assessed valuation which shall be levied for all purposesexcept for the payment of bonded indebtedness and purchase or lease of school house-which number shall not exceed twenty-five mills in any year. The tax so voted shall be reported by the district board to the county clerk, and shall be levied by the county board and collected as other taxes. *Sec. 12. The legal voters at the annual meeting may determine the number of mills, not exceeding ten on the dollar, which shall be expended for building purposes, or lease of school house, etc.

*Sec. 14. They may also determine the length of time a school shall be taught in the district the ensuing year, which to entitle the district to any portion of the state fund, shall not be less than three months, by a legally qualified teacher, in the district which has less than thirty-five pupils, nor less than six months in districts that have between thirty-five and one hundred pupils, inclusive, nor less than nine months in districts where there are, more than one hundred pupils; unless on account of epidemic, sickness, or the destruction of the school house, the term is necessarily shortened, and sworn to by the district board.

Ch. 79, Subdiv. 3, Sec. 10. No person holding a school district office shall be employed to teach in the district of which he is an officer, unless upon a petition signed by twothirds of the legal voters of the district, which petition shall be filed with the papers of the district. The contract of such officer shall be made by the other members of the district board.

*Ch. 79, Subdiv. 4, Sec. 11. It is the duty of the director, the moderator and treasurer consenting, to contract with and hire qualified teachers for and in the name of the district, the contract to be endorsed by one or both of them, naming the wages by week or month. If the director refuses to sign the contract agreed to by the other two, they may make and sign it exclusive of his signature.

*Ch. 79, Subdiv. 5, Sec. 4. Said (school district) board may also admit to the district school non-resident pupils, and may determine the rates of tuition for such pupils and collect the same in advance.

*Ch. 79, Subdiv. 6, Sec. 1. Any district containing more

than one hundred and fifty children of school age, may elect a district board of six trustees; if the district has so determined by a majority vote at the annual meeting.

*Sec. 5. That all public high schools in the state determined by the state board of education to be properly equipped, shall be free to any person of school age, resident outside the district but in the state, whose education cannot be pursued with profit in the public school in the district where residing. The pupil must have a certificate signed by the county superintendent, that said pupil is competent for the transfer. Also non-resident pupils shall be under the same rules as if resident pupils; such pupils shall attend the nearest approved grade high school; Provided, Such high school shall have sufficient accommodations without extra expense.

[NOTE.-Section five declared unconstitutional May,

1897.]

*Ch. 79, Subdiv. 7, Sec. 6. Three grades of teachers' certificates are granted by the county superintendent. The third grade, on passing a satisfactory examination in orthography, reading, writing, geography, arithmetic, physiology, English composition, and English grammar, licenses the holder to teach in a special district and is in force six months. The second grade includes in addition to the above branches, history of the United States, civil government, book-keeping, blackboard drawing, and theory and art of teaching, which certificate is valid throughout the county for one year, unless sooner revoked. The first grade is granted to persons who have taught one year with success and have passed a satisfactory examination in algebra, geometry, botany, and natural philosophy in addition to those required for a second grade certificate, good in the county for the term of two years.

Ch. 79, Subdiv. 8, Sec. 4. He (the State Superintendent) shall decide disputed points in school law and all such decisions shall be held to have the force of law till reversed by the courts.

INSTRUCTION IN PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.

Ch. 79, Subdiv. 9, Sec. 5a.

Provisions shall be made by

the proper local school authorities for instructing the pupils in all schools supported by public money, or under state control, in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks, and other stimulants and narcotics upon the human system.

Sec. 5b. No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in the public schools of the State of Nebraska after the first day of January, 1886, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effects of alcoholic drinks and other stimulants and narcotics on the human system.

*Ch. 79, Subdiv. 14, Secs. 2 and 3. All schools organized within cities of over fifteen hundred inhabitants are under the control of a board of education of six members, chosen from the legal voters, who are taxpayers, elected at the time of holding the general city election, two each year. In cities of the first class the board shall consist of nine members, with the same qualifications as above, and elected at the general city election. . In cities of the metropolitan class the board shall consist of fifteen members, with the same qualifications as above, and shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of each year. All such public schools are free to all children between the ages of five and twenty-one years whose parents or guardians reside within the limits of the district.

COMPULSORY EDUCATION.

*Ch. 79, Subdiv. 17, Secs. 1 and 2. Compels parents or guardians to send children under their care to some public or private school for a term of twelve weeks or more during each successive year from the time said children are eight years of age until fourteen years, inclusive, unless excused by the board of education on account of proficiency, or illness, or poverty. The penalty for violation of the above is a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense. Said fine shall be imposed by any court of justice having jurisdiction, on sufficient evidence of the same being furnished by two or more credible witnesses.

STATE UNIVERSITY.

Ch. 87, Sec. 16. No person shall, because of age, sex, color, or nationality, be deprived of the privileges of this institution. Provisions shall be made for the education of females apart from male students, in separate departments or buildings; Provided, that persons of different sexes of the same proficiency of study, may attend the regular college lectures together.

[NOTE. There is nothing in the laws prohibiting the election and service of women as professors in the State University, although there are none at present, except in the elocution and physical departments; there have been several in different chairs in the past.]

Ch. 26, Sec. 130. Women qualified to vote for any public officer may sign nomination papers for candidates for such office.

LIQUORS.

Ch. 50, Sec. I. The county board of each county may grant license for the sale of malt, spirituous and vinous liquors if deemed expedient, upon the application by petition of a majority of the resident freeholders of the town, if the county is under township organization, and if not under township organization, then a majority of the resident freeholders of the precinct where the sale of such liquor is proposed to take place, setting forth that the applicant is a man of respectable character and standing and a resident of this state, and praying that license may be issued to him. Such application to be filed in the office of the county clerk and upon the payment into the county treasury of such sum as the board may require, not less than five hundred ($500) dollars for each license and upon the compliance with the provisions of this act; Provided, In counties having one hundred and fifty thousand (150,000) inhabitants the county commissioners may also issue license within two miles of any city in said county.

Sec. 2. No action shall be taken upon said application until at least two weeks notice of the filing of the same has been given by publication in a newspaper published in said county, having the largest circulation therein, or if no newspaper is published in said county, by posting written or printed notices of said application in five of the most public places in the town, precinct, village, or city in which the business is to be conducted, when, if there is no objections in writing made and filed to the issuance of said license, and the county board is in session, and all other provisions of this chapter have been fully complied with, it may be granted.

Sec. 3. If there be any objection, protest, or remonstrance filed in the office where the application is made against the issuance of said license, the county board shall appoint a day for hearing of said case, and if it shall be satisfactorily proven that the applicant for license has been guilty of the violation of any of the provisions of this act within the space of one year, or if any former license shall have been revoked for any misdemeanor against the laws of this state, then the board shall refuse to issue such license.

Sec. 5. The license shall state the time for which it is granted, which shall not exceed one year, the place where the liquor is to be sold, and shall not be transferable; and any license granted under this chapter may be revoked by the authority issuing the same whenever the person licensed shall, upon due proof made, be convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act. [The form of license is given, which provides that the sum imposed on him as a vendor of such liquors must be paid before the license is granted. Also the supreme court has decided to that effect.]

*Sec. 6. Provides that before any person be so licensed he shall give a bond in the sum of five thousand ($5,000) dollars, with two good and sufficient sureties, free holders of the county, approved by the board authorizing the license, conditioned that he will not violate any of the provisions of this act, "and that he will pay all damages, fines, and penalties, and forfeitures which may be adjudged against him under the provisions of this act," also, "any bond taken pursuant to this section may be sued upon for the use of any