The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03

at such meeting the stockholders shall
elect from among their number the trus-
tees to the number provided by such cor
poration's charter or bylaws, who shall
hold office such for one year or until
their successors are chosen; provided, that
nothing in this act contained shall be con-
strued to deprive any existing officer or
trustee of any such corporation of his
position. rights duties, and privileges as
such officer trustee, or to abridge or
authorize any change in the term of office
of any such existing officer or trustee,
unless such officer or trustee shall COLI
sent to the provisions OF this act in writ
Sec s. That the trustees of any such
corporation shall have authority to enact
such bylaws and regulations not incon-
sstent with the provisions of this act, as
shall be desirable or necessary to carry
the provisions of this act into effect.
Sec. t. All acts and parts of acts incon-
sstent with the provisions of this act are
hereby repealed.
Sec. ). This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved April u. 1897.
CHAPTER 1921. F. NO. 504
AN ACT to amend an act entitled IAN
act to provide for elementary normal
instruction in state high schools and to
appropriate money for the same APP
proved April twenty-fifth (25th). eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-tive 1S9o), be-
ing chapter 1S6. general laws 1875.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That the title Of an act en-
titled AN act to provide for elementary
normal instruction in state high schools
and to appropriate money for the same,
being chapter one hundred and eighty-SiX
QS6j, general laws eighteen hundred and
ninety-five QS95) be and the same is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
in the common, school branches in
state high schools, and to appropriate
money for the same.
Sec. ,. That section one % of said act
be amended as to read as follows:
Section l. That for the purpose of pro-
viding special instruction in the common
school branches in the state high schools
of Minnesota. the sum of ten thousand
100000 dollars, or such a portion thereof
as may be needed, shall be and is hereby
annually appropriated out of any money
In the treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, beginning with the fiscal year one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-fve
CS95), to be paid as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 3. That section two ca of said act
be amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. > That whenever the board of ed
ucatiOn in any city or village in the State
school. having Il four a. year(s) course,
and classes doing work in each of the four
a. grades therein. shall provide for spe-
cial instruction. in the comon school
branches, reading, literature, writing,
geography, arithmetic, English grammar,
United States history, civil government,
to persons intending to teach said branch
es; and when the said board of education
shall have notified the state high school
board that the provisions of this statute
shall bave been fully complied with, it
shall be the duty of said state high school
board to have the said school examined
or; and if upon said eXamina-
ton it shall appear that the To-
cal school board having charge of the
high school so examined has fully COM
piled with the provisions of this statute,
the state high school board shall there
upon certify the facts to the state audi
tor; and the state auditor shall at the
end of the school year eighteen hundred
and ninety-six QS96), and upon the close
of each succeeding school year, so long
the special instruction in the common
school branches above described shall
continue to be given in accordance with
the provisions herein set forth, issue his
warrant upon the state treasurer for the
sum of five hundred 600 dollars in favor
of the board of education having charge of
the schools in which the above described
the state high school board shall certify
each and every year to the work of each
high school applying, for aid under this
statute before the state auditors warrant
shall issue, upon the state treasurer.
Sec. 4. That section three 60 of said act
be amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty of the high
school board to make such rules and reg
ulations as may be necessary for the
management of these departments for
special lllSlIuCllOu Ill tllS Sctlu COLlIuOu
school branches.
Said board shall prescribe course of
study for these departments: shall pre-
scribe the requisites for admission to the
class; shall prescribe the minimum and
the maximum number of pupils required
in class: shall determine what high
schools are willing and prepared to do the
work required, and authorize such schools
to undertake such work; shall prescribe
the qualifications required of instructors
in these departments and certify to the
qualifications of such instructors
Sec. D. That section four "a of said act
be amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. 4. That the state auditors warrant
of education until the end of each school
year, and only upon the certificate of the
state high school board mentioned in sec
ton two CD of this statute, accompanied
by the certificate of the superintendent
or principal of the school applying for
aid under this statute to the effect that
the class receiving the special instruction
described in section two (2) of this act, in
his school, has numbered not less than
eight 80 pupils at any time during the
current year.
Sec. 6. That section five 90 of said act
be amended so as to read as follows:
city or village in Minnesota applying for
aid under this act shall employ a special
teacher to give the said special instruc-
ton in the common school branches.
Said teacher so employed shall be in adj
diton to the number employed by the
said board in its high school during the
year next preceding the date of their ap-
plication for aid under this act.
Sec. I. This act shall take effect and be