any other responsible sources of information which may be used. A copy of this requisition shall be sent to the State superintendent of public instruction and a copy shall be furnished to each of the local dealers when such dealers are designated by local school boards to handle text books. In cases where several dealers are designated in one county the division superintendent shall furnish to each one of such dealers a requisition for all books which will be required in the territory to be served by such dealers.

5. The local school board and the division superintendent shall see to it that appropriate orders for books are forwarded to each publisher either directly from the school board or through designated agencies not later than June tenth of each year. In all cases where these orders are not promptly and completely filled by publishers, report shall be made by the division superintendent to the State superintendent of public instruction who shall immediately report all particulars to the State board of education for any action it may deem proper to take.

6. The State board of education may, in its discretion, authorize a central depository, provided such depository be operated under the general control of the State board of education. In case such a depository be established or maintained, then orders from local school boards or from local agents of such boards may be required to be filled with the depository, rather than with the publishers; but nothing in this section shall prohibit special orders of books from being filled directly by publishers.

7. It shall be the duty of each division superintendent to report to the State superintendent of public instruction any departures from contract prices charged by local dealers or agents, and to report also any failure of publishers to comply with all conditions set forth in the contract.

(1922, p. 226. In force March 9, 1922.)

The number of the foregoing section (611a) was inserted by the editor. The foregoing act is peculiar in that it purports to amend an Act of 1915 which was repealed by the terms of section 6567 of the Code.

Sec. 615. The State board of education to audit all claims paid out of literary fund, etc.

The State board of education shall audit all claims which are to be paid out of the literary fund, and to allow so much thereof as shall appear to be due, provided, that not more than ten years shall have elapsed when by law such claim might have been presented for payment. For any claims so allowed, certified by the secretary and presiding officer of the board, the second auditor shall issue his warrant on the treasurer, signed by the second auditor and attested by one of his clerks. All money belonging to the literary fund shall also be received into the treasury on the warrant of the second auditor, who shall also be the accountant of the said fund.

(1920, p. 61. In force June 18, 1920.)

Sec. 618. For act relating to federal aid for vocational education, see chapter 73 of Acts 1918, herein.

See chapter 392 of Acts 1920, herein, as to vacational education of injured employees.

Sec. 626.

Salaries of division superintendents.

The State board of education shall divide the State into appropriate school divisions in the discretion of the said board, comprising not less than one county or city each, but no county or city shall be divided in the formation of such division, and shall appoint for each division one division superintendent of schools. The division superintendent shall receive a minimum salary of sixteen hundred dollars per year, provided he is employed for his full time in a school division with a school population of not less than three thousand. In each division with a school population of less than three thousand, however, the minimum salary shall be one thousand dollars per year or in the discretion of the State board of education for part time employment seven hundred and fifty dollars. In small town or city divisions the superintendent may by permission of the State board of education act as school principal or undertake other related school work in which case his salary as superintendent shall not exceed one-half of the established minimum of sixteen hundred dollars per year. In school divisions with a school population of over three thousand the division superintendent shall receive in addition to the minimum of sixteen hundred dollars ten dollars per hundred for each hundred of school population above three thousand, allowing in each computation numbers in excess of fifty to count as the next higher even hundred; provided, however, in any county or city in which all of the public free schools are not run as long as six months in each year, the salary of such division superintendent shall not be more than twenty per centum greater than that received prior to the passage of this act. One-half of the salary thus determined shall be paid by the State board of education in monthly instalments out of State funds on the warrants of the State board of education drawn upon the second auditor and the other shall be paid by the city or town council or county board of supervisors out of the general fund of the city, town or county. The local school board may out of the local school fund supplement the salary above prescribed and provide for the traveling and office expenses of the superintendent, provided the specific amounts and the purposes for which such amounts are designated be reported to and approved by the State board of education, provided that school boards of those divisions in which the salary of the division superintendent may be reduced by the scale herein provided, shall out of the local school funds pay such supplement as is necessary to provide for the year beginning July first, nineteen hundred and twenty, a salary at least equal to the salary paid for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twenty. The State board of education shall in accordance with the provisions of this act fix salaries of the division superintendents for the year beginning July first, nineteen hundred and twenty, and for each year thereafter based

upon the school population as shown in the census of nineteen hundred and twenty, and in the census of each succeeding five-year period. (1920, p. 494. In force June 18, 1920.)

Sec. 645. Expenses of trustees.

The county school board may order any district school board of the county to pay to each school trustee, except the clerk of the board, a sum not to exceed ten dollars in any one year to cover the expenses of said trustee for attendance upon the meetings of the county and the district school boards within their respective counties; provided that in the county of Henry, each school trustee may be allowed a sum not to exceed fifteen dollars in any one year to cover the expenses as aforesaid.

(1920, p. 560. In force June 18, 1920.)

Sec. 653. Quinquennial census of school population; how taken; when and how cumulative census to be taken.

