The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1912-03-27
OF LOCAL INTEREST.
Two Acts Passed mt Recent Legislature
Requested to be Published by Super
intendent OF Education.


Requested to be Published by Super
intendent OF Education.
The act below, passed at the recent
session of the legislature, is pub
lished at the request of Supt of Edu-
cation Geo. l.. Pitts:
No. 247.
An Act to Provide for Consolidated
and Graded Schools in Country Dis
tricts, and to appropriate fifteen
thousand dollars to encourage the
same.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of South
Carolina: That not less than fifteen
thousand dollars be appropriated an
nually for the purpose of assisting ru-
raj school districts in the establish
ment, maintenance, and Improvement
or rural graded schools under the CON
ditions and provisions of the follow
ing sections of this Act: Provided,
That the amount hereby appropriated
shall be expended from the sum ap-
propriated under the terms of Term
Extension Act of 1910, Act No. 43l,
page No. 791.
Section H. When any rural district
in South Carolina shall levy and col
iSNI q opSSldl SSlOOl lax vi nOI less
than four (D mills, and when a school
in such district employs two certif-
Gated teachers for school term of not
less than six months, and when such
school has an enrolment OF not few
er than fifty pupils and an average
daily attendance for the session of
not fewer than thirty pupils, and when
such school is taught in a comforta-
bic and sanitary building provided
with the minimum equipment pre-,
Scribed by the State Board of Educa-
ton, 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
TINS Act TO the amount of $4,000 per
year.
Section III. When any rural school
district in South Carolina shall levy
and collect a special school tax OF
not less than four (i) mills, and when
such school employs three or more
certificated teachers for a school term
OF not less than seven months, and
when such school has an annual en-
rollment of not fewer than seventy
five pupils, and an average daily at
tendance for the session of not fewer
than forty pupils, and when such
school is taught in a 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 en-
titled to receive State aid under this
Act to the amount of $4,000 per year.
Section ~. No district which re-
ceiVes State aid under the provisions
OF the High School Act, or of the
Term Extension Act shall receive
aid under the provisions of this Act.
No district which contains an incorp-
ated town with more than three hun
dred inhabitants shall receive aid un-
der the provisions of this Act
Section V. 1t shall be lawful for
the school trustees OF district to
use the State aid obtained under the
provisions of this Act to furnish pub
Tic conveyance of children to the
school, when in the opinion of the
trustees and the county superintend-
ent such action is wise and eXpedi-
ent
Section VI The State Superintend
ent of Education may refuse aid un-
der the provision of this Act, if it is
made to appear to him that the ex-
penditure would be unwise and de-
trimental to the interest of free
school education in said district.
Section VII. The State Superin-
tendent of Education with the said
State Board of Education, shall pro-
vide rules and regulations for the dis
tribution of this fund, and shall pub
lish such regulations to the various
county superintendent of education,
who in turn shall publish them to the
various district trustees.
Section VIII. Application must be
hlled in order of their receipt, and paid
or refused in the same order.
Election TX. All acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with this Act be,
and the same are, hereby repealed.