SCHOOL LAWS OF THE STATE OF MONTANA COMPRISING ALL THE LAWS IN FORCE PERTAINING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS, STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, SCHOOL LANDS AND PUBLIC LANDS APPROPRIATED TO THE USE OF THE STATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS. COMPILED AT THE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION MAY 1, 1899. PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. UNION Helena, Montana: INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING CO., This Pamphlet contains the School Laws of the State in force to date. E. A. CARLETON, Superintendent of Public Instruction. Helena, Montana, May, 1899. A. M. C. THIS VOLUME IS STATE PROPERTY And is for the use of the School Officers of.... School State School officers on retiring from office, are required by law to deliver this volume, with all other books and documents of an official character, to their successors in office. The Clerk is the proper custodian of this book. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, General School OF THE STATE OF MONTANA. PROVISIONS OF THE ENABLING ACT. Section 4. * * * And said (constitutional) conventions shall provide by ordinances irrevocable without the consent of the United States and the people of said states * * * * * * * * * * Fourth. That provisions shall be made for the establishment and maintenance of systems of public schools, which shall be open to all children from said states, and free from sectarian control. Section 10. That upon admission of each of said states into the Union, sections numbered 16 and 36 in every township of said proposed states, and where such sections or any parts thereof have been sold or otherwise disposed of by or under the authority of any act of Congress, other lands equivalent thereto, in legal subdivisions of not less than one quarter section, and as contiguous as may be to the section in lieu of which the same is taken, are hereby granted to said states for the support of common schools, such indemnity land to be selected within said states in such manner as the Legislature may provide, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior; Provided: that the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections embraced in permanent reservations for national purposes shall not, at any time, be subject to the grants nor to the idemnity provisions of this act, nor shall any lands embraced in Indian, military or other reservations of any character, be subject to the grants or to the indemnity provisions of this act until the reservation shall have been extinguished and such lands be restored to, and become a part of the public domain. II. Section 11. That all lands herein granted for educational purposes shall be disposed of only at public sale, and at a price not less than ten (ro) dollars per acre, the proceeds to constitute a permanent school fund, the interest of which only shall be expended in the support of said schools. But said lands may, under such regulation as the Legislature shall prescribe, be leased for periods of not more |