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 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
 
 STATE OF WlaBAMA 
 
 SCHOOL CODE 
 
 
 OCTOBER J. 1919 
 
 ■ KOWN PRINTIHa 00. HONTgOMKHY. 
 
 
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 
 
 STATE OF ALABAMA . UXMr^ ^^Slulas. 
 
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 SCHOOL CODE 
 
 INCLUDING ALL LAWS RELATING TO EDUCATION 
 
 OCTOBER 1. 1919 
 
 SPRIGHT DOWELL. 
 
 Superintendent of Education 
 
 BROWN PHlNTINa CO. MONTGOMERY. 
 

 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 
 
 Governor Thos. E. Kilby 
 Mrs. T. G. Bush Geo. H. Lanier L. B. Musgrove 
 
 A. H. Carmichael Dr. D. T. McCall ' A. L. Tyler 
 Spright Dowell, Executive Secretary 
 
To School Officials: 
 
 This pamphlet contains the new school code as enacted by 
 the Legislature of 1919, the acts carrying the appropriations 
 necessary to make various sections of the code effective, and 
 such other statutes as are of interest to those charged with the 
 administration and supervision of the schools. 
 
 It would have been possible to have arranged the contents 
 in better form, but to do this would have necessitated consider- 
 able delay inasmuch as the material which was set up for the 
 Secretary of State was immediately used in the preparation of 
 this code. It seemed desirable, therefore, because of the num- 
 ber of radical changes involved in the laws to get the code into 
 the hands of the public as early as practicable. By reference 
 to the index it will be a simple matter to turn to any subject of 
 interest. 
 
 It will be recalled that a Code Commissioner has been ap- 
 pointed to report at the next session of the Legislature. You are 
 therefore requested to keep on your desk this personal copy not- 
 ing therein any inconsistencies or irregularities that may occur 
 to you and to write us from time to time giving us the benefit 
 of any such discoveries. 
 
 Spright Dowell, 
 Superintendent. 
 
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ALABAMA GENERAL LAWS 
 
 Regular Session, vjjj 
 
 
 No. 442.) (S. ;470>--CarHjiiiM^'i' ] 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide a complete educational system for the State of Alabama; to pro- 
 vide a public school fund; to provide for the administration of the pub- 
 lic schools and create a State board of education and prescribe its pow- 
 ers and duties; to create county and city boards of education, to define 
 their respective povv^ers and duties, to provide for the payment of their 
 necessary expenses and equipment including furniture; to provide for 
 the holding of elections for the one mill county tax on each dollar of 
 taxable property under the Constitution of 1901; to provide for the 
 holding of elections for the county tax of three mills or less on each 
 dollar of taxable property under the amendment to the Constitution of 
 1901; to provide for the holding of elections for the district tax of three 
 mills or less on each dollar of taxable property, and to prescribe the 
 method of holding such elections; to prescribe the duties and powers of 
 the State superintendent of education and to fix his compensation; to 
 provide for the organization of the State department of education; to 
 provide for the appointment of county superintendents of education, to 
 define their duties and powers and to provide for their compensation; 
 to provide for boards of school trustees; to provide for the appointment 
 of city superintendents of education, to define their duties and powers, 
 and to provide for their compensation; to provide for supervisors of 
 schools in the various counties and cities, to fix their duties and powers, 
 and to provide for their compensation; to provide for the use of a bonus 
 fund for counties levying and collecting a special county tax for school 
 purposes, and to fix the amount in accordance with the rate of such spe- 
 cial tax; to provide for a county treasurer of school funds; to provide 
 for compulsory attendance upon the schools of the State within certain 
 ages, to fix penalties, to provide for the appointment of attendance offi- 
 cers and to define their duties and fix their compensation and to provide 
 the method of enforcing compulsory attendance within the ages pre- 
 scribed; to provide for the certification of teachers, and to provide for 
 the use of appropriations for the issuance of certificates and for the 
 conduct of teachers institutes; for the training of teachers in service, 
 and provide the necessary clerical and other assistants; to provide finan- 
 cial assistance for the erection, repair and equipment of rural school- 
 houses, and to prescribe the conditions under which such assistance may 
 be obtained; to provide for the sale and conveyance of certain lands 
 io gf'^^^* h&ve been conveyed to the State for school purposes; to provide for 
 ^^ .^'rural libraries throughout the State, including the method by which 
 ^^^;1 assistance may be obtained; to provide for vocational education and for 
 . /V'the use of apprppriations therefor; to, provide for the removal of illit- 
 eracy among adults as well as ariaong painbrs,, and for the use of appro- 
 priations therefor; tpprovld^unifpfift text books throughout the State 
 and tip authprizie the preaiion of ^it'St^te textbook cpminittee and. to de- 
 fine its powers and duties; to provide for county high schopls and pre- 
 scribe the conditions under which such county high schools may obtain 
 assistance from the State, and ,to ^authorize sueh cbunty> high schools to 
 
receive financial assistance from county boards of revenue; boards of 
 education; school districts or private sources; to provide for county 
 high schools treasurers; to fix their bonds and prescribe their powers 
 and duties and to provide for the payment of the premiums upon their 
 bonds; to provide for county treasurers of school funds; to fix their 
 bonds and prescribe their powers and duties and to provide for the pay- 
 ment of the premiums upon their bonds; to provide for changing the 
 name ot i;he nine branch agricultural schools and experiment stations, 
 or district agricultural schools, and of the Northeast Alabama Agricul- 
 tural and l-nduslrial: Institute to State secondary agricultural schools, 
 to provide for their management and control and for their continuance 
 upon the meeting of certain requirements and for the use of appropria- 
 tions therefor; to provide for certain State normal schools and for 
 their control and management and for the use of appropriations there- 
 for; to provide for the creation of the Alabama School of Trades and 
 Industry and for its control and management; to provide for changing 
 the name of the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes to 
 Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for Negroes and to provide for 
 its management and control and for the use of appropriations therefor; 
 to provide for changing the name of the school heretofore established at 
 Montevallo as the Alabama Girls' Industrial School, later called the 
 Alabama Girls' Technical Institute, to the name of the Alabama Tech- 
 nical Institute and College for Women; to create a board of trustees for 
 such institute, to prescribe their powers and duties, their method of 
 appointment, and length of service, and for the use of appropriations 
 therefor; to provide for the management and control of the Alabama 
 Polytechnic Institute, to define the powers and duties of the board of 
 trustees, the method of appointment of such trustees, and for the use of 
 appropriations to said institute; to provide for the management and con- 
 trol of the University of Alabama, to define the duties and powers of 
 the trustees, the method of appointment of such trustees, and for the 
 use of appropriations to the University; to provide for a summer school 
 at the University of Alabama and for the use of appropriations there- 
 for; to create a State council of education and to prescribe its powers 
 and duties; to provide for the management and control of the Alabama 
 Institute for the Deaf; of the Alabama Academy for the Blind, and of 
 the Alabama School for Negro Deaf and Blind, to create a board of 
 trustees therefor and to provide for the method of their appointment 
 and the length of service and for the use of appropirations therefor; to 
 provide for the establishment and maintenance of the Alabama Boys' 
 Industrial School, to provide for the management and control thereof, 
 and for the appointment of a board of directors, to define their powers 
 and duties and the method of committing boys thereto, and for the use 
 of appropriations therefor; to provide for the maintenance and estab- 
 lishment of the Alabama School for Juvenile Negro Lawbreakers; to 
 provide for the management and control thereof, and for the appoint- 
 ment of a board of directors, to define their powers and duties, and for 
 the method of committing boys thereto, and for the use of appropria- 
 tions for such school, to provide for the lease and sale of school lands in 
 the State; to make certain requirements with reference to the bonds of 
 officials and employees authorized under the provisions of this act; to 
 require county and city boards of education to give regular instruction 
 in all schools under their direction as to the nature of alcoholic drinks, 
 tobacco and other narcotics; to require private, denominational and 
 parochial schools to make reports; to provide penalties for the violation 
 of the provisions of this act and to provide for the repeal of inconsistent 
 laws enacted hereafter. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
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 ARTICLE 1. PUBLIC SCHOOL FUND. 
 
 Section 1. For the maintenance of a system of public schools 
 of the State the following sums of money are hereby appropriated 
 for every scholastic year, to-wit: (1) The annual interest at 
 six per cent on all sums of money which have heretofore been or 
 which may hereafter be received by the State, as the proceeds of 
 sales of lands granted or entrusted by the United States to the 
 State, or to the several townships thereof, valueless sixteenth 
 section fund, and school indemnity fund for school purposes. 
 (2) The annual interest at four per cent on that part of the sur- 
 plus revenue of the United States deposited with the State under 
 the act of Congress approved June 23, 1836. (3) All annual 
 rents, incomes, and profits or interest arising from the proceeds 
 of sales of all such lands as may hereafter be given by the United 
 States, or by this State, or by individuals, for the support of 
 the public schools of the State. (4) All such sums as may accrue 
 to the State as escheats the same to be applied to the support 
 of the public schools during the scholastic year next ensuing the 
 receipt in the State treasury. (5) The net amount of poll tax 
 that may be collected in the State; poll tax collected in every 
 county to be retained therein for the support of the public schools 
 thereof and distributed and disbursed as provided in this chap- 
 ter. (6) Licenses which are by law required to be paid into 
 the school fund of any county to be promptly paid by the Judge 
 of Probate or other person collecting the same to the custodian 
 of public school funds of the county or district, to be expended 
 for the benefit of the public schools of each county. (7) A 
 special annual tax of thirty (30) cents on each one hundred dol- 
 lars worth of taxable property in this State. (8) A further 
 sum or sums to be appropriated by the Legislature for each scho- 
 lastic year. 
 
 Section 2. All such appropriations, except the poll tax, shall 
 accrue to the educational fund on the first day of October in each 
 year ; and on that day the State Auditor shall place to the credit 
 of that fund, on the books in his office, all such amounts as accrue 
 thereto from the sources in this article mentioned, except the 
 poll tax, for the scholastic year beginning on that day. 
 
 ARTICLE 2. ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be throughout the State of Alabama 
 a general system of public schools, including such types of in- 
 struction and educational institutions and agencies as may be 
 provided for by general law or by county or district authority, 
 acting under the general powers conferred upon such by this 
 Act. 
 
 Section 2. The supervision of the public schools of the State 
 shall be vested in the State superintendent of education with the 
 
advice and.(3O«tJ^lj0tOltI'$^tHJH)aiSa ofi feafidiffl«i^ and their 
 
 hB^mmvtrWMM^w^vmiSf^^^- ,^jfiectmg counties shall be 
 gnoer We, tmffipV^^ education and educational 
 
 ^natters affeclJls^^^-cjttje^ ^^^;.to:^p^^^ or 
 
 mor{3 inhabitantS^.accOrdi^. LO|tteJ^t or any succeeding Fed/-; 
 eral census, shaH' "be, under. ^_pj;(|^j^4^|^^c^|;ion except ^ 
 
 ' m provided by^^l^Wri^ sqiri3n7/o:t iB-isvsa srij oj 'lo .sjiija 
 
 era iO liH-Tjnni 'u^ Tag:) ieq 'luor jb 
 
 ^Ab«8cp9ij^l*),[jT;m/^tate board of education shall be composeid 
 01 me g(Wvernor, or six members to be appointed by him, no two 
 of whom shall reside in the same Congressional district, and 
 confirmed by the Senate for terms of twelve years beginning on 
 the first day of October next succeeding their appointment, and 
 of the State superintendent of education who shall be chairman 
 ^nxi executiye officer of the board. In makiiig the first appoint-^ 
 H^ent&iwnderst^ig section tbe governor shall appoint two menur 
 l^K^ .whose terms pf office shall expiry on September 30, 1923; 
 two meipbers whose terms of office shall expire on September 
 30, 1927 ; and two members whose terms of office shall expire 
 on Sept^n>ber 30, 19(31 J and thereafter as the respective vacancies 
 occur, appointments to the-^^tate board of education shall be 
 made by the go vernjjr before* nth^ first day of October and foe 
 t^j^ms . of twelve ye^^rst .'tTfe^eiinaiembers of the board shall: be) 
 ^gip^ted solely f^r rtJieiic >chMaeteErs3hd) fitness, but no ii]ier?Qii> 
 gbal^T^^e appointed to -the. boiardi who is in any way subject to its 
 al#i(H?itt^i I The governor may remove any member of the boar4< 
 a©p0l|)te(i. under theprovifeions of thivS section for immorality>l 
 mi^condi^-lnofficie^^iincompeteiJ^jljacte (wilful negliect of dutyv giv« 
 ing to him a copy of the charge against him, and an opportuhityl 
 Of being t).!iibMcly^ heard in per^n or by coungel in. his own de- 
 fense, upon noteless than ten (10) days' inotice. If any member 
 shall be temovedjth'e^^overnor shall file in the office of the Sec- 
 retary of State a complete statement of all charges against such* 
 member, .and his findings thereon, together with a eorripletfef 
 record of .the . proceedings; Vacalncies on the boardfor iany dalise 
 shall be filled by the gpyernor, foj, thj?, vw^xpjr^ti term^ an^d, tvutil 
 a gucce^kbr qualifies. ' B^^ore Exercising any authority or' {jer- 
 fo^'ming any duty- as a member of the State boafd of education, 
 ea<?h member thereof shall i qualify as sftch by taking and sub« 
 scribing to the oath of off jce prescribed by article sixteen' (16); of* 
 thei State Constitution, the certificate whereof shall be filed withi 
 th^ ^'epords.of the State board of education. ■ ; r • ; )r. 
 
 ^ Section 2. The State Board of Education shall hold its anA. 
 ^Ufl,];^eetiiig each yeat, at the office of the State Departrnent of 
 Education at Montgomery^ on the first Tuesday in October. 11 jAife 
 
llIis£nNQe]la«githeriK)ittrdishBligelKtofi^ ¥M*»S^esi- 
 
 jtfcteb^ @llieat)re^ldir> meetings' shaHf be rHeldaon tbecflrstfiTuiesday 
 bf Dfedembei^qdBKbrjmry, and M^vfahd siubh sjiedialilDieetm^ 
 m^' be held a^Wae'xiw ties and business of tbe bo^tdlTOMgu require. 
 The rules generally adopted by deliberative bodi^ -for; their gov* 
 ©mmiBEit shall; berxibservedrby, the State T)oard< of edaeatibn. , No 
 ihotion or resolution shall be declared adot)tea}rHri^^OHt&thfe:oMto- 
 currence of the majority of the whole boardza oi ion ,99l:HrnmoD 
 
 Section ?>. The rnernberiS' of the State boai^lMfiKiracaitian slmli 
 receive a per diem of ten ($10) dolJirs for gaiffih dJiyrcdf jafetual 
 service and for a total of not more than twent^-Ave ■ (2S)() day$ 
 in any fiscal year, and their actual traveling and other f>€cessiary 
 expenses incurred in attending meetings and transacting the buSf 
 iness of the boardu .sifiiS sdi io aloorioa oilduq adi m a-iadoBsi io 
 
 Section 4. THe State-' bdardfodf ^'e'diJcation 'sh'all 'fe^ereise, 
 through the State superintendent of education and his profes- 
 sional assistants, general control and supervision over the public 
 schools of the Statefiietcetit-.the University-, the Alabama Polyi- 
 technic Institute, and the. Alabama Technical Institute and Col- 
 leige for Women, and: shhU consult with and advise through their 
 eJcetfuti'B^- off icer and his: prof ea^ioiial assistants, county boatids 
 ofieducafcion, city and towHibbairdMiof education, superintendents 
 of schools,; scbo(?l tlrust^es. attendance officers, principate* teacht 
 er8,.suipertvi3ord,i pnd jinterested .citizens,, and. shall seek in every 
 way to direct and develop public sentiment in support Qf^publie 
 edhcatioti.IlBfia noiiscubs io biBod aisiS, odT .ii noiiosS 
 odi SedtiainjSd 13^ fSstnitl^ hDaaednaii icdDdation^^haKll''adot)trmIe$ 
 'toidiaJdgnMtaoixs 30iwB<>lieos^jtotJ«mrj6fi schools^ for. fthe physical 
 fnaaMdktiomic^snched^. dhildren,v iandj inicodiirndtiofi wiith other 
 3^SBtbdaiithbnkie^7^alHseetlo Sftutha/t tH$ tuI^j irelating to sehob] 
 h^arMlf^-ioompailsorjeLiedtiedtitqx^-i iv^sdb«hijyii3obnde(rJir8tximjeja]ie^i«ii^ 
 forced.9vodi5 sdi "io dr>u'-> -turf,! bsbivo'iq :«>{fTfiId hrrf? ?.rmn> 9?-9rft 
 YBnSaititaDi&o Thfe-jState boardrbf leducatipn shaUi ipa»st^ib4 iriiles 
 and regtd^ioii^ ^£ofBftli9x^Bflriditi^I'alii[}'osi»nddt^zingti«ldpubUi 
 H^eolsLpo'i Ilijrfa noitfioubs lo b'ujod 9^/5)8 sti T- .lii no'ihaP. 
 I^irfiSeotipn Kxib TttftrSfidtebnandfef eiSw5atipn,y3ri tho recoraaneattef 
 jlMnr jfflfiak^)':StatB)iSjai3eipintekidfiritnorf bEdilcaiion, ! 'Shill . prescribe 
 the'/iriiniJii!um)donteritsIof (CourseMiof rstadyi f pr; all pubilic lelemen-r 
 fery and high schools in the State; In everj^ elementary, school 
 in. the State there shall be tatt^tat least readings spelling, handt 
 iwBitingriaiarithmetic, oral ainfljiwmttett EngHsii, i geogra^hyip Thiai- 
 tory of the United States and; Aiiabania, teommuiity civaesj agErj 
 culture, elementary science^ liygiene and sanitation, physical 
 training, and such; other studies as may be prescribed by the 
 State board of education. English shall be the only language 
 employed and taught in the first six grades of the elementary 
 
 schools i in.' 'the State. ju huU^sjuj auj OJ ^iUiJiujUai ^sijiiiyj ijily 
 
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 Section 8. The State board of education shall prescribe the 
 text books to be used in the elementary schools of the State; 
 and in all of the high schools of the State, except in cities of 
 two thousand (2000) or more inhabitants, according to the last 
 or any succeeding Federal census. For the selection of such 
 books the State board of education, upon the recommendation of 
 the State superintendent of education, shall appoint a text book 
 committee, not to exceed seven (7) persons, composed of leading 
 men or women engaged in public school work in the State. 
 
 Section 9. The State board of education, through its execu- 
 tive officer, shall prescribe rules and regulations, also the sub- 
 jects and the standards of teachers' examinations, agreeable to 
 the provisions of article sixteen of this Act, for the certification 
 of teachers in the public schools of the State, and for the accept- 
 ance of the diplomas of the Normal schools, colleges and universi- 
 ties of Alabama, as well as of other states. No diploma shall be 
 accepted from any normal school, college or university which does 
 not meet minimum standards prescribed by the State board of 
 education for teacher training courses. 
 
 Section 10. The State board of education shall prescribe 
 rules and regulations for taking a biennial census in July 1920 
 and biennially thereafter, of all children from six (6) to twenty- 
 one (21) years of age within the State, also all fprms and blanks 
 to be used in taking such census, and in compiling the reports 
 thereon. 
 
 Section 11. The State board of education shall have the 
 power to prescribe uniform series of forms and blanks for the 
 use of county boards of education, the boards of education of 
 cities, school officials and teachers, and shall require all finan- 
 cial accounts, including the annual school budget, and all educa- 
 tional records to be kept, and all reports to be made according to 
 these forms and blanks ; provided that such of the above forms 
 and blanks as in the opinion of the State board of education may 
 be necessary, shall be provided at the expense of the State. 
 
 Section 12. The State board of education shall require all 
 persons conducting private, denominational and parochial 
 schools, and all private educational associations, corporations, 
 or institutions to report annually, on or before the 31st. day of 
 August, as to enrollment, age of pupils and attendance, on such 
 forms as the State board of education may provide. The State 
 board of education shall require all private denominational and 
 parochial schools of an elementary and high school grades to 
 report monthly on forms provided by the State board of educa- 
 tion, to the Superintendent of education of the county or to the 
 superintendent of schools in cities of two thousand (2000) or 
 more inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Fed- 
 eral census, according to the location of private schools in ques- 
 
tion, giving the name of each pupil enrolled, the date of enroll- 
 ment, the total days of attendance to date, and the number of 
 days in attendance during the month for which the particular 
 report is made. 
 
 Section 13. The State board of education shall conduct in- 
 vestigations relating to the educational needs of the State, and 
 the means of improving educational conditions. It may employ 
 additional expert assistance for such investigations if needed, 
 and appoint ^ch agents for special investigations. 
 
 Section 14. The State board of education is authorized, em- 
 powered, directed and required, along with the State superin- 
 tendent of education, to co-operate with the Federal board for 
 vocational education in the administration of the Smith-Hughes 
 Vocational Education Act. The State of Alabama accepts the 
 benefits of this Act, passed by the Senate and House of Repre- 
 sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assem- 
 bled, as provided in this Act, and the State Treasurer is hereby 
 designated to have custody of any funds accruing the the State 
 from the said foregoing act or from any amendments or supple- 
 ments thereto. 
 
 Section 15. The State board of education is hereby author- 
 ized and empowered to accept for the State of Alabama any 
 appropriation of money for the removal of illiteracy, the teach- 
 ing of immigrants and for other educational purposes which may 
 hereafter be made out of the Federal treasury by any acts of 
 Congress, and shall be constituted the chief educational authority 
 for the expenditure and administration of any such funds. Said 
 board shall have authority to make rules and regulations for the 
 expenditure of such funds, such expenditure to be in accordance 
 with the terms of the acts of Congress making such appropria- 
 tions. The Treasurer of the State is hereby designated as custo- 
 dian for all funds received as apportionments under the provi- 
 sions of such act or acts of Congress. 
 
 Section 16. The board of trustees of the State Normal 
 Schools for whites, of the A. and M. College for negroes at Nor- 
 mal, of the State Normal School for colored students at Mont- 
 gomery, of the nine District Agricultural Schools, of the North- 
 east Alabama Agricultural and Industrial Institute, the State 
 High School Commission, the State Text Book Commission, the 
 State board for Vocational Education, the Alabama Illiteracy 
 Commission, as now respectively constituted by law, are hereby 
 abolished, provided that the State board of education may ap- 
 point an advisory board of not more than five (5) persons from 
 the locality in which any institution for negroes under the con- 
 trol of the State board of education is located, said advisory 
 board to have such rights and duties as the State board of educa- 
 tion may from time to time designate. 
 
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 -ffcScetfcn 'jb^ ^Rhe State board of education shall have general^ 
 supervision of the educational work of all charitable, penal, re-f 
 formatory, and child caring institutions, maintained in whole or 
 in part by the State, through its executive officer, who shall be a 
 member of the governing board or boards which have charge of 
 such.,9iiij8 3ffi 10 gbssn iBnoiiBoubs srfi oi sni^^^tai anoiifi^ijasv 
 Section t^T The-bokrdoSediicatibn shall subMt eadh^e^T^ 
 Qfa or before the first day of December, or as early thereafter' 
 as practicable, to the governor^ an annual report* covering all> 
 operations of the State Department of Education, and the sup- 
 port, conditions, progress, and needs of education throughout*^ 
 the State. Such annual report shall be printed in sufficient 
 quantities for general distribution throughout the State, and for 
 the usual exchange courtesies between state educational authori-' 
 ties. 
 
 -■ Section 19. It shall be the duty of the State board of educa- 
 tion to consider the educational needs of the State, and on and 
 with the advice of the State superintendent of education, to 
 recommend to the Goveronr, and to the Legislature such addi- 
 tional legislation or changes in the existing legislation as may be 
 deemed desirable. Such recommendations may be in the form of 
 prepared bills, and shall be laid before the governor and the 
 Legislature. 
 
 V Section 20. The State board of education shall have the 
 ^ower to adopt a seal for the authentication of its official acts. 
 
 y^i'Section 21. The State board of education by its presiding 
 dfffeer, or its committees by their chairman, the State superin- 
 tendent of education, and any of its duly appointed agents, shall 
 h^ar^- ^authority to administer oaths, and to examine under oath-* 
 in any part of the State, witnesses in any matter pertaining W 
 schools, and to cause the examination to be reduced to writing.- 
 Any person, who, having been sworn by any of the above officers' 
 to tell the truth, should wilfully give false testimoh^,^silkir^fei# 
 guilty of perjury '^ ayoJr-.u'u lu inuuLy um ci ctoii'.-'dP, 
 
 - Section 22. "The-MIi^'^b^Si^f^ef 4d\S^libl?^f^fK^r^earf«^ 
 reWOve for incompetency, immorality, miscond\i(?t'''in offiCeJW 
 wilful neglect of duty, any school officer, appointed by it under 
 the provisions of this Act. upon makincr known to him in writing^ 
 the charge against him. and upon giving him an opportunity of 
 being heard in person or by counsel in his OAvn defense, upon not 
 less than ten days' notice. In case of vacancy due to anv cause,' 
 the State board of education shall fill the vacancy, unless other- 
 wise provided, and until a successor shall qualify. 
 ■' Section' 'SSi' "The State board of education shall perform such 
 other duties as are assigned to it elsewhere in this Act. or may be 
 assigned from time to time by the Legislature. In order to meet 
 emergencies that may arise because of any defect in the language? 
 
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 ^^MqdhB-tJosei^rf^this Act, <jhe'8tite board: ot'adiicartJleuPte authoHffed 
 -Jkoufaftke sueh rules and regulationa as wiMsglwii&P^ffipefllJaa^l f^- 
 -flDESctidso any or all of its provisions, provided thittsafcdVWItesfia^ 
 pegiilations shall not be inconsistent with the poWfelli'^aJftftflBd«A»s 
 of the several boards of education as conferred in this AWwq ni 
 Secton 24. The State board of education shall hav^iitlfe>M- 
 thority to acquire, hold, lease, rent, sell and convey the tiWe'^to 
 real and personal property and to make such repairs and inft- 
 provements in all property, under its control as may be for the 
 best interest of the schoohmfi hb lioua -loi ^iBi^ srii ni aasniaud 
 Section 25. The State board of edU^atlbn is' siJ^ciftttaily 
 charged with the duty of equalizing public school facilities 
 throughout the State, in so far as it may be practicable; and 
 in order to make it possible to increase the length of school terms 
 in rural districts, and to care for that and other worthy pur- 
 poses for which no adequate appropriation has been made, in- 
 cluding expenses and compensation of the members of the State 
 board of education in the discharge of their official duties, the 
 said State board of education is hereby empowered and directed 
 to expend so much as it may deem proper of the amount set aside 
 annually by legislative enactment as a revolving fund for the use 
 of the State board of education, provided that at least eighty 
 (80) per cent of the amount appropriated, if used, shall be ex- 
 pended for lengthening public school terms and otherwise better- 
 ing conditions in rural schools, and provided further that any 
 unexpended balance at the end of any fiscal year shall be placed 
 to the credit of the general educational fund. 
 
 Section 26. Such appropriations as may be made by the 
 Legislature for public school purposes, shall, unless otherwise 
 provided for, be paid out upon requisition of the State superin- 
 tendent of education upon the State Auditor, who shall draw his 
 warrant upon the State treasurer for the amount for which 
 requisition is made. 
 
 ARTICLE 4. STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Section 1. The State Department of Education is hereby 
 created to be under the direction of the State board of education, 
 as provided for by section two (2) of article two (2) of this 
 Act. This department shall comprehend all officers and func- 
 tions formerly included under the office of State superintendent 
 of education, and such other divisions and branches as may be 
 provided for by this Act, or by subsequent legislative enactment. 
 
 Section 2. As the chief executive officer of the State De- 
 partment of education there shall be a State sunerintendent of 
 education, who shall hold office for a term of four (4) years 
 from the time of installation into office and until his successor is 
 -elected and qualified. The State superintendent of education 
 
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 shall be a person of good moral character, of recognized ability 
 as a school administrator, with academic and professional educa- 
 tion equivalent to graduation from a standard university or col- 
 lege, and shall have had not less than five (5) years of experience 
 in public school work. He shall receive such salary as may be 
 fixed in accordance with law, payable in monthly installments 
 on the last day of the month. Before entering upon the duties 
 of the office he shall take the oath prescribed in the Constitution 
 and shall execute a bond in a surety company authorized to do 
 business in the State for such an amount as may be fixed by the 
 State board of education. 
 
 Section 3. The State superintendent of education shall make 
 the annual apportionment of school funds to the several counties 
 of the State as provided in article nine of this Act. 
 
 Section 4. The State superintendent of education shall ex- 
 plain the true intent and meaning of the school laws, and of the 
 rules and regulations of the State board of education. He shall 
 decide, without expense to the parties concerned, all controversies 
 and disputes involving the proper administration of the public 
 school system. The State superintendent of education shall en- 
 force all the provisions of this Act, and the rules and regulations 
 of the State board of education. He is empowered and directed 
 to file charges with the State board of education, or other con- 
 trolling authority and shall recommend for removal or institute 
 proceedings for the removal of any person elected or appointed 
 under the provisions of this Act, unless otherwise provided, for 
 immorality, misconduct in office, insubordination, incompetency, 
 or wilful neglect of duty. 
 
 Section 5. The State superintendent of education shall exe- 
 cute the educational policy of the State board of education. He 
 shall call and conduct conferences of county or city boards of 
 education, county superintendents of education, city superin- 
 tendents of schools, supervisors, attendance officers, principals, 
 and teachers, on matters relating to the condition, needs and 
 improvements of the schools. He shall prepare and publish the 
 school laws of the State and the rules and regulations of the 
 State board of education, and such other pamphlets as will stimu- 
 late public interest, promote the work of education, and foster 
 in teachers professional insight and efficiency. He shall receive 
 and examine all the reports required under the rules and regula- 
 tions of the State board of education, and in person, or through 
 his assistants, shall examine the expenditures, business methods, 
 and accounts of county boards of education, and of board of 
 education of cities and towns of two thousand (2000) or more 
 inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Federal 
 census, and advise them on the same. 
 
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 Section 6. The State superintendent of education shall pre- 
 pare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval to the 
 State board of education rules and regulations for the hygienic, 
 sanitary and protective construction of school buildings. He is 
 empowered and directed to recommend for condemnation for 
 school use by the State board of education all buildings used for 
 school purposes that violate these rules and regulations. 
 
 Section 7. The State superintendent of education shall pre- 
 pare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adop- 
 tionn by the State board of education, rules and regulations gov- 
 erning the certification of teachers and the holding of teachers' 
 examinations, subject to the rules and regulations of the State 
 board of education, and to the provisions of article sixteen of 
 this Act. The State board of education shall certificate all teach- 
 ers of the public schools of the State, including all teachers of 
 elementary and high school grade. 
 
 Section 8. The State superintendent of education shall pre- 
 pare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adop- 
 tion by the State board of education courses of study showing the 
 minimum contents for the different grades and kinds of elemen- 
 tary schools, high schools, and normal schools, and also minimum 
 standards for college courses for the training of teachers. 
 
 Section 9. The State superintendent of education, acting 
 under the rules and regulations of the State board of education, 
 shall be responsible for the administration of the State Depart- 
 ment of Education, and shall have general supervision of all the 
 professional and clerical assistants of the department. He shall 
 nominate to the State board of education all the professional and 
 clerical assistants of the department, and shall recommend the 
 salaries to be paid them, except as otherwise provided by law. 
 
 Section 10. The State Department of Education shall here- 
 after be provided with such clerical and professional assistants 
 as may be necessary for the proper conduct of its affairs. 
 
 Section 11. The State superintendent of education shall pre- 
 pare, or cause to be prepared and submit for approval and adop- 
 tion by the State board of education, rules and regulations for 
 the protection of the health, physical welfare and physical in- 
 spection of the school children of the State in co-operation with 
 other authorized agencies. 
 
 Section 12. The State superintendent of education shall 
 prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and 
 adoption by the State board of education, rules and regulations 
 for grading and standardizing all public schools of an elementary 
 and high school grade, also for limiting on the basis of equipment 
 and number of teachers employed, the years and grades of in- 
 structions that may be offered in such schools, but such rules and 
 regulations shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this 
 
^UdMiiy other staibnte of this State.9+/f8ft *i'Sll alsO< |)4-epare, 
 ©^^£0^84^0 be- prepai-edv and submit for approval and adoption by 
 tlife^;^tate board of education, the minimum requirements for 
 fgstling all certificates and diplomas in such schools. Provided, 
 H^VeVer, no person within the school age shall be denied admis- 
 9R^ to any elementary public school of this State, but shaU be 
 admitted, and shall be permitted to take any advanced studies? 
 which he is qualified to study and w^hich the teacher is qualified 
 to teach, notwithstanding anything heretofore prescribed, or that 
 may hereafter be prescribed or enacted, in this Act. • sdJ" v,d nnoiJ 
 Section 13. The State superintendent of education shall 
 prepare, or cause to be prepared, the forms of contract that shall 
 be Executed between the boards of education and all regular 
 ^mployees?*fi'jfti*i9p l^^da noicTBDuba io biBod el&rd sriT .:tDA airfi 
 • Sectiofi^l¥.^ OT|f-St«(te-'stttl^ritifendent of' education shall pre^ 
 pare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adop- 
 tion by the State board of education, rules and regulations in 
 agreement with the provisions of article twenty-four of this 'A^ 
 setting forth the conditions which must be met and fulfilled in" 
 order that county high schools may receive the respective amounts 
 of State aid provided in article twenty-four of this Act, subject 
 to the rules and regulations of the State board of education. The 
 State superintendent of education shall at least annually investi- 
 gate the management, conduct and work of each high school r^ 
 ceiving State aid, according to the provisions of article twentys 
 four of this Act. In case of violations of the rules and regula- 
 tions of the State board of education, and the provisions of arfci4 
 cle twenty-four of this Act, the State superintendent of educ^ 
 tion shall recommend to the State board of education that th^ 
 appropriations to such high schools be discontinued and the Stat& 
 board of education shall have the power to discontinue the appro- 
 priations to such high schools as provided in Article twenty-fou# 
 of this A'ct. \^ hen application is made to the State board of edoS 
 cation for the location of a county high school to receive State 
 aid according to the provisions of article twenty-four of thisJ 
 Act, the State superintendent of education shall make the propei* 
 investigations, report his findings, and make recommendation 
 to the State board of education as to the granting or denial of 
 the petition. , „ . ^j;^^. i^'^i iu.ij.u> rjuio 
 
 ! Section iBP T^e State superintendent Qf>Muca?fcrfMfe!f pre- 
 pare, or cauS6 ?ST)e prepared, and submit for apjp^f^^P'and adop- 
 tion by the State board of education rules and :^^&MtK^ns for th^ 
 taking of a biennial school census of all childreif irf ¥He State bei 
 tween six (G) and twenty-one (21) years of age, also the formiS 
 and blanks to be employed in taking such census, and in compiP 
 |ng the reports thereon. This school census shall be taken irf 
 Jfuly of the even numbered years, and the State superintendertf 
 
«if' education may cause the whole or atiyofte^bJ^ |lle5>SChGiot '^^ 
 .sus of any county or of any city to be ret^dri at any iime, if j'^lii 
 the judgment of the State board of education th& whole or^si^ 
 part of the census has not been properly taken. - l '-•■■' '^f')i!'"'rt[ 
 fi I Seictidh 16 J ) 'The State sujier iiitendent of educatSi^ feftiall pre- 
 pare, or cause to be prepared and submit for approvar and adop- 
 tion by the State board of Education a uniform series of forms 
 and blanks for the use of county boards of education, boards of 
 education of cities, school officials and teachers, aftd it' STuaill be 
 his duty to s6e that all financial matters, and all educational 
 records are so kept, and that all reports are made according to 
 ♦tiheae forms and blanks. He shall also prepare, or cause to be 
 prepiardd, and isubnait for approval and adoption by the State 
 board of education, forms and blanks to be used in the annual 
 report, and in the monthly reports of persons conducting private, 
 denominational and parochial schools, and of private educational 
 associations, corporations; ^ot' .iri^itutlfi^W^i^afii sninifi'i:^ isdoBsi 
 "fsfi Section 17. The State supefinteriderii of Education shairpi-6^ 
 ^&re, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adop^ 
 tion by the State board of education rules and regulations for 
 the enforcenietit of school attendance, ab' provided for in article 
 fifteen of this Act. -l^ -'"'j "iri^i'^z bffK JoA <uu ni ^■j\-Anyi<\ aii 
 Section 18. The State superintendent of education sh^Il'iitfe- 
 i)a^e, or cause to be prepared, and submit to the State board of 
 education,9^afti§-^"and rule§=^htf:'i'egillati6n8 fer the administra- 
 tion of the pro^^iSions of the 'Voca;tiohal Education Act as pre- 
 bcrfbed in article twenty-one (21) of thisA<*ti' 
 ' Section 19. The State superintendent Of education shall ^ri6- 
 pare, or cause to be pi^epat^d, an annua! fepprt of the State boaird 
 of education, and shall Submit on the first day of Decerhber, ,05* 
 as early thereafter as practicable, the same to the boai^^d for its 
 ajpjiroval and adoption. Hie shall also prepare,' ^dr'cat^e to be 
 prepared, all other reports which are or may be re^iuired of this 
 board'.-"^' ■'^^- «i;:j ".;u jju-ijiq'jiq -oj iuiiiri yv-)\\yi ii.uiiU;; u;ij iu f^noij 
 
 ^etnhk fSfOR TB'^'^&tat&^^ifJ^MflcfeW^^isycMi^iY^^ 
 pare and submit f Bf ' appt*^ W^ ^^^laffe^^feiWfBB^a^^^iedueatidii 
 such biid.eet for each q^^^b^fiiii^t ^^df^'m^^Y^r^im 
 
 mav be fixed by the Staff Budget "CfcfffiiHwii3« M^mS&^'^^ 
 
 futhorized body. ^TMiuoTro lir, to ■jjnrtiS'iti^Lriri nnn sm 
 
 ". Section 21. The State ^^lit5gHrlteiid^tft'a#y&u%^icfe' ^MW^ 
 pare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for ap^OT&i^^SSlra^L-^^ 
 tion by the State board of education such legismf^e measure^) 
 as are in his opinion needed foj. the furtl;ier developm6ht and 
 improvement of the free public' schools :OT'i^e State. -^ 
 
 f/' Section 22. -T^State Department of Education is'hfi 
 orgranized into the loilb wing divisions, the heads of whi/^^ 
 be members of the force of the Department of Education: 
 
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 State board of education may create other divisions from time to 
 time, within the limits of its appropriations for maintenance. 
 The functions and duties of the divisions hereby created shall 
 include the following : 
 
 1. EXECUTIVE AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: In 
 this division shall be the chief clerk of the Department of Edu- 
 cation, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the board, and 
 shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties. He 
 shall perform such duties as may be assigned to him from time 
 to time by the State board of education, or the State superintend- 
 ent of education. 
 
 2. TEACHER, TRAINING, CERTIFICATION AND 
 PLACEMENT. This division, subject to the approval of the 
 State superintendent of education, shall prescribe the rules and 
 regulations for the certification of teachers, for the placement 
 of teachers, and for the training of teachers in service, and in 
 teacher training institutions, and for the work of extension. The 
 working force of this division shall include a director of teacher 
 training, a secretary, and such professional and clerical assist- 
 ants as may be necessary to give full force and effect to the laws 
 governing the certification, placement and training of teachers, 
 as provided in this Act, and within the appropriations for such 
 purpose. 
 
 3. STATISTICS. This division, subject to the approval of 
 the State superintendent of education, shall have the power to 
 prescribe the blanks, forms, registers, rules and regulations for 
 making all statistical reports to county and state high school 
 officers; it shall prescribe a uniform system of book keeping to 
 be used by the State Department of Education and by all county 
 and city boards of education ; it shall attend to the gathering of 
 all statistical data ; it shall tabulate, interpret and edit the same, 
 and shall supply the United States Commissioner of Education 
 with any statistical information available. The statistical por- 
 tions of the annual report shall be prepared by this division, as 
 directed by the State board of education. Forms and blanks for 
 use in compiling general school statistics shall conform as nearly 
 as may be to the forms and blanks recommended by the United 
 States Bureau of Education. This division shall attend to the 
 editing and illustrating of all circulars, bulletins, and reports 
 prepared by the different divisions of the State Department of 
 Education and to their distribution, as approved and directed by 
 the State board of education, or by the State superintendent of 
 education. 
 
 4. RURAL SCHOOLS. This division, subject to the ap- 
 proval of the State superintendent of education, shall study the 
 needs, costs, and means of improvement of the rural and small 
 town schools of the State ; assist in county re-organization sur- 
 
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 veys and the establishment of consolidated schools ; assist county 
 boards of education and county superintendents in promoting 
 local tax levies to provide ways and means for extending educa- 
 tional and social advantages to the rural sections and small towns 
 of the State ; assist county educational authorities in the re-organ- 
 ization and re-direction of rural and village schools, and per- 
 form such other duties as may be assigned by the State board 
 of education, or by the State superintendent of education. 
 
 5. ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS. This division, subject to 
 the approval.of the State superintendent of education, shall study 
 the administrative and instructional problems and needs of all 
 schools of elementary grade, and shall assist in the preparation of 
 school programs, manuals of the course of study, and such other 
 helpful material as may be deemed necessary. For the proper 
 co-ordination of the work the director of the teacher training, 
 certification and placement division may be placed in charge of 
 this division. 
 
 6. SECONDARY EDUCATION. This division, subject to 
 the approval of the State superintendent of education, shall 
 study the administration, curricula, problems and needs of the 
 secondary schools of the State. For the proper co-ordination of 
 the work the director of the teacher training, certification, and 
 placement division may be placed in charge of this division. 
 There shall be a specialist in secondary education, who shall 
 visit the various secondary schools of the State to classify the 
 schools according to standards maintained, to suggest means of 
 improving the work of instruction and administration. This 
 division shall approve for accreditment to the University, the 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute, and other institutions of higher 
 learning, those schools meeting the proper standards. It shall 
 study means for a closer articulation of both secondary schools 
 and colleges on the one hand, and of secondary and elementary 
 schools on the other hand. 
 
 7. PHYSICAL EDUCATION. This division, subject to 
 the approval of the State superintendent of education, shall out- 
 line a course of physical training for the various schools of the 
 State. It shall collect and disseminate useful data on the health 
 of school children, and shall devise ways and means of co-ordi- 
 nating the work of health education of the Department of Edu- 
 cation, and of the county and city boards of education, with the 
 work of the State board of health and with the health authorities 
 in counties and cities. 
 
 8. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. This division, subject to 
 the approval of the State superintendent of education, shall study 
 the vocational opportunities of the State in agriculture, home 
 economics and trade and industry; assist in the establishment 
 of vocational schools and courses and have the oversight and 
 
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 direction of the vocational work in schools receiving State and 
 Federal aid ; prepare and publish bulletins relating to vocational 
 work, study conditions, both within and without the State, with 
 a view to better preparing young people for the vocations ; have 
 the supervision of the teacher training work in home economics, 
 agriculture and trade and industry in the institutions approved 
 for the training of teachers, under the Smith-Hughes law. At 
 the head of this division shall be a director of vocational educa- 
 tion. 
 
 9. EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION. This division, subject 
 to the approval of the State superintendent of education, shall 
 have charge of the organized work of the State board of educa- 
 tion for the removal of illiteracy in Alabama, and of the educa- 
 tional work in the special child caring institutions of the State. 
 
 10. SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BETTERMENT. This 
 division shall be charged with the direction of school improve- 
 ment, parent-teacher, and community organization work through- 
 out the State. It shall encourage and co-operate with such 
 agencies in the State as may be designed to foster, all activities 
 for the betterment of school and community interests. 
 
 Section 23. In order that the State Department of Educa- 
 tion may exert its largest influence, provision shall be made for 
 three series of publications as follows: 1. A monthly circular 
 of information containing such outlines and descriptions of the 
 work of the State Department of Education and such general 
 information, notices, and directions as the State superintendent 
 of education shall direct. 2, A series of bulletins to be issued 
 as frequently as need be, to contain collected information on 
 some of the following subjects; the results of study made by 
 different divisions of the State Department of education, school 
 manuals, copies of the school law, and such other publications 
 as may be authorized by the State board of education. 3. An- 
 nual reports as required under this Act. 
 
 Section 24. The State superintendent of education shall per- 
 form such other duties as are assigned to him elsewhere in this 
 Act, or may be assigned to him from time to time by the State 
 board of education, or by law. 
 
 ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Section 1. The general administration and supervision of 
 the public schools and of the educational interests of each county, 
 with the exception of cities of two thousand (2003) or more 
 inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Federal cen- 
 sus, shall be vested in the county board of education except as 
 otherwise provided by law. The county board of education shall 
 be composed of five members, who shall be elected by the quali- 
 
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 -fied electors of the county. They shall be persons of good moral 
 character, with at least a fair elementary education, of good 
 standing in their respective communities, and known for their 
 honesty, business ability, public spirit and interest in the good 
 of public education. In the event a vacancy occurs in the office 
 of the county board of education, the vacancy shall be filled by 
 appointment by a majority of the remaining members of the 
 county board of education, and the appointee shall hold the next 
 general election following the date of the appointment. In the 
 event the vacancy is not filled by the remaining members of the 
 county board within thirty days, the State superintendent of 
 education shall fill such vacancy. 
 
 Section 2. At the general election of State and county offi- 
 cers in November 1920 and biennially thereafter, a member or 
 members shall be elected for terms of six (6) years, to succeed 
 the member or members whose term or terms of office expire 
 at that time. The members of the county board of education 
 shall hold office until their successors have been elected and 
 qualified. Before exercising any authority or performing any 
 duties as a member of the county board of education, each mem- 
 ber thereof shall qualify by taking and subscribing to the oath of 
 office prescribed by article sixteen (16) of the State Constitu- 
 tion, the certificate whereof shall be filed in the office of the judge 
 of probate of the county. 
 
 Section 3. The county board of education shall hold an an- 
 nual meeting each year on the last Friday in November. At this 
 meeting the board shall elect each year one of its members to 
 serve as President, and one to serve as Vice-President. Other 
 reeular meetings shall be held on the last Friday of February, 
 May and September, and such special meetings may be hcM, and 
 at such place as the duties and the business of the board may 
 require. The rules generally adopted by deliberative bodies for 
 their government shall be observed by the county board of edu- 
 cation. No motion or resolution shall be declared adopted with- 
 out the concurrence of the majority of the whole board. 
 
 Section 4. The members of the county board of education 
 shall receive from the public school funds of the county five ($5) 
 dollars a day and their actual traveling and hotel expenses in- 
 curred in attending meetings of the board, and transacting the 
 business of the board. The members of the county board shall 
 not be allowed pay for more than twelve (12) days in any one 
 year, and their expenses shall be paid in like manner as pro- 
 vided for the compensation of teachers. They shall not be re- 
 quired to hold teacher's certificates. 
 
 Section 5. The county board of education shall appoint, sub- 
 ject to the provisions of article six (6) of this Act, as its execu- 
 tive officer, a county superintendent of education, who shall also 
 
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 be the secretary of the county board of education. As secretary 
 he shall conduct all correspondence of the board, keep and pre- 
 serve all of its records, receive all reports required by the board, 
 and see that such reports are in proper form, complete and accu- 
 rate. He shall have the right to advise on any question under 
 consideration by the board, but shall have no vote. In case the 
 office of the county superintendent of education is temporarily 
 vacant, or when the county superintendent of education is absent 
 by reason of the nature of business in hand, or otherwise, the 
 board shall appoint one of its members to act for the time being 
 as secretary. 
 
 Section 6. The county board of education shall select some 
 suitable person to act as treasurer of the public school funds of 
 the county. The county treasurer of school funds shall serve 
 without pay. He shall receive and take charge of any money, 
 fund, or proceeds of any character, which may accrue to the 
 county for public school purposes. He shall pay out all such 
 monies upon the written order of the county board of education 
 through its executive officer, the county superintendent of educa- 
 tion, and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed 
 by law. 
 
 Section 7. All the property, estate, effects, money, funds, 
 claims, and donations now or hereafter vested by law in the pub- 
 lic school authorities of any county for the benefit of the free 
 public schools of any county, are hereby transferred and vested 
 in the county board of education, and their successors in office. 
 The county boards of education are authorized, empowered, di- 
 rected and required to maintain a uniform and effective system 
 of public schools throughout their respective counties. Real 
 and personal estate granted, conveyed, devised, or bequeathed for 
 the use of any particular county, school district, or public school, 
 shall be held in trust by the county board of education for the 
 benefit of any such county, school district, or school. The county 
 board of education, subject to the provisions of this Act, shall 
 determine with and on the advice of the county superintendent 
 of education the educational policy of the county, and shall pre- 
 scribe rules and regulations for the conduct and management of 
 the schools. The authority vested in county boards of education 
 shall not apply to cities of two thousand (20C0) or more inhab- 
 itants according to the last or any succeeding Federal census. 
 
 Section 8. The county board of education shall exercise 
 through its executive officer, the county superintendent of educa- 
 tion, and his professional assistants, control and supervision of 
 the public school system of the county, subject to the provisions 
 of this Act. The board shall consult and advise, through its 
 executive officer, and his professional assistants, with school 
 trustees, principals, teachers, and interested citizens, and shall 
 
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 seek in every way to promote the interest of the schools under 
 their jurisdiction. 
 
 Section 9. The county board of education shall provide sani- 
 tary, hygienic, suitable and convenient water closets or out- 
 houses for the children of the public schools under its jurisdic- 
 tion, not less than two for each school or building when both 
 sexes are in attendance, with separate means of access to each. 
 It shall be the duty of said boards to make provisions for keeping 
 the said water closets or outhouses in a clean, comfortable, sani- 
 tary and hygienic condition. 
 
 Section 10. The county board of education shall consolidate 
 schools wherever in its judgment it is practicable, and arrange, if 
 possible, for the transportation of pupils to and from such con- 
 solidated schools. But no schools shall be consolidated, by con- 
 solidating two or more separate schools located in separate school 
 districts, without consent of said separate school district trus- 
 tees. 
 
 Section 11. The county boards of education of two or more 
 counties shall have power to provide jointly for the maintenance 
 of schools in or near the dividing line of such counties, on the 
 basis of the probable enrollment in such school from the coun- 
 ties represented. 
 
 Section 12. The county board of education shall appoint, 
 upon the written recommendation of the county superintendent, 
 all principals, teachers, clerical and professional assistants au- 
 thorized by the board. The county board may suspend or dismiss 
 for immorality, misconduct in office, insubordination, or incom- 
 petency or wilful neglect of duty, or whenever, in the opinion of 
 the board, the best interests of the school require it, superin- 
 tendents, principals, teachers, or any other employees or ap- 
 pointees of the board. 
 
 Section 13. The county board- of education, subject to the 
 provisions of this Act, shall prescribe, on the written recom- 
 mendation of the county superintendent of education, courses of 
 study for the schools under its jurisdiction, and a printed copy 
 of these courses of study shall be supplied to every teacher and 
 to every interested citizen of the county. 
 
 Section 14. The county board of education, subject to the 
 provisions of this Act, shall, upon the written recommendation 
 of the county superintendent of education, grade and standardize 
 all the schools under its jurisdiction. 
 
 Section 15. The county board of education in order to expe- 
 dite the payment of teacher's salaries and to make possible ef- 
 ficient supervision, shall fix a uniform date for each fiscal year 
 for the opening of all schools in the county under its jurisdiction, 
 and all schools, as far as in the opinion of the county board of 
 education may be practicable, shall open on said date. If for any 
 
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 teksonsfcherfboart} ihaMopeiiihitridii^'^«cho<}ls^U(yiH)peTf'%t^aft^ later 
 date, the reports and records of such schools shall be made so as 
 tbf! conform to the scholastic- months, counting from the uniform 
 d'ate hereinabove mentioned. tii'. .Ji/isis^a .vikj 
 
 Section 16. The county board of educationft, sdb.teet ^toprth^ 
 rules and regulations of the State board of education, shall cause 
 to be taken, under the direction of the county superintendent 
 of education, a biennial school census of the children in the county 
 between the ages of six (6) and twenty-one (21) inclusive, to 
 be taken in July 1920, and every two years thereafter, and the 
 county superintendent of education, upon the direction at'any 
 time of the State Superintendent of Education, shall cause the 
 whole or. any.^pajrt of any^gehood icensia* .inihis-xounty-^xj-^-bQ 
 retaken. .b'ii^Bbilosaoo 9d Ilfirf^ ?Aoodo?. on luS. .pAood-)p. batfibiloe^ 
 looffiection ii?*- rfThe county board' of ^ education, upon the recoha* 
 mendation of the county superintendent of education, shall ap- 
 point a sufficient number of enumerators to take the census of 
 the county during the month of July. The county board of 
 education, upon the recommendation of the county superintend- 
 ent of education, shall fix the compensation of the enumerators 
 taking such school census, and shall order them paid out of the 
 county treasury. The report of the enumerators shall be made 
 under oath to the county superintendent of education not later 
 than the fifteenth day of^ August next suceeeding^theitinieofitbe 
 taking of said censusv'r:^'f -:' rf ;^^ . i;;?'.:;:- U.ia 
 
 as i Section 18. The county board of education shall cause to 
 be prepared and published annually, in the month of October, in 
 sufficient quantities for distribution among the citizens of the 
 county, an annual report covering the condition, current accom- 
 plishments, ahd- needs for the improvement of the schools, also, 
 a statement of the business and financial; transactions of the 
 boardv which statement shalL contain an itemized account of all 
 receipts and expenditures of said board. Such statement must 
 ahow-;thejtatalJain6Qrit'(tf school funds 'i*eoeived by the county 
 arqd-^the sources from which derived; the amount expended for 
 teachers salaries in each of the several school districts of the 
 county and the amount paid out of the school funds for any 
 other tpnrpose thian; teachers salaries must Jae- shoAvn and shall 
 include; the name of the person to whom paid, the amount of 
 each !0f such items aBi^ the ^unibosevfoir^which said amounts Jwei^e* 
 expended. .noijoibpiior. =^. orft Ila 
 
 -9fT Section' bl9.rri The J icoilntyboafrd! otfJeducation shall provide 
 schooils of two kinds, those for white children and those for col- 
 ored children. The schools for white children shall be free to q}1 
 white children over six (6) years of age. The schools for col- 
 ored children shall be free to all colored childrfefr over-slk- (<5^i 
 year s(* of J kgej A reasonable incidental ffee to be fixed by thi 
 
co'Unty board' of education by request of the" boafd oi" school 
 trustees, may be collected in any school, but such incidental fe# 
 shall not operate to exclude from school any pupil between th^ 
 ages of eight (8) and sixteen (16)'-years during the 'tompulseiry 
 attendance period. Bfi iiiid^. H .bsbivo'iq ebiwiedio s'fsrlw oqsDza . 
 
 Section 20. Th^' putM^b^»(*i Otf atli6-ii»«mttl5 6te«Itti|flelfia§ \^i--- 
 elementary schools, that i6/igff«fA«9»fI© fttMi^plflddii^ p^hiiov ) 
 high schools, that is, grades seven to mA&^^iiS^vMir^md^fidMpy 
 high schools, that is, grades ten to twel^cineliffiivey^ noiJosa 
 
 ' Section 21. The county board of ectu(^ti6W^sftki5''dpbn''ffie 
 recommendation of the county superintendent o| cSi^tiori, ar- 
 range the county into one or more appropriat^'tln^'cbrivenieiif 
 compulsory school attendance districts; shall keep full and coriii 
 plete records of the boundaries thereof; and shall see to it'thait 
 the compulsory attendance law is enforced.; rH Vi -^^ 
 
 [ Section 22. The county board of educati(^ WoUt^fi Meon^j 
 rnendation of the county superintendent of equp^itipJ^* subject 1^ 
 the provisions of this act, shall prescribe the condition^, on 
 which pupils in the elementary schools, limited to the first si?^ 
 grades of elementary instruction, may be admitted to junior hig|:i[ 
 schools; and also the conditions upon which pupils in junior hijg^ 
 schools may be admitted to senior high schools, /^rj^ aAgi' iBj-f/sb 
 ; Section 23. The county board pf education, ^ul)ject to tihe 
 provisions of this act, shall prescribe, upon the recommendation, 
 gsf the county superintendent 'of education, forms and blanks on 
 which school trustees, supervisors, attendance officers, principals, 
 teachers, janitors and other reguiar ^ipployeea sha,ll m^ke such^^ 
 reports as shall be required from them by the county board of 
 educafitOi.T^iaaMaTVIIHaTOa YTPIUOO .0 aJOITHA 
 
 Section 24. The count^^iS^ii^^WSft cation shall have author- 
 i^jiJJKSft Jh9bn@9<Wl%?a^*Mf»b#fe ^l^mwfef oOTpeript^n^en^ of 
 edH«a*i$«Mlto9h0ia«)1»xm{m^o*»*7tfefei<?Qdrti <^ t^^gj^chqol fund, off 
 thKo^i^lb!rofeo9jf»et.iS0illdel)sPfote«6b^r^iili»<*' current expense^ 
 *di«ttrlHm ©W»r^'ftodfti0l?q]8aHirf8retBet;^Vtffi<iif'nt to meet the^ 
 
 aenfcQjtto^ it«ear^ ksi^ Ish^t^M^ rfe ^u? Kent re VQnwes fif vtll€ 
 yfear. ' AH|e^fer4iglir^l^loans, except such as are based on county 
 and distrio[tolfi(|8l9t&.|I^oceecls, !<hall be paid within the school' 
 3^ear in wdiiijJfesii^lBCBOtent loaiis are made, and from the fund^ 
 accr.uing)^driithfi)fiu|>|Kaci(jiQf th^r.sohoi^lswithjn sucl^ g.i\j«nr e^hoffl 
 year. The amolint' 'so " borrowed shall at no time exceed one,7 
 third of the sum estimated i_ftJV,t;uj;reipi..,-§^PjytM^>j,^.fl^ fi.hqw.n..la5 
 the school budget for that ymX-n blorf :lofr aeob odw lo norcTBDubs 
 iu't®©Ot*Mi 26.^' j^he; county bdai-d biffe(iBditi6ni9BfHal4oiil£QiesadI 
 the reports ' reqiliited to the State board" of education, at' such 
 time, upon such items, and in such form and on such^hlankSia* 
 may be prescribed by the State board of education. -oiq eoiJio \o 
 
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 Section 26. The county board of education shall have the 
 right to acquire, purchase by the institution of condemnation 
 proceedings if necessary, lease, receive, hold, transmit and con- 
 vey the title to real and personal property for school purposes, 
 except where otherwise provided. It shall have the power to sue 
 and contract, all contracts to be made after resolutions have been 
 adopted by the board and spread upon its minutes. All processes 
 shall be executed by service on the executive officer of the board. 
 
