read as follows: "Section 7. The bound volumes of said reports shall be offered for sale by said Reporter at a price not less than three nor more than five dollars for each copy." SEC. 4. That section nine of said act be so amended as to read as follows: "Section 9. The Reporter of the Supreme Court shall receive an annual salary of five hundred dollars, payable quarter-yearly, out of any moneys in the State treas ury not otherwise appropriated." SEC. 5. That sections three, four, seven and nine of the act to which this is amendatory be and the same are hereby repealed. Approved, February 20, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. CHAPTER XCVI. PROVIDING REVENUE. AN ACT to provide revenue for the year 1864. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That, for the purpose of raising revenue to defray the current expenses of the State government for the year 1864, the proper officers are hereby directed to levy and collect a tax of five mills on the dollar upon all property in this Five mills. State subject to taxation. SEC. 2. That the revenue raised under the provisions of this act shall be appropriated exclusively for appropriations made subsequent to the first day of January, 1864, and to create a sinking fund for the redemption, and to pay the interest on, bonds of the State of Kansas, which have been or may be issued under authority of law. SEC. 3. That, of the tax so levied, one mill upon the dollar upon all the taxable property of the State shall be payable in lawful money of the United States or matured coupons of the bonds of the State of Kansas, which shall be reserved exclusively for the payment of the interest upon such bonds, the issue of which has been authorized by law, and for the redemption of such bonds. SEC. 4. This act shall be in force from and after its publication once in the Topeka Tribune, and the Secretary of State is hereby directed to cause a certified copy hereof to be immediately so published. Approved, March 1, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of the enrolled law on file in my office, and that the same was published in the Topeka Tribune for March 5, 1864. W. W. H. LAWRENCE, Secretary of State. CHAPTER XCVII. RIVERS DECLARED NOT NAVIGABLE. AN ACT declaring the Kansas, Republican, Smoky Hill, Solomon and Big Blue rivers not navigable, and authorizing the bridging of the same. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That the Kansas, Republican, Smoky Hill, Soloomon and Big Blue rivers, within the limits of the State of Kansas, are hereby declared not navigable streams or rivers. SEC. 2. Any railroad or bridge company, having a charter under any general or special law of the State of Kansas, shall have the same right to bridge or dam said rivers as they would have had if they never had been declared navigable streams. SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 25, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. CHAPTER XCVIII. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH, AN ACT relating to those who observe the day commonly called Saturday as the Sabbath. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That no person whose religious faith and practice is to keep the seventh day of the week, commonly called Observance. Saturday, as a day set apart by divine command as the Sabbath of rest from labor, and dedicated to the worship of God, shall be subject to perform military duty, or to serve as a juryman in a justice's court, on that day, except that such person shall be subject to perform military duty at any time in case of insurrection, invasion or time of war. SEC. 2. That any person who shall knowingly cause or pro- No process. cure any process issued from a justice's court in a civil suit to be served on that day upon any such person, or who shall serve any such process made returnable on that day, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be subject to a fine of one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty days, or both. SEC. 3. That any person who shall in like manner procure Suits pending. any such suit, pending in such court, against any person of such religious faith and practice, to be adjourned for trial on that day, shall also be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to a like punishment. Approved, February 23, 1864. THOMAS CARNEY, Governor. B'rd of directors -how constit'd. State treasurer treas'r of board. Directors not to be interested in contracts. Principal and assistant teachers. CHAPTER XCIX. ORGANIZING STATE NORMAL SCHOOL. AN ACT to organize the State Normal School. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That the State Normal School, established and located at Emporia, in Lyon county, Kansas, upon the site selected by the commissioners in pursuance of an act of the Legislature of the State of Kansas, entitled "An act to establish, locate and endow a State Normal School," approved March 3d, 1863, shall be under the direction of a board of directors, and shall be governed and supported as hereafter provided. SEC. 2. The board of directors shall consist of nine members, six of whom shall be appointed by the Governor; and the Governor [Secretary] of State, State Treasurer and State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, by virtue of their office, be members of said board. SEC. 3. The State Treasurer shall, by virtue of his office, be treasurer of said board, and the members thereof shall annually select one of their number president, and one of their number secretary. SEC. 4. No member of said board of directors shall, during his continuance in office as a member of said board, act as the agent of any publisher or publishers of school books or school library books, or become interested in the publication or sale of any such books, as agent or otherwise; and the Governor of this State is hereby authorized and required, upon satisfactory evidence being produced to him that any member of said board is employed as such agent, or is interested in the manner aforesaid, by and with the advice of the State Superintendent and State Treasurer, to remove such member of said board from office, and appoint another member in his place, to fill such vacancy. SEC. 5. Said board of directors shall have power to appoint a principal and assistant, to take charge of said school, without expense to the State, and such other teachers and officers as may be required in said school, and fix the salary of each, and prescribe their several duties. They shall also have power to remove either principal, assistant or teacher, and to appoint others in their stead. They shall prescribe the various books to be used in such school, and shall make all the by-laws necessary for the good government of the same. school. Secr's of board to notify Sup't Pub. SEC. 6. Said board shall also establish an experimental Experimental school in connection with said Normal School, in which the pupils shall have opportunity to practice the modes of instruction and discipline inculcated in the State Normal School; and said board shall make all the regulations necessary to govern and Regulations. support the same, and may, in their discretion, admit pupils free of charge for tuition, and without expense to the State. SEC. 7. As soon as said Normal School is prepared to receive pupils, the secretary of the board of directors shall notify the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall immediately give notice of the fact to each County Clerk in the State. SEC. 8. The board of directors shall ordain such rules and Rules, &c. regulations for the admission of pupils to said Normal School as they shall deem necessary and proper. Every applicant for admission shall undergo an examination in such manner as may be prescribed by the board, and if it shall appear that the applicant is not a person of good moral character, such applicant shall be rejected. The board of directors may, in their discretion, require any applicant for admission to said school other than such as shall be by law entitled to admission free, and who shall, prior to such admission, sign and file with said board a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching common schools in this State, to pay or secure to be paid such fees for tuition as the said board shall deem reasonable. SEC. 9. That each representative district in this State shall one papil from be entitled to send one pupil each term of twenty-two weeks of said school, said pupil to be recommended by the representative of the district to the board of directors; the person thus recommended shall be admitted free of tuition: Provided, the applicant shall be of good moral character, and shall sustain a satisfactory examination. and sign a declaration of intention to follow the business of teaching common schools in this State: And provided further, that pupils may be admitted without each Rep. dist. |