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AN ACT relating to the establishment of separate schools and repealing
article 8, of chapter 73, of the statutes of 1893.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of
Oklahoma.

SECTION 1. Whenever there shall be as many as tricts formed. eight colored children in any school district in the Territory of Oklahoma, there shall be a district formed for the education of colored children in the same manner and upon the same application as other school districts are formed, and they shall hold their annual school meetings and elections, and elect their own school officers in the same manner as other school meetings and elections are held.

Moneys apportioned according

to number of white and colored children.

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trict organized for

white children.

SECTION 2. When pro-rating the school money among the various districts of his county, it shall be the duty of the county superintendent of public instruction to include the colored districts and apportion the same among all the districts, both white and colored, according to the number of children of school age.

SECTION 3. In any district where the colored children are in the majority, and there are as many as eight white children of school age, the whites of said district shall organize a white school district in the

same manner as provided for the formation of colored districts.

taxes.

SECTION 4. When taxes are levied and collected Pro-rating for the support of schools of the district, the taxes so collected shall be pro-rated between the schools of the district, according to the number of children of school age in each.

districts

SECTION 5. If there be as many as eight children Separate of different race in any four or less number of adjoin- organized. ing districts, the county superintendent shall organize one colored or white school district, as the case may be, covering the territory of the districts so formed.

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SECTION 6. In case of the formation of a district District from the territory of a number of districts, as pro- several. vided in section 5, of this act, the local school tax levied and collected in the original districts shall be pro-rated in accordance with the number of children belonging to the original district, and the number of children going from the territory of said original district to the new district.

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SECTION 7. In case there is not a sufficient number of white or colored children, as the case may be, in money shall any district or adjoining districts to organize a district, then the amount of money going to such children shall be reserved in the treasury for the use and benefit of such children, when there shall be a district formed for them, or the same may be transferred to any other district in this territory, which said children may attend. The board of school directors of the district, upon proper showing, may draw their warrant in favor of the district which said children have attended.

SECTION 8. When separate schools are established School term as provided in this act, the term of school shall be the and facilities. same in each school year, and shall be provided with equal school facilities: Provided, That where school boards have provided separate school buildings and teachers for the education of colored children in their respective districts, where no special school has been established as now provided by law, said school boards shall have the right to maintain said separate school until said separate schools have been established as provided in this act.

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color to at

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color.

SECTION 9. It shall hereafter be unlawful for any

white child to attend a colored school, or for a colored for different child to attend a white school, and any person or resident member of such school district shall have the right to commence and litigate an action in his own name and upon behalf of himself, to compel such district school board or board of county commissioners, or the county superintendent of public instruction, to comply with the provisions of this act, and shall have his remedy against said board by writ of mandamus in any court having jurisdiction, and any such member or resident of such school district, shall have the right by writ of injunction, commenced in his own name and upon his own behalf, to restrain any person or persons, district, city or town school board, board of county commissioners, or county superintendent of public instruction, from violating any of the provisions of this act.

SECTION 10. Article 8, of chapter 73, of the statutes of 1893, and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 11 This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval. Approved March 3, 1897.

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AN ACT amendatory of sections 8 and 12, of article 3, of chapter 73, of the statutes of Oklahoma, 1893, [being] An Act entitled "An Act for the support and regulation of common schools."

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Oklahoma:

SECTION 1.

That section 8, of article 3, of chapter 73, of the statutes of Oklahoma be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 8. Each school district board shall hold a meeting at least five days previous to the annual meeting in each year, for the purpose of preparing the report of the clerk and

treasurer, which shall be read and submitted to the legal voters of the district at the annual meeting for their information and consideration; if any changes or alterations therein be necessary, the same shall be made, and it shall then be transmitted to the county superintendent of public instruction. Said report shal! show: First, The number of children, male and female, white and colored, designated separately, residing in the district, or part of district, on the fifteenth day of January previous to the date of such report, over the age of six and under the age of twenty-one years. Second, The number of children attending the school during the year, their sex, and branches studied. Third, The length of time a school has been taught in the district by a qualified teacher, the name of the teacher, and the wages paid. Fourth, The amount of money received from the county treasurer arising from disbursements of the territorial annual school fund, the amount received from district taxes, and the amount received from all other sources during the year, and the manner in which all moneys have been expended. Fifth, The amount of money raised by the district in such year, and the purpose for which it was raised. Sixth, The kind of books used in the school, and such facts and statistics in regard to the district school as the county superintendent may require.

reported, and

SECTION 2. Section 12, of article 3, of chapter 73, Tax levies of the statutes of Oklahoma be, and the same is, penalty for failing to hereby amended to read as follows: Section 12. The report. district clerk shall within five days report to the county clerk the amount of tax levied at the annual meeting, and for what purpose the same was levied. Any such clerk who shall fail to report the tax so voted shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; and it is hereby made the duty of the county superintendent to have the provisions of this act enforced.

SECTION 3. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

SECTION 4. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved February 26, 1897.

Time of annual school meeting; notice, how

meetings.

SECTION.

ARTICLE 3.-SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING.

1. Time of annual school meeting;

notice, how given; special
meetings.

SECTION.

2. Time of taking effect.

AN ACT amendatory of section 5, of article 2, of chapter 73, of the statutes
of Oklahoma, 1893, entitled, "An act for the support and regulation of
common schools."

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of
Oklahoma:

SECTION 1. That section 5, of article 2, of chapter 73, of the Statutes of Oklahoma, be, and the same is, given: special hereby amended to read as follows: Section 5. An annual meeting of each school district shall be held on the second Tuesday of July in each year, at the school house belonging to the school district, at 2 p. m., notice of the time and place of said annual meeting shall be given by the clerk by posting written or printed notices in three public places in the district at least ten days before said meeting. Special meetings may be called by a majority of the district board or by a majority of the legal voters of the district, but notice of said special meeting, stating the purpose for which it is called, shall be posted in at least three public places within the district, at least ten days previous to the time of such meeting.

SECTION 2. This act shall be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 3, 1897.

ARTICLE 4.-GREER COUNTY SCHOOL LANDS.

SECTION.

SECTION.

1. Sale of Greer county school 2. How proceeds of sale shall be
lands authorized.
used.

AN ACT to allow the commissioners of Greer county, Oklahoma Territory,
to sell certain school lands belonging to the Greer county school fund
and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of
Oklahoma:

SECTION 1. The commissioners of Greer county, County school Oklahoma, shall dispose of the seven thousand two

Sale of Greer

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