Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1903-03-16
Senate Bill No. 20.

a Dill 10 amend ana IS-euaCG ScS-
ton Thirty of chapter forty-five OF
the Code of west Virginia, relating
to the time of holding Teachers
Institute.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature
of West Virginia;
That section thirty of chapter
fotty.five of the Code be amended
and re enacted so aa to read as
follows;
40. Every teacher shall keep a
daily register and make monthly
reports to the secretary of the board
of education of bis district. He
shall also keep a term register In
which shall be entered the date OF
the commencement and termination
of every term of school, the name
and age of every scholar who at
tended tn. school during said term,
the daily attendance, distinguishing
between males and females, the
branches taught and the number OF
scholars engaged each month In
the study of each branch, and such
other particulars as are necessary
to enable the secretaries of the
boards of education, or directors, to
make the reports required of them.
The state superintendent of free
schools shall prescribe snch forms
and regulations, respecting the
register to be kept and the reports
to be made by the teachera as shall
seem to him necessary. At the close
of each term, the register thereof
shall be returned by the teacher to
the Office of the secretary OF the
board of education for the district,
who shall file the same, and unless
such register be properly kept and
returned, the teacher Shall not be
entitled to demand payment for the
balance due on his salary. Teachers
shall be paid monthly, and by
orders on the sheriff, or collectors,
signed by the secretary and presi-
dent of The board, which orders
when signed as aforesaid and deliver
ed to the teacher shall be deemed
at once due and payable When
any teacher has taught according
to his contract, for one month, the
trustees for the sub district In which
be has taught, shall certify the fact
to the secretary of the district board,
whereupon he shall receive from
said secretary an order upon the
sheriff or collector of the county,
signed by the secretary and presi-
dent of the board of education,
for one months salary; but
in no case shall such order
be given unless the monthly
report containing the facts required
In the preceding part OF this sec
ton, to be shown In the term regis
ter, be first duly made out and re.
turned to the secretary. The school
month shall consist Of twenty days,
excluding Saturday, all of which
shall be devoted to teaching the
school contracted for. AS a means
of improving the teachers and fit
ting them for more effective service
IN the free schools of the State,
teachers institutes shall be held
annually throughout the State, one
or more In each county; they shall
be held at such places as the State
superintendent shall, with the adj
vice of the county superintendent,
direct, and during the week preced.
Ing that school term In each county,
which a majority of the school
teachers Of such county may desig.
nate by petition to the county SD
perlntendent, or by vote at the
preceding teachers institute, and
shall continue each for one week of
FIVE days; and the teachers who
attend the institute In their county
shall receive pay for the same to be
paid on their last months order,
which shall be for one-fourth more
than the other orders; they shall be
conducted by experienced and
skillful institute instructors, but 1t
shall be part of the duty of the
county superintendent, under the
instructions of the State superinten-
dent to make all proper arrange.
ments for the institutes, and to
assist In conducting them. The In.
structors whom the State superin-
tendent shall employ as herein
provided shall each receive for his
services not more than twenty FIVE
dollars for each institute he may