STATE PROPERTY. THIS VOLUME IS STATE School officers, on retiring from office, are required by law to deliver this book with all other books and documents of an official character, to their successors in office. See Howell's Annotated Statutes, Chapter 295. Article VIII.-State officers Chapter I.--Superintendent of Public Instruction, Chapter II.-Formation, Alteration, Meetings and Powers of Districts, Chapter XXVII.-University Diplomas and Certificates, Chapter XXVIII.-College Diplomas and Certificates, INTRODUCTORY. In the compilation of this edition of the School Laws the arrangement in former compilations is retained as far as practicable, in order that references to former editions may correspond with this one as to chapter, page, and section. Since the publication of the edition of 1889, the legislatures of 1891 and 1893 have made several amendments and additions to the school law and wherever it was possible such amendments have been incorporated in the section and chapter where it naturally, belongs. This arrangement necessitates a change nearly throughout the entire edition in the number of the compilers' sections, but the chapter numbers remain the same as well as the section number of each chapter. A few amendments have been made changing certain clauses, which changes are indicated by marginal references. Chapter XII of the compilation of 1889 has undergone an entire change by the provisions of Act No. 147 of the Public Acts of 1891 and Acts Nos. 34 and 140 of the Public Acts of 1893, these form chapter XII of this compilation. There are no further changes in the compilation of 1889 to the end of chapter XXIV. Chapters XXV to XXIX, inclusive, are added as new chapters, being acts affecting schools and school management passed by the last two legislatures. The digest of Supreme Court decisions embodied in appendix "A" has been brought up to date and the index carefully revised. HENRY R. PATTENGILL, 1 |