Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-06-13

Section 70S3a is amended by adding 'sbrt the
grades upon such renewed certificate shall be
Identically the same those upon former Ger.
| tificate and shall not be raised except by exam.
nation
Section 70S3b is new and reads: 'HThere shall
be two grades OF certificates issued by the
county school commissioners, to be known
as hrst-grade certificate and second-grade
certificate The second-grade certificate shall
contain all the branches enumerated in
section 7017, and shall be authority to teach
in the county for the period of one year if not
sooner revoked, and the frst-grade certificate
shall contain in addition to the branches
enumerated for second-grade certificate,
etymology, algebra, zoology, rhetoric. botany,
geometry, physics and literature. and shall be
authority to teach IN the county for a period Of
TWO years unless sooner revoked In each and
every branch enumerated in the certificate for
winch application is made, the applicant
snail maintain grade Of sixty per cent. on
the questions submitted and the average
grade upon each certificate granted shall be at
ieast eighty All examinations must be con-
quoted in writing, and the papers submitted to
the commissioner by the applicant shall be
kept on file in the office of the county commits
sioner and shall be opened to inspection by any
school officer that may desire to examine
them"
County commissioners will please make the
necessary changes upon certificates issued
after this date. Change the word third on
thlrd-grade certificates to second and write
In at bottom of subjects the words physiology
and HYGIENE" should you use the old second
grade" certificate, mark out-with red ink-all
bran ches not named in Section 7077. When
'frst-grade' certificate is issued, mark out
with red ink-all branches not enumerated in
Section 70S3b, and strictly follow this section in
the future.
The law further provides that on all loans OF
school funds made the interest must be col
% fv ov,,ic
revoke certifi ate for ''incompetency cruelty,
immortality, drunkenness or neglect of duty"
The report OF the county clerk must be for
warded to the State superintendent in july
and the report OF the county commissioner by
August 81.
Section 1924 has been amended to read as
follows: "Whenever any congressional town
ship shall lie in two or more counties, the
township school fund of such town
snip shall be divided among the
amount of territory in the fractional
township included fin each county as follows
The County Court Of the county in which section
sixteen is located SHALL upon a reqVisition of
the county clerk OF any county containing a
fractional part of such township, issue an order
transferring the amount due such county, under
this section into the care, keeping and custody
of the County Court thereof; and said fund shall
be loaned, and the income derived therefrom
shall be apportioned annually to such fraction
al township as though it were an entire town.
ship; and the township funds of all entire town
ships and all fractional townships included
within the limits of any county in this State
shall be handled and controlled by the proper
officers of such county, set forth in this
chapter. The provisions of this section shall
not apply to any congressional township inter-
sected by the Mis- souri, river"
This section should be enforced by the County
Court rapidly possible.
The foregoing laws will be in force from
and after the date of approval by the
Governor; and the stamped date on this
circular will indicate the date of it's APP
prevail by the Governor.
w. E. COLEMAN,
State Superintendent Public Schools.