ments for graduation subject to the provisions of this act. [34 G. A., ch. 131, § 6.]

Sec. 2634-b6. Examination for graduation-failure in certain branches-fee. That the law as the same appears in section twenty-six hundred thirty-four-b six, supplement to the code, 1913, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

"On the third Friday in January and the Wednesday and Thursday immediately preceding and on the third Friday in May and the Wednesday and Thursday immediately preceding, each year, in each high school, private and denominational school approved under this act, an examination for graduation from the normal course shall be conducted under such rules as the state board of examiners shall prescribe, but the county superintendent of the county in which an approved high school may be located shall be designated as the conductor of said examination. Candidates for a certificate of graduation from the normal course failing in the examination in one or more subjects, may be permitted to enter the above examinations or the regular July teachers' examination under such regulations as the superintendent of public instruction shall prescribe.

Each applicant for a certificate of graduation from the normal course in a county shall pay a fee of one dollar which shall entitle him to one examination in each subject required, provided however that applicants rewriting the examination in one or more subjects at the July teachers' examination as herein provided shall pay an additional fee of one dollar. One-half of the fees from the normal training examinations shall be paid into the state treasury on or before the first day of the succeeding month, and the remaining one-half shall be paid into the county institute fund of the county wherein the examination is held." [37 G. A., ch. 37; 36 G. A., ch. 100, § 1; 34 G. A., ch. 131, § 7.]

Sec. 2634-b7. Certificate-license to teach-renewal. A certificate of graduation from the normal training course provided for in this act shall be issued by the superintendent of public instruction, and shall be a valid license to teach in any public school in the state for a term of two years, subject to registration as provided for other teachers' certificates. At the expiration of said certificate the superintendent of public instruction is authorized to renew it for a period of three years under the same conditions that apply to the renewal of the first grade uniform county certificates. [35 G. A., ch. 242, § 4; 34 G. A., ch. 131, § 8.]

Sec. 2634-b8. Appropriation. That section nine of chapter one hundred thirty-one of the acts of the thirty-fourth general assembly be and the same is hereby repealed and the following enacted in lieu thereof:

For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, available for the period ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred fourteen, and the sum of one hundred fifty thousand dollars annually thereafter. [38 G. A., ch. 230; 35 G. A., ch. 242, § 3; 34 G. A., ch. 131, § 9.]

Sec. 2634-e. Record of students-sworn statement. At the close of each school year, the principal or superintendent of each accredited school shall file with the board of examiners a sworn statement, showing the name, age, post-office address, studies and attendance of each of the students in his school taking the prescribed teachers' course. [29 G. A., ch. 115 § 4.]

CERTIFICATION.

Sec. 2634-f. Graduates from accredited colleges. That the state educational board of examiners may accept graduation from the regular and collegiate courses in the state university, state teachers college, state normal schools, and the state college of agriculture and mechanic arts, and from other institutions of higher learning in the state having regular and collegiate courses of equal rank, as evidence that a teacher possesses the scholarship and professional fitness for a state certificate. [35 G. A., ch. 226, § 1; 32 G. A., ch. 148, § 1.]

Sec. 2634-f1. Graduates of accredited colleges-other statessame recognition. Graduates of colleges and schools located in other states than Iowa, having regular and collegiate courses of equal rank with the accredited colleges and schools of Iowa, may be given the same recognition as provided in section one of this act, provided they file with the board of educational examiners. evidence of at least two years' successful experience as a teacher, principal or superintendent of schools. [35 G. A., ch. 226, § 2.]

Sec. 2634-g. State certificates granted. That in all cases where such graduation shows the extent and quality of scholarship that is required by section twenty-six hundred twenty-nine of the supplement to the code, [1902] and when the teacher possesses a good moral character and satisfies the board of being professionally qualified, there shall be granted by the said board of examiners a state certificate valid for five years to teach in any public school in the state. [32 G. A., ch. 148, § 2.]

Sec. 2634-h. Renewal. All certificates referred to in section twenty-six hundred twenty-nine (2629), twenty-six hundred thirty-b (2630-b), twenty-six hundred thirty-c (2630-c), twentysix hundred thirty-four-d (2634-d), twenty-six hundred thirtyfour-f (2634-f), and twenty-six hundred thirty-four-g (2634-g), of the supplement to the code, 1907, shall be renewed for life by the state board of educational examiners upon the payment of a

fee of five dollars ($5.00) and proof of at least five years' successful teaching, three of which shall have been during the time the said certificate (with renewals) has been in force. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 3; 32 G. A., ch. 148, § 3.]

Sec. 2634-h1. Conditions for renewal under certain sections— fee. All certificates referred to in sections twenty-seven hundred thirty-four-d and twenty-seven hundred thirty-four-e of the supplement to the code, 1907, in section twenty-seven hundred thirty-four-g of the supplement to the code, 1907, as amended by chapter one hundred eighty-one of the acts of the thirty-third general assembly and by section five of this act, and in section six of this act, shall be renewed for life by the state board of educational examiners upon compliance by the holder with the following conditions:

1. The applicant shall show by testimonials from county or city superintendents or from the principals having immediate supervision of his school work and from a member of the local school board that he has had at least five years' continuous successful teaching experience (which may have been before or after the passage of this act), at least three of which shall have been immediately prior to the time validation is sought and under the grade of certificate for which such validation is desired;

2. The standing of such applicant in the several branches shown upon his certificate shall average not less than eighty-five per cent. and in no branch shall the per cent. be less than eighty per cent., provided that in case the standing is less than the per cent. required, either average or special, the holder of the certificate may, at any of the times provided in section twenty-seven hundred thirty-four-c of the supplement to the code, 1907, take an examination in any branch or branches he may desire and the per cent. then received shall be entered upon his certificate;

3. The applicant shall furnish proof of professional study during the entire five-year period such as is made necessary in the case of term renewals of certificates.

