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struction Of such youth as may desire 10 study
the German language, or the German and Eng.
lish languages together, and il the board shall
deem Il necessary, they may appoint one Of their
number the acting manager Of schools for the
township, Who shall do and perform all such
duties as the board may prescribe in relation 10
the management and supervision OF the differ
ent schools, and the educational interests Of the
township, and may allow him reasonable com
pensation for his services.
Sec. IL. The said board shall prepare, or
cause to be prepared, a map Of their township.
as often as they deem necessary, on which shall
be designated the srb-districts Of the township,
which they may change or alter at any regular
session, and the number Of scholars assigned
to each (; but no sub-district shall contain with.
in its limits, less than sixty resident scholars by
enumeration, except in cases where, in the opin-
ion Of the board, it is necessary to reduce the
number and it shall be the duty Of the board
to establish a school in each sub-district Of the
township Of such grade as the public good in
their opinion may require and in the location
of primary schools, or schools Of higher grade,
the board shall have reference to population
and neighborhood, paying due regard to any
sCHOOt uOuSc diI0duy Uutltb VI olbo pEOCuISut hb
well as to all other circumstances proper to be
considered so as to promote the best interests
of schools.
Sec Is. The board shall have power to as
sign such number Of scholars 10 the several pr-
mary schools as they may think best, and when
such assignment has been made, shall furnish
the teacher list of the scholars so assigned,
and the board shall also have full power to reg
ulate and control the admission Of scholars TO
schools of higher grade, according to age and
attainmen.s, and may admit scholars over twen-
one years of age, and may suspend, or author
ize the local directors to suspend from the priv
ileges of either of the schools, any pupil found
guilty Of disordery conduct, which suspension
shall not extend beyond the current session oI
/ the school.
Sec. l6 Whenever it shall happen that per.
sons are so situated as to be better accommo-
dated at the school of an adjoining township,
or whenever it may be desirable to establish a
school composed of parts of two or more town
ships, it shall be the duty of the respective
boards of the townships in which such persons
reside, or in which such schools may be situa-
ted, or of the townships or parts Of which the
school is to be composed, to transfer such per-
sons for educational purposes to the township
in which such school house is or may be loca-
ted ; but the enumeration Of scholars shall be
taken in each township as if no such transfer
had been made, and such school when so COM
posed shall be supported from the school funds
of the respective townships from which the
scholars may have been transferred and the
board of that township in which the school
house is situated shall have the control and
management of such school, and the board o
the adjoining township or townships so con.
nected for scnool purposes shall each make the
proper estimates Of their share of the expenses
OF every kind necessary to sustain said school,
and certify the same to the auditor Of their pro
per county as part Of their annual estimates for
school purposes, and draw orders on their re-
spective township treasurers for such sum as
will be in proportion to the enumeration Of
scholars so transferred in favor Of the board oI
that township in which such school house is
located, to be appropriated to the payment o
teachers, and for other purposes connected
: with the establishment or maintenance of saiC
school as far as applicable.
Sec. II. The said board shall have power t
determine the studies to be pursued and tn
school books to be used in the several school
under their control, and shall make and enforc
such rules and regulations relative to the us
and preservation of the school libraries and ap
paratus as they may think advisable, and shal
appoint, or authorize the local directors TO ap
point a suitable person to act as librarian ant
to take charge of the school apparatus, residen
at some convenient place in the neighborhoot
where the school is kept, and may require sucl
librarian to give bond for the faithful discharg
of his duties, and allow him such compensation
as they may think reasonable.
Sec. l8. II shall be the dutv of the schoo
teacher TO make out and file with the township
clerk at the expiration of each term of the schoo
, full and complete report of the whole numbe
, of scholars admitted 10 the school during sucl
: term, distinguishing between male and female
the average attendance the books used, tn
, branches taught, the number Of pupils engage
t in the study of each of said bran ches, and sue
, other statistics as he may be required to max
, by the township board or local directors, ant
t until such report shall have been certified an
filed BY the said teacher as aforesaid, it shal
, not be lawful for said board or local director
! to pay said teacher for his or her services.
Sec. 19. The board of education in each town
ship shall prepare or cause to be prepared ant
forwarded to the county auditor at the sam
! time when the return Of the enumeration o
: scholars is required to be made, a statemen
} exhibiting the number of children in the town
5 ship between the ages Of five and twenty-on
, years, distinguishing between male and female
! the number Of schools, specifying the differeu
grades, the number of teachers male and fe
/ male, the number of children male and femal
: who have attended school during the past yea
. the average attendance, the length of the term
of schools, compensation of teachers male an
: female, the number and condition of the schoC
houses and funiture and the estimated vslu
, thereof the number and condition Of the book
in the school libraries the number of libraries
r the kind of school books used in the schools
: the number and value of school apparatus, an
a full account of the expenditures for schoc
4 purposes, together with such other statistic
\ and information in relation to schools as tn