New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-18

| but InC bCuOOl taxes 5Hdll UO pay dUlC IL
cash only: and the Administrator OF Finance
shall pay out the cash received for the tag
OF 1872 for the oldest warrants outstanding
OF 1871 or 1872, so that no warrants OF any
month shall be paid until those outstand
ing OF previous months are pad or FULLY
provided for, and the cash hereafter re
ceived from the State and from Other
sources, including the school tax OF lS13
shall be appropriated for the expenses O
each month in turn, beginning January l
! 1873; and no writ of tieri faclaS or of man
| damus shall lie for the seizure of any
school moneys in the fiscal agency OIL
treasury of the city Of New Orleans or OF
| the school board, or to direct or enforce it,
paying out, otherwise than in the manner
and sequence required in this act.
SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, etc, Thai
the teachers and employees OF the board OF
directors of the public schools of the
| city OF New Orleans shall be appointed
| by said board, at such rate of annual
salary as may be fixed, and to continue
| until otherwise ordered by the board
but no annual salary shall be construed as
| giving a fixed time Of employment; and the
| board may at any time vacate any position
| by notifying the incumbent thereof. But
| no school officer, director or committee
| shall be empowered TO remove any teacher,
and no position or appointment shall be
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| ing of the same. And no suit or action shall
| lie against the board Of school directors, or
| against the school moneys or revenues, for the
| payment of any discharged officer or
| teacher, the school fund being held sacred
| for the actual current expenses of the
| schools The pay of the regular ncumbent,
IN case OF absence from any cause, shall
be allowed pro rata for actual days en-
ployed to the superIumary or other person
ron ElpVlx In nj INV
against the board Of directors OF the public
schools of the city of New Orleans, or by
or against the president of the board, or the
Administrator of Finance OF the city, in
volving the disposition of moneys raised or
to be raised for school purposes, IN case the
said board, president or Administrator OF
Finance shall have occasion TO appeal, SIZE
out injunction. or take other proceedings IN
which ordinary parties would be required
TO give bond and security, such bond and
security shall be dispensed with.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, etc, That
there shall be appointed by the Board of
School Directors a committee on teachers,
who shall examine applicants for employ
ment as teachers The superintendent of
the sixth division shall be required to attend
and assist at all the examinations Of said
committee. They shall keep a record of
the examination of candidates for teachers
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schools, and such examination in branches
of teaching, in which the same may be
practicable, shall be in writing. The origi
nal papers shall be preserved, and figure
or estimate affixed to each study, whether
the examination therein be written or oral.
The aggregate percentage or estimate for
each candidate shall be test of proficiency,
and the list of candidates shall be preserved
for the selection of teachers by the board,
HI oh Oh ha he, 70 cD1o for ach IL
any future vacancy from the twenty names
standing highest on the list; provided, the
committee ON teachers shall strike from the
list all persons removing from the city, or
resigning or declining to be further consid-
cred as candidates, and may for cause or
reason rendering unfit the employment OF
the candidate. notwithstanding proficiency,
remove his or her name theretrom, and no
name shall be stricken from the list by the
committee on teachers only as provided for
in this act, in case of dismissal of teachers.
Teachers in the schools who shall have
been examined by the committee or the
State Superintendent, and whose percent
age OF estimate shall place them in the list
OF candidates to be selected from shall be
duly considered for promotion in all cases
of vacancy; and further provided, that
nothing in this section shall be construed TO
prohibit the State Superintendent OF Educa-
lIOu IL JILL ISruiuS ~ lCcGEC4o CtdlC SCl I'LL
Gates Of qualification.
SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, etc, That |
the board of directors OF the public schools |
shall not be empowered to make contracts |
or debts for the year 1873, or any subse |
quent year, greater than the amount of the |
revenue provided for according to this act, |
or other schOOl'lawB existing, it being the |
intent hereof that parties contracting with |
said board, shall take heed that due reve-
nue. shall have been provided to satisfy the |
claims, otherwise they shall lose and forfeit |
the same, and no action or execution shall |
be allowed in aid thereof, and that the
board shall not exceed its powers in the in
curing Ofdebt.
SEC. II. Be IL further enacted, etc, That
this act shall take effect from and after its
and all laws or parts of laws con-
Aicting Herewith be repealed as far as they
SO conflict.
tSigned) CHARLES w. LOWELL,
Speaker of the House of representatives..
tSIgned) &. G. ANTOINE,
Lieutenant. Governor and President of the
Senate.
Approved February q, 1873
iSigned) WILLIAM P. KELLOGG,
Governor Of the State of Louisiana
A true copy:
P. G. DEsLoNDE. Secretary of State.