prescribed by the State Board of Education. The courses of study for such high schools and the requirements for admission to them shall be prescribed by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

INSPECTION, CERTIFICATES, AND MINIMUM SALARY OF TEACHERS.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the county board of education to locate all high schools established under this act, to furnish the State Superintendent of Public Instruction with such information relative to said schools as he may require, and to make such local rules and regulations for the conduct of said schools as may be necessary: Provided, that before any State funds shall be appropriated for the support of any public high school the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall cause the same to be inspected by some competent person to see that suitable arrangements have been made for giving high-school instruction and to enable said school to conform to all the requirements of this act and to the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education: Provided further, that no one shall teach in any public high school that receives State funds under this act who does not hold a high-school teacher's certificate from the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall have power to prescribe a standard of scholarship and examination for same; and Provided further, that no one shall be employed as teacher in such high school without the approval and recommendation of the county superintendent. The minimum salary of any public high-school teacher holding such certificate and employed as highschool teacher in such high school shall be forty dollars per school month.

HIGH SCHOOLS AIDED MUST HAVE THREE TEACHERS.

SEC. 5. Before any high school shall be established under the provisions of this act, the committee or committees establishing such school shall first provide for thorough instruction for at least five months in each school year in all branches of study required to be taught in the public schools of the State; and no school shall be entitled to the benefit of this act in which less than three teachers are employed.

[Each school must have at least two teachers in addition to the high-school teacher.]

SEC. 6. The county board of education of any county may enter into an agreement with the board of trustees or the committee of one public high school of the county to permit all children of said county of school age who are prepared to enter such high school and all public-school teachers of said county desiring high-school instruction to attend such school free, the rate of tuition for each pupil in each high-school grade to be fixed by agreement with said county board of education, and paid as follows: one-half out of a fund set aside by the county board of education from the county school fund for that purpose, and onehalf out of the special State appropriation hereinafter provided, under such rules as the State Board of Education may prescribe: Provided, that the sum apportioned by the county board of education for this purpose shall not exceed five hundred dollars, and the sum apportioned by the State Board of Education for the same purpose shall not exceed that apportioned by the county board of education: Provided further, that the course of study in such high school shall be approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

CONDITIONS OF STATE AID.

SEC. 7. The county superintendent of schools in any county in which said public high school or high schools shall be established shall give due notice of the same to the State Board of Education before any State funds shall be appropriated for the support of said school or schools; and when the county treasurer of any county shall certify to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction that as much as two hundred and fifty dollars has been placed to the credit of any public high school established and inspected as provided for in this act, thereupon a State warrant shall be issued upon requisition of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for two hundred and fifty dollars and sent to the treasurer of the county in which such high school is located, to be placed to the credit of said high school and paid out exclusively for the support of said high school on the warrant of the highschool committee, approved by the county superintendent of schools. The treasurer of each county in which such public high school or schools shall be established shall keep a separate account of the public high-school fund, and at the end of each

school year he shall make to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and to the county board of education a report of all receipts and disbursements of said fund.

MAXIMUM STATE AID FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND NUMBER OF SCHOOLS

AIDED IN ONE COUNTY LIMITED TO FOUR.

SEC. 8. If a larger amount than two hundred and fifty dollars be provided by taxation or by private donation or by local appropriation, or otherwise, for the support of any public high school established and maintained under the provisions of this act, then the State shall contribute a like amount: Provided, that the State shall not contribute more than five hundred dollars in any one school year for the support of any one high school: Provided further, that not more than four public high schools in any one county shall be entitled under the provisions of this act to receive State funds.

NO SCHOOLS AIDED IN TOWNS OF MORE THAN ONE THOUSAND

TWO HUNDRED.

SEC. 9. High schools may not be established under this act in towns of more than twelve hundred inhabitants. Contracts, however, may be made between the county board of education and the committee or trustees of any public or graded school wherein high-school branches are taught. Such contract shall provide for the admission to such school of students in high-school grades and of public-school teachers of any township, townships, or of the county, and for the payment of tuition by the county board of education for teachers and children so attending from outside the limits of said school district, and the tuition in no case to exceed two dollars per month. Upon the making and approval of such contract and the deposit with the county treasurer of an amount sufficient to pay one-half of amount estimated to be necessary for such purpose, either by direct appropriation by the county board of education from a fund set aside for that purpose or by private donation, then upon proper certification of such facts a State warrant shall be issued for equal amount, payable to county treasurer upon request of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction: Provided, that no aid may be given by the State in cases where, under the contract, less than one hundred dollars is needed to pay the tuition, and that the State may not in any case be called on for more than five hundred dollars: Provided

further, that the course of study of such school shall be submitted to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and approved by him.

SUM OF SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ANNUALLY APPROPRIATED.

SEC. 10. The sum of seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby annually appropriated for the purposes of high-school instruction and teacher training provided for in this act. The State Board of Education shall have the power to fix such rules and regulations, in accordance with the provisions of this act, as may be necessary for the proper distribution of this fund.

[Sections 11 to 18, inclusive, relate only to the East Carolina Teachers' Training School.]

SEC. 19. That this act shall be in force from and after its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times, and ratified this the 8th day of March, A. D. 1907.

1907, c. 820; 1909, c. 525; 1911, c. 135.

THE CHILD-LABOR LAW.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

CONDITIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

SECTION 1. That no child under twelve years of age shall be employed or worked in any factory or manufacturing establishment within this State: Provided, that after one thousand nine hundred and seven no child between the ages of twelve and thirteen years of age shall be employed or work in a factory, except in apprenticeship capacity, and then only after having attended school four months in the preceding twelve months.

SIXTY HOURS A WEEK.

SEC. 2. That not exceeding sixty hours shall constitute a week's work in all factories and manufacturing establishments in this State. No person under eighteen years of age shall be required to work in such factories or establishments a longer period than

sixty hours in one week: Provided, that this section shall not apply to engineers, firemen, machinists, superintendents, overseers, section and yard hands, office men, watchmen or repairers of breakdowns.

PENALTY FOR FALSE STATEMENTS AND VIOLATION.

SEC. 3. All parents or persons standing in the relation of parent, upon hiring their children to any factory or manufacturing establishment, shall furnish such establishment a written statement of the age of such child or children so hired, and certificate as to school attendance; and any parent or person standing in relation of parent to such child or children who shall in such written statement misstate the age of such child or children being so employed, or their school attendance, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished in the discretion of the court.

Any mill owner, superintendent or manufacturing establishment who shall knowingly or willfully violate the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished in the discretion of the court.

NO NIGHT WORK UNDER FOURTEEN AFTER NINETEEN
HUNDRED AND SEVEN.

SEC. 4. After one thousand nine hundred and seven no boy or girl under fourteen years old shall work in a factory between the hours of eight P. M. and five A. M.

SEC. 5. That this act shall be in force from and after January first, one thousand nine hundred and eight.

1907, c. 463; 1911, c. 135.

[The amendment of the above law, by the General Assembly of 1911, making sixty hours the limit of a week's work, instead of sixty-six hours, goes into effect January first, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.]