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TO AID (OINTY SCHOOLS. Act by Legislature Appropriating $LV 000 to Aid Consolidated and Graded Schools. Xo. 247. An act to provide for consolidated and graded schools in country districts, and to appropriate fifteen thousand dollars to encourage the same. Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen- j ' r Ofotfl nf Smith I t?rai assemoiy ui cut? oinc v ? Carolina: That not less than fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated annually for the purpose of assisting ?ural school districts in the establishment, maintenance, and improvement of rural graded schools und^r the conditions and provisions of the following sections of this act: Provided, That the amount hereby appropriated shall be expended from the sum appropriated under the terms of Term Extension Act of 1910, Act Xo. 431, page 791. Sec. 2. When any rural district in j South Carolina shall levy and collect a special school tax of not less than four (4) mills, and when a school in -such district employs two certificated teachers for a school term of not less | than six- months, and when such j school has an enrollment of not fewer i . , than fifty pupils and an average daily attendance for the session of not fewer than thirty pupils, and when such school is taught in a comfortable and sanitary building provided with the minimum equipment prescribed by '* - n j - t o/ln^otinn and une sxate Duaru vi "when it uses a course of study and 1 lassification approved by the State board of education, it shall be entitled a to receive State aid under tMs act to fee amount of $200 per year. Sec. 3. When any rural school district in South Carolina shall levy and collect a special school tax of not less than four (4) mills, and when such ?i 1 nr more certi SCilUUl CJ-1 o Seated teachers for a school term of n?t less than seven months, and when etich school has an annual enrollment of not fewer than seventy-five pupils, and an average daily attendance for the session of not fewer than 40 pupils, and when such school is taught in a comfortable and sanitary building provided with the minimum equipment prescribed by the State board of education, and wh-sn it uses a course of study and classification approved by - ?11 the State board of eaucanon, u suau be entitled to receive State aid under this act to the amount of $300 per year. Sec. 4. Xo district which receives State aid under the provisions of the high school act, or of the term extension act shall receive aid under the * provisions of this act. Xo district f "which contains an incorporated town with more than three hundred jnhabi tants shall receive aid under the provisions of this act. Sec. 3. It shall he lawful for the school trustees of a districts to use the State aid obtained under the provisions of this act to furnish public conveyance of children to the school, j when in the opinion of the trustees and the county superintendent such * action is wise and expedient. Sec. 6. The State superintendent of mav refuse aid under the > CU UWVVi w provisions of this act, if it is made to appear to him that the expenditure \ "would he unwise and detrimental to the interest of free school education in said district. Sec. 7. The State superintendent of education with the State board of education, shall provide rules and reguia tions for the distribution of this fund, j and shall publish such regulations to the various county superintendents of! education, who in turn shall publish them to the various district trustees. Sec. 8. Applications must be filed in j nf thpir recciDt, and paid or re- : VI U\.l V _ fused in the same order. Sec. 9. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same are, hereby repealed. No. 281. An act to distribute among! """ the several counties the balance of the: State dispensary fund not otherwise * appropriated. Section 1. Be it enacted by the gen- j eral assembly of the State of South Carolina, That the State superintendent of education, that State treasurer, and the comptroller general are hereby authorized and directed to apportion among the several counties of the State the total cash balance of the State dispensary fund now remaining in the State treasury and not otherwise ? appropriated. This apportionment shall be made on the basis of enrollment in the free public school as given in the annual report of the State superintendent of education for the scholastic year ending June 6, 1911. Sec- 2. All moneys apportioned to I the respective counties shall be paid j to the county treasurer upon the warrant of the comptroller goneral, to be . held in the countv treasury as school funds, and paid out upon the warrant of school district trustees in the dis I . ivtioi: of the county board