Proviso. Second temporary certificate. To revoke diploma. Printing. Seal. high school certificates, valid for five years, to graduates of the Nevada State Normaal School who have completed the four years' course of study; fifth, State grammar school certificates, valid for five years, to graduates of the Nevada State Normal School, who have completed the three years' course of study; sixth, to issue, upon satisfactory showing, a temporary certificate, which shall authorize the holder thereof to teach in the specified district for which the temporary certificate may be granted. This certificate shall not continue in force beyond the next semi-annual examination after the issuing of said certificate; provided, however, that if satisfactory evidence is furnished of the inability of such holder to attend the said examination, by reason of sickness, or other unavoidable cause, the Board may issue at their discretion a second temporary certificate. Sixth-To revoke for immoral conduct, or evident unfitness for teaching, any State diploma or any State or county certificate. Seventh-To have done by the State Printer any printing required by the Board, such as the proceedings of the State Teachers' Institute, circulars of information to school officers or teachers, and blank forms. Eighth-To adopt and use in authentication of its acts an official seal. Ninth-To keep a record of its proceedings, which shall be Proceedings published biennially in the report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. published. State educational diplomas. Life diplomas. Nevada State Tenth-State educational diplomas may be issued to such persons only as have held a State certificate of high school grade, or a county certificate of high school grade, for at least one year, and shall furnish satisfactory evidence of having been engaged successfully in teaching at least forty-five months in the public schools, twenty months of which must have been in Nevada. Every application for an educational diploma must be accompanied by a certified copy of a resolution adopted by the Board of School Trustees of the district in which the applicant has taught one year. An educational diploma shall entitle the holder thereof to teach in any public school in the State of Nevada without further examination. Eleventh-Life diplomas may be issued on all and the same conditions as educational diplomas, except that the applicant must furnish satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching seventy-two months, twentyfour of which must have been in Nevada. A life diploma shall entitle the holder thereof to teach in any school in the State of Nevada without any further examination. Twelfth-To the graduates of the Nevada State Normal Graduates of School who hold State high school certificates, the State Normal Board of Education shall grant a life diploma of high school grade when said graduates shall have completed at least forty-five months of successful instruction in public schools. School. diploma. To all graduates of the Nevada State Normal School who Grammar hold a State grammar school certificate, the State Board of grade life Education shall grant a life diploma of the grammar grade when said graduates shall have completed at least forty-five months of successful instruction in public schools. The State Board of Education shall also issue a diploma of the grammar grade to all persons who hold in full force and effect, and who have held for at least one year, a county or State certificate of the grammar grade, and who shall present satisfactory evidence of having been successfully engaged in teaching in public schools for a period of seventy-two months, twenty-four of which must have been in the public schools of the State of Nevada. A grammar grade life diploma shall entitle the holder thereof to teach in any primary or grammar school in the State without further examination. jurisdiction. Thirteenth-To have appellate jurisdiction over all ques- Appellate tions relating to schools and referred to County Boards of Examination. applicant Fourteenth--To prescribe in what studies shall be examined studies an applicant for a county high school certificate valid for four in which years; an applicant for a county grammar school certificate shall be valid for three years, and an applicant for a county primary certificate valid for two years. examined. certain grade Fifteenth-Upon the recommendation of the County Super- May renew or intendent of the county in which the applicant resides, the makeVara State Board of Education may renew a high school or gram- certificates. mar certificate, or make it valid in any county in the State of Nevada. a State grade. Sixteenth-Upon presentation to them of a life certificate May grant of any State or of the diploma of any State Normal School, certificate of the Board may grant a State certificate of equivalent grade equivalent without examination, valid for three years or less; provided, Proviso. that since the issuing of such certificate or diploma the applicant has been continuously or successfully engaged in teaching. Nevada State Seventeenth-Graduates of the Nevada State Normal School Graduates of who have taught successfully for the time specified in this Normal Act, on or before January 1, 1900, shall be entitled to life School diplomas of undesignated grade. Eighteenth-All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, are hereby repealed. [As amended Stats. 1901, pp. 48, 49, 50.] entitled. ARTICLE II. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. provided for. SECTION 1. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall Election of, be elected, by the qualified voters of the State, at the general election for State and county officers, to be held in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and every four years thereafter at such general elections, and shall enter upon the duties apportion school moneys. of his office on the first Monday of January next after his election. He shall be paid a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Public Required to Instruction, subject to the supervision of the State Board of Education, immediately after the State Controller shall have made his semi-annual report as hereinafter required, to apportion to the several counties the amount of school money in the State Treasury to which each shall be entitled under the provisions of this Act, in proportion to the number of persons between the ages of six and eighteen years residing therein, as shown by the last previous reports of the County Superintendents, and to furnish to the State Controller, to each County Treasurer, to each County Auditor, and to each County Superintendent an abstract of such apportionment, and with such apportionment to furnish each County Treasurer his order on the State Controller, under the seal of the State Board of Education, for the amount of school moneys in the State Treasury to which such counties shall be entitled, and to take such County Treasurer's receipt for the same. To make a biennial report. To prescribe forms and provide blanks, etc, SEC. 3. