Sec. 6. That the state treasurer as custodian of funds for vocational education shall make to the general assembly, at each biennial session thereof, a report of the receipts and disbursements of moneys received by him under the provisions of suchact and such state board shall make to the general assembly at each biennial session thereof a report of its administration of such act, and the expenditures of money allotted to the state under the provision of such act.

Sec. 7. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall be in effect on and after its publication in the Des Moines Register, and the Des Moines Capital, newspapers published in Des Moines, Iowa. [37 G. A., ch. 300.]

PART-TIME SCHOOLS.

Section 1. That the board of directors of any organized school district may establish and maintain part-time schools, departments, or classes in aid of vocational and other education for minors between the ages of fourteen (14) and sixteen (16) years (1) holding work certificates, or (2) who have not completed the eighth grade and are employed in a "store or mercantile establishment," where eight (8) or a less number of persons are employed, or in "establishments or occupations which are owned or operated by their own parents," or (3) who have completed the eighth grade and are not engaged in some useful occupation; and such board of directors shall organize such part-time school, department, or class whenever there are fifteen (15) minors as defined above resident in the district. The courses of study of part-time schools, departments, or classes may include, "any subject given to enlarge the civic or vocational intelligence," of the pupils attending.

Sec. 2. The board of directors may raise and expend money for the support of such part-time schools, departments, or classes, in the same manner in which it is authorized to raise and expend funds for other school purposes.

Sec. 3. Such part-time schools, departments, or classes, for the attendance of children over fourteen (14) and under sixteen (16) years of age, shall be organized in accordance with standards established by the state board for vocational education, and shall provide for not less than eight (8) hours of instruction per week during the length of term for which public schools are established in the district. Such part-time schools, departments, or classes shall be held between the hours of eight (8) o'clock a. m. and six (6) o'clock p. m.

Sec. 4. Whenever any such part-time school or class shall have been approved by the state board for vocational education, the board of directors shall be entitled to reimbursement on account of expenditure made for the salaries of teachers in such part-time

schools, departments, or classes, from any federal and state funds appropriated in aid of vocational education, as provivded in the statutes governing such appropriations.

Sec. 5. The state board for vocational education is hereby authorized to fix standards for the establishment of part-time schools, departments, or classes; to fix the requirements of teachers, and to approve courses of study for such part-time schools, departments, or classes.

Sec. 6. When such part-time school shall have been established, any parent or person in charge of such minor as defined in section 1 hereof who shall violate the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars nor more than fifty (50) dollars, or any person unlawfully employing any such minor shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty (20) dollars nor more than one hundred (100) dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not to exceed thirty (30) days.

Sec. 7. The enforcement of this act shall rest with the school board in the district in which such part-time school, department, or class shall have been established and the state department of public instruction through its inspectors and the board of vocational education through its supervisors of vocational education, in conjunction with the county superintendent of schools, are empowered to require enforcement of the same on the part of school boards. [38 G. A., ch. 94.]

HOURS THAT CHILD LABOR MAY BE EMPLOYED.

Section 1. That section two thousand four hundred seventyseven-c (2477-c), supplemental supplement to the code, 1915, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

Sec. 2477-c. No person under sixteen years of age shall be employed at any of the places or in any of the occupations recited in section 1 hereof before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of six o'clock in the evening, and if such person is employed exceeding five hours of each day, a noon intermission of not less than thirty minutes shall be given between the hours of eleven and one o'clock, and such person shall not be employed more than eight hours in any one day, exclusive of the noon hour intermission; nor shall any such person be employed more than forty-eight hours in any one week; provided that whenever in any organized school district there shall have been established a parttime school, department or class, no person under sixteen years of age shall be employed for more than forty hours in any one week; nor shall any person under eighteen years of age be employed in the transmission, distribution or delivery of goods or messages between the hours of ten in the evening and five in the morning in any city of ten thousand or more inhabitants.

Sec. 2. That all the penalties contained in section two thousand four hundred seventy-seven-e (2477-e), supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same are hereby made applicable to any violation of the provisions of section 1 of this act.

Sec. 3. This act being deemed of immediate importance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, approval and publication in the Des Moines Capital and the Des Moines News, newspapers published at Des Moines, Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 139.]

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.

Sec. 2682-c. State board of education. The state university, the college of agriculture and mechanic arts, including the agricultural experiment station, and the Normal School at Cedar Falls, and the College for the Blind at Vinton, shall be governed by a state board of education consisting of nine members and not more than five of the members shall be of the same political party. Not more than three alumni of the above institutions and but one alumnus from each institution may be members of this board at one time. [34 G. A., ch. 141, § 2; 33 G. A., ch. 170, § 1.]

Sec. 2682-e. Meetings. The board shall meet four times a year. Special meetings may be called by the board, by the president of the board, or they may be called by the secretary of the board. upon the written request of any five members thereof. [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 3.]

