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PUBLIC EDUCATION. [ART. — .

Expelling, &c.,
pupils.

2. The school district board shall have power to
suspend and expel pupils for cause.

Attendance in
adjoining dis-
trict

3. Children living remote from the school of the
district in which they reside, may attend school in an
adjoining district, with the consent of the trustees of
the respective school districts.

Certificate of
vaccination.

4. Every child, before it is admitted to any public
school, shall produce a certificate from a regular physi-
cian, that it has been regularly vaccinated.

CHAPTER IX.
Text Books.

Sectarian or
partisan books.

SEC. 1. School books shall contain nothing of a sec-
tarian or partisan character.

Purchase of
text books.

2. Each board of county school commissioners shall
purchase the text books for their respective counties,'
after having examined such as may be recommended
by the board of trustees of the state normal school,
whose duty is hereby made to present a list of books
to said county boards with their written reasons for
such recommendations.

Books and sta-
tionery.

3. They shall authorize the delivery of books and
stationery to the various schools in the county upon
the order of the commissioners of the election districts,
or of the teachers, endorsed by a trustee of the school

Proviso.

district; provided, that no pupil shall be required to

Payment for
books.

pay more than one dollar per quarter for such use,
and that any pupil may be exempted from payment
in the discretion of the school district board.

Accounts of
books, &c.

4. The board of county school commissioners shall
keep an account of the books and stationery delivered
to the several schools in their respective districts and
file their receipts for the same.

Exhibit of cost,
&c., of text
books to be
published.

5. The board of county school commissioners shall
publish annually in all the newspapers of the county
an exhibit of the cost of the text books and the distri-
tion thereof, and the money received therefor, from the
several school house districts.