The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-07
TEXT OF SCHOOL
TEACHERS BILL
IMPORTANT MEASURE PRovlD-
ING FOR RETIREMENT SAL
ARIES TO BE PRESENTED
TO LEGISLATURE.


peming, will soon have presented to
the legislature a bill providing for re-
tirement salaries for school teachers
In certain cases and to provide means
to meet the same. The bill is now in
the hands of the committee on educa-
ton of the legislature, of which Mr..
Morgan Is a member
The public school superintendent
and commissioners throughout the
state have begun to circulate petit
tons urging the passage of the bill,
among the teachers and il is said that
the petitions will probably contain the
signature of practically every teacher
in the public schools.
The bill is as follows:
ITO provide for retirement salaries
for school teachers in certain cases
and to provide means to meet the
same.
Sec. 1. Any person of either sex,
who, for thirty years. has or shall have
been engaged in teaching as his occu-
patton and had or shall have been reg
ularly employed as such in the pri-
mary or high schools of the state, as
are supported by public funds, and are
under public supervision and control,
and shall have paid the registration
fee hereinafter provided for during
each school year of his active service
commencing with the school year 1911,
and who shall retire, or be retired,
from active service, shall, after max
ing formal application therefor, re-
ceive from the fund. hereinafter pro-
vided for, an annual retirement salary
for the remainder of his life equal to
one-half of his average contractual
salary during the last five years before
retiring, which five years shall have
been spent in teaching within this
state: Provided, however, that i'm no
case shall such annual retirement sal
airy to be more than $500.
Sec. 2. Applications for retire
ment salary shall be made to the SUI
perintendent of public instruction
whose duty it shall be to require such
proof of the eligibility of the appli-
cants as may be necessary to pass
upon the same, to issue certificates of
eligibility to applicants found eligible
and to make such rules and regula-
tions not inconsistent herewith, as
may be necessary to carry out the
provision of this act.
Sec. 3. The period of such annual
no ant go ha IN 70
run until the year 1912 and until the
first day of September following the
date of application and shall be paya-
BILE by the state treasurer i'm equa
quarterly instalments on the fifteenth
day of September, December, March
and June, on the warrant of the super
intendent of public instruction. coun-
tersigned by the auditor general.
sec 4. Each teacher i'm such pri-
mary and high schools of the state as
under public supervision and control
shall pay a registration fee each year
of active service from and after the
time of making contracts for the schoo
year billie, as follows: One dollar
for teachers whose annual salary is
$500 or less; so for teachers whose an
nual salary is more than $500, but
less than $1,000, and SO for teachers
whose annual salary is $1,000 or more
said fees to be collected at the time and
in the same manner as provided foi
the collection of teachers institute fees
and ii shall be the duty of the officers
who collect teachers institute fees tC
collect at the same time, and to Civ,
receipts for said registration fees, anC
to keep a complete list OF all persons
from whom said fees were collected
Said registration fees, together will
such lists shall be turned over by SAID
officers to the. county commissioner OF
schools, who shall forward said fees &c
the state treasurer and shall send suct
lists to the superintendent of public
instruction.
Sec. 5. The fees so received 10y
said state treasurer shall be kept by
him i'm separate fund. to be known
as the Teachers Retirement Salary
Fund" In case the amount of sait
fund is at any time insufficient to car.
~ out the provisions of this act, there
is hereby appropriated from the gen
eral fund. to be turned into said salar!
fund such sum or sums as may be nee
essary to pay the salary herein pro
vided for.
"Sec. 6. Under the provisions o
this act the word teacher shall include
all persons who give instruction, o.
are in charge of any special depart
ment of instruction, superintendent
assistant superintendent, principals
supervisors and county school commits
sioners, i'm or of the schools mentione,
in section one of this act"