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his office give Bond for the use of the State of Iowa, in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, with sufficient sureties to be approved by the Secretary of State, conditioned for the faithful and impartial performance of the duties of his office; and he shall also, at the time of giving Bond, take and subscribe an oath, or make affirmation that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and of the State of Iowa, and, to the best of his ability, faithfully and impartially perform the duties of his office, which oath shall be endorsed upon the back of said bond, and the bond shall be filed with and preserved by the Secretary of State.

SEC. 4. An office shall be provided for him at the Seat of Government, in which he shall file all papers, reports, and public documents, transmitted to him by the County Superintendents, each year separately, and hold the same in readiness to be exhibited to the Governor, or to a Committee of either House of the General Assembly, at any time when required; and he shall keep a fair record of all matters pertaining to his office.

SEC. 5. He shall be charged with the general supervision of all the County Superintendents, and all the Common Schools of the State; and shall render a written opinion to any school officer asking it, touching the exposition or administration of any school law; and Give opinion shall determine all cases appealed from the decision of the County Superintendents.

Recommend text-books.

Subscribe for

tor.

SEC. 6. He shall recommend from time to time, to County Superintendents, such books as he may think advisable for text books and for district school libraries. SEC. 7. He may, if he deem it expedient, subscribe Iowa Instruc- for a sufficient number of copies of the "Iowa Instructor and School Journal," or of such other Educational Journal published in the State, as he may select, to furnish each County Superintendent with one copy, and his certificate of having thus subscribed, shall be authority for the Auditor of State to issue his warrant for the amount of said subscriptions: Provided, That he shall cause to be inserted in the Journal he may so select, a

Publish his decisions.

Publish and distribute school law.

correct copy of any decision he may deem it necessary to make for the efficient carrying out of the School Law.

SEC. 8. He shall cause as many copies of the School Laws in force, with the forms, regulations, and instructions herein contemplated, thereto annexed, to be from time to time printed, and distributed among the County Superintendents as he shall deem expedient, and shall furnish each County Superintendent with a sufficient

number to supply each school officer in his county with one copy, to be handed to his successor in office. He shall also prepare and cause to be distributed to the several County Superintendents, a form of certificate in Distribute blank to be granted to teachers, also all other blank blanks. forms necessary to be used in carrying out the School

Laws.

SEC. 9. He shall annually, on the first day of JanReport No. of nary, report to the Auditor of State, the number of children to persons in each county of the State between the ages Auditor. of five and twenty-one years.

SEC. 10. He shall make a report to the General As- Report to sembly, at each regular session thereof, which shall em- General Asbrace, First, a statement of the condition of the comsembly. mon schools of the State; the number of district townships and sub-districts therein; the number of teachers; the number of schools; the number of school houses, and the value thereof; the number of persons between five and twenty-one years of age; the number of scholars in each county that have attended school the previous year, as returned by the several County Superintendents; the number of books in the district libraries, and the value of all apparatus in the schools, and such other statistical information as he may deem important. Second, Such plans as he may have matured for the management and improvement of the School Fund, and for the more perfect organization and efficiency of common schools. Third, He shall cause one thousand cop- Report to be ies of his report to be printed, and shall present it to printed. the General Assembly on the second day of its session.

SEC. 11. Whenever reasonable assurances shall be Teachers' Ingiven by the County Superintendent of any county, to stitute. the Superintendent of Public Instruction, that not less than twenty teachers desire to assemble for the purpose of holding a Teachers' Institute in said county, to remain in session not less than six working days, he shall appoint the time and place for said meeting, and give due notice thereof to the County Superintendent; and for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said Institute, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars annually for one such Institute in each county held as aforesaid, which the said Superintendent shall immediately transmit to the County Superintendent in whose county the Institute shall be held, who shall therewith defray the necessary expenses of the Institute, and if any balance remains he shall

Salary.

Rec've books, papers, &c.

pay the same into the county Treasury, and the same shall be credited to the Teachers' Fund.

SEC. 12. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall receive annually the sun of thirteen hundred dollars as compensation for the duties required of him by law.

SEC. 13. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, elected by the General Assembly under the provisions of this Act, shall within ten days after his election and qualification, take possession of all books, papers, and Secretary's effects heretofore belonging or in any wise appertaining to the office of the Secretary of the Board of Education, whose office is hereby abolished.

office abol

ished.

Repealed.

SEC. 14. An Act to provide for the election and to define the duties of the Secretary of the Board of Education, passed by the Board of Education, December 24th, 1858, also Chapter 66, Laws of the Eighth General Assembly, passed March 28th, 1860, and all other Acts and parts of Acts, inconsistent with this Act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. This Act shall take effect from and after its publication in the Iowa State Register, the Iowa Homestead, and the Iowa Instructor and School Journal, or any two of them.

