t not sufficient to keep school open in such district up to the date when State and county taxes shall become due, the tax provided for in this section shall be due and payable to the Assessor of such county in which the tax is levied, immediately after he shall make the assessment and demand for payment of the tax; provided, the owner of the property shall, if he deem the assessment too high, have the privilege of submitting the assessment to the Board of County Commissioners for equalization within ten days after demand Equalization made for the payment of the tax, and the County Commissioners, within five days after complaint made to them, shall meet and determine the correct valuation of the property assessed, and may change the same by adding to or deducting from the sum fixed either by the owner or Assessor, and upon notice to the owner of the result of their equalization the tax shall be immediately payable to the Assessor, and if not paid shall become delinquent; and all taxes so assessed as in this Act provided, shall constitute a lien on the property Taxes charged therewith, from the date of the levy thereof by the constitute a County Commissioners, or entry thereof on the assessment roll by the County Auditor, until the same are paid, and thereafter if allowed to become delinquent shall be enforced in the same manner as now provided by law for the collection of State and county taxes. State vs. Yellow Jacket S. M. Co., 5 Nev. 415. lien. levy. SEC. 11. If for any reason said tax is not added to the In case of county tax by the County Commissioners, the County Audi- failure to tor shall enter it on the assessment roll to be charged against the property of that district, on application from the Trustees of said district. lien. SEC. 12. All taxes assessed, as in this Act provided, shall School tax a constitute a lien on the property charged therewith from the date of the levy thereof by the County Commissioners, or entry thereof on the assessment roll by the County Auditor, until the same are paid; and their payment, if allowed to become delinquent, shall be enforced in the same man ner. Trustees may SEC. 13. After a school shall have been maintained free When to all pupils six months of the current school year, the Trus- assess rate tees of any district shall have power, at their discretion, to bills. assess such rate bills of tuition as they may deem necessary for the payment of teachers' salaries, in addition to the public moneys of such district. Said rate bills of tuition shall be made out by said Board of Trustees against all persons sending children to school, in proportion to the number of children sent, and the time of attendance of said children; and the Board of Trustees shall exempt such indigent persons from the payment of such rate bills as they may consider entitled to such exemption. Any person refusing or neglecting to pay said bills shall be excluded from the benefits of said school, in such manner as the Board of Trustees, with the advice and consent of the public school teachers, may determine. Census duties of. ARTICLE VII. SCHOOL CENSUS MARSHAL. SECTION 1. It is the duty of the Census Marshal: First To take annually, between the first and thirty-first days of May, inclusive, a census of all children under eighteen years of age and over six years, who are residents of his district on the first day of May. Second-To report the result of his labors to the County Superintendent of Schools on or before the fifteenth day of June in each year. Third-He shall, when practicable, visit each habitation, home, residence, domicile or place or abode in his district, and by actual observation and investigation enumerate the census children of the same. SEC. 2. Whenever a district is found lying partly in two adjoining counties, the Census Marshal must report to each County Superintendent the number of children in each county. SEC. 3. His report must be made under oath, upon blanks What report furnished by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and must show: must show. Children included. included. First-The number, age, sex, color and nationality of the children listed. Second-The name of the parents or guardians of said children. Third-Such other facts as the Superintendent of Public Instruction may designate. Fourth-The Census Marshal shall have power to administer oath to parents or guardians. Fifth-If at any time the County Superintendent has reason to believe that a correct report has not been returned, he may appoint a Census Marshal, have the census retaken, and the compensation for the same shall be audited by the County Commissioners and paid out of the County General Fund. SEC. 4. He must include in his report all children of the district that are absent attending institutions of learning, and whose parents or guardians are residents of the district. SEC. 5. He must not include in his report non-resident Children not children who are attending in his district institutions of learning, benevolent institutions, such as deaf and dumb, blind and orphan asylums, nor any other children not actually residing in his district. SEC. 6. The compensation of the Census Marshal must be audited by the County Commissioners and paid as other claims out of the General Fund of the county. SEC. 7. If the Census Marshal neglect or refuse to make punished. his report at the time and in the manner herein required Neglect of and to perform any other duty devolving upon him, he must outs be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, be punished by a fine in any amount not exceeding one hundred dollars or imprisonment not exceeding ten days. children not SEC. 8. The School Census Marshals, in the various school Indian districts of the State, shall not include in their enumeration included. of children between the ages of six and eighteen years any Indian children not attending public school. SEC. 9. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the various County Superintendents, to cause the arrest and prosecution of any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act. And any person convicted of such violation shall be punished by a fine of not less than Penalty. twenty (20) nor more than three hundred (300) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Sections 8 and 9 as amended Stats. 