The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1851-04-07

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trict hereafter formed out Of one or more oriei-
mai district OF districts, shall be entitled to
proportionate share Of all moneys due or paid
into the district, township, or county treasury
for the use eof said original district or districts
to be divided with and paid over TO- said new
district in proportion to the number of youth in
said detached part or new district, except so
much as may have been raised for repairs, fuel,
furniture, or for the erection Of school house,
iif such school house be retained in the original
district s
| STATE coymoN SCHOOL FUND.
| SEC. 80. The State common school fund
shall hereafter consist Of the interest upon the
purchase money of the salt lands paid into the
i State Treasury, Of the balance of the surplus
revenue fund after the payment of the seven
PER cent stock for which it is now pledged,
(said fund to be invested by the commissioners
of the sinking fund in the stocks of this State,
the interest upof. which shall be annually cred
4 tied 10 the comfnesi fund.- Of tho interest
upon the surplus revenue paid by the several
counties, of all moneys paid into the State
Treasury for licenses to pedlars for auction du-
ties, and for taxes upon lawyers aud physicians,
and upon banks, insurance and bridge compa-
nies, and Of such taxes as shall be levied blythe
General Assembly, which shall be sufficient,
with the revenues in this section specifiedsto
produce for annual distribution, the sam OF three
hundred thousand dollars.
COUNTY SCHOOL, TAX.
SEC. 81. That hereafter the county cofnmis-
sioners of every county in this State, shall levy
not less than one mill on the dollar, as county
school tax, provided that commissioners Of Ham
ilton county shall not levy said tax on the prop
erty within the corporate limits of Cincinnati.
SEC. 80. That the act passed March %,
1850, entitled can act supplementary to the act
for the appointment of State Board of Public
Instruction" be, and the same is hereby SO a.
mended as to allow the, granting of certificates
for one year.
SEC. SO. That the fifth and eighth sections
only, of the act relating TO school district tax,
&C., passed March Z, 1885, and all other acts
and parts Of acts inconsistent with the proyi-
Sions of this act, except an act to authorize the
establishment of separate schools for the educa-
ton of colored children and for other purposes,
passed February 10, lS49, be, and the same are
hereby repealed Provided, that this act shall
not be understood to change or modify in any
respect the several provisions Of the act for the
support and better regulation of common schools
in the town Of Akron, and the amendatoTy acts
thereto, and "the act for the better regulation
of the public schools in cities, towns, &c., and
| the amendatory acts thereto and the several
acts creating special school districts, except so
far as to require of the clerk or secretary of the
board of any such district to report to the town.
ship clerk the statistics specified in the eleventh
section of this act aIso to require that no mo-
ney shall be paid by any county treasurer to the
treasurer of any board Of education or other
board having charge of the schools in any city,
town or township, organized either under gen.
eral or special law. except upon the order of the
auditor of the proper county, and no such or
der shall be drawn by the county auditor, unless
the treasurer of such board shall first deposit
with said auditor an abstract of the records of
all the schools under the charge of said board,
from time to time, similar to the abstract requir-
ed Of common school teachers, by the proviso of
the twenty fifth section of this act: And pro-
vded further, That the board of education of
any city, town, or village, in which schools
have been organized, under the act for the sup
port and better regulationof common schools in
the town of Akron, or any other special act,
may, at their discretion, adopt the provisions Of
the act " for the better regulation of the public
schools in cities, towns, &c." in part or in
whole, as fully as though said schools had
originally been organized under said last named
act.
SEC. "a. That the provisions of this act shall
not be construed so as to prohibit any school dis
trict officer now in office, from serving out the
term for which he was elected; and should the
voters at any annual district meeting, held on
the second Monday in April, Of the present
year, fail to elect clerk and treasurer, such
officers may be appointed by the directors, and
hold their appointment until the next annual
district meeting.
JOHN F. MORSE,
Speaker of the House Of Representatives.
CHAS. G. C0NVERS,
4.4 Speaker Of the Senate.
Mar ch "a, 1851.