shall before the examination begins pay to the county superintendent a fee of seventy-five cents (75c) for each manuscript to be sent. The county superintendent shall issue his receipt for all fees paid under the provisions of this act, and shall immediately send such fees, together with the manuscripts, to the state superintendent of public instruction, who shall issue his receipt therefor to the county superintendent. The state superintendent of public instruction shall use such funds in the employment of a sufficient number of qualified persons to grade the manuscripts and perform the services incident to the operation of the license system instituted by this act. All manuscripts sent to the state superintendent of public instruction shall be designated by number, and the state superintendent of public instruction shall refuse to receive any manuscript bearing the name of the applicant or any other means of identification of the applicant. As soon as the manuscripts are graded and their success or failure determined, according to the requirements hereinafter provided, the state superintendent of public instruction shall report the success or failure of the manuscripts by number to the county superintendent, whereupon the county superintendent, shall immediately forward to the state superintendent of public instruction the names of the successful applicants in his county together with their success grades and any other data required by the state superintendent of public instruction for the purpose of issuing the license.

6391b. Examination studies.-2. Applicants for license to teach. in the elementary schools shall be examined in orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar, physiology and scientific temperance, United States history, literature, and the science of education, and in such additional branches as they are or may hereafter be legally required to teach. The examination for license in the above named subjects may be divided according to such plan as may be devised by the state board of education, so that applicants may take one division on one examination, and if successful upon the first division, the second division at the next examination, Provided however, That any applicant for such license shall have the right to take both divisions at the same examination.

One fee shall be sufficient for both divisions, provided the applicant does not fail in either division. Applicants for license in high school subjects shall be examined in as many subjects as they desire to take from the list of subjects offered by the state board of education, Provided, however, All applicants shall be examined in the science of education. Applicants for supervisor's and special teacher's license in agriculture, industrial arts, domestic science, kindergarten, music,

drawing, physical culture, or other special branches required to be taught shall be examined in such subjects as they elect from the foregoing list or such additional special branches as may be provided.

6391c. State board fixing averages.-3. The state board of education shall determine the grades and averages required for issuing licenses, and whenever an applicant shall be found upon examination to possess knowledge sufficient in the judgment of the county superintendent or state superintendent to entitle him to a license in the subject or subjects in which he is examined, he shall be issued a county license or a state license for twelve months, twenty-four months, or thirty-six months, according to the requirements established; Provided, That licenses issued upon the October examination for less than twenty-four months, shall expire July 31 of the year following the examination; and Provided further, That any applicant for license in elementary subjects who fails in only two subjects shall be conditioned and allowed to write upon such subjects at the next regular examination during the current year. The general average of the branches shall indicate the applicant's academic standing, which shall be the basis of issuing a license to a teacher without experience. The general average of the branches and the per cent. placed upon the applicant's school room success shall count one-half in determining the average of a teacher who is entitled to a success grade; Provided however, That the success grade last issued shall be taken as the legal success grade.

6391d. Temporary teaching permits.-4. County superintendents are hereby authorized to issue at their discretion temporary county permits to teach, dated to expire on the date of the next succeeding general examination, Provided, That such permit shall not be issued unless the applicant has met the minimum professional training requirements fixed by law, as shown by the proper certificate; Provided further, That such permit shall not be issued to any one who has failed on any regular examination during the examination year preceding the date of application; and Provided further, That such permits may be issued only upon request of school boards or township trustee to teachers employed by them. County permits issued upon the above named conditions shall be accepted as legal qualifications to teach; for the purpose of classifying teachers, a county permit shall be equivalent to a twelve months' license with an average of 85%.

6391e. Professional license, eight-year term.-5. Any person now possessing a thirty-six months' license, whose next consecutive license shall be for a term of thirty-six months, or any person who shall hereafter receive two licenses in succession each for thirty-six months, may receive upon the expiration of such several licenses, a license for

the term of eight years upon examination held by the state board of education. Such license shall be issued only upon the approval of the state board of education, and shall be styled a professional license, and shall entitle the holder to teach in any of the schools of this state. 6391f. Exemption from examination.-6. Any person who has previously taught for six (6) consecutive years in the common schools of the state, or who shall hereafter complete for six (6) consecutive years of experience in such schools, and who shall at this time hold a thirty-six months' license to teach in the elementary or high schools of the state, or who shall hereafter obtain such thirty-six months' license to teach therein, so long as he shall teach the branch or branches upon which the license was issued, shall be forever afterward exempt from examination, but if such person shall, after said exemption occurs, suffer a period of one year to pass without having taught one full school year in the common schools of the state within said period or served in said schools, except in case of physical disability, properly certified to by a reputable physician, or except in case of attending for a full school year a recognized university, college or normal school, then said exemption shall cease. If said person during such exemption, shall seek employment to teach other or higher branches in the common schools of the state than those branches which were included in the examination upon which the thirty-six months' license was issued, then he shall be examined in such additional branches. The exemption shall apply to all thirty-six months' county licenses issued prior to September 1, 1915, and expiring thereafter, and to all thirty-six months' state licenses: Provided, That an exemption acquired upon a license issued by a county superintendent shall be limited to the county in which such license was issued. An applicant for a state exemption shall present a certified statement from a county superintendent showing where and when such teacher has taught, and the license upon which the request for exemption is based. If the exemption is granted, the superintendent of public instruction shall attach the exemption to the original license.

