Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1904-03-09
The New Library Law.

Below is given the new library law.
Those interested will please read it care
fully, and send the ten dollars raised by
private subscription along with a warrant
for ten dollars from the trustees, drawn
in my favor. This will have to be done
before the ten dollars can be secured
from the State Superintendent of Educa-
tion.
You see that only twelve schools In
any one county can be benefited by this
act during this year. So the first ones to
conform to its requirements will get the
libraries. Every teacher should feel him
self appointed to start the wheel in his
school. If the school is not in session
any one in the district interested in good
schools will do well to sec what can be
done.
You need not take time to write to the
Corresponding Secretary of the o. r. s.
l. A., as Others who come direct to the
proper and legally constituted place
may get ahead of you.
1t has been said, "Windowless houses
and bookless minds are dreary places be-
the windows through which we view
the world. So, If we have no books and
read no books we are likened to small,
dilapidated, windOwless hut in some re-
mote section of the country surrounded
by high hills and mountains. There is
something in life for we'll read person
that tie illiterate can never expect to
enjoy.
Mr.. Clay is quoted as saying: "When I
was boy l was very poor and my
mother was very poor, but she was never
too poor to buy her boy good books; and
to this one thing, more than to all things
else, do owe my success in life"
l think that the knew library law is a
good one, and that the people in this
Oh h., go
take in it that they are not in "a wilder
ness ~ and that the teachers will
show that those under their care are not
like "dumb driven CATTLE" as remarked
by an OverZealous person in this good
paper not very long ago.
There is such thing as having "a
zeal for God, but not according to knowl-
edge" c.. L. Craig, G. s. e.
Section l. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of South Carolina,
Whenever the patrons and friends of
free public school shall raise by private
subscription and tender to the County
Superintendent of Education, with the
approval and endorsement OF the School
Trustees of such school district, for the
establishment of library to be con-
nected with said school, the sum of ten
dollars, the County Board of Education
shall appropriate from the money belong
ing to that school district, asking for the
library, the sum of ten dollars for this
purpose.
Section 2. AS soon as the County
Board of Ed ucation of any County shall
have made an appropriation for library
in the manner prescribed, the Comfy
Superintendent of Education shall inform
the Secretary of the State Board of Edu-
cation of the fact, whereupon the said
State BOARD of Education shall remit the
County Superintendent of Education the
sum of ten dollars for the purchase of
books for said library. Upon receipt of
this money, the County Superintendent
of Education shall turn over to the person
appointed to select books, the amount
secured by private subscription, by
appropriation from the County Board of
Education, and by appropriation from
the State Board of Education,
Section 3. A local Board of Trustees
is hereby appointed to select the books,
and shall purchase such books as they
may deem best suited for such purpose,
and shall file with the County Superin-
tendent of Education Vouchers for the
whole amount received: Provided, That
no vouchers shall be valid except for
books and transportation charges: Pro-
vided, further, That such purchases shall
be from q list furnished by the State
Board of Education, which said State
Board shall adopt books for said libraries
under the law and rules governing the
adoption of text books, and shall make
rules for the governing of said libraries.
Section 4. The Trustees of every
library shall carry out such rules and
regulations for the proper use and pre-
servation of the books as may be enjoined
by the State Board of Education, and
shall make provisions for having all
books, when not in circulation, kept
under lock and key.
Section 5. The Trustees of two or
more libraries may, by agreement, ex-
change libraries: Provided, That no ex-
change shall be made oftener than once
in six months, and that no part of the
expense of exchanging libraries shall bo
borne by the public.
Section g. That the sum of five thou
sand dollars be annually appropriated,
to be expended by the State Board of
Education, under the provisions Of this
Act.
Section 7. Not more than twelve (12)
schools in any County, in any one year,
created and operated under the general
free school law of the State, shall be enti-
tied to the benefits of this Act, and no
school district shall receive any moneys
under it's provisions, except schools
operated under the general free school
law of the State. The school receiving
this benefit shall be decided by the
County Boards.
Section 8. This Act shall DO In force
from and after its approval. Approved
the 18th day of February, A. d. 1904.
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