customary hours of the school term.

No child shall be credited with attendance upon a private or parochial school unless the attendance officer hereinafter provided for receives a certificate of attendance signed by the person in charge of such school. A child between the ages aforesaid may be excused from school attendance or instruction upon presentation of satisfactory evidence to the superintendent of schools that such child is being or has been within said year instructed a like period of time in the branches taught in the public schools, or that such child has acquired these branches of learning, or that the physical or mental condition of such child is such as to render such attendance or instruction inexpedient or impracticable.

SEC. 2. That if any person having under control a child, as described in section one, shall neglect for three day sessions or six half-day sessions, within any period of five months to cause such child to attend school, a written notice shall be sent to such person by an attendance officer, hereinafter provided for, informing him that the attendance of the child under the control of such person is required at school within a period of three days. If such child is not excused as provided for in section one, and is not in school within three days, prosecution shall be begun in the police court by an officer empowered under this Act against the parent or other person in control of the child, and upon conviction the parent or other person in control of the child shall be punished for each and every offense by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 3. That any child between the ages of eight and fourteen who is an habitual truant, who is willfully and habitually absent from school, or who can not be controlled by the regular school discipline while in attendance upon school, shall be committed by the board of education to a special or ungraded school for instruction. The board of education may set apart school buildings or special rooms in a school building for the establishment of ungraded schools to provide, under a qualified teacher, for the instruction of habitual truants or for pupils who can not be controlled by the regular school discipline while in attendance upon school, and such children may be restricted to such schools for instruction until satisfactory evidence of improvement is furnished the board of education by the teacher in charge whereupon such child may be restored to a graded school in the district in which he resides.

SEC. 4. The board of education of the District of Columbia is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to appoint two truant officers at a salary of six hundred dollars per annum each, who, together with the inspectors provided for in the bill to regulate the employment of child labor and the probation officers provided for in the bill establishing a juvenile court shall under the direction of the board of education carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEC. 5. That any person who induces or attempts to induce any child to be absent unlawfully from school, or who knowingly employs or harbors while school is in session any child absent unlawfully from school, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 6. That the officers empowered under this Act shall visit any place or establishment where minor children are employed to ascertain whether the provisions of this law are duly complied with, and shall as often as twice a year demand from all employers of such children a list of children employed, with their names and ages.

SEC. 7. That any parent or other person who makes a false statement concerning the age or school attendance of a child between the ages of eight and fourteen who is under his control, such false statement being made with intent to deceive under this Act, shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine not to exceed twenty dollars.

SEC. 8. That this Act shall take effect on July first, nineteen hundred and six.

SEC. 9. That all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved, June 8, 1906.

[PUBLIC-No. 254.]

By the Act To fix and regulate the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That on and after July first, nineteen and six, all children of school age being instructed in the schools of the District beyond the second grade shall be given a whole school day session.

SEC. 2. That the control of the public schools of the District of Columbia is hereby vested in a board of education to consist of nine members all of whom shall have been for five years immediately preceding their appointment bona fide residents of the District of Columbia and three of whom shall be women. The members of the board of education shall be appointed by the supreme court judges of the District of Columbia for terms of three years each, except that the original appointments under this Act shall be as follows: Three for one year, three for two years, and three for three years, and members shall be eligible for reappointment. The members shall serve without compensation. Vacancies for unexpired terms, caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, shall be filled by the judges of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. The board shall meet for organization within thirty days after appointment. They shall appoint a secretary, who shall not be a member of the board, and they shall hold stated meetings at least once a month during the school year and such additional meetings as they may from time to time provide for. The organization meeting, and all meetings whatsoever thereafter, shall be open to the public, except committee meetings dealing with the appointment of teachers.

No appointment, promotion, transfer, or dismissal of any director, supervising principal, principal, head of department, teacher, or any other subordinate to the superintendent of schools, shall be made by the board of education, except upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools.

The board shall determine all questions of general policy relating to the schools, shall appoint the executive officers hereinafter provided for, define their duties, and direct expenditures. All expenditures of public funds for such school purposes shall be made and accounted for as now provided by law under the direction and control of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. The board shall appoint all teachers in the manner hereinafter prescribed and all other employees provided for in this Act.

The board of education shall annually on the first day of October transmit to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia an estimate in detail of the amount of money required for the public schools for the ensuing year, and said Commissioners shall transmit the same in their annual estimate of appropriations for the District of Columbia, with such recommendations as they may deem proper.

SEC. 3. That the board shall appoint one superintendent for all the public schools in the District of Columbia, who shall hold said office for a term of three years and who shall have the direction of and supervision in all matters pertaining to the instruction in all the

schools under the board of education. He shall have a seat in the board and the right to speak on all matters before the board, but not the right to vote.

The board shall have power to remove the superintendent at any time for adequate cause affecting his character and efficiency as superintendent.

The board, upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools, shall also appoint one white assistant superintendent for the white schools and one colored assistant superintendent for the colored schools. The white assistant superintendent, under the direction of the superintendent of schools, shall have general supervision over the white schools, and is specifically charged, under the direction of the superintendent, with the unification, as far as may be practicable, of the educational work of the white high schools and of all academic and scientific subjects in the McKinley Manual Training School and the Business High School.

The colored assistant superintendent, under the direction of the superintendent of schools, shall have sole charge of all teachers, classes, and schools in which colored children are taught. And he is specifically charged, under the direction of the superintendent, with the unification, so far as may be practicable, of the educational work of the colored high schools, and of all the academic and scientific subjects of the Armstrong Manual Training School. And he also shall be charged specifically, under the direction of the superintendent, with the unification of the educational work of the intermediate grades of the colored schools.

