Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-04-02
.rea.vrer TO-. ~. smou....hss received, and


for school purposes, in bic county, and pay
the same over to the county treasurer; and
he shall inspect all accounts of interest for
section sixteen, or other school lands, wheth-
or the interest is paid by the state or by the
debtors, and take al, the proper measures to
secure 20 each township its full amount of
school funds.
Sec 3e. When any original surveyed
township in which section sixteen has been
sold, shall lie in two or more counties, the au-
di.ors OF the respective counties shall certify
to the auditor OF the county in which that
portion of said township lies containing said
section sixteen, the enumeration OF the schol-
ars in that part Of said township embraced
within their respective counties; and the au-
ditor Of said county in which said section six
teen is situate shall apportion the fund deriv-
ed from said section sixteen to the different
portions Of said township according to said
enumeration, aud shall certify to the auditors
Of the other counties the amonnt belonging
TO the parts OF said township situate in their
respective counties, and draw an order in ia
yor Of the treasurers of the other counties on
the treasurer of bis own county for the
amount going to each; and the auditors of the
respective counties shall apportion the same,
in their respective counties to such portions
or parts thereof rs may be entitled thereto
Sec 80. The interest on the purchase os
any such section sixteen belonging to any or
iginal surveyed township, SO as aforesaid ~
ing in two or more counties, shall be paid
over on the order of the auditor of the audi
tor of that county in which such section six
teen is embraced, to the treasurer OF the same
county, to be apportioned as is pointed out
in the preceding section,
Sec. 40 The auditor Of each and every
county shall, on or before the twentieth day
of December, annually, make out and trans
nit to the commissioner of common schools,
at Columbus, an abstract of all the returns
Of school statistics made to him from the sew
eral townships in his county, according to the
form that may be prescribed by the state COM
missioner; and he shall cause to be distribu;
ed all such circulars, banks,and other papers,
including school laws and documents, in the
several townships in the county as said COM
missiouers shall lawfully require. In case the
county auditor shall fail, from any cause, to
make return of the abstract as aforesaid, 1t
shall be the duty Of the county com aassioners
10 deduct for every such failure, from the an
nual salary or allowance made to the. auditor
for his services, the sum of fifty dollars.
Sec Al. The county commissioners Of
each county in this state shall make the same
allowance to the county auditors, out of their
respective county treasures, for services per-
formed and expenses incurred under this act,
as is allowed for other services of like nature.
Sec ~. The township clerks and county
auditors shall be responsible for all losses
sustained by any township or county, by rea-
son of any failure on their respective parts to
make aud return the enumerations and alb
stracts thereof as herein provided, and shall
each be liable for the same, in a civil action
at the suit Of the State of Ohio; and the
amounts so recovered shall be appOrtioned in
the same manner as the school funds would
have been to the respective counties or town
ships, as the case may be.
Sec 43. Each and every lot or parcel Of
land which heretofore has been, or hearafter
shall be appropriated for the use of common
schools in this state, on which there has been
or shall be school-house erected, and which
has bean or shall be occupied for the purpose
of accommodating common school of what
ever grade, in the usual manner, from time to
time. howsoever or by whomsoever the legal
title to the same may be held and vested,
shall be and the same is hereby exempted
from sale, on any execution, or other writ, or
order in the nature Of an execution; provided
that the lot of land so exempted, shall not ex-
ceed four acres, and if there be any excess.
that portion most convenient for school pur-
poses shall remain exempt as aforesaid, to
be determined by the proper school directors,
or other officers having charge of schools.
Sec A. 1t shall be the duty of the pro-
bate Judge in the several counties of the
State. as seon after the election of school Of
ficers under the provisions of this act as prac-
ticable, to appoint county board of school
examiners, TO consist of three competent per-
sons, resident in the county, who shall hold
their office for the term 0! Two years, and ur-
I'll their successors are appointed; and all va
cancies in eaid board which may thereafter
oecaf, whether from expiration of the term of
Office, refusal to serve, or otherwise, shall be
filed by like appointment by said Judge.
Sec. as 1t shall be the duty of the ex-
sminers TO fix upon the time of holding NEE
tings far the examination of teacher, in such
places in their respective counties as will, in
their opinion, best accommodate the greatest
number of candidates for examition: notice of
all such meetings having been published in
some newspaper of general circulation in
their respective counties: and at such mee-
tings, any two of said board shall be compe-
tent to examine applicants and grant certiti-
Gates; but no fee or charge shall be made
for certificate No certificate of qnalifca-
lion shall be valid in any county except that
in which the examination took place, nor for
longer period than two years; and if at any
time the recipient of the certificate shall be
found incompetent or negligent, the examiners
or any two of them. may revoke the same,
snd.require such teacher to be dismissed; but
such teacher shall be entitled TO receive pay
ment for services only up to the time Of such
dismissal; and no person shall be employed
90 teacher in any primary common school,
unless such person shall have first obtained
from said examiners. or any two of them a
certificate Of good moral character, and that