 mitted to primary instruction until they have reached the 
 age of seven years. In those schools not having Kinder- 
 gartens, pupils may be admitted to primary instruction 
 a half day only at the age of six years, if vacancies exist 
 after the children who are seven years old have been accom- 
 modated. Pupils who have reached the age of seven years 
 shull be admitted to primary instruction all day; but no 
 child shall be permitted to attend the Kindergarten during 
 
58 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 one half of the day, and the primary school during the 
 other half of the day. These regulations shall not prevent 
 those pupils seven years of age or older, whose parents so 
 desire, from receiving instruction for a half day only, 
 either in the Primary or Kindergarten department. 
 
 SEC IV. Every pupil shall be required to attend the 
 school established in the district in which the pupil resides ; 
 provided, that whenever such school is full, the pupil may 
 be admitted elsewhere, or, for good cause shown, the 
 Superintendent be empowered to make a transfer of 
 pupils. 
 
 SEC. V. No one, having been a pupil in one school, shall 
 be admitted into another during the scholastic year with- 
 out presenting to the principal a certificate of honorable 
 discharge from the former school, or a permit from the 
 Superintendent. 
 
 SEC. VI. No pupil shall be allowed to depart from school 
 before the usual time, unless for sickness, or on account 
 of some other pressing emergency, of which the principal 
 shall be the judge. 
 
 SEC. VII. Children applying for admission into the public 
 schools are required to furnish all the necessary text-books 
 and etationery used in their classes, in default of which 
 they shall not be received, unless satisfactory evidence is 
 furnished to the principal or Superintendent, of inability to 
 procure said books, in which case the books shall be sup- 
 plied by the Board. 
 
 SEC. VIII. Sickness of the pupil, or of some member of 
 the family, or some urgent necessity, shall be regarded as 
 the only legitimate excuse for absence. 
 
 SEC. IX. No pupil shall be allowed to take up the study 
 of German in any grade above the lowest, unless he shall 
 have completed the course of study laid down for German 
 in the previous grades. 
 
 SEC. X. No pupil shall be allowed to be absent from 
 school duriug the regular sessions to take music, drawing, 
 dancing or other lessons. 
 
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 RULE 140 DEPORTMENT AND SUSPENSION OF PUPILS. 
 
 SECTION I. The pupils must, on all occasions, be obe- 
 dient to their teachers, and polite in their intercourse with 
 each other. They must be diligent in study, prompt in 
 recitation, and observe propriety of deportment durhig the 
 recesses, and in coming to and in going from school. 
 
 SEC. II. Cleanliness in person and clothing is required 
 of every pupil, and repeated neglect or refusal to comply 
 with this rule will be sufficient cause for suspension from 
 school. 
 
 SEC. III. Any pupil who shall destroy or injure any 
 property of the Public Schools shall be required to pay the 
 amount lost thereby, and, on failure to do so, such pupil 
 may be suspended from school. 
 
 SEC. IV. Any pupil who shall be absent four half days 
 in one month, or who is repeatedly tardy, without giving 
 an excuse satisfactory to the teacher, may be suspended 
 from school by the principal, written notice of which shall 
 be immediately given to the parent or guardian, and to the 
 Superintendent. 
 
 SEC. V. No pupil shall be allowed to be absent more 
 than one day to attend any picnic party, and only when 
 previous request for the same has been made to the teacher 
 by the parent or guardian of the pupil. Any violation of 
 this regulation shall be deemed sufficient cause for suspen- 
 sion. 
 
 SEC. VI. Any pupil guilty of disobedience to a teacher, 
 or of gross misconduct, may be suspended by the princi- 
 pal, written notice of which, stating the cause, shall be 
 immediately sent to the parent or guardian, and to the 
 Superintendent. 
 