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall report to the Governor, biennially, on or before the first of December of the years preceding the regular session of the Legislature. The Governor shall transmit said report to the Legislature; and whenever it is ordered published, the State Printer shall deliver two hundred and fifty copies to the Superintendent, who shall distribute the same among school officers of the State and of the United States. Said report shall contain a full statement of the condition of public instruction in the State; a statement of the condition and amount of all funds and property appropriated to the purpose of education; the number and grade of schools in each county; the number of children in each county between the ages of six and eighteen years; the number of such attending public schools; the number of such attending private schools; the number attending no schools; the number under six years of age; the number between eighteen and twenty-one years of age; the amount of public school moneys apportioned to each county; the amount of money raised by county taxation, district tax, rate bills, subscription or otherwise, by any city, town, district or county, for the support of schools therein; the amount of money raised for building school houses; a statement of plans for the management and improvement of public schools; and such other information relative to the educational interests of the State as he may think of importance. SEC. 4. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall prescribe suitable forms and regulations for making all reports and conducting all necessary proceedings under this Act, and shall cause the same, with such instructions as he shall deem necessary and proper for the organization and government of schools, to be transmitted to the local school officers, who shall be governed in accordance therewith. He shall pre- State. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of To visit each Public Instruction to visit each county in the State at least county in the once in each year for the purpose of visiting schools, of consulting County Superintendents, of lecturing and addressing public assemblies on subjects pertaining to public schools; and the actual traveling expenses incurred by the Superintendent in the discharge of this duty shall be allowed, audited and paid out of the General Fund in the same manner as claims upon said fund are now allowed, audited and paid; provided, that the sum so expended in any one year shall not exceed one thousand dollars. office effects. SEC. 6. The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, To deliver at the expiration of his term of office, deliver over, on demand, to his successor, all property and effects belonging to his office, and take his receipt for the same. ARTICLE III. EX OFFICIO COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Attorneys to SECTION 1. On and after the first Monday in January, A. District D. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, the District Attorneys, be ex officio in addition to their respective duties, shall be ex officio Super- County intendent of Schools within their respective counties, without ents. additional compensation. [As amended Stats. 1887, p. 73.] In Lyon county the County Recorder, as ex officio County Auditor, shall also be ex officio Superintendent of Public Schools. [As amended Stats. 1891, p. 53.] Superintend money. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the County Superintendent To apportion of Public Schools, upon receiving notice from the County school Treasurer and County Auditor, as provided in this Act, to apportion the public school moneys in the county treasury among the several school districts of his county as follows: First-He must ascertain the number of teachers each district is entitled to, by calculating one teacher for every seventy-five census children or fraction thereof, as shown by the next preceding school census. Second-He must ascertain the total number of teachers for the county by adding together the number of teachers First Duties of ent. assigned to the several districts, upon the basis of one teacher to each seventy-five census children or fraction thereof. Third-Forty per cent of the amount of the apportionment from the State and County School Fund shall be apportioned equally to each district for every teacher assigned it, upon the basis of seventy-five census children or fraction thereof. Fourth-All school moneys remaining on hand after apportioning forty per cent of the State and county apportionment equally to each district for every teacher assigned it, upon the basis of seventy-five census children or fraction thereof, must be apportioned to the several districts in proportion to the number of children between the ages of six and eighteen years, as returned by the School Trustees and Census Marshals, and to forthwith notify the County Treasurer, County Auditor and the School Trustees, in writing, of such apportionment in detail. He shall make such apportionment on the first Monday in January of each year, and quarterly thereafter. He shall have power, and it shall be his duty, to draw his order on the County Auditor in favor of the Trustees of any school districts in his county for any bill signed by said Trustees, and authorized by this Act; provided, that such order shall not be drawn except upon presentation of an itemized account, which shall remain on file in his office, and until full and correct returns have been made to him as required by law; and provided, further, that if, in the opinion of the Superintendent, any bill contains an exorbitant or unwarranted charge, he may refuse to draw his order until ordered to do so by the Board of County Commissioners, who shall act as auditors upon all bills rejected by the County Superintendent. No order shall be drawn in favor of any school district by the County Superintendent upon the Auditor unless there be cash in the treasury at the time to the credit of said district. It shall be the duty of the County Auditor to draw his warrant upon the County Treasurer for the amount of any such order of the County Superintendent upon the presentation of the same to him, if there be cash in the treasury to the credit of the particular fund on which he is called upon to draw. No charge for issuing said warrant shall be made by the County Auditor. [As amended Stats. 1889, p. 38.] SEC. 3. The County Superintendent shall have power, and it shall be his duty: First To visit each public school in his county within ten miles of the county seat, at least once in each term; provided, Superintend that he shall visit all the schools in his county once in each year; to exercise a general supervision over the interests of the public schools in his county, and give to the School Trustees, Marshals and teachers such aid as may be important to the prosperity of the schools. Second-To distribute promptly such blanks, reports, forms, laws and instructions as shall be received by him from |