Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1901-03-07
SCHOOL LAWS.

SALEM, Feb. 20 To superintenients
district school officers and teachers -
All school laws now in force, cxcep'
that pertaining 10 the issuance OF state
papers to those who graduated from nor,
NAL schools and chartered institutions
prior TO Sept, |, 1900. viii ;rmoiu il
force until May -, 1901
The following changes have beer
made in the methods Of appo-tiouing
the county school fund
Subdivision 5, sec. ~ He slal
make an apporuonment Of the entire
school fund then in the county treasury
on the first Monday in April and Oeto-
ber Of each year, and at such other
times during the year as he may deem
advisable, The county school fund, col
lected in pursuance OF The school tax
levied by the county court, shall be APP
portioned in the following manner: In
October he shall apportion $50 to each
district in his county that has reported
to him as required by law Atthe same
time he shall spportion to each district
in bis county s. for each teacher EN-
ployed by snch district during the >
months immediately preceding such
spportIonment, who has attended for a
period of at least IL hours an annual
county institute or state teachers asso-
citation held during the u months inn
mediately preceding the time Of making
such apportionment. The county SUPER
intendent shall take as evidence that
such district has employed teacher or
teachers who have sttended an institute
or association as above described, a Ger
ti6cate properly signed by the secretary
of srch institute or association, or Ger
tilted copy thereof 1t is hereby made
the duty OF such teachers to file with
the clerk of such district certificate or
copy thereof as hereinbetore provided,
and it shall be the duty OF said clerk to
file said certificate or copy thereof with
the school superintendent OF his county
provided, that the county school super
intendent shall not credit district with
whole number of rooms in operation IN
such district at any one time during the
year. The balance OF the county school
funds thereafter remaining in the treas
ury, and any amount Of such funds to
be spportioned at any other time, shall
be apportioned among the several dis
tricts in his county that have reported
to him as required by law in proportion
to the total number OF school age resid
ing n eaCh district, between the ages Il
four and twenty years as shown by
the clerks last annual report. Ii at the
time for making the apportionment IN
October there shall net be sufficient Of
the county school fund to make the re-
quired $50 TO each district and the -
for each teacher employed, as hereinbe
fore provided, he shall appoftion the
whole amount OF such fund in equal
sums among the several di tricts which
have reported as required by law, and
as soon thereafter as there is a sufficient
amount OF the county school funds on
hand for that purpose he shall appOr- /
tiOI ~ CdLAi dlHl4 ~ @tAt.ti q sum a.
make up the required $50 and s. for that /.
year. In case Of joint districts the sum /
Of $50 herein required to be paid to each F
school district in a county before any
part OF the county school fund l. other I
wise apportioned, said $50 shall be paid /
to said Joint district by the counties in /
which il lies in proportion to the total /
number OF children resident in each T
hot tho 81 2
twenty wears q each county a. shown I
by the clerks last annual report, and +
the S. each for teachers employed as
hereinbefore provided, shall be paid in
equal proportions by each OF the cOun- /
ties in which such district lies.
On the first Monday OF October Of each I
year lie shall apportion the common Or I
irreducible school fund among the sew /
eral districts in his county in proportion .
10 the number of children residentthere /
in betwe cen the ages OF four and twenty /
years. As soon as he shall have made /
any OF the spportiOnments provided Tor /
in this subdivision he shall draw war
rants on the county treasurer in favor /
Of the districts for their respective shares /
and transmit the same to the clerks |
thereof; provided, that the superinten [
dent shall not issue or transmit any such .
warrant to the clerk Of any district until .
the clerks bond shall have been re
ceived, examined and approved by the /
county superintendent and filed by him .
in his Office as a par OF the records .
thereof The basis Of all apportion I
ments shall be the last annual reports
Of the several district clerks on file in .
his Office at the time OF making such .
apportionments. -