Upon the issue of a life certificate as herein contemplated, the applicant shall pay a fee of five dollars to be turned into the state treasury. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 7.]

Sec. 2634-h2. Lapse of certificate. All life certificates provided for in this act shall lapse provided the holder shall not teach during a period of five successive years. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 10.]

Sec. 2634-h3. Acts in conflict repealed. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. [34 G. A., ch. 130, § 13.]

FREE TUITION.

Sec. 2733-al. Attendance at schools outside home district— tuition.

Section 1. That the law as it appears in section 2733-al supplemental supplement to the code, 1915, be and the same is hereby repealed and the following is enacted in lieu thereof: Any person of school age who is a resident of a school corporation which does not offer a four-year high school course and who has completed the course as approved by the department of public instruction for such corporation shall be permitted to attend any public high school or county high school in the state approved in like manner that will receive him. Any person applying for admission to any high school under the provisions of this act shall present the officials of said high school the affidavit of his or her father, mother, guardian, or if he have neither, his next friend that such applicant is entitled to attend the public school and a resident of a school district of this state, specifying the district. He shall also present a certificate signed by the county superintendent showing proficiency in the common school branches, reading, orthography, arithmetic, physiology, grammar, civics of Iowa, geography, United States history, penmanship and music. The school corporation in which such student resides shall pay to the secretary of the corporation in which such student shall be permitted to enter a tuition fee of eight dollars ($8.00) per month, but in districts in which there is a city of the first class a tuition fee of eight dollars ($8.00) per month may be charged, in the high school department in the latter corporation during the time he so attends, not exceeding, however, a total period of four school years; provided that such tuition shall in no case exceed the average cost of said tuition in such high school; such payment to be made out of the general fund of the debtor corporation and such tuition fee as collected by the secretary shall be turned over by him with an itemized statement, to the treasurer of the school funds on or before February fifteenth and June fifteenth of each year. If payment is refused or neglected the board of the creditor corporation shall file with the auditor of the county of the pupil's residence a statement certified byits president specifying the amount due for tuition and for contingent expenses respectively, and the time for which the same is claimed; and the auditor shall transmit to the county treasurer an order directing such treasurer to transfer the amount of such account from the debtor corporation to the creditor corpoation, and the treasurer shall pay the same in accordance therewith. No school corporation situated in a county maintaining a county high school shall be required to pay the tuition. of pupils at any high school other than such county high school, but this shall not apply to pupils who, while residing at home, attend some high school other than that of the school corporation in which they reside; and the tuition to be paid by

school corporations in such county shall be three and onehalf dollars ($3.50) per pupil per month, provided that, in counties having a high school where a child resides at home and attends a high school outside the district of his residence other than the county high school, and the school corporation where the child resides pays the tuition for such child, and at the end of the school year it is found that less pupils have attended the county high school from the district where such child resides than was entitled to attend under the county high school apportionment, then and in that case the school corporation where such child resides shall be entitled to be reimbursed from the county high school funds for the tuition so paid, not exceeding in the aggregate an amount equal to the taxes contributed by such district to said county high school funds for the tax year preceding, fair and equitable credit being given to the county high school fund for pupils actually attending said county high school during said school year from the district where said child resides. The county superintendent shall, on being applied to for such purpose, determine in writing the amount due such corporation from the county high school fund, and furnish such corporation with a copy of such finding. Within twenty days thereafter such corporation may appeal to the district court from such finding by serving written notice on the county superintendent of the taking of such appeal. On the service of said notice the county superintendent shall file a copy of his finding in the office of the clerk of the district court and the clerk shall docket the cause without fee. The matter shall be tried on appeal as in equity and without formal pleading. The decision of the district court shall be final. The treasurer shall, upon the filing with him of any final decision, immediately transfer from the county high school funds to the credit of the corporation entitled to the same the amount directed to be transferred.

Sec. 2. This act, being deemed of immediate importance, shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the Des Moines Register, a newspaper published in Des Moines, Iowa, and the Council Bluffs Nonpareil, a newspaper published in Council Bluffs, Iowa. [38 G. A., ch. 72; 37 G. A., ch. 156; 36 G. A., ch. 234, § 2; 35 G. A., ch. 239; § 1; 35 G. A., ch. 240, § 1; 34 G. A., ch. 146, §§ 1-4.]

Amendment of 38th G. A. in operation April 21, 1919.

THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT.

Sec. 2734-a. Repeal. There is hereby repealed sections twenty-six hundred thirty-two, twenty-seven hundred thirty-four, twenty-seven hundred thirty-five, twenty-seven hundred thirtysix, twenty-seven hundred thirty-seven of the code, and sections. twenty-seven hundred thirty-four, twenty-seven hundred thirty