Approved March 19th, 1864.

I hereby certify that the foregoing Act was published in the Iowa
State Register and Iowa Homestead on the 23d day of March, A. D.
1864.
JAMES WRIGHT, Secretary of State.

CHAPTER 53.

FOREIGN BANK NOTES.

AN ACT to prohibit the circulation of foreign bank notes in this

State.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly Circulation of of the State of Iowa, That whoever shall within this foreign notes State, after the fourth day of July next, pay out, or prohibited. offer to pay, or in any manner put in circulation or offer to put in circulation, any bank note, bill or other instrument intended to circulate as money, issued or purporting to be issued by any bank, individual or corporation

in any other State, district or Territory within the
United States or in any foreign country, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon con-
viction before any court having jurisdiction, be fined Penalty.
the sum of five dollars for each note, bill or other in-
strument as aforesaid, so paid out or offered to be paid
out, put in circulation or offered to be put in circulation.

SEC. 2. The provisions of this Act shall not be con- Construction. strued to interfere with the circulation of Treasury Notes, notes of any bank organized under the law of the United States, any other description of currency issued by the authority of Congress, or notes of the branches of the State Bank of Iowa.

SEC. 3. Any person acting as agent, servant, teller, Who is liable. cashier, or in any other capacity for any other person, banker, broker or corporation, shall be equally liable under this Act as he would be if acting for himself.

SEC. 4. In prosecutions under this Act, it shall not Information be necessary to state in the indictment or information and proof. the name of the bank issuing the notes, nor to prove the existence of the bank or other person purporting to issue the notes; but it shall be sufficient to allege in general terms the fact of paying out or attempting to pay out, as the case may be, of bank notes issued out of this State, and the proof may be made as if the particulars were alleged.

SEC. 5. Any number of offenses under this Act Prosecutions. may be included in the same prosecution, provided that where the total fines alleged shall not exceed one hundred dollars, the offense shall be cognizable and may

be tried before a justice of the peace, and other co-ordi- Jurisdiction. nate jurisdictions, and when the total fines alleged exceed one hundred dollars, it shall be within the jurisdiction of the District Court. Approved March 19th, 1864.

CHAPTER 54.

BLIND AND DEAF AND DUMB.

AN ACT to provide for the education and support of the Blind and Deaf and Dumb, and to repeal Chapter 152 of the Acts of the Ninth General Assembly.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly

tion.

Appropria- of the State of Iowa, That to meet the ordinary expenses of the Institutions for the education of the Blind, and Deaf and Dumb, including furniture, books, maps, music, musical instruments, and the compensation of the Principals, Matrons, Teachers and employees of such Institutions, there is hereby appropriated the sum of four thousand dollars per annum to each of said Institutions, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Salary of principal.

Matron.

Teachers.

Steward.

SEC. 2. The Superintendent or Principal of each of the above named Institutions, shall be entitled to receive, out of the above money appropriated, the sum of seven hundred dollars each per annum. The Matron of each of said Institutions shall receive the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum.

SEC. 3. The Trustees shall pay such salary as in their judgment is just to the Teachers employed in said Institutions, not in any case to exceed five hundred

dollars.

SEC. 4. The Trustees shall appoint some one of the employees Steward, at such compensation as they may deem just, who under their direction shall purchase all supplies for the respective Institutions.

SEC. 5. For the purpose of meeting current exCurrent ex- penses there is hereby appropriated out of the State Treasury thirty dollars per quarter for each pupil in each of said Institutions.

penses.

Reports.

SEC. 6. The Principal of each of the above named Institutions shall report to the Governor on or before the 15th day of December preceding each regular session of the General Assembly, the number of pupils in attendance, with the name, age, sex, residence, place of nativity, and also the cause of blindness or deafness of each pupil. He shall also make a report of the studies pursued and trades taught in said Institutions, together with a complete statement of the expenditures thereof, and also the number, kind and value of articles manufactured and sold.

SEC. 7. When the pupils of either of said InstituClothing pu- tions are not otherwise supplied with clothing, they pils. shall be furnished by the Principal, who shall make out an account therefor, in each case, against the parent or guardian, if the pupil be a minor, and against the pupil if he or she have no parent or guardian, or has attained the age of majority, which account shall be certified to be correct, and signed by the Principal, and shall be prima facie evidence of its correctness in the Courts, and such Principal shall forthwith remit such account

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