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


town or village. or any part IF The same
forlhe use or benefit of the public schools
Iheteih. and the said board shall be ca
pable Of contracting and being contracted
with, suing and being sued, pleading and
being implesded. in any court Of law or
equity, and also shall be capable of re-
ceivihg any gift.grant ,beqnest, or device,
made for The use ofthe public schools IN
said city, town. or district. and all MON
eys accrIiug to said city, town, or district,
for school purposes. under any law Of this
State, shall be paid over 10 the treasurer
Of said Board pf Education.
SEC. 7. Said Board of Education
may hold stated meetings at such times
aud places in said district as they may
appoint, four members Of said board at
all meetings thereof constituting n quo
rum for business; that special meetings
thereof may be called by the president,
or by any two members, on giving one
lday's notice of The lime aud place Of the
same, and said board, by resolution, shall
direct the payment of all moneys that
shall come into the hands f the treasurer,
and no money shall be paid out of the
treasury except in pursuance Of such res
olutinn, and on the written order Of the
president, counlersigned by the secre-
tary.
SEC. s. That whenever said board
shall deem 1t necessary to purchase or
erect school house, or school houses for
said district, or to purchase sites for the
same. they shall call meeting Of the le.
gal voters in said district, by giving at
least ten days notice Of the time, and
place. and object of said meeting. in some
newspaper printed in. and in general cir.
culation in such district. If any such there
be, aud if there he no such newspaper
then by posting up written or printed
, notices thereof, at FIVE or more the most
public places in said district. and the
president of said board, and in his alb
sence one of the other directors, shall ac
as chairman of said meeting, and said
meeting may determine by majority
vote upon the erection of a school house
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site or sites thereof, and the amount ot
money to be raised for the urpose afore
said, and the time, or times when the
: same shall be paid. which moneys. Sc
voted, shall be thereupon certified by The
Board of Education by its chairman and
secretary, to the auditor of the county
and shall be assessed in said district, col
lected and paid over to the treasurer o
said district. in the same maRner as the
tax hereinafter provided for in the twelfth
section of this act.
SEC 9. 1t shall be the duty Of said
board, so soon as the means for that pur
pose can be provided. to establish in sale
$ district an adequate number Of primar!
schools to be so located as best t" accom-
! modate the inhabitants thereof, and il
y which the rudimenis of education shall b,
= taught, and it shall he the further duty q
: said hoard, to establish in said district,
v suitable number of other schools of
y higher grade or grades, wherein instruc
i tion shall be given in such studies a
l. may not be provided for in the primar
i schools the number Of schools and also O
;. The different grades thereof. 10 be deter
d mined by said board; and it shall be III,
!, further duty of said board to decide wha
8 branches shall be taught in each and al
r of said schools provided that no othe
J, language than the English or German
= shall be taught therein, except with tn
y concurrence of two-thirds of said board
o SIC. 10. Admission to said school
shall be gratuitous to the children, ward,
l. and apprentices of all actual residents
p said district. who may be entitled to III
rs privileges of the public school. under tn
at general laws of this State, provided tn;
Ie said board shall have power to admit
in said schools olherpupils, upon such term
at or upon the payment Of such tuition
'e they may prescribe.
to SEC IL. Said board shall have pow,
D. to make all necessary regulations f
10 said schools. To prescribe and enforC
% rules for the admission of pupils into III
same, not inconsistent with the rrecedin
d section, and the examination that pupi
o must pass preparatory to admission int
l. the schools ofhigher grades than The pr
J. mary; to subdivide said school district,
e they shall think proper; to select sites "a
u school houses; to superintend the build
" ing of the same, and to pay therefor
e their appurlenances, furniture and appa
e ratu., to borrow money for the erection q
J. school houses upon majority vote of sal
e district therefor, and to incur all othe
expenses of said school system, and pa
't the same from the public moneys Of sal
', district.
j. SEc. l2. 1t shall be the duty of sal
n board To keep said schools in operario
n not less than thir,y-six nor more than fol
! ty.four weeks ofeach year. to letermin
= the amount of the annual tax to be raise
!, for the purpose aforesaid. including a
: the necessary expenses of said school
:, except for the erection of school house
% and the purchase of sites; aud on or b,
S; fore the first day Of July, of each year,
make known the amount of such tax
, the auditor of the county in which sal
70 district is situate; and thereupOn it sha
IL be the duty of said auditor to assess Il
c. same upon the taxable property of Il
N said district as the same aprears on Il
10 grand list in this office. and the said tt
'e shall be collected by the county treasure
n in the same manner, aud at the same tim
with the State and county taxes, AT
in when collected shall be paid over 10 Il
O. treasurer of said Board: Provided, hov
'g ever, that the tax to be assessed undt
y, this section shall not exceed four mills q