Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1913-02-27
all roR SIX MONTHS school.
Entitled 2An Act to Provide for q SIX
Months school Term in Every Public
school District Of the State.

House of Representatives passed q
bill. destined to provide a SIX
months school term in country dis
tricts by a vote of 9S to three q q
senate. is expected to concur:
The General Assembly OF North caro-
lima do enact:
Section /. That two hundred and
6ftv thousand dollars be and the same
is hereby appropriated annually out OF
fhe State Treasury for the benent OF
the public schools, to be apport1oned
nv the State Board of Education to the
resnectiye counties of the State per
| capita as to school population on the
first, Monday in January OF each year.
using the school census or the preced-
ing scholastic year as the OASIS OF q
nortionment: Providedl that the state
| Board of Education shall annually De
net from said appropriation before q
| anportionment thereof the sum OF one
thousand five hundred dollars 10 De
used in part payment of the. salary ana
EXPENSES of the superintendent OF the
State colored normal schools n IN
~spector and director OF the county
teachers Institutes and or the teacher
training work of the State, n Ia
also deduct therefrom biennially in ad-
vance seven thousand five undre dol
lars to be used for the establishment
of rural libraries as provided n sec
tion four thousand one hundred and
seventy-nine of The Revisal OF one
thousand nine hundred and i've OF
North Carolina.
Sec. 2, Upon requisition or q
Superintendent of Public instruction,
the state Auditor shall issue his war
rant upon the State Treasurer for the
amount due each county. payable to
the county treasurer, to be credited to
the general public school fund OF SAID
county.
Sec. 8. There shall be set aside an
nuallly five cents of the annuaI al
valorem tax levied and collected 1or
State purposes on every me hundred
dollars value. of real and personal
property in this State, and the d
annually arising from said tax snaA
be held by the State Treasurer as a
fund separate and apart from all
funds for State purposes, and snail De
known as "The State Equat1zlng
School Fund" and shall be used, as
hereinafter directed, to provide a SIX
months school term in every scnooi
district in the State, or as nearly a SIX
months term as said funds Will pro-
vide.
Sec. 4. On or before the first Mon
day i'm December of each n every
year the county board of education o.
each and every county entitled TO alo
from this fund shall submit 10 the
State Board, of Education, on blanks
furnished for that purpose by tne
state Superintendent of Public lnstruc
@ " sG1~nSunG GfQfnmnnf ny
districts, showing the NUMBER o
: teachers employed in each dlstrlct, TN
grade or class and the salary OF eacl
teacher, and such other lnrormatloi
as NAV be required. Said Statement
char further show under oath tina
nroyision has been made as required
Nv law for a four months school tern
in each district of said county, the rat
If snecial tax levied therefor n tn
aggregate fund derived or to be derlV
q tberefrom. On or before the mrs
Monday in February of each year tn
state Treasurer shall certify to tn
state Board of Education the amour
OF said State Equalizing School u
derived and to be derived from sal
five cents property tax levied and Sc
aside from the State tax levy on ever
one hundred dollars value OF real an
~nersonal property in the State durln
the school year ending June th1rtlet
thereafter, and the State Board or &c
ucation shall apportion said run
among all the counties OF the Sta'
that have complied with all the r.
nuirements of the law for proV1din
fer a school term of four months
every school district, SO as to equahl
y the school terms in said an
hiring the term in each legal school Oil
trict each of said counties to an "a
length. bringing all terms In all Oh
- tricts to a minimum of six MONTHS,
as near thereto as the funds prov1ot
fer this render possible. Ii
State Board of Education, hoWeye
shalI apportion this fund only for u
salaries of the teachers employed, al
no mart of said fund shall be apportlol
cd or used for any other purpose ina
for the payment of the salaries OF U
said teachers for the period des1gnatt
nv the State Board of Education IN U
annortionment to each county. II
salaries ap~portioned from said u 4
teachers shall not exceed forty dolla
nor month for first grade, thirty dc
liars per month for second grade, al
twenty dollars, per month for TN
grade. Any balance of said rune I'd
may remain after equal1zlng terms
six months as herein provided snall
annortioned among all the COUNT
of the State per capita as to schc
population.
Sec. S. In the apportionment OF t
county school fund andNin the app
tionment of funds under this act
school districts levying a special I
for their schools no account shall
taken of the funds derived from 81
~snecial tax. and the authorities lega
nmnowered to levy such special tax
such school districts are hereby
thorized. upon recommendation of
school committee or board OF tr'
tees of said school district,
reduce the rate OF the annual speci