6391g. Previous exemptions in force.-7. All exemptions heretofore acquired shall remain in full force so long as the holders thereof shall comply with the terms of section 6 of this act.

6391h. Schedule of items.-8. The state superintendent of public instruction is hereby required to provide from time to time such schedule of items as should in his judgment, enter into the record and grading of a teacher's success by the city, town, and county superintendent of schools.

63911. Grade of success, who determines.-9. The county superintendent shall determine the grade of success of teachers employed in

the township schools, and the superintendents of incorporated school cities and school towns shall determine the grade of success of teachers employed in such corporation. For the purpose of determining such success grades, city, town, and county superintendents are required to visit each year the teachers under their charge and supervision and make personal inspection of the work of such teachers, and each school superintendent shall issue over his signature and deliver to each teacher under his supervision, not later than July 1, each year such statement of the success of each as is contemplated herein, and shall keep on file in a permanent record book, duplicate of all such statements; also, city and town superintendents shall file with the county superintendent duplicates of all success grades within ten days after their date of issuance. A teacher's success grade so issued shall be his legal success grade for one year from the date of its issuance. See section 63910.

6391j. Unfair grading.-10. The state superintendent of public instruction is hereby authorized to investigate and revise such cases of unfair grading in the items of a teacher's success as may be brought to his attention in a written appeal, make [made] and sworn to before any person authorized to administer oaths, not later than thirty days after the issuance of said grade. All such sworn statements and papers relating to the case shall be filed with the county superintendent of schools, and shall by him be forwarded to the state superintendent of public instruction within ten days after the filing of such appeals. 6391k. Records of county superintendent.-11. The county superintendent shall keep a record of minutes of his proceedings, and shall deliver such record, and all other books, papers, and property appertaining to his office to his successor. He shall also keep a record of all applicants for license and the kind and length of the license issued to each successful applicant, as well as the names of the teachers whose licenses he revokes. He shall report to the state superintendent of public instruction the names of those whose licenses he revokes and the date of such revocation.

63911. Report of state superintendent.-12. The state superintendent of public instruction shall keep a complete record of all fees and manuscripts received by him, and also, a record of all licenses issued by him, showing the name of the person to whom issued and for how long, and the grades received by the applicant. He shall make an annual report under oath to the governor giving an itemized statement of the receipts and disbursements of moneys contemplated by this act, stating for what paid and to whom paid, and he shall take receipts for all expenditures, which receipts shall be kept on file.

6391m. Fees, payment to state treasury.-13. On December 31st of each year, if the state superintendent of public instruction shall have on hand any balance after all expenses incurred in performing the services contemplated in this act have been paid, as hereinbefore provided, he shall pay said balance to the treasurer of state, who shall credit same to the state common school tuition fund.

6391n. Act effective.-14. The provisions of this act shall become effective September 1, 1915, but nothing in this act shall effect the validity of any license granted prior to the above date.

[Acts 1919, p. 591. In force May 15, 1919.]

63910. Success grade-United States service counted.-1. In all cases when any teacher without previous experience began teaching at any time after the United States entered the late war and resigned to enter any branch of the naval or military service of the United States before having completed the necessary six months of teaching as now provided by law to secure a success grade, the time so served in the naval or military service of the United States shall be counted as teaching experience in awarding success grades and the salaries of such teachers shall be computed accordingly.

See section 6391i.

[Acts 1921, p. 131. In force March 1, 1921.]

6400. Salary of superintendent.-2. The county superintendent of schools shall receive a salary of not less than fifteen hundred [dollars] ($1500) annually. The township trustee, by and with the consent of the board of county commissioners of the county, are hereby authorized and empowered to increase this salary to such an amount as, in the judgment of the majority of such township trustees, the conditions in the county and the work required of the county superintendent therein may in their judgment justify. Such salary shall be paid to the county superintendent of schools in monthly installments out of the treasury of the county upon a warrant of the county auditor: Provided, however, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to reduce the salary which any county superintendent of schools now receives.

This section amends section 6400 Revision of 1914.

[Acts 1913, p. 77. In force February 28, 1913.] 6400a. Additional salaries in certain counties.

This section Revision of 1914, was repealed by section 6400e being section 6, Acts 1921, p. 131.

[Acts 1921, p. 131. In force March 1, 1921.]

6400b. Traveling expenses.-3. The traveling expenses of the county superintendent, not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) per month,