The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-14
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lie accounts.
The county treasurer shall keep record
all school funds received by HIM, showing I'll
year Tor which the same are TO be diShurSet
ana shall credit school communities or dis
tilctS after number NJ and Otherwise GeSigna
ing such communities ar districts with sue
amounts rs may be appuE1iOned to them b
the eoun judge. All balances of the geners
luud not appropriated for the current yea
snail be carried over By the treasurer as par
OF The general fund for the county FOR 1.-THE sue
ceeding year, and balances meXpended or un
| ~ propriateu for school community or diStric
snail be carried over for the benefit of Suel
| School community or district, If the communit,
he rcorganized for the following year. and if j
De not reutganlzed shalt be added to the gen
eral fund for distribution for fine general ben
eft OF the county at large.
| See. IS. Any one desiring to teach public FIRE,
| ScnooI, SAall, unless known to the county Judge
| present a certificate from the justice of Tn,
peace OF the precinct in which he or she desire,
| 10 teach, or in which he or she may reside: OIL
| IN case the applicant has acquired no residence
III this state, then some other certificate salts
| factory to the county judge that the applicant
Is OF good moral character, and of correct
| exemplary habits: the county Judge shall
| thereupon, unless satisfied tn some goOC
| cause exists for refusing such certificate, con
| Yene the county school board of examiners
| and direct an examination of the applicant OF
the branches hereinafter named, as follows
| to-wit:
/ AppbCdillSl LOT lulfu 8Taue ceftllcdIeA snail
/ De examined III photography. reading. writing
arithmetic, geography and English grammar.
| Applicants for second grade certificates Shal
be examined in the branches named in the
tnlru grade, and also IN composition ana his
| tory OF the United States.
Applicants for FIRST grade certificates shall
be examined in the branches named IN the
third aud cOnd grades. and also in the ele
mentary branches of algebra, geometry, and
natural philosophy, school discipline and
methods OF teaching.
The examination must be conducted in the
English language, and no applicant shall re-
eelve certificate unless the board of exam
liners be satisfied that he or she is competent to
teach the branches named IN the grade of GER
t'hcate applied for. i'll the English Language.
The board of examiners shall examine such
applicant as to his or her competency TO teach
the branches named in the preceding clauses
and shall make report unGer oath OF such
examination TO the county judge, who shall, if
such report be favorable, issue ce titcate OF
competency to the applicant, according TO the
grade recommended by the board If examiners,
authorizing MS or her employment by the
trustees ct any school district or community in
the county in which the same is issued.
Such certificate shall be valid in the county
where ISSUED Tor the current scholastic year,
and may be renewed by the county Judge for
any subsequent year without examination and
without charge 10 the teacher if he be satisfied
OF the prOprety of such renewal.
A teachers certificate shall be cancelled on
account of such misconduct or immortality as
the trustees shall report TO the county judge
d1squalifying him, i'll their opinion, for the i'll
StructiOn OF children; but before making such
report, the trustees shall give such teacher
reasonable notice of the charges against him,
and an opportunity to be heard.
1t shall be the duty of the teachers to keep
an accurate record of the daily attendance Of
each pupil, and all other statistical data re-
quired by the state superintendent, and shall
MAKE full report thereof to the county judge
at the close OF their respective schools.
Sec. 49. Teachers with certificates from the
Texas State Normal school. the summer Dor
NAL schools of Texas. shall not be required
to be examined by the county board of exam
liners. Any person holding diploma from Il
Texas state normal school may teach in the pub
lie schools of this state during good behavior;
any person holding certificate of one years
attendance at a Texas state normal school
may teach in the public schools OF the state
for three years after its issuance, or during
good behavior; any person holding Il certifi-
may teach in the public schools of the state
for two years, or during good behavior. The
state superintendent shall prescribe rules for
granting certificates by summer normal shoots.
sec. so. Teachers shall receive salaries not
exceeding the following sums:
Teachers with first grade certificates, $75 per
month; teachers with second grade certificates
$50 per mODth; teachers with third grade GER
tificateS, $50 per month; provided, that teach
erS teaching under certificates of one years
attendance at state normal school shall be
regarded as teachers with second class certiti-
Gates; provided further, that this rule shall
not apply to teachers employed in districts vot
ing local tax on themselves.. Teachers shall
admit all children over and under scholastic age
in o the public schools. All tuition paid for
students, attending free school, under and
over the scholastic age, shall be paid to the
trustees for the benefit of the community or
district in which the school is taught.
