(417) SEC. 5. The county treasurer of the county in Treasurer of board, duties. which said school is located shall be ex-officio treasurer of said board; all moneys appropriated and expended under the provisions of this act shall be expended by the county school board and shall be paid by the said county treasurer on orders issued by said board or in counties having a board of county auditors, by such auditors, and all moneys received by said board shall be paid to the said county treasurer for the fund of the county school board. to be given. (418) SEC. 6. In the county schools of agriculture and Instruction domestic economy organized under the provisions of this act, instruction shall be given in the elements of agriculture including instruction concerning the soil, the plant life, and the animal life of the farm; a system of farm accounts shall also be taught; instructions shall also be given in manual training and domestic economy and such other related subjects as may be prescribed. (419) SEC. 7. Each such school shall have connected with School to it a tract of land suitable for purposes of experiment and have land. demonstration, of not less than ten acres in area. be free. (420) SEC. 8. The schools organized under the provisions School to of this act shall be free to the inhabitants of the county or counties contributing to their support, who shall be qualified to pursue the course of study as prescribed by the school board. Whenever students of advanced age desire admis- "Special sion to the school during the winter months in sufficient number to warrant the organization of special classes for their instruction, such classes shall be organized and continued for such time as their attendance may make necessary. classes." ent of public duty of. agricultural superintend (421) SEC. 9. The state superintendent of public instruc- Superintendtion shall give such information and assistance and establish instruction, such requirements as may seem necessary for the proper organization and maintenance of such schools, and, with the advice of the president of the Michigan state agricultural President college, determine the qualifications required of teachers em college. ployed in such schools: Provided, That no person shall be Proviso as to eligible to a position as superintendent of any school estab- ent of school. lished under this act, who is not a graduate of a state college of agriculture. The state superintendent of public instruction shall have the general supervision of all schools established under this act; shall from time to time inspect the same, make such recommendations relating to their management as he may deem necessary, and make such report thereon to said schools as shall give full information concerning their number, character and efficiency. placed upon (422) SEC. 10. Any school established under the provi- Schools, when sions of this act, whose course of study and the qualifications approved list. of whose teachers have been approved by the superintendent of public instruction and the president of the Michigan state agricultural college, and which shall have expended at least twenty thousand dollars in buildings and equipment, and shall have acquired title to at least eighty acres of land to be used in connection with said school, may, upon appli cation, be placed upon the approved list of county schools of agriculture, manual training and domestic economy. Α school once entered upon said list may remain listed and. be entitled to state aid so long as the scope and character of its work are maintained in such manner as to meet the approval Annual report. of the superintendent of public instruction. On the first day in July of each year the secretary of each county school board maintaining a school on the approved list shall report to the superintendent of public instruction, setting forth the facts relative to the cost of maintaining the school, the character of the work done, the number and names of teachers employed, and if more than one county contributes to the support of such school, the amount so contributed by each county and such other matters as may be required by the county school board or the said superintendent. Upon the receipt of such report, if it shall appear that the school has been maintained in a satisfactory manner for a period of not less than eight months during the year, closing on the thirtieth day of the preceding June, the said superintendent shall make a certificate to that effect and file it with the auditor general. Upon receiving such certificate, the auditor general shall draw his warrant payable to the treasurer of the county maintaining such school for a sum equal to two-thirds the amount actually expended for maintaining such school during the year: Provided, That the total sum so apportioned shall not exceed four thousand dollars to any one school in any one year: Provided further, That any such school receiving state aid shall be free to the inhabitants of the state on such terms as may be provided by said board and the superintendent of public instruction. When more than one county has contributed to the support of the school, the auditor general shall draw his warrant payable to the treasurer of each county for such portion of the state aid as the amount contributed by his county is part of the total amount contributed by all the counties for the support of the school for the preceding year. The auditor general shall annually, beginning in the year nineteen hundred thirteen, include and apportion in the state tax such sum as shall have been so paid. Amount drawn. Proviso. Further proviso. Tax clause. Added 1909, Act 219; Am. 1911, Act 29; 1913, Act 12. An Act to authorize the board of supervisors of each county to appropriate or raise money by tax for the encouragement of improved methods of farm management and practical instruction and demonstration in agriculture. [Act 3, P. A. 1912 (Sec. Ex. Sess.).] The People of the State of Michigan enact: instruction, visors may (423) SECTION 1. The board of supervisors of each Agricultural county is hereby authorized to appropriate or raise money by etc., supertax to be used for co-operative work with the Michigan agri- appropriate cultural college in encouraging improved methods of farm money for. management and practical instruction and demonstration in agriculture. It shall be the duty of each board of supervisors making an appropriation, or of any county in which any money shall be raised for the purposes of this act, prior to the time same is available for use, to prescribe rules and regulations for the use and expenditure of same. The money How used. so appropriated or raised by tax shall be used and expended under the direction of the board of supervisors in co-operation with the Michigan agricultural college. No part of any money so appropriated or raised shall be used to compensate or pay the expenses of any representative of the