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 § 132. PUPIL MAY BE SUSPENDED FOR CAUSE.] A teacher may suspend from school for not more than ﬁve days any pupil for in subordination or habitual disobedience, or disorderly conduct. In such case the teacher shall give immediate notice to the parent or guardian of such pupil, also to some member of the district school board of such suspension and the reason therefor.

§ 133. ASSIGNMENT OF STUDIES TO PUPILS.] It shall be the duty of the teacher to assign to each pupil such studies as he is qualiﬁed to pursue, and to place him in the proper class in any studies, subject to the provisions in Section 130 of this article; ‘’Provided,’’ That in a graded school under the charge of a principal or local superintendent, such principal or superintendent shall perform this duty. In case any parent or guardian is dissatisﬁed with such assignment or classiﬁcation, the matter shall be referred to and decided by the county superintendent.

§ 134. BIBLE NOT SECTARIAN BOOK—READING OF OPTIONAL WITH PUPIL.] The Bible shall not be deemed a sectarian book. It shall not be excluded from any public school. It may at the option of the teacher be read in school without sectarian comment, not to exceed ten minutes daily. No pupil shall be requ1red to read it nor be present in the school room during the reading thereof, con trary to the wishes of his parents or guardian, or other person having him in charge. Moral instruction tending to impress upon the minds Of pupils the importance Of truthfulness, temperance, purity, public spirit, patriotism, and respect for honest labor, obedience to parents and due deference for old age, shall be given by every teacher in the public schools.

ARTICLE XIII.

INSTITUTES, ASSOCIATIONS AND READING CIRCLES.

§ 135. COUNTY INSTITUTE FUND, HOW CREATED.] All money received by the county superintendent from examination fees shall constitute an institute fund for the county, and shall be used by him to aid in the support of teachers’ institutes to be held within or for the county, and to pay necessary expenses incurred The county superintendent shall, at the end of each therein. year, submit a full and accurrate statement of the receipts and expenditures of these funds, veriﬁed by his oath, to the State Superintendent.

§ 136. STATE INSTITUE FUND—INSTITUTE CONDUCTORS.] There is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ﬁfty (50) dollars each year to each organized county in the State, in which there are ten or more resident teachers, which shall be designated as a State Institute Fund, and which shall be used exclusively in employing persons Of learning, ability and experience as conductors of teachers’ institutes. The State Superintendent after consultation with the county superintendents as to the special needs and wants of their