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

9"'y iO' .uo convenience ana prosperity o
schools within their sub-dstricts but no con
tracts shall be made by the directors undel
the provisions OF this section, for the payment
OF money from the township school fund ap.
pllcable to such purposes, which in any one
year shall exceed the amount distributable tc
the sub district in proportion to the enumera
ton OF scholars resident therein, without FIRST
obtaining the consent or order of majority o.
the township board Of education; and all con
tracts made by the local directors under the
provisions of this section, shall be reported tc
the said board at their next meeting after the
making Of such contracts, and said township
board of education in their corporate oapacitv
on the part of the sub-dstrict, shall be held
responsible for the performance thereof
Sec. g. 1t shall be the duty of the direct.
ors in each sub.distrct to take, or cause to be
taken, annually, between the first and third
Monday of October, an enumeration of all the
unmarried white and colored youth, noting
them separately, between the ages of five aud
twenty-one years, resident within such sub
district and not temporarily there, designating
between male and female, and return certi.
ned copy thereof to the township clerk and
In case the directors in any sub district shall
iall to take and return the enumnration afore
said, it shall be the duty of the township clerk
to employ competent person to take the same
and allow him reasonable compensation for
his services, and shall proceed to recover the
amount so paid for such services in a civil ac-
tion, before any court having Jurisdiction in
the name of the State of Ohio, against said di-
rectors in their individual capacity and in such
suits, said clerk shall be a competent witness :
and the money SO collected shall be appied TO
the use of common schools in the proper town.
ship The township clerk shall make an alb.
straet OF the enumeration so returned to him.
designating the number of youth in each sub
district, and transmit such abstract, duly GER
titled, to the county auditor, within twenty
days after the return made to him By the di.
rectors, or the person appointed to take such
enumeration.
Sec. 0. If any civil township or part of a
township composing a sub-distrct shall be
partly situated in the Virginia Military Dis
trict, the United States Military District, the
Western Reserve, or in an original surveyed
township or fractional township TO which be-
longs any of section sixteen or other lands in
lieu thereof or any other lands for the use of
schools or any interest in the proceeds of such
school lands, the local directors SHALL in taking
the enumeration of youth resident within their
jurisdiction. return separately those residing
IN the Virginia Military District, or United
States Military District, or Western Reserve,
or original surveyed township or fractional
township to which belong any school lands or
interest in the proceeds Of school lands.
Sec. 10. The township board of education
shall consist of the township clerk and of the
local director from each sub-district of the
township who has been appointed clerk in his
sub-district, majority of whom shall consti-
tute quorum for the transaction of business;
and the clerk of the township shall be the clerk
of the board, but shall not be entitled to a
vote. 1t shall be the duty of the said clerk to
be present at the meetings of the board and
to record in book to be provided for the pur-
pose, all their official proceedings, which shall
be public record open to the inspection of
any person interested therein, and all such pro-
ceedings when so recorded shall be signed by
tie chairman and clerk.
Sec. IL. The said township board of edu-
cation in each township of the State, and their
successors in office shall be body polite and
corporate in law, and as such may contract
and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead
and be impeaded in any court OF law or equi-
ty IN this State, and may receive any gift,
grant, donation or devise made for the use of
any school or schools within their Jurisdiction; /;
and moreover they shall be and hereby are
invested in their corporate capacity with the IT,
ue,care and custody of all school houses, school
house sites, school libraries, apparatus or 9TH
er property belonging to the school districts
as now organized or which NAV hereafter be
organized within the limits OF their jursdic-
ton, with fall power to contro! the same in
such manner as they may think will best sub
serve the interests of common schools and the
cause OF education; and when in the opinion
OF the board any school house or school house
site has become unnecessary, they may sell
and convey the same in the name of the town
ship board of education of the proper town
ship; such conveyance to be executed by the
chairman and clerk of said board, and shall
pay the avails over to the township treasurer
OF The proper township for the benefit of
schools, and all conveyances of real estate
which may be made to said board shall be to
said board in their corporate name and to their
successors in Office.
Sec. II. 1t shall be the duty of the town
ship board of education to hold regular ses-
sons on the third Monday of April and on the
third Monday of October in each year at the
usual places of holding township elections, or
at such place in the immediate neighborhood
as may be convenient for the transaction of
any business which may be necessary in rela-
ton to the subject of either the primary or
graded schools of the township, with power to
adjourn from time to time or to hold special
meetings at any other time or place within the
proper township as they may think desirable
for the transaction of business as aforesaid,
and at all such meetings shall appoint one of
their number to the chair and in case of the
absence of the township clerk may appoint
one of their own number to serve temporari-
ly as clerk.
Sec. l3. The township board of education,
shall have the management and control of all
the central and high schools of their proper
township which NAV be established therein