The Chipley banner. (Chipley, Washington County, Fla.) 1893-1943, 1903-08-20


Schools to Prescribe Conditions. Provide
for Inspection and to Make Appropria-
tons Therefor.
Be 7 Enacted BY hs Lesisi0itvs Of ne State Of
Florida;
Section /. The uniform system Of public
vide for twelve consecutive school years Of
instruction, exclusive Of kindergarten, normais,
seboels as NAV be des9"sted or ..sSSi.bsd s1 sy
Sec. 3 Each school year Of instruction
shall be fe:SGSS'esh s Is grade and g.. no official
school year OF eight months Of instruction az
constituting the work Of grade
Sec. 3. The FIRST two grades shall be known
rs primary grades; the third, fourth, fifth
and sixth grades shall be known as interme
date grades the seventh and eight grades
sh5 be known s as gamma Grades the ninth
high school grades, and the eleventh and
twelfth grades shall be known senior high
school grades.
Sec. L Instruction shall be given In the
prirary grades IN reading, spelling, language.
physiology and hygiene, number and writing,
and such lessons in music, drawing, geography
natural study, morals, and manners, as may
be provided for in the county course Of study.
Sec. 5. Instruction shall be given In the in
termediate grades in reading spelling. Ian:
guage, arithmetic, geography, physiology, and
hygiene, writing, elementary science, and such
lessons In music drawing. history, nature study
morals and manners as may be provided for
Sec g. Instruction shall be given in the
grammar grades In reading, photography, geog-
raphy, history, and civil government Of Flor
in music, drawing, morals, and manners, man
ual training, domestic ats and sciences and
agriculture as may be provided for in the coun.
ty course Of study.
Sec. Z Instruction shall be given in the
high school grades in such subjects and to
such extent as shall be designated IN the
course Of study for high schools hereinafter
Sec. 5, Immediately after the passage and
approval OF this act, the State Superintendent
of Public Instruction shall appoint a com.
Of the most capable persons, Of whom not
less than one-third shall be presidents or
principals Of State institutions for higher ed
principals Of high or graded schools and these,
together with himself at the earliest practi.
cable date shall prepare standard course Of
STUDY study G shall a minimum sIs S
and shall be arranged as far as practicable to
secure equality of mental power and training
among those completing its instruction, and to
insure suitable preparation for entrance into
the lowest college classes of the State In
stitutions for higher education, but shall not
prescribe unnecessary details as TO order or
mend such details. When such course of
study shall have been prepared. the State
Superintendent o. PUBLIC obstruction shall
Sec. O. The members Of the committee pro-
vided for in Section of this act shall Serve
without compensation, but they shall be paid
the services required.
Sec 10. Any public high school maintained
by taxation and controlled BY the SoHnty
vide instruction OF the character prescribed by
law for, high school grades and which shall
be conducted in a suitable building, with.
ment, may receive from the State treasury aid
as. follows; Any high school, which shall main
tain, only the hrst two, or Junior grades, IRE
scribed in the official course OF study for high
schools, shall receive three hundred and sixty
dollars $500 per annum for three years, and
any high school mai maintaining all four or ju-
scribed by the State course Of Sudy for high
schools, shall receive six hundred dollars
$500 per annum for three years.
See II. Any public school which shall be
ma utsined not less than three miles distant
from any town or city Of more than FIVE hun
bred inhabitants which shall be supported by
public school funds and controlled by a
county board of public instruction, which shall
provide all instruction OF the character pre-
scribed by law, in intermediate and grammar
each h' year. and which ' shall be Conducted by
two or more qualified teachers In a suitable
building, and which shall have necessary fur
snte Ta t%o hundred dollar. @ pe
annum for four years. Provided, That the
three-mile limit prescribed in this section
shall not apply to schools the pupils OF which
ing the nearest graded schools
Sec IL. In order to receive aid as provided
for in section 10 and II Of this act, the county
board Of public instruction controlling any
school entitled to receive same shall make APP
plication to the State Board of Education in
such form as may be prescribed by said State
Board OF Education not later than January LIST
of any school year. Upon receipt OF such
application the State Board Of Education shall
cause investigation to be made by the State
satisfied that all conditions have been fully
complied with, the said State Board of l,du-
cation shall make requisition upon the State
Comptroller for the amount duc under the
provisions Of section 10 and II Of this act;
Provided That II the amount appropriated for
schools duly entitled thereto, then the amount
available under this act shall be prorated
among all the schools that have complied
with the conditions herein imposed
Sec. 10. Aid shall under no circumstances
be granted TO the same school a second time
during the same scholastic wear, nor shall
any school be permitted TO receive aid sec
ond time because Of change OF name num-
Der. LOCATION or any other change which may
be made for the purpose q securing addition;
instituted in the stead Of the same school
Sec, a. That fifty thousand dollars $780,
000) or so much thereof as may be necessary
for each Of the school years beginning Jvly
LIST, 1908, and July LIST, 1904, be and the same Is
hereby appropriated out Of any money in the
out the provisions Of this act, and the Comp
troller Is hereby authorized TO draw warrants
upon the State Treasurer for such amounts
upon the order Of the State Board Of Educa-
tion.
Sec. H. All laws and parts Of laws In con.
hict with this act are hereby repealed.
Approved May 26. 1903