Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-04-23

TORY and the elements of physical SCI
ence, and such other higher branches
as the school commissioners may d.
rect; and all resident white children In
the district above the age OF six years
are entitled to receive tuition free Of
charge. Every district is to be under
The control of three trustees, to be ap-
pointed annually, two by the qualified
voters at the annual election of school
commissioners, and one by the board
of schoo! commissioners at their first
meeting. The trustees are required to
purchase site and erect thereon g
school house, or to rent or lease a
house for that purpose, the terms to be
approved by the board of commission
ers; to furnish proper fixtures, books,
apparatus and fuel, and keep the house
and enclosure in repair; to appoint
teacher for each school, and to remove
him and superintend his conduct
Teachers to lie examined and APPROX
ed by the board ofschool commission
ers, OF by some one deputed by them
for that purpose. One of them is to
visit the school at least once month,
examine the scholars, address the pu-
/ pills, exhor,ing them to prosecute their
studies diligently land to conduct them
selves virtuously and properly. They
may suspend or expel pupils from
school. They are to return to the
board of school commissioners annual
" in September, report of the cerdi-
ton, operation and expenses of the
school. Annually in April they are
to ascertain the number of white chill
dren over six and under sixteen, and
the names of their parents or guardians,
and return the same to the clerk of the
school commissioners. They are to
draw orders on the sheriff payable to
those entitled, for salaries Of teachers
and other expenses, and they are es:
pecially to visit the families of the poor
and prevail on them to send their chill
dren regularly TO school. While ac-
ting as trustees, they are exempt from
militia duty in time of peace. If the
! inhabitants of district fail to elect
trustees, the trustee appointed by the
board is vested with all the powers Of
the board of trustees. The teachers
are to keep registers of the names and
and ages ofthe pupils, Of the names of
their parents and guardians, dates of
entrance and leaving school, and dai-
ly attendance, and the visits made by
the school commissioner ofhis precinct,
or by either or all of the trustees, to
be returned at the end of his term to
the clerk of the board of school COM
missioners. One fourth of the teach
ers' compensation is to beewithheld UNI
,il this duty is performed. To defray
the expenses of the system, the board
of school commissioners are to assess
on the inhabitants of each county a
tax, to be levied on the then existing
subjects of revenue tax and county le-
w, and to be collected by the sheriff as
other public taxes, and to be paid by
him 10 the orders of the trustees
This tax is 10 be in addition to the
sum received as the quota Of the coun-
,y from the Literary fund. The sber-
if for collecting and discussing said
fund is to receive five per cent. COM
mission. The quota of each county
from the Literary fund which shall a.
dept this system is to be apportioned
among the several districts agreeably
to the proportion which the free white
population Of each district bears TO
that Of the whole county. The act
imposes penalty of Ten dollars on any
officer for failing to discharge any duty
required of him by the act, recoverable
by motion on ten days notice before
/ the Circuit Court of the county. The
attorney for the Commonwealth to
prosecute for the penalty. Annual 'e-
ports are to be made as heretofore by
the boards of school commissioners, to
the superintendent of the Literary fund.
Any county or corporation which may
adopt the system may after one or more
| years trial, reject it by majority Of its
qualified voters. Those counties who
do not choose to adopt the foregoing sys-
TEN may adoptthe following: At the
first term Of every county or corpora
ton court in the State which shall oc-
cur after this act shall be adopted by
the people, the court are requiredto di-
rect the sheriff to have all of the mag
istrates ofthe county at the next court,
+, to take the act into consideration. AT
the said next court they are to require
The school commissioners to lay of the
county or corporation into school DIS
(trlc,s, and to return map thereof to
1.-The clerk Of the court; to ascertain al
SO, and report e the court, the num-