Laws relating to education enacted by the Florida Legislature of 1917

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LAWS RELATING TO
EDUCATION

Enacted by the Florida Legislature

Compiled by W. N. SHEATS,
State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Constitutional Amendment.

A JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing An Amendment to
Section 8 of Article XII of the Constitution of the
State of Florida, Relating to Education.

Be It Resolved ly the Legislature of the State of Florida:

That the following amendment of Section 8 of Article
XII of the Constitution of the State of Florida relating
to education is hereby agreed to and shall be submitted
to the electors, of , the state for adoption o>r rejection at
the next general election of representatives, to be held
in the year A. D. 1918; that is to say, that Section 8 of
Article XII of the Constitution of the State of Florida
be amended so as to read as follows :

Section 8. Each county shall be required to assess and 10 mills
collect annually for the support of the public free schools
therein a tax of not less than three (3) mills, nor more
than ten (10) mills, on the dollar of all taxable property
in the same.

Approved May 25, 1917.

HgpLet every friend of public education get to work
right now to insure the ratification of this amendment
at the polls in November, 1918.

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Display the
flag daily.

Where.

Duty of
whom.

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Flag Law.

CHAPTER 7369.

AN ACT to Provide for the Procuring and the Display
of the Flag of the United States of America Over the
Capitol, Each State Institution, County Court House
and County School Building in This State.

Be It Enacted ~by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. The flag of the United States of America
shall be displayed daily, when the weather permits, from
a staff upon the State Capitol, county courthouse, upon
one building of each State educational institution, and
upon every county public school building, except when
the institution or school ds closed for vacation.

Sec. 2. It shall be the duty of the officer or officers
charged with the maintenance or upkeep of said build-
ings to provide suitable flags and cause them to be dis-
played, the expense to be borne out of the funds pro-
vided for the upkeep and maintenance of said buildings
mentioned in Section One of this Act.

Sec. 3. All laws in conflict are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This Act shall take effect June 14, 1917.

Approved April 21, 1917.

Teacher-Training Departments.

CHAPTER 7371.

AN ACT Providing That the Appropriation Made Under
Chapter 6830, Acts of 1915, for the Purpose of Provid-
ing Teacher Training in County High Schools be Made
a Continuing Appropriation.

Whereas, The Legislature of 1915 appropriated 150,000
for the purpose of carrying on Teacher-Training in one
•high school of each county in this State for two years ;
and

Whereas, The greater part of the said appropriation

has not been used but remains to the credit of the said

Teacher-Training fund ; therefore,

Be It Enacted 'by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. That the unused part of appropriation
made for Teacher-Training in high schools under Chap- uea
ter 6830, Acts of 1915, be, and hereby is made a contin-
uing appropriation for the purposes" specified in said
Chapter 6830, Acts of 1915.

Sec. 2. All laws and patrs of laws in conflict here-
with be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Sec. 3. This Act shall become a law upon its passage
and approval by the Governor, or without his approval.

Approved June 5, 1917.

Teachers' Certification and Examination.

CHAPTER 7372.

AN ACT Providing for the Certification and Examina-
tion of Teachers ; Prescribing the Requirements for
the Different Teachers' Certificates; Creating a State
Board of Examiners, Prescribing Their Duties and
Providing for Their Compensation and Expenses.

Be It Enacted ~by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. No person shall be permitted to teach in the
public schools of this State who does not hold a teach-
er's certificate granted under this Act; nor shall any
County Board of Public Instruction employ, contract
with, or pay any person salary for services as a teacher
who does not hold a valid teacher's certificate granted
under this Act; Provided, that the validity of no certifi-
cate issued under the laws of this State since A. D. 1894,
shall be rendered invalid hereby; Provided, further, that
nothing in this Act shall operate to repeal Chapter 6540,
Acts of 1913.

Sec. 2. There shall be ten grades of teachers' certifi-
cates issued, the requirements for each being as herein-
after specified, and such certificates shall be known and
named as follows: temporary, primary, third grade, sec-
ond grade, first grade, special, state, life primary, life
first grade, life state certificate. u

Who author-
ized to teach.

With whom
Boards may
contract and
pay.

Ten grades
of certil-
cates.

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Certificate
must cover
subjects
taught.

File charac-
ter endorse-
ment.

Fees to be
paid.

Temporary
certificate.

Diploma
holders must
obtain cer-
tificates.

Primary cer-
tificate.

Sec. 3. No certificate, except as otherwise provided in
this Act, shall be issuel except upon oral and written ex-
amination.

Sec. 4. No person shall teach any subject in a public
school unless he holds a valid certificate covering the
subject taught.

^Sec. 5. Any applicant for any certificate, before being
eligible for examination, shall present to the Board of
Examiners a written endorsement of good moral charac-
ter,'signed by two responsible persons, and shall pay the
following examination fee: Applicants for third grade,
$1;' for ^second grade, $1.50; for first grade, $2.00; for
primary, $3.00 ; for special, $2.50 ; for' state, $5.00 ; which
fees shall be applied as hereinafter provided.

Sec. 6. A temporary certificate shall be issued without
examination by the State Superintendent upon the re-
quest and recommendation of a County Superintendent
of Public' 'Itistriifctioh in' kn^emer^ehcy,^ which 'emergency
must be clearly set forth in said, request for a temporary
certificate; said certificate shall be valid for teaching
only until the State Board of -Examiners shall hold an
examination within the County or an adjoining County
in which the holder of said temporary certificate is em-
ployed.

Any person desiring to teacfr upon a diploma awarded
outside of this State shall obtain a certificate before
teaching as hereinafter provided in this Act.

Sec. 7. A primary certificate shall be issued to any
eligible applicant meeting the following requirements:
First, who presents satisfactory evidence of having re-
ceived either special instruction for one year or more in
primary methods and practice teaching in a recognized
normal school, or its equivalent; Second, who. passes an
oral and written examination on reading, arithmetic,
English grammar, composition, geography and United
States history, and makes an average grade of 80 per
cent., with a -grade on no subject below 60 per cent.;
Third, who makes an average grade of 80 per cent., with
a grade on no subject below 60 per cent, upon the fol-
lowing subjects, as they relate to primary teaching, na-
ture study, drawing, manual training, school singing
and the elements of psychology. A primary certificate
shall be valid for teaching only in the first, second or
tfcird grade of regular graded schools of four teachers or

more, and shall be valid for only four years, except as
otherwise provided in this Act.

