CHAPTER 200 AN ACT TO REVISE AND CONSOLIDATE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW AND TO MAKE MORE EFFICIENT THE SYSTEM OF PUBLIC IN: STRUCTION IN THIS STATE. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact :
Section 22. The county board of education of every county shall, on the first Monday of March of each year, apportion among the several districts in the county, according to the number of children in each, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, (which number shall be ascertained by a census to be taken by the school committees and reported to the county board of education,) all schoo! funds, except such as may be raised by the special tax provided for in section sixty-two of this act, specifying how much thereof is apportioned to the children of each race, and give notice thereof to the school committees of the several districts of the county, and shall publish the same by advertisement posted on the court-house door of each county; and furnish the county treasurer with the amounts thus apportioned among the several school districts and the amount to which each district is entitled. The sums thus apportioned to the several districts shall be subject to the orders of the school committees thereof for payment of the school expenses mentioned in this act: Provided, however, That in no case shall the school fund thus apportioned to either race by expended for the education of the other race: And provided further, That so much of said school fund as shall not be expended in any school district for the education of the race for which it was apportioned in any year, shall remain to the credit of said race in said school district for the year next ensning. As far as practicable, the county board of education shall require all the schools to begin on the same day.
Section 32. The county treasurer of each county shall report to the state superintendent of public instruction on the first day of December of each year, the entire amount of shool money received by him during the preceding school year, the several sources from which it was derived and the disbursements thereof made by him, designating the sums paid to teachers for the white and colored children respectively and for school-houses and sclioolhouse sites, in the several districts. He also shall report to the state superintendent of public instruction, specifically and in detail by items, the amounts paid out for other purposes in pursuance of this act and other laws now in force.
Section 45. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of public instruction of each county, on or before the first Monday in December of every year, to report to the state superintendent of public instruction an abstract statement of the number, grade, race and sex of the teachers examined and approved by him during the year ; also the number cf public schools taught in the county during the year for each race ; the number of pupils of each race enrolled in said schools; their average attendance; the number of males and the number of females; the average length of the terms of said schools and the average salary, respectively, of the white and colored teachers; also full and accurate statistics of the number of school children in the county, giving race and sex ; the number of school districts for each race and the number of public schoolhouses and the value of public school property for each, race; the number of teachers institutes held and the number of teachers that attended such institutes; together with such suggestions as may occur to him promotive of the school interests of the county. 25