The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-08-30

alton for current expenses of state gov
eminent, page 147, under the head of de-
partment of education, general laws of
the Twentieth legislature.
Very respectfully,
OSCAR II. COOPER,
State Superintendent Public Instruction.
From Sundays Daily.l
The Farmers Alliance Cooperative as
ISOLATION, of Young county; capital stock,
| $4,000; filed charter yesterday In the
office of the secretary of state. lncorpora-
tors: F. G. Hawkins, W. l.. Airheart, W.
P. Harmonson, jr., A. @. Medley, Rusk
Record, j. W. Casey, M. A. Aranum, VIM.
Huffman and j. W. Brinkley.
coMPrRoLLER's DEPARTMENT.
The assessment rolls of Bee county re-
ceived yesterday show an increase In
values of $33,213.
Kaufman county redeemed one court
house bond of $1,000, paying interest on
same to date $2335.
The comptroller purchased for the board
of education $4,000 of Rains county jail
bonds.
Deposits yesterday to revenue were
$1,368 25.
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.
The following letter was sent from the
department of education yesterday:
Dear Sir-I have the honor to acknowl'
edge the receipt OF yours of the - inst,
asking if a teachers certificate may be
cancelled for drunkenness, and also
whether the resident of portion of a
district, which levies local tax will be
liable for the tax after that portion of the
district in which they live has been at
tached toanother district.
In reply 1 respectfully refer you to
chapter XII, section 2, School Laws of
Texas, (my digest), the Interpretation of
which is obviously that teachers certiti'
cate may be cancelled after due trial for
such immortality as disqualities for the
correct instruction of children. Public
drunkenness is one of the offenses against
decency and morality which disqualities
men for the correct instruction of chill
dren. A single instance is sufficient TO
| Justify the cancellation of the certificate,
if it occur after the issuance of the GER
tificate. 1t is not necessary that a man
be an habitual drunkard under the statute
to Justify you in cancelling his certificate.
In reply to your second question, you
are advised that the consent of ma ority
of the legal voters in the districts affected
by proposed change in district lines is a
necessary preliminary to any valid change
| (See chapter vii, section 2, School Law
If such change is properly made, and no
contract infringed, the residents of that
part of taxing district which is cut off
in another district are not liable for the
tax after division in the district to which
they previously belonged, but would be
liable for any tax voted in the district to
which they were attached, if that district
had voted tax. Very respectfully,
OSCAR II. COOPER,
State Supt. Pub lust.
The following is the law governing
school trustees in district counties:
"On the first Saturday in June of each
year the qualified voters of each school
district, at school district meeting for that
purpose, snail elect three trustees for said
district, who shall enter upon the dis
charge of their duties upon the first day
of July following, and shall hold their Of
foes for one year and thereafter, until
their successors have been elected or ap-
pointed and shall have qualified. The
commissioners court shall appoint three
persons, qualified voters of the district, to
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thereof to the county Judge within five
days after such election shall have been
held, and if no election be held, or if a
vacancy occur in the board of trustees by
death or otherwise, the county judge shall
at once appoint trustee or trustees as
may be necessary, for the full or unex'
pired term. No person shall be eligible
to serve as school trustee who cannot
read and write, and has not been a
resident of school district for six months
prior to election held for trustees.
"The trustees of school districts, pro-
vided for in the preceding sections of this
act, and their successors in office, shall be
a body polite and corporate in law, and
shall be known by and under the title and
name of district trustees of district mum
Der - and county - state of Texas
and as such may contract and be con.
tracted with, sue and bs sued, plead and
be implicated in any court of this state of
proper jurisdiction, and may receive any
gift, grant, donation or devise made for
the use of the public schools of the dis
trict. All reports and other official papera
shall be headed with the number of dis
trict and name of county"
In community counties the following is
the law:
Three trustees shall be app ointed by the
county judge for each community school,
and the three citizens named in the petit
ton shall in all cases be appointed trustees
unless the county judge shall be satisfied,
from personal knowledge, that the parties
so named are either unworthy or incom-
petent. Said trustees shall discharge
such duties as are herein prescribed or
which may be prescribed by the state su-
perlntendent, and shall see that the
schools for which they are trustees are
conducted in accordance with the provi-
siuns and limitations of this law. Said
trustees shall be removed from Office by
the county judge upon the written appli-
cation of a majority of the patrons of the
school.
1t shall be the duty of the trustees of a
school community already provided with
a school house to contract with teacher
holding a certificate of competency from
the county judge, to teach school for the
community for as long a period Rs the
school fund entered to the credit of the
community will warrant. The school shall
open at such times as the trustees may
decide, and be taught continuously until
the close of the term, unless suspended by
the trustees, The trustees shall, in some
public way, give two weeks notice of the
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