Sec. 8. Any eligible applicant passing a satisfactory
oral and written examination on orthography, reading,
arithmetic, English (grammar, composition, geography,
United States history, physiology and Theory and Prac-
tice of Teaching, and making an average grade of 70 per
cent., with a grade on no subject below 50 per cent., shall
receive a third grade certificate valid for one year from
date of issue.

Sec. 9. Any eligible applicant passing a satisfactory
oral and wirtten examination on the subjects prescribed
for a third grade certificate and on agriculture and civil
government, and making an average grade of 80 per cent.,
with a grade on no subject below 60 per cent., shall re-
ceive a second grade certificate valid for three years from
date of issue.

Sec. 10. Any eligible applicant passing a satisfactory
oral and written examination on the subjects prescribed
for a second grade certificate and on physical geography
and algebra, and making an average grade of 85 per cent.,
with a grade on no subject below 60 per cent., shall re-
ceive a first grade certificate valid for five years from
date of issue, except as otherwise provided in this Act.

Sec. 11. Any eligible applicant presenting satisfactory
evidence of possessing ability to teach one or more sub-
jects not embraced in the requirements for a second
grade certificate, and passing a satisfactory oral and
written examination on one or more subjects, shall re-
ceive a special certificate on every subject on which a
grade of 90 per cent, is made. A special certificate shall
be valid for teaching only the subjects covered by it and
for five years from date of issue.

Sec. 12. Any eligible applicant presenting , satisfac-
tory evidence of having taught successfully twenty-four
months in all, and passing a satisfactory oral and writ-
ten examination on geometry, trigonometry, physics,
botany, zoology, Latin, rhetoric, English literature, psy-
chology and general history, and making an average
grade of 85 per cent., with a grade on no subject below
60 per cent., shall receive a state certificate valid for
five years from date of issue, except as otherwise pro-
vided in this Act.

Sec. 13. Any applicant filing with the State Super-

Third grade
certificate.

Second grade
certificate.

First grade
certificate.

Special cer-
tificate.

State certifi-
cate.

Life pri-
mary cer-
tificate.

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Life first
grade certifi-
cate on 20
years' teach-
ing.

Life first
grade certifi-
cate on 6
years' teach-
ing.

Life State
certificate.

Life first
grade certifi-
cate on ex-
tensions.

intendent of Public Instruction a valid primary certifi-
cate, and presenting satisfactory evidence of having
taught successfully in the primary department of a reg-
ular graded school of not less than four teachers for a
period of thirty-two months under a primary certificate,
shall receive a life primary certificate, valid during the
life of the holder for teaching in the primary department
only of any public school.

Sec. 14. Any applicant filing with the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction a valid first grade certifi-
cate and presenting satisfactory evidence of having
taught twenty years in the Public Free Schools of this
State, the last ten years consecutively on first grade cer-
tificates, and as being of good moral character, faithful
and. successful as an instructor and disciplinarian, shall
receive a life first grade certificate, valid during the life
of the holder and in any part of the State.

Sec. 15. Any applicant filing with the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction two first grade certificates,
each with an average of not less than 90 per cent., the
last one valid, and presenting satisfactory evidence of
having taught a total of forty-eight months on the cer-
tificates filed, and as being of good moral character,
faithful and successful as an instructor and disciplin-
arian, shall receive a life first grade certificate, valid
during the life of the holder and in any part of the State.

Sec. 16. Any applicant filing with the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction a valid State certificate
issued in this State, and presenting satisfactory evidence
of having taught successfully in a high school or college
in this State for a period of eighteen months under a
State certificate, and presenting endorsement of three
holders of life State certificates as possessing eminent
ability both as a teacher and disciplinarian, shall re-
ceive a life State certificate of perpetual and State-wide
validity.

Any person filing with the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction one first grade certificate with three
extensions of same, secured by attendance at either of
the State Summer Schools, and presenting satisfactory
evidence of having taught a total of forty-eight months
on the certificate filed, and containing such extensions,
and as being of good moral character, faithful and suc-
cessful as an instructor and disciplinarian, shall receive

a life first grade Certificate, valid during the life of the
holder, and good in any part of the State,

Sec. 17. Any regular graduate of a standard univer-
sity, college or normal school having graduated there-
from since June 15, 1905, desiring to teach in Florida,
shall pay a fee of Five Dollars and file his or her diploma,
or a certified copy thereof, with satisfactory evidence of
having taught school successfully for twenty-four months
with the State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
who with the State Board of Examiners provided for in
this Act shall constitute a Commission to review and pass
upon all applications for certificates based upon diplo-
mas, and if found satisfactory the State Superintendent
shall issue a Graduate State Certificate; Special Certifi-
cate; First Grade Certificate, or Primary Certificate, as
this Commission may determine. All certificates issued
under this section shall have all the privileges, rights and
benefits conveyed to those holding like certificates issued
as the result of examination under this Act.

Sec. 18. No person shall be eligible for the principal-
ship, of a Junior High School who does not hold a valid
life state certificate, a state certificate, a graduate state
certificate, or a first grade certificate supplemented by a
certificate or certicates covering the subjects embraced
in the Junior High School course of study.

No person shall be eligible for the principalship of an
Intermediate or Senior High School who does not hold
a life state certificate, a state certificate, or a graduate
state certificate.

Sec. 19. For the conduct of all examinations of teach-
ers there is hereby created a State Board of Examiners,
to be composed of three eminently successful and well
qualified f teachers, to be appointed by the State Board
of Education upon the nomination of the State Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.

Sec. 20. It shall be the duty of the State Board of
Examiners to prepare all examination questions ; to per-
sonally conduct all tejachets' examinations, oral and
written, under such rules and regulations as the said
Board of Examiners may suggest and as shall be ap-
proved by the State Board of Education ; to grade all ex-
aminations, oral and written, except as may be provided
by the State Board of Education; and report weekly to
the State Superintendent the name of each examinee

Certificates
issuable upon
diplomas.

Certificate
required to
be principal
of a Junior
High School

A Senior
High School

State Board
of Examiners
to conduct
examinations.

Duties of.

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Duties of
State Super-
intendent.

Character of
the examina-
tion ques-
tionss.

Board of ex-
aminers to
advertise
places and
dates.

All certifi-
cates state-
wide in val-
idity.

May be re-
voked.

Tenure of
Board of
Examiners.

Salaries and

traveling

expenses.

with the grade made on each subject and the grade of
certificate to which each is entitled.

Sec. 21. It shall be the duty of the State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction to issue and transmit without
delay e%ch and every certificate as recommended by the
said Board of Examiners, to keep a stub record of each
certificate issued, and to publish in his Biennial Eeport
a roster of all living holders of valid certificates.

