ported to said superintendent or principal, and, in turn, shall be reported to superintendent of education; children apparently defective shall be tested at any time; teachers shall report defects to persons in parental relation; the town or union superintendent may, after consulting local health officer, dismiss from school any child whose habits, infirmities, or influence may be harmful to welfare of school. Sum of $600 appropriated biennially for purpose of this chapter.

School directors of any city or town, or school committee of any incorporated district, may, by vote of annual school meeting, appoint one or more medical inspectors for their schools. Said inspectors shall examine pupils in conformity with requirements of State board of health. Said inspector shall examine pupils in any private school when requested so to do by principal thereof, or in case of existence of contagious disease. Virginia: See J (a), Health, general.

Washington: See A (d), District boards and officers.

West Virginia: The board of education of each independent school district shall, and other boards may, appoint annually one or more legally qualified physicians as medical inspectors; said board shall prescribe duties and fix salaries of said inspectors; said inspector shall at least once each year test each pupil; said inspector shall, at request of superintendent of school, examine any pupil for evidence of infectious or contagious disease. Any pupil showing any symptoms of an infectious or contagious disease shall be sent home, and boards of education and health shall be notified of such action; no child suffering with any such disease shall attend school; children so dismissed may be allowed to return to school when danger of contagion has passed. Medical inspector shall, when requested by school board, advise as to lighting, heating, ventilating, and sanitation of school buildings; hours of study, recesses, exercises, and other matters pertaining to health, vitality, and development of pupils; said board may employ a teacher nurse to investigate sanitary conditions of the pupil and home. Medical inspector shall keep a record of pupils tested; shall notify parents of defects of child.

J (c). Vaccination.

California: Every pupil within five days after entering school shall furnish a certificate showing that he has been vaccinated within previous seven years; if parent is conscientiously opposed to vaccination, or if physician certifies that vaccination would endanger life or health of child, certificates shall not be required; failure to file certificate or statement shall subject pupil to exclusion from school; State board of health shall determine cases of smallpox in any school; unvaccinated children shall be excluded when smallpox is found to be present; when vaccination fails to "take," child shall be exempt for one year.

Connecticut: See J (a), Health, general.

Delaware: See A (c1), County boards.

Georgia: County boards of education and boards of education of cities may make regulations governing the vaccination of pupils and may require vaccination before admission to school.

Maine: See A (d), District boards and officers.

Maryland: Pupils must be vaccinated; teachers must ascertain and enroll on vaccine register those who produce certificates. If unvaccinated pupil applies for admission, teacher must give proper person order on physician for vac

cination; teacher neglecting or refusing to comply liable to fine; no publicschool trustee or commissioner shall permit unvaccinated pupil to enter any public school under penalty of fine.

See also H (b), School census.

Massachusetts: No child, unless vaccinated or possessing a certificate from a practising physician that he is unfit for vaccination, shall be admitted to a public school; no child while exposed to any contagious disease shall attend any public school.

New Hampshire: See H (f), Compulsory attendance.

New Jersey: See H (a), School population and attendance, general. New Mexico: County superintendents shall see that all children in their respective counties of school age are vaccinated, or have been vaccinated within one year previous; teachers shall see that school children are vaccinated and shall admit no child to school who has not been vaccinated, or who does not possess a certificate of vaccination. Any person in control of a child of school age who shall refuse or neglect to have such child vaccinated shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Vaccination shall be by the health officer and shall be paid for by the parents of such children where they are able to do so, but in case of indigency the same shall be paid by the directors out of the school fund.

See also A (c2), County officers; E (b), Teachers' certificates, general. New York: No child or person not vaccinated shall be admitted to the public schools; school authorities shall provide for free vaccination of indigent children; said authorities may appoint and fix compensation of a physician, who shall vaccinate school children; said physician shall issue vaccination certificates to children vaccinated; expenses of vaccination shall be a charge against the district; trustees of districts shall include in their reports facts relative to vaccination.

Ohio: See A (f), Administrative units-districts, etc.

Oregon: See A (d), District boards and officers.

Pennsylvania: No child shall be admitted to any school except upon a certificate signed by a legally qualified physician setting forth that such child has been successfully vaccinated, or that such child has previously had smallpox.

