Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-08-04
The New Text Book Law.
Notice to Trustees and the Public.

Your attention is respectfully called to
Secs. s and of House Bill No. 254, which
was approved March Z, 1899. These Sec
tiOns are given herewith III full:
SEcTIoN 8. Not later than the first
Monday in August, 1899, and at such
other times as may be necessary to prop
erly supply the school of said district
the chairman of each of the several
boards of trstees of the county superin-
tendant shall forward to the county a
Der of each kind, which will be required
to supply the pupils of the public schools
of his district. Immediately upon the
receipt of this requisition from the
chairman of the board of trustees, the
county superintendent shall order from
the nearest book publisher or publishers
furnishing said books the books desi-
grated therein, and upon receipt OF the
duplicate bills from said publishers,
and upon comparison with the original
bills cent to the trustee or other persons
to whom the order was consigned, and
and after comparing the same with pub
lished price furnished him by the state
superintendent as hereinbefore provided,
shall order the county treasurer to remit
the purchase price to the said publisher
from the funds of said district; provided,
that, if the district had no funds to its
credit in the hands Of the county treas
urer, then the said county treasurer
shall at once remit from the current ex-
pense fund of the county the same to be
reimbursed to the current expense fund
of the county, from the funds of the dis
trict, as soon as the amount has been
paid into the treasury to the account of
said district; and. provided, furthur,
that If from any cause the accounts are
not paid within ninety days, the same
shall draw interest at the rate of per
cent per annum from the date of the
the shipment of the books to the date Of
payment.
SEC. 8. The county superintendent
and the county treasurer shall each keep
an account OF all books ordered, showing
the number of the district, the mum Der
and kind of books, the date of the order,
the date and amount of the remittance,
and such other items as we'll in their
judgement render the whole transaction
easily understood. Provided, that the
trustees of each district shall determine
whether or not the text books for said
district shall be free text books, and if
it shall be determined by said trustees
that said text hooks shall not be free
then any parent or guadian or other
person having the legal or actural con-
trole of a child or children, shall be
required to purchase necessary books for
such child or children from the trustees
of his district at actural cost to that
district. and the trustees shall pay the
purchase price back into the treasury,
the same to be placed to the credit OF
the said district; provided, in cases where
it is deemed by said trustees that any
parent or guardian is unable to pay for
said text books, the same may be furn-
ished free.
House Bill No. 254 makes the proviso
that the text books adopted shall be in
use in all the public schools of the state
for period OF six years from and after
the first day of September, 1893, to the
exclusion of all others.
Dated July 26, 1899.
LEWIS ELsENsoHS,
County Sup't.