Chap. 108.—An ACT to Amend and Re-enact the 12th Clause of the 7th
Section, the 11th Clause of the 11th Section, the 12th Clause of the
14th Section, the 10th Clause of the 24th Section. the 49th Section and
the 52d Section of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to Establish and Maintain
a Uniform System of Public Free Schools,” approved July 11, 1870.

Approved February 21, 1872.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the twelfth
clause of the seventh section, the eleventh clause of the elev-
enth section, the twelfth clause of the fourteenth section, the
tenth clause of the twenty-fourth section, the forty-ninth sec-
tion and the fifty-second section of an act entitled “an act to
establish and maintain a uniform system of public free
schools,” approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and sev-
enty, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 7. Clause twelfth: To make an annual report to the legis-
lature, on or before the first day of December, covering the
annual report of the superintendent of public instruction, giv-
ing an account of the operations of the board during the year
ending the preceding thirty-first day of August (which shall in
all cases be deemed the end of the school year), and especially
showing the condition of the literary fund, and making sug-
gestions with regard to the same.

§ 11. Clause eleventh: He shall annually submit to the
board of education, on or before the first day of November, a
detailed report of his official proceedings for the year ending
the thirty-first day of August preceding, exhibiting a plain sta-
tistical account of receipts and expenditures for public free
schools, and of their condition and progress, showing the
number of children, male and female, white and colored re-
spectively, in the state, and in each county, city and school
district, between the ages of five and twenty-one years; the
average and total number at school during the year; the aver-
age wages paid to teachers of either sex; the amount of each
branch of school expenditure severally; the cost of education
per scholar; and whatever else may tend to show the degree
of success and usefulness of the system. He shall also be at
liberty, and it shall be his duty, to offer suggestions to the
board of education and to the general assembly, concerning
matters pertaining to his department, at any time that the
public interest seems to him to require it.
§ 14. Clause twelfth: To observe such directions and regu-
lations as the superintendent of public instruction may from
time to time prescribe; to make special reports to that officer
whenever required, and, on or before the fifteenth day of Sep-
tember, annually, to make to him a report for the year ending
the thirty-first day of August preceding, in such form and con-
taining all such particulars as shall be prescribed and called
for; and until such annual report shall have been received at
the office of the superintendent of public imstruction, the
county superintendent shall not draw his last instalment of
pay from the state treasury. A brief abstract of the said an-
nual report, unless the superintendent of public instruction
shall direct otherwise, shall be furnished to every newspaper
published in the county.

§ 24. Clause tenth: "To report on any special matter when
required by the county superintendent of schools, and to re-
port to him annually, by the eighth day of September down to
the first day of that month, on all subjects indicated in the
blank forms supplied for the purpose; and until that report
shall be delivered the clerk shall not be allowed to draw his
last instalment of pay for his services.

§ 49. Persons suffering with contagious diseases shall be
excluded from the public free schools while in that condition,
and the teachers shall require of their pupils cleanliness of
person, and good behavior during their attendance at the
school, and on their way thither and back to their homes; and
no pupils shall be admitted unless they have been vaccinated :
provided, that the operation of this clause, concerning vacci-
nation, may be suspended in whole or in part by the school
board of any city or county.

§ 52. In all localities where the number of children is suffi-
cient, preference shall be given, under suitable regulations, to
graded schools; that is to say, to schools in which the pupils
are taught in different rooms, and by different teachers, accord-
ing to advancement, the studies being the same as in the
schools which have but one teacher.

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