Uniform Text-book

"We give below Section 8, Artiole 198 of the Public Acts of the 1897 legislature. This act relates to the use of uniform text books in the primary schools of the state. Sec. 8. The books which may hereafter be adopted by the State of Michigan for use in its common or primary schools by virtue of this act shall be uniformly used in all the common or primary schools of the State except as hereinafter provided, in teaching the branches of learning treated of in suoh books, and it shall be the duty of the proper school ofiicers and authorities to use in such schools such books for teaching the subjects treated in them: Provided, That no school shall be prohibited from using any supplementary books: Provided however, That the provisions of this act shall not be mandatory on districts that are furnishing free text-books for use in the school or schools of the distaict or that may, at the annual school meeting, or at any special or general election in the years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven or eighteen hundred and ninety-eight by a majority vote of the qualified electors of said district determine to furnish free text-booKs for use in the school or schools of the district, and it shall be the duty of the school boards of the several districts that have not previously adopted free text-books to submit the question of the adoption of free textbooks to the eleotors of the district at any annual school meeting or special or general election during the years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight under the conditions and provisions of act number one hundred and fortyseven of the session laws of eighteen hundred and eigbty-nine : And provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not be mandatory on any district, which shall at any annual, special or general election during the years eighteen hundred and ninetyseven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight determine, by a majority vote of the qualified electors of said district voting on the subject, not to come thereunde r.