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COMPILATION OF LAWS 
 
 RELATING TO 
 
 COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM 
 
 AND 
 
 List of State Educational Institutions 
 
 OF 
 
 OEioi^ca-i-^. 
 
 1903, 
 
 ATLANTA, QA. 
 Geo. W. Haerison, State Pbintee 
 (The'Fbanklin Printing and Publishing Co. 
 February, 1903 
 
COMPILATION OF LAWS 
 
 RELATING TO 
 
 COMMON SCHOOL SYSTEM 
 
 AND 
 
 List of State Educational Institutions 
 
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 v\ OF 
 
 ^A oEOKsi^. L ,^^ ^4=.^-U^ o4< 
 
 1903. 
 
 ATLANTA, GA. 
 Geo. W. Harrison, State Printer 
 <The Franklin Printing and Publishing Co. 
 February, 1903 
 
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 TABLE OF TITLES. 
 
 Part L — State Board of Education. 
 
 IL — State School Commissioner. 
 HI. — County Board of Education. 
 IV. — County School Commissioner. 
 
 V. — Financial. 
 VI. — Long Term Schools — Teachers' Re- 
 ports. 
 VII. — County Institutes. 
 VIII. — Examination of Applicants for Teach- 
 er's License. 
 X. — Miscellaneous. 
 XL — General Laws. 
 XII. — List of State Educational Institu- 
 tions. 
 
 n Note. — The whole of the school laws were " amended, re- 
 vised and consolidated" by an Act approved in 1887, hence 
 DO reference is made in the marginal indices to Acts^ ap- 
 proved at any time prior to that year. 
 
SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 , , , Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly «* ^ 
 
 Acts of ,- 1 o r r\ • 1 • • 1 1 , , tstate 
 
 1687, page ot the btatc oi Lxeorgia, and it is hereby enacted by^oardof 
 authority of the same, That the Governor, the At- 
 torneys-General, Secretary of State, the ComptroUer- 
 General, and the State School Commissioner shall 
 constitute the Georgia State Board of Education. 
 Of this Board the Governor shall be ex officio Presi- 
 dent, and the State School Commissioner the chief the BoaJd 
 executive officer. The Clerk of the State School 
 Commissioner, as hereinafter provided for, shall be 
 the Clerk of the State Board of Education. He cierk of 
 shall be the custodian of its records, papers, and* eBoar . 
 effects, and keep minutes of its proceedings, and 
 said records, papers, and minutes shall be kept in 
 the office of the Commissioner, and shall be open to 
 inspection. 
 
 Acts of Sec. 2. That the said Board shall meet, upon the Meetings. 
 
 1887, page q^lU of its President or a majority of its members, ai 
 the office of the State School Commissioner at th<. 
 Capitol, or at such other place as may be designated 
 in the call. A majority of the Board shall constitute Quorum. 
 a quorum for transacting business. 
 
 Sec. '^. That said Board may take and hold, to it 
 
 Acts of -I •, ^ • . . r ,1 o, , . Donations 
 
 1887, page and its succcssors, m trust for the btate, any grant for educa- 
 ^^' or devise of lands, or any donation or bequest of p°^g^J p"""' 
 
 money, or other personal property, made to it for 
 educational purposes, and shall forthwith place in 
 
■6 Common School Laws. 
 
 ^^T5yf f the hands of the Treasurer of the State for safe- 
 ana titles to 
 
 land dona- keeping all moneys and personal property so re- 
 bySta^te ceived, and titles to land, taking therefor a receipt 
 Treasurer. £j-qj^ g^j^^ ofificer. When it is evidently the inten- 
 tion of the donor or devisor that the corpus of 
 moneys thus received is not to be used, the General 
 General Assembly may, from time to time, invest said 
 m?ykivl^st uioncys in the name of the State; provided, that all 
 donations, moneys obtained under this section, together with 
 the profits accruing from their investment, shall bt 
 subject to use only for educational purposes. The 
 fe'c°t^/o use^' Treasurer of the State shall pay to the order of the 
 foreduca- Board the income or principal thereof as said Board 
 
 tional pur- . . ^ ^ . . 
 
 poses only, may, from time to time, require m pursuance of law, 
 but no disposition of any devise, donation or be- 
 quest shall be made inconsistent with the condi- 
 ^ tions or tenor of the devise, donation or bequest 
 For the faithful keeping of all property or moneys 
 Treasurer SO rcccivcd by the Treasurer, he shall be responsible, 
 up^on his^^^ upon his bond to the State, as for other funds re- 
 bond. ceived by him in his official capacity. 
 
 Sec. 4. That the State Board of Education shall ^^^^ of 
 procure a suitable seal, which shall be used for the 69' 
 authentication of the acts of the Board and the im^ 
 portant acts of the State School Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 5. That the State Board of Education shall ^c^s of ^ 
 ry^hody and constitute an advisory body, with whom the State 69."^'' 
 appeals'^ School Commissioner shall have the right to consult 
 from decis- when he is in doubt as to his official dutv ; and also 
 
 ions of S. . -. ' 
 
 s. c. a body in the nature of a court* to which appeals 
 
 shall be from the decision of the State School Com- 
 
 Appeais. missioner upon any question touching the construc- 
 tion or administration of the school laws ; and the 
 decision of the State Board, when rendered, shall be 
 final and conclusive upon the matter in issue. Ap- 
 peals to the State Board must be made through the 
 County Commissioner in writing, and must distinctly 
 
ComniGn ScJiaol Lairs. 
 
 set forth the question at law, as well as the facts, in 
 the case upon which the appeal is taken. Upon any 
 question involving the construction or administra- 
 tion of the school laws, the concurrence of a majority 
 of the whole Board shall be necessary in order to give 
 validity to the decision. 
 
 Board of Education is authorized to admiuister oaths (Sec. 29) ; Bo^rd^o"/ 
 
 selects time for operatins: schools (Sec. 34). Education 
 
 ■^ ° ^ found in 
 
 other sec- 
 tions. 
 
Common School Laws. 
 
 PART 11. 
 
 STATE SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. 
 
 Sec. 6. There shall be a State School Commis- 
 
 Acfs of 
 
 Elected. 
 
 Charged 
 with admin- 
 istration of 
 the school 
 aws. 
 
 Prescribes 
 forms. 
 
 Instruc- 
 tions. 
 
 Subordi- 
 nate officers 
 governed in 
 the dis- 
 charge of 
 official du- 
 ties by in- 
 structions 
 of State 
 School 
 Commis- 
 sioner. 
 
 Visits 
 counties. 
 
 sioner elected by the people at the same time and i894, page' 
 manner as the Governor and State house officers ^^" 
 are elected, whose term of office shall be two years 
 and until his successor is elected and qualified. His 
 office shall be at the seat of government and he 
 shall be paid a salary not to exceed two thousand 
 dollars ($2,000) per annum. The General Assembly 
 may substitute for the State School Commissioner 
 such officer or officers as may be deemed necessary 
 to perfect the system of public education."^ He shall 
 be charged with the administration of the school 
 laws, and a general superintendence of the business 
 relating to the common schools of the State. He 
 shall prescribe suitable forms for the reports re- 
 quired of subordinate school officers and blanks for " 
 their s^uidance in transacting their official business. Acts of 
 
 1 , 11 r • • 1 , •' 1887, page 
 
 and shall, from time to time, prepare and transmit 69. 
 to th-em such instructions as he may deem necessary 
 for the faithful and efficient execution of the school 
 laws, and by whatsoever is thus communicated tO' 
 them shall they be bound to govern themselves in 
 the discharge of their official duty; provided, never- 
 theless, there shall always be an appeal from the 
 State School Commissioner to the State Board of 
 Education as hereinbefore enacted. 
 
 Sec. 7. That it shall be the duty of the State School 
 Commissioner to visit, as often as possible, the sev- 
 
 Acts of 
 
 1887, page 
 
 *The above, which is an amendment to the Constitution, was rati- 6-9 
 fled at an election held in 1896. ; 
 
Common School Laws. 
 
 9 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, page 
 70. 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, page 
 
 Amended 
 Acts ot 
 1892, page 
 
 85. 
 
 Actsot 
 1887 page 
 71. 
 
 eral counties of the State for the purpose of examin- ^^o'^d^fn. 
 ing into the administration of the school law in saia istration of 
 counties, of counseling with school officers, of de- Delivers 
 livering popular addresses, of inspecting school addresses. 
 operations, and of doing such other acts as he may opSatSn 
 deem subservient to the interests of popular educa- "' schools. 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 8. The State School Commissioner shall see state 
 that the proper actions provided by law are Drougni commis- 
 against all ofificers and agents of the system, who are f^g^ftuJe 
 liable to the same, for misapplication of the school suits. 
 fund or other cause. 
 
 Sec. 9. That the State School Commissioner shall Report ot 
 make an annual report to the General Assembly, H^^^^ 
 in which he shall present a statement of the condi- Commis- 
 
 r 11 r 1 1 • sioner. 
 
 tion and amount of all funds and property appropri- contents. 
 ated to the purpose of public education ; a state shaii be 
 ment of the number of common and public schools. ™^f^ify^"" 
 of the various grades, in the State ; the number of 
 scholars attending such schools ; their sex, color, 
 and the branches taught; a statement of the aver- 
 age cost per scholar of instruction under the com- 
 mon school system in each county ; a statement o! 
 the plans for the management, extension, and im- 
 provement of the common schools ; a statement oi 
 the number of children of school age in the State, J^poVt^°^ 
 with as much accuracy as the same can be ascer- 
 tained ; also, a statement of the number of private 
 schools and colleges of the different kinds in the 
 State; the number of pupils in such schools or col- 
 leges, their sex, the branches taught, the average 
 cost of tuition per scholar in said schools and col- 
 leges. 
 
 Sec. 10. That the State School Commissioner shall salary and 
 be entitled to receive for his services the sum oi e^P^^ses. 
 two thousand dollars annually in quarterly install- ^^^^^^^ ^^ 
 ments. All his necessary traveling expenses in- o^^^JJ^'*^ 
 curred in the performance of his official duties, and ^ 
 
10 Common School Laws. 
 
 all postage and other expenses absolutely necessary 
 arising in his office, shall be paid by the State. Ht 
 Clerk of shall also be entitled to employ one clerk to aid him 
 sSooi in his official duties. His clerk shall receive an 
 uommis- annual salary, not exceeding twelve hundred dol- 
 lars, to be paid quarterly. The salaries and othei 
 Paid out of expenses named in this section shall be paid out oi 
 lch?oi the State school fund on executive warrant. It 
 fund. shall also be the duty of said Commissioner to keep 
 
 an itemized account of all expenses connected with 
 account to his department, which account shall be audited, b} 
 be kept. ^j^^ 3^^^^ gQ^j.^ Q^ Education. 
 
 Sec. II. That before entering upon the discharge 
 of his official duties, the said Commissioner shall ^^^^ ^^ 
 take and subscribe to the same oath required of other isst, page 
 
 Oath. 
 
 officers of this State. 
 