 SEC. VII. Any pupil suspended from school by virtue 
 of any one of the above rules, can be restored only on such 
 conditions as the Superintendent or Board of Directors 
 shall determine. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 KULE HI HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 SEC. I. The regular examination of applicants for ad- 
 mission to the High School shall be commenced on the 
 Wednesday next preceding the close of the second and 
 fourth quarters, and continue from day to day till com- 
 pleted. In this examination the applicants shall be re- 
 quired to write answers to printed questions prepared for 
 the purpose and approved by the Teachers' Committee. 
 After the scholars have assembled, and before the exam- 
 ination is commenced, each applicant shall receive a card, 
 containing a number, by ivhich alone he shall be known 
 throughout the examination. He shall write upon a slip of 
 paper this number, his whole name, his age, and the name of 
 the school from which he came ; which papers shall be pre- 
 served for the purpose of identifying the scholars after the 
 examination has been concluded, and the successful candi- 
 dates admitted to the High School. During the examina- 
 
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 tion, each individual shall sign his number, and not his 
 name, to his exercise. When the writing is finished, the 
 examining committee, which shall consist of the teachers of 
 the High School, shall carefully examine all the answers, 
 determine the per cent of correctness of each study, com- 
 pute the average of the several studies, and record the 
 whole in a tabular form. From this tabular statement the 
 the Teachers Committee shall designate, as entitled to ad- 
 mission to the High School, those applicants who have 
 made an average of sixty per cent in all the studies, and a 
 minimum of forty per cent in each study. 
 
 SEC. II. The studies of the High School shall constitute 
 a general and & classical course. Each course shall occupy 
 four years. 
 
 (a.) The studies of the junior year of the High School 
 shall be as follows: (1) Latin; (2) Rhetoricals ; (3) 
 Arithmetic (commercial) and Book-keeping; (4) Draw- 
 ing; (5) Conversational German, or Literary German, or 
 Physiology. 
 
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 (b.) The studies of second year in the High School 
 course shall be as follows: (1) Rhetoricals; (2) Alge- 
 bra ; (3) Latin and Physics ; (4) Drawing, or Short-hand, 
 or Book-keeping; (5) Greek, or Art, or Literary German ; 
 (6) Conversational German. 
 
 ( c. ) The studies of the third year in the High School 
 shall be as follows: (1) Rhetoricals; (2) Algebra and 
 Geometry; (3) General History; (4) German, or Latin, 
 or French; (5) Molecular Physics and Chemistry, or 
 Greek. In addition to these branches, Drawing may 
 be pursued as an extra sUuty. 
 
 (d.) The studies of the senior class shall be as follows: 
 (1) Rhetoricals and Shakespeare ; (2) English Literature ; 
 (3) German, or Latin, or French; (4) Geometry. Trigo- 
 nometry, and Surveying, or Mental Philosophy, or Natural 
 Science, or Laboratory Chemistry, or Greek ; (5) English 
 and American History. In addition to these branches, 
 Drawing may be pursued as an extra study. 
 
 SEC. III. No pupil shall be admitted to the High School 
 who is not twelve years of age, and who has not passed a 
 satisfactory examination in reading, spelling, penmanship, 
 physical geography, grammar, history of the United 
 States, and arithmetic. 
 
 SEC. IV. Every candidate for the High School, coming 
 from any of the Grammar Schools, must present to the ex- 
 amining committee the following certificate, properly tilled 
 out and signed : 
 
 CERTIFICATE OF QUALIFICATION FOR ADMISSION TO THE 
 
 HIGH SCHOOL. 
 
 School, 18.... 
 
 The bearer, , is years of age, has been a member 
 
 of this school years and is, in my opinion, well qualified, as re- 
 quired by rule, both in deportment and scholarship, for admission to the 
 High School. 
 
 Principal. 
 
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 SEC. V. All pupils admitted shall be on probation the 
 first quarter, and if at the end of that time they do not hold 
 a fair position in their classes they shall be withdrawn 
 from school. 
 
