Year: 1873

Section l. Section one of said act

 hereby amended so as to read as follows

 Section l. tax of twenty-five cents upol

 each one hundred dollars value of taxabl

 property is hereby levied and directed t

 be collected and paid into the TerritOria

 treasury as a special fund for school pur

 poses to be disbursed as hereinafter pro-

 vided said tax to be levied and collected

 at the same time and in the same manner

 as other Territorial revenues.

 Section 2. Section two of sad act l:

 hereby amended so as to read as follows

 Section 3. The board of supervisors oi each county shall annually at the time of levying other taxes, levy a county school tax Of twenty-five cents on each one hund- red dollars valuation of taxable property, which tax shall be added to the county tax and collected in the same manner and paid into the county treasury as special fund to be drawn as hereinafter provided.

 Section 3. Section six of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows Section 6. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction, sub- ject to the supervision of the Territorial board of education, to apportion to the several counties on the first day of March and the first day of September of each year, the amour: of money to the credit of the school fund to which each county shall be entitled under the provisions of this act, in proportion to the number of children be- tween the age of six and twenty one years in each of said counties.

 Section 4. Section eight of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows Section 8. The superintendent of public instruction shall prescribe suitable forms ,lot. fO, o1-,, oil fNr conducting all necessary proceedings under this (act), and shall cause the same with such instructions as he may deem necessary and proper for the organization and gov ernment of schools, to be transmitted to the local officers who shall be governed in accordance herewith. He shall prepare a convenient form of school register for the purpose of securing more accurate returns from teachers of public schools, and shall furnish each county perintendent with a number sufficient to supply at least one copy thereof to each district or school of such county. He shall certify the cost for printing said blanks to the Territorial auditor who shall draw his warrant on the Territorial treasurer in favor of the person to whom said amount is due, and the treas urer shall pay said warrant out of any

 

 propriated.

 Section 3. Section nine of said act Is hereby amended so as to read as follows Section g. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public instruction to visit each county in the Territory once in each year for the purposes of visiting schools, of consulting county superintendents, of featuring and addressing public assemblages o,,bi lio

 Section 6. Section ten of said act is hereby repealed.

 Sec '. Sec. fifteen of said act is hereby amen ded so as to read as follows: Sec. l5 The probate judge of each county in this Territory is hereby made -Officio county superintendent of public schools for his county, and shall be paid quarterly out of the school fund of said county the sum of one hundred dollars per annum, to be paid by the county treasurer quarterly upon the receipt of the superintendent.

 Section s. Section six teen is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section !6. 1t shall be the duty of the county superintendent of public schools, upon re- ceiving notice from the county treasurer, as provided in this act, to apportiOn the pu bile school moneys in the county treas u:y, am Ong the several school districts in his county in proportion to the number of children between the ages of six and twenty-one years as returned by the trus- tees and school census marshaIs, and to forthwith notify the county treasurer and school trustees in writing, of such appor- tionment. He shall have power and 1t l shall be his duty to draw his warrant on the county treasurer i'll favor of and deliver the same to the person entitled 10 receive th e same provided no such warrant shall be drawn in favor of any school district until full and correct returns have been made to him by the same as required by law, and a certificate of the board of trus- tees given, showing for what purpose, In accordance with this act, the money Is re quired; and provided further that no such warrant shall be drawn in favor of any ! school district unl>s ss there IS cash Tn the treasury at the time to the credit ot sad school district.

 Section g. Section thirty-one is hereby | amended so as to read as follows: Section 3l. The superintendents of public schools of the several counties, shall have the power and it is hereby made their duty to prescribe and cause to be adopted q unl- form series of text books in the principal studies pursued in the public schools In their respective counties, to-wit: spelling, reading, grammar, arithmetic, geography, physiology, and such other studies as may oe deemed necessary.

 Section 10. Section thirty three Is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 33. The public school year shalt commence on the first day of September and end on the last day of August; and five days shall constitute legal school week, and twenty