1. Any person holding a state certificate according to the provisions of the law in force when granted, and possessing the other qualifications herein required for a state certificate, shall be granted a state certificate under the provisions of this act on passing the required examination on additional subjects prescribed for a state certificate, excepting the branches required for a first-grade county certificate.

2. Any person holding a state diploma, obtained according to the provisions of the law in force when granted, and possessing the other qualifications herein required for a state diploma, shall be granted a state diploma on passing the required examination on the additional subjects required for a state diploma, excepting the branches required for a first-grade county certificate.

3. Any person holding a life diploma obtained according to the provisions of the law in force when granted, and possessing the other qualifications for a state diploma, shall be granted a state diploma under this act on passing the required examination on the additional subjects prescribed for a state diploma, excepting the branches required for a first-grade county certificate.

Provided, that this section shall not be so construed as to invalidate state papers issued under former laws.

Section 11. Applicants for a state certificate shall pay $4, and for a state diploma $6, which fee shall be paid by the superintendent of public instruetion, within thirty days, to the state treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. All money so received by the state treasurer shall be credited to the state board of examiners fund. For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the state board of examiners for preparing questions and examining papers for state certificates and state diplomas, the state board of education shall draw an order on the state treasurer for such sums as may be necessary to defray such expenses; provided, that such sum shall not exceed the amount of the state board of examiners' fund in the state treasury.

Section 12. The state board of education shall appoint not less than four nor more than nine professional teachers to assist in the examinations for state papers, who shall be known as the state board of examiners, and the said teachers shall receive $5 per day while engaged in their duties.

Section 13. The state board of education may, at its discretion, grant without examination state certificates and state diplomas to persons presenting authenticated papers from other states of grade and kind like those granted by the state board of education in this state; provided, that the state board of education is satisfied that said papers were secured by passing an examination equivalent to that given by the state board of education of this state for state papers; provided, that the state board of education may, at its discretion, grant a permit for one year to persons who hold papers of the grade and kind equivalent to a state certificate, but have not had the requisite amount of teaching experience in Oregon to secure a state certificate. A permit granted by the board shall authorize the holder to teach in any public school in the state. Applicants for state certificates and state diplomas must present certificates of good moral character and that they have taught successfully in their several counties, from the county superintendents of all the counties in which the applicant has taught for three years immediately preceding the time of making such application, but the state board, if otherwise satisfied as to the qualifications of said applicant, may grant the certificates or diplomas without certificates from the county superintendents. All persons holding such diplomas or certificates, before engaging to teach in any public school in this state, shall present such diploma or certificate to the superintendent of the county in which the holder proposes to teach, to be registered by the superintendent, and such holders of diplomas and certificates, while they remain in such county, shall attend institutes, assist in institute work and perform such other reasonable duties as may be required by the county superintendent, the same as other teachers of the county are required to do.

Section 14. If any holder of a diploma or of a certificate as aforesaid, shall refuse to perform his duties as herein specified, then it shall be the duty of the county superintendent to report such unprofessional conduct to the state board of education. The state board of education may revoke any certificate or diploma granted by it on the proof that the holder has been guilty of immoral conduct rendering him unfit to be a teacher; but before any revocation shall be made, the person accused shall have due and reasonable notice of the nature of the charge against him, and shall have an opportunity to be heard in person and by counsel, and to produce any witnesses whose testimony he may desire.

Section 15. The following diplomas shall be considered equivalent to the teaching experience required for a state certificate:

1. Diplomas from the regular state normal schools.

2. Diplomas from any chartered institution of this state of collegiate or university grade granted upon the completion of a course consisting of at least seven years' work above the eighth grade of the public school system of this state, on the basis of twenty recitations per week and thirty-two weeks per year, the state board of education being the judge of the standard of such schools; provided, that this section shall not be so construed as to permit the issuance of any state certificate or state diploma without the examination provided for in section 9 of this act.

3. Holders of state certificates granted under the provisions of this section may become candidates for a state diploma when they have taught thirty months with approved success from the date of their state certificate; provided, that this section shall not be so construed as to prevent the issuing of state diplomas to the pupils of state normal schools and chartered institutions who may graduate from such institutions before September 1, 1899, under the provisions of acts in force February 1, 1899.

Section 16. The proceedings of each session of the state board of education shall be published for general distribution, containing, in addition to the ordinary proceedings, the names of the successful applicants and the certificates granted.

TITLE III-COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.

