Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-04-02

district as required by this act; and il shal
also be the further duty of said board to pre
scribe rules and regulations for the govern.
ment of all the common schools within thei,
jurisdiction said board Of education NAV pro.
vide for German schools for the instruction OF
such youth as may desire to study the Ger.
man language, or the German and English
languages together, and if the board shall
deem 1T 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 re-
latlon 10 the management and supervision Of
the different schools, and the educational in
terests of the township, and may allow him q
reasonable compensation for his services.
Sec. IA. The said board shall prepare, or
cause to be prepared, map of their township,
as often as they deem necessary, on which
shall be designated the sub-districts of the
township, which they may change or alter at
any regular session, and the number of schol-
ars assigned to each but no sub-district shall
contain within its limits, less than sixty resi-
dent scholars by enumeration, except in cases
where in the opinion Of the board, it is neces-
sary to reduce the number; and it shall be the
duty of the board to establish 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,
paving due regard to any school house alrea-
dy built, or site procured as well as to all 9th.
er circumstances proper to be considered SO as
to promote the best interests of schools.
Sec. Is. The board shaR have power to
assign such number of scholars to the several
primary schools as they may think best, and
when such assignment has been made, shall
furnish the teacher a list Of the scholars SO as
signed, and the board shall also have full
power to regulate and control the admission
OF scholars and schools of higher grade, ac-
cordlng to age and attainments, and may ad-
init scholars over twenty-one years of ace
and may suspend, or authorize the local di.
rectors to suspend from the privileges of eth
er of the schools, any pupil found guilty of
dlsordiIy conduct, which suspension shall not
extend beyond the current session of the
school,
Sec. lG Whenever it shall happen that
persons are so situated as to be better accom-
modated at the school of an adjoining town
ship, or whenever it may be desirable to es-
tabllsh school composed of parts of two or
more townships, it shall be the duty of the
respective boards of the townships in which
such persons reside, or in wch such schools
may be situated, or of the townships or parts
OF which the school is to be composed. TO
transfer such persons for educational purposes
to the township in which such school house
is or may be located; but the enumeration of
scholars shall be taken in each township as if
no such transfer had been made, and such
school when so composed shall be supported
from the school funds of the respective town
ships from which the scholars may have been
transferred and the borad of that township
in which the school house is situated shall
have the control and management of such
school, and the board of the adjoining town
ship or townships so connected for school pur-
poses 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 proper coun-
ty as part of their annual estimates for school
purposes, and draw orders on their respective
township treasurers for such sum as will be
in proportion to the enumeration of scholars
so transferred in favor of the board of that
township in which such school is located, to
be appropriated to the payment of teachers,
and for other purposes connected with the
establishment or maintenance of said school
as far as applicable.
Sec. II. The said board shall have power to
determine the studies to be pursued and the
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under their control ,and shall make and enforce
such rules and regulations relative to the use
and preservation of the school libraries and
apparatus as they may think advisable, and
shall appoint, or authorize the local directors
to appoint a stuable person to act as librari-
an and to take charge of the school apparat-
us, resident at some convenient place in the
neighborhood where the school is kept, and
may require such librarian to give bond for
the faithful discharge of his duties, and allow
him such compensation as they may think
reasonable.
Sec. Is. II shall be the duty of the school
teacher to make out and file with the town
ship clerk at the expiration of each term ofI
the school a full and complete report of the
whole number of scholars admitted to the
school during such term, distinguishing be-
tween male and female, the average atten-
dance, the books used, the branches taught,
the number ofpupils engaged in the study of
each of said branches, and such other statis-
tics as he may be required to make by the
township board or local directors, and until
such report shall have been certified aud filed
by the said teach as aforesaid it shall not be
lawful for said board or local directors to pay
said teacher for bis or her services.
SecD 10. The board of education in each
township shall prepare or cause to be pre-
pared and forwarded to the county auditor at
the same time when the return of the emu
meratiou of scholars is required to be made,
statement exhibiting the number of chill
dren in the township between the ages of
FIVE and twenty-one years, distinguishing be-
tween pale and female, the number of
schools spacifying the different grades, the
number Of teachers male and female, the
number of children male and female who
have attandad achooI dur;nc tha ,ast ,,aou