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Religious instruction and

on religious

services.

within or without the corporate limits of the city, provided, however, that such school or schools shall not be located outside of the county in which such city is located, and provided further, that no such school shall be located at or near any penal institution.

C. No religious instruction shall be given in such attendance up school or schools, except as is allowed by law to be given in public schools, but the Board of Trustees, Board of Education, School Board or School Commissioners, as the case may be, shall make suitable regulations so that inmates shall receive religious training in accordance with the belief of such children's parents or guardian, either by allowing such religious services to be held in such institution or by arranging for the attendance of public service elsewhere.

Child committed to

returned home

D. Any child committed to such school or schools, school may be upon an order duly entered by the county court, may on probation. be allowed to return home upon probation and to remain while upon probation, subject to the friendly visitation and supervision of a probation officer of said county court and subject at any time to be returned to such school if said child, in the opinion of the county court, shall violate the terms and conditions of its probation. No child shall be released upon probation in less than four weeks from the time of his or her commitment, nor thereafter unless the court shall be satisfied that said child who is probationed, will attend regularly some public or private school as herein provided. If any child so released upon probation shall be regular in his or her attendance in school, and his or her conduct as a pupil shall be satisfactory for a period of one year from the date upon which she or he was released upon probation, he or she shall be finally discharged from such parental or truant school, and shall not be recommitted thereto, except in a subsequent proceeding undertaken according to the provisions of this act,

and to the Statutes of this State, concerning neglected, dependent and delinquent children.

Penalty for

probation.

E. Any child released from said school or schools, violation of upon probation, as herein provided, who shall violate conditions of the conditions of his or her probation any time within one year thereafter, shall, upon the order of the county court, be returned to such parental or truant school, and shall not again be released upon proba tion within a period of three months from the date of such re-entering; and if such child shall violate the conditions of a second release upon probation, he or she shall be recommitted to such school and shall not be released therefrom on probation until he or she shall have remains 1 in such school one year.

F. The Board of Trustees, Board of Education, School Board or School Commissioners, as the case may be, of cities of the first or second class, may establish any rules or regulations concerning such school or schools not inconsistent with this act or the constitution or laws of this State.

Act of 1904

$12. An act entitled "An Act to secure school attendance of children between the ages of seven and repealed. fourteen" approved March 22, 1904, is hereby repealed.

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Sections of act enacted

13. If any section of this act shall be held to be unconstitutional, such fact shall not affect any other separately. section of this act; it being the intention of the General Assembly in enacting this act to enact (each) section separately; and if any proviso or exception contained in any section of this act shall be held to be unconstitutional, such fact shall not effect the remaining portion of said section; it being the intention of the General Assembly to enact each section of this act and each proviso and exception thereto separately.

Approved March 19, 1908.

Preamble.

Kentucky University changed to Transylvania University.

CHAPTER 69.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An Act to amend the charter of Bacon College," and to amend an act, entitled "An Act to consolidate Kentucky University and Transylvania University;" and to change the name of Kentucky University to "Transylvania University."

WHEREAS, By an act of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, approved on the 15th day of January, 1858, the charter of Bacon College was so amended as that the name of said Bacon College was changed to the name of "Kentucky University;" and,

WHEREAS, By an act of said Assembly, approved on the 28th day of February, 1865, the said Kentucky University and Transylvania University were consolidated, under the name of Kentucky University, and the funds and property of said Universities were placed under the control of the Board of Curators of Kentucky University, under the terms and conditions of said act of consolidation; and,

WHEREAS, It is desired by the friends of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky, to assume the name of "The State University, Lexington, Kentucky," and the assumption of such name would result in the confusion in the affairs of the two institutions; now,

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That the name of Kentucky University be, and the same is now changed to that of "Transylvania University." And the present Board of Curators of Kentucky University, and the successors of said board, shall be known as "The Board of Curators of Transylvania University." To this extent, the act,

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entitled "An Act to amend the charter of Bacon College, approved 15th January, 1858, is hereby amended. And to this extent, the act, entitled “An act to consolidate Kentucky University and Transylvania University," approved February 28, 1865, is likewise amended.

$ 2. That the property and funds of said Ken. tucky University as at present owned and controlled by the Board of Curators of Kentucky University, shall be owned and controlled by said Board of Curators of Kentucky University, under the name of "Board of Curators of Transylvania University," and under the terms and conditions provided in the act, and amended acts, recited in the title of this act.

§3. The powers, duties, rights, privileges and obligations now vested by law in the Board of Curators of Kentucky University are hereby conferred on, and vested in, the said Board of Curators, under the name and style of "The Board of Curators of Transylvania University."

$4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

Approved March 20, 1908.

CHAPTER 70.

AN ACT to repeal an act entitled “An Act to authorize the organization and maintenance of a graded free school, in Common School District No. 3 in Johnson county."

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

§ 1. That an Act entitled, "An Act to authorize the organization and maintenance of a Graded Free School in Common School District No. 3 in Johnson

county," being Chapter 772 and Sections 1 to 9 inclusive of said Chapter of the Acts of 1887 and 1888, and found on page 633 to 637 inclusive, of said "Acts of 1887 and 1888," which Act became a law by the approval of the Governor on March 29, 1888, be, an the same is hereby repealed.

$2. This Act shall take effect from its passage.

Approved March 19, 1908.

Words

struck out and

CHAPTER 71.

AN ACT to amend section 4375 of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's
Edition, 1903.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

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§ 1. That section 4375 of the Kentucky Statutes others inserted. be and is hereby amended by striking therefrom the words "provided the term of the common school for that year shall be extended for such proportion of a term as the said accumulated money bears to the said amount due said district in the year in which said money is paid," and insert in lieu thereof the words "which money shall be used either to extend the school term or to supplement the salary of the teacher or teachers employed to teach such school as may be agreed upon by Trustees of such district and the teacher or teachers employed to teach therein; provided, however, that any contract or agreement for the use of any money not used in any previous school year, shall be approved by the County Superintendent of Common Schools," so that said Section as amended and re-enacted shall read as follows:

The Superintendent of Public Instruction shall, on or before the fifteenth day of July in each year, ascertain and estimate for the school year the pro rata

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