UC-NRLF i9sa DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE OF ALABAMA SCHOOL CODE AND ALL LAWS RELATING TOTDUCATION SEPTEMBER I, 1922 • ROWN PR.NTINQ CO. HONTQCMCRY EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATE OF\ ALABAMA SCHOOL CODE INCLUDING ALL LAWS RELATING TO EDUCATION SEPTEMBER 1, 1922 JOHN W. ABERCROMBIE Superintendent of Education ■ ROWN PRINTING CO. MONTGOMERY. 517584 •• • • ••••• •• •• ••••.••• • •• • /Cj:^aJ^-t'--^^^^^ iT V )1 !> ■>- STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION Governor Thos. E. Kilby Mrs. T. G. Bush Dr. D. T. McCall L. B. Musgrovb A. H. Carmichael Dr. R. H. McCaslin A. L. Tyler John W. Abercrombie, 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, including Acts passed at the extra sessions of 1920 and 1921. John W. Abercrombie, Superintendent, (f ALABAMA GENERAL LAWS Regular Session, 1919 No. 442.) (S. 470— Carmichael. 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 powers 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 vnthin 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 that have been conveyed to the State for school purposes; to provide for rural libraries throughout the State, including the method by which assistance may be obtained; to provide for vocational education and for the use of appropriations therefor; to provide for the removal of illit- eracy among adults as well as among minors, and for the use of appro- priations therefor; to provide uniform text books throughout the State and to authorize the creation of a State textbook committee and to de- fine its powers and duties; to provide for county high schools and pre- scribe the conditions under which such county high schools may obtain assistance from the State, and to authorize such county high schools to 6 receive financial assistance from county boards of revenue; boards of education; school districts or private sources; to provide for county- high school 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 of the nine branch agrciultural schools and expermient stations, or district agricultural schools, and of the Northeast Alabama Agricul- tural and ' Industrial 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 appropriations 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, anA 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 heretofore. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama : i •,. 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 appropri- ated 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 hereafter may 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 schol- astic 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 8 advice and counsel of a State board of education, and their powers and compensation shall be fixed by law. Section 3. Educational matters affecting counties shall be under the control of a county board of education and educational matters affecting cities and towns of one thousand (1000) or more inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Fed- eral census, shall be under a city board of education, except as otherwise provided by law. ARTICLE 3. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. Section 1. The State board of education shall be composed of the governor, of 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 and executive officer of the board. In making the first appoint- ments under this section, the governor shall appoint two mem- bers whose terms of office shall expire on September 30, 1923 ; two members whose terms of office shall expire on September 30, 1927; and two members whose terms of office shall expire on September 30, 1931; and thereafter as the respective vacan- cies occur, appointments to the State board of education shall be made by the governor before the first day of October and for terms of twelve years. The members of the board shall be appointed solely for their character and fitness, but no person shall be appointed to the board who is in any way subject to its authority. The governor may remove any member of the board, appointed under the provisions of this section for immorality, misconduct in office, incompetency, or wilful neglect of duty, giv- ing to him a copy of the charges against him, and an opportunity of being publicly heard in person or by counsel in his own de- fense, upon not less than ten (10) days' notice. If any member shall be removed, the governor 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 complete record of the proceedings. Vacancies on the board for any cause shall be filled by the governor, for the unexpired term, and until a successor qualifies. Before exercising any authority or per- forming any duty as a member of the State board of education, each member thereof shall qualify as such by taking and sub- scribing to the oath of office prescribed by article (16) of the State Constitution, the certificate whereof shall be filed with the records of the State board of education. Section 2. The State Board of Education shall hold its an- nual meetings each year, at the office of the State Department of Education at Montgomery, on the first Tuesday in October. At 9 this meeting the board shall elect one of its members Vice-Presi- dent. Other regular meetings shall be held on the first Tuesday of December, February, and May, and such special meetings may be held as the duties and business of the board may require. The rules generally adopted by deliberative bodies for their gov- ernment shall be observed by the State board of education. No motion or resolution shall be declared adopted v^ithout the con- currence of the majority of the whole board. Section 3. The members of the State board of education shall receive a per diem of ten ($10) dollars for each day of actual service and for a total of not more than twenty-five (25) days in any fiscal year, and their actual traveling and other necessary expenses incurred in attending meetings and transacting the bus- iness of the board. Section 4. The State board of education shall exercise, through the State superintendent of education and his profes- sional assistants, general control and supervision over the public schools of the State, except the University, the Alabama Poly- technic Institute, and the Alabama Tecnical Institute and Col- lege for Women, and shall consult with and advise through their executive officer and his professional assistants, county boards of education, city and town boards of education, superintendents of schools, school trustees, attendance officers, principals, teach- ers, supervisors, and interested citizens, and shall seek in every way to direct and develop public sentiment in support of public education. Section 5. The State board of education shall adopt rules and regulations for the sanitation of schools, for^the physical examination of school children, and, in conjunction with other State authorities, shall see to it that the rules relating to school health, compulsory education, and child conservation are en- forced. Section 6. The State board of education shall prescribe rules and regulations for the grading and standardizing of public schools. Section 7. The State board of education, on the recommend- ation of the State superintendent of education, shall prescribe the minimum contents of courses of study for all public elemen- tary and high schools in the State. In every elementary school in the State there shall be taught at least reading, spelling, hand- writing, arithmetic, oral and written English, geography, his- tory of the United States and Alabama, community civics, agri- culture, elementary science, hygiene 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 in the State. 10 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 wtihin the State, also all forms 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 re- port monthly on forms provided by the State board of education, to the Superintendent of education of the county or to the super- intendent of schools in cities of two thousand (2000) or more in- habitants, according to the last or any succeeding Federal cen~ sus, according to the location of private schools in question, giv- 11 ing the name of each pupil enrolled, the date of enrollment, the total days of attendance to date, and the number of days in at- tendance 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 such 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 jthe 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 in 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 ap- propriation of money for the removal of illiteracy, the teaching 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 authori- ty 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 ac- cordance with the terms of the acts of Congress making such ap- propriations. The Treasurer of the State is hereby designated as custodian for all funds received as apportionments under the provisions of such act or acts of Congress. Sction 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. 12 Section 17. The State board of education shall have general supervision of the educational work of all charitable, penal, re- 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. Section 18. The board of education shall submit each year on or before the first day of December, or as early there after 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 rec- ommend to the Governor and to the Legislature such additional legislation or changes in the existing legislation as may be deem- ed desirable. Such recommendations may be in the form of prepared bills, and shall be laid before the governor and the Legislature. Section 20. The State board of education shall have the power to adopt a seal for the authentication of its official acts. Section 21. The State board of education by its presiding officer, or its committees by their chairman, the State superin- tendent of education, and any of its duly appointed agents, shall have authority to administer oaths, and to examine under oath in any part of the State, witnesses in any matter pertaining to 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 testimony, shall be guilty of perjury. Section 22. The State board of education is authorized to remove for incompetency, immorality, misconduct in office, or wilful neglect of duty, any school officer, appointed by it under the provisions of this Act, upon making 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 own defense, upon not less than ten days' notice. In case of vacancy due to any cause, the State board of education shall fill the vacancy, unless other- wise provided, and until a successor shall qualify. Section 23. 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 13 or purpose of this Act, the State board of education is authorized to make such rules and regulations as will give full force and ef- fect to any or all of its provisions, provided that such rules and regulations shall not be inconsistent with the powers and duties of the several boards of education as conferred in this Act. Section 24. The State board of education shall have the au- thority to acquire, hold, lease, rent, sell and convey the title to real and personal property and to make such repairs and im- provements in all property under its control as may be for the best interest of the school. Section 25. The State board of education is specifically 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 than any unexpected 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 upon requisition of the State superintend- ent of education upon the State Auditor, who shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the amount for which req- uisition 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 superintendent 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 14 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 bgard 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 superintend'ents 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 ed- ucation of cities and towns of two thousand (2000) or more in- habitants, according to the last of any succeeding Federal cen- sus, and advise them on same. 15 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- tion 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 teachers 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 prapared, 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 16 Act or any other statute of this State. He shall also prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit for approval and adoption by the State board of education, the minimum requirements for is- suing all certificates and diplomas in such schools. Provided, however, no person within the school age shall be denied admis- sion to any elementary public school of this State, but shall be admitted, and shall be permitted to take any advanced studies, which he is qualified to study and which the teacher is qualified to teach, notwithstanding anything heretofore prescribed, or that may hereafter be prescribed or enacted, in this Act. 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 em- ployees. Section 14. 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 in agreement with the provisions of article twenty-four of this Act, 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 educa- tion. The State superintendent of education shall at least an- nually investigate the management, conduct and work of each high school receiving State aid, according to the provisions of ar- ticle twenty-four of this Act. In case of violations of the rules and regulations of the State board of education, and the provi- sions of article twenty-four of this Act, the State superintendent of education shall recommend to the State board of education that the appropriations to such high schools be discounted and the State board of education shall have the power to discontinue the appropriations to such high schools as provided in Article twen- ty-four of this Act. When application is made to the State board of education for the location of a county high school to receive State aid, according to the provisions of Article twenty-four of this Act, the State superintendent of education shall make the proper investigations, report his findings, and make recom- mendation to the State board of education as to the granting or denial of the petition. Section 15. 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 taking of a biennial school census of all children in the State be- tween six (6) and twenty-one (21) years of age, also the forms and blanks to be employed in taking such census, and in compil- ing the reports thereon. This school census shall be taken in July of the even numbered years, and the State Superintendent 17 of education may cause the whole or any part of the school cen- sus of any county or of any city to be retaken at any time, if, in the judgment of the State board of education the whole or any part of the census has not been properly taken. Section 16. 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 a uniform series of forms and blanks for the use of county boards of education, boards of education of cities, school officials and teachers, and it shall be his duty to see that all financial matters, and all educational records are so kept, and that all reports are made according to these forms and blanks. He shall also prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit 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, or institutions. Section 17. 