The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-23


formation from Matamoras yesterday
relative to yellow fever.
STATE DEPARTMENT..
The following charters were filed yes
terday in the Office of the secretary OF
state:
The Laredo Improvement company
capital stock, 100000. Incorporators
j. P. Flynn, A. W. Wilcox, A. L. McLane,
s. II. Bass, O. Y. Brewster, A. Thaison and
y. j. Macmanus.
The Waxahachie Grain and Implement
company; capital stock, $4,000. Incorpo-
rators: j. M. Ragsdale, j. L. Adkisson,
j. F. Dunlap, ]. F. Strickland, j. B. Mere.
dith, l.. Merriweather, Arson Rainey, Osce
Goodman, R. L. Tumens and W. F. Lewis
EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT..
The department of education has pre-
pared circular and 1t will be sent out II
few days to the proper county officers
From it is taken the following, relative to
the transfer of children from one school
to another, and it is the law:
Children within scholastic age belong
ing to community lying on county
line may be transferred to an adjoining
community in the other county. Appli'
cation for such transfer must be made be.
fore the school fund is apportioned by
the county Judge. The pro rata share OF
the school fund of transferred children
shall be held by the county treasurer and
paid to the treasurer of the county to
which the children we're transferred, on
the order of the county judge from
which the children were transferred.
ha kp md Of ha-
fore he apportions the school fund among
the several districts or communities,
transfer child from one district or COM
munity to another in the same county,
and in every such case he shall transfer
the pro rata share of such child in the
school fund to the district or community
in which such child shall be taught. After
the completion of said apportiOnment no
transfer shall be made; but all children
within the scholastic, age who have not at
tended any public school in the state dur
ing the current scholastic year, shall be
allowed to attend free of charge in any
district or community in which said chill
dren have acquired residence. THE
county judge shall also have authority, on
the recommendation of the school trustees
to consolidate one school with another in
the same district, or adjoining districts,
and to transfer money from one school to
another in the same district, or adjoining
districts.
The following will be of interest to
school trustees, and it is important that
it be needed in organizing the schools for
the next session:
School trustees shall determine how
many schools shall be maintained in their
respective school districts or communi-
ties, 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
Judge and state superintendent. They
shall approve all teachers vouchers and
all other claims against the school fund
of their districts or communities; pro-
vided, that trustees of districts or COM
munities in making contracts with
teachers shall not create deficiency debt
against the district or community.
The trustees of school districts or com
munities shall have the management and
control of the public schools; they shall
have the power to employ and dismiss
teachers; but in cases of dismissal teach
ers shall have the right of appeal to the
county judge and state superintendent
The trustees of schools shall have the
power to admit scholars over or under
scholastic age, either in or out of the
district or community, on such terms as
they may deem proper and just, and they
may suspend from the privileges of
schools any pupil found guilty of incor-
rigible conduct, but such suspension shall
not extend beyond the current term of
the school.
Trustees may employ one or more as
sistant teachers whenever the average
daily attendance exceeds thirty-five
pupils. The teacher shall be entitled to
pay for pupils over and under the age at
such rates as the trustees may prescribe.
If the necessity for the employment of an
assistant teacher is caused by the attend
ance of of private pupils, then the trustees
shalf require the teacher to employ at his
or her expense an assistant holding a
certificate of competency as teacher.
The amount contracted by trustees to
be paid teacher shall be paid on a
check drawn by majority of the trustees
on the county treasurer and approved by
the county Judge. The check shall, in
ell instances, be accompanied by the
affidavit of the teacher that he is entitled
to the amount specified in the check as
compensation under his contract as a
teacher.
White and colored children shall not be
taught in the same schools, but the col
ored children shall receive the benefit as
far as practicable of the public school
fund, and the funds set aside in any dis
trict or community for colored children
shall not be used for the education of
white children, nor shall the public school
fund set aside in any district or commu-
nifty for white children be used for the
ed 1cation of colored children. Three
white: trustees shall in all cases be elected
or appointed for the management and
control of white schools, and three COL
ored trustees shall be elected or appointed
in any school district for the oolored
schools therein, upon the written applica-
tion, of ten colored residents of said dis
tricts having one or more children within
the scholastic age, to the county judge
one month before any annual election in
said district for school trustees. In case
there are not enough colored children in
any school district as laid off, then two or
more of said districts may be consolidated
by the trustees for the benefit of the col
ored school, and each of the districts shall
pay pro rata, according to colored scho