Chap. 38.—An ACT to amend section fifty-eight of chapter seventy-
eight of the Code of 1873, in regard to admission to the public free
schools.

Approved January 26, 1877,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That section
fifty-cight of chapter seventy-eight of the Code of eighteen
hundred and seventy-three 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 board of education shall
have power, and it shall be its duty, to make regulations
whereby the children 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 gencral regulations as to
Management, usefulness, and efficiency. Until the first da
of July, eighteen hundred and eighty, it shall be Jawful for
boards of district school trustees to admit as pupils into the
public free schools of their respective districts, persons be-
tween the ages of twenty-one and twenty-five years on the
prepayment of tuition fees, under regulations to be made by
the board of education.
2. This act shall be in force from its passage.