Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-03-27
Union School Law.

and secure the benefits it offers for the education
of our youth. As it is a Democratic measure, !
and is to bo adopted or rejected by vote of
the people, it is important that all should be
thoroughly informed of its provisions, will you
therefore, Mr. Elitor have the goodness to in
sert the following summary of the law.
make the request with the greater conf
dcncc, as the subject is by no means one of
local interest. All the citizens of our state arc
interested in its adoption and we beg them to
give the provisions of this law a fair and candid
consideration. The law Of 1919 Provides
Section 1. That any incorporated City or
Town, having in itself or in tho territory there
unto attached, or hereafter to be attached for
school purposes, 200 inhabitants may be organi
zcd into and established as q single School Dis
trict, in the manner and with the power herein
after specified.
SIC. .. That in order to such organza-
tion, written notices shall be posted up in
three or more of the most public places in
said contemplated district, signed at least 10y
six resident ireeholdcrs OF the same, request
ing the qualified electors in said district to
assemble upon day, and ut 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 50 posted up ut least ten days
next prior to said meeting.
SEC. 3. That the electors assembled at
said time aud place shall proceed to appoint
a chairman, assistant chairman, aud clerk,
who shall be judges of said election. That
the electors in favor of the adoption Of this
act for said district, shall write upon their
ballots, "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 majority of the
votes to be cast in manner aforesaid.
Scsdon 4th, proyilcs, that the lualifel clcc-
tors, shall within twenty days from the time of
the dsci'on to alopt the Law, cclt six directors,
two Of whom shall serve one yclr, two for two
years anl two for throo years, an thcn,c after
wards annually two Directors shall BE- elected
to serve for three years.
Section 9th, Provides for the org imitation Of
the Directors az a B1lrl Of l. lusatioa.
So'tioas & I, Prescribe the powers, duties
and the mcth,l o. calling all holding mse:-
ngs of this Doarl.
Sc5tion 3th, Progilll that IN liorty Of the
legal voters, due notice having been given,
May determine 10y n majority vote upon
| the erection of school house or school
houses, aud the purchase OF II site or sites
therefor, and the amount of money TO be
raised for the purpose aforesaid, and the
tinc or times when the same shall be paid,
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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 pnid over TO tie treasurer
of said district, in the same manner as 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 sllnll
be grntnitous to the children, wards, and au-
prentices Of all uctual residents in said dis
trlct, who may he entitled to the privileges
of the pablc 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 suc. tuition, us they may prescribe.
The remaining sections of the law require
the appointment OF Examiners AMI prescribe
their duty, require the Board to keep the schools
in operation not less than thirty-six nor more
than forty.four weeks of each year, and author
izc the assessment OF Il tax by the Board of Elu.
cation, not to exceed four mills on tho dollar
on all the taxable property of the district.
In 1850 an act amcnlatory to this act was
passed of which the following is the first section
This act it will be seen extends the bon6fts O.
this law to any town or township or school dis.
trict numbering 900 inhabitants.
SEC. ]. BE it enacted hy the General As
sembly of the State of Ohio, That the acI
for the better regulation of the Public School.
in cities, towns, &c, passed February 81
1919, be and the same is hereby extended tC
incorporated townships, and to school dis
{ tricts, now or hereafter TO be organized
which shall adopt the same in the manner
specified in the scrond aud third sec ctions o
said act; provided, however, that said acl
, shall not be so extended to any township Oh
school district, containing less than five
hundred inhabitants, unless said school dis
: trict consists in whole or in part of an in.
cOrporated town or village.
Such arc 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 fair trial, as to
secure the appreciation of all its intelligent and
candid opponents, Y.