used. SEC. 23. The property conveyed as required in the above Property given section shall be used only for the seminary located at Talla- by city, how hassee, and shall revert to the donors whenever the seminary shall be removed from Tallahassee. (k) of the Suwan ate and mill tary basis. SEC. 24. The Board of Education of the seminary west of Seminary west the Suwannee, located at Tallahassee, be, and they are hereby, nee may organempowered to organize the said seminary upon a collegiate ize on collegiand military basis, and to make for the government of said institution such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this law, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or the general provisions of the law under which said seminary is established. (1) SEC. 25. The faculty of said seminary are hereby empowered Faculty may to give diplomas to and confer degrees upon such of its stu- give diplomas. dents as shall have satisfactorily completed the course of stud ies prescribed by the said Board of Education. (1) SEC. 26. All the povisions of Sections 24 and 25 shall be equally applicable to the seminary east of the Suwannee. (1) East Florida SEC. 27. The seminary east of the Suwannee shall be located at Gainesville, Alachua, county. (m) Seminary. SEC. 28. Each county in this State east of the Suwannee Scholars or river shall be entitled to send to said seminary as many scholars beneficiaries. or beneficiaries as it may have representatives in the House of the General Assembly of Florida, who shall receive all the benefits of instruction of said seminary free of all charge, and the said scholars shall be selected by the Board of County Commissioners of said counties respectively. (m) SEC. 29. Credit shall not be allowed for the purchase money Credit shall on the sale of any of the school or seminary lands of this not be allowed in the purchase State, but every purchaser of such lands shall, at the time of of said lands. purchase, make complete payment therefor. (n) privileges as were given to the original Seminaries. SEC. 30. All the provisions of An act to provide for the es- Seminary at Gainesville to tablishment of two seminaries of learning, approved January have same 24, 1851, and also An act to provide for the location of the two powers and seminaries of learning to be established in this State, approved January 6, 1853, be and the same are hereby made applicable to the seminary located at Gainesville so far as the same are not in conflict with the provisions of this chapter, and the Governor shall immediately after the passage of this law appoint for said seminary a Board of Trustees according to the provisions of this chapter. (0) (k) Sec. 2, Chap. 796, Act of Jan. 1, 1857. (7) Secs. 1, 2 and 3, Chap. 1122, Act of Feb. 14, 1861. (m) Secs. 1 and 3, Chap. 1487, Act of (n) Sec. 1, Chap. 1490, Act of 1866. 922 SCHOOLS- -SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Superintend Instruction, CHAPTER 179. SCHOOLS-SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. 1. Term of office; general duties, and how prescribed. 2. General duties. 3. Duties enumerated: To apportion school moneys. To exercise discretion as to apportionment of moneys. 4. To annually apportion inter To print and distribute school est arising from school fund. laws and forms. To provide plans and specifications. 5. To decide questions of appeal. To call meetings of certain school materials. To hold teachers' institutes. To prescribe rules and regulations. 6. Where to have his office in the Capitol. SECTION 1. There shall be a Superintendent of Public Inent of Public struction, whose term of office shall be four years and until the appointment and qualification of his successor. He shall have general supervision of the educational interests of the State. His duties shall be prescribed by law. (a) term of office and duties. Superintendent of Public Instruction, duties. SEC. 2. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have the administrative supervision of all matters pertaining to Public Instruction; the supervision of buildings devoted to educational purposes, and the libraries belonging to the university and common schools. He shall organize a historical bureau for the purposes of accumulating such matter and information as may be necessary for compiling and perfecting the history of the State. He shall also establish a cabinet of minerals and other natural productions. (b) SEC. 3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall have General duties. the oversight, charge, and management of all matters pertaining to public schools, school buildings, grounds, furniture, libraries, text books, and apparatus. Print and distribute laws, forms, &c. Provide plans and specificatious. Call meetings of County Su It is his duty, and he is hereby empowered: To prepare and cause to be printed and distributed, gratuitously, to Boards of Public Instruction, and other officers and teachers, as many copies of the school laws, and such forms, instruments, instructions, regulations, and decisions as he may judge necessary for their use. To provide plans and specifications for the construction of buildings, directions concerning furniture, apparatus, and other relevant matters. To call meetings of County Superintendents of Schools, and perintendents. other officers, for obtaining and imparting information on the (a) Sec. 3, Art. 8, Const. of 1868. (b) Sec. 7, Art. 7, Const. of 1868. practical workings of the school system, and the means of promoting its efficiency and usefulness. To assemble teachers in institutes, and employ competent Hold teachers' instructors to impart information on improved methods of institutes. teaching and conducting schools and other relevant matters. To grant certificates to graduates of the department of Grant certifi teaching, and to successful teachers; also to fix the grades cates, &c. and standards of qualification of teachers generally. the school To apportion, on or before the first day of May in each year, Apportion all school moneys subject to disbursement to their separate moneys. uses, and to notify the proper officers of such apportionment and the manner in which such moneys will be payable. To make such apportionments as may, in his judgment, be Discretionary right and just, when the census and returns on which the ap- apportionments portionments should be made are manifestly defective, or have