6833 Sec. 134.

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Who can vote on high school proposition.— Every person, male or female, who has resided in the state six months and in the county forty days and in the precinct or township ten days, and is twenty-one years old, and who owns real or personal property that was assessed in the county in his or her name at the last annual assessment or who has children of school age residing in the voting precinct of his or her residence, shall be entitled to vote on the question of voting bonds for county high school purposes.-Emergency.

6835 Sec. 136. Schools-county high.-The county board of any county in this state that does not have organized within the borders of such county a twelfth grade high school accredited to the state university, shall be deemed authorized and it shall become their duty on the first Monday of June to call a meeting of all the directors of the several school districts in the county to meet at the county seat to elect a board of regents in accordance with the provisions of law governing boards of regents for county high schools, and which provisions shall apply to a school organized by the county board the same as if organized as now provided for by law. The county high school herein provided for by law shall be located at the county seat of such county.

6836 Sec. 136.

Purpose. For the purpose of giving teachers an opportunity to meet the requirements in normal training as provided in sec tions 151 and 152 of this chapter, provision is hereby made for such training in the high schools of Nebraska.

6837 Sec. 137. State superintendent designates high schools. The state superintendent of public instruction shall designate the high schools in which such instruction shall be given, distributing them among the sixtyseven representative districts of the state, as nearly as may be, having reference to the number of representatives in each, and to the location and character of the high schools selected.

6838 Sec. 138. Admission-regulations.-The state superintendent shall prescribe the conditions of admission to the normal training classes, the course of instruction, and the rules and regulations under which such instruction shall be given.

6839 Sec. 139. Requirements of normal high school training.-In approving a high school for normal training as contemplated in this article,

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the state superintendent shall be governed by the following general requirements, except that in any county not having a high school which can qualify under these requirements the state superintendent of public instruction may designate a high school of lower grade for giving such normal training.

First.-A high school in order to be approved for normal training must be a school accredited to the University of Nebraska.

Second. At least two teachers exclusive of the city superintendent shall give their entire time to instruction in high school branches.

Third. Normal training as provided in this article shall be given in the eleventh and twelfth grades. Credit for such training shall be given upon the completion of the prescribed course in normal training and the regular high school course of study.

Fourth. The course in normal training shall be elective, and shall consist of the three following lines of study:

(a) A review for at least nine weeks in each of the following subjects— reading, grammar, arithmetic, and geography-to be given not earlier than the eleventh grade. This work shall include subject matter, underlying principles and methods of teaching, and should enable the student to approach the subject from the standpoint of teacher as well as that of student. It shall be given by well trained, experienced teachers.

(b) A study of American history for at least one semester in the eleventh or twelfth grade.

(c) At least seventy-two periods of professional training to include a study of methods, school management, observation work, etc., to be given in the senior year by the city superintendent of schools or by a member of the high school faculty recommended by him and approved by the state superintendent of public instruction.

Fifth.-Schools offering this course shall have a reference library of at least three volumes on each of the following fields of professional study-history of education, principles of education, methods, and special training in industrial education, including agriculture.

Sixth. In case elementary agriculture is not in the regular course of study it shall be required in the course in normal training.

Seventh. Every high school approved for normal training shall instruct a class of not less than ten, and every student admitted to such class shall continue under instruction not less than eighteen weeks in order to be counted in such class.

6840 Sec. 140. Support of normal training.—The sum of seven hundred ($700.00) dollars for the biennium shall be paid from the appropriation made for that purpose to each school district in which a class of not less than ten is organized and instructed in accordance with the provisions of this act.

6841 Sec. 141. Expenses of inspection. The appropriation provided by this article for instruction in high schools of students in the science and practice of common school teaching shall be deemed to include and shall include due inspection and supervision of such instruction by the state superintendent of public instruction, and the expenses of such inspection and

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supervision shall be paid out of the appropriation on vouchers certified by the state superintendent.

6842 Sec. 142. Reports and warrants. The secretary of the board of education of each school district meeting the requirements for normal training as herein provided shall on or before the last Monday in June of each year make a report, under oath, to the state superintendent of public instruction showing how many students have met the minimum requirements for normal training as contemplated by this article. The state superintendent shall on or before the second Monday in July of each year apportion the money earned to each school that has fully complied with the requirements of this article. It shall be the duty of the state superintendent to certify the apportionment for the several school districts of the state to the state auditor, who shall draw warrants on the state treasurer in favor of the secretary of the board of education of the various school districts for the sums so specified by the state superintendent of public instruction. It shall be the duty of the state treasurer to redeem each warrant drawn on him by the state auditor and to remit the same to the secretary of the board of education of the proper school district.

Sec. 142a. Agricultural high schools. Any high school accredited to the State University, consolidated rural high school, rural high school, or county high school having satisfactory rooms and equipment, and having shown itself fitted by location and otherwise to give training in agriculture, manual training, and home economics, may, upon application to the State superintendent of Public Instruction of this state be designated by him to maintain an agricultural and industrial department to consist of courses in agriculture, manual training, and home economics.

