village, with the territory annexed thereto for school purposes, which has organized separately as a school district under any other provision of this act.

Sec. 1285. If adequate provision has not been made at the Special meet-annual district meeting for school-house purposes, or the pay

ings to levy

tax.

Notice of

ment of debts in any sub-district, the sub-director may, and shall, at the written request of one-fourth of the electors of the sub-district, call a meeting of the electors of the sub-district; said meeting to be held on the second Monday next succeeding the call of the meeting.

Sec. 1286. He shall give at least ten days' notice of any meeting. meeting so called, by causing said notice to be read in the presence of each school taught in his sub-district, if during term time; or if no school be in operation, then by posting written notices of said meeting in at least three conspicuous public places in his sub-district.

Payment of judgments.

Bible.

Appeals to superintendent.

Affidavit on

appeal.

intendent on

appeal.

Sec. 1287. When a judgment has been obtained against a school district, it shall be the duty of the district board of school directors to pay off and satisfy the same from the proper fund by an order on the treasurer of the district; and it shall be the duty of the district meeting, at the time for voting a tax for the payment of other liabilities of the district, to provide for the payment of such order or orders.

Sec. 1288. The Bible shall not be excluded from any school or institution in this State, under the control of the board, nor shall any pupil be required to read it, contrary to the wishes of his parent or guardian.

Sec. 1289. Any person aggrieved by any decision or order of the district board of school directors, in matter of law or fact, may, within thirty days after the rendition of such decision, or the making of such order, appeal therefrom to the superintend ent of the proper district.

Sec. 1290. The basis of the proceeding shall be an affidavit, filed by the party aggrieved with the division superintendent within the time allowed for taking the appeal.

Sec. 1291. The affidavit shall set forth the errors complained of in a plain and concise manner.

Sec. 1292. The division superintendent shall, within five Duty of super- days after the filing of such affidavit in his office, notify the secretary of the proper district in writing of the taking of such appeal. And the latter shall, within ten days after being thus notified, file in the office of the division superintendent a complete transcript of the record and proceedings relating to the decision complained of, which transcript shall be certified to be correct by the secretary.

Sec. 1293. After the filing of the transcript aforesaid in his Notice to par- office, he shall notify in writing all persons adversely interested, of the time and place where the matter of the appeal will be heard by him.

ties.

Testimony.

Sec. 1294. At the time thus fixed for hearing, he shall hear

testimony for either party, and for that purpose may administer oaths if necessary, and he shall make such decision as may be just and equitable, which shall be final, unless appealed from as hereinafter provided.

State Board.

Sec. 1295. An appeal may be taken from the decision of the division superintendent to the State board of education in the Appeal to same manner as provided in this act for taking appeals from the decision of the district board of school directors to the division superintendent as nearly as practicable, except that he shall give thirty days' notice of the appeal to the division superinten- Notice. dent, and the like notice shall be given the adverse party. And the decision, when made, shall be final.

Sec. 1296. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize either the division superintendent or the State board

for money.

of education to render a judgment for money; neither shall they No judgment be allowed any other compensation than is now allowed by law; Provided, That all necessary postage must first be paid by the Provided. party aggrieved.

teachers fail in

Sec. 1297. Any officer, school, municipal, parish or State, or any teacher of any public school who shall refuse to receive into Penalty when any school any child between the ages of six and twenty-one duty. years, who shall be lawfully entitled to admission into the same, and who shall comply with such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the district board of school directors and the State board of education shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the parish jail for not less than one month nor more than six months; and all such causes shall have preference before other criminal cases upon the docket of the court before which they shall be brought; and such person so offending shall also be liable to an action for damages by the parent or the guardian of the child so refused.

D. Sec. 808.

ADDITION.

sites.

Sec. 1298. Where lands shall be required for erection of a school-house, or for enlarging a school-house lot, and the owner school-house thereof shall refuse to sell the same for a reasonable compensation, the district board of school directors shall have the power to select and possess such sites embracing space sufficiently extensive to answer the purpose of school-house and grounds.

D. Sec. 1492.

Sec. 1299. Should such land-holder deem the sum assessed too small, he shall have the right to institute suit before any older. Suit by landproper judicial tribunal for his claim, but the title shall pass from him to the school corporation.

No person shall hold any office under the provisions of this act unless he is a qualified voter of the State.

D. Sec. 1299, 1493.

cers.

Sec. 1300. A failure on the part of any district, parish or Failure of offi- State officer to perform the duties imposed upon him by any section of this act under the title "Education," and in the manner herein specified, is hereby declared a misdemeanor in office, upon conviction whereof such officer shall be punished by a fine not less than fifty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the parish prison for a term of not less than thirty days, and not exceeding three months. All prosecutions for offenses against this section shall have precedence over all cases before any justice of the peace, or parish or district court.

exempt from

D. Sec. 872.

Sec. 1301. Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to State seminary the State seminary of learning at Alexandria, it being the true intent and meaning of this act to leave that institution to be controlled by laws heretofore enacted concerning it.

operation of this law.

Sec. 1302. In addition to the students admitted from the representative and senatorial districts as herein provided, there Admission of may be admitted fifty pupils, possessed of the required qualifi

pupils.

cations, who desire to qualify themselves as teachers in private schools and academies, who shall pay such sum per session as the State board of education may determine, and purchase their own text-books.

They shall be subject in every respect, except the filing of written declarations in regard to teaching in the public schools, to the rules and regulations of other students.

Sec. 1303. The State superintendent shall prescribe the course of study and supervise the general curriculum in every particu lar not provided for in this law. He shall make provision for Model schools. model, primary and grammar schools, under permanent and highly qualified teachers, in which the students of the nor mal school shall have opportunity to practice in the art of teaching.

