The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-02-02

performing his or her duties; and when
no 80 employed the boys of said corps
shall superintepd the work of road
building or other improvements in
which the county prisoners can be
utilized and the girls of said reserve in
the intelligence bureau of their county
academy. as hereinafter provided.
SEC. 13 Scholarships to the State
colleges shall be awarded by county
boards of education to the boy and girl
of the highest grade in the county
academies, who receive the highest
distinction in their classes. The same
shall entitle the holders thereof to a
years course of study at their respec
tive State colleges, including b Dard and
clothing at the expense of the State.
Provided, however. it shall be repaid
by an equivalent in personal service to
be rendered as teachers in county
academies.
SEC. ii. In addition, there shall be
eight scholarships for tho Estate at
large" which, under proper restric-
tiOns, shall be awarded by the State
Board of EducaGIon to two boys and
two girls of each race, and shall entltle
them to a years course of il sCruction
at their State colleges, including board
and clothing, to b9 repaid likewise by
rendering an equivalent in personal
service in the State reserve corps of
of teachers, to fill vacancies which
occur in the staff of teachers employed
by the county academies, and when
not so engaged the boys of the reserve
corps shall superintend State works
of internal improvement on which the
convict force of the State shall be util
lied aud the girls be employed in in
telllgenca bureau of their colleges.
SEQ 10 University scholarships
shall be awarded by the S ate Board of
Education to the boy ano girl graduate
of each S ate College, who receive the
highest honors in their respective
CLASSES and shall entitle the holders
thereof to a years course of study at
the best poly Institutes in Amer
lea or Europe with necessary expenses
paid by the State to be repaid by serv-
ing as professors at the State colleges
for their respective races
SEC. Is. In connection with each
college there shall be established a
bureau of intelligence for collecting
and disseminating intelligence, statisti
Cal reports and such other information
as will be for the general interest Of the
citizans of the State at large.
SEC. II. The government of the State
system of public instr uction shell be
vested in State, county and district
boards of education. Of which the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction
snail be the executive head.
SIC. Is The State Board of Educa
ton shall be a perpetual body consist
ing of nine members ivi( ed into three
classes, TO- wit: Class of 1899 shall be
elected to serve for two years. That
of 1901 for four years, and that of 1908
for = K years Each class shall consist
of three members chosen, n each by
the representative of the three domi-
nant political parties in the General
Assembly and their successors in like
manner by succeeding legislatures. '
SEC 19. The funds necessary to carry
out the provision of this ACT shall be
provided as follows:
SEC 30 The work of the State Elk,
'perIment Station shall be merged into
sha of che State Normal and Industrial
Colleges, and all State and National
funds available for that station,
together with all other National and
State appropriations for the two State
Agricultural and Mechanical Colleges
and the S ate Normal and Industrial
5cnOOl for girls nov existing, shall be
applied to the establishment and main
flamenco OF the three State Normal and
Industrial Colleges aforesaid.
SRC 81. In the event that the funds
available from said appropriations are
insU mclent to establish and maintain
said State Normal and Industrial Col
leges, the State Board of Education
shall make reqnisitlon upon the Treas
urer of che State for the amount of the
deficiency accompanied with an item
z I'd statement of the same.
SEC 90 Providing there are no funds
in the Treasury of the State that car
be applied to this purpose, the State
Treasurer is hereby instructed to issue
State educational bonds in denomina
tions of twenty dollars each at the
lowest possible rate of interest, to meet
the deficit. Provided, however, The