Sec. 2682-f. Organization-powers and duties. The state board of education shall have power to elect a president from their number; a president and treasurer for each of said educational institutions, and professors, instructors, officers, and employes, to fix the compensation to be paid to such officers and employes; to make rules and regulations for the government of said schools, not inconsistent with the laws of the state; to manage and control the property, both real and personal, belonging to said educational institutions; to execute trusts or other obligations now or hereafter committed to the institutions; to direct the expenditure of all appropriations the general assembly shall, from time to time, make to said institutions, and the expenditure of any other moneys; and to do such other acts as are necessary and proper for the execution of the powers and duties conferred upon them by law. Within ten days after the appointment and qualification of the members of the board, it shall organize and prepare to assume the duties to be vested in said board, but shall not exercise control of said institutions until the first day of July, A. D. one thousand nine hundred nine (1909). [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 4.]

Sec. 2682-g. Board of regents and boards of trustees abolished. The board of regents and the boards of trustees now charged with the government of the state university, the college of agriculture

and mechanic arts, and the normal school, shall cease to exist on the first day of July, A. D. 1909, and on the same date, full power to manage said institutions, as herein provided, shall vest in the said state board of education. Nothing herein contained shall limit the general supervision or examining powers vested in the governor by the laws or constitution of the state. [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 5.]

Sec. 2682-h. Finance committee-officers-duties-term. The said board of education shall appoint a finance committee of three from outside its membership, and shall designate one of such committee as chairman and one as secretary. The secretary of this committee shall also act as secretary of the board of education and shall keep a record of the proceedings of the board and of the committee and carefully preserve all their books and papers. All acts of the board relating to the management, purchase, disposition, or use of lands or other property of said educational institutions shall be entered of record, and shall show who are present and how each member voted upon each proposition when a roll call is demanded. He shall do and perform such other duties as may be required of him by law or the rules and regulations of said board. Not more than two members of this committee shall be of the same political party and its members shall hold office for a term of three years unless sooner removed by a vote of two-thirds of the members of the state board of education. [34 G. A., ch. 132, § 1; 33 G. A., ch. 170, § 6.]

Sec. 2682-1. Oath-bond. Each member of the board and each member of the finance committee shall take oath and qualify, as required by section one hundred seventy-nine (179) of the code. The members of the finance committee, before entering upon their official duties, shall each give an official bond in the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), conditioned as provided by law, signed by sureties approved by the governor and, when so given, said bonds shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state. [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 7.]

Sec. 2682-k. Business office-employes-monthly visitation. A business office shall also be maintained at each of the three educational institutions, and the board may hire such employes as may be necessary to enable the board to carry out the purposes of its creation, and to assist the said finance committee in the performance of its duties, and shall present to each general assembly an itemized account of the expenditures of said committee. The members of the finance committee shall, once each month, attend each of the institutions named for the purpose of familiarizing themselves with the work being done, and transacting any business that may properly be brought before them as a committee. [34 G. A., ch. 132, § 3; 33 G. A., ch. 170, § 9.]

Sec. 2682-u. Biennial report. The board shall make reports to the governor and legislature of its observations and conclusions

respecting each and every one of the institutions named, including the regular biennial report to the legislature covering the biennial period ending June 30th, preceding the regular session of the general assembly. Said biennial report shall be made not later than October 1st, in the year preceding the meeting of the general assembly, and shall also contain the reports which the executive officers of the several institutions are now or may be by the board required to make, including, for the use of the legislature, biennial estimates of appropriations necessary and proper to be made for the support of the said several institutions and for the extraordinary and special expenditures for buildings, betterments and other improvements. [33 G. A., ch. 170, § 19.]

Sec. 2682-w. College for blind-control transferred. That all the powers heretofore granted to and exercised by the board of control over the college for the blind are hereby transferred to the state board of education and the state board of education is authorized and empowered to take charge of, manage and control said college for the blind. [34 G. A., ch. 141, § 3.]

Section 1. School for the deaf-control transferred. All the powers heretofore granted to and exercised by the board of control over the state school for the deaf are hereby transferred to the state board of education, and the state board of education is hereby authorized and empowered to take charge of, manage and control such school for the deaf.

Sec. 2. Transfer of funds. All funds now in the hands of the treasurer of state to the credit of said school for the deaf are transferred from the board of control to the state board of education. [37 G. A., ch. 160.]

THE STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS.

Act of Congress, July 2, 1862.

AN ACT donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts.

Section 1. That there be granted to the several states for the purpose hereinafter named, an amount of the public land, to be apportioned to each state, a quantity equal to thirty thousand acres for each senator and representative in congress to which the states are respectively entitled, by the apportionment under the census of 1860; provided, that no mineral lands shall be selected under the provisions of this act.

Sec. 2. That the land aforesaid, after being surveyed, shall be apportioned to the several states in sections or sub-divisions of sections, not less than one-quarter of a section; and whenever there are public lands in a state subject to sale at private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, the quantity to which said state shall be entitled shall be selected from such lands