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 enforcement of school attendance, as provided for in article fifteen of this Act. Section 18. The State superintendent of education shall pre- pare, or cause to be prepared, and submit to the State board of education, plans and rules and regulations for the administra- tion of the provisions of the Vocational Education Act as pre- scribed in article twenty-one (21)' of this Act. Section 19. The State superintendent of education shall pre- pare, or cause to be prepared, an annual report of the State board of education, and shall submit on the first day of December, or as early thereafter as practicable, the same to the board for its approval and adoption. He shall also prepare, or cause to be prepared, all other reports which are or may be required of this board. Section 20. The State superintendent of education shall pre- pare and submit for approval by the State board of education such budget for each quadrennium, or for such other period as may be fixed by the State Budget Commission or other duly au- thorized body. Section 21. 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 such legislative measures as are in his opinion needed for the further development and im- provement of the free public schools of the State. Section 22. The State Department of Education is hereby organized into the following divisions, the heads of which shall be members of the force of the Department of Education. The 18 State board of education may create other divisions from time to time, within the Hmits 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^ 19 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 oth- er 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 dissseminate 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 di- 20 rection 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 vacations ; 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 throughout the State. It shall encourage and co-operate with such agencies in the State as may be designated to foster all ac- tivities 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 (2000) 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- 21 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 until the next general election following the date of appointment. In the 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 regular meetings shall be held on the last Friday of February, May and September, and such special meetings may be held, 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 (6) of this Act, as its execu- tive officer, a county superintendent of education, who shall also 22 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 pf 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 (2000) 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 edu- cation, 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 23 seek in every way to promote the interest of the schools under its jurisdiction. Section 9. The county board of education shall provide sani- tary, hygienic, suitable and convenient water closets or out-hous- es for the children of the public schools under its jurisdiction, 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, sanitary 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- soKdated 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 dis- miss for immorality, misconduct in office, insubordination, or incompetency or wilful neglect of duty, or whenever, in the opin- ion of the board, the best interests of the school require it, sup- erintendents, 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 teachers' 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 24 reason the board shall permit any schools to open at later date, the reports and records of such schools shall be made so as to conform to the scholastic months, counting from the uniform date hereinabove mentioned. Section 16. The county board of education, subject to the 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 part of any school census in his county to be retak- en. Section 17. The county board of education, upon the recom- 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 succeeding the time of the taking of said census. 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, and needs for the improvement of the schools, also, a statement of the business and financial transactions of the board, which statement shall contain an itemized account of all receipts and expenditures of said board. Such statement must show the total amount of school funds received by the county and 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 oth- er purpose than teachers' salaries must be shown and shall in- clude the name of the person to whom paid, the amount of each of such items and the purpose for which said amounts were ex- pended. Section 19. The county board of education shall provide schools of two kinds, those for white children and those for col- ored children. The schools for white children shall be free to all white children over six (6) years of age. The schools for col- ored children shall be free to all colored children over six (6) years of age. A reasonable incidental fee to be fixed by the 25 county board of education by request of the board of school trus- tees, may be collected in any school, but 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 at- tendance period. Section 20. The public schools of the county shall include elementary schools, that is, grades one to six, inclusive; junior high schools, that is, grades seven to nine, inclusive ; and senior high schools, that is, grades ten to twelve, inclusive. Section 21. The county board of education shall, upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of education, ar- range the county into one or more appropriate and convenient compulsory school attendance districts ; shall keep full and com- plete records of the boundaries thereof; and shall see to it that the compulsory attendance law is enforced. Section 22. The county board of education, upon the recom- mendation of the county superintendent of education, subject to the provisions of this act, shall prescribe the conditions on which pupils in the elementary schools, limited to the first six grades of elementary instruction, may be admitted to junior high schools; and also the conditions upon which pupils in junior high schools may be admitted to senior high schools. Section 23. The county board of education, subject to the provisions of this act, shall prescribe, upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of education, forms and blanks on which school trustees, supervisors, attendance officers, princi- pals, teachers, janitors, and other regular employees shall make such reports as shall be required from them by the county board of education. Section 24. The county board of education shall have au- thority, upon the recommendation of the county superintendent of education, to borrow money on the credit of the school fund of the county to meet salaries of teachers and current expenses w^hen the current funds on hand are not sufficient to meet the same, to be secured by a pledge of the current revenues of the year. All such current loans, except such as are based on county and district local tax proceeds, shall be paid within the school year in which such current loans are made, and from the funds accruing for the support of the schools within such given school year. 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. Section 25. The county board of education shall make all the reports required to the State board of education, at such time, upon such items, and in such form and on such blanks as may be prescribed by the State board of education. 26 Section 26. The county board of education shall have the right to acquire, purchase by the institution of conaemnation 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 process- es 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 per- son 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 trustee 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 school, 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 27 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 de- vote 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 provisions 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 exec- utive 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- 28 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, and 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 to 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 all 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 representatives of the State superintendent of education in all 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 em- 29 ployees of the board. He shall assign them to their positions, transfer them as the needs of the schools require, recommend them for promotion, suspend them for cause, and recommend them for dismissal. Section 15. The county superintendent 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 par- ents and citizens to acquire knov^ledge of the aims and work of the school. Section 16. The county superintendent of education shall visit the schools, observe the management and instruction, and give suggestions for the improvement of the same. He shall advise with principals, teachers, school trustees, and other inter- ested citizens, and shall endeavor in every way to promote public interest, and improve the school conditions of the county. Section 17. The county superintendent of education, subject to the provisions of this Act, shall prepare forms and blanks on which school trustees, supervisors, attendance officers, prin- cipals, teachers, janitors, and other regular employees shall make 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 budg- et for the schools of the county, and shall submit the same for approval and adoption by the county board of education. He shall in every way seek to secure funds for the support and de- velopment of the schools of the county. Section 19. The county superintendent of education, subject to the provisions of this Act, shall direct the taking of the coun- ty biennial school census, in keeping with Section 16 of Article 5 of this chapter. He shall cause the census to be retaken in whole or in part when directed to do so by the State superintendent of education. The county superintendent shall require the numer- ators to make their report to him not later than August the fif- teenth following the date of taking the census, and on or before September the first following, the county superintendent of edu- cation shall make his consolidated report to the State board of education. This consolidated report shall include the census da- ta reported to him by the superintendent of schools of cities of two thousand (2000) or more inhabitants according to the last or any succeedinc: Federal census. Section 20. The county superintendent of education, subject to the provisions of this Act, shall see to it that the laws requir- ing school attendance are enforced. The county superintendent 30 of education shall prepare, or cause to be prepared, and submit to the county board of education for adoption, all reports requir- ed of the county board of education by the State board of educa- tion, and the State superintendent of education, and he shall pre- pare, or cause to be prepared, and submit to the county board of education 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 v^ho 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 super- intendent shall fail to make and forward to the State superin- tendent of education any report required under this article with- in 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 211/2- 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. 31 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 schol- astic month, shall file with the county treasurer of school funds, a certificate showing the amount estimated to he 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 teach- er or other employee of the board shall be entitled to receive pay- ment 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 ap- point one of its members as chairman and shall give notice of such appointment to the County board of education. Other reg- ular 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 attend all meetings of the board xexcept when the board is in executive 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 education, shall keep all records of accounts of incident- al 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 reaosn for such refusal, and it is hereby made the duty of the county super- 32 intendent of education to nominate another teacher for such school. Section 4. No teacher shall have the power to dismiss pupils during school hours, or close the school during school hours un- less in case of emergency without the consent of the board of school trustees or the county superintendent of education. Section 5. The board of school trustees shall have the power with the approval of the county board of education to fix a rea- sonable incidental fee to be paid by each pupil entering the school. Section 6. The board of school trustees with the approval of the principal shall have the power to recommend the appoint- ment of a janitor for the school under its jurisdiction. Section 7. The board of school trustees shall visit the schools under their jurisdiction at least once each month and consult with the teachers and principals of the school as to the progress of the pupils, conditions and cleanliness of the school, and the grounds belonging to same, and give such aid as in their power for the advancement of said school. Section 8. The board of school trustees shall have the care of the building and grounds, the school apparatus and other school property. They shall attend to all incidental repairs and pay for the same out of the incidental funds collected in accord- ance with this article, provided that when repairs are to be paid for out of other than incidental funds, the amount to be expend-^ ed shall be approved by the county superintendent of education and authorized by the county board of education before the repairs are made. Section 9. The board of school trustees shall seek in every way to develop sentiment in the support of the schools and in case of dissatisfaction they may file with the county board of education written charges requesting the removal of the prin- cipal or any other teacher in said school. Section 10. The board of school trustees shall see that the water closets or out houses connected with the school are kept clean, comfortable, and in a sanitary and hygienic condition. Section 11. The board of school trustees shall have the pow- er to authorize the use of the schoolhouse for such civic, social, recreational and community gatherings as in their opinion do not interfere with the principal use of the said school building or property. It shall be the duty of the person or persons mak- ing application for the use of the schoolhouse for a public meet- ing place to see that the said schoolhouse after said meeting is in as clean a condition as it was before said meeting, and in case of failure upon the part of said person or persons to whom permission has been granted to hold the meetings to place said school after said meeting in as clean a condition as it was when 33 said schoolhouse was turned over to said person or persons for said meeting, or the failure of the person or persons to respond in damages to any injury to the property, the ordinary wear and tear excepted, the board of school trustees may refuse all further applications for the use of said schoolhouse by the same parties. ARTICLE 8. CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION. Section 1. A city within the meaning of this act shall in- clude all incorporated municipalities of two thousand (2000) or 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, according to the last or any succeeding Federal cen- sus, shall have the power through its council or other governing body to select by a majority vote of its entire membership and in accordance with the plans set out in Section two (2) of this article, a board of education of five members to exercise the gov- ernment and control of the schools in such towns in the same manner as is provided in this article for cities of two thousand (2000) or more inhabitants