SEC. 4. No school in any county shall begin before July first of the school year to which that term of school belongs and for which the apportionment is made. SEC. 5. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Art are hereby repealed. Approved June 2, 1893. 1893. No school to begin before July 1st. CHAPTER 4115. County taxes, termined. To be assessed under one heading. Auditor and be notified. AN ACT for the Assessment and Collection of Revenue. SEC. 33. The County Commissioners shall determine the amount to be raised for all county purposes, and shall enter rate to be deupon their minutes the rate to be levied for each fund respectively, and shall ascertain the aggregate rate necessary to cover all such taxes and report the same to the Assessor, who shall carry out the full amount of taxes for all county purposes under one heading in the assessment roll to be provided for that purpose, and the County Commissioners shall notify the Clerk and Auditor of the county, also the Treasurer thereof, of the amount to be apportioned to the different accounts out of the total taxes levied for all purposes, and the County Treasurer in issuing receipts to the Collector shall state in each of his receipts, which shall be in duplicate, the amount apportioned to each fund out of the payment made to him by the Collector, and when any such receipts shall be given to the Collector, by the County Treasurer, he shall immediately file one of the same with the Clerk and Auditor of the county, who shall credit the same to the Collector with the amount thereof, and Clerk to issue shall make out and deliver to the Collector a certificate setting forth the payment in detail, as shown by the Treasurer's receipt. Duplicate receipts to be Treasurers. issued by Certificates. lish statement of county rately for taxes sepaeach Fund and report monthly, also to publish when tax closed. collection SEC. 35. As soon as the assessment roll shall be delivered Clerk to pubto the Collector, the Clerk of the Circuit Court shall make out and publish a statement showing the amount of taxes charged to the Collector to be collected for the current year, and the apportionment of the same in separate columns to the several funds for which such taxes have been levied, including all poll taxes, and at each monthly meeting of the County Commissioners thereafter, and until the tax books are closed, he shall publish a statement giving each fund credit with the amount collected thereon as shown by the reports of the Tax Collector in his office, and when the tax books are closed he shall publish a like statement showing the amounts specifically allowed statement books are When state ments are to be posted. 1893. Penalty. Duty of Circuit Judges. the Collector on account of errors and insolvencies, and the amount of each fund uncollected. The aforesaid statements shall be posted by the Clerk at the court house door, and published in a newspaper, when one is published in the county, and the costs of publishing the same shall be paid by the County Commissioners. Any Clerk failing to publish such statements, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be punished by a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding one year; and it shall be the duty of the Circuit Court Judges to charge this section to the Grand Juries in their respective circuits. Amendment Apportion ment of RESOLUTION No. 3. HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION Proposing an Amendment to the 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: Section 7, of Article 12, of the Constitution is hereby amended so as to read as follows: SECTION 7. Provision shall be made by law for the apportionment and distribution of the interest on the State School Fund and all other means provided, including the special tax, School Fund. for the support and maintenance of public free schools, among the several counties of the State in proportion to the average attendance upon schools in the said counties respectively. Approved June 2, 1893. In compliance with the provisions of Sec. 21, paragraphs I and VII, the following Regulations, Instructions and Forms have been prescribed by the State Board of Education for the use and guidance of school officers and teachers. (Vide Sec. 3, par. I). REGULATIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS. GENERAL. school office. REGULATION 1. Persons to be eligible to offices or positions in this department must possess substantially the follow- Eligibilty to ing qualifications: Must be of good moral character, temperate, upright, responsible, competent and in full sympathy with the public educational system of the State. ulations. REG. 2. All reasonable rules and regulations prescribed by County Boards of Public Instruction, not at variance with the Force of RegStatutes or the Regulations and Instructions of the State Board of Education, shall have the full force and effect of law, and must be respected accordingly. REG. 3. County school officers and teachers shall in all cases use the blanks, forms, registers, etc., prescribed and furnished by the State Department. Use of blanks. 