of education, as provided in Section 3. Sec. 3. The county boards of education of the respective counties are authorized and directed to use this! fund in strengthening weak schools, in encouraging school improvement, and in promoting the educational interests of their counties in such manner and at such time as they may deem v. ai-rvfii 1 +<-? tho r>an<5P oft IlIV/OL C4 A. ^ education, under the general direction of the State superintendent o: education. This fund shall be a county board fund; and the time, place; and manner of its distribution shall j be determined by the several county; boards of education, by and with the approval in writing of the State superintendent of education; provided, that no more than one-fourth of the amount apportioned to a county shall be -extended in any one year except, in counties where it shall be used to defray past indebtedness due by the school fund, in which counties the whole amount may be used in any one! year. I Sec. 4. Any and all additional funds j that may hereafter be paid into the! "* ' ? -3 ' ? ? ?* o,i'NTYl_ I State treasury oy tne wmuixig -Up tUiii- j mission of the State dispensary shall j be apportioned within thirty days from the date of such payment, in the same manner, and shall b-evexpended as provided in Section 3 of this act. Approved the 23rd day of February, A. D. 1912. Cole. L. Blease, Governor. FORTY-SIX PLEAS OF SOT QUILTY ! Trial of Alleged Dynamite Conspira- j tors Oct, 1.?Judge Anderson Talks Polities to Great Convd in Court ! y Room. > Indianapolis, Ind., March 12.?"Not guilty," was the plea of forty-six men j arraigned this afternoon in the Federal court here on indictments charg- j ing complicity in the alleged conspira-; cy unlawfully to transport dynamite from State to State. Judge A. B. Anderson overruled all demurrers of the i defence, but granted thirty days for, the filing of exceptions to his ruling. A motion to consolidate the cases, j made by United States District Attorney Charles W. Miller, was sustained, but the court consented to hear at- j fr>r- tv>p tomorrow if j H->i llTrj i3 lui thev decided to petition for separate | trials. The court instructed that the j defendants appear when presentation in the matter is made. The trial was set for October 1. When Judge Anderson announced he ! would overrule the demurrers to the thirty-four indictments, he turned to the defendants, for wnom seats UdU ( been arranged in tiers, and said: | "Gentlemen, do you know* the nature of the charges against you?" "We do," came in a heavy chorus. Pleaded Not Quilty. Then one by one the indictent men! present, former labor union officials from many sections of the country and headed by Frank M. Ryan, president' of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, arose as their names were called by the clerk and responded: "Xotfeuilty." i ?i NEGROES USING PYTHIAN NAME Whites of Order in Georgia Take Case to Supreme Court * Washington, March 12.?Why negrc-;s in Georgia should be prevented from using the name Knights of Pythias as a part of a title to some of their organizations in that State was j -koc-f. o nrintpf? arerument sub-! tut* uaoio ivi vv. ? w ? mitted today to the supreme court of: the United States on behalf of the white Knights of Pythias of that State. The court is to pass on the negroes' rights shortly. It is argued that the white Order has exclusive right to the name Knights of Pythias and that the negroes should use another name. "Th*ey may call themselves 'Knights of Washington' (after Booker,)" sug-i gested John P. 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WHEREAS, one-third of the resi- , dent electors and a like proportion of the resident free-holders of the age of j twenty-one j^ears, of Utopia School i District, No. 10, of Newberry County, j ' -State of South Carolina, have filed a : petition with the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South j f Carolina, petitioning and requesting j c that an election he held in the said 1 School District on the question of re- c pealing one mill of the special annual 1 tax of two mills heretofore voted, le- * vied, and collected on the property lo- c cated in the said School District. c NOW, THEREFORE, the undersign- * ed, composing the County Board of Education of Newberry County, South ^ Carolina, do hereby order the Board of Trustees of the said School District, No. 10 (Utopia School District) to hold an election on the said question of re- ^ pealing one mill of the two mill tax _ heretofore voted, levied and collected on the property in the said School Dis- q trict, which said election shall be held t at Utopia School house, in the said y School District, No. 10, on Friday, ? 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