according to the last or any suc- ceeding Federal census: provided further, that until such time as the town council or other governing body shall elect a board of education in accordance with the provisions of this sectior, said town shall remain under the control of the county board of education. Section 2. The general administration and supervision of the public schools and educational interests of each city shall be vested in a city board of education, to be composed of five mem- bers who shall be residents of such city, and who shall not be members of the city council or commission. The members of such city board of education who shall serve without comDensa- tion, shall be chosen solely because of their character and fitness, but no person shall be appointed or elected to this board under the provisions of this section who is in any way subject to the authority of the board. Annually at the regular meetings of the city council or commission in April the said council or commis- sion shall elect a member or members of the board of education to succeed those whose term or terms of office expire that year. It is contemplated that the term.s of office shall be five years and that the term of one member shall expire annually. Until such a time as this can be brought about by the retirement of mem- bers now on the board of education, the city council or city com- mission shall designate the length of term for which any member is to serve. Annually thereafter at the first regular meeting in April, the city council or commission shall elect a member whose term of office shall be five (5) years, to succeed the member of the city board of education whose term expires that year. In 34 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 city 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 major- ity of the whole board. The board shall 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 in- to its possession. He shall pay out all such monies on the writ- ten order of the superintendent of schools, and shall keep such records 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 35 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 same paid out of the city treasury. The report of the enumerators shall be made under oath to the city superintendent of schools not lat- er 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 36 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 jurisdiction. 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, and the board of education for any reason shall be unable to con- tract with the owner or ovniers thereof upon what they deem to be a fair valuation the board of education may institute con- demnation proceedings, but no lot so taken or enlarged shall ex- ceed in the whole ten (10) acres, including the land occupied by the school building. Section 15. If, for any reason, the current income of the city board of education is inadequate to provide ample, appro- priate and suitable grounds, buildings and equipment for all the needed schools of the city, the city board of education, on the recommendation of the city superintendent of schools shall peti- tion the city council or commission to call an election for the issuance of bonds on the credit of the city in an amount suf- ficient to provide ample, appropriate and suitable grounds, build- ings, and equipment for all the needed schools of the city, sub- ject to the limitations set out in the Constitution of the State, 37 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 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 need- ed during the succeeding school year. This annual school budget shall also show the estimated accounts 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 superin- tendent 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 showm 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 publish- ed. 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- 38 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 or 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 school 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. 39 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, and 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 adrhinister 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 willfully 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 40 of new buildings, and shall supervise such remodeling and con- struction. He shall approve in writing all contracts of whatever kind entered into 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 dismissal. 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 reading, 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 managem^ent 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 taking of the biennial census provided for in Article eight of this Act. He shall cause the census to be retaken in whole or in part when directed to do so by the State superintendent of 41 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 Act 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 lie 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- 42 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 enum.eration 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 educational 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 rev- enue, exclusive of poll tax, unapportioned by the State superin- tendent 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 revenues, and shall not pay out any of such money except upon warrants 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 sixteenth 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- 43 tendents of education, the county boards of education shall appor- tion the funds awarded to their respective counties 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 district. 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 (2,000) 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 Act or provided for in special or local laws, and all funds contrib- uted by persons or otherwise to any school or school district shall be applied as indicated in the grant from such contributors. 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. 44 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 commissioners, or court of like jurisdiction in any county within the State of Alabama, the said court shall or- der an election to determine w^hether 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 proposed 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 45 taxes for public buildings, roads, bridges, and the payment of debts existing 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 46 in any rural or city school district shall be held for the purpose of levying and collecting a special school tax for school 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 worth 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 dis- trict 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 (2,000) 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 47 in the notices of the special election. The manager 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 out 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 48 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 (2,000) 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 (2,000) 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 district pro- posed 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 commission- ers 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 districts proposed to be consolidated shall vote favorably the districts shall be consolidat- ed into a new district, and the tax as voted shall be levied and collected in the new district as a unit, but the creation of a new 49 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 consoli- dation; provided further, that in the event a majority of the qualified voters in any of the districts proposed to be consolidated shall vote against the proposed consolidation, then said consoli- dation shall not be made and each district shall remain as before, and with the same taxing privileges. 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 be 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 a 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 tax- ation, 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 un- lawful 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 spe- cial county tax for school purposes, the county board of educa- tion, in order to erect, repair, enlarge or equip school buildings, or to make other improvements in the school facilities of the coun- ty, or to raise money for any of such purposes, is hereby author- ized and empowered to issue and sell school warrants bearing in- 50 terest at a rate not to exceed six per cent (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 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 such warrants are issued; and the board of education of any county or of any city of two thousand (2,000) or more inhab- itants according to the last or any succeeding 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 be- ing levied, or to raise money for any of such purposes, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue school warrants bearing in- terest 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 as- sessed value of the taxable property in such city or school dis- trict 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 pe- riod for which such warrants are issued to the extent of the war- rants maturing during such year, and such board shall at the be- ginning of each tax year, by resolution entered upon its minutes, set apart so much of the tax income for that year as will be nec- essary 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. Provided further, that the board of education of any city of two thousand (2,000) or more inhabitants, according to the last or any succeeding Federal census, constituting an independent school district, is hereby authorized to pay the principal and in- terest, 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 are collected, and he shall keep said amount separate and apart from all other funds, and keep a clear and distinct account there- 51 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 (2,000) or more inhalDitants, 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 (2,000) 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 requried 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 partic- ipate 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 for that year a special tax for school purposes aggregating one, two, or three mills respectively, and the State auditor, upon the 52 request of the State superintendent of education, shall draw his warrant for one thousand ($1,000) 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 ($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) 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 se- lected 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 pur- poses, and shall pay out all such monies upon the written 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. 53 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 not 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 conapul- 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 (ihild 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 person 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. 54 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 (2,000) 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 article shall be so interpreted as to make it possible for city and county boards of education, boards of revenue and courts of county com- missioners 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, the county superintendent of education or the city superintendent of schools, as the case may be, shall supply to each principal teacher in each school a list of all children be- tween the ages of eight 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 persons between the ages of eight (8) and sixteen (16) years, who have not enrolled in said schools, and thereafter throughout the com- pulsory 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 ab- sent 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 or non-attendance is found, it shall be the duty of the attendance 55 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 with 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 con- trol of the child does not comply with the provisions of this arti- cle, 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 juris- diction, which court shall hear and try all complaints, impose 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 education of any city with reference to the workings of this article. Every teacher employed in the schools giving instruction to pupils with- in the compulsory attendance ages, shall after October 1, 1920, hold a teacher's certificate issued by the State Department of Education. Every teacher in a public school is hereby required l)efore receiving each month's salary, to make a report to the county superintendent of education or to the city superintendent of schools as the case may be, showing the names and addresses 56 of all pupils who have been truant or otherwise irregular in at- tendance during the previous month, and stating the reason for such truancy or irregular attendance. All such information shall in turn be brought to the notice of the attendance oif icer by the county superintendent or by the city superintendent 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 offi- cer 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 Boys' 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 no- tices served, all cases prosecuted, and all other services perform- ed, 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 employed 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 education are paid, but no attendance officer shall receive any compensation under the provisions of this act until he shall have filed such reports as are 57 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 superinten- dents of schools the list shall be prepared for the even numbered 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. 58 Section 2. All examinations for teachers' certificates shall be on uniform questions prepared and sent out by the State super- intendent 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 education shall render such assistance in holding examinations as may be re- quired by the State superintendent of education. All details con- nected with the issuance of teachers' certificates, the renewal or extension of the same, and the conditions under which the diplo- mas 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 reg- ulations controlling examinations and the issuace 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 institu- tions 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 recommen- dation 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 adoption of this Act. 59 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 know^n 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 ap- plicant for an elementary certificate of the second grade, a fee of one and one-half ($11/4) dollars; an applicant for an elementary certificate of the first grade a fee of two ($2) dollars ; an appli- cant 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 educa- tion 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 ab- sent, 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 diem 60 of five ($5) dollars for such work. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of education to see that suitable (quarters for holding the examination are provided, including a supply of tables or desks for the convenience of those writing the examina- tion. The county superintendent shall furnish to the State su- perintendent a sworn statement of any necessary expense in- curred 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 normal training schools shall receive like recognition as is granted students of the Class A normal schools. 