 Duties of 
 
 State 
 
 fccfiool 
 
 Commis- State School Commissioner is member of State Board of Edu- 
 
 f'u^'d^in cation (Sec. i); uses seal (Sec. 4). 
 
 other 
 sections. 
 
Common School Laws. 11 
 
 PART III. 
 COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. 
 
 Sec. 12. That hereafter each and every county in Each coun- 
 is87!page the State shall compose one school district, and shall dlsfrfct.°° 
 ''^' be confided to the control and management of a 
 
 County Board of Education. 
 Acts of Sec. 13. That the grand jury of each county (ex- Selection, 
 
 62. ' ^^^^ cept those counties which are under a local system) ?ions and 
 in this State shall from time to time select from the [^^^^ °| 
 citizens of their respective counties five freeholders, members. 
 v^ho shall constitute the County Board of Educa- 
 tion. Said members shall be elected for the term of 
 four years, and shall hold their offices until their ^^'^gi'^kl' 
 successors shall be elected and qualified; provided, 
 however, that no publisher of school-books, nor any 
 agent for such publisher, nor any person who shall 
 be pecuniarily interested in the sale of school-books, p^^^^^^g 5^^. 
 shall be elisfible for election as member of any Board terested in 
 of Education or as County School Commissioner of school 
 any county in .this State ; provided further, That \^^^l ^"^^" 
 whenever there is in a portion of any county a 
 local school system having a Board of Education 
 of its own, and receiving its pro rata of the public Members 
 Acts of school fund directly from the State School Com- ^S\fom'^' 
 1897, page jj-^-gg-^j^^^^ ^^^ haviug uo dealings whatever with '^H^^^^^^ 
 
 the County Board of Education, then the members deaH°|^,j^. 
 of the County Board of Education of such county ty Board oi 
 
 ■^ , - , . p ,1 , Education. 
 
 shall be selected from that portion of the county 
 not embraced within the territory covered by such 
 local system. 
 Acts of ' Sec. 14. That the members of the Board of Edu- compensa- 
 1895, page ^^^-^^ -^ ^^^j^ couuty shall each be paid a per diem *^°"- 
 
12 
 
 Com7)ion School Laws. 
 
 Clerk of 
 Superior 
 Court cer- 
 tifies to 
 election. 
 
 Removal 
 from office 
 of members 
 of board. 
 
 Vacancies 
 filled by 
 Judges of 
 Superior 
 Court. 
 
 President 
 of board. 
 
 Secretary. 
 
 not to exceed two dollars for each da3^'s actual ser- 
 vice out of the school fund apportioned to the county ;, 
 and their accounts for service shall be submitted for 
 approval to the Ordinary or County School Commis- 
 sioner ;- and they shall not receive any other compen- 
 sation, such as exemption from road and jury duty. 
 
 Sec. 15. That whenever members of a County 
 Board are elected or appointed in pursuance of the 
 provisions of the above section, it shall be the duty 
 of the Clerk of the Superior Court to forward to the 
 State School Commissioner a certified statement of 
 the facts, under the seal of the court, signed ofhcially 
 by him, as evidence upon which to issue commis- 
 sions, and the corresponding evidence of the election 
 of a County Commissioner shall be the certified 
 statement of the Secretary pro tern, of the meeting 
 of the Board at which the election was held. Any 
 member or members of the County Board of Educa- 
 tion shall be removable by the judges of the Supe- 
 rior Court of the county, on the address of two- 
 thirds of the grand jury, for inefficiency, incapacity,, 
 general neglect of duty, or malfeasance or corrup- 
 tion in oiBce ; that the Judge of the superior Courts 
 of this State shall have the power to fill vacancies 
 by appointment in the County Boards of Education 
 for the counties composing their respective judicial 
 circuits, until the next session of the grand juries in 
 and for said counties, when said vacancies shall be 
 filled by said grand juries. 
 
 Sec. 16. That the Board of Education shall elect 
 one of their number President, who shall serve as 
 such during the term for M^hich he was chosen a 
 member of the Board. The County School Commis- 
 sioner shall be ex officio Secretary of the Board. A 
 majority of the Board shall constitute a quorum for 
 the transaction of business. It shall be the duty of 
 said Secretary to be present at the meetings of the 
 
 Acts of 
 188T, page 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, page 
 72. 
 
Common School Laws. 13 
 
 Board, and to record in a book, to be provided for 
 
 the purpose, all their official proceedings, which Minutes. 
 
 shall be a public record open to the inspection of any 
 
 person interested therein, and all such proceedings, ord^open^to 
 
 when so recorded, shall be signed by the President inspection. 
 
 and countersigned by the Secretary. 
 
 Sec. 17. That it shall be the duty of the County sessions. 
 ifc87^° Board of Education to hold regular sessions on the 
 page 72, f^j-^^ Tucsday of the month succeeding their election, 
 , , and each three months thereafter, at the court-house 
 
 Amended - - , , . ^ , . 
 
 acts of 1893, OT the couuty for the transaction of business pertam- 
 page62. -^^g. ^^ ^j^^ public schools, with power to adjourn ■ 
 
 from time time, and in the case of the absence of the 
 President or Secretary, they may appoint one of their 
 own number to serve temporarily. 
 
 Sec. 18. That the County Boards shall lay off their 
 \m^^ counties into sub-school districts, in each of which 5fst"j.fj['s°°^ 
 page 124 sub-school districts they shall establish one common 
 school each for the white and colored races where 
 fcTsTn889, the population of the two races is sufficient, which 
 page 124. ' schools shall be as near the center of the sub-school ^cSh." °^ 
 districts as can conveniently be arranged, reference 
 being had to any schoolhouse already erected, and 
 population of said sub-school district, and to the 
 location of white and colored schools with regard to 
 contiguity; provided, hozuever, that in such sub-school 
 districts where more than one school is demanded, 
 then they may establish one or more additional schools."^ 
 schools in such sub-school district ; and provided also, 
 that whenever it becomes proper to lay off new sub- 
 school districts, or alter the boundaries of those Boundaries 
 already laid off, the said Board shall have full power 
 to make such changes as the public necessities may 
 require. The said County Boards are also empow- Board ^ 
 ered to employ teachers in the manner hereinafter teachers. 
 pointed out, to' serve in the schools under their juris- 
 
14 Common School Laws. 
 
 diction, and the contracts for said service shall be 
 Csntracts in writing, signed in duplicate by the teacher on his Acts 1889, 
 own behalf and by the County School Commissioner ^^^^ 
 on behalf of the Board. That the County Boards of 
 Education, whenever, in their opinion, the good of 
 the schools in their respective counties demand it, 
 may, at their discretion, at their first meeting after 
 the passage of this law, appoint three intelligent, 
 upright citizens of each sub-district of their respec- 
 Schooi tive counties to act as school trustees for their sub- 
 
 trustees. .... . , 
 
 districts, naming one of the appointees to serve for 
 one year, and one for two, and one for three years ; 
 and as vacancies occur by the expiration of the 
 terms of incumbents, the Boards shall fill those 
 vacancies with appointees whose term of service 
 vacancies, sliall be three years ; and should vacancies occur by 
 death, resignation, or otherwise, the Boards of Edu- 
 cation shall fill these vacancies for the unexpired 
 term ; and whenever School Trustees are chosen as 
 herein provided, the fact shall be recorded in the 
 Certificates miuutes of the County Boards, and the appointees 
 of appoint- shall receive certificates of their appointment from 
 
 ment irom , ,^ r^ a -i r-\ • • i 
 
 County the County School Commissioner, and these certm- 
 
 Commis- catcs shall be their sufficient warrant for entering 
 
 sioner. upon and performing the duties of their oi^ce. That 
 
 T^ ,. , it shall be the duty of the School Trustees herein 
 
 Duties of . , , . -' . . 
 
 school provided for to supervise the school operations of 
 their sub-disti-icts, to visit the schools, and to make 
 such recommendations to the County Boards, in re- 
 lation to the school interests of their sub-districts, as 
 may seem to them best, and especially in the matter 
 of choosing teachers for their sub-districts. It shall 
 ^r^ustees ^c their right to recommend applicants, and it shall 
 recom- ^g i\^q (j^ty of the Couuty Boards to choose as teach- 
 
 raend ap- -' -^ • 7 j i 111 
 
 piicants for ers the persons so recommended; proviaea, they shall 
 
 p^iaces."^^ be persons duly qualified and eligible according to 
 
 the provisions of existing law; and furthermore, it 
 
Common School Laius. 15- 
 
 shall be the duty of the School Trustees, in recom- -j-^ustee 
 mending persons as teachers, to recommend those make an 
 persons who, in their opinion, are the choice of the uTiiten re- 
 communities to be served ; and it shall, furthermore, gouVty 
 be the duty of the School Trustees to make a written Boards, 
 report, once a year, to the County Boards in rela- 
 tion to the matters committed to their supervision, 
 or oftener if required by the County Boards of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. IQ. That the County Boards of Education school 
 
 1 11 1 11 11 property.. 
 
 ^ggs shall have power to purchase, lease, or rent s(^,hool 
 
 page 73. sitcs ; to build, repair, or rent schoolhouses ; to pur- 
 chase maps, globes and school furniture, and to 
 make all other arrangements of this kind necessary 
 to the efihcient operation of the schools under their 
 care ; and the said Boards shall also be, and are here- 
 by, invested with the title, care, and custody of all 
 schoolhouses, sites, school libraries, apparatus, or 
 other property belonging to the sub-districts, as now 
 defined, or as may hereafter be defined, in their sev- 
 eral counties, with all power to control the same, in 
 such manner as they think will best subserve the 
 interests of common schools ; and when, in the opin- 
 ion of the Board, any schoolhouse site has become 
 unnecessary or inconvenient, they may sell and con- g^j^ 
 vey the same in the name of the County Board of 
 Education, such conveyance to be executed by the 
 President or Secretary of said Board according to 
 the order of the Board. They shall have power to 
 receive any gift, grant,, donation, or devise made for Donations, 
 the use of common . schools within their respective 
 counties ; and all conveyances of real estate which Property 
 may be made to said Board shall vest the property ^^^^c'omm- 
 in said Board of Education and their successors in |^^ be^^^^^^ted 
 office. It shall also be the duty of said Board of Board of 
 
 ,. ,1 • , ,• h-ducation. 
 
 Education to make arrangements for the mstructron 
 
16 
 
 Common School Laws. 
 
 Eaces 
 
 taught 
 
 separately. 
 
 Building of 
 
 school 
 
 houses. 
 
 Hegulate 
 length of 
 school 
 term. 
 
 County 
 Board a 
 judicial 
 tribunal.. 
 
