Constantine republican. [volume] (Constantine, Mich.) 1836-1838, 1837-04-26

fines collected within the county for any
breach of the penal laws and also its proper
ton of the equivalent for exemption from
military duly according to the number of
children between the ages of five and sew
eatee.i ears inclusive.
ART. a. Township board OF school in
spectors their powers and duties.
SEC. 81. There shall be chosen at
each annual township meeting, three school
inspectors in the same manner as other
township officers are chosen.
Sec. %. Said inspectors shall have pow
err and it shall be their duty,
l. To meet within ten days of their cleo
ton, at the Office of the township clerk, who
shall be ex-olficio clerk of the board, and
organize, by choosing one Of their num-
Der chairman, who shall preside at their
meetings.
2. To divide their township into such
number of districts, and TO regulate,
and alter the boundaries of said school
distrirts, as may from time to time be ne
cessary.
3. To describe and number the school dis
tricts, of their township.
A. To apply for and receive from the
county treasurer all moneys appropriated
for the primary schools in their town.
ship, and from the collector of the town.
ship all moneys raised therein for the
same purpose as soon as the same shall be
due.
5. To apportion the school moneys re-
ceiyed by them on or before the first Of
March of each year, among the several
school districts, aud parts Of districts, in their
township, in proportion to the number of
scholars in each, between the ages of five
and seventeen years, as the same shall be
shown by the last annual report of the direc-
tor Of each district: Provided, No money
shall be apportioned to any district from
which report shall not have been received,
nor to any district in which school shall
not have been kept at least three months,
during the year Immediately preceding, by
a qualified teacher.
] SEC. %. The chairman of the board OF
inspectors shall be the treasurer of said
board; and it shall be the duty of the inspec.
tors to require of said chairman bond, TO
be given to the township, in double the a
mount to be received by him, in two suffi-
cient sureties TO be approved by the supervi-
sor or township clerk, conditioned for the
faithful appropriation of all moneys that may
come into his hands by virtue of his Office
said bond 70 be LEGGED VII; The township
clerk, who is hereby authorized, in case Of
the non-fulflment Of the condition Of said
bond, to sue for the penalty thereof before
any court of competent jurisdiction.
Sec. "a. On or before the fifteenth
day of November of each year, they shall
make out and transmit TO the county clerk q
report setting forth
1. The whole number of districts in theil
township.
2. The number of districts from which
reports have been made within the year.
| 3. The length of time a school has beer
kept by qualified teacher.
A. The amount of public money paid tc
each.
5. The number of children taught in eacl
and the number belonging to each dis
trict between the ages of five and seventeen
years.
@. The amount Of moneys received from
the school fund, and also the amount raised
in the township for the support of primary
schools and the manner the same has beer
appropriated.
SEC. 25. If the board of school inspec
tors shall neglect or refuse to make sucl
report by the time set forth in the preceding
section, they shall forfeit for the use of tEt
schools of their township the sum of fifty
dollars and the full amount of the money
lost by their failure, with interest on tn,
same; to be recovered in an action o
debt by the township collector, before an.
court having competent jurisdiction of thu
same.
Sec. %. Whenever il may be necessar,
? or convenient TO form district from two o
more adjoining townships, the inspectors o
majority Of them from each of such ad
joining townships, may form district from
the same, and the director of the district S,
formed shall make returns to each TOWNSHIP
from which said district is formed specifyin.
in said returns that only which belongs to sail
township.
OESs 90 IL Suuii uC TIC uuly vi tiiC iilSpCC
tors to examine annually all persons offer
ing themselves as candidates for teaching thu
primary schools in the township, in regar'
to moral chara C 'er, learning, ability to teacl
school; and if satisfied that such can
didates possess the requisite qualifications
they shall deliver TO the person so examin
cd certificate signed by them in such form
as shall be transcribed by the superinten
dent Of public instruction, which certifcat
shall be in force only one year from the dat
thereof.
SEC. %. Whenever the inspectors sha
deem i necessary, they may re.examin
any teacher of any primary school in tbei
township, and if found wanting in the requi
site qualifications, they may annul any Gel
{ tifcate given to such teacher, by giving I
such person ten days written notice to thi
, effect, and filing the same in the office ofth
, clerk of their township.
, SEC. 30. 1t shall be the duty Of the in
spectors to visit all such schools in the
D township, at least twice in each year, a
t shall be organized according to law; to il
a quire into their condition, examine tn
y scholars, and give such advice TO bot
r teacher and scholars as they shall deer
5 proper.
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