 Section 27. The county board of education shall appoint for 
 every school in the county discreet, competent and reliable person 
 or persons of mature years, not exceeding three in number, 
 residing near the school-house, and having the respect and con- 
 fidence of the community, to serve as trustees or trustees of the 
 school, to care for the property, to look after the general inter- 
 ests of the school, and to make to the county board of education, 
 through the county superintendent of education from time to 
 time reports of the progress and needs of the schools, and of 
 the will of the people in regard to the school. 
 
 Section 28. The county board of education is charged with 
 the duty of seeing that every school building whose title is vested 
 in the State, county or school district is insured for its insurable 
 value, and to this end may use a part of the proceeds of inci- 
 dental fees, district tax levies, or such other funds as may be 
 specifically set apart for such purpose by the county board of 
 education. 
 
 Section 29. The county board of education shall perform 
 such other duties as are assigned to it elsewhere in this act, or 
 may be assigned to it from time to time in accordance with law. 
 
 ARTICLE 6. COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be a county superintendent of educa- 
 tion in each county in this State who shall act as the chief execu- 
 tive officer of the county board of education. The county board 
 of education of each county shall appoint during the month of 
 May a superintendent of schools for a term of from two to five 
 years from the first day of July next succeeding his appointment. 
 No person except a present incumbent shall be appointed to the 
 office of county superintendent of education after the passage of 
 this act who is not a graduate of a standard normal school, or 
 who has not completed courses in other institutions that, in the 
 opinion of the State board of education, are equivalent to such 
 education or who does not hold a 1st. grade or life certificate, and 
 in addition thereto has had at least three years of successful 
 teaching experience. Before assuming any of the duties of the 
 office the county superintendent of education must take the oath 
 of office prescribed by the Constitution,, and give bond in an 
 
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 amount to be fixed by the State board of education in a reputable 
 surety company authorized to do business in Alabama, condi- 
 tioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of his office, 
 and upon the accounting and paying over to the proper authority 
 of all monies coming into his hands. Such bond must be filed and 
 recorded in the office of the Judge of Probate of the county, and 
 a certified copy of the bond must also be filed in the office of the 
 State board of education for its approval. 
 
 Section 2. The county superintendent of education shall 
 devote his entire time to public school business, and shall receive 
 such compensation as the county board of education shall direct. 
 No county superintendent of education, appointed to office under 
 the provisions of this chapter, shall be paid an annual salary of 
 less than fifteen hundred ($1500) dollars, and the county board of 
 education may remove the county superintendent of education for 
 immorality, misconduct in office, incompetency, or wilful neglect 
 of duty, or when, in the opinion of the county board, the best 
 interests of the schools require it. 
 
 Section 3. The county superintendent of education as the 
 executive officer of the county board of education, shall see that 
 the laws relating to the schools, the rules and regulations of the 
 State and county boards of education are carried into effect. The 
 county superintendent of education shall have authority to ad- 
 minister oaths, and to examine witnesses, under oath in any part 
 of the county on any matter pertaining to the public schools of 
 the county, and to cause the examination to be reduced to writ- 
 ing. .Any person, who having been sworn or affirmed by him to 
 tell the truth, and who wilfully gives false testimony, shall be 
 guilty of perjury. 
 
 Section 4. The county superintendent of education, subject 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall recommend for approval and 
 adoption by the county board of education, the kind, grade and 
 location of schools to be established and maintained, and the 
 compulsory school attendance districts to be established. 
 
 Section 5. The county superintendent of education, subject 
 to the previsions of this Act, shall recommend for approval and 
 adoption by the county board of education, educational policies 
 to promote the educational interests of the county, and rules and 
 regulations for the conduct of the schools. 
 
 Section 6. The county superintendent of education as execu- 
 tive officer of the county board of education, shall call and con- 
 duct conferences with principals, teachers, attendance officers, 
 school trustees, and other interested citizens, and shall in every 
 way seek to foster in teachers professional insight and efficiency, 
 and to develop public interest in education. 
 
 Section 7. The county superintendent of education, subject 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall recommend a building pro- 
 
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 gram adequate to the present and future needs of the schools in 
 the county. He shall recommend a plan for the laying out of 
 such local district or districts as will best serve the interests of 
 the entire county, and shall submit the same for approval and 
 adoption by the county board of education. 
 
 Section 8. The county superintendent of education shall 
 recommend to the county board of education for condemnation 
 school buildings, which are insanitary and unfit for use. He shall 
 recommend in writing all repairs, purchase of playgrounds, 
 school sites and buildings to be erected with State, county and 
 local aid, and shall see to it that the plans and specifications, and 
 the rules and regulations of the State board of Education, with 
 reference to the erection, repair, and equipment of the school 
 buildings, are carefully followed. He shall approve in writing 
 all contracts of whatever kind entered into by the county board 
 of education. 
 
 Section 9. The county superintendent of education, subject 
 rto the provisions of this Act, shall prepare and submit for ap- 
 proval and adoption by the county board of education, rules and 
 regulations governing the conditions under which children may 
 be admitted to junior and senior high schools of the county. 
 
 Section 10. The county superintendent of education, subject 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall work out plans for the con- 
 solidation of schools, and for the grounds, buildings, and equip- 
 ment of such consolidated schools, and submit the same for ap- 
 proval and adoption by the county board of education. 
 
 Section 11. The county superintendent of education, sub- 
 ject to the provisions of this Act, shall prescribe courses of study 
 for the schools of the county and submit the same for approval 
 and adoption by the county board of education. Printed copies 
 of these courses of study shall be supplied to every teacher and 
 interested citizen of the county. 
 
 Section 12. The county superintendent of education, sub- 
 ject to the provisions of this Act, shall prepare rules and regu- 
 lations for grading and standardizing all public schools of the 
 county, and shall submit same for approval and adoption by the 
 county board of education. He shall grade and standardize aH 
 public schools of the county, and shall recommend the same for 
 the approval of the county board of education. 
 
 Section 13. The county superintendent of education shall be 
 the representative of the State superintendent of education in aH 
 state examinations for teachers' certificates, conducted within 
 the county, and shall perform such duties in connection there- 
 with as may be required by the State board of education. 
 
 Section 14. The county superintendent of education shall 
 nominate in writing for appointment by the county board of 
 education, all principals teachers, and all other regular employees 
 
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 ol^rtKfe/^bard.b^iecTihall assign them to their positions, transfer 
 them as the needfe'ofthe schools require, recommend them for 
 promotion, suspend them for cause, and recommend them for 
 dismissal. ijji o. 
 
 Section 15. The couritytstjperintendent of education, subject 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall organize and attend county and 
 local institutes for teachers and citizens, and shall organize and 
 direct the reading circle work of the county, advise teachers as 
 to their further study in professional reading, and assist parents 
 and citizens to acquire a knowledge of the aims and work of the 
 schcidlip ^ hlofi ion a9ob ofiv/ loaivisqua dou^. t.y. ...duunioq', 
 
 visit the schools, observe the management and"instruction, and 
 give suggestionsi'^bt the improvement^df the same. He shall 
 advise with principals, teachers, school trustees, and other inter-s 
 ested citizens, and shall endeavor in every way to promote publke 
 interests, and improve the school conditions of the county. ^^<^cf 
 
 Section-^P'J The county superintendent of' education, Bubjectt 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall prepare forms and blankk^ 
 on which school trustees, supervisors, attendance officers, prin-P 
 cipals, teachers, janitors, and other regular employees shall mak# 
 such reports as shall be required by the county board of educa- 
 tion, and shall submit the same for approval and adoption by the 
 county board of education. 
 
 ' Section 18. The county superintendent of education, subject) 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall prepare an annual school bud^ 
 get for the schools of the countjr, and shall submit the same foiK 
 approval and adoption by the county board of education. He> 
 shall in every way seek to secure funds for the support and 
 development of the schools of the county. YfiB noi^Bouba io :rny 
 
 Section 19. The county superintendent O'f educatioil, sUlijeet^ 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall direct the taking of the county* 
 biennial school census, in keeping with Section 16 of Article 5 
 of this chapter. He shall cause the cenatt3'to be retaken in whol^ 
 or in part when diretted to do so by the State superintendent oiP 
 education. The county superintendent shall require the enumerai> 
 tors to make their report tb him not later than August the fif- 
 ^nth folloM'ing the date of taking the cetisus[|ari#5yft or before 
 September the first following, the county superintendent of edtt^ 
 cation shall make his consolidated report to the State board of 
 education. This consolidated report shall include the census data 
 reported to him by the superintendents of schools of cities of two 
 thousand (2O0'i) or more inhabitants according to the last or afej^ 
 succeeding Federal census. '"^"^o 
 
 Section 20. The county superintendent of education, subject- 
 to the provisions of this Act, shall see to it that the laws requi¥-s 
 ing school attendMifce are enforced. The county superihtefide-Ti^ 
 
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 of education shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit 
 to the county board of education for adoption, all reports required 
 of the county board of education by the State board of education, 
 and the State superintendent of education, and he shall prepare, 
 or cause to be prepared, and submit to the county board of edu- 
 cation the annual report as required under this chapter. The 
 county board of education may in its discretion provide upon the 
 nomination of the county superintendent of education, at least 
 the following assistants : an elementary school supervisor and a 
 statistical and stenographic clerk. No person shall be eligible 
 for appointment as such supervisor who does not hold a certifi- 
 cate of graduation from a State Normal School or the equivalent 
 thereof. The county board of education may employ additional 
 clerical and professional assistants, including health supervisors, 
 and may reimburse them for all actual traveling expenses neces- 
 sary in the performance of their official duties. The county 
 board of revenue or court of county commissioners, shall provide 
 the county superintendent of education and his professional and 
 clerical assistants with ample convenient and comfortable office 
 quarters. The county board of revenue or court of county com- 
 missioners shall also provide necessary furniture, office equip- 
 ment, stationery postage, forms and supplies required by the 
 county superintendent of education and his assistant. 
 
 Section 21. The county superintendent of education shall, 
 on or before the first day of November of each year forward to 
 the State superintendent of education on blanks to be furnished 
 him by the latter, an annual report of the public schools of his 
 county for the preceding year. In the event any county superin- 
 tendent shall fail to make and forward to the State superintend- 
 ent of education any report required under this article within 
 ten days after the time it should be made, he shall be liable to the 
 forfeiture of his office, said forfeiture to be declared by the 
 State board of education. The books, accounts, and vouchers of 
 the county superintendent of education may be examined at any 
 time by the State superintendent of education in person or by his 
 duly authorized agent. 
 
 Section 211/^. The county superintendent of education shall 
 publish annually in the county newspaper at the county seat of 
 each county a full and complete itemized statement of the re- 
 ceipts and disbursements of the county at the same time he for- 
 wards same to the State superintendent of education. 
 
 Section 22. The county superintendent of education at the 
 end of each scholastic month following the date fixed for the 
 opening of the schools in the county, according to Section fifteen. 
 Article five of this Act, shall prepare his pay roll covering the 
 amounts due such teachers, and other employees of the county 
 board of education as are not employed by the calendar month. 
 
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 He shall in addition, not later than the fifth day of each calendar 
 month make a pay roll covering one-sixth of the available school 
 funds apportioned by the county board of education to cities of 
 two thousand (2000) or more inhabitants, according to the last 
 or any succeeding Federal census until the full amount appor- 
 tioned to said cities shall have been paid; also the amounts due 
 to the employees of the county board of education employed by 
 the calendar month, and all bills and other items authorized by 
 the county board of education. The county superintendent of 
 education, not later than ten days before the close of each scholas- 
 tic month, shall file with the county treasurer of school funds, 
 a certificate showing the amount estimated to be required to meet 
 the pay rolls authorized above. No teacher shall be entitled to 
 receive payment for services unless all the current records of the 
 school have been kept with care and accuracy, and no teacher or 
 other employee of the board shall be entitled to receive payment 
 for services unless all records required by the county board of 
 education have been properly made and submitted. 
 
 ARTICLE 7. THE BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 
 
 Section 1. There shall be a Board of school trustees for each 
 elementary public school to be composed of the school trustees 
 appointed in accordance with section 27 of article 5 of this Act. 
 
 Section 2. The Board of school trustees shall hold an annual 
 meeting each year on the first Saturday in June, or as soon 
 thereafter as practicable. At this meeting the board shall appoint 
 one of its members as chairman and shall give notice of such 
 appointment to the county board of education. Other regular 
 meetings shall be held at least twice during the scholastic year, 
 and such special meetings shall be held as the duties and business 
 of the board shall require. The principal teacher of the school 
 shall be the secretary of the board of school trustees and shall at- 
 tend all meetings of the board except when the board is in execu- 
 tive session. The principal teacher shall, with the consent of the 
 majority of the members of the board, have the right to speak 
 upon all questions, but shall have no right to vote, shall prepare 
 for adoption all reports required by the county board of educa- 
 tion, shall keep all records of accounts of incidental funds, shall 
 keep the minutes of the meetings of the board in the record book 
 provided by the county board of education, and shall conduct the 
 correspondence of the board of school trustees. 
 
 Section 3. The board of school trustees shall have the power 
 by unanimous vote to refuse to accept the original assignment 
 of any teacher not later than thirty (30) days before the time 
 set for the opening of the school upon written notification to the 
 county superintendent of education setting out the reason for 
 such refusal, and it is hereby made the duty of the county super- 
 
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 HfBndenMf^ ddiicflfeidi!l)it(BfitooDsi±iatod«fobtllQfloillbftffetfii5te 
 
 fecfe6ol.' afiliBVB edi \o dixia-eno ^niisvoo Hoi y,Bq b sjIbhi rfJnorn 
 Sectioit 4iorMwteadfaeb'idiHll'itovs)tli^^a)^b^»oijas^ fb^Hl 
 
 in qase of^€lmergfaIifcy^l^ithbut thefConie»tb»Htll«3bea»*Jef^®llKKfl 
 trustees or the eomitv superintefndcall tffeflfedaoirfJteiiUBa oi banoU 
 
 Section 5. The board of isehboittW«8)fc«fffe^slali*gC9lc^ p6^^ 
 with' the approval of thfe'icdMirty Iboki&dfnedufetojioii t©faft«IaDr%di 
 ionable incidental foe to toeipaidoiB^otthehi(piipao4nt^fi}|^ ^ik 
 school. rjHt> lu yi'Ui J ' -' S no:^ nurflislBl Jon ,ffoiiB0ub9 
 
 Sectioirffe 1 The'board of school trfti^^Gi^ wlftilMaa^^ftWal ^i 
 the principal shallhat^ the power to reeofisSihiafld'tli^^'poiritment 
 of a ianitorjfefUHe school under its juri^d*dti<dii|iJB glfoi \&q 9fi.J 
 9ff i Section 7r The board of school trusteesshall^mth^ Sc^^'^S 
 under their jurisdiction at least once each month and consult 
 tvith:thG teachers' and principals of the school as to the progress 
 M thft' pupils, conditions and cleanliness of the school and the 
 grounds belonging to same^ and give such aid' as in their power 
 
 Seltffi''8('^^\h^'bted'bf'^ciiW^^^ have the care 
 
 <(£ nti>e( /building ; arwi i grmrxds>^) Mi& sfelBteJl?: sppd'tatu^ ;and other 
 school pi^'opei'ty.: They, shall attend to^ll ihcidehtal repairs arid 
 pay for. the same out oi theiricidenft^vfuwds collected in accord* 
 anoeiwith this artibla/provideldothjatiwfeeBiiJ^pait's ate tobe^^aid 
 fieaDoiriijofi ©then. than incidenitai funds ttt* amaount to be expended 
 $haiii(be '^pprdvedbyii^iccwmty-Mpfetintehdeht of education and 
 riuiiboriztid.hy.theiSoiintijE IwardiiofifiducatioiLiieifQreiahe^ r£^aixs 
 tUBfeusairiftsrfiO .noiiBOubs \o biBod x^nuoo srii o;^ ;tn9m:^nioqqB 
 ,'iBs^otieBld^D8'£lQ(^ )[^(]inlbo£3sc^oidBtfustetek)iilmilflKd&a9neH«e^ 
 WMjiiioddfe velopi isdntiifrient fih rfthd {^ujipa^iilSsttid rgohqeWD«Bd)iiB 
 fcaorfDof9ilissati(sfaction they nqay! file .wii4jpttdifiOuiityBfe6aarft M 
 etfaidaBkieibrteritten jchdrgds'^r&qoestid^fthk) T^ratiyB^soidiStmi ^kaiia 
 eipak'©r!aHyix3thet''t^cbetv/iiiqKi)id>^choHi.9rf:t 'io B'^niissm Ub basi 
 yii t Section ' 10. Thd i bodfcdrf ©fi «4JK)oa ftirusteeai akMl soertlaEt -tKd 
 itet^jr doseita or Out /hdu^sijodnniitted ^ithn-yoe sriboiil iip3a>.lt.ept 
 otearu'iqoitrfiiwtable, alidn'injat«anyt»tjllaiid fayjgienixEfeonjdiKlpmoqu 
 -BojflEctioni )ili - ! TheiboaDdl bi'.efcbool iru^tefes shall haweitfejeliewei: 
 tfe rfeifcHori!2le i the ; lise; of > Utoi [schoolhouse for such > civSi^dsQciait 
 tezr^itiofiFd and ? communis j^ gatherings aiin thfeir i opHdbn9drf 
 Bfit JjrtbriferiiAs<ttl[i)ttfaetrpi1nGiii]tol'i«sbi(irf>«th0iBaid sihool Touiiding 
 or property. It sbailtbethfeidniiiy'bf 'the person or persons mak- 
 ing' appHcatioonf fbrthe use of 'the schoolhouse for a public meet- 
 ing place to feeo that the said schoolhouse after said meeting is in 
 as ! deatl » condition; as it i wafei ib^f crrei said rhdetingv andf in" case 
 of ^failure! J upon. the^^paFt of said) person or persons to whom 
 permission h&i been^granted to hold the meetings to place said 
 «riiipol after said meeting in^s clean, a condition as it was when 
 
2fi> 
 
 said schbolhbuse \v&s rtirt'iifidlroreer tcftsaddvpeisaiY ar'tpe^sons tctf 
 said meeting, or the failure3«f/1d9€i .perscmotefpersonstoreBpoiid 
 in damages to any injury tofth^ p(ropeirt.yvthe oitidinary Wfie-Tiand 
 teaDiexcepted, the boardofpcfeoDi trusted may refuse all further 
 applications for the use of said schoolhoufleiby itfee same parties; 
 sd ilfids noilnouhd to biBod vjU ■ 'lo eoilio sriT •< 
 
 889lfiii A^TlOLS3§e9iC}3'Ji't'KQARJ)-;QFl,JS^UQAPQI^j sdi ni 
 
 '^^''iS«titii(»ii<l J>'iS!pcbit^3viilliin thife iiaedYflftt 'tiff J««fe9k(*t'^^MlP^o 
 ^Ilid^ alf iTlgori^oria'f^d' municipalities of 'fTi^o'fTibtfs^and (2000^ '^- 
 more inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Fed" 
 eral census: Provided that any town in the State having a popu- 
 lation of one thousand (1000) and less than two thousand (2000) 
 inhabitants, aCtoMlng to the last or '^Wy siicceedfng F'edfiral cen- 
 sus, shall have the power through its council or other governing 
 body to select by a majority vote of /it^' entire membership and 
 in accordance with the plans set- '^ti^ft'-^'Section two (2) of /this 
 article, a board of education of fiv^m^imbi^rs to exercise the got- 
 ernment and control of: the schools in such towns in the same 
 manner as is provided in this article for cities of f^o thousand^ 
 (2000)ot)tfrhftfiife iinhabitants accordingi^v;t,H)9''last or any suc- 
 cee^i^gT'ed^^aKlcJftitsus:! provided further, t¥at until such tim© 
 as the town council or other governing body shall eleict a boarct 
 of ed^ucatiofflin aiceot^dattc^ with the provisionsi of thife '^^fetlon, 
 said tWiiishailnrenaain under the control df^hfe c^^tinty boi^l«d9^^ 
 educatibtty-fJii i^Q^s! yiii" . lu u'lKod e>flJ io v/iBiS'iDsg 
 
 Secti€inf0fiO(tll^ig%h^al adniini<gmitMi^:ttri«TQfti^i4sateP^ 
 the public s«hO(5lssi«diediJcflt{oiial'mt^:^^t^ftf^-^fecii> d% %1iMI^9a 
 vested in a i^n^Ymm^bf education, to be ef^rf^Cf^eflaef ^ff^ .fe»ftcf 
 bers,vvho shkH^i^e^f^g^dfentP of' such citv, a'^d "vv/ho 'steffl^ft^t^^fil^ 
 members of theP%StJ^^>cOiincil or commission. The rtiM««g^ ^ 
 sti(*h''city board 9{ edtfeiation who shall sfei'i'e- Without corttp6*fea" 
 tidn, shall be chosen solely because of tlieir character and fitn6M^ 
 but no person shall be appointed or elected to this Ijoard imdei'' 
 the provisions of this section who is in anj^ way subject to the 
 authority of the board. Annually at the re^nlar meetings of the 
 cit;^ council or cOthftiission in April the said council or commis- 
 sioti ^aU dect a riierhber or members of the board of education 
 to succeed those wliose term' Or terms of office expire that year. 
 It is contemplated th^t the tei^ilfi& Of off ide shall be five years^'and 
 thkt fhe tei^ ;0f -onte ttierhbM ghanjex^iife annually'l^^'^U^if -bueh- 
 a time as'thii^' (ianbdWoubht 6^0^ fejf^ the retiretheht'ofmerii-; 
 bers now on the board of education, th^ citjr council or city com-' 
 mission shall designate the length of terihfdi* which any niember 
 ife tof i^JPV^: '> A^imu^llJ' th^r^af t^r at tftfe- fitkt regutar meeting' ih; 
 April, the city council or commission shall elect a member Whoste' 
 term of office shall be five (5) years, to succeed the member H9iP 
 the city board of education whose term expires thiit year^'^9R^ 
 
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 the event of a vacancy in the membership of the city board of 
 education by resignation or otherwise, the fact shall be reported 
 to the city council or commission by the said board, and the said 
 council or commission shall elect a person to fill such vacancy 
 for the unexpired term. 
 
 Section 3. The office of the city board of education shall be 
 in the principal school building of the respective city, unless 
 otherwise adequately provided for. The city board of education 
 shall provide the city superintendent of schools, his professional 
 and clerical assistants with ample, convenient and comfortable 
 office quarters and with adequate clerical supplies and equip- 
 ment. 
 
 Section 4. The «ity board of education shall hold its annual 
 meeting each year at its first regular meeting in May following 
 the election of said board or any member thereof. At this meet- 
 ing the board shall elect each year one of its members to serve as 
 president and one to serve as vice-president. The rules generally 
 adopted by deliberative bodies for their government shall be ob- 
 served by city boards of education. No motion or resolution shall 
 be declared adopted without the concurrence of the majority of 
 the whole board. The board shall also hold such other meetings 
 as may be provided for in its by-laws. 
 
 Section 5. The city board of education may appoint as its 
 executive officer a superintendent of schools, who may also be 
 secretary of the board of education. The superintendent of 
 schools shall conduct all correspondence of the board, keep and 
 preserve all of its records, receive all reports required by the 
 board, and see that such reports are in proper form, complete 
 and accurate. He shall attend all meetings of the board and of 
 its committees, he shall have the right to advise on any motion 
 under consideration, but shall have no vote. In case the secre- 
 tary is absent, the board shall appoint some one to act for the 
 time being. The city treasurer shall be custodian of the school 
 funds of the city. He shall receive and hold all monies to which 
 the board of education is entitled by law, or which may come into 
 its possession. He shall pay out all such monies on the written 
 order of the superintendent of schools, and shall keep such rec- 
 ords and accounts of its funds as shall be required. 
 
 Section 6. The city board of education is hereby vested with 
 all the powers necessary or proper for the administration and 
 management of the free public schools within such city subject 
 to the provisions of this Act. 
 
 Section 7. The city board of education, subject to the provi- 
 sions of this Act, shall cause to be taken under the direction of 
 the city superintendent of schools a biennial school census of 
 the school children in the city between the ages of six (6) and 
 twenty-one (21) years. Such census shall be taken during the 
 
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 month of July 1920, and every two years thereafter, and the 
 superintendent of schools, upon the direction at any time of the 
 State superintendent of education, shall cause the whole or any 
 part of the school census in the city to be retaken. The city su- 
 perintendent of schools shall employ, with the approval of the 
 city board of education, a sufficient number of enumerators to 
 take the census during the month of July. The city board of 
 education, upon the recommendation of the city superintendent 
 of schools, shall fix the compensation of the enumerators em- 
 ployed in taking such school census, and shall order the said paid 
 out of the city treasury. The report of the enumerators shall be 
 made under oath to the city superintendent of schools not later 
 than the 10th. day of August next succeeding the time of the 
 taking of such census, and the data gathered shall be in turn 
 transmitted by the city superintendent of schools to the county 
 superintendent of education not later than the 15th. of August 
 thereafter. 
 
 Section 8. All property real and personal and mixed now 
 held or hereafter acquired for school purposes shall be held in 
 trust by the city board of education for the use of the public 
 schools of the city. 
 
 Section 9. The city board of education, subject to the provi- 
 sions of this Act, shall have the full and exclusive rights within 
 the revenue appropriated for such purposes, or accruing to the 
 use of the public schools, to purchase real estate, furniture, ap- 
 propriate libraries, fuel and supplies for the use of the schools, 
 and to sell the same, and to make expenditures for the mainte- 
 nance and repairs of the school grounds, buildings and other 
 property, to establish and build new schools, to superintend the 
 erection thereof, to purchase sites therefor, to make additions, 
 alterations and repairs to the building and other property erected 
 for school uses, and to make necessary and proper notes, con- 
 tracts and agreements in relation to such matters. All such con- 
 tracts shall inure to the benefit of the public schools, and any 
 suit in law or equity brought upon them and for the recovery and 
 protection of money and property belonging to and used by the 
 public schools, or for damages, shall be brought by and in the 
 name of the city. 
 
 Section 10. The city board of education, subject to the pro- 
 visions of this Act, shall have power to establish and maintain 
 a system of public schools, including kindergartens, and play- 
 grounds in which children from five (5) to twenty-one (21) 
 years of age, bona fide residents of and living within the corpo- 
 rate limits of such city shall be entitled to admission. City and 
 county boards of education shall have authority to reach agree- 
 ments whereby children in the city may attend the schools in 
 the county, and whereby the children in the county may attend 
 
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 the schools in the city, and they shall do so when the school in the 
 city or in the county, as the case may be, is nearer to such pupils. 
 Other non-resident pupils may be admitted on such terms as the 
 board of education of the city may prescribe. 
 
 Section 11. The city board of education shall upon the rec- 
 ommendation of the city superintendent of schools, employ such 
 professional, clerical, accounting and statistical assistants as,. 
 in the judgment of the board, are necessary. 
 
 Section 12. The city board of education shall fix the salaries, 
 of all employees and may suspend or dismiss any principal or 
 teacher or supervisor or attendance officer or other regular em- 
 ployee so appointed on the written recommendation of the city 
 superintendent of schools, for immorality, misconduct in office, 
 incompetency, or wilful neglect of duty, or when, in the opinion^ 
 of the board, the best interests of the schools may require. 
 
 Section 13. The city board of education shall exercise, 
 through its executive officer, the city superintendent of schools, 
 and his professional assistants, control and supervision over the 
 public schools of the city. The board shall consult and advise, 
 with its executive officer and his professional assistants, princi- 
 pals, teachers, and interested citizens, and shall seek in every 
 way to promote the interests of the schools under its jurisdic- 
 tion. 
 
 Section 14. The city board of education shall determine, on 
 the recommendation of the city superintendent of schools, and 
 subject to the provisions of this Act, the educational policy of the 
 city, and shall prescribe rules and regulations for the conduct 
 and management of the schools, and shall maintain separate 
 schools for white and colored children. When lands shall be 
 required for the site of a schoolhouse or for enlarging a school- 
 house lot, or for playgrounds, or other public school purposes, 
 amd the board of education for any reason shall be unable to con- 
 trsaetfivith the owner or owners thereof upon what they deem to 
 be a if air, valuation the board of education may institute con- 
 demnation proceedings, but no lot so taken or enlarged shall ex- 
 e^d in the whole teia...Clti)-acr^,.ir]icluiding the land occupied by 
 tiie school jbuilding;joid sd IIbK?, ,?9^i5raub loi lo .»AoodoB onu*. 
 
 Section 15. If, for any reason, the current 'iticorhe! of the 
 eitjr boai'di of education is inadequate to provide ample, appro- 
 priate and suitable grounds, buildings and equipment for all the 
 neededschools of theicity, the city board of education, on the 
 recommendation of the" city superintendent of schools shall peti- 
 tion the city cotmcil oir commission to call an election for the 
 issuance of bonds: on the Credit of the city in an amount suf- 
 ficient to. provide amplev jappropriate and suitable g;rounds builds 
 irigsiiand equipment! /foT;all the neifided schools of the city, sub- 
 |«cttto the limitationfef set rout 5nith«ijCon«ti4iiitionij©f -the States 
 
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 and the city council or commission shall call the election at the 
 time requested in said petition. 
 
 Section 16. The city board of education, subject to the pro- 
 visions of this Act, shall grade and standardize all of the schools 
 under its jurisdiction, and shall also prescribe courses of study. 
 Printed copies of the courses of study shall be supplied to every 
 teacher and to every interested citizen in said city. 
 
 Section 17. The city board of education, subject to the pro- 
 visions of this Act, shall prescribe on the recommendation of the 
 city superintendent of schools, forms and blanks on which the 
 superintendent, teachers, supervisors, attendance officers, jani- 
 tors and other employees shall make such reports as may be re- 
 quired from them. 
 
 Section 18. The city board of education is authorized, em- 
 powered and directed to maintain and operate uniform, equal and 
 efficient schools and shall annually prepare on or before the first 
 day of July a school budget which shall show the amounts needed 
 during the succeeding school year. This annual school budget 
 shall also show the estimated amounts that will be received from 
 the State, from the county, and from any local tax levy for 
 schools, the estimated amount of aid that will be received by 
 reason of the Vocational Education Act or other sources, to- 
 gether with the amount needed to supplement the receipts from 
 said sources, and sufficient to meet the needs of the schools. It 
 shall be the duty of the city council or commission to make such 
 an appropriation as will care for the deficit from the treasury 
 of the city, if at all practicable to do so. 
 
 Section 19. If for any reason the current funds on hand 
 are not sufficient to meet the current expense of the city board 
 of education, it may, on the recommendation of the city super- 
 intendent of schools, borrow money to meet salaries of teachers 
 and current expenses, provided that the amount so borrowed shall 
 at no time exceed one-third of the sum estimated for current 
 expenses, as shown by the school budget for that year, and the 
 sum so borrowed shall be secured by a pledge of the current 
 school revenues of the year. 
 
 Section 20.- The city board of education shall make all re- 
 ports required by the State board of education at such time, and 
 upon such items and in such form, and on such blanks as may 
 be prescribed by the State board of education. The business and 
 financial transactions of the city board of education, and the 
 records and accounts of its treasurer shall be audited as early 
 as possible after July the first of each year, and may be pub- 
 lished. 
 
 Section 21. The city board of education shall have the right 
 to establish and maintain, or aid in establishing and maintaining 
 public libraries, either separately or in connection with the pub- 
 
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 lie schools, and also special schools for backward, defective, tru- 
 ant or incorrigible children", and day or night schools for adult 
 illiterates and for the Americanization of foreigners. 
 
 Section 22. The city board of education shall cause to be 
 prepared and published annually, not later than the month of 
 October, in sufficient quantities for distribution among the inter- 
 ested citizens of the city, an annual report showing the condi- 
 tion, current accomplishments and needs for the improvement 
 of the schools ; also a statement of the business transactions of 
 the board, and the amount expended and for what purpose. Such 
 statement must show the total amount of school funds received 
 by the city and the sources from which derived. The amount 
 expended for teachers salaries in each school and the amount 
 paid out of the school funds for any other purpose than teachers 
 salaries must be shown and shall include the name of the person 
 to whom paid, the amount of each of such items and the purpose 
 for which said amounts were expended. 
 
 Section 23. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the 
 cities in counties now having by law a city and county school 
 system operated under a single board of education, nor to the 
 method of electing the members of the board of education in any 
 city where the members of the board hold office for life. Where 
 by any provisions of law, any certain or definite percentage of 
 the revenue of any city or town from licenses, or taxes either 
 or both is required to be used for the maintenance of its public 
 schools, then such provisions shall be unaffected by this Act, and 
 shall be and remain in full force and effect. 
 
 Section 24. The city board of education shall maintain free 
 schools for all children over six years of age, but a reasonable 
 incidental fee to be fixed by the city board of education may be 
 collected. Such incidental fee shall not operate to exclude from 
 school any pupil between the ages of eight (8) and sixteen (16) 
 years during the compulsory attendance period. 
 
 Section 25. The city board of education shall perform such 
 other duties as are assigned to it elsewhere in this Act, or may be 
 assigned to it from time to time in accordance with law. 
 
 ARTICLE 9. CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 
 
 Section 1. The Board of Education may appoint a city super- 
 intendent of schools for a term of not more than five years. The 
 city superintendent shall receive such compensation as the Board 
 of Education shall direct. The city board of education may re- 
 move the city superintendent of schools for incompetency, im- 
 morality, misconduct in office, wilful neglect of duty, or when, 
 in the opinion of the board, the best interests of the schools re- 
 quire it. 
 
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 Section 2. The city superintendent of schools shall be the 
 chief executive officer of the city board of education, and shall 
 see that the laws relating to the schools, and the rules and regu- 
 lations of the city board of education are carried into effect. 
 
 Section 3. The city superintendent of schools shall explain 
 the true intent and meaning of the school laws, ar.d of the rules 
 and regulations of the city board of education, and of the State 
 board of education subject to the provisions of this Act. He 
 shall decide, without expense to the parties concerned, all con- 
 troversies and disputes involving the rules and regulations of the 
 city board of education, and the proper administration of the 
 public schools. He shall have authority to administer oaths and 
 to examine under oath witnesses in any matter pertaining to the 
 public schools of the city, and to cause the examinations to be 
 reduced to writing. Any person who having been sworn or 
 affirmed by him to tell the truth, and who wilfully gives false 
 testimony shall be guilty of perjury, and shall be punished ac- 
 cordingly. 
 
 Section 4. The city superintendent of schools, subject to the 
 provisions of this Act, shall recommend for approval and adop- 
 tion by the city board of education, the kind, grade, and location 
 of schools to be established and maintained. 
 
 Section 5. The city superintendent of schools, subject to the 
 provisions of this Act, shall recommend for approval and adop- 
 tion by the city board of education policies adapted to promote 
 the educational interests of the city, and rules and regulations 
 for the conduct of the schools. 
 
 Section 6. The city superintendent of schools shall nominate 
 all employees of the board and all persons so nominated for 
 teaching or supervising positions shall hold certificates issued by 
 the State board of education. 
 
 Section 7. The city superintendent of schools, subject to the 
 regulations from time to time of the city board of education and 
 in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall outline a 
 building program adequate to meet the needs of the schools in the 
 city, and shall submit the same for approval and adoption by the 
 city board of education. 
 
 Section 8. The city superintendent of schools shall recom- 
 mend to the city board of education for condemnation school 
 buildings which are insanitary and unfit for use. He shall recom- 
 mend all repairs, purchase of playgrounds, school grounds, school 
 sites and buildings, or the sale of the same, and shall prepare, or 
 cause to be prepared, all plans and specifications for the remodel- 
 ing of old buildings, and the construction of new buildings. He 
 shall recommend in his discretion to the board of education an 
 architect or architects to assist in the preparation of plans and 
 specifications for remodeling old buildings, for the construction 
 
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 of new buildings, and shall supervise such remodeling and con- 
 struction. He shall approve in writing all contracts of whatever 
 kind entered Iiito by the city board of education. 
 
 Section 9. The city superintendent of schools, subject to the 
 provisions of this Act, shall prepare rules and regulations for 
 grading and standardizing the public schools, and shall recom- 
 mend the same for approval by the city board of education. 
 
 Section 10. The city superintendent of schools, subject to 
 the provisions of this Act, shall prepare courses of study for the 
 schools of the city, and shall submit the same for approval and 
 adoption by the city board of education. Printed copies of the 
 courses of study shall be supplied every teacher and every inter- 
 ested citizen of the city or town. The city superintendent of 
 schools shall nominate in writing for appointment by the city 
 board of education, all principals, teachers, supervisors, attend- 
 ance officers, janitors, and all other regular employees of the 
 board, and shall assign to them their positions, transfer them 
 as the needs of the schools require, recommend them for promo- 
 tion, suspend them for cause, and recommend them for dismis- 
 sal. 
 
 Section 11. The city superintendent of schools, subject to 
 the provisions of this Act, shall organize institutes for teachers 
 and for citizens. He shall organize and direct the reading circle 
 work, advise teachers as to further study and professional read- 
 ing, and assist parents and teachers in acquiring knowledge of 
 the aims and work of the schools. 
 
 Section 12. The city superintendent of schools shall visit 
 the schools, observe the management and instruction, and give 
 suggestions for the improvement of the same. He shall advise 
 with principals and teachers, and shall endeavor in every way 
 to promote public interest and improve educational conditions. 
 
 Section 13. The city superintendent of schools, subject to 
 the provisions of this Act, shall prepare forms and blanks upon 
 which principals, teachers, supervisors, attendance officers, jani- 
 tors, and other regular employees shall make such reports as shall 
 be required, and shall submit the same for approval to the city 
 board of education. 
 
 Section 14. The city superintendent of schools, subject to 
 the provisions of this Act, shall prepare the annual school budget 
 provided for in Article eight of this Act, and shall submit the 
 same for approval and adoption by the city board of education. 
 He shall in every way seek to secure adequate funds for the sup- 
 port and development of the schools. 
 
 Section 15. The city superintendent of schools shall direct 
 the takmg of the biennial census provided for in Article eight 
 of this Act. He shall cause the census to be retaken in whole or 
 m part when directed to do so by the State superintendent of 
 
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 education. The city superintendent of schools shall require the 
 enumerators to make their report to him not later than August 
 10th. following the date of taking the census, and on or before 
 the 15th. day of August following, the city superintendent of 
 schools shall make his report of such census to the county super- 
 intendent of education. He shall retain a duplicate of the same 
 for the files in his own office. 
 
 Section 16, The city superintendent of schools shall recom- 
 mend the employment of one or more attendance officers, subject 
 to the provisions of this Act, and the rules of the city board of 
 education, and shall see to it that the provisions for school at- 
 tendance set out in Article fifteen of this Act are enforced. 
 
 Section 17. The city superintendent of schools shall prepare, 
 or cause to be prepared, and submit to the city board of educa- 
 tion for adoption, all reports required by the State board of 
 education, and he shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and sub- 
 mit to the city board of education a school report as provided in 
 Article eight of this Act. 
 
 Section 18. The city superintendent of schools, acting under 
 the rules and regulations of the city board of education, shall be 
 responsible for the administration of the office of superintendent 
 of schools, and he shall see that all regular appointees of the city 
 board of education devote their entire time to their duties. 
 
 Section 19. The city superintendent of schools shall per- 
 form such other duties as are assigned to him elsewhere in this 
 chapter or may be assigned to him in accordance with law. 
 
 ARTICLE 10. APPORTIONMENT AND DISBURSEMENT 
 OF PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDS. 
 
 Section 1. On the first day of October of each year, or as 
 soon thereafter as practicable, the State Auditor shall certify to 
 the State superintendent of education the amount of money which 
 has accrued and been placed by him to the credit of the educa- 
 tional fund for the scholastic year commencing on that day, stat- 
 ing specifically the amount derived from each source, and any 
 unexpended balance there may be from the appropriation of the 
 previous year to be carried forward ; and the amount so certified 
 shall be apportioned by the State superintendent of education, 
 and be- drawn and disbursed as provided by law. 
 
 Section 2. As soon as such certificate is received by the State 
 superintendent of education he shall set apart such sums as are 
 provided by law, and he shall then apportion the remainder of 
 such funds, as far as practicable, among the several counties in 
 the State, in proportion to the number of school children of 
 school age therein, according to the latest returns of enumera- 
 
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 tion of school population of the counties which have been made 
 to his office, but if such enumerations have not been made as 
 provided by law, or have not been reported to him by the county 
 superintendent of education, and the State superintendent of 
 education, has not caused a new enumeration to be made, he 
 shall then apportion to each county, according to the best infor- 
 mation he can obtain of the entire number of children of school 
 age in such counties, but in no event shall he, in case of such 
 failure to enumerate or report all the children of school age in 
 the respective counties, estimate the school population of any 
 county at more than the last official report to his office. 
 
 Section 3. As soon as such amounts have been set apart, and 
 such apportionment has been made, the State superintendent of 
 education shall certify to the State auditor the amount set apart 
 for each particular purpose or appropriation, and the total 
 amount of the apportionment to the several counties, and the State 
 auditor shall see that no warrants are drawn against the educa- 
 tional fund, for any purpose, for any amount in excess of the 
 amounts so certified as set apart and apportioned; and he shall 
 certify to the State treasurer the amount of the school revenue, 
 exclusive of poll tax, unapportioned by the State superintendent 
 of education, and the State treasurer shall set apart the amount 
 out of any money received from the taxes of the current year, and 
 he shall keep the same separate and apart from all other reve- 
 nues, and shall not pay out any of such money except upon war- 
 rants for school purposes. 
 
 Section 4. As soon as practicable after the State superin- 
 tendent of education has apportioned to the several counties the 
 amount of school funds in proportion to the number of school 
 children of school age therein, he shall certify and report the 
 amount to the respective county boards of education, taking their 
 receipts for such amounts so certified. 
 
 Section 5. In making apportionment of school money to the 
 school counties, the State superintendent of education shall first 
 set apart to the schools of each township the amount due from 
 the State thereto as interest on its sitxeenth section fund, or 
 other trust fund held by the State, and all townships having an 
 income from such source, or from the lease or sale of sixteenth 
 section lands, shall not receive anything out of the balance of the 
 educational fund to be apportioned, until the schools of all other 
 townships having no trust fund, shall have received from the 
 general fund such amount as will give them an equal per capita 
 apportionment with the schools of the township having such 
 income. 
 
 Section 6. As soon as practicable, after the State superin- 
 tendent of education has apportioned the school funds to the sev- 
 eral counties, and has certified the same to the county superin- 
 
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 tendents of education, the county boards of education shall appor- 
 tion the funds awarded to their county to the several schools and 
 to cities of two thousand (2,000) or more inhabitants, according 
 to the last or any succeeding federal census, in their counties so 
 as to provide, as nearly as practicable, school terms of equal 
 duration exclusive of any local funds provided by the school dis- 
 trict. 
 
 Section 7. The county board of education must keep a record 
 of each and every apportionment and disbursement of school 
 funds of their counties to the several schools and to cities of two 
 thousand (2000) or more inhabitants, according to the last or 
 any succeeding Federal census. 
 
 Section 8. Each county shall receive as school money all the 
 poll tax collected therein ; and the same shall be its full distribu- 
 tive share of the aggregate poll tax collected in this State. 
 
 Section 9. The State superintendent of education shall, by 
 the tenth day of October in each year, or as soon thereafter as 
 practicable, apportion to every county the amount of school 
 money such county will be entitled to receive for the scholastic 
 year from all sources except such special taxes, if any, as may 
 have been levied for school purposes in any county ; and he shall 
 certify the same to the State auditor. 
 
 Section 10. All local school monies raised for the support 
 of public schools by taxation or otherwise, shall be apportioned 
 and expended in the district or districts or counties in which the 
 same were raised, under such rules and regulations as the county 
 or city board of education, as the case may be, may prescribe, 
 but this section shall not be construed to repeal any provision for 
 the apportionment and disbursement of monies mentioned in this 
 chapter or provided for in special or local laws, and all funds 
 contributed by persons or otherwise to any school or school dis- 
 trict shall be applied as indicated in the grant from such con- 
 tributors. 
 
 Section 11. Whenever a township which has an income from 
 a trust fund is divided by a State or county line or otherwise, 
 such income must be divided between and apportioned to each 
 division of such township according to the school population. 
 
 Section 12. The annual appropriation as a contingent fund 
 for the State Department of Education shall be used for such 
 purposes as in the opinion of the State superintendent of educa- 
 tion the needs of the office and the best interests of the schools 
 of the State may require. Whenever it shall become necessary 
 to draw on such fund, the State superintendent of education shall 
 make requisition on the State auditor for the amount required, 
 who shall issue his warrants on the State treasurer for such 
 amount. 
 
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 ARTICLE 11. ONE MILL COUNTY SCHOOL TAX. 
 
 Section 1. Upon a petition signed by two hundred or more 
 qualified electors of the county who are also free holders, to the 
 court of county commissioner, or court of like jurisdiction in any 
 county within the State of Alabama, the said court shall order 
 an election to determine whether or not a special tax of one mill 
 shall be levied for the support of the public schools within said 
 county as hereinafter provided, but only one such election shall 
 be held in any calendar year. 
 
 Section 2. There shall be made publication of the same in 
 some newspaper within the county, which publication shall show 
 the rate of such proposed tax, the time it is proposed to be con- 
 tinued and the purpose for which the levy is proposed to be 
 made. 
 
 Section 3. The inspectors and officers of the election shall 
 be appointed and such elections shall be held and the result of 
 said elections shall be declared in the same manner and by the 
 same officers as is the result of the regular elections for county 
 officers under the general laws of the State. 
 
 Section 4. All persons who are at the time of such election 
 qualified electors in the county where such election is held under 
 the laws and Constitution of Alabama then in existence, shall be 
 qualified electors to participate therein. 
 
 Section 5. The court of county commissioners, or court of 
 like jurisdiction, shall provide a sufficient number of ballots for 
 each voting precinct within said county, and at the top of each 
 ballot shall be printed the rate of such proposed tax, the time it 
 is to be continued, and that the purpose is for the support of the. 
 public schools, and directly underneath in plain type shall be 
 printed on different lines the words. "For preposed taxation." 
 "Against proposed taxation." and a place must be left directly 
 to the left of each line thereof, and the voters favoring the pro- 
 posed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left of the 
 line. "For proposed taxation," and the voter not favoring pro- 
 posed taxation will make a cross mark directly to the left of the 
 line "Against proposed taxation." 
 
 Section 6. If three-fifths of those voting at said election 
 have voted for the proposed taxation, the court of county com- 
 missioners, or court of like jurisdiction, shall levy said special 
 tax, and cause the tax assessor to assess the same on the tax- 
 able property in said county, which shall not exceed ten cents on 
 each one hundred dollars of taxable property in said county; 
 but the rate of such special tax shall not increase the rate of 
 taxation, State and county combined, in any one year, to more 
 than one dollar and twenty-five cents on each one hundred dol- 
 lars of taxable property in said county, but all special county taxes 
 
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 for public buildings, roads, bridges, and the payment of debts ex- 
 isting at the ratification of the Constitution of 1875 shall not be 
 included in the aforesaid one dollar and twenty-five cents on the 
 hundred dollars of taxable property. 
 
 Section 7. The tax collector shall collect such special tax in 
 the same manner and under the same requirements and laws as 
 taxes of the State are collected, and shall keep said amount sepa- 
 rate and apart from all other funds, and keep a clear and distinct 
 account thereof, and turn the same over to the county treasurer 
 of school funds whose duty it shall be to receipt therefor the 
 county board of education shall apportion the same to the various 
 schools throughout the county in the same manner as the general 
 school funds from the State are apportioned in said county ; pro- 
 vided, that the school terms of the respective schools shall be 
 extended by such supplement as nearly the same length of time 
 as practicable. 
 
 Section 8. The election hereinbefore provided for may be 
 had at the time of holding any regular election within the county, 
 and if held at such time the inspectors and officers of the general 
 election shall conduct at the same time the election herein pro- 
 vided for; and for such services they shall receive no compensa- 
 tion other than that allowed them for the holding of the general 
 election; but if such an election is had at any other time than 
 that of holding a regular election within the county, then the 
 election, officers shall receive the same pay as that for holding a 
 general election. 
 
 ARTICLE 12. THREE MILL COUNTY AND DISTRICT 
 
 SCHOOL TAX. 
 
 Section 1. Upon a petition signed by two hundred or more 
 qualified electors of any county to the court of county commis- 
 sioners or other governing body, said court of county commis- 
 sioners or other governing body shall order an election to be held 
 at the time specified in said petition to determine whether or 
 not a special tax shall be levied for public school purposes within 
 said county, and upon request of the county board of education to 
 the court of county commissioners or other governing body, said 
 court shall order an election to be held at the time requested by 
 the said board of education to determine whether or not a special 
 tax shall be levied for public school purposes within any school 
 district in the county under the control of such board ; and upon 
 the request of any city board of education to the court of county 
 commissioners or other governing body said court shall order an 
 election to be held at the time requested by said board of educa- 
 tion to determine whether or not a special tax shall be levied for 
 public school purposes within said city ; provided that no election 
 
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 in any rural or city school district shall be held for the purpose 
 of levying and collecting a special school tax for schood purposes 
 unless the county in which said rural or city district is located 
 shall be levying and collecting special county taxes for school 
 purposes of not less than thirty (30) cents on each one hundred 
 ($100) dollars v^^orth of taxable property in such county. The 
 sheriff must give notice at least thirty (30) days before any 
 election to be held under this Act, by publication in some news- 
 paper in the county, if any is published therein, and if not, by 
 writing posted at the courthouse door, and at three other public 
 places in the county of the time of holding, and when any elec- 
 tion is to be held for a special tax for school purposes in any 
 rural or city school district, written notices shall be posted in 
 three public places within said district thirty (30) days prior 
 to said election. Said publications, both for special county and 
 district elections for school purposes, shall show the rate of such 
 proposed tax, the time it is proposed to be continued, the purpose 
 for which the levy is proposed to be made, and a description of 
 the boundaries of the proposed district. 
 
 Section 2. The inspectors and officers of the special county 
 election shall be appointed, and said election shall be held and the 
 results of such election shall be declared in the same manner and 
 by the same officers as the results of the regular election for 
 county officers, under the general election laws of the State, pro- 
 vided that the election may be held at the time for holding any 
 regular election in the county, and if held at such time the inspec- 
 tors and officers of the general election shall conduct at the same 
 time the election herein provided for and for such services they 
 shall receive no compensation other than that allowed them for 
 the holding of the general election and if the election is held at 
 some other time than that of holding the regular election in the 
 county then the election officers shall receive the same pay as 
 that for holding the general election. 
 
 Section 3. Upon the written request of the county board of 
 education or of the board of education of any city of two thou- 
 sand (2000) or more inhabitants as the case may be according 
 to the last or any succeeding Federal Census for a special election 
 in any school district under the control of the respective board, 
 the Court of County Commissioners or other governing body 
 shall call an election at the time and for the rural or city dis- 
 tricts as requested by the respective board of education and shall 
 appoint three (3) managers and one returning officer for each 
 voting place in the school district or at such special voting places 
 as may be designated for the special election by the judge of pro- 
 bate of the county who is hereby empowered and directed to 
 locate such voting places, upon the recommendation of the county 
 board of education and such special voting places shall be set out 
 
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 in the notices of the special election. The managen' and return- 
 ing officers, provided for above, shall conduct and make return 
 of such election in the rural or city school district, and in the 
 event such election officers fail to appear at the polling place to 
 which they are appointed, the officer or officers who do appear 
 shall appoint some one to take their places, provided that all 
 election officers shall be residents of the special tax district, and 
 qualified electors of the beat or precinct in which they reside, 
 and it shall be the duty of the sheriff to notify all officers of 
 their appointment by the court of county commissioners or other 
 governing body. The managers of such election shall open the 
 polls at eight o'clock A. M. and close the same at five o'clock P. M. 
 on the date of election, and immediately upon closing the polls 
 shall ascertain the results of the election at their respective 
 voting place, and make returns of the same to the court of county 
 commissioners or other governing body of the county and deliver 
 the ballot box containing the returns, with the polling lists, tally 
 sheets and other necessary papers, to the returning officers of 
 such voting places, who shall deliver the same to the court of 
 county commissioners or other governing body on or before noon 
 of the second day of the said election. The Court of County 
 Commissioners or other governing body shall, within four days 
 after said election canvass the returns so made, and under oath 
 make a written report declaring the result of said election in 
 said school district, showing the number of votes cast, both for 
 and against the proposed taxation. A copy of such report shall 
 be printed in some newspaper published in the county, and the 
 original shall be filed in the office of the probate judge, except as 
 otherwise provided herein said election shall be held under the 
 general laws of the State. The officers, including the sheriff, 
 shall perform the same duties, and receive the same pay as pro- 
 vided for under the general election laws aforesaid, and all costs 
 and fees of said election shall be paid out of the county treasury. 
 Section 4. In order to make it possible to work but a system 
 of local tax units adapted to the needs of the whole county, the 
 county board of education of its own initiative shall fix the 
 boundaries of any school district within its jurisdiction in which 
 it is proposed to levy a local school tax. In making application 
 for a special election in any such district, as provided in section 
 3 of this article, the county board of education shall submit a 
 map made by the county surveyor, or other competent person, 
 showing the boundaries of the school district for which a special 
 tax levy is proposed, indicating the section or sections and 
 ranges, together with the correct description of the boundaries 
 of the said district for which a special tax levy is proposed. 
 These maps shall also show the location of public utilities, such 
 as power plants, railroad and telegraph lines, if any, in such 
 
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 districts, and the railroad mileage for each and every corpora- 
 tion having property therein. The county superintendent shall 
 include a full and correct description of such boundaries in the 
 minutes of the county board of education, and shall also furnish 
 a full and correct description of such boundaries, including a 
 map, to the probate judge, who shall record the same in a book 
 to be kept by him for that purpose, also to the State Department 
 of Education and to the State Board of Equalization, or other 
 board exercising corresponding powers, including as many copies 
 of such map as there are public utilities, located or operating in 
 such special tax district; provided, that the tax levy in any dis- 
 trict already voted is hereby confirmed, and it is made the duty 
 of the county board of education to have a proper map of such 
 district made and recorded as herein provided ; provided further, 
 that the levy of the district school tax shall operate to fix the 
 boundaries of such district for the time of such special levy, 
 except as hereinafter provided. Provided, further, that any city 
 of two thousand (2000) or more inhabitants, according to the 
 last or any succeeding Federal census shall constitute an inde- 
 pendent school district for the purpose of levying the tax author- 
 ized under this article, but it shall not be necessary for the city 
 board of education when making application or request for a 
 special election under the provisions of this article to submit the 
 map or the description of boundaries ; provided further, that any 
 tax levy already voted in any city of two thousand (2000) or 
 more inhabitants according to the last or any succeeding Federal 
 census, and any election heretofore called in any such city in 
 making application or request for which such map or description 
 of boundaries were not submitted, are hereby confirmed. 
 
 Section 5. When it shall seem desirable to enlarge any spe- 
 cial tax district by consolidating with it any adjacent territory 
 or district, which may or may not be levying any special school 
 tax, the county board of education may petition the court of 
 county commissioners or other governing body to call an election 
 in all of the districts concerned, including the special tax dis- 
 trict proposed to be enlarged, to determine whether a special tax 
 for a uniform rate and time shall be voted in each and every 
 one of the districts, provided that the proposed rate and time 
 shall not be less than the maximum rate in any district or the 
 maximum time in any district. Thereupon the said board of 
 county commissioners or other governing body shall call an 
 election in like manner as already prescribed in section 3 of this 
 article in the special districts proposed to be consolidated, and 
 if a majority of the qualified electors in each and all of the dis- 
 tricts proposed to be consolidated shall vote favorably the dis- 
 tricts shall be consolidated into a new district, and the tax as 
 voted shall be levied and collected in the new district as a unit. 
 
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 but the creation of a new district shall not operate to relieve the 
 county board of education of responsibility and liability for the 
 just obligations of each and all of the districts so consolidated, 
 and made prior to such consolidation; provided further, that in 
 the event a majority of the qualific .! voters in any of the districts 
 proposed to be consolidated shall \ ^te against the proposed con- 
 solidation, then said consolidation shall not be made and each 
 district shall remain as before, and with the same taxing privi- 
 leges. 
 
 Section 6. When any election is to be held in any county or 
 in any rural or city school district, under the provisions of this 
 Article the court of county commissioners or other governing 
 body, shall provide the necessary number of ballots, polling-lists, 
 tally-sheets, ballot boxes, booths, instructions for holding the 
 election, and all other necessary and proper stationery for hold- 
 ing said election ; and the sheriff shall see that the same are de- 
 livered to the managers before the day of the election. The 
 ballots used in said election shall have printed at the top the 
 rate of such proposed tax, the time it is proposed to be continued, 
 and that it is to b,e used for public school purposes, and directly 
 underneath in plain type shall be printed on different lines the 
 words, "For Proposed Taxation," "Against Proposed Taxation", 
 and a blank must be left directly to the left of each line thereof, 
 and the voter favoring the proposed taxation will make a cross- 
 mark directly to the left of the line "For Proposed Taxation" 
 and the voter not in favor of the proposed taxation will make ^ 
 cross-mark directly to the left of the line "Against Proposed 
 Taxation", and if it appears as the result of such election that a 
 majority of those voting in said election have voted for such taxa- 
 tion, the court of county commissioners or other governing body, 
 shall levy said special tax and cause the tax assessor to assess 
 the same on the taxable property in said county, or in said rural 
 or city school district, as the case may be, which shall not exceed 
 thirty (30) cents on each one hundred (100) dollars worth of 
 taxable property in said county or in said rural or city school 
 district, as the case may be ; provided that any special tax levied 
 under the provisions of this Article shall not be for a shorter 
 term than two (2) years. And in all elections hereafter held if 
 the specific purposes for which said tax, when levied shall be used 
 is printed on the ballots to be used in said election, it shall be 
 unlawful for the county board of education to apply it to any 
 other purpose. 
 