Salaries in model schools.

Certain ferries, bridges

dren.

The salary of the teachers of the model and experimental schools shall be paid from the tuition fees derived from the pupils of said model schools, and those of the normal school who pay for their tuition; and any balance that may be required shall be paid by the State board of education out of the public

school fund.

Sec. 1304. The free right of passage or conveyance over all and roads free the public ferries, bridges and roads (except the ferries of the for school chil- Mississippi river), which are rented out by the State or parish, or over which the State or parish exercises any control, or for which license is paid or toll exacted, be and is hereby granted to all children on foot attending free public schools, and no tolls or fees shall be demanded or exacted from said children by the keepers or attendants of said ferries, bridges or roads in their passage to and from school, between the hours of seven o'clock, A. M. and nine o'clock, A. M., and four o'clock, P. M., and six o'clock, P.M.; Provided, That on Sundays and school holidays

Provided.

no scholars shall have the right to cross such ferries, bridges or roads on terms different from those of any ordinary passenger. D. Sec. 1506. Act 1868, p. 212.

directors au

Sec. 1305. It shall be lawful for the register of the State land office to sell, at the price stipulated by law to any board of Sale to school free school district directors of this State any amount not less thorized. than five acres of any land within their school district donated by congress to this State, either for the use of a seminary of learning or for the purpose of internal improvement, on which to erect a school-house.

D. Sec. 2946. Act 1855, p. 402.

lecting land

provisions of

sections.

Sec. 1306. Any land so sold shall commence in the corner of a legal division or subdivision of sections; and if in a right Manner of seangle it shall be run at an equal distance on two sides, bounded sold under the by the lines of such division and form a square including the the preceding number of acres sold; if in an acute angle, it shall be bounded by said division lines to such distance, and by lines in such other directions as the register may deem most equitable between the land so sold and that retained; the patents for land so sold shall issue to the free school directors and their successors, for the use of their district schools, setting forth the number, and of what parish.

D. Sec. 2947.

Reservation of school lands to

Sec. 1307. The register of the State land office at Baton Rouge is required to ascertain in what township in this State, there are no reservations of school sections by reason of conficting claims or from any other cause, or where the reserva- be obtained by tion is less than contemplated by law; and in such cases it is made his duty, under the superintendence of the governor, to apply for and as soon as possible obtain a location of any land or part of land in lieu thereof.

D. Sec. 2951.

the register.

Sec. 1308. When such locations can not be made, if deemed more advantageous to the State, the register, with the assent of the federal government, is authorized to issue scrip for such Scrip to be islands, which scrip shall not be sold for a less amount than one cases. dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.

D. Sec. 2952.

sued in certain

Sec. 1309. Whenever he shall be satisfied that there are no public lands in the south-eastern land district of this State, belonging to the general government, on which may be located the school land warrants sold for the benefit of certain townships in the district because of the donation by congress of all the overflowed and swamp lands to the State, then and in that case they are hereby authorized and required to receive and cancel all In certain such warrants as may be presented for that purpose and pay to to be canceled the legal possessors thereof or to their orders, the full amount turned. received by the State on account of the same; the money to be

cases warrants

and money re

Price of seminary lands.

taken from that fund in the treasury which was credited by the sale of the warrants.

D. Sec. 2953.

Sec. 1310. The price of the seminary lands shall hereafter be fixed at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.

D. Sec. 2954.

Sec. 1311. Every person, or his legal representatives who are or may be the purchasers of a tract of land from the State of Louisiana, which tract of land had actually and immediately been located by the State, the purchase whereof is or may be void by reason of a prior sale thereof or by any valid right of pre-emption, or for want of title thereto in the State of Louisiana, shall be enRepayment of titled to a repayment of any sum of money paid for such tract of land, on making proof to the satisfaction of the register of the land office that the same was erroneously sold in the manner aforesaid by the State of Louisiana. The said register is hereby authorized to draw a warrant on the auditor of public accounts for the repayment of such sum of money paid as aforesaid, upon entries in said land office on lands erroneously sold as aforesaid.

purchase price of lands in certain cases.

Transfer to be made before

D. Sec. 2955.

Sec. 1312. Before the amount applied for shall be refunded, money can be the party applying must deposit a duly executed transfer of the tract purchased, to the State of Louisiana, together with the warrant under which the selection or location was made.

refunded.

Free school fund.

D. Sec. 2956.

FREE SCHOOL FUND.

Sec. 1313. The proceeds of all lands heretofore granted by the United States to this State for the use or support of schools, except the sixteenth section in the various townships of the States specially reserved by congress for the use and benefit of the people therein; and of all lands which may hereafter be granted or bequeathed to the State and not specially granted or bequeathed for any other purpose, which hereafter may be disposed of by the State, and the ten per cent. of the net proceeds of the sales of the public land which have accrued and are to accrue to this State under the act of congress, entitled "An Act to appropriate the proceeds of the public lands," and to grant pre-emption rights, approved September fourth, 1841; and the proceeds of the estates of deceased persons, to which the State has or may become entitled by law, shall be held by the State as a loan, and shall be and remain a perpetual fund, to be called the free school fund, on appropriated. which the State shall pay an annual interest of six per cent.; which interest, together with the interest of the trust fund deposited with this State by the United States, under the act of congress approved the twenty-third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, with the rents of all unsold lands, except that of the sixteenth sections, shall be appropriated for the support of public schools in this State; and donations of all kinds which

Interest on

said fund, how