Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1895-04-04
Teachers Certificates.

issuing of teachers certificates by
County Boards of Examina alton. It
raises the standard of qualifications
and repeats the law now in force. It
is as follows:
SECTION 1. The county primary
school certificate, good for two years,
shall be issued upon satisfactory ex-
amin alton in the following subjects,
and shall entitle the holder to teach
in any school in which only primary
branches are taught: photography,
reading, grammar, written arithmetic
mental arithmetic, penmanship, ply
siology, history of the United States,
civil governments photography current
news, drawing, theory and practice of
teoching, and, at the discretion of the
State Board of Education, music, and
the elements of chemistry and
physics.
SECTION 2. The county grammar
school certificate, good for three years
shall be issued upon satisfactory ex
animation in the following subjects,
and shall entitle the holder to teach
in primary, grammar, or unclassified
schools. All the subjects designated
for county primary school certificates
and in addition thereto, algebra, the
first and second books Of plain ge-
ometry, English history, bookkeeping
physical geography, physics, chemist,
ry and methods of teaching.
SECTION 3. The county high school,
certificate, good for four years, shall.
entitle the holder to teach in any
school, and shall be issued upon salts
factory examination in all the sub
jects mentioned in sections one and
two of this Act, and, in addition
thereto, botany, Latin, general history
English literature, plain geometry,
astronomy, rhetoric, civil government
and the history and methods of teach
ing.
SECTION 4. Applicants who have
taught successfully under any grade
of certificate issued under this Act
shall, when applying for the next
higher grade, be required to take
ouly the studies of that grade proud
ed, that any person holding a county
primary school certificate in applying
for county grammer school certiti-
cate need take only the additional
,, branches named in section two of this
Act.
SECTION 5. The county primary
school certificates shall not be issued
to persons unler sixteen years Of age;
the county grammar school certificate
shall not be issued to persons under
sixteen years of age; the county high
school certificates shall not be issued
to any one not having taught success
fully at least twelve months.
SECTION 6. Examinations for GER
tificates named in this Act shall be
conducted by The County Board of
Examination under such rules and re-
strictions as the State Board of Edu-
cation may prescribe.
SECTION 7. The County Board of
Examination may renew the certi6-
cate Of any person successfully en-
gagged in teaching in the county; pro-
vided, that after the year eighteen
hundred and ninety seven a primary
school certificate shall not be subject
to renewal.
SECTION 8. AS the county certifi.
Gates Of the first and second grade in
force at the passage of this Act expire
the County Board Of Examination
may issue, without examination, to
the persons holding the same, certifi-
Gates of equivalent grade as named in
this Act; provided, that high school
certificates shall be thus issued only
to those teaching in high schools.
J. SECTION 8. All Acts and parts of