The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-05-01
LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI.
An at TO establish a system Of common
schools, and other purposes

An All 10 establish system Of common |
schools, and other purposes.
SECTION. l. Be atnac:cd by The Legisla-
ture Of the State of Mississippi, That the
boards OF county police in their respective
counties, shall appoint board Of commits
sioncrs TO CONSIST Of i've members, .one Of
whom shall reside in each police district:
said commissioners shall hold their Offices fer |
one year, and all vacancies in said board of
school commissioners, shall be filled by the
boards Of police.
! Sec. 2 That the said boards OF school
commissioners shall meet at the court houses
of their respective counties, on the first Mon
day in June next, and quarterly thereafter,
and organize, by eleciing from their own
number president and secre tary, and al ans
regular meeting may adopt such rules and
regulations as may be necessary TO carry out
the object of their Appointment, not incon.
sstent with the constitution and laws Of this
state.
Sec. That said boards of school COM
missioners shall designate what schools shall
be deemed common schools, and shall have
the general superintendent Of the same.
Sec. That said boards of school COM
missioners shall license such teachers as they
may think qualified TO teach the various
branches of an English education in said
common schools.
Sec. 5. That any teacher who may have
received license from the board Of school
commissioners of the county in which his
school is located, shall be entitled 10 re-
ceive from the school fund Of said county,
such sum Of money as shall have been agreed
on between himself and the said boaId OF
commissioners, and the board Of police in
said county are hereby authorized and re-
lquired TO order payment of the same, upon
the presentation to the board Of police Of
said county, Of a certificate from the board
Of school commissioners that such teacher
he's been duly licensed, and has taught a
common school, stating by dates, for what
tine and TO what amount such teacher is
entitled.
Sec. 6. That the boards Of police of the
respective counties. are hereby authorized
and empowered TO levy special tax. not ex.
ceeding state tax, for common school pur>
iposes: Provided, the consent Of majority
of the resident heads of families in each
townshiP,shall be fled in writing and record
. ed ON the minutes ofsaid board, before such
tax shall be levied on the inhabitants Of any
such township.
Sec That all escheats and all fines, for
FIXTURES and amercements hereafter decreed
ordered or adIudged, by any court in this
state, and all monies arising from licenses
pTanted to haWkefs and pedlars, keepers oil
/, billiard tables, retailers of vinous and spirit
nous liquors, and brokers, shall be paid to
the treasurer Of the county in which the
same may be collected, and together with
the special tax authorized by this fact, .shal
r constitute the school fund of the respective
r, counties and be paid out under the direction
= Of the respective boards of school commits
y sioners: Provided, the cities Of Natchez
r Vicksburg and YazoO City are excepted from
r, the operation of this section, sofar as it re-
ates to fines, forfeitnres and enforcement:
T for selling vnous and spirituous liquors anC
r. licenses for retailing the same.
Sec. 8. That the county treasurers Of tht
r several counties be, and are hereby made
r ex officio treasurers of the school fund o
r their respective counties, and shall give bono
= to the president ofihe board of police Of saic
lcountiep, with good and sufficient security
to be approved by said board, in a sum pres
p crbed by said board, conditioned that sue
IL trearsurers shall safely keep all monies, bond
- no:es, books and papers, that may come int
~ their hands by virtue OF their Office, and tina
they will, in all things pertaining 10 said o.
fee, discharged their duty faithfully accord
~ ing 10 law.
~ Sec. 8. That all monies and all bond.
>, prommissory notes, and other obligations a
rising from the leasing Of the sixteenth sec
t., ltions, reserved for the use Of schools,
o'r from loans Of money arising from leasing an
y. all other papers connected with the sixteenl
b,r sections in the several counties in this stat,
zen shall be delivered to the boards of scho
sep commissioners of the respective countie
sep upon their requisitioD, by the trustees
o., school lands. in said countless or other pc
,,st sons having the same in possession. and sha
er. be delivered TO the treasurer Of the scho
b'r fund, BY said board Of school commissioner
Sep Sec. 10. Tharthe several boards Of sho
,S,r commissioners, in those counties where Il
,b,r sixteenth sections have been reserved fro
lb'r sale, shall see that said sixteenth are lea
.6'r ed, as now directed by law, and that al mo
SSeePP les doe from tho lease Of said sixteen
~F sections, are collected or secured.
: Sec. IL. That hereafter all bonds, pro-
issory notes, and other obligations given
school funds, or for the payment of mon
due BY renewal or loan from the leasing
par. any sixteenth section, shall be made pa!
par Bile TO the treasurer ofthe proper county, a
P P his successors in office; and all suits or
bar. tons, for or on account of the school ful
par. or connected with the sixteenth sectiC
:" reserved for the use Of schools, shall be CO
menced and prosecuted in the name Of
d, county treasurer of the proper countyi 9
To- in case Of his death removal or resignati
10. such suits or actions shall be revived in
10. name of his successor in Office and all Dol
TO- bills, promissoTy notes, or other evidences
debt heretofore or hereafter executed, VIII
81 50 The confederation has arisen from sch
IS, 90 e.. y - c-on, III, lo.-;nC &c anv rixtee
5,O0 luHeS' - t'o',, easing - 40