 SEC. VI. No pupil shall be advanced from a lower to a 
 higher class who has not undergone a satisfactory examina- 
 tion in all the branches of the lower class, as provided in 
 Sec. I., Rule 138. 
 
 SKC. VII. A pupil, having been absent twice within one 
 month, without presenting sufficient excuse, may, on the 
 morning of the third absence, be discharged, and shall be 
 readmitted only by a permit from the Superintendent. 
 
 RULE 142 NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 
 SECTION I. This school is intended for the training of 
 persons who desire to become teachers in the St. Louis 
 Public Schools. 
 
 SEC. II. 1. The number of pupils attending the Normal 
 School shall be limited to 150. 
 
 2. In order to fill this quota, classes shall be admitted 
 at the beginning of the first and the twenty-first week of 
 the school year. 
 
 3. Graduates of the St. Louis High School, and persons 
 who can pass an equivalent examination, shall be admitted 
 to the Normal School. 
 
 4. (a.) In case the number of applicants from these two 
 sources is insufficient, applicants who have finished at least 
 two years of the High School course shall be admitted in the 
 order of their class and standing in the High School. 
 
 (b.) And, lastly, persons who have had training in higher 
 branches and can pass a satisfactory examination, may be 
 admitted with the last named class. 
 
 5. Diplomas of graduation shall be given upon comple- 
 tion of the Normal School course, to such persons only as 
 have previously graduated from the High School. 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 63 
 
 6. All other persons, upon completion of the Normal 
 School course, shall receive certificates of qualifications 
 which shall entitle them to positions in the St. Louis Pub- 
 lic Schools, whenever their services are needed. 
 
 7. All persons entering the Normal School shall subscribe 
 the following declaration : 
 
 I, the subscriber, hereby declare that it is my intention to devote my- 
 self to the business of teaching in the Public Schools of St. Louis, for at 
 least two years; that my object in resorting to this Normal School is the 
 better to prepare myself for this important work. And I furthermore 
 declare that I intend to continue in the Normal School during the time 
 required for my graduation, unless honorably discharged by the com- 
 mittee. 
 
 SEC. III. During the last half of the course, the pupils 
 will be required to gain practical experience in teaching by 
 substituting in the District Schools. 
 
 SEC. IV. The principal of the Normal School shall exer- 
 cise the same supervision over the " School of Practice " 
 connected with the Normal School, as is exercised by the 
 principal of a first-class District School over the school 
 placed under his immediate charge. 
 
 RULE 143 TERMS AND SCHOOL SESSIONS. 
 
 SECTION I. The scholastic year shall commence the first 
 Monday in September, and continue forty consecutive 
 weeks, exclusive of the Christmas holidays, and be divided 
 into four terms, of ten weeks each. 
 
 SEC. II. There shall be two daily sessions in all the 
 schools, except the High and Normal. The first session 
 shall commence at 9 o'clock A. M., and close at 12 M. ; and 
 the second shall commence at 1 :30 o'clock, p. M., and close 
 at a quarter before 4 o'clock p. M , throughout the year. 
 In the ungraded schools, including the colored schools, and 
 all other schools situated in the sparsely settled districts, 
 the second session shall commence at 1 o'clock, and close 
 at 3 :15 o'clock P. M. 
 
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 SEC. III. During each morning session there shall be a 
 recess of fifteen minutes, to be arranged as the principal 
 may think most judicious. In the afternoon there shall be 
 no recess, except one of ten minutes for the primary chil- 
 dren, who shall be carefully supervised by the teachers 
 during said recess, and prevented from causing disturbance 
 to the higher departments. 
 
 SEC. IV. In the High and Normal Schools there shall be 
 but one daily session, commencing at 9 o'clock A. M., and 
 closing at 2:30 o'clock p. M., throughout the year. 
 
