Draw order on Controller. Print and furnish blanks, etc. Print laws in pamphlet form. Distribution of pamphlets. Visit orphan asylums. Visit schools. Official seal. School re Fifth-To draw his order on the Controller, in favor of each County Treasurer, for school moneys apportioned to the county. Sixth-To prepare, have printed, and furnished all officers charged with the administration of the laws relating to public schools, and to teachers, such blank forms and books as may be necessary to the discharge of their duties, including blank teachers' certificates, to be used by County Boards of Education. Seventh—To have the law relating to public schools printed in pamphlet form, and annex thereto forms for making reports and conducting school business, the course of study, rules and regulations, a list of library books, and such suggestions on school architecture as he may deem useful. Eighth-To supply school officers and teachers, school libraries, and State libraries with one copy each of the pamphlets mentioned in the preceding subdivisions. Ninth To visit the several orphan asylums to which State appropriations are made, and examine into the course of instruction therein. Tenth To visit the schools in the different counties and inquire into their condition; and the actual traveling expenses thus incurred, provided they do not exceed fifteen hundred dollars per annum, shall be allowed, audited, and paid out of the General Fund, in the same manner as other claims are audited and paid. Eleventh-To authenticate with his official seal all drafts or orders drawn on him, and all papers and writings issued from his office. Twelfth-To have bound, at an annual expense of not more ports bound. than one hundred dollars, all valuable school reports, journals, and documents in his office, or hereafter received by him, payable out of the State School Fund. Deliver to what. Thirteenth-To deliver over, at the expiration of his term his successor of office, on demand, to his successor, all property, books, documents, maps, records, reports, and other papers belonging to his office, or which may have been received by him for the use of his office. Convention of County ents. Fourteenth-He shall have power to call biennially a conSuperintend- Vention of County Superintendents, to assemble at such time and place as he shall deem most convenient, for the discussion of questions pertaining to the supervision and administration of the public schools, the laws relating thereto, and such other subjects affecting the welfare and interest of the public schools, as shall properly be brought before it. It is hereby made the duty of all County Superintendents to attend and take part in the proceedings of such convention when it is called; and the actual traveling expenses of County Superintendents in going to and from the convention shall be Must report allowed by the Board of Supervisors, and paid out of the each ember same fund as the salary of the County Superintendent is paid. total year of children in State between five 1533. The Superintendent of Public Instruction must and seven- report to the Controller, on or before the tenth day of August teen years of of each year, the total number of children in the State between age. the ages of five and seventeen years, as shown by the latest reports of the County Superintendents on file in his office; and in addition, the total number of pupils in the State enrolled in the grammar school course, under the provisions of section one thousand six hundred and sixty-three of this Code, as reported by the several County Superintendents. ARTICLE III. SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS. SECTION 1543. Duties of County Superintendents of Schools. 1543. county: May require from Auditor statement of money on hand when money has accumulated to credit of district. Money of lapsed districts, how apportioned. Third-To apportion money to grammar school course. Fourth--On order of Board of Education, or Board of Trustees, to draw requisition. When requisition must be drawn. When requisition for teacher's salary must not be drawn. Seventh-Must preside at Institutes and secure lecturers. Must enforce all regulations and use of text-books. Eighth-When may issue temporary certificates. Ninth-To distribute documents. Tenth-Must keep in office what reports. Eleventh-Keep certain records. Twelfth-Pass upon plans for school houses. Thirteenth-To appoint Trustees, when. Fourteenth--When required to make reports to Superintendent Fifteenth-Must preserve and turn over records to successor. What grades teachers can teach. Schools, how designated. Seventeenth-Must keep record of grammar school course pupils. 1544. Forfeits for failure to report to Superintendent of Public Instruction one hundred dollars. Forfeiture, how enforced. 1545. May appoint teachers and open schools, when. In such case expenses, how paid. 1546. When may require Trustees to repair school buildings. May require Trustees to furnish outhouses and shrubbery. When may furnish these himself. 1548. Money allowed for binding of school documents. Postage and expressage allowed Superintendent. 