The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1917-07-27

years, which certificates shall have all the
privileges rights and benefits conveyed to
those holding like certificates issued as the
result of examination as provided by law.
Sec L. A life graduate State certificate,
good in any part of the state and of perpet-
ual validity, shall be issued by the State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, with
out examination, to any teacher holding a
graduate State certificate who has success
fully taught in this State for a period Of
twenty-fOur months under graduate state
certificate, and who shall present satisfactory
endorsement from three persons holding life
certificates showing eminent ability in teach
ing and school government, and the said
life certificate shall have thereon the sub
jects enumerated in the graduate State GER
tificate and shall have all the privileges,
rights and benefits conveyed to those holding
life certificate issued as result of an ex-
animation State certificates provided by
law.
Sec s. All laws and parts of laws in con-
hict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec This Act shall take effect immedi-
ately upon it's passage and approval by the
Governor, or upon its becoming a law with
out his approval.
Approved June 7, 1917.
CHAPTER 7374-(No. 116).
AN ACT to Amend Sections Two, Three
Thirteen, Fourteen, Eighteen, and twenty
of Chapter 617S, Acts of 1911, Approved
May 20, 1911, Being IAN Act to Create a
State school Book Commission, and to Pro-
cure for Use in the Public Schools of the
State of Florida Uniform Series of TeXt
Books, and to Define the Duties and pow
ers of Said Commission, to Make Prepara-
ton for Carrying This Act Into Erect,
and Providing penalties for Violation of
Same. !,
Be 1t Enacted by the Legislature of the
state of Florida.
section l. That Section Of Chapter 6l7S,
Acts of 1911, be- and the same Is here's'
amended to read as follows:
Section 9. That said Commission is hereoy
authorized empowered and directed TO select
and adopt a uniform system or series OF
text hooks for use in the public schools Of
the State as above indicated, and when SO
selected and adopted, the textbooks shal
be used for a period of five years, in al OF
the public schools of this State, and II snail
NOT he lawful for any school officer, director
or teacher to use any other books upon the
same branches, other than those adopted
nv said State Textbook Commission. SAID
uniform series shall include the following
branches taught in the elementary schools
TO- wit photography, reading, writing draw
ing arithmetic, language lessons bhsish
grammar geography, history of FLORIDA con :
tanning the Constitution of the state, nistoiy
~ Tho United States containing the Consti-
tuition of the United States, physiology ny
giene nature and effect of alcohollc DRINKS
and narcotics civil government agriculture
and the following branches taught IN the
high schools to-wit: advanced arithmetic
algebra plane and solid geometry, plane ana
solid trigonometry. American history anu
civil government, English history, general
history. physical geography, general sclence'
botany zoology physics chemistry, COMPOSE
ton and rhetoric, English literature, Amerl-
can literature beginners Latin, Latlh gram
mar, Caesar Cicero Virgil, Latin compost
ton, and books for a tWo-year cI 1nen,n 81
French. German. and Spanish, book keeping
commercial arithmetic, and commercial raw
Provided That in selection OF hleh scnoo,
text books the said Commission Is authorized
and directed to adopt one basal ana hIt
more tban two supplementary texts on each
subiect Provided, That none OF sald teNI-
books shall contain anything OF par.'sam
or sectarian character. PROVIDED tnat az
the provisions of this Act relative TO the
books for use in the first eight grades OF the
nnhlic schools shall not become efectNe OF
operative until July list, 1919.
Sec. Q That Section of said Chapter
617S Acts of 1911, be, and the same Is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Sec g. 1t shall be the duty of the Cover
nor to appoint, upon the nomination OF the
state Superintendent Of Public instruction.
Sub Commission of ten members to be con-
stituted as follows: two County Superintend-
ents two primary teachers, two grade teacn-
ers two high school teachers, and two teach-
ers selected with reference to their expert
ence in and knowledge Of vocational sub
iects. and none of said Sub Commission shall
be related in any way to any member OF the
Board of State Institutions, nor be In the
employ of any member of said Board. ffo-
vided that not more than three of these
shall be taken from one Congressman us
trjct to whom shall be referred all DOCKS
sent to the State Textbook Commission as
specimen copies or samples, upon Whlch pius
are to be based and it shall be the duty OF
said Sub Commission, in executive sessloh
to examine and report upon the merits OF
the books irrespective of the price taxing
into considera ton the subject matter OF the
books their printing their material, anu
their mechanical qualities, and their general
suitability and desirability for the purposes
for which they are desired and intended
The term of Office of said Sub Commissioners
shall he for four years, or untll thtir SUI,
cessors are elected and quallhed. IL snaIl
be a prerequisite qualification for appoint
ment for each member of said Sub-C ommls-
sion that before accepting such appointment
he shall file with the Secretary OF stare an
affidavit substa ntially as follows: That ne IL
not so far as he knows, related In any way
to any member of the Board of State Tnsti
tutions nor has he for the five years next
preceding his appointment been employed by
any text book publishing company, and that
he will not receive during his term of SER
vice on said Sub Commission any emolument
from any textbook publishers or their
agents intended to in any manner bias his
Judgment in the selection of textbooks to
be adopted for use in this State.
Sec 8, That Section 13 of said Chapter
617S Acts of 1911 be, and the same Is
hereby. amended so as to read as follows:
Section 10. There shall he established
and maintained at some convenient point in
the State of Florida, designated by the State
School Book Commission. selected with spe-
ciaI reference to transportation facilities and
freight rates, a central book depository by
each of the contractors, or by the several
contractors combined; and there shall also
he maintained by said contractors one or
more agencies in each county of the State
for the distribution OF the books and par
ties living in the county where no agency
has been established or no arrangements
made for distribution, may order the same
from one of the contractors, and 1t shall be
the duty of the contractor or contractors to
deliver any book or books, ordered, to
the person ordering. to his postofice address,
freight, express postage or other charges,
prepaid at the retail contract price Pro-
vided, The price of the book, or books. so
ordered shall be paid in advance. All books
price and on each book shall be
printed the following; THE price fixed
hereon is fixed by State contract. and any
deviation therefrom shall he reported to
your County Superintendent of Public In
struction. or the State Superintendent at
And 1t is expressly provided
hat should any party contracting to fur
lish books as provided for In this Act, fail
10 furnish them or otherwise break his con-
tract in addition to the right of the State
o sue on the bond hereinbefore required
he Chairman of the County Board of Pub
ic Instruction may sue in the name of the
state Of Florida in the courts of the State
VI Florida having jurisdiction, and recover
m the bond given by the contractor the full
'alue of the books failed to be furnished.
or the and benefit OF the school fund
" the county: Provided, That in all cases
ervices of process may he had and deemed
uficient on any agent of the contractor in
he county. or IL no agent is in the county,
hon service nm aD,- 6eDOSitorS this