Sec. 22. The State Board of Examiners shall make
the examination questions practical, conducting them
with the aim of testing the ability to teach rather than
verbal memory and a knowledge of specific facts, and
they shall make the examinations as uniform in the con-
duct, in the grading and in the question tests as may be
possible without repetition of the same questions.

In July of each year the Board of Examiners shall
forward to each County Superintendent a. printed sched-
ule giving the places and dates of examinations for the
ensuing year, so arranged that one examination will be
held in four or more different sections of the State dur-
ing each month, and one in each county of the state dur-
ing the year; Provided, it shall not be unlawful for the
Boards of Public Instruction of two or more counties in
which the number of examinees is small to consent for
the examination to be held at some convenient and cen-
tral point to their counties.

Sec. 23. All certificates issued under this Act shall
have State-wide validity, and any certificate may be sus-
pended or revoked by a County Superintendent as now
provided by law, or by the State Superintendent of Pub-
lic Instruction upon his own motion, or upon the recom-
mendation of the State Board of Examiners, when the
holder proves to be incompetent, unsuccessful, or is
guilty of some gross immorality.

Sec. 24. The members of the State Board of Examin-
ers shall hold their positions at the discretion of the
State Board of Education, and each shall receive an an-
nual salary of Two Thousand (f 2,000.00) Dollars and
traveling expenses not to exceed Eight Hundred (|800)
Dollars, payable monthly upon requisition upon the
Comptroller, approved by the State Superintendent of
Public Instruction. This Board shall remit monthly to
the State Treasurer all examination fees collected by
them and make to the State Board of Education a de-

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tailed statement of all such, fees, attaching thereto a
copy of the State Treasurer's receipt.

Sec. 25. The State Treasurer shall keep in a separate Duties of
fund all such fees received by him under the preceding Urereandeai
Section, which fund shall be disbursed only for the pay- Comptroller.
ment of salaries and traveling expenses of the State
Board of Examiners upon warrants drawn by the Comp-
troller upon vouchers approved by the State Board of
Education; and there is hereby appropriated the sum of
Four Thousand (f 4,000.00) Dollars annually, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to pay the salaries and trav-
eling expenses of the said State Board of Examiners, in
case the fund above provided shall be found insufficient.

Sec. 26. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with
the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 27. This Act shall take effect October 1, 1917.

Approved June 9, 1917.

Graduate State Certificates.

CHAPTER 7373.

AN ACT to Amend Chapter 6540, Acts of 1913. the
Same Being Entitled "An Act to Enable Norma;
School and College Graduates to Teach and Acquire
Certificates in This State."

Be It Enacted ly the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. That Chapter 6540, Acts of 1913, be, and
the same is, hereby amended to read as follows :

Section 1. All graduates of the Normal and Collegiate certain graa-
Departments of the University of Florida and the Flor- awarded be
ida State College for Women, who in the regular exam- certificates.
inations held in these institutions at the close of the
Junior and Senior years, shall make a general average
of not less than 85 per cent, on all subjects pursued and
completed during these two years, with a grade on no
subject below 60 per cent., shall be awarded a graduate
state certificate by the State Superintendent of Public
Instruction upon certified reports filed with him by the
presidents of these institutions ; Provided, that graduates conditions
of the Collegiate Department shall devote three-twenti- Prere(iui8lte-

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When grad-
uates of
other institu-
tions of the
State may re-
ceive such
certificates.

Duties of
presidents to
make reports.

When.

What and
how report.

Freshmen
and Sopho-
more grades
to be re-
ported.

High school
grades may
be reported

Duty of
State Super-
intendent in
relation to.

eths of their time to the study of psychology and educa-
tion.

Sec. 2. Any chartered College or University in this
State that will submit to such inspection and regulations
as the State Board of Education and the State Board of
Control may prescribe, and it being found that any such
institution prescribes and sustains the same or an equiv-
alent course in the Normal or Collegiate Departments as
maintained in the State University or the Florida State
College for Women, the graduates of any and all such
institutions in this State shall receive the same graduate
state certificates, as provided in Section 1 of this Act
for graduates of the University of Florida and the Flor-
ida State College for Women, and they shall be based
upon like reports filed by the president or presidents of
any and all such institutions.

Sec. 3. The president of each of the two State insti-
tutions named in Section 1 of this Act, and the president
of each and every institution coming undeRthe provis-
ions of Section 2 of this Act, shall make a certified an-
nual reports ,as soon as practicable after eacl|fCommence-
ment, to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
which report shall show in separate lists the names of
all pupils completing the Normal and Collegiate courses,
and specify the subjects pursued and completed by each
graduate both in the Junior and Senior years with the
grade made on a per cent, basis on each subject com-
pleted severally and separately ; Provided, that the grades
of the Freshman and Sophomore years of such graduates
as complete a full four-year course in any of the colleges
or universities coming under Sections 1 and 2 of this
Act, shall be reported in the same manner as the grades
for the Junior and Senior years; Provided further, that
each report may show the grades made by each graduate
in the high school course pursued previous to entering
any of said universities or said colleges naming the high
school or institution of learning in which these grades
were obtained.

It shall be the duty of the State Superintendent to
issue to each such garduate a Graduate State Certificate,
recording therein all subjects pursued and the grades
made thereon, in the Junior and Senior years, as well as
those reported for the high school course, and the Fresh-
man and Sophomore years, which certificates shall have

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all the privileges, rights and benefits conveyed to those
holding like certificates issued as. the result of exam-
ination as provided by law.

Sec. 4. A Life Graduate State Certificate, good in any
part of the State and of perpetual validity, shall be is- tmcates
sued by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction,
without examination, to any teacher holding a graduate
state certificate who has successfully taught in this State
for a period of twenty-four months under a graduate
state certificate, and who shall present satisfactory en-
dorsement from three persons holding Life Certigcates TO whom and
showing eminent ability in teaching and school govern-
ment and the said Life Certificates shall have thereon the
subjects enumerated in the graduate state certificate and
shall have all the privileges, rights and benefits conveyed
to those holding a Life Certificate issued as a result of an
examination (for) State Certificates as provided by law.

Sec. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this
Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. This Act shall take effect immediately upon its
passage and approval by the Governor, or upon its be-
coming a law without his approval.

Approved June 7, 1917.

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State Uniform Text Book Law.

CHAPTER 6178, ACTS OF 1911, AS AMENDED
CHAPTER 7374, ACTS OF 1917.

CHAPTER 7374.

