superintendent may prescribe, not exceeding three years. The local board shall pay the necessary traveling expenses of each such pupil, on the certificate of the superintendent. [L. 1850, chap. 89, §§ 1-5, rewritten and combined without intended change.] (Page 143.) § 328. Who entitled to privileges of normal school.—The privileges of the normal department of a normal school are free to all resident pupils who comply with the rules prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction. [L. 1866, chap. 466, part of § 5, rewritten without intended change.] (Page 141.) § 329. Tuition money.-Tuition money shall be used for the gen. eral purposes of the school. [Supply Bill, 1870, chap. 492. (Page 144.) § 330. Annual report of local board.-Each local board shall annually on the first day of January transmit to the superintendent in such form as he may prescribe a report showing in detail its receipts and expenditures during the last preceding year, the condition of the school, and such other facts as the superintendent may require. The report must be verified by the president and secretary. [L. 1866, chap. 466, last sentence of §3, rewritten and changed so that the report must be made to the State superintendent instead of to the legislature, as by present law.] (Page 141.) § 331. Estimates of expenses.-The local board shall from time to time present to the superintendent a verified itemized statement of the amounts estimated to be needed for carrying on the school. The superintendent shall examine and may revise such estimate, and he shall draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the treasurer of the local board, for the amount approved by him. [New.] ARTICLE XIII. TEXT BOOKS AND SPECIAL INSTRUCTION. Section 340. Free text books. 341. Adoption of text books. 342. Change of text books. 343. Penalty for violation. 344. Instruction concerning stimulants and narcotics. 345. Minimum time of instruction. 346. Primary scholars. 347. School authorities to furnish facilities. 348. Requirement of text books. 349. Examination by regents. 350. Instruction in normal schools and institutes. 351. When not to share in school money. 352. When institute or training class entitled to school money. 353. Affidavits by school authorities. 354. Affidavit by school commissioner. Section 355. Affidavit by principal of normal school. 356. Superintendent to furnish blanks. 357. When superintendent to withhold school money. 358. Instruction in natural history. 359. Free instruction in industrial or freehand drawing. 360. Evening schools. 361. Vocal music. 362. Kindergartens. 363. Industrial training in schools. [General note. This title is intended to include the subject of text books, their adoption and change, and special instruction in. special subjects, so far as they can be fairly included in a general article. Some changes have been made which are indicated in the foot notes.] § 340. Free text books.-A district meeting may vote a tax for the purchase of text books or other school supplies for free use in the schools. The trustee or board of education may establish rules concerning the use of such books and their care, preserva tion and custody. [Con. School Law, tit. VIII, § 13, sub. 3, as added by 1897, chap. 295, rewritten and extended to all school districts. The present law applies to union schools.] (Page 72, sub. 3.) § 341. Adoption of text books. In a common school district an annual meeting, by a two-thirds vote of the qualified voters pres ent and voting, shall designate and adopt the text books to be used in the school. Elsewhere the board of education or other authorities in charge of the school shall designate and adopt the text books. [Con. School Law, tit. XV, § 9, rewritten without intended change.] (Page 99, § 9.) § 342. Change of text books.-A text book so adopted shall not be superseded by another book within a period of five years from such adoption, except on a three-fourths vote of the qualified voters present and voting at an annual meeting in a common school district, or elsewhere by a three-fourths vote of the board of education or other school authorities by which such book was adopted. [Con. School Law, tit. XV, § 10, rewritten without intended change.] (Page 100, § 10.) § 343. Penalty for violation.-A person who violates any of the foregoing provisions is liable to a penalty of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each violation, to be sued for by any taxpayer of the district, and such penalty when collected shall be paid to the treasurer for the benefit of the district. [Con. School Law, tit. XV, § 10, rewritten without intended change.] (Page 100, § 11.) § 344. Instruction concerning stimulants and narcotics.-The nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics, and their effects on the human system, shall be taught in connection with the various divisions of physiology and hygiene, as thoroughly as other branches, in all schools under state control, or supported wholly or in part by state school moneys or local taxation. [Con. School Law, tit. XV, first part of § 19, as added by L. 1895, chap. 1041, and as amended by L. 1896, chap. 901, rewritten without intended change.] (Page 102, § 19.) § 345. Minimum time of instruction.-All pupils below the second year of the high school and above the third year of school work, computed from the beginning of the lowest primary, not kindergarten year, or in corresponding classes in ungraded schools, shall be taught and study the subjects mentioned in the last section every year with suitable text books in the hands of all pupils, for not less than three lessons a week for ten or more weeks, or the equivalent of the same in each year, and must pass satisfactory tests in these studies before promotion to the next succeeding grade or year's work; except that where there are nine or more school years below the high school, the study may be omitted in all years above the eighth year and below the high school, by such pupils as have passed the required tests of the eighth year. In ungraded schools the superintendent shall classify the work as nearly as may be to conform to the foregoing provisions. [Con. School Law, tit. XV, part of § 19, as added by L. 1895, chap. 1041, and as amended by L. 1896, chap. 901, rewritten without intended change. The last sentence is new.] (Page 102, § 19.) § 346. Primary scholars.- Pupils in the lowest three primary, not kindergarten, school years, or in corresponding classes in un |