Section 17. There shall be elected by the legal voters of each county at the biennial election in the year 1900, and every four years thereafter, a County school superintendent who shall take his office on the first Monday in August following his election. He shall hold his office for four years, and until his successor is chosen and qualified. But the present office of the county superintendent of schools is not affected by this section until the election in the year 1900. No person shall be eligible to the office of county school superintendent who has not, at the time of his election or appointment, taught in the schools of the state at least nine school months, and who does not hold a first-grade county certificate, a state diploma or a state certificate in Oregon, and no county clerk shall place the name of a candidate for the office of county school superintendent on an official ballot unless said candidate shall furnish proof to such county clerk that said candidate has taught in the state for nine school mouths, and also holds one of the certificates as provided for in this act.

Section 18. The superintendent elect shall qualify on or before the first Monday in August, by taking an oath to support the constitution of the United States and of the state of Oregon, and to faithfully discharge the duties required of him by this act; said oath shall be reduced to writing, subscribed to and placed on file in the county clerk's office of his county. Section 19. County superintendents of the several counties of this state shall receive as compensation for their services the following annual salaries, payable in the same manner as the salaries of other county officers are paid, and they shall receive no other compensation whatever :

Section 20. He shall, before he enters upon the discharge of his duties, give to the county court an official bond, in such sum as the county court may direct, conditioned that he will faithfully and honestly perform all the duties required of him by this act.

Section 21. The duties of the superintendent shall be as follows:

1. The superintendent and the county court, or the board of commissioners in counties where this board is a separate body, shall constitute a board for laying off his county in convenient school districts, such board to be styled the district boundary board. Said board shall make alterations and changes in the same when petitioned so to do, in the manner hereinafter specified; and the superintendent shall make a record showing the boundaries and numbers of all the districts in his county so established and organized. The county judge shall be ex officio chairman of said board and the superintendent ex officio secretary, except where the board of county commissioners is a separate body, the chairman of the board shall be chairman. The superintendent and two members of the county board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

2. When the district boundary board shall have established a new district, the superintendent shall notify, in writing, three of the petitioners in said district, who petitioned therefor, giving in said notice the number and boundaries thereof; and when alterations are made by the said board the superintendent shall notify, immediately, in the manner aforesaid, the directors of all the districts concerned.

3. He shall, on the first Monday in January, April, July and October in each year, make an apportionment of the entire school fund then in the county treasury, in the following manner: Of the school fund collected in pursuance of the school tax levy of the county court, he shall, in January, apportion $50 to each district in his county that has reported to him as required by law; and the balance of the school funds thereafter remaining in the treasury shall be apportioned among the several districts in his county that have reported to him as required by law, in proportion to the number of persons in each district over four and under twenty years of age, as shown by the last school census. If, after the making of the apportionment in January, there shall not be sufficient of the county funds to make the required $50 to each district, he shall apportion the whole amount of such fund in equal sums among the several districts as have reported as

required by law, and at the next regular apportionment when there is money in the treasury sufficient for the purpose, he shall apportion to each such a sum as will make up the required $50 for that year, and the balance as herein before specified; provided, that in a joint district the sum of $50 herein required to be paid to each school district in a county before any part of the county school fund is otherwise apportioned, said $50 shall be paid to such joint district by the counties in which it lies in proportion to the number of school children in each county residing in such district over four and under twenty years of age, as shown by the last annual school census. As soon as he shall have made such apportionment he shall draw warrants on the county treasurer in favor of the districts for their respective shares, and transmit the same to the clerks thereof; provided, that the superintendent shall not issue or transmit any such warrant to the clerk of any district until the clerk's bond shall have been received, examined and approved by the county superintendent, and filed by him in his office as a part of the records thereof.

4. He shall keep a book in which he shall open an account with the treasurer of his county, also with the several districts. He shall charge the treasurer with all the school funds going into his hands, and when the treasurer shall present to him the district clerk's receipts, he shall credit the treasurer with the amount. When the superintendent shall have made any apportionment of the school funds he shall credit each district with the amount set apart to it, and on receiving the receipt of a clerk of a district from the treasurer, he shall charge the amount to such district.

5. In every examination held hereafter, any applicant for a teacher's county certificate shall be examined in the following named branches: Orthography, reading, writing, mental arithmetic, written arithmetic, English grammar, geography, United States history, theory of teaching, physiology and hygiene, civil government and Oregon school law; provided, that until the examination to be held in February, 1900, applicants shall not be examined in civil government and Oregon school law.

