The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-01

School. By having the examination In December 1t Is thought that the. teach
 CTS are in much better condition to take examination the week before Christmas than the week after. Hereafter the appointed members of the State Board of Examiners will re- ceive regular salaries instead of per diem as heretofore The Secretary of the Board of Examiners will receive a salary of $2.4o0 and the other member of the Board will receive a salary of s1,200 per annum. The two appointed members and the Superintendent of Ed ucation compose the State Board of Ex- aminers and in the very nature of things are responsible to the State for maintaining an efficient teaching force in all of the public schools of Alabama, including the system of city schools.
 The work is not only continuous and laborfous but is exacting In a marked degree and the Board should be com posed of teachers not only qualified professionally to perform these exact ing duties, but teachers with the broadest practical judgment
 Heretofore the County Superinten- dent could receive only s1o for con ductfng the regular examinations. and was not allowed any pay for assistants no matter how many applicants there were, The law now provides an assist ant for each County Superintendent in conducting these examinations for each fifty applicants above the first fifty and also provides small expense fund for securing tabfes, desks. etc. to be used by applicants on examinations.
 Hereafter teacher may be eligible for a life certificate when proof IS made that such teacher has held an Alabama first grade certificate for five Ns-.k NR us~- In other words an applicant 6 allowed on year before the expiration of the first grade certificate in which to make trial for a life certificate.
 The Department of Education will within the next two weeks have for distribution pamphlets containing the amended sections of the examination law and all other educational laws passed at the special session of the Legislature.
 A special act was passed amending the redistrfcting act in such a manner that all general. special. private or To- cal laws creating or providing for any special or separate school district are repealed. This act is so worded that 1t does not apply to the county of Mo- bile, as this county is excepted under the Constitution and neither does this act repeal the redistricting acts of Baldwin and Escambia counties.
 Incorporated cities and towns of the 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, how ever, as stated above no other excep- tions are made.
 A special act was also passed requir- ing 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 intemper- ance. especially from the use of in- toxicating liquors. These placards will be printed some time within the next sixty days and will be sent out by the Department of Education to all the county superintendents of the State who are required under the law to distribute them to the various teach CTS of the county.
 The law specifically states that 1t shall be the duty of every public school teacher in Alabama to keep these pla- cards posted in a conspicuous place in the schoolroom and also makes 1t the duty of the county superintendents of education and the district trustees of the various districts of the county to assist in carrying out the provisions of the act.
 / There is also a section of the law re- quiring that one day in each scholastic term of the public schools shall be set apart to be known as Temperance Day" and a suitable program shall be prepared to the end that the children of Alabama may be taught the evils of intemperance.
 Heretofore the rural school house law did not allow surface rights deeds to be received by the authorities in or der to secure the benefits in the way of appropriations from the rural school house 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 school house ap- propriation which. has been held for them during. the past two years.
 The County High Schools can now charge A fee of $5 instead of $2 as A fee of $2.60 may be charged at the beginning of each term.
 Two other laws were passed relating to the County High Schools. One of these authorizes and empowers the Commissioners' Court or Board of Rev enue to donate or appropriate funds from the county treasury to aid in the or improvement or the necessary buildings and the mainten- ance and support of the County High Schools; the other authorizes the cities and towns of the State to convey real or personal property and make appro- 1riations of money from city funds in the location and in the construction of High Schools and High School build ings.
 The child labor law which was pass cd at the regular session of the Leg islature was declared unconstitutlonal and this law was re-enacted at the spe'