Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1915-05-20

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ton in the prescribed course of study
There shall also me provided barns
and dormitories with the necessary
equipment The farm is to contain
not less than % acres The State
Superintendent of Public instruction
| is authorized by law to accept any
building already erected provided these
are located within reasonable distance
! of the farm. He is also authorized TO
reduce the required acreage of The
farm to ten acres if need be.
AS to the manner of election on the
question of establishing these schools,
| the board of county commissioners is
authorized to call an election for the
purpose of submitting bond issue to
the people, the maximum issue to sbe
$25, 900 with interest not to exceed s
| per cent In case majority of the
qualified voters do not favor the propo-
sition, then the commissioners are
authorized to call an election in any
township for the purpose of submitting
the question in like manner to the
people of the territory desiring the
election.
No person shall be employed as
principal of these farm life school who
does not hold high school teachers
certificate on all the required subjects
except Latin, Greek and modern Ian
guages.
Those in the main are the provis-
ions of what is known as the General
Farm Life School Law The Legisla-
ture of 1913 enacted for the entire
state what is known as the Guilford
County Farm Life School Law, the
main provisions Of which are as fol-
lows: That there may be maintained
in one or more of the public high
schools of each county complying with
the provisions of the law department
of agricultural instruction and de-
partment OF training in domestic
science and home economics. These
schools are to be under the control Of
q board of trustees consisting or the
county board of education and the
chairman and the secretary of the
local board of school trustees. The
board of education is to receive bids
from each of the public high schools
of the county after due advertisement
and is then TO locate the place or
places which are to be designated as
schools. No town of more than 1000
inhabitants is entitled to receive aid in
this manner, and no town of more than
5000 inhabitants may have one OF these
located within less than two miles Of
the corporate limits.
For maintenance the county board
of education is authorized to donate
the sum of $4,000 annually from the
public school fund or by local tax.
No county, however, which asks for
aid from the state to operate its
schools is entitled to the benefits o.
this act. The buildings belonging to
the schools may be used for the farm
life department, the dormitories may
also be used in the same way. The
farm must contain not less than 10
acres. and must not be more than one
mile from the school buildings.
The state is required to furnish each
wear for the maintenance sum equal
to that supplied by the county or local
authorities provided that this does not
exceed the sum of$2 see annually Thin
applies alike to those schools -estab=.
lished under the provisions OF the
general law and the Guildford County
Law.
In some counties of the state where
the county boards Of education could
not under the provisions of the law
make the required appropriation the;
county commissioners have held eleeH,
tons, some in the county as a whole
and others in a township or even rs
school district. The commissioners
in some of the counties have made the
necessary donation for these schools
from the general county funds.