Rhode Island: See A (d), District boards and officers.

South Carolina: See J (a), Health, general.

Texas: See J (a), Health, general.

Washington: See A (d), District boards and officers.

Wisconsin: See J (a), Health, general.

Wyoming: State board of health may adopt measures for the vaccination of the inhabitants of any city, town, or county to prevent the introduction or arrest the progress of smallpox.

K. TEXTBOOKS AND SUPPLIES.

(a) General.

Georgia: See A (b1), State boards; A (c1), County boards. Mississippi: Boards of supervisors, boards of school trustees of common schools, and all boards of mayor and aldermen shall purchase supplies upon competitive bids, letting contracts for not more than 12 months in advance;

no individual member shall purchase any supplies, but in an emergency supplies not exceeding $100 may be purchased by any individual member without competitive bidding.

Pennsylvania: The board of school directors of each district shall purchase all necessary furniture, equipment, textbooks, and school supplies, and furnish the same free of cost for use in the schools; textbooks adopted by districts of second, third, or fourth class shall be continued in use for at least five years, and shall be adopted by boards of school directors, but if in said districts there shall be district superintendents or supervising principals, no adoption shall be made without their recommendation, except by a two-thirds vote of boards. Directors may allow pupils use of textbooks during vacations. School supplies shall be divided into two classes: First, including chairs, desks, typewriters, and apparatus; second, maps, globes, and all other supplies, except textbooks, necessary for school use and not included in first class; supplies shall be purchased through competitive bids; no teacher, superintendent, or employee shall act as agent for school books or supplies in district where employed, or was employed during the year preceding; bribery by seller of school books or supplies shall be a misdemeanor; bribery by any teacher, officer, or employee shall be a misdemeanor.

South Carolina: County boards of education shall set aside from the publicschool funds of their respective counties not exceeding $500 for the purpose of providing textbooks at actual cost to public-school pupils; said amount shall remain a permanent fund in the hands of the county superintendent to be used in purchasing and keeping books for sale, books to be bought under contract between the State and publishers. Certain counties are not required to comply with this act, but may do so. Trustees may purchase and loan textbooks to indigent children. County superintendent shall designate a depository in each township where textbooks shall be sold at not exceeding 10 per cent above "first cost."

K (b). Free Textbooks.

See also K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Arizona: There is appropriated out of the State school fund sufficient money to furnish free textbooks for the common schools of the State. County superintendent shall annually furnish the State board of education a list of textbooks needed in his county and such board shall furnish the same. On or before May 25 of a year when a textbook contract is to expire, State superintendent shall advertise for bids to furnish textbooks and State board shall contract for the same; publishers making contract shall give bond for the faithful performance thereof; books shall not be sold at a lower price elsewhere than in Arizona. Books shall be shipped to county superintendent, who shall distribute them to districts. Not more than one book in the same grade shall be changed in any one year, and when adopted a textbook shall remain unchanged for five years. If a contractor shall become a party to a combination or trust for controlling the price of books, his contract with Arizona shall become null and void; attorney general shall, when necessary, institute suit for the enforcement of a contract. Books shall be the property of the State, and pupil losing or destroying a book must buy another. All books shall be fumigated before being reissued to pupils. Parent or guardian may purchase books at price which board pays. No school officer or teacher shall be agent for an author, publisher, or bookseller.

Arkansas: See H (f), Compulsory attendance.

California: See Appendix A: State constitutional provisions relating to public education.

Colorado: See A (d), District boards and officers; N (a), High schools. Connecticut: See A (d), District boards and officers; U (e), Schools for dependents and delinquents.

Delaware: Each school committee and board of education outside of the city of Wilmington shali furnish textbooks free to all the pupils of the public schools, including colored pupils; school committee shall order through the State treasurer the necessary books, which shall be those adopted by the State board of education and furnished at contract price; State treasurer shall pay for books out of the school fund of the State, but shall pay no bills for at least 30 days from the time they are rendered; school committee shall provide for the safekeeping of books and the clerk of the district shall be responsible therefor; said committee may furnish books at cost to pupils desiring to own their books; each teacher shall report to school committee quarterly, giving attendance, etc., and an inventory of the books.

