1915 public laws – Ch.236 Sec.4

That chapter eight hundred and twenty of the Public Laws of one thousand nine hundred and seven be and the same is hereby amended as follows: (a) Amend section one by adding at the end thereof the following words: Provided, that not more than four public high schools in any one county shall be entitled under the provisions of this act to receive State aid. (b) Amend section four by striking out in line nineteen thereof the words and recommendation and further by striking out all the words in said section after the word superintendent in line twenty. (c) Strike out section seven and insert in lieu thereof the following: SECTION 7 (substitute for). Before any public high school shall be entitled to. receive State aid under the provisions of this act, its application therefor shall have been approved by both the county board of education and the State Board of Education; and the amount of State aid to be given shall be determined by. the State Board of Education, and the county board of education shall apportion to each public high school out of the general county fund at least as much as the State apportions to said high school; and the local committee of each public high school receiving State aid under the provisions of this act shall apportion out of the local school fund raised by special tax, or shall raise by private donation or otherwise, at least as much as the State Board of Education apportions to said high school under the provisions of the act; and when the high school committee shall deposit its apportionment with the treasurer to be placed to the credit of said public high school, the county board of education shall make an apportionment out of the general school fund of the county, as provided herein, and deposit same with the treasurer to the credit of said public high school. When the treasurer and the county superintendent shall certify to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction that the apportionments by the local committee and the county board of education, herein required, have been duly authorized for any high school, a State warrant shall be issued upon the requisition of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for such an amount as the State Board of Education shall have approved under the provisions of this act and sent to the treasurer to be placed to the credit of said public high school. All high school funds herein provided and placed to the credit of any high school shall be used exclusively for the payment of teachers salaries in said high school and for such necessary incidental expenses as may be approved by the State Superintendent of Public Instruction; and said high school funds shall be paid out by the treasurer for the purposes herein specified only upon the order of the public high school committee, approved by the county superintendent of schools. Provided, that the amount apportioned by the State Board of Education to any public high school, maintained under the provisions of this act, shall not be less than two hundred dollars nor more than six hundred dollars for any year. Provided further, that after a public high school has been approved and established under the provisions of this act, it shall not be discontinued by the county board of education without the consent and approval of the State Board of Education. (d) Strike out section eight and insert in lieu thereof the following: Section 8 (substitute for). The treasurer of the county school fund, or in counties in which the office of treasurer has been abolished, any bank or other corporation handling the public school funds shall be treasurer of the public high school fund, except as is hereinafter provided. He shall keep a separate account of the funds of each public high school, and shall on the first Monday in July of each year, make to the county board of education and to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction a report of all receipts and expenditures of said fund for each separate high school for the preceding year: Provided, that the treasurer of any chartered school receiving State aid under the provisions of this act, may in the discretion of the State Board of Education, serve as treasurer of the public high school fund, but shall receive no commission for disbursing the funds apportioned by the county and the State under the provisions of this act.