BY

An Act to Amend Sections Two, Three, Thirteen,
Fourteen, Eighteen and Twenty, of Chapter 6178, Acts
of 1911, Approved May 23, 1911, being "An Act to Create
a State School Book Commission, and to Procure for Use
in the Public Schools of the State of Florida a Uniform
Series of Text Books, and to Define the Duties and Pow-
ers of Said Commission, to make Preparation for Carry-
ing This Act Into Effect, and Providing Penalties for
Violation of Same."

Be It Enacted % the Legislature of the State of Florida:
Section 1. That the Board of Commissioners of State

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Chap. 7374.
State Text
Book Com-
mission.

Duties of.

To adopt
elementary
school books.

To adopt
high school
books.

One basal,
not more
than two sup-
plementary
books.

Appointment
of Sub-Com-
mission.

Institutions be, and is hereby, constituted a State Text
Book Commission, whose duty it is to select and adopt
a uniform series or system of text books for use in the
public schools in the State of Florida.

*Sec. 2. That said Commission is hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to select and adopt a uniform
system or series of text books for use in the public
schools of the State, as above indicated, and when so se-
lected and adopted, the text books shall be used for a
period of five years, in all of the public schools of this
State, and it shall not be lawful for any school officer,
director or teacher to use any other books upon the same
branches, other than those adopted by said State Text
Book Commission. Said uniform Aeries shall include the
following branches taught in the elementary schools, to-
wit: orthography, reading, writing, drawing, arithme-
tic, language lessons, English 'grammar, geography, his-
tory of Florida containing the Constitution of the State,
history of the United States containing the Constitution
of the United States, physiology, hygiene, nature and ef-
fect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, civil government,
agriculture; and the following branches taught -in the
high schools, to-wit: Advanced arithmetic, algebra,
plane and solid geometry, plane and solid trigonometry,
American history and civil government, English history,
general history, physical geography, general science,
botany, zoology, physics, chemistry, composition and
rhetoric, English literature, American literature, begin-
ner's Latin, Latin grammar, Coesar, Cicero, Virgil, Latin
composition, and books for a two-year course in French,
German and Spanish, book-keeping, commercial arithme-
tic and commercial law. Provided, that in selection of
high school text books the said Commission is author-
ized and directed to adopt one basal, and not more than
two supplementary texts on each subject. Provided, that
none of said text books shall contain anything of a par-
tisan or sectarian character. Provided, that all the pro-
visions of this Act relative to the books for use in the
first eight grades of the public schools shall not become
effective or operative until July 1, 1919.

*Sec. 3. That it shall be the duty of the Governor to
appoint, upon the nomination of the State Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction, a Sub-Commission of ten mem-

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bers to be constituted as follows: two County Superin-
tendents, two primary teachers, two grade teachers, two
high school teachers and two teachers selected with ref-
erence to their experience in and knowledge of vocational
subjects ; and none of said Sub-Comimssion shall be relat-
ed in any way to any member of the Board of State In-
stitutions, nor be in the employ of any member of said
Board; provided, that not more than three of these shall
be taken from one Congressional district, to whom shall
be referred all books sent to the State Text Book Com-
mission as specimen copies or samples, upon which bids
are to be based, and it shall be the duty of said Sub-Com-
mission, in executi-ve sessfion, to examine and report
upon the merits of the books, irrespective of the price,
taking into consideration the subject matter of the books,
their printing, their material, and their mechanical qual-
ities, and their general suitability and desirability for
the purposes for which they are desired and intended.
The term of office of said Sub-Commissioners shall be for
four years, or until their successors are elected and qual-
ified. It shall be a prerequisite qualification for appoint-
ment for each member of said, Sub-Commission that before
accepting such appointment he shall file with the Secre-
tary of State an affidavit substantially as follows: That
he is not, so far as he knows, related in any way to any
member of the Board of State Institutions, nor has he
for the five years next preceding his appointment been
employed by any text book publishing company, and that
he will not receive during his term of service on said
Sub-Commission any emolument from any text book pub-
lishers or their agents intended to in any manner bias
his judgment in the selection of text books to be adopted
for use in this state.

Sec. 4. That it shall further be the duty of said Sub-
Commission to report to the Commission at such time as
said Commission shall direct, arranging each book in its
class, or division, and reporting them in the order of
their merit, pointing out the merits and demerits of each
book, and indicating what book they recommend for
adoption first, what book is their second choice, and their
third choice, and so on, pursuing this plan with the books
submitted upon each branch of study, and if said Sub-
Commission shall consider different books upon the same
subject, or of the same class or .division of approximately

Not over 3
from same
Congressional
District.

Duties of.

Term of office

To file
affidavit.

To receive
no emolu-
ment.

Sub-Commis-
sion to make
report.

Character of
report.

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Report to be
sealed.

When opened.

Sub-Commis-
sion to sub-
scribe to oath

Where filed.

The Text
Book Com-
mission shall
hear and
consider re-
port of Sub-
Commission
and adopt
books.

Report of
Sub-Commis-
sion to be
filed.

Text Book
Commission
to organize.

even merit, all things consideerd, they shall so report,
and if they consider that any of the books offered are of
such a class as to make them inferior and not worthy of
adoption, they shall, in their report, so designate such
books, and in said report they shall make such recommen-
dations and suggestions to the Commission as they deem
advisable and proper to make. Said report shall be kept
secret and sealed up, and delivered to the Secretary of
the Commission, and said report shall not be .opened by
any member of the Commission until the Commission
shall meet in executive session to open and consider the
bids, or proposals, of publishers, or other desiring to
have books adopted by said Commission.

Sec. 5. That each member of said Sub-Commission, be-
fore entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take
and subscribe an oath to act honestly, conscientiously
and faithfully, and that he is not now, and never prior to
his appointment has been, agent or attorney, or in the em-
ployment of, or interested in, any book, or publishing
house, concern, or corporation, making, or proposing to
make, bids for the sale of books, pursuant to the provis-
ions of this Act ; and that he will examine all books sub-
mitted carefully and faithfully, and make true report
thereon, as herein directed and prescribed. Said oath
shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

Sec. 6. That said Text Book Commission shall hear
and consider said report in its selection and adoption of
a uniform series of text books, and shall also, themselves,
consider the merits of the books, taking into considera-
tion their subject matter, the printing, binding, material,
and mechanical quality, and their general suitability and
desirability for the purposes intended, and the £rice of
said books, and they shall give due consideration to the
report and recommendation of said Sub-Commission. Said
Commission shall select and adopt such books as will, in
their best judgment, accomplish the ends desired. And
when said Text Book Commission shall have finished
with the report of said Sub-Commission, the said report
shall be filed and preserved in the office of the State Sup-
erintendent of Public Instruction, and shall be open at
all times for public inspection.