 SEC. V. The schools shall have a vacation from the close 
 of the scholastic year till the first Monday in September; 
 they shall also be closed from the 25th day of December to 
 the 1st of January, inclusive ; on all thanksgiving or fast 
 days authorized by the State or by the general government, 
 on Washington's birthday, and on all Saturdays throughout 
 the year; but on no other day, unless by special permission 
 of the Board. 
 
 RULE 144. 
 
 All regulations of the Board heretofore adopted, inconsis- 
 tent with these rules, are hereby rescinded. 
 
RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 
 
 BOARD OF MANAGERS 
 
 OF THE 
 
 ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
 
 SECTION I. The Board of Managers of the Public Library 
 shall consist of sixteen members, nine of whom shall be 
 appointed annually by the School Board, and seven elected 
 annually by such life members of the Library as are over 
 eighteen years of age. The Board of Managers at any 
 reasonable time before each election shall select a commit- 
 tee of five life members of the Library, not members of 
 the Board of Managers, who shall be requested to nomi- 
 nate a ticket of fourteen persons from among the life mem- 
 bers of the Library, who are eligible for such election. 
 No ballot shall contain more than seven names, and such 
 ballot must be presented by the member voting it. 
 
 SEC. II. The nine members of the Board of Managers 
 to be appointed by the School Board shall consist of the 
 Library Committee of the School Board ex officio. 
 
 SEC. III. 1. The election by the life members of the 
 Library shall take place annually on the first Tuesday in 
 May. A notice of the time and place of such election, 
 signed by the President of the Board of Managers, shall be 
 
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 printed in at least one English daily and in one German 
 daily newspaper published in the City of St. Louis, on the 
 day of said election, and on the six days next preceding. A 
 similar notice shall be kept posted in a prominent place in 
 the Library room during one week next preceding said elec- 
 tion. Should an election for any cause, not take place on 
 the day appointed, as soon thereafter as may be, an election 
 may be held in lieu thereof. No such election, whether it 
 be annual, deferred, or special, shall be valid, unless such 
 notices shall have been given. All members of the Board 
 of Managers shall hold their offices until their successors 
 are duly elected and qualified. 
 
 2. Elections shall be in charge of two judges of election 
 appointed by the President of the School Board, such ap- 
 pointment to be communicated to them in writing. The 
 polling place shall be open from 10 A. M. until 8 P. M. on 
 the day appointed for the election. The judges shall be 
 furnished with a list of all life members of the Library, 
 and a ballot box shall be provided for the reception of 
 ballots. It shall be the duty of the judges to keep a list of 
 all persons voting. Opposite each name on said list shall 
 be placed a number designating the order in which the bal- 
 lots are presented. A corresponding number shall be placed 
 on the ballot presented by the voter. Should any persons 
 whom the judges decide to be not qualified to vote, present 
 ballots, their names shall be placed on a separate list with 
 a number corresponding to the number placed on their bal- 
 lots, which ballots with the list shall be placed in an envel- 
 ope. In another envelope shall be placed all ballots found 
 in the box which the judges decide to be illegal, together 
 with a list of those voting them . Upon the close of the elec- 
 tion the judges shall count the votes cast for each candidate 
 rejectingall illegal ballots. After the ballots are counted, all 
 of them which the judges decide are illegal shall be strung 
 upon a string and placed in the ballot box with the list of 
 those voting them, together with the envelopes above pro- 
 vided for, with their contents. Thereupon the ballot box 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. 67 
 
 shall be sealed and put in possession of the Librarian as cus- 
 todian of the Board of Managers. The judges shall then 
 communicate to the President of the School Board in writ- 
 ing over their signatures, the result of their count. This 
 communication shall contain the number of legal votes cast 
 for each candidate ; the number of ballots not accepted, 
 with the reasons for not accepting them ; and the number 
 of ballots decided illegal, with the reasons for deciding them 
 illegal. The judges shall be paid by the Board of Mana- 
 gers a reasonable sum for their services. 
 
