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group, according to the number of pupils enrolled, teachers
employed and years of instruction given. High schools of the
first group shall fulfil the following minimum requirements:
(a) An enrollment of not less than eighty pupils; (b) employ
not less than four teachers for the regular high school work,
exclusive of instructors of special subjects named under (e) ;
(c) four years course of instruction of not less than thirty-six
weeks in each year, same to conform to the standard required
by the State Board of Education; (d) the annual salary of the
principal to be not less than $1,200, and the salary of each
assistant teacher regularly employed to be not less than $500
per annum; (e) provision to be made for manual training and
domestic science courses, and also a commercial or an agricul-
tural course, as may be determined by the board of county
school commissioners. High schools of the second group shall
fulfil the following minimum requirements: (a) An enroll-
ment of not less than thirty-five pupils; (b) employ not lees
than two teachers for the regular high school work, exclusive of
instructors of special subjects named under (e) ; (c) a three
years course of instruction of not less than thirty-six weeks in
each year, same to conform to the standard required by the
State Board of Education; (d) the annual salary of the princi-
pal to be not less than $1,000, and that of each assistant to be
not less than $500; (e) provision to be made for a manual
training or an agricultural or a commercial course, as may be
determined by the Board of County School Commissioners, pro-
vided that no high school which fulfils the conditions under (b),
(c), (d) and (e), and is now on the list of approved high
schools, shall be excluded from this group within two years
from the first day of June, 1912. The course of instruction in
schools of the second group may be extended to four years by
the Board of County School Commissioaers by the employment
of such additional teacher or teachers as 'ipay lie required by the
State Board of Education provided that the salary of such addi-
tional teacher or teachers shall be paid wholly by the said Board
of County School Commissioners; and in the school of the second
group where the course of instruction has been so extended to a
four-year course), the graduates shall receive the same recogni-
tion as graduates of schools of the first group. No promotions
of high-school pupils from one grade to another, or graduation,
shall be made without the approval of the principal and the
county superintendent.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved March 14, 1912.
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