Sec. 7. That said Text Book Commission shall, imme-
diately after the passage of this Act, meet and organize,
the Governor being ex officio President of the Commis-

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sion, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction its
Secretary. As soon as practicable, not later than thirty
days after its organization, the Commission shall adver-
tise in such manner and for such length of time, and at
such places as may be deemed advisable, that at a time
and place fixed definitely in said advertisement, sealed
bids, or proposals, will be received from the publishers
of school text books for furnishing books to the public
schools in the State of Florida, through agencies estab-
lished by said publishers in the several counties, and
places in counties of this State, as may be provided for
in such regulations as said Commission may adopt and
prescribe. The bids, or proposals, to be for furnishing
the books for a period of five years, and no longer, and
that no bid for a longer period shall be considered. Said
bid, or bids, shall state specifically and definitely the
price at which book or books are to be furnished, and
shall be accompanied by ten or more specimen copies of
each and every book proposed to be furnished, and shall
be required of each bidder to deposit with the Treasurer
of the State a sum of money such as the Commission
may require, not less than $500, nor more than $2,500,
according to the number of books each bidder may pro-
pose to supply, and notice shall further be given in said
advertisement that such deposits shall be forfeited abso-
lutely to the State if the bidder making the deposit of
any sum shall fail, or refuse to make and execute such
contract and bond, as is hereinafter required, within such
time as the Commission shall require, which time shall
also be stated in said advertisement. All bids shall be
sealed and deposited with the Secretary of State, to be by
him delivered to the Commission when they are in execu-
tive session, for the purpose of considering the same,
when they shall be opened in the presence of the Commis-
sion.

Sec. 8. That it shall be the duty of the said Text Book
Commission to meet at the time and place designated in
such notice, or advertisement, and take out the sample,
or specimen copies submitted, upon which bids are based,
and refer and submit them to the Sub-Commission as pro-
vided for and directed in Section 3 of this Act, with in-
structions to the said Sub-Commission to report back to
them, at a time specified, with their report, classification,
and recommendation, as provided in Sections 3 and 4.

To advertise
for bids.

Bids to be
sealed.

Character
of bids.

Ten specimen
copies of
books to be
filed.

Each bidder
to make
deposit.

When deposit
forfeited.

Bids to be
filed with
Secretary
of State.

Preliminary
duties of
Commission.

To direct
Sub-commis-
sion when
to report.

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When Com-
mission to
meet in exec-
utive session.

To examine
sealed bids,
report of Sub-
Commission
and adopt
books.

To notify
publishers of
adoptions.

Attorney
General to
prepare con-
tracts.

Contract to
be executed
by Governor
and Secretary
of State.

Contractor to
give bond.

Attorney Gen-
eral to ap-
prove bond.

When the said report is submitted it shall be the duty of
the said Text Book Commission to meet in executive ses-
sion to open and examine all sealed proposals submitted
and received in pursuance of the notice or advertisement
provided for in Section 7 of this Act. It shall be the
duty of said Commission to examine carefully all such
bids or proposals together with the report and recommen-
dation of the Sub-Commission and determine in the man-
ner provided in Section 6 of this Act, what book, or
books, upon the branches hereinabove mentioned shall be
declared for adoption, taking into consideration the size,
quality, as to the subject matter, material, printing, bind-
ing and the mechanical execution, and price, and the gen-
eral suitability for the purpose desired and intended.
After their selection or adoption shall have been made,
the said Commission shall by registered letter, notify the
publishers, or proposers, to whom the contracts have been
awarded, and it shall be the duty of the Attorney General
of the State of Florida to prepare the said contract, or
contracts, in accordance with the terms or provisions of
this Act, and the said contract shall be executed by the
Governor and Secretary of State, and the seal of the
State attached upon the part of the State of Florida, and
the said contract shall be executed in triplicate, one copy
to be kept by the Contractor, one copy by the Secretary
of the Text Book Commission and one copy to be filed in
the office of the Secretary of State. At the time of the ex-
ecution of the contract -aforesaid, the Contractor shall en-
ter into a bond, in the sum of not less than Ten Thous-
and Dollars, payable to the State of Florida, the amount
of said bonds, within said limits, to be fixed by Said Com-
mission, conditioned for the faithful, honest and exact
performance of this contract, and shall further provide
for the payment of reasonable attorney's fees in case of
recovery in any suit upon the same, with three or more
good and solvent sureties, actual citizens and residents of
the State of Florida, or any guaranty company author-
ized to do business in the State of Florida, may become
the surety on the said bond; and it shall be the duty of
the Attorney General to prepare and approve said bond ;
Provided, however, that said bond shall not be exhausted
by a single recovery, but may be sued on from time to
time until the full amount thereof shall be recovered, and
the said Commission may, at any time, by giving thirty

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days' notice, require additional security or additional
bond. And when any firm, person, or corporation shall
have been awarded a contract, and submitted therewith
the bond as required hereunder, the Commission, through
its Secretary, shall so inform the Treasuerr of the State,
and it shall then be the duty of the Treasurer to return to
such Contractor the cash deposit made by him, and the
said Commission, through its Secretary, shall inform the
Treasurer of the names of such unsuccessful bidders, or
proposers, and the Treasurer shall upon receipt of this
notice, return to them the amount deposited by them in
cash at the time of the submission of their bids. But
should any person, firm or company, or corporation fail
or refuse to execute a contract, and submit therewith his
bond as required by this Act, within thirty days of the
awarding of the contract to him, and the mailing of the
registered letter containing the notice; Provided, the
mailing of the registered letter shall be sufficient evi-
dence that the notice was given and received, the said
cash deposit shall be deemed and is hereby declared for-
feited to the State of Florida, and it shall be the duty of
the Treasurer to place such cash 'deposit in the Treasury
of the State to the credit of the school fund; and, Pro-
vided further, that any recovery had on any bond given
by any Contractor shall inure to the benefit of the school
fund in the State and counties, and when collected shall
be placed in the Treasury of the school fund.

Sec. 9. That the books furnished under any contract
shall at all times during the existence of the contract be
equal to, in all respects, the specimen or sample copies fur-
nished with the bid, and it shall be the duty of the Sec-
retary of State to carefully preserve in his office, as the
standard of quality and excellence to be maintained in
such books during the continuance of such contracts, the
specimen, or sample copies of all books which have been
the basis of any contract, together with the original bid,
or proposal. It shall be the duty of all Contractors to
print plainly on the back of each book the contract price,
as well as the exchange price at which it is agreed to be
furnished, but the books submitted as samples, or speci-
men copies, with the original bid shall not have the price
printed on them before they are submitted to the Sub-
Commission. And the said Text Book Commission shall
not, in any case, contract with any person, publisher or

Commission
may require
additional
bond.