 3. A copy of the certificate of the judges shall be certi- 
 fied by the President of the Board of Public Schools to the 
 Board of Managers at its regular meeting, held next after 
 the election. Upon the receipt of said certificate the Board 
 of Managers shall declare those seven persons elected who 
 shall have received the greatest number of legal votes. 
 Provided, that if five life members shall request it in writ- 
 ing, the Board of Managers shall caused to be opened in its 
 presence the ballot box and the ballots then and there 
 counted. In such a case the Board shall decide the election 
 upon the count then made, ignoring the count of the judges. 
 Thereupon the members elect shall take their seats, and 
 the terms of their predecessors shall expire. 
 
 4. Any vacancy created by resignation, death or other 
 cause, shall be filled as speedily as possible by special 
 election, in the same manner as in the case of regular 
 elections. 
 
 SEC. IV. Said Board of Managers shall annually, as soon 
 after the annual election as practicable, elect a President 
 and a Vice-President from its own members. In case at 
 any time the offices of President and Vice-President shall 
 both become vacant, the Board of Managers shall appoint a 
 President pro tempore, who shall perform the duties of 
 President until his successor is elected. The Board of 
 Managers shall have the general care and control of said 
 Library, together with the rooms set apart for the use of 
 the same, its fixtures and furniture, and the expenditure of 
 
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 all moneys appropriated, collected, or donated for its use. 
 They may make such By-Laws and Rules for their own 
 government, and in relation to the officers appointed by 
 them, and for the management of the Library, as they may 
 deem expedient and which shall not be inconsistent with 
 these regulations. 
 
 SEC. V. 1. The present Librarian shall hold his office 
 until the second Tuesday in January, 1886, and until his 
 successor is duly appointed and qualified. At the regular 
 meeting in January, 1886, or as soon thereafter as may be, 
 and every third year thereafter, the Board of Managers 
 shall appoint a Librarian, who shall hold his office for three 
 years, and until his successor is duly appointed and quali- 
 fied. The Librarian shall at all times be subject to re- 
 moval for cause, by a vote of the majority of the whole 
 Board of Managers. 
 
 2. Said Board of Managers shall, also, appoint from 
 time to time, such assistants as they may deem necessary 
 for the proper administration of the affairs of the Library 
 under their charge, all said appointments to be subject to 
 the approval of the Board of President and Directors of 
 the St. Louis Public Schools, as provided in Rule 81 of the 
 rules for the government of said List-mentioned Board. 
 
 SEC. VI. The terms upon which persons may be admitted 
 to the use of the Library, and the privilege of drawing 
 books for home use, shall be as follows : 
 
 1. The Library and Reading-room shall be free for pur- 
 poses of reading und reference to all persons who shall con- 
 form to the rules and regulations of the same. 
 
 2. Any person, resident of the city of St. Louis, may 
 enjoy all the privileges of the Library, except the right to 
 vote at elections for members of the Board of Managers, for 
 a period of six months, upon the payment of one dollar in 
 advance. 
 
 3. Any person, resident of the city of St. Louis, may 
 enjoy all the privileges of the Library, except the right to 
 vote at elections for members of the Board of Managers, for 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. 69 
 
 a period of one year, upon the payment of two dollars in 
 advance. 
 
 The persons specified in the last two preceding para- 
 graphs shall, upon compliance with their provisions, be 
 termed temporary members. 
 
 4. Any person, resident of the city of St. Louis, may en- 
 joy all the privileges of the Library, including the right to 
 vote at elections for members of the Board of Managers, 
 during the time of his natural life, while he remains a resi- 
 dent of said city, upon the payment of twelve dollars, in 
 advance. 
 
 5. Non-residents of the city of St. Louis shall have the 
 privilege accorded to temporary members of the Library, 
 upon the deposit of three dollars with the Librarian, and the 
 payment in advance of three dollars annually. Upon ter- 
 minating their memberships, the deposit of three dollars 
 shall be returned to them. 
 
