Not to interfere with school session. 638. In operating such methods and system of disinfection, as aforesaid, the person or persons in charge of such duty shall, as far as practicable, perform such duty in such manner as not to interfere with the regular school sessions held in said school or college buildings, and it shall not be necessary under this act, to perform such duty in any school or college building which is not used and occupied for school purposes. 28 Portion of appropriation for expenses. 639. In order to fully and completely carry out the provisions of this act, and to defray the expenses necessary to equip and put into operation by the board of school directors, trustees, or other person or persons having control of any public or high school of this state, such method and system of disinfection, as aforesaid, there shall be set aside by such school directors, trustees, or other person or persons having control of any public or high school building, out of the funds biannually appropriated by this state, under the act" providing method of distributing the appropriation to common schools," sufficient money, necessary to defray the expenses incident thereto.29 Fine for neglect. 640. Any board of school directors, trustees, or other person or persons, charged under this act with the enforcement of any of its provisions, who shall neglect to properly enforce the same shall, upon complaint of state or local board of health to the court of common pleas of the proper county, pay a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.30 CHAPTER XXVI. TEACHERS' INSTITUTES. 641. Teachers' county institute. Organization......... 642. Report of county superintendent on attendance.... PAGE 315 315 643. Contribution from county treasurer to county institute.......... 316 644. Penalty of teachers for non-attendance 645. Teacher's compensation for attending institute..... 316 646. School district liable for teacher's compensation...... 316 647. Compensation not to exceed two dollars per diem......... 317 650. Superintendent's report on adjournment to superintendent of common schools........ 648. Pay of teachers while attending institute under act of 1887...... 317 649. Institute accounts......... 317 318 651. Superintendent's report to school directors.. 652. City and borough teachers' institute....... 318 318 319 653. City or borough superintendent may call a teachers' institute.. 319 654. Committee on permanent certificates...... 655. Time for holding city teachers' institute...... Teachers' county institute. Organization. 319 319 641. The county superintendent of each county in this Commonwealth is hereby authorized and required, once in each year, at such time and place as he, or a properly authorized committee of teachers, acting with him, may deem most convenient, to call upon and invite the teachers of the common schools, and other institutions of learning, in his county, to assemble together, and organize themselves into a teachers' institute, to be devoted to the improvement of teachers in the science and art of education, and to continue in session at least five days, including a half day for going to, and a half day for returning from, the place of meeting; said institute to be presided over by the county superintendent, or by some one designated by him, and subject, in its general management, to his control.' Report of county superintendent on attendance. 642. Each county superintendent, upon the assembling of the teachers' institute of his county, shall cause a roll of members to be prepared, which roll shall be called at least twice every day, during the session of the institute, and all absentees carefully marked, and from which, upon the adjornment of the institute, he shall ascertain the exact numI. Act April 9, 1867, Sec. 2. P. L. 51.4 O ber of teachers who were in attendance and the length of time each attended.2 Contribution from county treasurer to county institute. 643. And upon the presentation of a certificate, at the close of the session of each annual institute, setting forth these facts (as set forth in Section 642), and signed by the county superintendent, to the treasurer of the proper county, he is hereby authorized and required to pay immediately, out of any money in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the county superintendent, one dollar for every three days spent by teachers of the county in attendance at the institute, for that year, or as much of it as may be needed; such money to be expended by the county superintendent in procuring the services of lecturers and instructors for the institute, and in providing the necessary apparatus, books and stationery, for carrying on its work: Provided, That the amount which may be drawn from the county treasury shall, in no case, be more than two hundred dollars, but may, in all cases, be sixty dollars, if it shall appear, from the vouchers presented by the county superintendent to the county auditors, as required by the 4th section of this act (see Infra TEACHERS' INSTITUTES, Sec. 649), that this sum has been actually expended for the purposes herein specified.3 Penalty of teachers for non-attendance. 644. Any teacher who absents himself from the institute of his county, without a good reason, may have his want of professional spirit and zeal indicated, by a lower mark on his certificate in the practice of teaching, than he would otherwise have received.4 Teacher's compensation for attending institute. 645. All boards of school directors and boards of controllers shall be and are hereby authorized and required to pay the teachers employed in the public schools, of the several districts, within their jurisdiction, for attendance upon the sessions of the annual county institutes, in the respective counties.5 School district liable for teacher's compensation. 646. Compensation for institute attendance shall be based on the official reports made, to the several boards of directors or controllers, by the proper county, city or borough superintendent, who shall report the daily attendance of teachers to the respective boards by which they are employed, and such compensation shall be allowed by the directors or controllers, and paid by the district treasurer to the teachers entitled to receive the same." Compensation not to exceed two dollars per diem. 647. Compensation, as herein authorized, shall not be less than the per diem pay for actual teaching; Provided, That it shall not, in any case, exceed two dollars per diem, and shall be allowed and paid to the teachers in their respective districts for each day's attendance reported as aforesaid by the proper superintendent.7 Pay of teachers while attending institute under act of 1887. 648. Attorney-General Kirkpatrick said: "The practical construction of this act of assembly, as made by the department of public instruction, is, that teachers are entitled to compensation for institute attendance, in addition to their regular wages, according to their per diem pay for actual teaching, but compensation as authorized by the act of assembly cannot lawfully exceed two dollars a day, which is the maximum allowance provided by the act. The time of attendance cannot be reported and credited as part of the twenty days' actual teaching required to constitute a school month, but is in addition thereto. Teachers in attendance who are, at the time of holding the institute, engaged in teaching in the county, and also those who have been elected or employed to teach in the public schools of the county for the current annual term, 5. Act April 13, 1887, Sec. 1, P. L. 20. 6. Act April 13, 1887, Sec. 2, P. L. 20. 7. Act April 13, 1887, Sec. 3, P. L. 20. prior to the date of the institute-but whose schools are opened subsequently-are to be reported by the superintendent, and credited as legal members of the institute, and are entitled to compensation for attending the same. In my opinion this construction accords with the true intent of the act of assembly in question."8 Institute accounts. 649. Each county superintendent who may draw money from the county treasury, for the purposes named in this act, shall file his account of all expenditures, under the act, in the office of the county treasurer, with vouchers for the same, which shall be examined by the auditors of the county, in like manner, as other county expenditures; and any misapplication of funds shall be punished in the same manner as collectors of state and county taxes, for like offenses, are now punished.9 Superintendent's report on adjournment to the superintendent of common schools. 650. All county superintendents, upon the adjournment of the teachers' institutes, held in their respective counties, are hereby required to report to the superintendent of common schools, the number of teachers in attendance, the names of the lecturers or instructors who officiated, the subjects upon which the instruction was given, and the degree of popular interest awakened by the proceedings. 10 Superintendent's report to school directors. 651. At the close of the annual sessions of the said institutes, it shall be the duty of the several county, city and borough superintendents to make a report, to each board of school directors in their respective jurisdictions, setting forth the number of days that each teacher shall have attended and participated in the exercises of the said annual teachers' institute, which said report shall be the basis for allowing the teachers their time and wages: Provided, |