 Appeal to 
 
 State 
 
 School 
 
 Commis- 
 
 Text books. 
 
 of the children of the white and colored races in sep- 
 arate schools. They shall, as far as practicable, pro- 
 vide the same facilities for both races in respect to 
 attainments and abilities of teachers and length of 
 term;-time; but the children of the white and colored 
 races shall not be taught together in any common or 
 public school of this State ; and in respect to the 
 building of the schoolhouses mentioned in this sec- 
 tion, the said Board of Education may provide for 
 the same, either by labor on the part of the citizens 
 of sub-districts to be served, or by a tax on their prop- 
 erty, as may be hereinafter provided. 
 
 The several County Boards of Education of this 
 State shall have full power and authority to define and 
 regulate the length of the public school terms of their 
 respective counties. 
 
 Sec. 20. That the county Board of Education 
 shall constitute a tribunal for hearing and determin- 
 ing any matter of local controversy in reference to 
 the construction or administration of the school law, 
 with power to summon witnesses and take testimony 
 if necessary; and when they have made a decision, 
 said decision shall be binding upon the parties to the 
 controversy ; provided, that either of the parties 
 shall have the right to appeal to the State School 
 Commissioner, and said appeal shall be made 
 throught the County Commissioner in writing, and 
 shall distinctly set forth the question in dispute, the 
 decision of the County Board and the testimony, as 
 agreed upon by the parties to the controversy, or if 
 they fail to agree, upon the testimony as reported 
 by the Commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 21. That the County Board of Education 
 shall prescribe, from time to time, what text-books 
 and books of reference shall be used in the common 
 schools of the county ; provided, that the Bible shall 
 
 Acts of 
 ]898, page 
 71. 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, page 
 74 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, page 
 74. 
 
Common School Laws. ' 17 
 
 not be excluded from the common or public schools ^i^ie can- 
 of the State ; and provided further, that when such cfuded.^"" 
 text-books are prescribed, they shall not be changed Length of 
 for five years thereafter, except by a three-fourths how'''"^*~ 
 vote of all the Board; and provided further, that the chrng-ed. 
 County Boards shall not be permitted to introduce 
 into the schools any text or miscellaneous book of a Books of 
 sectarian or sectional character. No teacher shall ^ sectariaQ 
 
 f. .1-1 Lv.«,^iiv,i oiia.i.1 or sectional 
 
 receive pav for anv pupil who is allowed to use anv character 
 other than the prescribed text-books. ' ^'°^'^'''^^ 
 
 (For Act of 1897 relating to contracts for school books se^ 
 page 48.) 
 
18 
 
 Common School Laivs. 
 
 County 
 School 
 
 Commis- 
 sioner. 
 
 Examina- 
 tion. 
 
 Questions 
 lurnished 
 by State 
 School 
 Com mis- 
 
 Election. 
 
 Bond. 
 
 Oath. 
 
 PART IV. 
 COUNTY SCHOOL COMMISSIONER. 
 
 Sec. 22. That the County Boards of Education ^g^l^ °*^^g 
 shall, from the citizens of their counties, select a 74. ' 
 County Commissioner of Education, who shall be ex 
 officio county superintendent of the common schools, 
 and who shall hold his ofhce for the term of four 
 3''ears. Before election the applicants for positions of 
 County School Commissioner shall be examined by 
 the President of the County Board of Education, or 
 by some one appointed by him or the Board for that 
 purpose, upon written or printed questions, which' 
 shall be furnished to the Board by the State School 
 Commissioner — said examination to be upon the 
 subjects taught in the common schools, upon the 
 science and theory of common school teaching and 
 government, and upon such other subjects as the 
 State School Commissioner may deem proper. The 
 said County Board of Education shall then elect 
 such applicant County School Commissioner, who 
 has stood satisfactory examination, taking into con- 
 sideration the moral character, business qualifica- 
 tions, and general availability of each applicant. 
 The County School Commissioner so elected shall be 
 required to give bond with good security payable to 
 the County Board of Education, conditioned upon 
 the faithful performance of his duty under the law, 
 the amount and sufficiency of the security to be judged 
 by the County Board of Education. 
 
 Sec. 23. Before entering upon the discharge of his J^^^gQf 
 official duties, the said Commissioner shall take and i§87, page 
 subscribe to the same oath required of the other offi- 
 cers of this State. 
 
 75. 
 
Common School Laws. 19 
 
 ^s?7^ °^ Sec. 24. The Countv School Commissioner mav Removal 
 
 losi, ' - . irom onice. 
 
 i)age75. be removed from office before the expiration of his 
 
 term by a majority vote of the Board of Education For what 
 for inefficiency, incapacity, neglect of duty, or mal- '^^"^^* 
 feasance or corruption in office; provided, that any 
 Commissioner so removed shall have the right of 
 appeal from the action of the County Board to the Appeal. 
 State School Commissioner, and from the State 
 School Commissioner to the State Board of Educa- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 25. Should there be a vacancy in the office vacancy, 
 of County School Commissioner, by resignation or 
 otherwise, an examination and election for the re- 
 mainder of the vacant term shall be held in the same 
 manner, and by the same authorities, as for that of 
 a full term. 
 
 A_.„-r Sec. 26. That the Countv Commissioner shall con- -r, ,. 
 
 10-, ■ 1 • . ' . . - Duties of 
 
 l8^^, __ stitute the nieaium ot communication between the Co. School 
 State School Commissioner and the subordinate sioneT.^^' 
 school officers ; that he shall visit each school in his yis^ts 
 county at least once during the school term, or twice schools, 
 if practicable, and oftener if ordered by the Board, 
 and without notice to the teachers, for the purpose 
 of instructing its management and the modes of in- 
 struction, and of giving such advice and making 
 such suggestions as shall tend to elevate it in char- Agent of 
 acter and efficiency. He shall be the agent of the Boar/in 
 County Board in procuring such school furniture, fumitur^e^ 
 apparatus, and educational requisites as they may apparatus. 
 order to be purchased, and shall see that none but 
 the prescribed text-books are used by the pupils ; 
 that it shall be his duty to audit all accounts of Accounts. 
 teachers and others before an application is made 
 to the County Board for an order for payment, and 
 that the said County Commissioner shall procure a 
 book, in which he shall keep a record of his official ^^^ 
 .acts, which, together with all the books, papers and records. 
 
20 
 
 Common School Laws. 
 
 Seal on 
 
 teachers' 
 
 license. 
 
 Compen- 
 sation of 
 County 
 School 
 Commis- 
 sioner. 
 
 Claim for 
 services 
 verified by 
 affidavit 
 and audit- 
 ted by Co. 
 Board of 
 Education. 
 
 How paid. 
 
 Office in 
 court- 
 house if 
 there is 
 sufficient 
 room. 
 
 property appertaining to his office, he shall turn over, 
 on his resignation, or at the expiration of his official 
 term, to his successor. 
 
 It shall be the duty of every County School isw! ° 
 Commissioner in this State to place upon all teachers' ^^^^ '^'^' 
 license issued b)^ them the seal of the Board of Edu- 
 cation of the county for which they are commissioner. 
 
 Sec. 2y. That the said County Commissioner shall Acts of 
 receive such compensation as the County Board may plge 77^ 
 allow him, not to exceed three dollars per day, to be 
 determined by the County Board of Education, for 
 each day actually employed in the discharge of his 
 official duties, the same to be paid out of the educa- 
 tional fund furnished to the county. His claim for 
 services shall be presented in the form of an account 
 against the County Board of Education, and shall 
 be verified by affidavit, to the effect that the said 
 account is just and true ; that the service therein: 
 named was honestly and faithfully rendered, and 
 that the sum therein claimed is rightfully due and 
 remains unpaid. When said account shall have 
 been duly audited and approved by the County 
 Board, the said commissioner shall retain his pay out 
 of the revenue aforesaid ; provided, that the County 
 Board of Education shall determine the number of 
 days in each year in which said County Commissioner 
 may labor in the performance of the duties required 
 of him. 
 
 Sec. 28. That it shall be the duty of the county Acts of 
 authoricies of the different counties of this State tOp^^^^g^^ 
 furnish the County School Commissioners thereof an 
 office in the court-house thereof ; provided, there is 
 sufficient room in said court-house after furnishing 
 the county officers of such county with offices as now 
 provided by law. 
 
Com m on ScJi ool La ws. 
 
 21 
 
 Acts of 
 18S7, 
 page 81. 
 
 Acts of 
 1S87, 
 page 81. 
 
 Duties of 
 'County 
 School' 
 Coram is- 
 ■sioner 
 found in 
 other sec- 
 tions. 
 
 Sec. 29. That County School Commissioners and 
 members of the County Boards of Education shall be 
 empowered and authorized to administer such oaths 
 as may be necessary in transacting school business, 
 or in conducting investigations before the County 
 Boards when sitting as judicial tribunals for deter- 
 mining controversies arising under school laws. 
 
 Sec. 30. That it shall be the duty of the County 
 School Commissioner of each of the counties of this 
 State to m.ake a report of the school operations of the 
 preceding year to the grand jury, at the spring term 
 of the court, and to place his books before them for 
 examination ; and in making up the general present- 
 ments, it shall be the duty of the jury to take proper 
 notice of the matters thus brou2;ht to their attention. 
 
 School 
 officers au- 
 thorized to 
 administer 
 oaths. 
 
 Report and 
 books of 
 County 
 School 
 Commis- 
 sioner 
 submitted 
 to grand 
 jury. 
 
 County School Commissioner is secretar}- of County Board of 
 Education (Sec. 16) ; issues certificates to School Trustees (Sec. 
 18) ; forwards appeals, in writing, from decision of County 
 Board of Education to State School Commissioner (Sec. 20) ; 
 places seal in all teachers' licenses issued by him (Sec. 26) ; 
 makes monthly statements to State School Commissioner (Sec. 
 33) ; operates institutes (Sec. 42) ; examines applicants for 
 license to teach (Sec. 43.) 
 
 County School Commissioner — Election of is certified by 
 secretary of meeting (Sec. 15.) 
 
22 
 
 Common School Laws. 
 
 PART V. 
 FINANCIAL. 
 
 School 
 fund paid 
 directly 
 into Treas- 
 ury and 
 used only 
 for school 
 purposes. 
 
 Apportion- 
 ment of 
 school 1 
 fund. 
 
 Proportion 
 of each 
 county to 
 be placed 
 to its credit 
 by State 
 Treasurer 
 monthly. 
 
 How pro- 
 portion to 
 be deter- 
 mined. 
 
 Items 
 chargeable 
 to general 
 fund to be 
 first de- 
 ducted. 
 
 Monthly 
 statements 
 by County 
 School 
 Commis- 
 sioners of 
 sums due 
 and unpaid 
 by County 
 Board. 
 
 Sec. 31. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
 of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of 
 the same, That beginning with the taxes for the year 
 1895, all moneys belonging to the common school 
 fund of the State, including poll taxes and specific 
 taxes, shall be paid direct into the State Treasury in 
 like manner as other State taxes are paid, and said 
 common school fund shall be used for no other 'than 
 common school purposes, as provided by law. 
 