Sec. 81. Teachers shall keep daily registers
Iii which the names. ages and studies of the
pupils and their daily attendance shall be re-
corded, and such other matters as may be pre-
Scribed by the state superintendent. Said
registers shall be open to the inspection of all
parents, school officers and other persons who
may be interested to examine the same. All
teache shall make monthly reports on such
subjects as may be designated by the state
superintendent or county judge, to be approved
by a majority of the trustees of the district,
and shall file the same with the county judge,
when they present their vouchers Tor their
months salaries. They shall make such term
reports at the end OF schools as may be
prescribed by the state superintendent and
until such term reports a"e male the trustees
snail not approve voucher for last months
salaries, and until they are returned to aud ap-
proved by county judges, county judges shall
not approve their vouchers for last months
salaries, nor shall the county t. easurer pay
same. AZ Pr term rel2ft5 sIlIT De
lna9SJdnder oath nd county judges are hereby
empowered to administer OalhS for such pur-
poses.
Sec. 80. 1t shall be the duty of all teachers
in the public schools of this sta to attend the
summer normal INSTITUTES as lar as pos ible.
Sec. 90. School trustees shall determine
now many schools shall be maintained in their
respective school districts or communities and
at what points they shall be located, they Suall
determine when The schools shall be opened
and when closed, they shall contract with
TEACHERS and manage and supervise the schools
subject to the rules and regulations Of the
county judge and state superintendent. They
shall approve all teachers vouchers and all
other Claims against The school fund of their
districts Or cOmmm ties. Provided that truS-
tees or districts or communities in maxi, con-
tr6ctS with teachers shall not create def
clencv debt against the dis riot or cOmmu aity.
Sec. 81. trustees of districts that levy a
school tax, shall make contracts with teachers
to teach the public schools of their respective
districts for period of nOtle than six months
in scholastic year, which time may be divided
into two terms or not as may be directed by
the board of trustees, but the compensation TO
teachers under written contract with the truS-
tees shall be approved by the county Judge be-
fore the school is taught stating that the
teacher wi teach such school for the time and
money specified in the contract, and that he
will employ the number of competent assis-
tantS necessary when the number of ch'ld en-
In the district shall exceed fifty, and all chill
dren within the scholastic age, who have set
tied in such district since the scholastic CEN
SuS was taken shall be entitled to receive all
the benefits of the schools OF such district, and
in such districts the trustees shall have the
right 10 increase the salaries of teachers ana
the scholastic age and may also have the
schools taught longer than six months if it is
deemed advisable.
Sec. 55. Ali the public schools of this state
shall be required to have taught in them or
biography, reading III English, penmanship
arithmetic, English grammer, modern geogra
ply and composition and other branches as
may be agreed on by the trustees or directed
by the state superin iendent.
Sec. Sc. Three teachers holding first grade
certificates, to be appointed by the county
judge, shall constitute the county board of eX
aminers, and shall receive from each teacher
| examined for a certificate the sum of three
| dollars, and the county judge shall keeps
| record of all certificates issued by said boarC
| and all o-her certificates and diplomas o
| teachers, giving the name, age, sex, color anC
nativity Of the person, the date, grade ant
length of time of each certificate. Teacher;
certificates shall be valid anywhere in the stat
| without re-eXaminatiOn until forfeited as hel e
matter provided; provided, however, that whel
| a teacher removes from one county TO another
| before ing such county he or she shall oh
| tain from the county judge duly certified t.
| and authenticated by his official signature
| certificate showing that the certificate grantee
/ to him or her as a teacher has not been cancel
cd and no teacher who removes into anOtht
county and fails to obtain such certificate
shall be competent to contract with schoC
trustees. unless he or she be re-eXamined.
Sec. 81. The trustees of school districts o
communities shall have the management an
control of the public schools; they shall hav
| the power to employ and dismiss teachers
but, in cases of dismissal, teachers shall hav
the right OF appeal to the county and stat
superintendent.
the power to admit scholars over or unde
scholastic age, either in or out of the distriC
or community, on such terms as they ma
deem proper and just, and they may stispen
from the privileges of schools any pupil foun
guilty of incOrrigible conduct, butSuch suSpcI
sion shall not extend beyond the current teri
of the school.
Sec. SO. County judges, trustees and a
officers, except teachers, shall take oaths
faithfully and impartIally discharge the dutie
of their respective offices.
Sec. 60. White and colOred children sha
not be taught in the same schools, but the co
ored children shall receive the benefit, as f.