1923_public laws_137_335
CHAPTER 136 AN ACT TO AMEND THE CONSOLIDATED STATUTES AND TO CODIFY THE LAWS RELATING TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Whereas the acts of the General Assembly relating to public education are for the purpose of aiding all the people, and espe- cially school officials, in maintaining and conducting a system of public schools and in providing revenue for the same; and Whereas a great need is apparent for collecting all the laws relating to public education and codifying them in such a way as to set forth as clearly as possible the legal duties, powers, and responsibilities of the several school officials, in order to give them and all other friends of public education a clearer concep- tion of their duties in maintaining and conducting public schools in accordance with the needs of the people and the provisions of the Constitution: Now, therefore, The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact: PART I ARTICLE I. INTERPRETATIONS
State committee on high school texrt-books; duties; reports to State Superintendent. The Governor and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction shall appoint a State committee on high school text-books, consisting of five members, who shall serve without pay except reimbursement out of the State Treasury upon the requisition of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction for actual expenses incurred by attendance upon meetings of the committee that may be called by or under the direction of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. It shall be the duty of the State committee on high school text-books to make an examination of each book submitted by any publisher, under the provisions of this article, with a view to determining whether or not the contents, quality, and price of said book are such as to make it suitable and desirable for use in public high schools of this State; and the said State committee on high school text-books shall, every five years, except as herein otherwise provided, submit to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, on or before the first day of January of each year within which county adoptions are to be made, a report of its findings, with recommendations as to the books that shall be placed on the State approved list, which list shall constitute the State adopted list for a period of five years, except as herein otherwise provided. (C. S. 5726, revised.)