The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1888-03-31

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President Board of Supervisors
Which notice shall be published fol
three weeks in a newspaper published
in said county.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That
this act take effect and be in force
from and after is passage.
Approved, February 20, 1888.
AN ACT to apportion the students al
the A. g. NJ. College and the Indus
trial Institute and College to the
several counties of this State, ant
for other purposes.
Section |. BE 1t enacted by the Leg
islature of the State of Mississippi
That Immediately after the close of th,
present term or scholastic year, the
number of students allowed free
tuition at the A. & M. College and the
LIN College, shall be limited to three
hundred each, and the Boards of Trus.
tees of these institutions of learning
are hereby required to apportion the
number allotted said colleges to the
several counties in this State on the
basis of the white educable children
male and female, respectively.
Sec. 2. BE it further enacted, That il
shall be the duty of the respective
Presidents of the Colleges, when said
appointments are made to notify the
Superintendents of Public Education
of each and every county in this State
of the number of students to which
his county is entitled under said ap-
portionment, and said superintendent
shall give thirty days notice by adver-
tising in some newspaper in his county
and if there is no newspaper, by
posting notices in each Supervisors
District in his county, of the time and
place, not to be later than the first
Monday in September in each year,
when he will examine all applicants
for appointment to the colleges. lie
shall, after due examination, grade the
certificate of scholarships of each appli-
cant and submit the same to the Board
of Supervisors of his county, and said
board shall appoint from all the appli-
cants, if there be more than the num-
Der apportioned to the county, the
number to which the county is entitled
and the clerk of the board shall forth
with certify said appointments with
the names of the applicants to the
President of the College to which the
students are assigned, under the seal of
the Board of Supervisors.
Sec 3. BE it further enacted, That
the Presidents of the Colleges be
authorized to receive from counties
having their full quota of free students
as many applicants for admission to
the College as he may deem proper,
provided such action does not exclude
students or interfere with their in
struction from counties having a right
to free tuition under this act. But all
students in excess OF the number ap-
portioned to their several counties
shall pay such reasonable rate Of
tuition as the Board of Trustees re-
spectively may prescribe, not to be
less than three nor more than five dol.
lars per month, which money shall 90
to the College treasury, to be cxpend-
ed in its support, and the Presidents Of
the Colleges in their biennial reports
shall show the amounts OF money re-
ceived from this source and the man.
ner of its disbursement.
Sec. 1. BE II further enacted, That
when the number of free scholarship:
shall, from any cause, be reduced
below the maximum number appor-
ioned by this net, the President Of Tho