Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-06-06
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Laws OBasklaQ.
AN AgT VI. 5ss.,
For the better regulations saf Tie Pablie Schools
! in cities, towns, sc. iii h
SEC l. Be 1T enactsl GS5is5ss11
assembly Of the State That any
incorporated city or toVs| tsse, ;soor ;ssor
any Incorporated town except
such city, town oryillags III whole
or in part governed as q .bvs some
special law heretoforesa Il uontaining
within the. town or villa laid out
and recorded, two hnnd ants or
more, with the terrifafy q; hefeai.
district, ID the mannar and with the pow
Eers hereinafter specified, but the provisions
of this act shall not apply to any city, town
or village, or any part thereof: which is now
governed as to schools by any special law.
SEC. 2. That in order to such organi-
zation, written notices shall be posted up
in three or more of the most public places
in said contemplated district, signed at least
by six resident free holders of the same, re-
questing the qualified electors in said dis.
trict to assemble upon a day, and at some
suitable place in said district, to be named
in said notices, then and there to vote, by
ballot, for Or against the adoption Of this
act, which notices shall be SO posted up at
least ten days next prior to said meeting.
SEC 5. That the electors assembled at
said time and place shall proceed to appoint
a chairman, and assistant chairman, and
clerk, who shall be Judges Of said cleo
ton. That the electors in favor OF the
adoption Of this act for SAID district, shall
write upon their ballots, s'school law"
and those opposed thereto, shall write upon
their ballots, ''no school law the adoption
or rejection of this act to be determined by
a ma jority of the votes TO be cast. in manner
aforesaid.
SEC. 4. Thatin case majority of votes
shall have been cast for said law, the cleo
tors of said districts shall assemble at
the place last aforesaid, within twenty days
from the time Of the adoption of said act,
of which at least ten days previous notice
shall be given by said chairman and clerk;
in the manner aforesaid, and shall then
choose by ballot six directors of the public
schools of said district, two of whom shall
serve for one year, two for two years, and
two for three ears; the time that each shall
serve to be designated on the ballots, and
annually thereafter there shall be chosen il
st9 saIues manner two directors, eacI h,cl
I Sbm shall serve for three years fiar,
Efdl theirsaccessors shall be elsaand viii
"a s;ssa,l. isteraseds oqnt jon
may occur to be filed bytIss in tcan u ivy "
tors till the next annual tlectaf i" ,r ,"'
vacancies shall be filled by lssvIN IA Hssra r., p
SEC. 5. That said direct. asS asiSss
days after their appointment - -
shall meet and organize by cf ~
their number a president, sec''rtaIl person son
treasurer; that said treasurer, befoft," ploa y[m
ters upon the duties of his office, shall gt5s "
bond payable to the State of Ohio, with Sc
curity to be approved by said boa. d, and to
be by them kept, conditioned for the faith
full discharge of his duties as such treasurer,
Sec 6. That said directors and their
successors in office shall be bed corpo-
rate, by the name of the Board Of Educa-
ton of said city, town, or village, and as
such, and by such name, shall receive all
moneys and other property belonging or
accruing to said district, or to said city,
town, or village, or any part of the same
for the use or benefit of the public schools
therein, and the said board shall be capa-
bic Of contracting and being contracted with,
suing and being sued, pleading and being
impleaded, in any court of law or equity,
and also snail be capable of receiving any
gift, grant, bequest, Or devise, made for the
use of the public schools in said city, town,
or district, and all moneys accrulng to said
city, town, or district, for school purposes,
under any law of this State, shall be paid
over to the treasurer of said Board of Edu-
cation.
SEC. 7. Said Board of Education may
hold stated meetings at such times and Pla-
ces in said district as they may appoint,
four members of said board at all meetings
thereof constituting quorum for business;
that special meetings thereof may be called
by the president, or by any two members,
on giving one days notice of the time and
place Of the same, and said board, by reso-
luton, shall direct the payment Of all mon
eys that shall come into the hands of the
treasurer, and no money shall be paid out of
the treasury except in pursuance of such
resolution, and on the written order If the
president, countersigned by the secretary.
Sec. s. That whenever said board shall
deem it necessary to purchase or erect a
school house, or school houses for said dis
trict, or to purchase sites for the same, they
shall call meeting of the legal voters in
said district, by giving at least ten day no.
tice of the time, and place, and object Of
said meeting, in some newspaper printed in
and in general circulation in such district, il
any such there be, and if there be no sucl
newspaper, then by posting up written O
printed notices thereof, at five or more o
the most public laces in said district, ane
the president Of said board, and in his alb
sence one of the other directors, shall act a
chairman Of said meeting, and said meetin!
may determine by majority vote upon tn
! erection of a school house or school houses
, and the purchase of a site or sites therefor
and the amount of money to be rsised fo
j the purpose aforesaid, and the time, O
] times when the same shall be paid, whic
] moneys, so voted, shall be thereupon cert
l fed bv the BOARD of Education bv its cha i,