ter tiled. school, file in the office of the secretary of the board and trans- Copy of regismit to the State board of education a certified copy of the register aforesaid. Act 1870, No. 6, p. 22, § 33. OF THE DIVISION SUPERINTENDENTS. perintendents. Sec. 1262. There shall be six division superintendents, one for each congressional district, appointed by the State board of Division sueducation, for the term of two years, who shall hold their offices until their successors in office shall have been duly ap- Appointment. pointed and qualified. Act 1870, No. 6, p. 13, § 6. Sec. 1263. Within twenty days after his appointment, each division superintendent shall take and subscribe his oath of oath of office. office. On his failure to do so, or if for any other cause there be a vacancy in said office, the State board of education shall appoint, upon the nomination of the State superintendent, a person to fill such vacancy, who shall qualify in like manner, and who shall hold his office till his successor shall have been appointed and qualified. Sec. 1264. The division superintendent shall examine all persons who shall present themselves at the proper time and Examinations. place, as to their competency and ability to teach orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography and English grammar, and such other branches as may be required hereafter. In making this examination he may, at his option, call to his aid one or more assistants. Sec. 1265. If the examination is satisfactory, and if the applicant is shown to be of good moral character, he shall receive a certificate accordingly. The names of all those receiving such Certificate. certificates, and of all those rejected, shall be entered on a register kept by the division superintendent, at the date at which they were given. Sec. 1266. The division superintendent shall, once in each three months, at one place at least for each two parishes such as he may designate in his discretion meet all those who are desirous of passing an examination, and for the transaction of all other business within his jurisdiction, in some suitable room at the seat of justice of the parish, or at any other place, as occasion may require, and shall notify the parish judge of the place of meeting. Meetings for examination. Sec. 1267. If, for any cause, the division superintendent can not be present at the regular day thus fixed, he shall appoint one or more qualified deputies to make the examination in his Deputies. stead. He shall afterward issue certificates to those who receive the recommendation of his deputies as aforesaid. certificates. Sec. 1268. The division superintendents may revoke the cer- Revocation of tificate of any teacher in the parish, for any reasons which would have justified the withholding thereof when the same was given. And the board of school directors, upon sufficient cause shown, may dismiss any teacher from any school in the district. Report. failure. Sec. 1269. On or before the fifth day of October in each year, he shall make a report to the State board of education, containing a digest of the reports to him by the secretaries of the district boards, and such other matters as he shall be directed to report by the said secretary, and such as he himself may think pertinent and material, and especially such as will show the condition of the schools under his charge. He shall also suggest such improvements in the system as he may think judicious. He shall also, by the fifth day of October in each year, file with the recorder of the parish an abstract of the number of youths between the ages of six and twenty-one years, residing in each ward and school district within his parish. Sec. 1270. Should he fail to make either of the reports rePenalty for quired in section one thousand two hundred and sixty-nine, he shall forfeit to the school fund of his district the sum of fifty dollars, and shall, besides, be liable for all damages caused by such neglect. Duties. Salary. Sec. 1271. He shall, at all times, conform to the instructions of the State board of education as to matters within their jurisdiction. He shall serve as the organ of communication between the State board of education and the superintendent of public education and district board of school directors. He shall transmit to the district board of school directors or teachers all blanks, circulars and other communications which are to them directed, and shall entertain and decide all appeals taken from decisions of district boards of school directors. He shall organize and conduct once in each year, for his own division, at such time as after conference with the superintendent of public education may be designated, a teachers' institute, at some central locality in the division, to which access is convenient, and where the teacher will receive the encouragement of hospitality. In this work the superintendent will be aided by a professor from the normal school, or by some practical teachier appointed by the State superintendent. He shall also encourage and assist at teachers' associations, to be convened four times each year, if practicable, on the last Saturday of some month in each quarter, in each parish or in several parishes united, urging the attendance of the teachers of the same, for the purpose of mutual conference and instruction in their duties. He shall also report the number of private schools, academies and colleges in the division; number of pupils, male and female; and all other information, in such form as the State superintendent may prescribe, so as to present a full view of their educa tional facilities. The salary of the division superintendent shall be two thou sand dollars per annum. He shall perform such duties and make such reports, in addition to those required in this act, as the State board of education may determine; and he shall be paid by the treasurer of the State, upon warrants drawn by order of the State board of education, in accordance with the provisions of this act. Act 1870, No. 6, p. 13. SCHOOL DIVISIONS. Sec. 1272. The State shall be divided into six general school Divisions. divisions, as follows: First.-The first division shall embrace the parish of Orleans, First. including the city of New Orleans. Second.-The second division shall embrace the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, St. Charles, St. John Baptist, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Lafourche and Terrebonne, Third.-The third division shall embrace the parishes of Iberville, East Baton Rouge, West Baton Rouge, Pointe Coupée, West Feliciana, East Feliciana, St. Helena, Washington, St, Tammany and Livingston. Fourth-The fourth division shall embrace the parishes of St. Mary, St. Martin, Lafayette, Vermilion, St. Landry, Calcasieu, Iberia, Avoyelles, Rapides and Catahoula. Fifth.