whom paid.

n;

between male and female, white and colored; and the Clerk of said Board of Trustees shall return to the County School Commissioner a duplicate return of the same. Each School Trustee shall How and by receive five (5) cents per capita for each child enumerated by him the account for which shall be audited by the County School Commissioner, and paid, according to law, by the County Treasurer, out of the school fund of the School District wherein the enumeration was made: Provided, That in case the enumeration of the scholastic population of any School District is not made, as provided for in this Chapter, by that time, the County Board of School Examiners is authorized to appoint new Trustees for such School District, unless for good and sufficient cause the Trustees have failed to act.

Proviso. Ib., & 37.

To hold regular session,

special meetings.

Ib., 35.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the Board of Trustees to hold a when; regular session in their School District at least two weeks before the commencement of any or every school term, for the transaction of any and all business necessary to the prosperity of the school, with power to adjourn, from time to time, and to hold special meetings at any time or place.

General powers of Trustees. Ib., 89.

May appoint a

school sites.

SEC. 8. The Board of Trustees shall have power to establish and make all arrangements for the common schools of Districts, and to make the same comfortable, paying due regard to any school house already built, or site procured, as well as to all other circumstances proper to be considered, so as to best promote the educational interest of their District. They shall employ teachers from among those having certificates, and discharge the same when good and sufficient reasons for so doing present themselves; but they shall employ no person to teach in any of the schools under their supervision unless such person shall hold, at the time of commencing his or her school, a certificate to teach, granted by the County Board of School Examiners, or by the State Superintendent of Education.

SEC. 9. Should the Board of Trustees be unable otherwise to projury to locate cure sites for school houses, they are hereby authorized to appoint a jury of view, of five (5) legal voters of the County, who shall locate said site as the public interest may require; but, except in a city, town or village, said site shall not be located within two hundred (200) yards of the dwelling of the owner of the land taken for said site without his consent, given in writing. The said jury shall assess the value of the same, and report their action to the Board Jury to assess of Trustees, who shall secure the title and pay for the site, as deto vest in Trus- cided by the jury of view, out of any moneys available for that purpose; and, upon such payment, the title shall immediately vest in the Trustees and their successors in office.

the value; title

tees.

Ib., 2 40.

Penalty for inany terfering with

Ib., 582, 41.

SEC. 10. That if any person or persons shall threaten, or in manner interfere with the jury of view herein directed to be ap- jury. pointed, while discharging the duties herein prescribed, he or they, separately or conjointly, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction in any Court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not more than ninety days, or shall suffer both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court; and any moneys accruing from such fines shall be added to the school fund of the School District wherein the guilty party or parties reside.

Children may

other Districts;
Schools
posed of two or
in re Districts-

Ib, 42.

SEC. 11. That when it shall so happen that persons are so situated as to be better accommodated at the school of any adjoining School be transferred to District, or whenever it may be desirable to establish school coma posed of parts of two or more School Districts, it shall be the duty how supported. of the respective Boards of Trustees of the School Districts in which such persons reside, or in which such schools may be situated, or of the School Districts, or the parts of which the school is to be composed, to transfer such persons for education to the School District in which such school house is or may be located; but the enumeration of scholars shall be taken in each District as if no such transfer had been made; and such school, when so composed, shall be supported from the school funds of the respective School Districts from which the scholars may have been transferred.

Teachers to re-
Board,

when; pay, when

Ib, 41.

SEC. 12. That it shall be the duty of each school teacher to make out and file with the Clerk of the Board of Trustees, at the expira- port to tion of each school month, a full and complete report of the whole drawn and how. number of scholars admitted to the school during each month, distinguishing between male and female, the average attendance, the branches taught, the number of pupils engaged in each of said branches, and such other statistics as he or she may be required to make by the County School Commissioner; and until such report shall have been certified and filed by the said teacher, as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said Board of Trustees to require the same and forward to the County School Commissioner, before said teacher can draw pay for his or her services. On the filing of the teacher's report, the Clerk of the Board of Trustees shall draw an order, in duplicate, on the County Treasurer for the amount due each teacher, which order shall be countersigned by the County School Commissioner, who shall file the duplicate in his office.

Annual meet

SEC. 13. An annual meeting of each School District shall be held on the last Saturday of June, of each year, at 12 o'clock M., notice inge of the time and place being given by the Clerk of the Board of Trustees, by posting written or printed notices in three public places of the District at least ten days before the meeting. Special meet

Special meetings ings may be called by the Board of Trustees, or by a majority of the Ib., 583, 49. legal voters of the District; but notice of such special meeting, stating the purpose for which it is called, shall be posted in at least three public places within the District, ten days previous to the time of such meeting. And no business shall be acted upon at any special meeting not specified in said notice.

Who may vote

SEC. 14. The following persons shall be entitled to vote at any

at District meet- District meeting, viz:

ings.

Ib., 584, 50.

Powers of such meetings.

Ib., 581, 51.

