The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-03-19
The school Bill.


tors. The State Superintendent to
be nominated by the Governor and
confirmed by the Senate, and is to
hold for two years, devoting all bis
time to the State schools, with an
] office at the Capitol, make tours oil
, inspection. collect and disseminate
all information relative to public
schools, and to require of County
Superintendent, detailed reports,
annually, and as much oftener as be
may deem proper; and he may re.
quire special reports at any time OF
any officer connected with the school
system. He is further required to
report annually the scholastic popu-
lation of each county, also an ac-
count of receipts and disbursements
and minute particulars tabularly set
forth showing average attendance,
etc. Persons between the ages Of
eighteen and twenty-one are to be-
allowed public school privileges for
the term Of three years after the
organization under this act.
The County Superintendent is to
be elected by the County Court at
its April or July term, 1873, and
after 1874 he shall be elected BIZ
ennially in January, and no mem
Der of the County Court shall be
eligible to said Office. He must be
literary, we'll instructed, must visit
the schools, must keep posted in the
merits Of text books, and observe
such directions and regulations as
the State Superintendent Of schools
may from time to time prescribe, to
make special reports to that officer
whenever required. His duties are
exhaustively defined.
There shall be three Directors for
each school district one to be cleo
ted for one year, one for two years,
and one for three years and after
the expiration of their first term of
Office, their successors shall be cleo
ted for three years. They are to
visit schools Of their district from
time to time, direct the manage
ment Of the schools, keep seper-
ate schools for white and colored
children, use the school fund appor-
toned to their district, and take
care of and control the school prop
erty of their district. They are to
have a clerk and treasurer elected
by themselves. The school districts
are to remain as they are now. All
penalties for failure to do duties are
60 to the school fund; prosecutions
to be conducted by the District At
torney. Written contracts, at fixed,
rate per month, are to he made with
all teachers. Teachers may suspend
pupils for sufficient cause, such
cause to be Gnally settled by the
Directors. The schools are to be
free to all between six and eighteen
years, residing within the district.
Orthography, reading, writing.
arithmetic, grammar, geography,
elementary geology of Tennessee
and history Of the United States, are
to be taught. Vocal music may be
taught. Additional studies may be
taught by special regulations "upon
the payment of such rates of tuition
as may be prescribed, the funds
derived from this source to 90 into
the school fund for the support of
the respective schools in the dis
trict in which it may be collected"
The permanent school fund shall
be the S1,5O0,0O0 declared by Sec
ton 949 of the Code, to which is to
be added the accrued interest, ma
king the entire permanent school
fund $2,512,50O. The principal of
said fund shall remain unimpraired
and entire, and the annurl income
of interest, paid semi-annually at
per cent, is to be devoted to public
schools ercLusi0ely. There is to be
poIl-tax Of one dollar to be so deve-
ted, and tax of one mill on the dol
lar OF all taxable property for the
same purpose.
All moneys in the Treasury of
the State for the annual support of
her schools, on the 1st Mondays in
October and April of every year.
shall be apportioned by the Comp
troller among the several counties
according to their scholastic popula-
ton. He shall give immediate
notice of such apportionment to the
County Trustee of each county,
and shall give notice, in some news
paper at the seat of government,
of the amount apportioned to each
county.
Rev. w. ". Neal writes to the
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