61 ARTICLE 17. THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS IN SERVICE. Section 1. As a means of improving beginning teachers and teachers in service in the pubhc 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 times and at such places as the State superintendent of education, after advising with the county superintendent of education, shall di- rect, the nature of the instruction, and the duration of the insti- tutes which 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 respective €Ounty 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 pe- riod 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 advice 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 ex- cused in accordance with section three (3) of this article. It shall be unlawful for any county superintendent of education or 62 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 ser- vice, the county superintendent of education shall arrange for and conduct group conferences in convenient centers throughout 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 Edu- cation. Section 7. In the conduct of such institutes and group confer- ences 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 co-operate as far as may be practicable. The State Department of Education in co-operation 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, the necessary salaries of professional and clerical help and for such other related purposes as may be necessary to make this act 63 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 am.ended 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 ajmually 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 show that bona fide donations of at least twice the amount for which aid is asked have already been secured, and shall also con- 64 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, twelve 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 co-operation with the State Board of Health, will be erected. (See amendment at close of this article.) 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 showing 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 dona- tions 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 application 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 recommend- ed to be given to the school ; provided, that the deed or deeds con- veying the title to the property shall accompany the certification made to the State superintendent of education and shall remain on file in his office. 65 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 requi- sition of the State superintendent of education, making the war- rant payable to the county treasurer of school funds of the coun- ty 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 for that purpose and shall charge against the county the amount of each warrant issued under this article for the benefit of the 66 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 originally 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. No. 69.) (S. 131— Carmichael. AN ACT To amend Section 3 of Article 18 of the School Code, act approved Septem- ber 26, 1919. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Alabama : Section 1. That Section 3 of Article 18 of the School Code Act approved September 26, 1919, is hereby so amended as to read as follows: ''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 Depart- ment of Education or to repair or to equip a school building ac- cording to plans approved by the State Department of Education shall be eligible to make application to the county board of edu- cation for aid subject to the following conditions : The applica- tion shall show that bona fide donations of at least twice the amount for which aid is asked have already been secured, and shall also contain 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 hun- dred fifty dollars for a school building with one class room, nine hundred dollars for a school building with two class rooms, thir- teen hundred dollars for a school building with three class rooms, eighteen hundred dollars for a school building with four class rooms and twenty-three hundred dollars for a school building with five or more class rooms. In the granting of aid in the erec- tion of buildings under provisions of this section, the class room 67 shall not be interpreted to include auditorium or work room but additional aid in the sum of five hundred dollars over and above the maximum arnount specified for each type of building enu- merated above, shall be available under the same conditions for the erection of an auditorium and four hundred dollars under like conditions 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 five hundred dollars, provided that no application for repair or for equipment for less than fifty dollars shall be con- sidered. It shall be stipulated 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 co-operation with the State Board of Health, will be erected." Section 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this section are hereby repealed. Section 3. That this act shall be effective on the approval of the Governor. Approved October 6, 1920. 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 off:'icer 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 68 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. 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 coun- ty superintendent shall within ten days certify to the commis- sioners' 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 meeting fol- lowing the receipt of the notice, consider making an appropria- tion 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 thereafter, transmit notice of the same to the State superintendent of educa- tion. 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) dollars 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 superinten- dent of education the amount first collected by voluntary sub- scription, and the sum appropriated by the commissioners' court, board of revenue or board of education. The county treasurer of school funds shall keep a separate account of said sums so re- ceived ; 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 69 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- 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 education ; 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 labraries under the same general conditions prescribed in this article; provided further, that any county board of education may in lieu of granting libraries to schools establish a system of circulating libraries, said libraries to be purchased under the same conditions and in keeping with the plan set out in section 3 of this article by the county superintendent of education; pro- vided further, that such circulating libraries shall be available for use in the public schools of the county under rules and regula- tions 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 au- thorized list shall be made by the county superintendent of edu- cation with the assistance of the principal teacher of the school. After the order has been placed by the county superintendent of education and a notice of the delivery of the books received, the county treasurer of school funds shall draw a warrant or check 70 to cover the charges including the freight. Vouchers 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. 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 co-operation with the States in the promotion of vocational education; to provide for co-opera- tion with the States in the promotion of such education in agri- culture and the trades and industries ; to provide for co-operation 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 co-operate with the Federal board for vocation- al 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 71 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- 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 co-operate with local communities in the maintenance of such schools, de- partments, or classes ; to prescribe qualifications for the teachers, directors and supervisors of such subjects, and to have full au- thority to provide for the certification of such teachers, directors and supervisors ; to co-operate in the maintenance of classes sup- ported and controlled by the public for the preparation of teach- ers, directors and supervisors of such subjects or to maintain such classes under its own direction and control ; to establish and determine by general regulations the qualifications to be pos- sessed by persons engaged in the training of vocational teachers. 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 suc- ceeding Federal census, may co-operate 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 72 section six of this article. (Note acceptance of Federal rehabili- tation appropriation.) No. 86.) (S. 44— Carmichael. 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, (H. R. 4438, approved June 2, 1920) entitled "An Act to Provide for the Promotion of Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons Dis- abled in Industry or Otherwise and Their Return to Civil Employment,'^ to provide for the administration of same, and to make appropriations for these purposes: Be it enacted hy the Legislature of Alabama : Section 1. That 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 Promo- tion of Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons Disabled in Industry or Otherwise and Their Return to Civil Employment," (H. R. 4438, Approved June 2, 1920). Section 2. That 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 purposes therein specified. He shall pay out any monies appropriated by the State of Alabama for the pur- pose of carrying out the provisions of this Act upon the order of the State Board of Education. Section 3. The State Superintendent of Education shall des- ignate 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 Act. 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 conditions of vocational rehabilita- tion of persons disabled in industry or otherwise as the State Board of Education may require. Section 4. The State Board of education shall have all neces- sary authority to co-operate with the Federal Board for Voca- tional Education in the administration of said Act of Congress. It shall co-operate with the State agency in charge of the Work- men's Compensation Act. The State Board shall administer any legislation which may hereafter be enacted by the Legislature of 73 the State of Alabama, and shall administer the funds provided by the Federal government and the State of Alabama under the provisions of this Act, for the promotion of vocational rehabili- tation of persons disabled in industry or otherwise and their return to civil employment. It shall have full authority to for- mulate plans for the promotion of the training of such persons in such subjects essential to their rehabilitation. It shall have authority to fix the compensation of officials and assistants as may be necessary to administer the Federal Act and this Act of the State of Alabama, and to pay such compensation and other necessary expenses of administration from funds appropriated by this Act. It shall have authority to make studies and investi- gations relating to the rehabilitation of disabled persons ; to pro- mote and aid in the establishment of schools, departments or classes giving such necessary training; to co-operate with local boards of education, organizations and communities in the main- tenance of such schools, departments or classes ; to prescribe qualifications for the teachers, directors and supervisors of such subjects, and to have full authority to provide for the certifica- tion of teachers, directors and supervisors. Section 5. The board of education of any county, or city or incorporated town having control of its own public school sys- tem, or any State institution of higher learning having its ow^n board of control may co-operate with the State Board of Educa- tion in the establishment of schools or classes giving instruction in the training of disabled persons and may use any money 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 Sate of Alabama shall, for the purpose of this Act, appropriate for the fiscal year 1920-1921 the sum of seventeen thousand four hundred ninety-eight dollars and thirty- five cents, ($17,498.35) ; for the fiscal year 1921-1922 the sum of twenty-one thousand eight hundred seventy-two dollars and ninety-three cents ($21,872.93) ; and for each of the two suc- ceeding years the sum of twenty-one thousand, eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and ninety-three cents ($21,872.93). Section 7. The monies appropriated by the State of Ala- bama, the funds deposited with the State treasurer under the provisions of the Federal Act and any other funds accruing to the State for vocational rehabilitation training of disabled per- sons shall be used by the State Board of Education for the pur- poses set forth in this Act, and the monies appropriated and ac- cruing shall 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 was made. 74 Section 8. The State Board of Education in its annual report to the Governor shall set forth the conditions of vocational re- habilitation education in the State of Alabama, a list of the schools to which Federal and State aid has been given, and a detailed statement of expenditures of Federal fund and the State fund provided in section 6 of this Act. Approved October 6, 1920. ARTICLE 22. ILLITERACY. Section 1. The State board of education shall be charged with the responsibility for the removal of illiteracy in Alabama. 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 anj^ 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. TEXTBOOKS. 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 75 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 inter- est, directly or indirectly in any contract that may be made un- der this article. Section 3. The text book committee shall immediately after appointment meet and organize by electing a president. The 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, un- less 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 ed- ucation 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 char- acter. 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- 76 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 place fixed definitely 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 Alabariia 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 ($2,500) dol- lars, according 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 education, if the bidder making the deposit shall fail or refuse to make and execute such contract and bond as hereinafter re- quired within such time as the State board of education may re- quire, 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 exam- ine all sealed proposals submitted and received in pursuance of 77- the notice or advertisement, provided for in section 10 of this article. The committee shall then examine carefully such bids or proposals, and determine in the manner provided in the preced- ing 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. Section IS. 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 cop- ied 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 the time of the execution of the contract exe- cuted in accordance with the provisions of section 15 of this arti- cle, the contractors shall enter into a bond in the sum of not less than ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, nor more than thirty thou- sand ($30,000) dollars each, payable to the State of Alabama, the amount of said bond within said limits to be fixed by the State board of education, conditioned upon the faithful, honest and ex- act 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 attor- ney 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 recov- ered, 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 78 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 corporation 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 treasurer shall place such cash deposit in the State treasury to the credit of the State board of education. The mailing of the registered letter announcing the awarding of the contract, shall be sufficient evidence that the notice was given and received. 