The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-02

tinuous and laborious. but is exacting in a marked degree and the board should be composed of teachers, not only qualified professionally to per- form these exacting duties, but teach CTS with the broadest practical judg ment.
 Heretofore the county superintendent could receive only S10 for conducting the regular examinations, and was not al- lowed any pay for assistants, no matter how many applicants there were. The law now provides an assistant for each county superintendent in conducting these examinations for each 50 applicants above the first 50, and also provides small expense fund for securing tables, desks, etc., to be used by applicants on examin- ations.
 Hereafter a teacher may be eligible for a life certificate when proof is made that such teacher has held an Alabama first grade certificate for five years instead of six as heretofore. In other words, an ap- plicant is allowed one year before the ex- piration of the first grade certificate in which to make trial for life certificate. The department of education will within the next two weeks have for distribution pamphlets containing the amended sec tions of the examination law and all other educational laws passed at the special 6eSSlOn OL the leBlSldLuTe.
 A special act was passed amending the redistricting act in such manner that all general special. private or local laws creating or providing for any special or separate school district are repealed. This act is so worded that it does not apply to the county of Mobile, this county is excepted under the constitution. and neither does this act repeal the redistrict- ing acts of Baldwin and Escambia coun- T !. counties of Escambia and Baldwin are governed however, by the educational sections of the municipal code law. This special act also excepts the city of Selma With the exceptions, however as stated above no other exceptions are made.
 special act was also passed requiring the superintendent of education to have prepared and furnished to the teachers in all of the public schools of the state placards printed in large type, upon which shall be set forth in attractive style statistics, epigrams and notices showing the evils of intemperance, es- pecially from the use of intoxicating liquors. These placards will be printed some time within the next 60 days, and will be sent out by the department of education to all the county superintend- ents of the state, who are required under the law to distribute them to the va
 
 specifically states that It shall be the duty of every public school teacher in Ala bama to keep these placards posted in conspicuous place in the schoolroom, and also makes 1t the duty of the county su- perintendent of education and the district trustees of the various districts of the county to assist in carrying out the pro- visions of the act. There is also sec tion in the law requiring that one day r. -y1 1..kt- ~f Ito schools shall be set apart to be known as Temperance Day" and suitable programme shall be prepared to the end that the children of Alabama may be taught the evils of intemperance.
 Heretofore the rural schoolhouse law did not allow surface rights deeds to be received by the authorities in order to se- cure the benefits in the way of appropria- tions from the rural schoolhouse fund The law has been changed so that surface right deeds may be acceptable, and the counties now of the mineral sections of the state can give surface right deeds and thus secure the rural schoolhouse appro- priation which has been held for them during the past two years.
 The county high schools can now charge a fee of s5 instead of g, as heretofore A fee of g. 50 may be charged at the begin ming of each term.
 Two other laws were passed relating to the county high schools. One of these authorizes and empowers the commission ers court or board of revenue to donate or appropriate funds from the county treasury to aid in the construction or inn provement of the necessary buildings and the maintenance and support of the coun- ty high schools; the other authorizes the cities and towns of the state to convey real or personal property and make ap- propriations of money from city funds in the location and in the construction of high schools and high school buildings
 The child labor law which was passed at the regular session of the legislature was declared unconstitutional and this law was re-enacted at the special session recently held. The law Is the same as the one declared unconstftutional.