 Sec. 32. That from and after the first day of Janu- 
 ary, 1899, or as soon thereafter as practicable, the 
 Treasurer of the State shall place to the credit of each 
 county in the State, on his books, its proportionate 
 part of the common school fund in the treasury 
 on the first day of each month, such proportion- 
 ate part to be determined by the State School 
 Commissioner, the Comptroller-General, and the 
 Treasurer, and to be based upon the proportion which 
 the school population in each county bears to the 
 school population in the State as shown by the last 
 school census ; provided, however, that the salaries of 
 the State School Commissioner and his clerk or 
 clerks, and the expenses of his office, and any other 
 items properly chargeable under the law to the 
 general school fund, shall be deducted out of the said 
 fund before making the aforesaid apportionment to 
 the counties. 
 
 Sec. 33. That the County School Commissioner of 
 each county shall, under the approval of the County 
 Board of Education, transmit to the State School 
 Commissioner an itemized statement of the various 
 sums due and unpaid by the County Board of Educa- 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, 
 page 80. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1888, 
 page 45. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 189-i, 
 page 60. 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, 
 page 70. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1894, 
 page 67. 
 
 Acts of 
 1887, 
 page 79. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1898. 
 page 70. 
 
Common School Laws. 23 
 
 aSso*?^'^ ation on said several dates mentioned in section 32, 
 
 1893, _ whether the same be for teachers' salaries, for pay of 
 
 page . ^^^ County School Commissioner, or for any other 
 
 item of expense properh^ chargeable mider the law of 
 
 . , , the Countv Board of Education : and when said item- „., 
 
 Amended , ' , ' When 
 
 Acts of ized statements have been approved by the State statement 
 page 60. School Commissioner and presented to the Governor, ISd^pre^. 
 the Governor shall issue his warrants upon the Treas- ^^^rrant t<> 
 urer for all the funds standing to the credit of each of t>e drawn. 
 the several counties upon the books of the Treas- 
 urer, or for such part thereof as may be needed to 
 liquidate the indebtedness of the County Board of 
 Education of such countv, as show^n by each item- „ 
 
 ■' . ^ -^ — ^ Payment 
 
 ized statement aforesaid. And the State Treasurer ot money 
 shall, upon the presentation of the warrants afore- warrants, 
 said, draw his checks for the amounts of said war- 
 rants in favor of the County School Commissioners ^. . 
 
 11 o 01 ^ r^ DisDurse- 
 
 ot the several counties, and the State School Com-mentby 
 missioner shall immediately transmit said checks to schoof 
 the several County School Commissioners, who shall 
 promptly disburse the money so received in payment 
 of the sums set out in the itemized statement afore- 
 said ; and if the money is not sufficient to pay said n^inM- 
 sums in full, then it shall be prorated among the fid^Ued-^^ 
 ^ ^ various items ; provided, that the expenses of admin- ness. 
 
 3890, _ istration for each m.onth shall first be paid in full, 
 ^^°^ ' * and the County Boards of Education are hereby au- when 
 
 thorized to make their contracts in such manner that ™nde7con- 
 the amounts payable to teachers for services rendered [''I'^J^g^g*^ 
 shall becom.e due and payable monthly. 
 1887^° Sec. 34. That beginning with January ist, 1895, 
 
 page 78. ^^^^ continuing thereafter, the school year shall be ^^5°°^ 
 
 coincident with the calendar year, to wit : from coincident 
 
 1 r J 1 With calen- 
 
 January ist to December 31st thereafter, and the dar year. 
 State School Commissioner, State Treasurer, and 
 Comptroller-General shaU, on or before the first 
 Tuesday in December each year, begining in 1894, 
 
 commis- 
 sioners. 
 
24 
 
 Common School Laws. 
 
 Estimate 
 of entire 
 school 
 tund tor 
 ensuing 
 3'ear. 
 
 County 
 School 
 Commis- 
 sioners to 
 be notified 
 of their 
 proportion 
 
 County 
 Boards to 
 arrange for 
 operation 
 of schools. 
 
 Time of 
 operating 
 schools left 
 to County 
 Boards. 
 
 Schools 
 under 
 special or 
 local laws 
 not 
 affected. 
 
 Local 
 
 School 
 
 laws. 
 
 Warrants 
 
 and checks 
 
 to be issued 
 
 without 
 
 requiring 
 
 itemized 
 
 statements 
 
 or as soon thereafter as practicable, make an esti- 
 mate of the entire common school fund of the State 
 for the next succeeding school year, and shall at 
 once communicate in writing to the County School 
 Commissioner of each county the amount of money 
 that will be payable to his county; and on the firsv 
 Tuesday in January in each year, or as soon there- 
 after as practicable, each County Board of Educa- 
 tion shall meet and make the necessary arrange- 
 ments for placing the schools in operation for the 
 next school year, and shall have full authority in 
 their discretion either to fix salaries for the payment 
 of teachers, or to pay them according to the enroll- 
 ment or attendance ; provided, that nothing in this 
 Act shall be construed to affect the right of the re- 
 spective counties of the State to select the time of 
 operating their schools, which shall be left entirely 
 to the County Boards of Education, nor shall it affect 
 or change the time of operating their schools under 
 any special or local laws in any county in this State; 
 provided further, it shall not affect the monthly pay- 
 ments of teachers as by this Act directed. 
 
 Sec. 35. That in those counties having local school 
 laws where the schools are sustained by local taxation 
 for a period of five months or more, the State School 
 Commissioner shall, on the first day of each month, or 
 as soon tliereafter as practicable, notify the Governor 
 of the amount of funds standing to the credit of each 
 of such counties on the books of the Terasurer on said 
 dates, and thereupon the Governor shall issue 
 his warrants for said sums and the Treasurer shall 
 draw his checks for said sums without requiring the 
 itemized statements as provided in section 33 ; and 
 the State School Commissioner shall immediately 
 transmit said checks to the officer under the local 
 school svstem authorized to receive its funds, and 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1893, 
 page 59. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1S94, 
 page 59. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1S94, 
 page 61. 
 
 Acts of 
 1893. 
 page 60. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1894 
 page 62. 
 
Common School Laws. 25 
 
 ■i 
 
 the State School Commissioner shall, in like man- 
 ner, pay over to the proper officer under the school 
 board of any town or city having a school system 
 sustained by local taxation for a period of five 
 months or more, and to which he is now authorized 
 by law to make direct apportionments, such propor- 
 tion of the entire county fund as shown on the books 
 of the Treasurer as the school population of the 
 town or city bears to the population of the county, 
 as shown by the last school census ; provided, that 
 all children of school age resident in said county, 
 and attending the public schools of such town or 
 city, shah be counted in the school population of ^ . 
 
 1 , ., 11 -11 1 , . , Estimate 01 
 
 such town or city and be entitled to have their share school 
 of such county fund paid over to the proper officer of p°p"^^^'°"- 
 the school board of such town or city. 
 isPlLe S^^- 36. That the school fund for each calendar ^^ , 
 
 JM^ page 1 11 1 r 1 1 -^1 , . , To whom 
 
 '0- year shall be a hxed and specified sum, and m order paid. 
 
 Amended to Carry out this provision the State School Com- 
 1894^ page missioncr, the Comptroller-General, and the Treas- School 
 •^-- ^ urer shall, on the first Tuesday of December of each ea?hyear 
 year, begining with 1894, or as soon thereafter as ff^^J^^^ 
 practicable, make an estimate of what the school 
 fund for the ensuing year shall be from the specific of^choof 
 taxes, direct appropriations, and from any other Insuing 
 sources of supply which now belong to the school ^'^^'■' 
 fund or may hereafter belong to the school fund, and 
 said fund, when so estimated, shall be avail- if specific 
 able and payable at the time specified in this Act; short .^^^^ 
 provided, that in the event that the said specific taxes Balance 
 shall fall short of said estimate, then the balance ^^.l ^e 
 
 1 .... 1 . , paid from 
 
 necessary to meet the provisions of said estimate is any fund 
 hereby authorized to be paid from any fund in the wisVap-*^' 
 treasury not otherwise appropriated. propnated. 
 
26 Common School Laws. 
 
 ^c^tfS.°ti of Sec. 37. That when the State School Commis- f^t^ of 
 fund for sioner, the Comptroller-General, and the Treasurer S2. 
 year!^^ shall meet on the first Tuesday in December, or as 
 soon thereafter as practicable, as provided in this Act, 
 to make the estimate of the school fund provided for. 
 in section 34 of this Act, they shall base said estimate 
 upon the amount of school fund coming into the 
 treasury for the year preceding the year for which said 
 estimate is made. 
 Sources Scc. 38. That for the support and maintenance of 
 
 fund!'^"^ the common schools of this State the poll tax, special As?! jlge 
 tax on shows and exhibitions, all taxes on the sale ''^' 
 of spirituous and malt liquors, dividends upon the 
 stock of the State in the Bank of the State of Georgfia, 
 Bank of Augusta, Georgia Railroad and Banking 
 Company, and such other means or moneys as now 
 belong by law to the Common School Fund, one- 
 half of the proceeds of the rental of the Western & 
 Atlantic Railroad, or one-half of the annual net earn- 
 ings of said railroad as ascertained by subtracting the 
 annual cost of running and keeping up the road from 
 the annual gross receipts under and change of policy 
 which the State may adopt hereafter in reference to 
 said railroad ; all endowments, devises, gifts, and be- 
 quest made, or hereafter to be made, to the State or 
 State Board of Education ; the proceeds of any com- 
 mutation tax for military service ; all taxes which may 
 be assessed on such domestic animals as from their 
 nature and habits are destructive to other property; 
 all money received by the Agricultural Department 
 of this State for the inspection of oils and fertilizers 
 in excess of what may be necessary to defray the ex- 
 penses of said Agricultural Department; the net 
 amount arising from the hire of convicts of this State, 
 after all expenses that are now or may hereafter be 
 made a charge upon said fund shall have been de- 
 
Common ScJiool Laius. 27' 
 
 ducted from the gross amount thereof; ^^any educa- 
 tional fund now belonging to the State (except the 
 endowment of and debt due to the University of 
 Georgia), and such other sums of money as the Leg- 
 islature shall raise by taxation or otherwise from time 
 to time for educational purposes, are hereby declared 
 to be a common school fund; and when said com- 
 mon school fund shall be received and receipted for, 
 from whatever source received, it shall be the duty 
 of the officer authorized by law to receive such fund 
 to keep the same separate and distinct from other 
 funds, and said fund shall be used for educational 
 purposes and none other, and shall not be invested 
 in bonds of this State, or in other stock, except when 
 investment is necessary to carry out the conditions 
 of an endowment, devise, gift, or bequest, and when 
 taxes are paid into the treasury of the State the 
 Comptroller-General shall in no case receipt a Tax- 
 Collector for the same until that part of the tax so School tax 
 
 .J. 1-1 • ^ r 11 • must be 
 
 paid m, which was raised for school purposes, is sep- separated 
 arated in amount from the gross amounts paid in. taxes° 
 
 "•Money arising from the lease of oyster lands was made a part of 
 the School Fund in 1889. 
 
