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1841.

School register and report. Every teacher shall keep a school register and at the close of each year make a report in such form and containing such items as shall be required by law. Such reports shall be made in duplicate, one copy of which shall be filed with the clerk of the board, and one copy with the county superintendent.

Salary withheld till report is filed.

No teacher shall be paid the last month's salary of any year until the report for such year shall be filed as herein required.

1842. School year, term, month, etc., defined. Holidays. The school year shall begin on the first day of July of each year, and close on the last day of June of the year following. A school week shall consist of five school days, a school month of twenty school days, and a school term of ten school weeks.

No school on holiday.

No school shall be taught on a legal holiday. A legal holiday falling upon a day which otherwise would be a day of school, shall be counted a day of school, and the teachers shall be paid therefor.

1843. Teacher to follow course prescribed. Every teacher in the district schools shall teach pupils the course of study prescribed.

1844. Teachers to attend teachers' institute. Each teacher who is engaged in teaching during a period which includes the time of holding a teachers' institute, upon receiving notice from the county superintendent to attend, shall close his school during the holding of such institute and attend the same, and shall be paid by the school board of the district the regular salary as teacher for the time of attendance during such institute, as certified by the county superintendent. The certificate of any teacher may be revoked by the State Board of Education,

when upon due examination and inquiry and after the holder thereof shall have been given an opportunity of being heard, it appears that he is guilty of inexcusable neglect or refusal to attend a teachers' institute held for such county.

1845. Suspension of pupils by teacher. A teacher may suspend from school, for not more than five days at any one time, any pupil for insubordination, habitual disobedience, or disorderly conduct. In such case the teacher shall give immediate notice of such suspension, and the reason thereof, to the parents or guardian of such pupils, and also to some member of the district school board.

1846. Teacher to grade pupils. It shall be the duty of the teachers to assign to each pupil such studies as he is qualified to pursue, and to place him in the proper classes; Provided, that in graded schools the principal or superintendent shall perform such duty.

1847. Use of text books. Damage to school property. Teachers shall enforce the use of text books and the rules and regulations prescribed for schools.

Damages for injuring school property.

Any pupil who cuts, defaces, or otherwise injures any school property is liable to suspension from school, and upon complaint of the teacher or any trustee, the parent or guardian of such pupil shall be liable for all damages.

1848. Prohibited doctrines. Moral instruction. No sectarian control. No atheistic, infidel, sectarian, religious, or denominational doctrine shall be taught in any of the district schools of this State.

Moral instruction required.

Moral instruction tending to impress upon the minds of the pupils the importance of good manners, truthfulness, temperance, purity, patriotism, and industry, shall be given in every district school, and all such schools shall be free from sectarian control.

1850. English language used. All district schools in this State shall be taught in the English language.

1851. Admission of pupils. Every district school shall be open for the admission, free of charge, of all children living in the district over six and under eighteen years of age, and of children within the required age, whose father, mother, or guardian is a taxpayer within said district. Any person over eighteen years of age may be admitted to any district school, in the discretion of the board of trustees, at such rate of tuition as the trustees may prescribe; Provided, that beginners shall not be received into the schools except during the first four weeks after the opening of the first and third terms.

1852. Protecting against contagious diseases. The teacher or board shall not allow any pupil 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 school 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 9.

TEXT BOOKS.

1854. Text books, selected by whom. The State Superintendent, county superintendents, and the principal of the State normal school, or a majority of them, shall decide what text books shall be adopted in the district schools, except in cities of the first and second class; and their use shall be mandatory in all district schools of the State except in cities of the first and of the second class.

1855. Convention to be called, when. Changing text books. The State Superintendent shall call a convention, to consist of the State Superintendent, county superintendents and the principal of the State normal school, at least thirty days prior to the expiration of any contract regulating the supply and use of text books in the district schools throughout the State, 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.

Business of Convention.

Said 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.

Convention every five years.

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 1902 shall extend until July 1, 1908.

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

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 continue in use until changed as herein provided.

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 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. Penatly. 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 text 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.

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