1897, p. 115. ARTICLE VIII. COUNTY BOARD OF EXAMINATION. Superin Board of SECTION 1. The County Superintendent shall appoint two County competent persons who, with himself, shall be and constitute tendent to a Board of Examination, of which he shall be Chairman. appoint Said Board shall be constituted for the purpose of examining Examiners. applicants for teachers' certificates and granting certificates of qualification for teaching in the public schools. They shall hold examinations at such times as may be provided by law, and be governed by such rules and regulations as the State Board of Education may from time to time direct. They shall grant certificates, except as hereinafter provided, shall grant to such persons only as shall pass a satisfactory examination. certificates. The certificate so granted shall remain in force as specified in this section, unless revoked for incompetency, immorality or gross neglect of duty. Said Board shall have power to grant certificates of the following grades: High school grade, for teaching a high school, which shall be good for four years; grammar grade, for teaching unclassified and grammar schools, which shall be good for three years; primary grade, for teaching a primary school, which shall be good for two years. High school and grammar certificates shall entitle the holders to teach in high schools and grammar schools respectively; a primary certificate shall not entitle the holder to teach any class or classes pursuing high school branches. The certificate provided for in this section shall be issued to Must pass such persons only as pass a satisfactory examination in the satisfactory branches of studies pursued in each specified grade of the public schools, and such additional studies as the State Board of Education may direct, and shall have given evidence of examination. good moral character and of fitness for teaching. The certificate shall be signed by a majority of the Board of Examination. The Board of Examination shall have power to renew the high school or grammar certificate of any person successfully teaching in the county; provided, that the certificate of no one not thus engaged shall be renewed. County certificates made valid for all the counties of this State shall be accepted in all the counties. [As amended Stats. 1895, p. 87.] ARTICLE IX. EXAMINATIONS FOR TEACHERS' COUNTY CERTIFICATES. [Stats. 1893, p. 102.] Time held. Questions, how prepared. of examination papers. SECTION 1. Examinations for teachers' certificates in this State shall be held in the several counties semi-annually, beginning on the second Monday in January and July, and continuing not more than three days at any one examination; provided, that the interest of the schools in any county requires such examinations. Examinations shall not be held at other times than are herein specified, except with the consent and authorization of the State Board of Education. [As amended Stats. 1895, p. 15.] SEC. 2. The questions used for written work in teachers' examinations shall be prepared by the State Board of Education, and shall be uniform throughout this State. Such examination questions shall be forwarded to the various County Superintendents by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, so as to reach their destination on or before the dates hereinbefore specified. Such questions shall be sent under the seal of the State Board of Education, and shall not be opened by County Superintendents or others until the first day of the examination for which they are prepared. Questions shall be used in the order directed by the State Board of Education. SEC. 3. Examination papers of applicants shall be graded Disposition by the County Boards of Examination, and shall be kept on file in the offices of the County Superintendents for such time as the State Board of Education may direct. All applicants shall reach such standing as the State Board may require in written examinations in order to obtain a certificate. The County Boards of Examination may give such oral examinations additional to the written as they may deem proper, and they shall keep an accurate record of standings made in both written and oral examinations. Certificates all counties, SEC. 4. The State Board of Education shall not indorse county certificates submitted to them for such purpose for use made valid in in other counties until the State Superintendent is satisfied from an inspection of the examination papers of the person holding such certificate that such indorsement should be made. The County Superintendent who recommends to the State when. Board of Education that a certificate should be indorsed or made good for other counties than his own must forward to the State Superintendent, with such recommendation, the original papers of the applicant, with the gradings given in both written and oral work. The certificate so submitted of any person whose papers are found deficient in merit shall be canceled by the State Board of Education, and the County Certificates. Superintendent of the county in which it was issued shall be annulled. immediately notified of such action. SEC. 5. [Repealed by implication. Stats. 1895, p. 87.] sation of Examiners. SEC. 6. Members of County Boards of Examination shall Compenbe paid from the General School Funds of their respective Board of counties such reasonable compensation as the County Superintendent shall allow; provided, that such compensation shall not exceed five dollars per day. County Superintendents are hereby authorized to draw their orders upon the County Auditors of their respective counties in payment thereof. No County Superintendent shall receive for his services in examining teachers any compensation additional to his salary. EXAMINATION SUBJECTS-COUNTY CERTIFICATES. primary SECTION 1. The county primary school certificate, good County for two years, shall be issued upon satisfactory examination school in the following subjects, and shall entitle the holder to teach certificate. in any school in which only primary branches are taught: Orthography, reading, grammar, written arithmetic, mental arithmetic, penmanship, physiology, history of the United States, civil government, geography, current news, drawing, theory and practice of teaching, and, at the discretion of the State Board of Education, music and the elements of chemistry and physics. grammar SEC. 2. The county grammar school certificate, good for County three years, shall be issued upon satisfactory examination in school the following subjects, and shall entitle the holder to teach in certificate. primary, grammar or unclassified schools: All the subjects · designated for county primary school certificates, and in addition thereto, algebra, the first and second books of plane geometry, English history, bookkeeping, physical geography, physics, chemistry, and methods of teaching. certificate. SEC. 3. The county high school certificate, good for four County years, shall entitle the holder to teach in any school, and high school shall be issued upon satisfactory examination in all the subjects mentioned in sections one and two of this Act, and, in addition thereto, botany, Latin, general history, English literature, plane geometry, astronomy, rhetoric, civil government, and the history and methods of teaching. for higher SEC. 4. Applicants who have taught successfully under on applying any grade of certificate issued under this Act shall, when grade. applying for the next higher grade, be required to take only the studies of that grade; provided, that any person, holding |