 ADDITIONAIv FUNDS FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 Illegal granting of diplomas by medical colleges — Fine goes 
 to State treasury for educational funds. (I486 Code, VoL HI.) 
 
 Selling or offering for sale rejected illuminating oil or fluids — 
 Fine goes to public school fund of county in which prosecution 
 is made. (^607 Code, Vol. III.) 
 
 Wrongful use of branded vessels for illuminating oil or fluids 
 — P'ine goes to public school fund of county in which prosecu- 
 tion is made. (^608 Code, Vol. HI.) 
 
 Cruelty to animals — One-half of fine goes to public school 
 fund of county in which prosecution is made. (§704 Code, 
 Vol. HI.) 
 
 Gaming contracts — Money recovered after six months goes 
 to public school fund of county in which suit is entered. (I3671 
 Code, Vol. II.) 
 
 Propertj' not returned but assessed— Overplus above amount 
 due and costs goes to educational fund, subject to claim of true 
 owner within four years. (I908 Code, Vol. I ) 
 
-28 
 
 Common School Laws. 
 
 PART VL 
 
 Long term 
 schools. 
 
 Supple- 
 mental 
 contracts. 
 
 Their es- 
 tablish- 
 ment left to 
 the discre- 
 tion of 
 Boards, 
 
 Contract 
 with pat- 
 rons to be 
 approved 
 by Board. 
 
 Pupils may 
 attend dur- 
 ing the pri- 
 vate part of 
 the term. 
 
 Teacher's 
 account, 
 how made 
 out. 
 
 LONG TERM SCHOOLS —TEACHERS' RE- 
 PORTS. 
 
 Sec. 39. That whenever the Board of Education Acts of 
 of any county within the State shall have entered ^|^^^ go 
 into a contract with a teacher to teach a common 
 school in any sub-district w^ithin its jurisdiction in 
 accordance with this Act, it shall be lawful for said 
 teacher to enter into a supplemental contract with 
 the patrons of said school to teach a private ele- 
 mentary school in connection with said common 
 school, and to embrace the period allowed by law 
 for the said public term ; provided, that the con- 
 tracting with teachers under the provisions of this 
 Act shall be left to the discretion of the several 
 County Boards of Education. 
 
 Sec. 40. That upon said private supplemental Act_s of 
 contract being examined and approved by the page 82. 
 Board of Education of the county in which said 
 school is located, it shall be the duty of said teacher 
 to enter, as pupils in said private school, all schol- 
 ars of common school age (regard being had to 
 separate schools as now required by law) who may 
 enter said school at any time within the term or 
 scholastic year of said private school. It shall be 
 the duty of said teacher to keep an accurate account 
 of the number of such pupils and the number of 
 days actually attended by each pupil, and when 
 said private schools shall have closed, said teacher 
 may make out an account against the County Board 
 of Education for the full number of days each of 
 said pupils ma}^ have attended said schools, not to 
 exceed the whole number of davs now or hereafter 
 
Common School Laws. 2d* 
 
 to be prescribed by law ; provided, that nothing in 
 this Act shall be so construed as to prevent any 
 common school scholar from entering said school as No com- 
 pupil, if the parent or guardian of said pupil shall ™h?ilrp°r?- 
 elect to enter him or her for the period of the public yented 
 
 1 • r 1 1 V r 1 "°"^ enter- 
 
 term, and upon the merits of the common school fund ing upon 
 
 only. That no teacher shall be contracted with under the"o^m- 
 the provisions of this Act until he or she has been Knd.^^^°°^ 
 duly licensed as a comm.on school teacher ; that every 
 teacher contracted with under provisions of this Act Teachers 
 shall be required to make the same reports and iTcen*se.° 
 returns of the County School Commissioners as are j^^^g^ ^^^j^^ 
 now required of teachers of common schools in this reports. 
 State, and until said priA^ate schools shall have been 
 taught according to contract, and said reports and re- 
 turns are so made, it shall not be lawful for the Board 
 of Education to pay him or her for such services as 
 such teacher. 
 ActsofissT, Sec. 41- That it shall be the duty of the teachers Reports oi 
 page 77. ^^ make and file with the County Commissioners at teachers. 
 the expiration of each term of school, a full and 
 complete report of the whole number of scholars ad- 
 mitted to the school during said term, distinguish- 
 ing between males and females and colored and 
 white, together with the names thereof and the en- 
 tire and the average attendance, the branches taught, 
 the number of pupils engaged in the study of each 
 of the said branches, and such other statistics as he or 
 she may be required to report by the County Com- 
 missioner, or by the State School Commissioner, and ports called 
 until such report shall have been prepared, sworn to fnade? 
 and filed by said teacher as aforesaid, it shall not be lH^^^j!^ 
 
 account 
 
 lawful for said County Commissioner to audit the cannot be 
 account of said teacher for his or her services. 
 
30 
 
 Common SrJiool Laws. 
 
 PART VII. 
 COUNTY INSTITUTES. 
 
 -County in- 
 stitutes. 
 
 Sessions. 
 
 Sessions 
 may be 
 combined. 
 
 Program. 
 
 Operation' 
 oi, etc. 
 
 Attendance 
 by teachers 
 
 ■sFines. 
 
 Sec. 42. (An Act authorizing the State School 
 Commissioner) to organize and estabhsh in each 
 county in Georgia a Teachers' County Institute for 
 the assembhng and instruction of the common 
 school teachers of each county in the State, said 
 institute to hold an annual session of- one week's 
 duration in each county of Georgia irl the period of 
 June, July, and August, or in such other month as 
 the State School Commissioner may deem best and 
 expedient ; provided, Jioivever, that the State School 
 Commissioner may, in his discretion, combine the 
 annual session of said institutes, or any number of 
 them, so that the same may be held in any county 
 designated by him; to prepare a program of ex- 
 ercises, with a syllabus of each subject named in 
 said program, for each day's session of said insti- 
 tute ; to require County School Commissioners to 
 operate, at their regular per diem, said institute, 
 sessions under such general rules and regulations 
 as he may deem best; to require aU persons, white 
 and colored, teaching in Georgia, or having licenses 
 entitling them to teach in the State, provided that 
 those not teaching have not permanently retired 
 from teaching; to attend all sessions of said insti- 
 tutes held in the county of their residence, and per- 
 form all duties required of them as members of said 
 institutes, unless providentially prevented; to secure 
 a prompt attendance of the teachers upon the exer- 
 cises of said institutes by causing the .County School 
 Commissioners and County Boards of Education to 
 collect such fines from absentees as may be deemed 
 
 Acts of 
 1891, 
 page 121. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1892, 
 page 85. 
 
 Amended 
 Acts of 
 1893. 
 page 61. 
 
Common School Laws. 31 
 
 just and reasonable by said Commissioners and 
 Boards ; provided, that no teacher shall be fined till 
 he or she has stated the cause of his or her absence, 
 in writing, to said Commissioners and Boards, and 
 they have duly considered the same ; provided further y 
 that all money thus collected shall be used in pur- 
 chasing teachers' libraries for the counties in which Separate 
 said fines may be collected ; to provide separate insti- f Jr wMte^ 
 tutes for the white and the colored ; to pay from the f^a1;hers'^^^ 
 educational fund of each county an amount not to 
 exceed twenty-five dollars per annum for the pur- 
 pose of securing the services of an expert in con- ^^p^^^^- 
 ducting the week's session of the institute of said ^^^^^ 
 county, which expert shall be chosen by the County chosen. 
 School Commissioner and County Board of Edu- 
 cation, which expert shall assist in conducting the 
 exercises of each annual week's session, of said insti- 
 tute in the county where he is thus employed ; to ^g^^f^"^ ** 
 cause all sessions of said institutes to, be held at seat, etc. 
 county seats, or such other places as may be selected 
 by the County School Commissioner, and allow all 
 persons so desiring to attend the sessions of said 
 institutes; provided, that all visitors shall be subject ^^s^*^'^^- 
 to the rules and regulations of said institutes while 
 attending the exercises of the same; and to pre- 
 scribe from time to time such other rules and regu- 
 lations as he and the County School Commissioner 
 may deem best for successfully operating said in- 
 stitute. 
 
32 Common School Laws. 
 
 PART VIIL 
 
 EXAMINATION OF APPLICANTS FOR 
 TEACHER'S LICENSE. 
 
 Examina- Sec. 43. That the County Commissioners shall ex- 
 *\°ican\s?or ^.mine all applicants for licenses to teach in their ^^tsot 
 license to respective counties, giving previous public notice of 18^7, _ 
 the day upon which the examinations are to take 
 place, and said Commissioners shall be allowed to 
 invite such persons as they may think proper to as- 
 sist in these examinations. Applicants for license 
 Upon what to tcach in the common schools shall be examined Amended 
 examined. ^pQj-^ orthography, reading, writing, English gram- i89o-9i 
 mar, geography, arithmetic and the science and prac- ^^^^ ■^■'^^' 
 tice of teaching in common schools. No license 
 shall be granted any person to teach in the public 
 schools, receiving money from the State, after the 
 first Monday in January, 1903, who has not passed a 
 satisfactory examination in physiology, and hygiene 
 (physiology, which shall include with other hygiene 1901^ °^ 
 the nature and effect of alcoholic drinks with other ^^^^ ^^' 
 narcotics upon the human system.) Said exami- 
 nations shall be held throughout the State on a 
 day or days to be fixed by the State School Com- 
 pafes^ques- niissioner, and by questions prepared and sent out 
 tions. i~jy Yi[xn. to the County School Commissioners. The 
 State School Commissioner shall also prepare and 
 supply the County School Commissioner with printed 
 instruction as to the grading applicants on and by 
 a uniform grade, and shall fix the lowest standard 
 for each class of licenses; no applicant for teacher's 
 license shall be examined on any other day than 
 
Common School Laws. ' 3^, 
 
 the one designated as above described, except in 
 cases where the County Board of Education shall Special ex- 
 order a special examination; no special examination ori?pii°^ 
 sha^l be ordered by said Board except for good and ^SioSs 
 sufficient reasons and to meet some special emer- ^^ t^^^hers. 
 gency. In such cases the questions shall be pre- 
 pared by the County School Commissioner, or by Q"'''^°^'- 
 some competent person under his authority, and 
 their contents shall not be made known to the ap- 
 plicant or applicants until the examination actually 
 commences; said examination shall be conducted 
 under the same rules and regulations as are provided R^iesfor 
 by law for other examinations, but the licenses granted special ex- 
 shall be valid only until the next examination ordered ^oi^ 
 by the State School Commissioner, and it shall not 
 be lawful for the County School Commissioner of Licenses 
 any county, other than that in which said special ex- 
 amination is held, to indorse a license granted there- County -3 
 under. The County Board of Education shall have may em -^ ■ 
 power, if they deem best, to employ teachers at a ^Jg^ f/^^" 
 
 salary. . salary. 
 
