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114, § 5.

Ib.

b.

Feb. 10,

1899, p. 217, § 7.

Ib.

Feb. 8,

1901, p. 114, $6.

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tribute the questions among the applicants. All applicants shall undergo the examination in the same room, or in sight of the person appointed to conduct such examination.

1725. Examination fees.-Each applicant for examination shall, before entering upon the examination, deposit with the person appointed to conduct the examination an examination fee as follows: An applicant for a third-grade certificate, a fee of one dollar; an applicant for a second-grade certificate, a fee of one and one-half dollars; an applicant for a first-grade certificate, a fee of two dollars; an applicant for a life certificate, a fee of three dollars. The fees received from the examination of teachers at regular examinations shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the educational fund, and the state auditor shall, on the requisition of the superintendent of education, issue warrants on the state treasurer, to be paid out of the educational fund, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this article, such as the payment of expenses for postage, for expressage, for clerk hire, for state board of examiners only, for the per diem of the state board of examiners, for paying county conductors, and for other incidental expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this article.

1726. Compensation of state board of examiners.-The appointed members of the state board shall receive five dollars per day, including Sundays, for the time they are engaged in conducting the examination of teachers under this article.

1727. Compensation of examiners.-The county superintendent or person appointed to conduct the examination in each county shall receive ten dollars for his services in conducting each examination.

1728. Teachers shall not receive assistance on examination. -Teachers on examination shall not be permitted to sit near enough to one another to read the other's papers, and no teacher on examination shall receive any assistance from any person, or by reference to any book, map, or chart, or from any other source, and no person shall be licensed to teach who shall endeavor to procure any such assistance.

1729. Statement signed by teachers.-Each teacher so examined shall, upon the completion of his examination, sign a statement that he or she has not received any assistance in said examination from any source; which statement shall be kept on file by the county superintendent of education.

1730. Applicant must be of good moral character.-Unless the applicant is known to the person appointed to conduct the examination to be of good moral character, or shall make satisfactory proof of the same, in writing, he or she shall not be admitted to the examination.

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1731. Habitual use of profane language or intoxicants.— Feb. 8, Any one who habitually uses profane language or intoxicants 1901, p. shall be deemed of immoral character.

114, 6.

1732. (3576) (983) Grades of certificates.-There shall be I., § 7. three grades of teachers' certificates, besides the life certificate, hereinafter provided, to be known as certificates of the first, second, and third grades, each of which must show the branches in which the holder has been examined, and his general average.

1733. (3576) (983) Percentage and certificate required. Ib. In no case shall an applicant for a certificate receive the same who fails to answer fifty per cent of the questions propounded in any branch, and whose general average is below seventy-five per cent. Every teacher in the public schools must obtain a certificate prior to his employment.

Feb. 10,

1899, p.

217, § 10;

Oct. 10,

1903, p.

1734. (3577) (984) Branches of learning examined upon.Applicants for third-grade certificates shall be examined in the following branches: Orthography, reading, penmanship, amended grammar, practical arithmetic through fractions, primary geography, and the elementary principles of physiology and 537, § 2. hygiene and agriculture; for second-grade certificates, they shall be examined in all the foregoing branches, and also in practical arithmetic, history of Alabama, history of the United States, English grammar and composition, and intermediate geography; for first-grade certificates, they shall be examined in all the foregoing branches, and also in algebra, natural philosophy, geometry, the school laws of Alabama, and the theory and practice of teaching.

History of subject: (Feb. 26, 1887, p. 129; Feb. 4, 1891, p. 350, § 2; Feb. 10, 1885, p. 113, § 2; Dec. 12, 1882, p. 20, § 2; Mar. 1, 1881, p. 75, § 2.)

217, 11.

1735. Examination shall be written; kind of paper and ink Feb. 10. to be used. In all examinations under this article, the answers 1899, p. shall be written on legal cap paper, with pen and ink. The subject or branch shall be plainly written at the top of the page, and the answers shall be numbered to correspond with the questions.

1901,

114, § 8.

1736. Examination papers delivered to examiner; transmis- Feb sion to board.-When an applicant shall have completed his examination, he shall write his name and address on each paper of the same, and deliver the same to the person appointed to conduct the examination, who shall inclose the papers of each applicant in a separate envelope, together with his certificate of the good moral character of the applicant, or the written proof of the same, on which he admitted the applicant to exam

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ination, and shall transmit the same to the secretary of the state board of examiners without delay.

1737. Board examines and grades papers.-The state board 217, 18. of examiners shall examine the papers coming to it under the provisions of the preceding section, as expeditiously as possible, and shall mark upon each paper the teacher's grade in that branch, according to the correctness or approximate correctness of the answers.

Ib.

Feb. 8. 1901, p.

114, 9.

Feb. 10,

1899, p. 217, 15.

Ib., § 17.

Ib.

Ib., § 18.

Oct. 9, 1903, p. 491, § 1.

