Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-01
NEW SCHOOL LAWS,

Nine educational acts were passed
at the session Of the general assembly
recently adjourned, and although all
of them have not yet been affirmed by
the governor, the understanding is
that his signature will be affixed as
soon as they are reached. There have
been amendments to sections 1900,
1,20S and 1,209 of the civil code, and
section 9 of the high school law has
been changed to meet conditions in a
small number of high school districts.
The statute Of February %, 1905 has
been amended so as to create in each
county a permanent building school
fund, equal to per cent of the en-
tire annual revenues, and there has
been an appropriation Of 100000 to
encourage the erection Of adequate
school buildings. One of the most
important acts in the list is that to ap-
propriate 100000 to lengthen the
terms of weak schools. 1t was approv-
ed February 23, and the full text Is as
follows:
Section /. Be it enacted by the gen.
eral assembly Of the state OF South
Carolina: That not less than the sum
of sixty thousand dollars be appropri-
ated annually for the purpose OF in
creasing the average length OF the
free school term in this state in ac-
cordance with and by authority ex-
pressed in Section 6, Article IL, of the
constitution Of 1895.
hundred
dollars shall be appropriated to any
one school in any one scholastic year,
but no schoo! now running for pc
riod of one hundred days or more,
or hereafter to run a period of
one hundred days or more, out
Of funds accruing to said school
from the regular school funds shall
receive aid from this appropriation.
And no school shall receive aid under
authority Of this act unless the dis
trict in which said school is located
does now or hereafter shall first levy
in accordance, with law, at least two
mills special school tax.
Sec. 8. Schools running less than
one hundred days, as provided In sec
ton 2 of this act, may receive AID
from this fund in amounts equal TO
the amounts raised by special taxa
ton, not TO exceed one HuHuIeu uoi-
lars for any one school.
Sec. 4. Funds appropriated under
the terms Of this act shall not become
available in any school district except
upon petition Of the board OF trustees
of the school district asking aid, ap-
proved and countersigned by the
county superintendent Of education
for the county in which the district is
located
Sec. S. The state superintendent
of education may refuse aid under the
provisions Of this act If 1t Is made to
appear to him that the expenditure
would be unwise and detrimental TO
the interest of free school education
in said district.
Sec. 6. The state superintendent OF
education, with the state board or
education, shall provide rules and
regulations for the distribution Of this
fund and shall advise such reguia-
tions to the various county superln-
tendents Of education, who, In turn,
shall advise the various district trus-
tees.
Sec T. Applications must be filed
in order of their receipt and paid or
refused in the same order: Provided
that such schools as now have on de-
post funds raised by private subscrip-
ton under the terms Of No. 105, acts
Of 1902, shall, for the present schol-
astic year, receive aid in accordance
with the terms of said act.
Sec. s. All acts or parts of acts In
consistent with this act, be, and the
same are hereby repealed: Provided,
that the money to carry out the pro-
visions Of this act shall be paid out
Of the dispensary funds now in the
hands of the state treasurer, as far
as said funds will go.