People ex rel. Beckwith v. Board of Education of Oakland

Citations

• 55 Cal. 331

Syllabus

<p>Text Books—Common Schools—Constitutional Law—Repeal of Statute. Section 7, art. ix, of the Constitution, x>roviding that “ the local Boards of Education, and the Boards of Sdpervisors and County Superintendents of the several counties which may not have County Boards of Education, shall adopt a series of text-books for the use of the common schools within their respective jurisdictions,” is self-executing, and operated as a repeal of the Act of December 13th, 1875, which provided that the text-books in use in the years 1873-4r-5 should be continued in use until otherwise provided by statute. o</p> <p>Id.—Local Boards of Education—Definition.—Each Board of Education, whether of a city and township, or county, is local as to the territory of its jurisdiction, and where portions of a county are subject to local boards, the County Board is local as to the balance of the county.</p> <p>Id. — Common Schools—Constitutional Law—County Superintendent — Boards of Supervisors.—A question stated as to how the powers of the County Superintendents and Boards of Supervisors are to be executed, in cases where the selection of the text-books devolves upon them; and held, that as to such cases, the section may hot be self-executing, and we might thus have a section self-executing as to one class of officers, and not so as to another.</p>