The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1849-06-01
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AN ACT

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To authorize the establishment Of seperate schools
for the education oil cOlored children, aud for
other purposes
SEC. l. Be IL enacted By tie General
AssenabIy Of The State Of Ohio, That the
trustees Of each incorporated township
in this State. and the trustees, visitors,
and directors of schools, or other officers
having authority in the premises. of each
city and incorporated town or village,
shall be and they are hereby authnrized
and required respectively, in case they
shall not deem it expedient to admit the
colored children resident in any such
township, city, town or village. into the
regular common schools therein estab.
lished. to create one or more school dis
tricts for colored persons, in every such
township, city, town or village, which
district or districts, shall include all the
territories thereof and in laying off said
districts, and in altering the same, they
shall he governed in all respects by the
provisions of the act for the support and
better regulation ofcommon schools, etc,
passed March T. 1895
SEC. 2, Whenever any district shall
be established as aforesaid, the trustees
or other authorities establishing the same.
shall give notice, by public advertise
ment, to the adult male colored tax pay
ers residing in such district, to meet al a
time and place specified in the notice,
and choose their school directors, and
such meeting. and all subsequent meet
ings, for the election of directors, aud for
other purposes, shall he held and conduc-
ted as is directed in respect to meetings
for like objects by the said act of March
, 7, 1888, and the acts amending the same:
and the powers, rights, and duties Of the
directors so chosen, and Of their success.
sors, shall be the same in respect to the
school officers of their several districts, as
are conferred upon, or required of school
districts by said acts.
SEC. 3. The trustees or other author.
tiles establishing seperate districts, as
aforesaid, shall cause an accurate list to
be made as speedily as possible, ofal col
Ored tax payers, aud of all colored youth
over four and under twenty.one years IF
;, age, resident therein, and shall certify it
;, to the county Auditor, who shall preserve
the same in his Office; and no property
of any colored tax payer within said dis,
tricts shall be charged with any special
tax for district purposes for the benefit
of the schools in any regular district, com
, posed wholly or in part of the same ter
ritory; and no property of any white per-
, son in any regular district, shall be
, charged with any such tax for the benefit
Of the schools in any seperate district
composed wholly, or in part, Of the same
/ territory.
SEC. 4. Every seperate district, es-
. tablshed as aforesaid, shall be held to in
:, clude for school purposes, only the col
, ored persons resident within its territori
al limits, and from and after the establish
, ment of the same, the colored youth resi-
= dent therein, shall attend the schools or
! ganized under the directors of such dis
" trict; and the powers and duties of county
! auditors, county treasurers, township
- trustees, township treasurers, township
, clerks, district treasurers, and district
4 clerks and other officers iu regard to such
= seperate district and the schools esta5
. lished therein, shall be the same as now
h are or may be exercised Or performed by
~ said officers respectively, in relation tC
= the regular districts. and the schools es
>, tablished therein, and said districts ant
:. schools shall in all respects except so ia
20 :" as this act provides to the contrary, bt
" governed by and have the benefit of al
! the provisions of said act of March 7. 1S
-" 3S. and the amendatory acts, and all act
- relating to schools in cities, towns, or vii
! lagos, modifying the same.
u Sec. S. The term colored as used il
F., this act, shall be construed as being o
u i" the same Specification as the term "bIacl
" or muatto," as used in former acts.
SEC, 6. The act entitled an act t,
,f provide for the establishment of com
a mon schools for the education of black anC
). mulatto persons, ETC., passed Feb Gath
lS4S, and the act to regulate black snt
= mulatto persons, passed January 9th, Is
04, and the several acts to amend the
:, same, passed January 5th, 1907, and Feb
to ruary 9th, 1884, and all parts of othe
acts, so far as they enforce any specia
" DISABILITIES or confer any special privi
leges on account of color, are hereby re
pealed exec pit the act ofthe 9th February
1891. relating to iuries and the act of the lat
March 1881 ,forthe relief ofthe poor; Pro
'e vided, however, that if any person shaI
bring or cause to be brought, or shall ali
in bringing or causing to be brought, o
shall persuade or induce to come int
this State, any person or persons, who !
nd or are likely to become chargeable a
III paupers in any township Of this State, o
w ", to become vagrants, every such person 81
. offending shall forfeit and pay fine no
exceeding FIVE hundred dollars, to be re
covered, with costs of suit, in any cour
having jurisdiction by action of debt, il
Is u.s. behalfof the State of Ohio, or by indi Il
d. ment, and shall also be imprisoned unit
ut such fine be paid. unless the court shal
st otherwise direct.
rs JOHN G. BRESLIN.
: Speaker House Reps.
r. BREWSTER RANDALL,
1t Speaker ofthe Senate.
Feb. 10, 1S49
AN ACT
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