6. In each county there shall be a board of county examiners, composed of the county superintendent, who shall be ex officio chairman, and two competent persons appointed by the county superintendent, for such time within the term of his office as he may designate. Each member of said board, two of whom shall constitute a quorum, shall receive the sum of three dollars a day, except the county school superintendent, for the time actually employed in conducting the examination herein provided for. Any claim for compensation for services under this act shall be certified to by the board and audited by the county court and paid out of the general fund of the county.

7. Commencing at 9 o'clock on the second Wednesday of the following months, viz., February, June, August and November, and continuing three days, the board of examiners for each county shall hold a public examination of applicants for teachers' county certificates for such county, using the questions prepared by the state board of examiners, following the programme prescribed by the state board of education, at such place in the county as may be designated by the superintendent. Neither the county board of examiners, or any member thereof, shall at any time grant a private examination to an applicant for a teacher's certificate, except for a temporary permit, as hereinafter provided. At least ten days' notice by a publication in a newspaper, if there be one published in the county, shall be given by the superintendent, at the expense of the county, of all examinations. The board of examiners shall issue certificates of such general form as the state board of education may prescribe to all such applicants as are found upon examination to possess a good, moral character, requisite scholarship and ability to teach and govern successfully. There shall be three grades of certificates granted by the board, at its discretion, and subject to such rules and regulations as the state board of education may prescribe, which grades of certificates shall be as follows: The certificate of the

first grade shall be granted only to those who are over eighteen years of age and have taught twelve school months with approved success; and shall be vali throughout the county for three years. To obtain the same, an applicant shall make a general average of not less than ninety per cent. of all branches prescribed by law, and shall not fall below seventy per cent. in any one branch; provided, that whenever an applicant has upon two successive examinations received ninety per cent. or more in one or more branches, said applicant may, in the next examination thereafter, be excused from examination upon such branches and be credited with the standing so earned; provided, that the county superintendent may indorse a firstgrade certificate in force in any other county in the state without examination, and said endorsement shall render the said certificate valid in his county during the validity of the original certificate; provided, that the superintendent shall have power to revoke said certificate for the same cause and like manner as those granted by the county board of examiners of his county; provided, that in all cases where a certificate is endorsed, it shall be registered in the office of the county superintendent of such other county, in a book provided for such purpose. The date of such registration must be endorsed by the superintendent on the back of the certificate, and without such registration and endorsement no first-grade certificate shall be valid in any county except the one for which it was issued. A fee of $1 shall be paid to the superintendent by the teacher whose certificate is registered and endorsed, as herein provided, which sum he shall pay within ninety days to the county treasurer, taking his receipt therefor. All money so collected shall become a part of the county institute fund.

A certificate of the second grade shall be granted only to those who have attained to the age of eighteen years and have taught at least three school months with ability and success, and shall be valid throughout the county for two years. To obtain the same an applicant shall make an average of not less than eighty per cent. in all branches prescribed by law and shall not fall below sixty per cent in any one branch. Such certificate shall not be renewed, nor shall any person be entitled to receive more than one second-grade in any one county; provided, that more than one second-grade certificate may be issued to the same person in a county on a regular public examination, as herein set forth, if such person has not had the requisite experience for a first-grade certificate.

A certificate of the third grade shall be issued only to those who have attained the age of seventeen years. Such certificate shall be valid for one year. To obtain the same an applicant shall make an average of not less than seventy per cent. in all branches prescribed by law, and shall not fall below fiftyfive per cent. in any one branch. Such certificates shall not be renewed, nor shall any person be entitled to receive more than one third-grade certificate in any one county; provided, that more than one third-grade certificate may be issued to the same person on a regular examination as here set forth, if such person has not had the requisite teaching experience required for a second-grade certificate.

A temporary permit may be issued by the county superintendent in case of necessity, valid only in the county where issued, and valid only until the next regular public examination held by the county board of examiners for such county. A teacher shall not be entitled to receive more than two temporary permits in a county, nor shall an applicant who failed at the last regular public examination held by the board of examiners for any county be entitled to receive a temporary permit for that or any other county in the state; provided, that a fee of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) for each temporary permit shall be paid by the applicant to the county school superintendent, who shall pay the same to the county treasurer, taking his receipt therefor, and all such fees shall be credited to the county institute fund.

8. All examination papers for certificates shall be kept on file in the county superintendent's office, as a part of the records thereof, for one year from the date of such examination.