§ 479. Acceptance of Provisions of Act of Congress. The state of Kansas does hereby accept the provisions and benefits of an act passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled entitled: "An act to provide for the promotion of vocational education; to provide for coöperation with the states in the promotion of such education in agriculture and the trades and industries; to provide for coöperation with the states in the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regulate its expenditure," approved February 24, 1917, and will observe and comply with all the requirements of said act. (Laws 1917, ch. 280, sec. 1.)

§ 480. Administration by State Board of Education. The State Board of Education is hereby designated as the state board for the administration of the act mentioned in section 1 of this act, and is hereby charged with the duty and responsibility of coöperating with the Federal Board for Vocational Education in the administration of said act and is given all power necessary for such administration and coöperation. (Laws 1917, ch. 280, sec. 2.)

§ 481. Establishment and Maintenance of Vocational Schools. The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to coöperate with local communities in establishing and maintaining public vocational schools and classes as provided for in this act, to provide for the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects and to issue certificates to teachers of vocational subjects who shall have the qualifications specified by said board. (Laws 1917, ch. 280, sec. 3.)

§ 482. State and Federal Aid. The State Board of Education shall have authority to inspect, as a basis for approval for the purposes of this act, any public schools or classes providing training in agriculture, industrial arts, household arts, or commercial subjects, and any schools or classes providing for the preparation of teachers and supervisors of such subjects; and such schools and classes as shall have been approved by the state board for the purposes of this act in respect to site, plant, equipment, qualifications of teachers, admission of pupils, courses of study, and methods of instruction shall be

entitled to an allotment of federal funds; and any school or class which shall receive the benefit of federal money allotted to the state of Kansas by the Federal Board for Vocational Education shall also be entitled to an equal amount which shall be provided by appropriation by the legislature of the state of Kansas. (Laws 1917, ch. 280, sec. 4.)

§ 483. Apportionment of Funds. The State Board of Education shall apportion any and all moneys which may be allotted to the state of Kansas by the Federal Board of Vocational Education, and any and all moneys which may be appropriated for the purposes of this act by the legislature of the state of Kansas, and said board shall make all necessary rules and regulations pertaining thereto. (Laws 1917, ch. 280, sec. 5.)

§ 484. State Treasurer Custodian. The state treasurer is hereby designated as the custodian for vocational education as provided in this act and is charged with the duty and responsibility of receiving and disbursing any moneys paid to the state from appropriations made by Congress for the purposes of this act and any moneys which may be appropriated by the legislature of the state of Kansas for the purposes of this act. Said moneys shall be paid on warrants drawn by the state auditor on vouchers approved by the state superintendent of public instruction. (Laws 1917, ch. 280, sec. 6.)

§ 485. Report of State Treasurer. The state treasurer shall make a biennial report to the State Board of Education showing the receipts and disbursements of all moneys received and paid by him under the provisions of this act. (Laws 1917, ch. 280, sec. 7.)

§ 486. Appropriation for Vocational Education. For the use of the State Board of Education in carrying out the provisions of House bill No. 886 there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $32,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and the sum of $45,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. (Laws 1917, ch. 47, sec. 1.)

§ 487. Warrants. The state auditor is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrants on the state treasurer for the purpose mentioned in section 1 of this act upon vouchers approved by the state superintendent of public instruction. (Laws 1917, ch. 47, sec. 2.)

§ 488. Tax for Industrial Training. [9384] The board of education of each city of the first class and second class, and the annual school meeting of any school district, may, in addition to the other levies, levy a tax not to exceed one-half mill129

129. Limited to one-eighth of a mill by Laws 1909, ch. 245, sec. 25 (section 536 of this book).

upon the dollar of assessed valuation in cities of the first and second class, and not to exceed one mill130 on the dollar of the assessed valuation in all other cities and school districts, for the equipment and maintenance of industrial-training schools or industrial-training departments of the public schools. The sum raised by such levies shall be expended for the purpose named in this act and no other. (Laws 1903, ch. 20, sec. 1.)

