The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22

lasting for a month or so instead of an
institute of one week.
IS. School districts may be formed out
of portions of contiguous counties by
consent of the two County Boards of
Education.
az. County superintendent are re-
quired to attend one annual session of
State Association of County Superintend-
ents and allowed travelling expenses.
SO. In counties with a total fund of
over fifteen thousand dollars the county
board of education may employ county
superintendent for all his time at such
salary as may be fixed by them.
80 No child with negro blood in his
veins, however remote the strain, shall
attend school for the white race.
40 Annual statements of the receipts
and disbursements of the board of edu-
cation are required to be published"
The full text of the amendments to the
law of 1901 is as follows
AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 4. LAWS OF
1901, RELATING TO THE SCHOOL LAW.
The General Assembly Of North Carolina do enact:
That Chapter 4 of the Public Laws of 1901, be-
ing act to revise and consolidate the Public
School Law, IS hereby amended as lOlioWS.
Section l. In line g. in section s, after the word
''thereto" insert the following 1.-The County
Board of Education and all other school officers
in the several counties shall obey the instruc-
tions of the State Superintendent and accept his
constructions OF the School Law"
Sec. 3 In lines and 4 of section II strike out
the words 1.-TWO hundred and fifty" and insert
the word GIVE hundred"
Sec. 8. After the word education in line
of section - insert the following :"Upon failure
of the General Assembly to appoint three mem
bers of the County Board of Education for any
county as herein provided they shall be appointed
by the State Board of Education, and all va
cancies occurring in said board that can not be
filed as herein provided shall be filed by the
State. Board of Education" Instead of the
figures '1903' in line of section y insert
1905" Strike out all of said section II after
the figures ''1903" in line 9.
Sec A. Strike out section l3 81 substitute
therefor the following: ''The County Board of
Education shall be body corporate by the
name and style of the County Board OF Education
of .............. County, and by that name shall
be capable of purchasing and holding real and
personal estate, of building and repairing school
houses, of selling and transferring the same for
school purposes and of prosecuting and defending
suits for or against the corporation. They shall
have power and authority and it shall be their
, duty to institute and prosecute any and all &C
I tons, suits proceedings against any and all
officers, persons corporations their sureties
for the recovering, preservation and Application
of all moneys or property which may be due to
or should be applied to the support and mainten-
ancc of the schools, except in case Of breach OF
bond the part OF the treasurer OF the county
school fund.- in which action shall be brought
by the county commissioners, provided i'll sec
tion A. The building of all new school houses
shall he under the control and direction of and
by contract with the County Board OF Education;
Provided, said board shall pay not exceeding one
half of the cost of the same out of the fund set
aside for building under section a. and the
school district in which any schoohouse is
| erected shall pay the other part, and upon
failure of said district TO provide its part by
private subscription or otherwise the County
Board of Education IS directed to take IL out
of the apportionment to said district: Provided
! further they shall not be authorized to invest
! any money in any house that is not built
in accordance with plans approved by the State
Superintendent OF instruction and the County
Board of Education, and that all contracts for
/ building shall be in writing and all buildings
shall be inspected received and approved by the
County Superintendent of Public instruction be-
| fore full payment is made therefor. The time
! of opening and closing the public schools in the
several public school districts of the State shall
! be fixed and determined by the County Board of
Education in their respective counties: Provided,
/ however, that the board may fix different dates
| for opening the schools in different townships,
! but all the SCHOOLS of each township must open
on the same date nearly practicable. The
! Board of Education shall have power and au-
/ thority to fix and determine the methods OF
conducting the public schools in their respective
counties so as to furnish the most advantageous
methods of education available TO the children
attending the public schools in the several coun-
ties of the State: and the County Board of %|lu-
| cation and the County Superintendent of Schools
shall have full power to make all just and needtul
rules and regulations governing the conduct Of
! teachers and pupils as to attendance on the
| schools, discipline, hardness and the general gov
eminent of the schools.
Sec s. In line / of section rs strike out the
word second" and insert the word first; in
line , strike out 1901" and insert 1903
See g. In line of section II strike out
Second and insert first" and strike out
md envt
second" and insert first" and strike out
IDOL" and insert 1903" After the word
"annum' in line 10 insert the following: Any
township committee may appoint one man IN
each school district in the township to look
after the schoolhouse and property and advise
with the committee.
Sec :. After the word School in line 10 in
section ~ insert the following: "a complete copy
OF the census furnished to the County Superin-
tendent which shall be recorded by the teacher
in" Add at the end OF section 20 the following:
| 'The County Superintendent shall be notified at
once by the secretary OF the committee OF the
name OF the teacher elected and COPY of the
contract duly signed and recorded shall be filed
with said County Superintendent; and no voucher
for the salary of teacher of any school be
signed bv any County Superintendent unless
copy Of such teachers contract has been filed
with him herein provided, ana unless he
shall have received satisfactory evidence that
said teacher has been elected IN strict accord
ance with this section"
See S. In line Of section %, insert after the
& isuontllly' the words "and, if required by
the ~ Superintendent, weekly and after
the N |.statements" the words land reports
in line after the word committee" insert the
words land TO the County superintendent; in
line u after the word monthly insert the
words cor weekly, in line Is after the word
COMMITTEES" insert the words or County super
intendent" At the end of section q add the
following: Provided, however. that all funds re
naming to the credit Of said school at the close
of the school wear. unused because OF non-st-
tendance shall be returned to the general fund
for re-apportiopmeht, unless such non'attend-
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