The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-03-30
IDAHO'S new SCHOOL LAW.
Salient Points of the Late
Educational Enactment.
Wherein 1t Differs from
the Old.


| Continued from last week.
Sec. Sc. The governor is hereby
authorized and empowered to ap-
point four persons, one of whom
shall be the state superintendent of
instructions, who at the time of their
appointment, shall be engaged in ed
ucational work in the state, and who,
together with the president of the
university of Idaho, shall constitute a
state board of text book commission
ers, and of which baord the said
president of the university shall be
chairman, who shall hold office until
they shall have complied with the
duties hereinafter imposed.
Sec. 81. The said board of text
book commissioners shall meet at the
state capitol, in the same chamber on
the second Monday of May, 1898 for
the purpose of selecting and adopting
, uniform series of textbooks for
the state, Said board shall have
power to formulate rules for its own
t government, and three members there
, of shall constitute quorum.
Sec. So. Immediately on the ap-
e proval of this act the superintendent
| of public instructions, shall advertise
0 for at least thirty (30) days in two
: daily newspapers in the state, giving
, notice that the said board of text
d book commissioners will meet as
: herein aforesaid, and receive sealed
n proposals up to twelve Q2) o'clocl
e noon, of SAID day, for supplying the
b state of Idaho with uniform text
o books for use in all the public schools
d of said state for term of six year,
n from and after the first day of Sept
d ember, 1898, in the following branches
IS namely; Spelling, reading, writing
n arithmetic, geography, grammar
re physiology, and hygiene, civil gov
" ernment, history of the United States
|. and other braches taught in the com
il mon, graded, and high schools of tn
al state. Said sealed proposals shall b
Is addressed to the president of tn
es state board of textbook commission
s. ers, Boise City, Idaho, and shall b
+ endorsed ''sealed proposals for SUP
ce plying the state of Idaho with tex
o. books" Said proposals shall stat
Nv the price at which said textbook
to will be delivered 20. B. cars subje'
IS. to order of the state superintendei
"a of public instructions.
is Sec. 50. 1t shall be the duty I
of said board of textbook commission
re ers to meet at the time and pla'
it, mentioned in said notice and open |
a said sealed proposals in the presen
is of a majority of said board and
No public, and to select and adopt SUI
od textbooks for use in the publ
m schools as in their opinion will be
&C. subserve the educational interests
the state. The series of text boo
90 so adopted by the said board of te
loO books commissioners, shall be Ger
an fed by the chairman, and said Ger
es. ficate with copy of all books nam
tbo therein must be placed on file in t
- office of the superintendent of pub
'ne instructions. Such certificate mi
to contain complete list of all boo
The adopted by the board, giving pr
her for which kind and grade will
In furnished, and the name of the PIT
40 fishers agreeing to furnish the san
i'n And the said books named in s;
STU certificate shall for period of
the wears from and after the first day
With September. 1893, be used in all
tor public schools throughout the sta
to the exclusion of all others.
VIC Sec. GO. The said board of Il
the book commissioners shall have po'
mi to make such contracts and agr
the ments with publishers as they II
,old deem necessary for the best intere
of all public schools in the sta
noS' And shall require all publishers C
re- tracing to furnish books adopted
omy SAID commissioners, bond in dou
q so the amount of value of books to
hon furnished, for the faithful perfol
ance of the said conditions of
said contract
ntry Sec 81. Immediately after
arge filing of the said certificate in his
end flee, the state superintendent of P
ono lie instructions shall have preps
printed lists of textbooks adoI
'oe' by said board with the price of c
'etty of said books as certified in said c'
ties, ficate,, and shall forward the sam
car the county superintendents of
several counties of the state,