The State Board of Education is hereby authorized to expend the State Illiteracy Fund appropriated for the removal of illiteracy and for otherwise maintaining adult education programs and classes; provided, that the State Board of Education is authorized to provide from said fund the necessary professional and clerical assistants to carry on said program.
(School Code 1927, §424; Acts 1939, No. 496, p. 721, §2; Code 1940, T. 52, §402.)