 Section 7. In any county which has levied or is levying a 
 special county tax for school purposes, the county board of 
 education, in order to erect, repair, enlarge or equip school build- 
 ings, or to make other improvements in the school facilities of the 
 county, or to raise money for any of such purposes, is hereby 
 
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 authorized and empowered to issue and sell school warrants 
 bearing interest at a rate not to exceed six percent (6%) per 
 annum for an amount, including interest, not exceeding the 
 income from said tax levy, estimating such income upon the 
 basis of the assessed valur of the taxable property in such 
 county for the preceding tax year, as the annual return for such 
 levy for the period for which such warrants are issued ; and the 
 board of education of any county or of any city of two thousand 
 (2000) or more inhabitants according to the last or any succeed- 
 ing Federal census, in order to erect, repair, enlarge or equip 
 school buildings or to make improvements in the school facilities 
 of any school district under its control in which a district school 
 tax has been or is being levied, or to raise money for any of 
 «uch purposes, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue 
 .■school warrants bearing interest at a rate not to exceed six per 
 cent (6%) per annum for an amount, including interest, not to 
 •exceed the income from such tax levy, estimating such income 
 upon the basis of the assessed value of the taxable property in 
 such city or school district for the preceding tax year, as the 
 annual return from such levy for the period for which such war- 
 rants are issued. The due date of said school warrants shall not 
 extend beyond the 30th. day of September next after the time 
 when the tax for the last year of said levy shall become delin- 
 quent. All warrants shall be signed in the name of such board, 
 by its president and shall be a preferred claim upon the proceeds 
 of said tax levy in such county or school district, as the case may 
 be, each year during the period for which such warrants are is- 
 sued to the extent of the warrants maturing during such year, 
 and such board shall at the beginning of each tax year, by reso- 
 lution entered upon its minutes, set apart so much of the tax 
 income for that year as will be necessary to meet all warrants 
 maturing during that year; provided, that nothing herein con- 
 tained shall prevent the said board from paying any of such 
 warrants for which the income from said tax levy, ascertained 
 as herein provided may be insufficient to pay. Provided further, 
 that the board of education of any city of two thousand (2000) 
 or more inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Fed- 
 eral census, constituting an independent school district, is hereby 
 authorized to pay the principal and interest, one or both, or any 
 part thereof, of bonds hereafter issued by any such city to acquire 
 sites for, and to erect, repair, enlarge or equip school buildings, 
 or to make improvements in the school facilities of any such 
 city. 
 
 Section 8. Whenever such a levy as is provided for in this 
 Article is made it shall be the duty of the tax collector within and 
 for that county to collect such a tax in the same manner and 
 under the same requirements and laws as the taxes of the State 
 
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 are collected, and he shall keep said amount separate and apart 
 from all other funds, and keep a clear and distinct account there- 
 of, showing what amount is paid, and turn the same over to the 
 county treasurer of school funds, whose duty it shall be to re- 
 ceipt therefor, and pay out the same on monthly pay rolls, with 
 the authority and approval of the county board of education 
 upon uniform blanks prescribed by the State superintendent of 
 education; provided that the funds arising from levying the 
 special tax for school purposes in any school district shall be 
 used for the exclusive benefit of the public schools of such dis- 
 trict, and in the case of cities of two thousand (2000) or more 
 inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Federal 
 census, the city tax collector, unless otherwise provided by law^ 
 shall collect and pay over the same to the treasurer of said city 
 to be used for the exclusive benefit thereof, in accordance with 
 the law, provided that in the event an incorporated town located 
 in a special school tax district comprising said town and terri- 
 tory contiguous thereto should attain a population of two thou- 
 sand (2000) or more as evidenced by a Federal census, then the 
 government and control of the schools of said city shall be under 
 the city board of education, and the government and control of 
 the schools in the contiguous territory outside of the city shall 
 continue under the county board of education ; provided, that the 
 tax collected in the city shall be paid over to the city treasurer 
 as provided by law for the exclusive use of the schools of said 
 city and the tax collected in the contiguous territory shall be 
 paid over to the county treasurer of school funds for the benefit 
 of the schools in such contiguous territory ; and provided that, in 
 the event the special school tax proceeds have been pledged for 
 the retirement of interest bearing warrants, issued in accordance 
 with section seven of this article, so much of the tax collected in 
 the original special school tax district as may be required for the 
 retirement of such outstanding warrants, including the interest 
 thereon, shall be paid over to the proper officer to be used for the 
 retirement of such outstanding warrants. 
 
 Section 9. All persons who are at the time of such election 
 qualified electors in the county where such an election is held, or 
 in the beat or precinct comprising such rural or city school dis- 
 trict where such election is held under the laws and Constitution 
 of Alabama then in existence, shall be qualified electors to partici- 
 pate therein. 
 
 ARTICLE 13. LOCAL TAX BONUS FUND. 
 
 Section 1. The State superintendent of education shall certi- 
 fy to the State auditor on the first day of October of each year 
 the several counties of the State that are levying and collecting 
 
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 for that year a special tax for school purposes aggregating one, 
 two, or three mills respectively, and the State auditor, upon the 
 request of the State superintendent of education, shall draw his 
 warrant for one thousand ($1000) dollars upon the State treas- 
 urer, in favor of the county treasurer of School funds of any 
 county levying and collecting a special tax for school purposes 
 of one mill and less than two mills; for two thousand ($2300) 
 dollars, in favor of any county that may be levying and collecting 
 for that year special county school taxes aggregating two mills 
 and less than three mills; and for three thousand ($3000) dol- 
 lars for any county in the State that may be levying and collect- 
 ing for that year special county school taxes aggregating not less 
 than three mills. Each county shall receive the warrant repre- 
 senting the highest of the above amounts to which it is entitled, 
 and no other. 
 
 Section 2. The funds so set apart for any county shall be 
 paid out of the special legislative appropriation for that purpose 
 and shall be expended by the county board of education as in the 
 opinion of said county board will best promote the cause of edu- 
 cation in said county; 
 
 ARTICLE 14. THE COUNTY TREASURER OF SCHOOL 
 
 FUNDS. 
 
 Section 1. The county treasurer of school funds shall be 
 selected by the county board of education for a term of four 
 years. He shall receive and take charge of all funds or proceeds 
 of any character which may accrue to the county for public 
 school purposes, and shall pay out all such monies upon the writ- 
 ten order of the county superintendent of education. 
 
 Section 2. On the receipt of the certificate of the county 
 superintendent of education setting out the amounts required to 
 meet the pay rolls authorized under section twenty-two (22) of 
 Article six (6) of this Act, the county treasurer of school funds 
 shall make requisition on the State Auditor for the amount certi- 
 fied by the county superintendent of education to be necessary 
 to make such pay rolls, after deducting from the amount so certi- 
 fied the balance in his hands for such purposes. This requisition 
 shall be mailed to the State superintendent of education for ap- 
 proval and transmission to the State auditor. 
 
 Section 3. The County treasurer of school funds shall pay 
 promptly upon receipt all pay rolls filed by the county superin- 
 tendent of education. 
 
 Section 4. The County treasurer of school funds shall give 
 a surety bond in twice the probable sum of public school money 
 which he may have on hand at any one time, the amount of such 
 bond to be fixed and approved by the State board of education. 
 
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 Section 5. The county treasurer of school funds shall keep 
 proper vouchers for all monies paid out under the terms of this 
 Act and shall make such reports as may be called for by the 
 State and county boards of education. 
 
 Section 6. The county treasurer of school funds may be 
 removed by the county board of education when, in the opinion 
 of the said county board, the best interests of the schools may 
 require. 
 
 ARTICLE 15. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. 
 
 Section 1. Every parent, guardian or other person in the 
 State of Alabama having control or charge of any child or chil- 
 dren between the ages of eight (8) and sixteen (16) years shall 
 be required to send such child or children to a public school or to 
 a private, denominational or parochial school, taught by a com- 
 petent instructor, and, such child or children shall attend school 
 for the entire length of the school term in every scholastic year, 
 provided that the county or city board of education, as the case 
 may be, shall have power to reduce the period of compulsory at- 
 tendance to nqt less than one hundred (100) days for any indi- 
 vidual school, unless the school term for any school is less than 
 one hundred (100) days, in which event the period of compul- 
 sory attendance shall be for the entire school term. The period 
 of compulsory attendance shall commence at the beginning of the 
 school, unless otherwise ordered by the county or city board of 
 education, as the case may be, with the approval of the State 
 board of education. 
 
 Section 2. Any child or children fourteen (14) years of age 
 and upward, who have completed the elementary course of study 
 or the equivalent thereof, or who are legally and regularly em- 
 ployed under the provisions of the Child Labor Law, shall be 
 exempt from the provisions of this Article, and in case there be 
 no public school within two and one-half miles by the nearest 
 traveled road of any person between the ages of eight (8) and 
 sixteen (16) years, he or she shall not be subject to the provi- 
 sions of this article, unless public transportation within reason- 
 able walking distance is provided. 
 
 Section 3. Any child or children who are physically or men- 
 tally incapacitated for the work of the school are exempt from 
 this article, but the school authorities shall have the right, and 
 they are hereby authorized, when exemptions under the provi- 
 sions of this article are claimed by any parent, guardian or other 
 rerson having control of any child or children, to require from a 
 practicing physician a properly attested certificate, that such 
 child or children should not be required to attend school for some 
 physical or mental condition which renders attendance imprac- 
 ticable or inexpedient. 
 
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 Section 4. That in any case where the court before which 
 any prosecution is brought for violation of the provisions of this 
 article shall, after inquiry find as a fact that the parent, guardian 
 or other person having control of the child or children is unable 
 to provide necessary books and clothes in order that the child or 
 children may attend school in compliance with law, such parent, 
 guardian, or other person having the control of the child or chil- 
 dren shall be discharged, and such child or children shall be 
 turned over to the juvenile court, or to the State Child Welfare 
 Department to be dealt with as a dependent child. 
 
 Section 5. The county board of education shall arrange the^ 
 county exclusive of cities into one or more attendance districts, 
 and said board shall appoint an attendance officer for every dis- 
 trict created, who shall reside in the district and who shall hold 
 his office at the will of the county board of education, and the 
 board of education of each city of two thousand (2000) or more 
 inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Federal 
 census, shall appoint one or more attendance officers to serve 
 at the pleasure of the appointing board, provided that this arti- 
 cle shall be so interpreted as to make it possible for city and 
 county boards of education, boards of revenue 'and courts of 
 county commissioners to jointly employ any person or persons 
 to carry out the provisions of this article and such additional 
 duties as may be assigned them by such boards or governing 
 bodies, in connection with the juvenile court of the county or the 
 State Child Welfare Department. 
 
 Section 6. At the beginning of the annual period of compul- 
 sory attendance, i''^ county superintendent of education or the 
 clt'- s'lpt . ritendent of schools, as the case may be, shall supply 
 Lc each principal teacher in each school a list of all children be- 
 tween the ages of eighi and sixteen years, who shall attend such 
 school. At the end of the fifth day of the opening of the school, 
 the principal teacher shall report to the county superintendent of 
 education, who in turn shall report to the attendance officer 
 of the attendance district, the names and addresses of all per- 
 sons between the ages of eight (8) and sixteen (16) years, who 
 have not enrolled in said schools, and thereafter throughout the 
 compulsory attendance period, the principal teacher of each 
 school shall report at least weekly the names and addresses of all 
 pupils between the ages of eight (8) and sixteen (16) years, 
 who are absent and whose absence is not satisfactorily explained 
 by the parent, guardian or other person having control of the 
 child. 
 
 Section 7. It shall be the duty of the attendance officer to 
 investigate all cases of non-enrollment and non-attendance re- 
 ported to him in accordance with Section 6 of this article. In 
 all cases investigated where no valid reason for non-enrollment 
 
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 or non-attendance is found, it shall be the duty of the attendance 
 officer to give written notice to the parent, guardian or other 
 person having control of the child, and in the event of the ab- 
 sence of the parent, guardian or other person having control of 
 the child, from his or her usual place of residence, the attendance 
 officer shall leave a copy of the notice w^ith some person over 
 twelve years of age residing at the usual place of residence, with 
 instructions to hand such notice to such parent, guardian or 
 other person having control of such child, which notice shall 
 require the attendance of said child at the school within three 
 days from date of said notice. 
 
 Section 8. If within three (3) days from date of service 
 of the notice the parent, guardian, or other person having the 
 control of the child does not comply with the provisions of this 
 article, then the attendance officer shall make complaint in the 
 name of the State of Alabama, against such parent, guardian, or 
 other person having control of such child in a court of competent 
 jurisdiction, which court shall hear and try all complaints, im- 
 pose fines, enforce their collection by imprisonment if necessary, 
 and fully execute the provisions of this article. 
 
 Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any parent, guardian, or 
 other person having control of a child to fail to send such child 
 to school as required by the provisions of this article, and any 
 parent, guardian, or other person violating the provisions of this 
 article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in 
 a sum of not less than five ($5) dollars, nor more than fifty 
 ($50.) dollars, and may be committed to the county jail for a 
 term of not to exceed thirty (30) days. All fines collected shall 
 be paid into the county or city treasury, as the case may be, and 
 it is hereby made the duty of all city attorneys in their respective 
 cities, and of all county and circuit solicitors for the respective 
 counties and districts to prosecute all complaints filed and actions 
 brought under this article. 
 
 Section 10. All school officers, including those in private, 
 denominational and parochial schools in this State, offering in- 
 struction to pupils within the compulsory attendance ages, are 
 hereby required to make and furnish all reports that may be 
 required by the State superintendent of education, and by the 
 county superintendent of education, or by the board of educa- 
 tion of any city with reference to the workings of this article. 
 Every teacher employed in the schools giving instruction to pu- 
 pils within the compulsory attendance ages, shall after October 
 1, 1920, hold a teacher's certificate issued by the State Depart- 
 ment of Education. Every teacher in a public school is hereby 
 required before receiving each month's salary, to make a report 
 to the county superintendent of education or to the city superin- 
 tendent of schools as the case may be, showing the names and 
 
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 addresses of all pupils who have been truant or otherwise irregu- 
 lar in attendance during the previous month, and stating the 
 reason for such truancy or irregular attendance. All such in- 
 formation shall in turn be brought to the notice of the attendance 
 officer by the county superintendent or by the city superin- 
 tendent of schools, as the case may be, and the same shall be 
 investigated by the said officer. 
 
 Section 11. In case any pupil has become habitually truant 
 or because of irregular attendance or misconduct has become 
 a menace to the best interests of the school which he is attending 
 or should attend, then it shall be the duty of the attendance officer 
 to report such fact and condition to the parent, guardian, or other 
 person having control of such child, who shall be held liable 
 under the provisions of this article for the regular attendance 
 and good conduct of such child, unless such parent, guardian or 
 other person having control of such child shall state in writing 
 to the attendance officer that he or she is unable to control such 
 child, whereupon said attendance officer shall proceed against 
 such incorrigible pupil as a disorderly person before a court of 
 competent jurisdiction, and said child upon conviction may be 
 sentenced, if a white boy, to the Alabama Boy's Industrial 
 School; or if a white girl, to the State Training School for 
 Girls ; if a negro boy, to the Alabama Reform School for Juvenile 
 Negro Law-Breakers ; or if a negro girl, to such custodial institu- 
 tion in the State as the judge may designate and for such time 
 as the court may decide ; provided, that the maintenance of such 
 child in the institution shall be paid as the law provides for the 
 maintenance of such as are committed to the aforesaid institu- 
 tions, and in all cases where a child is so committed, it shall be 
 placed in charge of some suitable person designated by the court 
 and conveyed under his direction to the designated institution, 
 and the actual necessary expenses thereby incurred shall be paid 
 by the board of county commissioners or the county board of 
 revenue ; provided, that a woman shall always be sent to accom- 
 pany girls to be committed. 
 
 Section 12. The attendance officer whose appointment is by 
 this article provided for, shall keep an accurate record of all 
 notices served, all cases prosecuted, and all other services per- 
 formed, and shall make an annual report of the same to the 
 county board of education or to the city board of education by 
 whom he is employed. The attendance officers who are em- 
 ployed by the county or city board of education shall be paid 
 by the respective boards of education such salaries as may be 
 required to secure efficient service. Said attendance officer shall 
 be paid as other employees of the county or city boards of educa- 
 tion are paid, but no attendance officer shall receive any com- 
 pensation under the provisions of this act until he shall have filed 
 
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 such reports as are required by the State board of education, and 
 by the board of education of the county or city employing him. 
 
 Section 13. In order that the provisions of this article may 
 be more definitely enforced, the county superintendent of educa- 
 tion or the city superintendent of schools, as the case may be, 
 shall, not later than ten days before the compulsory attendance 
 term is to begin, furnish to each principal teacher of every school 
 under his jurisdiction a list of all the children between the ages 
 of eight (8) and sixteen (16) years, who should attend the 
 school or schools under the charge of the said principal teacher, 
 giving the name, date of birth, age, sex, race, the name and 
 address of parents, guardian, or other person in parental rela- 
 tionship; provided that in the case of pupils living in cities, the 
 street and house number shall be given and in the case of all other 
 pupils the estimated distance from the schoolhouse by the nearest 
 traveled road shall be given. 
 
 Section 14. The information required under Section 13 shall 
 be prepared by the county superintendent of education with the 
 assistance of the attendance officers, for the even numbered 
 years, from the census booklets on file in his office. In the odd 
 numbered years, the lists shall be prepared by the county super- 
 intendent of education with the assistance of the attendance 
 officers, by correcting and supplementing the lists prepared and 
 furnished the preceding year. To this end the county superin- 
 tendent of education shall make use of the information contained 
 in teachers' registers, and such additional information as he may 
 require from school trustees. In the case of the city superin- 
 tendents of schools the list shall be prepared for the even num- 
 bered years from the duplicate census booklets in his possession. 
 In the odd numbered years he shall prepare it, making use of the 
 information contained in teachers' registers' and such additional 
 information as he may require from the attendance officers. 
 
 Section 15. In all public schools conducted under this act, 
 twenty days, with five days each week, shall constitute a school 
 month, and a school day shall be not less than six hours of actual 
 teaching, exclusive of all recess or intermission periods, unless 
 otherwise ordered by the county or city board of education con- 
 cerned. 
 
 ARTICLE 16. CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS. 
 
 Section 1. No person shall be employed as county superin- 
 tendent of education, city superintendent of schools, assistant 
 superintendent, supervisor, principal or teacher unless such a 
 person shall hold a certificate issued by the State Department of 
 Education, but this section shall not operate to disqualify present 
 incumbents except as otherwise provided. 
 
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 Section 2. All examinations for teachers' certificates shall 
 be on uniform questions prepared and sent out by the State 
 superintendent of education, either in person or through his 
 assistants. All examination papers shall be forwarded to, read, 
 and corrected by the State superintendent of education, either in 
 person or by his assistants. The county superintendent of educa- 
 tion shall render such assistance in holding examinations as may 
 be required by the State superintendent of education. All details 
 connected with the issuance of teachers' certificates, the renewal 
 or extension of the same, and the conditions under which the 
 diplomas issued by institutions of higher learning of the State of 
 Alabama or operating under charter granted by it and of other 
 states will be recognized, not provided for in this article, shall be 
 determined, subject to the rules and regulations of the State 
 board of education, by the State superintendent of education. He 
 shall issue a bulletin containing full information of the time and 
 place, the number and kinds of examinations, and rules and regu- 
 lations controlling examinations and the issuance of certificates 
 on credentials or diplomas. 
 
 Section 3. The certificates hereafter to be granted shall be 
 those now prescribed by law, and such professional and special 
 certificates as the State board of education may authorize and 
 prescribe; provided that the issuance of third grade certificates 
 may be discontinued whenever the best interests of the schools 
 may seem to require it. 
 
 Section 4. Nothing in this article shall be so construed as to 
 invalidate any certificate now in force for the life of such certifi- 
 cate. 
 
 Section 5. The State board of education, on recommendation 
 of the State superintendent of education, shall prescribe rules 
 and regulations for the validation of certificates issued in other 
 states, for the extension and renewal of teachers' certificates, and 
 for the certification of graduates of institutions in other states, 
 and upon the same basis as to graduates of institutions in Ala- 
 bama, provided that the standards maintained in such institutions 
 do not fall below those required in Alabama. 
 
 Section 6. The State superintendent of education in cases 
 of emergency may issue provisional certificates of the different 
 kinds and grades, and a provisional certificate shall be valid for 
 a period not to exceed one year, and such provisional certificate 
 may not be renewed. 
 
 Section 7. The State board of education, upon the recom- 
 mendation of the State superintendent of education, may issue 
 life certificates to the holders of certificates herein described, 
 and to the holders of certificates in force at the time of the adop- 
 tion of this Act. 
 
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 Section 8. The State superintendent of education shall keep 
 a full and complete record of the academic preparation, profes- 
 sional training, and teaching experience of each applicant to 
 whom a certificate is issued. He shall keep a complete record of 
 the credentials, certificates or diplomas upon which certificates 
 may have been issued, validated or renewed, and shall keep on 
 file for at least six (6) months the written examination papers. 
 He shall keep a complete record and file of all certificates issued 
 and of certificates in force. He shall make known to the county 
 superintendents of education or other interested parties, the 
 names of all teachers who are unemployed, but who are seeking 
 positions. For making effective this service, he shall organize a 
 placement bureau within the division of teacher training, place- 
 ment and certification, and each teacher enrolled in said place- 
 ment bureau shall pay a fee not to exceed one dollar. He shall 
 certify this into the State treasury at least monthly along with 
 other fees for the certification of teachers. 
 
 Section 9. The third Mondays in April, July and December 
 are appointed for the examination of teachers. The examination 
 may be continued from time to time for two consecutive days, if 
 such continuance shall be necessary for the completion of the 
 work of examination, but no examination shall be begun on any 
 other day than the first day mentioned in this section, and no 
 examination shall be held at any other time than specified above. 
 
 Section 10. Each applicant for examination shall, before en- 
 tering upon examination, deposit with the person appointed to 
 conduct the examination an examination fee as follows: An 
 applicant for an elementary certificate of the second grade, a fee 
 of one and one-half ($11/2) dollars; an applicant for an elemen- 
 tary certificate of the first grade a fee of two ($2) dollars; an 
 applicant for a life grade certificate a fee of three ($3) dollars. 
 The fees for the other grades of certificates and for the extension 
 and renewal of certificates shall be fixed by the State board of 
 education upon the recommendation of the State superintendent 
 of education. 
 
 Section 11. The county superintendent of education shall 
 not receive any compensation for conducting the examination, 
 but each assistant employed shall be allowed a per diem of five 
 ($5) dollars, provided that an assistant may be employed for each 
 fifty (50) applicants or fraction thereof from and above the first 
 fifty (50) in any given county. When the superintendent is to 
 be absent, with the consent of the county board of education, he 
 shall notify the State superintendent of education at least ten 
 days before the time the examination is to be held, whereupon 
 the State superintendent of education shall appoint one person 
 to conduct the examination in place of the county superintendent 
 of education, and such person so appointed shall receive a per 
 
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 diem of five ($5) dollars for such work. It shall be the duty of 
 the county superintendent of education to see that suitable quar- 
 ters for holding the examination are provided, including a sup- 
 ply of tables or desks for the convenience of those writing the 
 examination. The county superintendent shall furnish to the 
 State superintendent a sworn statement of any necessary expense 
 incurred in making such provision, which amount shall be paid 
 from the general educational fund upon the approval of the 
 State superintendent of education. The per capita cost in no 
 case shall exceed ten cents for each applicant. 
 
 Section 12. Unless the applicant is known to the person ap- 
 pointed to conduct the examination to be of good moral charac- 
 ter, or shall make satisfactory proof of the same in writing, he 
 shall not be admitted to the examination. No applicant shall be 
 permitted to write the examination in any county unless engaged 
 in school work in such county, except the county of his residence, 
 without the written approval of the State superintendent of edu- 
 cation. The burden of proof under this section shall be upon 
 the applicant. 
 
 Section 13. In no case shall an applicant for a certificate 
 receive the same who fails to answer fifty per cent (50%) of the 
 questions propounded in any branch and whose general average 
 is below seventy-five per cent (75%). 
 
 Section 14. The fees paid by applicants in accordance with 
 sections 8 and 10 of this article shall be certified at least monthly 
 into the State treasury to the credit of the general educational 
 fund by the State superintendent of education, and the State 
 board is authorized to spend so much of the legislative appropria- 
 tion as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Arti- 
 cle including the employment of necessary professional and cleri- 
 cal help, the purchase of necessary equipment and supplies, and 
 other expenses incident thereto. When it shall be necessary to 
 draw on the special legislative appropriation for the purposes 
 set out in this article, the State superintendent of education shall 
 make requisition on the State auditor who shall issue his warrant 
 on the State treasurer for the amount for which requisition is 
 made. 
 
 Section 15. The city board of education in any city of one 
 hundred fifty thousand (150,000) inhabitants or more, may, as 
 an integral part of its educational system, establish and main- 
 tain a normal training school for the professional preparation of 
 teachers. Any normal training school so established shall con- 
 form to the requirements of the State Board of Education for the 
 Class A normal schools of the State, including courses of study, 
 faculties, equipment and practice school facilities. The students 
 of such rormal training schools shall receive like recognition as 
 is granted students of the Class A normal schools. 
 
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 ARTICLE 17. THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN 
 
 SERVICE. 
 
 Section 1. As a means of improving beginning teachers and 
 teachers in service in the public schools of the State, teachers' 
 institutes shall be held annually throughout the State, one or 
 more in each county or for a group of counties, and at such timea 
 and at such places as the State superintendent of education, after 
 advising v^^ith the county superintendent of education, shall di- 
 rect, the nature of the instruction, and the duration of the insti- 
 tutes w^hich shall not exceed four days in any year for any 
 county or group of counties, shall be such as to promote the best 
 interests of the schools in the respective counties. 
 
 Section 2. Every person employed in a teaching or super- 
 visory capacity by any county or city board of education in the 
 public schools of the State shall attend the institute held in the 
 county in which such person is employed, provided the institute 
 is held during term time, or during the week immediately preced- 
 ing or succeeding the period of opening and closing the schools 
 in the county. All persons so attending shall be paid as for time 
 taught, provided that any teacher or supervisory officer who fails 
 to attend an institute called in accordance with section one (1) 
 of this article shall forfeit his or her contract with the respec- 
 tive county or city board of education, as the case may be, and 
 shall be ineligible to teach in the public schools of the State for 
 a period of six (6) months from the date of such delinquency, 
 unless excused as provided in section three (3) of this article. 
 
 Section 3. The State superintendent of education, with the 
 advise of the county superintendent of education shall have the 
 power to excuse teachers and supervisory officers from institute 
 attendance for extraordinary reasons, and persons so excused 
 shall be deemed to have met all requirements of attendance, with- 
 in the meaning of section two (2) of this Article, but shall not 
 be entitled to pay as for time taught. 
 
 Section 4. At the beginning of each institute it shall be the 
 duty of the county superintendent of education and of the city 
 superintendents of schools, as the case may be, to furnish the 
 conductor of the institute on forms to be provided by the State 
 Department of Education, a list in duplicate of all persons em- 
 ployed in a teaching or supervisory capacity in the schools under 
 their respective jurisdictions, and at the close of the institute the 
 conductor shall file with the county superintendent of education, 
 and with the city superintendent of schools the duplicate list of 
 teachers and supervisory officers, numbered serially, employed 
 in the schools under their respective jurisdictions who have met 
 the legal requirements of institute attendance, or have been 
 excused in accordance with section three (3) of this article. It 
 
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 shall be unlawful for any county superintendent of education or 
 for any superintendent of city schools to place the name of any 
 teacher on the pay roll for a term of six (6) months after the 
 close of the institute so held, or to allow any teacher or super- 
 visory officer who is in the employ of the county or city board 
 of education at the time the said institute was held, and who was 
 delinquent in attendance upon said institute to continue teaching 
 in the schools of the city or county. 
 
 Section 5. As a further means of improving teachers in 
 service, the county superintendent of education shall arrange 
 for and conduct group conferences in convenient centers through- 
 out the county, at which round tables shall be conducted, on the 
 course of study, the work of the State teachers reading circle 
 and on the problems of supervision and administration peculiar 
 to the schools represented. 
 
 Section 6. The State Department of Education shall give 
 appropriate recognition toward the renewal and extension of 
 teachers' certificates to any person who completes in a satisfac- 
 tory manner the work assigned for such group conferences. It 
 is made the duty of the State superintendent of education, after 
 advising with the county superintendent of education, to prepare 
 outlines for use in teachers' institutes, and in the group meetings 
 to be held in accordance with section five (5) of this article. 
 Certificates entitling the holder to the renewal or extension privi- 
 lege as prescribed in this section, shall be issued in accordance 
 with the rules and regulations of the State Department of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Section 7. In the conduct of such institutes and group con- 
 ferences as may be held under the provisions of this article, it is 
 made the duty of the State normal schools and of other State sup- 
 ported institutions of higher learning, offering teacher training 
 courses to cooperate as far as may be practicable. The State De- 
 partment of Education in cooperation with the State normal 
 schools and other State supported institutions of higher learning 
 offering teacher-training courses, and with county superintend- 
 ents of education and city superintendents of schools shall ar- 
 range, in so far as may be practicable, for extension courses as a 
 part of or in lieu of the group conferences, to be held in accord- 
 ance with section (5) of this article. The credit to be allowed 
 by the institution engaging in extension work as authorized in 
 this article, shall be determined by the proper authorities of the 
 said institution. 
 
 Section 8. The annual legislative appropriation for the pur- 
 pose of carrying out the provisions of this act, or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary, shall be used for the training of teachers in 
 service including extension, institute and reading circle work, 
 
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 the necessary salaries of professional and clerical help and for 
 such other related purposes as may be necessary to make this act 
 of the greatest benefit to the schools of the State, and the State 
 auditor upon requisition of the State superintendent of education 
 shall issue his warrant on the State treasurer for the amount for 
 which requisition is made. 
 
 ARTICLE 18. RURAL SCHOOLHOUSES. 
 
 Section 1. The fund for the erection, repair and equipment 
 of rural schoolhouses shall consist of the annual legislative appro- 
 priations and of unexpended balances as provided by law. 
 
 Section 2. The unexpended balances on Oct. 1, 1919, as 
 shown by the books kept by the State auditor and by the State 
 superintendent of education which have accrued to the several 
 counties of the State from the rural schoolhouse fund provided 
 in sections 1975 and 1993 inclusive, of article 31 of the Code of 
 Alabama of 1907 as amended by section 8 of an Act approved 
 September 22, 1915, and also by section 8 of an Act approved 
 February 17, 1919, are hereby declared to revert to the State 
 treasury and the special legislative appropriation of eighty seven 
 thousand five hundred ($87,500) dollars annually for the quad- 
 rennium beginning October 1, 1919, and ending September 30, 
 1923, is made a part of the fund for the erection, repair and 
 equipment of rural schoolhouses. Out of the appropriation of 
 eighty seven thousand five hundred ($87,500) dollars, the State 
 superintendent of Education may annually set aside such an 
 amount as may be deemed necessary to procure expert assistants 
 in the drawing of plans and specifications, in the preparation of 
 estimates of bills of material, in the inspection of buildings, and 
 for such other expenses incident thereto as are deemed necessary 
 and he shall apportion the remainder equally among the several 
 counties of the State. On the first day of October 1920 and an- 
 nually thereafter the total of any unexpended balances remaining 
 to the credit of the counties, together with any unexpended bal- 
 ance of the amount set aside as provided above, shall be appor- 
 tioned equally among all the counties of the State, and the State 
 superintendent of education shall certify such apportionment to 
 the State auditor. 
 
 Section 3. Three or more citizens of any rural community 
 or of any incorporated town in this State under the control of the 
 county board of education, where it is proposed to erect a school 
 building according to plans furnished by the State Department 
 of Education or to repair or to equip a school building according 
 to plans approved by the State Department of Education, shall 
 be eligible to make application to the county board of education 
 for aid subject to the following conditions : The application shall 
 
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 show that bona fide donations of at least twice the amount for 
 which aid is asked have already been secured, and shall also con- 
 tain a description of the plot of land upon which the public school 
 building for which aid is sought is located or is to be erected. 
 The maximum amount for which application is made for the 
 erection of a school building shall not exceed four hundred dol- 
 lars for a school building with one class room, six hundred fifty 
 dollars for a school building with two class rooms, nine hundred 
 dollars for a school building with three class rooms, tweve hun- 
 dred dollars for a school building with four class rooms, and 
 fifteen hundred dollars for a school building with five or more 
 class rooms. In the granting of aid in the erection of buildings 
 under provisions of this section, the class room shall not be inter- 
 preted to include auditorium or work room but additional aid in 
 the sum of three hundred dollars over and above the maximum 
 amount specified for each type of building enumerated above, 
 shall be available under the same conditions for the erection of an 
 auditorium, and a further like amount shall be available for the 
 erection of one work room of standard size. The maximum 
 amount for which application is made for the repair or for the 
 equipment of a school building shall not exceed four hundred dol- 
 lars, provided that no application for repair or for equipment 
 for less than fifty dollars shall be considered. It shall be stipu- 
 lated in each application for State aid that separate toilets for 
 boys and girls, to conform to standards set up by the State board 
 of education in cooperation with the State Board of Health, will 
 be erected. 
 
 Section 4. The county board of education shall consider all 
 applications filed, shall approve such as seem worthy under such 
 regulations, as may be prescribed by the State superintendent 
 of education, and shall keep a record of the proceedings show- 
 ing the applications approved by the board, the amount of the 
 bona fide donations and the amount which the board recommends 
 to be given to any school. The county board of education shall 
 certify to the State superintendent of education the amount of 
 donations which have been paid over to the county treasurer of 
 school funds ; and that a deed in fee simple to not less than two 
 acres of land, if for the repair or for the equipment of any school 
 building or for the erection of a school building with not more 
 than two class rooms, and of not less than five acres of land for a 
 school building containing three or more class rooms has been 
 executed to the State of Alabama; provided that when applica- 
 tion is made for the repair or for the equipment of any building 
 the title to the property may be vested in the county board of 
 education. The said certificate shall show the amount of money 
 recommended to be given to the school; provided, that the deed 
 or deeds conveying the title to the property shall accompany the 
 
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 certification made to the State superintendent of education and 
 shall remain on file in his office. 
 
 Section 5. Before approving any application for aid which 
 has been properly certified to him, the State superintendent of 
 education shall satisfy himself that the conditions of this article 
 have been fully complied with. If he approves the application as 
 certified to him by the county board of education he shall request 
 the State auditor to draw his warrant on the State treasurer for 
 the amount for which the application is approved. The State 
 auditor shall draw his warrant on the State treasurer for the 
 amount of money to be given to the school as shown by the requis- 
 ition of the State superintendent of education, making the war- 
 rant payable to the county treasurer of school funds of the county 
 wherein the school is located and shall indicate therein for the 
 benefit of what public school the same is issued. The warrant 
 shall be delivered to the State superintendent of education who 
 ;shall forward the same to the county treasurer of school funds 
 of the county wherein the school receiving the aid is located and 
 shall also notify the county board of education of that fact ; pro- 
 vided, that all persons receiving any warrant or the proceeds 
 thereof issued under this act shall issue a receipt to the person 
 from whom he receives the same. 
 
 Section 6. The erection, repair and equipment of any school 
 building under the provisions of this article shall be under the 
 direction and control of the county board of education which 
 board shall authorize all contracts and shall order the county 
 treasurer of school funds to make payment of the amount due 
 under any contract; provided, that the State warrant, issued 
 under the provisions of this article, shall be held in trust and 
 shall not be cashed until inspection has been made and approval 
 certified by the State superintendent of education to the county 
 treasurer of school funds and the county board of education. 
 
 Section 7. Whenever the county board of education shall 
 certify to the State superintendent of education that the school 
 building for which State aid is appropriated is completed and all 
 equipment is in place or repairs made and that all indebtedness 
 on the school building, equipment or repairs has been paid except 
 such an amount as will be satisfied by the funds remaining in the 
 hands of the county treasurer of school funds, the State superin- 
 tendent of education shall inspect or delegate some one to inspect 
 the work done and equipment installed, and if such meets all re- 
 quirements of the provisions under which State aid was granted, 
 he shall authorize the county treasurer of school funds in writing 
 to pay out the remainder of the funds upon the order of the 
 county board of education. 
 
 Section 8. The State superintendent of education shall open 
 an account with each county in the State in a book kept by him 
 
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 for that purpose and shall charge against the county the amount 
 of each warrant issued under this article for the benefit of the 
 public schools of such county; provided, that any warrant not 
 cashed by the county treasurer of school funds by reason of fail- 
 ure to comply with the requirements of this article shall, after 
 the lapse of twelve months from the issuance of the same, be by 
 him returned to the State superintendent of education, who shall 
 mark the same "cancelled" and shall also make in the book kept 
 by him in accordance with the preceding section a credit entry in 
 favor of the county for which the warrant was originially drawn 
 for the amount of any warrant so cancelled, provided that this 
 section shall not be so construed as to prevent the return of any 
 warrant for cancellation before the expiration of the twelve 
 months' period when the county board of education shall certify 
 that the patrons are unable to comply with the requirements of 
 the law. 
 
 ARTICLE 19. SALE AND CONVEYANCE OF LAND 
 
 DEEDED TO THE STATE FOR SCHOOL 
 
 PURPOSES. 
 
 Section 1. Whenever the county board of education of any 
 county shall certify to the State superintendent of education that 
 it is to the benefit of the public school interests of such county 
 or a public school district thereof for any lands situated in such 
 county or district which have been conveyed to the State of Ala- 
 bama for school purposes under the provisions of article 20 or 
 31 of Chapter 41 of the Code of Alabama to be sold, particularly 
 describing the same, the superintendent of education, upon the 
 receipt of such certificate, shall be and he is hereby authorized 
 and empowered, with the approval of the governor, to sell and 
 convey such land, either at public or private sale, and upon such 
 consideration as may to him appear just and proper in the prem- 
 ises, and to execute a deed to the purchaser of the same in the 
 name of the State of Alabama, and upon the delivery of such 
 deed, the same shall divest all the right, title and interest of 
 the State of Alabama in said land and invest it in such purchaser. 
 
 Section 2. That the proceeds of any sale of lands made under 
 this article shall be by the State superintendent of education paid 
 to the county board of education of the county where such land 
 is situated, or to the chief executive officer of said board. That 
 said proceeds shall constitute a part of the public school fund of 
 such county ; provided, however, if said land was conveyed to the 
 State under Article 31 of Chapter 41 of the Code of Alabama, 
 then such proceeds shall be used by said county board of educa- 
 tion for the exclusive use of the public school building fund of 
 the county. 
 
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 ARTICLE 20. RURAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Section 1. The rural library fund shall consist of the annual 
 sum of one hundred ($100) dollars for each county, in all sixty- 
 seven hundred ($6,700) dollars, as appropriated by law, which 
 fund shall be used for the purpose of establishing and maintain- 
 ing libraries in the rural schools of the State as provided by this 
 article. 
 
 Section 2. The Commissioners* court, board of revenue or 
 board of education in any county is hereby authorized to appro- 
 priate not less than ten ($10) dollars to any public school under 
 the control of the county board of education and to any county 
 high school for the purpose of establishing, maintaining, enlarg- 
 ing or improving public libraries in such schools. 
 
 Section 3. In order to obtain the benefits of the provisions 
 of this article the patrons or friends of the school shall first 
 raise the sum of not less than ten ($10) dollars and deposit the 
 said amount with the county superintendent of education. The 
 county superintendent shall within ten days certify to the com- 
 missioner's court, board of revenue or board of education the 
 fact of the said deposit, requesting action therein. Thereupon 
 the said court or board shall at once, or at the first term of meet- 
 ing following the receipt of the notice, consider making an appro- 
 priation of not less than ten ($10) dollars. If the appropriation 
 shall be made, the probate judge or other presiding officer of the 
 court or board shall on the same date certify the fact to the 
 county superintendent of education, who shall immediately there- 
 after, transmit notice of the same to the State superintendent 
 of education. On receipt of notice that an amount of not less 
 than twenty ($20) dollars has been made available as provided in 
 this section, the State superintendent of education shall make 
 requisition upon the State auditor for the sum of ten ($10) dol- 
 lars in order to meet such donation and appropriation. The said 
 warrant shall be drawn in favor of the county treasurer of school 
 funds, to whom shall also be at once paid over by the county 
 superintendent of education the amount first collected by volun- 
 tary subscription, and the sum appropriated by the commis- 
 sioner's court, board of revenue or board of education. The 
 county treasurer of school funds shall keep a separate account 
 of said sums so received; and they shall be paid out by him as 
 hereinafter directed. 
 
 Section 4. The State superintendent of education, with the 
 assistance of the Director of the Department of Archives and 
 History, shall compile and publish a carefully selected and anno- 
 tated list of books from which the libraries herein provided shall 
 be chosen, and they shall also adopt and publish rules and regu- 
 lations for the choice of books, their use, preservation and circu- 
 
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 lation, the erection of book shelves or book cases, and the equip- 
 ment of library rooms or buildings, and the training of libraries 
 or custodians for the libraries. The selection shall be as nearly 
 as possible representative of the whole field of literature, and 
 maximum prices for purchase shall be indicated. 
 
 Section 5. The county superintendent of education and the 
 trustees of the school to which a library has been granted shall 
 constitute a library board charged with the administration of the 
 library as other school property, and they are hereby charged 
 with the same care and attention in connection therewith as of 
 the school grounds, the school building or buildings, and the 
 school equipment. They shall select the librarian or custodian, 
 who shall be the teacher, if he or she will consent to act, and they 
 shall see that the rules prescribed herein are carried out, but if 
 the librarian is other than the teacher, such person shall be under 
 the direction of the teacher as the representative of the library 
 board. They shall provide a suitable book-case, or book-cases, 
 with lock and key, for the preservation of the library. They 
 shall furnish to each teacher at the beginning of school an inven- 
 tory of all the books in the library and shall require from each 
 teacher at the close of school an inventory of all books in the 
 library, provided that arrangements for keeping the library 
 open during vacation may be made by the county board of educa- 
 tion; provided further, that in the event the full number of 
 libraries available for any county are not taken on or before the 
 first day of July of that year, the county board of education may 
 in its discretion allow any individual school to apply for one or 
 more libraries under the same general conditions prescribed in 
 this Article; provided further, that any county board of educa- 
 tion may in lieu of granting libraries to schools establish a sys- 
 tem of circulating libraries, said libraries to be purchased under 
 the same conditions and in keeping with the plan set out in sec- 
 tion 3 of this article by the county superintendent of education ; 
 provided further, that such circulating libraries shall be available 
 for use in the public schools of the county under rules and regu- 
 lations prescribed by the county board of education with the ap- 
 proval of the State Board of Education. 
 
 Section 6. The selection and purchase of books from the 
 authorized list shall be made by the county superintendent of 
 education with the assistance of the principal teacher of the 
 school. After the order has been placed by the county superin- 
 tendent of education and a notice of the delivery of the books 
 received, the county treasurer of school funds shall draw a war- 
 rant or check to cover the charges including the weight. Vouch- 
 ers or bills in duplicate shall be made out, the original to be sent 
 by the book-seller or dealer to the county treasurer of school 
 funds, and a copy to the State superintendent of education. 
 
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 ARTICLE 21. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 
 
 Section 1. The State of Alabama hereby accepts all of the 
 provisions and benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House 
 of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress 
 assembled, entitled "An Act to provide for the promotion of voca- 
 tional education; to provide for cooperation with the States in 
 the promotion of vocational education; to provide for coopera- 
 tion with the States in the promotion of such education in agri- 
 culture and the trades and industries ; to provide for cooperation 
 with the States in the preparation of teachers of vocational sub- 
 jects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," 
 approved February twenty-third nineteen hundred seventeen. 
 
 Section 2. The State treasurer is hereby designated and 
 appointed custodian of all monies received by the State from the 
 appropriations made by said act of Congress, and he is author- 
 ized to receive, and to provide for the proper custody of the 
 same and to make disbursements thereof in the manner provided 
 in the act and for the purpose therein specified. He shall also 
 pay out any monies appropriated by the State of Alabama for the 
 purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article upon the 
 order of the State Board of Education. 
 
 Section 3. The State superintendent of education shall desig- 
 nate by and with the advice and consent of the State board of 
 education, such assistants as may be necessary to properly carry 
 out the provisions of this Article. The State superintendent of 
 education shall also carry into effect such rules and regulations as 
 the State board of education may adopt and shall prepare such 
 reports concerning the condition of vocational education in the 
 State as the State board of education may require. 
 
 Section 4. The State board of education shall have all neces- 
 sary authority to cooperate with the Federal board for vocational 
 education in the administration of said Act of Congress; to 
 administer any legislation pursuant thereto enacted by the State 
 of Alabama, and to administer the funds provided by the Fed- 
 eral government and the State of Alabama under the provisions 
 of this article, for the promotion of vocational education in agri- 
 cultural subjects, trade and industrial subjects, and home eco- 
 nomics subjects. It shall have full authority to formulate plans 
 for the promotion of vocational education in such subjects as an 
 essential and integral part of the public school system of educa- 
 tion in the State of Alabama, and to provide for the preparation 
 of teachers of such subjects. It shall have authority to fix the 
 compensation of such officials and assistants as may be neces- 
 sary to administer the Federal act and this article for the State 
 of Alabama and to pay such compensation and other necessary 
 expenses of administration from funds appropriated in this arti- 
 
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 cle. It shall have authority to make studies and investigations 
 relating to vocational education in such subjects ; to promote and 
 aid in the establishment by local communities of schools, depart- 
 ments, or classes giving training in such subjects; to cooperate 
 with local communities in the maintenance of such schools, de- 
 partments, or classes; to prescribe qualifications for the teach- 
 ers, directors and supervisors of such subjects, and to have full 
 authority to provide for the certification of such teachers, direc- 
 tors and supervisors ; to cooperate in the maintenance of classes 
 supported and controlled by the public for the preparation of 
 teachers, directors and supervisors of such subjects or to main- 
 tain such classes under its own direction and control; to estab- 
 lish and deterniine by general regulations the qualifications to be 
 possessed by persons engaged in the training of vocational teach- 
 ers. 
 
 Section 5. The board of education of any county or of any- 
 city of 2,000 or more inhabitants according to the last or any 
 succeeding Federal census, may cooperate with the State board 
 of education in the establishment of vocational schools or classes 
 giving instructions in agricultural subjects, in trade or industrial 
 subjects or in home economics subjects and may use any monies 
 raised by public taxation in the same manner as monies for other 
 school purposes are used for the maintenance and support of 
 public schools. 
 
 Section 6. The State of Alabama shall appropriate a sum of 
 money available for each fiscal year not less than the maximum 
 sum which may be allotted to the State of Alabama for the 
 purpose set forth in the said Federal Act. 
 
 Section 7. The monies appropriated by the State of Ala- 
 bama, the funds deposited with the State treasurer under the 
 provisions of the Smith-Hughes Act, and any other funds accru- 
 ing to the State for vocational education, shall be used by the 
 State board of education for the purposes set forth in this article, 
 and the monies so appropriated and accruing shall be paid out 
 upon requisition of the State superintendent of education upon 
 the State Auditor who shall draw his warrant upon the State 
 treasurer for the amount for which requisition is made. 
 
 Section 8. The State board of education in its annual report 
 to the governor shall set forth the condition of vocational educa- 
 tion in the State of Alabama, a list of the schools to which Fed- 
 eral and State aid has been given, and a detailed statement of the 
 expenditures of Federal funds and the State funds provided in 
 section six of this article. 
 
 ARTICLE 22. ILLITERACY. 
 
 Section 1. The State board of education shall be charged 
 with the responsibility for the removal of. illiteracy in Alabama. 
 
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 It shall have the power to make research and to collect data, and 
 shall endeavor to enlist the services of any and all community 
 agencies of the State for the removal of illiteracy. The State 
 board of education is authorized to receive and expend any funds 
 which may be given to it from time to time from public, private 
 or other sources, and shall adopt such rules and regulations as 
 may seem to it most satisfactory for carrying on the work out- 
 lined in this section. 
 
 Section 2. It shall be the duty of county and city boards of 
 education to co-operate with the State board of education in the 
 removal of illiteracy in the territory under their respective juris- 
 dictions and to this end the said boards may appropriate from 
 public school funds such amounts as may be necessary to carry 
 out the provisions of this article. 
 
 Section 3. The State board of education and county and city 
 boards of education are hereby authorized to co-operate with the 
 Federal government in making effective any law that may be 
 enacted by Congress for the removal of illiteracy in Alabama 
 and in the counties and cities thereof. 
 
 Section 4. For the employment of such professional and 
 clerical assistants as may be necessary and for other necessary 
 expenses, the State board of education is authorized to expend 
 the annual legislative appropriation and such other funds as may 
 be available for the purpose set out in this article. The legisla- 
 tive appropriation shall be paid out upon the requisition of the 
 State superintendent of education on the State auditor who 
 shall issue his warrant upon the State treasurer for the amount 
 for which requisition is made. 
 
 ARTICLE 23. TEXT BOOKS. 
 
 Section 1. The State board of education shall have the direc- 
 tion and oversight of the selection of text books for the elemen- 
 tary public schools of the State; for the selection of said text 
 books the State board of education shall, upon the recommenda- 
 tion of the State Superintendent of education, appoint a text 
 book committee not to exceed seven (7) members, composed of 
 well known educators engaged in public school work. 
 
 Section 2. Before transacting any business pertaining to the 
 duties of selecting text books each member of the committee shall 
 take an oath before some person authorized to administer oaths 
 to faithfully discharge all the duties imposed upon him as a 
 member of said text book committee, and that he has no interest, 
 directly or indirectly in any contract that may be made under this 
 article. 
 
 Section 3. The text book committee shall immediately after 
 appointment meet and organize by electing a President. The 
 
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 State superintendent of education shall be the Secretary of the 
 committee. 
 
 Section 4. It shall be the duty of the said text book commit- 
 tee to select and adopt a uniform series of text books for use 
 in the public schools of the State for a period of five (5) years, 
 unless otherwise directed by the State board of education. 
 
 Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any school official, direc- 
 tor, or teacher to use any books upon the same branches other 
 than those adopted by said text book committee, to the exclusion 
 of the regularly adopted texts. 
 
 Section 6. Said uniform series shall include the following 
 branches of study, to-wit : spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, 
 geography, oral and written language, history of Alabama, in- 
 cluding the Constitution of the State, history of the United 
 States including the Constitution of the United States, elemen- 
 tary physiology and hygiene, agriculture, and such other branches 
 of study as may be prescribed by the State board of education 
 for the elementary schools of the State. No text books adopted 
 for use in the public schools in accordance with this article shall 
 contain anything of a partisan or sectarian character. 
 
 Section 7. The State Board of education shall have the power 
 by three-fourths vote, to drop an unsatisfactory book at the end 
 of any school year while the contract is in force, and upon the 
 recommendation of the State text book committee to make an- 
 other adoption in lieu thereof. 
 
 Section 8. The text book committee shall consider the merits 
 of each book, taking into consideration subject matter, printing, 
 binding, material and mechanical make-up, and contents and 
 general suitability and desirability for the purpose intended. No 
 text book, the subject matter of which is of inferior quality, shall 
 be adopted by the State text book committee, and said committee 
 shall select and adopt such books as will in their judgment accom- 
 plish the ends desired, taking into account the price of said 
 books. 
 
 Section 9. In the event any book or books are deemed suit- 
 able for adoption, and are more desirable than other books of the 
 class submitted, but the price at which the books are offered 
 appears to be unreasonably high, the committee shall immedi- 
 ately notify the publishers or author of such book or books, and 
 request such reduction in price as may seem reasonable and just, 
 and if a satisfactory price can be agreed upon the committee 
 may adopt such book or books. 
 
 Section 10. As soon as practicable, and not later than three 
 (3) days after organization, the committee shall advertise in 
 such manner and for such length of time and at such places as 
 may be deemed advisable, that at a time and placed fixed definitely 
 
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 in such advertisement, sealed bids or proposals will be received 
 from the publishers of school text books for furnishing books to 
 the public schools in the State of Alabama through such agencies 
 in the several counties in the State as may be provided for in 
 such regulations as the said board of education may adopt and 
 prescribe. 
 
 Section 11. The bids or proposals shall be for furnishing 
 the books for a period of five (5) years, unless otherwise ordered 
 by the State board of education. Said bids shall state specifically 
 and definitely the price at which the books shall be furnished and 
 shall be accompanied by specimen copies of each and every book 
 proposed to be furnished. 
 
 Section 12. It shall be required of each bidder to deposit 
 with the treasurer of the State a sum of money, such as the State 
 board of education may require, not less than five hundred ($500) 
 dollars or more than twenty-five hundred ($2500) dollars, accord- 
 ing to the number of books each bidder may propose to supply, 
 and notice shall further be given in such advertisement that such 
 deposits shall be forfeited absolutely to the State board of edu- 
 cation, if the bidder making the deposit shall fail or refuse to 
 make and execute such contract and bond as hereinafter required 
 within such time as the State board of education may require, 
 which time shall be stated in the advertisement. 
 
 Section 13.. All bids shall be sealed and deposited with the 
 Secretary of State to be by him delivered to the committee when 
 in executive session for the purpose of considering the same. All 
 such bids shall be opened in the presence of the committee. The 
 text book committee shall meet at the time and place designated 
 in such notice or advertisement, and carefully examine the sam- 
 ple or specimen copies submitted upon which the bids are based. 
 After the examination of the books submitted has been concluded 
 the committee shall meet in executive session to open and examine 
 all sealed proposals submitted and received in pursuance of the 
 notice or advertisement, provided for in section 10 of this article. 
 The committee shall then examine carefully such bids or pro- 
 posals, and determine in the manner provided in the preceeding 
 section of this article what book or books shall be selected for 
 adoption, taking into consideration the size, quality, including 
 subject matter, material, printing, binding and the mechanical 
 execution and price, as well as the general suitability for the pur- 
 pose desired and intended. All books selected and adopted shall 
 be written and printed in English. 
 
 Section 14. After the selections for adoption have been 
 made by the text book committee the said committee shall make 
 known its decision to the State board of education. The State 
 board of education shall thereupon notify the bidders to whom 
 contracts have been awarded. 
 
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 Section 15. The Attorney General of the State shall prepare 
 the said contract or contracts in accordance with the provisions 
 of this article, and the said contracts shall be executed by the 
 President of the State board of education and the Secretary, with 
 the seal of the State board of education attached upon the part 
 of the State of Alabama, and the said contract shall be executed 
 in triplicate, one copy to be kept by the contractor, one copy by 
 the executive secretary of the State board of education and copied 
 in full in the minutes of the State board of education, one copy 
 to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. 
 
 Section 16. At At the time of the execution of the contract 
 executed in accordance with the provisions of section 15 of this 
 article, the contractors shall enter into a bond in the sum of not 
 less than ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, nor more than thirty 
 thousand ($30,000) dollars, each payable to the State of Ala- 
 bama, the amount of said bond within said limits to be fixed by 
 the State board of education, conditioned upon the faithful, hon- 
 est and exact performance of the contract. Said bond shall also 
 further provide for the payment of reasonable attorney's fees in 
 case of recovery in any suit upon the same, and any guaranty 
 company authorized to do business in the State of Alabama may 
 become surety on said bond. The bond shall be prepared by the 
 Attorney General and shall have his approval. The said bond 
 shall not be exhausted by a single recovery thereon, but may be 
 sued on from time to time until the full amount shall have been 
 recovered, and the State board of education may at any time, 
 by giving thirty (30) days notice, require additional security 
 or additional bond within the limits prescribed. 
 
 Section 17. When any person, firm or corporation shall have 
 been awarded a contract, and shall have submitted therewith a 
 bond as required in this article, the State board of education, 
 through its executive secretary, shall inform the Treasurer of the 
 State, and the Treasurer shall return such contractor the cash 
 deposit made by him, and the State board of education, through 
 its executive secretary shall inform the Treasurer of the names 
 of the unsuccessful bidders or proposers, and the Treasurer shall, 
 upon receipt of this notice, return to them the amount deposited 
 in cash by them at the time of the submission of their bids. 
 
 Section 18. Should any person, firm, company, or corpora- 
 tion fail or refuse to execute the contract and submit therewith 
 his bond as required by this article within thirty (30) days of the 
 time of the awarding of the contract to him, the cash deposit 
 will be deemed forfeited to the State of Alabama, and the Treas- 
 urer shall place such cash deposit in the State Treasury to the 
 credit of the State board of education. The mailing of the regis- 
 tered letter announcing the award of the contract, shall be suf- 
 ficient evidence that the notice was given and received. 
 
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 Section 19. Any recovery had on any bond given by any con- 
 tractor shall inure to the benefit of the State board of education, 
 and when collected shall be placed in the treasury to the credit 
 of the State board of education, for the use of said board. 
 
 Section 20. The executive secretary of the State board of 
 education shall preserve in his office, as the standard of quality 
 and excellence to be maintained in such books, during the con- 
 tinuance of such contracts, the specimen or sample copies of all 
 books which have been made the basis of any contract, together 
 with the original bid or proposal, and the contractor shall also 
 furnish each county superintendent of education like specimen 
 or sample copies which shall be preserved by him in like manner, 
 and the same shall always be open to the inspection of the public, 
 and the books furnished under each and every contract shall at 
 all times during the existence of the contract be equal in all 
 respecfe to the specimen or sample copies furnished with bids. 
 
 Section 21. All contractors shall print on the back of each 
 book the contract price, as well as the exchange price at which 
 it is agreed to be furnished, but the books submitted as specimen 
 or sample copies with the original bids shall not have the price 
 printed on them before they are submitted to the committee. 
 The State board of education shall also have the right to author- 
 ize the insertion of printed slips on the inside of the back cover 
 of any book, showing the contract price at which \t is agreed 
 to be furnished, in lieu of requiring the same to be printed on the 
 back of each book, this provision to apply only for the last year 
 of the period for which any book has been adopted. 
 
