Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-03

school law the adoption or rejection OF this
act to be determined by majority of the
votes to be cast in manner aforesaid
Section 4th, provides, that the qualified cleo
tors, shall within twenty days from tho time Of
the decision to adopt the law, elect six directors
two Of whom shall serve one year, two for two
years and two for three years, and thence aftcr-
wards annually two Directors shall be elected
to serve for three years.
Section 9th, Provides for the organization of
the Directors as Board of Education.
Sections ST. Prescribe the powers, duties
and the method of calling and holding meet
ings of this Board
Section Sth, Provides that majority of the
loyal voters, due notice having been given,
May determine by n majority vote upon
the erection of school house or school
houses, and the purchase of n site or sites
therefor, aud the amount of money TO be
raised for the purpose aforesaid, and the
time, or times when the same shall be paid,
which moneys, so voted, shall be thereupou
certified by the Board of Education by its
chairman aud secretary, to the auditor of the
county, aud shall be assessed in said dis
trict, collected aud paid over TO tile treasurer
of said district in the same manner us the
tax hereinafter provided for in the twelfth
section of this act.
Section 9th, Provides for the grading of the
pupils of the District according to their acquire
mcnts.
SEC. 10. Admission TO said schools shall
he grntnitous to the children, wards, aud APP
prentices of all actual residents in said dis
trict, who may he 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
nent of such tuition, rs they may prescribe
The remaining sections of the law require
tho appointment of Examiners and prescribe
their duty, require tho Board to keep tho schools
in operation not less than thirty six nor more
than forty flour weeks of each year, and author.
ize the assessment OF tax by the Board of Edu-
cation, not to exceed four mills on the dollar,
on all the taxable property of the district.
In 1850 an act nmcnlatory to this act was
passed of which the following is the first section.
This net it will be seen extends the benefits of
this law to ony town or township or school dis
trict numbering 500 inhabitants.
SIC. /. BE it enacted hy the General AS
sembly of the State of Ohio, That the act
for the better regulation of the Public Schools
in cities, towns, &C., passed February 81,
1919, he and the same is hereby extended TO
incorporated townships, and to school dis
tricts, now or hereafter to be organized,
which shall adopt the same in the manner
specified in the second and tliird sections of
said act; provided, however, that said net
shall not he so extended TO any township or
school district, continuing less than five
| hundred inhabitants, unless said school dis
trict consists in whole or in part Of an i'll
corporated town or village.
Such are briefly the provisions of this law.
A law that has invariably encountered opposi-
ton at the outset, but its operation wherever
adopted, has been such, after a fair trial, as to
secure the appreciation of all its intelligent and
candid opponents.
From an examination of the above, it will be
seen that, the adoption of this law is to be de-
cidcd by the legal voters Of the township. The
legal voters also decide upon the amount of tax
tlluJ snail NC lGNlcu lOI cINC'lOH
ing of buildings, how it shall be paid, whether
in one, two, or more years. They also elect the
board Of education, and this board of education
has power to levy an annual tax not exceeding
four mills on the dollar on the property of the
district, which is to benddcd to the present an
nual school fund for educational purposes, with
these and other funds that may come into their
possession, they are required to keep in operation
schools for the benefit of all; and graded accor-
ding to the proficiency of the pupils.
Perry township, having but small territory,
and large portion Of its population living near
its CENTRE is admirably ada pied to this plan.
Primary shools could by this means be kept up
in the school houses of the present districts,
whilo the various departments of the High
School, located in the centre of the population,
would be accessible to the larger and moro ad-
vanced pupils.
A competent and experienced superintendent
having charge of the whole, would give to the
primary schools in the country character far
superior to that which they at present sustain.
To effect this. liberal appropriation will be
necessary for the erection. and furnishing oi
suitable buildings. Judging from the experience
of other places of about the like population OF
our own, this probably cannot be done for a sum
less than from $5, to 1000.
After much discussion and several preliminary
meetings, committee was appointed at a meet
ing held in the Town Hall in Salem, on Satur-
day evening 27 inst. to call an election on the
10th of April to decide upon the adoption ol
this law; that the citizens of the township may
act intelligcntly that occasion, the proceeding
summary of the law and the accompanying facts
are respectfully submitted.
There are perhaps few on whom the burder
of taxation may seem to fall heavily, in conse
! quence of their not having children to educate
or on account of their preference for schools TO
their own families, where peculiar rcligiou
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