a State diploma or a State Certificate which will not expire during his proposed term of office; "or a diploma granting the degree of Bachelor of Arts in Education or Bachelor of Science in Education or an advanced certificate issued by the University of Kentucky; or an advanced certificate issued by the State Normal Schools. Provided any person holding the office of County Superintendent shall be eligible to succeed himself without further examination.

In the counties embracing any city of the first or second class and maintaining a system of public schools separate and distinct from the common schools of the county, no person shall be eligible to the office of County Superintendent other than a resident of such county outside of such city or town. Provided, this act shall not affect the county superintendents who are now in office, but shall apply to all county superintendents who take office either by appointment or election after this bill becomes a law. That Section 50, Chapter 24, Acts of 1916, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following re-enacted in lieu thereof:

The salary of the county superintendent shall not be less than $600.00 nor more than $2,500.00 per annum. Said salary shall be paid monthly by the fiscal court out of the county levy, as it is now paid.

Before the fiscal court shall allow the salary, it shall be satisfied from the statement subscribed and sworn to by the superintendent, and from such other evidence as may be adduced, that he has faithfully and efficiently performed the duties of his office according to law.

In his report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the said superintendent shall state the

full amount allowed him by the fiscal court for his official services.

Said salary shall be allowed the superintendent for all services rendered and expenses incurred by him under the provisions of this law; and the fiscal court shall furnish the county superintendent with a suitable office free of charge, large enough to accommodate the county teacher's library and the assistants in his office.

And that Section 181, of Chapter 24, Acts of 1916, be amended by striking therefrom the word "students" after the words "grant certificates to the" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "graduates' and by striking therefrom the words "by the applicant" after the words accomplished in said institution" and adding at the end of said section the words:

"The State Board of Education may grant certificates to teach in the high schools of the State to graduates of standard colleges of agriculture, either within or without the State, who have had one-tenth of their work in education, which certificate shall be valid for four years and renewable at the option of the State Board of Education. Applicants for this certificate may present a satisfactory equivalent for the requirements herein set forth." So that when said section is amended it will read as follows:

Higher Institutions in State or Out to be Recognized-Standard of Work.-The State Board of Education may, on the application of an institution of higher learning, whether within or without the State, that is not conducted for private gain, inspect such educational institutions, investigate their work, standards and courses of study, and in its own discretion, grant certificates to the graduates of such institutions, giving them the right to teach.

in the high schools of Kentucky. Such certificates shall be issued upon evidence furnished by the applicant for the work and attainments accomplished in said institutions. No such certificates shall be given for any work done in such institution of a lower amount or standard than that required for similar certificates issued by the State Board of Examiners, or granted to the students of the State University of Kentucky and the State Normal Schools of Kentucky.

The State Board of Education may grant certificates to teach in the high schools of the State to graduates of standard colleges of agriculture either within or without the State who have had one-tenth of their work in education, which certificate shall be valid for four years and renewable at the option of the State Board of Education. Applicants for this certificate may present a satisfactory equivalent for the requirements herein set forth.

§ 3. That Section 78, of Chapter 24, Acts of 1916, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

The County Board of Education shall have full power, when necessary to lay off or establish new school subdistricts or to change the boundaries of those already established: Provided, That no change in the boundary of any subdistrict shall be made to take effect during the current or the following school year, unless made previous to taking or estimating the census of the pupil children in the county for such school year.

That Section 87, of Chapter 24, Acts of 1916, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

The school districts and subdistricts of the several counties, as at present described and numbered,

shall be retained until altered or abolished pursuant to law; but no two subdistricts in the same county shall be known by the same name or number.

§ 4. That Section 148 of Chapter 24, Acts of 1916, be amended by adding after the word "district," at the end of said section the following:

Provided, that the board of trustees of any graded common school district may condemn any land deemed necessary by said board for a site for a graded common school, not, however, exceeding three acres, in the manner now provided by law for condemning land for railroad purposes, but this provision shall not apply to cities of the first, second, third and fourth classes.

5. That in the event any graded common. school and one or more subdistricts, or one or more subdistricts consolidate and vote or consolidate for the purpose of voting on any proposition for bonding or taxing purposes as is now, or may hereafter, be provided by law and said consolidation may be conditioned on the approval by the voters of such bond issue or tax levy, and if such proposition for taxing or bonding purposes fails to receive the requisite majority of votes then, in that event, said districts, by reason of said vote failing to receive the requisite majority shall remain and the boundaries thereof be and remain the same as before the consolidation, and all orders pertaining to said consolidation shall be null and void, but if said vote receives the requisite majority then said orders shall remain in full force and effect. And if the majority of the voters voting in any graded common school and one or more subdistricts are for the taxes or bonds proposed in said election, then said district shall become and be known as a consolidated district, and the County Board of Education shall as

sume all debts, if any, of said districts consolidated, and the title to all school property therein shall thereupon vest in the County Board of Education.”

§ 6. As this bill changes the age of pupil children entitled to the common school fund and as the census of said children will be taken in the month of April, 1918, and in order to do justice to all counties and to the State, there is declared an emergency and this bill shall become in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval by the Governor.

Neither approved nor disapproved.

CHAPTER 139.

AN ACT to Repeal Sections 15, 16 and 104 of Chapter 24 Acts of the General Assembly of 1916, approved March 18, 1916, relating to the Distribution of the State School Funds and County School Funds, Length of School terms and Payment of Teachers' Salaries, and Substituting new Sections therefor providing for the Distribution of Said Funds, for the Length of School Terms, for the Time and Manner of Paying Teachers' Salaries and for an Increase of Such Salaries. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:

1. Section Repealed-New Section Substituted. That section 15 of chapter 24, of the Acts of the General Assembly of 1916, approved March 18, 1916, be and the same is hereby repealed and there is hereby enacted in lieu thereof the following:

"Section 15-Distribution by Auditor on Warrants of Superintendent.-Dates of.**. For each school year the Auditor of Public Accounts, on the successive warrants of the Superintendent of Pub