 Section 22. The State board of education shall not in any 
 case contract with any person or publisher for the use of any 
 books which are to be sold to patrons or used in any public school 
 in this State at a price above or in excess of the price at which 
 such book or books are furnished by said person or publisher 
 under contract executed with twelve (12) months next preceding 
 to any State, county or school district in the United States under 
 like conditions prevailing in this State and under this article. It 
 shall be specifically stipulated in each contract that the contractor 
 is not furnishing under any contract executed during the twelve 
 months preceding any State, county or school district in the Uni- 
 ted States, where like conditions prevail as are prevailing in this 
 State under this article, the same book or books as are embraced 
 in said contract, at a price below or less than the price stipulated 
 in the said contract, and the State board of education may at any 
 time, upon finding that any book has been furnished at a lower 
 price under contract to any State, county, or school district afore- 
 said, sue upon the bond of said contractor and recover the dif- 
 ference between the contract price and the lower price at which 
 the book or books have been sold, and in case a contractor shall 
 
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 fail to execute specifically the terms and provisions of his con- 
 tract, the State board of education shall bring suit upon the con- 
 tract of such contractor for the recovery of damages, the suit 
 to be in the name of the State of Alabama and the recovery for 
 the benefit of the State board of education. 
 
 Section 23. The State board of education and any contractor 
 agreeing thereto, may in any manner change or alter any con- 
 tract provided a majority of the State board bf education shall 
 agree to the change. 
 
 Section 24. It shall always be a part of the terms and condi- 
 tions of every contract made in pursuance to this article, that 
 the State of Alabama shall not be liable to any contractor in any 
 manner nor in any sum what-so-ever, but all such contractors 
 shall receive the pay or consideration in compensation solely and 
 exclusively derived from the proceeds of the sale of books as pro- 
 vided for in this article. 
 
 Section 25. It shall be stipulated in each and every contract 
 for the supplying of any books, as provided in this article, that 
 the contractor or contractors shall take up the school books now 
 in use in the State, and receive the same in exchange for new 
 books at a price to be fixed in the contract, which shall not be 
 greater than is charged in other states where such book is 
 adopted. The exchange period shall continue for one year from 
 the date of contract, and each person or publisher making a bid 
 for the supplying of any book or books under this article shall 
 state in such bid or proposal the exchange price at which such 
 book or books shall be furnished. 
 
 Section 26. The State text book committee shall have and 
 reserve the right to reject any and all bids or proposals, and in 
 the event the committee fails from among the bids or proposals 
 submitted to select or adopt any book or books upon any of the 
 branches mentioned in previous sections of this article, the said 
 committee may readvertise for sealed bids or proposals under the 
 same terms and conditions as before, and proceed in their investi- 
 gations in all respects as it did in the first instance, and as re- 
 quired by the terms and conditions of this article. 
 
 Section 27. As soon as the State board of education shall 
 have entered into a contract or contracts for the furnishing or 
 supplying of books for use in the public schools in this State an 
 announcement to this eflfect shall be made by the President of the 
 State board of education to the people of the State. 
 
 Section 28. The party or parties with whom the contract 
 shall be made shall place their books on sale at not less than 
 three (3) places in each county. of the State for the distribution 
 of the books to the patrons, and the contractor shall be per- 
 mitted to make arrangements with a merchant or other person 
 for the handling and distribution of the books. 
 
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 Section 29. All books shall be sold to the consumer at the 
 retail contract price, and in each book shall be printed the fol- 
 lowing — "The price fixed herein is fixed by State contract and 
 deviations therefrom shall be reported to your county superin- 
 tendent of education or to the State superintendent of education. 
 Should any party contracting to furnish books as provided for 
 fail to furnish them, or otherwise breach his contract, in addi- 
 tion to the right of the State to sue on his bond hereinabove re- 
 quired the county superintendent of any county may sue in the 
 name of the State of Alabama in any court of competent jurisdic- 
 tion in the county in which he resides for the use and benefit of 
 the school fund of the county, but the right of the action of the 
 county superintendent shall be limited to breaches of the contract 
 committed in his own county. In all cases under this article 
 service of process may be had and deemed sufficient on any 
 agent of the contractor in this State. 
 
 Section 30. The State board of education shall from time 
 to time make any necessary regulations to secure the prompt 
 distribution of the books provided for in this article, and for 
 the prompt and faithful execution of all contracts. 
 
 Section 31. The text book committees, provided for in this 
 article, shall maintain its organization for five (5) years, unless 
 otherwise ordered by the State board of education, and the State 
 board of education shall have power to name similar committees, 
 with like powers and for like terms. All bids and contracts for 
 school books shall provide for the purchase by municipalities, 
 districts and counties which supply free school books of all such 
 books at the regular contract price, less the commission allowed 
 the agents or depositors. 
 
 Section 32. As soon as practicable after the adoption pro- 
 vided for in this article, the State superintendent of education 
 shall issue a bulletin to be furnished county superintendents of 
 education, city superintendents of schools, and other interested 
 parties, containing the list of books adopted, the prices, the loca- 
 tion of agencies, the manner of distribution, and such other 
 information as he may deem necessary. 
 
 Section 33. As soon as any existing contract for books ex- 
 pires the books adopted as a uniform series of text books for any 
 period shall be introduced and used as text books to the exclusion 
 of all others in the public free schools in this State, provided that 
 supplementary books may be used, but such books shall not be 
 used to the exclusion of the books prescribed or adopted under 
 the provisions of this article. 
 
 Section 34. The patrons of the public schools throughout 
 the State may procure books in the usual way in the event no 
 contract should be made, or if the contractor should fail or 
 
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 refuse to furnish the books provided for in this article at the 
 time required for their use in the public schools. 
 
 Section 35. The members of the text book committee shall 
 be paid the sum of five ($5) dollars per day during the time they 
 are engaged in such work, and in addition shall receive ten (10) 
 cents per mile for each mile traveled from their homes to the 
 place of meeting and return, to be paid out of the revolving fund 
 set apart for the use of the State board of education, or such 
 other fund as may be available for such purpose. Each member 
 of the committee, before receiving any funds for salary or ex- 
 penses shall make and swear to a statement of the number of 
 miles traveled and the number of days engaged. When it be- 
 comes necessary to pay out any funds in accordance with the 
 provisions of this section, the State superintendent of education 
 shall make requisition upon the State auditor who shall draw his 
 warrant upon the State treasurer for the amount for which re- 
 quisition is made. 
 
 Section 36. In case of the failure of any contractor to fur- 
 nish the books as provided in his contract, his bond shall be de- 
 clared forfeited, and the State board of education, upon the rec- 
 ommendation of the State text book committee, may make such 
 other contract for the unexpired term with some other person or 
 company to provide such books as may be necessary to take the 
 place of those for which the contract has been forfeited. 
 
 Section 37. In the event any city or county is furnishing 
 free text books at the time any regular contract is entered into 
 with any publisher to supply text books for use in the public 
 schools of the State, it shall be stipulated in such contract that 
 said city or county shall have the right to purchase such text 
 books direct from publishers and at the same prices and with the 
 same exchange privileges as such text books are furnished to the 
 State during the life of such contract. Provided that the afore- 
 said privilege shall apply only on orders for freight shipments 
 of one hundred pounds or more. 
 
 "" Section 38. Any city of forty thousand (40,000) or more 
 inhabitants whose board of education is providing free text books 
 in its elementary schools may, with the approval of the State 
 board of education, substitute in its book lists, texts other than 
 those prescribed by the State Text Book Committee. 
 
 ARTICLE 24. COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS. 
 
 Section 1. The State board of education shall have the au- 
 thority to locate one high school in each of the counties of the 
 State which shall comply with the minimum requirements pre- 
 scribed by such board. 
 
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 Section 2. As a condition for making application for the 
 location of a county high school there shall be tendered to the 
 State a suitable site which shall consist of not less than five (5) 
 acres of land, the title to the surface of which shall be in fee* 
 (but the land need not include mineral rights) and there shall be 
 executed an agreement to erect thereon a building suitable for 
 high school purposes in accordance with plans and specifications 
 approved by the State board of education, together with all 
 necessary equipment. The cost of said building and equipment 
 shall not be less than twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars. Upon 
 the satisfactory erection and equipment of the building, and the 
 execution of a deed conveying to the State of Alabama said land, 
 building and equipment, there shall be available for such county 
 high school from the State treasury a sum of not less than three 
 thousand ($3,^00.) dollars nor more than four thousand ($4000.) 
 dollars, for each fiscal year. 
 
 Section 3. The sum of three thousand ($3,000) dollars an- 
 nually shall be available for each county high school heretofore 
 or hereafter established and additional sum not to exceed fifteen 
 hundred ($1500) dollars, in multiples of two hundred and fifty 
 ($250.) dollars, shall also be available to any such county high 
 school, conditioned upon an appropriation by the county board 
 of education, board of revenue, or court of county commissioners, 
 of at least an equal amount to be given by the State and the 
 meeting of such requirements as may be prescribed by the State 
 board of education. County boards of education, boards of reve- 
 nue and courts of County Commissioners are authorized to do- 
 nate funds for the maintenance and support of county high 
 schools, and for the purpose of meeting the conditions set out in 
 this section, and to accept funds for such purposes from incor- 
 porated towns, special school districts, and from private indi- 
 viduals. All appropriations made by the State and by the county 
 boards of education, boards of revenue or Courts of County Com- 
 missioners shall be paid quarterly in advance and in accordance 
 with the rules and regulations prescribed by the State board of 
 education. The State board of education with the consent of 
 the county board of education shall have the authority to discon- 
 tinue any county high school and to deed the property to the 
 party or parties that in the opinion of the State board of educa- 
 tion are entitled to receive it, and the State board of education 
 shall have the power to locate another high school in the county 
 in which a county high school has been discontinued, upon the 
 fulfillment of the conditions prescribed in this article. 
 
 Section 4. Each county high school of the State shall be 
 under the direction and control of the County board of education 
 of the county in which the county high school is located, but the 
 State board of education shall have the right to make regulations 
 
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 setting up minimum standards for the course of study, qualifica- 
 tions of principals and teachers and of the sanitary conditions 
 to be maintained. 
 
 ♦ Section 5. For the purpose of seeing that the minimum 
 standards prescribed by the State board of education in accord- 
 ance with Section 4 preceding, are maintained and for the pro- 
 motion of secondary education throughout the State, the State 
 superintendent of education with the approval of the State board 
 of education is authorized to expend an amount not to exceed 
 five thousand ($5,000) dollars annually to pay the necessary 
 salary and expenses of persons employed for the supervision con- 
 templated in this section. 
 
 Section 6. For the purpose of maintaining county high 
 schools as provided in Sections 1, 2, 3, 3, and 5, of this article, 
 the State board of education is authorized to use the annual leg- 
 islative appropriation provided by law, provided that all such 
 funds shall be paid out upon requisition of the State superin- 
 tendent of education upon the State auditor who shall draw his 
 warrant on the State treasurer for the amount for which requisi- 
 tion is made. 
 
 Section 7. A matriculation fee af two and one-half ($2.50) 
 dollars shall be collected for each term from each school child 
 entering said high school, and the proceeds of said fees shall be 
 used under the direction of the county board of education to meet 
 the incidental expenses of the schools, but shall not be used to pay 
 salaries other than for janitor services. The State board of 
 education shall also have the power to require a reasonable fee 
 for laboratory and shop work. 
 
 Section 8. There shall be appointed by the county board of 
 education for each county high school a treasurer who shall hold 
 office for a term of three years. He shall serve without pay and 
 shall execute a bond for three thousand ($3,000) dollars in a 
 surety company authorized to do business in this State, the pre- 
 mium on which shall be paid from the high school treasury. The 
 county high school treasurer may be removed at the pleasure of 
 the county board of education. He shall be custodian of all funds 
 accruing to the county high school, and shall pay out the same 
 on monthly pay rolls made by the principal. Certified pay rolls 
 showing the receipts and disbursements shall be sent to the State 
 Department of Education. 
 
 Section 9. Any county board of education, commissioners 
 court, board of revenue or other governing body is authorized to 
 donate or appropriate funds to aid in the construction or im- 
 provement of necessary buildings, and the maintenance and sup- 
 port of county high schools. 
 
 Section 10. The cities and towns of this State are authorized 
 and empowered to convey real and personal property belonging 
 
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 to such cities or towns to the State board of education, and to 
 make appropriations from city or town funds, and issue bonds 
 to aid in the erection and in the equipment of high school build- 
 ings. 
 
 ARTICLE 25. STATE SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL 
 
 SCHOOLS. 
 
 Section 1. The annual legislative appropriation for the fiscal 
 year beginning October 1, 1919, for the support of the nine 
 branch agricultural schools and experiment stations otherwise 
 known as district agricultural schools, located at Jackson, Clarke 
 county, at Evergreen, Conecuh county, at Abbeville, Henry coun- 
 ty, at Sylacauga, Talladega county, at Wetumpka, Elmore county, 
 at Hamilton, Marion county, at Albertville, Marshall county, at 
 Athens, Limestone county, at Blountsville, Blount county, and 
 to the Northeast Agricultural and Industrial Institute at Line- 
 ville, shall be paid in quarterly installments on October 1st., Jan- 
 uary 1st., April 1st., July 1st to the secretary-treasurer for the 
 maintenance and support of said schools. 
 
 Section 2. The annual legislative appropriation for the main- 
 tenance and support of the State secondary agricultural schools 
 for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1920, and thereafter, 
 ■hall be paid quarterly on October 1st, January 1st, April 1st, 
 July 1st to the secretary-treasurer of said schools. 
 
 Section 3. The ten schools mentioned in section one of this 
 article shall on and after October 1, 1920 be known as State 
 secondary Agricultural Schools and shall receive an annual ap- 
 propriation of $7,500.00 each as provided in Section 2 of this 
 Article. The people in the ten districts where said schools are 
 located shall erect a dormitory in each of said districts within 
 three years from January 1st, 1920 on a site acceptable to the 
 State board of education which shall be presented to the State for 
 the use of said school, free of all incumbrances, the said dormi- 
 tory to conform to the plans and specifications approved by the 
 State Department of Education; and any county board of reve- 
 nue, court of county commissioners, city or town council or com- 
 mission, is hereby authorized to appropriate funds for the erec- 
 tion of said dormitory as provided in this act. 
 
 Section 4. The State board of education shall prescribe rules 
 and regulations for the government, and control of the school, 
 arrange the course of study, placing the major emphasis on agri- 
 culture and home economics, and select the principals, teachers 
 and all other employees. 
 
 Section 5. All funds appropriated under the provisions of 
 this article shall be paid out upon requisition of the State superin- 
 
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 tendent of education upon the State auditor who shall draw his 
 warrants upon the State treasurer for the amount for which 
 requisition is made in favor of the Secretary-Treasurer. 
 
 ARTICLE 26. STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 Section 1. The State board of education shall have the 
 control and management of the several normal schools of the 
 State for white teachers, located at Florence, Jacksonville, Liv- 
 ingston, Troy, Daphne, and Moundville, and of the State normal 
 school for colored teachers, located at Montgomery. 
 
 Section 2. The State board of education shall make rules and 
 iregulations for the government; of the schools and shall elect 
 the President of each of the several schools, and upon their 
 recommendations the members of the faculties, and shall fix the 
 tenure and salary of each and shall prescribe the courses of study 
 to be offered and the extension work to be done. Provided hereby 
 "that the State board of education shall so arrange the course of 
 study for the State normal school located at Daphne, Baldwin 
 County and Moundville, Hale county, Alabama, that its graduates 
 after the increased appropriation for said school shall be allowed 
 the same privilege for certificate exemption as that accorded the 
 Class A. normal schools of Alabama. 
 
 Section 3. The State board of education is charged with the 
 responsibility of directing the expenditure of the annual legisla- 
 tive appropriations for the support and maintenance of the State 
 normal schools for white teachers located at Florence, Jackson- 
 ville, Livingston, Troy, Daphne and Moundville, and of the 
 State normal school for colored teachers located at Montgomery. 
 The State board of education is further charged with the respon- 
 sibility of expending all special appropriations made to any or 
 all of the above institutions, and of seeing that the conditions 
 prescribed in the acts making the appropriations are fully com- 
 plied with. 
 
 Section 4. All funds appropriated to the normal schools shall 
 be paid upon requisition of the State superintendent of educa- 
 tion upon the State auditor who shall draw his warrant on the 
 State treasurer in favor of the treasurer of the school for the 
 amount for which requisition is made. 
 
 Section 7. It shall be the duty of the president of each of 
 such normal schools at the end of each session or in a reasonable 
 time thereafter, to publish once a week for three successive weeks 
 in a newspaper published in the county where such school is lo- 
 cated an itemized statement showing receipts, expenditures and 
 disbursement of such school of which he is president. 
 
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 ARTICLE 27. ALABAMA SCHOOL OF TRADES AND 
 
 INDUSTRY. 
 
 Section 1. There is hereby created and established at Rag- 
 land, Alabama, the Alabama School of Trades and Industry for 
 the education and training of white boys and young men in all 
 the useful and industrial occupations and in the arts and sciences, 
 and to enable the students of such institutions to acquire educa- 
 tion and training by employing a part or portion of their time, 
 if necessary, while in school to pay all or a part of their boards 
 lodging and tuition. 
 
 Section 2. The said school is hereby incorporated by this act- 
 under the name of "The Alabama School of Trades and Indus- 
 try", with the right to have and use a corporate seal, to sue and 
 be sued in such corporate name in any of the courts of this State- 
 of competent jurisdiction, as in the cases of natural persons. 
 
 Section 3. It shall be the duty of the governor upon the ap- 
 proval of this act, to appoint five trustees to serve until Septem- 
 ber 30, 1923, after which the entire management and control of 
 such school shall be vested in the State board of education, who 
 shall constitute a board of control for the said school. All va- 
 cancies shall be filled by appointment by the governor. The 
 aforesaid trustees named in this act shall meet in the town of 
 Ragland at such time as they may appoint, not more than ninety 
 days after the approval of this act, and organize themselves into 
 a board of control for said school by electing one of their mem- 
 bers chairman and a secretary and treasurer, and such other 
 officers as they think necessary, a majority shall constitute a 
 quorum of such board for the transaction of business. The sec- 
 retary and treasurer may be some one other than a trustee and 
 the State superintendent of education and the governor of the 
 State of Alabama are ex-off icio members of the board of control. 
 
 Section 4. The board of control is hereby invested with full 
 and ample authority to receive and accept for the use and benefit 
 of such school all gifts, donations, devices and bequests of any 
 and all money and real and personal property necessary and use- 
 ful in carrying into effect the object and purpose of this Act, 
 and with the authority on the part of such board of control in 
 the name of such corporation to sell and dispose of such property 
 which, in the judgment of such board may aid in carrying into 
 effect the object of this act, and the building up and sustaining 
 of such schools. 
 
 Section 5. The persons attending such school shall be taught 
 and thoroughly trained in the useful occupations, arts and 
 sciences with the concurrence and approval of such board. 
 
 Section 6. The board of control, aforesaid, is hereby invested 
 with full, ample and sufficient power and authority to make and 
 
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 adopt all laws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with the 
 laws of this State which may be necessary for the management, 
 control and conduct of such school, and the business connected 
 therewith. 
 
 Section 7. The said school shall be located at Ragland, Ala- 
 bama, and on a lot or parcel of land containing an area of not 
 less than one hundred (100) acres heretofore deeded to the Ala- 
 bama School of Trades and Industry as incorporated under an 
 act approved April 12, 1911. In order to make provision for the 
 construction of the necessary school buildings and equipment 
 for the Alabama School of Trades and Industry of Ragland, 
 Alabama, the board of trustees is authorized to accept from pub- 
 lic or private sources the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dol- 
 lars, to be expended for such purposes provided that when the 
 full sum of thirty thousand (30,000) dollars shall have been 
 placed to the credit of the board of control the special legislative 
 appropriation of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars to be used 
 for the construction and equipment of the necessary school build- 
 ings shall also be available upon the approval of the governor 
 and shall be paid out upon the requisition of the State superin- 
 tendent of education upon the State auditor who shall draw his 
 warrant upon the State treasurer for the amount for which 
 requisition is made. 
 
 Section 8. The annual legislative appropriation for the 
 maintenance and support of the said school shall be paid in quar- 
 terly installments on October 1st, January 1st, April 1st, July 
 1st upon requisition of the State superintendent of education 
 upon the State auditor wht) shall draw his warrant in favor of the 
 treasurer of the school for the amount to which the school is 
 entitled. 
 
 Section 9. The said board of control shall be required to 
 keep in a well bound book or books a full and complete record of 
 all of the acts and doings under the provisions of this act, which 
 record or records shall at all times in seasonable hours be open 
 to the public inspection for any and all persons interested in the 
 same or in the school. The governor may at pleasure direct the 
 State examiner of public accounts to inspect and report on all 
 money expended by such board under this act. 
 
 Section 10. The State superintendent of education, with the 
 board of control of said school, shall prepare a course of study 
 to be pursued in said school in keeping with the intents and pur- 
 poses of this act. 
 
 ARTICLE 28. AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL IN- 
 STITUTE FOR NEGROES. 
 
 Section 1. The Huntsville State Normal and Industrial 
 School later changed to the Agricultural and Mechanical College 
 
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 for Negroes, shall hereafter be known as the Agricultural and 
 Mechanical Institute for Negroes, and shall be under the direction 
 and control of the State board of education. 
 
 Section 2. The State board of education shall make rules 
 and regulations for the government of the school, and shall select 
 the president and all members of the faculty, and shall fix the 
 amount of salary and the term of service of each employee. 
 
 Section 3. The division of the fund to be received from the 
 Federal government under the so-called Morrill Act between one 
 college for white students and one institution for colored stu- 
 dents, shall be based from year to year upon the ratio of the num- 
 ber of each race of legal school age to the total population of 
 school age in the State of Alabama, as shown by the State school 
 census next preceding the annual payment of the fund by the 
 United States treasury. ' 
 
 Section 4. That portion of the grant of money received by 
 the State of Alabama under the acts of Congress approved July 
 2, 1862, August 30, 1890, and March 4, 1907, and set apart in 
 section 3 for the education of white students is appropriated to 
 the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn, and that portion 
 of the said grant herein set apart for the education of colored 
 students is appropriated to the Agricultural and Mechanical In- 
 stitute for Negroes at Normal. 
 
 Section 5. All appropriations that may be made to the 
 Huntsville State Normal and Industrial School, or to the Agi'i- 
 cultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, shall be available 
 for the use of the said Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for 
 Negroes and shall be paid out upon requisition of the State super- 
 intendent of education upon the State auditor who shall draw 
 his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of the treasurer of 
 the school for the amount for which requisition is made. 
 
 ARTICLE 29. ALABAMA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AND 
 
 COLLEGE FOR WOMEN. 
 
 Section 1. The school heretofore established at Monte vallo 
 as the "Alabama Girls' Industrial School" later known as and 
 called "The Alabama Girls' Technical Institute" is and shall re- 
 main a body corporate under the corporate name of "Alabama 
 Technical Institute and College for Women" and by that name 
 may sue and contract, acquire and hold real and personal prop- 
 erty, and have and exercise all the powers of a corporation estab- 
 lished to carry on a state educational institution of higher learn- 
 ing and shall succeed to all the rights, privileges, emoluments, 
 benefits, interests, and titles heretofore at any time vested in said 
 "Alabama Girls' Industrial School" and the "Alabama Girls' 
 Technical Institute", respectively. 
 
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 Section 2. The Alabama Technical Institute and College for 
 women shall be governed by a board of trustees composed of the 
 Governor, who shall be president, ex-officio, the superintendent 
 of education, ex-officio, one trustee from each congressional dis- 
 trict, and, until as otherwise herein provided, two trustees from 
 the state-at-large. The terms of office of the trustees now in 
 office are hereby extended to the third Monday in January of the 
 years in which, under the law heretofore in force, they expire, 
 respectively, and until their successors are appointed and quali- 
 fied, respectively. Said trustees shall be arranged in three 
 groups. Those for the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth congres- 
 sional districts shall be group 1 ; those for the second, fifth, and 
 eighth congressional districts and one for the state-at-large to 
 be designated by the Governor, shall be group 2; those for the 
 third, sixth, and ninth congressional districts, and the remaining 
 one for the state-at-large, shall be group 3. Successors to those 
 trustees in group 1, when their terms expire, shall be appointed 
 for a term to end on the third Monday in January, 1931, and 
 thereafter for a term of twelve years. Successors to those trus- 
 tees in group 2, when their terms expire, shall be appointed for 
 a term to end on the third Monday in January, 1935, and there- 
 after for a term of twelve years. Successors to those trustees 
 in group 3, when their terms expire, shall be appointed for a 
 term to end on the third Monday in January, 1939, and there- 
 after for a term of twelve years. In case of the creation and 
 establishment of an eleventh congressional district in the State, 
 the trustee in group 2, from the state-at-large, shall automati- 
 cally cease to be a trustee from the state-at-large, and become 
 for the remainder of his term trustee for such eleventh district 
 and there shall remain but one trustee from the state-at-large; 
 and, if an additional, twelfth, congressional district be created 
 and established, such remaining trustee from the state-at-large, 
 in group 3, shall automatically become a trustee for such twelfth 
 district, and there shall be no trustee for the state-at-large, it 
 being deemed inadvisable, in any event to increase the numerical 
 force of the board. No vacancy of the office of a trustee shall be 
 occasioned by the creation of new districts or change of district 
 lines, except as hereinbefore provided for the elimination of 
 state-at-large trustees; but all new appointees, except for the 
 state-at-large, shall be, at the time of their appointment, resi- 
 dents of the district for which thsy are appointed, respectively. 
 A vacancy in the office of trustees shall be occasioned by the 
 change of residence of a trustee from the district from which 
 he was aopointed. All appointments of trustees shall be made 
 by the governor with the advice and consent of the senate. In 
 case of a vacancy in the office of trustee, the governor shall ap- 
 point a successor, who shall hold office till the next meeting of 
 
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 the legislature, when the governor, by and with the advice and 
 consent of the senate, shall appoint a trustee, who shall hold 
 office for the unexpired term. A trustee shall be ineligible to be 
 elected by the board of trustees to any office pertaining to this 
 institution. The trustees are entitled to receive payment of their 
 actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as such 
 trustees. 
 
 Section 3. The Institute is established for the purpose of 
 giving therein instruction in the liberal arts and sciences and in 
 technical subjects suitable for women, and to this end the follow- 
 ing academic and technical departments are established. 1. Eng- 
 lish, literature, expression; 2. mathematics, and astronomy; 3. 
 history, and political economy; 4. education, psychology, sociol- 
 ogy; 5. ancient languages; 6. modern languages; 7. chemistry, 
 physics, geology ; 8. biology, bacteriology, zoology ; 9. physiology, 
 sanitation; 10. agriculture, dairying, floriculture, horticulture; 
 11. art, painting, manuel training ; 12. home economics ; 13. vocal 
 and instrumental music ; 14. commercial branches, — stenography, 
 book-keeping, type-writing, telegraphy. Other departments or 
 subjects may be well established from time to time by the trus- 
 tees upon the recommendation of the president and faculty, that 
 women may have the opportunity for general education and for 
 special preparation for home making, extension service, teach- 
 ing, and for becoming self supporting in trades and industries 
 and in the business world. 
 
 Section 4. The faculty, with the approval of the trustees, 
 may grant and confer diplomas, certificates or degrees upon such 
 students as may be entitled thereto under the rules adopted by 
 the trustees, governing this subject. 
 
 Section 5. The trustees shall elect a president for a term to 
 be fixed by them, who shall not be removed during the term for 
 which he is elected, except for just cause, which shall be explic- 
 itly set forth in writing in the minutes of the proceedings of the 
 trustees and approved by a majority of all the trustees. No per- 
 son shall be eligible to the office of president unless he is a grad- 
 uate of some college or university of well known high standing, 
 an educator by profession, of good moral character and posses- 
 sing good business and administrative qualifications. The trus- 
 tees shall fix the salary of the president before electing a person 
 to the office, and shall not decrease the amount thereof during 
 the term of office without the consent of the president. 
 
 Section 6. The president, with the advice and consent of 
 the trustees, shall appoint and fix the compensation for all pro- 
 fessors, associate professors, and other necessary teachers and 
 officers. The president, professors, and associate professors shall 
 compose the faculty of the Institute. 
 
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 Section 7. The trustees of the Institute shall elect a secre- 
 tary, who shall hold office for the term and receive such compen- 
 sation as may be fixed by the trustees, and shall perform such 
 services as may be required of him. 
 
 Section 8. The trustees shall elect a treasurer, who shall not 
 be a trustee, who shall receive, hold, and pay out all moneys be- 
 longing to the Institute, or that may be paid in for the necessary 
 expenses of any student in the Institute, or for her use and bene- 
 fit, and the treasurer shall hold office for the term and receive 
 such compensation as may be fixed by the trustees. Before enter- 
 ing upon his duties, the treasurer must give bond in such penalty 
 as the trustees may fix, payable to "The Alabama Technical In- 
 stitute and College for Women," with conditions that he will 
 faithfully receive, safely keep, and lawfully pay out, and prompt- 
 ly, fully, and fairly account for all moneys or choses in action 
 which may come to him by virtue of his office, and the trustees 
 may require a new bond, or an additional bond, whenever they 
 judge that the interest of the Institute requires it. 
 
 Section 9. Whenever the funds in the hands of the treas- 
 urer, or funds about to be received by him, are in danger of 
 being lost, the trustees or president may remove the treasurer 
 from office and take from him all funds and choses in action be- 
 longing to the Institute or any pupil therein, and may, in that 
 event, appoint a temporary custodian with bond or security to 
 hold such funds. 
 
 Section 10. The secretary, treasurer, and all other officers, 
 agents, or servants of the Institute who are required to keep, 
 use, or dispose of any property of the school, shall keep accounts 
 of their transactions in books to be furnished them by the trus- 
 tees, which shall at all times be open to the inspection and exami- 
 nation of the president, the trustees, or anyone appointed by the 
 trustees thereto, and any person withholding such book or books 
 belonging to the Institute from the inspection of any officer en- 
 titled to examine the same, shall be immediately removed from 
 his office or employment by the president or trustees. 
 
 Section 11. Any white girl or woman residing in Alabama, 
 of good moral character, in good health, and of sufficient physical 
 and mental development, to be judged of by the president, who 
 shall comply with all the requirements prescribed by the trustees, 
 may be admitted into the Institute, and upon completing the 
 course of study prescribed at the time of her admission, to the 
 satisfaction of the faculty, shall receive the certificate, diploma, 
 or degree she may have earned. Whenever the accommodations 
 of the institute are sufficient to admit more students than apply 
 from Alabama, then students from other states or counties may 
 be received and instructed in the Institute upon such terms and 
 conditions as may be imposed by the president or trustees. 
 
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 Section 12. The property of the Institute, of every kind and 
 description, shall forever be exempt from all taxes, municipal, 
 county, or State, and from all local assessments. The president, 
 teachers, officers, and employees are exempt from jury duty and 
 from working the public roads or streets, and all employees arfe 
 further exempt from the payment of town licenses for their labor 
 while working for this institution. 
 
 Section 13. As far as may be practicable, students in the 
 Institute shall be employed in giving assistance in any depart- 
 ment of work of the Institute to enable them to obtain instruc- 
 tion therein, but students shall be employed only in cases and to 
 the extent that they may be able to render efficient service with- 
 out injury to themselves or to the Institute. 
 
 Secion 14. All rights of property and action which may have 
 accrued to the Institute before the adoption of this Act are con- 
 firmed and preserved, and no grant or gift of any valuable thing 
 or right shall fail by reason of a mistake in the name of this 
 corporation or institute ; provided the intention to grant or give 
 to the Institute may be derived from the words used in desig- 
 nating the beneficiary or grantee. All rights, powers, and reme- 
 dies granted in and by an act to create and establish an indus- 
 trial school in the State of Alabama for white girls, approved 
 February 21, 1893, and any act amendatory thereof, are con- 
 firmed and preserved for the Alabama Technical Institute and 
 College for Women. 
 
 Section 15. Whenever the Institute needs any land near the 
 Institute for any purpose of the institution, and the owner thereof 
 is a minor or an insane person, or refuses to sell the land to the 
 State for the use of the Institute, or will not agree with the 
 board of trustees or the president on a price therefor, the trus- 
 tees shall have authority to institute in the probate court of 
 Shelby county proceedings in the name of the State of Alabama, 
 to condemn such land, which proceedings shall be conducted as 
 nearly as may be possible in accordance with the provisions of 
 sections 3860-3903 of the Code. It shall be the duty of the trus- 
 tees to pay out of the funds of the Institute all costs of every 
 condemnation proceeding instituted by them under the power 
 hereby conferred. 
 
 Section 16. The annual legislative appropriation for the 
 maintenance of the "Alabama Technical Institute and College 
 for Women" shall be paid in quarterly installments on the first 
 of October, January, April, and July of each fiscal year. The 
 annual appropriation for the summer school shall be paid on the 
 first of July in each fiscal year, and the appropriation for the 
 erection of buildings and equipment shall be paid as prescribed 
 in the act making the appropriation. 
 
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 Section 17. The lands now owned by the institute, granted 
 by the Congress of the United States to the State of Alabama 
 for the use of this institution, shall only be leased or disposed of 
 by the board of trustees, with the approval of the governor, pro- 
 vided, the board of trustees may delegate to an executive com- 
 mittee to be composed of three or more of its members, the right 
 and power to lease or sell any of said lands, with the approval of 
 the governor, and when any lease or sale shall have been made 
 as herein provided, the governor, upon request of the board of 
 trustees, or its executive committee, as the case may be, shall 
 execute contracts of lease, or deeds of conveyance as may have 
 been agreed on between the board, or its executive committee, 
 and the lessee or purchaser. All the proceeds arising from the 
 sale of lands shall be paid into the treasury of the State to remain 
 forever as a fund for the use of the Institute, and upon which 
 there shall be paid to the Institute interest at the rate of six 
 percent, per annum, in quarterly installments. 
 
 Section 18. The proceeds of all lands sold or leased by the 
 Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women shall be paid 
 into the State treasury. The Institute, out of the money appro- 
 priated by the State legislature for the maintenance of the Insti- 
 tute, shall pay all the expenses of caring for, protecting, and sell- 
 ing the lands. 
 
 Section 19. On the last day of every quarter the State treas- 
 urer shall pay to the treasurer of the Alabama Technical Insti- 
 tute and College for Women, upon the order of. the president 
 of the Institute, interest at the rate of six percent, per annum, on 
 the whole amount of the fund in the State treasury at the close 
 of every quarter, arising from the sale of lands, and upon every 
 sum paid into the State treasury before the current quarter upon 
 which interest has never been paid ; and all laws or parts of laws 
 in conflict herewith are hereby expressly repealed, it being the 
 purpose and intent of the State of Alabama to execute in good 
 faith the trust reposed in it by Congress when granting the lands 
 to the State for the benefit of the Institute and to preserve the 
 proceeds arising from the lessee or sales of the lands of the Insti- 
 tute so granted by Congress as a fund forever, and to pay the 
 interest thereon for the support and maintenance of the Insti- 
 tute. 
 
 ARTICLE 30. ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE. 
 
 Section 1. The governor and the superintendent of educa- 
 tion, by virtue of their respective offices, and the trustees ap- 
 pointed from the different congressional districts of the State, 
 under the provisions of section 266 of the Constitution of 1901, 
 and their successors in office, are constituted a body corporate 
 
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 under the name of "The Alabama Polytechnic Institute," to carry 
 into effect the purposes and intent of the Congress of the United 
 States in the grant of lands by the act of July 2, 1862. 
 
 Section 2. Such corporation shall have all the rights, privi- 
 leges, and franchises necessary to a promotion of the end of its 
 creation, and shall be charged v^^ith all corresponding duties, 
 liabilities and responsibilities. 
 
 Section 3. For the payment of the interest, at the rate of 
 eight per cent per annum, on the fund of two hundred and fifty- 
 three thousand and five hundred dollars, arising from the sale 
 of the script for the land donated in trust to this State by the 
 act of Congress of July 2, 1862, the faith and credit of the 
 State are forever pledged. 
 
 Section 4. The board of trustees have the power to organize 
 the institute by appointing a corps of instructors, who shall be 
 styled the faculty of the institute, and such other instructors 
 and officers as the interest of the institute may require; and to 
 remove any such instructors or other officers, and to fix their sal- 
 aries or compensation, and increase or reduce the same at their 
 discretion ; to regulate, alter, or modify the government of the 
 institute as they may deem advisable; to prescribe courses of 
 instruction, rates of tuition, and fees; to confer such academic 
 and honorary degrees as are usually conferred by institutions of 
 similar character; and to do whatever else they may deem best 
 for promoting the interest of the institute. They shall also 
 establish and maintain a military department in the institute, 
 and elect a commandant and such other officers as may be neces- 
 sary for the department. 
 
 Section 5. The trustees of the institute are divided into three 
 classes, as follows: The trustees from the fourth, fifth, and 
 seventh districts shall constitute the first class; those from the 
 second, sixth, and eighth district shall contitute the second class ; 
 and those from the first, third, ninth and tenth districts shall con- 
 stitute the third class ; and they shall hold office, and their seats 
 be vacated as prescribed by section 266 of the Constitution. 
 
 Section 6. Any vacancy in the office of trustee, occurring 
 during the recess of the legislature, shall be filled by appoint- 
 ment of the governor, such appointee to hold until the next ses- 
 sion of the legislature thereafter ; such vacancy shall be filled by 
 the governor, by and with the consent of the senate; and any 
 trustee appointed to fill a vacancy by the governor, by and with 
 the consent of the senate, shall hold during the unexpired term. 
 
 Section 7. The board of trustees shall hold their meetings at 
 the Institute on the first Monday in June of each year, unless 
 the board shall, in regular session, determine to hold its meetings 
 at some other time and place ; and upon the application in writing 
 of any four members of the board, the governor shall appoint a 
 
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 ■special meeting, naming the time and place thereof, and cause 
 notices thereof to be issued to the several members of the board, 
 but such meeting shall not be appointed for a day less than twen- 
 ty days subsequent to the date of the notice. 
 
 Section 8. Six members of the board of trustees shall con- 
 stitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn from day 
 to day until a quorum is present. 
 
 Section 9. The certificate of the president of the board, or, 
 in his absence, of the president pro tempore, countersigned by 
 the secretary, shall entitle the several trustees to the payment of 
 their actual expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties as 
 such trustees. 
 
 Section 10. No grant or gift, by will or otherwise, shall fail 
 on account of any misnomer or informality, when the intent of 
 the grantor or donor can be arrived at; nor shall any default, 
 malfeasance, or misfeasance, or non-user, on the part of the 
 trustees, or other officers or agents of such corporation, work a 
 forfeiture, of any of its rights, privileges, powers, or franchises. 
 
 Section 11. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to 
 make, or cause to be made to the legislature, at each session 
 thereof, a full report of their transactions, and of the condition 
 of the institute, embracing an itemized account of all receipts 
 and disbursements on account of the institution by those charged 
 with the administration of its finances. 
 
 Section 12. The State treasurer must pay the interest on 
 the fund of two hundred and fifty-three thousand and five hun- 
 dred dollars arising from the sale of land script quarterly, as the 
 same may accrue to the treasurer or other authorized agent, or 
 officer of the institute ; and on the application of the treasurer, 
 agent, or officer, the State auditor shall draw his warrant on the 
 State treasurer for such interest ; but in no case shall any person 
 be authorized to receive, hold, or disburse any fund of the insti- 
 tute, without first having given bond conditioned for the faithful 
 performance of his duties. 
 
 Section 13. The annual legislative appropriation for the 
 support and maintenance of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute 
 shall be paid out on requisition of the president and treasurer of 
 said Polytechnic Institute, and the special appropriation for addi- 
 tional buildings and equipment shall be paid on the requisition 
 of the president and treasurer of said Polytechnic Institute with 
 the approval of the governor. 
 
 ARTICLE 31. UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. 
 
 Section 1. The governor and the superintendent of educa- 
 tion, by virtue of their respective offices, and the trustees here- 
 tofore appointed from the different congressional districts of the 
 
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 State under the provisions of section 264 of the Constitution^ 
 and such other members as may be from time to time added to 
 the board of trustees and their successors in office, are consti- 
 tuted a body corporate under the name of "The board of trustees 
 of the University of Alabama", to carry into effect the purposes 
 and intent of the Congress of the United States in the grant of 
 lands by the act of April 20, 1818, and of the act of March 2, 
 1819, to this State, to be by it held and administered for the 
 benefit of a seminary of learning. 
 
 Section 2. Such corporation shall have all the rights, powers, 
 and franchise necessary to or promotive of the end of its crea- 
 tion, and shall be charged with all the corresponding duties, lia- 
 bilities, and responsibilities. 
 
 Section 3. Such corporation may hold, and may lease, sell, 
 or in any other manner not inconsistent with the object or terms 
 of the grant or grants under which it holds, dispose of any prop- 
 erty, real or personal, or any estate or interest therein, remain- 
 ing of the original or any subsequent grant by Congress, or by 
 this State, or by any person, or accruing to the corporation from 
 any source, including also the proceeds of the "University Fund", 
 as to it may seem best for the purposes of its institution. 
 
 Section 4. The fund designated in the preceding section as 
 the University fund consists of the sum of thirty-six thousand 
 ($36,000) dollars per annum as interest on the funds of the 
 University of Alabama heretofore covered into the State treas- 
 ury, for the support and maintenance of said institution and such 
 further sum as may be appropriated by the legislature. 
 
 Section 5. No grant or gift, by will or otherwise, shall fail 
 on account of any misnomer or informality, when the intention 
 of the grantor or donor can be ascertained ; nor shall any default^ 
 malfeasance on the part of the trustees or other officers or 
 agents of such corporation, work a forfeiture of any of its rights, 
 powers, privileges, or franchises. 
 
 Section 6. In addition to the rights, properties, privileges^ 
 and franchises herein granted, all rights, properties, privileges, 
 and franchises heretofore, by any act of the legislature, granted 
 to or vested in the University of Alabama, shall vest and con- 
 tinue in such corporation. 
 
 Section 7. The board of trustees have the power to organize 
 the university by appointing a corps of instructors, who shall be 
 styled the faculty of the university, and such other officers as the 
 interest of the university may require; to remove such instruc- 
 tors or officers, and to fix their salaries or compensation, and in- 
 crease or reduce the same at their discretion ; to institute, regu- 
 late, alter, or modify the government of the university, as they 
 may deem advisable ; to prescribe courses of instruction, rates of 
 tuition, price of board, and regulate the necessary expenses of 
 
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 students ; and to confer such degrees as are usually conferred hj 
 similar institutions. They may delegate to the faculty of the 
 university, or other officers, such powers and functions in the 
 government of the students, and in the administration of the 
 affairs of the university, as they may deem proper ; but in no case 
 shall any person be authorized to receive, hold, or disburse any 
 funds of the university without having first given bond, condi- 
 tioned for the faithful discharge of his duties; and no person 
 shall be excluded from the full benefit of the university fund, or 
 placed at any disadvantage in the pursuit of his studies, who pos- 
 sesses the requisite literary or other qualifications, and is willing 
 to submit to the discipline prescribed for the students. 
 
 Section 8. The State university shall be under the control 
 of the board of trustees, which shall consist of two members from 
 the congressional district in which the university is located, and 
 one from each of the other congressional districts in the State, 
 the superintendent of education, and the governor, who shall be 
 ex-officio president of the board. The members of the board 
 of trustees, as now constituted, shall hold office until their respec- 
 tive terms expire under existing law, and until their successors 
 shall be elected and confirmed, as hereinafter required. Suc- 
 cessors to those trustees whose terms expire in nineteen hundred 
 and two shall hold office until nineteen hundred and seven ; suc- 
 cessors to those whose terms expire in nineteen hundred and four 
 shall hold office until nineteen hundred and eleven ; successors to 
 those trustees whose terms expire in nineteen hundred and six 
 shall hold office until nineteen hundred and fifteen; and there- 
 after their successors shall hold office for a term of twelve years. 
 When the term of any member of such board shall expire, the 
 remaining members of the board shall, by secret ballot, elect his 
 successor, provided, that any trustee so elected shall hold office 
 from the date of his election until his confirmation or rejection 
 by the senate, and, if confirmed, until the expiration of the term 
 for which he was elected, and until his successor is elected. At 
 every meeting of the legislature the State superintendent of 
 education shall certify to the senate the names of all who have 
 been so elected since the last session of the legislature and the 
 senate shall confirm or reject them as it shall determine for the 
 best interest of the university. If it reject the names of any 
 member it shall thereupon elect trustees in the stead of those 
 rejected. In the case of a vacancy on said board by death or 
 resignation of a member, or from any cause other than the ex- 
 piration of his term of office, the board shall elect his successor, 
 who shall hold office until the next session of the legislature. 
 When the name of a successor or successors elected by said board 
 to fill the vacancy or vacancies so occasioned shall be certified hj 
 the State superintendent of education to the senate, and the sen- 
 
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 ate shall confirm, or reject, as it shall determine is for the best 
 interest of the University; and if confirmed by the senate, the 
 person, or persons so elected to fill said vacancy shall hold office 
 for the unexpired term to which he is so elected. If the senate 
 rejects the name of any person to fill said vacancy, it shall there- 
 upon elect some person or persons in the stead of those rejected. 
 No trustee shall receive any pay or emolument other than his 
 actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties as such. 
 
 Section 9. Five members of the board of trustees, exclusive 
 of the ex-officio members, shall constitute a quorum, and every 
 member present shall be required to vote, and a majority of those 
 present shall govern. At their first meeting, the board shall elect 
 one of their number president pro tempore, who shall preside in 
 the absence of the governor, and shall hold the position until the 
 next annual or special meeting, when another president pro tem- 
 pore shall be elected. 
 
 Section 10. The board of trustees shall meet at least once 
 in each year, and on the first Wednesday in June, unless some 
 dther day is selected by them, and they may, by ordinance or 
 resolution adopted by them, prescribe other regular times for 
 meeting. At such meeting they may continue in session as long 
 as they may deem proper for the welfare of the institution, and 
 may at any session appoint a special or adjourned meeting, tjpon 
 the written application of four members, or of any three mem- 
 bers with his concurrence, the president pro tempore shall ap- 
 point a special meeting, and issue notice thereof to the several 
 members ; but such special meeting shall not be appointed for a 
 day less than twenty days subsequent to the date of the notice. 
 In case there is no president pro tempore of the board, or in case 
 he is incapacitated to act, then the governor, as president of the 
 board, shall, upon the written application of four members, in 
 like manner call such special meeting. Regular meetings of the 
 board must be held at the university, but special or adjourned 
 meetings may be held at the university or in the city of Mont- 
 gomery, or in the city of Birmingham. 
 
 Section 11. The proceedings of the board of trustees must 
 be recorded in a substantially bound book, which must be kept 
 in the archives of the university; and the board may at any 
 meeting employ a secretary. The certificate of the president, or 
 in his absence, of the president pro tempore, countersigned by the 
 secretary, if there be one, shall entitle the several trustees to 
 their constitutional pay out of the treasury of the university; 
 and the compensation of the secretary and the necessary inci- 
 dental expenses of the board at each session shall be paid on the 
 order of the board, and the certificate of the president, or presi- 
 dent pro tempore, as the case may be, out of such treasury. 
 
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 Section 12. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to 
 make to the legislature, at each session thereof, a full report of 
 their transactions, and of the condition of the university, em- 
 bracing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements 
 on account of the university by those charged with the adminis- 
 tration of its finances. 
 
 Section 13. The state treasurer must, quarterly, on the last 
 day of December, March, June and September of each year, 
 pay the "university fund," as defined by section 1872 (3670) of 
 the Code, to the treasurer or any authorized agent of the univer- 
 sity ; and on the application of such treasurer or agent, the State 
 auditor shall draw his warrant on the State treasurer for the 
 amount due; such payments to commence on the days specified 
 after the present Constitution becomes operative. Appropria- 
 tions subsequently made shall be paid in like manner unless 
 otherwise prescribed. 
 
 Section 14. The right is reserved to the legislature to revise 
 or amend the provisions of this article, and by virtue of the char- 
 acter of the trust conferred by the act of Congress to intervene, 
 and, by special enactment, to direct and control the board of 
 trustees in the discharge of their duties and functions. 
 
 Section 15. The justices of the Supreme Court are author- 
 ized from time to time to set apart and turn over to the law 
 department of the university, copies of such second hand or su- 
 perseded law books, known as text-books, as they may deem 
 expedient, the marshal and librarian taking proper receipts 
 therefor. 
 
 Section 16. The Secretary of State shall supply to such law 
 department ten copies of the Code of Alabama and ten copies of 
 each volume of the current reports of the Supreme Court, as the 
 same may, from time to time, be published. 
 
 Section 17. The president of the university has authority 
 to appoint or employ one or more suitable persons to act as police 
 officers to keep off intruders and prevent trespass upon and dam- 
 age to the property of the university. Such person shall be 
 charged with all the duties and invested with all the powers of 
 police officers, and may eject trespassers from the university 
 buildings and grounds, and may, without warrant, arrest persons 
 guilty of disorderly conduct, or of trespass on the property of the 
 institution, and carry them before the nearest justice of the peace 
 or other officer charged with the trial of such offenders, before 
 whom, upon proper affidavit charging the offense, such person 
 so arrested may be tried and convicted as in case of persons 
 brought before him on a warrant; and such officer or officers 
 shall have authority to summon a posse comitatus. 
 
 Section 18. The board of trustees of the University of Ala- 
 bama may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, all or any part of 
 
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 such land as has been or may be selected under and by virtue 
 of an act of Congress entitled, "An Act to increase the endow- 
 ment of the University of Alabama from the public school lands 
 in said State," approved April 23, 1884; and may sell lands or 
 any interest therein or part thereof for such prices and upon 
 such terms as to them may seem proper. Such sales may be for 
 cash or for part cash, and the said board of trustees of the Uni- 
 versity of Alabama shall not be limited by any statute heretofore 
 enacted as to what part of the purchase price of such lands which 
 they have heretofore sold or may hereafter sell shall be in cash, 
 but the percent of the purchase price of such lands that may have 
 been or shall be in cash, shall be such as said board of trustees 
 of the University of Alabama may agree upon with the purchaser 
 or purchasers. 
 
 Section 19. The board of trustees of the University of Ala- 
 bama may create an executive committee consisting of three or 
 more of the trustees composing the said board upon which com- 
 mittee it may confer full power and authority to lease, sell, and 
 convey such lands or any part thereof, or any interest therein, 
 as fully as said board of trustees of the University of Alabama 
 could itself do. 
 
 Section 20. All sales, agreements to sell, leases, and other 
 dispositions of such lands, or any part thereof, or any interest 
 therein, heretofore made or attempted to be made by the board of 
 trustees of the University of Alabama, or by any executive com- 
 mittee by it created, irrespective of the per cent of the purchase 
 price which may have been paid in cash, are satisfied and con- 
 firmed, and shall be binding upon the board of trustees as fully 
 as if the same were made after the 28th day of February 1907, 
 and in cases where the same were made by an executive com- 
 mittee, as if the same were made by the board of trustees of the 
 University of Alabama. 
 
 Section 21. The corporation styled The Medical College of 
 Alabama is dissolved and the institution known as the Medical 
 College of Alabama is constituted the Medical Department of 
 the University of Alabama and shall hereafter be under the sole 
 ownership, management and control of the board of trustees of 
 the University of Alabama. All appropriations in money made 
 for the aid of the medical college shall inure to the benefit of the 
 said Medical Department of the University of Alabama and shall 
 be paid to the trustees of the University of Alabama for the use 
 and benefit of said medical department, and any appropriation 
 for the maintenance and equipment of the graduate school of 
 medicine of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama, 
 shall be paid by the State treasurer in equal quarterly install- 
 ments on the first day of January, April, July and October, to the 
 treasurer of the University of Alabama upon warrants drawn 
 
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 by the State auditor as warrants are drawn for other appro- 
 priations to the University of Alabama or to the board of trus- 
 tees of the University of Alabama, but such money shall be used 
 exclusively for the graduate school of medicine of the Univer- 
 sity of Alabama at Birmingham. 
 
 ARTICLE 32. CEMENT LABORATORY. 
 
 Section 1. The testing laboratory of the University of Ala- 
 bama is the official testing laboratory for cement and other mate- 
 rials of construction. 
 
 ARTICLE 33. SUMMER SCHOOL. 
 
 Section 1. The trustees of the University of Alabama may 
 establish at that institution a school to be known as the summer 
 school for teachers, at which during the summer months instruc- 
 tion shall be given in all the public school studies and in such 
 other studies as may be necessary to better prepare teachers for 
 efficient service in the public schools of this State. 
 
 Section 2. The summer school for teachers at the University 
 of Alabama shall be maintained and supported by the annual 
 legislative appropriation for that specific purpose. 
 
 Section 3. The amount of the annual Legislative appropria- 
 tion shall on the first day of July of each year, be paid by the 
 State treasurer to the treasurer of the University of Alabama, 
 on warrants drawn by the State auditor as warrants are drawn 
 for other appropriations to the University. Appropriations sub- 
 sequently made shall be paid in like manner, unless otherwise 
 prescribed. The trustees of the University shall report in writ- 
 ing to the Legislature at each regular session thereof the manner 
 in which the appropriation has Been expended. 
 
 Section 4. No matriculation or tuition fee shall be charged 
 to Alabama teachers, and no incidental fee exceeding three dol- 
 lars per session shall be charged any Alabama teachers. 
 
 Section 5. The State board of examiners for teachers, upon 
 written request of the Director of the summer session, shall con- 
 duct or have conducted, annually, at the university, at the close 
 of the summer school for teachers, an examination for the con- 
 venience of teachers attending that school. The examination 
 shall be equal in all respects to the regular examination required 
 by law. The same fees shall be charged, and the examination 
 shall be conducted under the same rules and regulations. 
 
 ARTICLE 34. STATE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Section 1. In order to co-ordinate the educational efforts of 
 the University of Alabama, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 
 
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 and the Alabama Technical Institute & College for Women, there 
 is hereby created a State Council of Education to be composed 
 of the governor, who shall be chairman, two members of the 
 State board of education, the State superintendent of education, 
 the president of the University of Alabama, the president of the 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute, the President of the Alabama 
 Technical Institute and College for Women, and one member of 
 the board of trustees from the University of Alabama, the Ala- 
 bama Polytechnic Institute, and the Alabama Institute and Col- 
 lege for Women, respectively. The members of the State Coun- 
 cil of Education from the State board of education shall be chosen 
 by the State board of education and the members from the boards 
 of trustees of each of the three institutions of higher learning 
 shall be selected by the respective boards of trustees. The State 
 superintendent of education shall be the secretary of the State 
 Council of Education. 
 
 Section 2. The State Council of Education shall study the 
 needs of higher education and of education in general throughout 
 the State and shall endeavor to encourage the healthful develop- 
 ment of all educational agencies and to allocate wisely among the 
 existing agencies the different portions of the task of training in 
 so far as may not be inconsistent with the powers and duties of 
 the board of trustees of the three institutions of higher learning 
 and of the State board of education as prescribed by the Consti- 
 tution of the State and by law. 
 
 Section 3. The State Council of Education shall have author- 
 ity to associate with it two advisory boards, one composed of 
 delegates representing the agricultural, commercial, industrial, 
 and similar organizations of the State whose duty it shall be to 
 assist in the investigations of the Council and to enlist the co- 
 operation of the several agencies in the improvement of the 
 economic condition of the State, including the schools ; the second 
 composed of representatives of the Alabama Educational Asso- 
 ciation, the State Association of Colleges, and similar organiza- 
 tions whose duty it shall be to promote the internal work of the 
 schools, to develop a wholesome professional spirit and to pro- 
 mote the cause of education within the ranks of the profession. 
 
 Section 4. The State Council of Education shall have author- 
 ity to make rules and regulations governing the time of meeting 
 and to take such other action, not inconsistent with law, as may 
 be deemed necessary to carry out the provisions of this article. 
 
 ARTICLE 35. ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR THE DEAF. 
 
 Section 1. There is established in this State and located at 
 Talladega an institution for the education of the deaf, called the 
 Alabama School for the Deaf. 
 
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 Section 2. The Governor, the State superintendent of educa- 
 tion, and twelve other persons, appointed as hereinafter provided, 
 are made a body corporated with the rights of succession forever, 
 by the name of the Alabama School for the Deaf ; and such cor- 
 poration may acquire and hold property; real and personal, by 
 gift, devise, or any other manner, for the purpose of its creation ; 
 may sue and contract ; may have and use a common seal ; break 
 or alter the same at pleasure, and may have all the powers neces- 
 sary and proper to accomplish the purposes of this article. 
 
 Section 3. Such board of trustees shall consist of the gov- 
 ernor, the State superintendent of education, and twelve other 
 persons, who shall be appointed by the Governor and confirmed 
 by the senate at the meeting of the Legislature next following 
 such appointment; and if any appointment by the Governor is 
 rejected by the senate, the Governor must again appoint until 
 the full number of appointments at such time is complete; and 
 in case of a vacancy on said board of death or resignation of a 
 member, or from any cause other than the expiration of his term 
 of office, the Governor may fill the vacancy by appointment, 
 which shall be good until the next meeting of the Legislature, and 
 until his successor is duly appointed and confirmed. Each trus- 
 tee shall hold office for a term of six years. The board shall 
 consist of three members from the congressional district in which 
 the school is located, and one from each of the other congres- 
 sional districts in the State. The three members from the dis- 
 trict in which the school is located shall be appointed from 
 Talladega County. The board shall be divided into three classes. 
 The members from the first, second, third, and one member 
 from the fourth district, shall compose the first class. The mem- 
 bers from the fifth, sixth, tenth and one member from the fourth 
 district, shall compose the second class. The members from the 
 seventh, eighth, ninth, and one member from the fourth district, 
 shall compose the third class. Successors to those trustees whose 
 terms expire in 1920 shall hold office until 1926 ; successors to 
 those trustees whose terms expire in 1922 shall hold office until 
 1928; successors to those trustees whose terms expire in 1924 
 shall hold office until 1930 ; and thereafter their successors shall 
 hold office for a term of six years ; and the members of the board 
 of trustees, as now constituted and elected, shall hold office until 
 their respective terms expire under existing law ; and until their 
 successors are appointed and confirmed as herein required. No 
 trustees shall receive any par or emolument other than his actual 
 expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties as such. These 
 twelve persons, and the Governor and the Superintendent of edu- 
 cation, constitute a board of trustees who shall have entire man- 
 agement and control of such institution. 
 
