The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-01-31

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county where issued for the current
scholastic year, and may be renewed
by the county uperintendent for any
subsequent year without examination
without charge to the teacher, if he bt
satisfied of the propriety of such re-
neWal.
A teachers certificate shall be can,
celed On,account of such misconduct oil
immortality as the trustees shall rt-
port to the county Superintendent dis
qualifying him, in their opinion, fol-
the instruction of children; but. before
making such report, the trustees shal.
give such teacher reasonable notice oil
the charges against him, and an op'
| portunIty to be heard.
1t shall be the duty of the teachers
to keep an accurate recor Of the daily
attendance of each pulpit, and al
other statistical data required by the
state superintendent and shall make
a full report thereof to the county
superintendent at the close of tbaiI
respective schools.
Sec 81. Teachers with certificates
from the Texas state normal school,
the summer normal schools Of Texas
or from the superintendent Of Texas
| shall not be required to be examined
by the county board of examiners.
Any person holding diploma from a
Texas normal school may teach in the
public schools of this state during good
behavior; any person holding a
certificate from the state SUI erin
tendent may teach in the public
schools of the state during good be-
havior; any person holding certili-
cate 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 dur
ing good behavior; any person hold
| ing certificate from summer nor
NAL school of Texas 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 sum-
mer normal schools.
see. 60. 1t shall be the duty of ali
teachers in the public schools Of this
State TO attend the summer normal
Institutes as far as possible.
Sec. 81. School trustees shall deter
mine how many schools shall be main
tanned in their respective school dis
tricts or communities and at what
points they shall be located, they shall
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 superintendent and state SUI
perrin tendent. They shall approve all
teachers vouchers and all other claims
against the school fund of their dis
tricts or communities; provided, that
trustees Of districts or counties in
making contracts with teachers shall
not create deficiency debt against
the district or community.
Sec. so. Trustees of districts that
levy school tax, shall make contracts
with teachers to teach the public
schools of their respective districts for
period of not less than six months in
scholastic year, which time may be
divided into two terms or not, as may
be directed by the trustees, but the
compensation to teachers under writ
ten contract with the trustees shall be
approved by the county superintend-
ent before the school is taught, stating
that the teacher will teach such school
for the time and money specified in
the contract, and that he will employ
the number of competent assistants
necessary when the number Of child
rem shall exceed fifty, and all children
within the scholastic age, who have
settled in such a district since the
scholastic census 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 to increase the salaries Of
teachers and the scholastic age, and
may also have the schools taught
longer than six months if it is deemed
advisable.
Sec. SO. White and colored chill
rlren shall not be taught in the same
schools, but the colored children shall
receive the benefit as far as practical
bic OF the public school fund, and the
funds, set aside in any district or COM
munity for colored children shall not
be used for the education of white
children, nor shall the public school
fund, set aside in anv school district or
community, for white children, be
used for the education of coloTed chill
dren. Three white trustees shall in
all cases be eli cted or appointed for
the management and control of white
schools, and three colored trustees,
shall be elected or appointed in any
school district for the colored schools
therein, upon the written application
of ten colored residents Of said dis
trict, having one or more children
within the scholastic age, to the coun-
ty superintendent one month before
any annual election in said district for
school trustrees. In case that there
are not enough colored children in any
school district as laid off, then two or
more of said districts may be consOli-
dated by the trustees for the benefit of
the colored school, and each of the
districts shall pay pro rata, according
to colored scholastic census in each,
from the district school fund, for its
support, and shall be governed by the
trustees of both districts.
Sec. 80. The following named coun-
ties shall be exempted from the dis
trict system provided for in this act,
to-Wit: Harrison, Brazoria and Mata-
gorda.
Sec. 81. Schools in said counties
shall be organized as follows: 1t shall
be lawful for parents, guardians, or
other persons having control of any
lCO1QlbEs LII any SOOhOy
in the foregoing section, who may be
within the scholastic age, to unite and
organize themselves into free school
communities, entitled to share in the
benefits of the available school fund
belonging to such county, upon COM
plying with the conditions hereinafter
prescribed.
Sec. 81. Three trustees shall be ap-
pointed by the county superintendent
for each community school, and the
three citizens named in the petition
shall in all cases be appointed trustees
unless the county superintendent be
satisfied from personal knowledge that
the parties so named are either unWOr-
thy or incompetent. Said trustees
shall discharge such duties as are here
in prescribed, or which may be pre-
scribed by the state superintendent
and shall see that the schools fol-
which they are trustees are conducted
in accordance with the provisions and
limitations of this law. Said trustees
shall be removed from office by the
county superintendent upon the writ
ten application OF a majority of the
patrons of the school.
Sec. S8. 1t shall be the duty of the
| trustees of a school community
already provided with school house
to contract with teacher holding q
certificate of competency from the
| superintendent or commissioner of ed.
ucation, to teach school for the com.
munity for as long a period as the
school fund entered to the credit of the
community will warrant. The school,
shall oman at S1loh fines aS the frI1Stoac