1852. Protecting against contagious diseases. The teacher or board shall not allow any pupils to attend the district school while any member of the household to which such pupil belongs is sick with any infectious or contagious disease, nor during the period of two weeks after the death, recovery, or removal of such sick person, and then only upon a certificate of a competent physician or written permit of the district school board. 1853. Uniform compensation for like services. Females employed as teachers in the public schools of this State shall in all cases receive the same compensation as is allowed to male teachers, for like services, when holding the same grade certificates. CHAPTER 10. TEXT BOOKS 1854. Commission created. Duties. No compensation. Expenses. A State Text Book Commission is hereby created and established to, consist of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the President of the University of Utah, the President of the Agricultural College of Utah, the Principal of the State Normal School and five resident citizens of the State to be appointed by the Governor, three of whom shall be superintendents of schools. Each appointed commissioner shall serve during the period of adoption and without compensation, but his actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of his official duty, the account for which shall be verified on oath, shall be paid out of the public school fund. The members of this commission, or a majority of them, shall decide what text books shall be adopted for use in the district schools and the high schools of the State, except in cities of the first and second class, and their use shall be mandatory in all district and high schools of the State, except in cities of the first and second class. 1855. Convention, When held. How called. Purpose. The State Superintendent shall call a convention of the Text Book Commission at least six months prior to the expiration of any contract regulating the supply and the use of text books in the district schools and the high schools throughout the State, except in cities of the first and second class, and shall give at least sixty days' notice of the time of holding such convention by publication in a newspaper having general circulation in the State. Such notice. shall state the subjects upon which text books shall be adopted and that sealed proposals will be received by the State Superintendent of Schools for furnishing such books, the place where and the day and hour when all proposals will be opened, and that the convention reserves the right to reject any and all proposals. Said convention shall be called for the adoption of text books every five years as herein provided; and any text book so adopted shall not be changed within a period of five years after its adoption, except for a sufficient cause to be decided at a special convention called for that purpose; provided, that the contracts entered into in 1907 shall extend until July 1, 1913. 1856. Proposals for text books and awards. At the time and place specified in said notice, the convention shall meet and publicly open and read all the proposals which have been received, and shall make their awards therein within thirty days thereafter. 1857. Samples and prices. Sealed proposals must be accompanied by sample copies of the books proposed to be furnished, together with a statement of the introductory or exchange price, and of the wholesale and retail prices at which the publishers agree to furnish each book within the State during the full time for which said books may be adopted. 1858. When proposals are unsatisfactory. If no satisfactory proposals are received, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction may advertise anew, and the books in use shall be continued in use until satisfactory proposals shall have been received and accepted. 1859. Publishers to enter into contract. The publisher or publishers whose proposals shall be accepted must enter into a written contract with the State Superintendent of schools, and shall give a bond with two sufficient sureties in a reasonable sum, to be fixed by the convention, for the faithful performance of such contract. 1860. School officer or teacher not to act as agent. No school officer or teacher in any district school in this State shall act as agent for any author, publisher, bookseller, or other person to introduce any book, apparatus, furniture, or any article whatever in any district. in which such school officer or teacher is officially engaged. 1861. Receiving bonus from publisher. Penalty. If the State Superintendent or any county or city superintendent, or other school officer shall receive from the publisher of any school books, or from any other person interested in the sale or introduction of any books, maps, charts, or other school supplies into the public schools in the State, any money or bonus. in any manner as an inducement for the recommendation or introduction of any such book in the schools of the State, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. 1862. Failure to enforce use of books adopted. Penalty. If the trustees of any district shall refuse or neglect to enforce the use of text books adopted by the convention, such refusal or neglect shall be a misdemeanor on the part of any trustee so refusing or neglecting, and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and by removal from office. CHAPTER 11. STATE AND COUNTY TAX. 1863. State treasurer to receive and pay over school fund. The State Treasurer shall receive and hold as a special fund all public school moneys paid into the State treasury, and pay them over on the warrant of the State Auditor, issued upon the order of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in favor of the county treasurer of each county for the amount due said county, and in favor of the treasurer of each board of education for the amount due such board. 1864. County superintendent to make estimate of funds needed. The county superintendent shall, on or before the first Monday in May of each year, furnish the board of county commissioners an estimate in writing of the amount of school funds needed for the ensuing year. 1865. County school tax. Levy. Rate. Collection. The board of county commissioners of the county, at the time of making the annual levy of other county taxes, must levy a county school tax upon all taxable property of the county; provided, that said tax shall not exceed four mills on the dollar of valuation of the property taxed. Said tax shall be collected by the officer charged with the collection of general taxes, at the same time and upon the same valuations of the property taxed as other county taxes, and shall be paid into the county treasury of the county to the credit of the county. school fund. 1866. Duties of county treasurer concerning school funds. The county treasurer shall receive and hold, as a special school fund, subject to the orders of the county superintendent, all public school moneys from whatever source received and keep a separate account thereof; and when the same is apportioned to the school districts, he shall pay it to the district treasurers upon the warrants of the county superintendent. He shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, make a report to the board of county commissioners, who shall audit the same, and to the State Superintendent in such form as he shall direct, showing: 1. The amount of moneys on hand at the commencement of the school year. 2. The amount of moneys received from the state school fund. 3. The amount received from the county school tax. 5. The total expenditures for school purposes. 6. The balance on hand at the end of the school year. CHAPTER 12. SCHOOL FUND. 1867. Apportionment and use of school funds. The county superintendent of each county shall, immediately upon receiving the apportionment from the State Superintendent, proceed to apportion the state school funds to the several school districts of his county according to the number of school children residing in each district over six and under eighteen years of age, as shall appear from the last enumeration reported to his office. The county superintendent shall apportion the county school funds in like manner, and as soon as practicable after the receipt of the same or any portion thereof; provided, that before making such apportionment he shall apportion to cities of the first and of the second class and to county school districts of the first class their proportion per capita of the county school fund, after which he shall set aside so much of said county fund as the board of county commissioners shall order for the payment of the compensation of the county superintendent, the expenses of the county institute, and contingent expenses of the county superintendent's office, and the actual and necessary traveling expenses of the county superintendent while making his official visits, but all warrants drawn by the county superintendent for the disbursement of the fund, so set aside, shall be approved by the board of county commissioners; provided further, that no part of either of said funds shall be used otherwise than for the payment of teachers, except as provided otherwise in this section. The county superintendent |