Section 1. That the County Board of School Trustees in counties having a population of not less than 31,000 nor more than 31,789, according to the Federal Census of 1920, and a scholastic population of not less than 9,300 as shown by the scholastic report for the school year of 1928-29, may employ a Rural School Supervisor to plan, outline, and supervise the work of the primary and intermediate grades of the rural schools of the county.

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Sec. 2. The Rural Supervisor provided for in this Act shall be the holder of a teacher’s permanent certificate (not permanent primary) and shall have had four years successful experience as a teacher in the primary and intermediate grades and in addition shall have had practice teaching in said grades.
Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of such Supervisor to visit the schools of the county and help the teachers with their class work by teaching demonstration lessons for them; suggesting methods of presenting the work and aiding them in any other ways possible.
Sec. 4. The Supervisor may call meetings of the teachers when deemed necessary, either by the Supervisor or the County Board, for the purpose of discussing their work with them, and it shall be the duty of the teachers to attend all such meetings, whenever possible.
Sec. 5. The salary of the Rural School Supervisor shall be determined by the County Board of School Trustees; provided that the total salary paid such Supervisor for any one year shall not exceed $2,000. Said salary shall be paid out of the local or available funds of the districts in proportion to the weekly salary, or salaries, of the teachers of the districts.
Sec. 6. The employment of a Rural School Supervisor under the terms of this Act shall exempt the County Superintendent from holding a Teachers’ Institute for rural teachers, including teachers of independent districts of fewer than five hundred scholastics, and exempt the rural teachers of the county from attendance upon a Teachers’ Institute as provided for in Article 2691, Revised Statutes of 1925, and as amended by the 40th Legislature.