When Treas-
urer may re-
turn deposit.

When deposit
is forfeited.

Forfeited de-
posits and re-
coveries inure
to school
fund.

Books to
equal speci-
men copies.

Secretary of
State to pre-
serve speci-
men copies.

Contractor to
print prices.

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Prices not to
exceed those
given else-
were.

Contract
shall stipu-
late prices
are not in
excess.

When Com-
mission is
directed to
sue for viola-
tion of con-
tract prices.

When Com-
mission may
alter any
contract.

Change al-
lowable in
re-adoption
of books.

The state not
liable to any
contractor.

publishers, for the use of any book, or books, which arc
to be sold to patrons for use in any public school in the
State, at above, or in excess of, the price at which such
book or books are furnished by said person, publisher or
publishers, under contract to any State, county or school
district in the United States.

And it shall be stipulated in each contract that the
Contractor has never furnished, and is not now furnish-
ing, under contract, any State, county or school district
in the United States, the same book, or books, as are em-
braced in said contract at a price below or less than price
stipulated in said contract, and the said Commission is
hereby authorized and directed, at any time that they
may find any book, or books, have been sold at a lower
price under contract to any State, county or school dis-
trict aforesaid, to sue upon the bond of said Contractor
and recover the difference between the contract and the
lower price for which they find the book or books have
been sold. And in case any Contractor shall fail to exe-
cute specifically the terms and provisions of this contract,
said Commission is hereby authorized, empowered and di-
rected to bring suit upon the bond of such Contractor for
the recovery of any and all damages, the suit to be in the
name of the State of Florida, and the recovery for the
benefit of the public school fund. But nothing in this
Act shall be construed so as to prevent said Commission
and any Contractor agreeing thereto from in any manner
changing or altering any contract; Provided, four mem-
bers of the Commission shall agree to change, and think
it advisable and for the best interest of the public schools
of the State. After the first adoption of books by said
Text Book Commission there shall not be any greater
change in books than would be equal or equivalent to 10
per cent, per annum of the whole number of books
adopted; Provided, that the publishers of the books not
changed shall agree to furnish said boo*ks for the next
period of adoption at as low price as previously.

Sec. 10. That it shall always be a part of the terms
and conditions of every contract made in pursuance of
this Act, that the State of Florida shall not be liable to
any Contractor in any manner for any sum whatever, but
all such Contarctors shall receive their pay or considera-
tion, in compensation solely and exclusively derived from
the proceeds of the sale of books as provided for in this

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Bitir- shall
state ex-
change price.

Commission
has right to
reject all bids
and readver-
tise.

Act. Provided, further, that the Commission shall stip-
ulate in the contract for the supplying of any book, or ofd "Hooks
books, as herein provided, that the Contractor or Contrac-
tors shall take up school books now in use in this State,
and receive the same in exchange of new books, allowing
a price for such old books not less than fifty per cent, of
the contract price of the new books. And each person
or publisher making a bid for the supplying of any book,
or books hereunder, shall state in such bid, or proposal,
the exnchange price at which such book or books shall
be furnished.

Sec. 11. That the Text Book Commission shall have
and reserve the right to reject any and all bids, or pro-
posals, if they shall be of the opinion that any or all
should for any reason be rejected, and in case they fail
from among the bids or proposals submitted, to select, or
adopt any book, or books, from any of the branches men-
tioned in Section 2 of this Act, they may re-advertise for
sealed bids or proposals under the same terms and con-
ditions as before, and proceed in their investigations in
all respects as they did in the first instance, and as re-
quired by the terms and provisions of this Act. Or they
may advertise for sealed bids, or proposals from authors,
or publishers of text books, who have manuscript for use
in the public schools of Florida, proceeding in like man-
ner as before. And, Provided further, the State itself
shall not, under any circumstances, enter into any con-
tract binding it to pay for the publication of any book, or
books, but in the contract with the owner of the manu-
script it shall be provided that he shall pay the compen-
sation to the publisher for the publication and putting
in book form the manuscript together with the cost and
expenses of copyrighting the same; and, Provided fur-
ther, that in all cases bids, or proposals, shall be accom-
panied with a cash deposit of from $500 to $2,500, as the
Commission may direct, and as provided in Section 7
of this Act. And it is further expressly provided, that
any person, firm or corporation, now doing business, or
propoisng to do business, in the State of Florida, shall
have the right to bid for the contract to be awarded here-
under in manner as follows: In response to the adver-
tisement, when made as hereinbefore provided, said per-
son, firm or corporation, may submit the written bid, or
bids, to edit, or have edited, published and supplied for

Bids may be
received upon
books in man-
uscript.

The State
shall not pay
for the pub-
lication of
any book.

Such bids to
be accom-
panied by
deposit.

Other stipula-
tions for bid-
ding on books
in manuscript

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Governor to
issue procla-
mation.

Book deposi-
tory to be
established.

County agen-
cies to be
maintained.

When Con-
tractor to de-
liver books
transporta-
tion prepaid.

Prices to be
printed on
books.

use in the public schools in this State any book, or books,
provided for hereunder; Provided, that instead of filing
with the said bids, or proposals, a sample or specimen
copy of each book proposed to be furnished, he may ex-
hibit to the Commission in manuscript, in printed form
the matter proposed to be incorporated in any book, to-
gether with such a description and illustration of the
form and style thereof, as will be fully intelligible and
satisfactory to the said Commission, or he may submit a
book, or books, the equal of which in every way he pro-
poses to furnish; and he shall accompany his bids, or
proposals, with cash deposit hereinbefore provided; Pro-
vided, that all books and manuscripts shall be examined
and reported upon by said Sub-Commission provided for
in Section 3 of this Act.

Sec. 12. That as soon as said Commission shall have
entered into a contract or contracts, for the furnishing
or supplying of books for use in the public schools in
this State, it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue
his proclamation announcing such fact to the people of
the state.

