Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-19
EDUCATIONAL.
IA

Education.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State
of Minnesota:
Section 1. The Governor, Superintendent
Of Public Instruction, and the President OF
the University of Minnesota, ex-officic, are
hereby constituted board of commissioners
on preparatory schools for the encourage
ment of higher education in this State. This
board shall be called the "High School
Board," and shall perform the duties and
have and exercise the powers hereinafter men,
toned.
q Sec. Q. Any public graded school in any
city or incorporated village or township or
gained into district, under the so,calicd
township system, which school shall give
preparatory instruction according to the
terms and provisions of this act, and shall
admit students of either sex from any part of
the State without charge for tuition, shall be
entitled to receive pecuniary aid as hereinafter
specified. Provided, however, that no such
school shall be required to admit non resident
pupils unless they shall pass an examination
in al! the branches prescribed by law as re-
quisite to a third grade county certificate.
Sec. 8. The said board shall require of the
schools applying for such pecuniary aid, as
prerequisite to receiving such aid. compli
ance with the following conditions, to-wit:
First-That there be regular and orderly
courses of study, embracing all the branches
prescribed as prerequisite for admission to
the collegiate department of the University of
Minnesota.
Second-That the said schools receiving pc
cuniary aid under this act shall at all times
permit the said board of commissioners, OF
any of them, to visit and examine the classes
pursuing the said preparatory courses.
Sec. 4. The said board of commissioners
shall cause each school receiving aid under
this act to be visited at least once in each
school year by a committee of one or more
members, who shall carefully inspect the in
struction and discipline of the preparatory
classes, and make written report on the
board may, in their discretion, appoint in any
case competent persons to visit and inspect
any schools, and to make report thereon,
and ne money shall be paid
in any case until after such report
shall have been received and examined by the
board and the work of the school approved
by vote of the board.
Sec. S. The said board shall receive ap-
plications from such schools for aid as herein
provided, which application shall be received
and acted upon in the order of their reception.
The said board shall apportion to each of
said schools which shall have fully complied
with the provisions of this act, and whose
application shall have been approved by the
board, the sum of four hundred dollars
$4,000 in each year; provided, that the total
amount of appointments and expenses
under this act shall not exceed twenty thou
sand dollars ($2O,OOO), in any one year.
The sum of twenty thousand dol
lars (s20,0O0), is hereby appropriated
annually to be paid out of any moneys in the
treasury, not otherwise appropriated for the
purposes of this act, which amount, or so
much thereof as shall be necessary. shall be-
paid upon the warrants of said board upon
the State Auditor.
shall serve without compensation, but
the actual and necessary expenses of the
board and of any examiner appointed by
them, shall be paid in the same manner as
those of State officers, provided, that the to-
tai expenses, including the app0rtionments to
the schools aforesaid, shall not exceed twenty
thousand dollars in any one year.
Sec. T. The said board shall have power to
establish any necessary and suitable rules aud
regulations relating to examinations, reports,
acceptance of schools, courses of studies,
and other proceedings under this act.
Sec. 8. The said board shall keep careful
record of all their proceedings, and shall
make, on or before the first day of September
in each year, report covering the previous
school year, to the Superintendent of Public
Instruction, showing in detail all receipts,
and disbursements, the names and number of
schools receiving aid, and the number of pu-
pills attending the classes In each, to which re-
port they may add such recommendations as
they may deem useful and proper.
Sec. 9. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after Its passage.
Approved March 8, 1881.
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