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 Section 4. A majority of such board may act, and may meet 
 and adjourn from time to time as, in their judgment, the interest 
 of the institution may require. They must appoint a secretary 
 and keep a complete record of all their proceedings in a well- 
 bound book; and they shall also appoint a treasurer, who shall 
 not be a trustee, who shall give bond in such amount as the board 
 may determine, and with such duties as they may deem sufficient, 
 for the faithful discharge of his duties as such treasurer; and 
 he and his sureties shall be responsible for all funds which may 
 come into his hands by virtue of his office. 
 
 Section 5. The treasurer must pay over such funds as may 
 come into his hands as such on the written order of the principal 
 of the school, countersigned by the secretary and recorded in the 
 minutes or records of the proceedings of the board, kept by such 
 secretary, and the treasurer shall make a full report at the close 
 of the fiscal year, and oftener, if required by the Governor. 
 
 Section 6. The board must appoint from their number a 
 president, and they must also appoint a principal teacher for 
 such institution, who may nominate to the board such other 
 assistants in the institution as he may think necessary for its 
 successful management, such board having power of confirma- 
 tion or rejection. The board must fix the amount of compensa- 
 tion for each of the officers and teachers, and the time of pay- 
 ment. 
 
 Section 7. The object of such school shall be to afford the 
 means of education to the deaf of the State. All deaf children 
 of the State between the ages of seven and twenty-one who are 
 of sound mind, free from disease, and of good character, may 
 be admitted to the benefits of this school. A]l applicants must 
 make satisfactory proof to the board of trustees that they are 
 citizens of the State, and that they are proper candidates for 
 admission. Proof may be made by the applicant in person or by 
 next best friend or by affidavit of any person cognizant of the 
 facts, before the probate judr:e or notary public. The length of 
 time which any pupil may continue in school shall not exceed ten 
 years. Piovided, however, that the board of trustees may in- 
 crease the term of a pupil from year to year upon recommenda- 
 tion of the principal, to not exceeding four additional years, and 
 no pup'l shall be retaired in school after having passed the age 
 of twenty five. Vo puril shall be retained in school after it has 
 been ascertained that such puril has ceased to make progress or 
 is not being benefited. Any pupil may be dropped at any time 
 for cause by the board of trustees. 
 
 Section 8. The board mav select from their number an ex- 
 ecutive committee of three, subject to change and removal by the 
 majority of the board at any t^"me : and such committee is author- 
 ized to meet and transact any business that may be transacted by 
 
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 a majority of the board ; and whatever acts such committee may 
 do shall be considered as done by the whole board. 
 
 Section 9. The annual legislative appropriation for the sup- 
 port and maintenance of the Alabama School for the Deaf shall 
 be based upon the number of pupils enrolled on the first day of 
 January of each year, and shall be drawn quarterly in advance 
 by the treasurer of the board and disbursed as directed by the 
 said board. 
 
 Section 10. The board of trustees must provide good and suf- 
 ficient insurance payable to the State of Alabama upon the prop- 
 erty of the State and under their control, and keep and maintain 
 such property in good repair, and for this purpose shall expend 
 so much as may be necessary of the annual legislative appropria- 
 tion. 
 
 ARTICLE 36. ALABAMA ACADEMY FOR THE BLIND. 
 
 Section 1. There is established in this State and located at 
 Talladega, an institution for the education of the blind, called 
 the Alabama School for the Blind. 
 
 Section 2. Such institution is under the control and manage- 
 ment of the board of trustees of the Alabama School for the 
 Deaf, who may prescribe rules and regulations for the conduct 
 of the same. The principal of the Alabama School for the Deaf 
 is the chief executive officer. 
 
 Section 3. The object of such school shall be to afford means 
 of education to the blind of the State. All blind children of the 
 State between the ages of seven and twenty-one who are of 
 sound mind, free from disease, and of good moral character may 
 be admitted to the benefits of this school. All applicants must 
 make satisfactory proof to the board of trustees that they are 
 citizens of the State, and that they are proper candidates for 
 admission. Proof may be made by the applicant in person, or by 
 next friend, or by affidavit, or by affidavit of any person cogni- 
 zant of the facts, before a probate judge or notary public. The 
 length of time which any pupil may continue in school shall not 
 exceed ten years; provided the board of trustees may increase 
 the term of any pupil from year, to year upon the recommenda- 
 tion of the principal, not to exceed four additional years. And 
 no pupil shall be retained in school after having passed the age of 
 twenty-five. No pupil shall be retained in school after it has 
 been ascertained that such pupil has ceased to make progress or 
 is not being benefited. Any pupil may be dropped at any time 
 for cause by the board of trustees. 
 
 Section 4. The annual legislative appropriation for the main- 
 tenance and support of the Alabama School for the Blind shall be 
 based upon the number of pupils enrolled on the first day of 
 
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 January of each year and shall be drawn quarterly in advance by 
 the treasurer of the board and disbursed as directed by said 
 board. 
 
 Section 5. All officers and teachers of such institutions must 
 be appointed, and the salaries fixed and paid in like manner as 
 the officers and teachers of the Alabama School for the Deaf are 
 appointed and their salaries are fixed and paid. 
 
 Section 6. All laws now in force or hereafter enacted relat- 
 ing to the admission of pupils and the management and control 
 of the Alabama School for the Deaf are applicable to the Alabama 
 School for the Blind except so far as such laws may be incon- 
 sistent with the provisions of this article. 
 
 ARTICLE 37. ALABAMA SCHOOL FOR NEGRO DEAF 
 
 MUTES AND BLIND. 
 
 Section 1. There is established in this State and located at 
 Talladega, an institution for the education of negro deaf and 
 blind, called the Alabama School for Negro Deaf and Blind. 
 
 Section 2. Such institution is under control and manage- 
 ment of the board of trustees of the Alabama School for the Deaf, 
 who may prescribe rules and regulations for the conduct of the 
 same. The principal of the Alabama School for the Deaf is the 
 chief executive officer. 
 
 Section 3. The object of such school shall be to afford the 
 means of education to the negro deaf and blind of the State. All 
 negro deaf and blind children between the ages of seven and 
 twenty-one who are of sound mind free from disease, and of 
 good character may be admitted to the benefits of school. All 
 applicants must make satisfactory proof to the board of trus- 
 tees that they are citizens of the State, and that they are proper 
 candidates for admission. Proof may be made by the applicant 
 in person, or by next friend, or by affidavit of any person cogni- 
 zant of the facts, before a probate judge or notary public. The 
 length of time which any pupil may continue in school shall not 
 exceed ten years; provided, the board of trustees may increase 
 the term of a pupil from year to year upon the recommendation 
 of the principal, to not exceeding four additional years. No 
 pupil shall be retained in school after having passed the age of 
 twenty-five. No pupil shall be retained in school after it has 
 been ascertained that such pupil has ceased to make progress, or 
 is not being benefited. Any puoil may be dropped at any time 
 for cause by the board of trustees. 
 
 Section 4. The annual legislative appropriation for the sup- 
 port and maintenance of the Alabama School for Negro Deaf and 
 Blind shall be based upon the number of pupils enrolled on the 
 first day of January of each year, and shall be drawn quarterly 
 
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 in advance by the treasurer of the board and disbursed as di- 
 rected by said board. 
 
 Section 5. All laws now in force or hereafter enacted relat- 
 ing to the admission of pupils and the management and control of 
 the Alabama School for the Deaf, are applicable to the Alabama 
 School for Negro Deaf and Blind, except so far as such laws 
 may be inconsistent with the provisions of this article. 
 
 ARTICLE 38. ALABAMA BOYS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 
 
 Section 1. There is established a reformatory and industrial 
 school, under the name and style of the "Alabama Boys Indus- 
 trial School" which is a body corporate, and, as such, shall have 
 perpetual succession may sue and may have and use a common 
 seal, which it may change or alter at its pleasure and may acquire 
 by purchase, or by condemnation proceedings in the probate 
 court of Jefferson County, in the name of the State of Alabama, 
 such property real and personal, as may be necessary or proper 
 for its purposes and may have and exercise all such powers and 
 privileges as may be necessary or proper for earring out the 
 purposes of its organization, as herein declared. 
 
 Section 2. The business, property, and affairs of the cor- 
 poration shall be under the management and control of a board 
 of directors, which shall consist of seven women and the gov- 
 ernor, the State superintendent of education, the commissioner 
 of agriculture and industries, and the attorney-general of the 
 State who shall be ex-officio directors. The women constituting 
 the first board of directors shall be nominated by the governor 
 and confirmed by the senate, and those thus nominated and con- 
 firmed shall hold, two for two years, two for four years, and three 
 for six years. Those holding for these respective terms to be 
 designated by the governor in making nominations therefor to 
 the senate. Thereafter the women members of said board shall 
 be elected by the continuing members thereof at the expiration 
 of their respective terms; and all vacancies caused by death, 
 resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the board. The term 
 of office of each member of the board, after the expiration of the 
 first term, shall be for six years. 
 
 Section 3. The board of directors shall elect a president, 
 vice-president, secretary, and treasurer, and such other officers, 
 agents, and employees as to them shall seem necessary or expedi- 
 ent whose term of office or employment shall be for such time as 
 the board may prescribe; and the board may remove any such 
 officer, agent or employee at any time, with or without cause. 
 The board may also fill all vacancies occurring in any such of- 
 fices. 
 
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 Section 4. The board of directors may make such by-laws, 
 rules, and regulations not inconsistent with the laws of this State, 
 as shall be necessary or expedient for the goverrjnent ^nd man-r 
 agement of said institution, and of its officers ^^g^nt^s,; arid^ enir,. 
 ployees, with power to alter, modify, change orr^peal the samel 
 
 Section 5. The board shall meet annually, at such time, is^Wjii 
 at such place as may be prescribed by the by-laws ; 'andf special 
 meetings may be held at the call of the president, or of the gov- 
 ernor or of a majority of the women directors, upon such notice 
 as may be prescribed by the by-laws. 
 
 Section 6. Said school shall receive, care, and provide for the 
 welfare of white boys between the ages of six and eighteen who 
 by their course of conduct or surroundings, are likely to become 
 base or criminal or hurtful to the State or the best interests of 
 society to be committed to the keeping of said school under the 
 provisions of this article, or who may be voluntarily committed 
 to its keeping by the parent or parents, or person having them 
 in charge, or who, having no parent, guardian, or other person 
 to care for them, voluntarily commit themselves to its keeping. 
 
 Section 7. Any justice of the Supreme Court, Chancellor, 
 judge of probate, circuit judge or judge of any city or criminal 
 court of this State may cause to be brought before him, upon his 
 own motion or the sworn complaint of another, any white boy 
 between the ages of six (6) and eighteen (18) years, who may 
 come within any of the following descriptions, to-wit; Any 
 white boy who is begging, or any one who is offering for sale or 
 selling anything as mere cover for begging; any who have been 
 abandoned by their parents, or who have abandoned their parents 
 and homes, and have no visible means of support any who do 
 not attend the public schools, and idle away their time in the 
 streets, without any actual occupation or means of support, any 
 who are orphans, and have no sufficient or proper guardian to 
 care for their physical, moral, and mental welfare, to insure the 
 child against pauperism and crime ; any who may be found desti- 
 tute, or whose parents are both drunkards, or whose mother is a 
 drunkard, lewd, or in prison ; and such child is not supported and 
 controlled ; any who shall have been arrested and brought before 
 police courts repeatedly for petty offenses, and shall appear to be 
 beyond control of parents. When any such child is brought be- 
 fore such judge, he shall proceed, at such time as he may appoint, 
 to investigate the condition and surroundings of such child, and 
 upon such investigation, if he shall be satisfied that the child 
 comes within any one of said descriptions, and that it would be 
 for the interest of such child that he be committed to said institu- 
 tion, he will make an order to that effect and commit the child to 
 said institution, to be held and provided for under its rules and 
 
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 regulations. At any such investigation, the judge holding the 
 same shall allow any one to appear for the child and resist such 
 commitment ; and he shall not make any such commitment if the 
 parent^ gUiftitiiaai or a person who is related to the child within 
 the. fourth degree, and sufficiently qualified in his opinion to take 
 c^re oif «ind prpyid6 for the child, will appear and agree in writing 
 to take cafe of and provide for the child until he shall arrive at 
 the age of sixteen (16) years. 
 
 Section 8. Any child brought before any judge for such com- 
 mitment or any person for such child, may within five days, 
 appeal from the decision of the judge committing him, to the 
 circuit or city court held in the county in which such investiga- 
 tion is had, upon giving bond, with sufficient sureties, to be 
 approved by the Judge, and in such sum as may be fixed by him, 
 to have the child forthcoming when the appeal is heard ; and if 
 the appeal be taken by any person for the child, the bond shall 
 further provide for the maintenance of the child until said appeal 
 is disposed of. If, upon the hearing of the appeal, the decision 
 of the judge causing the committment is sustained, the child 
 shall be committed by the court to said institution; but if that 
 decision is not sustained, the child shall be discharged. And the 
 judge before whom such investigation is made, or to be made, 
 may issue all process that may be necessary to have the child 
 brought before him, or for committment ; and such process shall 
 be executed by the sheriff of the county. 
 
 Section 9. Any child committed to said institution under the 
 provisions of this article shall be kept therein until he arrives 
 at the age of twenty-one (21) years, unless sooner dismissed 
 therefrom by the order of the board of directors, or in pursuance 
 of any by-laws of the institution or by order of the governor of 
 the State. 
 
 Section 10. The ex-officio members of the board shall at 
 least once a year visit the institution and examine into its man- 
 agement and condition; and at each session of the Legislature- 
 they shall make to that body a report touching the institution and 
 its management and condition. 
 
 Section 11. When any white boy between the ages of seven 
 (7) and sixteen (16) years shall have been tried and convicted 
 of any crime punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary, or 
 in jail, or by hard labor for the county, before any court of this 
 State, the court may, if of the opinion that the interests of the 
 child would thereby be promoted, sentence such child to com- 
 mittment to said school, in lieu of such imprisonment, or hard 
 labor for the county. 
 
 Section 12. Said institution may, in its discretion, receive 
 any child placed in its care and keeping by its parent or parents, 
 
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 without the authority of any court, and may keep said child until 
 it is twenty-one (21) years of age ; but this shall be done without 
 first making provisions for the maintenance of said child under 
 the rules and regulations of said institution. 
 
 Section 13. From the time of the lawful reception of any 
 child into the institution, and during its stay, said institution 
 shall have the exclusive care, custody; and control of the child, 
 under such rules and regulations as the board of directors may 
 provide. 
 
 Section 14. The officers of said school shall receive and take 
 into it all children committed thereto by competent authority, 
 or received therein as aforesaid, and shall cause all children in 
 the school to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge 
 as may be suited to their years and capacities. The boys shall 
 be taught such useful trades as the board may direct, and they 
 shall be taught according to the course of the public schools of 
 the State. 
 
 Section 15. The treasurer of the school shall, before entering 
 upon the discharge of the duties of office, execute bond, payable 
 to the "Alabama Boys', Industrial School" with good and suf- 
 ficient sureties, and in such sum as the board of directors may 
 prescribe, and with condition to faithfully discharge the duties 
 of his office. 
 
 Section 16. Any committment under this article, whether by 
 judge, court, or parent, or other person having in charge the 
 child, shall be full sufficient, and competent authority to the 
 officer's and agents of said school for the detention and keeping 
 therein of the child so committed. 
 
 Section 17. Provision shall be made for the care of convict 
 children, separate and apart from the other children, so far as 
 the same can be done with the means at hand. 
 
 Section 18. The annual legislative appropriation for the sup- 
 port and maintenance of the Alabama Boy's Industrial School 
 shall be based upon an affidavit of the treasurer or other execu- 
 tive officer of said school made at the beginning of each quarter, 
 showing the number of inmates of said school during the pre- 
 ceding quarter. The State auditor is authorized and directed to 
 draw his warrant quarterly on the State treasurer in favor of 
 the treasurer of the Alabama Boys' Industrial school for the 
 payment of said amounts. Any special legislative appropriation 
 for the purchase of land, for the erection and equipment of 
 buildings, or for any other purpose shall be paid out under the 
 authority of the board of directors, and the State auditor is au- 
 thorized to draw his warrant on the State treasurer for the 
 amounts of said appropriations upon requisition of the Gov- 
 ernor. 
 
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 ARTICLE 39. THE ALABAMA REFORM SCHOOL FOR 
 JUVENILE NEGRO LAW BREAKERS. 
 
 Section 1. The Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro 
 Lawbreakers located at Mt. Meigs, Montgomery County, Ala- 
 bama, shall be governed and controlled by a board of trustees 
 composed of the governor, the State Superintendent of educa- 
 tion and seven other trustees ; five of whom may be negro women 
 who are interested in the proper education and training of juve- 
 nile negro law breakers, to be appointed by the governor by and 
 with the advice and consent of the senate. 
 
 Section 2. The school shall be a corporation named and 
 called The Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Law- 
 breakers, and by that name may acquire and hold real and per- 
 sonal property, contract and sue, and have all other powers neces- 
 sary for conducting such an educational institution. 
 
 Section 3. The school is established for the proper educa- 
 tion and training of juvenile negro lawbreakers, as may be law- 
 fully committed to it. The course of instruction in the school 
 shall include a common school education, with a thorough train- 
 ing in agriculture and industries, and giving special attention to 
 moral training so as to make him a self respecting, industrious 
 good citizen. Provided, that no criminal over the age of fifteen 
 (15) years shall be admitted to said institution. 
 
 Section 4. The board of trustees accept the land and build- 
 ings at Mount Meigs where the reformatory is now located, and 
 known as the "reformatory for negro boys", under the manage- 
 ment of the State federation of colored women's clubs, incor- 
 porated under the laws of Alabama. The board of trustees shall 
 take care of the property and school and manage and control it 
 under this act. The term of office of two of the men and two of 
 the women first appointed under this Act, shall expire on Monday 
 after the second Tuesday in January, 1913, and their successors 
 shall hold the full term of eight years. The other trustees ap- 
 pointed under this act shall hold office of trustees until Monday 
 after the second Tuesday in January 1915, and their successors 
 shall hold office for a term of eight years. If any trustee should 
 die, or resign the governor shall appoint a successor to hold for 
 the unexpired term. All trustees for the school shall be ap- 
 pointed by the governor by and with the consent and advice of 
 the Senate. 
 
 Section 5. The trustees shall have the power to govern and 
 control the school in all things, to prescribe the qualifications of 
 the officers and teachers, fix their terms of office, and elect them 
 to and remove them from office whenever the good of the school 
 requires it. They shall have the power to require of any officer 
 
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 or agent of the school a bond and the power to fix the penalty and 
 prescribe the conditions thereof. 
 
 Section 6. The authorities of the school shall receive every 
 negro boy who may be committed to it by an order or judgment 
 of any court of record to the State of Alabama and support, gov- 
 ern and teach the boy until he shall be of the age of eighteen (18) 
 years or legally discharged from the school. 
 
 Section 7. Inasmuch as the trustees have accepted a proper 
 deed from the "State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs," a 
 corporation, to twenty (20) acres of land and all improvements 
 situated thereon, the said trustees are hereby authorized to buy 
 such other lands and buildings in connection with said institution 
 as they may deem proper, having regard to the healthf ulness of 
 the location, its surroundings, and accessibility to the railroad; 
 and shall have authority to erect thereupon any and all buildings, 
 structures or machinery of every kind, suitable and necessary for 
 the use and maintenance of the school. 
 
 Section 8. The per capita appropriation for the support 
 and maintenance of the school shall be paid monthly upon the 
 sworn statement of the president of the school and approval by 
 the governor, out of the State treasury. The expenses for trans- 
 porting any boy to the school, including the expenses of one 
 guard, shall be paid out of the State treasury upon the sworn 
 statement of the president of the school with the approval of the 
 governor. 
 
 Section 9. The board of trustees in charge of said school, 
 are hereby given power and authority to make all such rules and 
 regulations as may be needful for the successful operation of 
 said school and for the employment of all such guards as may be 
 necessary in the successful management and control of said 
 school, and to fix the salaries to be paid such guards and to limit 
 the number thereof, which salaries shall be paid monthly upon 
 the sworn statement of the president of the school and approved 
 by the governor, out of the State treasury. 
 
 Section 10. The earnings and all other revenue derived from 
 whatever source, shall be delivered to the board of trustees and 
 used by such board for such purpose as such board of trustees 
 may deem proper. Or such earnings may at the discretion of 
 the said board of trustees, be paid in whole or in part, into the 
 State Treasury. 
 
 ARTICLE 40. SCHOOL LANDS, LEASE AND SALE. 
 
 Section 1. School lands, within the meaning of this Code, 
 are sections numbered sixteen, in every township granted by the 
 United States for the use of schools in the township, and such 
 
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 other lands as may have been granted to any township or district 
 for the use of schools ; and all such lands are vested in the State 
 in trust to execute the objects of the grant. 
 
 Section 2. The State superintendent of education is author- 
 ized and empowered to sell and dispose of all school lands or any 
 part of the timber thereon, together with those which have been 
 heretofore or may hereafter be certified to the State for the use 
 and benefit of the several townships or districts in which was a 
 deficiency in the amount of land originally certified to the State 
 for their benefit, subject to the approval of the governor. 
 
 Section 3. No school lands, except indemnity lands, shall be 
 sold without the consent of the inhabitants of the township or 
 district in which such lands are located. Said consent shall be 
 obtained and shown by a petition in writing addressed to the 
 State superintendent of education requesting and consenting to 
 the sale of such lands signed by a majority of the legally quali- 
 fied voters of the towship or district. This petition must be 
 verified by the affidavit of at least three of the signers, certifying 
 that a majority of the inhabitants of the township or district in 
 which the lands are situated desire a sale thereof and that the 
 persons making and signing said petition constitute a majority 
 of the qualified electors residing in said township or district. 
 
 Section 4. If any purchaser fails to make the payment or to 
 give his notes with approved securities, and secured by a mort- 
 gage on the land, as required, the land bid off by him must be 
 immediately resold, if practicable, but if not practicable to make 
 the resale at once, it may be resold at a future day, as if no sale 
 had been made, but the requirements prescribed in Section three 
 (3) of this article must be complied with de novo. 
 
 Section 5. The proceeds arising from such sales, after the 
 payment of all proper costs and expenses thereof, shall be, by the 
 State superintendent of education, paid into the State treasury 
 to the credit of the counties, townships, or school districts to 
 which the same may belong in the proportion of their interests 
 therein, so as to carry out the object and purposes of the original 
 grants, gift, or laws by which such lands were acquired for 
 school purposes, as nearly as practicable under the existing school 
 laws. 
 
 Section 6. All notes taken by the State superintendent of 
 education for the purchase of such lands must be secured by 
 mortgage and must be held by him until the same are due, and 
 if not then paid, may be placed with the Attorney-General for 
 collection. 
 
 Section 7. Such sales may be made from time to time, at 
 public or private sale, as in the judgment of the State superin- 
 tendent of education shall best promote the interests of the school 
 fund of the State, and shall be for cash, or part cash and part 
 
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 on time, as the State superintendent of education and the Gov- 
 ernor may deem best ; but in no case shall there be less than one- 
 fourth of the purchase money paid in cash, and the remainder 
 may be payable in yearly installments to extend over a period of 
 not more than three years, and shall be secured by notes with 
 securities and by mortgage on the land to be approved by the 
 State superintendent of education, and shall bear interest from 
 the date of the sale. 
 
 Section 8. The State superintendent of education may select 
 such lots as he thinks proper, to reserve from cultivation for the 
 benefit of the timber thereon, and must mark the same "reserved" 
 on the plat thereof. 
 
 Section 9. The lots reserved for timber are for the common 
 benefit of the lessees of the other lots ; but no timber must be cut 
 down, injured, or destroyed, as long as there is sufficient on the 
 other lots, which the State superintendent of education is to 
 determine; but the lessees must in no case cut down, injure, or 
 destroy such timber without permission from the State superin- 
 tendent of education, which may be given on such terms as he 
 may think proper, having due regard to the interest of the town- 
 ship or district. 
 
 Section 10. Any person who, without authority cuts dowii, 
 boxes, injures or destroys any tree on school lands shall forfeit 
 and pay for every such tree the sum of twenty-five ($25) dol- 
 lars, to be recovered before any court having jurisdiction, in the 
 name of the county board of education for the schools located in 
 the township in which such lands are located, or the school dis- 
 trict in which such lands are located. 
 
 Section 11. All fines and forfeitures under the preceding 
 section shall be paid into the State treasury, and added to the 
 credit of the permanent sixteenth section fund of the township. 
 
 Section 12. The State superintendent of education, on re- 
 ceiving from the purchaser the cash payment, and his notes and 
 mortgages for the deferred payments, must give to him a certifi- 
 cate of purchase, describing the lands purchased, and showing 
 the number of acres and the amount of the purchase money. 
 
 Section 13. Such certificate conveys to the purchaser, his 
 heirs, or assigns, a conditional estate in fee, to become absolute 
 on the payment of the purchase money and interest, and to revert 
 to the State for the uses originally granted in the following cases ; 
 1. When all the notes have become due, and the makers have left 
 the State or died insolvent. 2. When a recovery on such notes is 
 defeated by any defense avoiding the contract of sale. 3. When 
 a recovery is had against all the makers, and execution has been 
 returned "no property", by the proper officer of the county in 
 which the township or district lies; or when judgment is had 
 and execution returned against any one or more of such makers 
 
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 "no property" and the others have left the State, or died insol- 
 vent. 
 
 Section 14. No proceeding is necessary to revest the title in 
 the State on the happening of the events specified in the preced- 
 ing section, but such lands may be recovered in the name of the 
 State, for the use of the township or district, against any per- 
 son in possession of the same, upon proof of the facts ; and it is 
 the duty of the clerk of the court in v^hich the suit is pending, or 
 the judgment recovered, to certify the facts to the State superin- 
 tendent of education, on the happening of the events specified 
 in the second and third sub-divisions of the preceding section, and 
 failing to do so within a reasonable time, he forfeits the sum of 
 one hundred dollars; one-half to the person suing for the same, 
 and the other to the State for the use of the schools of the town- 
 ship or district. When no money is recovered in suits on notes 
 for purchase money of school lands, no costs must be taxed 
 against the township or district for such suits. 
 
 Section 15. The amount received by the State upon recover- 
 ies had under the last preceding section is to be added to the 
 credit of the permanent sixteenth section fund of the township. 
 
 Section 16. A patent issues, on the payment of the purchase 
 money, to the purchaser, his heirs, or assigns, and when the 
 patent is to the heirs, it vests a title in all persons entitled to claim 
 in that capacity under the provisions of the Code of Alabama. 
 
 Section 17. The secretary of State must issue patents, upon 
 satisfactory evidence furnished him of full payment of purchase 
 money to any person, agent, or other officer legally authorized to 
 receive such payment ; and upon proof of a mistake in the issue of 
 any patent, he must correct the same or issue a new patent on 
 the return of the original to his office. 
 
 Section 18. Except under the provisions of the preceding 
 section, no patent must issue without the certificate of the State 
 superintendent of education that the whole amount of the pur- 
 chase money specified in the certificate, with all interest thereon, 
 has been paid. 
 
 Section 19. All notes for school lands held by or deposited 
 with the State superintendent of education, if not paid within 
 six (6) months after maturity, must be placed with the Attorney 
 General for collection ; but this section shall not be so construed 
 as to prevent the State superintendent of education from ordering 
 suit on notes at any time after maturity, when so ordered by the 
 sureties on the notes. 
 
 Section 20. The State superintendent of education may ap- 
 point agents for surveying, mapping, or plotting school lands, for 
 estimating the timber or minerals thereon, and for the perform- 
 ance of such other duties as may be assigned them by the State 
 superintendent of education for the protection of the best inter- 
 
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 ests of the schools, and for the collection of notes for purchase 
 money of land, being responsible for any neglect on the part 
 of such agents. 
 
 Section 21. All collections on notes given for the sale or 
 lease of school lands must be paid into the treasury of the State, 
 to the credit of the proper township or district. 
 
 Section 22. All funds now in the State treasury derived from 
 the sale of sixteenth section or other school lands, or which may 
 hereafter accrue from sale of such lands, together with the re- 
 demption money of other lands in which former accumulations 
 have been invested under an act approved March 1, 1881, en- 
 tiled, "An Act to authorize the compromise and settlement of 
 claims for school lands in this State", are covered into the State 
 treasury and made available for general purposes, and the faith 
 and credit of the State is pledged for the payment of the interest 
 on such fund to the public schools of the State, at the rate of six 
 per cent per annum. 
 
 Section 23. The State superintendent of education may, with 
 the approval of the Governor, lease out all or any of the school 
 and indemnity lands for a term not exceeding five (5) years, or 
 may enter into a contract or contracts permitting persons to mine 
 all coal or other minerals therefrom, or to take therefrom oil or 
 gas or either, upon a royalty for a term not exceeding twenty 
 (20) years; and the net proceeds of all money received from the 
 lease of such lands or the royalty for the mineral mined there- 
 from or the oil and gas or either ; taken therefrom shall be paid 
 into the State treasury monthly to the credit of the townships 
 to which such lands belong in the proportion of their interest 
 therein. 
 
 Section 24. When a person is in possession of any sixteenth 
 section lands under color of title, and has been in such possession 
 for more than 20 years prior to the first day of May, 19 -.8, and 
 neither the State, nor any department thereof holds any note, 
 bond, obligation or other contract of any one for the purchase 
 money of such land, and the State superintendent of education, 
 and the State auditor shall so certify, and the attorney general 
 shall certify that proof of adverse possession, by the person now 
 in possession, or coupled with his predecessor in possession, for 
 20 years prior to May the first, 1908, under color of title, has 
 been made, which proof is satisfactory to the attorney general, 
 the Secretary of the State must issue a patent, in the name of the 
 State to such land, to the person entitled thereto under this Act. 
 
 Section 25. The governor, State Superintendent of educa- 
 tion, and attorney general are constituted a board of compromise 
 for the purpose of examining into the title or claim of the State 
 to any sixteenth section or other school lands which have illegally 
 
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 passed out of the possession of the State, or which have hereto- 
 fore been disposed of by the State and not paid for. The board 
 may take all action necessary to recover any such lands, or if 
 deemed best, may settle and compromise any conflicting claims 
 thereto between the State and persons claiming the land. When 
 any compromise or settlement is made the Secretary of State 
 shall, upon the order of the board of compromise, issue patents 
 to the land the claims to which have been so compromised. 
 
 ARTICLE 41. BONDS OF OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES. 
 
 Section 1. All bonds of officials and employees required un- 
 der the provisions of this act shall be executed by a surety com- 
 pany authorized to do business in Alabama and approved by the 
 State superintendent of education. The said bonds shall be filed 
 in the office of the State Department of Education in Montgom- 
 ery unless otherwise instructed by the State board of education. 
 
 ARTICLE 42. TOWNSHIPS ABOLISHED. 
 
 Section 1. Township lines for school purposes are abolished ; 
 provided the inhabitants of no township shall be deprived of the 
 sixteenth section or any fund arising therefrom, or of selling and 
 leasing such lands as provided by law. 
 
 ARTICLE 43. ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND NARCOTICS. 
 
 Section 1. County and City boards of education shall require 
 that regular instruction be given in all schools under their direc- 
 tion as to the nature of alcoholic drinks, tobacco and other nar- 
 cotics, and their effects upon the human system. 
 
 ARTICLE 44. PRIVATE, DENOMINATIONAL, AND PARO- 
 CHIAL SCHOOL REPORTS. 
 
 Section 1. All private, denominational and parochial schools 
 or institutions of any kind having a school in connection there- 
 with shall register annually on or before the tenth day of Octo- 
 ber with the State Department of Education and are required 
 to report on uniform blanks furnished by the State Superintend- 
 ent of Education giving such statistics as relate to the number 
 of pupils, the number of instructors, enrollment, attendance, 
 course of study, length of term, cost of tuition, funds, value of 
 property, and the general condition of the school, and any presi- 
 dent or acting head of any such institution mentioned above who 
 fails to so register or to make the reports required above when 
 
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 called on shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten ($10.00) 
 dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars for each and 
 every offense. 
 
 Section 2. All private, denominational, or parochial schools 
 offering instruction to pupils v^ithin the compulsory attendance 
 ages shall keep all records and make all reports that may be re- 
 quired in any compulsory attendance law now in force or that 
 may hereafter be enacted in the State of Alabama, and no pupil 
 attending any private, denominational, or parochial school which 
 fails to comply with the requirements of this act shall be con- 
 sidered as meeting the legal requirements of such compulsory at- 
 tendance law. 
 
 ARTICLE 45. 
 
 Section 1. Be it further enacted : That all laws and parts 
 of laws in conflict with this act shall be and the same are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted : That if any provision or 
 provisions of this act shall be held by the Supreme Court of the 
 State to be unconstitutional such holding shall not affect any 
 other provision of this act, it being the intent and purpose hereof 
 that each provision hereof shall stand or fall on its own merits 
 and that the judicial annullment for unconstitutionality of any 
 provision hereof shall have no effect upon any other provision 
 not so annulled. 
 
 Section 3. Be it further enacted : That in lieu of any pro- 
 vision of this act that shall be judicially annulled for unconstitu- 
 tionality, the existing law at the time of the adoption of this 
 act governing that subject shall be and remain in full force and 
 effect and shall take the place of and be substituted for the provi- 
 sion so annulled. 
 
 Section 4. Be it further enacted : That nothing herein con- 
 tained shall be construed so as to make any appropriation for the 
 purposes set forth in this Act, all reference to appropriations and 
 expenditures being intended to refer and be subject to appropria- 
 tions otherwise authorized or provided by or under the Constitu- 
 tion and Laws of the State, including specific appropriations for 
 carrying out the provisions and purposes of this Act by the^ 
 present Legislature. 
 
 Approved September 26, 1919. 
 
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 No. 7C4.) (S. 309— Cowan. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the establishment and maintenance of a home for mental 
 inferiors in Alabama; to define who are mental inferiors; to provide for 
 their care, treatment and training, and to appropriate the money neces- 
 sary therefor from the State Treasury. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there- is hereby created and established 
 upon or near the grounds of the Bryce Hospital, near Tuscaloosa, 
 Alabama, a Home and School for mental deficients or inferiors 
 as they may be hereinafter defined, and to be known as "The 
 Alabama Home." 
 
 Section 2. The home shall be managed and controlled by a 
 Board of Managers, composed of the Governor, who shall be ex- 
 officio a member, the seven trustees of the Alabama Insane Hos- 
 pitals as now constituted, and three other persons, two of whom 
 shall be women. Said three last named members shall be ap- 
 pointed or elected by the Board of Trustees of the Alabama In- 
 sane Hospitals, one for a period of one year, one for a period 
 of two years and one for a period of three years from the date 
 of their election or appointment; and upon the expiration of 
 said terms of office, and all later terms, successors shall be elected 
 or appointed by the Board of Managers of the Home for periods 
 of seven years, and until their successors are elected or ap- 
 pointed ; aH terms to end on the 31st day of December of the 
 last year of each term. 
 
 Section 3. The Superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hos- 
 pitals shall, with and by the assent and advice of the board of 
 managers of the home, appoint a superintendent for the home. 
 Such superintendent shall be responsible for the management 
 and control of the home directly to the superintendent of the Ala- 
 bama Insane Hospitals, and may be removed at any time by the 
 superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospitals, for just cause, 
 the same to be set forth in writing and entered upon the min- 
 utes of the proceedings of the board of managers ; the board of 
 managers concurring therein, or he may be removed at any time 
 by the board of managers, for just cause set forth in writing 
 as provided next above. The term of office and the salary of 
 the superintendent of the home shall be fixed by the board of 
 managers, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the 
 Alabama Insane Hospitals. The superintendent of the home 
 must be a graduate physician with experience and training in the 
 specialty of psychiatry, a married man of high moral character 
 and refinement. 
 
 Section 4. The superintendent of the home, with the con- 
 sent and approval of the superintendent of the Alabama Insane 
 
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 Hospitals shall manage and conduct all the affairs of the home; 
 appoint all officers and employes, including a matron, teachers 
 and attendants ; fix their salaries or wages ; direct their services 
 and dismiss them from the service of the home with the advice 
 and approval of the superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hos- 
 pitals. 
 
 Section 5. The Board of managers shall prescribe rules and 
 regulations for the government of the home, the residents therein 
 and the officers and employes thereof, and the superintendent 
 of the home shall be responsible directly to the superintendent 
 of the Alabama Insane Hospitals, and to the board of managers 
 for the faithful execution of all such rules and regulations as 
 may be prescribed by the managers. 
 
 Section 6. The following are declared to be mental infe- 
 riors or deficients, or feeble-minded: All persons of whatever 
 age, who are deficient or inferior to the extent of being classed 
 in either of the following groups of the feeble-minded : that is to 
 say, idiots, imbeciles, feeble-minded or morons, and any of whom 
 may be or may not be, epileptics, but not violent or insane. The 
 terms "feeble-minded" and "mental inferior or deficient" within 
 the meaning of this Act shall include every person with such a 
 degree of mental defectiveness from birth, or from an early age, 
 that he is unable to care for himself and to manage his affairs 
 with ordinary prudence, or that he is a menace to the happiness 
 or safety of himself or of others in the community, and requires 
 care, supervision, and control either for his own protection or 
 for the protection of others. It is specifically recognized that the 
 greatest danger which the feeble minded constitute to the com- 
 munity lies in the frequency of the passing on of mental defect 
 from one generation to another. Any person within the above 
 named class, over the age of five years, and a resident of the 
 State of Alabama for more than a year, may be committed to the 
 home. 
 
 Section 7. Whenever any resident of the home shall become 
 insane, or violent or unmanageable the superintendent of the 
 Alabama Insane Hospitals shall make an order, in writing, a 
 copy to be filed with the superintendent of the home, and the 
 original transmitted to the proper authorities of the Alabama 
 Insane Hospitals, transferring such person to the proper Insane 
 Hospital, and such order shall be authority for confining such 
 person, so transferred, in the Insane Hospitals just as though 
 such person had been properly committed to the Insane Hospi- 
 tals in the first instance. So, also, any person confined in the 
 Insane Hospitals bound to be not insane but to be a mental infe- 
 rior or deficient, as defined in this Act, may be transferred from 
 the Alabama Insane Hospitals to the home by a written order of 
 the superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospitals, said order 
 
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 to accompany the patient to the home ; a copy of the same to be 
 filed in the hospital from which the patient is transferred. 
 
 Section 8. The relative, guardian, or other person interested 
 in an individual of the class herein defined as mental inferiors 
 or deficients, or feeble minded, desiring to commit such person 
 to the home may, if the person be .under the age of twenty-one 
 years, apply to the judge of the juvenile court, or where no juve- 
 nile court exists, to the Probate Judge of the county of such per- 
 son's residence, and if over the age of twenty-one years, to the 
 Probate Judge of the county of such person's residence, for the 
 commitment of such person to The Alabama Home; and upon 
 such application such judge to whom the application is made, 
 shall at once apply to the superintendent of the home, with de- 
 scription on a form prescribed by the board of managers of the 
 home and upon being advised by the superintendent of the home 
 that such applicant can be received, if a proper person, such 
 judge shall examine three persons one of whom must be a prac- 
 ticing physician, who are acquainted with the person sought to 
 be committed, and with the condition of such person, and such 
 judge if he is satisfied that the person is within class herein 
 defined as mental inferiors or deficients, or feeble-minded, and is 
 otherwise eligible to admission into the home, shall make an order 
 on a form prescribed by the board, committing such person to the 
 home and arrange to have such person taken to the home, at the 
 expense of the county if necessary. The judge of the juvenile 
 court and the judge of probate to whom an application of com- 
 mitment is made shall have full jurisdiction of the application 
 and the person on whose behalf the application is made, and 
 shall have the power and authority to commit such person to the 
 home, notwithstanding the family or relatives may object there- 
 to; and when he has made an order of commitment and no 
 member of the family or friend or guardian will convey the per- 
 son so committed to the home his order of commitment shall be 
 delivered to the sheriff of the county who shall at once convey 
 such person to the home and deliver him (or her) to the superin- 
 tendent of the home, and shall in all things obey said order of 
 commitment. 
 
 Section 9. The committing judge shall be required to fur- 
 nish such data relative to family and personal history of the 
 person being committed as shall be prescribed by the board of 
 managers in such form or forms as may be furnished him by 
 the superintendent of the home, and the superintendent of the 
 home may decline to admit an applicant for whom the history 
 has not been satisfactorily furnished along with commitment 
 paper. The history is necessary to secure for the patient and 
 the community the best service of the home. It is best furnished 
 by the family physician or a near relative well acquainted with 
 
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 the facts in the case but it shall be the duty of the committing 
 judge to have the history sent with the commitment paper and 
 the patient. 
 
 Section 10. The superintendent of the home with the advice 
 and consent of the superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hos- 
 pitals shall prescribe for the treatment of the inmates of the 
 home, and if after consultation the superintendent of the home 
 and superintendent of the Alabama Insane Hospitals deem it 
 advisable they are hereby authorized and empowered to sterilize 
 any inmate. 
 
 Section 11. If in the opinion of the superintendent of the 
 home, concurred in by the superintendent of the Hospitals, it is 
 deemed proper to parole any inmate of the home, the superin- 
 tendent of the home may grant a parole to such inmate for 
 any length of time deemed advisable and such parole may be 
 revoked at any time by the superintendent of the home when; in 
 his judgment, the condition of such inmate shall render such 
 revocation advisable. No parole shall be issued to any inmate 
 of the home unless the superintendent of the home is satisfied 
 that such inmate will be properly cared for in a family having 
 means to do so and wherein such inmate will find a proper moral 
 and congenial atmosphere. The superintendent may require the 
 person applying for a parole of an inmate to sign a written obli- 
 gation with sureties to properly care for and support such inmate 
 while on parole, and to return said inmate to the home at his own 
 expense in the event the parole in revoked. The superintendent 
 of the home must not grant a parole to any resident unless he 
 is of the opinion that it will not be detrimental to such resident 
 or to society, and the superintendent must recall said parole 
 whenever he is satisfied that the welfare of such paroled inmate, 
 or of the community to which such inmate is paroled requires it. 
 If in the opinion of the superintendent of the home, concurred 
 in by the superintendent of the Insane Hospitals any inmate of 
 the home is not a mental deficient or inferior as defined in this 
 Act, he (or she) may be permanently discharged by the superin- 
 tendent of the home. 
 
 Section 12. The buildings of the Home at Tuscaloosa, Ala- 
 bama shall be located by the superintendent of the Alabama 
 Insane Hospitals by and with the consent and approval of the 
 board of managers, on the most eligible site on the land around 
 the Bryce Hospital and as far away from the Hospital buildings 
 as may be practical to supply the buildings of the home with 
 water, gas, electric current and coal from the hospital. And the 
 board of managers is hereby authorized and empowered to pur- 
 chase in the name of the State of Alabama any additional land 
 lying near the lands of the Bryce Hospitals as may be found 
 necessary for the proper location and conduct of the home. 
 
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 Section 13. The board of managers of the home shall con- 
 stitute a building committee with power to employ a competent 
 architect to prepare plans and specifications for the buildings 
 necessary for the home, and to call for bids for the erection of 
 said buildings, to let the contract for such buildings or to employ 
 a qualified contractor to superintend the erection and con- 
 struction of such buildings under their supervision and control. 
 Section 14. The buildings for the home shall be located, 
 built, and equipped so as to facilitate the proper classification of 
 residents according to age, sex, color and grade of deficiency or 
 inferiority; their employment and training in farming and 
 gardening, mechanics or other useful industries or occupations 
 and to make provisions for schools, church worship, amusement, 
 and diversion that may be conductive to the health, happiness 
 and moral and mental improvement of the residents. 
 
 ■ Section 16. The Auditor of the State of Alabama shall draw 
 his warrant on the State Treasurer payable to the Treasurer of 
 the home on his order or requisition, countersigned by the super- 
 intendent of the home and approved by the Governor for the 
 fund necessary, and the sum thus drawn from the State Treas- 
 urer shall be used exclusively for the support and maintenance 
 of the home with the approval of the superintendents of the hos- 
 pitals. 
 
 Section 17. The board of managers may designate any incor- 
 porated bank in Tuscaloosa as the depositary of its funds and 
 may contract with such bank to perform all duties of Treasurer 
 and to pay interest on the daily cash balance to the credit of the 
 home as the board of managers may determine ; or the board of 
 managers may elect a treasurer, fix the amount of his compen- 
 sation, designate the amount of bond requires of him, pay for 
 its making and designate the bank in which the funds shall be 
 deposited. 
 
 Section 18. Pending the construction of the home the meet- 
 ings of the board of managers shall be held at the Bryce Hos- 
 pital in Tuscaloosa and as many meetings may be held as is found 
 necessary. After the home has been constructed and occupied, 
 the meetings of the board of managers shall be held at the home 
 as often as may be found necessary but the board shall always 
 meet on the day that the Trustees of the Alabama Insane Hos- 
 pitals meet. 
 
 Section 19. The Bryce Hospital may supply the home with 
 gas, water, ice and electric current from the hospital plant, but 
 when so supplied the home shall be charged for the same, an 
 amount not exceeding one per cent over the fair cost of manu- 
 facture and delivery; coal may also be supplied the home from 
 the mines of the Bryce Hospital and charged for at a sum not 
 exceeding the fair market value of the same grade of coal in the 
 
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 coal markets of the State. Until the gardens of the home yield 
 enough vegetables for the purpose of the home, such vegetables 
 as may be spared from the Hospitals gardens shall be supplied 
 to the home at prices to be fixed by the superintendent of the 
 hospitals not to exceed the market price of such vegetables in 
 Tuscaloosa. As soon as practical the board of managers shall 
 establish a modern dairy for the benefit of the home. 
 
 Section 20. Whenever the superintendent of the hospitals is 
 informed that there is a person confined in a poor house, jail, 
 an orphanage or a boarding school in the State of Alabama, 
 who should be a resident of the home, it shall be his duty to 
 examine in person, or through the superintendent of the home, 
 or by other proper deputy, every such person, and if such per- 
 son is found to be a mental inferior or a feeble-minded person 
 as herein defined and otherwise eligible for admission to the 
 home, he must make an order transferring such mental inferior 
 from such poor house orphanage, reformatory, or boarding school 
 to the home and the judge of probate of the county, from which 
 the defective person comes shall provide the means necessary to 
 transport such defective person to the home. 
 
 Section 21. In order to accomplish the purpose set forth 
 and to provide the necessary grounds, buildings, furniture, light, 
 heat and water connections, sewerage and other equipment, and 
 to provide for the maintenance of the home when regularly 
 opened for the reception of inmates, the sum of fifty thousand 
 ($50,000) dollars per year for four successive years is hereby 
 appropriated out of the State Treasury for such purposes, pro- 
 vided that the money so appropriated shall remain in the State 
 Treasury until it is drawn out on requisition of the board of 
 managers and on the approval of the Governor for the purpose 
 of paying for the building material, machinery, labor, furniture, 
 and other equipment, as it is actually needed, and not until such 
 material, machinery, labor, furniture and equipment shall have 
 been delivered, performed or done ; and such sums monthly or 
 otherwise out of said appropriation shall be paid out for mainte- 
 nance of said home as the board of managers may require with 
 the approval of the Governor from and after the time the home 
 is regularly opened for the reception of the inmates. 
 
 Section 22. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with the 
 provisions of this Act shall be and they are hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 23. If any part of the section of this Act should be 
 declared unconstitutional such declaration shall invalidate no 
 other parts or sections of this Act. 
 
 Section 24. This Act shall become effective on and after its 
 passage. 
 
 Approved September 29, 1919. 
 
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 No. 703.) • (S. 738 — Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation to the public schools. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the sum of three hundred fifty thousand 
 ($350,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1919 
 and the sum of five hundred thousand ($500,000) dollars for 
 each and every year thereafter is hereby appropriated out of 
 any monies in the State treasury not otherv^ise appropriated to 
 the educational fund; provided that the above appropriations 
 shall be placed by the State Auditor to the credit of the educa- 
 tional fund on the books in his office on the first day of October 
 of the respective years and shall be appropriated by the State 
 superintendent of education and be drawn and disbursed as pro- 
 vided by law. 
 
 Section iy2. That there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 monies in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated an ad- 
 ditional sum of two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars for the 
 fiscal year beginning October 1, 1920, an additional sum of two 
 hundred fifty thousand ($250,000) dollars for the fiscal year 
 beginning October 1, 1921, and an additional sum of three hun- 
 dred fifty thousand ($350,000) dollars for the year beginning 
 October 1, 1922, to be released at the discretion of the Governor 
 and to be set apart and made available in the same manner as the 
 funds appropriated under section 1 above, provided that no part 
 of the funds appropriated under this section shall be released 
 after January 1, 1923, and the provisions for such appropriation 
 shall become void and inoperative from and after such date. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 705.) (S. 731— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation to the State Board of Education. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated annually out 
 of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated 
 the sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1919, 
 
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 and the sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars or so 
 much thereof as may be necessary for each and every year there- 
 after, to be used as a revolving fund by the State Board of Edu- 
 cation, provided that at least eighty per cent (80%) of the above 
 appropriation, if used, shall be expended for lengthening school 
 terms or otherwise bettering conditions in rural schools. 
 
 Section 11/2- That there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 monies in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated to be 
 released in the discretion of the governor, the additional sum of 
 fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning 
 October 1, 1919, and a like sum for each and every year of the 
 quadrennium to be used for the same purposes and to be drawn 
 in the same manner as the appropriation made under Section 
 1 above, provided that no part of the funds appropriated under 
 this section shall be released after January 1, 1923, and the 
 provision for such appropriation shall become void and inopera- 
 tive from and after such date. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 33, 1919. 
 
 No. 546.) (S. 733— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend Section 1780 of the Code of Alabama of 1907. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That Section 1789 of the Code of Alabama of 
 1907 be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 
 
 1780— CONTINGENT FUND FOR DEPARTMENT OF 
 EDUCATION. — There is hereby appropriated out of any money 
 in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of three 
 thousand ($3,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning October 
 1, 1919, and the sum of five thousand ($5>000) dollars for each 
 and every year thereafter, as a contingent fund for the State 
 Department of Education, and whenever it shall become neces- 
 sary to draw on such fund, the State superintendent of education 
 shall make requisition, upon the State auditor who shall draw 
 his warrant on the State treasure for the amount for which 
 requisition is made. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
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 No. 539.) (S. 723— Carmichael. 
 
 ' AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation for the benefit of those counties that may be levy- 
 ing and collecting a special county school tax during any fiscal year, and 
 to provide for the expenditure of the funds set apart for any county by 
 the county board of education. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the State superintendent of education shall 
 certify to the State auditor on the first day of October of each 
 year the several counties of the State that are levying and col- 
 lecting for that year a special tax for school purposes, aggre- 
 gating one, two, or three mills respectively, and the State auditor, 
 upon the request of the State superintendent of education, shall 
 draw his warrant for one thousand ($1,000) dollars upon the 
 State treasurer, in favor of the county treasurer of school funds 
 of any county levying and collecting a special tax for school pur- 
 poses of one mill and less than two mills; for two thousand 
 ($2,000) dollars, in favor of any county that may be levying and 
 collecting for that year special county school taxes aggregating 
 two mills and less than three mills; and for three thousand 
 ($3,000) dollars for any county in the State that may be levying 
 and collecting for that year special county school taxes aggregat- 
 ing not less than three mills. Each county shall receive the war- 
 rant representing the highest of the above amounts to which it 
 is entitled, and no other. 
 
 Section 2. That the funds so set apart for any county shall 
 be expended by the county board of education as, in the opinion 
 of the said county board, will best promote the cause of educa- 
 tion in said county, and* there is hereby appropriated annually 
 out of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated 
 the sum of one hundred ninety eight thousand ($198,000) dol- 
 lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year 
 beginning October 1, 1919, and the sum of two hundred one thou- 
 sand ($201,000) dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces- 
 sary for each and every year thereafter to give all counties qual- 
 ifying the amount to which said counties may be entitled under 
 the provisions of this article. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
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 No. 513.) (S. 734— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make appropriations to the State Department of Education. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum 
 of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars annually or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary for the certification and placement of teach- 
 ers including the employment of the necessary professional and 
 clerical help, the purchase of the necessary equipment and sup- 
 plies and other necessary expenses incident thereto, and the 
 further sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary is hereby appropriated annually out 
 of any funds in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated 
 for the training of teachers in service, including extension insti- 
 tute and reading circle work, the necessary salaries and expenses 
 of the professional and clerical help, and for such other related 
 purposes as may be necessary to make this Act of the greatest 
 benefit to the schools of the State; provided that all fees col- 
 lected for the certification of teachers and all enrollment fees in 
 the placement division shall be paid into the State Treasury. 
 When it shall become necessary to pay out any of the funds ap- 
 propriated under this Act, the State Superintendent of Educa- 
 tion shall make requisition upon the State Auditor who shall 
 draw his warrant upon the State treasure for the amount for 
 which requisition is made. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 26, 1919. 
 
 No. 545.) (S. 732— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation for the erection, repair and equipment of rural 
 schoolhouses. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated annually out 
 of any monies in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated 
 the sum of two thousand ($2,000) dollars for each county, in all 
 one hundred thirty-four thousand ($134,000) dollars, for the 
 erection, repair and equipment of rural schoolhouse in this State. 
 
 Section 2. That the unexpended balance on October 1, 1919, 
 
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 as shown by the books, kept by the State auditor and by the 
 State superintendent of education which have accrued to the 
 several counties of the State from the rural schoolhouse fund 
 provided in sections 1975 and 1993 inclusive, of article 31 of 
 the Code of Alabama of 1907 as amended by section 8 of an act 
 approved September 22, 1915 and also by section 8 of an act 
 approved February 17, 1919, are hereby declared to revert to the 
 State treasury and in lieu thereof an annual appropriation of 
 eighty-seven thousand five hundred ($87,500) dollars is made 
 for each year of the quadrennium, beginning October 1, 1919, and 
 ending September 30, 1923, out of any funds in the State treas- 
 ury not otherwise appropriated, in addition to the appropriation 
 set out in section 1 of this article. Out of the above appropria- 
 tion of eighty-seven thousand five hundred ($87,5C0) dollars, the 
 State superintendent of education may annually set aside such 
 an amount as may be deemed necessary to procure expert assist- 
 ants in the drawing of plans and specifications, in the prepara- 
 tion of estimates of bills of material, in the inspection of build- 
 ings, and for such other expenses incident thereto as are deemed 
 necessary and he shall apportion the remainder equally among 
 the several counties of the State, On the first day of October, 
 1920, and annually thereafter the total of any unexpended bal- 
 ances remaining to the credit of the counties, together with any 
 unexpended balance of the amount set aside as provided above, 
 shall be apportioned equally among all the counties of the State, 
 and the State superintendent of education shall certify such ap- 
 portionment to the State auditor. 
 
 Section 3. All funds appropriated under this act shall be 
 drawn and disbursed as provided by law. 
 
 Section 4. On September 1st of each year, any balance of the 
 appropriation unexpended and for which an application shall not 
 have been approved shall be re-apportioned among the counties 
 which have application pending in excess of the appropriations 
 for said counties. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 540.) (S. 724— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation for the establishment of libraries in the rural, 
 village and town schools of Alabama. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the sum of one hundred ($100) dollars for 
 each county, in all sixty seven hundred ($6700) dollars, is hereby 
 
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 appropriated annually out of any moneys in the State treasury 
 not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of establishing and 
 maintaining libraries in the public schools of the State. The 
 funds appropriated under this Act shall be drawn and disbursed 
 as provided by law. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 Approved September 29, 1919. 
 
 No. 541. (S. 725— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend Section 8 of an act "To provide for the acceptance of the benefits 
 of an Act by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
 States of America in Congress assembled, to provide for the promotion 
 of vocational education; to provide for the appointment of a State 
 Board of Vocational Education; and to provide for the duties thereof; 
 and to make appropriations for vocational education" approved Febru- 
 ary 15, 1919. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That Section 8 of an Act "To provide for the ac- 
 ceptance of benefits of an Act passed by the Senate and House 
 of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress 
 assembled to provide for the promotion of vocational education ; 
 to provide for the appointment of a State Board of Vocational 
 Educational, and to provide for the duties thereof ; and to make 
 appropriations for vocational education," approved February 
 19, 1919, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows : 
 
 Section 8. That the State of Alabama shall appropriate a 
 sum of money available for each fiscal year not less than the 
 maximum sum which may be allotted to the State of Alabama for 
 the purpose set forth in the said Federal Act, and there is hereby 
 appropriated out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise 
 appropriated for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1919, the 
 sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars; for the fiscal 
 year ending September 30, 1920, the sum of sixty-six thousand 
 ($66,000) dollars; for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1921, 
 the sum of eighty thousand ($80,000) dollars; for the fiscal year 
 ending September 30, 1922, the sum of ninety-one thousand 
 ($91,000) dollars; for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1923, 
 the sum of one hundred two thousand ($102,000) dollars, these 
 sums being the estimated amounts required to match the Federal 
 funds for the respective years. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
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 No. 547.) (S. 722— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation to the Alabama Illiteracy Commission or to the 
 State Board of Education, if created, for the removal of illiteracy in 
 Alabama. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum 
 seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500) for the fiscal 
 year beginning October 1, 1919, and the sum of twelve thousand 
 five hundred dollars ($12,500.) for each and every year there- 
 after, for the use of the Alabama Illiteracy Commission or of 
 the State Board of Education, if created, for the removal of 
 illiteracy in Alabama. The said fund shall be paid out upon 
 the requisition of the State superintendent of education upon 
 the State auditor who shall issue his warrant upon the State 
 treasurer for the amount for which requisition is made. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 532.) (S. 730— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation for the maintenance and supervision of county 
 high schools. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That in order to make provision for the annual 
 appropriation of three thousand ($3,000) dollars to each county 
 high school there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the 
 State treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one hun- 
 dred seventy-six thousand ($176,0C0) dollars or so much thereof 
 as may be necessary, for the fiscal year 1919-20, the sum of one 
 hundred eighty-five thousand ($185,000) dollars, or so much 
 thereof as may be necessary for the fiscal year 1920-21, the sum 
 of one hundred ninety-five thousand ($195,000) dollars, or so 
 much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year 1921-22, 
 the sum of two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars, or so 
 much thereof as may be necessary, for the fiscal year 1922-23, 
 provided, that an amount not to exceed five thousand ($5,000) 
 dollars annually from each of the above appropriations may be 
 expended for the supervision and inspection of county high 
 schools, including the necessary expenses incident thereto. The 
 funds appropriated under the provisions of this article shall be 
 paid out upon requisition of the State superintendent of educa- 
 
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 tion upon the State auditor who shall draw his warrant upon, 
 the State treasurer for the amount for which requisition is made. 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 533.) (S. 729— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To change the name of each of the nine branch district agricultural schools 
 arid experiment stations and to make appropriations for their mainte- 
 nance and support. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the names of the nine branch agricultural 
 schools and experiment stations, located at Jackson, Clark Coun- 
 ty, at Evergreen, Conecuh County, at Abbeville, Henry County, 
 at Sylacauga, Talladega County, at Wetumpka, Elmore County, 
 at Hamilton, Marion County, at Albertville, Marshall County, at 
 Athens, Limestone County, at Blountsville, Blount County, are 
 hereby changed and shall hereafter be known as State Secondary 
 Agricultural schools, and there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated for each 
 of the nine schools mentioned above for the fiscal year beginning 
 October 1, 1919, the sum of forty-five hundred ($4500.) dollars 
 to be paid in equal quarterly installments on October first, Janu- 
 ary the first. April the first, and July the first. There is hereby 
 appropriated the further sum of seven thousand five hundred 
 ($7, SCO) dollars annually for each State secondary agricultural 
 school beginning with the fiscal year October 1, 1920, as provided 
 by law. 
 
