Chap. 14.—An ACT to amend and re-enact an act approved January
26th, 1877, entitled an act to amend section fiftv-cight of chapter
seventy-eight of the Code of 1873, in regard to admission to the pub-
lic free schools.

Approved January 14, 1878.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the act
approved January twenty-six, cighteen hundred and seventy-
seven, entitled an act to amend section fifty-cight of chapter
seventy-eight of the Code of eighteen bundred and soventy-
three, iu regard to admission to the public free schools, be
amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 58. The public free schools shall be free to all persons
between the ages of five and twenty-one years residing
within the school district; and the school board of any dis-
trict bordering on another state may, in its discretion, admit
into the schools, free of tuition, persons of school age resi-
ding outside of the limits of the state, and near thereunto,
if their parents or guardians pay taxes in the said school
district; and the board of education shall have power, and it
shall be its duty, to make regulations whereby the chil-lren
of one district may attend schools in an adjoining district,
either in or out of the county, and the cost of their tuition
be drawn from the funds pertaining to the district wherein
they reside: provided, that white and colored persons shall
not be taught in the same school, but in separate schools,
under the same general regulations as to management, use-
fulness, and efficiency. Until the first day of July, eightcen
hundred and eighty, it shall be lawful for boards of district
school trustees to admit as pupils into the public free schools
of their respective districts, persons between the ager of
twenty-one and twenty-five years, on the pre-payment of
tuition fees under regulations to be made by the board of
education.

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.