1738. Certificates issued.-If, upon such examination, it appears that the applicant is entitled to receive a certificate, the secretary of the board shall prepare a certificate in conformity with this article. The certificate shall be signed by the secretary of the state board of examiners and the superintendent of education, and shall be transmitted to the teacher entitled to the same.

1739. Examination papers kept on file six months.-All examination papers shall be kept on file in the office of the superintendent of education subject to public inspection for six months.

1740. (3579) (985) Lifetime of certificates.-Certificates granted under the provisions of this article shall entitle their holder to teach in the public schools of any county in this state for the following periods of time: A third-grade certificate, two years; a second-grade certificate, four years; and a first-grade certificate, six years from the date of issuance of the same.

1741. Life certificates.-Whenever any teacher applying for a certificate shall make proof that he has been engaged for six years in teaching under first-grade certificate, which proof the county superintendent of education shall transmit to the state board of examiners, and shall show a high degree of proficiency and professional attainment, such teacher may be granted a life certificate, signed as prescribed for other certificates.

1742. Forfeiture of life certificate.-Any teacher holding a life certificate shall forfeit the same by leaving off the business of teaching for five consecutive years.

1743. Revoking certificates.-The superintendent of education shall revoke the certificate of any teacher who shall be guilty of immoral conduct or unbecoming or indecent behavior.

1744. Register of licensed teachers.-The secretary of the state board of examiners shall keep a register of all teachers examined and licensed under this article, showing the name and postoffice address of each teacher and the date and grade of his certificate, and shall keep the same on file in the office of the superintendent of education, and shall devote his time, when not engaged in the work of examining teachers, to clerical work in the department of education.

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114, § 10.

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1745. Separate districts.-The provisions of this article Feb. 8, shall not be so construed as to prohibit separate school districts 1901, p. of two thousand inhabitants or more, having authority at present by their charter to examine teachers, to further examine teachers who have certificates granted under this article.

1746. (3578) Instruction as to the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics.-Every teacher shall give instruction as to the nature of alcoholic drinks, tobacco, and other narcotics, and their effects upon the human system, and such subject shall be taught as regularly as any other in the public schools.

Oct. 10,

537, § 1.

1747. Teaching agriculture in public schools. In addition to the branches now taught in the public schools, instruction 1903, p. shall be given in the elementary principles of agriculture, and said subject shall be taught as regularly as other branches are taught in said schools, by the use of a text-book in the hands of the pupils, and such instruction shall be given in all the public schools of the state.

1748. (3580) (986) Register kept by teacher and submitted. -Every teacher of a public school must keep a register of the actual daily attendance of the pupils in his school, and must submit such register to the district trustees for their inspection.

1749. (3581) (987). Monthly report; not entitled to compensation until forwarded.-Every teacher of a public school must, within five days after the end of each scholastic month, forward to the county superintendent of education a complete report, setting forth the enrollment, attendance, the branches taught, and the number of pupils in each, distinguishing between the boys and the girls, and stating whether a white or colored school; also the number of days taught, the amount due for services from school revenues of the district, the number of visits by district trustees, and the name and postoffice of the teacher; and such report must be sworn to by the teacher before some one of the district trustees, and approved by them; and no teacher can draw any pay for the services rendered by him until he has forwarded his report in accordance with the requirements of this section.

1750. (3582) (988) To be paid monthly.-The teachers of public schools shall be paid monthly, as provided in this chapter.

(Feb. 7, 1879, p. 117, § 37.) Schoolmaster stands in loco parentis and may, in a proper case, inflict corporal punishment; but is criminally liable for an abuse of his authority.-Boyd v. State, 88 Ala. 169 (7 So. 268); McCormack v. State, 102 Ala. 156 (15 So. 438).

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1751. (3590) (995) Teachers' institutes to be organized.—It shall be the duty of the board of education in each county to organize and maintain therein teachers' institutes, one for teachers who are white persons, and one for teachers who are colored persons, to be held at such times and places as the board may prescribe; but there shall not be less than ten licensed teachers in the county of the race for whom such institutes shall be organized.

1752. (3591) (996) Officers and members of institutes; no fee imposed without consent.-The county superintendent of education shall be the president of such institutes, and the members of the board of education shall be the vice-presidents thereof, one of whom shall preside over its meetings in the absence of the president; the other officers thereof may be elected. Every teacher of the county holding a license shall be a member of the institutes organized for his race. But no fee or assessment shall be imposed on a member without his

consent.

1753. (3592) (997) Meetings of institutes.-There shall not be less than three meetings in each year of such institutes, one of which shall be held in the month of September, and at this meeting an address to the teachers shall be made by some person selected by the educational board; and teachers holding licenses shall attend at least one of such meetings; and failing to attend without a good excuse to be judged of by the county superintendent of education, shall forfeit one month's salary of teacher.

1754. (3593) (998) Business of the institutes.-The meetings of the institutes shall be devoted mainly to discussions and instructions in regard to the methods of teaching and disciplining schools, and to the text-books used, and other matters connected with the schools and school laws.