 Section 2. That all appropriations made under this act shall 
 be paid out upon requisition of the State superintendent of edu- 
 cation upon the State Auditor who shall draw his warrant upon 
 the State treasurer in favor of the secretary-treasurer of the 
 State secondary agricultural schools for the amount for which 
 requisition is made. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 543.) (S. 728— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To change the name of the Northeast Alabama Agricultural and industrial 
 Institute at Lineville and to make an appropriation for for its mainte- 
 nance and support. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 Section 1. That the name of the Northeast Alabama Agri- 
 cultural and Industrial Institute at Lineville is hereby changed 
 
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 to State Secondary Agricultural School and the sum of three 
 thousand ($3,000) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any 
 money in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated for the 
 maintenance of said school for the fiscal year beginning October 
 1, 1919. There is hereby appropriated a further sum of seven 
 thousand five hundred ($7,500) dollars annually for the mainte- 
 nance of the above school for the fiscal year beginning October 
 1, 1920, and for each and every year thereafter, as provided by 
 law. 
 
 Section 2. That all funds appropriated under the provisions 
 of this act shall be paid quarterly on requisition of the State 
 superintendent of education upon the State Auditor who shall 
 draw his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of the treas- 
 urer of the school for the amount for which requisition is made. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 709.) ' (S. 737— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make appropriations to the State Normal Schools for white teachers 
 located at Florence, Jacksonville, Livingston, Troy, Daphne and Mound- 
 ville. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That for the support and maintenance of the 
 State Normal Schools for white teachers located at Florence, 
 Jacksonville, Livingston, and Troy there is hereby appropriated 
 to each of said schools for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1919, 
 the sum of twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars; for the fiscal 
 year beginning Oct. 1, 1920 the sum of thirty thousand ($30,C00) 
 dollars; for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1921 the sum of 
 thirty-five thousand ($35,000) dollars; and for the fiscal year 
 beginning Oct. 1, 1922 the sum of forty thousand ($40,000) 
 dollars is hereby appropriated for each school and a like sum 
 for each and every year thereafter. For the maintenance and 
 support of the State Normal School for white teachers located at 
 Daphne there is hereby appropriated the sum of Nine thou- 
 sand ($9,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1919; 
 the sum of Nine thousand five hundred ($9,500) dollars for the 
 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1920; the sum of ten thousand 
 ($10,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1921; the 
 sum of fourteen thousand ($14,000) dollars for the fiscal year 
 beginning Oct. 1, 1922, and a like sum for each and every year 
 thereafter. For the maintenance and support of the State Nor- 
 mal School for white teachers located at Moundville there is 
 
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 appropriated the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars for the 
 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1919, the sum of nine thousand five 
 hundred ($9,500) dollars for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 
 1920, the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars for the fiscal 
 year beginning Oct. 1, 1921, the sum of fourteen thousand ($14,- 
 000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1922 and a like 
 sum for each and every fiscal year thereafter. Provided, how- 
 ever, that the State Board of Education may discontinue the 
 said normal school located at Moundville or remove said normal 
 school to some other location. In the event said normal school 
 at Moundville is discontinued or removed the school at Mound- 
 ville shall become a county high school, and there is hereby ap- 
 propriated for it for each fiscal year after such removal or dis- 
 continuance the sum of three thousand ($3,000) dollars as a 
 county high school. Provided further, that if said normal school 
 is removed from Moundville and located at any other place, then 
 said normal school so removed and located shall have and re- 
 ceive the amount herein appropriated for it at Moundville as a 
 normal school for white teachers. 
 
 Section 2. The following amounts are hereby appropriated 
 out of any money in the State Treasury not otherwise appro- 
 priated for the purposes indicated to the State Normal schools 
 for whites as follows: to the State Normal School at Florence, 
 the sum of ninety-five hundred ($9,500) for the removal of 
 indebtedness, is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year begin- 
 ning Oct. 1,. 1919, and a like amount for each and every year 
 of the quadrennium, or a total of thirty-eight thousand ($38,0C0) 
 dollars; to the State Normal school at Jacksonville the sum of 
 three thousand ($3,000) dollars for the removal of indebtedness 
 is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1919 
 and and a like amount for each and every year of the quadren- 
 ium or a total of twelve thousand ($12,000) dollars; to the State 
 Normal School at Livingston, the sum of twenty-five hundred 
 ($2,5^0) dollars for additional land and building is hereby appro- 
 priated for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1919 and a like 
 amount for each and every year of the quadrenium or a total of 
 ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, for the State Normal School at 
 Troy the sum of twenty-five hundred ($2,500) dollars, for repair 
 of buildings and for equipment is hereby appropriated for the 
 fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 1919 and a like amount for each 
 and every year of the quadrenium or a total of ten thousand 
 ($10,000) dollars. 
 
 Section 3. That there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 money in the treasury not other-wise appropriated the sum of 
 thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars to each of the State Normal 
 Schools for whites, located at Florence. Jacksonville, Livingston 
 and Troy, making a total of one hundred twenty thousand ($120,- 
 
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 000) dollars for the erection and equipment of practice schools 
 at each of the said normal schools, provided that this appropria- 
 tion for practice schools shall become available for the fiscal year 
 beginning Oct. 1, 1920. 
 
 Section 4. That all funds appropriated under the provisions 
 of this Article shall be paid out upon requisition of the State 
 Superintendent of Education upon the State Auditor who shall 
 draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer in favor of the 
 treasurer of the school for the amount for which requisition is 
 made. 
 
 Section 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 520.) (S. 736— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation for the State Normal School for colored teachers 
 located at Montgomery. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That for the support and maintenance of the 
 State Normal School for colored teachers located at Montgomery 
 there is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year beginning Octo- 
 ber 1, 1919, the sum of eighteen thousand ($18,000) dollars and 
 the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars is hereby appro- 
 priated annually for each and every year thereafter. 
 
 Section 2. That for the erection of a dormitory there is 
 hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury not 
 otherwise appropriated for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 
 1921, the sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) dollars and a further 
 sum of two thousand ($2,0-0) dollars for other building pur- 
 poses, provided the appropriation of two thousand ($2000) dol- 
 lars for the proposed building, other than the dormitory, is con- 
 ditioned upon the raising of the sum of two thousand ($2,C00) 
 dollars and the depositing of the same to the credit of the board 
 of trustees of the said school. The said appropriation shall be 
 released upon the fulfillment of conditions to be prescribed by 
 the State board of education, if created, and if not, by the board 
 of trustees of the said normal school with the approval of the 
 governor. 
 
 Section 3, That all funds appropriated under the provisions 
 of this act shall be paid out upon requisition of the State super- 
 intendent of education upon the State auditor who shall draw 
 his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of the treasurer of 
 the school for the amount for which requisition is made. 
 
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 Section 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 538.) (S. 721— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for appropriation to the Alabama School of Trades and Indus- 
 tries at Ragland. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 monies in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the 
 sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars annually for the mainte- 
 nance and support of the school of trades and industries at Rag- 
 land, the said appropriation to be paid quarterly in equal amounts 
 on the first day of October, January, April and July. 
 
 Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated out of any 
 monies in the State treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum 
 of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars for the school of trades and 
 industries at Ragland for building and equipment, but the said 
 appropriation shall not become available until an equal amount 
 shall have been raised and placed in the hands of the treasurer 
 of the said school for the use of said school. 
 
 Section 3. That the funds appropriated under this act shall 
 be paid upon requisition of the State superintendent of education, 
 with the approval of the governor, on the State auditor who 
 shall draw his warrant on the State treasurer in favor of the 
 treasurer of the school of trades and industries at Ragland. 
 
 Section 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act ber and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30. 1919. 
 
 No. 718.) (S. 727 — Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for changing the name and for making an application to the 
 Huntsville State Normal and Industrial School, to be known as the Agri- 
 cultural and Mechanical College for Negroes. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the name of the Huntsville State Normal 
 and Industrial School to be known as the Agricultural and Me- 
 chanical College for Negroes is hereby changed to Agricultural 
 
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 and Mechanical Institute for Negroes and there is hereby appro- 
 priated the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars for the 
 year beginning October 1, 1919, and the sum of fifteen thousand 
 ($15,000) dollars for each and every year thereafter, to be paid 
 in quarterly installments on October 1, January 1, April 1, and 
 July 1. 
 
 Section 2. That the funds appropriated under this act shall 
 be paid upon requisition of the State superintendent of education 
 upon the State auditor who shall draw his warrant upon the 
 State treasurer in favor of the treasurer of the school for the 
 amount for which requisition is made. 
 
 Approved September 29, 1919. 
 
 No. 534.) (S. 712— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make appropriations to the Alabama Girls Technical Institute. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated to the Alabama 
 Girls Technical Institute for each year of the quadrennium be- 
 ginning October 1, 1919 out of any monies in the State treasury 
 not otherwise appropriated, the following: (1) The sum of 
 forty five thousand ($45,C00) dollars for the year beginning 
 October 1, 1919, fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars for the year 
 beginning October 1, 1920, fifty five thousand ($55,000) dollars 
 for the year beginning October 1, 1921, and sixty thousand 
 ($60,000) dollars for each and every year thereafter, for main- 
 tenance. (2) Interest at the rate of six (6) percent, per annum 
 on the amount of the fund in the State treasury at the close of 
 each quarter arising from the sale of lands, amounting to twenty 
 thousand seven hundred twenty-five ($20,725) dollars or more. 
 (3) The sum of four thousand ($4,000) dollars for the year 
 beginning October 1, 1920 and for each and every year thereafter, 
 for the maintenance and support of the summer school. 
 
 Section 2. That for the provision of additional buildings 
 and equipment for the Alabama Girls Technical Institute there is 
 hereby appropriated for the year beginning October 1, 1920 the 
 sum of thirty seven thousand, five hundred, ($37,500) dollars 
 for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1921 and the like sum 
 of thirty seven thousand five hundred ($37,500) is hereby ap- 
 propriated. 
 
 Section 3. That the above appropriations with the exception 
 of the one for the summer school which will be paid on July 1st. 
 annually, shall be paid quarterly on the first of October, January, 
 
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 April and July out of any monies in the State treasury not other- 
 wise appropriated upon requisition of the president of the insti- 
 tution upon the State auditor who shall draw his warrant upon 
 the State treasury for the amount for which requisition is made. 
 Approved Sept. 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 535.) (S. 716— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for making appropriations to the Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated to the Ala- 
 bama Polytechnic Institute for each year of the quadrennium 
 beginning October 1, 1919 out of any monies in the State treas- 
 ury not otherwise appropriated, except as to such items for which 
 the revenue is specifically provided for under separate acts, the 
 following: (1) In lieu of the share of the proceeds from the 
 sale of fertilizer tags heretofore paid to the Alabama Polytechnic 
 Institute the sum of forty thousand ($40,000) dollars annually. 
 (2) The sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars for the year 
 beginning Octover 1, 1919 the sum of twenty-five thousand 
 ($25,000) dollars for the year beginning October 1, 1920, the 
 sum of thirty-five thousand ($35,000) dollars for the year begin- 
 ning October 1, 1921, and the sum of forty-five thousand ($45,- 
 000) dollars for each and every year thereafter, for the main- 
 tenance and support. (3) For equipment, building, operation and 
 maintenance in the animal husbandry department, ten thou- 
 sand ($10,000) dollars for the year beginning October 1, 1919; 
 ten thousand ($10,000) dollars for the year beginning October 
 1, 1920; twelve thousand five hundred ($12,500) dollars for each 
 and every year thereafter. (4) For the operation and mainte- 
 nance of a summer school, five thousand ($5,000) dollars for the 
 year beginning October 1, 1920 and for each and every year 
 thereafter. (5) For investigation in agriculture at Auburn five 
 thousand ($5,0C0) dollars for the year beginning October 1, 
 1919 and seven thousand five hundred ($7,500) dollars for each 
 and every year thereafter. (6) For interest on Endowment 
 Fund, Federal Grant 1862 (Code of Alabama 1907, Section 1910) 
 this amount being twenty thousand two hundred eighty ($20,- 
 280) dollars annually. 
 
 Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated to the Alabama 
 
 Polytechnic Institute out of any monies in the State treasury not 
 
 i, otherwise appropriated, for building, repair and equipment the 
 
 following: (1) For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1920. 
 
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 the sum of sixty two thousand five hundred ($62,500) dollars. 
 (2) For the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1921, the sum of 
 sixty two thousand five hundred ($62,500) dollars. 
 
 Section 3. That the above appropriations with the exception 
 of the one for the summer school which will be paid on July 1st. 
 annually shall be paid quarterly on the first of October, January, 
 April & July out of any monies in the State treasury not other- 
 wise appropriated upon the requisition of the president of said 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute upon the State auditor who shall 
 draw his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of the 
 treasurer of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute for the amount 
 for which requisition is made. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 710.) (S. 713— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make appropriations to the University of Alabama. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is here by appropriated annually to 
 the University of Alabama out of any moneys in the treasury not 
 other wise appropriated the following: (1) The sum of thirty 
 six thousand ($36,000) annually as interest on the funds of 
 the University of Alabama, here to fore covered into the treas- 
 ury, for the maintenance and support of said institution. (2) 
 The sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars for the fiscal year 
 beginning October 1 1919, the sum of sixty thousand ($60,000) 
 dollars for the fiscal year beginning October 1-1920, the sum of 
 seventy thousand ($70,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning 
 October 1-1921 and the sum of eighty thousand ($80,000) dollars 
 for the fiscal year beginning October 1-1922 to be added to and 
 made a part of the University Fund. (3) The sum of five thou- 
 sand ($5,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning October 
 1-1919 and the sum of seven thousand five hundred ($7,500) 
 dollars for each and every year thereafter for the maintenance 
 of the Extension Division of the University, (4) The sum of five 
 thousand ($5,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning October 
 1-1919 and the sum of seven thousand ($7,000) dollars for each 
 and every year thereafter for the maintenance and support of 
 the summer school. (5) The sum of twenty thousand ($20,000) 
 dollars annually for the maintenance and equipment of the Medi- 
 cal Department of the University of Alabama, (6) The sum of 
 ten thousand ($10,000) dollars for the fiscal year beginning Octo- 
 ber 1-1920 and for each and every year thereafter for the main- 
 
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 tenance and equipment of the Graduate School of Medicine of 
 the University of Alabama at Birmingham. 
 
 Section 2. That for the provision of additional buildings 
 and equipment for the University of Alabama there is hereby 
 appropriated for the fiscal year beginning October 1-1920 the 
 sum of fifty seven thousand five hundred ($57,500) dollars, and 
 for the fiscal year beginning October 1-1921, a like sum of fifty- 
 seven thousand five hundred ($57,500) dollars is here by appro- 
 priated. 
 
 Section 3. That the above appropriations, with the exception 
 of the appropriation for the summer school, which shall be paid 
 on July 1st annually, shall be paid quarterly on the first day of 
 October, January, April, and July, out of any moneys in the 
 state treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the requisition 
 of the president of the University of Alabama upon the state 
 auditor who shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer in 
 favor of the treasurer of the University of Alabama for the 
 amount for which the requisition is made. 
 
 Approved September 29, 1919. 
 
 No. 542.) (S. 720— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend Sections 1941 and 1942 of the Code of Alabama of 1907. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That Section 1941 and 1942 of Article 26 of the 
 Code of Alabama of 1907 be and the same are hereby amended 
 to read as follows: 1941 — Appropriations for each pupil. For 
 the maintenance and support of the Alabama School for the Deaf 
 the sum of three hundred ($300) Dollars per pupil is hereby 
 annually appropriated out of any money in the treasury not 
 otherwise appropriated, such appropriation to be based upon the 
 number of pupils enrolled upon the first day of January of each 
 year, and to be drawn quarterly in advance by the treasurer of 
 the board, and disbursed as directed by the board. 
 
 1942. — Property to be insured and kept in repair; appro- 
 priation therefor. The board of trustees must provide good and 
 sufficient insurance payable to the State of Alabama, upon the 
 property of the State and under their control, and keep and main- 
 tain such property in good repair. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws m conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30. 1919. 
 
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 No. 536.) (S. 719— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend Section 1946 of the Code of Alabama of 1907. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That Section 1946 of Article 27 of the Code of 
 Alabama of 1907 be and the same is hereby amended to read as 
 follows: 1946. For the maintenance and support of the Ala- 
 bama School for the Blind the sum of three hundred ($300) dol- 
 lars per pupil is annually appropriated, such appropriation to be 
 based upon the number of pupils enrolled upon the first day of 
 January of each year, to be drawn quarterly in advance by the 
 treasurer of the board, and disbursed as directed by them. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 523.) (S. 718— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend Section 1952 of the Code of Alabama of 1907. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That Section 1952 of Article 28 of the Code of 
 Alabama of 1907 be and the same is hereby amended to read as 
 follows: 1952. For the maintenance and support of the Ala- 
 bama School for Negro Deaf and Blind the sum of three hun- 
 dred ($300) dollars per pupil is hereby appropriated, such ap- 
 propriation to be based upon the number of pupils enrolled upon 
 the first day of January of each year, and to be drawn quarterly 
 in advance by the treasurer of the Board and disbursed as di- 
 rected by them. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 537.) (S. 717— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make appropriations to the Alabama Boys Industrial School. 
 
 Be it enxicted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 Section 1. That the sum of two hundred dollars ($200) per 
 year for each inmate of the Alabama Boys Industrial School is 
 
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 hereby appropriated out of any money in the State treasury, 
 not otherwise appropriated for each of the years of the quad- 
 rennium beginning October 1, 1919, and ending September 30, 
 1923, and the State auditor is hereby authorized and directed to 
 draw his warrant quarterly on the State treasurer in favor of the 
 treasurer of the Alabama Boys Industrial School for the payment 
 of the amounts due said school, the same to be determined by 
 affidavit of the treasurer of said school at the beginning of each 
 quarter showing the number of inmates of said school during 
 the preceding quarter. 
 
 Section 2. That there is hereby further appropriated for 
 the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1920, the sum of fifty thou- 
 sand ($50,000) dollars for the purchase of land, and for the erec- 
 tion and equipment of buildings, and there is also hereby appro- 
 priated a like sum of fifty thousand ($50,000) dollars for the 
 fiscal year beginning October 1, 1921, the sums so appropriated 
 for the purchase of land and for the erection and equipment of 
 buildings shall be paid out under authority of the board of 
 directors and the State auditor is authorized to draw his war- 
 rant on the State treasurer for the amounts of the said appro- 
 priations upon requisition of the governor. 
 
 Section 3. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 544.) (S. 726— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act entitled an Act "to create and establish a reform school 
 for the training of juvenile negro lawbreakers at Mt. Meigs, Alabama; 
 to make appropriations for the purpose, and accept by donation all such 
 lands and buildings as are needful therefor; to create a board of trus- 
 tees, and to provide for the suitable management of said institution." 
 Approved April 24, 1911. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That Sections 8 and 9 of an Act "to create and 
 establish a reform school for the training of juvenile negro law 
 breakers at Mt. Meigs, Alabama; to make appropriations for 
 the purpose, and accept by donation all such lands and buildings 
 as are needful therefor; to create a board of trustees, and to 
 provide for the suitable management of said institution," ap- 
 proved April 24, 1911, be and the same are hereby amended to 
 read as follows: 
 
 Section 8. For the support and maintenance of the school 
 there is hereby appropriated the sum of ten dollars ($10) per 
 
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 month for every boy lawfully attending and being instructed in 
 the school, which shall be paid monthly upon the sworn state- 
 ment of the president of the school and approved by the Gov- 
 ernor, out of the State Treasury. The expenses for transporting 
 such boy, including the expenses of one guard, shall be paid out 
 of the State treasury upon the sworn statement of the president 
 of the school and approved by the Governor. 
 
 Section 9. That the board of trustees in charge of said 
 school, are hereby given power and authority to make all such 
 rules and regulations as may be needful to the successful opera- 
 tion of said school and for the employment of all such guards as 
 may be necessary in the successful management and control of 
 said school, and to fix the salaries to be paid such guards and to 
 limit the number thereof, which salaries shall be paid monthly 
 upon the sworn statement of the president of the school and 
 approved by the Governor, out of the State Treasury, and there 
 is hereby appropriated annually out of the State Treasury the 
 sum of three thousand seven hundred twenty ($3,720) dollars, 
 or so much thereof as is needed to carry out the provisions of this 
 Section. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this Act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 548.) (S. 715— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make appropriation for the maintenance and support of the State train- 
 ing School for Girls, and for the erection and equipment of buildings 
 and furniture and equipment therefor. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama, as follows, to- 
 wit: — 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby appropriated out of the 
 treasury of Alabama for the support and maintenance of the 
 State Training School for Girls the sum of Twenty-five ($25.00) 
 Dollars per month for each inmate in said Training School; the 
 appropriation to be paid quarterly in December, March, June 
 and September of each year following the passage of this bill. 
 And that the State Auditor be, and is hereby authorized and 
 directed, to draw his warrant on the treasurer in favor of the 
 treasurer of said State Training School for Girls quarterly for 
 the payment of the amount hereby appropriated, and that the 
 treasurer or other officer of said School shall make an affidavit 
 at the end of each quarter showing the number of inmates in 
 said School on that date, and the number so ascertained shall 
 
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 be the basis upon which the appropriation herein made shall be 
 calculated and paid. 
 
 Section 2. That there is hereby appropriated out of the 
 State Treasury the sum of Fifty thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars, 
 Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000.00) Dollars to be available Octo- 
 ber 1st., 1920, and Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000.00) Dollars 
 October 1st., 1921, to be expended by the Board of Managers of 
 said Institution or by the Board of Control, as the Governor may 
 prescribe, subject to the approval of the Governor and the Attor- 
 ney General, in erecting on the property of said State Training 
 School for Girls, near East Lake, a part of Birmingham, in Jef- 
 ferson County, Alabama, buildings and necessary improvement 
 or enlargement of sewerage plant; and for new water storage 
 tank ; and for the erection of a barn, dairy and silo ; farmers and 
 overseers cottage ; necessary fencing and f arminging implements, 
 and for enlarging light plant; estimated to cost, altogether, ap- 
 proximately the sum of Fifty Thousand ($50,000.00) Dollars. 
 And the State Auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw 
 his warrant on the State Treasurer, with the approval of the 
 Governor, in favor of the treasurer of said State Training School 
 for Girls for the payment from the sum hereby appropriated the 
 sum or sums as they may be needed and used, for carrying out 
 the buildings and improvements hereinabove mentioned. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 750.) (H. 442— Dickson. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To change the name of the "Mercy Home Industrial School for Girls," lo- 
 cated at Birmingham, Alabama, to the Alabama Vocational School for 
 Girls, and to provide appropriations for the support, maintenance and 
 improvement of the same. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the name of the "Mercy Home Industrial 
 School for Girls", located at Birmingham, Alabama, be, and the 
 same is, hereby changed to the Alabama Vocational School for 
 Girls. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted, that the sum of $6,320.00 
 is hereby appropriated, annually, out of any moneys in the State 
 Treasury, for the support, maintenance and improvement of the 
 Alabama Vocational School for Girls, located at Birmingham, 
 Alabama, beginning July 1, 1919. 
 
 Section 3. Be it further enacted, that the State Auditor is 
 hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the State 
 Treasury, in favor of the Treasurer of the Alabama Vocational 
 
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 School for Girls, for the payment, quarterly, in advance, in each 
 year, of the sums hereby appropriated for the maintenance of 
 said school. 
 
 Section 4. Be it further enacted, that the sum of $1893.14 
 be, and the same is, hereby appropriated to the Alabama Voca- 
 tional School for Girls for the payment of its indebtedness to this 
 date, the same to be paid, immediately, on the warrant of the 
 State Auditor, drawn on the State Treasury, in the manner 
 hereinabove provided, for the maintenance fund. 
 
 Section 5. Be it further enacted that the sum of $6320.00 
 be paid annually, as provided in section 2 hereof, is to be in lieu 
 of and not in addition to the sum of five thousand dollars hereto- 
 fore appropriated annually under existing law. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 531.) (S. 735— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation to Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That for the partial support and maintenance of 
 the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute and as an evi- 
 dence of the good will of the State of Alabama there is hereby 
 appropriated annually out of any money in the treasury not 
 otherwise appropriated the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dol- 
 lars to the said Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. This 
 fund shall be expended for such purposes as may be agreed upon 
 by the State Department of Education and the board of trustees 
 of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. The amount 
 herein appropriated shall be paid quarterly upon requisition of 
 the State superintendent of education upon the State auditor who 
 shall draw his warrant upon the State treasurer in favor of the 
 treasurer of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute for 
 the amount of such requisition. 
 
 Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved Sept. 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 549.) (S. 714— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To appropriate the sum of $7,500.00 to supplement a fund of $15,000.00 to 
 be raised by the citizens of Blountsville to rebuild the Ninth District 
 Agricultural School building, recently destroyed by fire. 
 
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 Whereas, the Ninth District Agricultural School building, at 
 Blountsville, Blount County, Alabama, was recently destroyed 
 by fire, and 
 
 Whereas, the citizens of Blountsville and community have 
 raised and donated, and now have on deposit in a bank, the sum 
 of $15,000.00 to aid in the reconstruction of said building. Now 
 therefore, 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 1. That there is hereby appropriated from any money in the 
 State treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $7,500.00 
 to supplement a fund of $15,000.00 raised and donated by the 
 citizens of Blountsville and community, Blount County, Alabama, 
 to aid in the reconstruction of the Ninth District Agricultural 
 School building, recently destroyed by fire. 
 
 2. Be it further enacted, that the auditor, upon proper proof 
 being made to him that said sum of $15,000.00 raised by the 
 citizens of Blountsville and community is on deposit in a bank 
 and available for use in the reconstruction of said building, and 
 that the reconstruction of said building has been provided for by 
 proper contract, is authorized to draw a warrant on the State 
 treasurer for said sum of $7,500.00 in favor of, and payable to 
 the trustees of said Ninth District Agricultural School. 
 
 3. Be it further enacted, that the appropriation hereinbefore 
 provided for shall not be available and no warrant shall be drawn 
 for same unless Blount County shall be selected as a site for one 
 of the six agricultural schools proopsed to be established under 
 the plan of the Alabama Educational Commission. 
 
 Approved Sept. 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 528.) (S. 532— Briscoe. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To authorize the consolidation of contiguous territory in two or more adjourn- 
 ing counties into one school district; to provide for the management and 
 control of the school or schools of such consolidated district to provide 
 for the levy and expenditure of funds and for the issuance of interest 
 bearing warrants for the erection, repair or equipments of school build- 
 ings in such consolidated district; to provide for the maintenance and 
 support of the school or schools in such consolidated district, and to 
 ratify and confirm local tax elections held in the territory consolidated 
 prior to such consolidation. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Alabama: 
 
 1. That the county boards of two or more adjoining coun- 
 ties shall have the power by resolution spread upon the minutes 
 
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 of such county boards of education in the counties so adjoining 
 to form a consolidated school district to be composed of the ter- 
 ritory bounded by the limits set out for each county by the 
 county boards of education in the aforesaid resolution. 
 
 2. The government and control of any school in the con- 
 solidated district formed in accordance with the resolution of 
 the boards shall be and is hereby vested in the county board of 
 education of the county in which the school building is located 
 or is to be located. 
 
 3. The county boards of education of the counties which 
 have formed a consolidated district in accordance with the provi- 
 sions of this act, shall apportion funds to the school or schools 
 in the consolidated district in the same manner as to any other 
 district in the county, provided that the funds apportioned to 
 the consolidated district shall be paid over to the treasurer of 
 school funds of the county in which the school building is located 
 or is to be located. 
 
 4. Whenever it becomes necessary to erect, repair, enlarge 
 or equip any school building or buildings or otherwise improve 
 the school facilities in the district consolidated accordance with 
 the provisions of this act, the county boards of education in 
 each of the counties concerned shall have the power to issue 
 interest bearing warrants on any local tax levy or levies which 
 have been or may hereafter be authorized in its respective county 
 or in the fractional part of the consolidated school district lying 
 within its respective county and use the proceeds from the sale 
 of such warrants for the purpose set out in this section, pro- 
 vided that all other public funds available to each county may be 
 expended for the benefit of the school or schools of the district 
 consolidated in accordance with this act, in the same manner and 
 for the same purpose as for the school or schools in other dis- 
 tricts lying wholly within the county; provided further that in 
 the event two or more contiguous districts in two or more ad- 
 joining counties have held local tax elections for the purpose of 
 levying the district three-mill tax for school purposes prior to 
 the formation of a consolidated district as prescribed in section 
 1 of this act form a consolidated school district, and such local 
 district tax elections for school purposes are hereby ratified and 
 confirmed. 
 
 5. This act shall take effect immediately upon the approval 
 by the Governor and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 its provisions be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
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 No. 444.) (H. 414— Brindley. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend Sec. 6 of an act entitled: "An Act to provide for elections to 
 authorize any county in the State to levy and collect a special county 
 tax for public school purposes not to exceed thirty (30) cents on each 
 one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable property in such county; to 
 authorize any school district, in any county that may be levying special 
 county taxes for school purposes of not less than thirty (30) cents on 
 each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable property in such 
 county, to levy a special district tax for school purposes not to exceed 
 thirty (30) cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable 
 property in such school district; and to authorize boards of education to 
 issue interest bearing warrants to erect, repair, and equip school build- 
 ings and to otherwise improve school facilities," approved February 13, 
 1919. 
 
 Be it enacted hy the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 That Sec. 6 of an Act entitled : "An Act to provide for elec- 
 tions to authorize any county in the State to levy and collect a 
 special county tax for public school purposes not to exceed thirty 
 (30) cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable 
 property in such county; to authorize any school district, in any 
 county that may be levying special county taxes for school pur- 
 poses of not less than thirty (30) cents on each one hundred dol- 
 lars ($100) worth of taxable property in such county; to levy a 
 special district tax for school purposes not to exceed thirty (30) 
 cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) worth of taxable prop- 
 erty in such school district ; and to authorize boards of education 
 to issue interest bearing warrants, to erect, repair and equip 
 school buildings and to otherwise improve school facilities," ap- 
 proved February 13th., 1919, be and the same is hereby amended 
 so as to read as follows : Sec. 6. The board of education of any 
 county, which is levying a county tax for school purposes under 
 the provisions of this act, may contract for or make provisions 
 for payment, in whole or in part, for the erection, repair, or 
 equipping of school houses, or the erection of additions thereto, 
 including county high schools, or to make other improvements in 
 the school facilities of the county, out of the funds arising from 
 said tax, and to this end and for this purpose said board of edu- 
 cation of any county is hereby authorized to issue interest bearing 
 warrants at a rate not to exceed six percent per annum, for a 
 term not to exceed the time said special tax levy has been voted 
 for said county, and for an amount, including interest, not to 
 exceed the income from said levy, estimating such income upon 
 the basis of the assessed value of the taxable property in such 
 county for the preceding tax year, as the annual return for such 
 levy for the period for which said warrants are issued ; and the 
 board of education of any city of two thousand or more inhab- 
 
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 itants, having control of any school district, or the board of edu- 
 cation of any county in which there is no city school board, 
 where a special district tax for school purposes has been levied 
 under this act, is authorized to use said special district tax to 
 erect, repair or equip or build additions to any school building 
 within said district, including county high schools, and to make 
 improvements in the school facilities of said school district, and 
 are authorized to use said special district tax for the purpose of 
 paying off and liquidating public school bonded indebtedness of 
 cities and districts, and in their discretion may apportion said 
 school tax to these various purposes, and to this end. and for this 
 purpose, said board of education, is hereby authorised to issue 
 interest bearing warrants at a rate not to exceed six percent per 
 annum, for a term not to exceed the time the said special district 
 tax has been voted in said district, and for an amount, including 
 interest, not exceeding the income from said tax levy, estimating 
 such income upon the basis of the assessed value of the taxable 
 property in such city or school district for the preceding tax year, 
 as the annual return from such levy for the period for which 
 such warrants are issued. The due date of said school warrants 
 shall not extend beyond the 30th. day of September next after 
 the time when the tax for the last year of said levy shall become 
 delinquent. All warrants shall be signed in the name of such 
 board, by its president, and shall be a preferred claim upon the 
 proceeds of said tax levy in such county or school district, as 
 the case may be, each year during the period for which such 
 warrants are issued, to the extent of the warrants maturing dur- 
 ing such year, and such board shall, at the beginning of each 
 tax year, by resolution entered upon its minutes, set apart so 
 much of the tax income for that year as will be necessary to meet 
 all warrants maturing during that year. Provided, that nothing 
 herein contained shall prevent the said board from paying any 
 of such warrants for which the income from said tax levy, 
 ascertained as herein provided, may be insufficient to pay. 
 Approved Sept. 25, 1919. 
 
 No. 215.) (H. 11— Baker. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To extend and regulate the granting of teachers' certificates to persons who 
 served in the army or navy of the United States during the war with 
 Germany. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the State board of examiners is hereby au- 
 thorized to extend the certificate of all persons who at the time 
 
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 they entered the military or naval service of the United States 
 held a certificate to teach in the public schools of Alabama for 
 two years. 
 
 Section 2. That whenever any person who was in the mili- 
 tary or naval service of the United States during the war with 
 Germany and who at the time he entered said service was teach- 
 ing in the public schools of this State under a first grade certifi- 
 cate shall apply to the State board of examiners for a life certifi- 
 cate, the time which he spent in the military or naval service 
 of the United States shall count upon said application as if he 
 had been engaged in teaching during said period of time. 
 
 Section 3. The certificate of any county superintendent of 
 education that the person applying for an extension of certifi- 
 cate or for a life certificate served in the army or navy and of 
 the length of time so served shall be sufficient proof to authorize 
 the State board of examiners to grant the party applying the 
 benefits of this act. 
 
 Approved August 16, 1919. 
 
 No. 459.) (S. 414— McDowell. 
 
 . AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the reading of the Holy Bible in the schools in Alabama that 
 are supported in part or in whole by public funds and to provide for the 
 enforcement of the same. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That all schools in this State that are supported 
 in whole or in part by public funds, be and the same a^e hereby 
 required to have once every school day, readings from the Holy 
 Bible. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted, that teachers in making 
 monthly reports shall show on the same that they have complied 
 with this act, and superintendents of city schools in drawing 
 public funds shall certify that each teacher under his super- 
 vision has complied with this act. 
 
 Section 3. Be it further enacted, that schools in the State 
 subject to the provisions of this Act shall not be allowed to draw 
 public funds unless the provisions of this act are complied with, 
 and the State Superintendent of Education is charged with the 
 enforcement of the provisions hereof. 
 
 Approved Sept. 26, 1919. 
 
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 No. 722.) (H. 862— Carnley. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To better secure compliance with the laws of Alabama, requiring instruction 
 of all pupils in public schools, and in all schools and colleges supported 
 in whole or in part by public money, or under State control, with refer- 
 ence to the effect of alcoholic drinks, stimulants and narcotics upon the 
 human system. 
 
 Beit enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the county and city boards of education, and 
 the county superintendents and superintendents of city schools, 
 and all boards of directors and presidents of all schools and col- 
 leges, supported in whole or in part by public money, or under 
 state control, shall, respectively, require and provide that regular 
 instruction shall be given in all grades of all said schools and 
 colleges under their supervision, direction or control as to the 
 nature of alcoholic drinks, tobacco and other narcotics, and their 
 effect upon the human system ; and they shall, from time to time, 
 as they may be called upon by the governor or state superin- 
 tendent of education, report to the governor or state superin- 
 tendent, respectively, what they have done to comply with the 
 duty hereby imposed upon them; to the end that such subjects 
 shall be taught in the schools and colleges of the State as regu- 
 larly as any other subjects of instruction. 
 
 Section 2. That the board of directors and president of 
 every normal school or college in this State shall require and 
 provide that all students therein shall have regular instruction 
 in the subjects mentioned in the preceding section; to the end 
 that such students, when authorized to teach in the schools of 
 the State, shall be qualified to give the like instruction therein. 
 The presidents of said schools shall report to the governor at the 
 end of each scholastic year to what extent such instruction has 
 been provided for in the said schools and colleges during the 
 preceding scholastic year. 
 
 Section 3. That in the examination of applicants for certifi- 
 cates of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades, or of applicants for the life 
 certificates, whether such examination be held by the state board 
 of examiners or whether the examination be held in the county, 
 in the cases provided for by law, such applicants shall be exam- 
 ined upon the subjects or branches referred to in Section 1 of this 
 act, and the subjects referred to in Section 1 of this act shall be 
 embraced in the branches of learing, upon which the said appli- 
 cants are required to be examined in writing, and such examina- 
 tion shall include questions on those subjects as on others. 
 
 Section 4. That the board of directors of the state normal 
 schools shall arrange with the President of the Woman's Chris- 
 
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 tian Temperance Union to have a trained scientific temperance 
 institute worker to visit each normal school of the State at least 
 once a year, and to be allowed one hour per day on not less than 
 three days to lecture before the student body upon the subjects 
 mentioned in Section 1 of this act; and that the reasonable ex- 
 pense of the severvices of such institute worker shall be agreed 
 upon by the presidents of the school with the worker, and the 
 expenses of the services of such institute worker and of the 
 entertainment, if any, of such worker while she is in attendance 
 upon the school for the purpose aforesaid, shall be paid out of 
 the Treasury of the State upon a warrant issued by the Auditor 
 to the president of the school, upon a statement of the account 
 presented under affidavit by the president, and approved by the 
 Governor ; and the proceeds of such warrant shall be used either 
 to pay the said worker for services and entertainment, or to reim- 
 burse the president of the school, if he has paid the worker for 
 such services and entertainment. 
 
 Section 5. That the programme for the exercises of tem- 
 erance day to be observed in the public schools of the State one 
 day in each scholastic term, as provided by law, may be pre- 
 pared and furnished to the state superintendent of education by 
 the Alabama Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or by a com- 
 mittee of said Union, named for that purpose, and the programme 
 may be so prepared, either in collaboration with the state superin- 
 tendent of education, or under the supervision of such superin- 
 tendent, and it shall be the duty of the state superintendent of 
 education to have the said programme printed and to have the 
 same sent out to the schools or heads thereof from his office at 
 the expense of the State, and the expense of printing and dis- 
 tributing said programme shall be paid upon a warrant issued 
 by the Auditor, upon an account under oath, made out by the 
 state superintendent of education and approved by the Governor ; 
 and the said warrant shall be issued to the state superintendent 
 and the proceeds thereof used by him to pay the expenses of such 
 printing and distribution, or to reimburse him therefor, if he 
 has already advanced such payment. 
 
 Section 6. That the state superintendent of education, in 
 the report which he is required by Section 1686 of the Code 
 of 1907, to make annually to the Governor, on or before the 1st 
 day of December, shall state what he has done to comply with 
 sub-section 3 of Section 1685 of the Code of 1907, and to what 
 extent the instruction there required has been given in the schools 
 and colleges referred to in the title of this act. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
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 No. 695.) . (S. 314— Craft. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for instruction in regard to the humane protection of animals in 
 the public schools. 
 
 Be it etiacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. There shall be taught in the public schools of this 
 State in addition to other branches of study as now prescribed, 
 a system of humane treatment to all animals. 
 
 Section 2. In every public school within this State it shall be 
 optional with each teacher to devote twenty or more minutes 
 each week during the whole term in teaching the pupils thereof 
 kindness, justice and humane protection of birds and animals, 
 and the important part they fulfill in the economy of nature, 
 given by daily incidents or humane readings. 
 
 Section 3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction of this 
 State shall include moral and humane education in the program 
 of the teachers institute which is held in each county. 
 
 Section 4. Provision made for humane education in the nor- 
 mal school course regarding kindness to animals, for all those 
 training for the teachers profession. 
 
 Section 5. The principal or teacher of each public school 
 shall shall state briefly in their monthly reports whether the pro- 
 vision of this act have been complied with in the school under his 
 or her control. Experiments on any living creature shall not be 
 permitted in any public or private school of this commonwealth. 
 
 Approved September 29, 1919. 
 
 No. 756.) (H. 751— Orr. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To further prohibit disturbances at churches, school houses, or at other pub- 
 lic places. To prevent injuries to automobiles and other vehicles parked 
 at such places. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 That after the passage and approval of this act it shall be 
 unlawful for any person or persons, without the consent of the 
 owner or person in charge of an automobile or other vehicle, 
 parked or left standing at or near any church, school house, on 
 the streets, roads, in front of any private residence or at any 
 other public place wheresoever, to loiter or sit in said automo- 
 bile or other vehicle, or to blow the horn, turn the switch, put on 
 the lights, or in any way meddle with the ways works or ma- 
 
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 chinery of said automobile or other vehicle, while the same is left 
 parked or standing at said place. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted that any person or persons 
 violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than five 
 nor more than $100.00 and may also be imprisoned or sentenced 
 to hard labor for not more than six months. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 629.) (S. 332— Evins. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend an act entitled "An Act to regulate the employment of minor chil- 
 dren within the State of Alabama; to prohibit the employment of minors 
 under certain conditions; to provide for the inspection, and regulation of 
 establishments, occupations, places and premises where minors are em- 
 ployed; to entrust the enforcement of the provisions of this act to the 
 State Prison Inspector; to punish violations of this act, and approved 
 February 24, 1915. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 That an act entitled "An Act to regulate the employment of 
 minor children within the State of Alabama ; to prohibit the em- 
 ployment of minors under certain conditions ; to provide for the 
 inspection and regulation of establishments, occupations, places, 
 and premises where minors are employed ; to entrust the enforce- 
 ment of the provisions of this act to the State Prison Inspector ; 
 to punish violations of this act and approved February 24, 1915" 
 be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Section 1. That no child under fourteen years of age shall 
 be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any gainful occu- 
 pation, except agriculture or domestic service; provided, how- 
 ever, that boys twelve years of age or over may be employed in 
 business offices and mercantile establishments, except soft drink 
 and ice cream establishments, restaurants or cafes, during the 
 summer vacation when the public schools in the city or town in 
 which the child resides are not in session, if the child secures 
 and files with employer a special permit or certificate as herein- 
 after prescribed ; and provided further that boys twelve years of 
 age or over may be employed in the distribution and sale of news- 
 papers and other printed matter as provided for in Section 13 of 
 this Act. 
 
 Section 2. No child under sixteen years of age shall be em- 
 ployed, permitted, or suffered to work in any gainful occupation, 
 except agriculture or domestic service, for more than six days in 
 any one week,' or more than forty-eight hours in any one week or 
 
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 more than eight hours in any one day, or before the hour of six 
 o'clock in the morning, or after the hour of seven o'clock in the. 
 evening. The presence of any child under sixteen years of age 
 in any mill, factory, or v^orkshop, laundry, or mechanical estab- 
 lishment shall be prima facie evidence of its employment therein. 
 
 Section 3. It shall be the duty of every employer to post and 
 keep posted in a conspicuous place in every room where any 
 child under the age of sixteen years is employed, permitted, or 
 suffered to v^^ork, a printed notice stating the maximum number 
 of hours such persons may be required or be permitted to v^ork 
 on each day of the week, the hours of commencing and stopping 
 work, and the hours allowed for dinner or other meals. The 
 printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the Inspector 
 hereinafter named, and the employment of any minor for a 
 longer time in any day so stated, or at any time other than as 
 stated in such printed form of notice, shall be deemed a violation 
 of the provisions of this act. 
 
 Section 4. No person under the age of eighteen years shall 
 be employed, permitted or suffered to work as a messenger for 
 any person, firm, or corporation engaged in the business of tele- 
 graph, telephone, or messenger service, in the distribution, trans- 
 mission or delivery of goods or messages after the hour of ten 
 o'clock in the evening, or before the hour of six o'clock in the 
 morning of any day; and no person under twenty-one years of 
 age shall be employed in any establishment where intoxicating 
 liquors are manufactured or sold nor to work in any pool or bil- 
 lard room or place. 
 
 Section 5. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be 
 employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any of the following 
 occupations or in any of the following positions: (1) operating 
 or assisting in operating any of the following machines: (a) 
 circular or band saws; (b) wood shapers; (c) wood jointers; 
 (d) planers; (e) sand paper or wood polishing machinery; (f) 
 wood turning or boring machinery; (g) machines used in pick- 
 ing wool, cotton, hair or any other material; (h) job or cylinder 
 printing presses; (i) boring or drilling presses; (j) stamping 
 machines used in sheet metal or tin ware, or in paper or leather 
 manufacturing, or in washer or nut factories; (k) metal or 
 paper cutting machines; (1) corner staying machines; (m) 
 steam boilers; (n) dough brakes or cracker machinery of any 
 description; (o) wire or iron straightening or drawing machin- 
 ery; (p) rolling mill machinery; (q) power punches or shears; 
 (r) washing, grinding or mixing machinery; (s) laundering 
 machinery ; (t) nor engage in any work in or about a rolling mill, 
 machine shop or manufacturing establishment which is hazard- 
 ous, or dangerous to health, limb, or life; (2) or -in proximity 
 to any hazardous or unguarded gearing; (3) or upon any rail- 
 
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 road, whether steam, electric, or hydraulic; (4) or upon any 
 vessel or boat engaged in navigation or commerce within the 
 jurisdiction of this state. 
 
 Section 6. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be 
 employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any capacity: (1) 
 in, about, or in connection with any processes in which danger- 
 ous or poisonous acids are used; (2) nor in the manufacture or 
 packing of paints, colors, white or red lead; (3) nor in soldering 
 
 (4) nor in occupations causing dust in injurious quantities; 
 
 (5) nor in the manufacture or use of poisonous dyes; (6) nor 
 in the manufacture or preparation of compositions with danger- 
 ous or poisonous gasses; (7) nor in the manufacture or use of 
 compositions of lye in which the quantity there is injurious to 
 health; (8) nor on scaffolding; (9) nor in heavy work in the 
 building trades; (10) nor in any tunnel or excavation; (11) nor 
 in, about, or in connection with any mine, coke breaker, coke 
 oven, or quarry; (12) or in assorting, manufacturing or pack- 
 ing tobacco; (13) nor to operate any automobile, motor car or 
 truck; (14) nor to work in any bowling alley; (15) nor shall any 
 child under the age of sixteen years be employed upon the stage 
 of any theater or concert hall, or in connection with any theatri- 
 cal performance or other exhibition or show, except that children 
 fourteen years of age may be employed as ushers in theaters or 
 concert halls in accordance with the* provisions of sections 2 and 
 7 of this act; (16) nor in any place or occupation which the 
 State Board of Health may declare dangerous to life or limb or 
 injurious to the health or morals of children under sixteen years 
 of age. The State Board of Health shall have authority to de- 
 clare any place or occupation dangerous to life or limb or injuri- 
 ous to health or morals of children under sixteen years of age. 
 
 Section 7. It shall be unlawful for any firm, person, or cor- 
 poration to employ, permit, or suffer any child under sixteen years 
 of age to work in any gainful occupation, except agriculture or 
 domestic service, unless such person, firm or corporation keeps 
 on file for the inspection of the officials charged with the en- 
 forcement of this act, an employment certificate, as hereinafter 
 provided for every such child; and unless such person, firm, or 
 corporation keeps on file for the inspection of the officials charged 
 with the enforcement of this act, a complete list of all such chil- 
 dren employed therein. The inspector charged with the enforce- 
 ment of this act may make demand on any employer in whose 
 establishment a child, apparently under sixteen years of age, is 
 employed or permitted or suffered to work, and whose employ- 
 ment certificate is not filed as required by this act, that such 
 employer shall furnish such official evidence satisfactory to him 
 that such child is, in fact, sixteen years of age or over, or shall 
 cease to employ or permit or suffer such child to work therein. 
 
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 Such official may require from such employer the same evidence 
 of age of such child as is required for the issuance of any em- 
 ployment certificate, and the employer furnishing such evidence 
 shall not be required to furnish any further evidence of age of 
 the child. In any case such employer shall fail to produce and 
 deliver to such official such evidence of age thereby required of 
 him, and thereafter continue to employ such child or permit or 
 suffer such child to work in such establishment, proof of the 
 failure to produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie 
 evidence in prosecution that such child is under sixteen years 
 of age, and unlawfully employed. Any official charged with the 
 enforcement of this act may cancel any employment certificate 
 found to be illegally or improperly issued. When any such em- 
 ployment certificate is cancelled, the employer of the child, for 
 whom the employment certificate is issued, shall be notified. It 
 shall be unlawful to employ any such child after notice that the 
 certificate for such child has been cancelled, provided that such 
 child may be employed after a new employment certificate, regu- 
 larly issued as provided for by law, shall have been granted to 
 him. 
 
 Section 8. No child under fourteen years of age shall be 
 employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any emplojnnent or 
 service during the hours when the public schools of the district 
 in which the child resides is in session. 
 
 Section 9. It shall be the duty of the superintendent, or 
 principal of schools in cities or towns to issue employment cer- 
 tificates or to authorize a person in writing to issue such certifi- 
 cate acting in his name. When there is no superintendent or 
 principal of schools, said certificates shall be issued by the county 
 superintendent of education or by a person authorized by him in 
 writing. Such certificates shall be issued in duplicate, and a 
 copy of each certificate issued during the month preceding, shall 
 be transmitted to the state inspector, together with the report 
 as hereinafter provided for. 
 
 Section 10. The person authorized to issue employment cer- 
 tificates shall not issue such certificates unless the child accom- 
 panied by his parent or guardian, or person standing in parental 
 relation thereto, has personally made application to him therefor, 
 and until he has received, examined, approved and filed the fol- 
 lowing papers duly executed: (1) a written statement of the 
 person, firm or corporation into whose service the child is about 
 to enter that he intends to employ the child, which statement 
 shall give the nature of the occupation for which the child is to 
 be employed; (2) a school record signed by the principal or the 
 teacher of the school last attended by said child stating that such 
 child has completed the elementary course of study of the fourth 
 grade of the public school or its equivalent, or has attended school 
 
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 at least 120 days of the year immediately preceding the date on 
 which the certificate. is issued. On and after September 1, 1921 
 a school record showing the completion of the 4th grade or its 
 equivalent, only shall be accepted, said certificate shall state the 
 age and date of birth of said child, as shown on the records of 
 the school, and the name and address of the parent, guardian, 
 or custodian; provided, that such evidence of school attendance 
 outside of the state of Alabama may be accepted at the discretion 
 of the officer issuing the certificate; in case such school record 
 cannot be obtained, then the officer issuing the employment cer- 
 tificate shall examine such child to determine whether he can 
 meet the educational standard specified and shall file in his office 
 a statement setting forth the result of such examination; (3) one 
 of the following evidences of age, showing the child to be four- 
 teen years of age or over, to be required in the order herein 
 designated: (a) duly attested transcript of the birth record of 
 said child, filed according to law, with any officer charged with 
 the duty of recording births; (b) or a duly attested transcript of 
 certificate of baptism showing the date of birth and a place of 
 baptism of such child; (c) or a life insurance policy which must 
 have been in force for at least one year; (d) or a bona fide con- 
 temporary Bible record of birth; (e) or a passport, or certificate 
 of arrival in the United States showing the age of the child; 
 (f ) or in case the officer authorized to issue such certificate is 
 satisfied that none of the above proofs of age can be produced, 
 other evidence of the age, as an affidavit of age sworn to by the 
 parent, guardian, or custodian of such child, accompanied by a 
 certificate of physical age of such child, signed by a public health 
 or public school physician, provided, that a school record or 
 parent's, guardian's or custodian's affidavit, certificate, or other 
 written statement of age alone shall not be accepted; (4) a state- 
 ment duly dated and signed by a public school physician, or by a 
 regularly licensed physician in good standing in the community 
 where he resides, showing that he has personally examined such 
 child, and that in his opinion the child is fourteen years of age or 
 over, is of good physical development for a child of his age, is of 
 sound health, and is physically qualified to perform the work at 
 which he is to be employed ; provided that the officer issuing 
 employment certificates shall have authority and is hereby em- 
 powered to issue a Vacation Employment Certificate to children 
 fourteen years of age and over without requiring a statement 
 that the child has completed the fourth grade of the elementary 
 course of study, or its equivalent, as hereinbefore provided; 
 provided further, that the officer issuing employment certificates 
 shall have authority and is hereby empowered to issue a Special 
 Employment Certificate to any boy twelve years of age or over 
 to work in business offices and mercantile establishments, ex- 
 
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 cept soft drink and ice cream establishmentment, restaurants or 
 cafes, during the summer vacation when the public schools in the 
 city or town in which the child resides are not in session ; without 
 requiring that the child has completed any grade. Such vacation 
 and special employment certificates shall be different in form and 
 color from the regular employment certificate and shall be valid 
 only during the time when the public school in the city or town 
 in which the child resides, is not in session. Every vacation and 
 special employment certificate shall become null and void on the 
 date the public schools open for the regular session. The super- 
 intendent of schools in any city, town, or district, wherever there 
 is one, and where there is none, the county superintendent of edu- 
 cation, shall between the first and tenth day of each month trans- 
 mit to the office of the State -Prison Inspector hereinafter men- 
 tioned, or the director of the Child Welfare Department when 
 the same shall have been established, a report, which report shall 
 give the name of each child to whom certificate has been granted 
 or denied during the preceding month, together with the ground 
 for such denial. A refusal or failure to transmit such report by 
 any person charged under this section with the duty of transmit- 
 ting the same to such state official shall constitute a misdemeanor 
 punishable by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than 
 twenty-five dollars. 
 
 Section 11. The employment certificate shall state the full 
 name, place and date of birth of such child with the name and 
 address of the parent, guardian, or persons sustaining the paren- 
 tal relationship to such child, and shall contain a statement signed 
 by the issuing officer that the child has personally appeared 
 before him and that satisfactory evidence has been submitted 
 that such child is fourteen years of age or over. The printed 
 form of the certificate and the other papers required in the issu- 
 ing of the employment certificate shall be drafted by the state 
 inspector hereinafter mentioned and furnished by him to the 
 local and county superintendents of education. 
 
 Section 12. On the termination of the employment of a 
 child under the age of sixteen years, the employment certificate 
 shall be returned by the employer holding the same to the school 
 authority by whom it was issued within ten days after the termi- 
 nation of the employment. Every employment certificate so 
 returned shall be cancelled by the officer who issued the certifi- 
 cate and transmitted to the state inspector with the next succeed- 
 ing monthly report as hereinbefore provided for. 
 
 Section 13. No boy under twelve years of age and no girl 
 under eighteen years of age shall distribute, sell, expose, or offer 
 for sale, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, handbills, or circu- 
 lars, or be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any other 
 trade or occupation performed in any street or public place ; pro- 
 
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 vided, however, that boys ten years of age or over may engage in 
 the distribution of newspapers and periodicals on fixed routes in 
 the resident districts of towns or cities and provided further 
 that boys twelve years of age or over may engage in the occupa- 
 tion of bootblacks. No boy under sixteen years of age shall 
 engage in any such street occupation above mentioned after eight 
 o'clock at night or before five o'clock in the morning of any day ; 
 and unless he has secured and wears in plain sight a badge as 
 herein provided. Such badges shall be issued by the superin- 
 tendent of schools, or some person designated by him in writing, 
 and shall be granted only after the child has applied to him per- 
 sonally accompanied by his parent, guardian, or custodian, and 
 has submitted satisfactory proof that he is twelve years of age 
 or over, or if engaged only in distributing papers or periodicals 
 on fixed routes in the resident districts, ten years of age or over, 
 and is a regular attendant of a school. Such badge shall be 
 renewed annually on the first day of January and shall not be 
 transferrable, and the form, design or color shall be changed 
 annually. A deposit of not more than fifty cents may be re- 
 quired by the person issuing the badge to be returned upon the 
 surrender of the same, and if lost the badge may be replaced 
 upon the payment of twenty-five cents. Such badges shall be 
 provided by the state inspector and paid for out of any monies 
 in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated and shall be dis- 
 tributed by said inspector to the superintendent of schools on or 
 before January the first of each year. Any child who shall 
 engage in any such street occupations in violation of the provi- 
 sions of this section shall be deemed delinquent and brought be- 
 fore any court or magistrate having jurisdiction over juvenile 
 delinquents and shall be dealt with according to law. The offi- 
 cial charged with the enforcement of this act shall have authority 
 and is hereby empowered to investigate each case where he be- 
 lieves that the child holding a badge is not entitled to its posses- 
 sion, and if he is satisfied from the evidence obtained that the 
 child has secured the badge through misrepresentation or fraud, 
 such official shall have authority to revoke the badge and return 
 it to the official who issued it. Use of a badge shall be revoked 
 or suspended in case the child's school record is not satisfactory 
 to the principal of the school which he attends, by either the offi- 
 cer who issued the badge or by any official charged with the 
 enforcement of this act. Any person who sells or offers for sale, 
 any article of any description to a boy under sixteen years of age 
 to be used for the purpose of sale or barter upon the streets or in 
 any public place, shall first ascertain that such boy wears his 
 own badge in plain sight as herein provided, and if said boy has 
 no badge, no article shall be sold to him. Any person violating 
 this provision shall be fined not less than one and not more than 
 
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 fifty dollars. Police officers, and other peace officer, and truant 
 officers shall enforce the provisions of this section. 
 
