Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-03-26
SENATE BILL NO. I42.
First published March 6, 1886.
AN ACT

To authorize school districts and boards of edu-
cation in any county of the state to adopt a uni
form series of textbooks, and to repeal section l,
chapter ISL, laws of 1879.
Be Il enacted bv the legislature Of The state o,
Kansas:
SECTION 1. School districts may, Mt their annual
meetings for the election of school officers, indicate
by ajorIfy of all the votes cast at such meeting
their desire for a county uniformity of text books,
which vote shall be transmitted to the county super
tntendent OF public instruction by the clerk of the
aforesaid school district, within ten days from the
time of such vote.
Sec 2. Whenever majority of all the districts
OF county in any one year shall indicate in sec
ton one their desire for a county uniformity OF
textbooks, the county superintendent of public
struction shall notify the districts of such VOTE and
ct the same time call for one delegate from each
municipal township and city of the third class in the
county to be elected at a meeting of the school
board OF such township, on a day and at place
and hour specified in said call: Provided, That IT,
by virtue of section of this act, any city of the
nrst or second class shall decide to adopt the pro-
visions of this act in the matter of county uniform
fly, then the city so adopting shall send the SUPER
intendent of the city schools, and one other person
70 be elected by the board of education, to be the
representatives Of sach city on the county text
book board.
SEQ. s. District boards shall vote in the county
and township in which their school houses locs-
SEC. T. The delegates so elected shall constitute
. county textbook board, whose duty il shall be to
each branch Of study required by law to be taught
IN the public schools.
SEC. s. No textbook shall be prescribed in pur-
OF the provisions of this act unless the pub
fishers thereof shall have first filed with the county
superintendent OF public instruction a guarantee of
Its price, quality and permaneBce of supply for five
Years, together with good and sufficient bond for
the faithful compliance With said guarantee, condi-
toned In such sum a. the county textbook board
may determine and approve.
SEc. 6. The county superintendent Of public in
OFF hal I'M offs
textbook board and shall furnish each
school district list OF the text
the provisions of this act which list
shall be posted by the district clerks in their
epectve school houses and said list shall comprise
the only legal textbooks for the schools Of said
county. and it is hereby required of the school
board to conform to the said lists in the textbooks
prescribed for use in their schools.
SEC. z. county textbook board may be elected
once in every five years in each county in the
ner prescribed in this act whose powers and duties
shall be the same those hereinbefore enumerated
SEC. g. Any cities of the fl st and second cas{are
hereby exempted from the provisions OF this act
except that any such city may, by vote Of it's
board of education, decide to join in a uniformity
of textbooks with the county in which such CITY "a
situate and so deciding such city shall be repro
eented on the county textbook board, as provided
IN section , OF this act
SEC. 8. When a uniformity Of text books shall be
adopted in amy county in pursru Ele provis-
IONS of this act change shalt made in such
county for period of five years from the date OF
but no member of any bosr,i of education school
board or text book board. and no teacher, while
employed in teaching. shall act as agent for any
author, publisher or book seller; nor shall any
member OF said boards, or any of them. any en-
ployed teacher. directly indirectly receive any
gift, emolument or reward for his or her influence
In recommending or introducing any book, school
apparatus or furniture of any kind whatever; and
any member of either of said boards and any
teacher who shall violate any of the provisions of
this act shall I've deemed guilty Of misdemeanor,
and on conviction shall be punished as provided in
section of chapter i57 of the laws of 1879
Sec. 10. Section of chapter Isl of the laws of
1879 is hereby repealed.
SEC. IL. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its publication in the official state
paper.
Approved March S. 1855.
do hereby certify that the foregoing IL a true
and correct copy of the original enrolled bill now
on file in my office.
In testimony whereof have hereunto subscribed
my name and affixed my official seal
lsEAIJ Done at Topeka, Kansas, this 9th day of
March, A. d. 1885.
E. q. ALLEN,
Secretary of State.