School money

All persons possessing the qualifications of electors, as defined by the Constitution of this State, and who shall be residents of the District at the time of offering to vote at such meeting.

SEC. 15. The inhabitants qualified to vote at a school meeting, lawfully assembled, shall have power:

1st. To appoint a Chairman to preside over said meeting.
2d. To adjourn from time to time.

3d. To choose a Clerk, who shall possess the qualification of a

voter.

4th. To raise by tax, in addition to the amount apportioned by the State to their use, such further sums of money as they may deem proper for the support of public schools, said sum not to be more than three dollars for every child in the District between the ages of six and sixteen, as ascertained by the last enumeration, said sum to be collected by the County Treasurer, and to be held by him subject to the order of the Trustees, countersigned by the County School Commissioner, such sums of money to be used as shall be agreed upon at the meeting, either for the pay of teachers' salaries or to purchase or lease sites for school houses; to build, hire or purchase such school houses; to keep them in repair, and furnish the same with necessary fuel and appendages; or to furnish black-boards, outline maps and apparatus for illustrating the principles of science, or to discharge any debts or liabilities lawfully incurred.

5th. To give such direction and make such provisions as may be deemed necessarry, in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the District may be a party.

6th. To authorize the Board of Trustees to build school houses, or rent the same; and to sell any school house site, or other property belonging to the District, when the same shall no longer be needed for the use of the District.

7th. To alter or repeal their proceedings, from time to time, as occasion may require, and to do any other business contemplated in this Chapter.

SEC. 16. The County Treasurer shall pay over all moneys by him Treasurer, sub- received, which shall have been assessed by virtue of the vote of any District meeting, as herein provided for, in the County in

to be held by ject, &c.

Ib., 29.

When and how

assessed and col

which such District is situated, on the order of the Clerk of the Board of Trustees of said District, countersigned by the County School Commissioner, to be used for the purpose directed by the District meeting so held. Said money shall be assessed and collected at the time and in the manner that County taxes are assessed and lected. collected: Provided, That in School Districts where there are less than Proviso. one hundred children between the ages of six and sixteen, the inhabitants may raise such a sum, per child, as will be sufficient to maintain their schools.

in connection

Female
Sebool.

High

SECTION 1. That the Charleston City Board of School Commis- To be conducted sioners are authorized to conduct a Normal School for the training of with Charleston female teachers for the State at large, in connection with the Female High School heretofore established for the Parishes of St. Philip and St. Michael.

1857. XII. 603, 1: 1871, XIV, 583, § 48.

admitted.

1857,XI1,004 3.

SEC. 2. The said Board shall receive into the said school, free of Kind of pupils any charge for tuition, female pupils from every part of the State, not exceeding fifteen to each Congressional District, for the purpose of being trained as teachers: Provided, That such applicants shall have the qualifications, and shall stand the examination required of other applicants of equal grade.

SEC. 3. The said Board shall have power to conduct the said School, and to make such regulations for its government as they may deem best suited to its beneficial operation, and shall report its condition and expenses annually, with their usual report, to the State Superintendent of Education.

Proviso.

Charleston School Commis

sioners to make &c. regulations for.

Ib., 24.

Assembly may

make Agricultu

branch of state Unversity.

2; Con., Ait. X, 29.

SECTION 1. The General Assembly shall, as soon as practicable, ral College a provide for the establishment of an Agricultural College, and shall appropriate the land given to this State, for the support of such a 186, XIII, 426, college, by the Act of Congress, passed July second, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, or the money or scrip, as the case may be, arising from the sale of said lands, or any lands which may hereafter be given or appropriated for such purpose, for the support and maintenance of such college, and may make the same a branch of the State University, for instruction in agriculture, the mechanic arts and the natural sciences connected therewith.

State accepts provisions of

SEC. 2. The State of South Carolina hereby accepts all the proAct of Congress Visions of an Act of the Congress of the United States of America, donating public lands. approved July 2, 1862, and of subsequent Acts, entitled "An Act 1858, XIV, 169, donating public lands to the several States and Territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts," and consents to the conditions specified in said Act, especially all those set forth in the fifth Section thereof, and numbered first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth.

21.

Governor au

tain land scrip,

&e.

SEC. 3. The Governor of this State is hereby authorized and dithorized to ob- rected to take such steps as may be necessary to obtain the land scrip to which the State of South Carolina is entitled under the provisions of the Act of Congress referred to in the foregoing Section; and such scrip, when obtained, shall be held by the Governor for the use of the State until it is disposed of as hereinafter provided.

Ib, 22.

How and by

be disposed of.

Ib., 23.

SEC. 4. The Governor, Secretary of State and Attorney General whom scrip to are authorized and empowered to receive and sell, and the Attorney General shall assign, at such times and upon such terms as they may deem best for the interests of South Carolina, or as the General Assembly may hereafter by law direct, the whole or any part of the scrip or land warrants issued, or to be issued, to this State by virtue of the Act of Congress referred to in the second Section of this Chapter.