A. D. 1912. Trustees to to insert the number in order of its establishment in the Board of particular County, and also the name of the proper be appointed. County). If a single school district establish a high school, the Board of Trustees of that school district shall be the High School Board of Trustees. If any two or more common school districts have heretofore established or shall hereafter establish a high school district, the Board of Trustees of that common school district in which the high school building is located, together with the chairman or chairmen of the other common school district or districts embraced in said high school district, shall constitute the Board of Trustees of said high school district. If any special school district created by and operating under a special Act of the General Assembly of South Carolina, and one or more common school districts have heretofore established or shall hereafter establish a high school district, the Board of Trustees of such special school district shall constitute the Board of Trustees of said high school district. High School vote a Sec. 1675. The qualified electors and freeholders in any District may territory proposing to become a high school district, or any high school district heretofore established, shall be authorized to vote a high school tax, not exceeding two mills, by the same rules and under the same terms as special taxes are now voted under Section 1595 of the Civil Code of 1912: Provided, That any common school district within any high school territorial unit may vote itself out of the high school unit in the same manner as prescribed for its entrance into the high school unit: Provided, That any territorial high school unit which has heretofore voted for the establishment of a high school therein shall, upon compliance with the provisions herein, be entitled to the provisions and benefits thereof. Any high established school already Sec. 1676. Any public high school already established, may claim or any number of high school grades in a public school this Act. already established-provided it shall be organized and privilege of adopted as a high school by special election as prescribed in peal of any of the privileges granted them in the special ct of the General Assembly. A. D. 1912. tion of high Sec. 1677. A high school maintaining a four years' Classificaourse of study beyond the branches of learning prescribed schools. o be taught in the common schools of the State, and nbracing not fewer than seven grades or school years, shall known as a four-year high school; a high school maintainng a three years' course beyond the common school course, hall be known as a three-year high school; and one mainaining a two years' course beyond the common school ourse, shall be known as a two-year high school: Provided, That any and all high schools established under authority f this Act, shall include in the course of study instruction n manual training, especially in respect to agriculture and lomestic science. classify. Sec. 1678. The State High School Board shall provide who shall For the inspection and classification of high schools. In doing this, it may invite the assistance of such members of the Universities and Colleges of the State, as hey may select, and their actual expenses shall be paid out of the fund hereafter appropriated from year to year, while actually engaged in the duties devolving upon them. of Education tute consti. State Board, and rules for ap of funds. Sec. 1679. The State Board of Education, as now con- State Board stituted, shall constitute the State High School Board, with shall full authority to prescribe all such regulations as may not High School be inconsistent with this Act. The State High School Board shall make shall provide rules for the apportionment and disbursement portionment of the State aid to the high schools, giving due recognition to the number of years of the high school work, to the number of the courses of study offered, to the enrollment of pupils, the amount of industrial or commercial training given, and to such other matters of local merit as may appear to the Board proper after a careful examination of each high school: Provided, That not more than $500 may be given to a two-year high school, nor more than $600 may be given to a three-year high school, nor more than $700 may be given to a four-year high school: Provided, further, That an additional $100 may be given to a Township high school or to a high school embracing as many as six common school districts: Provided, further, That the Board may give additional aid for industrial and commercial A. D. 1912. How funds shall be paid out. Each district may receive sue bonds. courses: Provided, further, That the Board may give to any high school levying a special high school tax of not less than one mill, twenty-five dollars for each and every common school district composing that high school unit: Provided further, That no high school shall receive aid unless it has at least twenty-five high school pupils and two teachers in the high school department: Provided, further, That the Board may give aid to a rural high school or a village high school with but fifteen high school pupils and one high school teacher; such village to contain not exceeding four hundred inhabitants: Provided, further, That no aid shall be given any high school unless the district or districts com posing the high school territory are levying or shall levy as much as two mills special school tax, which may be levied as either a common school or high school tax: Provided, That no County shall receive more than five per cent. of the annual appropriation provided for under this Act. Sec. 1680. The funds raised in the various Counties by taxation, subscription, or otherwise, for high school pur poses shall be placed in the County treasury, together with any appropriation received from the State Board of Educa tion and shall be paid out only upon the order of the Board of High School Trustees, duly approved by the County Superintendent of Education. Both the Treasurer and the County Superintendent of Education shall keep accurate accounts of this fund, as is provided for other public school funds. Sec. 1681. That each of the High School Districts so gifts: may is established is hereby authorized to receive and use gifts, transfers, bequests or devises of property for corporate purposes, whether they be otherwise conditional, or whether absolute in their terms; and also to issue coupon bonds within the constitutional limit, and to dispose of the same to raise money for the purpose of purchasing sites and the erection of buildings thereon, or for the purpose of pur chasing improved property, suitable for school, or dormitory, or mess hall purposes: Provided, That the question of amount of issue, and the rate of interest, and the time or times of payment of the principal shall first be submitted to the qualified electors within the said high school district, at an election to be held in the same manner as elections A. D. 1912. or special levies for school district purposes are now Election to equired to be submitted under Section 1595 of said Code: authorize Provided, That a petition for such election be first addressed bonds. o the Board of Trustees of said School District, signed y a majority of the freeholders therein: And Provided, urther, That an annual interest on said issue shall not xceed six per cent., and that the sale shall not be for less han par, and accrued interest. propriated for Sec. 1682. That the sum of sixty thousand dollars $60,000 ap($60,000) or so much thereof as may be necessary, for each high schools. of the school years, beginning July 1, 1907, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to carry out the provisions in regard to high schools, and the Comptroller-General is hereby authorized to draw warrants upon the State Treasarer for such amounts, upon the order of the State Board of Education, duly signed by the Governor, as chairman, and the State Superintendent of Education, as secretary: Provided, That every high school receiving aid under this Act shall enroll any high school pupil in the County where the school is located free of tuition: Provided, further, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to mean that pupils of different races shall attend the same schools. Sec. 1683. This Act shall in no wise interfere with the high schools already established until July 1, 1911, when all aid to high schools not coming within the provisions of the High School Act of 1908 shall be withdrawn. Limit of time. A. D. 1912. CHAPTER XXV. Colleges and Universities. ARTICLE 1. State Colleges in General. ARTICLE 2. The University of South Carolina. ARTICLE 3. The Citadel, The Military College of South Car olina. ARTICLE 4. The Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina. ARTICLE 5. The Colored Normal, Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina State col versiites. 16. Section 1684. There shall be universities and colleges as leges and uni- follows: One located in the City of Columbia, styled The 1906, XXV, University of South Carolina; another in or near the town of Orangeburg, styled the Colored Normal, Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina; another known as the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College of South Carolina; and another styled The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina. They shall be separate and distinct institutions, each under its separate Board of Trustees or Visitors. Sec. 1685. The universities and colleges of this State may provide a course of study, to be approved by the State |