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EDUCATION.

§ 88. RECORDS OPEN TO INSPECTION.] All reports, books, records, vouchers, contracts and papers relating to school business in a school district, in the office of clerk or treasurer, shall be at all times open to the inspection of any director, who shall advise and aid towards securing correct records and accounts and legal reports, and they shall likewise be open to the inspection of the State and county superintendents, and any particular paper or record shall be exhibited at reasonable hours to any voter or tax payer.

§ 89. ONLY ENGLISH LANGUAGE TO BE TAUGHT.] All reports and records of school officers, and proceedings of all school meetings shall be kept in the English language, and if any money belonging to any district shall be expended in supporting a school in which the English language not be taught exclusively, the county superintendent, or any tax payer of the school corporation may, in civil action in the name of the corporation, recover for the corporation all such money from the officer or officers so expending it or ordering or voting for its expenditure.

ARTICLE VII.

SCHOOL FUNDS.

§ 90. STATE TUITION FUND, HOW RAISED.] The net proceeds arising from all fines and penalties for violation of State laws, from leasing the school lands, the interest and income from the State permanent school fund, together with the school poll tax and all school taxes levied by general law, shall be collected and paid into the State Treasury as provided for by law and shall constitute the the State Tuition Fund, which shall be apportioned among the several counties of the State in proportion to the number of children of school age in each as shown by the last enumeration authorized by law.

§ 91. COUNTY TREASURER TO REPORT RECEIPTS QUARTERLY TO STATE AUDITOR.] It shall be the duty of each county treasurer to receive from the proper officers the net proceeds of fines, penalties and forfeitures for violation of state laws, to collect the school poll tax and all taxes levied for school purposes by general law and all monies arising from leasing school lands within the county and forward a detailed statement of the monies so collected, specifying the amount received from each of the above sources to the State Auditor, with the quarterly reports on the first of December, March, June and September.

§ 91. STATE AUDITOR TO APPORTION STATE TUITION FUND-FUNDS FROM LEASE AND SALE OF SCHOOL LANDS TO BE KEPT SEPARATE.] It shall be the duty of the State Auditor on or before the first Monday of June and December in each year to apportion the State Tuition Fund among the several counties of the State in proportion to the number of children of school age residing in each as shown by the last enumeration provided for by law and to