Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1915-04-28

| iStration, and certified to the County
| superintendent Of Education after
! the opening Of any school or schools,
the County Board Of Education may
fix the date for the beginning of the
compulsory school attendance for
that year; or the said County Board
OF Education may order such COM
pulsory school attendance to begin at
the opening of the next succeeding
| scholastic year. That where no such
petition is filed, signed by major
| ity Of the electors as herein pro-
vided, upon the fling of a petition
! signed by one-fourth of the qualified
! electors of such district, or aggrega-
| tOn of districts, an election shall be
| ordered by the County Board of Ed
ucation, submitting to the qualified
electors of such istrict, or aggrega-
ton of districts, the question Of COM
| pulSory school attendance or no COM
pulsory school attendance for said
district, or aggregation Of districts:
Provided, further, That the County
| Board Of Education, IL all school dis
tricts containing a town OF popula-
| ton OF 800 Or moro inhabitants.
upon the petition Of a majority OF
| the board of trustees shall order
such election. The said election
shall be held at the school house, or
school houses, for white children, i'm
4 l;rt
| districts. The managers shall be
| appointed by the board of trustees
Of each istrict, and the said election
shall be conducted in accordance
with the rules governing general
elections. The County Board Of Ed
ucation shall supply printed ballots,
as follows: Compulsory school at
tendance accepted" compulsory
school attendance rejected" and if
the majority vote in the said election
"Compulsory school attendance ac-
cepted," then the provisions Of this
act shall apply to the said district, or
aggregation Of districts. The said
election shall be held on the second
Tuesday in June, one thousand nine
hundred and fifteen, following the
filing of the said petition, or on the
secoV Tuesday in June Of any sub
sequent year. Any district omitting,
failing, or refusing to accept compul-
sorry school attendance as herein pro-
vided, either by petition or by cleo
ton, may adopt the provisions Of this
act in any subsequent year, either by
petition or by election as herein
above provided
Section 10. The Board Of Educa-
ton of each county, and in case of
towns and cities of two thousand in
habitants, the board of trustees
therein shall have power at any
meeting to make such rules and reg
ulations not in conflict with the pro-
visions hereof, as they may deem
best with reference to the time,
place and hours for school attend
ance so as to secure the attendance
of all children between the ages Of
eight and fourteen years upon the
| schools Of the county as herein pro-
Vlded, and such rules and regula-
tions, when approved by the County
superintendent of Education, and
posted at the court house door and
| at the door of eacn public school
house in the territory affected there
| by, shall have the force Of law until,
and unless, they have been revoked
on appeal by the State Board Of Ed
ucation. The operation of such
rules and regulations may be sus-
pended by the State Superintendent
of Education during the pendency Of
such appeal.
Section II. No tuition, contingent,
matriculation, incidental, or other
fee of any kind shall be charged or
collected for the attendance OF any
pupil upon any school in the COM
mon or public school department re-
siding in this State adopting the pro-
visions Of this act.
Section - The County Board Of
Education shall have full power and
authority to remove from Office any
trustee, or board Of trustees, neglect
ing, refusing, or emitting to carry
out the provisions OF this act, and
to fill the vacancy thereby created
on said board in accordance with eX-
listing law.
Section 13. This act shall be in
full force and effect from and after