 6. Any incorporated Library Association, or other incor- 
 porated association, may at the discretion of the Board of 
 Managers become entitled to all the privileges of the 
 Library, accorded to temporary members, subject to the 
 rules and regulations of the Board of Managers, by tak- 
 ing out not less than fifty (50) annual memberships, pay- 
 ing for the same the sum of two dollars ($2) per annum, in 
 advance, for each membership : 
 
 Provided, such association assume all the expenses of 
 administration and become responsible for the safe return 
 and proper keeping of the books ; and also, 
 
 Provided, that the location of such association is ap- 
 proved by the Board of Managers, as suitable for a Branch 
 Library. 
 
 7. Perpetual memberships, and all other memberships, 
 heretofore granted by the Library, and now existing, shall 
 continue during the term for which they were granted. 
 
 8. All persons who are now, or who may hereafter be- 
 come members or officers of the Board of President and 
 
70 RULES AND REGULATIONS 
 
 Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools, shall be entitled 
 for life to all the privileges of the Library. 
 
 SEC. VII. 1. All certificates of membership or sub- 
 scriptions heretofore issued under the authority of the 
 Trustees of the Public School Library Society of St. Louis, 
 shall entitle the holders thereof to all the privileges in the 
 use of the Library and Reading-room for the time or times 
 severally specified in such certificates ; and all certificates 
 heretofore issued under the authority of said Trustees of 
 said Library Society as being good for one dollar, in pay- 
 ment of life-membership fee, shall be received by the Board 
 of Managers in lieu of money under the provisions of Sec- 
 lion VI. 
 
 2. The said Board of Managers may, at their discretion 
 and in consideration for valuable services rendered, or val- 
 uable donations made to the Library, or for other consid- 
 erations, confer the privilege of membership for a time or 
 for life upon such persons as in their judgment are deserving 
 thereof. Memberships in the Library thus conferred, shall 
 be termed Beneficiary Memberships, and persons holding 
 them shall not be entitled to vote at elections for members 
 of the Board of Managers. 
 
 3. All memberships shall be non-transferable. Life 
 memberships shall be suspended during the non-residence 
 in the city of St. Louis of the persons to whom they are 
 issued. 
 
 4. Certificates of membership signed by the President 
 and countersigned by the Librarian, shall be issued to all 
 persons entitled thereto. 
 
 SEC. VIII. All persons shall, in their use of the Library 
 and Reading-room, be subject to the rules and regulations 
 governing the same. 
 
 SEC. IX. The books, pamphlets and other property of 
 the Henry Ames Library of the O' Fallen Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute are hereby placed under the control and management 
 of the said Board of Managers. Such books and pam- 
 
ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY. 71 
 
 phlets shall be distinguished from the books and pamphlets 
 of the Public Library, by their catalogue numbers and by a 
 label containing the words, " Henry Ames Library of the 
 O'Fallon Polytechnic Institute," but otherwise shall be 
 subject to classification and use, the same as the books and 
 pamphlets of the Public Library. 
 
 SEC. X. 1. The Librarian appointed by said Board of Man- 
 agers shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, give 
 bond to the Board of President and Directors of the St. 
 Louis Public Schools in the sum of one thousand dollars, 
 with good and sufficient security to be approved by said 
 Board of President and Directors, for the faithful perform- 
 ance of his duties as Librarian of said Board of Managers. 
 
 2. The depository of the funds of the Public Library 
 shall be the Board of President and Directors of the St. 
 Public Schools, with whose Treasurer shall be deposited all 
 moneys received by the Board of Managers for the use of 
 the Library. All warrants upon the funds of the Library 
 shall be signed by the President of the Board of Managers 
 and the Librarian. The warrants shall be the Treasurer's 
 vouchers for payments so made. 
 
