Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1897-06-30

Austin, Tex, June 27-The act In
regard to the expenditures of school
funds approved by the governor on
last Thursday is deemed by the de-
partment of education one of the most
important measures passed in recent
years. All superintendent, trustees
an school treasurers will be specially
interested in this new law. The act
is given in full below:
An act to regulate and limit the eX-
penditures of state county and local
school funds and regulate treasur-
er's reports thereof:
Section 1. BE it enacted by the legis-
lature of the state of Texas That
public school funds hereafter shall not
be expended except for the following
purposes:
1. The state available school funds
shall be used exclusively for the pay
ment of teachers and superintendent
salaries and fees for taking the scholas-
tic census.
2. The county available school funds
shall be used exclusively for the pay
ment of teachers and superintendent
salaries and for payment of fees for
taking the scholastic census.
8. Local school funds from district
taxes, tuition fees of pupils not en-
titled to free tuition and other local
sources may be used for the purposes
enumerated for state and county funds
and for purchasing appliances and
supplies, for the payment of insurance
premiums, janitor and other employees,
for building school sites, buying, build
ing, repairing and renting school
houses and for other purposes neces-
sary in the conduct of the public
schools, to be determined by the board
of trustees, the accounts and vouchers
for county districts and communities
to be approved by the county superin-
tendent; provided, that when the state
available school funds in any city or
county is sufficient to maintain the
schools thereof in any year for at least
eight months and have a surplus, each
surplus may be expended for the pur-
poses mentioned herein.
having control of any school funds
Sec. 2. All treasurers receiving or
shall keep full and separate itemized
account with each of the different
classes of the school funds coming into
his hands and shall, on or before the
LIST day of October each year, file with
the state superintendent of public in
struction an itemized report in dupli
cate of the receipts and disbursements
of the school funds of the preceding
school year ending August 81, which
report and duplicate shall be on the
prescribed form furnished by the de-
partment of education and the dupli-
cate report, after examination by the
state superintendent shall be returned
to the commissioners court of the
proper county for appoval, and shall
be accompanied by such objections or
recommendations as the state superin-
tendent may make in regard to same.
The state superintendent in examining
any report may call for the vouchers
and make such investigation of the
correctness an legality of the different
items as he may deem necessary, and
when duplicate is sent to the commits
sioners' court all vouchers shall be
presented to the court, and the present
law in regard to the treasurers' re-
ports, except as hereinbefore modified,
is hereby continued.
Sec g. All laws, general and special,
in conflict with this act are hereby re-
pealed
Sec. 4. The near approach of the
close Of the special session and the i'm
portance of providing some adequate
method by which the public schools of
the state may be supplied with the ne
cessities for their proper conduct
creates an emergency and an impera-
tive necessity that the constitutional
rule requiring bills to be read on three
several days be suspended, and that
this act take effect from and after its
passage, and it is so enacted.