Michigan agricultural college. It shall be the duty of the state board Board of of agriculture to co-operate with each board of supervisors to cooperate. appropriating money, or of any county in which money is raised by tax under authority of this act, and render such assistance as may be necessary to aid in carrying out the provisions of this act. agriculture An Act giving the assent of the legislature of the state of Michigan to the grant of moneys from the United States by act of congress approved May eight, nineteen hundred fourteen, entitled "An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of an act of congress approved July two, eighteen hundred sixty-two, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States department of agriculture," and designating the officer to whom the payments are to be made. [Act 65, P. A. 1915.] The People of the State of Michigan enact: (424) SECTION 1. The legislative assent required by sec- Legislative assent given. tion three of an act of congress, approved May eight, nineteen hundred fourteen, being an act entitled "An act to provide for co-operative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the bene Moneys, how used. fits of an act of congress approved July two, eighteen hundred sixty-two, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States department of agriculture," is hereby granted, and the moneys thereby given are accepted under the terms and conditions expressed in the act of congress aforesaid. (425) SEC. 2. The moneys derived by authority of said act shall be exclusively used in support of co-operative agricultural extension work, to be carried on by Michigan agricultural college, and the secretary of the state board of agriTo whom paid. culture is hereby designated as the officer to whom such funds should be paid. DAY SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF. An Act authorizing school district boards, boards of trustees of graded schools and boards of education in cities to establish and maintain day schools for the deaf, and authorizing payment therefor from the general fund, and repealing act number one hundred seventy-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine and all other acts or parts of acts conflicting with the provisions of this act. Day schools for deaf, when established, etc. Report to superintendent of public instruction. Annual budget. [Act 224, P. A. 1905.] The People of the State of Michigan enact: (426) SECTION 1. That upon application by a school district board, board of trustees of a graded school, or board of education of any city of this state to the superintendent of public instruction, he shall grant permission to such board to establish and maintain, and such board shall thereupon be empowered to maintain within the limits of its jurisdiction one or more day schools having an average attendance of not less than three pupils, for the instruction of deaf persons over the age of three years, whose parents or guardians in the case of orphans are residents of the state of Michigan. (427) SEC. 2. Any board which shall maintain one or more day schools for the instruction of the deaf shall report to the superintendent of public instruction annually, and at such other times as he may direct, such facts concerning the school or schools as he may require. (428) SEC. 3. The board of education of the city or district where a day school for the deaf is established shall include in its annual budget a sufficient sum to maintain said school and out of said sum shall pay said teachers monthly. To reimburse said city or district for such expenditure the burse district. state treasurer is hereby authorized to pay to the treasurer of the proper school district, out of the general fund, on or before July twenty in each year, upon the warrant of the State treas urer to reim amount. auditor general, the actual expense incurred for teachers' salaries and purchase of necessary school appliances by any school district in support of a day school for the deaf, which shall have been conducted in accordance with this act during nine months of the school year, as shown by vouchers filed with the auditor general and certified to be correct by the superintendent of public instruction: Provided, That Proviso as to the total amount paid on account of any one school district or city shall not exceed one hundred fifty dollars for each deaf pupil instructed in any such school during the school year, and a part of such sum proportionate to the time of instruction of any such pupil so instructed less than nine months during each year: And be it further Provided, That Proviso as to the title for all school appliances purchased shall vest in the state and inventory thereof filed with the superintendent of public instruction July first of each year. title. what to warded to (429) SEC. 4. The district board or board of education Vouchers, shall cause to be executed monthly, vouchers in triplicate show, etc. upon forms prepared and furnished by the auditor general so as to show the rate of salary paid to instructors of the deaf and the time covered by such payment, also vouchers in triplicate upon forms prepared and furnished by the auditor general, showing the school appliances purchased and price for each article or series of articles. The treasurer of said To be forschool district is required to forward two copies of these re- superintendceipted vouchers to the superintendent of public instruction instruction. within the first five days of the month succeeding the month. covered by the payment. On or before the fifteenth of each month the superintendent of public instruction shall present one set thereof to the auditor general authorizing him to pay to the treasurer of the proper school district the amount covered by the certified vouchers presented. ent of public of teachers, (430) SEC. 5. All teachers in such schools shall be ap- Employment pointed and employed as other public school teachers are ap- etc. pointed and employed. All persons appointed to teach in any such school shall have had special training for teaching, and shall be graduates of a training school for teachers of the deaf by the "oral" method, and shall also have had special training in the teaching of the deaf, including at least one year's experience as a teacher in a school for the deaf. The "Oral" so-called "oral" system shall be taught by such teachers, and taught if after a fair trial of nine months, any of such children shall for any reason be unable to learn such oral method, then no further expense shall be incurred in the effort to teach such child, so unable to learn such oral method, in such primary schools. system to be Deaf, who (431) SEC. 6. For the purpose of this act, any person considered. of sound mind who, by reason of defective hearing, cannot profitably be educated in the public schools, as other children are, shall be considered deaf. Sec. 7. Repeals Act 176, 1899. |