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 re- spects 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 it 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 within twelve (12) months next preceding to 79 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 contrac- tor is not furnishing under any contract executed during the twelve months preceding any state, county or school district in the United 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 aforesaid, sue upon the bond of said contractor and re- cover the difference between the contract price and the lower price at which the book or books have been sold, and in case a contractor shall fail to execute specifically the terms and provi- sions of his contract, the State board of education shall bring suit upon the contract 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 of 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 of to this article, that the State of Alabama shall not be liable to any contractor in any manner nor in any sum whatsoever, but all such contractors shall receive the pay or consideration in compensation solely and ex- clusively 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 80 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 effect 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. Section 29. All books shall be sold to the consumer at- the retail contract price, and in each book shall be printed the follow- ing — "The price fixed herein is fixed by State contract and devia- tions therefrom shall be reported to your county superintendent 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 addition to the right of the State to sue on his bond hereinabove required the county superintendent of any county may sue in the name of the State of Alabama in any court of competent jurisdiction 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 com- mitted 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 distri- bution 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 provid- ed for in this article, the State superintendent of education shall issue a bulletin to be furnished county superintendents of educa- tion, city superintendents of schools, and other interested par- 81 ties, containing the list of books adopted, the prices, the location of agencies, the manner of distribution, and such other informa- tion 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 con- tract should be made, or if the contractor should fail or 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 recQJve 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 com- mittee, before receiving any funds for salary or expenses shall make and swear to a statement of the number of miles traveled and the number of days engaged. When it becomes necessary to pay out any funds in accordance with the provisions of this sec- tion, the State superintendent of education shall make requisi- tion upon the State auditor who shall draw his warrant upon the State treasurer for the amount for which requisition is made. Section 36. In case of the failure of any contractor to furnish the books as provided in his contract, his bond shall be declared forfeited, and the State board of education, upon the recommen- dation of the State text book committee, may make such other contract for the unexpired term with some other person or com- pany 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 ex- change privileges as such text books are furnished to the State during the life of such contract. Provided that the aforesaid privilege shall apply only on orders for freight shipments of one hundred pounds or more. 82 Section 38. Any city of forty thousand (40,000) or more in- habitants 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. Section 2. As a condition for making application for the loca- tion 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 equip- ment. 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 ($3,000) dollars nor more than four thousand ($4,000) 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 ($1,500) 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 rev- enue 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- parated 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 83 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 un- der 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 setting up minimum standards for the course of study, qualifica- tions of principals and teachers and of the sanitary conditions to loe 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, 4, 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 superinten- dent of education upon the State auditor who shall draw his warrant on the State treasurer for the amount for which requi- sition is made. Section 7. A matriculation fee of 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 84 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 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 buildings. 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, shall 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 rev- 85 enue, court of county commissioners, city or town council or commission, is hereby authorized to appropriate funds for the erection 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 super- intendent 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 con- trol and management of the several normal schools of the State for white teachers, located at Florence, Jacksonville, Livingston, 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 regulations for the government of the schools and shall elect the president of each of the several schools, and upon their recom- mendations 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 pre- scribed in the acts making the appropriations are fully complied with. Section 4. All funds appropriated to the normal schools shall be paid upon requisition of the State superintendent of education upon the State auditor who shall draw his warrant on the State 86 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 located an itemized statement showing receipts, expenditures and disbursements of such school of which he is president. 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 tim^e, if necessary, while in school to pay all or a -part of their board, 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-officio 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 87 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 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 Alabama School of Trades and Industry as incorporated under an act ap- proved April 12, 1911. In order to make provision for the con- struction 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 public or pri- vate sources the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars, 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 construc- tion and equipment of the necessary school buildings shall also be available upon the approval of the governor and shall be paid out upon the 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 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 who 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. 88 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 INSTITUTE FOR NEGROES. Section 1. The Hunts ville State Normal and Industrial School later changed to the Agricultural and Mechanical College for Negroes, shall hereafter be known as the Agricultural and Mechanical Institute for Negroes, and shall be under the direc- tion 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 Agri- 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 Montevallo as the "Alabama Girls' Industrial School" later known as and called "The Alabama Girls' Technical Institute" is and shall re- 89 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. 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 automat- ically 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 90 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 they 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 appointed. 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 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, manual 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 possess- ing good business and administrative qualifications. The trustees 91 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 profes- sors, associate professors, and other necessary teachers and offi- cers. The president, professors, and associate professors shall compose the faculty of the Institute. 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 treasurer, 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 belonging 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 exam- ination 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^ 92 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 countries may be received and instructed in the Institute upon such terms and conditions as may be imposed by the president or trustees. 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 are 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. Section 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 cor- poration or institute; provided the intention to grant or give to the Institute may be derived from the words used in designating the beneficiary or grantee. All rights, powers, and remedies granted in and by an act to create and establish an industrial school in the State of Alabama for white girls, approved Febru- ary 21, 189.3, and any act amendatory thereof, are confirmed 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 there- of 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. 93 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 an- nual 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. 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 per cent 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 per cent 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. 94 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 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 with 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 re- move any such instructors or other officers, and to fix their sala- ries 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 es- tablish and maintain a military department in the institute, and elect a commandant and such other officers as may be necessary 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 constitute the second class; and those from the first, third, ninth and tenth districts shall constitute the third class; and they shall hold office, and their seats be vacated as prescribed by section 266 of the Consti- tution. 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 95 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 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 trus- tees, or other officers or agents of such corporation, work a for- feiture, 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 hundred 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 institute, without first having given bond conditioned for the faithful per- formance of his duties. Section 13. The annual legislative appropriation for the sup- port 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 96 « 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 education, by virtue of their respective offices, and the trustees heretofore appointed from the different congressional districts of the 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 trustes and their successors in office, are constituted a body corporate under the name of 'The board of trustees of the Uni- versity 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 semi- nary 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 proper- ty, real or personal, or any estate or interest therein, remaining 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 contin- • ue in such corporation. 97 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 students ; and to confer such degrees as are usually conferred by 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-off icio president of the board. The members of the board of trustees, as now constitute, 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 98 best interest of the university. If it rejects 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 expi- ration 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 by the State superintendent of education to the Senate, and the Sen- 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 other day is selected by them, and they may, by ordinance or resolu- tion 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. Upon the written application of four members, or of any three members with his concurrence, the president pro tempore shall appoint 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 in- capacitated to act, then the governor, as president of the board, shall, upon the written application of four members, in like man- ner 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 Montgomery, 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 99 employ a secretary. The certificate of the president, or in his absence, of the president pro tempore, countersigned by the sec- retary, 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 incidental ex- penses of the board at each session shall be paid on the order of the board, and the certificate of the president, or president pro tempore, as the case may be, out of such treasury. 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, embrac- ing an itemized account of all receipts and disbursements on ac- count of the university by those charged with the administration 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 university ; and on the application of such treasurer or agent, the State audi- tor 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. Appropriations subse- quently made shall be paid in like manner unless otherwise pre- scribed. 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 de- partment of the university, copies of such second hand or super- seded law books, known as text-books, as they may deem expedi- ent, 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 100 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- iDama may sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of, all or any part of such land as has been or may be selected under and by virtue of an act of Congress entitled, **An Act to increase the endowment 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 University 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 per cent 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 commit- tee, 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 101 > ; ;;. ; ;:.':V; ;^ 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 by the State auditor as warrants are drawn for other appropria- tions to the University of Alabama or to the board of trustees of the University of Alabama, but such money shall be used exclu- sively for the graduate school of medicine of the University 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 ma- terials 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 dollars 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 .102 shall be equal in all respects to the regular exmination 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, 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-op- eration of the several agencies in the improvement of the eco- nomic 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 103 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. 