Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-03-08
HIGHER
is. B. No. 1871

An Act for the encouragement OF SecOn-
Diary Education.
Be 1t enacted, etc.:
SECTION l. The governor, the superin-
tendent Of public instruction and the pres
ldent OF the state university, ex-officio, are
hereby constituted a board of commission
ers on preparatory schools for. the encour-
Ihls board shall be called The 'high school
board" and shall perform the duties and
have and exercise the power hereinafter
mentioned.
Sec. 2. Any public graded school in any
city or Incorporated village, or township
organized into a district under the so called
township or district system, which school
terms and provisions of this act, and shall
admit students of either sex from any part
of the state, shall be entitled to be CLASH
lied as a state high school: provided, how
ever, that no such school shall be required
to admit nonresident pupils unless they
shall! pass an examination in photography,
reading in English, penmanship, arithme-
history of the United States.
SEC. 8. The said board shall require of
the schools desiring to be classified as state
high schools compliance with the follow
ing conditions, to-wit:
l. That there be regular and orderly
SouloGo VI otuuys ellOiaclnS all the
branches prescribed by said board for the
first two years Of the high school course.
2. That the said schools classified as
state high schools under this act shall at
all times permit the said board of commits
sioners, or any of them, to visit and exam
inc the classes pursuing the said prepara-
tory courses.
Sec. 4. The said board of commission
ers Shall cause each school classified as a
state high school under this act to be Wis
tied, at least once in each school year, by a
committee OF n or more members, who
shall carefully inspect the instruction and
discipline of the said high schools and
make a written report on the same imme-
diately; provided, that the said board may
in their discretion, appoint, in any case,
competent persons to visit and inspect any
schools and to make report thereon; and
no school shall be classified as a state high
school in any case until after such report
shall have been received and examined by
the board and the work Of the school ap-
proved by vote of the board.
SEC. 5. The members of said board shall
serve without compensation.
SEC: s; The high school board shall
have full discretionary power to consider
and act upon applications of schools for
classification and TO prescribe the conditions
upon which said classification shall be
made; and it shall be it's duty to accept such
schools only as will, in its opinion, if accept
ed, etlclently perform the service cOntem-
plated by law. Any school once accepted
and continuing to comply with the law and
regulations of the board made in sua
thereof. shall be so classified not less than
three years: The board shall have power
to establish any necessary and suitable
rules II regulations relating to examina.
tons. reports, acceptance of schools.
courses of studies and other proceedings
under this act.
SEC. Z. The said board shall keep a
careful record of all their proceedings, and
shall make, on or before the first day of De,
cember in each year, a report, covering the
previous year, to the superintendent OF
public instruction, showing the names and
number of schools classified as state high
schools, and the number of pupils attend
ind each, to which report they may ado
such recommendations as they may deem
useful and proper.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and b.
in force from and after its passage.
Approved March IL, 1895.
STATE HIS rORlCAL ASSOCIATION
Is. b. No. 147.]
An Act Creating an Historical Commission
for the State, Prescribing Its Duties an(
the Place for Preserving Its Records.
Be 1t enacted, etc.:
SECTION l. The governor, auditor, sec
rotary OF state, commissioner OF agricul
ture and labor and VIM. H. Morehead
president Of the North Dakota Historical
Society, shall constitute an historical com
mission for the state of North Dakota.
SEC.2. 1t shall be the duty of this com
mission to collect and preserve the records
and relics pertaining to the early history
early settlement and development Of Nortl
Dakota. 1t shall collect, arrange and pre-
serve a library Of books, pamphlets, papers
manuscripts, photographs, paintings
sketches, cabinets of minerals, Indian
archaeological and other curiosities anC
material illustrative of the civil, political
religious, literary and natural history o.
the state. 1t may receive requests for the
purposes of this act, and shall eXpend the
same for the purchase OF historical, geneo
logical and other books and collections
suitable for this purpose, and may receive
contributions from societies, corporations
and individuals, of books, pamphlets. pa
perS and other matter herein contemplated
and shall faithfully preserve or apply thu
same for the purposes herein stated
They shall provide a room in the capito
for the safe keeping and arrangements O
the records II collections of this commits
sion and the North Dakota Historical So
clety when cooperating with it.
EMERGENCY. Whereas, there is al
collections have already been offered thu
state and there IS no authority to accep
the same or to provide a room for thei
safe keeping, this act shall take effect an(
be in force on and after its passage.
Approved March 8, 1896. ~
GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS.