The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-18
WILL STRENGTHEN IT.
Dir. Beasiey Proposes Several Amendments
to the School Book Law.


to the School Book Law.
Representative Beasley Tuesday intro
duced bill which is intended to strength
EN- the school book law, and remove ell OF
those features which have been criticized
and held to be Objectionable in its opera
ton. 1t is an act concerning text books
for use in the common schools. IL pro-
vides for the appropriation OF $1,000 to
defray the expenses of advertising for the
remaining books not heretofore contracted
for; for changing the standard of physiol-
ogy from Dalton's to Hutchinson's
elementary and HutchinsOns adj
vanced physiologies; for raising the
price on history from 90 to % cents;
that the standard OF the spoilers and gram
mars remain the same as now; that the
trustees shall order books for each years
school on the first Monday in June and
that intermediate orders may be made If
more books are needed; that trustees shall
gather as much information as pos
sible before ordering books and
to order only such number as
seems actually needed; that trus-
tees shall furnish all poor or INDECENT
children with books who are so poor that
they cannot get the benefits of the public
schools that all books hereafter furnished
shall be shipped to the nearest railroad
station to the corporation where the books
are 10 be used; that all books furnished
shall be securely wrapped in substantial
paper in packages OF five or ten books,
and that each package shall be plainly
marked on the outside what kind
of books it contains and how many;
that when the books are received by the
Ill l. of,,llx 1rov@k in,
the original packages and that no pack
age shalt be opened until all heretofore
opened have been sold; that trustees
shall be allowed to pay for the books
when received out of any school funds
which are not then needed for other cur
rent or specific purposes, aside from the
common school or tuition funds; that
where such payment is made, the fund
out of which the advancement was made
shall be Immediately reimbursed as soon
or as fast as the books are sold that when
books are settled for in this way
the trustees shall not be required to
make settlements with the contractors
every three months, but instead they shall
only be required to settle with the county
commissioners and the county superin-
tendent once a year, and that settlement
shall be on the first Monday of August;
that the adopted books shall be uniformly
used throughout the state; that in case
trustees do not settle for books when re-
ceived, they shall be required to continue
making settlements every three months,
as the law now provides; that this act
shall be supplemental to the former law
on the subject and that no obligation or
contract heretofore made shall be i'm
paired or interfered with.
"The subject OF road legislation has not
received the attention from this general
assembly that it deserves" said Repre-
sentative Zoercher. ut Is mistaken
idea to think that by limiting the number
oil days that the road supervisor can work
on the roads will give the proper relief.
1t may be the means of saving little
money, but will in the end be to the in
jury OF the people. OF course it seems diff
ficult to convince some gentlemen who live
in counties where there are no hills that
it is utterly impossible to work the roads
thirty days per year and then notlook after
them the remaining 1876. The bill intro