-The fifth division shall embrace the parishes of Natchitoches, Sabine, DeSoto, Caddo, Bossier, Claiborne, Bienville, Jackson and Winn. Sixth. The sixth division shall embrace the parishes of Concordia, Tensas, Madison, Carroll, Morehouse, Franklin, Union, Ouachita, Caldwell and Richland. DUTIES OF THE AUDITOR OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS, Second. Third. Fourth. Fifth. Sixth. Duties of au ditor. Sec. 1273. For school purposes, there shall annually be levied by the auditor of public accounts, and collected by the collector of State taxes in the same manner as other State taxes are levied Tax collected. and collected, two mills on the dollar upon all the taxable property in each parish. D. Sec. 211, 3357. Sec. 1274. It shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts to make a report to the police jury of each parish of the gross amount of the tax thus levied upon their parish, and it shall be the duty of the collector of State taxes for each parish to make monthly returns to the board of public education of the amounts of said tax collected by him, and of the persons and property from which it shall have been collected, and to pay over the same to the State treasurer; and the auditor of public accounts shall, quarterly, on the first Monday in March, June, September and December, apportion the same among the several Tax to be apschool districts of the State, according to the number of children portioned. in said districts between the ages of six and twenty-one years, and said amounts so apportioned shall be paid by the State treasurer to the treasurer of each district board, upon the warrant of the president thereof, countersigned by the secretary. Said district board of school directors shall apportion said sums ings. to the several sub-districts, in the same manner as above pro- D. Sec. 212, 3358. DISTRICT WARD MEETINGS. Sec. 1275. Each ward district shall hold regular meetings Ward meet annually, on the second Monday in March, at which all the qualified electors of the district may attend; said meetings shall Annual meet- be presided over by the president of the district board of school directors, and the secretary of said board shall be the secretary of the meeting. ings. Levying of school tax, meetings. Sec. 1276. The electors of a district, when legally assembled at a district school-meeting, shall have power to levy such tax, not exceeding three mills on the dollar in any one year, on the etc., at Ward taxable property of the district, as the meeting shall deem sufficient to purchase or lease a suitable site for a school-house or school-houses, and to build, rent or purchase a school-house or school-houses, and to keep in repair and furnish the same with the necessary fuel and appendages, and for compensation of teachers, and for procuring district libraries and apparatus for the schools, books and stationery for the board and district meetings, and defray all other contingent expenses of the district; Provided, That no tax shall be levied for building schoolhouses, excepting at the regular meeting in March; and provided further, that no more than five mills on the dollar shall be levied in any one year for school-house purposes. Provided. Collector to collect. Assessment roll. Sec. 1277. Whenever any tax has been voted, at the regular meeting of the electors of a district, it shall be considered as by said vote levied upon the assessed value of all real and personal property in the district. The secretary of the meeting shall, within ten days thereafter, certify the same to the board of district school directors, who shall certify the number of mills of the tax thus levied to the collector of State taxes for the parish. School month. It shall thereupon be the duty of said collector to enter the same upon a separate assessment roll, which roll he shall, within ten days after he has been certified of the levy of the tax, submit to the district board of school directors, who shall examine and, if correct, approve the same. The tax thus levied shall be collected in the same manner, and by the same officer, as State taxes, and shall be paid over quarterly, at such time as the district board of school directors may direct to the treasurer of the district. D. Sec. 3359, 3860. GENERAL PROVISIONS. Sec. 1278. A school month shall consist of four weeks of five school days each. till successor Sec. 1279. Any officer whose term of office is prescribed by officer to hold this act shall continue in office until his successor is appointed qualities. and qualified. Sec. 1280. Every person appointed to any office pursuant to the provisions of this act, shall, before entering upon the dis charge of the duties thereof, take an oath to support the con- Oath of office. stitution of the United States and of this State, and also the oath of eligibility, and faithfully to discharge the duties of his office according to the best of his abilities. In case such officer has a written appointment or commission, his oath shall be indorsed thereon. In other cases it may be taken orally. In either case it may be sworn to before any officer authorized to administer oaths. D. Sec. 2551, 2552. Const. Art. 100. Sec. 1281. When any officer is superseded by appointment, he shall immediately deliver to his successor in office all books, Delivery of papers and moneys belonging to his office, taking a receipt books, etc. therefor; every such officer who shall refuse to do so, or who shall willfully mutilate or destroy any such books or papers, or any part thereof, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court. feiture. Sec. 1282. All fines and penalties collected from a district Fines and forofficer by virtue of any of the provisions of this act, shall inure to the benefit of that particular district. Those collected from any member of the district board of school directors shall belong to the ward, and those collected from parish officers to the parish. In the two former cases suit shall be brought in the name of the district board of school directors; in the latter in the name of the parish and by the district attorney. The amount in each case shall be added to the fund next to be applied by the recipient for the use of common schools. D. Sec. 1173. ulations. Sec. 1283. The board of education may make all needful rules and regulations to give efficiency to so much of this law as Rules and regis included under the title "education;" and should any defect be discovered therein while the general assembly is not in session, which is evidently the result of oversight, and which, in their opinion, is detrimental to the effciency of the law, they may supply such defect, and any regulations in their discretion not inconsistent with existing laws, until the matter can be acted on by the general assembly. In such cases they must report the facts and the reasons thereof to the general assembly at its next meeting. They may also make regulations fixing the powers and duties of any subordinate officer or board when those duties are not sufficiently defined herein, making a like report thereof, as is above required. corporated vil Sec. 1284. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to Cities and ingive the ward board of school directors jurisdiction over any lages. territory included within the limits of any city or incorporated |