§ 489. Boards May Provide Schoolrooms. [9385] Said board of education and district board, upon such levy being made, may provide for a separate school or a separate department in some existing school, and may employ such teachers as they think are competent to give instruction in industrial training, as required by their course of study; and it shall be the duty of such board to provide, from the funds received under the provisions of this act, the necessary books, appliances and room for such instruction, and it shall be the duty of such board to prescribe a course of study to meet the special needs of the district or city, which course of study must be approved by the State Board of Education. (Laws 1903, ch. 20, sec. 2.)

§ 490. State Board Prescribes Course and Standard. [9386] The State Board of Education shall establish a standard for teachers of industrial training, and shall grant special certificates to those who are fully qualified to give instruction therein; and they shall prescribe the course of study in industrial training to be used in the state. (Laws 1903, ch. 20, sec. 3.)

[9387] On the

§ 491. Report to State Superintendent. 1st day of July in each year, the clerk of each school board or district maintaining a school or department for industrial training as aforesaid, and desiring state aid, shall make a report, duly certified, to the state superintendent of public instruction, in such form as may be required, setting forth the facts relating to the cost of maintaining such school or department for industrial training, the character of the work done, the number and names of the teachers employed in such work, and the length of time such school or department was maintained during the preceding year. Upon receipt of such report, the state superintendent, when satisfied therefrom, and from such other investigation as he may deem advisable, that such school or department for industrial training has been established and maintained for a period of six months in the year immediately preceding, and has been taught by a special teacher or teachers having the qualifications mentioned in sections 3 and 4 of this act,131 shall make a certificate to that

130. Limited to one-quarter of a mill by Laws 1909, ch. 245, sec. 25 (section 536 of this book).

131. Sections 490 and 491 of this book.

effect, showing also the amount of money expended by such school district in the twelve months immediately preceding the 1st day of July of each year in maintaining such school or department for industrial training, and submit such certificate to the state auditor. (Laws 1903, ch. 20, sec. 4.)

§ 492. State Aid.132 [9388] Upon receiving such certificate mentioned in section 4132 of this act, the state auditor shall draw his warrant upon the state treasurer, payable to the treasurer of the school district or board of education maintaining said school or department, for a sum of money equal to that contributed by such school district for such purpose, but not exceeding the sum of $250; and provided, that the total sum of money contributed by the state as aforesaid for such purposes shall not exceed the sum of $10,000 in any one year. (Laws 1903, ch. 20, sec. 5.)

132. State aid is not available unless the legislature makes appropriations for this purpose. No appropriation was made under this act for 1917 or 1918.

CHAPTER XV.—Industrial-school Pupils.133

$493. County superintendent shall visit in- $495. County superintendent to seek out dentured pupils. persons willing to receive indentured pupils.

494. Pupils not properly provided for.

§ 493. County Superintendent Shall Visit Indentured Pupils. [10115] The superintendents of public instruction in the several counties of the state are hereby designated as visiting agents, to have local supervision over indentured pupils of the reform134 school. It shall be the duty of each visiting agent to visit as often as twice each year all pupils of the reform school134 who may have been indentured to persons residing within his county. He shall inquire into the condition of such pupils, and make such other investigations in relation thereto as the board of trustees may prescribe; and for the purpose aforesaid, said agents may have private interviews with such pupils at any time, and shall have power to administer oaths. (Laws 1881, ch. 129, sec. 13.)

§ 494. Pupils Not Properly Provided for. [10116] When any visiting agent is of the opinion that an indentured pupil is not properly provided for, and can not be so held to his further advantage, he shall report the fact to the board of trustees; and no pupil shall be indentured to any person until notice of an application therefor has been given to said agent, and his report in writing, made after investigation into the propriety thereof, is filed with the institution. (Laws 1881, ch. 129, sec. 14.)

§ 495. Seek Out Persons to Receive Indentured Pupils. [10117] Said agent shall seek out suitable persons who are willing to receive pupils from the reform school134 under articles of indenture, and give notice thereof to the president of the board of trustees, which notice shall contain the agent's recommendation of the applicant as a proper person to receive and have the care of any such pupil. (Laws 1881, ch. 129, sec. 15.)

133. The requirements of this chapter are probably modified by the provisions of chapter 475, Laws of 1905, entitled "Board of Control of State Charitable Institutions."

134. Refers to Industrial School for Boys and the Industrial School for Girls.