hereafter, elect a Territorial superintendent of common schools, who shall hold his office for two years and until his successor is duly elected and qualified.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Territorial superintendent to disseminate intelligence in relation to the method and value of education.

SEC. 3. He may examine all who apply to him for certificates to teach school, and his certificate shall be valid in the whole Territory, and he shall be entitled to receive the same fees for certificates as county superintendents. He may call a` teachers' convention at such time and place as he shall deem conducive to the educational interests of the Territory. He shall prepare and forward to county superintendents printed blanks, designating the questions he desires answered, on or before October first of each year.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of all the county superintendents of schools to forward to the Territorial superintendent a copy of their annual report forthwith, and they shall also state what school books would give most general satisfaction in their respective counties.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Territorial superintendent to make out a report from the reports of the county superintendents, and any other means of information he may have, of the condition of the schools in the Territory, and shall state what school books seem to be most popular in the Territory. He shall also recommend some series of school books to be introduced throughout the Territory, and he may make any suggestions he may think best for the promotion of education. He shall publish his Territorial report in some leading newspaper of the Territory, with a request that other papers copy.

SEC. 6. He shall make a report to the Legislature at its next regular session and every regular session thereafter, within ten days after convening, embodying all the information mentioned in section 5, and any other information and recommendations he deems advisable.

SEC. 7. The Territorial superintendent shall receive as a

salary out of the Territorial treasury, three hundred dollars annually, which shall include office rent, stationery, printing and all other incidental expenses of his office; and the Territorial auditor shall issue an order for said amount, which shall be paid by the treasurer out of any funds not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 8. The Territorial superintendent shall qualify within sixty days after notice of his election, by filing in the office of the Secretary of the Territory, an oath that he will faithfully discharge the duties of the office according to the best of his abilities. Whereupon the Governor shall issue to him a commission the same as to other Territorial officers; and in case of vacancy from any cause the Governor may appoint to fill the vacancy until the meeting of the next Legislature.

CHAPTER II.

SEC. 1. That the principal of all moneys accruing to this Territory from the sale of any lands heretofore given or which may hereafter be given by the Congress of the United States for school purposes, shall constitute an irreducible fund, the interest accruing from which shall be annually divided among all the school districts in the Territory proportionally to the number of children or youth in each, between the ages of four and twentyone years, for the support of common schools in said district, and for no other use or purpose whatever.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of establishing and maintaining common schools, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of each county to levy an annual tax of four mills on a dollar on all taxable property of the county as shown by the assessment rolls made by the county assessor for the same year, and to include the same in their warrant to the collector, and the said collector shall proceed to collect the siad tax in the same

manner as other county tax is collected, and the said money so collected shall be paid over to the county treasurer to be appropriated for the hire of school teachers in the several school districts, to be drawn in the manner hereinafter prescribed; neither shall it be lawful for any county treasurer to receive county orders in payment for county school tax nor to pay out any school money on county orders.

SEC. 3. For the further support of common schools, there shall be set apart by the county treasurer all moneys paid into the county treasury arising from all fines for a breach of any law regulating licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors, or for the keeping of bowling alleys or billiard saloons, or from any penal laws of this Territory. Such moneys shall be paid into the county treasury and be added to the yearly fund raised by tax in each county and divided in the same manner.

SEC. 4. That it shall be the duty of the county auditor of each county to report to the county superintendent of common schools, at least twenty days before the first Friday in November of each year, the amount of school tax levied in their respective counties for that year, and that it shall be the duty of the clerk of the district court, at the close of every term thereof, to report to the superintendent the amount of fines imposed during said term of court; and that it be the duty of all justices of the peace to report to the superintendent, at least twenty days before the first Friday of November of each year, the amount of fines imposed and collected by them for the past year.

CHAPTER III.

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.

SEC. 1. There shall be elected by the legal voters of the respective counties in Washington Territory, a county superintendent of common schools for each county, who shall be elected at the general election of 1872, and at the regular election held

biennially thereafter, who shall hold his office for the term of two years and until his successor is elected or appointed and qualified. And in case of a vacancy occurring in said office by removal, death or otherwise, the county commissioners of each county are authorized to appoint a county school superintendent as in all other cases of vacancies in their respective counties, who shall qualify in the same manner as the elected superintendent, and perform all the duties of the office according to this law, for the unexpired term for which he was appointed, and until his successor is elected and qualified.

SEC. 2. The superintendent shall qualify within ten days after notice of his election, by taking an oath to faithfully discharge the duties of his office, and to the best of his ability promote the interest of education within his county, which oath shall. be in writing and placed on file in the county auditor's office.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to district the whole county, so that every resident of the county shall be included in some district, and to divide such portion of his county. as shall be inhabited, into convenient school districts, to define the boundaries and numbers, and to keep in his office a map of the districts of the county, upon which the lines and boundaries of each district shall be clearly defined. He shall lay off new districts or divide old ones where the public good shall require it.

SEC. 4. Whenever any school district shall be formed by the superintendent, it shall be his duty to prepare a notice in writing of the establishment of such district, describing its boundaries, and to deliver the same to some taxable inhabitant of such district who shall have asked for the formation of the same. It shall be the duty of said inhabitant, within two weeks after the receipt of such notice, to notify the other inhabitants of the district of the time and place of the first district meeting, which time and place he shall fix by written notices, and which shall be posted up in three public places in the district, at least ten days previous to the time of meeting. In case the inhabitants

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fail to attend in sufficient numbers to do business, as hereinafter directed, notice may be renewed at such times as may be thought proper.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent to be at the county seat on the third Friday and Saturday of May and November of each year, for the purpose of examining teachers and for the transaction of other business, and he shall give ten days public notice of the same by posting up handbills or otherwise. And any person or district applying on different days for the transaction of such business, shall pay the superintendent a reasonable compensation for his trouble, and not exceeding the sum of two dollars, and any teacher examined on a different day shall pay the superintendent the sum of two dollars.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the superintendent to examine all persons who wish to become teachers in his county; he shall examine them in orthography, reading, arithmetic, defining, penmanship, English composition, English grammar and geography, history of the United States; and if he be of the opinion that the person examined is competent to teach said branches, and that he or she is of good moral character, he shall give such person a certificate certifying that he or she is qualified to teach a common school in said county; such certificate shall be for the term of one year only and may be revoked sooner by the superintendent for good cause; but in the examination of the teachers he may make a distinction according to qualification, granting a certificate of qualification to teach in any specified district if the applicant therefor be qualified for the school of such district, and not a county certificate, which certificate, so granted, shall only be for six months, and may for good cause be sooner revoked.

SEC. 7. The superintendent shall visit all the schools in his county once a year; he shall give such information and encouragement as he may think necessary, and endeavor to promote the introduction of a good and uniform system of school books throughout the county, for which service he shall receive three dollars for each school visited, and the same mileage for going