1893. To be commissicned by State Superintendent. To hold regu COUNTY BOARDS OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. REG. 4. Members of County Boards of Public Instruction must be commissioned by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction before assuming the duties of the office. As soon as practicable after any general election, the Secretary of State shall deposit with State Superintendent of Public Instruction a certified copy of the election of School Board members in each county, giving name, School Board District and P. O. address of each; and on or before the first day of January thereafter, the State Superintendent shall issue and transmit commissions to said members elect. REG. 5. County Boards of Public Instruction shall hold regular meetings, at least monthly during the session of lar meetings. schools, when they shall examine carefully all teachers' reports, issue warrants, hear the report of the County Superin tendent and transact other business. When to issue warrants. REG. 6. County Boards of Public Instruction shall not issue a warrant to any teacher unless the monthly report of said teacher, on which the warrant is based, is made out in conformity with the blanks furnished, and in compliance with the directions given in the Teacher's Register. REG. 7. County Boards of Public Instruction shall not contract with any person to teach a public school who does not When to con hold a Teacher's Certificate granted in accordance with the tract with teachers. To assign teachers. When to assign teachers. law, unimpaired by suspension, revocation or limitation. Nor shall any teacher be entitled to compensation from the public school fund for services rendered who has not been employed by, and has not contracted with, said Board. REG. 8. The law makes it the duty of County Boards of Public Instruction to assign teachers and contract with the same, nor are they authorized to delegate this selection either to Supervisors or patrons. But the Supervisor may report to the County Board, for their information in the appointment of teachers, the names of those he thinks best suited to the requirements of the school and most satisfactory to the patrons. REG. 9. County Boards of Public Instruction shall at the first regular meeting after the May examination in each year, proceed to assign teachers to schools for the ensuing scholastic year, selecting first from the list of county teachers holding State or County Certificates; salaries may be fixed and contracts entered into at a subsequent meeting. After the September examination, all vacancies that may exist or may have occurred shall be filled in like manner. REGULATIONS AND FORMS. 45 1893. To avoid fa REG. 10. The State Board of Education earnestly admonishes County Boards of Public Instruction to exercise great caution in the employment of teachers, that they may not subject voritism. themselves to the charge of being unduly influenced by personal favoritism or ties of relationship. REG. 11. The State Board of Education calls the attention of County Boards of Public Instruction especially to the duty of prescribing a uniform course of study for their schools, and grading the same, as provided in Sec. 28, Par. X, of the School Laws;-only a few of the counties having as yet complied with the law in this respect. REG. 12. The State Board of Education recommends to such of the County Boards of Public Instruction as have not already so done, the adoption of a system of rules and regulations for the government of schools, teachers and pupils, and the printing of the same, together with course of study prescribed, in pamphlet form, copies of which should be filed in the office of the State Department. For the guidance of Boards contemplating such action, the State Superintendent shall, upon request. furnish copies of regulations already adopted by other counties. To prescribe course of study. uniform To print rules and regulations, etc. Christmas REG. 13. The State Board of Education recommends to the County Boards of Public Instruction the adoption, for their several counties, of a uniform regulation for the observance of holidays. the Christmas holidays, suggesting that all schools suspend not later than December 24th, and resume not earlier than the 2nd day of January following. REG. 14. The State Board of Education names the first Friday of February of each year as ARBOR-DAY, which shall not be observed as a holiday, but shall be devoted to the planting of trees on school grounds or other appropriate public places, together with suitable exercises, lessons or lectures designed to interest and instruct the children in the care and cultivation of trees. Arbor Day. Teacher's It is recommended to County Boards to allow no teacher compensation for the day, unless a prescribed number of trees compensation have been properly planted and securely protected against in- for. jury. REG. 15. County Boards of Public Instruction may adopt tuition fees. a regulation requiring pupils from other states, or from other May require counties than their own, to pay a specified tuition fee to the County Superintendent, to be by him paid to the County Treasurer, and also reported to the Board. |