*Sec. 13. There shall be established and maintained
at some convenient point in the State of Florida, desig-
nated by the State School Book Commission, selected
with special reference to transportation facilities and
freight rates, a Central Book Depository by each of the
Contractors, or by the several Contractors combined ; and
there shall also be maintained by said Contractors one or
more agencies in each county of the State for the distri-
bution of the books, and parties living in the county
where no agency has been established, or no arrange-
ments made for distribution, may order the same from
one of the Contractors and it shall be the duty of the
Contractor or Contractors to deliver any book, or books,
so ordered to the person ordering, to his postomce ad-
dress, freight, express, postage, or other charges prepaid,
at the retail contract price; Provided, the price of the
book, or books, so ordered shall be paid in advance. All
books shall be sold to the consumer at the retail contract
price, and on each book shall be printed the following:
"The price fixed hereon is fixed by State contract, and any
deviation therefrom shall be reported to your County Sup-
erintendent of Public Instruction, or the State Superin-

*As Amended by Chapter 7374, Acts of 1917.

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tendent at Tallahassee." And it is expressly provided
that should any party contracting to furnish books, as

^provided for in this Act, fail to furnish them or otherwise
break his contract, in addition to the right of the State
to sue on the bond hereinbefore required, the Chairman
of the County Board of Public Instruction may sue in
the name of the State of Florida, in the courts of the
State of Florida having jurisdiction, and recover on the
bonds given by the Contractor the full value of the books
so failed to be furnished, for the use and benefit of the
school fund of the county. Provided, that in all cases
services of process may be had and deemed sufficient on
any agent of the Contractor in the county, or if no> agent
is in the county, then service on any depositors, and this
service shall be, and stand in the place of service on the
defendant Contractor.

*Sec. 14. That said Commission may, from time to

. time, make any necessary regulations not contrary to the
provisions of this Act, to secure the prompt and faithful
performance of all contracts, and it is especially now
provided that said Commission shall maintain its organi
gation during the five years of the continuance of the
contract, and after the expiration of the same to re-ad-
vertise for new bids, or proposals, as required by this
Act, in the first instance, and enter into such other con-
tracts as they may deem best for the interests of the pat-
rons of the public schools of the State; Provided, any
contract entered into, or renewed shall be for the term
of five years. The adoption of the books made under the
provisions of this Act shall continue for five years.

Sec. 15. That as soon as practicable after the adoption
provided for in this Act, the State Superintendent shall
issue a circular letter to each County Superintendent in
the State, and to such others as he may desire to send it,
which letter shall contain the list of books adopted, the
prices, location of agencies, and method of distribution,
and such other information as he may deem necessary.

Sec. 16. That as soon after the passage of this Act-as
may be practicable, and the Commission shall deem ad-
visable, the books adopted as a uniform system of text
books shall be introduced and used as text books to the
exclusion of all others in all public free schools in the
State ; Provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed

*As Amended by Chapter 7374, Acts of 1917.

Who may sue
when con-
tract Is
broken.

Commission
may secure
prompt per-
formance of
contracts.

Expiring con-
tracts to be
renewed.

State Super-
intendent to
issue a cir-
cular letter.

Books adopt-
ed shall be
used.

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Supplemen-
tary books
may be used.

-

When patrons
are authoriz-
ed to procure
books in other

Penalty for
teacher not
using adopted
books.

Penalty for
dealer selling
a book above
contract price

Commission
shall serve
without pay.

Pay of Sub-
Commission.

Appropriation
therefor.

as to prevent the use of supplementary books, but such
supplementary books prescribed, or adopted, under the
provisions of this Act; and, Provided further, that noth-
ing in this Act shall prevent the teaching in any school
any branch higher, or more advanced, than is embraced
in Section 2 of this Act, nor the use of any book upon
such higher Branch of study; Provided, that the higher
branch shall not be taught to the exclusion of the
branches mentioned and set out in Section 2 of this Act.

Sec. 17. That nothing herein shall be construed to pre-
vent or prohibit the patrons of the public schools through-
out the State from procuring books in the usual way, in
case no contract shall be made, or the Contractor fails or
refuses to furnish the books provided for in this Act at
the time required for the use in the respective schools.

*Sec. 18. That any teacher who shall wilfully use, or
permit to be used in his or her school, any text book upon
the branches embraced in this Act, where the Commission
has adopted a book upon that branch, other than the one
so adopted, the County Board of Public Instruction shall
discharge and cancel the certificate of said teacher.

Sec. 19. That any dealer, clerk or agent who shall sell
any book for a greater price than the contract price shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding $50.

*Sec. 20. That said Text Book Commission shall serve
without pay, but the members of the Sub-Commission
shall be paid Four ($4.00) Dollars for each day of actual
service, not to exceed thirty days, and in addition thereto
shall be paid the amount actually expended by them for
traveling expenses and board, which expenses shall be
paid only upon presentation of said account itemized and
sworn to after said account has been approved by the
State Board of Education; and there is hereby appro-
priated the sum of Three Thousand ($3,000.00) ^Dollars,
or so much thereof as may be necessary, from any monies
in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, for the pay-
ment of said per diem and expenses.

Sec. 21. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict
with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Sec. 22. That this Act shall take effect upon its pas-
sage and approval by the Governor.

Chapter 6178, approved May 23, 1911.

Chapter 7374, approved June 9, 1917.

*As Amended by Chapter 7374, Acts of 1917.

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Extending Book Contracts for Elementary Books.

CHAPTER 7375.

AN ACT to Amend An Act (Chapter 6834 of the Laws
of Florida, Acts of 1915), Authorizing the State School
Book Commission of the State of Florida to Extend
the Time Limit of Five Years for Renewing Contracts
for Purchase of School Text Books to July 1, 1919, and
for Other Purposes.

Whereas, Section 14 of Chapter 6178, Laws of Florida,
Acts of 1911, known as the "Uniform Text Book Law,"
provides that any contract entered into or renewed, shall
be for a term of five years, and that the adoption of the
books made under the provisions of said Act shall con-
tinue for five years; and

Whereas, Such contracts as were entered into under
the provisions of that law did expire on September 1,
1916 ; and

Whereas, By legislative enactment, Laws of Florida,
1915, said Text Book Commission was empowered and
authorized to extend said contracts with the consent of
the publishers to July 1, 1917, at which time contracts
shall be made for future adoption for the full period of
five years as required by statute; and

Whereas, Said Text Book Commission by mutual agree-
ment with publishers did extend all contracts to July 1,
1917; and

Whereas, Said Section 14 of Chapter 6178 provides that
any county, which at the time of the passage of said law,
had an existing contract, might carry out said contract
in good faith; and ^

Whereas, There were thirty -five counties in the State
that had existing contracts and carried same out in good
faith; and

Whereas, A majority of the counties in the State have
been using the State-adopted list of text books for only
two or three years, and some for only one year; and

Whereas, It would be impracticable for said counties so
recently adopting the uniform text books, as provided by
said law, to make changes or adapt their course of study
to new books without great expense to the patrons of the
schools; and

Whereas, The unsettled condition, caused by the Euro-

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pean war have more or less affected all of our industries ;
therefore.

