San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1888-01-05
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or shall fail to comply with the condi-
tions herein prescribed, or to report ~
herein provided, through its proper Of
flcers, the disposition thereof, and the
other matters herein prescribed to be 10
reported, such state or territory shall for
felt its right to any subsequent appor-
tionment by virtue hereof until the full
amount 80 misapplled, lost or misappro-
priated shall have been replaced by such
state or territory and applied AZ herein
required, and until such report shall have
been made; Provided, That II the pub
lie schools in any state admit pupils not
within the ages herein specified, 1t shall
not be deemed failure to comply with
the conditions herein. II II shall appear
TO the secretary of the interior that the
funds received under this net for the pre-
ceding year by the state or territory have
been faithfully applied to the purposes
contemplated by this act, and that the
conditions thereof have been observed,
then and not otherwise the secretary OF
the interior shall distribute the next
years appropriation rs Is hereinbefore
provided. And 1t shall b6Ethe 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 of any moneys received
by such state or territory under the pro-
visions of this act, or Of any discrimina-
ton in the use of such moneys; and the
said complaints, and NIL communications
received concerning the same, and the
evidence taken upon such Investigations,
shall be preserved by the secretary OF the
interior, and shall be open to public in
specton and annually reported to con-
gress.
SEC. 13. That on or before the first day
of September of each year the secretary
of the interior shall report to the presi-
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 nc state or territory that
does not distribute the moneys raised for
common school purposes equally for the
education of all children, without dis
tinction Of race or color, shall be en-
titled to any of the benefits Of this act.
SEC. Is. That the apportionment of the
money that shall be appropriated In pur-
suance of this act for the purposes OF
education in the territories shall be upon
the basis Of the illiteracy therein, as pro
vided In section of this act; but In de-
termining the number of illiterates
therein the secretary Of the interior -
authorized to receive and consider, In ad-
dltion to the census returns of eighteen
hundred and eighty, any evidence that
may be submitted to him showing the
number of illiterates in any such terri
tories, and shall determine therefrom,
before the first distribution Is made, the
amount to which such territory Is en-
titled.
SEC. 49, That there shall be appropri-
ated and set apart, in addition to the sum
of seven millions (S7, 0OO, O0W of the first
appropriation, the sum Of two million
dollars (S2, 100000 which shall be al
lotted to the several states and territories
on the same basis as the moneys appro-
priated in the first section, which shall
be known rs the common-school-ho
fund, to be paid out to each state and
territory at the end Of the year on proof
of the expenditure made during such
year. which shall be expended for the
erection and construction Of school
houses for the use and occupation OF the
pupils attending the common schools In
the sparsely populated districts thereof,
where the local community shall be COM
paratively unable to bear the burdens OF
taxation. Such school-houses shall be
built in accordance with plans to be fur
nished free on application to the bureau
Of education in Washington; Provided,
however, That not more than one bum
dred and fifty dollars (S150) shall be paid
from said fund toward the cost OF any
single school-house, nor more than one
half the cost thereof in any case; and the
states and territories shall annually make
full report of all expenditures from the
school house fund to the secretary Of the
interior, rs In case of other moneys re-
ceived under the provisions OF this act.
SEC. H. The District of Columbia shall
be entitled to all the benefits and subject
to all the regulations of this act, 80 far
as applicable under its form Of govern
ment.
SEC. 49, The power TO alter, amend or
repeal this act is hereby reserved.
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tice and experience, have never seen
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tured by You. Have prescribed il a
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derful. and would say in conclusion
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would take it according 10 directions.
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Office, 215 Summit St
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