 Section 14. It shall be the duty of the State Prison Inspector 
 or the Director of the Child Welfare Department when the same 
 shall have been established, and his authorized assistants to in- 
 spect as frequently as possible all establishments M^herein minors 
 subject to the provisions of this act, are, or may be employed or 
 permitted to work and to enforce the provisions of this act. For 
 the purpose of administering this act, and any other laws relating 
 to the employment of minors, the State Prison Inspector or the 
 Director of the Child Welfare Department when the same shall 
 have been established, may be designated the State Child Labor 
 Inspector and his deputy inspectors may, in the performance of 
 their duties in enforcing the provisions of this act, be known as 
 deputy child labor inspectors. It shall be the duty of the in- 
 spector to institute prosecution for the violation of any of the 
 provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of every school attend- 
 ance officer and probation officer to report to the State Child 
 Labor Inspector any and all violations of this act coming to his 
 knowledge. Such school attendance officer and probation officers 
 shall have the same right of access to establishments where 
 minors are or may be employed or detained and of inspection of 
 such establishments as is given by law to child labor inspectors, 
 provided that a report of every such entry and inspection of said 
 establishments shall be made to the state child labor inspector. 
 Such school attendance officers and probation officers, when 
 authorized by the state child labor inspector, shall have the same 
 authority to institute prosecutions as is given by law to the state 
 child labor inspector or deputy child labor inspector. 
 
 Section 15. Every person, firm or corporation, owning or 
 controlling any establishment wherein minors are employed, sub- 
 ject to the provisions of this act, shall keep such establishment 
 in a sanitary condition, and properly ventilated, and shall pro- 
 vide suitable and convenient water closets or privies, separate for 
 each sex, and in such number and located in such place or places, 
 as may be required by the inspector; and when twenty or more 
 persons are employed, sanitary drinking fountains shall be pro- 
 vided in such number as the inspector may deem necessary. All 
 water closets shall be maintained inside such establishments ex- 
 cept, where in the opinion of the inspector, it is impracticable. 
 In all such establishments, there shall be separate water closets 
 or privy compartments for females, to be used by them exclu- 
 sively, and notice to that effect shall be painted on the outside of 
 such compartments. The entrance to every water closet or privy 
 in such establishment, shall be effectively screened by a petition 
 or vestibule. In every such establishment a printed copy of this 
 act shall be kept conspicuously posted in every room in which 
 
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 minor persons work. It shall be the duty of every inspector to 
 inspect thoroughly every such establishment, to issue a written 
 order for the correction of insanitary or unhealthful conditions 
 in such establishments, and to compel compliance with such or- 
 ders as herein provided. 
 
 Section 16. The inspector shall have free access at any time 
 to any establishment where minors are, or may be employed or 
 detained, and any person who refuses to allow the inspector to 
 have free access to any. such establishment and every part there- 
 of, or who hinders or obstructs him in his inspection, or who 
 makes any false statement to the inspector about the establish- 
 ment, its operation or condition, or about any person working 
 or detained therein, or who refuses to comply with any order 
 issued under authority of section 15 of this act, shall be guilty 
 of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than fifty nor more 
 than one hundred dollars, and on subsequent conviction, shall be 
 fined not less than two hundred dollars. It shall be the duty of 
 the inspector to remove from any establishment any child found 
 employed, working or detained therein contrary to the law, aad 
 to remove therefrom any child who is afflicted with any infec- 
 tious, contagious, or communicable disease, or whose physical 
 condition is such that it makes it hazardous to a child to prose- 
 cute such work. 
 
 Section 17. Any person, firm, or corporation who violates 
 any of the provisions of this act, or who permits any child to be 
 employed or to work in or about or be detained in, or be in or 
 about any establishment, contrary to law, or who fails or refuses 
 to obey within a reasonable time any lawful orders or directions 
 given by the state officials charged with the enforcement of this 
 act and any parent, guardian, or custodian under whose care or 
 control a child under sixteen years of age is, who suffers or per- 
 mits such child to work in violation of any of the provisions of 
 this act unless a special penalty is herein otherwise provided, 
 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall 
 be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than 
 one hundred dollars, and upon second or subsequent conviction of 
 any violation of any of the provisions of this act, shall be pun- 
 ished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more 
 than five hundred dollars. 
 
 Section 18. Any person who makes a false affidavit when 
 an affidavit is required, under this act is guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and shall upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not less than 
 five dollars nor more than twenty dollars, and for a second or 
 subsequent conviction shall be imprisoned not more than ninety 
 
 days. 
 
 Section 19. The State Prison Inspector or the Director of 
 the Child Welfare Department when the same shall have been 
 
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 established, and his deputies, when traveling in the performance 
 of their duties herein prescribed, shall be reembursed their actual 
 traveling expenses, when approved by the state child labor inspec- 
 tor and by the governor to be paid on the warrant of the state 
 auditor. 
 
 Section 20. The word "inspector" is used herein to designate 
 or mean the State Prison Inspector or the Director of the child 
 Welfare Department when the same shall have been established, 
 or his duly authorized deputies, such -deputies being hereby 
 clothed with the same duties and authority with which the State 
 Prison Inspector or Director of the child Welfare Department 
 when the same shall have been established is now or may here- 
 after be clothed. In the enforcement of the provisions of this 
 act, the State Prison Inspector or Director of the child Welfare 
 Department when the same shall have been established, and his 
 authorized deputies are hereby vested with the same authority as 
 deputy sheriff's in each and every county in the State. 
 
 Section 21. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
 atjt are hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 22. If any section of this act shall be held unconsti- 
 tutional, in whole or in part the fact shall not effect any other 
 section of this act, it being the intention of the legislature in 
 enacting this act to enact each section separately. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 457.) (S. 247— Bedsole. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To establish a child welfare department for the State of Alabama, to pro- 
 scribe its duties, functions, and powers, to provide for the appointment 
 of an executive and other officers of such department to define their 
 duties, to provide for their compensation and to provide for the mainte- 
 nance and other expenses of such department, and confer on said de- 
 partment all the duties, powers and authority heretofore conferred on 
 the State prison inspector insofar as his duties, powers, and authority 
 relate to children under 16 years of age." 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That there is hereby established for the State of 
 Alabama a Child Welfare Department, to be located in the State 
 Capitol, with the several powers, functions, and duties herein- 
 after prescribed. 
 
 Section 2. That the said department shall have the power 
 and it shall be its duty (1) To devise the plans and means for and 
 have general oversight over the welfare work for minor chil- 
 dren in the State. (2) To advise with the judges and probation 
 
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 officers of the Juvenile Courts of the several counties of the 
 State and to encourage and perfect the work of such courts 
 throughout the State. (3) To exercise the right of visitation, 
 inspection and co-operative supervision of all State, county, mu- 
 nicipal and other institutions, public or private, receiving or 
 caring for children, and of all orphanages, child placing socie- 
 ties, and of all maternity hospitals and lying-in homes. Pro- 
 vided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall be so 
 construed as to supersede or interfere with the powers and duties 
 of the Board of Control and Economy heretofore created and 
 established. (4) To exercise general supervision over the ad- 
 ministration and enforcement of existing laws governing appren- 
 ticeships, adoptions, and child placing agencies. (5) To issue 
 permits to orphanages and all other institutions caring for, 
 receiving, placing or handling minor children, to all maternity 
 hospitals and lying in homes, and to revoke any such permit 
 for cause. (6) To require reports from courts and institutions, 
 public and private, to the extent and in the form and manner 
 hereinafter provided. (7) To enforce all laws regulating the 
 employment of minor children, with full power of visitation and 
 inspection of all factories, industries, and other establishments 
 in which children may be employed, permitted or suffered to 
 work, the duties, power and authority, with reference to the 
 Child Labor Law, heretofore or hereafter imposed upon the 
 State Prison Inspector, being hereby transferred to and im- 
 posed upon the Child Welfare Department herein created. (8) 
 To make surveys and to hold conferences and conventions for 
 the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act and of 
 promoting the welfare of minor children, and to that end to 
 enlist the cooperation of any State, county or municipal officials. 
 (9) To solicit and receive donations of money and other things 
 of value to be used in the support and development of its work 
 and activities. (10) To co-operate with the State Department 
 of Education, the State Board of Health, all State, county, and 
 municipal, benevolent and religious, educational and correctional 
 institutions, and to solicit the aid and to co-ordinate the activities 
 of all private and volunteer social, labor, and welfare organiza- 
 tions on all subjects affecting the health, education, morals and 
 general welfare of minor children. (11) To establish and main- 
 tain homes, receiving stations, or other agencies, for the care of 
 dependent, neglected or delinquent minor children, or to con- 
 tract with such institutions for their care, and to receive minor 
 children committed to its care and to place such children either 
 in family homes, or in institutions caring for children, and to 
 supervise such children however placed. 
 
 Section 3. (1) That the Child Welfare Department shall be 
 under the control of a Commission consisting of the Governor, 
 
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 the State Superintendent of Education, the State Health 
 Officer, ex-officio, and six persons to be appointed by 
 the Governor, whose terms of office beginning from the 
 date of their appointment shall be respectively, two for two 
 years, two for four years, and two for six years, the said terms 
 of office to be designated to each appointee by the Governor in 
 making the appointment. All succeeding appointees shall be 
 appointed by the Governor and shall hold office for a term of 
 six years and until their successors are appointed and qualified. 
 
 (2) The said Commission shall, within sixty days after the 
 approval of this Act, and at the call of the Governor, meet at 
 the State Capitol and proceed to organize the said department. 
 It shall hold at the State Capitol at least one regular meeting 
 during each year, and as many special meetings as may be neces- 
 sary. At such meetings five members shall constitute a quorum. 
 The Governor shall be the presiding officer, but in case of his 
 absence, the Commission shall have authority to elect a tem- 
 porary presiding officer. If there be no director as hereinafter 
 provided for the Commission may elect a secretary, pro-tempore. 
 
 (3) The director hereinafter provided for shall be the secretary 
 of the Commission. (4) The members of the Commission shall 
 receive no compensation for their services other than the amount 
 of their traveling and other expenses, actually paid out while in 
 attendance on the meetings of the Commission, or on the business 
 of the department. (5) The Commission is empowered to adopt 
 rules for its own government, and for the government of the 
 department; to elect a director and to provide for the selection 
 or appointment of other officials or employees as may be neces- 
 sary and to fix their compensation; to have general control of 
 the performance of every duty and the execution of the several 
 powers herein conferred upon the department; to control and 
 direct the expenditure of all appropriations which may be made 
 for the maintenance of the department; and to do and perform 
 such other acts and things as may be necessary to carry out the 
 true intent and purposes of this Act. 
 
 Section 4. (1) That the department shall be under the im- 
 mediate management and control of a director to be elected by 
 the Commission whose term of office shall be six years and until 
 his successor is elected and qualified. The Commission shall have 
 authority to discharge at any time the director at its pleasure, 
 (2) The director shall take oath of office, as other public offi- 
 cials, shall be commissioned in like manner, shall devote his 
 entire time to the work of the department, and shall receive for 
 his services the sum of Three Thousand Dollars per annum, 
 payable monthly as other State officials are paid. (3) The di- 
 rector shall have full control and direction of the work and oper- 
 ations of the department, and he shall use his best endeavors to 
 
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 develop and carry forward the various activities herein pro- 
 vided. 
 
 Section 5. That it is hereby made the duty of the probate 
 and juvenile court judges to make on or before the tenth day of 
 each month a report to the Child Welfare Department on the 
 work of juvenile courts administered by them, and all apprentice- 
 ships and adoptions, in their several counties. 
 
 Section 6. That it is hereby made the duty of all public and 
 private reformatories, correctional and child caring institutions, 
 all orphanages, maternity hospitals, lying-in homes, or other 
 institutions having or exercising any jurisdiction or control of, 
 or over dependent, neglected, or delinquent children, to make such 
 reports to the department, and at such times, as may be required 
 by its rules, including the extent and source of income, cost of 
 maintenance, number of inmates, and upon all such other sub- 
 jects as may be demanded. All reports provided for in this and 
 the preceding section shall be upon blanks and forms provided 
 by the Child Welfare Department. Any such superintendent, 
 manager, or person, in charge of such institutions, failing or 
 refusing to allow such visitation or inspection, or failing or re- 
 fusing to make such reports, or furnish the information to said 
 department as herein provided for, shall be guilty of a misde- 
 meanor. It is hereby made the duty of State solicitors, or their 
 assistants, to institute proceedings for the purpose of enforcing 
 this law. 
 
 Section 7. That in order to render more effective the provi- 
 sions of this Act, and better to develop its objects in conserving 
 the interests of the minor children of the State, the Commission 
 herein provided for is empowered to devise reasonable minimum 
 standards for the conduct of such orphanages, institutions, or 
 societies, or other agencies receiving or caring for dependent, 
 neglected, or delinquent minor children, and all maternity and 
 lying-in-homes, and to grant permits to operate to such of these 
 as conform to the standards. All orphanages, or other institu- 
 tions or societies or agencies, receiving or caring for dependent, 
 neglected, or delinquent minor children, and all maternity and 
 lying-in-homes shall be required to obtain a permit from the 
 department before being permitted to operate, and any such 
 institution carrying on any of the functions of such organizations 
 or any person or persons in charge of such institutions without 
 first obtaining such permit shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 
 Provided, however, that all such institutions now operating in 
 the State shall be deemed prima facie as conforming in all re- 
 spects to right standards and regulations, and it shall be the 
 duty of the department to issue to every such institution a permit 
 as herein required, but institutions shall be subject to future 
 inspections, and to conformity to the standards, and regulations 
 
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 which may be prescribed by the Department. Power is con- 
 ferred upon the Department to cancel the permit herein above 
 provided for on the failure of any such organization to comply 
 with the standards which may be established by said Depart- 
 ment. No permit shall be granted to any private person, organi- 
 zation, institution or society, to receive, care for, or place any 
 child or children unles such person, organization or society is 
 chartered as provided for by the laws of the State. 
 
 Section 8. That the Child Welfare Department shall occupy 
 rooms or apartments in the State Capitol to be set aside for its 
 use by the Governor; its furnishings and equipment shall be 
 supplied from the Capitol, Repair and Improvement Fund as 
 other State offices, its stationery, office supplies and materials 
 and postage shall be supplied from the stationery and office 
 supplies and postage funds, and the printing and binding of its 
 reports, bulletins, circulars, blank forms and other printing 
 as may be required shall be paid from the State printing fund. 
 
 Section 9. That for the maintenance of the Department 
 including the payment of salaries and all expenses not provided 
 for under the special provisions herein provided, the sum of 
 Twelve thousand four hundred ($12,400.00) dollars is hereby 
 appropriated, and a continuing annual appropriation of said 
 sum is hereby made. 
 
 Section 10. That in the event any part or provisions of this 
 Act is declared unconstitutional or inoperative by the Courts, it 
 shall only affect such parts or provisions, the remainder of the 
 Act continuing in full force and effect. 
 
 Section 11. That all laws and parts of laws, general, special, 
 and local in conflict with any of the provisions of this Act be 
 and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved Sept. 25, 1919. 
 
 No. 763.) H. 944— Partridge. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the establishment and maintenance of public libraries by 
 counties; to provide for their government and supervision, and to au- 
 thorize the co-operation and affiliation of rural, town, and village school 
 libraries with any libraries so organized. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 1. That in order to aid in the development of higher ideals 
 of citizenship and the enlargement of opportunity for culture and 
 recreation, and in order to afford an additional agency for the 
 further up-building of the educational interests of the State, 
 the court of county commissioners, the board of revenue or other 
 
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 governing body of the counties of this State shall have the right 
 to establish and maintain or aid in establishing and maintaining 
 free public libraries, for the use of the citizens of their respec- 
 tive counties, either separately or in connection with free public 
 libraries or subscription libraries already established therein, or 
 in connection with the public schools, and to that end may accept 
 gifts, donations and bequests of lands, buildings or money there- 
 for, and may make appropriations from the county treasury in 
 support thereof in such sums as they may deem proper, not to 
 exceed five thousand dollars annually. 
 
 2. That for the government and supervision of such libraries 
 a county library board is hereby created, consisting of the Pro- 
 bate Judge, as chairman, and the county superintendent of 
 education, both ex-officio, and three others to be elected by the 
 above named county authorities; the library board so created 
 shall have full power and authority to control the expenditure 
 of all funds received or appropriated for such libraries ; to erect 
 or rent^ buildings to cost not in excess of the funds available to 
 them ; to purchase books and equipment, to provide a system of 
 circulating or traveling libraries, to elect a librarian and other 
 employees, and otherwise to have full authority and power to 
 manage and control the said library in order to carry out the 
 full intent and purpose of this act; and a careful and complete 
 record and set of books shall be kept by the library board, show- 
 ing the proceedings of their several meetings and the disburse- 
 ments in detail of all funds expended by them. In counties where 
 free public libraries are already established and in operation, a 
 separate county library board shall not be appointed, but the 
 county libraries and the appropriations authorized shall be ad- 
 ministered by the governing board of such public library, on such 
 terms as may be agreed upon between the above named county 
 authorities and the said governing board. 
 
 3. That any rural, town or village school library, secured or 
 provided under act of April 13, 1911, may on application of the 
 district library board to the county library board affiliate such 
 library with the county library, or with the free public library 
 administering the county library, in accordance with rules fixed 
 by the county library board, or by the free public library board. 
 
 4. That it shall be the duty of the Department of Archives 
 and History, now charged with the library extension activities 
 of the State, to encourage the establishment of such libraries, 
 and shall afford free advice and counsel on organization, build- 
 ings, staff, book purchases, co-ordination and affiliation of school 
 and other libraries, and on such other subjects as may arise in 
 connection with the establishment and maintenance of such li- 
 braries ; and such county libraries shall, on request, make such 
 
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 regular and special reports to the Department as may be re- 
 quired. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 637.) (S. 240— West. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the inspection of all public or private hospitals, reformatories, 
 houses of detention, convents, asylums, sectarian seminaries, schools or 
 other institutions in the State of Alabama; to authorize the appoint- 
 ment of inspectors, and to provide penalties for the violation of any of 
 the provisions hereof. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That all public or private hospitals, reforma- 
 tories, houses of detention, convents, asylums, sectarian semi- 
 naries, schools or other like institutions in the State of Alabama 
 shall be subject to inspection, and open to inspection, by the 
 inspectors hereinafter provided, at any and all times between 
 the hours of 8 A. M. and 7 P. M., and at any other hour than 
 those named, should the necessity therefor arise. 
 
 Section 2, That such inspection shall be made by an inspec- 
 tor or inspectors appointed by the governor of the State of Ala- 
 bama — and it shall be the duty of the governor to appoint such 
 inspector or inspectors and to direct when and where such in- 
 spection or inspections shall be made. 
 
 Section 3. Such inspector or inspectors, when appointed, 
 shall make a careful inspection of the institution, directed to be 
 inspected, as to its sanitary conditions inside and outside of the 
 buildings, all rooms in such building or buildings, and the sur- 
 rounding grounds and out houses belonging to or connected 
 with such institution; shall have full power and authority, and 
 it shall be the duty of such inspector or inspectors to make in- 
 quiry of all those kept, boarded or confined in such institution, 
 separate and apart from the presence of any officer or other 
 person connected in any way with such institution, as to their 
 treatment, whether they or others there are subject to involun- 
 tary confinement, or servitude, or are forcibly detained or unlaw- 
 fully confined in such institution; the declared purpose of this 
 section being to afford, within the confines of the institution, and 
 free from interference by or intimidation from any officer or 
 other person in any way connected with said institution, a full 
 opportunity to get the facts from any one therein kept, boarded 
 or confined as to the manner in which such institution is con- 
 ducted, and whether any one therein is involuntarily confined, 
 subjected to servitude or forcibly detaied, or unlawfully held. 
 
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 Section 4. That such inspector or inspectors, as soon after 
 making an inspection as practical, shall file in duplicate, one with 
 the governor of the State of Alabama and one with the Superin- 
 tendent of Education of the State of Alabama, a report in writ- 
 ing covering the points of inspection herein set out, and such 
 other things as may seem pertinent to the purposes of such in- 
 spection, and stating conditions just as he found them, and as 
 they are reported to him or them by those residing in or kept 
 or confined in such institution; and this report shall be open to 
 inspection by any citizen of the State of Alabama, or any officer 
 or agent of the federal government. 
 
 Section 5. That it shall be unlawful for any officer or agent 
 of any institution directed to be inspected, or for any other per- 
 son, whether connected with said institution or not, to in any 
 way hinder or impede, oppose or prevent any inspector or inspec- 
 tors from performing their or his duty in making an inspection, 
 when directed so to do by the authority or authorities herein 
 mentioned, and any person convicted of violating any of the pro- 
 visions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
 conviction shall be fined not less than Fifty, nor more than Five 
 Hundred Dollars, and also be sentenced to hard labor for the 
 county for not less than thirty, nor more than one hundred and 
 eighty days. 
 
 Section 6. That any inspector or inspectors appointed as 
 herein provided, and who accepts such an appointment, who shall 
 divulge to any person or persons until the inspection is made, the 
 fact of his appointment or when or where he will perform the 
 inspection of any institution directed to be inspected shall be 
 guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not 
 less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and may also 
 be sentenced to hard labor for the county for not less than thirty 
 nor more than one hundred and eighty days. 
 
 Section 7. That all laws, local special and general or either 
 in conflict with the provision of this act be and they are hereby 
 expressly repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 571.) (H. 523— Long of Sumter. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for holding district and county fairs for boys' agricultural and 
 girls' home demonstration clubs; to prescribe the manner in which they 
 shall be held; to create boards of directors for district and county fairs 
 for boys' agricultural and girls' home demonstration clubs in each coun- 
 ty; to create fair districts for boys' agricultural and girls' home demon- 
 stration clubs in each county; to create fair district committees for boys' 
 agricultural and girls' home demonstration clubs in each county; to 
 
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 provide for holding meetings of instruction for members of the boys* 
 agricultural and girls' home demonstration clubs; to make appropria- 
 tions for such fairs and to prescribe methods for drawing and spending 
 same. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That from and after the passage of this Act the 
 probate judge or chairman of the county board of revenue or 
 county commissioners or other body having similar jurisdiction 
 in the county, the county superintendent of education, the county 
 farm demonstration agent, and the county home demonstration 
 agent are hereby created a board of directors for district and 
 county fairs for boys' agricultural and girls' home demonstra- 
 tion clubs in each county. The probate judge or chairman of the 
 county board of revenue or county commissioners or other body 
 having similar jurisdiction in the county, shall be ex-officio chair- 
 man of said board of directors. A majority of said board of 
 directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all 
 business. The said board of directors shall designate some 
 reliable and responsible bank in the county to receive and dis- 
 burse all funds for all district and county fairs created by this 
 Act as directed by said board of directors. 
 
 Section 2. Said board of directors shall at once divide the 
 county into ten fair districts for boys' agricultural and girls' 
 home demonstration clubs based upon the school attendance in 
 the rural schools for the previous school year and the general 
 topography of the county. Each of the said fair districts shall 
 contain as nearly as practicable and equal number of boys and 
 girls of school age. Each year thereafter not later than the first 
 Monday in July the said board of directors in each county shall 
 meet and either declare the fair districts as before in effect or 
 make such changes based on the school attendance of the previous 
 year and the general topography of the county as seen for the 
 best interests of the several districts and the county. The said 
 board of directors shall select a chairman and two associate mem- 
 bers as the fair district committee for boys' agricultural and 
 girls' home demonstration clubs for organizing and supervising 
 the district fair in each fair district. 
 
 Section 3. The said board of directors in each county shall 
 have the authority for the expenditure of all funds as provided 
 by this Act for all district and county fairs for boys' agricultural 
 and girls' home demonstration clubs held in the county; shall 
 make all rules and regulations and shall set dates for holding 
 district and county fairs as provided for by this Act, provided 
 that all boys and girls making exhibits and competing for pre- 
 miums are either regular members of the boys' agricultural and 
 the girls' home demonstration clubs as organized under the super- 
 
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 vision of the farm and home demonstration agents in each county 
 or students of vocational classes under the Smith-Hughes Law, 
 and that they submit records of their work along with their ex- 
 hibits ; and provide further that as far as practicable premiums 
 shall be offered so as to make an equitable and fair division of 
 funds between boys and girls' so as to stimulate the maximum 
 interest in home gardening, canning, agriculture and livestock. 
 All district fairs as provided for by this Act in any county shall 
 be held prior to the said county fair in the same county. All 
 county fairs for boys' agricultural and girls' home demonstration 
 clubs shall be held not later than November the 15th of each 
 year. 
 
 Section 4. That when a petition is filed with the probate 
 judge or chairman of the county board of revenue or county 
 commissioners or other body having similar jurisdiction in the 
 county, signed by a majority of the legal voters in any fair dis- 
 trict and accompanied by $25.00 which is to be used in offering 
 premiums and otherwise aiding in paying the expenses of the dis- 
 trict fair, the county board of revenue or county commissioners 
 or other body having similar jurisdiction in the county may 
 declare this Act in force for said district, and appropriate an 
 additional $25 for the purpose of offering premiums and aiding 
 in paying other expenses incurred in holding a district fair in 
 said district. Each year thereafter when the fair district com- 
 mittee in any fair district raises $25 in the district, which is to 
 be used in offering premiums and in otherwise aiding in pay- 
 ing the expenses of the district fair, and deposits it with the 
 probate judge or chairman of the county board of revenue or 
 county commissioners or other body having similar jurisdiction 
 in the county, the county board of revenue or county commis- 
 sioners or other body having similar jurisdiction in the county 
 shall appropriate an additional $25 for the purpose of offering 
 premiums and aiding in paying other expenses incurred in hold- 
 ing a district fair in said district. 
 
 Section 5. When a majority of said fair districts in any 
 county qualify for holding district fairs, the county board of 
 revenue or county commissioners or other body having similar 
 jurisdiction in the county may declare this Act for holding a 
 county fair for boys' agricultural and girls* home demonstration 
 clubs in force and appropriate $500 for the purpose of offering 
 premiums and paying other expenses incident to holding said 
 county fair and for paying any expenses incident to holding 
 county meetings of members of the boys' agricultural and girls' 
 home demonstration clubs for special instruction in the various 
 agricultural and home demonstration club activities in which 
 the boys and girls may be engaged. When any county qualifies 
 for holding a county fair for boys* agricultural and girls' home 
 
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 demonstration clubs, there is hereby appropriated out of the 
 State Treasury from any funds not otherwise appropriated the 
 sum of $100 annually to be used in offering premiums and other- 
 wise aiding in paying the expenses of said county fair. The 
 State fund is to be available to a county when the State Auditor 
 receives a certified statement from the probate judge or chair- 
 man of the county board of revenue or county commissioners or 
 other body having similar jurisdiction in the county showing 
 that the county has qualified for holding said county fair. The 
 State warrant for said $100 for each county shall be drawn in 
 the name of the probate judge or chairman of the county board 
 of revenue or county commissioners or other body having similar 
 jurisdiction in the county. 
 
 Section 6. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with 
 this Act or any part of this Act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 555.) (S. 651— Brown. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend an Act approved February 14, 1919, entitled- "An Act To provide 
 for extension work in agriculture and home economics by giving instruc- 
 tion to men, w^omen and young people in the several counties in Ala- 
 bama, by continuing and improving farm demonstration work, by organ- 
 izing marketing clubs, by organizing and supervising boys' com and pig 
 clubs, girls' canning clubs, women's clubs in home economics and by con- 
 ducting other extension work through other means, all with a view to 
 making farm life more profitable and attractive; to secure for Alabama 
 the full amount of the funds conditionally appropriated by Congress 
 under the Smith-Lever Extension Act for extension work in agriculture 
 and home economics; and to make appropriations for these purposes." 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 That an Act approved February 14, 1919, entitled "An act 
 to provide for extension work in agriculture and home economics 
 by giving instruction to men, women, and young people in the 
 several counties in Alabama, by continuing and improving farm 
 demonstration work, by organizing marketing clubs, by organiz- 
 ing and supervising boys' corn and pig clubs, girls' canning clubs, 
 women's clubs in home economics and by conducting other exten- 
 sion work through other means, all with a view to making farm 
 life more profitable and attractive; to secure for Alabama the 
 full amount of the funds conditionally appropriated by Congress 
 under the Smith-Lever Extension Act for extension work in 
 agriculture and home economics; and to make appropriations 
 for these purposes." "Be it enacted by the Legislature of Ala- 
 bama. That an Act approved February 14, 1919, entitled an act 
 
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 to provide for extension work in agriculture and home economics 
 by giving instruction to men, women, and young people in the 
 several counties in Alabama, by continuing and improving farm 
 demonstration work, by organizing marketing clubs, by organ- 
 izing and supervising boys' corn and pig clubs, girls' canning 
 clubs, women's clubs in home economics and by conducting other 
 extension work through other means, all with a view to making 
 farm life more profitable and attractive; to secure for Alabama 
 the full amount of the funds conditionally appropriated by Con- 
 gress under the Smith-Lever Extension Act for extension work 
 in agriculture and home economics ; and to make appropriations 
 for these purposes," be and the same is hereby amended so as to 
 read as follows: 
 
 Section 1. That in order to aid in diffusing among the people 
 of Alabama in the several counties useful and practical informa- 
 tion on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics; to 
 provide for the continuance and improvement of farm demon- 
 stration work; for organizing live stock, marketing and other 
 agricultural clubs and otherwise assisting farmers in preparing 
 for market and marketing their crops and live stock ; for organ- 
 izing and supervising boys' corn clubs and pig clubs, girls' can- 
 ning clubs, home economics and other clubs for women; to en- 
 courage diversification of crops and better methods of farming 
 and stock raising; to promote the welfare of the rural districts 
 by other forms of agricultural and home economics extension 
 work ; and to secure for expenditure in Alabama the full amounts 
 appropriated conditionally by the Congress of the United States 
 under the agricultural extension act, approved May 8th, 1914, 
 generally known as the Smith-Lever act for extension work in 
 agriculture and home economics in the several states, the fol- 
 lowing sums shall be, and are hereby, appropriated to the Ala- 
 bama Polytechnic Institute out of any moneys in the Treasury 
 not otherwise appropriated, for carrying out the purposes of 
 this act: For the fiscal year, beginning October 1, 1919, the 
 sum of sixty-eight thousand ($68,000) dollars; for the fiscal year 
 beginning October 1, 1920, the sum of eighty-six thousand ($86,- 
 000) dollars; for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1921, the 
 sum of one hundred four thousand ($104,000) dollars; for the 
 fiscal year beginning October 1, 1922, the sum of one hundred 
 twenty-two thousand ($122,000) dollars. 
 
 Section 2. These sums shall be expended under the direction 
 of the board of Trustees of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 
 which board of trustees shall appoint a committee of three men 
 with the governor of the State as chairman and the said commit- 
 tee shall direct the extension service of said institute in the ex- 
 penditure of all moneys whatever relevant to the putting into 
 eflfect of this act, and in such manner as to secure for extension 
 work in Alabama in any year the maximum amount of the fund 
 
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 conditionally appropriated for that year by the Congress of the 
 United States under the terms of the agricultural extension act, 
 generally known as the Smith-Lever act, approved May 8th, 
 1914. If there should remain in any year any balance of the 
 State appropriation after satisfying the requirements of the said 
 Smith-Lever act of Congress, these balances may be used with 
 the approval of the above mentioned commission in providing 
 quarters for the official and public use of persons engaged in 
 extension work in Alabama and for other purposes related to 
 extension work. Any balance remaining unexpended at the end 
 of any fiscal year shall be added to the amount available for the 
 next ensuing year, except as modified by the provisions of an act 
 approved February 11, 1919, to provide for a State Budget Com- 
 mission. Any revenue derived from the sale of equipment or 
 other articles shall be further applied to the purposes of this 
 Act. 
 
 Section 3. The sums appropriated by this Act shall be paid 
 each year in equal quarterly payments in advance on the first 
 day of October, January, April and July, respectively, to the 
 Treasurer of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, on the requisi- 
 tion of the President of the Institute. 
 
 Section 4. On or before the fifteenth day of each month the 
 Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute shall 
 make a report to the Governor showing to whom any moneys 
 were paid during the preceding month, naming the amount paid 
 to each person and the cause or causes for which said moneys 
 were paid, with such degree of itemizing as the Governor may 
 require. 
 
 Section 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
 Act are hereby repealed, but nothing in this Act shall be con- 
 strued as repealing the Act approved February 11, 1911, for 
 farm demonstration work in Alabama, which Act provides a 
 fund for farm demonstration work in cooperation with the Fed- 
 eral Department of Agriculture that is now represented in Ala- 
 bama by the Extension Service of the Alabama Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
 No. 391.) (S. J. R. 120— Carmichael. 
 
 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 
 
 Relating to Federal aid for the promotion or development of 
 mines and mining, and mining engineering in the State of Ala- 
 bama. 
 
 Whereas, The Alabama Educational Commission has recom- 
 mended the concentration at the University of Alabama of train- 
 
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 ing and investigations in Mining Engineering and the authori- 
 ties of the two State engineering colleges have accepted this 
 recommendation, and 
 
 Whereas, it appears that certain advantages may in future 
 years accrue to the several States in the development of mines 
 and mining by the action of the Federal Government: NOW 
 THEREFORE 
 
 Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Alabama, the 
 House concurring, 
 
 1. That the department of mining engineering of the Univer- 
 sity of Alabama be and hereby is declared to be the "School of 
 Mines" of the State of Alabama. 
 
 2. That Alabama's share of such Federal aid as may here- 
 after be provided by Congress for the promotion or development 
 of mines and mining, and mining engineering in the several 
 States through educational agencies, shall be put at the exclusive 
 disposal of the University of Alabama to be utilized in connec- 
 tion with or by that institution in such manner as the Federal 
 law and regulations may prescribe. 
 
 Approved September 20, 1919. 
 
 No. 278.) (H. 412 — Jones of Montgomery. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To authorize and require the city school board, or city board of education, or 
 by whatever name called in all cities or towns of this State having a pop- 
 ulation of not less than thirty-eight thousand nor more than forty thou- 
 sand, according to the last or any succeeding Federal census, to provide 
 a pension or retiring allowance for teachers who have served in the pub- 
 lic schools of such city or town. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the city school board, or city board of educa- 
 tion, or by whatever name called, in all cities or towns of this 
 State having a population of not less than 38,000 nor more than 
 40,000 according to the last or any succeeding Federal 
 census, is hereby authorized and required, on application in 
 writing, to retire any teacher who has taught in the public schools 
 of such city for twenty-one years or more, and is at the time on 
 the roll of teachers of any such city or town, and who, at the 
 expiration of such period shall be in such mental or physical 
 condition as to be unable or incapacitated to teach longer, such 
 inability or incapacity to be determined by said board, and a 
 statement thereof spread upon the minutes of ^aid board. 
 
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 Section 2. That the city school board or city board of educa- 
 tion or by whatever named called, in all cities or towns of this 
 State having a population of not less than 38,000 nor more than 
 40,000 according to the last or any succeeding Federal census, 
 is hereby authorized and required on application in writing to 
 place on the retired list of school teachers any person who is at 
 the time a resident citizen of any such city or town and who 
 taught in the public school of such city twenty-one years or more 
 at any time in the past and who shall be at the time of such appli- 
 cation in such mental or physical condition as to be unable or 
 incapacitated to teach longer, such inability or incapacity to be 
 determined by said board and a statement thereof spread upon 
 the minutes of said board ; it being the intention of this act that 
 such persons shall enjoy the full benefits of this act. 
 
 Section 3. The amount of pension or retiring allowance pro- 
 vided for in sections 1 and 2 of this act shall be one-half of the 
 highest salary received by any such teacher during the period 
 of service, but not to exceed the sum of $600.00 per annum. 
 
 Section 4. Such pension or retiring allowance shall be paid 
 out of the regular school funds monthly as salaries of other 
 teachers are paid. 
 
 Section 5. This act shall take effect upon its approval by the 
 governor. 
 
 Approved September 2, 1919. 
 
 No. 701.) (S. 442— Briscoe. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To create the office of State Fire Marshal, and to provide for the appoint- 
 ment of deputy Marshals and assistants to define their powers and 
 duties and to fix their compensation; provide vv^ays and means for the 
 enforcement of this Act and penalties for violation thereof; and to pro- 
 vide means for defraying the expenses incuired under the provisions 
 hereof. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 ^ Section 2. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty 
 of the State Fire Marshal, his deputies and assistants, to enforce 
 the laws and ordinances of the State, and the provisions of this 
 Act, in counties, cities and districts thereof relating to First: 
 Prevention of fires. Second : Storage, sale and use of combust- 
 ibles and explosives. Third : Installation and maintenance of 
 automatic and other fire alarm systems and fire extinguishing 
 equipment. Fourth : Construction, maintenance and regulation 
 of fire escapes. Fifth : The means and adequacy of exits in case 
 of fire from factories, asylums, hospitals, churches, schools, halls, 
 
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 theatres, amphitheaters, and all other places in which numbers of 
 ireisor.s live, work or congregate from time to time for any pur- 
 pose or purposes. Sixth : Suppression of arson, and the investi- 
 gation of the cause, origin and circumstance of fires. The State 
 Fire Marshal, his deputies and Assistants, shall have such other 
 powers, and perform such other duties, as set forth in other sec- 
 tions of this Act, and as may be conferred and imposed upon 
 them from time to time by the laws of this State. 
 
 Section 13. Be it further enacted. That it shall be the duty 
 of the State Fire Marshal, his deputies and assistants, to require 
 officials and teachers of public and private schools and educa- 
 tional institutions to have at least one fire drill each month, and 
 to have all doors and exits at such schools and educational insti- 
 tutions open out, and that all such doors and exits shall be un- 
 locked during school hours, and that the doors and exits of fac- 
 tories, asylums hospitals, churches, halls, theatres, amphithea- 
 ters and other places in which numbers of persons live, work or 
 congregate from time to time for any purpose or purposes, shall 
 open out, and any person or persons, or corporations, failing to 
 comply with the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a mis- 
 demeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than Ten 
 ($10.00) Dollars, nor more than Fifty ($50.00) Dollars for each 
 violation thereof. 
 
 No. 21.) (S. 89— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the appointment of a commission to make a study of the 
 public school system of Alabama and to make an appropriation there- 
 for. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That the governor shall appoint a commission of 
 five persons all of whom shall serve without compensation, to 
 make a study of the public educational system of Alabama, in- 
 cluding all schools and educational institutions supported in 
 whole or in part from public funds, to determine the efficiency 
 of the same and to report its findings with recommendations for 
 increased efficiency and economy to the governor on or before 
 July 1, 1919. 
 
 Sec. 2. That the said commission is empowered to employ 
 assistance in the several fields of public education in which the 
 State is engaged and shall supply such clerical help and equip- 
 ment as shall be necessary. 
 
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 Sec. 3. That the said commission and its employees shall 
 have free access to all public records. All public school and edu- 
 cational institutions, teachers, instructors, faculties, officers, 
 and employees shall furnish all information and assistance in 
 their power in making- such a study as is contemplated under 
 this act. The members of said commission and their assistants 
 shall have power to require the production of papers and records 
 and are hereby empowered to administer oaths. In case any per- 
 son summoned by any member of such commission, or any assist- 
 ants of such commission, shall fail or refuse to obey such process 
 or to testify before such commission or any assistants of such 
 commission, the said commission or any assistants of such com- 
 mission may apply to any court of record of this State to compel 
 obedience and to give testimony and the said courts are hereby 
 empowered to enforce obedience to such process. 
 
 Sec. 4. That said commission shall, in addition to other 
 work specified by this act, direct special attention to the feasi- 
 bility and advisability of consolidating any of the existing State 
 educational institutions or departments thereof, of eliminating 
 any institution or institutions, and of co-ordinating and unifying 
 the work of any or all institutions under one board of manage- 
 ment and control. 
 
 Sec. 5. That there is hereby appropriated out of any money 
 in the treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $10,000, 
 or so much thereof as may be necessary for the purpose of de- 
 fraying the cost of the study herein authorized, including the 
 personal and traveling expenses of the members of said commis- 
 sion, the salary and expenses of the necessary help and of such 
 other expenses as in the opinion of said commission are neces- 
 sary for the thorough study of school conditions in Alabama, 
 provided that for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 1919, and 
 for that year only, the legislative appropriation for the public 
 schools as provided by statute shall be reduced in an amount 
 equal to the amount actually expended of the above appropria- 
 tion of $10,000, as shown by the books in the office of the State 
 auditor; provided further that the said fund shall be paid out 
 upon warrants of the State auditor, issued upon requisitions of 
 the State superintendent of education and having attached there- 
 to itemized statements of said expenditures. 
 
 Approved February 6, 1919. 
 
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 No. 200.) (S. 312— Craft. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To require the City of Mobile to pay one-half of the annual expenses, of 
 the Juvenile Court of Mobile County and of the detention homes for 
 delinquent juveniles of Mobile County, including the salary of the Judge 
 of said Court, the salaries of the Probation Officer, the salaries of the 
 Superintendent, Matron and other employees necessary for the care of 
 the detention homes for juvenile delinquents of Mobile County and the 
 expense of providing and maintaining of detention homes for juvenile 
 delinquents of Mobile County. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 1. That the Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners of 
 Mobile County shall cause to be kept an accurate and true ac- 
 count of the amounts annually expended (meaning from the date 
 of the passage and approval of this Act) by the County of Mo- 
 bile in the payment of the salary of the Judge of the Juvenile 
 Court of Mobile County, the salary of the Probation Officer or 
 Officers of said Court, the salaries of the Superintendent, Matron 
 and assistants of the detention homes for juvenile delinquents 
 of Mobile County and the expenses of providing and maintaining 
 detention homes for juvenile delinquents of Mobile County, and 
 it shall be the duty of the City of Mobile, after an examination 
 of said account, which must be made within thirty days after 
 the same is presented to the Board of City Commissioners of 
 Mobile City, or other governing officers of the said City of Mo- 
 bile, to pay one-half of said account to the County of Mobile. 
 
 2. That all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provi- 
 sions of this Act be and the same are* hereby repealed. 
 
 3. That this Act shall take effect and be in force on and 
 after its approval. 
 
 Approved August 9, 1919. 
 
 No. 210.) (S. 296— Smith of Lawrence. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To authorize W. J. Lee, E. E. Etheredge and R. N. Streater, and their suc- 
 cessors in office, as trustees of public school district No. 59 in the Town 
 of Town Creek, Lawrence Covmty, Alabama, to execute a mortgage, 
 and borrow money on the real estate belonging to said trustees, and 
 their successors in office, in the Town of Town Creek, Lawrence County, 
 Alabama. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama, 
 That W. J. Lee, E. E. Etheredge, R. N. Streater, and their suc- 
 cessors in office, as trustees of school district No. 59 in the Town 
 
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 of Town Creek, Lawrence County, Alabama, are hereby author- 
 ized to borrow money and execute a mortgage on the following 
 described lands, as the lands of said trustees, to-wit: Begin- 
 ning at a point one hundred and fifty-seven yards west from 
 the center of the Greens Bluff public road, where the said Greens 
 Bluff Road crosses the Courtland and Tuscumbia Public Road, 
 and run thence north eighty-one yards, thence west one hun- 
 dred and twenty-yards, thence south eighty-none yards, thence 
 east one hundred and twenty yards to a point of beginning, sit- 
 uated, lying and being in Section 29, Township 4, Range 8, West, 
 in the State of Alabama. Also : Two acres of land beginning 
 at the northeast corner of the two acres of land herein above 
 described and thence running north eighty-one yards, thence west 
 one hundred and twenty yards, thence south eighty-one yards, 
 thence east one hundred and twenty yards to point of beginning, 
 situated, lying and being in the town of Town Creek, County 
 of Lawrence, State of Alabama. 
 
 Section 2. Be it further enacted that said trustees and their 
 successors in office are hereby authorized to use the money bor- 
 rowed as provided in section 1 of this Act in the building and 
 equipping and furnishing of a school building being erected, or 
 hereafter to be erected on the lands described in section 1 of 
 this Act. 
 
 Section 3. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of 
 laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved August 18, 1919. 
 
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 No. 246.) (H. 702— Orr. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the Town of Albertville and School District known as the ■ 
 Albertville School District, to manage and control the affairs of its 
 public schools in said school district. To provide for the election of a 
 board of education by the Town Council of the Town of Albertville, 
 Alabama. To authorize said board of education to mortgage or pledge 
 the property of said public school for the purpose of procuring addi- 
 tional funds to build or erect and equip a suitable public school building 
 in said ToviTi of Albertville, and to authorize payment and satisfaction 
 of said mortgage out of fvmds hereafter derived from the levy of a spe- 
 cial school tax in said school district. 
 
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama, 
 That on and after the passage and approval of this Act, the 
 public school of the Town of Albertville, in the Albertville School 
 District, shall be under the supervision, control and management 
 of a board of education elected by the Town Council of the 
 Town of Albertville, Alabama. 
 
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 Section 2. That said board of education shall have the pow- 
 ers and authority over said school, in said school district, that 
 the County Board of Education now has or may hereinafter be 
 given by law. 
 
 Section 3. That in addition to the powers already conferred 
 on boards of education by law, said board elected for the Town 
 of Albertville under the provisions of this Act shall have the 
 power and authority to borrow money and to execute a mortgage 
 on the property of said school for the purpose of procuring addi- 
 tional funds for the erection and equipping a suitable school 
 building in said Town. 
 
 Section 4. That said board of education shall have the right 
 to pay off and satisfy said mortgage out of funds derived from 
 the levy and collection of a special school tax voted in said school 
 district, which may hereafter be levied as provided by law, or 
 by other means as they may deem right and to the best interest 
 of the school. 
 
 Section 5. That immediately after the passage and approval 
 of this Act the Town Council of the said Town of Albertville 
 shall have the right to proceed to elect a board of education con- 
 sisting of five members, the same to be elected by a majority of 
 the members of the council sitting at a regularly organized meet- 
 ing of the Town Council and it shall be legal to elect said board 
 of education at a called meeting of the council, provided however 
 that all members of the council shall have at least one full days 
 notice of said meeting. 
 
 Section 6. The term of office of said members of said board 
 of education shall be for the same period as the council which 
 elects them, and they shall serve without compensation. 
 
 Section 7. This Act shall go into effect immediately on its 
 passage and approval by the Governor. 
 
 Section 8. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
 Act be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved August 29, 1919. 
 
 No. 459.) (H. 1052— Grayson of Mobile. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Scetion 1. That whenever any person in this State has taught 
 continuously in any of the public schools thereof for thirty years 
 and has reached the age of sixty years, and his or her record as a 
 teacher is without reproach, and by reason of physical inability 
 or mental infirmity is unable to teach longer, and who is without 
 the means of comfortable support, such teacher may lay his or 
 
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 her case before the county board of education, or other school 
 governing body by whatever name called, in all counties having 
 a population of not less than eighty thousand nor more than 
 eighty-two thousand according to the last or any succeeding 
 Federal census, and the said board shall proced to consider the 
 same, and if the facts are found as stated above, the teacher 
 shall be placed on the "Retired List," a record of which shall be 
 kept by the said board and known as the "Retired List," and 
 every person so placed on said list shall be entitled to receive a 
 pension from the public school funds of the said county or coun- 
 ties of two hundred and forty ($240.00) dollars per year to be 
 paid quarterly by the county treasurer of public school funds of 
 the county or counties in which the teacher making said applica- 
 tion lives, as other teachers are paid; provided that said pay- 
 ment will be made as above authorized so long as said teacher is 
 without means of comfortable support and until authorities of 
 such county or counties may for any reason which they deem 
 sufficient, discontinue the payment of said sum; provided fur- 
 ther, that this act shall not become operative in any of said coun- 
 ties except upon a majority vote of the county board of educa- 
 tion, or other school governing body by whatever name called, of 
 said counties. 
 
 Approved September 10, 1915. 
 
 No. 473.) (H. 748— Woodard. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend Section two of an act entitled "An Act to authorize the holding 
 of elections by municipal corporations in the State of Alabama, for the 
 purpose of obtaining authority to issue bonds, for public purposes here- 
 in aefined, and to provide for holding such elections, and declaring the 
 result thereof, and to authorize the issue of such bonds when a majority 
 of the voters participating in such elections vote in favor of the issue 
 of such bonds, and regulate the issue, execution, sale and security of 
 such bonds," approved August 26, 1909 as amended by an act approved 
 February 20, 1915. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 Section 1. That Section 2 of An Act entitled An Act to 
 authorize the holding of elections by municipal corporations in 
 the State of Alabama, for the purpose of obtaining authority to 
 issue bonds for public purposes herein defined, and to provide for 
 holding such elections, and declaring the result thereof and to 
 authorize the issue of such bonds when a majority of the voters 
 participating in such election vote in favor of the issue of such 
 bonds, and to regulate the issue, execution, sale and security of 
 Buch bonds approved August 26, 1909, and as amended by an act 
 
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 approved February 20, 1915, be and the same is hereby amended 
 so as to read as follows : Section 2. That all municipal corpora- 
 tions shall have full and continuing power and authority to issue 
 and sell bonds when such issue is authorized by the election 
 herein provided for, for the following named purposes, to-wit: 
 (1) For the purchase of real estate necessary for any improve- 
 ment authorized by law, or for the site for any building or im- 
 provement to be used for public purposes. (2) For extending, 
 enlarging, improving, repairing or securing, the more complete 
 use of and enjoyment of any building or improvement owned, 
 purchased or constructed by the municipality for equipping and 
 furnishing the same. * * * (9) For erecting city or town 
 halls and public offices ; public school houses and buildings to be 
 used in connection with same. For the erection and establish- 
 ment of public auditoriums and other buildings, for public meet- 
 ings and for the purpose of rebuilding, extending, enlarging, 
 repairing and equipping and furnishing the same. * * * 
 (14) For establishing free public libraries and reading rooms. 
 * * * (201/2 ) For the purpose of providing for the payment 
 of any obligations of any municipal corporation, whether arising 
 from administration or from the acquisition of any property 
 for public use or the construction of any improvement, or other- 
 wise or whether said obligation shall have matured or not at the 
 time of said issue. (21) For the payment of any deficiencies 
 in the revenues of any municipal corporation ; for the funding 
 of floating debts, and for such other purposes as may be author- 
 ized by law or by the charter of any municipal corporation. 
 (22) For the purpose of providing any money or moneys deemed 
 necessary by the governing body to provide for the administra- 
 tion of the city to the expiration of the fiscal year. * * * 
 Provided that paragraphs 20 1/2 and 22 of this Section of this 
 act shall apply only to cities which now have or may hereafter 
 have a population of as much as one hundred thousand people 
 according to the last Federal census or any such census which 
 may hereafter be taken. 
 Approved Sept. 25, 1919. 
 
 No. 519.) (S. 499— Carmichael. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make an appropriation for the purchase of grounds and buildings, for the 
 erection of additional buildings, for the repair of buildings and improve- 
 ment of grounds, and for the equipment of the State Normal School at 
 Daphne, Alabama. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 1. That there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in 
 the State treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of thirty 
 
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 thousand dollars for the purchase of grounds and buildings, for 
 the erection of additional buildings, for the repair of buildings 
 and improvement of grounds, and for the equipment of the State 
 Normal School at Daphne, Alabama, the said appropriation, how- 
 ever, only to be available when a like sum of thirty thousand 
 dollars has been collected and placed in the hands of the Treas- 
 urer of said State Normal School, thereby making the total sum 
 of sixty thousand dollars available for the purposes indicated. 
 
 2. That the appropriation of thirty thousand dollars made 
 under this Act shall be paid by the State Auditor upon requisi- 
 tion of the State Superintendent of Education, with the approval 
 of the Governor, accompanied by a sworn statement of the 
 treasurer of said State Normal School that the sum required to 
 be raised by said school is in his hands available for use. 
 
 3. That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal or 
 to any way interfere with any other appropriations now or here- 
 after to be made in behalf of said State Normal School. 
 
 Approved September 29, 1919. 
 
 No. 630.) (S. 511— Espy. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend and consolidate Sections 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58 of the Code, and the 
 Act of April 7, 1911, and the act of March 9, 1915, all relating to the 
 "Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station", at Uniontown, Alabama. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 1. The "Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station" is 
 established for the purpose of making experiments in Scientific 
 Agriculture and Horticulture, live stock raising, dairying, poul- 
 try and bee keeping. 
 
 2. The Station is under the general supervision and control 
 of a Board of Trustees composed of the Commissioner of Agri- 
 culture and Industries", ex officio, and five progressive farmers 
 and business men who are interested in cultivating "Canebrake" 
 lands, three of whom must reside within ten miles of the Station 
 and who shall not receive any compensation other than expenses 
 actually incurred in visiting the Station and while there super- 
 vising its affairs. The presewt members of the Board of Control, 
 shall be entitled to hold their respective offices till the expiration 
 of the terms for which they were appointed and as a term ex- 
 pires, the Governor, shall appoint a trustee for the term of five 
 years, but not more than two trustees shall be appointed from 
 one County. All vacancies in the office of Trustee shall be filled 
 
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 by the Governor and the Trustee so appointed shall hold office 
 for the unexpired term. 
 
 3. The Board of Trustees has authority to appoint and dis- 
 charge at pleasure, all such officers, agents and servants as they 
 may consider necessary for the proper operation of the Station, 
 and shall fix their compensation. They shall select a "Director" 
 to manage and control the operations and affairs of the Station, 
 who must be an educated Scientific Agriculturist and a graduate 
 of a reputable Agricultural College. 
 
 4. The Board of Trustees may hold institutes for the benefit 
 of the farmers in the country surrounding the Station, and else- 
 where, and may select and pay the lecturers at the Institutes and 
 provide for their expenses while attending the Institutes. The 
 Board of Trustees may lease or buy such additional land as may 
 be necessary and proper to conduct the operations of the Station, 
 successfully, under existing conditions. The Board of Trustees 
 may conduct combination, or co-operative sales of any kind of 
 live stock and shipments of live stock to distant markets. The 
 Board of Trustees may sell any surplus product, or personal 
 property of the Station and may give away or exchange any 
 product of the Station which may promote the interest of Agri- 
 culture. The Board of Trustees must cause such experiments, 
 in Agriculture and Horticulture, or in anything related thereto, 
 as will advance the interests of Scientific Agriculture in any of 
 its branches, especially on "Canebrake" lands and cause such 
 necessary chemical analyses, as they may need, to be made by 
 the Chemist of the Department of Agriculture, without charge. 
 
 5. The expenses of the Station not exceeding four thousand 
 dollars, annually, must be paid out of the funds of the Depart- 
 ment of Agriculture, to the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees, 
 in equal installments on the first days of January, April, July, 
 and October of every year. 
 
 6. Whenever a Trustee does not attend three successive 
 regular meetings of the Board, or does not take an interest in the 
 business of the Station, the Governor, upon the request of the 
 Board shall vacate his office and appoint a successor. 
 
 Approved September 29, 1919. 
 
 No. 758.) (H. 900— Lynne. 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To confer * * * upon the Board of Control & Economy certain duties 
 and authority with reference to the purchasing and supplies of the pub- 
 lic printing and binding, stationery, fuel and paper, and other powers 
 and authority incident to the more efficient control and coordination of 
 the business operations of the State; also providing for the necessary ap- 
 
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 propriation to pay all salaries, wages and other expenses and outlays 
 authorized to be paid or incurred in this and the said original act of 
 February 13, 1919. 
 
 Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama: 
 
 * 4> . * * * * « 
 
 Section 5. The State Board of Control & Economy is hereby- 
 authorized in its discretion to make emergency purchases and 
 purchases in quantities, or by wholesale, of supplies and equip- 
 ment which it is hereby authority to purchase without previous 
 requisition from any institution or department, and without 
 advertising for bids, in order to enable it to obtain special bar- 
 gain or low prices, or reduced prices incident to quantity pur- 
 chasing, as well as to enable it to have on hand supplies in quan- 
 tities of commodities of common use for any of the several insti- 
 tutions and departments served by it. In order to facilitate the 
 execution of such authority, the board shall have authority to use 
 a cash fund not to exceed $20,000.00 to be advanced to it under 
 authority of the governor to maintain and use for the purposes 
 specified herein as a revolving fund out of which said purchases 
 may be paid for, the said fund to be reimbursed out of the funds 
 of the several institutions and departments so supplied. Said 
 revolving fund to be supplied out of any funds derived through 
 the operations of any department or institution under the cus- 
 tody and control of the Board of Control & Economy. To further 
 promote and facilitate such quantity purchasing, the board is 
 hereby authorized in making purchases referred to in the pre- 
 ceding paragraph of this section, in cases where cash funds may 
 not be readily available, to execute its negotiable commercial 
 paper with the approval of the Governor, signed by the chairman 
 of the board, according to the usual commercial forms, custom 
 and practice in such dealings between private persons, such com- 
 mercial paper to cover the amount or amounts of any purchase or 
 purchases and credit. The amount of such outstanding credit 
 in no case or at any time to exceed the sum of $50,000.00, the 
 same to be reimbursed or taken up out of the funds of the several 
 institutions or departments supplied, the proper accounting of 
 which is to be kept by the board. A complete record shall be 
 kept in the office of the board of all such purchases. The State 
 Board of Control & Economy is hereby authorized to establish 
 and promulgate rules and regulations for the proper conduct of 
 the business and duties imposed and powers conferred by this 
 section. 
 
 Section 6. The care, custody, equipment, repairing, insur- 
 ance, inventorying and accounting for all the property of the 
 State shall be in charge of the State Board of Control and 
 Economy and the board is hereby vested with the authority to 
 
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 promulgate rules and regulations for the proper conduct of the 
 business and duties conferred by this section. 
 
 Section 7. The Board shall annually make and file in the 
 office of the Governor a report of the results of its operations 
 and the conduct of its business in the exercise of the powers 
 granted to it ; and it shall likewise report to the Governor within 
 ten days before the beginning of each regular session of the Leg- 
 islature all such matters as are required to be in its annual re- 
 ports and any other information required by the Governor to be 
 included in such report, and it- shall be the duty of the Governor 
 to inform the Legislature at the beginning of each regular ses- 
 sion of the contents of such reports. All records of the board 
 shall be open at all reasonable times for inspection by the public. 
 
