Amount of license and how payable.

Bonds required.

per cent. of

which is de

SEC. 1320. (Property of public schools exempt from seizure.) See D. 3422.

D. sec. 2964; Act 1855, p. 200.

SEC. 1321. (Manner of selling certain sixteenth sections.) See D. 2966.

Act 1857, p. 136.

SEC. 1322. (Certain sales of lands to be annulled.) See D. 2965. Act 1872, p. 23, No. 109; Act 1877, p. 9, No. 5; D. sec. 1171. SEC. 1323. The Louisiana State lottery company shall pay to the State of Louisiana the sum of forty thousand dollars per annum, which sum shall be payable quarterly in advance, from and after the first day of January, 1869, to the State auditor, who shall deposit the same in the treasury of the State, and which sum shall be credited to the educational fund; and said corporation shall be exempt from all other taxes and licenses of any kind whatever, whether from State, parish or municipal authorities.

Act 1868, p. 24.

SEC. 1324. The corporation shall furnish bonds to the auditor in the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, as security for prompt and punctual payment of the sums set forth in the preceding section.

Sec. 1325. From each inhabitant over the age of twenty-one years, Poll tax, ninety not attached to the army or navy of the United States, there shall be collected annually the sum of one dollar as poll tax-ninety per cent. of which shall be appropriated exclusively to the support of the public schools in the parish in which the sum is paid, and the balance for charitable purposes.

voted to school purposes.

Certain ac counts to be opened in the books of the treasury.

Act 1869, p. 146.

CURRENT SCHOOL FUND.

SEC. 1326. An account shall be opened on the books of the treasury to be called the current school fund. Such account shall be charged with the annual expenditures for the public schools, and credited with the net receipts for the special taxes laid by the general assembly for the support of the public schools, and with the receipts from such other sources as may be designated by law. It shall be the duty of the auditor, in his annual report, to present a statement of the condition of said fund, and an estimate of the special tax needed for the support of the public schools during the ensuing year beyond the receipts for said support from other sources. It shall be the duty of the superintendent of public education to furnish the auditor with all the information he may require for his said report.

D. sec. 214, 3799, 3810; Act 1857, p. 195.

SEC. 1327. The current school fund shall be used for the support of the public schools, and the surplus of receipts over expenditures for How the school fund and surany one year shall be appropriated to the support of public schools plus shall be applied, during the ensuing year; and the act number 224 of eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and acts 181 and 265 of eighteen hundred and fifty-five, Certain laws which direct said surplus to be funded, be and the same are hereby repealed.

D. sec. 215, 3800, 3811.

repealed.

the United

plied.

SEC. 1328. The interest on the United States deposit fund shall be The interest of appropriated to the annual support of the public schools, as provided States deposit by the constitution; and it shall be the duty of the auditor and treas- fund, how apurer annually to transfer from the general fund of the treasury to the current school fund the sum of twenty-eight thousand seven hundred Duty of the and ninety-five dollars and fourteen cents, the amount of said interest. treasurer. D. sec. 216, 3801, 3812.

auditor and

the interest on

SEC. 1329. The interest on all the bonds which are now or may hereafter be held by or belonging to the free school fund, which may Disposition of remain in the treasury after the payment of the interest of the pro- all bonds be longing to the ceeds of the sales of the sixteenth sections to the various townships, free school as provided by law, shafl be annually appropriated to the support of the public schools.

D. 217, 3802, 3813.

ENUMERATION OF YOUTH.

fund.

youth for school purposes by the

SEC. 1330. It shall be the duty of State collector of the different parishes of the State, and assessors for the city and parish of Orleans, in making their assessment or description of property for eighteen Enumeration of hundred and sixty-nine, and every two years thereafter, to make an accurate enumeration of all the youth in their respective parishes be- State collector. tween the ages of six and twenty-one years, designating distinctly the number of each sex between these ages in each of the school districts into which the parishes may be divided, which enumeration shall be made at the time the State taxes are assessed or description of the property taken. The State collector or assessor shall make out duplicate lists of the enumerations so made, and deliver one to the parish treasurer, and the other he shall immediately transmit to the State superintendent of public education. They shall receive a compensation of five dollars for every one hundred children enumerated, to be paid out of the general school fund when they shall present to the auditor a receipt from the State superintendent for such list of enumeration.

D. 3271; Act 1869, p. 146; Act 1871, No. 42, sec. 53.

Compensation.

Incorporation

my.

THE LOUISIANA STATE SEMINARY OF LEARNING AND MILITARY
ACADEMY.

SEC. 1331. The State seminary of learning, established near the town of Alexandria, in the parish of Rapides, shall be hereafter desigof the Louisiana nated as the Louisiana State seminary of learning and military acadState seminary of learning and emy, and shall be under the direction and control of fourteen supermilitary acade- visors, who shall be a body corporate, under the style and title of the board of supervisors of the Louisiana State seminary of learning and military academy, with the right, as such, to use a common seal, and who shall be capable in law to receive all donations, subscriptions and bequests in trust for said seminary and academy, and to recover all debts which may become the property of said seminary and acad emy, and to sue and be sued in courts of justice, and in general to do all acts for the benefit of the seminary and academy which are incident to bodies corporate.

Ex officio mem.

the governor.

from.

Provided.

