Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-04-09

Schools, a copy of the account rendered to the
Committee on Finance or Clerk OF the County
Court-together with statement OF the number
of children in each district, of five and under TWEEN
tv-oner years old-also the number of males and
of females taught in each district-the time dur
mo which the schools were kept open, and the
averaoe nav of teachers-the pay of male and
of female teachers-together with such facts and
suggestions in regard to the size of the school dis
tricts. the wants and interests of the cause, DC,
&C., as he may deem important or as may be re-
ported bv committeeman.
COMMITTEE OF EXAMINATION.
Each Board of County Superintendent shall
annually appoint Committee OF Examination to
consist of not more than FIVE persons, of whom the
Chairman of County Superintendeuts shall be one,
whose duty it shall be to examine into the mental
and moral qualifications of teachers, or Of such as
wish to teach Common Schools which committee
shall meet three times in the year, at some central
point to examine candidates, of which times and
places it shall post written notice ut the door OF
Court House of the county.
No certificate given by this committee shall be
GOOD for longer term than one year, or be good
in any other county.
! Ali teachers of Common Schools must have GER
tificates and the Chairman is authorized to refuse
to pay any teacher who has no certificate OF the
proper kind.
J from road and military duty.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT.
| The General Superintendent shall see that the
laws are enforced-shall receive the reports OF
| Chairmen and himself make annual report to
the Governor, giving detailed account to the op-
erations of the system in each county-the number
at school, the number of teachers, average COM
pensation, time during which the schools are kept
! open in each county-and the number of licensed
male and female teachers in each county-togeth-
er with such facts suggestions and recommended
tons as may occur to him, for the more efficient
management of the cause of popular education.
Which report is to be printed and 100 copies cir
! cuated-and which is also to be transmitted by
| the Governor to the General Assembly. The Gen
eral Superintendent is also to make an additional
and special report on or before the Sd Monday in
November, 1854, giving detailed and condensed
account of the progress of the Common School
system in North Carolina-of the causes which
? have impeded its progress in each county-of the
defects and wants of the system all such 9TH
err matters of fact, with suggestions of his own
will enable the Legislature fully to understand the
merits defects, wants and uses of the system, gen
orally and in detail-and to know what good it
has accomplished and can accompIish--which re-
port is to be transmitted by the Governor to the
! Legislature.
! It is also the duty of the General Superintend-
! ent,
| To look after all sums of money discussed to
County Superintendent and unaccOunted for; and
to see that all such sums recovered; and the
Treasurer of the State is to furnish him with an
annual statement OF the sums disburscd to County
Chairmen from the Literary Fund.
| He is also required,
! To lecture in the different counties As he has
! opportunity-to consult with experienced teachers
and to appoint agents in each county to look
after escheatcd property.
! He is also,
/ To issue annual circulars to the Examining Com
mittees, with suggestions aDd instructions to
qualifications of teachers-to prepare blanks for
County Superintendents and Committeeman
/ prepare new edition of the School Laws, with
/ forms and instructions, DC, &c.
PENALTIES.
! Any county Superintendent or Committee
having accepted such experimentation any Clerk
of the County Court refusing or neglecting to per-
form the duties required Of him, shall forfeit and
pay the of fifty dollars, to be recovered in any
Court of record in the State-which suits are to be
! prosecuted by the County Attorney and the mon
ey paid to the County Chairman for the benefit
of the schools of the county.
If tile General Superintendent shall w;lfulIy and
haLitualy neglect his duty, his Office for the
propagation of peculiar religious or political doc
trines, he shall be liable to removal by the Liter
airy Board-but must be tried, thirty days
written notice. and allowed evidence in his defence
in which cases n record is to be made for the
inspection Of the Legislature.
/ TEACHERS AND PUPILS OF COMMON SCHOOLS,
/ Are exempt from road and military duty, and
from serving on iuries whilst engaged in teaching
or attending school.
Teachers, at the end of the time for which they
have been engaged to teach, must report to the
committee men, in writing, the numbers and names
Of the children they have taught, specifying the
number of days each has attended; and no COM
mttee-man, while acting such, shall be teacher
in a Common School.
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