Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-03-31
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rudiments of education shall be taught; and it
shall be the further duty of said board, to estab
tsh In said district, suitable number of other
schools OF higher grade grades, wherein in
strncton shall be given in such studies as may not
be provided for in. the primary schools, the num-
Der OF schools and also of the different grades
thereof to be determined by said board; and it
shall be the further duty of said board to decide
what branches shall be taught IN each and all of
said schools, provided that no other language than
the English or German shall be taught therein
except with the concurrence of two thirds OF said
board
SEC 10 Admission to said schools shall be gra-
tuitous to thechildren wards, servants and appren
tees of all actual residents in said district who may
be entitled to the privileges of the public schools,
under the general laws of this state provided that
said board shall have power to admit to said schools
other pupils, upon such terms, or upon the pay
ment of such tuition as they may prescribe.
SEC. ii. SAID board shall have power to make
all necessary regulations for said Schools to pre-
scribe and enforce rules for the admission of pu-
pils into the same not inconsistent with the pre-
cedng section, and the examination that pupils must
pass preparatory to admission into the schools of
higher grades than the primary to sub-divide said
school district if they shall think proper; to select
sites for school houses; to superntend the building
of the same, and to pay therefor, their appurten-
ances furniture and apparatus, to borrow money for
the erection of school houses upon majority vote
of said district therefor and to incur all other
penses of said school system, and pay the same
from the public moneys of said district
SEC. II. 1t shall be the duty of said board to
keep said schools in operation not less than thirty
six or more than forty-four weeks of each year, to
determine the amount of the annual tax to be rails
ed for the purpose aforesaid including all the nee
eSsary expenses of said schools except for the erec
ton of school houses and the purchase of sites and
or before the first day of July, of eaeh-year, to
make known the amount of such tax to the audi
tor of the county in which said district situate
and thereupon it shall be the dGty of said auditor
to assess the same upon the taxable property of the
said district the same appears an the grand list
in his office, and the said tax shall be collected by
the county treasurer, in the same manner and at
the time with the state and county taxes, and
when collected shall be paid over to the treasurer
of said board: Provided, however, that the tax to
be assessed under this section shall not exceed
four mills on the dollar upon the taxable property
of said district the appears upon the grand
list: Provided, that in the amount so authori-
ze1 to be raised shall be insufficient to support
schools for the portion of the year mentioned in
this section, then said board of education may re-
quire such sum as may be necessary to support
the same for the residue of said time, to be charged
upon the tuition of the pupils actually attending
such schools: Provided, however that the children
of INDECENT parents and orphans, who are unable
to pay such charges shall not be excluded from
such schools by reason of the non payment of the
same; and it shall be the further duty of said board
to keep an accurate account of their proceedings,
and of their receipts and disbursements for school
purposes and at the annual meeting for the choice
of directors in said district to make report of such
receipts and the sources from which the same were
derived and of said disbursements, and the objects
to which the same were applied, and they shall
also make report at the same time of such other
matters relating to said schools as they may deem
the interests of the same to require.
Sec Is. That said board of education, within
twenty days after their election, shall appoint three
competent persons, citizens of said district to serve
as school examiners of the public schools therein
one to serve for year, one for two years, and
for three years, from the time of their appoint
ment and till his successor is appointed and quail
fed; and said board shall fill all vacancies that
may occur from death, removal or otherwise. Said
examiners or any two of them, shall examine any
persons that may apply for that purpose with the
intention of becoming teachers any of the schools
in said district, and if they find the applicant in
their opinion qualified to teach in any of said schools
and to govern the same, and of good moral char |
acter they shall give said applicant certificate
naming the branches in which the holder of said
certificate vas found qualified to teach and no per-
shall be permitted to teach in said schools with
out such certIhcate, and SAID examiners may, IN |
all cases, when two of their number concur, have
power to annul such certificate, and when so an
nulled the person holding the same shall be dis
charged as teacher of said schools; said examin-
iners shall also separately, otherwise, together
with said board of education, or any of them, or
such person they may appoint or invite visit
said schools often once in each term, and OBJ
serve the discipline mode of teaching, progress of
the pupils, and such other matters as they may
deem of interest and make such suggestions and
report thereupon to said board as they may think
proper, which report may be published at the dis
cretion of said board.
SEC. Il. Upon the adoption of this act in the
manner herein provided by any city, town, village
or district all laws now in force therein neonsst-
ent herewith, are hereby repealed
Sec Is. Said board of education, or the treas
urer thereof shall have power to collect any charge
or account for tuition in the same manner as the
treasurer of any common school district in this
state, is now or may hereafter be authorized to
collect any such charge or account.
The HONE DEPARTMENT-The principal features
of this new department are as follows: