The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-03-08
The @ SEginsr.
Public School Law.

Be it enacted by the legislative assembly of the Territory of Arizona.
 Section 1 Section one of said act is here- by amended so as to read as follows: Sec ton l. A tax of twenty-five cents upon
 each one hundred dollars value of taxable
 property is hereby levied and directed to be | collected and paid into the Territorial treas | ury as special fund for school purposes to l be disbursed as hereinafter provided said tax to be levied and collected at the same time and in the same manner as other Terri
 torial revenues.
 Sec. g. Section two of said act is hereby
 amended SO as to read as follows: Section
 2. The board of supervisors of each county
 shau annually at the time of levying other
 taxes, levy county school tax of twenty
 five cents on eacL one hundred dollars valua-
 ton Of taxable property, which tax shall be added to the county tax and collected in.thc same manner and paid into the county treas
 nry as special fund to be drawn as herein after provided
 Section ,. Section six of said act is here by amended so as to read as follows: Sec tion 6. It shall be the duty of the superin- tcndent of public instruction, subject
 to the supervision of the Territorial board of education, to apportion to the several counties on the first day of March and the first day of September of each year, the amount of money to the cred 1t of the school fund to which each county shall be entitled under the provisions of this act, in proportion to the number of children between the age of six and twenty zone year. in each of said counties.
 Sec. 4. Section eight of said act is hereby amended ss to read follows: Sec & The superintendent Of public instruction shall prescribe suitable forms and regulations for making all reports for conducting all neces- sary proceedings under this (act), and shall cause the same with such instructions as he may deem necessary and proper for the organization and government of schools, to be transmitted to the local officers who shall be governed in ac- cordance herewith. He shall prepare con- venient form of school register for the pur. | pose of securing more accurate returns from | teachers of public schools, and shall furnish ! each county superintendent with a number sufficient to supply at least one copy thereof to each district or school of such county. He shall certify the cost for printing said | blanks to the Territorial auditor who shall draw his warrant on the Territorial treasurer
 in favor of the person to whom said amount is dul and the treasurer shall pay said war rant out or any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
 Sec. 5. Sec nine of said act is hereby amended 80 as to read as follows: Section 9. l. It shali be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction to visit each county in the Territory once in each year for the purposes of visiting schools, of consulting county su- perinteadents, of featuring and addressing public ssscmSiages on subjects pertaining to public schools. I'
 Sec. 6. Section ten of said act is hereby repealed.
 Sec. :. Sec. fifteen of said act is hereby Amended to road foIlnr.. Gao | The probate judge of each county in this Territory is hereby made ex-officio county ' superintendent Of public schools for his county, and shall be paid quarterly out of the school fund of said county the sum of one hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by the county treasurer quarterly upon the receipt of the superintendent.
 Sec. s. Section sixteen is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. l6. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of { public schools, upon receiving notice frem the f county treasurer, as provided in this act, to s spPortion the public school moneys in the [ county treasury, among the several school [ districts ia his county in proportion to the | number Of childreu between the ages of six s and twenty-one years as returned by the a trustees and school census marshals, and to | torthuith notify the county treasurer and a school trustees, in writing, of such appor- c tonment- He shall have power and it shall b be hts duty to draw his warrant on the coun- il ty treasurer in favor of and deliver the same 0 Co the person entitled to receive the same r provided no such warrant shall be drawn in V favor of any school district until full and cor c rect returns have been made to him by the i same as required by law, and a certificate of | the board of trustees given, showing for S what purpose, in accordance with this act, s the money is required and provided further f that no such warrant shall be drawn in favor T Of any school district unless there is cash in | the treasury at the time to the credit of said I school district. n
 Sec. 9. Section thirty -one is hereby amen D ded so as to read as follows: Sec 3l. The = supenntendents of public schools of the sey- eral counties, shall have the power and it is hereby made their duty to prescribe and cause to be adopted a uniform series of text books in the principal studies pursued in the public h schools m their respective counties, to-wit II spelling, reading, grammar, arithmetic. geog- a raphy, physiology and such other studies as {, may be deemed necessary. q
 Sec. lo. Section thirty-three is hereby IT amended SO as to read as follows: Section q 33. The public school year shall commence n on the first day Of September and end on the al last day of August; and five days shall con n stitute a legal school week, and twenty eight ei days legal school month. No public school al shall receive any moneys, benefits or immu- a mites under the provisions of this act unless ic such school shall have been instructed by a Ii teacher or teachers duly examined, approved and employed by legal authority as herein provided.
 Sec. II. That sections II, l2 and 13, of chapter twenty three, of Howell Code, @Of of also an act "Concerning common b' 'chools approved October 5, 1867, also an W lct entitled "An Act to establish Public fo schools in the Territory of Arizona" ap- m proved December .6, 1868, be and the same vi Ire hereby repealed te Sec. i2. All the powers and duties of the of superintendent of public instruction are here ca y conferred upon the Governor of the Ter. 1tory, who shall perform the same without compensation. ou Sec IA Ihin nnA nL .li a.I. .lc--. -.