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PRESS OF

BRANDON PRINTING CO

NASHVILLE.

LB2529 T23 1899

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LEADING DECISIONS OF THE SUPREME COURT, AND EXPLANATORY NOTES.

[ALL PARTS OF LAWS PRINTED IN ITALICS HAVE BEEN
ADDED BY AMENDMENT.]

SECTION 1. There shall be established and maintained 1873. Chap. 25. System. in this State a uniform system of public schools.

NOTE.-Public schools, county resources. The public schools of a county may be classed among her "resources," within the meaning of a statute and the resolution of a County Court, for an exhibit of the county resources at a State exposition. 12 Pickle, 659, 666, 667.

Sec. 52.

1873. Chap. 25. Schools established previous to 1873.

SEC. 2. (1) The public school system shall be admin- 1873. Chap. 25. istered by the following authorities, to wit: A State Superintendent, County Superintendents, and District Directors. (2) The public schools already established in any of the counties of this State shall continue to be managed and conducted as now prescribed by law until the school officers hereby created shall have been duly elected or appointed and qualified; and the provisions of this act shall not apply to them until a County Superintendent of Public Schools shall have been appointed.

STATE SUPERINTENDENT.

Qualifications intendent.

of State Super

SEC. 3. The State Superintendent shall be a person of 1873. Chap. 25. literary and scientific attainments, and of skill and experience in the art of teaching, and who shall be nominated by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.

NOTE.-Amended as above, 1879, Chap. 129, Sec. 5.

SEC. 4. (1) He shall hold his office for two years, unless removed as hereinafter provided, and shall have an annual salary of $2,000, to be paid out of the school money in the State Treasury; and during the term of office he shall devote his entire time and attention to the duties imposed by this act.

The appropriation of
From 1895 to 1899 it

NOTE.-Amended, 1879, Chap. 44, to $1,995.
$2,000 per annum was made from 1885 to 1895.
was $1,995 per annum. In 1899 it was restored to $2,000 per annum.

1873. Chap. 25.

Term of office

and compensa

tion.

(3)

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1891. Chap. 25. Member of State Board.

Ex officio.

1873. Chap. 25. How removed.

1873. Chap. 25. Office at Capitol.

1873. Chap. 25.

Statistics, etc.

Inspection.

See that laws are executed.

Distribute forms.

Distribute school laws.

Appoint examiners.

(2) The State Superintendent of Public Instruction of Tennessee shall be, ex officio, a member of the State Board of Education.

(3) He shall also be a member, ex officio, of all other State educational bodies or associations.

(By Chap. 343, page 788, Acts 1899, the State Superintendent is made Secretary and Treasurer of the State Board of Education, and Treasurer of the Peabody Normal College fund).

SEC. 5. He shall be liable to removal from office by the Governor for misconduct or neglect of duty; any vacancy to be supplied by a new appointment for the unexpired term; provided, That, in the event of any such removal, the reason for the same shall be communicated, in writing, to the Superintendent thus displaced, and also to the Senate, if in session, and, if not, within ten days after it may next meet.

SEC. 6. The office of the State Superintendent shall be at the capital of the State, and a room in the State Capitol may be provided for that purpose.

DUTIES OF STATE SUPERINTENDENT.

SEC. 7. The duties of the Superintendent shall be as follows:

(1) To collect and disseminate statistical and other information relating to the public schools.

(2) To make tours of inspection among the public schools throughout the State.

(3) To see that the school laws and regulations are faithfully executed.

(4) To prepare and distribute blank forms for all returns required by law, or deemed by him necessary to be made by teachers, school officers, and County Superintendents of Public Schools, for the use of the several counties.

(5) To have printed and distributed to the County Superintendents and other school officers as many copies of the school laws as may be necessary, with appropriate forms and instructions for carrying said laws into execution.

(6) To appoint, at his discretion, persons in each county to visit and examine all or any of the public schools therein, and report to him touching all such matters as he may indicate respecting their condition and management,

and the means of improving them; but no compensation shall be made for such services.

ports.

(7) To require of County Superintendents detailed Require rereports annually, and as much oftener as he may deem proper; and he may require special reports at any time of any officer connected with the school system.

(8) To appoint some one to make the reports required to be made by the County Superintendent when such Superintendent shall fail to make full report at the time designated, and to allow such appointee what he may deem just for his services, which shall be paid by the delinquent County Superintendent; and upon his refusal to do so, the State Superintendent shall stop, in the hands of the County Trustee, that amount of his salary, or bring suit, in his official name, against him in a court of competent jurisdiction, to enforce the payment.

Appoint perreports.

sons to make

teachers.

(9) To prescibe the mode of examining and licensing License of school-teachers, and their necessary qualifications.

ments.

(10) To preserve in his office and conveniently arrange Preserve docuall documents and matters in relation to educational subjects that may come into it.

(11) To report to the Comptroller of the State, on the first day of December in each year, the scholastic population of each county.

Report scholas-
tic popula-
tion.

(12) To annually submit to the Governor, on or before Annual report. the fifteenth day of September [1897, Chap. -, Sec. 4, Senate Bill No. 58], a detailed report of his official proceedings for the year ending the thirtieth day of June preceding, exhibiting a plain statistical account of receipts and expenditures for public schools, and of their condition and progress, showing the number of children, male and female, white and colored, respectively, in the State and in each county, between the ages of six and eighteen years, the total number of pupils enrolled, the average number belonging, and the per cent of attendance during the year, the average paid to teachers, male and female, the amount of each branch of school expenditures, severally, the cost of education per scholar, and whatever else may tend to show the degree of success and usefulness of the system; Provided, however, That under the provisions of this act all persons between the ages of eighteen and

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