The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1912-03-15
TO AID COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Act by Legislature ApprOpriating Sl'''
eco to Aid Consolidated and
Graded Schools.

No. 247. An act to provide for con-
solidated and graded schools in coun-
try districts, and to appropriate nj
teen thousand dollars to encourage the
same.
Section /. Be it enacted by the gen
eral assembly of the State OF South
Carolina: That not less than fifteen
thousand dollars be appropriated an
auallv for the purpose of assisting
rural school districts in the establish
ment maintenance, and improvement
of rural graded schools under the con-
ditions and provisions of the following
sections of this act: Provided, That
the amount hereby appropriated shall
be expended from the sum appropriat-
ed under the terms of Term Extension
Act OF 1910, Act No. 431, page 791.
Sec. 2. When any rural district in
South Carolina shall levy and collect
a special school tax Of not less than
four ca mills, and when school IN
such district employs two certifcated
teachers for a school term of not less
, Than six months, and when such
school has an enrolment of not fewer
than fifty pupils and an average daily
attendance for the session Of not few
or than thirty pupils, and when such
school is taught in comfortable and
sanitary building provided with the
minimum equipment prescribed by
the State board of education, and
when it uses a course of study and
classification approved by the State
board of education, it shall be entitled
to receive State aid under this act to
the amount of 5000 per year.
Sec. 8. When any rural school dis
trict in South Carolina shall levy and
collect a special school tax of not less
than four (4) mills, and when such
school employs three or more certi-
6cated teachers for a school term OF
not less than seven months, and when
snch school has an annual enrolment
of not fewer than seventy-fve pupils,
and an average daily attendance for
the session of not fewer than 40 pu-
nils and when such school is taught
in a comfortable and sanitary building
Drovided with the minimum equipment
prescribed by the State board Of edu-
cation, and when it uses a course OF
study and classification approved by
the State board of education, it shall
he entitled to receive State aid under
Shis act to the amount of $500 per year,
Sec. 4. No district which receives
State aid under the provisions of the
high school act, or of the term exten-
sion act shall receive aid under the
provisions of this act. No district
which contains an incorporated town
with more than three hundred inhabl-
tants shall receive aid under the pro-
visions of this act.
Sec. 5. 1t shall be lawful for the
school trustees Of a districts to use
the State aid obtained under the pro-
visions of this act to furnish public
conveyance of children to the school,
when in the opinion of the trustees
and the county superintendent such
action is wise and expedient.
Sec. 6. The State superintendent OF
education may refuse aid under the
provisions of this act, if it is made
n appear to him that the expenditure
would be unwise and detrimental to
the interest of free school education
in said district.
Sec. I. The State superintendent OF
education with the State board of edu-
cation, shall provide rules and reguia-
tions for the distribution Of this fund,
and shall publish such regulations to
the various county superintendent Of
education, who in turn shall publish
them to the various district trustees.
Sec. 8. Applications must be filed in
order of their receipt, and paid or re-
fused in the same order.
Sec. 9. All acts or parts of acts in
consistent with this act be, and the
same are, hereby repealed.
No. 281. An act to distribute among
the several counties the balance of the
c+o+o dienoncary frnd not otherwise