Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-10-28

Ill cHiluIen OF tne SCHOOL age prescribed
by the law of the State or Territor,
! wherein the expenditure shall be made
thereby giving to each child, without dis
tinction of race or color, an equal op
portunity for education. The tern
school district" shall include all cities
towns, parishes and other Territorial sub
divisions for school purposes and all cor
porations clothed by law with the power
| Of maintaining common schools.
Sec. 10. That no second or subsequent
allotment shall be made under this act tc
any State or Territory, unless the Cover.
nor Of such State or Territory shall first
file with the Secretary of the Interior a
statement, certified by him, giving de.
tailed account Of the payments or dis
bursements made of the school fund ap.
portioned to his State or Territory and
received by the State or Territorial treas
urer or officer under thisa ct, and Of the
balance in the hands of such treasurer or
officer withheld, unclaimed, or for any
cause unpaid or unexpended, and also the
amount expended in such State or Terri
Tory as required by section 0 Of this act,
and also statement Of the number Of
school districts In such State or Territory.
and whether any portion of such State or
Territory has not been divided into school
districts or other Territorial subdivisions
for school purposes, and If so, what por-
tion, and the, reasons why the same has
not been SO subdivided; the number of
children of school age in each district
and the relative number Of white and
colored children in each district, and of
the number of public, common and In.
dustrial schools in each district; the num-
Der of teachers employed; the rate of
wages paid; the total number of children
in the State or Territory, and the total
number taught during the year and In
what branches instructed; the average
daily attendance and relative number of
white and colored children; and the mum.
Der of months in each year schools have
been maintained in each school district.
And If any State or Territory shall mis-
apply or allow to be misapplied. or in
any manner appropriated or used other
than for the purposes and in the manner
herein required, the funds, or any part
thereof, received under the provisions of
this act, orshall fail to comply with the
conditions herein prescribed, or to report
as herein provided, through its proper Of
ficers the disposition thereof, and the
other matters herein prescribed to be re-
ported, such State or Territory shall for
felt its right to any subsequent appora
tionment by virtue hereof until the full
amount misapplied, lost or misappro-
priated shall have been replaced by such
State or Territory and applied as herein
required. and until such report shall have
been made: Provided, that If the public
schools in any State admit pupils not
within the ages herein specified, it shall
not be deemed failure to comply with
the conditions herein. II 1t shall appear
to the Secretary Of the Interior that the
funds received under this act for the pre-
ceding year by the State or Territory
have been faithfully applied to the pur-
poses contemplated by this act and the
conditions thereof have been observed,
then and not otherwise the Secretary of
the Interior shall distribute the next
years appropriation as is hercinbefore
provided. And 1t shall be the duty of
the Secretary Of the Interior to promptly
investigate all complaints lodged with
him of any misappropriation by or in any
State or Territory or of any moneys re-
ceived by such State or Territory under
the provisions Of this act, or Of any dis.
elimination in the use Of such moneys
and the said complaints, and all commu-
nications received concerning the same,
and the evidence taken upon such inves.
tigation, shall be preserved by the Secre-
tary of the Interior, and shall be open to
public inspection and annually reported
to Congress.
Sec. IS. That on or before the 1st day
Of September Of each year the Secretary
Of the Interior shall report to the Presi-l
dent of the United States whether any
State or Territory has forfeited its right
to receive Its apportionment under this
act, and how forfeited, and whether he
has withheld such allotment on account
of such forfeiture.
Sec. IA. That no State or Territory that
does not distribute the moneys raised for
common school purposes equally for the
education of oil the children, without
distinction Of race or color, shall be en-.
titled to any Of the benefits of this act.
Sec. 10. That the apportionment Of the
money that shall be appropriated in pur.
suance Of this net for the purposes of cdu-
cation In the Territories shall be upon the
basis Of the illiteracy therein, as provid-
ed In section Of this act. but in deter
mining the number Of illiterates therein,
the Secretary Of the Interior is authoriz-
ed to receive and consider, in addition to
the census returns Of 1880. any evidence
that may be submitted to him showing
the number Of illiterates in any such Ter
ritories, and shall determine thcrefroni,
before the first distribution Is made, the
amount to which such Territory is enti.
tied. ~ aA ailAetl la arrsrsl t.ftl y
Sec. 10. That there shall be appropriat-
ed and set apart, in addition to the sum
of $70OO.000 of the first appropriation.
the sum Of $e,OOO.OO0. which shall be
allotted TO the several States and Terrific
ries on the same basis as the moneys an.