not been received by the Superintendent. (c) interest on SEC. 4. To apportion annually the interest on the common To apportion school fund, and the fund raised by the one-mill tax, author-school fund. ized by sections four and five of Article VIII. of the Constitution, among the several counties of the State, in proportion to the number of children residing therein between the ages of four and twenty-one. (d) SEC. 5. To entertain and decide upon appeals and questions Appeals. arising under the school laws of this State, or refer such to the Board of Education for decision. To provide a seal for his office, with which, in connection Official seal. with his own signature, to authenticate copies of decisions, acts or documents, which copies so authenticated shall be of the same force as the originals. To collect and preserve useful educational and historical Collect sundry matter, and specimens of natural history; also samples of materials. school books and appliances for the information of school officers and teachers. To prescribe rules and regulations for the management of Prescribe reg the Department of Public Instruction. (e) ulations. ent of Public SEC. 6. The room in the Capitol building on the floor with Room assigned the Legislative Hall, and on the west side thereof adjacent to for Superitendthe Senate Chamber, is hereby appropriated to the use and Instruction. purpose of an office for the Superintendent of Public Instruction. (f) (c) Sec. 12, Chap. 1688, Act of Jan. 30, 1869. (d) Sec. 2, Chap. 1858, Act of Jan. 27, 1871. (e) Sec. 12, Chap. 1686, Act of Jan. 30, 1869. (ƒ) Sec. 1, Chap. 1666, Act of 1868. Board of Education, who shall be. How constituted, its powers. To have charge · CHAPTER 180. SCHOOLS-BOARD OF EDUCATION. 1. Who shall constitute Board 2. How constituted; powers. To have charge of all public To entertain and decide questions referred by the Superintendent. To remove subordinate officers. To procure and manage school lishing University. To audit accounts of Superintendent of Public Instruction. To co-operate with Superintendent of Public Instruction. SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary of State and Attorney-General shall constitute a body corporate, to be known as the Board of Education of Florida. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be President thereof. The duties of the Board of Education shall be prescribed by the Legislature. (a) SEC. 2. The Board of Education shall consist of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, Secretary of State and Attorney-General. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall be the President, and the State Treasurer the Treasurer of the Board. It is a corporate body, with full power to perform all corporate acts for educational purposes. (b) SEC. 3. It is the duty of the Board of Education, and they are hereby directed and empowered— To obtain possession of and take the charge, oversight and of public edu mangement of all lands granted to, or held by the State for cational lands. educational purposes, and to fix the terms of sale, rental or use of such lands, and to do whatever may be necessary to preserve them from trespass or injury, and for their improve To manage and keep safely the school fund. ment. To have the direction and management, and provide for the safe-keeping and expenditure of all the educational funds of the State, with due regard to the highest interests of education. To audit the accounts of the Superintendent of Public InAudit accounts. struction, allowing actual necessary expenses. Respecting differences and appeals. To entertain and decide upon questions and appeals referred to them by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, on any matters of difference or dispute arising under the operations of the school laws of this State, and to prescribe the manner of making appeals and conducting arbitrations. To remove any subordinate officer in the department for in (a) Sec. 9, Art. 8, Const. of 1868. (b) Sec. 10, Chap. 1686, Act of Jan. 30. competency, neglect of duty or other cause which would dis- Remove suborqualify a person for the appointment. dinate officers. partments of To use the available income and appropriations to the Uni- Establish one versity or Seminary Fund in establishing one or more De- or more departments of the University at such place or places as may a University. offer the best inducements, commencing with a Department of Teaching and a Preparatory Department, to which each county shall be entitled to send pupils in the ratio that it sends Representatives to the Legislature, free of charge for tuition; but not to exceed such number as the board may prescribe. For other students a tuition fee may be charged. view the es To keep in view the establishment of a University on a broad To keep in and liberal basis, the object of which shall be to impart instruc- tablishment of tion to youth in the professions of teaching, medicine and the a University. law; in the knowledge of the natural sciences; the theory and practice of agriculture, horticulture, mining, engineering, and the mechanic arts; in the ancient and modern languages; in the higher range of mathematics, literature and in useful and ornamental branches not taught in common schools. To co-operate with the Superintendent of Public Instruction Co-operate with Superintendent in the organization of the Department, and for the general dif- Public Infusion of knowledge in the State. (c) struction. 1. Agricultural College established. 2. Design of the College. 3. Corporators; purposes of corporation; succession. 4. Officers of the corporation; executive committee, power and duties of. 5. Treasurer authorized to do certain acts. 6. Powers of corporation. 7. Senators to nominate certain students; tuition. 8. Trustees may remove members of corporation and fill vacancies. 9. Trustees to be paid their expenses. 10. Agricultural Land scrip to vest in the trustees. 11. Proceeds of sale of scrip, how vested; interest, how applied; donations. 12. Principal and interest, how shall not be applied; disposition of property, how made. 13. Location of college, how to be chosen; to make experimental farm. 14. Certain expenses chargeable against the State; trustees to keep such accounts; accounts, how paid. 15. Trustees may deposit funds in State Treasury and receive bonds therefor. (c) Sec. 11, Chap. 1686, Act of Jan. 30, 1869. |