D. sec. 1622; Act 1860, p. 67.

SEC. 1332. The governor of the State shall be ex officio president bers of board of of the board of supervisors, and the chief-justice of the supreme court, supervisors. the superintendent of public education and State engineer shall be Members to be ex officio members of said board. The remaining ten members thereof appointed by shall be appointed by the governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, for four years, and they shall continue to exercise the duties of their office until their successors are qualified, and shall be removed by the same power and in the same manner as provided for their appointment. The governor shall select said ten remaining Where selected members as follows: Three from the parish of Rapides, two from the parish of Orleans, and five from the remaining parishes; provided, that not more than one member shall be selected from any one of the Vice-president, said remaining parishes; that said board shall elect one of the members from the parish of Rapides as vice-president, to serve in the place and absence of the governor; that the three members from the parish of Rapides shall constitute an executive committee, to be convened by the president or vice-president for the transaction of such urgent and important business as, in the opinion of the president or Proceedings to vice-president, cannot be delayed till a meeting of the board of supervisors can be convened; that the proceedings of the executive committee shall be submitted to the board of supervisors, for approval or disapproval, at the the first meeting of the said board subsequent to the meeting of the executive committee; and that the board of supervisors and the executive committee shall hold their meetings at any point designated by the president or vice-president of the board; provided, that one meeting shall be held annually at the State semi

his duties.

Executive committee, how, convened.

be submitted to the board.

Meetings,

where held. Provided.

nary and military academy, at the time of the commencement exer- When held at the academy. cises of said academy,

D. sec. 1623; Act 1867, p. 25.

visors to have a

on the second

every year.

SEC. 1333. The board of supervisors shall have a stated meeting at the said seminary and academy every year, on the second Monday of Board of superJune, and at such other times as the president of said board shall stated meeting deem necessary to convene them, a majority of the whole board con- Monday of June stituting a quorum for the transaction of business. But if any supervisor shall fall to attend two consecutive meetings, it shall be deemed and considered a refusal to act as such, and upon such failure to attend being notified to the governor, he shall proceed to the appointment of his successor in the same manner as hereinbefore prescribed; provided, that if such failure be occasioned by sickness or temporary absence from the State, the provisions of this section shall not apply thereto; provided, however, that any four members of the board, together with the president or vice-president, shall be a sufficient quorum for the transaction of business.

D. sec. 1624; Aet 1860, p. 67.

Provided.

SEC. 1334. The board of supervisors shall have power to engage a Powers given superintendent and other professors, and all other officers necessary to the board of for conducting the literary, financial and civil concerns and interests of supervisors. said seminary and academy, and to remove and displace the same at pleasure; to fix and regulate the salaries of the professors and all other officers, tuition fees and all other charges; to establish rules for the good government and discipline of the students; to prescribe the duties of all officers, servants and others; to confer diplomas, upon the recommendation of the superintendent and faculty, on students for proficiency in any branch of science or department of learning; and in general to make all rules and regulations which may be deemed necessary for the proper government of the said seminary and academy, and for promoting the objects for which it was founded. But nothing in this act shall be construed as obliging the State to pay any debts contracted by the board of supervisors, in case they should at any time exceed the appropriations made for the support of said seminary and academy.

SEC. 1335. In the course of study pursued at the said seminary and academy the board of supervisors shall cause instructions to be given

in the military branches of science. The students shall be styled branches of

Military cadets, and shall compose a military corps, under the command of the science; students styled superintendent and such other professors as may be assigned to that cadets. branch of instruction. They shall constitute a guard to all public property, arms or munitions now there or which may hereafter be as

Governor to is

etc.

sembled there. And the superintendent shall receipt for all such property, arms or munitions, and obey all orders relative to their preservation or delivery he may receive from the governor of the State.

SEC. 1336. The governor of the State shall cause to be issued to the sue a commis- superintendent a commission as colonel, and to such other professors sion as colonel, as may be assigned to command commissions as majors, captains or lieutenants, according to the strength of the command; that such commissions shall not entitle the holders to any rank in the militia of the State, or to any claim whatever to compensation other than what is attached to their positions as professors.

Certain expenses of superviState

D. sec. 1625.

SEC. 1337. The reasonable expenses of the supervisors, in going to and attending the meetings of the board, shall be paid by the sors paid by the State; and it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors to set forth in their annual report the amount of such expenses, which amount shall be paid by the State treasurer on the warrant of the auditor, who shall issue said warrant upon the certificate of the president or vice-president of said board; provided, however, that said amount does not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars in any one year.

When to report.

Proviso.

Vacancy, how filled.

SEC. 1338. Each parish in the State shall have the right to delegate to the State seminary of learning and military academy, to remain four years, unless sooner graduated, a number of beneficiary cadets corresponding with the number of representatives to which such parIsh is entitled in the house of representatives, according to the act approved March fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, entitled an act to apportion the representation in the senate and house in the general assembly of Louisiana, according to the second census, made in eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, under the eighth and sixteenth articles of the constitution. The police jury of each parish and the board of school directors of the city of New Orleans, respectively, shall, at a regular meeting, to be held at least twenty days prior to the first Monday of September, elect such a number of beneficiary cadets as said parish or city may be entitled to as aforesaid, of such age and qualifications as may be prescribed by the board of supervisors of said seminary, and cause the cadet or cadets so selected to report in person at the seminary on or before the said first Monday of September; provided, that such cadets as are now actually attending the seminary from any parish, or from the city of New Orleans, shall be included in the number to which said parish or city is entitled; and, provided further, that in case of any vacancy in the delegation of any parish or of said city, an election to fill the same shall be held at the first meeting of said jury or board of directors, after notice shall have