ART. — .] PUBLIC EDUCATION.

school commissioners to subserve the convenience and
advantage of their respective counties. In case it may
be necessary to open school for a fraction of a term, it

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shall close at the end of the term, and all accounts
shall be settled at the meeting of the county board
held at the close of the term.

CHAPTER VII.

Accounts.

SEC. 1. No person shall be employed as a teacher
under this law unless such person shall hold a certifi-
cate of qualification issued by the examiner of the
county in which he proposes to teach, the principal of
the state normal school or a diploma as graduate of
said normal school.

Certificate of
teacher.

2. Teachers shall be appointed by the school district
board and may be removed at any time said board may
think proper after thirty days' notice.

Appointment
and removal of
teachers.

3. Teachers shall enter into registers prepared for
that purpose an accurate account of the attendance of
pupils, of text books used, and branches taught and
such other statistics as may be required, and make due
return thereof to the board of county school commis-
sioners at the end of each term, and no teacher shall be

Returns of
teachers.

entitled to receive payment for services until the regis-
ter properly filled up and completed be so returned :

Payment.

their reports shall be filed by said board for the pur-
pose of making the annual returns to the principal of
the state normal school.

Reports to be
filed.

4. The salaries of teachers of each county shall be
fixed by the board of county school commissioners.

CHAPTER VIII.
Pupils.

Teachers' sala-
aries.

SEC. 1. All white youth between the ages of six and
eighteen years shall be admitted into any of the public
schools of the state, the studies of which they may be

Who to be ad-
mitted.

able to pursue; provided that whenever there are graded
schools, the teacher in the school of the higher grade shall
determine to which school pupils shall be admitted.

Proviso.