Sec. 142b. Each such school shall employ a trained instructor or instructors whose qualifications shall be fixed by said state superintendent of Public Instruction, in agriculture, manual training, and home economics, Each school shall have connected with it a tract of land, suitable for purposes of experiment and demonstration, containing not less than five acres, which must be furnished by the school receiving such aid, and be located within the school district or within two miles of the central buildings of the school district.

Sec. 142c. Instruction in such agricultural and industrial department shall be free to all residents of school age within the district. Nonresident pupils may attend such high schools in accordance with the law, rules and regulations governing free high school attendance.

When necessary to accommodate a reasonable number of boys and girls, who wish to attend only in the winter months, special classes shall be formed for them.

The instruction in such agricultural and industrial department shall be of a practical character, dealing with soils, crops, fertilizers, drainage, farm machinery, farm buildings, breeds of live stock, live stock judging, animal diseases and remedies, production of milk and cream, testing of same, manufacture of butter and cheese, horticulture, gardening, plants, and such other subjects as have a direct relation to the business of farm

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It shall also include

ing, including bookkeeping and farm accounts. systematic courses in manual training and home economics.

Sec. 142d. Each school designated to maintain an agricultural department as in this act provided for shall receive state aid not exceeding $1,250.00 per year, but in no case shall the total amount received from the state by any school exceed one-half of the total sum from all sources actually expended upon such agricultural and industrial departments as certified to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The secretary of the board of education of each such school on or before June 15th of each year shall make under oath to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction such report as said State Superintendent may require covering the conditions named in this act.

Any rural school district which shall give instruction in agriculture, manual training, and home economics in accordance with rules and regulations of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and shall under this act become associated with a high school accredited to the State University, consolidated rural high school, rural high school, county high school or any educational institution maintained by the state, which gives instruction in agriculture, manual training, and home economics equal to that required of the accredited high schools receiving aid under this act in conformity with the rules and regulations made by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall receive as state aid $50.00 per year. Such state aid to said associated rural school shall be granted only upon the recommendation of the superintendent of the central school with which said rural school is associated in addition to the recommendation of the county superintendent.

Provided: First. That no high school accredited to the University of Nebraska receiving aid under this act shall be located in any city in which the state already maintains a permanent educational institution which gives instruction in agriculture, manual training, and home economics.

Second. That not more than one high school accredited to the University of Nebraska and two consolidated rural high schools, rural high school, or county high school in any county shall be added to the list of schools receiving aid under this act in any biennium.

Third. Not more than two-thirds of the appropriation which may be provided shall be used for high schools accredited to the University of Nebraska, the balance to be reserved for consolidated rural high schools, rural high schools, county high schools, and for associated district schools. Fourth. Not more than thirty schools shall receive aid during the year 1913-1914 under this act.

Sec. 142e. In approving high schools accredited to the University of Nebraska for agriculture, manual training and home economics as contemplated in this act, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be governed by the following general requirements:

(a) The school shall provide an approved course in normal training for preparing teachers for rural schools.

(b) At least three teachers exclusive of the school superintendent shall

give their entire time to instruction in high school branches.

(c) No one shall be employed as an instructor in agricultural training

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in any such school unless such person shall show proper certificate of graduation from some agricultural college approved by the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, or shall be certified by the Dean of the State Agricultural College as having the necessary qualifications, or who has had a standard four-year course in agricultural training in a state normal school or in an officially recognized normal school; college or university in Nebraska.

(d) At least one-third of the instruction in the industrial department of such school shall be devoted to work in agriculture, manual training, and natural sciences, or to home economics, manual training, and natural sciences.

Sec. 142f. In approving consolidated rural high schools, rural high schools, and county high schools for agriculture, manual training and home economics, as contemplated in this act, the State Superintendent shall be governed by the following general requirements:

(a) The school shall maintain at least two years of high school work and be upon the approved list of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

(b) At least two teachers shall be employed in the high school department.

(c) No one shall be employed as an instructor or instructors in agricultural training in any such high school unless such person shall show proper certificate of graduation from some agricultural college approved by the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, or shall be certified by the Dean of the State Agricultural College as having the necessary qualifications, or who has had a standard four-year course in agricultural training in a state normal school, or in an officially recognized normal school, college or university in Nebraska.

(d) Until such consolidated high school, rural high school, or county high school shall fully comply with the provisions of section 5 of this act, it shall be eligible to receive only $625.00. Upon complying fully with the provisions of section 5 of this act, such consolidated rural high school, rural high school, or county high school shall be eligible to receive the full $1,250.00 mentioned in section 4.

(e) At least one-third of the instruction in the industrial group shall be devoted to agriculture, manual training and natural sciences, or to home economics, manual training and natural sciences.

Sec. 142g.-The State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint an inspector of agricultural training, whose appointment shall be approved by the Chancellor of the University of Nebraska. The expenses of inspection and supervision shall be paid from the appropriation made for the maintenance of said schools, on vouchers certified by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction,