Chap. 243.—An ACT to amend and re-enact the 12th, 13th, and 74th
sections, chapter 78, Code of 1873, in relation to the pay of county
superintendents of schools.

Approved March 29, 1877.

‘1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That sections
twelve, thirteen, and seventy-four, chapter seventy-eight,
Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, be amended
and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

§ 12. The regular term of office for county superintendents
sball be four years from the first day of January next suc-
ceeding their appointment.

§ 13. The compensation of county superintendents shall be
fixed according to the popilation in their respective counties
or districts, to be paid in quarterly instalments out of the
state school fund. The said superintendents shall each re-
ceive thirty dollars for each thousand population under their
respective jurisdictions for the first ten thousand, rejecting
fractions less than five hundred; and twenty dollars for each
thousand population in excess of ten thousand, and up toand
including thirty thousand, rejecting fractions less than five
hundred; and ten dollars for each thousand of population in
excess of thirty thousand, rejecting fractions less than five
hundred: provided, that the pay of no superintendent shall
in any case be less than two bundred dollars.

§ 74. First. It shall be the duty of the county school board
of each county, on or before the first Wednesday in Novem-
ber in each year, to prepare and file with tho president of
such board, to be by him submitted to the board of supervi-
sors (of such county), at their earlicst mecting, an estimate
of the aggregate amount of money, not in excess of the maxi-
mum prescribed in the third clause of section sixty-seven of
this chapter, (as amended by an act of assembly entitled
an act to amend and re-enact section sixty-seven, chapter
seventy-eight, Code of eighteen hundred and seventy-three,
approved March seventeenth, cighteen hundred and seventy-
six,) which will be needed during the next scholastic year for
the support of the public free school system of the county.

Second. The county school board of each county sball, on
or before the first Wednesday in November in each year, after
carefully revising the said estimates of the district board of
trustees, submitted to such county board in accordance with
the provisions of the eighth clause of the thirty-first section
of this chapter, prepare and file with the president thereof,
to be by him laid before the board of supervisors of the
county, separate estimates of the probable, proper, necessary,
and legal expenses of the public free schools in each school
district of the county for the next scholastic year. |

Third. It shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of
each county, at a meeting which they are required to bold
within ten days after they shall have been requested so to do
by the president of the county school board, in such year, or
at their first meeting after the said estimates shall have been
submitted to said board of supervisors, to examine and revise
the said estimates: provided no money arising from such tax
shall in any case be applied to the salaries of county superin-
tendents of schools; except, that in Nelson county, the sal-
ary of the superintendent may be increased, and paid out of
the county or district free school funds, to an extent that may
be deemed just and proper, for extra duties imposed upon bim
on account of the Dawson school fund, if there be no power
to pay for such extra duties out of the said Dawson school
fund donated to said county.

Fourth. It shall be the duty of the said board of supervi-
sors, after carefully considering said estimates, to levy a tax
upon the property of the county, not exceeding the maximum
prescribed in the third clause of section sixty-seven of this
chapter (as amended by an act entitled an act to amend and
re-enact section sixty-seven, chapter seventy-eight, Code of
eighteen hundred and seventy-three, approved March seven-
teenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-six), sufficient to re-
alize the amount recommended by the county school board.
in their estimates for county school purposes, or so much
thereof as the board of supervisors may allow; and to levy
a tax upon the property of each school district for which an
estimate sball have been furnished, not exceeding the rate
aforesaid, sufficient to realize the amount recommended by
the vounty school board for public free school purposes in
such school district, or so much thereof as the board of su-
pervisors may allow.

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