Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-03-28
SENATE BILL NO. AZ.
First published March 6, 1885
AN ACT

To authorize school districts and boards Of edu-
cation in any county Of thestate to adopt uni
chapter 157, laws of 1872
Be 1t enacted 5v fas legislature Of the state Of
Kansas:
SECTION /. School districts may at their annual
meetings for the election of school officers indicate
byamajOrlty of all the votes cast at such meeting
their desire for county uniformity of text books
which vote shall be transmitted 10 the county super
intendent of public instruction by the clerk of the
aforesaid school district within ten days from the
time OF such vote
SEQ. q Whenever majority of all the districts
Of county in any one year shall indicate in
tion one Lher desire Tor county uniformity OF
textbooks the county superintendent of public in
struction shall notify the districts OF such vote and
AT me same uihe can Tor one delegate from each
municipal township and city Of the third class in the
county, to be elected at a meeting of the school
Do'tEu OF sucl uoWhsLlIp1 on DAY and aJ a place
and hour specified in said call: P-OUided That if
by virtue of section of this act, any city OF the
nrst or second class shan decide to adopt the pro-
visions of this act in the matter county Uniform
10y, then the city so adopting shall send the super
ntendenL or the city SCHOOLS ana one other person
10 be elected by the board OF education, to be the
representatives of such city ON the county text
SEC. 5. District boards shall vote in the county
and township in which their school houses are Ioc
led.
SEQ. 4. The delegates so elected shall constitute
county textbook board, whose duty 1t shall be to
select and prescribe the textbooks to be used in
each branch of study required by law to be taught
tnthe public schools.
SEC. 8. no textbook shall be prescribed in pur-
suance of the provisions OF this act unless the pub
fishers thereof shall have first filed with the county
superintendent Of public Instruction guarantee of
Its price quality and pernanence of supply Tor va
years together with good and sufficient bond for
thefaithful compliance with said guarantee, condi-
uoned In such sum as the county textbook board
may determine and approve.
sRo. O. The county superintendent of public in
structOn shall be ODteIO chairman of said county
textbook board and shall furnish each
books selected and prescribed in pursuance of
shall be posted by the district clerks in their re-
specve school houses, and said list shall comprise
The only legal textbooks for the schools Of said
board to conform to the said lists in the text books
prescribed for use in their schools.
SEC. Z. county textbook board may be elected
once In every hve years in each county in the man
ner prescribed in this act whose powers and duties
shall be the same as those hereinbefOre enumerated
SEC. b Any cities OF the hrst and second classsara
hereby exempted from the provisions OF this act,
except that any such city may, by vote Of its
board OF education, decide to Join in uniformity
Of textbooks with the county in which such CITY Il
situate and 50 deciding such city shall be repre-
sented on the county textbook board, as provided
In section OF this act
SEC. 9. When uniformity Of text books shall b
adopted in any county In pursuance Of the prOvis-
ions OF this act no change shall be made in such
county Tor a period OF hye years from the date OF
said adoption OF any particular series of text books;
but no member OF any board of education, school
beard or text book board, and teacher, while
employed IN teaching, shall act as agent for any
author, publisher or book seller; nor shall any
member Of said boards, any OF them, or any en-
ployed teacher directly or indirectly receive any
gin, emolument or reward for his or her influence
In recommending introducing any book. school
apparatus or furniture Of any kind whatever and
any member OF either or said boards ana any
teacher who shall violate any OF the provisions OF
this act shall be deemed guilty Of a mlsdemeanor,
section Of chapter I5T of the laws of 1879
1879 Is hereby repealed.
SIC IL This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its publication in the oiciai state
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