The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1897-07-22
MUST PRINT THE HISTORIES.
1T IS THE DUTY OF THE STATE
PRINTER.
Acknowledgement Fitzgerald Takes
Issue With the State Board
OF Education.

! Attorney General Fitzgerald has in
! formed State Printer Johnston that
/ it is his duty to print a suffi-
Gent number of histories of the State
textbook series to supply any demands
that may be made therefor.
| This opinion was given in response TO
an inquiry made by the State Printer,
who submitted a resolution adopted by
the State Board of Education request
! ing him not to print any more Histories
until furth notified by the board to do
so.
| In his letter to the Attorney General
! Mr.. Johnston stated that he had on
hand about 1,600 copies of the history
and would require at least 5000 copies
to fill the orders which will be sent
to him within the next four months,
and that it will be a mechanical i'm
possibility to revise and publish a new
history in less than one year, and that
the law explicitly provides that the
schools cannot be compelled to use a
new book before one year after the
completion of the electrotype plates.
Attorney Fitzgerald calls at
tention to the sections of the Civil
Code relating to the compilation and
printing Of State schoolbooks, as fol-
lows:
THE State Board of Education shall
compile, or cause to be compiled for use
in the common schools of the State a
series of school text books; that the
printing of the books mentioned shall
be done by and under the supervision
of the State Printer at the State
Printing Office; that whenever any one
or more of the State series of text
books shall have been compiled and
adopted the State Board of Education
shall issue an order requiring the uni
form use of said books in the schools
of the State; but said order for the
uniform use of said books shall not
take effect until the expiration of at
least one year from the time of the
completion of the electrotype plates of
the books, and thereafter such books
shall be used in all the common schools
of the State; and no school board, or
other school authority in this State
shall have the power to authorize the
use of, nor shall any common school
in the State use any books as text
books other than those directed to be
used by the order of the board, except
books on such subjects as are not pro-
vided for by textbooks published by
the State; also. the process of distribu-
ton of the text books shall follow this
course.
1.-THE County superintendent Of
Schools shall make acquisitions for
books upon the State Superintendent of
Public Instructions; he shall then make
requisition for the same on the Superin-
tendent Of State Printing who shall
ship the books to their destination"
There is no provision in the law"
says the Attorney General, (which
gives the State Board of Education the
power to suspend the use of the books
of the State textbook series provided
for in these acts, other than by adopt
ing new ones covering the same sub
ject. And, as you state, such new
ones cannot go into general use for at
least a year after their adoption and
the completion Of the electrotype plates
for their publication, but pending the
adoption of new books it is compul-
sorry on the schools to use the old ones
and it is your duty to publish a suffi-
cient number to supply the demand for
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