State Text
Book Commis-
sion authori-
ty to extend
contracts for
school books
adopted.

To make new
adoptions
where con-
tracts are
not extended.

Certain coun-
ties authoriz-
ed to con-
tinue books
in use to
July 1, 1919

Be It Enacted ~by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. That the State Text Book Commission be,
and are hereby, authorized to confer with the various
publishers of text books now adopted and in use in this
State, and, if a publisher, or publishers, consent to ex-
tend the time limit for said contracts for uniform school
text books to July 1, 1919, at which time contracts shall
be made for future adoption for the full period of five
year, as required by statute.

Sec. 2. That should the State Text Book Commission
find that any publisher or publishers be not willing to
extend any contract for two years as provided above on
any subject or subjects, the said Text Book Commission
are hereby empowered and authorized to make new adop-
tions for such subject or subjects for such period for
which any contract cannot be extended by mutual con-
sent.

Sec. 3. That certain counties of this state which by
Chapters 7060 and 7115 of the Acts of 1915, were re-
lieved from the operations of the Uniform Text Book
Law of this State and were allowed to continue the use
of the text books the said counties were then using
until July 1, 1917; shall be allowed to continue the use
of the same until July 1, 1919, or until such time as the
Text Book Commission of this State shall make new text
book contracts for the State of Florida.

Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict here-
with are hereby repealed.

Sec. 5. That this Act shall take effect upon its pas-
sage and approval by the Governor.

Approved June 5, 1917.

Vocational Education.

GHAPTEK 7376— (No. 118).

Whereas, The Congress of the United States has passed
a law, making available to the State of Florida not less
than Five Thousand Four Hundred ($5,400.00) Dollars

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for teaching agriculture in schools of lower than col-
lege grade, and Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars for
teaching trade, industrial and home economicss subjects
in schools of lower than college grade, and Five Thousand
(15,000.00) Dollars for the training of teachers for the
above said schools, for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1918; and

Whereas, The further amount of Eighteen Thousand
Eight Hundred and Forty ($18,840.00) Dollars is avail-
able in similar proportional divisions for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1919 ; and

Whereas, The high schools in the various counties of
the State provide for the teaching of the literary sub-
jects required by said Act of Congress ; and

Whereas, In order to receive the above appropriation
the said Act of Congress requires that the State put up
an equal amount to be used for the instruction in agri-
culture, trade, industrial and home economics, and for
the training of teachers in said subjects ; therefore this,

A Bill to be Entitled, An Act Assenting to and Accept-
ing the Provisions of An Act of Congress, Approved
February 23, 1917, Entitled : "An Act to Provide for the
Promotion of Vocational Education; to Provide for Co-
operation With the States in the Promotion of Such
Education in Agriculture and the Trades and Indus-
tries; to Provide for the Cooperation With the States in
the Preparation of Teachers of Vocational Subjects; and
to Appropriate Money and Regulate Its Expenditures;''
and Designating Schools for the Training of Teachers^
of Agricultural, Trade, Industrial and Home Economics*
Subjects; and for the Designation of Schools for the
Teaching of Agricultural, Trade and Home Economics
and Industrial Subjects; and Making Appropriations
for Same.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

Section 1. That the State of Florida hereby accepts The state ac-
the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved February J^vlsioSl of
23, 1917, entitled : "An Act to provide for the promotion ^gjgJJ, for
of vocational education; to provide for cooperation with Education,
the States in the promotion of such education in agricul-
ture and the trades and industries ; to provide for coop-
eration with the States in the preparation of teachers of

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Duties of
State Treas-
urer as to
the fund.

State Voca-
tional Edu-
cation Board
created.

Duties to co-
operate with
Federal
Board.

To designate
schools to
train voca-
tional teach-
ers.

To designate
county
schools to
teach voca-
tional sub-
jects.

Who to pro-
vide plant,
etc.

Appropria-
tion for first
year.

vocational subjects; and to appropriate money and regu-
late its expenditures." The good faith of the State is
hereby pledged to make available for the several purposes
of said Act funds sufficient at least to equal the sums
allotted, from time to time, to this State from the appro-
priations made by said Act and to meet all conditions
necessary to entitle the State to the benefits of said Act.

Sec. 2. The State Treasurer is hereby designated cus-
todian of all funds allotted to this State from the appro-
priations made by said Act, and he shall receive and
provide for the proper custody and disbursement of the
same in accordance with said Act.

Sec. 3. The State Board of Education is hereby cre-
ated the State Vocational Education Board contemplated
in Section Five (5) of said Act of Congress, and said
Board is hereby designated, authorized and required to
cooperate as provided in and required by the aforesaid
Act of Congress, with the Federal Board of Vocational
Education, in the administration of the provisions of
said Act, and to do all things necessary to entitle the
State to receive the benefits thereof.

Sec. 4. The State Vocational Board shall designate
the University of Florida at Gainesville and the Florida
State College for Women at Tallahassee as the schools
for the training of teachers of agricultural, trade, indus-
trial and home economics subjects, the one for men and
the other for women.

Sec. -5i The State Vocational Educational Board shall
designate at least one (1) public school in each county
of the State as a school for the teaching of agricultural
trade, home economics and industrial subjects, said
schools to be less than college grade; Provided, the coun-
ty or local community, or both, shall provide the neces-
sary plant and equipment determined upon by the said
Board ; Provided, the said Board shall divide equitably all
funds, National and State, available under this Act,
among the counties of this State that are entitled to re-
ceive the saine in accordance with the provisions of the
aforesaid Federal Act

Sec. 6. That for the purpose of providing for the
teaching of the agricultural, trade, home economics and
industrial subjects provided for in the said Act of Con-
gress, to which assent is hereby given, and that the State
of Florida may receive from the Federal government the

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amount allowed for the salaries of teachers in the said
subjects, the sum of Fifteen Thousand Four Hundred
(115,400.00) Dollars shall be available July 1, 1917, and f1PProfPJ,ia;ec
the sum of Eighteen Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty cm? year.se(
(118,840.00) Dollars shall be available July 1, 1918, and
the said sums or so much thereof as will equal the
amounts to which the State will be entitled under the
said Act of Congress be, and the same is hereby, appro-
priated out of any fund in the State Treasury not other-
wise appropriated.

Sec. 7. This Act shall take effect upon its passage and
approval by the Governor, or upon its becoming a law
without his approval.

Approved June 5, 1917.

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