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133. On what dates are the regular meetings of the township school board held?

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135. Mention some of the powers and duties of the officers of township districts?

136. What officer appears for the district in suits brought for or against the same?

137. What officer appears for the district in suits brought against the assessor?

138. Mention several of the specific duties of the director of a primary school district. Of moderator. Of assessor.

139. On what dates are the two required regular public examinations of teachers held?

140. On what dates are the two optional regular examinations held? 141. On what dates may extra public examinations be held in certain large counties?

142. One?

143.

What counties are entitled to three extra examinations? Two?

What branches of study are required in examinations for first grade certificates? Second? Third? State?

144. By whom must all county certificates be signed?

145. Is the holder of a third grade certificate of class B legally qualified to teach in primary departments of graded schools?

146. Is the holder of a third grade certificate of class A legally qualified to teach in ordinahy district schools of eight grades? 147. How is the number of third grade certificates of class B limited? 148. By whom are questions for teachers' examinations prepared? 149. Who fixes the standard of examinations for county certificates? 150. By whom are special certificates granted?

151. For how long are special certificates granted?
152. What citizenship qualification is required of teachers?

153. In your opinion, what constitutes a good moral character in a teacher?

154. Under what conditions may a teacher's certificate be renewed? 155. What authority have examining boards for revoking certificates?

156. Must city teachers be legally qualified?

157. What penalty is inflicted upon districts, if the officers employ teachers that are not holders of certificates?.

158. What colleges in this state have courses of study which have been approved by the state board of education?

159. What are the conditions under which the board of education grant certificates to college graduates?

160. For how long are college certificates valid? Do they ever become life certificates?

161. Are diplomas granted by the faculty of the university legal teachers' certificates?

162. How many state examinations are held in each year? What branches are required?

163. For how long are state certificates valid?

164. Are certificates or diplomas granted in other states valid in this state?

165. What annual institute fee are teachers required to pay? Are any teachers exempt? Who collects the fee?

166.

167.

Who has the custody of the county institute fund?

Who conducts institutes and who appoints institute instructors? 168. May two or more counties unite in a teachers' institute? 169. How much money may be drawn from the State treasury in any one year for the support of teachers' institutes?

170. What is the largest sum that can be drawn from the State treasury for any one institute?

171. How may a teachers' association become incorporated? What amount of property may an association hold?

172. By whom must a teacher's contract be signed?

173. Mention some of the things that must be contained in a teacher's contract.

174. With whom must contracts be filed?

175. Must teachers make up for time lost in the observance of legal holidays?

176. What are the legal holidays in this State?

177. When schools are closed by the district board on account of the prevalence of a contagious disease, must teachers lose the time? 178. Are contracts made previous to the annual school meeting, valid?

179. Can school boards legally make contracts two or three years in advance?

180. Must all the officers sign teachers' contracts?

181. What is the age of compulsory education in the primary and township districts of the State?

182. What is the compulsory age in cities under police regulation? 183. How many months in the year must all pupils between certain ages attend school?

184. What pupils of the compulsory age are exempt from the provisions of the law for compulsory attendance?

185. Who appoints the truant officer and what is the lowest compensation allowed him by law?

186. In cities, who selects the truant officer?

187.

What notice to parents are truant officers required to give? 188. What penalty may be inflicted on parents who refuse to send their children to school?

189. Can parents evade the compulsory law because of being too poor to buy text-books?

190. In what city school districts may the board establish ungraded schools?

191. What children are considered as juvenile disorderly persons? 192. What courts have jurisdiction over truancy?

193. Are superintendents required by law to assist the truant officer? 194. What sentence may be imposed upon juvenile disorderly persons? To what State institutions may they be sentenced?

195. What officer must be consulted before sentence is passed upon a juvenile disorderly person?

196. Does the constitution of the State provide for the establishment of libraries?

197. Who are entitled to the privileges of the township library? 198. Who has charge of the township library?

199. Who is custodian of the funds belonging to the township library? 200. Where must the township library be kept?

201. Who appoints the librarian?

202. How may a district library be established?
203. Who has charge of the district library?
204 How are library funds raised?

205. Under what conditions may a district or township forfeit library money?

206.

When and by whom is the library apportionment made? What amendment was made to the library law by the Legislature of 1895 ?

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208. May library moneys ever be used for other purposes? 209. May district officers ever sell the books of the library? 210. How many township libraries are there in Michigan? 211. How many volumes in township libraries?

212. How many district libraries in Michigan?

213. How many volumes in district libraries?

214. Has your township or district a library? If so, in what condition is it?

215. Under our State law, what is meant by free text-books? 216. When was our free text-book law passed?

217.

What text-books may be purchased by school officers under the provisions of this law?

218. By what vote of the district meeting may the purchase of free text-books be authorized?

219. May a district that has once voted to furnish free text-books return to the former plan of requiring pupils to furnish their own books?

220. What penalty may be inflicted upon school officers who refuse to obey the instructions of the district meeting as to the purchase of free text-books?

221. How many districts in Michigan furnish free text-books?

222. How, in your opinion, should text-books be supplied to pupils? 223. Do you believe in State publication of text-books?

224. What provision is made by law for the teaching of the modes by which dangerous diseases are spread?

225.

Who furnishes the printed matter to the schools?

226. Who is the principal officer of the State board of health? Where is his office?

227. By whom is the State Manual and Course of Study published? Have you ever seen a copy of it?

228.

What is done with the surplus of the dog tax fund?

229. Which section of each township was set apart as a "school" section?

239. What are necessary appendages to a school house? 231. Which officer is authorized to provide necessary apparatus?

232. Should a dictionary be considered as a "necessary appendage" such as a director may purchase without a vote of the district?

233. Select from the following list such articles as a director may purchase without the consent of the voters of the district meeting: Maps, globe, organ, stove, desks, wall pictures, case for library books, towels, water-pail, books for library.

234. Are the following necessary appendages: Line-fence, well, out-houses?

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