THE PUBLIC SCHOOL LAW OF NORTH CAROLINA BEING A PART OF CHAPTER 89, REVISAL 1905, AS AMENDED BY THE RALEIGH ISSUED FROM OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION 1911 TABLE OF CONTENTS. Special County Taxation for Schools. I. Application of Chapter, Section 4029. II. The State Board of Education, Sections 4030-4035. III. Loans for Building Schoolhouses, Sections 4053-4056. IV. The School System and the Course of Study, Sections V. The General Powers and Duties of the State Superin- VI. School Funds Provided by the State, Sections 4093-4106. VII. School Funds Provided by County and Local Taxation and Apportionment of same, Sections 4107-4118. The Powers and Duties of the County Superintendent, The Powers and Duties of the School Committee, Sec- The Treasurer of the School Fund, Sections 4152-4160. Privileges and Duties of Teachers, Sections 4161-4167. 247905 PREFATORY NOTE. This compilation of the Public School Laws of North Carolina is issued in this form, in accordance with Section 4089 of the Revisal of 1905. The amendments made to the School Law by the General Assembly of 1911 are printed in italics in the amended sections. This compilation also contains the legislation of 1907 relative to high schools, compulsory attendance, the employment of children in factories, attendance of deaf children, and scientific temperance instruction, with the amendments of 1909, and also the amendments (in italics) and the new school legislation of 1911. The notes, decisions, and other matter, it is hoped, will be found convenient and useful. A careful reading of the law by all school officers and teachers will prevent many mistakes and burdensome correspondence and delay. J. Y. JOYNER, Superintendent of Public Instruction. RALEIGH, April, 1911. EDUCATION IN OUR CONSTITUTION. Article IX of the Constitution of North Carolina relates to education. It reads as follows: SECTION 1. Religion, morality and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. SEC. 2. The General Assembly, at its first session under this Constitution, shall provide by taxation and otherwise for a general and uniform system of public schools, wherein tuition shall be free of charge to all the children of the State between the ages of six and twenty-one years. And the children of the white race and the children of the colored race shall be taught in separate public schools; but there shall be no discrimination in favor of or to the prejudice of either race. SEC. 3. Each county of the State shall be divided into a convenient number of districts, in which one or more public schools shall be maintained at least four months in every year; and if the commissioners of any county shall fail to comply with the aforesaid requirements of this section they shall be liable to indictment. SEC. 4. The proceeds of all lands that have been or hereafter may be granted by the United States to this State and not otherwise appropriated by this State or the United States, also all money, stocks, bonds and other property now belonging to any State fund for purposes of education, also the net proceeds of all sales of the swamp lands belonging to the State, and all other grants, gifts or devises that have been or hereafter may be made to the State and not otherwise appropriated by the State or by the terms of the grant, gift or devise, shall be paid into the State Treasury, and, together with so much of the ordinary revenue of the State as may be by law set apart for that purpose, shall be faithfully appropriated for establishing and maintaining in this State a system of free public schools, and for no other uses or purposes whatsoever. SEC. 5. All moneys, stocks, bonds, and other property belonging to a county school fund, also the net proceeds from the sale of estrays, also the clear proceeds of all penalties and forfeitures and of all fines collected in the several counties for any breach of the penal or military laws of the State, and all moneys which shall |