 3. The Treasurer shall report to the Board of Managers 
 quarterly or oftener, if required, the amounts received and 
 paid out by him as above prescribed. And no warrant upon 
 the Treasurer shall be signed by the President as above 
 stated, except in pursuance of the action of the Board of 
 Managers. 
 
 SEC. XL 1 . It shall be the duty of said Managers to present 
 to this Board, through the chairman of the Library Commit- 
 tee, at the regular meetings of the same in August, November, 
 February, and May of each year, written reports setting 
 forth in detail the receipts and expenditures for the Library, 
 its financial condition, the number of volumes added, to- 
 gether with such information or suggestions as they may 
 deem important. The Library year shall coincide with the 
 fiscal year of the School Board and their report in the 
 month of August shall be their annual fiscal report. 
 
72 RULES AND REGULATIONS. 
 
 2. Said Managers shall prepare for printing in the 
 annual report of the Board of Public Schools such resume 
 of the year's work as they may see fit, and shall present 
 also such other reports or information as may from time to 
 time be required of them by the Board of Public Schools. 
 
 SEC. XII. Any or all of these regulations may be repealed 
 or altered in the manner provided for the repeal or altera- 
 tion of the rules for the government of this Board. 
 
 SEC. XIII. All rules and regulations for the government 
 of the Board of Managers of the St. Louis Public Library 
 heretofore adopted by this Board are hereby repealed. 
 
 6FTHE 
 
 UNIVERSI" 
 
INDEX. 
 
 73 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS 
 
 OP THE 
 
 RULES OF THE BOARD. 
 
 SUBJECT MATTER. 
 
 Rule. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Page. 
 
 Amendment of Rules 
 
 119 
 
 
 41 
 
 Architect 
 
 44 
 
 
 16 
 
 Asssistant Superintendents ... 
 
 36 
 
 
 14 
 
 Attorney 
 
 24 
 
 
 12 
 
 Auditing Committee 
 Bailiff . ... 
 
 49 
 37 
 
 
 20 
 14 
 
 Bills, Registration of 
 
 38 
 
 
 14 
 
 Building Committee . . 
 
 70 
 
 
 28 
 
 Call to Order . 
 
 116 
 
 
 41 
 
 Classification of Schools 
 
 131 
 
 
 44 
 
 Collection of Rents . 
 
 38 
 
 
 14 
 
 Committees, Appointment of 
 Committees Constitution of 
 
 , 46 
 47 
 
 
 18 
 18 
 
 Committees, Duties of ... . 
 
 48 
 
 
 19 
 
 Committee of Examiners 
 Communications to Board 
 Contested Elections .... 
 
 84 
 105 
 6 
 
 I. 
 
 32 
 39 
 5 
 
 Corps of Teachers to each School 
 Course of Study Committee ... .... 
 
 132 
 
 67 
 
 V.-XIV. 
 
 47 
 27 
 
 Course of Study District Schools 
 
 130 
 
 v 
 
 43 
 
 Course of Study, Evening Schools ... 
 
 130 
 
 VI 
 
 44 
 
 Course of Study, High School 
 Course of Study, Instruction 
 Course of Study, Normal School 
 Custody of Bonds Papers etc 
 
 130 
 141 
 130 
 
 8 
 
 IV. 
 
 II. 
 III. 
 
 43 
 60 
 43 
 
 8 
 
 Debate, Closing of 
 
 108 
 
 
 39 
 
 Deportment of Pupils 
 
 140 
 
 
 59 
 
 Deposit of School Moneys 
 Discipline 
 
 90-92 
 134 
 
 
 34-35 
 52 
 
 Election of Directors 
 
 1-5 
 
 
 3-5 
 
 Election of Officers 
 
 7 
 
 
 7 
 
 Estimates 
 
 75 76 
 
 
 30 
 
 Examination of Teachers 
 Expenditures 
 
 84 
 
 77 
 
 2-5 
 
 32 
 30 
 
 German Teachers . .- 
 
 132 
 
 XIV. 
 
