Teachers' Institutes.* All boards or officers authorized by law to examine applicants for certificates shall collect, at the time of ANNUAL FEES. examination, from each male applicant an annual fee of one dollar, and from each female applicant an annual fee of fifty cents; and the director or secretary of any school board that shall employ any teacher who has not paid the fee hereinbefore provided shall collect, at the time of making contract, from each male teacher so employed, an annual fee of one dollar, and from each female teacher so employed, an annual fee of fifty cents (4839). All persons paying a fee as required by this section shall be given a receipt for the same; and no person shall be required to pay said fee more than once in any school year. The requirements of this law apply to all teachers, whether applicants for certificates or employed by school boards (Atty. Gen., March 21, 1884). INSTITUTE All such fees collected by the director or secretary of any school board are paid over to the county commissioner of schools of the county in which they were collected, on or before the fifteenth day of March, June, September, and December, accompanied by a list of those persons from whom they were collected (93 Mich., 281). And all such fees, together with all those that are collected by the county commissioner of schools, are paid over by him to the treasurer of the county in which they were collected, on or before the last day of March, June, September, and December in each year, accompanied by a complete list of all persons from whom said fees were collected; and a like list, accompanied by a statement from the county treasurer that said fees have been paid to him, shall * NOTE. This act does not conflict with the constitution (xiv, i,) on the ground that the fees are specific taxes; nor on the ground that the fees are not uniform. This section (law) is not defective, incomplete, ineffectual and is not therefore void. (67 N. W. 973.) be sent by said commissioner to the superintendent of pub lic instruction. All moneys paid over to the county treasurer, as provided by this act, shall be set apart as a teachers' institute fund (4840). The superintendent of public instruction shall annually appoint a time and place in each organized WHERE HELD. county for holding a teachers' institute, make suitable arrangements and give due notice of the same: Provided, that in organized counties having less than one thousand children between the ages of five and twenty years, the holding of the institute shall be optional with the said superintendent, unless requested to hold such institute by fifteen teachers of the county in which such institute is to be held. However, if there shall not be a sufficient number of teachers in any county to make such request, then teachers of adjoining counties who desire to attend such institute may unite in the required application to said superintendent. Also, the said superintendent may, in his discretion, hold an institute for the benefit of two or more adjoining counties, and draw the institute fund from each of the counties thus benefited (4841). THE CONDUCTOR. The superintendent of public instruction, in case of inability personally to conduct any institute or to make the necessary arrangements for holding the same, is authorized to appoint some suitable person for that purpose, who shall be subject to the direction of the superintendent. CERTIFICATE ANCE. Every teacher attending any institute held in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be given by OF ATTEND- the superintendent of public instruction, or by the conductor, a certificate setting forth at what sessions of said institute such teacher was in attendance; and any teacher who closes his or her school in order to attend the institute shall not forfeit his or her wages as teacher during such time as he or she attended it, and the certificate provided shall be evidence of such attendance (4842). DEFRAYING For the purpose of defraying the expenses of rooms, fires, lights, or other necessary charges, and for procuring teachers and lecturers, the said superintendent or the person authorized by him to conduct the institute, may demand of the county clerk of each county for the benefit of which the institute is held (who shall thereupon draw an order on the county treasurer of his county for such sum) an amount necessary to defray these expenses but not exceeding the institute fund in the county treasury; and the treasurer of said county is hereby required to pay over to said superintendent or conductor, from the institute fund in his hands, the amount of said order (4843). In case the institute fund in any county is insufficient to defray the necessary expenses of any institute held under the provisions of this act, the auditor general shall, upon the certificate of the superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute and that the county institute fund is insufficient to meet the expenses thereof, draw his warrant upon the State treasurer for such additional sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute, which sum shall not exceed one hundred dollars for each institute of five days' duration (4843). STATE AID. GENERAL The superintendent is authorized to hold, once in each year, an institute for the State at large, to be denominated a State institute; and for the purpose of defraying the necessary expenses of such institute, the auditor general shall, on the certificate of said superintendent that he has made arrangements for holding such institute, draw his warrant upon the state treasurer for such sum as said superintendent shall deem necessary for conducting such institute, which sum shall not exceed four hundred * Amended by act No. 64, Laws of 1899. dollars and shall be paid out of the general fund: Provided, That not more than three thousand dollars shall be drawn from the treasury, or any greater liability incurred in any one year, to meet the provisions of this law (4845). VOUCH RS. The superintendent of public instruction or the conductor drawing money from the county treasurer, shall, at the close of each institute, furnish to the county treasurer vouchers for all payments from the same; and he shall return to the county treasurer whatever of the amount may remain unexpended, to be replaced in the institute fund (4846). ORGANI- Teachers' Associations. Any fifteen or more teachers, or other persons residing in the State, who shall associate for the purpose of promoting education and science and improvements in the theory and practice of teaching, may form themselves into a corporation under such name as they may choose, providing they shall have published in some newspaper printed at Lansing or in the county in which such association is to be located, for at least one month previous, a notice of the time, place, and purpose of the meeting for such association, and shall file in the office of the secretary of state a copy of the constitution and by-laws of said association (7730) FUNDS. Such association may hold and possess real and personal property to the amount of five thousand dollars, but the funds or property thereof shall not be used for any other purpose than the legitimate business of the association in securing the objects of its corporation (7731). Upon becoming a corporation, they shall have all the powers and privileges and be subject to all the duties of a corporation (7732). POWERS. TEACHERS' CONTRACTS. A teacher's contract must be in writing, and must state the wages agreed upon and the length of the term. REQUIRED The teacher must be required to keep a correct list of the pupils and the age of each attending the school. He shall keep a record of the number of days each pupil is present, and furnish to the director a correct copy of the same at the close of the school. The contract must be filed with the director and a duplicate FILING OF CON- Copy furnished to the teacher (4678). TRACT. UNQUALIFIED A contract with a teacher who does not hold a certificate that is valid within the county is void. If the certificate expires during the period for which the contract is given, said contract becomes void, unless the teacher immediately secures a new certificate. The word "immediately" in the foregoing sentence should be construed to mean that the certificate be renewed before the teacher continues with the work of the school. LEGAL All contracts for teaching must be construed as subject to vacations on legal holidays.* No deduction from teachers' wages on account of such vacation can be made (39 Mich. 484). Holidays should always be counted as days taught. The employment of teacher by the day instead by the month or year, does not make it the duty of teachers to make up time lost in the observance of holidays. If a teacher is employed for a definite time and, during the period of his employment, the district officer closes the schools on account of the prevalence of contagious diseases and keeps them closed for a time, the teacher is entitled to full wages during such period (43 Mich. 480; 39 Mich. 484; 62 Mich. 153). In schools closed CLOSING OF *NOTE.-The legal holidays in this State are January 1, February 22, May 30, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas. Whenever a legal holiday falls on Sunday, the next day is observed instead. |