Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1908-03-18
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HIGH SCHOOL AT.
!. AS Amended February 10, 1908.

ful for any common school district
which does not contain an incorpo-
rated town or city OF more than
twenty-five hundred inhabitants or
for any county, or for any township,
or aggregation of adjoining town
ships, or aggregation of adjoining
school districts In which there IS no
Incorporated town or city of NOR.
Ihan twenty-five hundred Inhabitants
within the State, to establish high
school in the manner and with the
privileges herein given.
Sec. 2. That any high school ter
ritorial unit mentioned in Section 1
of this act may establish a high
school by an election to be held In
said proposed high school district up
on the question of estabr hing same;
said election to be orderNi upon the
written petition of at leas. forty per
cent of the freeholders within the
territory, addressed to the County
Board of Education, said election so
be conducted In all other respects,
including the requirements Of those
who are allowed to vote therein, as
elections are now conducted under
Section 1908 of the Civil Code of
1902, in reference to special levies
for schoo, purposes. II a miLjority
of the votes cast in each school dis
trict shall be For High School," and
not Against High School," the high
school shall be established, and be-
come q body corporate, under the
name and style of High School Dis
trict No. -, of ---- county Che
State Board to insert the number in
order Of it's establishment in the par
ticular county, and also the name of
the proper county,. If a single
school district establish high school
the board of trustees Of that school
district shall be the High School
Board of Trustees. IF any two or
more school districts establish high
school, the board Of trustees in that
common school district in which the
high school is located, together with
the chairman or chairmen of the
other common school district or dis.
tricts within the high school terri
tory, shall constitute the High School
Board OF Trustees: Provided, That
the trustees OF any special district
in any incorporated town or city ope-
rating under special act OF the
General Assembly, shall be trustees
of the high school.
Sec. 3. That the qualified electors
and freeholders in any territory pro-
posing to become a high school dis
trict, or any high school district
heretofore established, shall be au-
thorized to vote a high school tax
not exceeding two mills, by the same
rules and under the same terms as
special taxes are now voted under
Section 1908 of the Civil Code OF
1902: Provided, That any common
school district within any hish school
territorial uoit may vote itself out
OF the high school unit III the same
manner as prescribed for its entrance
into the high school unit: Provided,
That any territorial high school unit
which has heretofore voted for the
establishment Of high school there
in shall, upon compliance with the
provisions of this act, be entitled to
the provisions and benefits thereof
Sec. 4. That any public high school
already established, or any number
of high school grades in a public
hnol already established provided.
it shall be organized and adopted as
high school by special election as
prescribed in Section 2 of this act
in any hiEn schnol territory above
described, may claim the privilege
Of this act: Provided, 1t conforms to
the provisions thereof: Provided.
further, That nothing In this act
shall be construed as a repeal of any
Of the privileges granted them in the
special acts of the General Assembly.
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Sec. 5. That high school main
tanning four years course Of study
beyond the branches of learning pre-
scrbied to be taught In the common
schools of the State, and embracing
not fewer than seven grades or school
years, shall be known as a four-year
high school; a high school maintain
inc fhrnn rc' hnvNn1 a
common school course shall be known
as a three-year high school; and one
maintaining a two years course be-
yond the common school course shall
be known as two-year high school:
Provided, That any and all high
schools established under authority
of this act shall include in the course
of study instruction in manual train
ing, especially in respect to agricul-
ture and domestic science.
Sec. 6. The State High School
Board shall provide for the inspec-
ton and classification OF high schools
under this act. In doing this. it may
invite the assistance Of such members
OF the universities and colleges of
this State as they may select, and
their actual expenses shall be paid
out Of the fund hereafter appropri-
ated from year to year, while actu-
ally engaged in the duties devolving
upon them.
Sec. 7. That the State Board OF
Education, as now constituted, shall
constitute the State High School
Board, with full authority to pre-
scribe all such regulations as may
not be inconsistent with this act. The
State High School Board shall pro.
vide rules for the appointment and
disbursement of the State aid to the
high schools, giving due recognition
to the number Of years OF the high
school work, to the number Of the
courses of study offered, to the en-
rollment of pupils, the amount OF
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