The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1900-10-20
Special Notice.

LAFAYETTE, La, Oct IS, 1900.
All public school teachers IN La.
fayette PARISH are hereby notified ,o
attend the Teachers Institute to be
held at the Lafayette Primary
School building Saturday. Oc,. AZ,
1900, beginning at 1890 =. m.
The above institute will be held
by authority of the following ordi-
nance adopted bv the School Board
Oct. 4, 1900:
Resolved by the Parish School
Board that regular monthly
in the parish of Lafayette under
Sec. IS of Third Compilation OF
the State School laws, beginning
1900.
The law governing the holding of
ssteachers institutes" is appended
guidance Of teachers:
Sec. IS, The parish superintendent may
devote the first Saturday of each month.
during the time the common schools are in
session in the parish. to holding institutes
for the improvement of teachers in their
for the discussion of topics pertaining to the
advancement of the public school interest in
the parish.
Sec. So. The teachers shall be notified
of the time and place of the monthly insti-
tute meeting. Teachers failing to be pres
ent, or to take such part in the exercises as
the Superintendent may assign q designate,
shall forfeit one days salary (which for
feited salary shall be paid to the parish in
stitute fund), unless a good and sufficient
reason for such failure to attend shall be
given in writing to the parish superintendent
within ten days thereafter. No teacher
shall be bound to attend the institute who,
to do SO, shall have to travel a greater dis
lance than ten miles each way, and other
wise than by land.
Sec. 81. Three hours work shall be re-
quired to constitute legal session of one
institute, and the parish superintendent
that he fails to conduct required by this
act, unless physically unable to attend, or
for other sufficient excuse, to the satisfac-
ton of the school board.
Sec. So. These institutes may receive rs
members. honorary or active, the members
of the board, all officers, and any citizen
of good moral character as may desire to
become a member. subject to the rules and
regulations. and to the payment of such
dues and fines az may be imposed by q
quorum of the said institutes.
Sec. 50. Each parish superintendent,
upon the assembling of the teachers insti-
tute of his parish shall cause a roll Of the
members to be prepared, which roll shall be
sion of the institute, and all absentees shall
be carefully marked. He shall ascertain
the number OF teachers who were attend
ance, and length of time each attended, and
shall keep record thereof.
Sec. 50. Each parish superintendent be-
fore the beginning of the free school term,
shall appoint one of the best qualified
teachers of his parish as institute manager
for each institute district, should there be
more than one institute district in the par
ish; and such appointees shall each be paid
for actual services two dollars apd . half
per day out of the institute fund as compen-
sation for holding institutes, and for assist
ing the superintendent during the session.
Sec. 81. All institute funds shall be
collected and receiPted for BY the SuPerin-
tendent. He shall have record Of the
amount received, hand them over to the
treasurer of the school board, who shall
keep q separate account of these funds. He
shall pay them out Of the warrant Of the
superintendent. countersigned by the peesi-
dent Of the school board. These funds shall
be expended only in the interest Ct the i'm
stitates. The superintendent, for an SER
yicos t9S eonnectfon with these institutes.
shal1 - paid. three dollaxs day oat q 1ald
fuud for each day b will casss fhs said