The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-20
SWEETWATER, TENN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 90 1870
The New School Law.

Inc following Is the new common school
law, recently passed by the Legislature Of
Tennessee:
SECTION |. Be IL enacted by The GEN
sraI Assembly of The State of Tennss-
see, That an act passed on the 9th day Of
March, 1867, entitled, An act to provide
for the reorganization, supervision and
maintenance of free common schools, and
an act passed March the l4th, 1868, enti-
tied, An act to amend an act to provide
for the reorganization, supervision and
maintenance of free common schools, passed
March 5, 1867, be and the same are here
by repealed.
SEC. 2. Be il further enacted, That
the State Superintendent and County Su-
perintendent, or any other person having
under his control any money appropriated
for common school purposes unexpended,
shall pay the same over to the Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury, to be received into
the Treasury as other moneys belonging to
the State are paid in.
Sec. 8. BE II further enacted, That
each county court of every county in the
State, may lay direct tax on the proper
ty and taxables of their respective coun-
ties, not to exceed the State and county
tax for the support and maintenance of
system of common schools in their respec-
tive counties, to be collected in the same
manner that other taxes are assessed, and
collected and paid over into the possession
and control of the respective county Trus-
tees, and to be by them distributed and
paid out, as provided by law, according to
the ratio of children between the ages of
six, and twenty-one, in the several school
districts, as compared with the children
within those ages of the whole county, ac-
cording to report Of the respective Com
missioners of common schools in each dis
trict in the county made according to law.
SEC. 4. BE IL further enacted, That
the schools for white children and for col
ored children shall be kept seperate and
apart from each other, and the School Com
missioners from each district will observe
strictly this requirement.
SEC. 5. Be IL further enacted, That
the State Superintendent of Common
Schools shall have ninety days from the
passage of this act to settle and wind up
his office, and he shall approve all accounts
for money due any county from the school
tax of 1867, where the same has not been
drawn and hand over the warrants to the
county Trustees of such county, and take
his receipt for the same.
SEC. 6. BE ii further enacted, That
the taxes levied and collected by the re-
spective counties under the provisions of
this act, shall not be used for any other
purposes than that of education, and shall
be denominated the Common School Fund
for said county; provided the school fund
raised by each county shall be equally
distributed pro rata among the white and
colored scholastic population of the coun-
ty.
SEC. 7. Be ii further enacted, That
the counties which have not received their
quota of the school fund already collected,
and to be collected under existing assess
ments, shall be furnished their quota out
of the first money realized, and after all
the counties are equalized, pro rata, the
balance, if any, shall be divided amongst
all the counties according to scholastic
population, and paid over to the Treasurer
of such county for school purposes.
SEC. 8. Beat further enacted, That in
all cases where it shall, upon settlement,
appear that County Superintendent has
paid out, for common school purposes,
more money than he has received, the
Comptroller of the Treasury shall issue
his warrant to such Superintendent for the
amount so overpaid; provided there be
any school money due his county.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That
teachers of common schools who have al
ready been employed as teachers shall be
paid according to contract, out of any
moneys due their counties.
Sec. 10. Be IL further enacted, That all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with this
act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.
SEC. IL. BE it furter enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after its
passage.