The board, upon the written recommendation of the superintendent of schools, shall appoint a director of intermediate instruction for the white schools who shall have charge under the direction of the superintendent of the unification of educational work of grades five to eight, inclusive.

There shall be appointed by the board a supervisor of manual training who, under the direction of the superintendent, shall have supervision of manual training instruction.

SEC. 4. That the salaries of teachers, school officers, and other employees of the board of education of the District of Columbia shall be as follows:

Kindergarten assistants, class one.

Model teachers of first and second grades, and of kindergarten, class four.

Teachers of first and second grades, class two.

Teachers of third and fourth grades, and kindergarten principals, class three.

Teachers of fifth, sixth, and seventh grades, class four.

Teachers of eighth grades, class five.

Teachers of manual training, drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, domestic art, in the graded schools, classes three to four, inclusive.

Teachers of manual training, drawing, physical culture, music, domestic science, and domestic art in the normal high and manual training schools, classes four to five.

Assistants to directors of primary instruction, classes four and five. Head teachers and teachers of normal, high, and manual training schools, Group A, class six: Provided, That teachers of the normal, high, and manual training schools now receiving less than eight hundred dollars, who have not taught five years or more in graded or high schools, shall receive an annual increase not to exceed one hundred and fifty dollars until the minimum salary of class six is reached, when they shall thereafter receive the increase provided in said class: And provided further, That special beginning teachers in the normal school may be appointed for a two years' probationary period upon the recommendation of the principal of the normal school at a salary of eight hundred dollars for the first year and nine hundred dollars for the second year, and thereafter, if continued, they shall receive the increase provided for in this class.

Heads of departments in high and manual training schools, Group B of class six.

Librarians and clerks, classes one, two, and three.

Librarian of the teachers' library, class four.

Teachers not otherwise provided for, classes one to four.

Teachers, librarians, and clerks eligible to more than one class shall be placed in the lowest class to which they are eligible.

SEC. 5. That the board of education shall classify all academic and scientific subjects in the Central, Eastern, Western, and Business high schools, and the McKinley Manual Training School into eight departments so that each department shall contain correlated subjects and the M Street High School and the Armstrong Manual Training School shall be similarly classified into four departments so that each department shall contain correlated subjects.

Whenever a department includes two or more high schools then the teacher in charge of the department shall be designated "Head of the department," otherwise the teacher in charge of the department shall be designated "Head teacher:" Provided, That heads of departments as such have only an advisory capacity in educational matters and upon all questions shall be inferior in authority to the principal of each particular school: Provided further, That no class shall be formed in the high schools with less than ten pupils except in the M Street High School in the case of subjects not offered as well in the Armstrong Manual Training School but this limitation shall not apply to pupils who have already entered upon a continuous course of two or more years.

SEC. 6. That the board of education shall arrange all teachers in the classes and groups in the above schedule, except as hereinafter specified. For the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, each head of department and teacher shall receive the salary in his class next above his present salary, and no teacher or principal shall in any event receive less than his or her present salary. If promoted

to a higher class he shall receive the salary in that class next above his present salary, and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, if his work is satisfactory, he shall receive an annual increase within his class or group, as herein provided, without action of the board of education; but no teacher shall in any one year receive more than one promotion within his class or group: Provided, That if the salary in his class next above his present salary shall be less than twentyfive dollars in excess of his present salary he shall receive the next higher salary, so that no teacher shall receive for the first year an increase of less than twenty-five dollars.

A teacher shall not be promoted from one class to another, except by the board of education, upon the recommendation of the officer having direct supervision of said teacher and in the case of colored teachers upon the additional recommendation of the colored assistant superintendent. Such recommendations shall in each case be made through and with the approval of the superintendent of schools.

Teachers shall be promoted for superior work from Group A to Group B of class six only after oral and written examinations by the boards of examiners upon recommendation as follows:

All high and normal school teachers and teachers of the manual training schools upon the recommendation of their respective principals. Such recommendations shall in each case be made through and with the approval of the superintendent of schools, and with the additional recommendation of the colored assistant superintendent for the colored teachers.

No teacher, head of department, principal, or supervising principal shall be appointed to any position in the graded schools, high schools, manual training schools, or normal schools, and no director, assistant director, or teacher of special studies shall be appointed until he shall have passed an examination prescribed by the boards of examiners. No person without a degree from an accredited college, or a graduation certificate from an accredited normal school, such normal-school graduate to have had at least five years of experience as a teacher in a high school, shall hereafter be appointed to teach any academic or scientific subjects in the normal, high, and manual training schools. This provision for examination shall not apply to teachers coming from the normal schools, or teachers being advanced from the different classes in the grade schools: Provided, That no teacher or officer in the service of the public schools of the District of Columbia at the time of the passage of this Act shall, by the operation of this Act, be required to take any examination, either mental or physical, to be continued in the service. The boards of examiners for carrying out the above provisions with reference to examinations shall consist of the superintendent and two heads of departments of the white schools for the white teachers and of the superintendent and two heads of departments of the colored schools for colored teachers. The designation of such heads of departments for membership on these boards to be made by the board of education annually.

Every new teacher at the time of his appointment shall be assigned to a class or group by the board of education on the recommendation of the superintendent of schools, and shall receive for the first year the minimum pay of said class or group. The first year in Group A, class six, shall be probationary.

For the purpose of this Act a model teacher shall be held to be a teacher of the first or second grade, or of the kindergarten, whose special aptitude for primary teaching makes it desirable to retain him in said grades with the pay of a higher grade.

Teachers of classes one and two shall receive an annual increase of salary of twenty-five dollars for four years, or until the maximum is reached.