 49 
 
 High School, Examination for Admission to ... 
 High School, Age of Admission & Requirements for 
 
 Increase in Salaries . 
 Index of Board Proceedings 
 Interest in Contracts < 
 
 Lands and Leasing, Committee of .... 
 
 141 
 141 
 
 133 
 10 
 
 87 
 
 59 
 
 III. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 60 
 61 
 
 52 
 9 
 33 
 
 32 
 
 Leases . ... 
 
 17 
 
 
 10 
 
 Library Committee 
 
 81 
 
 
 31 
 
 Limitation of Speaking 
 
 115 
 
 
 40 
 
 Local Supervision . . . 
 
 138 
 
 
 55 
 
 Motions . 
 
 106 
 
 
 39 
 
74 INDEX. 
 
 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF RULES. Continued. 
 
 SUBJECT MATTER. 
 
 Rule. 
 
 Section. 
 
 Pag 
 
 New School Accommodations 
 
 93 
 
 
 
 Non- Attendance of Members . .... 
 
 86 
 
 
 
 Normal School, Qualification for Admission . . . 
 Normal School Course of Study .... 
 
 142 
 130 
 
 III. 
 
 
 Normal School Pupils, Number of . . .... 
 
 Opening of School Buildings, Hour for 
 Order of Business . 
 
 142 
 
 137 
 103 
 
 II. 
 VIII. 
 
 
 President 
 
 8 
 
 
 
 Principals, Reports of 
 Principals, Reports of 
 Principal Teachers, their Duties 
 Privileges in Debate . 
 Publication and Printing . . . 
 
 137 
 138 
 137 
 113 
 65 
 
 II., III., V. 
 11., III. VI. 
 
 54 
 
 56 
 
 Pupils Admission, Attendance, Studies .... 
 Qualification of Members 
 
 139 
 5 
 
 
 
 Quorum of the Board 
 Quota of Pupils to Teacher . 
 
 102 
 132 
 
 I., II. III. 
 
 
 
 110 
 
 
 
 Repeal 
 Reference of Business 
 Resignation of Teachers 
 Rules, Committee on 
 
 Salaries, Committee on 
 
 119 
 13 
 
 133 
 
 82 
 
 80 
 136 
 
 X. 
 
 
 
 143 
 
 II. 
 
 
 Secretary . . . 
 
 10-20 
 
 
 9 
 
 Secretary's Clerks 
 
 18 
 
 
 
 Sessions of the Board 
 
 100 
 104 
 
 
 
 Special Sessions 
 
 101 
 26-35 
 
 
 12 
 
 Superintendent's Clerks 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 
 33 
 
 
 
 
 29 
 
 
 
 Superintendent, Yearly Report of 
 
 29 
 66 
 
 
 
 Supply Committee 
 Suspension of Pupils . 
 Suspension of Rules 
 Suspension of Teachers 
 
 Teachers 
 
 62 
 140 
 119 
 140 
 
 133 
 133 
 
 
 
 Teachers' Association 
 Teachers' Committee 
 
 133 
 51 
 89 
 
 XL 
 
 
 Teachers. Duties of . 
 Teachers' Salaries, Deductions 
 Teachers' Salaries, How Paid 
 Teachers' Transfer 
 Temperature of School-rooms 
 Terms 
 
 133 
 133 
 91 
 54 
 133 
 143 
 
 I.-VII. 
 XII. 
 
 VII. 
 I. 
 
 
 
 21-23 
 
 
 
 Vice-President 
 
 9 
 
 
 
 Visiting Days of Teachers 
 Vocal Music . : 
 
 133 
 135 
 
 IX. 
 
 
 Vouchers for Repairs * 
 Vouchers for Supplies .... . .... 
 
 44 
 
 66 
 
 14 
 9 
 
 
 Ways and Means Committee 
 Yeas and Nays . 
 
 74 
 112 
 
 
 
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