"oucher approved by the board of directors or con trollers. Neglect of duty by secretary or at tendance officer. Section 6. The secretary or attendance officer, if there be one, of any board of directors or controllers, who wilfully refuses or neglects to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before an alderman or justice of the peace, shall forfeit a fine not exceeding twenty-five Penalty. dollars. Section 7. All laws or parts of laws inconsistent here- Repeal, with are hereby repealed. Act Providing Method of Distributing the Appropriation to Common Schools. One-third to be distributed on basis of number of paid teachers. One-third on num ber of children of school age. One-third on number of taxables. School boards shall certify to superintendents, number of teachers employed. An act to provide a more just and equitable method of distributing the school appropriation to common schools, and specifying the duties of officers in connection therewith. Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That on and after June first, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, one-third of the money annually appropriated for common schools in this Commonwealth shall be distributed on the basis of the number of paid teachers regularly employed for the full annual term of the district, not including substitute teachers or teachers employed to fill vacancies which may occur during the school year for which the appropriation was made; the certificates of the number of teachers regularly employed to be made as hereinafter provided. Section 2. That one-third of the appropriation shall be distributed on the basis of the number of children of school age between the years of six and sixteen residing in the respective districts, the enumeration and certificates to be made as hereinafter provided. Section 3. That the remaining one-third of the appropriation shall be distributed on the basis of the number of taxables as returned by the last biennial assessment. Section 4. That on the first Monday of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and biennially thereafter, the president and secretary of each school board shall, under oath, certify to the county, city or borough superintendents of their respective counties, cities or boroughs, the number of teachers in their employ as contemplated in this act; and on the first Monday of January, one thousand eight hundred tendents shall cer- and ninety-eight, and biennially thereafter, the said When superin tify to State Superintendent. Returns to be made under oath. county, city or borough superintendent shall, under oath, make return to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on such blank as he shall prepare, a tabulated return by districts of the teachers of his county, city or borough, and any president or secretary of a school board or superintendent of a county, city or borough, who neglects or refuses to perform his duty within ten days of the time designated, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. *Section 5. That it shall be the duty of the assessors of the several townships, wards and boroughs in the counties and cities of this Commonwealth, and of the assessors of voters in any of said wards in cities of the first class, where the assessors of real estate are not assessors of voters, to make an enrollment, at the time of the making of their respective assessments, but not more than once in any year, of the total number of children of school age, between the ages of six and sixteen years, in addition to the duties required of them under existing laws, and for the same compensation per diem now allowed by law. The blanks required for this enumeration and enrollment shall be prepared according to the form prepared by and under the direction of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall cause the same to be forwarded to the county commissioners of the several counties for distribution to the assessors at the expense of the State. When first enumeration and en rollment shall be made. Bi-ennially there after. Section 6. The enumeration and enrollment herein provided for shall be made by the assessors at the same time they are required by law to make their regular assessments for county taxes, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, and at the same time, and biennially thereafter, the official returns to be made to the county commissioners shall be filed by them in the office of the county commissioners, duly verified by Returns must be oath or affirmation, on or before the fourth Saturday of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninetyseven, and biennially thereafter. The county commissioners to return a summary of the same to the Superintendent of Public Instruction on or before the last Saturday of January, next following. filed in office of county commissioners. Duty of county commissioners. Assessors who comply with act shall be subject to fine. And removed from office. Section 7. Any assessor who shall refuse or neglect shall refuse to to make the enumeration, enrollment and official returns required by this act, shall pay a fine of not less than twenty-five or more than one hundred dollars, and shall be liable to removal from office upon complaint to the court of common pleas of the proper county, which complaint it shall be the duty of the county commissioners to make in the case of neglect or refusal of any assessor to comply with the provisions of this act. Section 8. The blanks for the use of the county com As amended by the act of April 19, 1899. Blanks to be prepared by Department of Public In struction. Repeal. missioners in the preparation of their biennial report to the Department of Public Instruction, containing a summary of the returns made to them by the assessors of their respective districts, shall be prepared by the Superintendent and forwarded to the county commissioners of the several counties for the required purpose. Section 9. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Index to Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Rule. Page. of, ADJOURNMENT sine die, no new bill to be transmitted within four days final, no bills to be passed on day of, Amendments passed in one House to be printed in italic, Appropriation bills, general, reporting of, priority of, over other business, BILLS to be clearly and fairly engrossed, to be duly transcribed and prepared, not to be passed on day of final adjournment, not to be transmitted within four days of sine die adjournment, NOTICE to be given when clerk of either House waits on the other, |