School officer or teacher not to act as agent.

SEC. 7. 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.

Receiving bonus from publisher.

SEC. 8. 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.

To enforce use of text books.

SEC. 9. 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.

CHAPTER XI.

STATE AND COUNTY TAX.

Public school moneys.

SECTION 1. The State Treasurer shall receive and hold as a special fund all public school moneys paid into the State treasury, and pay them over on

the warrant of the State Auditor, issued upon the order of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction in favor of the county treasurer of each county for the amount due said county, and in favor of the treasurer of each board of education for the amount due such board.

Estimate of funds needed.

SEC. 2. The county superintendent shall, on or before the first Monday in May of each year, furnish the board of county commissioners an estimate in writing of the amount of school funds needed for the ensuing year.

County school tax.

SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners of the county, at the time of making the annual levy of other county taxes, must levy a county school tax upon all taxable property of the county; Provided, that said tax shall not exceed four mills on the dollar of valuation of the property taxed. Said tax shall be collected by the officer charged with the collection of general taxes, at the same time and upon the same valuations of the property taxed as other county taxes, and shall be paid into the county treasury of the county to the credit of the county school fund.

County school fund,

SEC. 4. The county treasurer shall receive and hold, as a special school fund, subject to the orders of the county school superintendent, all public moneys from whatever source received, and keep a separate account thereof; and when the same is apportioned to the school districts, he shall pay it to the district treasurers upon the warrants of the county superintendent. He shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, make a report to the board of

county commissioners, who shall audit the same, and to the State Superintendent in such form as he shall direct, showing:

1st. The amount of moneys on hand at the commencement of the school year.

2nd. The amount of moneys received from the State school fund.

tax.

3rd.

The amount received from the county school

4th. The amount received from other sources. 5th. The total expenditures for school purposes. 6th. The balance on hand at the end of the school year.

CHAPTER XII.

SCHOOL FUND.

Apportionment of county school fund.

SECTION 1. The county superintendent of each county shall immediately, upon receiving the apportionment from the State Superintendent, proceed to apportion the State school funds to the several school districts of his county according to the number of school children residing in each district over six and under eighteen years of age, as shall appear from the last enumeration reported to his office. The county

superintendent shall apportion the county school fund in like manner, and as soon as practicable, after the receipt of the same or any portion thereof; Provided, that before making such apportionment he shall apportion to cities of the first and second classes their proportion per capita of the county school fund after which he shall set aside so much of said county fund as the board of county commissioners shall order for the payment of the compensation of the county superintendent, members of the board of examiners, and

the expenses of the county institute, and contingent expenses of the county superintendent's office, and the actual and necessary traveling expenses of the county superintendent while making his official visits; Provided, further, that no part of either of said funds shall be used otherwise than for payment of teachers, except as otherwise provided in this section. The county superintendent shall file a duplicate of such apportionment with the county auditor.

Apportionment forfeited.

SEC. 2. No school district shall receive any apportionment of school moneys unless such district shall have maintained a school therein for at least twenty weeks during the next preceding school year, and the number of children of school age in any district not maintaining school for twenty weeks during the year next preceding shall be subtracted from the total school population of the county before the apportionment is made, but any new district formed by the division of an old one is entitled to its apportionment when school has been maintained in the old district before division, or in the new district after division, or in both, at least twenty weeks in all; Provided, that when by reason of fire, flood, or other like uncontrollable causes, school has not been maintained the length of time required by this section, the district may still draw its apportionment.

New district to receive its proportion,

SEC. 3. Any newly organized school district shall be entitled to its proportion of the State and county fund which shall have been apportioned to the district or districts from which it was created.

When school may be closed.

SEC. 4. When the average attendance in any

school district for twenty consecutive weeks in any school year falls below eight pupils, except for reasons mentioned in the second section of this chapter, the county superintendent is hereby authorized to close said school.

CHAPTER XIII.

SPECIAL SCHOOL TAX.

Tax for buildings, sites, bonds, etc.

SECTION 1. When it is necessary to raise funds to purchase a school site or improve the same, or to purchase, build, rent, repair, or furnish schoolhouses or redeem outstanding bonds, or for payment of teachers' salaries or for current expenses, a tax may be voted, in any sum not to exceed two per cent of all taxable property in the district, at a meeting called for that purpose in the manner provided in chapter six of this act. When a tax shall have been voted for school purposes at any meeting provided for in this act, the trustees shall file with the county superintendent and the county clerk, within ten days after such meeting, a copy of the notice calling such meeting and a copy of the minutes thereof, which shall be kept on file by the said superintendent and clerk, subject to inspection by any person.

Computing school tax.

SEC. 2. All school taxes voted by the trustees or by a special meeting called for that purpose, shall be computed from the valuations of the next succeeding county assessment roll, and shall be voted on or before the first day of May of any year, and within twenty days thereafter the board shall make certified returns of the per cent of the taxes so voted to the county auditor and the county assessor, who shall