1549. May appoint deputy. 1550. Compensation of deputy in cities having over thirty thousand inhabitants. 1551. When must report to Superintendent of Public Instruction and Supervisors the number of census children. Must keep copy of what records in regard to school district When boundaries are conflicting must inform Supervisors. May have descriptions of boundaries printed for guidance of 1552. Salary of Superintendent, how estimated. How paid. Not less than twenty dollars per district, exclusive of traveling expenses. In incorporated cities three hundred pupils equal one district. 1553. When School Superintendents shall not teach. It is the duty of the County Superintendent of each Duties of ents of school moneys. When dis First-To superintend the schools of his county. Second-To apportion the school moneys of each school district quarterly, and for that purpose he may require of the County Auditor a report of the amount of all school moneys To apportion on hand to the credit of the several school funds of the county not already apportioned, and it is hereby made the duty of the Auditor to furnish such report when so required; and whenever, at the close of the school year, any money has accumulated to the credit of a school district, by reason of a large census roll and small attendance, in excess of a reasonable amount required to maintain the schools six months in such district, the Superintendent of Schools shall apportion the same, as other county school funds are tricts lapse. apportioned. If, in any school district, there shall be an average attendance for three months of only five pupils or less, such district shall lapse, and the moneys in the Treasury of the county belonging thereto shall be apportioned by the Superintendent of Schools among the other districts of his county, in proportion to the number of census children Property of between five and seventeen in such district. The property of any school district that shall lapse shall be sold by the Board of Supervisors, and the proceeds of such sale, after the payment of any indebtedness of the district, shall be Territory of placed in the County School Fund. The territory included within the boundaries of said district shall, by order of the Board of Supervisors, be attached to one or more adjoining school districts. lapsed districts. lapsed districts. Grammar School course. Draw for expenses. Third--To apportion to each school district where the grammar school course is taught all moneys provided by the State under section four hundred and forty-four of this Code, at the rate of three dollars for each pupil enrolled in said course on the first day of May preceding the date of apportionment. Fourth-On the order of the Board of Trustees, or Board of requisition Education, to draw his requisition upon the County Auditor for all necessary expenses against the School Fund of any city, town, or district. The requisition must be drawn in the order in which the orders therefor are filed in his office. Each requisition must specify the purpose for which it is drawn; but no requisition shall be drawn unless the money is in the fund to pay it; and no requisition shall be drawn upon the order of the Board of Trustees against the County Fund of any district, except for teachers' salaries, unless such order is accompanied by an itemized bill showing the separate items, and the price of each, in payment for which the order is drawn; nor shall any requisition for teachers' salaries be drawn unless the order shall state the monthly salary of the teacher, and name the months for which such salary is due. Upon receipt of such requisition the Auditor shall draw his warrant upon the County Treasurer in favor of the parties, and for the amounts stated in such requisition. Fifth-To keep open to the inspection of the public a regrequisitions ister of requisitions, showing the fund upon which the requiinspection. sition has been drawn, the number thereof, in whose favor, Register of open to and for what service drawn, and also a receipt from the person to whom the requisition was delivered. Sixth-To visit and examine each school in his county at Visit schools. least once in each year, and for every school not so visited the Board of Supervisors must, on proof thereof, deduct ten dollars from his salary. Teachers' Seventh-To preside over Teachers' Institutes held in his Preside over county, and to secure the attendance thereat of lecturers Institutes. competent to instruct in the art of teaching, and to report to the County Board of Education the names of all teachers in the county who fail to attend regularly the sessions of the Institute; to enforce the course of study, the use of textbooks, and the rules and regulations for the examination of teachers prescribed by the proper authority. certificates. Eighth-Upon the order of the County Board of Education Issue to issue temporary certificates, valid until the next regular temporary meeting of the County Board of Education, to persons holding certificates of like grade granted in other counties, cities, or cities and counties, or