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DIGEST AND COMPILATION

OF THE

SCHOOL LAWS

OF THE

STATE OF FLORIDA,

WITH THE

FORMS, REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS OF THE DE-
PARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

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1893

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
59145
(EX-OFFICIO.)

HON. H. L. MITCHELL, Governor, President.

HON. JOHN L. CRAWFORD, Secretary of State. HON. WILLIAM B. LAMAR, Attorney-General.

HON. C. B. COLLINS, State Treasurer.

HON. WILLIAM N. SHEATS, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary.

CONSTITUTION OF FLORIDA.

ARTICLE XII.

EDUCATION.

SECTION 1. The Legislature shall provide for a uniform system of public free schools, and shall provide for the liberal maintenance of the same.

Duty of Legislature.

Term of office

SEC. 2. There shall be a Superintendent of Public Instruction, whose duties shall be prescribed by law, and whose term of Supt. Pub. of office shall be four years and until the election and qualification of his successor.

Inst.

powers of

State Board of
Education.

SEC. 3. The Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney-General, State Treasurer and State Superintendent of Public Instruc- Personnel and tion shall constitute a body corporate, to be known as the State Board of Education of Florida, of which the Governor shall be President, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction Secretary. This Board shall have power to remove any subordinate school officer for cause, upon notice to the incumbent; and shall have the management and investment of all State School Funds under such regulations as may be prescribed by law, and such supervision of schools of higher grades as the law shall provide.

SEC. 4. The State School Fund, the interest of which shall Interest only be exclusively applied to the support and maintenance of to be applied. public free schools, shall be derived from the following

Sources:

Sources of

The proceeds of all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted to the State by the United States for public school State School purposes.

Donations to the State when the purpose is not specified.
Appropriations by the State.

The proceeds of escheated property or forfeitures.

Twenty-five per cent. of the sales of public lands which are now or may hereafter be owned by the State.

Fund.

1893.

SEC. 5. The principal of the State School Fund shall remain Principal invi- sacred and inviolate.

olate.

SEC. 6. A special tax of one mill on the dollar of all taxable One Mill Tax property in the State, in addition to the other means provided, shall be levied and apportioned annually for the support and maintenance of public free schools.

Basis of apportionment of One Mill

Tax and interest on State School Fund.

Tax.

SEC. 7. Provision shall be made by law for the distribution of the interest on the State School Fund and the special tax among the several counties of the State in proportion to the number of children residing therein between the ages of six and twenty-one years.*

SEC. 8. Each county shall be required to assess and collect County School annually for the support of public free schools therein, a tax of not less than three mills nor more than five mills on the dollar on all taxable property in the same.

Fund; whence derived and how disbursed.

SEC. 9. The County School Fund shall consist, in addition to County School the tax provided for in Section Eight of this Article, of the proportion of the interest of the State School Fund and of the one mill State tax apportioned to the county; the net proceeds of all fines collected under the penal laws of the State within the county; all capitation taxes collected within the county; and shall be disbursed by the County Board of Public Instruction solely for the maintenance and support of public free schools.

Provisions for School District.

School Trustees.

District Tax.

Town or city may be a School District.

SEC. 10. The Legislature may provide for the division of any county or counties into convenient school districts; and for the election biennially of three school trustees, who shall hold their office for two years, and who shall have the supervision of all the schools within the district; and for the levying and collection of a district school tax, for the exclusive use of public free schools within the district, whenever a majority of the qualified electors thereof that pay a tax on real or personal property shall vote in favor of such levy; Provided, That any tax authorized by this section shall not exceed three mills on the dollar in any one year on the taxable property of the district.

SEC. 11. Any incorporated town or city may constitute a School District. The fund raised by Section Ten may be expended in the district where levied for building or repairing school houses, for the purchase of school libraries and textDisbursement books, for salaries of teachers, or for other educational purposes, so that the distribution among all the schools of the district be equitable.

of District Fund.

*See proposed Amendment to this Section.

SEC. 12. White and colored children shall not be taught in the same school, but impartial provision shall be made for both.

SEC. 13. No law shall be enacted authorizing the diversion or the lending of any county or district school funds, or the appropriation of any part of the permanent or available school fund to any other than school purposes; nor shall the same, or any part thereof, be appropriated to or used for the support of any sectarian school.

1893.

Separate schools for negroes.

Prohibitions concerning

School Fund.

Normal

SEC. 14. The Legislature at its first session shall provide for the establishment, maintenance and management of such Nor- Schools. mal Schools, not to exceed two, as the interests of public education may demand.

SEC. 15. The compensation of all county school officers Compensation shall be paid from the school fund of their respective coun- of school offities, and all other county officers receiving stated salaries shall cers. be paid from the general funds of their respectives counties.

ARTICLE IV.

SEC. 25. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have supervision of all matters pertaining to public instruction; the supervision of State buildings devoted to educational purposes, and perform such other duties as the Legislature may provide by law.

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SEC. 27. * * * * * * * [He] shall make a full report of his official acts, of the receipts and expenditures of his report. office, and of the requirements of the same, to the Governor at the beginning of each regular session of the Legislature, or Such * * * whenever the Governor shall require it. [report] shall be laid before the Legislature by the Governor at Art. IV, Const. the beginning of each regular session thereof. Either house of the Legislature may at any time call upon * [him] for information required by it.

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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an Amendment to the
Constitution of the State of Florida.

Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

That the following amendment to the Constitution of the State of Florida be, and the same is hereby agreed to, and shall be submitted to the electors of the State at the general election in October, A. D. 1894, for ratification or rejection:

Abbr. Sec. 27,

Amendment

to Sec. 7, Art.

XII of the

Constitution.

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