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ceding that in which the apportionment is made, the number of children of school age in such district or districts shall be subtracted from the total school population of the State and from the school population of the county in which such district or districts are located before making the apportionment; Provided, that when the failure to maintain school in such district or districts the required length of time is due to quarantine, fire, flood, or other like uncontrollable causes, such failure shall not affect the basis upon which the apportionment is made.

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1776. Seal of State Superintendent. Register and forms and regulations for reports. Opinions. Visiting schools, etc. The Superintendent shall provide and keep a seal by which his official acts and copies of all papers and documents filed in his office may be authenticated, and when so authenticated, said copies shall be received as evidence in all courts of this State equally with, and in like manner as the original.

To prepare and transmit forms and regulations for reports.

He shall prepare and transmit to the proper officers suitable forms and regulations for making all reports, with the necessary blanks therefor, also school registers, and all necessary instructions for the organization and government of district schools, and the conducting of all necessary proceedings under this act. He shall print and circulate a summary of his opinions and rulings. The cost of such blank forms, school registers, and for the printing of the summary of his opinions and rulings, shall be paid out of the State school fund, and the vouchers therefor shall be certified to by the Superintendent, and filed with the State Board of Examiners, who are empowered to allow or reject the same, in whole or part, in the same manner as in the case of claims for which an appropriation has been made, and the State Auditor shall draw his warrant on the State Treasurer for the amount allowed in favor of the person to whom said amount is due.

To visit each county at least once a year.

He shall visit at least once a year in each county in the State and the principal schools and district school boards. He

may examine the State Auditor's books and records relative to school revenue, and those of other public officials relating to school accounts. He shall meet with school officers, advise with teachers, and lecture to institutes and public assemblies upon tonics calculated to promote the interests of education.

1777. State Superintendent to advise with school officers. Effect of his decisions. He shall advise with county superintendents and with school boards and other school officers upon all matters involving the welfare of the schools. He shall, when requested by superintendents or other school officers, give them written answers to all questions concerning the school law. His decisions shall be held to be correct and final until set aside by a court of competent jurisdiction or by subsequent legislation.

1778. Biennial report. On or before the first day of January preceding each biennial session of the Legislature, the State Superintendent shall present to the Governor a report of his administration of the system of public instruction. There shall be printed at least one thousand copies of his report and laws relating to schools, which shall be distributed under his direction. The Superintendent in his report shall furnish a brief exhibit:

Contents of report.

1st. Of his labors, the results of his experience and observations as to the operation of the public school system, and suggestions as to the remedy for imperfections.

2nd. Of the amount of school revenue and its general condition as to sufficiency or insufficiency.

3rd. Of such plans as he may have matured for the better organization of the schools, and for the increase and economical expenditure of the school revenue.

4th. A full statement of the condition and amount of all funds and property appropriated for educational purposes; the number and grade of schools in each county, and in each city of the first and of the second class, the number of children between the ages of six and eighteen years in each county and in

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each city of the first and of the scond class, with the number of such attending district schools, the average number of children that have attended district schools during the two years previous to July 1st of that year, the number that can read and write, the amount of school money raised by county taxation or otherwise, the amount expended for salaries of teachers and for building school houses.

5th. A comparison of the results of the two years then closing, with those of the two years preceding, indicating the progress of public instruction, and, as far as can be ascertained, the number and condition of private schools, academies and colleges in the State.

1779. Id. He shall append to his report such information relative to the system of public instruction, the schools, their annual revenues, and such other matters as he may deem proper. He shall include in his report statistical tables compiled from information transmitted to his office, with summaries, averages and totals appended thereto; also a statement of the annual collections of school revenue, and his apportionment thereof; and when he deems it of sufficient interest, he shall append extracts from the correspondence of school officers, showing either the salutary or defective operation of the system.

Information to National Commissioner.

He shall furnish the United States commissioner of education at Washington such information as that officer may require.

*1780. Monthly expense account of State Superintendent. Allowance. Books, etc., to successor. At the end of each month he shall file with the State Board of Examiners an itemized account of his expenses verified by his oath. The said board shall examine the same and, if the account is found to be correct and the expenditures necessary, shall certify the same to the State Auditor, who shall issue a warrant to the State Treasurer for the amount due on such account, and at the end

of each quarter year for one-fourth of the Superintendent's annual salary, and shall charge the same to the State district school fund. At the expiration of his term of office, he shall deliver to his successor all books, records, documents, maps, reports, papers, and other articles pertaining to his office.

1781. May call convention of school superintendents. Traveling expenses. The State Superintendent shall have power to call annually a convention of county and city superintendents, to assemble at such time and place as he shall deem most convenient, for the discussion of questions pertaining to the supervision and administration of the public schools, the laws relating thereto, and such other subjects affecting the welfare and interest of the public schools as shall properly be brought before it.

County and City Superintendents to attend.

It is hereby made the duty of all county and city superintendents to attend such conventions when called. The actual traveling expenses of county superintendents for attending such conventions shall be allowed by the board of county commissioners and paid out of the same fund as the salaries of county superintendents. The actual traveling expenses of city superintendents attending such convention shall be allowed and paid out of the same fund as salaries of city superintend

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CHAPTER 71.*

EXAMINATION OF COUNTY SCHOOL TEACHERS.

Section I. Teachers' examinations. Certificates. The State Board of Education shall appoint and authorize the County Superintendent of Schools of each County in the State to conduct teachers' examinations at such times and places and

*Session Laws 1905.

under such rules and regulations as it may direct; provided, that such examinations shall be held in each county. The Board shall prepare lists of questions to be used in such examinations and shall grade the papers of all applicants for teachers' certificates. The County Superintendent shall within three. days after the close of said examinations forward to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, all papers written at such examination and relating thereto, including a complete list of all applicants, with their postoffice addresses and such other information as may be desired. If from the percentage of correct answers required by the rules and other evidences disclosed by the examination, including particularly the County Superintendent's knowledge and information of the candidate's experience and ability as a teacher, the applicant is found to be a person of good moral character and free from serious infectious or hereditary disease, and to possess such knowledge and understanding, together with aptness to teach and govern, as will enable the applicant to teach successfully in the District Schools of the State the various branches required by law, said Board of Education shall grant such applicant a certificate of qualification.

Section 2. Certificate of two grades valid one year. The County certificates issued by the State Board of Education shall be of two grades, County Grammar and County Primary, and shall be valid for one year, but may be renewed year by year without examination under such regulations as the Board may provide. No certificate shall be granted unless the applicant be of good moral character and found proficient in pedagogy and qualified to teach the following branches of common English education, namely: Reading, Writing, Spelling, English Grammar, Geography, United States History, Arithmetic, Physiology and Hygiene, Nature Studies and Drawing.

The percentage required to pass in any branch shall be prescribed by the State Board of Education.

Section 3. Temporary certificates. In addition to the regular grades of certificates, the State Board of Education may

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