124 Agricultural Instruction in the Public High Schools 



the case of separate county boards, with an additional member 

 chosen by the two boards, or by lot from the two highest in 

 the voting. The grant from the state treasury is optional with 

 the state board of education, which may not inspect the school 

 until certification has been made that the school is provided 

 wath twenty acres of land and suitable buildings, including a 

 dormitory accommodating at least forty persons. 



Section i of the recent act provides for the establishment of 

 " not more than two agricultural high schools in the county, one 

 for white youths exclusively and the other for colored youths 

 exclusively," and adds that " if only one school is established 

 at first, the school board shall have the power at any subsequent 

 time to establish an additional school whenever the necessity for 

 the same shall arise." 



Section 2 prescribes the manner of levying and collecting the 

 tax, and provides " further, that within twenty days after a levy 

 has been made twenty per cent of the qualified electors of the 

 said county may file with the clerk of the board of supervisors 

 a petition asking that the tax for the support of either one or 

 both agricultural high schools be not levied, then the questions 

 shall be submitted to an election of the qualified electors of the 

 county within thirty days after the next meeting of the board 

 of supervisors after the filing of the petition, at which election 

 said electors may vote against the tax levied for the support 

 of either one or both schools ; and should a majority of the 

 votes be cast against the tax levied for the support of either 

 one or both schools, then the levy of the board for the support 

 of that school or of both schools, as the case may be, shall 

 be null and void and the tax collector shall refuse to collect 

 such tax so voted against." 



Whether this will enable the voters to support the school 

 established for one race, and refuse to permit the establishment 

 of the school for the other race, I do not know. 



Six county high schools had been organized before the adverse 

 decision of the supreme court stopped further efforts. They 

 are located as follows : Bay Springs, Jasper County ; Buena 

 Vista, Chickasaw County ; Camden, Madison County ; Kossuth, 