 Section 71/2- That the Board of Control shall also be the 
 purchasing agent with like power for the purchase for the coun- 
 ties of the State, of stationery, books, blank books and office 
 supplies and other supplies and materials, and also shall be pur- 
 chasing agent for blank books, stationery, office supplies and 
 material for use in the several State offices, departments, com- 
 missions, bureaus and boards other than for the use of the su- 
 preme court, the court of appeals, and the State and supreme 
 court libraries. Provided the said Board of Control shall make 
 purchases for the several counties of the State only when and 
 only to the extent that it may be authorized to do so by the action 
 of the court of county commissioners, board of revenue or other 
 governing body of the county. 
 
 Sectin 8. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this 
 act are hereby repealed. 
 
 Section 9. This act shall take effect on the first day of Janu- 
 ary Nineteen hundred and twenty. 
 
 Approved September 30, 1919. 
 
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 CRIMINAL PROVISIONS OF PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW 
 
 (See also "Criminal" and "Penalties" in index.) 
 
 [Schoolmaster stands in loco parentis and may, in a proper case, inflict 
 corporal punishment; but is criminally liable for an abuse of his authority. 
 —Boyd V. State, 88 Alai 169; McCormack v. State, 102 Ala. 156.] 
 
 6413. Injuring or defacing public or private buildings, or 
 fences thereof. — Any person who willfully injures or defaces any 
 church, or schoolhouse, or building belonging to the State, or to 
 any county, city, town, or person, or writes or draws figures, 
 letters, or characters on the walls thereof, or on the fences or 
 inclosures thereof, must, on conviction, be fined not less than ten 
 nor more than one hundred dollars, and may also be imprisoned 
 in the county jail, or sentenced to hard labor for the county, for 
 not more than three months; and the fine goes to the injured 
 party. It shall not be necessary to aver or prove the ownership 
 of any church or schoolhouse in prosecutions under this section. 
 
 6769. Disturbing people met for school purposes or holiday. 
 — Any person who willfully disturbs any school, or other assem- 
 blage of people, met for any lawful purposes, or for amusement 
 or recreation on a holiday for a school, must, on conviction, be 
 fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. 
 
 6834. Embezzlement by u^ing school money for other than 
 school purposes. — Any person into whose hands, or under whose 
 control, any of the public school money may come, who uses or 
 permits the use of the same, or any part thereof, except for pur- 
 poses of the public schools, and in accordance with the law regu- 
 lating the public schools, and providing for the disbursement of 
 the public school money, is ruilty of embezzlement, and, on con- 
 viction, must be punished as if he had stolen it. 
 
 6897. Shooting, throiving missiles into, etc., dwelling and 
 other houses. — Any person who shoots a pistol or other firearm 
 or slingshot, or who throws a stone or other missile at, into, in, 
 through, or against a dwelling house, school house, church build- 
 ing, factory storehouse, courthouse or house or building used for 
 manufacturing purposes, or any house or building used for the 
 assemblage of people for business or pleasure, shall be guilty of 
 a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined not 
 more than one thousand dollars, and may be sentenced to hard 
 labor for the county for not longer than twelve months. 
 
 7750. Stealing examination questions, penalty for. — Any 
 person who purloins, steals, buys, receives, sells, gives, or offers 
 to buy, give, or sell any examination questions or copies thereof 
 of any examination provided by law before the date of the exam- 
 ination for which they had been prepared shall be guilty of a 
 
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 misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less 
 than one hundred dollars, and may be sentenced to hard labor 
 for the county for not less than six months. 
 
 7751. Use of other than contract books in public schools. — 
 Any teacher who shall use or permit to be used in his or her 
 school any text-book upon the branches for which text-books are 
 adopted, where the commission has adopted a book upon the 
 branch, other than the one so adopted, except supplementary 
 books, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, 
 shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more 
 than fifty dollars. 
 
 7752. Charging more than contract price for school books. — 
 Any local agent, dealer, clerk, or other person handling or selling 
 the books adopted as school text-books, who shall demand or 
 receive for any copy of any of the books so adopted more than 
 the contract price, in cases where the purchase is for cash, shall 
 be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall for each 
 offense be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more 
 than five hundred dollars. 
 
 7753. Text-book provisions; violation of, penxdty. — Any per- 
 son or teacher violating the provisions of article 18 of chapter 
 41 of this code as to text-books, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor 
 more than fifty dollars. 
 
 7754. Schoolhouse warrants or proceeds, wrongful applica- 
 tion of; penalty. — Any person who shall knowingly use or apply 
 or authorize the use or application of the proceeds, or any part 
 thereof, of any warrant delivered to him under article 31 of 
 chapter 41 of this code, for the purpose or objects other than 
 as required by said articles, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor 
 and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than two hundred 
 dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and may also be 
 imprisoned in the county jail or sentenced to hard labor for the 
 county for not more than six months. 
 
 7755. False or fraudulent enumeration of school children; 
 penalty for. — Any person appointed to make an enumeration of 
 the children within school age of any public school district in 
 this State as required by law, who shall knowingly make a false 
 or fraudulent enumeration or report of the number of children 
 within school age residing in such district, shall be guilty of a 
 misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine 
 of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred 
 dollars, and shall also be sentenced to hard labor for the county 
 for not less than six months nor more than twelve months. 
 
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 CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA 
 
 ARTICLE XL 
 
 TAXATION. 
 
 ****** 
 
 216. No city, town, village, or other municipal corporation, 
 other than as provided in this article, shall levy or collect a 
 higher rate of taaxtion in any one year on the property situated 
 therein than one-half of one per centum of the value of such 
 property as assessed for State taxation during the preceding 
 year; provided, that for the purpose of paying debts existing on 
 the sixth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, 
 and the interest thereon, a tax of one per centum may be levied 
 and collected, to be applied exclusively to the payment of such 
 indebtedness ; * * * and provided further, that this section 
 shall not apply to the city of Montgomery, which city shall have 
 the right to levy and collect a tax of not exceeding one-half of one 
 per centum per annum upon the value of taxable property there- 
 in, as fixed for State taxation, for general purposes, and an addi- 
 tional tax of not exceeding three-fourths of one per centum per 
 annum upon the value of the property therein, as fixed for State 
 taxation, to be devoted exclusively to the payment of its public 
 debt, interest thereon, and renewals thereof, and to the mainte- 
 nance of its public schools, and public conveniences; * * * 
 and provided further, that this section shall not apply to the cit- 
 ies of Decatur, New Decatur, and Cullman, which cities may 
 from and after the ratification of this Constitution, levy and col- 
 lect an additional tax of not exceeding three-tenths of one per 
 centum per annum ; such special tax of said city of Decatur to be 
 applied exclusively for the public schools, public school buildings, 
 and public improvements ; and such special tax of New Decatur 
 and Cullman to be applied exclusively for educational purposes, 
 and to be expended under their respective boards of Public School 
 Trustees. ♦ ♦ * 
 
 ARTICLE XIV. 
 
 EDUCATION. 
 
 256. The Legislature shall establish, organize and maintain 
 a liberal system of public schools throughout the State for the 
 benefit of the children thereof between the ages of seven and 
 twenty-one years. The public school fund shall be apportioned 
 
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 to the several counties in proportion to the number of school 
 children of school age therein, and shall be so apportioned to 
 the schools in the districts or townships in the county as to 
 provide, as nearly as practicable, school terms of equal duration 
 in such school districts or townships. Separate schools shall be 
 provided for white and colored children, and no. child of either 
 race shall be permitted to attend a school of the other race. 
 
 257. The principal of all funds arising from the sale or 
 other disposition of lands or other property, which has been or 
 may hereafter be granted or entrusted to this State or given 
 by the United States for educational purposes shall be preserved 
 inviolate and undiminished; and the income arising therefrom 
 shall be faithfully applied to the specific object of the original 
 grants or appropriations. 
 
 258. All lands or other property given by individuals, or 
 appropriated by the State for educational purposes, and all 
 estates of deceased persons who die without leaving a will or 
 heir shall be faithfully applied to the maintenance of the public 
 schools. 
 
 259. All poll taxes collected in this State shall be applied 
 to the support of the public schools in the respective counties 
 where collected. 
 
 260. The income arising from the Sixteenth Section trust 
 fund, the surplus revenue fund, until it is called for by the 
 United States government, and the funds enumerated in Sec- 
 tion 257 and 258 of this Constitution, together with a special 
 annual tax of thirty cents on each one hundred dollars of tax- 
 able property in this State, which the Legislature shall levy, 
 shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the public 
 schools, and it shall be the duty of the Legislature to increase 
 the public school fund from time to time, as the necessity there- 
 for and the condition of the treasury and the resources of the 
 State may justify; provided, that nothing herein contained shall 
 be so construed as to authorize the Legislature to levy in any 
 one year a greater rate of State taxation for all purposes, includ- 
 ing schools, than sixty-five cents on each one hundred dollars 
 worth of taxable property; and provided further, that nothing 
 herein contained shall prevent the Legislature from first provid- 
 ing for the payment of the bonded indebtedness of the State and 
 interest thereon out of all the revenues of the State. 
 
 261. Not more than four per cent, of all moneys raised, or 
 which may hereafter be appropriated for the support of public 
 schools, shall be used or expended otherwise than for the pay- 
 ment of teachers employed in such schools; provided, that the 
 Legislature may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, sus- 
 pend the operation of this section. 
 
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 262. The supervision of the public schools shall be vested in 
 a Superintendent of Education, v^^hose powers, duties and com- 
 pensation shall be fixed by law. 
 
 263. No money raised for the support of the public schools 
 shall be appropriated to or used for the support of any sectarian 
 or denominational school. 
 
 264. The State University shall be under the management 
 and control of a board of trustees which shall consist of two 
 members from the Congressional district in which the Univer- 
 sity is located, one from each of the other Congressional districts 
 in the State, the Superintendent of Education and the Governor 
 who shall be ex-officio president of the board. The members of 
 the Board of Trustees as now constituted shall hold office until 
 their respective terms expire under existing law, and until their 
 successors shall be elected and confirmed as hereinafter required. 
 Successors to those trustees whose terms expire in nineteen hun- 
 dred and two shall hold office until nineteen hundred and seven ; 
 successors to those trustees whose terms expire in nineteen hun- 
 dred and four shall hold office until nineteen hundred and eleven ; 
 successors to those trustees whose terms expire in nineteen hun- 
 dred and six shall hold office until nineteen hundred and fifteen ; 
 and thereafter their successors shall hold office for a term of 
 twelve years. When the term of any member of such board shall 
 expire, the remaining members of the board shall by secret bal- 
 lot elect his successor ; provided, that any trustee so elected shall 
 hold office from the date of his election until his confirmation or 
 rejection by the Senate, and, if confirmed, until the expiration 
 of the term for which he was elected, and until his successor is 
 elected. At every meeting of the Legislature the Superintendent 
 of Education shall certify to the Senate the names of all who 
 have been so elected since the last session of the Legislature, and 
 the Senate shall confirm or reject them, as it shall determine is 
 for the best interest of the University. If it reject the names 
 of any members, it shall thereupon elect trustees in the stead of 
 those rejected. In case of a vacancy on said board by death or 
 resignation of a member, or from any cause other than the ex- 
 piration of his term of office, the board shall elect his successor 
 who shall hold office until the next session of the Legislature. 
 No trustee shall receive any pay or emolument other than his 
 actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties as such. 
 
 265. After the ratification of this Constitution there shall be 
 paid out of the treasury of this State, at the time and in the man- 
 ner provided by law, the sum of not less than thirty-six thousand 
 dollars per annum as interest on the funds of the University of 
 Alabama, heretofore covered into the treasury, for the mainte- 
 nance and support of said institution ; provided, that the Legis- 
 lature shall have the power at any time they deem proper for the 
 
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 best interest of said University to abolish the military system at 
 said institution, or reduce the said system to a department of 
 instruction, and that such action on the part of the Legislature 
 shall not cause any diminution of the amount of the annual inter- 
 est payable out of the treasury for the support and maintenance 
 of said University. 
 
 266. The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, formerly called the 
 Agricultural and Mechanical College, shall be under the manage- 
 ment and control of a Board of Trustees, which shall consist of 
 two members from the Congressional district in which the insti- 
 tute is located, and one from each of the other Congressional dis- 
 tricts in the State, the State Superintendent of Education, and 
 the Governor, who shall be ex-off icio president of the board. The 
 trustees shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the 
 advice and consent of the Senate, and shall hold office for a term 
 of twelve years, and until their successors shall be appointed and 
 qualified. The board shall be divided into three classes, as nearly 
 equal as may be, so that one-third may be chosen quadrennially. 
 Vacancies occurring in the office of trustees from death or resig- 
 nation, and the vacancies regularly occurring in the year nineteen 
 hundred and five, shall be filled by the Governor, and such ap- 
 pointee shall hold office until the next meeting of the Legislature. 
 Successors to those trustees whose terms expire in nineteen hun- 
 dred and three shall hold office until nineteen hundred and eleven ; 
 successors to those whose terms of office expire in nineteen hun- 
 dred and five shall hold office until nineteen hundred and fifteen ; 
 and successors to those whose terms of office expire in nineteen 
 hundred and seven shall hold office until nineteen hundred and 
 nineteen. No trustee shall receive any pay or emolument other 
 than his actual expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties 
 as such. 
 
 267. The Legislature shall not have power to change the loca- 
 tion of the State University, or the Alabama Polytechnic Insti- 
 tute, or the Alabama school for the Deaf and Blind, or the Ala- 
 bama Girls' Industrial school, as now established by law, except 
 upon a vote of two-thirds of the Legislature taken by yeas and 
 nays and entered upon the Journals. 
 
 268. The Legislature shall provide for taking a school census 
 by townships and districts throughout the State not oftener than 
 once in two years, and shall provide for the punishment of all 
 persons or officers making false or fraudulent enumerations and 
 returns; provided, the State Superintendent of Education may 
 order and supervise the taking of a new census in any township, 
 district or county, whenever he may have reasonable cause to be- 
 lieve that false or fraudulent returns have been made. 
 
 269. The several counties in this State shall have power to 
 levy and collect a special tax not exceeding ten cents on each one 
 
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 hundred dollars of taxable property in such counties, for the 
 support of public schools; provided, that rate of such tax, the 
 time it is to continue, and the purpose thereof, shall have been 
 first submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the county, 
 and voted for by three-fifths of those voting at such election ; but 
 the rate of such special tax shall not increase the rate of taxa- 
 tion, State and county combined, in any one year, to more than 
 one dollar and twenty-five cents on each one hundred dollars of 
 taxable property; excluding, however, all special county taxes 
 for public buildings, roads, bridges and the payment of debts 
 existing at the ratification of the Constitution of eighteen hun- 
 dred and seventy-five. The funds arising from such special 
 school tax shall be so apportioned and paid through the proper 
 school officials to the several schools in the townships and dis- 
 tricts in the county that the school terms of the respective schools 
 shall be extended by such supplement as nearly the same length 
 of time as practicable ; provided, that this section shall not apply 
 to cities of Decatur, New Decatur and Cullman. 
 
 270. The provisions of this article and of any act of the Leg- 
 islature passed in pursuance thereof to establish, organize and 
 maintain a system of public schools throughout the State, shall 
 apply to Mobile county only so far as to authorize and require 
 the authorities designated by law to draw the portions of the 
 funds to which said county shall be entitled for school purposes 
 and to make reports to the Superintendent of Education as may 
 be prescribed by law ; and all special incomes and powers of taxa- 
 tion as now authorized by law for the benefit of public schools in 
 said county shall remain undisturbed until otherwise provided 
 by the Legislature ; provided, that separate schools for each race 
 shall always be maintained by said school authorities. 
 
 ARTICLE XIX. 
 
 Section 1. The several counties in the State shall have power 
 to levy and collect a special county tax not exceeding thirty cents 
 on each one hundred dollars worth of taxable property in such 
 counties in addition, to that now authorized or that may hereafter 
 be authorized for public school purposes, and in addition to that 
 now authorized under section 260 of article XIV of the Consti- 
 tution ; provided, that the rate of such tax, the time it is to con- 
 tinue and the purpose thereof shall have been first submitted to 
 the vote of the qualified electors of the county, and voted for by a 
 majority of those voting at such election. 
 
 Section 2. The several school districts of any county in the 
 State shall have power to levy and collect a special district tax 
 not exceeding thirty cents on each one hundred dollars worth of 
 taxable property in such district for public school purposes ; pro- 
 
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 vided that a school district under the meaning of this section 
 shall include incorporated cities or towns, or any school district 
 of which an incorporated city or town is a part, or such other 
 school districts now existing or hereafter formed, as may be 
 approved by the county board of education; provided further, 
 that the rate of such tax, the time it is to continue and the pur- 
 pose thereof shall have been first submitted to the vote of the 
 qualified electors of the district and voted for by a majority of 
 those voting at such election ; provided further, that no district 
 tax shall be voted or collected except in such counties as are 
 levying and collecting not less than a three-mill special county 
 school tax. 
 
 Section 3. The funds arising from the special county school 
 tax levied and collected by any county shall be apportioned and 
 expended as the law may direct ; and the funds arising from the 
 special school tax levied in any district which votes the same 
 independently of the county shall be expended for the exclusive 
 benefit of the district, as the law may direct. 
 
INDEX 
 
 Page 
 ACADEMY FOR BLIND. 
 
 Admission, requirements for — 98 
 
 Appropriation, basis for 98 
 
 Establishment - 98 
 
 Management and control 134 
 
 Officers and teachers, appointment and salaries. 99 
 
 ADMINISTRATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS 3 
 
 AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL INSTITUTE FOR 
 NEGROES. 
 
 Appropriation for 81, 129 
 
 Board of trustees abolished 7 
 
 Management and control 81 
 
 Morrill Fund 81 
 
 Name 60,129 
 
 AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORK.— See Smith-Lever Act. 
 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute in charge of 167 
 
 Appropriations for _ __ 165, 167 
 
 Balances, disposition of _ „. 168 
 
 Report, monthly to Governor 168 
 
 Types of „ 163, 166 
 
 AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS, STATE SECONDARY. 
 
 Appropriations 77, 125 
 
 Dormitories, erection of. 77 
 
 Location _ 77,125 
 
 Management and control 77 
 
 Name ._ 77,125 
 
 ALABAMA ACADEMY FOR BLIND.— See Academy for Blind. 
 
 ALABAMA BOYS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. 
 
 Approprations — 134 
 
 Convict inmates to be segregated 103 
 
 Directors, board of 100 
 
 Established , 100 
 
 Judges, powers as to committals 101 
 
 Management and control 100 
 
 Objects 101 
 
 Officers ■. 100 
 
 Treasurer 103 
 
 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.~See Canebrake. 
 
 Animal industry department 131 
 
 Appropriations for 131 
 
 Co-ordination of work 94 
 
 Extension work under . 167 
 
 Federal land grant endowment 131 
 
 Interest on land script > 87 
 
X92 INDEX. 
 
 ALABAMA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.— Continued. Page 
 
 Organization and instruction 87 
 
 Reports to Legislature __ 88 
 
 Summer School 131 
 
 Trustees of 86 
 
 ALABAMA REFORM SCHOOL FOR JUVENILE NEGRO LAW- 
 BREAKERS.— See Negro Reform School. 
 
 ALABAMA REFUGE HOME 136 
 
 ALABAMA SCHOOL FOR DEAF.— See Deaf, Alabama School for. 
 
 ALABAMA SCHOOL FOR NEGRO DEAF MUTES AND BLIND.— 
 See Negro School for Deaf and Blind. 
 
 ALABAMA SCHOOL OF TRADES AND INDUSTRIES. 
 
 Appropriation, conditional __. 129 
 
 Established 79 
 
 Gifts may be accepted . 79 
 
 Located at Ragland 79 
 
 Temporary board to be appointed by Governor. — 79 
 
 ALABAMA TECHNICAL INSTITUTE AND COLLEGE FOR 
 WOMEN. 
 
 Appropriations for 130 
 
 Condemnation proceedings may be instituted by 85 
 
 Congressional land grants 86 
 
 Co-ordination of work 94 
 
 Established at Montevallo 81 
 
 Exemption of property of from taxation 85 
 
 Interest on proceeds of land sales 86, 130 
 
 Name, original , . 81 
 
 Officers of 84 
 
 President and faculty 83 
 
 Purpose and scope — 83 
 
 Summer school 130 
 
 Trustees of ., 82 
 
 Who may be admitted. 84 
 
 ALABAMA TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS 136 
 
 ALABAMA, UNIVERSITY OF.— See University of Alabama. 
 
 ALABAMA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. 
 
 Appropriations 137 
 
 Name changed to 137 
 
 ALBERTVILLE. 
 
 School district created 174 
 
 ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND NARCOTICS. 
 
 Instruction required 110, 144 
 
 Reports, annual to Governor . 145 
 
 Teachers, examination of - — . 144 
 
 Temperance day 145 
 
 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY.— See Alabama Polytechnic Institute. 
 
 . 
 
INDEX. 193 
 
 ANIMALS, HUMANE TREATMENT OF. Page 
 
 Instruction required 146 
 
 ANNUAL REPORTS.— See reports. 
 
 APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS. 
 
 To counties by State Superintendent _ 37 
 
 To schools by county board _ _ 38 
 
 APPROPRIATIONS. 
 
 Agricultural extension, promotion of 165, 167 
 
 Agricultural schools, State Secondary... 125 
 
 Blind, Alabama School For 134 
 
 Boys Industrial School _„, 134 
 
 Canebrake Agrcultural Experiment Station 178 
 
 County fairs , 165 
 
 Counties, where voting special school tax 120 
 
 Daphne State Normal School.... 177 
 
 Deaf, Alabama School For. 133 
 
 Education Department, Contingent Fund. 119 
 
 Education Department for teacher certfication, training, read- 
 ing circle, extension and institute work _ „ 121 
 
 Girls Technical Institute and College for Women. 130 
 
 High schools „ 124 
 
 Home economics, promotion of : 165 
 
 Home for Mental Inferiors 117 
 
 Negro Deaf and Blind School . 134 
 
 Negro Reform School at Mt. Meigs 135 
 
 Ninth District Agricultural School 138 
 
 Polytechnic Institute, Alabama 131 
 
 Rural schoolhouses 121 
 
 Rural, village and town libraries 122 
 
 Schools, further appropriations for support of _ 118 
 
 State Normal School for Colored Students , 128 
 
 State secondary agricultural schools 125 
 
 State Secondary Agricultural School, Lineville 125 
 
 Trades and Industrial School _'. 129 
 
 Training School for Girls ., 136 
 
 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute. 138 
 
 Vocational Education „ 123 
 
 ASSISTANTS,— See Supervisors. 
 
 ATTENDANCE.— See Compulsory Attendance. 
 
 BIBLE, Daily Reading Required. 
 
 Compliance, teachers and superintendents must certify to 143 
 
 Public funds, payment of dependent on 143 
 
 BLIND, ALABAMA SCHOOL FOR.— See Academy for Blind. 
 
 BOARD OF COMPROMISE OF SCHOOL LANDS.— See School Lands. 
 
 BOARD OF CONTROL AND ECONOMY.— See Control and Econ- 
 omy, Board of. 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION, CITY.— See City Board of Education. 
 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION, COUNTY.— See County Board of Education. 
 
194 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 BOARD OF EDUCATION, STATE.— See State Board of Education. 
 
 BOOKS.— See textbooks. 
 
 BONDS. 
 
 Municipal elections for issuance 176 
 
 School officials and employees 110 
 
 BONUS FUND. 
 
 Apportionment, basis of _ 47 
 
 Appropriation _ , .' 120 
 
 BOYS AGRICULTURAL CLUBS.— See County Fairs. 
 
 BOYS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, ALABAMA.— See Alabama Boys' 
 Industrial School. 
 
 CANEBRAKE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 
 
 Appropriations for _ _ _ 179 
 
 Director authorized _ _ 179 
 
 Institutes to be held by „ _ 179 
 
 Objects of 178 
 
 Trustees, board of, powers and duties 179 
 
 CEMENT LABORATORY.— See under University of Alabama. 
 
 CENSUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. 
 
 City board „ 30 
 
 City superintendent 36 
 
 County board „ 20 
 
 County superintendent ,. 25 
 
 Regulations to be prescribed by State board. 6 
 
 Use of for compulsory attendance 53 
 
 CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS. 
 
 Certificates required; superintendents, supervisors, principals, 
 
 teachers „ 53 
 
 Classes of certificates _ 54 
 
 Examinations _ _ 54, 55 
 
 Fees - , 55 
 
 Placement of teachers 55 
 
 Private and parochial _ 51 
 
 Val idati on and extension „ 54 
 
 CHILD LABOR.— See also Child Welfare Department. 
 
 Age certificate 150, 151 
 
 Age limit fixed ...._ _„ 147ff 
 
 Badge to be worn „ 152 
 
 Child Welfare Department, duties 154, 156 
 
 Dangerous occupations defined _ 147ff 
 
 Definitions _. _ 156 
 
 Employment certificates _ 150ff 
 
 Employment or work during session of school prohibited _ 150 
 
 Employment of minor children regulated. _ 147ff 
 
 Expenses of inspection , 1 55 
 
 Hours of service _.... 147 
 
 Inspectors, duties of. „ 154 
 
INDEX. 195 
 
 CHILD LABOR.— Continued. Page 
 
 Messenger service 148 
 
 Newsboys 152 
 
 Occupations, prohibited sei'vice , 147fT 
 
 Penalties _ _ 155 
 
 Sanitation „._ 154 
 
 School attendance _. 150 
 
 State Board of Health, duties „ _ 149 
 
 CHILD WELFARE. 
 
 Adoptions, general supervision 156 
 
 Annual meetings of commission _ 158 
 
 Apprentices, general supervision....- - 1 56 
 
 Appropriation for maintenance 160 
 
 Attendance officers, duties of prescribed 50 
 
 Chartered institutions only entitled to permit ...._ _ 159 
 
 Child labor law, enforcement of _ _ „ „ 157 
 
 Child placing agencies, general supervision 157 
 
 Commission for government of _. 157 
 
 Conferences and conventions authorized „ 157 
 
 Co-operation with education and health departments, and in- 
 stitutions .-. ,.. 157 
 
 Director to be appointed _ 158 
 
 Director, secretary of commission 158 
 
 Established „ 156 
 
 Factory inspection _ 157 
 
 Homes may be established and maintained...^ 157 
 
 Institutional visitation 157 
 
 Judges to make monthly reports _ - 159 
 
 Juvenile courts _ 156, 159 
 
 Minor children, general oversight 156 
 
 Orphanages, permits to _ 157, 159 
 
 Penalties for failure to make reports, and failing or refusing to 
 
 allow inspection _._ 159 
 
 Permits for operation of institutions under jurisdiction of 159 
 
 Reports by reformatories, orphanages, to be made 159 
 
 Reports, power to require from courts and institutions 159 
 
 Standards may be fixed 159 
 
 Supervision of children in homes or institutions 159 
 
 Surveys authorized ._ _ : 157 
 
 CITY BOARDS OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Annual meetings of board „ — 30 
 
 Annual report to be published. — , _ 34 
 
 Borrow money, power to ...._. _._ 33, 46 
 
 Census of school children to be taken under direction of _ 30 
 
 City superintendent, powers and duties __ 30 
 
 City under school act, defined ..,_. _ 29 
 
 Defectives, schools for, power to establish _ 34 
 
 Elections may be held for bond issues 32 
 
 Executive officer, the city superintendent 30 
 
 Illiterates, schools for, power to establish 34 
 
 Kindergartens, power to establish 31 
 
 Libraries may beestablished and maintained by — 33 
 
 Office of 30 
 
 Powers and duties of 29ff 
 
 Salaries of teachers fixed by -. - 32 
 
 Warrants, authority to issue — 46 
 
196 INDEX. 
 
 COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE. Page 
 
 Attendance districts 50 
 
 Attendance officer, duties of _ _ _ „ 50ff 
 
 Dependent children _ „ 50 
 
 Exemptions _. _ „ 49 
 
 Lists furnished teachers 53 
 
 Of whom required _ 49 
 
 Parents and guardians, penalties for violation _ 51 
 
 Private and parochial teachers, certification required 51 
 
 Reports 50flF 
 
 Truants or menaces, disposition of. _._ 52 
 
 CITY SUPERITENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 
 
 Certification. — See Certification of Teachers. 
 
 Executive off'icer of city board _ 35 
 
 Powers and duties 35ff 
 
 Term of election _ 34 
 
 CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS 19 
 
 CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS FOR TAXATION _.. _.... 44 
 
 CONSTITUTION, EDUCATIONAL PROVISIONS. 
 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute, control of „ 187 
 
 Decatur, New Decatur, Cullman, tax rate for education. 184 
 
 Expenditure of county and district funds 188 
 
 Legislature to establish system _ _ _ 184 
 
 Mobile County, provision for _._ _ 188 
 
 Montgomery, tax rate for education. _...„ 184 
 
 One mill county tax _ _ _ _ 187 
 
 Sources of revenue _ „ 185 
 
 Three mill county tax „. „. _..........• _ 188 
 
 Three mill district tax 188 
 
 University of Alabama, control and support 186 
 
 CONTINGENT FUND. 
 
 Education Department _ 119 
 
 CONTROL AND ECONOMY, BOARD OF. 
 
 Stationery, office supplies, etc., purchase of _ 181 
 
 COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.— See State Council of Education. 
 
 COUNTIES. 
 
 Libraries may be established and maintained by _ _ 160 
 
 COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Borrow money, power to . 21, 46 
 
 Census of school children , „ 20 
 
 Compulsory attendance _ _ 21 
 
 Condemnation power _ _ 22 
 
 Consolidation of school districts 139 ' 
 
 Consolidation of schools „.. 19 
 
 Constitution of 16 
 
 Control of county educational interests „ 4, 16 
 
 Control of county school property „ „ 18 
 
 County superintendent, appointed 18 
 
 Election of 17 
 
 Grade and standardize schools ^ 19, 21 
 
INDEX. 197 
 
 COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION.— Continued. Page 
 
 Incidental fees — „_ „ „ 20 
 
 Insurance on school buildings „ 22 
 
 Meetings — — 17 
 
 Per diem and expenses ., _ 17 
 
 Record of apportionment and disbursement... „ 39 
 
 Sanitation of schools „ 19 
 
 Teachers appointed by -. 19 
 
 Treasurer of county school funds _ 18 
 
 Trustees of school property „. 22 
 
 Warrants, authority to issue.. 46 
 
 COUNTY FAIRS. 
 
 Appropriation by State „ 165 
 
 Authorized 164 
 
 Boards of directors _ _„ 164 
 
 Dates for . 165 
 
 Districts to be laid off in counties 164 
 
 Premiums _ — 165 
 
 Smith-Hughes law, work under. 165 
 
 COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS.— See also under High Schools. 
 
 Appropriations for _ _ — _...._ _. _. 75, 124 
 
 Cities and towns authorized to supplement appropriations. _ 76 
 
 Commission abolished — , 16 
 
 Conditions of location 75 
 
 County board of education in control of 75 
 
 Laboratory and shop work, fees for 76 
 
 Location of in the several counties 74 
 
 Matriculation fees authorized 76 
 
 Supervision ^75, 124 
 
 Treasurer „„ _ _ 76 
 
 COUNTY SCHOOL TAX.— See One Mill Tax. See Three Mill Tax. 
 
 COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Appointment of ..- 22 
 
 Certification. — See Certification of Teachers. 
 
 Powers and duties _ -.. 22ff 
 
 Qualifications of — 22, 53 
 
 Salary of ... 23 
 
 COUNTY TREASURER OF SCHOOL FUNDS. 
 
 Powers and duties - 48 
 
 CRIMINAL PROVISIONS.— See Penalties. 
 
 DAPHNE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. 
 
 Appropriation for _ — .. 126 
 
 Appropriation for grounds, buildings and repairs _ 177 
 
 Government of - — - 78 
 
 DEAF, ALABAMA SCHOOL FOR. 
 
 Appropriation _ — — -- — 133 
 
 Established 95 
 
 Executive committee „ — — 97 
 
 Insurance 98 
 
 Treasurer - - — 97 
 
 Trustees 96 
 
 DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS.— See Private Schools. 
 
198 INDEX. 
 
 DISTRICT. Page 
 
 Attendance. — See Compulsory Attendance. 
 School tax ^ _.... 41 
 
 DISTRICTS. 
 
 Consolidation of schools 19 
 
 Consolidation for taxation _. _ 44 
 
 Formation of for taxation _ 43 
 
 School, adjacent in contiguous counties may be consolidated 139 
 
 EDUCATION, CITY BOARDS OF.— See City Boards of Education. 
 
 EDUCATION, COUNTY BOARDS OF.— See County Boards of Education. 
 
 EDUCATION, STATE BOARD OF.— See State Board of Education. 
 
 EDUCATION, STATE COUNCIL OF.— See State Council of Education. 
 
 EDUCATION, STATE DEPARTMENT OF.— See State Department of 
 Education, 
 
 EDUCATION COMMISSION. 
 
 Created _ -.„ _ _ 171 
 
 Dutes of _ 171 
 
 EDUCATIONAL FUNDS.— See Public School Funds. 
 
 ELECTIONS.— See under One Mill School Tax; Three Mill School 
 Tax; District School Tax. 
 
 ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, DIVISION OF „ 15 
 
 EQUALIZATION OF SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES.— See Revolving 
 Fund. 
 
 ESCHEATS.— See Public School Funds. 
 
 EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION, DIVISION OF 16 
 
 EXECUTIVE AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, DIVISION OF 14 
 
 EXTENSION.— See Training of Teachers in Service. 
 
 EXTENSION OF TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. 
 
 Power to authorize granted State Board _. „ 54 
 
 Soldiers and sailors, for tw^o years 142 
 
 EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE.— See Agricultural Exten- 
 sion Work. 
 
 EXITS. 
 
 Must open outward 170 
 
 FEDERAL AID.— See Smith-Hughes Act; See Smith-Lever Act. 
 
 FIRE DRILLS. 
 
 Exits, must open outward _ :... 170 
 
 Schools required to have _ 170 
 
 FIRE INSURANCE.— See Insurance. 
 
 FLORENCE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.— See also Normal Schools. 
 
 Appropriation for .„ „„ 126 
 
 Practice school at 127 
 
i>:dex. 
 
 199 
 
 FUNDS. — See Public School Funds; See also Appropriations. 
 
 GIRLS HOME DEMONSTRATION CLUBS.— See County Fairs. 
 
 GIRLS' TECHNICAL INSTITUTE.— See Alabama Technical Insti- 
 tute and College for Women. 
 
 HEALTH SUPERVISOR „ 
 
 HIGH SCHOOLS.— See also County High Schools. 
 
 Course of study of _ 
 
 Junior, provisions for 
 
 Senior, provisions for ___.. _.... 
 
 Standardization of . _ __ 
 
 Supervision of 
 
 Page 
 
 26 
 
 21,24 
 
 21,24 
 
 11 
 
 15 
 
 HOME ECONOMICS WORK.— See Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 
 Extension. 
 
 HOME FOR MENTAL INFERIORS.— See Mental Inferiors, Home for. 
 
 HUNTSVILLE STATE NORMAL AND INUSTRIAL SCHOOL.— 
 See Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes. 
 
 HYGIENE.— See also Sanitation. . 
 
 State Board to provide 
 
 ILLITERACY. 
 
 Appropriation 
 
 Commission abolished _ „„ 
 
 . Co-operation of city and county boards. 
 Removal of illiteracy 
 
 INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS.— See Rural Schoolhouses. 
 
 INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Inspection provided 
 
 Governor appoints inspectors- 
 Penalties - _ _. 
 
 Powers of inspectors 
 
 Reports to be filed 
 
 INSTITUTES.— See Training of Teachers, 
 INSURANCE _ 
 
 124 
 
 7 
 67 
 66 
 
 162 
 162 
 163 
 162 
 163 
 
 22 
 
 JACKSONVILLE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.— See also Normal 
 Schools. 
 
 Appropriation for 126 
 
 Practice school at _ 127 
 
 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.— See High Schools. 
 
 LANDS, SCHOOL.— See School Lands. 
 
 LAWRENCE COUNTY.— See Town Creek. 
 
 LIBRARIES. 
 
 Cities may issue bonds for establishment of _ 177 
 
 City boards of education may establish and maintain 33 
 
 County libraries may be established, appropriations for sup- 
 port of _ _. — 160 
 
 Director, Department of Archives and History, duty as to 
 
 county libraries 161 
 
200 I.NDEX. 
 
 LIBRARIES.— Continued. Page 
 
 Rural, village and town schools, appropriation for _ 63, 122 
 
 School libraries, established 63 
 
 LINEVILLE STATE SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. 
 
 , Appropriation _ _ - _ 125 
 
 Name changed to _ 125 
 
 LIVINGSTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.— See also Normal Schools. 
 
 Appropriation for _ 126 
 
 Practice School at - 127 
 
 LOCAL TAX.— See One Mill Tax; See Three Mill Tax. 
 
 MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ALABAMA.— See University of Alabama, 
 Medical Department. 
 
 MENTAL INFERIORS, HOME FOR. 
 
 Appropriations for support of _ 117 
 
 Board of managers of , 112 
 
 Committals to home, how made _ _ 114 
 
 Established on grounds of Bryce Hospital — . 112 
 
 Inmates of poor houses, jails, orphanages and schools, found to 
 
 be mental inferiors, to be transferred to home _ _.... 117 
 
 Insane inmates transferred to hospitals 113 
 
 Mental inferiors defined _ - - 113 
 
 Paroles of inmates — _ - 115 
 
 Superintendent of home _ 112 
 
 Superintendent, powers and duties _ — — 112 
 
 Treatment of inmates _ _ 115 
 
 MERCY HOME INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.— See Ala- 
 bama Vocational School for Girls. 
 
 MINING ENGINEERING.— See University of Alabama, School of 
 Mines. 
 
 MOBILE. 
 
 City required to pay one-half annual expenses of juvenile 
 court, the detention home for delinquent juveniles, includ- 
 ing salaries 173 
 
 MONTGOMERY NORMAL SCHOOL.— See State Normal School for 
 Colored Students. 
 
 MOUNDVILLE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.— See also Normal 
 Schools. 
 
 Appropriation for „ _ _ .._ 126 
 
 Removal of, authorized 127 
 
 MT. MEIGS, REFORMATORY.— See Negro Reform School. 
 
 NARCOTICS, INSTRUCTION REQUIRED.— See Alcoholic Drinks 
 and Narcotics. 
 
 NEGRO REFORM SCHOOL AT MT. MEIGS. 
 
 Appropriations _ 135 
 
 Established _ _ 104 
 
 Objects _.- 104 
 
 Trustees, powers and duties _ 104 
 
 NEGRO SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND BLIND. 
 
 Appropriation for — 134 
 
 Established _ 99 
 
INDEX. 201 
 
 NINTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL.- • Page 
 
 Appropriation to rebuild 138 
 
 Name changed - 77 
 
 NORMAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 Alcoholic drinks, tobacco and other narcotics, instruction in to 
 
 be given „..._ _ 144 
 
 Appropriations for _ 126 
 
 Controlled by State Board of Education 78 
 
 Practice school authorized at 127 
 
 State board of trustees abolished _ 7 
 
 Temperance institute worker, to visit each normal school at 
 
 least once a year and lecture _ 145 
 
 NORTHEAST ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL 
 INSTITUTE.— See Lineville State Secondary Agricultural 
 School. 
 
 ONE MILL COUNTY SCHOOL TAX. 
 
 Election, provisions for „ 40 
 
 Three-fifths majority required _ .„ ..„ 40 
 
 PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. 
 
 Registration required _ 110 
 
 Reports required of _ 6, 51, 111 
 
 PENALTIES. 
 
 Attendance laws violated by parent or guardian 51 
 
 Charging more than contract price _ 183 
 
 Disturbing public assemblies, etc _ 146, 182 
 
 Embezzlement of school funds - _ 182 
 
 False or fraudulent enumeration of school children 183 
 
 Injuring or defacing trees, buildings, etc _ 107, 182 
 
 Stealing examination questions _ 182 
 
 Throwing missiles at buildings _ _ _ „ 182 
 
 Use of other than contract books 183 
 
 Violation of text-book provisions _ 183 
 
 Wrongful appliqation of schoolhouse warrants or proceeds 183 
 
 PENSIONS.— See Teachers' Pensions. 
 
 PHYSICAL EDUCATION, DIVISION OF _ 15 
 
 PLACEMENT OF TEACHERS _ _ 14, 55 
 
 POLL TAX. 
 
 Part of school fund 3 
 
 PRINCIPALS.— See Certification of Teachers. 
 
 PRIVATE SCHOOLS. 
 
 Registration required ...„ 110 
 
 Reports required of _ 6, 51, 111 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 Administration of _ 3, 16, 29 
 
 Provision for - 3 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDS.— See also Appropriations. 
 
 Apportionment, disbursement of 37 
 
 Bonds of officials and employees 110 
 
 Contingent fund of superintendent _ 39 
 
 County treasurer _ , - 48 
 
202 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDS.— Continued. 
 
 Escheats _. _ _ „„ 
 
 Funds for maintenance 
 
 Land grants, sales or rentals of 
 
 Legislative special appropriations _ _. 
 
 Licenses, special „. 
 
 Local tax bonus fund 
 
 Local school moneys disbursed in districts in which raised.. 
 
 One mill tax _ _ 
 
 Poll taxes - _ _ 
 
 Rural schoolhouse appropriations „ 
 
 Rural school libraries, appropriations _. 
 
 Sixteenth section lands, sales or rentals _ .„ 
 
 Surplus revenue 
 
 Thirty cent annual tax _ _ _. _ 
 
 Three mill county and district school tax .' 
 
 Page 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 47 
 
 39 
 
 40 
 
 3,39 
 
 59 
 
 63 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 3 
 
 41 
 
 READING CIRCLES. 
 
 City superintendents responsible for. _ 3G 
 
 County superintendents arrange for. 25, 58 
 
 REFORM SCHOOL FOR WHITE BOYS.- 
 trial School. 
 
 REFUGE HOME, THE ALABAMA 
 
 REPORTS. 
 
 Alcohol and narcotics _ 
 
 Annual, of city board for publication _ 
 
 Annual, of city superintendent 
 
 Annual, of county board for publication 
 
 Annual, of county superintendent 
 
 Annual, of State Board _ 
 
 Annual, of State superintendent 
 
 Bible reading, teachers to report monthly 
 
 Compulsory attendance _ 
 
 Forms prescribed by State Department 
 
 Humane education, teachers to report monthly... 
 
 Private schools, required to report 
 
 Salary withheld till made. _ 
 
 Teachers 
 
 REVOLVING FUND. 
 
 Appropriation _. _. 
 
 Equalization of school opportunities „. 
 
 RURAL LIBRARIES. 
 
 Administration and preservation _ 
 
 Appropriation 
 
 County and local requirements 
 
 Selection and purchase of books 
 
 -See Alabama Boys' Indus- 
 
 136 
 
 145 
 
 34 
 
 37 
 
 20 
 
 37 
 
 8 
 
 13 
 
 143 
 
 51 
 
 6 
 
 146 
 
 .51, 111 
 
 27 
 
 .. 25, 36 
 
 118 
 9 
 
 64 
 
 .63, 122 
 
 63 
 
 .... 63,64 
 
 RURAL SCHOOLHOUSES, ERECTION, REPAIR, EQUIPMENT. 
 
 Application for State aid 59 
 
 Appropriation _ 121 
 
 Approval of application 
 
 Balances, redistributed 
 
 County board in control of 
 
 Inspection of „ 
 
 RURAL SCHOOLS, DIVISION OF _ 
 
 SALE AND CONVEYANCE OF LAND.. 
 
 60,61 
 59 
 61 
 61 
 
 14 
 
 62 
 
INDEX. 203 
 
 SANITATION. Page 
 
 Condemnation of unsanitary buildings „ 24 
 
 Out-houses, responsibility for _. 19 
 
 Regulations prepared by State Superintendent 11 
 
 Standards fixed by State Board...._ 5 
 
 SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BETTERMENT, DIVISION OF ...._ 16 
 
 SCHOOL BOOKS.— See Textbook Committee. 
 
 SCHOOL DISTRICTS.— See Districts, School. 
 
 SCHOOL FUNDS.— See Public School Funds. 
 
 SCHOOL OF MINES.— See University of Alabama. 
 
 SCHOOL LANDS. 
 
 Compromise board established „ 109 
 
 Depredation on 107 
 
 Indemnity lands 106, 109 
 
 Sale and conveyance of 62, 106 
 
 Sixteenth section 105, 109 
 
 Timber reserves 107 
 
 SCHOOL TRUSTEES. 
 
 Appointed for local schools _ 22, 27 
 
 Board of school trustees, annual meeting 27 
 
 Powers and duties 27ff 
 
 SCHOOLHOUSES.— See Rural Schoolhouses. 
 
 SCHOOLS. — See also names of particular institutions, and other spe- 
 cial titles. 
 
 Administration of public... — 3 
 
 Agricultural schools, names changed, and appropriations 77 
 
 Attendance officers 50ff 
 
 Attendance on schools _ .-. 49 
 
 Blind, Alabama School for, appropriations 134 
 
 Board of Education, State .. 4 
 
 Bonus fund _ 47 
 
 Book lists for county libraries 63 
 
 Boys' Industrial School, appropriations 134 
 
 Budget Commission, report to by superintendent 13 
 
 Census of school children 6, 12 
 
 Certificates of teachers in European war may be extended 142 
 
 Certification of teachers 53 
 
 Compulsory attendance 49 
 
 Contingent fund . '. 39, 119 
 
 Coordination of educational effort 94 
 
 Council of Education, established 94 
 
 County boards hold in trust all school property 18 
 
 County boards may issue interest bearing school warrants for 
 school buildings and other improvements in county school 
 
 facilities _ 45 
 
 County boards of education 4, 22 
 
 County high school „ 74 
 
 County treasurer of school funds 48 
 
 Courses of study . 5, 11 
 
 Daphne State Normal School, appropriations 126 
 
 Deaf, Alabama School ....„ 98 
 
 Denominational school reports...;. 6, 51, 111 
 
 Diplomas, must meet minimum standards 6, 12 
 
 Disturbances at or near by persons in automobiles 146 
 
 Divisions of Education Department 14 
 
204 INDEX. 
 
 SCHOOLS.— Continued. Page 
 
 Education Department created _ 3 
 
 Educational Commission _. - 171 
 
 Educational system _ - _ — 3 
 
 Elementary schools, division of „ 15 
 
 Emergency teacher's certificates authorized - 54 
 
 English only language taught in first six grades 5 
 
 Enlargement of appropriations for support of _ 118 
 
 Equalization of school facilities 9 
 
 Escheats, part of school fund — „ _ 3 
 
 Examinations of teachers — — 54 
 
 Exceptional education, division of 16 
 
 Executive and business management, division of 14 
 
 Extension — — — 58 
 
 Forms and blanks _ _ - _ 6, 13 
 
 Funds expended on requisition of superintendent of education... 9 
 
 Funds for maintenance _. — 3 
 
 Girls' Technical Institute _ 81 
 
 High schools - 74 
 
 Higher education, study of needs _ 94 
 
 Illiteracy, removal of _ 7, 66 
 
 Institutes for teachers — 57 
 
 Instruction in humane treatment of animals to be given. 146 
 
 Investigation of educational needs _ _ 7 
 
 Land grants, sales or rentals of, part of school funds — 3 
 
 Lands, sale and conveyance of 62 
 
 Lands, school, lease and sale. 105 
 
 Licenses, special, part of school funds _ _._ 3 
 
 Local school moneys expended in districts in which raised 39 
 
 Local tax bonus fund _ ._ _ 47 
 
 Moundville Normal School, may be removed 78 
 
 Mental infriors in, transferred to home for. 117 
 
 Negro Reform School at Mt. Meigs .*. 104 
 
 Ninth District Agricultural School, appropriation to rebuild 138 
 
 Normal schools _ '. ...._ _ 78 
 
 Normal schools, courses of instruction must include training 
 
 in humane treatment of animals _. _ _ 144 
 
 Normal training schools may be established by city boards of 
 
 education of cities of 150,000 population _ 53 
 
 Parents, penalties for violation of attendance lav(r.....„ _._ 51 
 
 Parochial school reports 6, 51, 111 
 
 Physical education, division of , 15 
 
 Physical examination of children _ 5, 11 
 
 Poll tax, schools of counties receive all poll taxes collected 
 
 therein _ „ ...._ „ 39 
 
 Poll taxes, part of school fund „ 3 
 
 Polytechnic Institute, Alabama 86 
 
 Practice schools, authorized 126 
 
 Private school reports „ „ 6, 51, 111 
 
 Publications, three series provided _ „ 16 
 
 Reading circle ^ ...._ 58 
 
 Removal of school officers _ 8 
 
 Report of board of education to Governor. „ 8 
 
 Reports to superintendent of education by institutions _ 6 
 
 Rural libraries „ , 63 
 
 Rural schoolhouses 59 
 
 Rural school libraries may be affiliated vnth county library 
 
 Rural schools, division of. ._ „.... _ 14 
 
 Rural, village and town library, appropriations to _ _ 160 
 
INDEX. 205 
 
 SCHOOLS. — Continued. Page 
 
 Salary of superintendent of education ....'. — 9 
 
 Sale and conveyance of land deeded to State for school purposes 62 
 
 Sanitation of schools _ 5, 11 
 
 Seal of board of education — — 8 
 
 School and community betterment, division of. 16 
 
 School attendance — 49 
 
 School boards and commissions abolished 7 
 
 School buildings may be improved — 41 
 
 Schools, consolidation of — — 19 
 
 School laws. State superintendent to interpret 10 
 
 Secondary education, division of. 15 
 
 Sixteenth section lands, part of school fund. 3 
 
 Smith-Hughes act, co-operation under 65 
 
 Special appropriations, part of school funds 3 
 
 Standardization — 5, 1 1 
 
 State Board of Education — .'. 4 
 
 State Normal School for colored students 78 
 
 State secondary agricultural schools 77 
 
 State secondary schools 74 
 
 Statistics, division of 14 
 
 Summer schools, appropriation 94, 130ff 
 
 Superintendent of Education 9 
 
 Supervisoin of educational work of charitable, penal, reforma- 
 tory and child caring institutions _.. 8 
 
 Supplementary appropriations for support of, subject to re- 
 lease of Governor 18 
 
 Sui-plus revenue, part of school fund 3 
 
 System of schools 3 
 
 Teacher training 57 
 
 Teacher training, certification and placement, division of 14 
 
 Teachers, certification of 53 
 
 Teachers' institute programs must include topics for moral and 
 
 humane education 146 
 
 Teachers' pensions ^ _ 169 
 
 Teachers, professional record of kept by placement bureau 55 
 
 Textbooks - ....._ _..._ _. 67 
 
 Textbooks, selected under direction of State Board of Educa- 
 tion .._ 6 
 
 Thirty cent annual tax, part of school funds 3 
 
 Three mill tax elections 41 
 
 Townships abolished „. 110 
 
 Training of teachers in service ■ 57 
 
 Training school for girls 136 
 
 Truancy , 52 
 
 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 138 
 
 Vocational education, co-operation with Federal government 65 
 
 Vocational education, division of.._'.„.. „ 15 
 
 Vocational education, provisions for. 65 
 
 Vocational School for Girls _ 137 
 
 SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.— See Agricultural 
 Schools, State Secondary. 
 
 SECONDARY EDUCATION, DIVISION OF 15 
 
 SMITH-HUGHES. 
 
 County fairs, participation in 164 
 
 Vocational education provided for. _ 65 
 
 SMITH-LEVER. 
 
 Alabama Polytechnic Institute in charge of. 167 
 
206 INDEX. 
 
 SMITH-LEVER.— Continued. Page 
 
 Appropriations to secure benefit of. 167 
 
 Work under, in connection with county fairs 164 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.— See also Superintendent of Ed- 
 ucation. 
 Appropriation for further support of schools „ _ 118 
 
 Expenses of board 5 
 
 Institutions of State, under. — — H 
 
 Meetings 4 
 
 Per diem ;, 5 
 
 Powers and duties, general _..„ — _ 4ff 
 
 Recommendations to Legislature ...._ _ 8 
 
 Removal of members. 4 
 
 Report, annual — - „ 8 
 
 Seal may be adopted. _. 8 
 
 Terms of , 4 
 
 Vacancies in board _ _ 4 
 
 STATE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Established, powers and dutes „ „ 94 
 
 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL FOR COLORED STUDENTS.— See also 
 Normal Schools. 
 
 Appropriations for support and maintenance „ 128 
 
 Board of trustees abolsihed 7 
 
 STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.— See Normal Schools. 
 
 STATE SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.— See Agricul- 
 tural Schools, State Secondary, 
 
 STATE TEXTBOOK COMMITTEE.— See Textbook Committee. 
 
 STATE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS „ 136 
 
 STATIONERY AND OFFICE SUPPLIES.— See Control and Econ- 
 omy, Board of. 
 
 STATISTICS, DIVISION OF _ 14 
 
 SUMMER SCHOOLS.— See Alabama Polytechnic Institute; see 
 . Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women; see Uni- 
 versity of Alabama. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCOOLS, CITY.— See City Superinten- 
 dent of Schools. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, COUNTY.— See County Super- 
 intendent. 
 
 SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, STATE.— See also Schools. 
 
 Clerical force, direction of „ 11 
 
 Compensation of - 10 
 
 Duties of ...._ - 9ff 
 
 Education, State Board of, supervisory powers 3 
 
 Executive officer of board of education ; 9 
 
 Funds, school, apportionment of _ 39 
 
 Humane treatment of animals, instruction in to be required of 
 
 schools .- 146 
 
 Must enforce act requiring daily Bible reading _ — — 143 
 
INDEX. 207 
 
 SUPERINTENENT OF EDUCATION, STATE.— Continued. Page 
 
 Professional force, direction of 11 
 
 Schools under supervision of 3 
 
 Temperance, duties as to 144 
 
 SUPERVISORS. 
 
 Certification. — See Certification of Teachers. 
 
 Appointment — 26, 35 
 
 TAX DISTRICT 41 
 
 TAX, ONE MILL.— See One Mill County School Tax. 
 
 TAX, POLL.— See Poll Tax. 
 
 TAX, THREE MILL.— See Three Mill County and District Tax. 
 
 TEACHER TRAINING.— See Training of Teachers; See also Nor- 
 mal Schools. 
 
 TEACHER TRAINING, CERTIFICATION AND PLACEMENT, 
 
 DIVISION OF 14 
 
 TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.— See Teacher Training. 
 
 TEACHERS' PENSIONS. 
 
 Authorized in city of Montgomery 169 
 
 Authorized in Mobile County 175 
 
 TEMPERANCE DAY. 
 
 Observance in public schools 144 
 
 TEXTBOOKS. 
 
 Appointment of committee by State Board of Education. 6, 67 
 
 Attorney General to prepare contracts 70 
 
 Board of Education in control of adoptions 6 
 
 Bonds to be given by bidders 69 
 
 Commission (old) abolished. ^„ 7 
 
 Contracts to supply books 70 
 
 Expenses of members of committee 74 
 
 Failure of contractor forfeits bond and contract _. 74 
 
 Oath to be taken by members 67 
 
 Partisan or sectarian books not to be chosen. 68 
 
 Prices for books 71 
 
 Proposals for furnishing 69 
 
 Terms of office of committee ., 73 
 
 Uniform series to be adopted 68 
 
 Unlawful to use other than adopted books 68 
 
 Unsatisfactory books may be dropped 68 
 
 THREE MILL COUNTY AND DISTRICT TAX. 
 
 Calling and holding for cities and districts 41, 42 
 
 Commissioners required to call — 41 
 
 Consolidation of taxing districts — 44 
 
 Election, calling of and holding 41 
 
 Formation of taxing districts 43 
 
 Tax collector, separate accounts required 46 
 
 Warrants, authority to issue — 45 
 
 TOWN CREEK. 
 
 School trustees authorized to mortgage school lands _ 173 
 
 TOWNSHIPS ABOLISHED - HO 
 
208 INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 TRADES AND INDUSTRIES, ALABAMA SCHOOL OF.— See Ala- 
 bama School of Trades and Industries. 
 
 TRAINING OF TEACHERS. 
 
 County institute, attendance required _ 57 
 
 (a) Superintendents, county and city, responsible..- ...._ 25,36 
 
 Extension work, in co-operation with normal schools 58 
 
 Lists of teachers required _ _ 57 
 
 Reading- circle, credit for extension of teachers' certificates _ 58 
 
 TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS, ALABAMA. 
 
 Appropriation „ ...„ 13€ 
 
 TREASURER OF SCHOOL FUNDS, COUNTY.— See County Treas- 
 urer. 
 
 TROY STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.— See also Normal Schools. 
 
 Appropriation for _._ 127 
 
 Practice school at 127 
 
 TRUSTEES.— See School Trustees. 
 
 TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. 
 
 Appropriation to 138 
 
 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. 
 
 Appropriations for _ 132 
 
 Cement laboratory _ _ _ 94 
 
 Co-ordination of work 94 
 
 Council of education, duties as to 94 
 
 Executive committee, powers of _ „ 93 
 
 Extension division _ - _ „ 132 
 
 Graduate School of Medicine at Birmingham 93, 132 
 
 Medical department of, at Mobile _ _ 93 
 
 Meetings of trustees 91 
 
 Police officer may be employed _ _ _ 92 
 
 Powers and duties of trustees 89 
 
 Procedings of trustees _ 91 
 
 School of mines at - _ 168 
 
 Secretary of State, duty to supply codes and Supreme Court 
 
 reports „.... 92 
 
 Summer school - 94, 132 
 
 Supreme Court, may turn over to superseded law books 92 
 
 Trustees of 88 
 
 University fund .„ _ _ 89 
 
 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. 
 
 Acceptance of provisions _ - — 65 
 
 Co-operation, counties and cities _ 66 
 
 Federal co-operation — Smith-Hughes act _. 7, 65 
 
 General powers of State Board........ ~ 7, 65 
 
 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, DIVISION OF 15 
 
 WARRANTS, AUTHORITY TO ISSUE „ 45 
 
 W. C. T. U., ALABAMA. 
 
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