Distriot board to have man library. proportion to the number of children of legal School ages Sec. 2. The District Board shall be held accountable for the proper care and preservation of the District Library, agement of and shall have power to provide for the safe keeping of the same, to prescribe the time for taking and returning books, and to assess and collect all fines and penalties for the loss or injury of said books. The District Board shall appoint a Librarian, and determine the place where the Library shall be kept; but in all cases in which the Library may be properly secured at the District School-house, it shall be kept at such School house. District Library from drawing its proportion of books from 2. The Board are authorized by the law to provide a 3. Whenever the District Board may deem it safe to keep the Library at the School-house, it must be deposited there. Perhaps in most instances, if a suitably strong case is provided, it will be found safe to keep the Library at the School-house during the School-terms. It will fre quently be found desirable to appoint the Teacher Librarian, and especially if the Library is kept at the Schoolhouse. 4. Before delivering the books to the Librarian, two lists of such books should be made, one to be kept by the District Board, and the other to be furnished to the Librarian; Library mo Sec. 3. The Library moneys belonging to any township Where kept, so determining in favor of District Libraries, or which may ney, how hereafter belong to such township, shall be apportioned disposed of. among the several Districts thereof, in the same manner as the Primary School Moneys are apportioned, and shall be expended by the District Boards in purchasing books for the District Libraries.. board of ed Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Educa- Duty of St. tion to make a list of books, unsectarian in character, suit- ucation, able for District or Township Libraries, and contract with the lowest responsible bidder to furnish the same in such number as may be wanted, at stipulated prices. Previous to the first day of January in each year, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall furnish to the Director of each School District, and each Township Clerk, a list of Selection of the books contracted for, with the prices of the same, from books. which list the District Board or the Township Board of Inspectors may select books to the amount desired by the District or township. nished and Sec. 5. It shall be the duty of contractors to furnish, at Books furthe prices contracted for, the books so selected for the Li- forwarded. braries, and cause them to be forwarded to such points on any main thoroughfare as the District or Township Board may direct. Sec. 6. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. and notes should be made of the condition of each book. The Librarian's receipt should be attached to the list retained by the Board. 5. The District Board should also make some written rules for the drawing and returning of the books, with penalties for their injury or loss, and should appoint the time (say Friday afternoon of each week,) when the Library shall be opened. Sec. 3. The Library moneys are to be annually distributed to the Districts and parts of Districts, in proportion to the number of children of School ages in each District or fractional District in the township, and paid over to the sev eral Directors. Should the School-house of a fractional District stand in another township, said district must still be entitled to its fractional share of the Library money in each township in which any of its territory may lie. RULES FOR DISTRICT LIBRARIES. RULE 1. The Library shall be open for drawing and re. turning books every Friday P. M., from three o'clock till five o'clock. RULE 2. Every person residing in the District shall be entitled to draw books from the Library; but no one under fourteen years of age shall be permitted to get books without a written request from his parents or guardian. RULE 3. No person shall be entitled to two books from the Library at the same time, unless they be different volumes of the same work; and no family shall draw more than one book while other families wishing books, shall remain unsupplied. RULE 4. No person shall loan a Library book to any one out of his own family, under a penalty of cents for each offense. RULE 5. No person shall retain a book from the Library more than two weeks, under a penalty of cents for each day he shall so retain it; and no one may draw the same book a second time while any other person wishes to draw it, RULE 6. Any person losing or destroying a Library book, shall pay the cost of such book, and a fine of twenty-five cents; and any person injuring a book by marking, tear. ing, or unnecessarily soiling it, shall be liable to a fine of not less than cents nor more than one and a half times the cost of the book, to be determined by the Librarian and Director. RULE 7. No person shall be entitled to draw books while unlawfully detaining a book from the Library, or while any fine against him remains unpaid. RULE 8. The Librarian shall report to the District Board quarterly, the amount of fines assessed and collected, and all moneys accruing from this source shall be expended for the purchase or repair of books. RULE 9. The Librarian shall report annually, before the last Monday in September to the District Board, who shall report the same to the annual meeting, the number, titles, and condition of the books in the Library, and the number drawn during the year. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. [Act Approved February 17, 1855.] When Su perintend. point and make ar rangements Sec. 1. Whenever reasonable assurance shall be given ent to ap to the Superintendent of Public Instruction that a number not less than fifty, or in counties containing a population of for Institute less than twelve thousand inhabitants, whenever twentyfive Teachers of Common Schools shall desire to assemble for the purpose of forming a Teachers' Institute, and to remain in session for a period of not less than ten working days, said Superintendent is authorized to appoint a time and place for holding such Institute, to make suitable arrangements therefor, and to give due notice thereof. Money for expenses, ete., how to and to what amount Sec. 2. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of ber, rooms, fires, lights, attendance, or other necessary charges, and for procuring Teachers and Lecturers for said Insti tute, the Auditor General shall, upon the certificate of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, that he has made arrangements for holding such Institute, draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for such sum as said Superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such Institute, which sum shall not exceed two hundred dollars for any one Institute, and shall be paid out of the general fund. Superinten- Sec. 3. Said Superintendent, in case of inability per sonally to conduct any Institute, or to make the necessary sons tomake arrangements for holding the same, is authorized to appoint ments for some suitable person or persons for that ded, That not more than eighteen hundred dollars shall be drawn from the treasury in any one year to meet the provisions of this act. dent may af point suitable per arrange the same. purpose: Provi |