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 trustee 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 104 their respective terms expire under existing law ; and until their successors are appointed and confirmed as herein required. No trustees shall receive any pay or emolument other than his ac- tual expenses incurred in the discharge of his duties as such. These twelve persons, and the governor and the superintendent of education, constitute a board of trustees who shall have en- tire management and control of such institution. 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 suffi- cient, 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 as- sistants in the institution as he may think necessary for its suc- cessful management, such board having power of confirmation or rejection. The board must fix the amount of compensation for each of the officers and teachers, and the time of payment. 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 ad- mitted 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 best friend or by affidavit of any person cognizant of the facts, before the probate judge or notary public. The length of time which any pupil may continue in school shall not exceed ten years. Pro- vided, however, that the board of trustees may increase the term of a pupil from year to year upon recommendation of the princi- pal, to not exceeding 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 bene- X05 fited. Any pupil may be dropped at any time for cause by the board of trustees. Section 8. The board may select from their number an execu- tive committee of three, subject to change and removal by the majority of the board at any time ; and such committee is author- ized to meet and transact any business that may be transacted by 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 ad- mission. 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 106 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 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 teacners 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 Ala- bama School for the Blind except so far as such laws may be in- consistent 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 ofticer. 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 ap- plicants must make satisfactory proof to the board of trustees that they are citizens of the State, and that they are proper can- didates for admission. Proof may be m.ade by the applicant in person, or by next friend, or by affidavit of any person cognizant 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 additonal 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 bene- 107 fited. Any pupil 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 in advance by the treasurer of the board and disbursed as direct- ed 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 ac- quire by purchase, or by condemnation proceedings in the pro- bate court of Jefferson county, in the name of the State of Ala- bama, such property, real and personal, as may be necessary or proper for its purposes and may have and exercise all such pow- ers and privileges as may be necessary or proper for carrying out the purposes of its organization, as herein declared. Section 2. The business, property, and affairs of the corpora- tion shall be under the management and control of a board of di- rectors, which shall consist of seven women and the governor, the State superintendent of education, the commissioner of agri- culture 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 con- firmed by the Senate, and those thus nominated and confirmed 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 re- spective 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- 108 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. Section 4. The board of directors may make such by-laws, rules, and regulations not inconsistent with the law^s of this State, as shall be necessary or expedient for the government and man- agement of said institution, and of its officers, agents and em- ployees, with power to alter, modify, change or repeal the same. Section 5. The board shall meet annually at such time and at such place as may be prescribed by the by-laws; and 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 to 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 bf ought 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 109 comes within any one of said descriptions, and that it would be^ for the interest of such child that he be committed to said insti- tution, 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 regulations. At any such investigation, the judge holding the same shall allow one to appear for the child and resist such commitment ; and he shall not make any such commitment if the parent, guardian or a person who is related to the child within the fourth degree, and sufficiently qualified in his opinion to take care of and provide for the child, will appear and agree in writing to take care of and provide for the child until he shall ar- rive 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 them the decision of the judge committing him, to the circuit or city court held in the county in which such investi- gation 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 ap- peal is disposed of. If, upon the hearing of the appeal, the de- cision of the judge causing the commitment 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 there 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- 110 mitment 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, 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 commitment under this article, whether by judge, court, or parent, or other person having in charge the child, shall be full and 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 Boys' 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 oY 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- Ill thorized to draw his warrant on the State treasurer for the amounts of said appropriations upon requisition of the Gover- nor. 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 call- ed The Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Lawbreakers, and by that name may acquire and hold real and personal prop- erty, contract and sue, and have all other powers necessary 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 Mt. 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 Mon- day after the second Tuesday in January, 1913, and their suc- cessors shall hold the full term of eight years. The other trus- tees appointed 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 suc- cessor to hold for the unexpired term. All trustees for the school shall be appointed 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 112 Ihe 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 •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 healthfulness 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 gov- ernor, out of the State treasury. The expenses for transport- ing any boy to the school, mcluding 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 113 United States for the use of schools in the township, and such 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 township or district. This petition must be verified by the affidavit of at least three 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 114 school fund of the State, and shall be for cash, or part cash and part on time, as the State superintendent of education and the Governor may deem best ; but in no case shall there be less than one-fourth of the purchase money paid in cash, and the remain- der 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 mterest from the date of 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 "reserv- ed" 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 de- termine; 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 down, 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 uii^v^x tne 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 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 re- vert 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 ex- ecution has been returned "no property," by the proper officer of the county in which the township or district lies; or when 115 judgment is had and execution returned against any one or more of such makers "no property" and the others have left the State, or died insolvent. 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 which 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 half to the State for the use of the schools of the township 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 Ala- bama. 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 author ied 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 order- ing 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- 116 ance of such other duties as may be assigned them by the State superintendent of education for the protection of the best inter- 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 accure from sale of such lands, together with the redemption money of other lands in which former accumulations have been invested under an act approved March 1, 1881, en- titled, "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 per- sons to mine all coal or other minerals therefrom, or to take therefrom oil or gas or either, upon a royalty for a term not ex- ceeding twenty (20) years; and the net proceeds of all money received from the lease of such lands or the royalty for the min- eral mined therefrom or the oil and gas or either; taken there- from 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 such possession for more than twenty years prior to the first day of May, 1908, and neither the State, nor any department thereof holds any note, bond, obligation or other contract of any one for the pur- chase money of such land, and the State superintendent of edu- cation, and the State auditor shall so certify, and the attorney general shall certify that proof of adverse possession, by the per- son now in possession, or coupled with his predecessor in pos- session, 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 un- der this Act. Section 25. The governor. State superintendent of educa- tion, and attorney general are constituted a board of compromise 117 for the purpose of examining into the title or claim of the State to any sixteenth section or other school lands which have illegal- ly passed out of the possession of the State, or which have here- tofore 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 fil- ed in the office of the State Department of Education in Mont- gomery unless otherwise instructed by the State board of educa- tion. ARTICLE 42. TOWNSHIPS ABOLISHED. Section 1. Township lines for school purposes are abolish- ed ; provided the inhabitants of no township shall be deprived of the sixteenth section or any fund arising therefrom, or of sell- ing 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 PA- ROCHIAL 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 118 fails to so register or to make the reports required above when 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, denomination, or parochial schools offering instruction to pupils within 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 attendance 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 here- of that each provision hereof shall stand or fall on its own mer- its and that the judicial annullment for unconstitutionality of any provision hereof shall have no effect upon any other pro- vision 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 unconsti- tutionality, 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 appropriation and expenditures being intended to refer and be subject to ap- propriations otherwise authorized or provided by or under the Constitution and Laws of the State, including specific appro- priations for carrying out the provisions and purposes of this Act by the present Legislature. Approved September 26, 1919. 119 No. 704.) (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 up- on 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 Ala- bama 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 elect- ed or appointed by the Board of Managers of the Home for peri- ods of seven years, and until their successors are elected or ap- pointed ; all terms to end on the 31st day of December of the last year of each term. Section 3. TThe 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 mana- gers, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the Ala- bama 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 120 Hospitals shall manage and conduct all the affairs of the home; appoint all officers and employees, including a matron, teachers and attendants ; fix their salaries or wages ; direct their services and dismiss them from the service of the home v^ith 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 employees 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-mined 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 community lies in the frequency of 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 committted to the home. Section 7. Whenever any Resident of the home shall become insane, or violent or unamanageable 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 found 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 121 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 committment 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 per- son 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 or the judge of probate to whom an applica- tion of committment 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 thereto ; and when he has made an order of commitment and no member of the family or friend or guardian will convey the person 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 superintendent 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 services of the home. It is best furnished by the family physician or a near relative well acquainted with 122 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 revo- cation 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 in- mate while on parole, and to return said inmate to the home at his own expense in the event the parole is revoked. The super- intendent of the home must not grant a parole to any resident un- less 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 re- quires 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 de- fined in this Act, he (or she) may be permanently discharged by the superintendent of the home. Section 12. The buildings of the Home at Tuscaloosa, Ala- bama shall be located by the superintendent of the Alabama In- sane 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 purchase 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. 123 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 construc- tion 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 gard- ening, 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 Treas- urer of the home on his order or requisition, countersigned by the superintendent of the home and approved by the Governor for the fund necessary, and the sum thus drawn from the State Treasurer shall be used exclusively for the support and mainte- nance of the home with the approval of the superintendents of the hospitals. Section 17. The board of managers may designate any in- corporated 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 required 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 10. 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 124 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 oth- er proper deputy, every such person, and if such person is found to be a mental inferior or a feeble-minded person as herein defin- ed 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 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. 125 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 otherwise appropriated to the educational fund; provided that the above appropriations shall be placed by the State Auditor to the credit of the educa- tional funds on the books in his office on the first day of October of the respective years and shall be apportioned by the State superintendent of education and be drawn and disbursed as pro- vided by law. Section 11/2- 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 yefiY 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 Govern- or and to he 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 re- leased after January 1, 1923, and the provisions for such appro- priation 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, 126 1919, and the sum of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars or so much thereof as may be necessary for each and every year thereafter, to be used as a revolving fund by the State Board of Education, 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 pro- vision 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 30, 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 1780 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 treasurer 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. 127 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 audit- or, 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 purposes 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 tax- fcjaie 01 property and re-iocation of school 147, Medical service _ „ 19X ALABAMA, UNIVERSITY Ol'.— See University of Alabama. ALABAMA VOCATIONAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS. Appropriations _ ' i4g In ame cnanged to _ _ _ _ i4jj Medical service _ _. _„ j.97 ALBERTVILLE. bchooi district created 288 ALCOHOLIC DRINKS AND NARCOTICS. instruction required _ _. „ II7 155 Kepoixs, annual to Governor _ ■„..._ _ ' 156 xeacneis, examination of ...„ I55 '± empetance day _ 15g 212 INDEX Page ANIMAL HUSBANDRY.— See Alabama Polytechnic Institute. ANIMALS, HUMANE TREATMENT OF. Instruction required _ - - 157 ANNUAL REPORTS.— See reports. APPORTIONMENT OF SCHOOL FUNDS. To counties by State Superintendent 41 To schools by county board 41 APPROPRIATIONS. Agricultural extension, promotion of _ _ 176, 179 Agricultural schools, State Secondary. 132 Blind, Alabama School for 142 Boys Industrial School 143 Canebrake Agricultural Experiment Station _ 193 ;.:' County fairs _ 177 Counties, where voting special school tax -. 127 ''.' Daphne State Normal School „ 192 Deaf, Alabama School for -...._ 142 Education Department, Contingent Fund 126 Education Department for teacher certification, training, read- ing circle, extension and institute work 128 , • ; Experiment Station _ 141 ;.; • Girls Technical Institute and College for Women 137 High schools — 131 . ,i Home economics, promotion of — 176 ., ; • Home for Mental Inferiors 124 Negro Deaf and Blind School _ „.... 143 Negro Reform School at Mt. Meigs 145 Ninth District Agricultural School 149 ; Polytechnic Institute, Alabama _ _ „ 138 Polytechnic Institute, Alabama, appropriation for indebtedness 139 Rural schoolhouses _ 128 Rural, village and town libraries _ 129 .; * Schools, further appropriations for support of _ 125 State Normal School for Colored Students 135 State secondary agricultural schools _ 132 State Secondary Agricultural School, Lineville 133 •.-. ; Trades and Industrial School _ _ 136 /: . Training School for Girls 146 '. ♦Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute 149 University of Alabama, appropriations for. _ 140 Vocational education 130 ASSISTANTS.— See Supervisors. ATTENDANCE.— See Compulsory Attendance. BIBLE, Daily Reading Required. Compliance, teachers and superintendents must certify to 154 Public funds, payment of dependent on „ 154 BLIND, ALABAMA SCHOOL FOR.— See Academy for Blind. BOARD OF CONTROL AND ECONOMY. -See Control and Econ- INDEX 213 BOARD OF COMPROMISE OF SCHOOL LANDS.— See School Lands. ^^^ BOARD OF CONTROL AND ECONMY.— 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. BOARD OF EDUCATION, STATE.— See State Board of Education. BOOKS.— See textbooks. BONDS. Municipal elections for issuance _ 190 Amendment approved October 12, 1920 „ _ _ 191 School officials and employees. .._ _ • 117 BONUS FUND. Apportionment, basis of 51 Appropriation _ _.„ _ 127 BOYS AGRICULTURAL CLUBS.— See County Fairs. BOYS' INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, ALABAMA.— See Alabama Boys' Industrial School. CANEBRAKE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Appropriations for „ 193 Director authorized _ _ 193 Institutes to be held by _.. _..._ 193 Objects of _ ...: _ 193 Trustees, board of, powers and duties _ 193 CEMENT LABORATORY.— See under University of Alabama. CENSUS OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. City board _ 34 City superintendent _ 40 County board _ _ _ ._ „ _ 24 County superintendent .._ 29 Regulations to be prescribed by State board ._ _ „ 10 Use of for compulsory attendance 57 CERTIFICATION OF TEACHERS. Certificates required; superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers „ „._ 57 Classes of certificates _. _ „ 58 Examinations 59 Fees _ _ „ 59 Placement of teachers „ 59 Private and parochial _ «. 55 Validation and extension _ _ _._ _ _ 58 CHILD LABOR.— See also Child Welfare Department. Age certificate _ _ , 162 Age limit fixed „ _ _.... 158 214 INDEX Page CHILD LABOR.— Continued. Badge to be worn. 163 Child Welfare Department, duties 165, 167 Dangerous occupations defined ..._ 159 Definitions ^ _ 167 Employment certificates 161 Employment or work during session of school prohibited 161 Employment of minor children regulated 158 Expenses of inspection „ 166 Hours of service 158 Inspectors, duties of , _ 165 Messenger service 159 Newsboys 163 Occupations, prohibited service _ _ „ 159 Penalties „ 166 Sanitation _ _ 165 School attendance _ 161 State Board of Health, duties 160 CHILD WELFARE. Adoptions, general supervision ^ 167 Annual meetings of commission 168 Apprentices, general supervision _ 168 Appropriation for maintenance 171 Additional appropriation 171 Attendance officers, duties of prescribed 54 Chartered institutions only entitled to permit 170 Child labor law, enforcement of _ 167 Child placing agencies, general supervision _ 168 Commission for government of _ 168 Conferences and conventions authorized _ 168 Co-operation with education and health departments, and in- stitutions _ _ 168 Director to be appointed _...: _ _ 169 Director, secretary of commission 169 Established _ 167 Factory inspection „ 168 Homes may be established and maintained _ 168 Institutional visitation _....'. 168 Judges to make monthly reports _ _ 170 Juvenile courts 167, 170 Minor children, general oversight „ 167 Orphanages, permits to 168, 170 Penalties for failure to make reports, and failing or refusing to allow inspection _ 170 Permits for operation of institutions under jurisdiction of 170 Reports by reformatories, orphanages, to be made 170 Reports, power to require from courts and institutions 170 Standards may be fixed 170 Supervision of children in homes or institutions 170 Surveys authorized _ 168 Amendment approved September 27, 1920... „ 171 CITY BOARDS OF EDUCATION. Annual meetings of board 34 Annual report to be published _ _ 38 Borrow money, power to _ 37, 49 INDEX 216 Page CITY BOARDS OF EDUCATION.—Continued. Census of school children to be taken under direction of 34 City superintendent, powers and duties 34 City under school act, defined 33 Defectives, schools for, power to establish _ „. ,. 37 Elections may be held for bond issues _ 36 Executive officer, the city superintendent..- _ : 34 Illiterates, schools for, power to establish 37 Kindergartens, power to establish _ 35 Libraries may be established and maintained by _ _ 37 Office of - 34 Powers and duties of _ _ _ _ _ 33 Salaries of teachers fixed by „ 36 Warrants, authority to issue _ _ — 49 COMPULSORY ATTENDANCE. Attendance districts — _ 54 Attendance officer, duties of _ -....! „ 54 Dependent children _ - 54 Exemptions _ — _ „ 53 Lists furnished teachers.., _ 54 Of whom required _ 53 Parents and guardians, penalties for violation 55 Private and parochial teachers, certification required 55 Reports * _ _ _ 54 Truants or menaces, disposition of _ 56 CITY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. Certification. — See Certification of Teachers. Executive officer of city board „ 39 Powers and duties _ „ „... 39 Term of election :. 38 CONSOLIDATION OF SCHOOLS _ 23 CONSOLIDATION OF DISTRICTS FOR TAXATION _ 48 CONSTITUTION, EDUCATIONAL PROVISIONS. Alabama Polytechnic Institute, control of 207 Decatur, New Decatur, Cullman, tax rate for education 204 Expenditure of county and district funds _ _ _ 208 Legislature to establish system _ 204 Mobile County, provision for..„ „ 208 Montgomery, tax rate for education _...., 204 One mill county tax _ 208 Sources of revenue _ „ 205 Three mill county tax 208 Three mill district tax „...._ _ 208 University of Alabama, control and support 206 CONTINGENT FUND. Education Department _ _ _ 126 CONTROL AND ECONOMY, BOARD OF. Stationery, office supplies, etc., purchase of. - _ 195 COUNCIL OF EDUCATION.— See State Council of Education. 216 INDEX Page COUNTIES. Libraries may be established and maintained by 172. COUNTY BOARDS OF EDUCATION. Bprrow money, power to - -.. 25, 49' Census of school children —- 24 Compulsory attendance ~ - 25- Condemnation power ^ 26 Consolidation of school districts _ 150 Consolidation of schools _ - 23; Constitution of _ - — 20 Control of county educational interests _ :. 8, 20 Control of county school property _ _ 22 County superintendent, appointed 21 Election of 21 Grade and standardize schools -...._ ~ 23, 25 Incidental fees - ...._ 24 Insurance on school buildings _ „ _. - - 26 Meetings -...- 21 Per diem and expenses 21 Record of apportionment and disbursement 43 Sanitation of schools 23 Teachers appointed by _ - 23 Treasurer of county school funds 22 Trustees of school property _ „ 26 Warrants, authority to issue _ _ 49 COUNTY FAIRS. Appropriation by State _ _ _ 177 Authorized 177 Boards of directors 177 Dates for _ 177 Districts to be laid off in counties „ _ 177 Premiums _ _ 177 Smith-Hughes law, work under _ _ 177 COUNTY HIGH SCHOOLS.— See also under High Schools. Appropriations for 82, 131 Cities and towns authorized to supplement appropriations _ 83 Commission abolished „ 11 Conditions of location _ _ _ 82 County board of education in control of _ 83 Laboratory and shop work, fees for 83 Location of in the several counties 82 Matriculation fees authorized _ 83 Supervision 83, 131 Treasurer _ 83 Special appropriation 132 COUNTY SCHOOL TAX.— See One Mill Tax. See Three Mill Tax. C;OUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION. Appointment of „ _ _ 26 Certification. — See Certification of Teachers. Powers and duties 27 Qualifications of _. . _ 26, 58 Salary of _ _ 27 INDEX 217 Page COUNTY TREASURER OF SCHOOL FUNDS. Powers and duties....™ • 52 CRIMINAL PROVISIONS.— See Penalties. DAPHNE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. Appropriation for '. 133 Appropriation for grounds, buildings and repairs 192 Government of _ 85 DEAF, ALABAMA SCHOOL FOR. Appropriation _._ — — _ 142 Established _ - » 103 Executive committee _ _ — 105 Insurance - _ - _ 105 Objects „ _ -....- _ 104 Treasurer — „ 104 Trustees _ _ _ _ _ 103 DENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS.— See Private Schools. DISTRICT. Attendance. — See Compulsory Attendance. School tax _ „ - 45 DISTRICTS. Consolidation of schools „ ._ 23 Consolidation for taxation. ...._ 48 Formation of for taxation „ _ ,.._ 47 School, adjacent in contiguous counties may be consolidated 150 EDUCATION BOARDS, INCORPORATION OF, RIGHTS AND POWERS OF _ 199 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. iin)UCATION COMMISSION. Created 185 Duties of _ 185 EDUCATONAL FUNDS,— See Public School Funds. ELECTIONS.— See under One Mill School Tax; Three Mill School Tax; District School Tax. ELEMENTARY EDUCATION, DIVISION OF _ _ 19 EQUALIZATION OF SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES.— See Revolving Fund. ESCHEATS.— See Public School Funds. 218 INDEX Page EXCEPTIONAL EDUCATION, DIVISION OF 20 EXECUTIVE AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, DIVISION OF 18 EXTENSION.— See Training of Teachers in Service. EXTENSION OF TEACHERS' CERTIFICATES. Power to authorize granted State Board 58 Soldiers and sailors, for two years 153 EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE.— See Agricultural Exten- sion Work. EXITS. Must open outward _ 184 FEDERAL AID.— See Sraith-Hughes Act; See Smith-Lever Act. FIRE DRILLS. Exits, must open outward _ „ 184 Schools required to have 185 FIRE INSURANCE.— See Insurance. FLORENCE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.— See also Normal Schools. Appropriation for 133 Practice school at _ _ „.... 135 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 „ _ „ _...._ 30 HIGH SCHOOLS.— See also County High Schools. Course of study of 9 Junior, provisions for _ „ 25, 28 Senior, provisions for 25, 28 Standardization of _ 15 Supervision of _ „ _ _ 19 HOME ECONOMICS WORK.— See Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Extension. HOME FOR MENTAL INFERIORS.— See Mental Inferiors, Home for. HUNTSVILLE STATE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.— See Agricultural and Mechanical. College for Negroes. HYGIENE.— See also Sanitation. State Board to provide _ _ „ 9 ILLITERACY. Appropriation 131 Commission abolished „ „ _ _ 11 Co-operation of city and county boards 74 Removal of illiteracy _..„. 74 INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS.-See Rural Schoolhouses. INDEX 219 Page INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS. Inspection provided _ _ - 174 Governor appoints inspectors - 174 Penalties 175 Powers of inspectors _ 175 Reports to be filed 175 INSTITUTES.— See Training of Teachers. INSURANCE „ ....- - - 26 JACKSONVILLE STATE NORMAL SCHOOLS.— See also Normal Schools. Appropriation for 133 Practice school at 135 JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS.— See High Schools. LANDS, SCHOOL.— See School Lands. LAWRENCE COUNTY.— See Town Creek. LIBRARIES. Cities may issue bonds for establishment of _ 191 City boards of education may establish and maintain _ 37 County libraries may be established, appropriations for sup- port of _ _ _ _ 172 Director, Department of Archives and History, duty as to county libraries 173 Rural, village and town schools, appropriation for. .....; 68, 129 School libraries, established _ _ _ 68 Amendment to county library law. 173 LINEVILLE STATE SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. Appropriation „ _ 133 Name changed to „ 133 LIVINGSTON STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.-See also Normal Schools. Appropriation for 133 Practice School at „ _ _ 135 LOCAL TAX.— See One Mill Tax; ^ee Three Mill Tax. MEDICAL COLLEGE OF ALABAMA.— See University of Alabama, Medical Department. MENTAL INFERIORS, HOME FOR. Appropriations for support of 124 Board of managers of _ _ „ 119 Committals to home, how made 121 Established on grounds of Bryce Hospital _ 119 Inmates of poor houses, jails, orphanages and schools, found to be mental inferiors, to be transferred to home _ 124 Insane inmates transferred to hospitals _ 120 Mental inferiors defined _ 120 Paroles of inmates „ „ _ 122 Superintendent of home ,. 119 Superintendent, powers and duties „ „ 119 Treatment of inmates > „ _ 122 220 INDEX Page 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 „ _ 186 MONTGOMERY NORMAL SCHOOL.— See State Normal School for Colored Students. MOUNDVILLE STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.— See also Normal Schools. Appropriation for 133 Removal of, authorized „ _ _ „ „ 134 MT. MEIGS, REFORMATORY.— See Negro Reform School. NARCOTICS, INSTRUCTION REQUIRED.— See Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics. NEGRO REFORM SCHOOL AT MT. MEIGS. Appropriations _ 145 Established „...„ Ill Objects _ „ Ill Trustees, powers and duties _ Ill NEGRO SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND BLIND. Appropriation for _ _ _ 143 Established _ 106 NINTH DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL. Appropriation to rebuild _ _ „ „ ....„ 149 Name changed _ _ _ _ _ 84 NORMAL SCHOOLS. Alcoholic drinks, tobacco and other narcotics, instruction in to be given „ _ : 155 Appropriations for _ 133 Controlled by State Board of Education „ _ 85 Practice school authorized at „ 135 State board of trustees abolished „ 11 Temperance institute worker, to visit each normal school at least once a year and lecture 155 NORTHEAST ALABAMA AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE.— See Lineville State Secondary Agricultural School. ONE MILL COUNTY SCHOOL TAX. Election, provisions for _ 44 Three-fifths majority required ....„ 44 PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. Registration required _.... „ 117 Reports required of _ _ 10, 55, 118 INDEX 221 Page PENALTIES. Attendance laws violated by parent or guardian. _ 55 Charging more than contract price, textbooks 203 Disturbing public assemblies, etc, _...... _ 157, 202 Embezzlement of school funds 202 False or fraudulent enumeration of school children _._ 203 Injuring or defacing trees, buildings, etc _ 114, 202 Stealing examination questions _. 202 Throwing missiles at buildings _ „ 202 Use of other than contract books „ ...._ „ 203 Violation of text-book provisions „ _..... 203 Wrongful application of schoolhouse warrants or proceeds _.. 203 PENSIONS.— See Teachers' Pensions. PHYSICAL EDUCATION, DIVISION OF 19 Physical examination of school children „ 196 PLACEMENT OP TEACHERS „ „.... „ 18, 59 POLL TAX. Part of school fund _ _ 7 PRINCIPALS.— See Certification of Teachers. PRIVATE SCHOOLS. Registration required - „ _.. 117 Reports required of _ ., , 10, 55, 118 PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Administration of _ _. _ — 7,20, 33 Provision for _ _ 7 PUBLIC SCHOOL FUNDS.— See also Appropriations. Apportionment, disbursement of _ 41 Bonds of officials and employees ....„ _ _ _ 117 Contingent fund of superintendent „ 43 County treasurer „ 52 Escheats „...._ _ 7 Funds for maintenance _ 7 Land grants, sales or rentals of _ 7 Legislative special appropriations _ _..... 7 Licenses, special _ _ „ 7 Local tax bonus fund _ 51 Local school moneys disbursed in districts in which raised „ 43 One mill tax _ „ 44 Poll taxes 7,43 Rural schoolhouse appropriations 63 Rural school libraries, appropriations „ _ 68 Sixteenth section lands, sales or rentals _ 7 Surplus revenue „...._ 7 Thirty cent annual tax _...._ ^ 7 Three mill county and district school tax. 45 READING CIRCLES. City superintendents responsible for „ _...„ 40 County superintendents arrange for „ _ „ 29, 62 REFORM SCHOOL FOR WHITE BOYS.— See Alabama Boys' Indus- trial School. 222 INDEX Page REFUGE HOME, THE ALABAMA 146 REHABILITATION OF PERSONS DISABLED IN INDUSTRY OR OTHERWISE „ - - 72 REPORTS. Alcohol and narcotics ^ 156 Annual, of city board for publication 38 Annual, of city superintendent » 41 Annual, of county board for publication 24 Annual, of county superintendent _ _.. 30 Annual, of State Board _ _ _ 12 Annual, of State superintendent 17 Bible reading, teachers to report monthly 154 Compulsory attendance 55 Forms prescribed by State Department 10 Humane education, teachers to report monthly 157 Private schools, required to report ..55,118 Salary withheld till made 31 Teachers 29,40 REVOLVING FUND. Appropriation 125 Equalization of school opportunities 13 RURAL LIBRARIES. Administration and preservation 69 Appropriation _ 68, 129 County and local requirements 68 Selection and purchase of books 68,69 RURAL SCHOOLHOUSES, ERECTION, REPAIR, EQUIPMENT. Application for State aid 63 Appropriation „ _ 128 Approval of application 64, 65 Balances, redistributed _ 63 County board in control of 64 Inspection of 64 Amendment increasing amounts allowed _ ~ 66 RURAL SCHOOLS, DIVISION OF 18 SALE AND CONVEYANCE OF LAND 67 SANITATION. Condemnation of unsanitary buildings _ 28 Out-houses, responsibility for 23 Regulations prepared by State Superintendent _ 15 Standards fixed by State Board _ _ „ 9 SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY BETTERMENT, DIVISION OF 20 SCHOOL BOOKS.— See Textbook Committee. SCHOOL DISTRICTS.— See Districts, School. SCHOOL FUNDS.— See Public School Funds. SCHOOL OF MINES.— See University of Alabama. INDEX 223 Page SCHOOL LANDS. Compromise board established _ _ - 116 Depredation on — 114 Indemnity lands _ — - '■ 113, 116 Sale and conveyance of : 67, 113 Sixteenth section _ _ - 112, 116 Timber reserves _ — - 114 SCHOOL TRUSTEES. Appointed for local schools. - 26, 31 Board of school trustees, annual meeting 31 Powers and duties _ - - 31 SCHOOLHOUSES.— See Rural Schoolhouses. SCHOOLS. — See also names of particular institutions, and other spe- cial titles. Administration of public _ ~ 7 Agriculturel schools, names changed, and appropriations 84 Attendance officers _ _ 54 Attendance on schools _ _ _ ~ 53 Blind, Alabama School for, appropriations _..... 142 Board of Education, State _ ._ _ - 8 Bonus fund 51 Book lists for county libraries „ 68 Boys' Industrial School, appropriations _ 143 Budget Commission, report to by superintendent _ _ 17 Census of school children 10, 16 Certificates of teachers in European war may be extended.. 153 Certification of teachers _ „ _ 57 Compulsorv attendance 53 Contingent fund _ _ _ 43, 126 Co-ordination of educational effort _ _ 102 Council of Education, established _ _ 102 County boards hold in trust all school property _ 22 County boards may issue interest bearing school warrants for school buildings and other improvements in county school facilities ..., _ ...._ _ 49 County boards of education _ 8, 26 County high school _ _ _ _ 82 County treasurer of school funds _ 52 Courses of study „ 9, 15 Daphne State Normal School, appropriations _ _._ 133 Deaf, Alabama School _ _ 106 Denominational school reports „ 10, 55, 118 Diplomas, must meet minimum standards _ 10,15 Disturbances at or near by person in automobiles _ 157 Divisions of Education Department „ _ 18 Education Department created : _ _ 7 Educational Commission _ _ 185 Educational system „ _ _ 7 Elementary schools, division of _ 19 Emergency teacher's certificates authorized _ _ 58 English only language taught in first six grades 9 Enlargement of appropriations for support of. ._ _ 125 Equalization of school facilities 13 Escheats, part of school fund. ...._ _ 7 Examination of teachers _ _ 58 224 INDEX Page SCHOOLS.— Continued. Exceptional education, division of.._ 20 Executive and business management, division of 18 Extension _ 62 Forms and blanks - 10, 17 Funds expended on requisition of superintendent of education 13 Funds for maintenance _ 7 Girls' Technical Institute _ 88 High schools 82 Higher education, study of needs 102 Illiteracy, removal of _ 11, 74 Institutes for teachers 61 Instruction in humane treatment of animals to be given 157 Investigation of educational needs • _ 11 Land grants, sales or rentals of, part of school funds 7 Lands, sale and conveyance of 67 Lands, school, lease and sale _ _ _ 112 Licenses, special, part of school funds _ 7 Local school moneys expended in districts in which raised 43 Local tax bonus fund _ 51 Moundville Normal School, may be removed 134 Mental inferiors in, transferred to home for. 124 Negro Reform School at Mt. Meigs _ _ Ill Ninth District Agricultural School, appropriation to rebuild 149 Normal schools _ _ _ _ 86 Normal schools, courses of instruction must include training in humane treatment of animals =. - . 1-57 Normal training schools may be established by city boards of education of cities of 150,000 population. 60 Parents, penalties for violation of attendance law _ 55 Parochial school reports _ 10, 55, 118 Physical education, division of „.... „ _ 19 Physical examination of children _._ „ 9, 15 Poll tax, schools of counties receive all poll taxes collected therein 43 Poll taxes, part of school fund _ _ _ 7 Polytechnic Institute, Alabama „ 94 Practice schools, authorized 135 Private school reports _ 10, 55, 118 Publications, three series provided _ 20 Reading circle _ 62 Removal of school officers _ 12 Report of board of education to Governoi' 12 Reports to superintendent of education by institutions _ 10 Rural libraries 68 Rural schoolhouses _ 63 Rural school libraries may be affiliated with county library 173 Rural schools, division of ...._ _ 20 Rural, village and town library, appropriations to 129,172 Salary of superintendent of education _ 13 Sale and conveyance of land deeded to State for school purposes 67 Sanitation of schools 9, 15 Seal of board of education. _ _ 12 School and community betterment, division of. _ 20 School attendance _ _ 53 School boards and commissions abolished 11 School buildings may be improved _ _ _ 63 INDEX 225 Page SCHOOLS.— Continued. Schools, consolidation of _ : _ 23 School laws, State superintendent to interpret 14 Secondary education, division of _ 19 Sixteenth section lands, part of school fund _ 7 Smith-Hughes act, co-operation under 70 Special appropriations, part of school funds 7 Standardization _ 9, 15 State Board of Education _ 8 State Normal School for colored students 85 State secondary agricultural schools 84 State secondary schools 82 Statistics, division of _ „ _ 18 Summer schools. University, appropriations 101, 140 Superintendent of Education.. „ _ 13 Supervision of educational work of charitable, penal, reforma- tory and child caring institutions 12 Supplementary appropriations for support of, subject to re- lease of Governor „ 125 Surplus revenue, part of school fund „ _ 7- System of schools _ 7 Teacher training 61 Teacher training, certification and placement, division of 18 Teachers, certification of - _ „ 57 Teachers' institute programs must include topics for moral and humane education _ _ _ _ 157 Teachers' pensions 183 Teachers, professional record of kept by placement bureau. 59 Textbooks _ _ _ 74 Textbooks, selected under direction of State Board of Educa- tion „ ^ 10 Thirty cent annual tax, part of school funds „ 7 Three mill tax elections 45 Townships abolished .._ _ 117 Training of teachers in service : 61 Training school for girls _ _ _ 146 Truancy _ „ 56 Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute _ 149 Vocational education, co-operation with Federal government 70 Vocational education, division of _ ,. 19 Vocational education, provisions for _.... 70 Vocational School for Girls _ _ _ — 148 SECONDARY AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS.— See Agricultural Schools, State Secondary. SECONDARY EDUCATION, DIVISION OF. - 19 SMITH-HUGHES. County fairs, participation in _ _ 177 Vocational education provided for 70 SMITH-LEVER. Alabama Polytechnic Institute in charge of 179 Appropriations to secure benefit of _ _ : _ 179 Work under, in connection with county fairs __ 177 226 INDEX STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.— See also Superintendent of Ed- ucation. Appropriation for further support of schools 125 Constituted - 8 Expenses of board _ - 9 Institutions of State, under 9 Meetings „ 8 Oath of office ._ - 8 Per diem - 9 Powers and duties, general - 8 Recommendations to Legislature 12 Removal of members „ — 8 Report, annual - 12 Seal may be adopted - _ 12 Terms of _ 8 Vacancies in board 8 STATE COUNCIL OF EDUCATION. Established, powers and duties _ 102 STATE NORMAL SCHOOL FOR COLORED STUDENTS.— See also Normal Schools. Appropriations for support and maintenance _ 133 Board of trustees abolished 11 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 146 STATIONERY AND OFFICE SUPPLIES.— See Control and Econ- omy, Board of. STATISTICS, DIVISION OF _ _ 18 SUMMER SCHOOLS.— See Alabama Polytechnic Institute; see Alabama Technical Institute and College for Women; see Uni- versity of Alabama. SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, 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 15 Compensation of 14 Duties of 13 Education, State Board of, supervisory powers 7 Executive officer of board of education 13 Funds, school, apportionment of „ 41 Humane treatment of animals, instruction in to be required of schools - - 157 Must enforce act requiring daily Bible reading 154 Professional force, direction of...... _ _ 15 INDEX 227 Page SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION, STATE.— Continued. Schools under supervision of „ 7 Temperance, duties as to _ 155 SUPERVISORS. Certification. — See Certification of Teachers. Appointment _ - 30, 39 TAX DISTRICT _ _ - _....„ 45 Validation of certain elections 198 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, DIVISON OF 18 TEACHERS' INSTITUTES.— See Teacher Training. TEACHERS' PENSIONS. Authorized in city of Montgomery _ 183 Authorized in Mobile County.- _ 186 TEMPERANCE DAY. Observance in public schools „ 156 TEXTBOOKS. Appointment of committee by State Board of Education 10, 74 Attorney General to prepare contracts * 77 Board of Education in control of adoptions 10 Bonds to be given by bidders 77 Commission ( old ) abolished 11 Contracts to supply books 77 Expenses of members of committee _ 81 Failure of contractor forfeits bond and contract _ 81 Oath to be taken by members _ 75 Partisan or sectarian books not to be chosen 75 Prices for books 78 Proposals for furnishing „.. 76 Terms of office of committee 80 Uniform series to be adopted _ 75 Unlawful to use other than adopted books ...._ 75 Unsatisfactory books may be dropped.. ^ 75 THREE MILL COUNTY AND DISTRICT TAX. Calling and holding for cities and districts _ 45, 46 Commissioners required to call 45 Consolidation of taxing districts..„ 48 Election, calling of and holding _ _ 45 Formation of taxing districts „ .., _ 47 Tax collector, separate accounts required 50 Warrants, authority to issue _ 49 TOWN CREEK. School trustees authorized to mortgage school lands 187 228 INDEX Page TOWNSHIPS ABOLISHED -.- - - 117 TRADES AND INDUSTRIES, ALABAMA SCHOOL OF.— See Ala- bama School of Trades and Industries. » TRAINING OF TEACHERS. County institute, attendance required _ „...._ _ 61 (a) Superintendents, county and city, responsible 29, 40 Extension work, in co-operation with normal schools 62 Lists of teachers required 61 Reading circle, credit for extension of teachers' certificates 62 TRAINING SCHOOLS FOR GIRLS, ALABAMA. Appropriation - 146 TREASURER OF SCHOOL FUNDS, COUNTY.— See County Treas- urer. TROY STATE NORMAL SCHOOL.— See also Normal Schools. Appropriation for 133 Practice school at _ — 135 TRUSTEES.— See School Trustees. TUSKEGEE NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE. Appropriation to _ _ - 149 UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA. Appropriations for „ - — _ 140 Appropriation for mining experiment station _ 141 Cement laboratory _ _ _ 101 Co-ordination of work _ 102 Council of education, duties as to _ _ 102 Executive committee, powers of „ „ 100 ■ Extension division _ _ 140 Graduate School of Medicine at Birmingham 100, 140 Medical department of, at Mobile 100 Meetings of trustees _ 98 Police officer may be employed. _ _ _ 99 Powers and duties of trustees 97 Proceedings of trustees „ 98 Scjhool of mines at 182 Secretary of State, duty to supply codes and Supreme Court Summer school _ 101, 140 Supreme Court, may turn over to superseded law books 99 Trustees of 97 University fund _ „ 96 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Acceptance of provisions _ 70 Co-operation, counties and cities 71 Federal co-operation — Smith-Hughes act 11, 70 General powers of State Board 11, 70 Acceptance of Federal act and appropriation for rehabilitation... 72 VOCATIONAL EDUCATION, DIVISION OF 19 WARRANTS, AUTHORITY TO ISSUE „ 49 W. C. T. U., ALABAMA. Temperance Day program prepared by 156 YC 0^-6!! '^ M UNIVERSITY OF CAUFORNIA LIBRARY