At a time to be designated by the State superintendent of public instruction prior to June one, nineteen hundred and twenty, and every five years thereafter, a census of all persons between the ages of seven and twenty years residing within each school district shall be taken on forms furnished by the superintendent of public instruction. Said census shall be taken by agents appointed by the district school board on the recommendation of the division superintendent, and each agent shall receive as compensation for his services, to be paid out of the district school fund, an amount to be fixed by the particular board, not to exceed, however, six dollars per hundred of the children listed by him, subject to abatement, on the discovery, before or after the settlement of the account, of errors or omissions in the list. The agents mentioned in this section shall also, at the time of taking the census aforesaid, gather statistics relating to the interests of education in their respective districts according to forms furnished by the superintendent of public instruction. The lists prepared under the preceding part of this section shall be submitted for careful revision to the district school board as soon as may be after their completion, and shall at all times be open to the inspection of any citizen. When so revised, they shall be submitted, along with the other papers of the district, to the county school board at its annual meeting and immediately thereafter delivered to the division superintendent.

In addition to the census provided for above, there shall be taken at a time to be designated by the superintendent of public instruction, prior to June one, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one, and in every year thereafter, except those years in which the quinquennial census is taken, a cumulative census. The latter shall be recorded on census cards to be provided by the superintendent of public instruction, and shall be based on information which the respective division superintendents may secure from teachers, parents, local school leagues, and reports submitted to them by the bureau of vital statistics, which bureau is hereby directed to give the respective superin

tendents such relevant information in its possession relating to the school population of their respective divisions as said superintendents may request. The cumulative census shall deal only with additions to and corrections of the quinquennial census.

(1920, p. 72. In force February 25, 1920.)

Sec. 654. Census of the deaf and the blind; division superintendents to transmit consolidated reports to the school for the deaf and blind.

At the time the quinquennial census provided for by the preceding section is taken, there shall also be taken by the same agents a separate census of the deaf and blind persons between said ages residing within the school district, giving the sex, age, and residence of each, and a copy thereof shall be returned to the division superintendent. For this service the agents shall receive the same compensation as that allowed for listing other children. and out of the same fund. The division superintendent shall consolidate the reports of the county and transmit the same to the superintendent of the school for the deaf and blind.

(1920, p. 72. In force February 25, 1920.)

Sec. 658. To discharge other duties; their pay.

He shall discharge such other duties in connection with the school business of the district as may be required of him, and for his services may be allowed, out of the district fund, an amount not exceeding three dollars for each teacher; provided that in the county of Henry, he shall be allowed an amount not exceeding five dollars for each teacher.

(1920, p. 560. In force June 18, 1920.)

Sec. 659. Duty of district school board as to school laws, government, et cetera; employment and dismissal of teachers.

It shall be the duty of the district school board to explain, enforce, and observe the school laws, and to make rules for the government of the schools and for regulating the conduct of pupils going to and returning from school; and to employ teachers from a list or lists of eligibles to be furnished by the division superintendent, said list or lists to contain all applicants of good moral character, whose efficiency is attested by proper certificate and who may apply to be included therein, and to dismiss them when delinquent, inefficient, or in any wise unworthy of the position; but the authority hereby given shall be subject to review by the board of appeal provided by section six hundred and thirty-two. No district board shall employ or pay any teacher from the public funds unless the teacher shall hold a certificate. in full force acccording to the provisions of section six hundred and eighty-eight; but no district school board shall employ or pay any teacher from the public funds if said teacher is the father, mother, brother, sister, wife, son, or daughter of any member of said board. Any member of any district board who shall violate any of these pro

visions shall be personally liable to refund any public funds paid in violation of this section, to be recovered from him by suit in the name of the Commonwealth at the relation of the attorney for the Commonwealth; such funds, when recovered, to be paid into the county school fund.

(1920, p. 600. In force June 18, 1920.)

Sec. 669. When State funds paid for school purposes in districts. No State money shall be paid for the public free schools in any county or district until evidence is filed with the State board of education, signed by the superintendent of schools and the clerk of the county board, certifying that the schools of said county or district have been kept in operation on an average for at least seven months, or twenty days longer than the previous year, or a less period satisfactory to the State board of education, or that arrangements have been made which will secure the keeping of them in operation for that length of time; provided, that whenever the State and local funds shall justify a term of nine months shall be maintained, it being the purpose of this act to establish where conditions permit a standard nine months' school term; provided, however, that no county shall be denied participation in State school funds as provided by law when said county has levied the maximum local school tax allowed by law.

(1920, p. 69. In force June 18, 1920.)

Sec. 672. Condemnation of land for school houses.

If, in the judgment of the district school board, the public interests demand that a school house be located on a particular spot, or when a school house is already located upon land purchased or acquired for such purposes and more land is needed for school purposes, and no equitable arrangements for its purchase prove to be practicable, the board of trustees shall be authorized, and it shall be its duty, to cause the desired parcel of land to be surveyed by the county or other competent surveyor, and a plat of the same to be filed, together with a general statement of the case, with the clerk of the circuit court; and thereupon, on application of the district school board, the same proceedings shall be had as are prescribed by the laws relating to the exercise of the right of eminent domain; but no parcel of land thus condemned shall exceed one acre in a town or five acres in the country. No dwelling, yard, garden, or orchard shall be invaded, nor in an unincorporated town any space within one hundred feet of a dwelling, nor in the country any space within two hundred yards of a mansion house, without the consent of the owner, provided, however, that where a school is already located on land acquired or purchased for that purpose, and when additional land is needed for school purposes, same may be taken under the provisions of this section, although the land to be so taken may be within one hundred feet of a dwelling in an unincorporated town or within two hundred yards of a mansion house in the country, where the land to be so taken is not any nearer such