 Sec. 44. It shall be the dutv of the County School 
 Acts of Commissioners, after thorough examination of the scZof 
 1887, papers submitted by applicants for licenses as 9o™™is- 
 
 page76. tcachers, upon the examination conducted as pre- ?°ades 
 
 scrfbed in the preceding section, to grade the appli- m?kel '"^ 
 cants according to the instructions furnished them '^^""'^^ ' 
 by the State School Commissioner, submitting- his ^ , a 
 
 *-^«^^^4- J 1 ,• 1 . ^ ^ Report and 
 
 report and recommendations thereon m writino- to recommen- 
 the County Board of Education, who shall grant to fubmmed 
 the apphcants licenses of the first, second or third to cTun'^y^ 
 grade, to be determined by the qualifications ex- 1°/^^^^°^ 
 hibited and the standard attained; provided, they tion.""^" 
 shall obtain at least the lowest grade-mark fixed by Board 
 the State School Commissioner for each grade ; and i^^^^^s^^- 
 provided futlier, that each applicant submits ' with ^^^^^^ ^^ 
 his or her examination paper satisfactory evidence Hce^ns^e^s^ 
 
34 Common School Laws. 
 
 in writing of good moral character. A license of 
 
 the first grade shall continue in force for . three 
 
 years, a license of the second grade for two years, 
 
 and a license of the third grade for one year, which 
 
 said licenses shall entitle teachers holding them to 
 
 be employed for and during the period of their 
 
 licenses in any of the common schools of the county 
 
 How made whcrc issued. Licenses, to be good in another 
 
 founties county than the one in and for which they are 
 
 gj^er^han issued, must be endorsed by the County School Com- 
 
 which missioner of the county in which the applicant desires 
 
 issued. . , 1 
 
 to teach. 
 
 All students or graduates of any school, college or 
 Graduates other institution of learning shall be required to stand Acts 
 required an examination as now prescribed by the general page 51. 
 examina-" commou scliool laws of this State before the County 
 tion. School Commissioner of each county in this State in 
 
 which they desire to teach and get a license from the 
 County School Commissioner before being permitted 
 to teach in the common or public schools of such 
 county ; provided, that nothing herein contained shall 
 be construed to invalidate any license to teach in the 
 schools in this State now held by any person. 
 
 And all laws and parts of laws authorizing and 
 entitling any student or graduate of any school, 
 college or other institution of learning to teach in the 
 common or public schools of this State on the cer- 
 tificate or diploma from any school, college or other 
 institution of learning, or the officers thereof be, and 
 the same are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Sec. 4S. After passing upon the examination ^ ^ . 
 
 Permanent ^^ , - ^ c -j j -r • ^i • • , Acts of 
 
 State papers as herembefore provided, if, m the opinion 01 1887, 
 
 license. ^j^^ County School Commissioner, any one or more ^^^^ '^^' 
 of them exhibit unusual merit, he shall forward such 
 papers to the State School Commissioner, together 
 with his certificate of the .good moral and professional 
 character of the applicant, and if, in the opinion of 
 
188 
 page 76 
 
 Common School Laws. ^5 
 
 the State School Commissioner, said papers exhibit 
 a sufficient degree of merit, he shah issue a permanent 
 teacher's Hcense to the apphcant, whi^h Hcense shall 
 be good in any county of this State, and which shah 
 only be revocable by the State School Commissioner 
 for good and sufficient cause. 
 
 Acts of Sec. 46. That the County Commissioner shall have Revoca- 
 
 power, and it shall be his duty, to revoke licenses f-^il! °* 
 granted by him, or his predecessors, for incompetency, 
 immorality, cruelty to pupils, or neglect of his duties, 
 and the. revocation of the license of any teacher shall 
 terminate the connection of said teacher with any 
 school which he may have been employed to teach ; 
 but any teacher so dismissed shall have the right to -Appeal, 
 appeal to the County Board of Education, whose de- 
 cision shall be final. 
 
 Whoever, with intent to defraud the State or 
 
 i^ucf, page ^^y county, town or city or any person, shall ^ foi'ge or 
 falsely and fraudulently make, forge, alter or counter- license is a 
 feit, or cause or procure to be falsely and fraudulently ^ °"^' 
 made, forged, altered or counterfeited, or willingly aid 
 or assist in falsely and fraudulently making, forging, 
 altering or counterfeiting any certificate or license 
 issued by any County School Commissioner of this 
 State or the executive officer of any local school board 
 to a teacher, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and- 
 upon conviction therefor shall be punished as pre- 
 scribed hy section. :233 of the Penal Code. 
 
 69 
 
36 
 
 Common School Laws^ 
 
 PART IX. 
 
 SCHOOL CENSUS.. 
 
 Enumera- 
 tion of 
 school pop' 
 ulation 
 
 New enu- 
 meration 
 may be 
 orderedo 
 
 Estimate 
 from U. S. 
 census. 
 
 Enumera- 
 tors of the 
 school 
 census. 
 
 Their 
 duties. 
 
 Compensa- 
 tion. 
 
 Sec. 47. That it shall be the duty of the County ^ggyt °^ 
 and City Boards of Education of this State to cause p^^® ^^• 
 an enumeration of the children between six and 
 eighteen years of age to be made under instructions 
 from the State School Commissioner, in the year 
 1888, and every ten years thereafter, as hereinafter 
 prescribed. In the year 1893 and every ten years 
 thereafter it shall be the duty of the State Board of 
 Education, in the early part of the year, to have an 
 estimate made from the last census taken by the au- 
 thorities of the United States, of the number of chil- 
 dren of school age in each county of the State, and 
 in each town or city under a local school law, and if, 
 from the evidence thus obtained, or from other evi- 
 dence of any kind, the said Board shall become sat- 
 isfied that a new enumeration of the school popula- 
 tion ought to be taken for any county or counties, 
 or for any town or city, or the entire State, it shall 
 be their duty to order the said enumeration to be 
 taken accordingly. 
 
 Sec. 48. The different County or City Boards shall Acts of 
 employ one or more competent, reliable persons to i^^'- ^^ 
 take the enumeration above mentioned in their re- 
 spective jurisdictions, and the person so employed 
 shall go from house to house, making a thoron ■ 
 canvass of the territory assigned tliem, taking the 
 number of children between the ages of six and 
 eighteen years, and distinguishing between the 
 sexes and races. The person tlius- employed shall. 
 
iCommon School Laws. 37 
 
 be known as enumerators of the school census, and 
 ^shall take and report any additional statistics re- 
 quired by tlie State School Commissioner. They 
 .^shall receive as compensation a per diem not to ex- 
 ■ceed two dollars in the counties, or two dollars in the 
 cities, or in city and county where the same are under 
 local laws, to be paid out of the school fund of the 
 jurisdiction in which the work is done. They shall 
 moreover, be required to make oath that the work q^^j^ 
 done by^ them has been carefully and faithfully done 
 according to the true intent and meaning of this Act, 
 the form of oath to be prescribed by the State School 
 Commissioner; provided, that nothing herein con- county 
 tained shall be construed to prevent the County gchooi.^. 
 Boards from employing the County School Commis- sioner may 
 sioners to do the work contemplated in this section, ed.^™^ °^ 
 
 Sec. 49- The State Board of Education is hereby 
 empowered to order at once a new enumeration when ^an oSS'a 
 thev are in doubt as to the accuracy of the return new enu- 
 
 % r •, 1 i .1 J. meration. 
 
 made from any county or city; but the enumerators 
 first making their return shall receive no compensation 
 in case it is found their enumeration was not correct. 
 In case their enumeration is verified by the second 
 
 x^3,V tor SGC" 
 
 enumeration, then both shall be paid, but the amount ond enu- 
 paid them shall be deducted from the school fund ap- "^''^tion. 
 propriated to this special territory. 
 
 Sec. 50. The respective County or City Boards are ^^^ ^^^^_ 
 hereby empowered to fix, within the limits prescribed tion of enu- 
 above, the per diem- compensation of the enumerators '"^''^tors. 
 'of the school census employed by them. 
 
 (In section 35, page 25, will be found the following 
 matter relating to school census : 
 
 "All children of school age resident in said county 
 and attending the public schools of such town or city, 
 shall be counted in the school population of such town 
 or city, and be entitled to have their share of such 
 county fund paid over to the proper officer of the 
 ■school board of such town or city.") 
 
38 
 
 ■ Commo?i Scltool Laivs. 
 
 PART X. 
 
 MISCELLANEOUS. 
 
 Admission to common schools — Manual labor schools 
 — Evening schools — Exemption of school property 
 from taxation — Forfeiture of school fund — Forfeit- 
 ure in past years — Local school systems — Scholastic 
 month, number of days in. 
 
 Admission 
 gratuitious 
 to all chil- 
 dren of 
 school age. 
 
 Separate 
 schools for 
 white and 
 colored. 
 
 Pupils 
 crossing 
 sub-district 
 or county 
 line. 
 
 Teachers' 
 accounts 
 for line- 
 schools. 
 
 Manual la- 
 bor schools 
 
 Sec. 51. That admission to all common schools of ^^tsoi 
 this State shall be gratuitous to all 'the children be- ^'^^^^^ ^^ 
 tween the ages of six and eighteen years residing in 
 the subdistricts in which the schools are located; 
 provided, that colored and white children shall not at- 
 tend the same school ; and no teacher receiving or 
 teaching white and colored pupils in the same school 
 shall be allowed any compensation at all out of the 
 common school fund. In special cases, to meet the 
 obvious demands of convenience, children residing in 
 one subdistrict may, by express permission of the 
 County Board, attend the common schools of another 
 .subdistrict ; and when a common school is located near 
 a county line, children from an adjoining county, in 
 cases where convenience requires, may, by concurrent ■ 
 consent of the County Boards of the respective coun- 
 ties, be permitted to attend the school, and in such 
 cases, the teacher shall make out two accounts for his 
 services, one against each County Board, in amount 
 proportioned to the number of children in the school 
 from the respective counties. 
 
 Sec. 52. That the County Board of Education shall Actsoi 
 
 18S7 
 
 have power to organize in each county one or more pag4 ts-. 
 
page 78. 
 
 Common School Laws. 39 
 
 manual labor schools on such a plan as shall be self- 
 sustaining; provided, that the plan be first submitted 
 to and approved by the State Board of Education. 
 Acts of ^^'^^ 53- 1'hat the Board of Education of any Evening 
 
 188Y, county shall have the power to establish, at such ^^^°°^^" 
 
 places as they may deem proper, within the limits 
 of their jurisdiction, a suitable number of evening 
 schools for the instruction of such youth over 
 twelve years of age as are prevented by their daily 
 avocations from attending day schools, subject to such 
 regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of 
 this Act and the instructions issued under it by the 
 State School Commissioner, as said Board, from time 
 to time, may adopt for the government thereof. 
 Acts of Sec. 54. That whenever a County Board of Educa- ^ , . 
 
 1887, ,• ^ J r -nj ^- r -^ i 11 i Forfeiture 
 
 page 79. tiou, or Board ot Education of any city, shall here- of school 
 after fail in any year to make arrangements to put relieved. "''^ 
 schools in operation, said county, or city, as the case 
 may be, shall forfeit all right to participation in the 
 school fund of that year, unless the failure to arrange 
 for schools was from providential cause, or other 
 good and sufficient reason, the sufficiency of the rea- 
 son to be judged of by the State Board of Education. 
 Acts of Sec. 55. That any county or city, which has failed in^pSt"*^^ 
 
 page 79. to put scliools in Operation in any past year, and has ^^^'^^^ 
 never received its pru rata part of the State school 
 fund for that year, shall still be entitled to receive 
 through the properly constituted authorities of the 
 county or city that pro rata; provided, that the 
 County School Commissioner of such county shall 
 receive no compensation from the school fund of said 
 county for such year, except for services rendered in 
 taking the enumeration of the school population. 
 ^87^°^ Sec. 56. That each and every lot or parcel of land Exemption, 
 
 page 78. which has been or may be hereafter obtained by pur- property 
 chase, or in any other way, by any County Board of J[°JJ^ ^^^^" 
 Education for the use of common schools, together 
 
-40 ' Common School Laivs. 
 
 with any school building that may have been or shall 
 be erected thereon, and all school furniture shall be 
 exempt from all taxes, State and county, and from 
 levy and sale under any execution or other writ or or- 
 der in the nature of an execution; provided, that 
 the lot of land so exempted shall not exceed four 
 acres, and if there be any excess over that number of 
 acres, then that portion, not to exceed four acres, 
 most convenient for school purposes, shall be exempt 
 as aforesaid, the exempted portion to be set off by 
 order of the County Board. 
 _ , Sec. S7- That from and after the passaefe of this , ^ , 
 
 Twenty . ^' 111 in • 1 1 Acts of 
 
 schooldays Act, twenty school days shall constitute and be i896. 
 monthr^^^'^ deemed and treated as a scholastic month in all the 
 public schocfis of this State. 
 
 Sec. 58. That nothing^ in this Act shall be so con- 
 
 T \ A cts o 
 
 sc°hooi sys- strued as to prevent any city with a population is87, 
 terns. greater than two thousand inhabitants, or any county p^^^^^- 
 
 or town under authority of the General Assembly of 
 this State, from organizing a public school system 
 independent of this system, or to preven,t the said in- 
 dependent org'anization from drawing its pro rata 
 share of all educational funds raised by the State; 
 prcvidcd, the chief executive officer of such independ- 
 ent organization shall make the same regular reports 
 to the State School Commissioner as are required 
 from the County Commissioners by this Act; pro- 
 ■vided further, that nothing contained in this Act shall 
 be construed to annul or repeal any local law now of 
 force in any city or county in this State providing for 
 the organization and maintenance of the common or 
 public schools in such city or county. 
 
Common School Laws. 41 
 
 PART XL 
 GENERAL LAWS. 
 
 LOCAL TAXATION BY COUNTIES FOR 
 COMMON SCHOOLS. 
 
 An Act to provide for local taxation by counties for 
 the support of common schools, and for other pur- 
 poses. 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
 of the State of Georgia, That from and after the ^zfhT 
 Acts of passage of this Act a local tax to supplement the ^^''^^^' 
 h. State tax in support of the common schools, may be 
 levied and collected in any county in this State in 
 which a county school system is not already in ex- 
 istence in the following manner, to wit : 
 
 Whenever two successive grand juries of the Recom- 
 county shall recommend in their general present- P^^f^^^^^ 
 nients that a local tax in said county shall be levied jurfes. 
 to supplement the State tax in support of the com- 
 mion schools of the county, the Ordinary of said 
 countv shall order an election to be held, after sfiv- Election to 
 
 ' , ,, . 1 - , . p determme. 
 
 mg public notice thereof once a week for four 
 weeks, in the paper in which the sheriff's advertise- 
 ments are published, and by posting the notice at 
 the court-house door for at least four weeks previous 
 to the time fixed for said election. Said election ^"^^^ ^^^ 
 
 election. 
 
 Siiall be held under the same rules and regulations 
 as those governing the election of county officers, 
 and all qualified voters of the county, and none ^ ,, , 
 
 1 1 1-1 -1 11 1 1 T Ballots 
 
 others, shall be allowed to vote at the same, in 
 said election the ballots shall have printed or writ- 
 
42 Common ScJiool Laivs. 
 
 ten upon them the words, ''For Local Taxation for 
 PiibHc Schools/' or ''Against Local Taxation for 
 Public Schools." The managers of the election 
 Consoiida- shall Consolidate the votes as now provided in elec- 
 votes°^ tions for county officers, and shall then file the re- 
 turns with the Ordinary, who shall declare the r/e- 
 Deciara- sult. If two thirds of the persons qualified to vote- 
 resufts. at said election have voted for local taxation for 
 public schools, the Ordinary shall certify the same 
 Effect of in writing to the County Board of Education. The 
 County Board of Education shall then, ai a regular 
 meeting, or at a special meeting, of which due no- 
 tice has been given to each member, proceed by 
 order or resolution to lew a tax not exceeding: one 
 fourth of one per cent, ad valorem upon all tne tax- 
 Amount of aL)le property of the county as shall appear by the 
 tax, etc. county digest. The County School Commissioners 
 shall make out a certified copy of the order or reso- 
 lution, fixing the rate of said tax, and shall deliver 
 Its coiiec- the same to the Tax-Collector of the county on or 
 tion, etc. before the first day of September in each year, and 
 the Tax-Collector shall collect said school tax ac- 
 cording to the vote so levied in the same manner as 
 other county taxes are collected, and he shall 
 promptly pay over the funds so arising to the 
 County School Commissioner, who shall receive and 
 hold the same subject to be applied by the County 
 f^nds^ School Board of Education for the support of the 
 common schools of the county in addition and sup- 
 plementary to the funds received from tlie State,, 
 and said tax may be levied and collected from year 
 
 General •' . . , , . , i i i- 
 
 tax with- to year, as above provided, without holding any 
 efection. ^"^ Other election for that purpose ; provided, that any 
 where^ couuty ill whicli a county school system is already 
 funds in existence, but where the funds, as now provided 
 
 insuiiicient . ' sr 
 
 may have by law, are insufficient, in the opinion of the County 
 theAcf.° Board of Education, for the support of the schools. 
 
Common School Laivs. 43 
 
 may obtain the benefits of this Act by complying 
 with all the provisions of the same. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it likewise enacted, That if there shall Towns with 
 be in the county an incorporated town, or town hav- su?ta?ned 
 ing a local school system of its own, sustained by \l^^^?-^ 
 local taxation, in addition to its quota of funds re- not ai- "* 
 ceived from the State, the residents of said incor- *^^^^^- 
 porated town or towns shall not vote in the election 
 held as aforesaid, nor shall the taxable property em- 
 braced within the corporate limits of said town or 
 towns be subject to the county school tax levied as 
 aforesaid. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it likewise enacted. That in determin- Method of 
 ing whether two thirds of the qualified voters have fni^'^™^"" 
 voted for local taxation lor common schools at the Jl^^y^^f/g 
 election held as aforesaid, the registration lists last majority 
 completed before the election shall be considered 
 the correct enumeration of the qualified voters in 
 those counties having registration laws, and the 
 number of names of citizens appearing upon the 
 books of the Tax-Collector as having paid their poll 
 or property tax, if any, for the preceding year, shall 
 be considered the correct enurneration of the quali- 
 fied voters in those counties not having registration 
 laws. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it likewise enacted. That all laws and 
 parts of laws m conflict with this Act are hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Approved September 16, 1891. 
 
44 Common School Laws. 
 
 SETTING APART A DAY AS "ARBOR DAY." 
 
 An Act to encourage tree-planting, and to conserve 
 the forests of the State by setting apart the first 
 Friday in December as "Arbor Day," and for 
 other purposes. 
 
 Section i. The General Assembly of the State of fs^ctJi, 
 f ulsday in Georgia do enact, That the first Friday in Decem- P^s^^ig, 
 ^Arbor'^^'^ ber in each year shall be set apart and consecrated 
 Day." as a day for tree-planting, and shall be known 
 
 throughout tire State as "Arbor Day." 
 Observ- Scc. 2. Be it further enacted. That it shall be the 
 
 .anceof. Quty of the State School Commissioner to take the 
 matter of the observance of "Arbor Day" by the 
 public, under his general supervision, and through 
 the County School Commissioners to cause the pub- 
 lic schools of the State to observe "Arbor Day" as 
 tde superintendents and teachers may think best, 
 in order to show the pupils the value and beauty 
 of forestry by practical tree-planting on school, 
 church, and other public lots, lawns, as well as on 
 the public highways. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and 
 parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the 
 .same are, herebj^ repealed. 
 
 Approved December 16, 1890. 
 
Common School Laws. 45- 
 
 REGLTLATING SALARY OF COUNTY 
 
 SCHOOL COMMISSIONER IN 
 
 CERTAIN INSTANCES. 
 
 An Act to provide for the payment of a salary to 
 County School Commissioners in lieu of a per 
 diem in certain instances, and for other purposes. 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly in counties- 
 Acts of oi the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by SoSTf^sLx- 
 page 71. authority of the same, That from and after the s^n5°o"r 
 passage of this Act, County Boards of Education more the 
 in counties having a population of more than sixty Educat°ion 
 thousand inhabitants, shall be authorized • and em- Sie^(?(fifnty. 
 powered to pay the County School Commissioners School 
 of such counties such salary in lieu of a per diem, as sionera 
 the said County Boards of Education shall fix, not to^Seed* 
 to exceed the sum of eis^hteen hundred dollars per ?^^^j^^? 
 
 => ^ hundred 
 
 annum. dollars per. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it likewise enacted by authority of the ^^^^' 
 same. That all laws and parts of laws m conflict 
 with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. 
 
46 Common School Laws. 
 
 PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE TO BE 
 TAUGHT IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 
 
 An Act to provide for the teaching of physioloy and Acts of 
 hygiene (physiology, which shall include with other 54. ' ^^^^ 
 hygiene the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks 
 and other narcotics upon the human system) in the 
 public schools in Georgia; to provide a penalty in 
 case any Board of Education, in city or county, fails 
 to provide for the teaching of the same, and requir- 
 ing all teachers to stand a satisfactory examination 
 upon said subject as for other subjects. 
 
 P'?biic Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
 
 "Scnools, 61" 
 
 ,iects of ai- of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by 
 d?inks^ and authority of the same, That the nature of alcoholic 
 ^obe^^'^^' drinks and narcotics, and special instruction as to 
 taught in. their effects upon the human system in connection 
 with the several divisions of the subject of physiology 
 and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of 
 study taught in common or public schools in the State 
 of Georgia, and shall be studied and taught as thor- 
 oughly and in the same manner as other like required 
 branches are in said schools. 
 
 Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of county and city 
 and hy-°^^ Superintendents of schools receiving aid from the State 
 faught ^°^ to report to the State School Commissioner any fail- 
 "~ ures or neglect on the part of the Boards of Education 
 to make provision for instruction of all pupils in any 
 or all of the schools under their jurisdiction, in phys- 
 iology and hygiene (physiology, which shall include 
 with other hygiene the nature and effects of alcoholic 
 drinks and other narcotics upon the human system), 
 and the Board of Education of each county of this 
 
Common School Laws. 47 
 
 ;State shall adopt proper rules to carry the provisions 
 of this law into effect. 
 
 Sec. 3. No license shall be granted any person to Examina- 
 teach in the public schools, receiving money from the feachers. 
 State, after the first Monday in January, 1903, who has 
 not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology, 
 and hygiene (physiology, which shall include with 
 other hygiene the nature and effect of alcoholic 
 drinks with other narcotics upon the human system.) 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all laws in con- Repealing 
 •flict with this Act are hereby repealed. clause. 
 
 Approved December 17, 190 1. 
 
48 Common School Laws. 
 
 SCHOOL BOOKS— BOARDS OF EDUCATION 
 MAY CONTRACT THEREFOR. 
 
 An x\ct to authorize county, city and town boards of 
 education of the several counties, cities and towns,, 
 under proper rules and regulations, to prescribe 
 and regulate the manner of making changes of 
 books, and correct reports of the same to the State 
 School Commissioner, a:nd for other purposes. 
 
 Section i. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 
 of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by 
 authority of the same. That in order to prevent ex- 
 cessive rates of charges for school books that may be 
 used in any of the common or public schools of the 
 State, the county boards of education of the several 
 counties in the State of Georgia shall be and they are, 
 hereby authorized to purchase directly of the pub- 
 lishers such books as may be needed or adopted for 
 said schools of their respective counties, and said 
 board shall have authority to supply the same to the 
 patrons and pupils of said schools at cost, or at such 
 advance thereon as shall be sufficient to defray the 
 Boards of expense of handling. Said board shall have power 
 Education ^^ contract with local merchants or others for the 
 handle. J supply of said books, to be retailed at stipulated prices, 
 and, if deemed necessary, they shall require such mer- 
 chant, or other person so contracted with, to give 
 bond in such sum as the board may determine to be 
 necessary, in each instance, for the faithful perform- 
 ance of said contract. 
 
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority afore- 
 said. That the several county boards that may pur- 
 chase books as above provided, or such merchant oi 
 other person with whom they may contract for the 
 purchase and retail sale thereof, may have authority 
 
Common School Laios. 49 
 
 to repurchase such books from any child, its parent 
 or guardian, who may desire to change his or her resi- 
 dence to a different county of this State, if thereby 
 the said child should be required to procure other and 
 different books, a proper percentage of deduction 
 being made in each instance for wear and tear of 
 books so repurchased. 
 
 Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority afore- Books may 
 said. That in cases where said boards of education J^o pupi??. 
 shall purchase the books needed in said schools under 
 their control, as herein provided for, they may rent 
 the same to the pupils at such fees, or for such 
 charges as they may deem just and proper, and the 
 boards may make all proper rules to insure the pay- 
 ment of said fees and charges and proper care in the 
 preservation of said books. 
 
 Sec. 4. Be it further enacted. That the several Copies of 
 county boards of education shall file with the State to^eTild 
 Board of Education copies of all contracts for school Bo^rd^of ^ 
 books now existing, within thirty days from tins Act ; Education. 
 and copies of all future contracts for school books en- 
 tered into by said county boards, shall likewise be 
 filed with said State Board within ten days after the 
 same have been entered into. 
 
 Sec. 5. Be it further enacted. That no county Notice re- 
 board of education shall be allowed to change or re- quired of 
 new any contract for the supply of school books be- to change 
 fore the expiration of five years from the time tha; ^"^ ''^^e^^- 
 such a contract may be made, as above provided for, 
 without first giving sixty days' notice of the intention 
 so to change or renew said contract in one or more 
 of the newspapers published in the county in which 
 such change or renewal shall be made, and if no news- 
 paper is published in said county, then by publish- 
 ing said notice in the newspaper in which the adver- 
 tisements of sheriff's sales for said county are pub- 
 lished; sixty days' notice of such intended change or 
 
^^ Common School Laws. 
 
 renewal shall also be given by said county board to 
 the publishers or dealers with whom the contract of 
 the time thereof may be of force ; and no county board 
 shall make such change or renewal except on a vote 
 of three fourths of its members present in session, 
 should such change be desired at any time during the 
 five years covered by original contract. 
 
 Sec. 6. [This section required county boards of edu- 
 cation to make annual reports of the common school 
 books, numbers, prices, etc. Repealed. See Acts 1900, 
 page 65.] 
 
 Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That the several 
 Contracts boards of education of the cities and towns of the 
 towns. State, may, if they severally, or any of them, so desire, 
 exercise any or all of the powers by this Act conferred 
 upon the boards of education of the counties of the 
 State ; and in such event, the terms of this Act, so far 
 as necessary to carry into effect the action of such 
 city and town boards of education, are hereby made 
 applicable. 
 
 Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That all laws and 
 parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same 
 are, hereby repealed. 
 
 Approved December 16, 1897. 
 
Common School Laws. 51 
 
 PART XII. 
 
 IvIST OF STATE EDUCATlONAIv INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Name. Location. Principal 
 
 University of Georgia Athens Walter B. Hill,Chanc3llor. 
 
 Georgia School of Technology.. .Atlanta Lyman Hall, President. 
 
 Ga. Normal & Industrial College. .Milledgeville. J. Harris Chappell, Prep. 
 
 State Normal School Athens E. C. Branson, President. 
 
 N. Georgia Agricultural College.. Dahlonega . . . .Joseph S. Stewart Pres. 
 
 Georgia School for the Deaf Cave Spring. . . W. O. Connor, Principal. 
 
 Georgia Academy for the Blind. .Macoa Thos. U. Conner, Principal. 
 
 Ga. State Industrial College . . . .College R. R. Wright, President. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Appeal to County Board of Education ?5 
 
 Appeals to State School Commissioner 10 19 
 
 Appeals to State Board of Education <> 8 19 
 
 Apportionment of School Fund 22 23 25 26 
 
 A rbor Day "^"^ 
 
 Attorney-General, member of State Board of Education 5 
 
 Bible cannot be excluded from common schools 17 
 
 Books, Adoption of text-books 16 
 
 Books, Contracts for text-books ^8 
 
 Census , School ^ ^^ 
 
 Clerk of State School Commissioner 5 10 
 
 Clerk Superior Court certifies /election of members County Board Edu- 
 
 4-- ^ 12 
 
 cation ' -^ 
 
 Comptroller-General, member of State Board of Education. . . 5 
 
 Contracts with teachers 1 ^ '^^ ^^ 
 
 County Board of Education 1 1 19 33 
 
 County Board of Education, a judicial tribunal 10 24 
 
 County Board of Education, members can administer oaths 21 
 
 County Institutes • ^^ 
 
 County Line, pupils crossing .• ■■ ■ ^^ 
 
 County School Commissioner, claims for services, how made and paid. 20 
 
 County School Commissioner, duties of 19 22 23 32 33 35 
 
 County School Commissioner, examination of, bond, oath 18 
 
 County School Commissioner, makes monthly report 22 
 
 County School Commissioner, office to be furnished • • 20 
 
 County School Commissioner, salary of in certain instances -45 
 
 Disbursement of School Fund -^ 
 
 Examination of applicants for teacher's license 32 
 
 Exemption'of school property fromJtaxation S9 
 
 Expenses'of Department of ^Education 9 
 
54 Index. 
 
 Evening schools 39 
 
 General Assembly, may invest donations 6 
 
 General Assembly, may substitute other officers for State School Com- 
 missioner , 8 
 
 Grand Jury, elects, recommends removal of, members of County Board 
 
 of Education 11 12 
 
 Grand Jury receives report of County School Commissioner 21 
 
 Governor of State, issues warrants 24 
 
 Governor of State, member of State Board of Education 5 
 
 Itemized expense account of Department of Education 10 
 
 Itemized statements of County School Commissioners ... 22 
 
 Judges of Superior Court, removal and appointment of members of 
 
 County Board of Education by 12 
 
 License, each teacher must hold 29 34 
 
 License, granted by Board of Education 33 
 
 License, counterfeiting, etc 35 
 
 License, hovi^ made good in other counties 34 
 
 License, revocation of 35 
 
 Local school systems 25 24 40 43 50 
 
 Local taxation by counties for common schools 41 
 
 Location of schools 13 
 
 Long term schools 28 
 
 Manual labor schools 39 
 
 Minutes open to inspection 13 
 
 Oaths can be administered by school officers 21 
 
 Ordinary, can approve accounts of members of County Board of Educa- 
 tion for services 12 
 
 Physiology and Hygiene to be taught 46 
 
 Races taught separately 16 31 38 
 
 Reports of teachers 29 
 
 Reports of County School Commissioners 21 22 33 
 
 Report of State School Commissioner 9 
 
 Salary, County Boards may employ a teacher at 24 33 
 
 Salary of County School Commissioner in certain instances 45 
 
 Scholastic month, definition of 40 
 
 School census 36 
 
 School district, each county a 11 
 
 School property 15 
 
Index. 55 
 
 School property, exemption from taxation 39 
 
 School Fund, estimate of for ensuing year 24 25 
 
 School Fund, sources of 26 
 
 School Fund, disbursement of 23 
 
 School Fund, forfeiture of 39 
 
 School Fund, proportion of each county, how determined 22 
 
 School Fund, tax money belonging to, to whom paid 22 
 
 School Fund, when not sufficient to pay indebtedness of any county. . . 23 
 
 School Funds kept separate and used only for schools 22 27 
 
 School Grounds, four acres not taxed 40 
 
 School Term, length and time of public, regulated by County Board of 
 
 Education 16 24 
 
 School year coincident with calendar year 23 
 
 Secretary of State, member of State Board of Education 5 
 
 Special examination of applicants for teachers' license 33 
 
 State Board of Education, members, officers, meetings 5 
 
 State Educational institutions, list of 51 
 
 State (Permanent) license, how issued 34 
 
 State School Commissioner, how chosen, duties of. 8 32 24 42 35 
 
 Subdistrict or county line, pupils crossing 13 38 19 
 
 Suits to be instituted by State School Commissioner 9 
 
 Tax Collectors, report school funds separately 27 
 
 Teachers employed by Boards of Education 13 24 33 
 
 Teachers pay, when due 23 
 
 Teachers, reports of 29 
 
 Text Books, contracts for 48 
 
 Trustees of common schools 1^ 
 
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