See also A (c1), County boards; B (e), State aid for elementary education. Florida: County school boards shall furnish textbooks free to all indigent children not over 15 years old; in special tax districts said districts shall furnish such books.

Idaho: See A (b1), State boards.

Illinois: See A (d), District boards and officers.

Indiana: See K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Iowa: See A (d), District boards and officers; A (f), Administrative unitsdistricts, etc.; K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Kansas: See K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Kentucky: See A (c2), County officers; A (d), District boards and officers.

Louisiana: See A (d), District boards and officers.

Maine: See A (f), Administrative units-districts, etc.

Maryland: See A (c1), County boards; K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.
Massachusetts: See A (d), District boards and officers.

Michigan: See A (d), District boards and officers; A (f), Administrative units districts, etc.; K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Minnesota: See A (d), District boards and officers; K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Missouri: The qualified electors of any school district may by majority vote determine to furnish from the incidental fund textbooks free to pupils, such books to be the property of the district. No board shall pay a higher price than is paid for the same books elsewhere. No contract hereafter made by any county or State.textbook commission shall be binding on any district furnishing free textbooks; no contract for books under this act shall be made for a period longer than five years. Any district furnishing free textbooks to at least the first four grades shall be entitled to aid from the county foreign insurance tax moneys; any district not furnishing textbooks free to all elementary school pupils within three years shall be entitled to no further aid from said insurance moneys.

See also K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Montana: See A (d), District boards and officers; H (f), Compulsory at tendance; K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

Nebraska: The various school boards of public schools are empowered and it is made their duty to purchase all textbooks for schools and are authorized to contract with publishers of such books for a period not exceeding five years; contract prices of such books shall not exceed the lowest price granted anywhere else in the United States, and such prices shall be reduced in Nebraska when reduced in any other State. Before any publisher shall be permitted to enter into contract with any district he shall file with State superintendent a bond in the sum of not less than $2,000 nor more than $20,000. For purpose of paying for books, school district officers may draw an order on district treasurer; textbooks may be paid out of any funds belonging to the general fund, to the incidental fund, or to a fund especially provided for that purpose. Any contract entered into with any publisher shall become null and void if said publisher shall become a party to any combination for the purpose of raising the price of textbooks. State superintendent shall distribute to the various school officers a price list of textbooks and shall prepare and distribute a contract form to the districts through the county superintendents, the said form to be used in making all contracts with publishers. Upon the violation of any textbook contract by a publisher when the same shall have been reported by the district to the State superintendent, shall be reported to the attorney general, who shall begin proceedings against such publisher. Textbooks bought by the district shall be loaned free of charge to pupils, but pupils shall be held responsible for the same. Other school supplies than books may also be loaned to pupils. If desired, books may be bought from the board at cost; board may designate some local dealer to handle books for the district, with such an increase in cost for handling and transportation as may be agreed upon. Nevada: Trustees shall purchase all new textbooks and supplementary books and school supplies for use in public schools, same to be charged to county school fund belonging to the various districts; such books shall be held as property of districts, but loaned to pupils; parents and guardians shall be responsible for books in hands of school children; equipment and materials for special departments may be furnished same as books; trustees shall furnish desk books for teachers; textbooks and supplementary books may be sold for cash if parents desire to purchase such books. Clerk of board shall turn over to the county treasurer all moneys collected under the provisions of this act.

New Hampshire: See A (d), District boards and officers.

New Jersey: Textbooks and school supplies shall be furnished free of charge for use of all pupils in public schools; every district shall raise funds for such purpose as other school moneys are raised; every school board shall make rules for care of textbooks. No person officially connected with public schools shall have any financial interest in sale of any textbooks or school supplies; violation of such provision is punishable by removal from office or by revocation of certificate to teach.

See also A (f), Administrative units-districts, etc.

New Mexico: See H (f), Compulsory attendance.

New York: See A (d), District boards and officers; K (c), Uniformity of textbooks.

North Dakota: The school board or board of education of any district may adopt textbooks for use in the public schools of such district and may purchase the same and loan them free to pupils. Before any publisher shall offer books for sale in the State he shall file lists, stating lowest prices, with