Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23

| directed, under the approval of the
| president, to make all needfnl rules and
| regulations, not inconsistent with its
| provisions, to carry this law into effect.
Sec. 6. That the instruction in the
common schools wherein these moneys
shall hs expended shall include the art
| OF re- ding, writing and speaking the
! English language, arithmetic, geogra-
! ply, history OF the United States, snd
| such other branches Of useful knowledge
i as may be taught under local laws.
Sec. z. That the design of this act not
being to establish an independent system
of schools, but rather to aid for the time
| being In the development and msinte-
nance of the school system established by
| local government, and which must
| eventually be wholly maintained by the
| states and territories wherein they exist,
| It is hereby provided that no greater
| part of the money appropriated under
this act shall be paid out TO any state or
territory in any one year than the sum
expended out of its own revenues or out
of moneys raised under its authority, in
Guiding interest money from any source,
in the preceding year for the mainte-
nance of common schools, not including
the sums expended in the erection of
school buildings.
SEQ. s. That part of the money ap-
portioned to each state or territory. not
exceeding one-tenth thereof, may, IN
the discretion of its legislature, yearly
be applied to the education of teachers
for the common schools therein, which
sum may be expended in maintaining IN
stitutes or temporary training schools,
or in extending opportunities for norman
or other instruction TO competent ana
suitable persons, of any color, who are
without necessary means TO quarry
themselves for teaching, and who shall
agree in writing to devote themselves ex-
olusiveIy, for at least one year after
leaving such training schools, TO teach
in the common schools, for such COM
pensation as may be paid other teachers
therein. But nothing in this section
shall require the training Of persons OF
different colors in the same schools.
Sec. 8. That no part of the fund alot-
ted to any state or territory under the
first section of this act shall be- used for
the erection of school houses or school
buildings of any description, nor for
rent of the same.
SEQ. 10. That the money distributed
under the provisions of this act shall be
used only for common schools, not sec
tartan in character, in the school dis
tricts of the several states, and only for
common OF Industrial schools in terTI-
tories, in such way as to provide, as near
as may be, for the equalization OF school
privileges to all the children of the
school age prescribed by the law of the
state or territory wherein the expendi-
ture shall be made, thereby giving to
each child, without distinction of race
or color, an equal opportunity for edu-
nv. 1i1Tr inN1
shall include all cities, towns, parishes,
and other territorial subdivisions for
school purposes, and all corporations
clothed by law with the power of main
tanning common schools.
Sec. IL. That no second or subsequent
allotment shall be made under this act
to any state or territory unless the gov
ernor of such state or territory shall first
file with the secretary of the interior
statement, certified by him, giving de-
tailed account of the payments or DIS
bursements made of the school fund ap-
portioned to his state or territory and re-
ceived by the state or territorial treas
urer or officer under this act. and of the
balance in the hands of such treasurer
or officer withheld, unclaimed, or for
any cause unpaid or unexpended, and
also the amount expended in suoh state
or territory, as required by section nine
of this act, and also statement Of the
number of school districts in such state
or territory, and whether any portion of
such state or territory has not been di-
vided into school districts or other terri
torial subdivisions for school purposes,
and if so, what portion, and the rea-
sons why the same has not been so sub
divided; the number of children of school
age in each district, and the relative
number of white and colored children in
each district, and of the number of pub
lie, common, and industrial schools in
each district; the number of teachers
employed; the rate of wages paid; the
total number of children in the state or
territory, and the total number taught
during the year and in what branches
instructed; the average daily attendance
and the relative number of white and
colored children; and the number OF
months in each year schools have been
maintained in each school district. And
if any state or territory shall misapply
or allow to be mtsspplied, or in any man
ner appropriated or used other than for
the purposes and in the manner herein
required, the funds, or any part thereof
received under the provisions Of this act,
or shall fail to comply with the condi-
tions herein prescribed, or to report as
herein provided, through its proper Off
GERS, the disposition thereof, and the
other matters herein prescribed TO be so
reported, such state or territory shall
forfeit its right to any subsequent ap-
portionment by virtue hereof until the
full amount so misapplied, lost, or mis-
appropriated shall have been replaced
by such state or territory and applied as
herein required, and until such report
shall have been made: Provided, that
if the public schools in any state admit
pupils not within the ages herein speci-
fed, it shall not be deemed failure to
comply with the conditions herein. If
it shall appear to the secretary of the
interior that the funds received under
this act for the preceding 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 9TH
erwise, the secretary of the interior shall
distribute the next years. appropriation
as Is hereinbefore provided. And it
shall be the duty of the secretary of the
interior to promptly investigate all COM
plants lodged with him of any misap-
preparation by or in any state or terri