upon any certificates or diplomas upon which County Boards are empowered to grant certificates without examination, as specified in section seventeen hundred and seventy-five; provided, that no person shall be entitled to receive such temporary certificate more than once. Ninth-To distribute all laws, reports, circulars, instruc- Distribute tions, and blanks which he may receive for the use of the laws, etc. school officers. Tenth-To keep in his office the reports of the Superintend- Reports. ent of Public Instruction. of official acts. Eleventh-To keep a record of his official acts, and of the Keep record; proceedings of the County Board of Education, including a record of the standing, in each study, of all applicants examined, which shall be open to the inspection of any applicant or his authorized agent. Twelfth-To, except in incorporated cities and towns, pass Plans for upon and approve or reject, plans for school houses. school houses. Thirteenth-To appoint Trustees to fill all vacancies cre- Appoint ated by failure to elect, or otherwise, to hold until the next Trustees. annual election. Fourteenth-To make reports, when directed by the Super- Make intendent of Public Instruction, showing such matters relat- reports. ing to the public schools in his county as may be required of him. records Fifteenth-To preserve carefully all reports of school officers Deliver and teachers, and, at the close of his official term, deliver to successor. his successor all records, books, documents, and papers belonging to the office, taking a receipt for the same, which shall be filed in the office of the County Clerk. schools. Sixteenth-The County Superintendent shall, unless other- Grade wise provided by law, in the month of July in each year grade each school; and a record thereof shall be made in a book, to be kept by the County Superintendent in his office for said purpose. And no teacher holding a certificate below the grade of said school shall be employed to teach the same. pupils in Seventeenth-The County Superintendent shall keep a record Grammar of pupils enrolled in the grammar school course, if there be course. Record of School Forfeits for failure to report to ent of Public such schools in his county, and shall, on or before the first day of August in each year, transmit a copy thereof to the Superintendent of Public Instruction. 1544. If he fails to make a full and correct report, as required under the provisions of subdivision thirteen of secSuperintend- tion fifteen hundred and forty-three, at the time fixed by the Instruction Superintendent of Public Instruction, he forfeits one hunone hundred dred dollars of his salary; and the Board of Supervisors, dollars. upon receiving from the Superintendent of Public Instruction notice of such failure, must deduct the amount forfeited from his salary. May appoint open schools, when. 1545. He must, when there is sufficient money in the fund teachers, and of any school district to maintain a free school therein for six months, if the Trustees fail to have such school kept, appoint a teacher, and open and keep such school, and may In such case draw his requisition upon the County Auditor, who shall draw his warrant upon the fund of such district for the expense incurred. expenses how paid. When may require Trustees to buildings. 1546. He may, in his discretion, require the Trustees of any district to repair the school buildings or property, or to repair school abate any nuisance in or about the premises, if such repairs or abatement can be done for a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and there is a sufficient amount of money in the treasury to the credit of the district. He may also, in all cases, require the Trustees to provide suitable outhouses, and, where practicable, to adorn the grounds with fruit and ornamental trees and shrubbery; and if the Trustees neglect to make such provision, he may cause it to be done, and pay for it on his requisition upon the County Auditor, who shall draw his warrant payable out of any money to the credit of the district. Money binding school documents. 1548. He may draw his requisition upon the County allowed for Auditor, who shall draw his warrant on the unapportioned County School Fund in his own favor for the binding of school documents, not to exceed twenty dollars a year; for postage and expressage for his office, not to exceed one dollar for each district in his county, and for such other incidental expenses as may be authorized by law; provided, that not more than one half of such allowance shall be used during the first six months of any school year, except by unanimous consent of the Board of Supervisors. May appoint deputy. Compensation of deputy in 1549. Each County Superintendent may appoint a deputy, but no salary, payable out of the School Fund, must be allowed such deputy. 1550. The Deputy School Superintendent of any city, or city and county, having over thirty thousand inhabitants, cities having may receive such compensation as the Board of Education Over 30,000 thereof prescribes, payable in the same manner and out of inhabitants. |