Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-03-26

-. Ds ~ j U5siaeT e7,Gcted, hat the
SAID boards of school commissioners
for the severalcounties or separate dis
tricts, shall annually make similar re-
ports, and under similar regulations 10
those now required OF the school com
missieners of each county, TO the SUI
perintendent of.the Literary fund.
ii. Any county which may adopt
this system, may, after one or more
years trial Gifts operation, reject it by
majority, and then resume the pri-
maly school system which was, before
In operation.
II, Ind be 1t further, enacted. Tha,
such. counties as may not choose to
adopt the foregoing provisions for the
establishment Of free schools within
the SAID county, shall be at liberty to
adopt the following, and the same
when adopted in the manner provided
in this act, shall be obligatory on the
said county, viz: That at the first term
of every county and corporation court
in7this State, which shall occur after
this act shall be adopted by the people
as aforesaid, il shall be the duty ofthe
said county or corporation court to
make an order directing the sheriff to
summon the magistrates to attend at
the next court for the purpose Of taking
this act into cpnsideration. And it
shall be the duty Of the sheriff to sum-
mon every magistrate in the county or
corporation accordingly, and return
that fact to the next court; and for the
failure to do whenever required by the
court under this act, he shall forfeit
and pay. in each case, the sum of FIVE
dollars, for which judgment shall be
rendered by the court TO whom the
return is hereinbefore and hereafter di-
rected to be made, unless the sheriff
by his return, or that of bis deputy,
shall see that he has performed the
duty hereby required othim.
s16. BE 1t further ena eted, That at
the next court after the summons a
foresaid, the court shall make an order
directing the school commissioners of
the county Of corporation, to lay off the
county or corporation in to school dis
tricts, in the manner prescribed by the
first section of the act passed on the
twenty-ff.h of February eighteen hum
dred and twenty-nine, and the third
section of the act passed March thir-
tie,h, eighteen hundred and ,hirty-sey-
en-, and to return copy of the map Of
TIE said school districts to the clerk Of
the court, to be by him preserved; and
also requiring the said school commits
sioners, 10 ascertain, without delay, and
report to the court, the number Of chill
dren in each district Of the proper age
to be sent to the county school, and
whose parents are willingto send them
to the school herein provided for; and
to compute and report to the said court
also, the sum of money necessary to
be raised by the county or corporation
to educate the said children and erect
the scheolhouses in the manner now
prescribed by law where none now ex-
list. - >
II. find be it further enacted, That
when the said report shall have been
made by the school commissioners, III
shall be the duty of the court ma
jori:y of the acting magistrates being
presently to proceed 10 raise the money
required by the said report Of the school
commissioners, by levy upon all the
citizens of the county, town or borough
after the manner in which the county
levies are now made, and ratable le-
yyupon the lands, lots and houses
therein according TO their assessed val
ue; and the sum SO raised shall be col
lected by the sheriff when the taxes
and other county levies are collected,
and paid over to, the treasurer of the
school commissioners, upon the orders,
from time to time, made by the said
county or corporation court, upon the
requisition of the school commission
ers, to be distributed by tile said treas
ur,r as the school commissioners may
direct.
10. find be 1t further enacted, That
the said school commissioners shall an
nually report to the said court, at their
February term IN each year, the amount
necessary to be raised for the ensuing
year; and the said court shall, in the
manner before directed, at the court at
which the other leves for the county
are made, proceed TO make the levy for
the school fund aforesaid; and for ma
king such collections, the sheriff shall
be allowed commission Of two per
cent.
49, find be 1T further enacted, That
if amajority of themagistrates shall fail
to attend at the court to which they are
summoned as hereiDbefore provided
for, it shall be- lawful for.the court to
make new order to summon the mag
istrates; and at another court, at which
majority ofthe. magistrates shall be
present, TO do and PERFORM all the